A Player Who Eats Metal - Chapter 159



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Steel eating player chapter 159

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Inside the general store, which has already become a mess, two flashes of light are moving at high speed in an irregular trajectory.

Sh-sh-sh-sh—!

Following its movement, blood spattered from all over the store, soaking the ceiling and floor.

“Uh-huh!”

“100 million!”

Jack, who had been glancing inside the warehouse and out the window, got up completely without realizing it and looked out.

‘this… … Whoa, what’s going on?’

Moments later, when the two arrows returned to the customer’s grasp, no one was standing there.

bum- buck-

“…are you the captain?”

When the customer raised his left hand, perhaps by telekinetic power, the body of one of the assailants floated into the air.

“Uh- you, who are you? Bar, that arrow just… … .”

“From now on, you can only open your mouth to answer my questions.”

blah blah–

“town-!”

I couldn’t see it, but something seemed to shut the monster’s mouth.

At that point, Jack grabbed the doorknob, and Hannah grabbed his forearm.

“Jack, it’s dangerous…”

“No, it will be fine.”

He didn’t know how it’s okay to be a person who commits such a horrific thing, but…

quiver—

It was clear that the only person he could trust now was that unidentified guest.

He first approached Uncle Hans, who was lying on the counter.

“Everything, I’m glad…”

There was still breathing. He seemed to have temporarily lost his mind due to a major blow.

Jack sighed in relief and turned his head to look at the ‘guest’.

“Hey… who are you?”

He was wearing a hat and a mask, so he couldn’t see his face at all.

“At least, you’re not a real guest, are you?”

Jack was quick-witted, not knowing anything else.

This man came here intentionally.

It was as if they had come after these monsters.

However… … .

“Your friend was kidnapped, Jack?”

Doesn’t this man even know his own name?

“Uh, how…”

“Was that friend’s name, Jane?”

“… … Yes, no, that’s right!”

He nodded and walked over to Jack.

“Jack…….”

Hannah grabbed her clothes behind her back, but Jack moved forward.

“I think I can help, how about you?”

“Yes? Hey, by the way… who are you?”

Perhaps the most basic question.

But the man—Lee Hyun-wook, was silent for a moment.

***

he was worried

‘Is it better to reveal your identity here? no… … You don’t have to.’

The best surprises happen when the enemy doesn’t know that Stilane is here.

Therefore, it was right to block all fears of leaking information at any time.

Of course, you might notice it because you repeated the stiletto-like behavior just before, but

‘You don’t seem to know yet.’

If Michael Jordan was playing basketball while hiding his identity on a basketball court in a remote neighborhood, who would have thought that Michael Jordan had come in person? You would think of him as a master who mimics a similar style—today, Lee Hyun-wook’s fame spread throughout the world, but not everyone knew him.

“Well…….”

At that moment, the girl standing in the back came forward.

“Is it… the one sent by Jane’s father?”

Hyunwook Lee wondered what this meant.

“… … Jane didn’t talk much about herself, but she lived together and heard it. Ji, left the house because of a fight with his strict father. And my father… … He said he was quite tall.”

“And sometimes, he joked that he might come looking for him…”

Perhaps Jane, the daughter of the spirit, had vaguely explained her situation.

‘It’s also an obvious story. The king who told him not to go out into the human world and the princess who had to go out… … .’

Here, if you build a good relationship with the daughter of the Spirit King, the ‘hidden quest’ will be activated later.

‘And this guy here is going to be the performer of that quest.’

Lee Hyun-wook looked at the skinny blond man in front of him. Jack Hamilton, Elemental Guardian… … .

Although he is not a very strong player, he will play an active part in a scenario related to the Spirit King in the future.

“So… the one sent by Jane’s father, right?”

Hanna’s question again, Lee Hyun-wook neither affirmed nor denied.

“I’m sorry, but I can’t tell you the details.”

However, it seemed that the two had already reached their own conclusions.

“Wow, by the way, Jane must have been the daughter of a famous guild master?”

