Steel-Eating Player - Chapter 38

38. Rain falling on the waves – 5

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After coming to his senses, Major Moon Tae-ho wiped the blood from his face and looked around the rag-covered hallway. saw.

“What is this…”

I wondered if I was dreaming.

From the command and control room to the long hallway leading to the battalion weapons depot in the distance…

Hundreds, if not more than a thousand, of various weapons were lined up in all directions.

It seemed like the actual medieval battlefield would not have looked like this.

“What is this… is it a bombing or something?”

“I had no choice.”

Hyunwook Lee answered.

“No, I’m not saying anything, but that thing… is definitely dead, right?”

At the end of the hallway, the ‘monster’ who blew himself up was literally crushed.

At first, it just looked like dozens of spearheads were stuck in a big lump.

“Yes that’s right.”

Yes, I definitely killed it.

There were even silver iron stakes stuck in both eyes and near the heart. It was a terrible sight that was hard to see with open eyes, but there was nothing I could do because if I didn’t do something like that, I might come back to life.

“under······.”

Moon Tae-ho rubbed his face with his right hand.

There was no feeling below the left shoulder.

“There is no fucking shame. Still, I’m a major, but I was hit and passed out…”

“no. “Never mind.”

Moon Tae-ho looked at Lee Hyun-wook and smiled.

“This guy is amazing, he’s amazing. Even though there was a fuss around him, I was indifferent, but he’s amazing.”

When Battalion Commander Lee Hyeon-wook visited me right after this four month period, I was honestly a little upset.

No matter how ridiculous this guy’s recent achievements were, I wondered if it made sense for him to call a single soldier over himself, a major-ranking duty commander, at a time when the entire unit was about to disappear.

But now it occurred to me once again that the battalion commander had a good eye.

“To be honest, I don’t have much talent for using magic myself, so from the beginning, I kept digging only for wide-area magic. That’s why I’m wearing a major, but I’m really sorry…”

Not all wizards are the same.

The direction is determined by the first ‘passive’ skill you acquire.

In the case of Moon Tae-ho, he was specialized in ‘mana detection’ and ‘flow analysis’.

In other words, the focus was on analyzing and controlling magic rather than using magic directly.

That’s why the role of ‘wide area magic controller’, a position that controls and directs the magic made by several wizards – as many as hundreds of people working together, was perfect. There’s not much to do, though.

“But, Commander, I don’t think we have time to talk like this right now.”

It was only then that Moon Tae-ho realized that he had lost his mind.

“Oh, that’s right…”

“Controller, then can I ask you to do what you do best?”

“······huh?”

At Lee Hyun-wook’s words, Moon Tae-ho blinked.

“I’m talking about wide-area magic.”

“Why do you need that… now?”

“We are trying to open a long-distance two-way portal to connect this place with the area near the totem.”

“······.”

“If you allow, I will recruit wizards from the 2nd Company.”

Moon Tae-ho could hardly understand what Lee Hyun-wook was saying.

“······What on earth are you trying to do?”

Lee Hyun-wook smiled.

“Shouldn’t we wipe out the enemies who have infiltrated the compound?”

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“······Move forward.”

Without Lee Hyun-wook, the 22-member ‘Totem Search Party’ went deep into Namsan Mountain under Seo Eun-ha’s command.

In the mountains at night, the moonlight could not seep through the thick trees and I could not see an inch ahead.

But I couldn’t turn on the flashlight. It was because the undead couldn’t get caught.

Fortunately, I had enough ‘night vision’ so I was able to see through the night while wearing it.

How long has it been like that… Everyone

in the lead stop sign

search team held their breath and hid behind trees and bushes.

The leader gestured.

Everyone’s eyes turned to that point.

Gulp –

Someone swallowed dry saliva.

Finally, the targets came into view.

that······.

It

was the eye light of the hundreds of dead green lights blooming on the side of Namsan Mountain.

Hundreds of undead were gathered halfway up Namsan Mountain.

‘It’s different from the zombie I dealt with a while ago.’

Ahn Min-tae felt it.

Those were higher grade monsters than the ‘Inhabitants of Hell’ that appeared near the guardhouse.

