A Player Who Eats Metal - Chapter 197



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Steel eating player chapter 197

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It is often said that the ‘air current’ changes.

This metaphorizes not only natural phenomena such as the flow of air, but also a large trend or flow of atmosphere in human society.

Now, the current was moving towards the Demon King.

This is because the demon king started to shake up the human race centered around Lee Hyun-wook by sprinkling a strange item called ‘the demon king’s invitation’, and accordingly, the anxiety of all levels of society was aggravated.

‘So, the support for material items coming into the Taebaek arsenal was greatly reduced in one day.’

It happened in just a few days.

Just a few incidents changed the air current.

‘The forces that wanted to build a separate air-raid shelter to invest in me also rose up and started to unite… … .’

If the end of the world could not be prevented, it was the classic last resort to build an ark.

As a result of this current, it seems that the number of weapons produced is only decreasing at the moment, but in the long run, the number of allies who will fight together is also decreasing.

Furthermore, I didn’t know what kind of butterfly effect would hold Lee Hyun-wook’s ankles.

‘But this scene alone can bring back the atmosphere.’

Hyun-wook Lee had come to the Arabian Sea to change the current.

Whoa whoa–

He was looking out over the vast sea while riding in the Friedwen. It was in the middle of the vast sea with a glimmer of the Arabian Peninsula to the far east.

And all kinds of mana communication flew into his ear.

– Chic— The target is approaching the A-3 point, and it is expected to reach 129 seconds.

– This is , complete spraying of troll blood on point A-3, move to point A-4.

It was a mana communication between 11 airships and 14 high-speed boats floating in the waters nearby.

They carried out each mission, encircling a single target on the map, slowly driving towards their final point.

– Chick— Target has reached A-3 and appears to be consuming the blood of a troll.

However, on the sea map, there was no movement on the sea level near the marked location of the target.

shoot ah… … .

It was so quiet, only the gentle sound of the waves could be heard.

This was very strange.

The so-called ‘Leviathan’ would have to cause a wave if it was digging through the sea, but no change was detected with the naked eye.

Also, modern technologies that can detect moving objects in the sea, such as ‘radar’ and ‘sonar’, could not accurately locate the gnome.

“…Is there really anything down there?”

Behind Lee Hyun-wook’s back, a man wearing sunglasses asked suspiciously.

He was an Internet broadcaster under the name of JJJ City and was the best influencer in Korea with a whopping 500 million subscribers.

“Hmm… … It’s too quiet for me to see even a single fish. But when does the broadcast start? It’s hard because I have both a phobia of water and a phobia of heights.”

He clinged to Fridwen and spit out a grumbling face with a very tense expression on his face.

Lee Hyun-wook promised to send this operation exclusively, and brought him.

It was because that side was more advantageous for security than hiring a general broadcaster.

“JJJ-san, what can’t you see? Those eyes, aren’t they famous? Did I mention that they’re the ‘hunter’s eyes’, where you can get additional information just by looking at the monster?”

Hyunwook Lee asked.

‘Anyway, it doesn’t look as accurate as I did after I absorbed the Eye of Horus, it just adds to some intuition… … .’

JJJ, unaware of this at all, looked out the window, twitching the corners of his mouth to see if he was feeling good after receiving Stilane’s praise.

“Um… what can you see, maybe… are you talking about the mana concentration at sea level?”

“Yeah, we’re still chasing him by estimating his location based on that. There are high-ranking wizards on those airships to detect mana.”

“Well, I can see a little bit of mana protrusion only in certain areas, but that alone makes it hard to convince me that there is something great in that calm water, isn’t it? This so-called ‘mana footprint tracking’ method is now outdated.”

Hyunwook Lee nodded.

“Yes, but… he’s not a normal guy, so there must be a way to completely hide his body. So this is probably the best way.”

In the first place, wasn’t a Leviathan comparable to a dragon? If such a guy was determined to hide, it would have been difficult to catch it with only the senses and skills of individual humans.

That was the reason why he could go undetected for years, devouring ships on board and spreading ghost stories.

However, Lee Hyun-wook was different.

His senses were now focused on the two hextech crows Hugin and Munin… … .

‘…Okay, I finally see it.’

– The set is activated (2/2)!

