Steel-Eating Player - Chapter 137

Episode 137 [ Necromancer, Infinite Conflict – 2 ]

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It was truly a tense tug-of-war.

Neither one is pushed back nor gets tired.

“It seems like both sides are losing power!”

“Why aren’t either of us running out of mana?”

“Even A-rank wizards wouldn’t be at that level…”

It was a scene beyond their common sense.

Lee Hyun-wook’s mana management ability was enormous because his heart itself was changed into an ‘ether engine’.

‘And those guys were probably drinking endless amounts of [Soul Potion].’

Priests of Death could recover mana by swallowing souls, so they used to make potions purifying souls. It was manufactured in a place like the Temple of Death seen in CAR.

‘This tense fight needs a blow to shake the balance.’

Unfortunately, all the various wide-area skills were on cooldown because they were all used on the Seoul battlefield.

And the ‘Living Armor’ unit enchanted with divine power was also left behind in Laputa.

I was caught off guard in many ways.

‘Still, there is one useful thing.’

At that time, Hyunwook Lee dropped the ‘Anted Iron Golem’s Core’ to the floor.

Then, the surrounding metals came together and a 15m 741t steel giant was born.

thud–!

Lee Hyun-wook scraped together the metal around him and created a huge flail-like weapon.

Huh—ugh——!

With one swing of it, dozens of undead were swept away and bounced hundreds of meters away.

The moment I swung the second time, I had the illusion that the entire battlefield had been completely cleaned.

“Wow crazy—what is that? It’s really awesome!”

“Isn’t that the level of a world boss monster?”

But then something huge began to emerge through the mud on the floor.

Fu—hua—ah—ah——

‘Drake Skeleton… Has he brought out his opponent?’

CAR It was the same as the red drake bone in the process of red ossification seen in the Temple of Death. When

Lee Hyun-wook summoned the iron golem, the necromancer also took out the next card in response.

And at that moment, Lee Hyun-wook realized one thing.

‘Ah! Death. This is the origin of the world. He is commanding this battlefield from the space beyond.’

The Necromancer’s main body was not here, but he was directing while looking at this place. Even so, digging into that mud and hitting him at the moment was… of course an act of suicide. ‘But

that skill won’t last that long.’

At that moment, the red-ossified Drake Skeleton, fully revealed, kicked the ground.

Thump—thud—thud—thud—

and it rushed forward fiercely, shaking the earth, and slashed the Ancient Iron Golem’s body with its claws

. Strong——!

In one single blow, the body made of steel was torn apart like clay.

Boom——!

Then, the golem swung its tail, knocked the golem over and climbed on top of it.

Then, it opened its jaws wide and bit off its head.

Bang——! —

The Ancient Iron Golem’s entire head was ripped out.

Of course, it would be reassembled, but it was being shattered at a faster rate.

‘…If this continues, the core will be torn off.’

Still, I thought that big guy could hold out for a few minutes.

Lee Hyun-wook dropped the Mowgli and smashed the guy’s head.

But soon a green light flashed and it started to reassemble. In the

end, he dropped the Mowgli one more time . I smashed the guy again.

‘Damn, there’s no end to this and we’ll eventually get pushed back.’

Looking around, I saw that the undead army was narrowing the front line little by little.

The players who had gathered together and unleashed their skills were also slowly facing a mana shortage and cooldown time.

“Ugh—huh—no matter how much I destroy it, it won’t shrink!”

“If you come to your senses and do this, you will be swept away in an instant!”

This is the power generated by just one player…

‘Is this… I can’t beat him even though I’ve grown so much since my last life?’

Hyunwook Lee has been wary of necromancers and has used every means possible to grow.

As a result, it possessed an unrivaled firepower that could be said to be truly deceptive.

And yet I still can’t defeat the Necromancer… My head is starting to spin.

‘What is the reason? ‘Is it because that bastard, Gordon Price, is supporting him?’

It was clear that he had grown rapidly, receiving tremendous support from the dark man who was exploiting the world.

