A Player Who Eats Metal - Chapter 2



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Steel eating player chapter 2
F-Class Player’s Return-2

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Can a person be different in one day?

‘Well······.’

One day, the gate opened and the world turned upside down.

Followed by those with superpowers,

With the advent of’player’, the power structure of society was re-established.

However, only the human group remained the same.

The selfish ones rolled their eyes to take advantage of the calamity to get a bigger share, and the cynical ones still just complained as if everything was unpleasant.

A small number of heroes tried to change the world, but each time they were blocked by numerous obstacles, including the first two classes.

Yes. Still, many problems were caused by people, not monsters.

The players were humanity’s only weapon, but not all of them were heroes.

Player-born politicians and businessmen seized and shaken power, and crime by players increased day by day.

It was a predictable problem.

This is because the player is also a human after all.

Like this, even though the world changes overnight, people do not change easily.

Of course, if you have a lot of experiences over a long period of time, your way of thinking will change in any way, but that it will not change in at least a day… is a valid adage regardless of the times.

By the way······.

‘Sergeant Hyun-wook Lee…… has changed somewhere.’

Park Joon-mo, who had just opened a bottle, felt that his shooter, Corporal Lee Hyun-wook, really changed in a day.

Four days ago, it was after I got a strange reaction when I woke up before the dinner meeting.

“······after!”

He was now pulling alone on an iron bar in an empty lot behind the barracks.

What is special about that?…

‘Originally, you were always helpless, but suddenly your eyes changed and you exercised every day, and I don’t think you’re the person I knew.’

This is because it was a completely contradictory behavior to the appearance of Lee Hyun-wook that Park Jun-mo usually knew. I watched it for only three months, but I had never seen it move except during training or operation.

And recently, he was acting and was suspicious.

As if my memories were blurry, I asked about the units I had been in for over a year, and I often took notes. And I even mumbled, reminiscing about the future dates out of nowhere.

And above all, my eyes have changed.

‘As I noticed the seniors of Hado, I can see the person’s feelings just by looking at the facial expressions. Corporal Hyun-wook Lee…… It’s definitely different.’

He was always helpless and self-confident, but now he was calm and cold as if he were looking through everything.

It was the eyes of an old beast with an exaggeration.

‘Of course, it’s strange no matter how much I think about it.’

When he was thinking so, Lee Hyun-wook looked back.

“Junmo, what’s going on?”

Even that single voice felt like it was solid.

“······Ah!”

Park Joon-mo scratched his cheek in surprise.

“That’s it, it’s time for dinner.”

Lee Hyun-wook checked the watch.

“okay, thanks.”

He approached with a light shoulder stretch, and it felt like my body had grown considerably in just a few days, perhaps because of my mood.

“Well, Corporal Hyun-wook Lee?”

“Huh?”

“Well, can I ask why you’re exercising all of a sudden?”

Lee Hyun-wook smiled at the question.

“Why? Is it weird for me to exercise?”

“Oh, that’s not it. Just, me…”

He smacked Park Jun-mo on the shoulder.

“You don’t know when to fight. You do some exercise too. It would be difficult to defeat even a single goblin with that body.”

“Ah… I see.”

That was right.

“Anti Monster Troop” made up of players

The abbreviation A·M·T was put into actual missions several times a month and had to deal with monsters.

In other words, the crisis of death could come at any time.

Therefore, training of ability and body was not an option, but a necessity.

‘But, we hardly ever do that…’

However, since Lee Hyun-wook and Park Jun-mo were F-class, the lowest grade among players, the chance to fight monsters directly was rare.

They belonged to a “support squad” made up of junior player troops, and were only tasked with assisting other squads in battle.

In simple terms, belonging to the support squad is actually a’miscellaneous’.

Lee Hyun-wook added, whether he noticed such a weirdness.

“In fact, there is no reason. I’m just trying to change something.”

‘······Changing, how?’

Park Jun-mo thought so, but the words came out differently.

“Oh, the effort to change…… is wonderful.”

“That’s okay with what I said in my mouth. Let’s go to eat.”

“no. Really. As a side shooter, I will definitely imitate it.”

Actually, the words spoken in my mouth were correct. There are certain things in the world that cannot be changed.

‘You probably don’t know that F-class is not going to change because of your efforts?’

There are three main categories of “rating” for players as well.

First, they are A, B, C, D, and E, which are 〈level growth characteristics〉.

This rank was able to increase his ability by raising his’level’ as the name’player’.

