Steel-Eating Player - Chapter 135
Episode 135 [Dimension Shifter, Main Quest – 3]
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The second life Hyunwook Lee gained had only one direction.
Become stronger than your previous life and never experience the failures of your previous life again…
So he focused on growth in all his newfound time.
He devoured metal, scraped items, and seized the opportunity.
As a result, he created a new future that is several times stronger than his previous life.
“…How can it reach this level?”
William Bernard, who had no way of knowing this, was either dumbfounded or completely lost. He felt as if he had jumped into hell, nothing like the past he knew.
He said, “I heard that history can be a little different… but this is not a little bit!”
He let out a growl and glared at something flying above his head.
The huge steel hand created by Lee Hyun-wook falls as if it were swatting at an insect.
It weighed several tens of tons and the thickness of one finger was as large as a human torso.
Hung——
William Bernard paused for a moment and then lifted Mowglei up.
“Well, it’s just a lump of metal!”
With his strength, he could have shattered any number of chunks of steel flying at him.
The moment you swing that 2-ton giant sword with all your might as if it could split a mountain—
“uh?”
The giant metal hand became limp and ‘melted’ again…
Sh—sh—sh—sh—sh——!
In an instant, it turned into hundreds of thorns and poured down like rain.
“As expected, you’re stupid?”
Lee Hyun-wook evaluated him that way as if he knew him well.
“shit!”
He fell backwards, kicking the floor, and the place where he was standing instantly turned into a field of thorns.
But that wasn’t the end.
That—that—that—that—jeong——!
The metal filling all sides explodes at once, sending sharp fragments flying.
“Pfft!”
Next, ‘Unsaamsu’, which was flying a short distance away, emitted an electric current.
Hold it——!
He blocked the flow of electric current penetrating his skin through ‘chi’, confined it to his upper body, and fell backwards.
But no matter where he ended up, Lee Hyun-wook’s trap was there.
“Fuck—fuck—fuck—!”
Everywhere was filled with metal under Lee Hyun-wook’s control.
‘This… I was completely devoured just like before.’
This was a very familiar experience, and nightmares from the past began to come back to me.
He targeted Lee Hyun-wook several times to avenge his brother, but failed each time.
Like right now….
‘No, I am much stronger than I was back then, so if I aim just once, I can win.’
He was wary of a big attack like Mogley and was waiting for an opportunity to come soon.
But then something hit him on the back of his head.
Zeng——!
He fell forward, feeling a weight that was completely different from the metal that had hit his body until now.
“omg!”
His vision became dizzy, but he held on to his spirit and rolled on the floor to avoid the ensuing attack.
As he turned his head, he saw a short-handled hammer soaring into the sky.
“Is that my tomb Mjolnir? It can’t even be Mjolnir…”
That wasn’t all.
Whoosh——!
A sound that tore through the air came from the square on the right, and he barely covered himself with his Mowglei.
Kagagaga——!
At that moment, a disk-shaped blade scratched the surface of the Mowglei and bounced off.
A long red afterimage follows the spot where it passed, like a long line of paint.
“It’s crazy Sudarsana, isn’t it?”
With this, three legendary grade items have already appeared.
It wasn’t just the three Mogleys that needed to be watched out for.
‘Wait a minute, it’s a lot more dangerous than I thought!’
Even the best warrior-type player is unable to withstand the barrage of legendary weapons.
‘For fuck’s sake, focus on defense rather than attack.’
He concentrated on Moglei and transformed the ‘ki’ into a self-defense weapon, surrounding his entire body.
Kwa—ga—ga—ga—ga——!
The strong energy shield that bloomed from his body repelled all the flying metal pieces.
This way, you can ignore miscellaneous metal weapons and only focus on legendary weapons.
‘Although Moglei’s power will be significantly weakened, we will be able to neutralize his offensive.’
But even that thought was careless.
Whoosh——
Immediately after, some metal penetrated his self-defense equipment with great ease.
