A Player Who Eats Metal - Chapter 165



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Steel eating player chapter 165

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Hyun-wook Lee was surprised by the heterogeneous power emanating from Mowglay, and unknowingly let go of Hilt.

Tung——!

A whopping 2 tons of giant sword fell in the direction of gravity and crashed into the root of Yggdrasil.

‘… … No, not 2t.’

He immediately sensed that it had become much heavier than that.

‘I haven’t reached the 4th stage of mass liberation yet…’

One of Mowglay’s passive skills, ‘Mass Liberation’, was currently at stage 3 – 12t, but Lee Hyun-wook had never reached stage 4 in his previous life.

But now, Mowglay’s weight had increased significantly.

He exercised control of the metal, levitating Mowglay into the air, and precisely calculating its weight.

Uh–

Exactly 4 tons, that is, double the number.

“That big sword, is something upgraded?”

He asked if Emilia Muller, who was standing next to him, also felt something, and Lee Hyun-wook nodded.

“Yeah, I think I just met a certain condition by breaking Nidhogg’s Life Vessel.”

Hyunwook Lee grabbed Mowglay’s hilt and lifted it into the air, checking the details.

[Item information]

– Name: Mowglay (Legend)

– effect

1) Mass Liberation-Enhancement (1~5): Releases the sealed ‘mass’ and gives the user ‘strength’. (current stage 3)

2) Shockwave-Reinforcement: Generates a powerful shock wave. This destructive power is proportional to the mass liberation of 1.

3) Mana Explosive Sword-Enhanced: The blade is endowed with ‘power of a typhoon’, causing a ‘gust of wind’ in the next blow.

4) Space Cutter-Enhanced: A very sharp blade of wind is fired and cuts a large area.

5) Dragon Slayer (3): A power that kills dragons, ignoring the power of the dragon ‘very much’. In addition, ‘Dragon Power Level 3’ is granted, all abilities are improved (+40%), and the highest level ‘Mental Barrier’ is formed.

6) Barrier Breaker: Ignores a significant portion (50%) of the ‘barrier’ of all extra-large monsters.

In this way, all of the existing skills were named ‘Enhanced’, and ‘Dragon Slayer’ was upgraded to level 3.

And finally, a passive skill called ‘Barrier Breaker’ has been added.

‘Wait a minute, you’re ignoring half of the barriers of super-sized monsters… … This is going to be a much bigger option than I thought.’

Even in this bestiality, another big event, , was taking place in various parts of the world.

In other words, before long, all kinds of giants will begin to trample the human city one after another… … .

‘When facing them, this barrier breaker skill will be a more powerful weapon than anything else.’

To put it a little exaggeration, it was like having a Titan Slayer.

“What is that, that strangely smiling expression that doesn’t suit you… Do you think you have such a good option?”

Emilia Muller smiled and poked her head in, and Hyun-wook Lee nodded while coughing.

“Well, it must be salty because you’ve killed dragons twice. Anyway, now whoever he was in the UK, that grumpy man would be completely offended by the title of DS. Because the real DS was born here. ”

As she said, Edward Woods would not even be able to show his business card in front of Hyun-wook Lee.

She smiled brightly and raised her thumb towards Lee Hyun-wook.

“By the way, Lee Hyun-wook, you seem like the person I entrusted my life to. And please take care of my life in the future as well.”

“I think you should take good care of yourself before making such a request. Your arm will fly like Lego like before, and you won’t be able to get insurance.”

“Oh, right? Hehe-I’ve never been hit properly… I didn’t expect my shield to break so easily.”

“It wasn’t such a laughable situation. Anyway, let’s go.”

Shortly thereafter, the two escaped from the narrow space ‘Unidentified Gap’ where the Life Vessel was.

However, the cavity, which was originally a terrible darkness, was suddenly filled with bright light. It was because some lights were flowing through the gap between the ceiling and the roots of Yggdrasil.

Perhaps Donald Harris was drawing the light of Yggdrasil itself by exercising the “master authority” of the World Tree Administrator.

Thanks to that, visibility was secured, and the figure of Nidhogg lying on the edge of the cavity in the distance could be seen at a glance.

However, its body was so large that it felt like a black hill if you didn’t look closely.

Chewy——

As we got a little closer, there was a hazy smoke hovering near his head, probably the acid breath from his mouth, melting the floor and producing toxic gas.

And he didn’t feel the slightest bit of vitality as his red eyes had moved halfway back.

At that moment, Donald Harris and the Spirit King approached.

They both had blood all over the place, possibly from Nidhogg, but luckily there didn’t seem to be any fatal wounds.

