A Player Who Eats Metal - Chapter 20



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Steel eating player chapter 20
Seoul Station, Unlucky Event-2

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About 10 minutes before the gate occurs.

Yongsan, Headquarters of the 3rd Horse Brigade, Brigade Commander’s Office.

“······What? Colonel Kim, what doesn’t that sound like right now?”

Kim Gang-seok, the 1st Battalion Commander of the 3rd Horse Brigade, was hearing a bitter voice from someone.

The person yelling at him was Colonel Koo Jin-tae, the chief of staff of the 3rd Horse Brigade.

“Senior Chief of Staff, I am seriously thinking and telling you too.”

“No, this isn’t a matter of being serious, man!”

Kim Gang-seok just reported three recent incidents in front of the brigade commander and chief of staff.

It was the incident of the Goblin Gate in the premises, the Kobold Gate incident in Itaewon 2-dong, and the Namsan Oak Gate incident.

And I did not leave out that there is an F-class player, Lee Hyun-wook, at the center of it.

The reaction was very good up to there.

It was even evaluated that the soldiers were well trained.

By the way······

At the end, when he expressed his desire to raise Lee Hyun-wook as an officer, the atmosphere cooled down.

“I’m telling you that I’m going to appoint a soldier, that’s also an F-class officer, but who’s right?”

“······.”

“Hah…do you think this really makes sense now?”

In the midst of the scolding of the chief of staff, Kim Gang-seok looked at General Choi Jeong-cheol, the 3rd port horse brigade commander.

“······.”

He sat cross-legged without saying anything.

However, seeing that Gu Jin-tae’s harsh remarks did not stop him meant that he was in tune with him to some extent.

However, Kim Kang-seok did not bend his will.

“Senior Chief of Staff, I don’t think the quality of an AMT officer lies in the ability to play randomly given by the game.”

“What?”

“……Rather, the will to overcome all of this system, the will to fight in any situation…… I am convinced that the soldier has the qualities.”

“Hey! Kim Kang-seok! What do we do to dig and pull troops to fight? Even so, all players who have completed the player training center enter the private guild, but if the F-class is appointed as an officer, who the hell will support the AMT officer, man! Do you know that this is about to abolish AMT?”

When an F-class officer becomes an officer, AMT’s honor will be lost, Jin-tae Koo thought that way.

‘It’s unfortunate, but honestly, it makes sense.’

Kim Gang-seok also admitted.

Now, the Great Monster Battle was not going to be like a mission to save humanity.

Powerful players want fame and money.

Creating an environment that satisfies them… It must have been one of AMT’s greatest challenges.

But if I ask an officer candidate to stand side by side with an F-class player…

‘······There is no way to be satisfied.’

At that time, Choi Jeong-cheol raised his left hand.

“······Shift Chief, please stay still for a minute.”

“Captain brigade, this really isn’t….”

Gu Jin-tae tried to protest, but when he saw Choi Jeong-cheol’s smile, he stopped talking.

It must have been a good smile for people, but… it felt quite different to them.

“Chief of staff, I want to tell you a little too.”

“Ah! Sorry. You tell me, brigade.”

Gu Jin-tae, who was angry like fire, bowed his head.

Head of the AMT 3rd Port Horse Brigade, Brigadier General Choi Jeong-cheol.

He was short and stocky, his head off, and his cute appearance reminiscent of an old bulldog.Especially, he looked exceptionally small because he was sitting in front of Kim Kang-seok, who was like a bear.

The reason was simple.

This is because he was the 31st A-class player in the Korean player rankings.

It is one of the few’tactical weapons’ capable of performing’large-scale wide area magic’ by himself. In particular, by burning one island on the south coast conquered by’fishermen’, a whole group of hundreds of fishers were destroyed. Anyone who knows how he was baked…

“Hmm, it’s fun. “The commanders are so enthusiastic about F-class, huh huh….”

You could read the horror hidden in this warm face of him.

Even Kim Gang-seok felt the dignity of this person and was nervous without knowing it.

“Well, I think the battalion commander will all have an idea. But, the battalion commander seems to have seen something with that friend already…. I think it would be nice if I had to take the test a few more times, right?”

