Steel-Eating Player - Chapter 197

Episode 197 [ Hero, Accumulated Power – 2 ]

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It is often said that the ‘air current’ changes. I used to do it.

This is a metaphor for not only natural phenomena such as air flow, but also large trends or flow of atmosphere in human society.

Now the current was moving towards the Demon King.

This is because the Demon King began to shake up the humanity that had gathered around Lee Hyun-wook by distributing a strange item called the ‘Devil’s Invitation’, thereby increasing the anxiety of all levels of society.

‘So the support for material items coming into the Taebaek Armory was drastically reduced in just one day.’

It happened in just a few days.

Just a few events changed the mood.

‘In order to invest in me, a large number of forces who wanted to build a separate air raid shelter began to rise up and unite…’ It

was a classic last resort to build an ark if they could not prevent the end of the world.

The result of this trend seems to be only a decrease in the number of weapons produced at the moment, but in the long term, it can be seen that the number of allies willing to fight together is also decreasing.

Furthermore, I didn’t know what kind of butterfly effect it would create and catch Lee Hyun-wook’s ankle.

‘But just this scene alone can bring the atmosphere back.’

Hyunwook Lee came to the Arabian Sea to change the current.

Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu Hhuh——

He was sitting on the Pridwen, overlooking the vast sea. It was in the middle of a vast ocean with the Arabian Peninsula vaguely visible to the east.

And all kinds of mana messages flew into his ears.

– Chick—The target is approaching point A-3 and is expected to take 129 seconds to reach.

– Here is [Red Tank] After spraying the troll’s blood on point A-3, move to point A-4.

It was mana communication between 11 airships and 14 high-speed boats floating in the nearby waters.

They were slowly driving to the final point, performing each mission surrounding a single objective on the map.

– Chick— Target has reached A-3 and now appears to be consuming troll blood.

However, there was no movement on the sea level near the target location on the maritime map.

Shoot….

It was so quiet that all I could hear was the gentle sound of waves.

This was a very strange thing.

If that giant so-called ‘Leviathan’ was prowling through the sea, it would have created waves at the very least, but no significant changes could be detected with the naked eye.

In addition, modern technologies that can detect moving objects in the sea, such as ‘radar’ or ‘sonar’, were unable to accurately pinpoint its location.

“…Is there really something down there?”

A man wearing sunglasses behind Lee Hyun-wook asked suspiciously.

He was an internet broadcaster under the active name JJJ Si and the best influencer in Korea with a whopping 500 million subscribers.

“Hmm… I think it’s too quiet. “It doesn’t look like there are any fish. By the way, when does the broadcast start? I have a fear of both water and heights, so it’s a bit difficult.”

He was clinging closely to Friedwen and complaining with a very nervous face.

Lee Hyun-wook had brought him in with the promise of exclusive broadcasting of this operation.

That was because it was more advantageous for security than recruiting a regular broadcaster.

“In Mr. JJJ’s eyes , What don’t you see? Those eyes are so famous, right? “You said it was the ‘hunter’s eye’ that gives you additional information just by looking at the monster, right?”

Hyunwook Lee asked.

‘Yes, it doesn’t mean I can see as accurately as I did after absorbing the Eye of Horus, but my intuition just gets stronger…’

JJJ, who had no idea about that, twitched the corner of his mouth and looked out the window, as if he was happy to receive Steelein’s praise. saw.

“Hmm… What do you see? Are you talking about the mana concentration on the sea level?”

“Yes, we are still tracking him by estimating his location based on that. “There are high-ranking wizards on board those airships to detect mana.”

“Well, as far as I can see, I can feel a slight protrusion of mana only in certain areas, but isn’t it difficult to be sure that there is something special in those calm waters just based on that? The so-called ‘mana footprint tracking’ method is now very old-fashioned.”

Lee Hyun-wook nodded,

“That’s right. But… since this guy is not an ordinary guy, he must have a way of hiding his body perfectly. So this might be best.”

In the first place, wasn’t Leviathan a being comparable to a dragon? If such a person decided to hide, it would inevitably be difficult to catch him using only the senses and skills of a single human being.

That’s why he was able to prey on ships on board and spread ghost stories for years without being detected.

However, Lee Hyun-wook was different.

His senses were now focused on the two hextech crows ‘Hugin’ and ‘Munin’…

‘……Okay, I can finally see it.’