“Steelane, it’s surprising, but you’ve done a great job again. It’s a shame that I haven’t been able to hide my wretchedness, but it’s still something I don’t understand. I’m also glad that…”

Donald Harris, who has been surprised by Lee Hyun-wook’s performance several times until now, must still be feeling that emotion is renewed every moment.

This reaction was very familiar to Lee Hyun-wook, as Kim Kang-seok and Woo Seong-moon had also seen it.

“Even so, I didn’t know I would catch that monster child so quickly… So… I’m starting to feel that I did a good job investing in you. I want to tell you that I have an idea.”

“Haha— I was able to do it all with the help of Mr. Harris. Oh, and… … May I take Nidhogg’s corpse?”

“Yeah, well, this time, I’m only providing a place, so of course that child is yours, isn’t it?”

At this, Emilia Muller tapped Lee Hyun-wook on the shoulder, then tapped my chest and said proudly.

“Look. I’ve been telling this guy for a long time that I’m not kidding.”

“I think so, but it’s because I have a bit of human distrust, especially when it comes to gambling addicts and drunkards…”

Emilia Muller wrinkled her face at those words.

“Ha, really… … Do you know that sometimes you’re worried about having too much tea without friends? Ah! By the way, how could you not tell me that there’s something like that under my feet? Landlord, this is a breach of contract.”

Two hermits who had been hiding in a fence called Yggdrasil to escape the jealousy and conspiracies of the world struggled.

Come to think of it, Lee Hyun-wook neatly solved all of these two’s big concerns.

But it was not yet time to let go.

“Come on, we haven’t caught those who woke up Nidhogg yet, so we need to move quickly.”

At Lee Hyun-wook’s words, those standing around nodded their heads.

“Yeah, somewhere in this city, there must still be some dark elf spies, and they’re plotting another plot? These rotten things…”

Twice they repulsed their plans, but they were still hiding somewhere in the city.

You can’t be relieved until you wipe them all out, because there’s no guarantee that you won’t do something like this again.

“I think we will need to search the whole city for a while, but you two will have to put all our efforts into it.”

Lee Hyun-wook looked at Donald Harris and Emilia Muller and spoke, and Peter Clark stepped forward.

“Ah, I’ll take over that. It didn’t do anything to help me catch that black dragon… Even if that’s the case, I’ll take care of it properly.”

The itself did not have many troops, but since there were not many guards under its subordinate, it would be possible to search the entire Yggdrasil under the command of Peter Clarke.

“By the way, aren’t you hurt, Peter? It seemed to fly a little rough earlier, but if you need a heel, tell me.

Emilia Muller asked casually, but a shadow spread across Peter Clark’s face.

“Ha… Emilia, I’m sorry. I haven’t been able to fulfill my duty. Rather, I would like to ask a question.

As the guardian knight of the saint, he seemed to have been greatly shocked by the scene where her arm flew off.

It was a saint who had been on the brink of assassination for the past few years, and Peter Clarke, who had devoted all of her energy to her bodyguard.

However, it seemed that she had no choice but to suffer from a sense of remorse for the fact that she had suffered fatal wounds.

“Hey, it’s me, as long as the head doesn’t blow, everything can be recovered. But the amputation site is a little sore, so I need to know what I’ve been dreaming of for the past few days… You can get some of this, okay.”

At those words, Peter Clarke’s complexion got worse.

“… … Next time, really, you won’t hurt a single finger.”

“Ah, okay, so don’t panic, sleep, let’s go out on the ground and catch the guys who designed this thing, then have a drink.”

She smiled casually and made a gesture of waving a drink.

But, frankly, when her arm flew off, Hyun-wook Lee also felt like his heart was sinking.

It was an injury that most warrior-type players could not handle, and I would have never experienced such an injury before… … She seemed to be tougher than expected.

‘She is an essential force in the upcoming battle with the Necromancer, so it must be kept intact.’

To do that, it was necessary to find all the villains around here and clean them.

‘Since the Seoul water cleaning is over, is it Yggdrasil water cleaning now? … I’m dying of boredom.’

But when I went to the ground in the Friedwen, I no longer had to go looking for the old villains.

“Ha-what is this?”

Emilia Muller looked out of Friedwen’s window and snorted absurdly. Others could not hide their absurd look at the scene unfolding in front of them.

Right now, Friedwen had just come out of the pit that Nidhogg had dug… … Aren’t there a group of people in black around the hole, fully armed, preparing to descend into the hole?

“Those things, no matter how you look at them, aren’t they suspicious?”

At Emilia Muller’s question, Hyun-wook Lee nodded.

“Well, people unrelated to this case are infested with undead monsters everywhere, so they wouldn’t want to visit the hole where the dragon was.”

“Then are you sure that these bastards are the dog scum who made this work?

And, crucially, among them, there was Mario Lima, a villain that Hyun-wook Lee witnessed in the basement of ‘Hive’.

