Steel-Eating Player - Chapter 121

Episode 121 [Absolute Firepower – 1]

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Just one foreign player ended a war that had lasted for years.

It was also the result obtained by destroying the enemy’s main force in a single battle.

“Ha… I actually finished it by myself.”

Among those who were watching the scene, Sophie Green let out a sigh.

To be honest, even Lee Hyun-wook thought it would be difficult to attack the ‘Central Hangar’ alone.

So, I tried to persuade Lee Hyun-wook to wait for support from the resistance and then launch a diversionary operation.

However, he said it was okay and walked straight into the enemy lines without any time to stop him.

That was only 15 minutes ago.

In other words, the situation was over in 15 minutes.

“Are there monsters like that all over the world?”

Bowie Bertrand, the second-in-command of the resistance, shook his head with an expression of bewilderment rather than joy.

It was such an overwhelming force that the struggle they had waged over the past few years seemed meaningless.

I was almost embarrassed that I had pointed a gun at such a scary man not long ago.

“Of all those monsters, it’s the most popular monster these days… but honestly, it doesn’t make sense.”

It was a self-evident fact that a weapon made of low-grade metal could not be his opponent.

‘But there must be a limit to such power…’

No matter how great the ability, it is difficult to face the absolute limit of mana depletion. It was natural.

Therefore, using skills carefully and with the highest efficiency was a common virtue of a master.

But he didn’t see anything like that.

‘No, I don’t think he even showed any signs of trying to control mana in the first place…’ He

just used it ruthlessly. He used all his firepower to thoroughly crush the enemy.

‘That man… is there really such a thing as a limit?’

The more times I watch from the sidelines, the more surprised I am, the more my doubts grow, rather than understanding.

‘As expected, Lee Hyun-wook… is clearly something outside of common sense.’

While Sophie was admiring this, resistance reinforcements arrived behind her.

It was the main force of the resistance, a total of 31 trucks.

“—All troops disperse into teams to wipe out the remaining troops!”

Following Bowie Bertrand’s orders, the resistance fighters advanced into the central hangar covered in gray smoke.

But…

“…everyone here is dead too! They’re practically annihilated, right?”

“But what on earth did he die of? “There are almost no traces of battle, right?”

“I heard it earlier and they said that the targets went to see him and killed him.”

Because the central hangar was already destroyed, the resistance took over the facility without shedding a single drop of blood. They

were then able to discover a sinkhole tens of meters deep that had appeared in the center of the enemy camp.

“What? This isn’t just a hole!” “There’s a lot of space down there!”

“Wow, when did these bastards build an underground facility like this?”

Several players, including Sophie, went down the sinkhole through ‘floating magic.’

And…

“Oh, Steele Lane is over there!”

Lee Hyun-wook Soldiers from the Ndoz League were scattered around him.

Perhaps the final battle was fought here.

But among them, one particularly large corpse of a giant caught my eye.

“Oh, wait a minute… Is that person really Lyon Noir?”

The moment they saw the half face that had been split vertically, everyone was shocked.

Lyon Noir… There was no way any resistance member would have known about the strength of that barbarian player.

“Ugh! That man couldn’t even be hurt by most attacks, so how could he…” The

resistance soldiers who had fought the man several times looked in disbelief.

“And look at this big guy! He even died in a ‘giant form’ state!”

“Huh… If he’s in his giant state, he can kill an ogre with his bare hands…” The

giant they didn’t dare to think of dealing with is slaughtered like a pitiful animal. Although he was an enemy, he was still the strongest player in his country, so his miserable death was bound to be quite shocking.

“And that sword over there…”

Meanwhile, the giant sword Mogley was floating in the air behind Lee Hyun-wook’s back,

and it was clear even without looking at it that he had cut Lyon Noir in half with

that sword . “Would you believe me if I smashed it in your room?”

“Huh? Anyway, how do you destroy the tower with a sword?”

“As expected… this actually happened before your reinforcements arrived.”

They looked blankly at the stranger who saved their country and let out admiration.

“…Have the reinforcements for Sophie’s resistance arrived?”