“Yes, of course.”

“Okay, I need to be sure that the officer’s appointment wasn’t the strength of an officer’s sword or an armband, and it’s not so easy to put on and take off. You understand what I think?”

He laughed as he said so.

Even though I heard a positive answer, Kim Gang-seok wasn’t very comfortable with it.

‘If it’s the brigade commander’s test, it’s actually impossible.

If Kim Gang-seok regards his mindset as a soldier as a top priority, Choi Jeong-cheol thoroughly values ​​only skill. If he didn’t get the perfect result, he wouldn’t like him.

It was then.

smart-

At that time, someone knocked on the door of the brigade commander’s office and carefully entered.

He was the head of the brigade commander’s subsidiary.

What was going on, his expression wasn’t good.

“The brigade commander, it’s no different, it’s a phone call to find the 1st battalion commander. I think it’s urgent.”

It’s an urgent call…. Kim Gang-seok instinctively woke up.

“Yeah, come on and get it, battalion commander.”

“Yes!”

Kim Gang-seok went out in a hurry.

And after a while, Kim Gang-seok’s expression, who entered the brigade commander’s office again, wasn’t very good.

He opened his mouth without sitting down.

“The brigade commander, this is the news of the occurrence of a gate in the Wisu area of ​​the 1st Battalion. But that place is….”

He stopped talking, and swallowed dry saliva.

“······This is Seoul Station.”

“Seoul Station? That’s really not good.”

“And I don’t know what English it is, but….”

Kim Gang-seok brought a tablet PC from somewhere to the brigade commander.

One video began to play.

It was a real-time scene through a drone cam, but the appearance of Seoul Station was not visible.

To be precise, Seoul Station was obscured by something.

“Dome?”

It was a black dome.

A huge black dome closed Seoul Station like a lid.

“Yes. The entire Seoul Station was surrounded by a black dome.”

At that point, Choi Jeong-cheol also made an impression.

“It’s a big deal. This is the 〈Unlucky Event〉.”

“Yes, I see it. There seems to be a number of restrictions… It is estimated that there are a few thousand civilians in isolation.”

The basic characteristic of the unlucky event was to “isolate” a certain area.

“Bit- The access level restrictions in the event area would depend on it, right? If so, it would be difficult to withstand the station guard alone….”

“I need to check the exact information, but it is presumed that such conditions must have been accompanied. I’ll report it so I can check it accurately.”

Choi Jung-cheol nodded and stood up.

“Ah! Come to think of it, that F-class friend, it wouldn’t be level 15… How about taking on the rescue team’s mission this time? With the test I said earlier.”

“that······.”

Choi Jeong-cheol presented the test earlier than expected, but Kim Gang-seok had no choice but to make an embarrassing expression.

“Why, what’s happening?”

“The brigade commander, that friend is already in the dome.”

“······Huh?”

“While returning from vacation, it is said that he received a report that he arrived at Seoul Station with a female deputy officer. But right after that, an unlucky event took place at Seoul Station.”

Choi Jung-cheol nodded.

“Oh, what should I do with that…… Well, anyway, it could be a test.

“······.”

“Let’s go, battalion commander. This is not normal. Inevitably, many people will be sacrificed, but somehow we have to save even one more.”

“Yes, I understand!”

It’s ironic. After saying that you will risk someone’s life for a’test’, you talk about your’mission’ to save someone’s life.

However, this was the realistic mind to have as a soldier, who must protect the lives of other lives-people even while sacrificing and taking lives.

***

Nice-oh!

Along with the binge drinking, fragments of the spider’s skin burst and scattered in all directions.

First, the back side, the second side, the legs, and then the legs burst one after another.

In the blink of an eye, the skin was peeled off, and the spider became like a crayfish that had been molten. Even a piece of broken skin broke into the soft flesh, and a line of green ooze flowed out.

Queek! Queek! Queek! Queek!

It was an unbearable pain, no matter how big it was, and he had no choice but to step back, vomiting a weak scream.

It was then.

Thump-gu-gu-gung!

Vibrations that ring the floor in succession,

It was Lee Hyun-wook’s side.

When I turned my head, another spider was running toward Lee Hyun-wook, rolling eight feet.