‘That bastard will eventually become one of Black Door’s key personnel.’

He was probably acting as the right arm of the current Vice President of the Spirit Wizards Association.

Anyway, in this awkward meeting, they couldn’t hide their bewildered expressions.

“……”

Perhaps he was preparing to clean up, expecting that it would be Nidhogg, not Friedwen, who would come out through this hole.

However, the fact that Friedwen came out well was interpreted to mean that Nidhogg would not come out normally, so she had no choice but to put on a face close to frustration rather than embarrassment.

Hyunwook Lee opened Friedwen’s lamp door, went outside and looked down at them.

“Have you come to find a friend named Nidhog?”

They couldn’t answer his question. They just looked at their leader, Mario Lima, with a blank expression. But he, too, had an expressionless expression on his face.

Then Emilia Muller came over to Lee Hyun-wook, said uh-huh, and gave a sullen smile, looked at them, and opened her mouth.

“Hey! Your dragon is a bit cold! I’m drooling inside me right now, would you like to go take a look?”

***

There have been no major battles since then.

Sure enough, they wouldn’t want to dare confront Lee Hyun-wook, who broke Floss Louver and Nidhogg one after another.

He chose to run instead, but even that was caught shortly after.

After capturing all the villains and dark elves and imprisoning them in another root prison, the party returned to Yggdrasil.

Contrary to its grand name, Yggdrasil’s ‘central drawing room’ was like a living room in an ordinary European-style house.

Come to think of it, the drawing room couldn’t have been properly decorated because Donald Harris wouldn’t normally receive guests.

Still, as it was in Yggdrasil, wounds and fatigue were quickly recovering just by being in it.

Tick-tock-

Four people were sitting by the fireplace on one wall: Lee Hyun-wook, Park Jun-mo, Kim Se-hee, and Jeong-ryeong.

And Jane, Jack, and Hannah were sitting on the sofa a little further away and talking… … Hannah started crying over and over again and eventually started to sniff.

It must have been that the things I went through today were very difficult, and as I found out the shocking identity of my best friend, I must have been psychologically unstable.

‘But in the conversations of those guys, there is one thing that somehow bothers me.’

After meeting with those guys, Hyunwook Lee was a little concerned about the name ‘Nicole’, which he had heard over and over again.

‘Hmm, a prophet… … .’

At first glance, Hannah was repeatedly claiming that the whole situation was predicted by an unidentified girl named Nicole.

And Jack and Jane seemed to agree to some extent… … .

‘But the Prophet died a long time ago, and as far as I can remember, players with the Prophecy trait never reappeared.’

Therefore, the ‘prophecy’ they were talking about was only an illusion.

‘If that’s not the case, maybe on the villain side…’

widely-

Lee Hyun-wook straightened his posture and faced him.

“Damn, it was probably a few months ago, when I realized that my daughter was going out into the human world and scolded him badly… So that guy ran away from home and suffered a bowel movement.”

“Ah, that’s right.”

“Anyway, back then, I thought that humans were an untrustworthy race, but that didn’t change until just yesterday. But…”

Well, the back story of this clichéd line was obvious.

“… … Now I think I’ve changed my mind a bit. It’s Lee Hyun-wook, thanks to you.”

He said so and held out his palm. At that moment, a small box was created on the palm of the hand.

“This is an expression of my gratitude, so please accept it.”

It seemed that a certain amount of compensation was paid as he unintentionally accomplished some of the Spirit King’s quests.

Anyway, the box contained two emerald-colored gems.

[Item information]

– Name: Stone of Bizarre Imprint (Hero)

– Effect: Grants the power of a random attribute to the item.

“Thank you so much for such a precious thing…”

It was a kind of ‘orb’.

However, the peculiarity is that it is ‘random’ rather than a specific attribute.

In other words, there may be options that you do not want, while special options that are not easily available may be attached.

‘Can I just apply it to two fail notes?’

There was a downside to not knowing which option would be applied, but whatever came out had no choice but to be better than nothing.

“Ah, but there is one thing I want to ask you.”

At Lee Hyun-wook’s words, King Jung-ryeong nodded with a kind expression.

“I got an item, and I think the Spirit King will be able to appraise it.”

“Um, can I see you?”

Hyunwook Lee summoned an AD-2 and pulled out a black crystal ball from it.

“Come on, this is Pocket Space.”

[Item information]

– Name: Room of Solitude (Special)

– Effect: unknown

This was an unidentified item obtained by capturing Floss Louver.

As much as the Dark Elf boss monster possessed, it must have been unusual, but he was not opening it up for fear that there might be something dangerous in it.

“As far as I know, high spirits have the best handling of space. Could you possibly know what’s inside this pocket space without opening it?”