He reflexively lifted his forearm and covered the nape of his neck.
An arrow landed in his forearm and burrowed like a bug.
“Huh! Have you already secured ownership of the Pale Note I shot?”
Because it had the effect of ignoring magic resistance, it even cut through self-defense weapons like tofu.
and-
“Oops!”
Then another pain rose from his side.
“What is it…”
When he turned his head, he saw an arrow like the one stuck in his forearm… a pale note stuck in his side.
The fact that there was one more thing was also unexpected, so he couldn’t react.
“Hey—you bastard! “How many items do you have!”
However, while avoiding attacks coming from all directions, he did not lose sight of Lee Hyun-wook’s position.
‘Calm down… Once the flash rush cooldown expires, you have one chance. Now 13 seconds….’
Soon the time came.
Flashing—
The moment he hit the ground, his body disappeared in the air and instantly appeared 50 meters in front.
Flash— flash—
Next, two more flashing waves succeeded in reaching right in front of Lee Hyun-wook.
The two men made eye contact dozens of meters into the air. Lee Hyun-wook’s eyebrows were seen twitching.
‘You got caught!’
At least there was no ‘Gleipnir’ this time.
‘Even if there is something else, it won’t be as good as Gleipnir!’
A single blow was all he needed. He swung his moghlay, confident of victory.
At that moment, black smoke appeared from both of Lee Hyun-wook’s wrists.
“What else?“
A pair of spears and a shield were created in both of his hands.
‘But this time I’m faster!’
The 2-ton large sword avoided the shield and struck Lee Hyun-wook precisely on the head.
‘done!’
With a bang, the unlucky bastard’s entire body had to be cut into pieces.
But doesn’t it make a hollow, lifeless sound, as if it had been struck with a toy sword?
A reaction this vain was not blocked by the defense shield.
“……invincibility?”
Only then did I realize that the shapes of those two types of items were quite familiar.
It is none other than the ‘Achilles’ Armor Set’, which makes the user temporarily invincible.
“Wow—this fucking bastard is really versatile….”
A sneer appeared from his mouth, as if it were unfair rather than embarrassing.
At this moment, I felt like I was having a childish nightmare for the first time in a long time.
Deep——!
But Achilles’ spear was stuck in his abdomen.
The deep pain made me realize that this moment was reality.
– caution! You have suffered irreparable harm.
“Damn it….”
Heels rained down from somewhere.
It was probably the support of the villains of this era.
But this wound could not be healed by itself.
He hesitated and took a step back.
But before he knew it, Lee Hyun-wook had a shotgun in his hand.
“What is that again?”
Before he could stop thinking, a red magic circle appeared on the muzzle of his gun.
Kwa—ang——!
Heavy drinking… For an instant, my vision became blurry.
Kwa—ang——!
The tinnitus rang loudly again.
‘This is dangerous!’
I couldn’t see anything, but I rolled on the floor and struggled to get away from the gun.
Having just been pierced by Achilles’ spear, some of the self-defense equipment covering his body was exhausted.
Powerful bullets penetrating the gap… He had a hunch that if he continued to be hit by these, he would die.
Kwa—ang——!
He allowed another hit and felt himself being blown away like a kicked can. Even as she floated in the air, she focused her senses and sensed the sound of tearing wind – and swung her Moggle Ray in that direction.
Zeng——!
Even while losing sight, he struck down a Mowlay falling from the sky.
But then something — possibly Mjolnir — struck him in the spine.
Sigh——!
He fell to the floor and rolled around. Both of his arms were dislocated and his shin was broken at a right angle.
‘I got it.’
My mind, which I had barely managed to hold onto due to repeated shocks, is fading away.
At that time, he felt someone carrying his body, kicking the floor and flying.
“Oh, come to your senses! I guess it’s me, seeing as you’re just attacking me, you idiot….”
This voice was identical to his own. That is, William Bernard.
“Hah… You look so cool, but what is this?”