– The [One-Eyed King’s Insight] set (2/2) is activated!

* While Hugin and Munin are in effect, all senses are heightened by up to 80 times. They can also ‘see through’ certain densities and volumes, and when they sense powerful mana, they can perceive the form of that entity.

As the two items created a set effect, Lee Hyun-wook felt his senses explode.

“Huh…”

He felt a little dizzy and felt like his entire nervous system was going wild, as if he had been on drugs.

Shootaaaaa——

Then, the sound of this huge ocean churning felt like a panorama, and I could even intuit where the updrafts and downdrafts were occurring.

‘…Ugh, I feel bad.’

This was similar to what I felt when I first acquired and operated Hugin.

However, as he soon came to his senses and focused his nerves, his senses, which had multiplied dozens of times, were concentrated on a single point and he moved slowly as if he were using a microscope.

Then, hundreds of meters beneath the water… a huge shadow was detected, surrounded by a ‘mana tube’ and moving more secretly than anything else.

Woowoowoo——

Hyunwook Lee concentrated his senses and looked at its appearance more closely.

– Ruler of the Deep Sea ‘Leviathan’ (LV：205)

‘…It is a little more powerful than Aji Dahaka.’

It had a huge body of about 200 meters… It was a huge crocodile, and its appearance with fins reminded me of the ‘Mosasau rus’ that lived in the Cretaceous period.

Go-o-o-o-o–

And it opened its huge mouth, sucking in water like a drain pipe, and was drinking the troll’s blood that was scattered in the water.

‘Okay, you’re eating very calmly, aren’t you?’

Hyun-wook Lee recalled a documentary he had seen in his past life called Leviathan, which contained the process of attacking Leviathan.

There, the strategy team leader said that Leviathan has a huge appetite and especially considers land creatures that are not normally encountered to be delicacies.

Among them, it was confirmed that if you spray ‘troll blood’ full of mana, it loses its reason and runs wild, and with that, it was said that they lured it into a trap.

Hyunwook Lee was also following that strategy.

‘Now we have to slowly get them to take the bait.’

– Chick— We have about 5 minutes left to reach Stillane A-4. I will order the ‘Net’ teams to standby right now.

This voice was Team Leader Lee Kyo-Jun, who also came to the scene and was overseeing the operation.

“Yes, please do so.”

Lee Hyun-wook turned his head and looked at JJJ.

“Let’s start broadcasting now.”

“Oh okay—I understand!”

When JJJ snapped his fingers, the ‘manager’ sitting next to him opened a bag and took out all kinds of filming equipment, including a camera, and set it up. “Now, if you just press this button, the live broadcast will start. Shall we go?

”

JJJ checked again with an excited expression while holding the camera.

“Yes, start.”

“—Okay, let me write a new history in the Internet broadcasting industry today!”

He chuckled as if he was excited and gave various instructions to the manager:

“Ugh—the title of the broadcast should be short and concise, [Hyun-wook Lee and Steele Union]!”

And soon the broadcast began loudly.

“—Hello, viewers! I am JJJ, a life-threatening VJ who provides commentary on vivid raid scenes! Do you know where you are now? Now—no one would imagine! “This is the Iron Fleet’s flagship, Fridwen, perhaps being revealed to the world for the first time!”

He came closer to Lee Hyun-wook and looked at the camera and asked to say something, but Lee Hyun-wook didn’t even look at him.

“…Well, I guess Mr. Steelein is a bit busy.”

He said shyly.

In the first place, we did not give him exclusive broadcasting rights to match the broadcast content.

‘All we have to do is spread this scene around the world.’

Lee Hyun-wook focused his mind solely on this operation.

And finally…

– …he reached the net area!

Hyunwook Lee gave instructions as soon as he heard the message.

“Go into ‘ghost mode’ right now.”

Hearing his words, the ‘female people’ sitting in the cockpit became busy.

“Yes! Activate ghost mode!”

Then, I heard a beeping beeping sound, and the aircraft began to tremble, and then I felt dense mana being doped throughout Friedwen’s aircraft.

Pridwen is now in a ‘cloaked’ state and cannot be seen with the naked eye.

Subsequently, the ‘Silence Magic’ was applied, and the otherwise quiet sound of the ‘gnome magic engineering engine’ completely disappeared.

This too was all the power of magical engineering.