* All senses increase up to 80x while Hugin and Munin are active. In addition, you can ‘see through’ certain density and volume, and if you detect strong mana, you can recognize the shape of the entity.

As the two items created a set effect, Lee Hyun-wook felt an explosion of sensation.

“after…….”

While he felt a little dizzy, he felt like his whole nervous system was racing as if he had been on a drug.

Shoot aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

Then the sound of this huge sea churning was felt as a panorama, and I could even sense where the updrafts and downdrafts were coming from.

‘… … Ugh, I feel bad.’

This was similar to how I felt when I first got a review and operated it.

However, as soon as he cleared his mind, he concentrated his senses that had multiplied dozens of times as he focused his nerves on one point, and moved slowly as if he were handling a microscope.

Then, hundreds of meters below the water… … Surrounded by the ‘mana tube’, he detected a huge shadow moving secretly above all else.

woo woo woo–

Lee Hyun-wook concentrated his senses and looked more closely at its appearance.

– The ruler of the deep sea, Leviathan (LV: 205)

‘… … It’s a bit more powerful than Aji Dahaka.’

A huge body of about two hundred meters… … It was a giant crocodile, and its finned appearance reminded us of a ‘Mosasaurus’ that lived in the Cretaceous Period.

Go-oh-oh-oh–

And it opened its gigantic mouth, sucking in the water like a drainpipe, consuming the troll’s blood that had been splattered in the water.

‘Okay, are you eating sober?’

Lee Hyun-wook remembered the documentary about the Leviathan attack process called , which he had seen in his previous life.

There, the leader of the capture team said, Leviathan has a great appetite, and especially treats land creatures that are not normally encountered as a delicacy.

Among them, he found that if he sprayed ‘troll’s blood’ full of mana, he lost his sanity and rushed to it, and it was said that he lured him into a trap.

Lee Hyun-wook was also following the attack method.

‘Now, slowly, you have to bite the bait.’

– Chick— Stilane, 5 minutes to reach point A-4. I’ll give the ‘Net’ teams a standby order right now.

This voice is Lee Kyo-jun, the team leader, who also came to the scene and was in charge of the operation.

“Yes, please.”

Lee Hyun-wook turned his head and looked at JJJ.

“Now let’s start broadcasting.”

“Oh, okay— I see!”

When JJJ snapped his finger, the ‘manager’ sitting next to him opened a bag and took out a camera and other shooting equipment and installed it.

“Now, if you press this button now, the live broadcast starts, are you going?”

JJJ looked at it again with an excited expression while holding the camera.

“Yes, let’s get started.”

“—Okay, I’m going to write a new history in the internet broadcasting industry today!”

As if excited, he chuckled and gave the manager various instructions.

“Uh-huh— Let’s make the broadcast title short and concise, !”

And soon, the broadcast began very loudly.

“—Hello, viewers! I am the life-threatening VJ and JJJ who narrates the vivid raid scene! Do you know where we are now? Now— no one can imagine! This is Friedwen!”

He approached Lee Hyun-wook and looked at the camera and asked him to say something, but Lee Hyun-wook didn’t even look at him.

“… … Well, Stilane seems to be a little busy.”

he said shyly.

In the first place, I didn’t give him an exclusive broadcast right to match the content of the broadcast.

‘You just need to spread this scene around the world.’

Lee Hyun-wook concentrated his mind only on this operation.

And finally… … .

– … … The gnome has arrived at the net area!

Lee Hyun-wook gave an instruction as soon as he heard the message.

“Go into ‘ghost mode’ right now.”

At his words, the ‘Yeo Sangmins’ who were sitting in the cockpit became busy.

“Yes! Activate Ghost Mode!”

Then there was a beep—beep—a certain beep sound was heard, and the aircraft trembled.

Fridwen is now ‘cloaked’ and cannot be seen with the naked eye.

After that, ‘Silence Magic’ was applied, and the quiet ‘Gnomish Hextech Engine’ sound completely disappeared.

Again, this was all the power of magic engineering.

Whoa whoa–

Fridwen, who disappeared as much as possible like that, started moving towards a point at high speed.

“… … Uh, what is Steelein doing now? I’ve just heard the brief explanation, but have you all heard the news? that… … The cargo ships that came to the Korean Peninsula with goods continued to sink, didn’t they? We’re going to find out who’s doing it and catch him! Wow, the number of viewers has already surpassed 100 million!”