Looking over his shoulder, he saw his older brother, Harry Bernard, flying away while fighting with Han Taesan.
As the villains began to take action and targeted Lee Hyun-wook, Lee Hyun-wook also began to respond.
A melee broke out between the players, and it seemed like the villain side was being pushed back at the moment.
“T-thank you, my past self… After all, the only one I can trust is myself?”
“If we get out of here, are you going to explain to me what the hell happened?”
But even while he was unconscious, he suddenly shook his head.
“No, I’m sorry, but… you can’t get out of here. You…”
“Huh? Me? Just me? Why? I don’t think that’s a very nice thing to say.”
“These are all good words. I will work hard to surpass you…”
Sigh!
At that moment, something pierced past William Bernard’s abdomen.
“Ugh—why on earth…”
It was the future William Bernard who held the sack of Mowglai.
A line of system messages appeared in his eyes.
– (!) Transcendence Quest has been updated.
And I felt the life force being sucked out of me.
– congratulations! By absorbing ‘self’ from another dimension, all abilities increase significantly. (+50%)
“Hehe… I’m sorry, but killing my past self is one of my transcendence quests.”
“Ugh— big….”
“Don’t be so sad. It’s all a meaningless life. If you know the truth about this game….”
But then…
– caution! The area has been declared a ‘death haven’!
Suddenly, such a system message flew in front of everyone.
Cluck—cluck—
Before we knew it, the ground in the area had turned into black mud.
The battle stopped for a moment, as if everyone had witnessed the strange scene.
Soon the loud noise subsides and there is only strange silence.
In the meantime, the only sound was the sound of bubbling mud.
“come….”
Somewhere, one of the villains muttered something like that.
As planned, reinforcements called ‘Mansion Underground’ arrived.
But for some reason, even they seemed scared.
Cluck—cluck—
And… something came up from the mud and grabbed William Bernard’s leg.
“huh?”
It was a hand.
“What the fuck is this!”
Because he was half out of his mind, he didn’t even notice that something was sticking to his body.
Cluck—cluck—
Judging by its form, at least it wasn’t Lee Hyun-wook’s skill.
Cheeeee——!
Rather, all the metals coming around were being oxidized.
“Wow, this power can’t be…”
Coo! Coo!
Dozens of black hands wriggled like snakes and wrapped around his entire body.
‘I can’t move.’
At that time, a black-haired woman climbed out of the mud a few meters away.
Tsutsutsutsu——
A pure white naked body covered in mucus as if it had been born, blue veins sprouting and writhing on its pale skin. Her eyes were as red as rubies, her teeth were as sharp as an animal, and her tongue was as long as a snake.
This cold beauty… He recognized this woman’s identity.
“Bae Banshee Wait—don’t kill me!”
Then her womanly eyes lit up.
“Huh? What… do you know me?”
The woman slowly approached him and stuck out her long tongue as she licked the back of his neck.
“Can’t you tell just by looking at me? It’s William Bernard! Huh?”
He spoke as if he were pleading, but the woman smiled with an indifferent expression.
“I’m sorry, but you just killed the real William Bernard, didn’t you?”
The woman called Banshee turned her head and looked at the floor right next to her.
William Bernard of the past lying on the floor after being pierced through Mowglei
His body was being dragged into the mud by black hands.
“no!”
At that time, Harry Bernard’s scream was heard from somewhere.
It seemed like I had finally confirmed that my younger brother was dead.
“—Banshee, what are you doing to my brother!”
But the banshee ignored the scream and looked at the future William Bernard.
He opened his mouth with difficulty.
“I’m from the future! So, if you save me, I’ll tell you what’s going to happen in the future—Oof!”
A black hand covered his mouth.
“Do you know that I was being treated too badly for something like that? I looked like a complete idiot… ugh!”
The banshee gave her a pouty look and turned her head away as if she had lost interest.
“My master wants me to kill him and make him a more loyal subordinate. How about that? Isn’t that wonderful?”