Therefore, even if you gained relatively weak abilities, you could raise your grade if you tried hard to raise the level.

Next is S, which is 〈non-level growth characteristics〉.

They didn’t have a level. Instead, different special methods of growth are “proposed”.

For example, the most famous non-level growth trait player, Busan’s savior, “Inferno,” improves just by being in the fire.

In other words, it was a tremendous advantage, as long as you could be dissatisfied with bed while you were sleeping, you could improve your ability. Rumor has it that his mansion has a huge ‘furnace’ and goes there whenever he takes a break.

This was a kind of’hidden class’, but these S-class abilities were very rare, and there were only 31 people in the world.

And finally, F grade…

‘Non-growth characteristics….’

〈Non-growing characteristic〉, which is a characteristic that literally does not grow.

If S is’hidden class’, F is’bang’.

‘Even in college, F is retaken. In other words, there are no points.’

No matter how badly you are, is there a fate that cannot be developed… Is there anything more regrettable than this?

The “Wang” drawn in the random draw could not be exchanged for any prize.

Park Jun-mo felt bitter and looked at Lee Hyun-wook, the same fate as himself.

He was looking up into the lonely air now.

‘Somehow, you seem to have a lot of thoughts. What are you worrying about?’

Park Joon-mo was empathetic like that. I felt like I knew Lee Hyun-wook’s heart for some reason because it was the same F-class.

However, Lee Hyun-wook did not think much.

He’s just…

-Currently maneuverable’metal’ weight: 877g

I was just looking at a line of status messages that appeared in front of my eyes.

‘Um, as I exercise, the absorption rate is faster.’

Suddenly, the amount increased from 300g to almost twice, an increase of 577g.

‘If it goes like this, I’ll eat all the metal I’ve collected in two days. In order to grow fast… we need a much higher quality metal. I have to go on vacation in the near future and get a bunch of them.’

As such, in fact, the abilities of a trait classified as an F-class were never irreplaceable. However, the truth will only be revealed in the next six years.

It is a so-called “F-class player rediscovery case”.

After that incident, F-class players will be treated considerably.

In other words, as it is known at this point, the F-class was not a “bang” in which ability growth was impossible. Rather, it is a hidden class similar to that of S-class, and is a kind of’puzzle’ in which the way to grow abilities is hidden.

Lee Hyun-wook was solving the puzzle assembly much faster, which he had already tried once.

When I tried before, I couldn’t finish it in the end…

‘······It will be different this time.’

He secretly swallowed the metal.

***

The next day, it was around lunch on Saturday.

Someone knocked on the door of Dormitory 5. He was a second class soldier who hadn’t been a few days after he moved in, but he seemed to have been running errands.

He pushed his head back into the dormitory.

“Lee Byung, Choi Seong-min! Can I go in?”

“uh.”

Corporal Ahn Min-tae, sitting by the door and watching TV, nodded.

“Is…… Is there a leader in the 5th minute? In the executive class, he, the deputy on duty called it.”

At that end, Mintae Ahn looked around the dormitory, but he couldn’t see the squad leader.

“Hey, it’s Junmo. Where did Corporal Hyun-wook Lee go?”

Not long ago, after the 5th Squad Leader was escorted to a military hospital, Lee Hyun-wook was on the mission as “Temporary Squad Leader.”

The reason he took over was simple. It was because it was the highest rank.

“Ah! You must have gone to work out now.”

Ahn Min-tae laughed at Park Joon-mo’s answer.

“You went to exercise again? Why are you doing that lately? Hey, newbie. What is the deputy on duty looking for? Are you in a hurry?”

“He, the deputy on duty just ordered me to do it, so I’ve heard what he said about cleaning up the oil high school.”

The members of Squad 5, who were taking a break from the answer, raised their bodies to see if they had intuition.

“Ah! So it looks like a job?”

“What, is it another job? no! Didn’t we even work in the morning?”

Sadness broke out here and there.

“Oh, it’s Corporal Gwak Jin-cheol, deputy officer on duty today. Somehow he might…”

Corporal Gwak Jin-cheol, he was on the side of tormenting low-grade soldiers such as E-class and F-class. And because most of the low-ranking soldiers were concentrated in Squad 5, the entire Squad 5 would be targeted.

“Oh, we are not real slaves….”

Someone complained and muttered.

It was true that the “support squad” in the fifth squad was treated as a mischief, but that was the concept of “supporting” the “combat units” during the operation.

They carry out missions that are still indispensable between battles, such as transporting combat supplies and moving wounded people.