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“…Uh, is this what Steele Lane wants to do now? I’ve just heard the brief explanation, but you’ve all heard the news, right? Well… the cargo ships that came to the Korean Peninsula carrying supplies kept sinking, right? We’re going to find out what kind of guy did that and catch him! Wow, the number of viewers has already surpassed 100 million!”

Those 100 million people would spread the news around the world, and in an instant, the whole world would witness what was happening here.

At that time, Hyunwook Lee gestured to JJJ.

“JJJ come this way.”

“yes?”

“Let’s take a picture of that over there!”

At those words, JJJ and the manager approached the ramp door with a camera.

Then, following Lee Hyun-wook’s finger, they looked at a part of the sea.

There, four speedboats were moving quickly, dumping pieces of cut meat into the sea.

“Ah . What is that thing doing? It’s spreading bait! They say there’s a huge guy out there in the sea, but to be honest, I still don’t know! I haven’t even seen that scary guy’s tail yet… Huh?”

It was then.

“…Look over there! Something is coming up!”

A huge shadow began to slowly rise from the surface of the sea, which was stained with the red blood of the troll.

But at that moment, JJJ could not help but gasp. It was not just surprise, but biological shock.

– Caution! Due to the fear of the deep sea. All abilities are drastically reduced. (-30%)

“—Boo!”

Even though JJJ only saw its shadow, he stiffened for a moment and took a step back. Then he fell flat on the floor, trembling. It

was like a fear dragon. The primal fear radiating from this other monster came rushing in.

“Ah no… even though this one was this far away… it got caught in the pier and… Sigh! omg! omg!”

He crawled on the floor and entered the Pridwen, complaining of difficulty breathing.

Still, since the distance was still quite far away, I was able to escape Peer’s influence as long as I didn’t look directly at it.

“Well—now, I’m not kidding, and I’m not manipulating. Ha crazy… “I feel like I’ve already come here for no reason?”

He barely continued the broadcast by taking pictures of Lee Hyun-wook’s back with the camera in his hand.

“Ugh—I guess it won’t work if I watch it with my own eyes and broadcast it. Instead, I will use a magic drone so you can see, so please understand.”

At his gesture, the manager who was vomiting next to him crawled over with difficulty, took out a magic drone from a large bag, and flew it out the lamp door.

The broadcast screen switched to the magic drone camera perspective, and JJJ continued speaking while looking at the screen.

“Heh, I’m finally calming down. Everyone, even though I look like this, I’m only level 43 and my raid knowledge is comparable to that of an expert. If you look at it from this far away and it’s giving off this much fear, it’s honestly at the level of a dragon. I’m sure of it.”

He took a deep breath and continued talking frantically.

“But do you know what’s different from a dragon? It’s in the fucking deep sea. So, that thing will be harder to catch than a dragon! I think, uh… there might be almost no way.”

Even though Lee Hyun-wook was right in front of him, he expressed his pessimistic outlook without hesitation.

Then, perhaps because he faced backlash from viewers, he raised his voice and began to explain.

“No, don’t just blindly think about it! No matter what you throw at it, it will all be blocked and canceled out by that sea, so you can’t dive into the sea and fight it! If that monster bastard dives thousands of meters, even Steelaine’s Mogley drop will be destroyed. “It won’t work!”

His point was very accurate even in Lee Hyun-wook’s opinion.

‘He didn’t become the best Internet broadcaster just because he was lucky, right? He has quite the analytical skills.’

As he claimed, the field boss monster ‘Leviathan’ had the worst raid conditions. No matter

how many powerful players came, how could they catch someone who was active at least hundreds of meters underwater?

To this, Lee Hyun-wook agreed.

“… JJJ, you said it very accurately. It’s not like you’re doing well for nothing.”

“Hahaha… thank you… yes? Then…”

A shadow slowly spread across his face as he smiled shyly at Lee Hyun-wook’s praise.

“Uh uh…”

Now Fridwen is flying towards that monster. If your guess is correct… aren’t you heading straight into a very dangerous place?

“…How are you going to catch that thing?”

For a moment, he felt goosebumps running up his spine and looked at Lee Hyun-wook with a blank expression.

Then Lee Hyun-wook chuckled and said,

“But I can do it.”

Lee Hyun-wook blatantly expressed his power.

And then—

-Chick— Activate net number 1.

With that Mana radio, a strange phenomenon occurred.

Ku—ku—ku—ku——

A loud sound covered the whole world.

