Steel-Eating Player - Chapter 168
Episode 168 [Italy, Mafia, Heise King – 3]
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“…We approached point C. “Now we slowly lower our altitude to meet the ‘seagulls.’”
As convoy leader Marvin Cater said this, he looked out the window.
I could tell at a glance that the flight altitude was getting lower as the sea got closer beneath my feet and the clouds above my head receded.
“No, but why don’t these bastards come up?”
As he suddenly checked his watch and spoke, one of the other convoy officers took out a Mana Messenger.
Currently, these two convoy officers were the only ones left in the economy class, the rest were scattered in the business class cockpit of the cargo compartment.
“….. .I will contact you again.”
Marvin Cater nodded and looked at Raybees, the woman sitting in the back seat.
She was looking out the window while wearing the adamant knuckles he gave her.
‘Aren’t you upset because I was late in bringing you my items?’
Marvin Cater was joking around a bit too much with her, but he couldn’t help but notice her secretly.
‘At first glance, she looks calm, but that bitch’s actions are truly shocking. And you have to be careful because they don’t even think of us as colleagues.’
To be honest, I would be lying if I said I wasn’t afraid of her, and I couldn’t sleep because of the tension from the first time I took charge of this operation.
That’s how much the Raybiz’s notoriety grew, and their skills went without saying.
A whopping level 81… isn’t he a top 100 player in the world?
If she even wanted to pursue that strange ‘hobby’ I mentioned earlier… it was clear that this plane would turn into a sea of blood, and she and her subordinates would probably end up mixed in there as well.
“Um… Captain, the kids in the cargo bay are not receiving mana communication? Could it be that there is a mana disturbance in this area?”
“What, are you showing off your meager knowledge? Tsk, do you know that mana messengers can be disturbed that easily?”
“Ah…”
“These bastards must have lost track of time as they stuffed passengers’ items into those small pockets. Hey Victor! Tell them to go down to the cargo hold right now and come up quickly!”
He shouted towards the business class,
but the man named Victor, who was standing at the entrance holding an automatic rifle, didn’t move as if he didn’t hear him.
“Hey!”
“…….”
I shouted this twice, but there was no way I couldn’t hear you.
“……”
Marvin Cater, who noticed something strange, looked at his subordinate, adjusted his automatic rifle, and entered the aisle leading to business class. “
Hey,
what’s going on?”
And the moment I got a little closer, I saw a large black stain under the feet of Victor, who was standing upright.
It was a puddle of blood.
In other words, he died while standing.
“… Damn it!”
The moment he raised the muzzle and was about to take a step back, a blue writhing motion spread along the floor and wall and climbed up his body like a snake. Purge——!
“
Gyaagyaagya——!”
It was an electric current, and he fell backwards, trembling, unable to do anything.
“-what!”
Marvin Gator lowered his posture and took out his weapon, the wand.
Then, he turned his head slightly to look at Raviz.
She was watching this happening with a displeased expression.
“What kind of situation is this… Marvin, you mouthy bastard?” Was it?”
“Can’t you just say the damn thing later and help me out? All of our kids have gone to the cargo bay and I’m the only one left…”
Then she turned her head and looked at two men who were other Red players, and the two men Because he was her subordinate, he grumbled and awkwardly got up from his seat.
“Ha bother…”
They each held a sword and a wand in one hand.
Then Marvin Cater raised his voice.
“—Listen to everything! “If you have false hopes and act recklessly now, you will all die!”
Currently, there are a total of 22 players in economy class. It was clear that the will to fight was blooming in their hearts, so Marvin Cater gave such a strong warning.
“And you must have guessed who that woman over there is, right? She’s a once-notorious mad dog named Rayviz! If you attack her for no reason, out of sheer greed, she’ll—” “Hey, don’t sell my name
. “I’m starting to want to kill you first.”
“…Oh, okay, so why don’t you help me out yourself? huh? “I beg you.”
She sighed and stood up. Then, he suddenly grabbed a middle-aged player sitting nearby by the collar and lifted him up…
“Why are you like this?” He
bit the back
of his neck.
He rolled his eyes and foamed at the mouth. Blood was flowing and the white shirt was stained red.
Tsk tsk—
“What are you doing!”
“Ugh——!”
Screams erupted here and there, but they quieted down again when Marvin Cater whipped out a flame from his wand and scolded her.
“Bitter—”
Raybiz drank a lot of blood, wiped the corners of her mouth, and smiled strangely.
And before she knew it, she Her eyes were stained red.
‘That’s the power of the devil…’
That’s why she was called a mad dog. She was a ‘devil worshiper.’
If you take a living sacrifice like this, you will have the power of an unknown devil. It was something that could be borrowed.