Those 100 million people would spread the news around the world, and in an instant, the whole world would witness what was happening here.

At that time, Lee Hyun-wook beckoned to JJJ.

“JJJ, come this way.”

“Yes?”

“Hey, take that picture!”

With that said, JJJ and the manager approached the lamp door with their cameras.

Then, following Hyun-wook Lee’s finger, he looked at the sea, one part.

There, four high-speed boats were moving quickly, pouring pieces of meat into the sea.

“Oh, what else is that doing? That’s baiting! There’s a huge guy in the sea, to be honest, I don’t know yet! I haven’t even seen that scary guy’s tail yet… … uh?”

That was then.

“… … Look over there! Well, something is coming!”

A huge shadow began to rise slowly from the surface of the sea stained with the blood of a red troll.

But at that moment, JJJ had no choice but to spit out a smirk. It wasn’t just a surprise, it was a biological shock.

– caution! All stats are greatly reduced by the fear of the deep sea. (-30%)

“—Uh-huh!”

JJJ, even seeing only its shadow, stiffened for a moment and stepped backwards. Then, trembling, he fell flat on the floor.

A fear from the source of monsters of different ranks, such as Fear and Dragon, struck.

“Ah, no… hey, hey, even though I’m so far away… I got caught in Pierre… suck!

He crawled on the floor complaining of shortness of breath, and went inside the Friedwen.

However, as the distance was still quite far, if you didn’t look directly at it, you could escape from Pier’s sphere of influence.

“Hey— Come on, I’m not joking, I’m not tampering. ha, crazy… … I feel like I’m already here for nothing, don’t you think?”

He barely continued the broadcast by simply taking a picture of Lee Hyun-wook’s back with the camera in his hand.

“Ugh— I don’t think it’s possible for me to watch and broadcast with my own eyes. I’ll use a magic drone instead, so you can see it, Joe, so please understand.”

At his gesture, the manager who was vomiting next to him crawled hard, took a magic drone out of his big bag and flew it out of the ramp door.

In that way, the broadcast screen was switched to the magic drone camera point of view, and JJJ continued talking while watching the screen.

“Huh, it’s calming down now. Everyone, even though I look like this, I’m at level 43, and I’m not even an expert in raid knowledge. Seeing how far away it is, radiating peers like this, it’s honestly dragon-class. I’m sure. ”

He muttered as he breathed in.

“By the way, do you know what makes a dragon different? It’s like a dick in the deep sea. So it’s going to be harder to catch than a dragon! I think, uh… there’s probably no way.”

He made a pessimistic view without hesitation even though Lee Hyun-wook was right in front of him.

Then, he raised his voice and began to explain whether he encountered opposition from the audience.

“No, don’t be fooled, think for a moment! No matter what you pour, it will be blocked by the sea, and that’s why you can’t even dive directly into the sea to fight! Ray fall won’t work!”

His point was very accurate even for Lee Hyun-wook.

‘Isn’t it just luck that you became the best internet broadcaster? He’s a pretty analytical guy.’

As he argued, the field boss monster ‘Leviathan’ had the worst raid conditions.

No matter how powerful the players are, how do you catch those who are active at least a few hundred meters underwater?

Hyunwook Lee agreed.

“… … JJJ, you’re very precise. It’s not like you’re going out for nothing.”

“Hahaha… … thanks… … Yes? That, then… … ”

A shadow slowly spread across his face, who smiled shyly at Lee Hyun-wook’s praise.

“Uh, uh…”

Right now, Friedwen is flying towards that monster, if his guess was correct… … Aren’t you heading straight to a very dangerous place?

“… … How are you going to catch that?”

He felt goosebumps rising up his spine for a moment, and looked at Lee Hyun-wook with a blank expression.

Then, Hyunwook Lee said with a grin.

“But, I can.”

Lee Hyun-wook blatantly expressed his power.

And then—

– Chick— Net 1, activate.

With such a mana radio, a strange phenomenon occurred.

ku-gu-gu-gu–

A loud noise covered the whole world.

It was the sound of the sea roaring.