Her cold hands come up and stroke her face.
‘ah….’
The owner of this woman he knew, the so-called ‘child in the basement of the mansion’, was not someone he could easily communicate with.
‘Neither this woman nor she must speak to the Chairman, who is not the owner.’
But he knew he wouldn’t have the chance.
‘Fuck, I entered through the Transcendence Quest first, but I can’t believe I failed like this…’
Before I knew it, the dead man’s hands were wrapped around his entire body and his long fingers were sticking into his mouth.
“Oops! Wow! “Wow!”
Meanwhile, Lee Hyun-wook was also looking at the strange scene.
‘That’s…’
– Follower of Death ‘Banshee’ (LV: 143)
That woman who looked like a player at first glance was an NPC, or a monster, in the system.
She may have been a player originally, but as she became someone’s servant, she would have been ‘monsterized’.
‘…First of all, for the main quest, I have to kill the dimension shifter.’
Lee Hyun-wook launched an all-out attack towards Banshee.
All of her metal melted into smoke as soon as it touched the black slush.
If she had been sculpted a little thicker, she could have somehow held on and taken physical blows.
Qua—and—and—and—and——!
Then she frowned and disappeared as if she was sinking into the ground.
Lee Hyun-wook aimed for that gap and fired two fail notes.
Sigh! Sigh!
This time, it pierced the nape of William Bernard’s neck.
– congratulations! You have successfully reached the first branch of the main quest [#2: Killing the Dimension Shifter]!
‘It’s a priority.’
Immediately after that, some of the metal was fashioned into chains, tied to Mogley, and pulled.
Tong——!
The huge sword flew fiercely and landed in his grasp.
– You have acquired Moglei (Hero).
The Mowglei he had used in the future had crossed the dimension and returned to his hands.
This brings the total number of Mowglais to 4.
But then the banshee reappeared, looked up at Lee Hyun-wook, and was smiling.
“Ah—I heard you have the good ingredients the owner is looking for, so you are the one?”
William Bernard’s blood ran across the floor and crawled up her naked body. They tangled together and turned into blood-red scale armor, and a red staff bloomed from her right hand.
Then, some skeletons began to crawl out of the black mud that spread behind her.
Slowly! Slowly!
– Priest of Death (LV. 112)
A total of 6 of them were like the priests of death in the evil legion that fought at Jeju International Airport.
‘But the level is much higher.’
After that, black hands rise up from the mud.
Gurgling— Gurgling—
The second troll skeletons that appeared were all carrying some kind of jar on their backs…
‘That’s… the Abyssal Breathing Jar that we saw in the Temple of Death found in CAR, right?’
Immediately after, their lids opened all at once and black smoke burst out.
Pushiii——
A black fog began to quickly encroach on the area, as if sea fog was rolling in.
“What the fuck!”
“Knock”—!”
The players who breathed in it fell into a ‘curse’ and moaned in pain.
“I can’t breathe… I can’t breathe!”
“Ugh—cast a purification spell on me!”
Immediately after the dimension shifter’s attack, most of the players fled the area.
However, those who remained and the ROK AMT troops alone numbered about a hundred.
“Look over there! The area around Sindansu is fine!”
“Pfft—everyone come to your senses and let’s go over there!”
They ran toward the shadow of the Shindansu tree, regretting that they did not run away quickly.
It was then.
Keueeee——!
A zombie swordsman rushed towards them with his sword drawn.
“uh?”
Damn———!
Three heads were cut off in a single blow.
“Gasp! Be careful—keke—”
Then, two more heads were cut off.
They were all B-grade or higher players, but none of them could react.
In other words, it meant that he had overwhelming skills that could not be considered as a mere zombie.
“I’ll stop it, so everyone jump to the top!”
In the end, Oh Gyeong-pyo stopped the zombies.
Lee Hyun-wook watched the scene and shouted in shock.
“—Oh Kyung-pyo, no!”
But it was already too late.
visor!