“For some reason… it seems that I don’t come from this floor…”

After talking like that, Jack scratched his head and showed displeasure.

“But… I don’t know what we can do to help.”

“That’s right, I don’t even know who took Jane.”

The two spoke anxiously, and Lee Hyun-wook nodded as if he knew.

“I need your help, but I will need it later, not now. Instead…”

He raised the long-haired man who had been lying on the floor to his feet.

There was a gag in his mouth, and his teeth were all cracked because it was made of metal.

“… … For now, I think I need a little more of your help.”

Who took them to where, we had to find out from now on.

And Lee Hyun-wook’s interrogation success rate has been 100% so far.

***

In the dark, a cylindrical water tank was erected in a spacious space.

And inside, a girl with green hair was sleeping naked.

“…This woman, does it resemble your kind?”

The man with the horn-rimmed glasses gasped as he looked at the glamorous naked body.

“No, they don’t have bodies in the first place. They’re just bodies assembled after us—”

The one who said that was a woman with dark skin and red eyes,

The pointed ears that soared through her long silver hair proved that she wasn’t human.

“Haha— I know that. I am also a spirit magician by name.”

At those words, the Dark Elf snorted.

“Well, your spirit training skills are so poor that it’s no use at all.”

“… … It’s sad to say that. Wasn’t that tank provided by us too?”

“You know it well, don’t you? Your skill alone would not have captured that precious slave—”

Uh-huh— The man smiled sullenly and began to look closely at the girl in the cylindrical tank.

“Anyway, everything is perfect. If you use this pretty girl as bait to stimulate the Spirit King, it will cause a tidal wave and wipe out Yggdrasil due to the filthy nature of the race. Uh-huh— looking forward to it.”

The dark elf, who was always sharp, also had a strange smile at that point.

“In that moment of chaos, our troops will open a massive portal and land.”

“Yeah, that’s the climax! Uh-huh— I look forward to it.”

“And… we must not forget that Yggdrasil is ours.”

In their eyes, it seemed that the end of the city of Yggdrasil had already been reflected in goodness.

***

Rootlet Town, in Korean, is interpreted as Janppuri Village.

It was a self-helpful meaning that they were a frontier that corresponds to Yggdrasil fine roots.

In the center of it stood a large, four-story building with a sign saying ‘Shopping Center’.

Hyun-wook Lee sat on a bench in a desolate park in front of him and lifted a mana messenger.

“Chief Kim, are you ready?”

– Yes, I’m on standby.

This voice was Kim Se-hee. She and Junmo Park were now waiting at a distance of about 1km.

Immediately after coming to the commercial district with Lee Hyun-wook, Lee Hyun-wook disappeared saying he had caught something, but

The two were not panicking and were waiting for Lee Hyun-wook’s instructions from somewhere.

When Lee Hyun-wook apologized for this, Kim Se-hee snorted, ‘What, once or twice?’

Anyway, Hyunwook Lee entrusted Jack and Hanna to them, and then ordered the future operation.

“There’s a big building painted in green over there, that’s the target point.”

From the outside, it looks like a shopping complex, but there was no way there could be such a decent thing in a slum.

The store owner, Hans, who woke up after fainting earlier, revealed the identity of the Ruthlett Shopping Center.

‘… … It is a kind of crime hub where the criminal gangs within Yggdrasil gather.’

The world’s weakest country with the world’s most valuable cities… … .

The operation of this place was ultimately destined to depend on foreign guilds.

And since there was no control of the public authorities, there was no way for those big hands to refuse to do dirty work.

However, rather than directly handling such dirty work, I wanted to have an errand man.

Naturally, those who gained strength among the poor started living by borrowing the dirty work.

The place where they gathered is that shopping center… … It was a crime hub called .

And there was a strong possibility that Jane, the daughter of the king of spirits, was imprisoned.

“Maru, can you check if I can feel the spirit energy inside me?”

At those words, a fairly heavy piece of metal squirmed inside the backpack.