As soon as Lee Hyun-wook opened his mouth, the conversation among the resistance fighters stopped and silence came.

“Yes, that’s right. But… what on earth are we doing here?”

Sophie looked around and asked. It was a space like the remains of an ancient civilization.

“Probably a secret testing ground for outside forces supporting the Ndoz Federation.”

Lee Hyun-wook said that and pointed somewhere.

“—Gasp!”

The moment everyone turned their heads following his fingertips, they were shocked. They saw hundreds of corpses in the water tanks lined up on both sides of the altar where the Red Drake bones were placed.

It was a terrible sight to see with open eyes. Only then did the strong smell of drugs hit my nose.

“What is that… what on earth was going on here?”

No matter how horrendous the aspects of this civil war were, it made no sense to treat people like that.

“How on earth could they do such a terrible thing… They were really demons…”

A scene of evil that no human being could ever commit…

Sighs filled with evil erupted from all over.

“We need to mobilize the Sophie force and conduct a thorough search of this place.”

“Ha—yes, that’s right. “Maybe there are survivors.”

There might be a clue to catch the necromancer’s tail.

Lee Hyun-wook exercised his metal control and scanned the surroundings.

Then, I detected a lot of metal inside one wall.

‘There is a secret space inside.’

He swung his Mowglei and knocked down a brick wall.

When I went inside, I found a small laboratory that was nothing special.

There was a human skull in a large flask on one shelf.

‘This is also a trace of the black magicians experimenting with strengthening the undead.’

They would have left in a hurry when Lee Hyun-wook’s air raid began.

Next, I found a fairly large safe in the inner corner of the laboratory.

‘This vault is metal, but my control over the metal is not working.’

It looked like it was probably covered with a fairly high-class magic shield.

However, after hitting it a few times with a moglai, I was able to remove the magic shield.

Jump!

Inside the safe was an iron box, which itself was an item.

[Item Information]

– Name: Parakelsos’ Alchemy Set (Heroic)

– Effect: When using this tool, various alchemy skills are greatly improved.

‘Oh… I guess they moved in such a hurry that they even left something like this behind?’

Alchemy Set Item This was a fairly rare item. It was because only one item could be expected to increase the level of multiple alchemy skills. However, it is a ‘hero’ grade.

‘Great. We were planning to establish an alchemy research institute in the future…’

For that purpose, we were promised alchemy-related technical support from Gu Hyo-min, the granddaughter of Gukwang Group and an alchemist player, and we also planned to build an alchemy factory on the site of an arsenal in Yaji, Gangwon-do soon.

‘An item of this magnitude will be of great help in the development of alchemy.’

However, there was no evidence to track down the necromancer besides such a small amount of income.

‘Well, if the Necromancer is the final weapon planned by the villain, then he will completely hide its existence…’

In other words, these regional facilities would not only be located here, but would also be hidden all over the world.

Still, just knowing that the Necromancer was already growing was a great harvest.

‘…I’ve been thinking about how to deal with that guy for a long time.’

And now the requirements to make it happen have been met.

‘What I couldn’t achieve in my previous life… I created a magic machine corps enchanted with divine power to stop him.’

The Necromancer, the leader of the Legion of Death, who we would soon face…

We were planning to make sure we were ready to catch him and eat him.

***

As this world became like a game, ordinary weapons virtually lost their power.

Still, the cutting-edge equipment that concentrated human wisdom still had many uses.

For example, satellites were a better means of obtaining information than any other item.

“…….”

Woo Seong-moon was sitting in his office watching the video filmed by the military satellite.

Team leader Lee Gyo-jun, who had reported the video, was standing in front of him.

“This video was filmed at 6-hour intervals from 11 PM 4 days ago to the present.”

Red dots in thermal imaging camera footage taken by military satellites—the distribution of life was changing.

“This is an empty lot in southwest Shanghai, and unusual trends have been observed since a week ago.”

Red dots gradually increase and become darker every 6 hours. Each dot was a black orc.

And in the lower right corner, a calculated number was displayed showing how many red dots were detected in total.

