Steel-Eating Player - Chapter 78

Episode 78 [Magic Engineering City, Laputa – 2]

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“Is it okay if I just leave our squad alone for now? ”

Ahn Min-tae complained to Lee Hyun-wook, who was tightening the knot of his combat boots. He seemed displeased with the fact that he kept going outside these days. “No, it’s not neglect, it’s a

change in generation.”

“Um yeah?”

“Squad Leader Ahn Min-tae, now is the time for you to take responsibility.”

When Lee Hyun-wook said that, the corner of the guy’s mouth started twitching.

“Heh heh, not yet.”

In fact, Ahn Min-tae’s level is now the highest in the battalion, and he will play a fairly important role in this unit in the future.

And since he is surprisingly showing off his abilities in a secret way, he could become an unexpected helper if he continues to grow in the future.

“Well,” he said . … I’m doing a good job of filling Sergeant Lee Hyun-wook’s vacancy, but I’m still sad that he’s been having an affair lately.”

Lee Hyun-wook tapped Ahn Min-tae’s squad leader’s epaulet on his shoulder.

“I’m sorry about that, but anyway, I trust you and go out.”

“yes! “Don’t worry about that… go ahead.”

Yes, it was time to leave the unit completely.

Just today, I had a lot of external schedules.

And one of them was a request from Woo Seong-moon.

‘Anyway, I have to pay for receiving Hugin…’

That’s right. Today I decided to help with the work of the Special Secret Police Department.

Lee Hyun-wook reported to the administrative team that he was absent and came out.

At that time, someone came from the end of the hallway waving.

“—Who is this? “I’m not the savior of Seoul!”

The one who approached making such a fuss was Youngjun Choi.

He raised his glasses and looked around at Hyunwook Lee.

…It was as if he had discovered something interesting.

“Ah, Sergeant Youngjun Choi, it’s been a while since I’ve seen you.”

“So, since the savior of Seoul is really busy…”

“Haha…”

These two people weren’t particularly close at the time.

In other words, if he was approaching me like this, it meant there was a good reason.

“But Hyunwook .” Oh, there’s one thing I want to ask…”

As expected…

“Is that rumor about the Sword Saint Beater true?”

“Ah… that’s an exaggerated rumor.”

Hyunwook Lee made an embarrassed expression.

‘Damn, why did that spread…’

Sword Saint Beater…

But actually, that was a word that shouldn’t have spread like this. Everything that happened in the main sanctuary of Bukaksan Mountain is confidential.

‘Anyway, Wight Tree Guard…’

There was no way government agents would spread information related to secret operations, and the rumors probably came from there.

And at least for Choi Young-jun, who had a passion for the ‘sword’, such rumors could not help but be bothersome.

“But what? Are you going on vacation today too?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“Ah—that’s a shame. “I was going to ask you to train with me…”

Choi Young-jun showed a truly regretful expression.

Right now, he felt like a somewhat immature boy, but in the future, he will still have the qualities of a mature hero…

‘I am Choi Young-jun. ‘Did they take away his growth experience?…’

The 4th wave was a fairly important event in Choi Young-jun’s growth.

However, with Lee Hyun-wook’s performance, it was completely eliminated.

‘…But it is not the time to question such things in the first place.’

Lee Hyun-wook didn’t really care that the future was changed by him and someone else’s fate changed. As he monopolized all the talent and experience, quite a few heroes would disappear… ‘And none of them could protect the world anyway.

‘

In the end, it was only Lee Hyun-wook’s job to do.

‘And Choi Young-jun is a true genius. One way or another, he will grow into a hero in the end, and that’s when I can help him.’

Choi Young-jun said that Lee Hyun-wook was a genius beyond himself.

However, Lee Hyun-wook did not agree with that.

At least when it came to swords, he could not match Choi Young-jun’s sense.

‘Anyway, there must be an uproar on the Internet again, right?’

On his way out of the unit in the car sent by Woo Seong-moon,

Lee Hyun-wook looked up articles related to him on his smartphone.