“Uh-uh- Let’s see… … .”

Of course, the daughter of the spirit king is also a water spirit. And spirits can go back and forth between the physical world and the physical world.

In other words, it is not possible to simply bind with a physical method, so you have to use a ‘spirit prison’.

“Yeah, I can feel it, I can feel it— he’s a pretty strong guy, but he’s struggling a lot!”

Maru was a calm personality among the spirit colonies, but when he heard that voice, he was very excited.

“I know what this is! A scream like this… … You’re gnawing at your ‘essence’!”

The spirit prison was a strange magic that restrained the “essence” of the spirits that existed in the “phenomenal world”.

When this happens, the spirit falls into a kind of despair that cannot be expressed simply as ‘pain’.

So, if you stay in it for a long time, you will go crazy like an elemental colony.’

“Ugh——!”

Maru, as if bad memories came to mind, he flinched as if he was about to come out of his backpack at any moment.

“Maru, calm down. That spirit, we’ll save you.”

“Huh— okay, did you all hear it? Stay calm and wait! It’s nothing special, you’re Yunan, why?”

As if he wasn’t impatient, Maru glared at the other Hives.

But the boy’s voice was trembling, and it looked like he was very angry.

‘There must be animists and Black Elementalists out there, I’m worried… … .’

Spirits are based on the attributes of nature. And isn’t nature often said to be capricious?

Even the spirits possessed the uncontrollable nature of nature, not knowing when and where it would fly.

That is why the animists say that the process of building trust with a spirit is as difficult as dealing with a child.

‘If you don’t do it patiently, you’ll be pushed by force and become a Black Elementalist.’

That was the reason why Kim Se-hee had to spend quite a long time getting to know Hani.

‘I’m not an Elementalist, so if I make a mistake, Maru may run rampant again.’

So, Maru, it was necessary to be very careful not to let this spirit colony move arbitrarily.

“Come on, can you eat this and stay quiet until I ask you to?”

What Lee Hyun-wook brought out was none other than a first-class spirit stone.

– Oh, did you really save this precious thing?

It was saved by Kim Se-hee and Park Jun-mo while Lee Hyun-wook was busy moving.

“Yeah, absorb it quickly.”

When I put it in the bag, a faint light leaked out of the backpack as if Maru had begun to absorb it.

Lee Hyun-wook made a thin film of metal to block the light, and then walked forward.

“Come on, let’s go, get ready.”

– Okay, then, let’s make a fuss.

Lee Hyun-wook walked out naturally and glanced behind him.

Whoo-woo-woo-woo–

About 50m away, a gust of wind began to spread from an alley… … Doesn’t it turn into a huge whirlwind, sweeping the rough paved road towards the hive?

“Hey, look over there, there’s a whirlwind?”

“Wow, I’ve never seen such a natural phenomenon.”

But, strangely in the wind… … .

Hold on——!

A bloody current was mixed, creating a bloody landscape.

“… … Is that a natural phenomenon? I, isn’t that just an attack skill?”

The two giants standing at the entrance to the hive had no choice but to turn their heads towards it.

“Uh- oh shit, you’re coming this way!”

“Hey, don’t be scared! You’re getting weaker!”

“… … Yeah? Is it a real natural phenomenon?”

In the meantime, Lee Hyun-wook settled on the roof of the hive using ‘Hidden’ as Gyguez’s ring.

There were a lot of guards there too, but they were paying attention to the commotion on the ground.

However… … There was also a guard standing in front of the roof door. The guards were a bit excessive.

‘Perhaps they abducted the spirit king’s daughter and reinforced the security.’

He was still in stealth, but he couldn’t hide the sound, so he moved secretly and hid behind the cooling tower.

“Maru, open the floor here.”

At his words, the floor melted the concrete on the floor like cheese.

Kugugugu——

There was a hole large enough for one person to fit in, and Lee Hyun-wook jumped into it.

chin-

It was on the 4th floor, in a room with the lights off. A musty smell, it looked like it had not been used for a long time.

