Steel-Eating Player - Chapter 39

39. Rain falling on the waves – 6

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Seo Eun-ha She was like lightning.

It shot out like light with a radiance wrapped around its body, and knocked down five Haunted Armors at once.

In the back of Seo Eun-ha, the search party members saw strong hope.

“Wow, that’s the battle of Seo Eun-ha’s strategy platoon leader, which I’ve only heard about…”

It was their first time seeing this and they couldn’t help but be surprised.

Of course, I heard this from the strategic platoon executives who were conducting operations with her.

According to Sergeant Kang Ik-jun, a sniper from the strategy platoon, Lieutenant

Seo Eun-ha’s fighting style is closer to a ‘berserker’ than a ‘holy knight’…

“It was real…”

I felt like I could finally understand what that meant.

Ahn Min-tae looked at the scene blankly, but soon came to his senses and raised his shield.

“ruler! “We also follow behind the platoon leader and provide covering fire!”

Maintaining a guarded position in all directions, I advanced little by little, following Seo Eun-ha.

The radiance flowing from her body pushed away the darkness, allowing her to advance toward hell.

They cut off the zombies flocking from all sides one by one while tightly united.

“Coming from the right!”

“-Concentrated fire!”

Before they knew it, over a hundred zombies were hanging out like laundry behind them.

‘······do! It works this time too!’

When I faced that hellish landscape, I honestly thought there was no hope. However, everything changed in an instant when the two most famous players in the 1st Battalion showed their true skills.

‘Lieutenant Seo Eun-ha is great, but Sergeant Choi Young-jun is also formidable.’

Youngjun Choi’s battle was taking place between the trees on the right.

“-Cock!”

Fedora, who had rushed at Choi Young-jun with a spirit of revenge, was now walking backwards on one foot, and Choi Young-jun followed him closely and swung his sword.

Char-evil!

The attack soared from below, cutting off the man’s right shoulder to the very tip of his wing, leaving it tattered. The guy had no choice but to jump back and run away. I only used the knife twice and the guy was already seriously injured.

‘There is a clear difference in skill.’

I had seen Choi Youngjun fight often, but he always cut down his enemies overwhelmingly, so it was hard to gauge his true skills. And the situation was no different now.

“It works too!”

Ahn Min-tae cheered without realizing it.

If I just kept pushing it like this, everything would go smoothly.

‘It’s a miracle that you can survive this level of hell!’

It was nothing short of a miracle that those two strong men were in the same battalion.

however······.

Per-huh!

An explosion sounded out of nowhere and Ahn Min-tae’s thoughts came to a halt.

“Ugh!”

The search party members reflexively lowered their posture.

Flames were rising in the darkness ahead.

Something flew in front of the search party members.

Thump-

“Huh?”

······That was sad.

Bright red blood flowed from her forehead.

Ahn Min-tae’s lips slowly went down.

“So platoon leader?”

“Step back…”

But for some reason, the glow had disappeared from her body.

“So, is that name famous for no reason?”

A woman’s voice echoed in the darkness.

“Do you think I didn’t know about his amazing skills? So like this…”

Four arms sprouted from behind the woman’s back.

And one of them was clutching something that glowed black.

“······Even the second gift was properly prepared.”

Wee wee wee–

it was a necklace.

The necklace was making a strange sound and was pushing away the radiance emitted by Seo Eun-ha.

– caution! The curse of ‘Gregory Azazel’ spreads! Holy power in the area is suppressed!

“Ugh! “Oh, by all means… the fallen angel’s treasure…”

‘Grigori’, which appears in Judaism, was an organization of fallen angels, and ‘Azazel’ was their leader. In other words, they were people who originally used divine power, but betrayed that power and took refuge in the power of darkness. The ‘Fallen Angel’s Noble Phantasm’, based on that setting, was an anti-holy power item.

To put it simply, it was an item that was like an Achilles heel for players who used sacred skills.

Something like a dark red stain was spreading over the white letters on Seo Eun-ha’s armor, shield, and great sword. Because of this, the white light became lighter and Seo Eun-ha’s power decreased.

Seo Eun-ha stood up again and staggered forward.

“Ugh…”

However, in a situation where her divine power was limited, there was no way that her power could be used properly.