No matter how much Lee Hyun-wook snowballed from the bottom based on his future knowledge, he didn’t know that he was looking down from a tower so high that even snowballs couldn’t reach it.

“No—you’re pushed!”

In the end, hundreds of black orc skeletons broke through the players’ fire net and stepped into the ‘shade of the sacred tree’.

Cheeeeee——

Shindansu’s divine power weakened them, but did not reduce their numbers.

“Damn it—tankers brace for crash!”

Bur—bur—bur—bur——

The wave of death surged and crashed head-on into the shield barrier the players had erected.

“Hang on——!”

“Watch your fucking head!”

But they started climbing up each other’s bodies and throwing themselves onto the shield.

Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff!

The undead raining down on their heads hit the tanks’ heads indiscriminately.

“Ugh—”

“Ah!”

” Damn it, if it collapses, it’s over!”

Some tanks used wide-area skills to push back many of the undead, but it only lasted for a moment.

And…

hoo——

Something flew over the heads of the players who were somehow holding on in the chaos.

That was… a literal dead ‘corpse’, not an undead corpse of a Black Orc.

Pop—pop—pop——!

A total of three corpses exploded one after another above the players’ heads.

“Kwaaa——”

“Who can’t see!”

The seven people standing in the direct range retired and collapsed.

“Intercept the crazy flying corpses—!”

However, dealing with the undead army on all sides was difficult and there was no time to worry about overhead.

That wasn’t all.

Damn———!

With a harsh cutting sound, the three tanks standing on the front line collapsed at the same time.

Their heads were cut off and after a while they fell at the feet of the priests.

– A zombie warrior blessed with death (LV. 141)

Kaito Okita, who became a member of the necromancer, has appeared once again.

“Is that son of a bitch still doing shit even after searching?”

Han Taesan stopped the guy, but in an instant, daggers were stabbed into various parts of his body.

Four bony arms sprouted from its back and sides and screamed at the same time.

“Pfft!”

Unlike Oh Gyeong-pyo before him, his strong body withstood the guy’s slash…

but boom! Sigh! Sigh! Sigh!

Attacks poured in from all directions, not just Okita Kaito, pounding on Hantaesan. A dozen undead were shattered by his single punch, but another undead filled the space and rushed in.

“Damn it’s so small I can’t do anything!”

The battlefield, with allied forces so close together, was not suitable for the monster called Hantaesan to rampage around. If

he made a mistake, even the allied troops could be swept up in his attacks.

However, it was even more crazy to act individually in this mess. .

If it were a wide space, you would have to go into the breath of the abyss, but that would have been suicidal.

In other words, the war situation itself was too unfavorable.

“Save me— keke—!”

Screams and moans echoed from all directions and from every terminal.

‘…Should we retreat?’

Even as Lee Hyun-wook was having such thoughts, a laugh was heard from somewhere.

“Steel Lane, you’ve been so great these days, but tsk—now that you look at it, you don’t think you’re that good?”

A mysterious woman floating in the sky across the street… was a banshee.

“Ah! Do you see that guy over there? He seems to have pretty good eyesight. Can you see it?”

On the left side of the player line, two large men in black armor were swinging huge bone axes.

Puck——!

Every time they swung the axes, three or four players fell.

– Death Knight (LV. 101)

– Death Knight (LV. 154) )

‘That’s….’

The two William Bernards, future and past, were raised up as ‘Death Knights.’

“How about you, like those friends, can be given a pretty cool new destiny?”

Even as Lee Hyun-wook heard those words, he prepared to kill that woman.

“Or, I was waiting to see what effect my master would get if he cooked and ate me…”

That was then.

– Caution! An ultra-wide-area teleport ‘Wight Hall’ opens in the area.

In the midst of the chaos, it appears before everyone’s eyes. A message like that came to mind.

And Banshee, who was once a player, also noticed something strange and raised his head.

Woo-woo–

Before I knew it, a huge white ring was forming in the sky.