– Rumors of ‘Sword Saint Beater’ emerging as Lee Hyun-wook’s new title? Hidden truth? Lee Hyun-wook himself is still consistent with mysticism. ..

– Revenge of the late Guk Pyo-seong? How much of the rumor about Lee Hyun-wook, who beat up Sword Saint Assassin Okita Kaito, is true? “Hah….”

This

issue was spreading all over the world.

I need to be careful…’

With such an insulting story being spread, Okita Kato’s pride must have been crushed, so he thought he would grind his teeth. Of course, he

confiscated some of the teeth he needed to grind…

– Lee Hyun-wook, the savior of Seoul Beating the Sword Saint Assassin? Domestic swordsmanship players say, “This is ridiculous!” A unanimous refutation….

And as expected, those who did not believe in Lee Hyun-wook’s performance appeared, and at the center of it all was Han Hee-yoon, a student of the former sword master Guk Pyo-seong.

She used to openly say that she would avenge her teacher, but last night, Lee Hyun-wook said on social media. I went out to criticize the rumors about

– Let’s see for real, but the rumors are getting worse haha. Lee Hyun-wook It’s a fact that he is the hero who saved Seoul, but how can he beat Kaito Okita? Haha. This is something that brings shame to Lee Hyun-wook as well, guys. Ah haha,

I can’t stand to see that guy who I’ve never seen in real life get drunk on the Steel Rain mulberry and now he’s sucking it up with all kinds of brain teasers. Really haha. Why? Just call him a dragon slayer? Anyway, Okita Kaito will soon die by my sword^^

‘

… Well, honestly, it’s okay to think this way.’

For players with sword-related abilities, the fact that Lee Hyun-wook, a control player, defeated Okita Kaito in a head-to-head match was unacceptable and also hurt their pride. Lee Hyun-wook checked the comments on the post. As expected, it was a very messy

situation

. .

‘Um, polar steel guy… what is this again?’

Steel fan… That was a term referring to Lee Hyun-wook’s extreme fan.

As Lee Jeong-jun said yesterday, Lee Hyun-wook’s fan base was considerable on the Internet. And when there is a fan, there is a tendency to have criticism, and in the comments of that post, an arena was opened and they are biting each other. ‘ Still,

there will come a day when this public opinion will be helpful.’

He has now emerged from the shadows into the light. And one day, the time will come when he will have to come to the forefront and announce and respond to the existence of the villain.

At that time, these images will be of great help.

***

Lee Hyun-wook used Hugin to destroy the Taesan guild facilities . The surveillance and observation was completed. However, there were no problems to be identified.

However, since there was a need for such detailed surveillance on a regular basis, Lee Hyun-wook was scheduled to be mobilized once or twice a week.

‘It is a nuisance, but it is something that must be done for a while.’

Afterwards, Lee Hyun-wook headed to the Shingil’s Hope Guild office.

But Park Jun-mo was at the guild office.

“Ah! “Are you here?”

“…huh? Park Jun-mo, why are you here so early?”

“Haha—I have nothing to do, I came right after seeing my grandmother.”

Park Jun-mo took a vacation of 7 nights and 8 days, and Lee Hyun-wook asked him to take just one day off, so he came to visit. “So, is your

grandmother in good health?”

“yes! This time, we completely changed the boiler and windows. Hehe—”

This dutiful guy said he used all his reward points to cash in and completely renovated his grandmother’s old house during this vacation.

“By the way, Sergeant Lee Hyun-wook…”

“Huh?”

“What happened this time that you called me like this…”

Park Jun-mo’s expression darkened as he asked that question.

“Hmm… You look like you don’t like what I called you?”

“Oh, can that be possible? He’s my benefactor…”

Well, whenever I was with Lee Hyeon-wook, a big incident occurred.

So it was natural for me to reflexively feel anxious.

“Don’t worry, nothing big will happen this time. “Let’s go somewhere first.”

“Oh yes!”