“Okay, can you fill in the ceiling again?”

“Yeah, I have that kind of sense, so I don’t have to say it all.”

Soon, the hole in the ceiling narrowed and the sunlight from outside completely disappeared.

“So that spirit’s scream…is it resonating underground?”

“Yeah, it’s still a long way down.”

In this way, I felt like I had to go down about 5 or 6 floors.

At first, they tried to enter the basement directly by making a hole in the floor near the building.

However, the security outside the building was too strict, and the ground was too thick.

In other words, there was a fear that the side would be found out by generating more mana and noise.

Hyeon-wook Lee closed his eyes and took control of the metal directly downstairs to detect the moving metal.

‘Here, there are few people on the fourth floor, but the lower floors are different.’

In this way, after scanning first, I drilled a hole in an empty place and went down.

‘And before going down, you have to disable the CCTV first.’

CCTV cameras are usually located near the ceiling. Hyunwook Lee sensed it and destroyed the internal board.

“Okay, there’s no CCTV or anyone right down there.”

Kugugugu——

Hearing that, Maru made a hole in the floor again and Lee Hyun-wook threw himself.

“Huh?”

However… … Immediately after landing lightly on the third floor, I witnessed an unexpected scene.

I made eye contact with a certain muscular black man, and he… … was naked

And behind him stood a naked, tattooed white man.

“What is this bastard? Where did you suddenly fall from?”

I looked around, wondering what kind of crazy scene this was, and this was the locker room. And right next to it, you can feel a lot of metal moving over the wall, so it’s like a gym?

“Hey! What are you—”

Whoops——!

At that moment, something fell from the ceiling and hit the black man’s head.

It was a large block of concrete, and the black man fell forward.

Rebar was then pulled out of the ceiling, bent like a snake, and strangled the white man.

“Uh-huh!”

Right—

Without a moment to resist, he heard a bloody sound of his cervical vertebrae breaking.

Before Lee Hyun-wook reacted, Maru had taken care of it.

“how! Did I say I have this kind of sense?”

“Yeah, well done.”

“Twok— that’s a style that doesn’t deserve compliments, this guy… … .”

Lee Hyun-wook crumpled them into the locker room and went down one floor again. It was also in a room.

what? 3rd Floor? Yes, Team 1 is going now.”

Seeing the noise coming from outside the door, he seemed to have noticed the CCTV malfunction and went to check it out.

But, probably, no one would have thought that he would infiltrate in this way.

“There’s someone down here, and the next room is empty. Could you tear down the wall?”

In this way, I picked a place where there were no people, and finally reached the first floor.

“It’s almost there! It’s right downstairs!”

But I couldn’t just go down there.

If they had succeeded in abducting the elemental king’s daughter, there would have been a number of dark elf elementalists.

‘And especially when dealing with a forest spirit magician in a narrow space, you’ll be arrested in an instant.’

Lee Hyun-wook was well aware of the fighting style of a tribe called the ‘Forest Spirit Magician’.

They use as their main weapon the seeds that grow wild in Berlin’s erosion zone “Green Hell”. If you sow it and command the spirits of the forest to ‘grow rapidly’, the seeds will ignite in an instant and a man-eating plant will bloom.

Among them, the ‘vine’ type was so tough that it was difficult to even cut it except for the mogley.

‘And the wood attribute is the most difficult to deal with with the metal attribute.’

Therefore, the answer was to fall right above the spirit prison where the daughter of the spirit king was imprisoned, and snatch it.

‘You have to escape right away without dragging it for a long time.’

Even if there was a battle, in order to avoid the vines, the open field had to be used as the battlefield.

“… … Guess I’ll have to fall right over it, where exactly is it?”

“Um… not here. You have to cross two walls.”

Because it was a wall, a lot of metal was moving beyond that wall.

“If you go out into the hallway for nothing from here, the alarm might go off…”

Hyun-wook Lee summoned AD-2 from his right wrist, and took out ‘Black Rhino’ from it.