“It’s not that difficult, but I guess I’ll have to take a closer look at it…”

The Spirit King accepted it, held it with both hands and closed his eyes. Then the space around his grasp began to shake.

“In this…”

He slowly opened his eyes and continued speaking.

“…Hmm, it looks like some kind of creature is trapped inside, not an object, but it’s not a ferocious monster.

Hearing those words, “a prison,” Lee Hyun-wook thought for a moment.

Then, suddenly, a setting about the Dark Elf Kingdom came to mind.

‘Their politics were also quite complicated.’

There was a time when the Dark Elf Kingdom was friendly to humans.

And that was the time when a boss monster called the ‘Dark Elf King’ ruled.

‘But things changed when the villain intervened.’

With the support of the villain, a boss monster called ‘Dark Elf General’ launched a coup and took power, and that’s when the Dark Elf Kingdom’s conquest of Europe began.

And now, seeing the dark elves taking hostile steps towards humanity, it seems that the villains moved a little faster and deeply involved in the politics of the dark elf kingdom.

In other words, it could be inferred that within this pocket place, members of the royal family who were not hostile to mankind were being held captive.

***

Lee Hyun-wook was standing in a huge room.

It was the same place where they opened the city cleaner earlier and persuaded the spirit colony to sign a contract.

After summoning a bunch of AD-2s there, Hyunwook Lee took out a black crystal ball—a room of solitude.

And let’s give it mana… … .

Whoa whoa–

Black smoke rose from inside, and the dark elves with their limbs tied came out.

A total of 12 people, all of them were in a state of slender faces.

“ね……”

“Hey, how did this happen? Heh-”

They looked at the human standing in front of them and looked surprised.

Meanwhile, in Lee Hyun-wook’s eyes, their identities were partially revealed.

– Dark Elf Escort Knight (LV: 78)

– Dark Elf Escort Knight (LV: 74)

However, among them, a dark elf with a particularly high level stood out.

– Clipeus Griseo, 2nd Prince of the Dark Elf Kingdom (LV: 109)

Lee Hyun-wook tortured some of the dark elves captured earlier, and had collected some information.

‘So… … You said that the 2nd Prince was dispatched to an area outside the kingdom and was tasked with investigating human civilization, but there was a coup d’état in the Dark Elf Kingdom, and after being suppressed by his lieutenant Floss Loubert, he was imprisoned in a pocket space?’

bum bum bum bum

Lee Hyun-wook approached the second prince.

“……”

He looked up at Lee Hyun-wook with eyes full of vigilance. However, it wasn’t just hostility or fear, but her eyes were slowly rolling as if trying to analyze the current situation.

First, he checked the status of Lee Hyun-wook’s armament, then he bowed his head slightly and looked around. He was probably trying to find a way out.

“I have no intention of harming you or imprisoning you, so you can relax.”

Lee Hyun-wook untied the 2nd prince’s bonds and offered water, and after he took the water, he made his men drink it first.

“… … The second prince of the Dark Elf Kingdom, right?”

As the Dark Elves stopped moving at those words, their expressions hardened.

Apparently, that information was a fairly important confidential matter to these guys.

“It would be useless if I pretended not to know…”

Instead of the second prince, the guardian knight stepped forward.

“Damn, Flores Loubert, did that woman sell us to you humans? What did she buy us to do to us, humans!”

Such a drastic reaction was not understandable.

I was betrayed out of the blue and locked up in pocket space for quite some time, and then came out, and it was strange that I was of a different race in front of me, if I wasn’t sensitive.

“No, Floss Louver was caught conspiring to conquer this place, Yggdrasil, and died at my hands.”

At those words, their expressions changed drastically.

“Second Prince, I would like to make a suggestion, will you listen? Ah, I’m Hyunwook Lee… … In human society, it is better known by the nickname Stilane.”

As Lee Hyun-wook revealed his identity, he seemed to know Lee Hyun-wook’s fame when he saw the dark elves’ faces lit up.

“… … Prince, I think you are right.”

“Um, Steelein… Then I see…”

He said so and looked straight at Lee Hyun-wook. There was a little bit of fear in his eyes with a strange wonder.

“Stylane, the destroyer of the Black Orc Kingdom…”

It seemed to be called that among them.

‘Those guys would be concerned that I uprooted the Black Orc Kingdom.’

Although they are completely different races, both countries had one thing in common: the monster kingdom that was created after the wave.

“Um… Destroyer of the Black Orc Kingdom, is that my nickname among you guys? Okay, that’s fun.”

Hyunwook Lee nodded and took a step forward.

“This time, I’m going to call it a little differently…”

“What do you mean?”

Lee Hyun-wook lowered his posture and made eye level with the second prince.

“I will take back your kingdom.”

Steel eating player chapter 165