First of all, it was much bigger than before, and green smoke was rising all over the body.

Perhaps both speed and power were on a different level from the zombies he had dealt with before.

But that wasn’t all.

‘······What the hell is that?’

Thump-thump-thump-thud-

A huge armored corps that was over 2 meters tall with earth-shattering steps.

Green smoke rose from their empty helmets.

‘That’s Living Armor.’

A combat weapon that is alive and moving and attacks everything that invades its owner’s space…

‘I’ve actually seen it, but… that one is much bigger.’

In the case of living armor without an owner, the wizard player could cast ‘control magic’ to possess it. That’s why there were also people who often took them with them for self-defence…

I’ve never seen such a large number.

And although Ahn Min-tae didn’t know it, that wasn’t just living armor.

It was not a control spell, but a living armor or haunted armor possessed by an evil spirit.

It was a high-grade undead that was incomparably vicious.

And the purple gate that opened there was constantly spewing out new monsters. It

was a self-evident fact that the number of undead would increase several times as time passed.

“under······.”

The search party members were horrified as they watched that nightmarish scene.

To go through that undead army, to find and destroy that ‘totem’…

It was a very natural feeling to want to run away right away.

However, one word that Seo Eun-ha said before entering the operation was like a stone in their minds.

“If we fail, they will go down Namsan Mountain. At least tens of thousands of people will die…”

okay······.

The lives of tens, perhaps hundreds of thousands, of people depended on them.

‘That’s right, if I give up here, it’s all over. It can’t be.’

But just as you couldn’t go back, you couldn’t move forward either.

‘If you are caught here… you will definitely die.’

Because my instincts warned me so. Hide tightly so that not a single hair of your head can be seen, otherwise you will be swept away and become part of that procession of death…

however······.

“······uh? Small platoon leader?”

Seo Eun-ha, who was no one else, stood up and started walking forward.

It was strange behavior.

If you approached so openly, you would be discovered by the undead lying in the ground.

“Then I’ll get caught!”

One of the soldiers spoke anxiously, but she shook her head.

“are you okay. “I’ve already been caught.”

“······yes?”

Then, laughter was heard from somewhere.

“······As expected, you are a different paladin with some value to your name.”

A woman’s voice

At the same time, something moved vaguely in the darkness near where Seo Eun-ha was looking.

It was a woman wearing a suit, and it seemed as if a person had come out of the shadows.

“I’ve killed so many paladins like this, but I never thought you would notice this.”

The woman put a cigarette in her mouth and Seo Eun-ha pulled out a greatsword from behind her back.

“I don’t want to waste time on purpose, so I just ask one question. “Who are you?”

An unidentifiable pale hand stretched out from behind the woman’s back and held a cigarette, and

clumsy – her real hand lit the cigarette.

“Well, it’s going to take a while for you to tell me who we are, right?”

It was then.

Char-evil!

The sound of a knife cutting into flesh – Choi Young-jun was already standing next to Seo Eun-ha.

He was holding his sword, Hwando, when something fell at his feet.

It was a severed hand that held a dagger.

“Tsk….”

Then, a man wearing a bowler hat landed in the distance.

Blood dripped from his right hand.

“There was one more guy on top of the platoon leader’s head.”

“I already knew, but thank you.”

A translucent protective film was formed over Seo Eun-ha’s head.

Mana Shield

was a skill inherent to the armor she was wearing.

“······I think I understand why Carol Heo Young-tae and Yang Hee-joo were killed at the same time.”

The man in the bowler hat glared at Choi Yeongjun and whispered.

They also encountered an unexpectedly talented person.

“But they are both here, so who killed Oh Kang-muk?”

“… that’s right.”

The connection with Oh Kang-muk has just been lost.

It meant that maybe there was one more talented person.

Meanwhile, the severed hand of the man in the fedora wriggled and began to move of its own accord

–

it crawled across the floor with its fingers as if it were a spider, running toward its owner.

But in the end, I couldn’t get into the arms of my master.

Char-evil!

All its fingers were separated and scattered in all directions.

This time, it was Choi Young-joon.

“Oh my, now I have to crawl like a caterpillar instead of a spider, right?”