A few days ago, Kang Jeong-doo’s workshop completed its move to a location near the Hope Guild office. About 5 minutes away from here, Lee Hyun-wook and Park Jun-mo headed there. “Oh, you’re here! Haha—” Kang Jeong-du’s expression as he greeted Lee Hyun-wook was unusually

bright

.

” “Senior, no, I guess I should call you director now.”

“Huh, nothing to say! Isn’t it all thanks to this boss!”

[Gangjeongdu Item Manufacturing Research Institute]

The name of the building was hung on the 3rd floor of the building. As this was originally a logistics warehouse, the facilities were more than ample. Also, at the same time as the expansion, 6 employees were

hired, and like Gangjeongdu, it was a blacksmith guild. They were blacksmiths who had to sit outside and eat cold food.

“Haha, by the way, I brought a lot of work yesterday, didn’t I?”

Lee Hyun-wook said that and turned his head.

The two trailers contained fragments of all kinds of mechanical monsters taken from the hidden stage ‘Gnome Ruins’.

As these items were a condensation of gnome technology, they would be of great help in developing ‘magical engineering research’ skills in the future.

“no. “It’s like a precious gem to us!”

“How can these materials be helpful in your work?”

“Yes, it’s at textbook level! We’re looking at it carefully!”

At this time, these were rare samples that were difficult to obtain.

“Oh, and let’s try this.”

Lee Hyun-wook presented him with an item called Hephaestus’ Hammer, or rather, ‘Hammer with Mysterious Power’.

“Oh…”

However, Kang Jeong-du, who received it, was not that surprised. At first glance, its performance did not seem very good. However,

after swinging it a few times, you would realize that this was a ‘potential item.

’ I’m looking forward to the items that hammer will create in the future. Maybe each iron bead will be given various magic…’ The reason

manufactured items are undervalued compared to regular items is that giving ‘skills’ is quite a factor. It was because it was difficult.

However, when using Hephaestus’ hammer, the appropriate skill is given to manufactured items with a certain probability.

‘In other words, it is an item that can bring about a seismic change in the item market.’

At that time, someone came up behind Lee Hyun-wook.

“Hey, it’s really hard to see CEO Lee Hyun-wook’s face, isn’t it?”

The voice was Sehee Kim.

But she was wearing a jean jacket and for some reason she was wearing makeup.

“Sergeant Kim, what are you doing here? Are you on vacation in your last year?”

Her face crumpled at that question.

“What? No matter what, I came back to work after being discharged! “I’m here now to pick up the items I ordered last time.”

“Ah… you were discharged? Ah…”

Come to think of it, two days ago was Kim Se-hee’s discharge day…

“Wow, after being discharged, you tried to persuade me to join the guild, but now that you’ve become the president, you don’t even care about this? This guild. “I’m not making a good first impression, am I?”

“Oh, and the president is not me, but Cheolsu-hyung…”

“Park said he is actually the president of Baji, right? Don’t shirk responsibility. “Who put the contract in front of me?”

“Hmm, why is he saying such nonsense…”

“But anyone would think that he was discharged before me. He has already successfully conquered a dungeon and is now on the news?”

“Haha…”

Following Park Moo-han’s interview last night, Lee Hyun-wook was once again in the spotlight as rumors spread that he was a Geomseong beater.

“Oh, Sergeant Kim—not Team Leader Kim, that’s good. “Are you free today or tomorrow?”

Kim Se-hee tilted her head at Lee Hyun-wook’s words.

“…Um why?”

“I have somewhere to go together. This is also part of the job.”

At that question, Kim Se-hee made a shocked expression. She, like Park Jun-mo, seemed to be feeling an inexplicable sense of heterogeneity.

“Um, where… But the two of us?”

“No. There is one more.”

Lee Hyun-wook pointed to Park Jun-mo.

Kim Se-hee’s eyebrows furrowed.

“Ah… this is really unsettling again…”

An hour later, Lee Hyun-wook took the two people and headed to the large sandwich panel warehouse attached to one side of the research center.

It was originally a place to store things like trailers, so it was quite large, but now it was empty and empty.

“…No, the place you’re going isn’t this warehouse, right?”

