A Player Who Eats Metal - Chapter 1



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Steel eating player chapter 1
F-Class Player’s Return-1

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Everyone has genius.

However, most of them simply do not discover the genius in their lifetime.

But, how will life change if you realize that genius only by entering the words of life?

Would you make your life happier with the last joy?

‘······No, no.’

Lee Hyun-wook could affirm about him.

‘On the contrary, it’s terrible pain.’

In his experience, the late discovery of talent was like opening a “Pandora’s Box.” With indescribable helplessness and regret, we are bound by the bonds of suffering that only hope torture exists.

‘I couldn’t change anything when I realized my abilities.’

Lee Hyun-wook was lying on the skyscraper in a bloody state now.

His colleagues were rolling around as cold bodies around him, but it seemed that Lee Hyun-wook was the only one to breathe alive.

At that time, five or six characters slowly descended from the sky and surrounded Hyunwook’s surroundings.

‘Villain’

They were human players, but they sold their souls to demons and led the invasion of the Earth.

One of them approached and opened his mouth.

“Seoul’s last hero, the Great Steel of Steel, rusted and collapsed.”

The Great Steel Emperor (鋼鐵大帝), that was what the world called Lee Hyun-wook.

‘It’s a little childish, but it was nice to be recognized even later….’

Soon, his shoes reached Hyun-wook’s eyes.

He struggled to move his gaze and looked at the person. The tall man with Pomade head, he was Gordon Price, the head of the world-class company Blue Tree.

“Go, Gordon, this traitor cub….”

Gordon, who held the most wealth on the planet and once the greatest supporter of heroes, had already been wiped out by the “male and female” he wielded by the time it turned out that he was the “villain”.

And from that moment on, the fall of mankind began.

“Hyunwook, I confess now, you were a really tricky enemy.”

As he said so, his arms stretched out into the sky.

“The sight of thousands of swords and spears soaring at the same time along your fingertips and pouring like a rain of rain…… It is true that the power of the awakening Steel Great Emperor was honestly difficult for us to handle.”

He slowly lowered his arms and smiled gentlemanly.

“So, I really wanted to tell you this one day.”

He pushed his face into Lee Hyun-wook’s ear and whispered a little.

“······Really, thank you for not showing that great ability properly.”

He laughed.

Hearing thanks to the man who killed mankind…

In the inside, resentment boiled. But I couldn’t move my body. It was because he suffered an irreparable wound.

That full-

He grinds his teeth into intolerable anger. The gums are so dents…

The talent I realized lately was the worst.

However, on the contrary, it was a great luck to the enemies.

‘If I had realized how to use this ability a little faster, would it have changed?’

It was a vague regret.

About 12 years ago, Hyunwook Lee awakened as a “player” and gained the ability to manipulate 300g of metal.

Of course, 300g was only about moving a dagger at best.

However, as with all abilities, I believed that the ‘quantity’ and ‘method’ that can be manipulated will increase gradually as they grow.

However, for 10 years, Lee Hyun-wook’s abilities did not change at all.

The reason was simple. Because I didn’t know how to grow my abilities.

She practiced moving metal thousands of times a day and even slept in a room made of steel. I tried all kinds of ways like that countless times.

However, everything was useless.

‘By the way, I don’t think the answer would have been to swallow steel.’

It absorbs’by eating’ steel. It was two years ago that I realized that extraordinary method.

Immediately afterwards, Lee Hyun-wook persistently swallowed the steel.

I couldn’t eat indefinitely because I had time to digest it, but I swallowed steel as I went to sleep, and the weight of the metal that I could control grew slowly but surely.

Now capable of maneuvering 4,145kg, he was able to throw trucks like toys, shook buildings to tear them down, and move thousands of steel weapons to blast them like a storm.

In this way, he got the title of ‘Gangcheoldaeje’.

But that was it.

No matter how great their potential, they couldn’t catch up with those who were already far ahead.

“Hyunwook, if you had a little more time, wouldn’t you have lifted the whole building we stepped on and dropped it like a giant meteorite? Hahaha…… It would be pretty regretful for you?”

Gordon is softly sarcastic….

‘Yes, that’s sad! It’s so sad that it’s crazy!

If I had realized it at least three years, or two years earlier, I would have eaten and digested tens of times the amount of steel and moved hundreds or thousands of tons of steel. If so, the situation may have really changed.

“Look over there. Your city, Seoul, is collapsing.”

Gordon grabbed his head and turned it somewhere.

Ku-goo-goo-goo-goo-

With a heavy roar, the buildings in Yeouido began to sink. A misty dust storm from there rolled in like waves and covered the red waves of the Han River, full of corpses.

The shouts and screams reverberating throughout the city intertwined and resounded in a bizarre ensemble. That hellish orchestra crawled through Hyunwook’s auricle.

My head hurt.

thud······.