“Kyck! It’s dangerous!”

Someone shouted.

However, Lee Hyun-wook did not move at all on the spot.

Uh-

Again, I just raised my left hand.

‘Venom Armor Spider, this is probably the first appearance.’

It was the first monster to appear at the moment.

However, Lee Hyun-wook already knew all over the place about that terrible creature.

‘There is a poisonous gas in the body made of metal. If you pop it carelessly, it will cause a lot of trouble.’

He focused his metal control in the direction of his outstretched left hand.

You can feel the metal without having to reach out, but it acts as a kind of antenna.

In other words, you can focus your power on a more precise point.

That way, I sensed a very heavy metal lump that existed there-its hard skin.

“……You have no choice but to be in my hand.”

Lee Hyun-wook shouted a little.

Regardless of its strength, the metallic monster was just Lee Hyun-wook’s easy prey.

He could go beyond manipulating the body of those things and even crush them like this.

‘It can actually dominate.’

Lee Hyun-wook grabbed and shook his skin as if it were plucking.

Queek! Queek! Queek! Queek!

With just those small gestures, he complained of pain and began to struggle.

That was just the beginning.

‘······Shredding!’

-Mana (131/159)

Nice-oh! Nice-oh! Nice-oh!

Again, its hard shell shattered finely and poured out in all directions.

“Huh, huh! What, what is it?”

The head of the security team at Seoul Station stood up behind Lee Hyun-wook’s back and exclaimed such exclamation.

“Beautiful, crazy….”

It was a really ridiculous scene in his eyes.

The AMT player, even one soldier, can defeat that enormous monster so easily….

‘And me, that’s definitely…… a mechanism similar to the ability of an S-class player!’

Players from E to A, which are the level-growing characteristics, are frankly unable to demonstrate the overwhelming “mystery”.

Of course, if you grow up as your level rises, maybe someday you will feel like a ‘super-in’….

‘······warrant!’

It couldn’t give the impression that it was like some kind of “miracle” or “power” that transcends humans.

However, the S grade was different.

Their ability to exert was more likely to be called “power,” rather than the name of skill.

The ability to sweep the battlefield with just a single gesture, beyond just being an outstanding warrior… The power to be treated as a tactical or strategic weapon with a single body…

‘Two years ago, I remember the scene where Inferno burned a polluted building in Busan.’

Of course, the power that the man shows right now couldn’t be said to be the same scale as the power of Inferno, an S-class play. In close comparison, it would be just the blood of a new foot.

However, only the impression was clearly similar.

A certain mystery that transcends the superhuman, such a glimpse.

It was then.

What else he was trying to do, the man slowly raised his hands.

S-S-S-S-S-

Then, the pieces of the spider’s hard skin that fell on the floor, they wriggled one by one…

Hung- Hung- Hung- Hung- Hung-

At the next moment, it flew vertically at once as if being attracted by a magnet.

“······Ugh!”

At that mysterious sight, everyone who had gathered at the entrance raised their heads.

The unbalanced pieces of metal flashed reflecting the light from the ceiling-LED lights.

“Wow······.”

Someone admired.

Yes, it was a beautiful scene at first glance.

Like any installation art made of crystal.

But the moment he dropped both hands he had lifted to the floor,

The genre has changed.

Char-left-left-left-left-!

They quickly turned into a bunch of fierce wasps and flew towards the spider.

Queek! Queek! Queek! Queek! Queek! Queek!

Hundreds of pieces of metal began to shred the spider’s flesh, little by little, and all at once, the thick flesh of the spider.

“Wow······.”

“Is it the Seoul Station Guard, right there?”

“······Yes?”

The security team leader, who was watching the scene, made eye contact with Lee Hyun-wook, who was looking at him.

“Ah, yes! Yes!”

The security team leader was using honorific words without knowing it.

“Control your citizens and go up to the third floor. I can’t go outside now because of the’Unlucky Event’. So we need to evacuate the citizens to a place ready for a second eruption in the future.”

“Oh, definitely should be!”

“Oh, and that spider, it can erupt poison.”

“……Poison, you mean?”

“Yes, I saw something leaking out of the shell. I think it’s in the form of gas.”