At that moment
,
some kind of energy bloomed in her body and the ground she stepped on seemed to cave in.
Looking at that scene, Marvin Cater swallowed dry saliva.
“Ha, I don’t know if I’m going to fall if I keep doing this. …”
Level 81… Even if everyone here was fully armed and attacked, she would kill them all with just one small knuckle.
In other words, her escape mission could not fail if it failed from the moment the convoy officers intervened and released the magic restraints.
“…Please be careful not to let the plane crash.”
“Well, I have ‘self-defense skills’ so even if I fall from here, I won’t die.”
“…….”
After saying those bloody words, she walked towards the business class and everyone held their breath as they looked at her back. It was
like watching a moving bomb. In other words, that woman’s movements. They said there was a high possibility that this plane would crash.
“Hey, can we just kill everything over there?”
“…Okay, okay, it’s okay to pull out your tongue and gouge out your eyes.” “No, I’ve opened the head quite a few times
,
so I’ll have to look at the chest this time—” At
that moment—
whew——!
A gust of wind exploded from the business class side and her body was pushed backwards
. She stretched out her right arm backwards and stopped, holding onto the wall, but the part she touched opened a hole as if it had been stabbed with an awl. ”
Ah… this is a bit annoying…”
She laughed, rubbing her head.
“Ah. Are you just going to strike first?”
Her judgment was correct, and soon a woman came running out of the business class at incredible speed with a huge amount of electricity wrapped around her body.
“Uh…”
Two of Rayviz’s subordinates reflexively stepped forward in response to that bizarre form of charging, but were soon forced to stop.
It was a defeat.
The woman moved like air along the walls and ceiling, passing between the two men in an instant.
Damn———!
In an instant, a fountain of blood spurted from the nape of the two men’s necks and splattered like paint spray on the ceiling.
“Holy—fuck—where did you get that weapon!”
Marvin Cater, who couldn’t see the scene, swung his wand forward, and the moment red flames formed on the tip of his wand—
boo —
She was one step ahead of him, her body soared like lightning, and landed a flying knee kick into his head.
“—Boo!”
His body spun two or three times in the air, then flopped haphazardly onto the empty sheet. He let out a gasp, and his teeth fell out of the back of his head. Still, as a B-grade wizard
player, he had a magic shield around his body, so he didn’t faint. He didn’t dare
follow along . The woman who knocked down three people in just a few seconds by whipping around in a narrow space at an overwhelming speed that could not be caught—Kim Se-hee stopped in the middle of the economy class, holding the short dagger backwards. “Huh….
”
Bang— —!
At that time, with an explosion, the aircraft shook and Kim Se-hee’s body was pushed five to six meters.
She felt the shock penetrating every part of her body and a sudden feeling of nausea rising.
The shock was so strong that five or six sheets were pulled out whole and rolled up. The passengers who were sitting nearby were all pulled out and scattered around.
“Aaaah—!”
Fortunately, a few of the windows were cracked but not broken.
And since the altitude was quite low, the difference in air pressure between inside and outside was not that great, so not everyone would be sucked out through the broken windows like you see in the movies. Anyway,
that huge wave All Raybees did was raise his fist.
“Hey Marvin, you really don’t seem to be doing your job.”
“what?”
“That woman’s level is at least seventy. “It means that even the small information you obtained, such as the passenger list, was all wrong.”
“Ugh… seventy years old is ridiculous.”
Is it true that there is a player here who reaches Grade A?
“…Anyway, he is no match for me.”
She smiled bitterly and raised both hands, and Kim Se-hee adjusted her dagger and wrapped the wind around her body.
“…Ah, you’re an elementalist, right?”
When she clenched her fists, an enormous amount of energy was released, causing the aircraft to shake violently and groaning sounds coming from all over the place. “Please… let the
plane crash—”
“—If you say one more word, Marvin, I’ll blow a hole in the wall. .”
Fajijiji——
At that time, the electric current that flowed from inside the business class passed through Kim Se-hee’s body and rushed towards Raybiz like the maw of a huge shark.
But Rayviz did not avoid it and blocked it with his whole body.
Holding power——
The electric current, which could not be discharged easily, clung to her body like a swarm of piranhas, crushing the self-defense force at random, but unfortunately, the self-defense force regeneration speed was much faster.
“Hmm, this seems to be an ability to control electric current… It looks like he can’t give it his all because he’s scared that the plane will crash… Doesn’t he look scary just by looking at it?”
She pushed through the current as if wading through a slightly strong stream of water, narrowing the distance by a few meters with just one step, until she was right in front of Kim Se-hee. “Pfft!” Kim Se-hee floated her body in the air and tried to widen the distance, but Raviz’s fist stopped
her
. It got stuck in her abdomen.