Oh Gyeong-pyo’s spear blocked the guy’s sword.
At that time, two bony arms shot out from the zombie’s back near the wing bones.
And each of those arms was holding a Kukri.
They swung towards Oh Gyeong-pyo’s square.
Damn———!
“Huh?”
In that split-second, his head was blown off, but his right wrist was severed.
If Han Taesan hadn’t uprooted the tree and thrown it, his head would have been blown off later.
“No, that’s not him?”
Some people recognized the identity of the zombie.
– Zombie warrior blessed with death (LV. 141)
The zombie with such an odd name had still rotted away, so the skin on her face was well preserved.
‘Okita Kaito……’
He was caught by Lee Hyun-wook and should now be imprisoned in the player prison.
But why did he appear in such a miserable state?…
It seemed like someone had stolen it from prison and ‘used’ it for a completely different purpose.
‘And it’s not obvious who the subject is…’
Lee Hyun-wook looked at the black ‘realm’ that was taking over the ground with hostility.
Gurgling— Gurgling—
An unidentified ‘black mud’ was rushing in like an ebbing tide and encroaching on the area.
The world seemed to have changed completely because this change was so secret that no one noticed it.
A strange and unpleasant sight filled my vision, as if I had suddenly fallen into hell.
And writhing movements were captured here and there in the black landscape.
Woooooo——
There were some skeletons summoned from within the black mud, but they were only a very small number.
The bodies of the dead black orcs nearby began to rise one by one.
Some became zombies and some became skeletons, holding weapons that had fallen on the floor and turning on green eye lights.
Within the black fog, hundreds…thousands of eye lights light up, forming the green Milky Way.
And it continued to be added.
Lee Hyun-wook felt a shiver run down his spine for the first time in a long time.
‘The necromancer… has arrived.’
Yes, all of this was the power of the Necromancer, the leader of the Legion of Death.
‘crazy….’
Lee Hyun-wook couldn’t help but be surprised once again.
I knew he had already started his activities, but…
‘…It’s growing much faster than I thought, right?’
Could it be that Lee Hyun-wook is the reason for ruining the villains’ plans one after another?
It seemed like they were speeding up the process of developing the final weapon called the Necromancer.
‘Damn this… should I have just brought her saint?’
Even he could not have predicted that he would encounter a necromancer here.
‘But this life… leaves no regrets.’
I was facing a second life, leaving behind the regrets of my past life.
This time, I planned to never repeat the same mistake.
He took out an item he had recently acquired.
Clap—
[Item information]
– Name: Argetlam (Legendary)
– effect
1) Command of the Noble: The ‘Level 3 Divinity’ effect is granted to all weapons and all ranks.
2) Healing Power: When placed on a wound and infused with mana, it exerts a ‘second stage healing’ effect.
3) Clive Solis (requires conditions): Currently not active.
‘And just in time, I got something good to deal with him…’
Lee Hyun-wook infused mana into it.
– Argetlam’s skill ‘Command of the Noble’ activates!
Wooooow——
This item grants level 3 ‘holy power’ to all weapons.
Most players can use at most two weapons at the same time.
In other words, the actual scope of application of this item was only two.
But Lee Hyun-wook’s case was clearly different.
‘I can control an overwhelming number of numbers.’
In this way, a huge number of weapons were imbued with sanctity.
“after…….”
For some reason, Lee Hyun-wook felt his heart beating faster.
Finally, the necromancer’s troops appeared before my eyes.
Ironically, I felt a strange sense of pleasure in the face of the worst crisis that had been waiting for me for a long time.
“Maybe… I was waiting for this moment.”
In my past life, I could not stop the fire of death from burning everything and growing in size.
‘But this life will be different.’
Maybe I’ve been working hard until now while waiting for this moment.
Slowly! Slowly!
When he opened his eyes again, numerous legions of undead were gathering in front of him.
Thousands of sacred weapons lined up behind Lee Hyun-wook, who was looking down at them.