“Ah, yes!”

Gas, the guard noticed that it meant to prepare a gas mask.

He immediately instructed my team members what he heard from Hyun-wook Lee.

“character! Everyone wakes up and we do our job! You have to protect the citizens!”

Seven station guards started the mission again.

“Everyone! Please calm down and listen to us!”

Controlling the hundreds of panicked crowds was a challenge, but the people of this era who suffer from the Gate incident as usual, followed the player’s control without reluctance.

“Okay, we’re going to move to the third floor right now! You have to move slowly and in order!”

Thus, hundreds of people followed the stairs to the third floor.

Meanwhile, Lee Hyun-wook was pushing the metal to break the breath of two poisonous armored spiders, while arranging the future route in his head.

‘I had to survive the second eruption, the third eruption, and at least two eruptions, but that dome would open.’

But······.

‘There is always a hidden path in the game.’

Lee Hyun-wook already knew another way.

***

The area where the unlucky event, the hellish rule was applied, was not very large.

No, maybe I should have said that Seoul Station is incredibly spacious.

“Looking at it, it seems that only the opposite rooms on the 2nd and 3rd floors of Seoul Station are isolated.”

While evacuating to the opposite room on the third floor, one of the station guards said so.

And the estimate was correct.

However, it seemed that there would be more than 800 citizens alone.

However, there were only 7 soldiers in the station guard guarding that section, so no matter how much you look at it, it was the worst situation in which you were actually forced to annihilate.

If one AMT soldier had not appeared somewhere and saved them all, it would have been so.

Everyone recognized that and thought it was fortunate….

“It’s really fucking fucking fucking….”

Yang Joo-seop, one of the isolated citizens there, was not very pleased with Lee Hyun-wook’s appearance.

“What bitch is replaced …… Oh psychic, why is it here? ‘

He stared at Lee Hyun-wook, the player who was taking the breath of a poisonous armored spider with his fiery eyes.

At the same time, I read a line of system messages that floated in my sight and in the air.

-(!) You have failed to achieve the goal of ‘No. 1’ in the main quest.

It was said that a quest given to him had failed, because of Lee Hyun-wook.

‘Ah, fuck it! Bitch is’re suddenly jumped out from? A player with that ability can’t take the subway or train. Why are you standing at Seoul Station? That’s also AMT….’

Yes.

Yang Joo-seop, he was “Billion”.

At this point, the existence of villains has not yet been clearly defined.

How they were born, what purpose they worked for, and nothing was publicized… The villains were given some kind of quest like this and were eating the world little by little.

However, Yang Joo-seop was not yet an official villain.

-You are currently a’Billion Candidate’. Do quests to increase your rank!

* As long as you accept the quest, if you do not perform it normally, it will be’game over’.

Villain couldn’t be anyone.

Once a villain candidate, this quest was not given to anyone.

Even if you received a quest, the probability of clearing was not very high.

Even if the quest failed, the penalty was game over, that is, death.

He had to complete his life-threatening mission several times, but he became an official villain and was able to enter a “secret organization” where true villains gathered.

In the case of Yang Joo-seop, if he completed one more quest here today, he would have been promoted to an official villain….

“It is because of that dog pups ruin saenggyeotne, opportunities Looking back if I insert knives …… huh?”

He mumbled like that, and at an instant, he was startled.

It was because the eyes met Lee Hyun-wook.

“······.”

He turned his head and looked at Yang Joo-seop exactly.

But his eyes, his pupils, were somewhere strange.

In it, hostility… No, I felt a sense of life.

gulp-

Yang Joo-seop’s spine became creepy at the moment.

A year ago, in his E-grade days, he was crushed by an unreasonable anxiety, much deeper than when he first went on a gate blockade and made eye contact with an orc.

‘What, what is that… Are you looking at me?’

He died for a moment without my knowledge, but he quickly turned his head with a nostril.

“Fuck, what do you know! I guess I just got into it, maybe you knew what I was?”

He laughed as he said so.

In the first place, the world does not yet know the existence of Villain.

If only the mind was upright and moved according to plan, there would be no failure.

Yang Joo-seop thought so, and secretly escaped from the crowd in order to clear the remaining quests.