“Gasp!”
Her body floated up, flew all the way to business class, landed on the ceiling, and crashed to the floor.
“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu
as the vomited out a handful of blood.
sssssssssssssssss… Team Leader Kim!”
Even though she tried to block it as best as she could, her ribs were crushed and her internal organs were ruptured.
She wriggled and tried to stand up, but the shock seemed to have spread to her spine, so her body had no strength. In the end, she
hit her head on the floor and lost consciousness.
Beep . ! Beep! Beep! Beep!
And a loud alarm sounded as if the impact of that one shot had created an element of instability in the aircraft.
Chin—
At that time, Laviz took the second step and kicked the floor, and her body immediately arrived in the center of the business class.
“omg!”
Park Jun-mo was right in front of him, and he was startled and tried to catch the punch by surrounding his body with electricity… but that was a mistake.
As expected, Rayviz ignored the current and her left hook was fired towards his head.
Hung——!
If you get hit by that, unless you’re a warrior type player, your head will explode like a ripe watermelon, and even if a saint comes, you won’t be able to save him.
But this time, a seed flew in, germinated, and a vine bloomed, entangling her body.
“Ha—what is this again?”
She turned her head, tearing at the vine in annoyance.
Two black men were standing there.
“…Are you a player?”
She felt a different power rising from the two.
Of course, she couldn’t tell them apart, but… it was a strange antipathy towards the monster rather than the player.
“…No matter how much you are a prince, it’s impossible without a bow.”
“Still, I can’t stay still. “You just have to hold out until he comes.”
The two men had a brief conversation and then raised their hands.
However, his posture was somewhat clumsy, as if he was not skilled in hand-to-hand combat.
The Raybiz rushed towards them, and in just a few seconds, five or six sheets were crushed, the ceiling broke, and equipment rained down.
bang! bang! bang! bang!
After all that tangle, the ones that flew away were, as expected, two men.
“Looking at the energy you give off, it seems like your level is quite high… Too bad you don’t have a weapon.”
As she guessed, the black man—Clypheus Griseo, the second dark elf prince—was a marksman type.
Therefore, even though he was a level 109 boss monster, he could not show much power in close combat.
“Then… shall I start my hobby ?” ?”
She smiled bitterly, revealing her blood-stained teeth.
“First of all, you… I need to have a bite from the cute little guy.”
The one she chose was Park Jun-mo.
She grabbed one of the steel frames that fell from the ceiling and tore it off and threw it at Park Jun-mo.
Whoosh——!
A sharp piece of metal flying at subsonic speeds… Park Jun-mo didn’t have the wits to avoid it.
But—
Hung—
“Huh?”
It stopped in the air and—
swoosh—
rather it reversed and flew towards the Raybiz.
Chang!
“What is this again—!”
She jumped back and swung her knuckled fists back and forth.
It looked like he was throwing his fists in the air, as if he was shadowboxing, but every time he did that, a crashing sound was heard and something was thrown out.
It was an iron ball.
An iron ball was shot from somewhere and was targeting her, and even if she deflected it, it flew back in the air, drawing a curve.
Feeling both annoying and dangerous, as if she were dealing with a swarm of wasps, she raised her guard even tighter and focused on self-defense on both arms.
“Fuck—where are you?”
At that moment, her eyes stopped at one place.
About 7 meters away, in that empty space, she detected faint signs of presence.
“Ah, are you hiding?”
If so, he had no choice but to show up soon. No matter how good an assassin you are, it would be difficult to maintain stealth for even a minute.
However, even though I waited with my guard up and swatted away the flying iron balls… it did not appear.
“Such a long hiding is not possible unless you are a ‘Quinee’… No way…”
Anxiety slowly built up in her head.
‘It’s okay, even if it’s really Quinae, I have no choice but to show off my popularity.’
And she had a keen sense not to miss even the slightest sign of popularity.
‘Just one shot can kill it.’
At that time, footsteps were heard nearby.
Then I felt something heavy moving and the air being pushed out.
‘Good caught!’
She attempted to parry an object flying towards her with an animal sense.
Even if it was a sharp weapon, she could easily throw it away because her body was surrounded by powerful self-defense weapons.
After that, I prepared to throw a counter punch,
but— he——!
Her arm was cut off in one blow.
“Oh?”
Only then did she realize
that the transparent object flying towards her was a huge chunk of metal weighing several tons….
‘Fuck—does that make sense?’
But even though I realized it intuitively, I couldn’t believe
it. How could something so heavy be swung that fast? And who on earth could do that?
“Ma, ma, that’s ridiculous—”
With those thoughts clouding her mind, she started to stumble backwards. That was it.