– 5814

As of 3 hours ago, a whopping 5814… . That’s how the video ended.

This meant that 5,814 Black Orcs were gathered in one place.

“Hmm, is the main body of Black Orcs gathering in this place right now?”

“Yes, that’s right. That place is the troop concentration area of those guys called Red War Rock.”

“Ha… This definitely looks like they are preparing for war…”

And that wasn’t all.

The following video is a thermal image . It was not a camera, but an actual photo.

As expected, it was a photo taken by a military satellite, and it showed creatures with wings flying in groups. At first glance, it looked like a small flock of migratory birds. But… what they were sitting on was a skyscraper in Shanghai. The moment I recognized it, the scene began to look quite different.

It was… a group of hundreds of ‘wyverns’.

Each individual was over 30m tall, the rulers of the sky. They were hundreds of them gathered together.

“Hmm, wyverns. …”

In other words, if they were to invade this land, aerial infiltration through wyverns was likely.

“Are they really planning on launching an all-out war now?”

Just a few months ago, the Black Orc Kingdom declared war on South Korea.

Since then, Black Orcs have infiltrated this land twice and committed terrorist acts.

Public opinion was boiling over, calling for a retaliatory attack rather than just

suffering… However, it was a wise response to avoid a full-scale war at all costs.

But now it seemed like that wouldn’t be possible.

It seemed that the Black Orc race was trying to take ‘Laputa’ by any means possible.

And maybe the war itself was an unstoppable ‘event’.

At times like this, there was one name that came to mind.

“…By the way, has the location of this team leader, Lee Hyun-wook, been confirmed?”

“Yes, I looked it up and found out that I entered Chennai, India with that identity.”

Lee Hyun-wook’s disappearance didn’t happen for a day or two, but this time the period was a bit longer.

“Ha… I’m really worried that he seems to be too self-indulgent sometimes.”

Team leader Kyo-Jun Lee still cannot hide his disapproval whenever he evaluates Hyun-Wook Lee.

“Don’t worry too much, Team Leader. “Is the Lee Hyun-wook you know someone who would do something stupid?”

“No, but I can’t contact you at such an important time.”

At that point, Woo Seong-moon smiled.

“So, in the end, isn’t it because we desperately need Lee Hyun-wook that we’re saying it’s disappointing?”

“…I can’t deny that. “This country needs Lee Hyun-wook’s power in many ways.”

In this way, a player named Lee Hyun-wook became essential to this country at some point.

“But this time, I heard that Lee Seong-yoon is also in the country.”

“That’s right, he contacted me the night before yesterday and asked to have dinner with him tonight.”

“…Oh, is the Gravity Wizard finally taking on this important task?”

Team leader Lee Gyo-jun looked somewhat excited, unlike when he talked about Lee Hyun-wook.

Lee Seong-yoon As an S-class player who can handle gravity, he is the undisputed strongest player in this country….

No matter how much Lee Hyun-wook’s performance has stood out recently, Lee Seong-yoon’s achievements are on a different level. It was different.

“Well, I don’t know if it will help you, but you are a very busy person…”

Whether Lee Seong-yoon would step forward or not, we would have to meet and talk about it later.

“Huh? “Would you still pretend not to notice that there is a war crisis?”

“That person has a dream more national than the existence of a nation.”

Woo Seong-moon was well aware of the man’s noble sense of purpose.

However, Woo Seong-moon’s motto was that no matter what, he had to take care of his country first.

“That manager? But… that preemptive strike operation that Lee Hyun-wook mentioned last time.”

Not long ago, Woo Seong-moon predicted a war with Black Orcs during a meeting with Lee Hyun-wook.

There, Lee Hyun-wook brought out an amazing word that no one thought of.

“Really magic missile bombing… is such a thing possible?”

“In theory, there is nothing that cannot be made if the conditions are right.”

So far, no one has been able to challenge it because it has not met the conditions at all.

However, Lee Hyun-wook was preparing quite plausible conditions.

“But… I honestly don’t know if I have time to prepare for that now.”

Since Lee Hyun-wook was not here, I couldn’t know how his plan was progressing.

