Episode 40. [Steel Company – 1]
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– Chik- Drop completed.
A scene unfolded that would be okay to say that it was
a natural disaster.
A hole opened in the sky and steel rain poured down.
In effect, the battalion’s arsenal – itself was pouring out.
They fell and flashed under the acceleration of gravity.
Sh-shh-shh-shh-
The undead troops who had uprooted all the trees and gathered in a wide area had no way to avoid the heavy rain of steel pouring down from overhead and were swept away.
Pooh-boo-boo-boo-buk-!
Hundreds of residents of the zombie hell collapsed simultaneously in an attack like carpet bombardment.
Wow – Wow – Of
course, it couldn’t be easily retired with a regular weapon.
However, just piercing the body and cutting it in a few places was enough.
It was because making it incapacitated made it very easy to deal with.
‘And the real blade is separate.’
There were several individually moving blades amidst the endless rain of steel.
There were 30 stakes, 12 iron balls and 2 KG19s.
The sacred weapons moved like guided missiles under Lee Hyun-wook’s control and intercepted the enemy. As they passed by
,
dozens of zombies turned to ashes and disappeared.
While attention was focused on the steel rain pouring down vertically, the truly effective attacks were moving horizontally and actively attacking.
That wasn’t Lee Hyun-wook’s only weapon.
Thump-thump-
Haunted Armor, no, it was now just ‘Living Armor’ and under Lee Hyun-wook’s control, a
total of two armor giants stood tall on Lee Hyun-wook’s left and right, holding huge hammers and long spears.
– Acquired ‘Master Authority’ of Living Armor. (2/3)
‘The maximum level is only 3, but if you use them well, they are more useful than you think.’
In my previous life, I had piloted all 19 at the same time. Although the necromancer surrounded them with thousands of lower undead and used ‘corpse explosion’, they lost everything.
In any case, ‘controlling’ Living Armor was easier than expected.
Without needing to pay attention to anything else, just by gently touching it and maintaining a ‘sense of connection’, the metal control power functioned and it moved and fought automatically. It was thanks to the ‘magic circuit’ imprinted on the armor itself.
Boom – Boom –
The steel giants took the lead and crushed the charging zombies, clearing the way.
Lee Hyun-wook proceeded along that path.
And…
‘I found it.’
About 200 meters away, I saw a huge tombstone glowing green.
Finally, the totem, the ‘concentration point of evil’, was found.
“-no!”
At that time, an evil voice rang out.
Carol, she stopped Hyunwook Lee.
“What on earth have you done…what on earth are you?”
Carol, who had lost her composure, had suddenly turned into a hideous person.
The six arms sticking out from behind its back grew so huge that they looked like the legs of a spider, and it lunged forward, stepping out its arms alternately like legs, as if it were actually a spider.
“A guy like you wasn’t in our information, so what the hell…”
Carol muttered in a voice full of despair, grabbed the spear thrown out by Living Armor, and struck it down.
Then, after trampling and crushing him with six arms, he stretched out one arm towards Lee Hyun-wook.
“-die!”
At that moment, something flashed behind her.
Pajijijiji-!
Two flashes of lightning magic hit Carol’s back.
He rolled his eyes and fell backwards, probably unable to react because he had been treated unfairly.
“Ha! Sergeant Lee Hyun-wook!”
It was Park Jun-mo.
The guy was close behind Lee Hyun-wook with a calm expression. Even though he was going through the melee, he seemed to be conserving the few bullets he could use without recklessly firing them. ‘As expected, Park Jun-mo is a more useful talent than I thought.
‘
Originally, it was Park Jun-mo, who would not be dead during this time, but his experiences had made him a completely different person. Moreover, since he was an F grader, if only he could figure out a way to improve his abilities… I was honestly so excited. “Now
! “Go ahead!”
Hyunwook Lee nodded and turned around.
Rather than finishing off Carol, removing the totem,
or rather swallowing the Devil’s Medallion, was a priority.
Now the totem was only about fifty meters away.
Lee Hyun-wook loaded half of the metal control power on one iron stake and shot it toward the totem.
Empty –
but it was blocked by a translucent wall.
It is also a magic shield.’
expected There was no way that something so important had not been protected.
However, Lee Hyun-wook had a weapon to break through.
A pale note emerged from his waist.
But…
something landed in front of the totem and the ground shook
.
After all, it was a huge armor.
It completely blocked the totem.
Clunk-clack-clack-
It was quite different from the ‘Haunted Armor’ I had encountered so far.
One head was larger in size, and green smoke rose from the whole body like an aura, and the eyes were not simply shining, but burning like a fire in hell.
“Gigant Hunted Armor…”
The dungeon’s boss monster came directly out of the gate.
Whoa whoa—
He grabbed the 5m diameter halberd with both hands and swung it with all his might.
Boo-ung-ka-gang-!
In just one blow, the living armor was torn like a piece of paper and the upper body flew into the distance.
As expected, since it was a boss monster, it did not have normal destructive power.
‘…It’s getting tiresome.’
Lee Hyun-wook confronted the guy and slowly backed away.
Although it looked slow on the outside, it was quite fast.