Thump-thud-

Three Haunted Armors walked toward her as she staggered.

This time, for some reason, they seemed even bigger.

As if he would crush Seo Eun-ha to death at any moment…

Even Choi Young-joon’s side was going badly.

He had just succeeded in chopping off all the limbs of a bowler hat vampire.

However, black smoke began to flow from the severed part of the creature and replace the body.

“······What are you acting?”

If it was in smoke form, it would not have been possible to cut it with Choi Youngjun’s sword alone.

And in the next moment, smoke enveloped the bowler hat vampire’s entire body…

Go-oh-oh-oh-oh-

“Huh? Sergeant Youngjun Choi! Be careful-”

It turned into a gust of wind and hit Choi Young-jun.

His body rose into the air.

Youngjun Choi was enveloped in black smoke and disappeared far into the forest.

“······.”

They had no idea how things were going after that.

Two hopes were extinguished at the same time.

“Ah, what is this all of a sudden…”

“What should we do now?”

The search party members felt like their hearts were not only pounding but also sinking.

“We are all dead.”

“I have to run away even now…”

Panic came soon after.

“hey! Wake up and raise your weapon!”

“ah······.”

“You must keep fighting! “At 11 o’clock, the zombie horde is coming again!”

They again looked at the enemy in front of them and reflexively raised their weapons.

It was all I could do.

But they all knew that if even those two failed, there would be no hope.

“omg! Ha, by any chance, it’s coming this way!”

Thump- thump- thump- thump-

While Seo Eun-ha was struggling with the three Haunted Armors, the other two approached them.

“Shoot! Shoot!”

Arrows filled with divine power were fired at them all at once.

Ting- Ting-

But it was only enough to put a scratch on that huge armor.

“Aaaaaaa!”

“no! Run away!”

Thump- thud-

The shadow of the guy who approached like that was cast over the heads of the tanks.

Mintae Ahn looked up at it and raised his shield.

“It’s ruined.”

This thing is really dead.

That’s what I thought.

It felt like it was already the second time today that I felt this way.

At that time, Sergeant Choi Young-jun appeared like a miracle.

But now he was flying far away.

To be honest, I don’t want to hope for a miracle like that twice.

Teo-ung-

“······huh?”

At the sound of a loud noise, Ahn Min-tae slowly lowered his shield.

Palace–

The empty armor began to make a clear sound as if it were a huge bronze bell.

The reason was that there was something like a silver rod stuck to the chest of the armor and it was vibrating.

Ki-e-e–

An evil spirit howled inside the haunted armor.

It was divine power. That unidentified rod contained divine power.

He put down his weapon and tried to pull out that stick or something, but… Three more shots flew in

and

hit various parts of the armor.

More holy power stimulated the inside of the armor.

Then, as if he couldn’t bear it any longer, black smoke burst out from everywhere and the armor fell to its knees. The evil

spirit

had escaped the Living Armor on its own.

“Isn’t that… that stake?”

Some of the searchers recognized what it was.

At that time, lights turned on one by one in the dark forest behind me. A number of AMT soldiers with

flash lights attached to their weapons

stood tall in the darkness.

“It’s reinforcements!”

And the man who stood at the forefront was Lee Hyun-wook.

“ah! Sergeant Lee Hyun-wook!”

Ahn Min-tae screamed involuntarily.

There was a cry in his voice.

Yeah, I forgot about it for a while.

In fact, the man who is more active in this hell than anyone else,

Lee Hyun-wook, has not yet appeared…

He came over and put his hand on Ahn Min-tae’s shoulder.

“Ahn Min-tae, come to your senses, it’s not over yet.”

“ah! That’s right!”

Ahn Min-tae raised his shield, feeling his morale soar.

“What are you all doing? Get ready to fight again!”

The search party members who had backed away at his shout came forward again.

And the reinforcements following Hyun-wook Lee began to line up on both sides of them.

They were female soldiers from the 2nd Company, and most of them were wizard players.

“ruler! Wake up and prepare your link magic!”

A short female sergeant shouted and led them.

Kim Se-hee was the most famous soldier in the 2nd Company.