A metropolis where 10 million people lived and breathed, is dying in front of you.

“Ah······.”

Lee Hyun-wook just sighed a little. There was nothing I could do.

“Hyunwook, you did a lot of work. But honestly….”

Gordon was bloody and cynical.

“······It was so terrible.”

Gordon turned to the end. At the same time, someone streaked up and lifted a huge wooden hammer. His left foot trampled on Hyunwook’s chest. I couldn’t escape.

Soon a hammer fell over his head.

Qua-jik!

That was it.

He had genius abilities, but he couldn’t use it properly, and such a terrible life ended.

***

During the moment, Lee Hyun-wook was immersed in the dark.

The next moment, a light appeared somewhere in the distance.

He sticks his head out there.

“······Ugh!”

He opened his eyes with a rough breath. At the same time, he touched his head reflexively.

“uh?”

The head that should have been shattered…

‘It must have been exactly right?’

Lee Hyun-wook, a powerful blow that crushed his head, felt it.

No matter how much I thought about it, the damage wasn’t easy to recover. No, it was recovery, and I should have died immediately after sleeping.

‘What happened? Did you ever fall into the world after death?’

He thought about it and looked around.

But here, it was a pretty familiar place.

I rub my eyes and look again.

“crazy······.”

It was the dormitory where he lived in the military.

“Why……”

If I fell into the afterlife, I must have fallen into hell.

Then, the door opened and someone came in. It was a private black-haired soldier in a black combat uniform.

“Sergeant Hyun-wook Lee, are you up? It’s the finish dinner set.”

Lee Hyun-wook jumped up from the bed.

“What is it…… Lord, Junmo? Are you Park Joon-mo right?”

“Private, Park Jun-mo! Yes? What are you talking about now?”

He was the successor to the squad who died while fighting monsters during military life.

“Uh…… Yes! Of course I am!”

Did you really fall into the afterlife and greet the first acquaintances?

By the way, this guy was the same stupid look at that time.

What is it like, like…

Like you have come back to the past.

“······uh?”

Rattle!

Lee Hyun-wook hurriedly opened the building and reflected himself in the mirror attached inside.

‘Crazy, what on earth is this?’

The face reflected in the mirror was definitely even younger. It was the face of his early twenties.

I was confused.

“Sergeant Hyun-wook Lee? Are you okay? The complexion…….”

“······It’s not okay.”

How did this happen?

Lee Hyun-wook reported that she couldn’t eat dinner because she wasn’t feeling well, and then returned to the dormitory and sat down.

Then she wrapped her short hair and rolled her head to understand the situation.

“after······. You have to think calmly.”

But no matter what you think, you have no choice but to admit what you see right now.

“I came back to the past, to be precise… 8 years ago, when I was 22.”

Soon, a “system message” that only “players” could see appeared in one side of his field of view.

-Currently maneuverable’metal’ weight: 300g

As expected, it was still only 300g.

‘And based on the previous life, this content will not change over the next six years.’

During those six years, his life was just ugly. Seven months from now, the sergeant will be discharged. And, with the stigma of being an F-class player, he got a job as a contract worker for the ‘Hunter Guild’.

It was a hard-earned job, but in reality it was just an extra to support famous heroes. An extra that fights for the same risk of life, but no one gives interest and support….

‘But since I realized how to grow my abilities, I was able to stand side by side with the heroes.’

However······.

“……I know how to change all of that now, right?”

I didn’t have to wait until then.

He opened the tower and pulled out a small clip.

‘Eat metal, absorb metal, manipulate metal.’

It’s a simple but outrageous way out of common sense.

I put the clip in my mouth.

As it touched his tongue and teeth, the bitter taste of iron was on the verge of being nervous.

Nausea came up.

The body of the past instinctively rejected this abnormal behavior because it had not yet adapted to this strange sensation.

However, reason from the future pushed the journey forcibly.

gulp-

OK······.

– Congratulations! I realized how to grow my abilities.

-Until metal absorption (00:09:59) remains.

The countdown began before his eyes.

Then, let’s all disappear…

-Controllable metal weight: 301g

Changed.

Weight.

It was only 1 gram, but the weight of the metal that can be handled increased.

I remembered the first time I saw this message. It was frustrating and thrilling that the terrible puzzle that had been holding him around for a lifetime was to be solved so easily….

“after······.”

He held his breath and closed his eyes. Then he slowly raised both hands.

Uh-

The heterogeneous sensations carried at the fingertips…. Tickling, tingling, cold, hot, these subtle feelings meant that they were connected with some distant “object”.

When he opened his eyes,

On the palm of his hand,

Dozens of clips were emerging and spinning.

“Yes, in this life….”

As he stretched out his left hand, the clips flying in the air gathered neatly over the palm of the hand.

“······Please be a real genius.”

The genius, who had to be asleep, opened his eyes somewhat early.

And the wavelength was tremendous.