He would close the distance in an instant and swing that long halberd.
If you make a mistake and get grazed by that attack…
you will die instantly.’
But this time, someone helped Hyunwook Lee.
Teo-ung –
A person wearing full armor ran up and hit the large figure.
It was sad.
“Sigh! Go quickly!”
As if David and Goliath were wrestling, she clung to the man’s shoulders, then climbed over his shoulders and hung on his back, all the while swinging her great sword and striking his helmet. Of course, it was an incorporeal
entity
. As such, such physical damage was useless.
“What are you doing!” “Go ahead and destroy the totem!”
Hyunwook Lee nodded.
‘Every time I break it down, I will eat every last bit.’
While Seo Eun-ha was attracting his attention, Lee Hyun-wook turned to the right.
But actually, there was no need to do that.
Even though the front was blocked and his vision was blocked, Lee Hyun-wook was able to detect and hit the target.
Of course, if there was anything other than metal in between, it would be blocked, but the path had already been identified.
A fail note was fired from Lee Hyun-wook’s waist.
Shh-ik!
It curved quickly and elastically like a marlin.
B-Billion!
‘done.’
I couldn’t see it, but I could tell.
There must have been a big hole in the middle of it.
It cracked and
cracked!
It collapsed like an explosion.
– congratulations! Destroyed the evil’s staging area to end the scourge.
It was over.
– congratulations! You have achieved a special achievement.
“Um, achievement?”
The achievement was achieved by destroying the totem.
[List of Achievements]
1) Purifier
– Condition: Destroy the object that declares the realm of death.
– Effect: Formation of darkness resistance (level 1) Increase in total mana (+200) ) Increased sacred power (+20%)
This was information that even Lee Hyun-wook did not know.
This was because in his previous life, this totem belonged to a necromancer and he could not destroy it.
In other words, in this life, he destroyed it before he could get it
. It’s just rolling in like a vine.’
But there was a different highlight.
Lee Hyun-wook detected a piece of metal among the crumbling fragments of the tombstone and pulled it. With
a click,
something that looked like a well-trimmed square piece of metal appeared in his hand.
There were all kinds of patterns engraved on its surface, but there was time to take a slow look. There was none.
– I acquired the Devil’s Medal (Legion).
“……That’s it.”
The last time the Devil’s Medal I swallowed was Inferno Inferno, but
this time it was the Legion Legion.
Considering its usage, I guess ‘ It seemed to be an item about ‘control’.
He didn’t know what skill would come out, but Lee Hyun-wook swallowed it without hesitation.
Boom –
Then the earth shook. When he
turned his head, a thick cloud of dust was rising, and behind it was the boss monster Gigant Hunted Armor. It was in a collapsed state. Seo Eun-ha was on top of him and was panting.
“Ha-haa-”
She turned her head to Lee Hyun-wook.
Blood was condensed like sweat, and his eyes were half-closed.
“Is it… over now?”
Lee Hyun-wook nodded at Seo Eun-ha’s words.
The troops of the 1st and 2nd Company were slowly advancing and wiping out the remnants of the zombies. This was possible because the majority of the zombies were rendered incapable of action by the firepower that poured out the entire battalion’s arsenal. In other words, there was now no remaining zombies
. The only thing that mattered was literally ‘cleaning up.’
‘But… where is that woman, Carol?’
Hyunwook Lee found Carol, the leader of the five butchers, in the mess.
He couldn’t let the woman go alive.
However, no matter how much he looked, she was nowhere to be seen…and the question was soon resolved.
“…Look over there! “She’s running away!”
Choi Taeyong shouted
. Everyone turned their heads.
It was Carol.
The woman was running up the mountain. When she decided she had no chance of winning, she started to pull away.
“Damn it!”
Seo Eun-ha sighed and raised her sword at Carol.
A white ray of light shot out from the tip of the sword.
It was a holy light in the form of a straight line rather than a radial one.
Chi-ik-!
The beam extended over a hundred meters and supported Carol’s back.
However, Carol only stumbled for a moment and ran forward again.
The gunners fired arrows and hit a few hits, but Carol didn’t care.
Lee Hyun-wook also fired a fail note, but the distance was already too far.
“Damn, I’m probably going to miss it! It’s too fast!”
Choi Taeyong stuck out his tongue.
‘It’s not good to miss it.’
It was a mistake. Carol saw Hyunwook Lee’s presence.
The villain organization would be wary of Lee Hyun-wook.
“When you just stare blankly like a dog chasing a chicken…
Huh?”
A huge shadow loomed over Carol.
“…What is that?”
It was so fast that I couldn’t make out what it was… Carol, who had considerable grip strength as a mid-level vampire, was being crushed without being able to do anything.
It looked like an animal.
Qua-duk!
That’s…
“Ho tiger?”
Yes, to be exact, it was a tiger white tiger covered in white fur.
Gooooo-
A white tiger stood tall on the side of a mountain with its back to the moonlight.
Then, a light and a gust of wind flew over its head.
Doo-doo-doo—
It was the sound of a rotor.
A helicopter . It came over the ridge and started hovering above their heads.
Soon, someone jumped out of there.