‘No, maybe… that might be why I went to India.’

Woo Seong-moon was now well aware that each of Lee Hyun-wook’s actions contained great meaning.

***

Bangui, the capital of CAR, Lee Hyun-wook was riding across the place in an old wagon.

“I think it’s sorted out to some extent now.”

Sophie Green, sitting next to him, opened her mouth at his words.

“Well, Supreme Commander Muhammad Makhachev, the leader of the Ndoz League, has not been arrested yet, and his nephews, the Enchantress Twins, are also missing. But the situation is said to be very good.”

The Ndoz Alliance was completely disintegrated by an unexpected blow named Steele. It

was a natural result, as the number of troops in the central hangar reached 70% of the entire Ndoz Alliance.

Even if the ‘Enchantress Twins’ were still alive, the armored There was nothing they could do without weapons.

In other words, the war was already completely in the hands of the resistance.

“In fact, all of their infrastructure in CAR has disappeared, so they can’t even dream of fighting.”

Accordingly, the resistance provisional government entered the capital Bangui and began establishing a new administration.

The CAR people had been supporting the resistance group for a long time, so everything went smoothly.

It took a total of a week to get there.

Meanwhile, Hyunwook Lee obtained the right to conquer the hidden stage of ‘Vishnu Labyrinth’ as promised, and

succeeded in conquering it with the help of several CAR players two days ago.

It was a fairly difficult gate, but it did not pose much of a threat to Lee Hyun-wook.

‘The hidden stage isn’t that difficult as long as you know what’s inside.’

In my previous life, I had the experience of attacking the hidden stages similar to Vishnu’s Labyrinth a few times.

Therefore, we successfully completed the attack without any major crisis, and the time has finally come to return to Korea.

“By the way… how was the reward for conquering the hidden stage?”

“Well, it was okay.”

To Sophie’s question, Lee Hyun-wook looked out the window and answered briefly.

“I think the reward would be pretty good for a hidden stage where obtaining the entrance key is so difficult… How was it? At least the hero level… is it rude to ask something like this?”

Sophie was making a joke, but Lee Hyun-wook just nodded dryly.

Looking at him, Sophie thought to herself,

‘…I guess the reward wasn’t very good?’

If a really good item was released, it would usually show up in the face.

If it was at least hero grade, its value couldn’t be put in money.

‘At least it won’t be lower than hero grade, but it may still fall short of expectations…’

However, Lee Hyun-wook’s inner feelings were clearly different from her expectations.

‘… It’s even more amazing than I thought.’

After returning to the dorm, Lee Hyun-wook took out the item that had been ‘engraved’ on his wrist.

It was a circular throwing weapon called ‘Chakram’.

[Item Information]

– Name: Sudarsana (Legendary)

– Effect

1) Lee Turning: Returns when the owner orders it to return.

2) Chakra Release: Releases powerful energy along the path when thrown.

3) Chakra Explosion: Rotates at a high speed at one point and explodes destructive energy

. ‘Sudarsana’ This item was already expected.

That’s why I came here in the first place.

‘If you use this well, you can create a weapon with deceptive firepower.’

Thus, it would have been able to deal a huge blow to the Black Orc Kingdom.

However, Lee Hyun-wook also did not know what other items would be released. But

truly unexpected luck came.

Lee Hyun-wook took out something from his pocket.

At first glance, it looked like a tree branch. It was a stick-shaped object that looked like this.

And there were not 1 but 2 of them.

[Item Information]

– Name: Top-level Replica (Special)

– Effect: Imitates an item of hero grade or lower and reproduces it with a 50% effect. (Cannot be modified. )

“Getting two of these at once…”

This was a surprising result even for Lee Hyun-wook.

Without hesitation, Lee Hyun-wook took out the Mogley from AD-1’s sub-space.

‘As expected, there is no object to which this can be applied other than the Mogley. .’

– The top-level replica imitates the ‘item (Mogley)’!

Ugh——

Then the two ‘top-level replicas’ began to glow and gradually grow in volume.

And in the next moment, three giant swords appeared in front of Lee Hyun-wook’s eyes. (currently)