“These two walls, we must break through immediately.”

「Then, can we break down this wall and then the next wall and then the floor?”

Lee Hyun-wook nodded his head after contemplating.

“Yeah, let’s go fast.”

Kugugugu——

Soon, the wall in front of him collapsed like a sand castle.

“Uh— what all of a sudden!”

Lee Hyun-wook scrambled through the dust and climbed over the collapsed wall.

And then, his eyes met the people on the other side.

“Huh?”

In the dark room, there was a large table.

In front of him, the two men were facing each other, exchanging something.

– Player (LV: 57)

– Player (LV: 66)

“Looks like some big guys were making bad deals, right?”

This is a hotbed of crime, and conversations in such a dark room couldn’t be healthy.

“What else is this— huh—”

One of the giants standing at the entrance stepped forward, but a silver flash pierced his throat.

“Damn it-”

It was only then that the situation was understood, and the eight criminals who were present twisted their bodies and pulled out their weapons.

But Lee Hyun-wook was much faster. He pulled Black Rhino’s pump and fired it towards the table.

Whoa—-!

Two defenseless and unknown giants were thrown out and thrown into the wall.

The guys standing around pulled out their enchanted guns, but… … .

“Uh, this is—”

Instead of firing, the gun was disassembled and scattered in all directions.

“Floor, open the wall—!”

If there was such a commotion, even the people below would notice it, and it was necessary to act quickly.

Kwa-and-and-and-and–!

Shortly thereafter, the ceiling-wall-floor merged, devouring five or six people at the same time.

Lee Hyun-wook pulled Black Rhino’s pump and ran forward, and climbed over the wall again.

The moment I finally landed on the floor of the target point, I felt the floor sway like water.

“Now, get ready—!”

At that moment, the floor began to sink, and his body began to fall under gravity.

Shhh-

Hyunwook Lee took out three ‘Flyeye’ from inside AD-2 and activated ‘Night Vision’.

‘—If you hesitate even the slightest bit, you will get tangled in a cannibal vine!’

In the field of vision secured by night vision, on the first basement floor, which was quite spacious, I could see a number of people looking up at the ceiling in amazement. A whopping thirty people, players and dark elves were in a mixed state.

And in the center of it was a large cylindrical water tank. Inside, there was a girl.

“That’s it, that’s the spirit prison!”

However, the mysterious capsule was protected with mana threads. That is, they could not be contacted.

Hyun-wook Lee aimed at the Black Rhino and fired a ‘destruction jet’.

Kwa-and-and-and-and–!

Five magic circles bloomed along with the explosion, pouring out all the shells.

‘Damn it-‘

However, the mana shield was not broken, and the enemies began to respond.

“Catch him—!”

shhh–

Behind Lee Hyun-wook’s back, a moglay came out of AD-2’s subspace.

As he pushed himself towards the tank, he grabbed Mowglay and swung it with all his might.

Wow—-!

Finally, the thick thick mana shield was peeled off.

At that moment, a black magic arrow pierced his side.

This kind of damage was fine. However… … .

– Dark Elf Forest Spirit Wizard (LV: 67)

Those were pretty big problems. Unsurprisingly, they spread some seeds widely.

‘Damn, if you get tangled in that, it’s over.’

“I’m smashing it!”

The floor collapsed, bursting with fragments of concrete, scattering them like shotguns.

The seeds that had flown into the barrage were swept away and thrown away.

“How are you, are you feeling good?”

Meanwhile, Hyun-wook Lee hugged Jane in the capsule and soared into the sky.

“No–!”

Leaving behind someone’s scream, Lee Hyun-wook escaped to the first floor and threw himself through the window.

“Who— now… … .”

Lee Hyun-wook rolled on the floor and got up, holding Jane and floating in the air.

And he stretched out his left hand toward the building.

“… … Destroy this filthy building.”

Immediately after, Maru stripped the concrete of the building, and Lee Hyun-wook collapsed the H-beam inside.

Steel eating player chapter 159