Choi Yeongjun smiled and wriggled his index finger.

The man in the bowler hat glared at Choi Yeongjun.

“······I will kill that man.”

“You mean you want it?”

“you’re right.”

“Okay then, I have the Paladin.”

Immediately, the eyes of the two vampires flashed red. At that moment, dozens or hundreds of green eye lights began to emerge one by one from the darkness between the trees behind them.

Hundreds of footsteps and disgusting cries echoed

through the mountains. They came like waves.

The undead legion was approaching at hand.

“Ready for battle!”

When Ahn Min-tae shouted, the search crew loaded their skills.

“Now, let’s take a look at our famous paladin’s skills.”

Carol smiled and disappeared into the darkness.

A bunch of zombies started running like a pack of dogs from between the trees

.

The number that I could see right away was only a few dozen.

The search crew looked at Seo Eun-ha.

But she lowered her shield without any command.

As

she lifted the shield, white letters appeared on it.

It was runes.

As they spun around the shield and converged one by one at the center,

tremendous

white light burst out in all directions, forming a white dome within a 20m radius.

Pa-ha-a-a-

Dozens of zombies that entered it were instantly oxidized.

It couldn’t be anything other than tremendous divine power.

She handed the shield to Youngjun Choi.

“This dome lasts 7 minutes. “Protect the children and provide support fire.”

Now, this meant that she would break through on her own.

“Um, would you be able to?”

“······There is no other way.”

Seo Eun-ha raised the sword in front of her eyes and closed her eyes.

Hmm –

The gray full plate armor glowed, and I had the illusion that the armor had turned pure white.

She walked forward, pushing away the darkness, covering her entire body with radiance.

As if to counter him, knights wearing armor appeared from the opposite side.

It was the ‘Haunted Armor’, a 2m long armor emitting black smoke.

Thump-thump-thump-thump-

Carol smiled as she looked at the figure in the dark.

“This is the first gift I prepared especially for you.”

“······.”

Haunted Armor could not be obtained just by having high sacred power.

Not only did it have physical defense as it appeared, but it also had considerable magic resistance.

Therefore, it was inevitable that it would be difficult to directly hit the evil spirit inside with ‘divine power’.

But there were a whopping 30 of them.

However, Seo Eun-ha did not hesitate at all and ran along the floor.

It was so fast that it was hard to believe that it could withstand the massive weight of the full body armor.

After making a lunge like that, he kicked off the ground and soared into the sky –

boom!

It rammed the leading Haunted’s armor as it was.

Sparks flew between the two armors.

Seo Eun-ha stepped on the guy’s chest, soared into the air once more, and fell straight down, sinking his great sword into Haunted Armor’s head.

Zeng-!

At that moment, white light exploded from her great sword.

Pa-ha-a-a-

Holy Light

As the pure white inside of its body spread, black smoke was billowing out from between the gaps in its armor. The black smoke was in the shape of a human face, screaming as if in pain.

The possessed evil spirit disappeared and returned to normal ‘living armor’.

That was the end.

Ku-ung-

That huge armor collapsed in vain.

Other Haunted Armors rushed in, but they were no different.

Okay! Whoops! Zeng! Zeng!

Seo Eun-ha dodged the hammer and spear that flew at her at incredible speed, and swung her great sword between the joints of the Haunted Armor to cut it off, causing the steel giant to collapse.

And by inserting ‘Holy Light’ into the armor, he consecrated the evil spirit… This is easy to say, but he performed an unbelievable feat.

Just like that, 5 Haunted Armors were knocked down in an instant, like crushing a tin can.

As such, the main skill of the paladin was to strengthen armor and weapons.

In other words, there was a world of difference between a naked Seo Eun-ha and a fully-armed Seo Eun-ha.

“what······.”

Carol was sitting on a branch and tried to light a cigarette.

Before she knew it, Seo Eun-ha was looking up at her, raising the tip of her sword and aiming.

“It’s a bit hard to say it with my own mouth, but I’ll teach you why I’m famous, so come down.”

Carol was shocked for a moment, but soon caught her breath.

“Ah… I knew that and prepared a second present.”

she took out something