Meanwhile, Lee Hyun-wook slowly looked at the battlefield while reading the system message that floated in front of his eyes.

– You can secure the ‘master authority’ of the living armor.

* May not function properly due to your low ‘control’!

That was the message that popped up the moment I defeated the Haunted Armor.

Living Armor was a magically designed combat weapon and a type of automatic hunting item.

Usually, wizards used ‘control magic’ to secure master authority.

‘But an easier way than that is to use control.’

Control was one of the rarest and most powerful of the player’s abilities.

Joon-mo Park, who controls the inferno

current, which controls the flames,

a necromancer who controls death,

and Hyun-wook Lee, who controls metal, and in terms of the system, Hyun-wook Lee’s ‘metal control’ was also the almighty key to securing the ‘master authority’ of Living Armor.

‘Control.’

Then, various magic circles engraved on the surface of the fallen Living Armor began to glow. They turned on one after another as if a machine was running, and soon the blue eye lights came on.

Boom –

It raised its body and stood tall in front of Lee Hyun-wook.

– Acquired ‘Master Authority’ of Living Armor.

“······As expected, you brought a lot of nice things.”

Lee Hyun-wook stopped the smile from flowing out.

“This Lee Hyun-wook?”

It was Seo Eun-ha’s voice. She was already a wreck.

“I was almost late this time, but I still came on time.”

“you! Is it time to joke? Ugh…”

As she stumbled as if she was about to collapse, Lee Hyun-wook came and helped her.

At that time, my eyes met a woman standing in the dark far away.

“Ah, I heard there was another person who killed Oh Gwang-muk… so he finally showed up?”

Lee Hyun-wook knew who the woman was.

‘Carol Choi is the leader of the five butchers.’

He was one of the minions of Ki Baekjun, the Blood Lord’s second child.

Being a vampire and at the same time able to handle death magic, he was able to control the undead.

Of course, it was nothing compared to the Necromancer, the commander of the Legion of Death…

Green eyes were crowded in the wide valley behind her

.

“A lot of people gathered.”

Lee Hyun-wook walked forward toward them.

“I think we were about to throw a really big party. I’m sorry, but I have to be rude.”

“Huh- You’re saying this knowing that it’s your head that’s going to be on the table at that party, right?”

Carol threw the cigarette on the floor and extinguished it with her foot.

However, Lee Hyun-wook did not even look at Carol.

His attitude was as if he didn’t even care about you.

I just walked forward, raised my head and looked at the sky.

“······Anyway, it looks like it’s going to rain. Do you have an umbrella?”

Carol tilted her head at the somewhat unexpected remark.

“······What are you talking about?”

“I’m sorry if there isn’t one, but I think we should end this party.”

Hyunwook Lee said that and raised his hand.

Then, the wizards of the 2nd company all raised their wands and staffs as if they were waiting.

Then, Sergeant Kim Se-hee’s voice rang out.

“Now! Link!”

Link was a spell that summoned magic cast from somewhere else.

Fifteen wizards simultaneously drew a magic circle, and fifteen beams of light stretched into the sky. The

rays of

light gathered at one point and fused.

Everyone looked there.

A circular motion appeared in the middle of the black sky

.

Then, as if the lid of the sky was opened,

pale light began to leak out from there.

“It’s a portal.”

A portal was a dimensional tunnel, a door connected to another ‘somewhere’.

“It’s raining…?”

Carol’s eyebrows twitched. Only then did I feel ominous.

At that time, someone’s voice came from Lee Hyun-wook’s shoulder walkie-talkie.

– Chic – Wide-area magic deployed from the battalion armory has been completed!

It was Major Moon Tae-ho, the regional magic control officer.

“Yes, I confirmed.”

-Chick- But keep in mind! The maintenance time of the wide area portal is only 3 minutes!

“Yes, I know. And that’s it…”

Hyunwook Lee slowly raised his left hand.

The goal was a ‘wide-area portal’ opened in the sky.

He

grabbed it

, or things beyond it, beyond space.

“······Heavy rain is enough to wash away the dirty things.”

With those words, his hand dropped and

hundreds of flashes of light began pouring down from the portal.

– Chic – Drop completed. Good luck.

That day, it rained in Seoul and it was made of steel.