And the space inside the ring was shaking as if it was crumpling—

blah— Ugh——!

The space was torn apart and a huge amount of mana exploded.

“Potal? “I can’t believe there is such a large portal…”

The dimensional door that opened like that – I looked up at the space on the other side. A

huge white tree was emitting dark mana, creating a haze in the area. Dozens of story-high buildings lined up below it. It was lined up, and a huge white dome could be seen in the center.

“Republic of Chad…”

It was a strange sensation, like being an ant and looking up at a tree.

‘This is… an ultra-wide teleportation opened with the power of the World Tree.’

A blue airship was coming down from within.

“That’s… the ship of Theseus!”

“Could it be that the manager of the World Tree has come?”

Someone shouted that.

The Ship of Theseus, an item-type airship located in the Republic of Chad, appeared in the sky over Ganghwa Island.

Then the lower part of the place opened and—

boom—ja—ja——!

A powerful bundle of electricity struck like a thunderbolt and passed around the players.

The electric current, which had no idea where it would go, was completely destroyed, targeting only the undead.

The bodies of the electrocuted undead crumbled and scattered like dry leaves.

Then, a whirlwind arose from somewhere and blew them all into the sky.

Hoo—woo—woo—woo——!

Finally, a sacred ray of light descended from the sky and illuminated the whirlwind.

Cheeeee——!

In this way, hundreds of undead were completely retired and oxidized into pale dust.

Lee Hyun-wook realized who was on board Theseus’ ship.

“Ah—”

Lee Hyun-wook once again remembered the power he had forgotten.

‘Yes, the thing I have raised in this world… is not only myself.’

Woowoowoo——

Soon Theseus’ ship lowered its altitude a little more.

And from within, a blonde woman walked through the air.

It was Saint Emilia Müller.

She looked at Hyunwook Lee and shook her head.

Then she put her hands together, and an intense light bloomed between them.

Woowoowoo——

Immediately after, something special began to happen in the world inside Wight Hall. Light burst out from the giant jewel at the white center of the Saint Dome beneath the World Tree—a sacred object.

The beam of light transcended space through the ‘Wight Hall’ and dyed the entire Ganghwa Island white.

Then, didn’t the breath of the abyss that was covering the area disappear as if it had been washed away?

And some undead turned into powder and disappeared just by being exposed to that light.

“Ha—what is this? “I struck after confirming that the saint was not there… but suddenly it fell from the sky?”

Banshee She still had that sneer on her face, but her face was hard.

Her face, which was originally pale, now turned into ice and looked as if it would break at any moment.

At that time, her body was engulfed in black smoke and flew toward the saint toward the sky.

Fuuuu——

And then he came out through the smoke right in front of the saint and waved his long claws.

“die-!”

But the banshee’s body was caught in the air.

Before I knew it, a white chain had stretched out from the air and grabbed the back of the banshee’s neck.

And Emilia Müller slowly walked towards the banshee with an angry expression.

“What the fuck… “Why am I being treated with such contempt just because I almost got assassinated a few times?”

As she stretched out her hand, more chains of light were created and entangled throughout the banshee’s body.

Churrrrrr =!

“Are you pointing your head at me without even knowing about my rotten corpse?”

Even if it were a different type, the saintess in front of the dark type was the strongest in terms of compatibility.

Soon, the chains began to be pulled in different directions, as if they were being tricked.

“Kwaaaa——!”

The sharp howl of a banshee echoed in the clear sky…

Beneath the scene, the undead army just raised its head in despair.

The army was still powerful. At first glance, there were so many that it could never be defeated.

But the breath of the abyss disappeared and instead a holy light settled down.

‘…now the tide is turning.’

At that time, Emilia Müller looked at Hyun-wook Lee.

“It seems like the person who needs to be protected has changed now, so follow what I say.”

Lee Hyun-wook smiled and nodded.

At that moment, all of Lee Hyun-wook’s weapons contained even deeper divine power.

“Steelane, do what you do best and sweep away everything.”