At that moment—
boom!
Something that felt like a mace was stuck in his face. I hit my chin exactly and felt my brain shake.
Sigh!
Then another shot hit the philtrum.
My nose collapsed at a right angle and my teeth fell out.
Sigh! Sigh! Sigh! Sigh!
The mace-like fist began to pound her entire body without mercy.
Since the unidentified attacker was still invisible, she began to slowly twist like an articulated doll, making strange movements as if she were dancing poppin’ alone.
“Ugh…”
He turned into a mess and fell all over the sheet.
“…”
Meanwhile, Marvin Cater, who was watching the scene, dropped the wand with a blank expression.
After a while, it appeared in the air in front of him . Something stirred and a man appeared.
“Uh…”
He was holding a black helmet in one hand.
“That…”
That was the legendary helmet ‘Quenee’.
That man, Lee Hyun-wook . He looked down at Marvin Cater without any expression and said quietly,
“It’s over, so tell your subordinate in the cockpit to come out as well.”
“Oh no no.”
But Marvin Cater chuckled, lifted his head, and pointed out the window.
“The altitude we’re flying at right now… isn’t it strangely very low? Do you know why you came down like this?”
At that time, a voice came from the Mana Messenger on Marvin Cater’s waist.
– Chick— Here we found seagulls and blue whales. I will access it immediately.
“I think you’re Italian, you know ‘Nuovo Ordine’, right?”
It was the name of the most powerful mafia organization in the world:
La ‘Ndrangheta, a corporate mafia in the Calabria region of Italy, a player crime organization established by recruiting a large number of players after the world turned into a game… doo doo doo doo doo
doo ——
Soon, a loud rotor sound was heard outside the window.
“I don’t know who you are and how you stole Quine, but do you think you can deal with dozens of ‘NO’ gang members alone?”
“…….”
“And in this vast ocean, there is no one to run away from and no one to help you! You are finished!”
Doo doo doo——
The sound of the rotors became more and more clear. Before I knew it, I could see five or six helicopters following on either side.
Then Marvin Cater’s expression became more triumphant.
“But… Noubu Ordine wants talented people like you. So I can introduce you to someone quite high up in the organization, how about it? Now what I mean is that only I can save you. “I will work hard to show off your great skills, so as long as you don’t do anything foolish, you can survive.”
He was fluttering hard out of fear that his life might be in danger.
Hyunwook Lee nodded.
“Is there someone like that in that helicopter?”
He raised his left hand with an indifferent expression and pointed out the window.
“Yes, the head of the southern branch is on board over there.”
At that moment—
Kang!
“Huh?”
Marvin Cater turned his head when he heard a loud noise.
Kang! Kang! Kang! Kang!
For some reason, the helicopters that surrounded both aircraft crumpled up like paper and fell into the sea.
…Not a single one left.
“I was really tempted by this, but it ended up being a disappointment.”
And then—
boom—
the cockpit door was ripped open and someone dragged across the floor, the last of the convoy threatening the captain and co-pilot. “Boo!
” He
had something that looked like a dog collar around his neck.
“Now!” The plane goes to Rome normally.”
***
When he arrived in Rome a few hours later…
“Ha…”
Lee Hyun-wook couldn’t help but sigh deeply.
Rome’s international airport, Leonardo da Vinci Airport, seen below, was on fire.
Thump—thud—
and here and there, heavily armored giants were trampling players to death with earth-shaking steps and swinging spears, destroying aircraft and buildings.
‘…Titanomachia is progressing much faster than I thought.’
And the names of the titans are…
– Titan Hoplites (LV：110)
The titans that have appeared so far were ‘skirmishers’.
In other words, it meant that it was a precursor to the Titanomaki, which was just a kind of reconnaissance.
However, the five or six Titans that appeared now had the modifier ‘Hoplites’.
It was a term referring to Greece’s heavily armed infantry and could be interpreted as the main force.
‘In other words, the Named Titan appeared.’
For some reason, when we had just entered Greek airspace, the captain urgently said that all communications, including radio waves and mana, had stopped working.
The reason was probably that a number of very large gates were created in Rome, causing strong mana scattering in the area.
And all of Rome… or perhaps all of Europe, was under attack by those giants.
“Hmm… If this is the case, it seems like secret infiltration has gone awry… I think we need to revise the plan a bit.”
At Lee Hyun-wook’s words, Kim Se-hee, Park Jun-mo, and the two dark elves turned their heads.
“In that case…let’s go to our destination while pushing everything aside.”
In fact, for Lee Hyun-wook, it was much easier to fight through a battlefield that could be controlled at will rather than a city that was so stable that there were many things to worry about.