In other words, it was unsurprisingly absurd to even make chores during holidays like this.

Absurdity, it was a bad practice that would have been liquidated long ago in general military units.

However, as A·M·T had to be put into combat at any time, the discipline and hierarchy were stubborn in order to maintain the upper and lower suit system.

And Gwak Jin-cheol was a vicious senior who used that aspect.

“Oh, it turns out that a few days ago. That Corporal Gwak Jin-cheol is in the bathroom.

One of the privates hesitated while talking.

“Why what is it?”

As he hesitated, Ahn Min-tae asked.

“······Ah, I heard Corporal Hyun-wook Lee saying something that seems to be wearing the temporary squad leader. It is sinister today.”

“Oh shit, I think I’m counting on it. Even us will suffer, damn….”

At that time, a peculiar electronic sound that was heard when the speaker was turned on over the head rang.

whiz-

-Whoa! Preaching in the administration group. Dormitory 5…… Please assemble into the central corridor right away, all in Squad 5. End of delivery.

It was the voice of Corporal Gwak Jin-cheol.

“Ah…… They seem to be a bit late and fluffy again.”

Min-tae Ahn, who had happened erratically, put his hand on Park Jun-mo’s shoulder, exhaling a sigh.

“Junmo, get your shooter quickly. Do you know who the lieutenant is on duty today?”

“Yes! This is Corporal Gwak Jin-cheol.”

“Yes, that man, breathes fire from his mouth. If you don’t want to see our temporary squad leader getting your brother’s hair burned, run quickly. For the first time in my life, I will hang it on an iron bar and grill it over charcoal.”

The squad members also laughed in spite of the disregard for my squad leader. It was a part to understand what Lee Hyun-wook’s image was like in usual.

“Yes, I understand!”

It wasn’t a metaphor for breathing fire from the mouth.

Corporal Gwak Jin-cheol is a flame-based ability and used to boom like a “dragon” whenever his successors were removed. He was one of the seniors most feared by his successors thanks to his weird image.

Park Jun-mo thought about the scene and rushed out of the barracks.

‘No matter how much, Corpors Gwak Jin-cheol and Lee Hyun-wook are the motives….’

One has become the object of fear and respect to his successors, while the other is being ignored and caricatured like this.

‘And Corporal Hyun-wook Lee, he’s a really good person….’

As far as he knows, Corporal Lee Hyun-wook was not an ugly person.

He was well-informed, and he had a sense and sense. Didn’t he even perform better than anyone else in combat training, excluding player abilities?

The shooting was also 10,000 shots each time.

If it were an ordinary army, it would have been a trusted ace.

However, this was A·M·T, a unit that had to fight monsters.

‘Hagin, in A, M, and T, there is no place for an F grade like ours.’

When fighting monsters, no player wanted to put F-class behind their back.

‘I’ll also be treated like that even if I’m not busy…’

When I arrived near the iron bar, Corporal Hyun-wook Lee was seen.

It was as it was yesterday. He was really steadily pulling up like this a few days ago.

I even heard that some seniors laughed at him saying that he was exercising while drinking a ‘recovery potion’ from a ‘military item store’ as a ‘reward point’.

“······after! ······after!”

In fact, it was hardly possible to exercise that much unless you were a player in the melee combat series.

So is it?

Compared to a few days ago, I could see at a glance that my forearms had become quite thick. Refreshingly, I could feel that he was working out really hard.

‘You said it’s going to be different…….’

Will the change he said take place?

“······Me, Corporal Hyun-wook Lee?”

Lee Hyun-wook came down from the iron bar and looked back.

“Junmo, why? The lunch meeting time…… It’s still a long way.”

He said, checking his watch.

“Oh, that’s… it’s a working set.”

“Well, couldn’t you just call our squad again?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

Lee Hyun-wook also pinpointed the context. Park Jun-mo looked at his eyes.

At the moment, I felt a little disillusioned.

‘Why? He’s the one who usually speaks without talking.’

Everyone knew that this was absurd. And if it’s about Lee Hyun-wook, in fact, it was right to be treated to some extent….

Gwak Jin-cheol was a very stupid human being. I used to push my motives and low-ranking soldiers just by wearing the armband of the deputy on duty.

And on the one hand, this was the fate of the F-class.

“Yes, let’s go.”

Lee Hyun-wook went ahead by zipping up his daily clothes.

Park Joon-mo felt an unknown anxiety.

For some reason today, it seemed like something would happen.