Kwa—and—and—and——

To be more precise, it was the sound of the Water Spirit King and the water spirits under his command, generating a large number of water whirlwinds in the sea and around Leviathan with all their might.

Then, like the miracle of Moses, the sea began to part and the bottom began to appear.

Shoot-ah-ah-ah–

It was also four. If you look closely, you can see that the sea is splitting in the shape of a square.

In other words, the ‘net compartment’ was ‘isolated’.

“Wow… what is that? Uh, what kind of power can control the sea like that… Doesn’t it look like a square piece of ice? But…”

However, with that alone, it seemed absurd to confine a large dragon-level boss monster.

“…if he made up his mind, he would break through the water whirlpool and cross the split sea with just a few wriggling movements?”

Lee Hyun-wook also nodded his head.

“Yeah, you’re right this time too.”

“Uh, yes, but that means you predicted this…”

Lee Hyun-wook nodded once again.

“Now we are going to catch him with a second net.”

– Chick— No. 2 net, activate.

That’s right……

– caution! A ‘gravity force field’ works in your area!

“Ah! This is…”

Seongyun Lee, called the Gravity Wizard, poured all his mana to reverse the gravity of an area.

Shoot aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

Then the ‘net section’ cut into squares began to soar towards the sky.

No, at this point, “falling down” would be a more appropriate expression. To fall in the first place, that is, to fall means to be attracted to gravity.

Whoa-ah-ah-ah-ah–!

The scene was so heterogeneous and unrealistic that JJJ opened his mouth wide and then closed it again.

That a point in this seemingly infinite sea soars into the air in the shape of a rectangle just as if God had put it in a box and scooped it up… … .

He pondered for a long time about what to say, and unconsciously, unconsciously, muttered a strange sound.

“… … Viewers, you are looking at the largest, most beautiful, and most dangerous aquarium in the world.”

It was only natural that all beings within those billions of tons of water would be uprooted together, and a gigantic shadow—a Leviathan wriggling in fury—was seen.

woo woo woo–

And when the blue light started to spread out, it seemed that he was getting angry and preparing to attack.

At that time, Hyunwook Lee spoke to the mana messenger.

“Now, please thin out.”

Then, the square water that soared due to the reversal of gravity was scattered in dozens of streams with a popping sound.

Then, only Leviathan was left in the space.

A crocodile-shaped monster with long jaws and a long tail… … Its size was truly overwhelming, but its present form is like… … He looked shabby like a single Nile crocodile caught in a net.

That-uh-uh-uh–!

It screamed and swung its gigantic webbed limbs to swim, but it drained out the water, and it couldn’t move.

In the end, it spewed a blue light beam from its mouth as if in a frenzy. However, whether it was a random shot in bewilderment, or whether he had lost his sense of direction because he could not adapt to the overturned gravity, he just scratched the air in vain.

Meanwhile, Lee Hyun-wook gave the last order.

“now… … Bring out the harpoon.”

at that time-

woo woo woo–

A large aircraft was attached to the bottom of Friedwen. Then it clicked— at the bottom of Friedwen, and joined together with a clicking sound.

Then, the area near its ceiling opened to the left and right to reveal a long rail, inside which at first glance it could be seen that four Mowglays were loaded like bullets.

Then, someone shouted from the cockpit.

“—Convert Friedwen power to Gaussian!”

Then, Fridwen left only the minimum function and stopped in the air, and a huge amount of mana was transferred to the airship, to be precise, near the rail.

Ki-i-i-ying–

Soon, the blue light slowly heated the rail… … .

With a click—a foot of Mowglay rested on the rail. And the rail slowly rotated and lay in a straight line with the Leviathan struggling in the air in the distance.

JJJ, who was looking at him, asked.

“… … Are you sure you’re shooting Mowglay like a gun?”

Hyunwook Lee slowly nodded his head.

“The reason why I’m broadcasting this scene today on the air…”

He turned his gaze to the camera and continued speaking.

“… … I hope that no one wants to stand at the end of this big gun barrel.”

The next moment, the rails lit up.

From here to there, a single ray of light was drawn, and while no sound was heard, a haze of haze arose as if the straight space was crumpled.

And Leviathan’s big head disappeared.

Then, belatedly, a long scar was drawn over the sea.

In one single blow, the airflow changed again.

“……”

Steel eating player chapter 197