“You’re half right. No one will sneak through here.”

“yes? What on earth does this mean?…”

Lee Hyun-wook took out the ‘Friedwen’ that was engraved on his right hand.

“…Why is this a shield all of a sudden?”

“Oh… it’s so cool! “Are you sure you’re a hero?”

No, it is legendary level.

However, Lee Hyun-wook put it down in the middle of the warehouse without answering.

“Now everyone, please step back.”

Lee Hyun-wook once again estimated the size of the warehouse.

‘A small airship can easily be summoned within this space.’

Lee Hyun-wook infused mana into the shield Prydwen.

Woouuu——

Then the surface of the shield began to turn pure white as if it was heating up, and a dark halo of light spread in all directions.

Huh——!

The next moment, everything in front of my eyes was white. It was filled with light.

It was as if the volume of the shield had expanded thousands of times—

Kim Se-hee and Park Jun-mo took a step back without realizing it.

“Oh, what is this?”

As soon as the light subsides…

“Gasp!”

A huge object appeared in its place.

“—Now a submarine?”

Yes, it seemed that way at first glance.

A long, oval-shaped white body about 20 meters long and 3 meters high… Eight wings were embossed along the smooth curves of a streamlined shape as if embracing the surface.

And that huge object was floating about 1 meter above the ground like an electromagnetic levitation train.

– Friedwen has been converted to ‘airborne’ mode.

“Uh… non-aircraft…”

Kim Se-hee muttered as if she had recognized its identity.

“Where on earth did you get this?”

Kim Se-hee once again had questions about this man, Lee Hyun-wook. As time went by, he showed more and more surprising aspects that were beyond common sense, so there was no time to get used to it.

Lee Hyun-wook walked towards him without answering.

‘Friedwen, this is my first time seeing him in person, too.’

Then I placed my palm on the surface.

Then the front door of the hull opened and a staircase came down.

Clang—push——

“Let’s get in.”

The two people just stood in silence at Lee Hyun-wook’s words.

“You can’t be surprised here. “The real thing is different.”

Hyunwook Lee said that and entered the Fridwen.

Its internal size could be seen as similar to that of a small submarine.

However, since it was operated by magic, the ‘magic circuit’ drawn on the surface replaced various facilities, so there was no need for an engine room or piping.

In other words, it was a structure that enabled much more efficient use of space.

Lee Hyun-wook postponed the sightseeing and went to the bridge to take control of Friedwen.

Although it was made with gnome technology, the bridge was surprisingly implemented in the shape of an ordinary airplane cockpit.

“…Do you know how to control this?”

“Actually… this is my first time riding one too.”

“But… you’re not trying to control me, are you?”

Lee Hyun-wook chuckled at those words.

“Team Leader Kim still doesn’t believe in magic.”

“…yes?”

There was no need for Lee Hyun-wook to control this directly.

He displayed a list of Laputa master authority in front of him.

[Laputa: Master authority]

1) Emergency return: Return to Laputa’s ‘Order Tower’.

* To use this function, ‘Freed’ We need Wen’. (Cooldown: 24 hours)

“Emergency return—”

When his command was given…

Uuuuu——!

The entire Prydwen trembled and a halo of Wen light covered the entire ship. Kim Se-hee and Park Jun-mo I was startled and grabbed onto something.

“Huh!”

In

an instant, the scenery in front of me changed.

Huuuu

The scenery of the tightly packed warehouse changed to a bright blue sky.

That dramatic change made me feel like I was dreaming. It was such an unrealistic feeling.

“What?! Where have we come now!”

“I’m in the sky of Seoul.”

Kim Se-hee and Park Jun-mo held on to the window and looked out.

Blue sky—

their gaze soon slowly tilted downward.

“La Laputa—!”

The floating city of Seoul, which they had always had to look up at, was now visible beneath their feet.

In other words, they were now above Laputa.

Lee Hyun-wook also walked up behind them and looked down at Laputa.

“Well, welcome to our guild’s secret base.”

It was the ability to overlook Seoul given to the savior of Seoul.