It was the sound of the sea churning.

Qua—and—and—and——

To be more precise, it was the sound of the Water Spirit King and the water spirits under him exerting all their might to create numerous water whirlwinds around the Leviathan in the sea.

Then, like a miracle of Moses, the sea began to split and the bottom began to appear.

Shoot—ah—ah—ah——

and there were as many as four places. When I looked at it closely, I saw that the sea was splitting into a square shape.

In other words, the ‘net compartment’ was ‘isolated’.

“Wow… what is that? What kind of power can control the sea like that… doesn’t it feel like looking at a square of ice? But…” However, that alone is enough to kill a large boss

monster the size of a dragon. It seemed ridiculous to keep him locked up.

“…If that guy had his way, he would break through the water whirlpool and cross the split sea with just a few wriggles, right?”

Lee Hyun-wook also nodded,

“Yes, you are correct this time too.”

“Oh yes, but that means you predicted this…”

Lee Hyun-wook nodded once again.

“Now we’re going to catch him with a second net.”

– Chick—Activate net number 2.

That is…

– Caution! A ‘gravitational force field’ is activated in the area!

“Ah! This is…”

Lee Seong-yoon, known as the gravity wizard, poured all his mana into reversing the gravity of an area.

Shoot—

Then the ‘net section’ that had been cut into squares began to soar toward the sky.

No, ‘falling’ would have been a more appropriate expression at this point. In the first place, falling means being pulled by gravity.

Qua—ah—ah—ah—ah——!

The scene was so foreign and unrealistic that JJJ opened his mouth and then closed it again.

A point in this seemingly infinite sea rises into the air in the shape of a square, as if God had put it in a box and scooped it up…

He pondered for a while about what to say, and unconsciously muttered a strange sound.

“…Viewers, you are looking at the largest, most beautiful, and most dangerous aquarium in the world.”

It was natural for all the beings in those billions of tons of water to be uprooted together, and a huge shadow – Leviathan – could be seen writhing in anger.

Woowoowoo——

And then the blue light started to spread out, and it seemed like the thing was getting angry and preparing to attack.

At that time, Hyunwook Lee spoke to Mana Messenger.

“Now, please thin it out.”

Then, due to the reversal of gravity, the rectangular water that had risen up scattered into dozens of streams with a popping sound.

Then, only Leviathan was left in the space.

A crocodile-shaped monster with a long jaw and a long tail… That size. It was truly overwhelming, but its current appearance looked as shabby as a Nile crocodile that had been caught in a net.

He—uh—uh—uh——!

It let out a loud roar and used a huge webbed body to swim. It waved its arms and legs, but it was unable to move because the water had been filtered out.

In the end, as if struggling, a blue ray of light spewed out from its mouth. However, perhaps it was panicked and fired at random, or perhaps it was unable to adapt to the overturned gravity and lost its sense of direction, as it scratched the air in vain. Meanwhile ,

Lee Hyun-wook gave the final command:

“Now… take out the harpoon.”

At that time—

wow wow ——

a large airship approached the bottom of the Prydwen. It then clicked into the lower part of the Prydwen and joined with a clicking sound. Then, the area around its ceiling opened to the left and right, and a

long A ‘rail’ was revealed, and inside it was a glimpse of four Morgleys loaded like bullets. At

that time, someone shouted from the cockpit,

“—Convert Prydwen power to Gaussian!”

Then, Pridwen came to a halt in the air, leaving behind only the bare minimum of functionality, and a huge amount of mana was transferred to the airship, to be exact, near the rail. Soon, a blue light slowly heated up the

rail

. …

A Mowlay foot landed on the rail with a clang sound. Then, the rail slowly rotated and came into a straight line with Leviathan struggling in the air in the distance. JJJ, who was looking at

that scene, asked,

“…No way. Are you shooting Mowglai like a gun?”

Lee Hyun-wook nodded slowly.

“The reason why I am broadcasting this scene today is…”

He turned his gaze to the camera and continued.

“…Please, there is no one who wants to stand at the end of this big gun. “I hope you don’t exist.”

The next moment, the rail began to shine.

A line of light was drawn from here to there, and without any sound being heard, a haze arose chaotically, as if the straight space was being crumpled.

Then, Leviathan’s large head disappeared.

Then, belatedly , A long scar was drawn on the sea.

With a single blow, the air currents changed again.

“……”