It was the battalion commander, Kim Kang
– seok.
He had returned in a hurry from dispatch.
A white afterimage appeared behind him, and before we knew it, a white tiger was there. The size of a house. A tiger… It was a huge beast that fit that description perfectly.
“Don’t be surprised, that’s the battalion commander’s family member.”
When one of the privates took a step back, Ahn Min-tae said that.
Yes. That beast was a descendant of Druid Kim Kang-seok.
Just like his nickname, Namsan Mountain Army, he used these fearsome beasts as weapons.
Seo Eun-ha sheathed her great sword and raised her hand in salute.
Kim Kang-seok looked around with an expressionless expression, but he clearly looked astonished.
“…I really didn’t know that if we allowed the use of the battalion weapons storage, they would move the entire weapons storage.
At first glance, it seemed like a blood-red reed field made of iron had appeared on one side of Namsan Mountain.
He approached Lee Hyun-wook.
“Lee Hyun-wook, there’s always a lot I want to hear when you come back after winning.”
“But again, there will be a lot of work to do first.”
Kim Kang-seok raised his head and everyone followed his gaze and looked at the sky.
“The sky…”
Most people did not notice when the wide-area portal opened a little while ago, but as the dawn gradually dawned, its mysterious colors began to become clear.
So now it seemed clear.
“…It’s purple.”
The sky in Seoul was now purple.
“…No matter how you look at it, that is a harbinger of a wave.”
Kim Kang-seok spoke calmly, but those were quite scary words.
Consternation began to appear on everyone’s faces.
Even though I won, I couldn’t even smile, let alone feel relieved.
This is because I knew very well how terrible a phenomenon the wave was.
Maybe this fight was just the beginning.
But Lee Hyun-wook was different.
‘The most important first offensive was stopped.’
Lee Hyeon-wook decided to hunt down, dismember, and absorb a whale named Wave.
And the first harpoon aimed at that huge whale landed perfectly.
As intended, this was possible because he used this battalion, not his own strength.
‘And it continues this momentum and completely devours it.’
As with the unlock event, the higher the difficulty level, the higher the reward.
And as Lee Hyun-wook remembers, there were really many hidden foods in this wave.
Meanwhile, Kim Kang-seok looked at the armored giant standing behind Lee Hyun-wook with a puzzled expression.
“Are you sure you can control that living armor?”
“Yes it seems that metal control can operate magic circuits.”
“Amazing…”
“Battalion Commander, would you mind repairing those living armors and allowing me to use them?”
A total of 30 machines came out of this gate.
About half of them seemed to be still usable.
Of course, Lee Hyun-wook could handle only 3 units at once.
“Well, I’m not sure if it’s possible with just the battalion engineers, but give it a try.”
There were ‘blacksmith’ type players in the battalion, and they were engineers.
However, their skills could not be considered that excellent.
‘Anyway, I have to bring in Master Kang Jeong-du.’
Gang Jeong-du would have been able to easily restore it to this extent.
I was planning to bring two people with me to evacuate them from the 4th wave.
“And Lieutenant Seo Eun-ha, is that the boss monster you’re stepping on?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
Seo Eun-ha held up the ‘World Stone’ that flowed from the Gigantic Haunted Armor.
In other words, it was virtually the same as saying that the dungeon was successfully conquered.
The moment you destroy that, the gate will close.
“Good. I will leave behind the gate guard and the rest will descend.”
That’s how the descent began.
Of course, the battle wasn’t over.
There were still two gates left.
At that time…
I heard a noise coming from between the trees in one corner.
“… Huh? Where are you all going ?
?”
It was Choi Young-jun.
Strangely enough, he was wearing a fedora that did not match his military uniform at all.
And he was dragging someone by his hair.
Of course, that someone was a vampire man, and his limbs had been cut off cleanly.
“…What? ?”
He frowned as he looked at the scenery that had changed while he was away.
It was a puzzling scene in his eyes.
“Wow, amazing… What kind of items were released in so many quantities?”
His judgment was not strange.
It was unimaginable
that so many items poured down like rain from a hole in the sky unless you witnessed it yourself.
***
Lee Hyun-wook went down the mountain and checked the system message that appeared before his eyes.
– Metal absorption is complete. : Devil’s Medal (Legion)
* The weight of the metal that can be controlled has increased: 544g
Now, I can easily digest this amount.
However….
“Tsk-”
– A ‘signal core’ is being formed in the central nervous system. (1%)
* May be accompanied by extreme pain!
This time, it was not the stomach but the central nervous system, that is, the brain and spine.
‘This really hurts a lot…’
The pain that felt like my stomach was melting when the breath room was formed was nothing.
My head hurt like it was going to explode, and my whole body was more than numb, it felt like I was being stabbed with a knife.
Literally, the nerves were being rebuilt and abnormal sensations began to occur.
“Sergeant Lee Hyun-wook’s complexion… doesn’t look good.”
Park Jun-mo asked worriedly,
“It’s okay. “Look ahead. You’ll fall.”
But as the saying goes, in order to grow, you have to endure pain.
Therefore, rapid growth is bound to be accompanied by terrible growing pains.
