A Player Who Eats Metal - Chapter 88



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Steel eating player chapter 88
〈Alchemy Factory, Blood Magic, Plague-3〉

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“… … I came to negotiate hostages.”

A man in the AMT combat uniform in the lobby of the Lab Building B said so.

His voice, which calmly echoed in the quiet hostage scene, was quite heterogeneous.

“…….”

Not only the 18 terrorists scattered here and there,

Hundreds of hostages, squatting in one corner, also looked at the man.

In other words, everyone’s eyes in this building were drawn to only one place.

‘… … What is that? How did you get in?’

Chief of the terrorist leader Lee had no choice but to have such a question, but after a short thought, the conclusion was ‘hidden’.

‘If you approach, you’re going to kill the hostages, but you’re going to do something like this… … .’

Mr. Lee was absurd, so he laughed in succession and pointed his muzzle at him.

Then all of his men also raised their guns.

Cheolkeok— Cheolkeok—

“Tuk-tuk— these idiots, even though you said so, are you crawling into hiding?”

There were 20 7.62mm magazines, and about 10 of them had an “incent”.

Spreading this could inflict a lot of damage to the player.

“Hey, don’t you think this is just a gun? Not only the hostages, but you are also dying!”

“I think I heard that word a while ago…….”

“Huh? This motherfucker, this is going to say?”

The man, Lee Hyun-wook, shrugged and approached them without concern.

Then a scream broke out among the hostages.

“Oh, no!”

It was a reckless, no, insane response to them.

“Ooh, we have a bomb on our body!”

“Please stop!”

Hundreds of people here might die if they did something wrong.

However, Lee Hyun-wook continued to walk in without any hesitation.

Jerk— Jerk—

“Fuck, shoot! Just kill them all!”

The impatient chief exclaimed, and all sorts of screams erupted again.

But when the screaming stopped after a while,

Strangely… … Nothing happened.

“Second, the gun…….”

Tick—Tick— Tick—Tick—

There was only a small sound of metal here and there, and the gunfire didn’t sound a single shot.

Just

Subsequently, as the sound of some finger popping was heard, the guns they were holding broke apart in quarters. And seeing them turn into pointy awls, they saw, but couldn’t respond.

Soundly— Soundly— Soundly— Soundly—!

They stabbed the terrorists at once.

In the blink of an eye, 17 bodies collapsed in vain.

“what!”

But in this realm, he was a sorcerer player.

He put a’mana shield’ on his head and bounced off the flying metal awl.

Tongue!

“I don’t know what the masterpiece is, but you don’t intend to save the hostages!”

He reached for the hostages. Although bare hands, the hostages screamed in astonishment.

Uh–

A bomb vest is put on between the hostages, and mana is given there.

Then the mana circuit would be activated and the “trigger switch” would be pressed.

This was a word that the chief had already told the hostages many times as if they were intimidating.

“Uh, uh-”

“—Kak!”

Therefore, the hostages hugged each other and closed their eyes.

But again… … Nothing happened.

“Hey, what are you pretending to do like that?”

Lee Hyun-wook smiled and said sarcastically.

“What? What, what…….”

“So, do you have a third plan?”

“Then……the negotiations are over.”

18 rifle parts were transformed into chains by metal transformation.

Then it flew like a snake, wrapped around the head of the leader, and pulled it up into the air.

“Big, big-oh!”

He hung up like that, hanging from the gallows,

10 iron beads flew from Lee Hyun-wook’s waist dance.

Damn——!

The first blow was the flank-bead nearly halfway through and then bounced off.

As if his ribs were shattered by the struck, he crumbled—and then vomited a terrible scream.

“Ah-Ah, save it!”

“Unfortunately, I don’t hold anything like hostages.”

Ten iron marbles rotated around his body, and he started beating without fail.

Nice-bur-bur-bur-bur–!

In just a few seconds, dozens of blows—it’s body, tolerable bones were shredded.

Soon, the light disappeared from his eyes.

Blah

To that point, it took less than a minute for a total of 18 terrorists to be subdued.

“…….”

The hostages looked over the situation with an expression of disbelief and soon looked at Lee Hyun-wook.

“uh…….”

“Is that person? Lee Hyun-wook…… the savior of Seoul!”

“Oh! That’s right! He’s here to save us!”

They recognized Lee Hyun-wook and expressed intense interest. However, he gave no response. Just slowly scanning the inside of the building, picking up the Mana Messenger from his waist.

Chic—

“… … Negotiations are over.”

While sending the radio, his gaze turned to the inside of the building and into the open elevator aisle.

To be precise, under that empty darkness, he was sensing the grotesque sound from the depths.

Eh eh eh———

Down there, he felt that the strange movement was getting a little more intense.

‘It will start soon.’

And… … .

– caution! You have entered the’devil’s test bench’.

* A disaster of unknown cause is rising in the area.

A system message came to mind, announcing the beginning.

***

Captain Gil-Hyun Lee, the squad leader of the “Cobra Squad,” the elite team of the 999 Special Mission Battalion,

He snorted after seeing the scene where Lee Hyun-wook penetrated Building B with his stealth skill.

“Damn, unlucky child… Let’s see where, how well you are. Very, lose even one hostage! I’ll go out on the air and say that he forced him to do it alone!”

Sergeant Lee Hyun-wook, today no one knows the name.

However, very few people have seen his work in person.

There wasn’t even a single picture or video material.

In the 4th Wave Zone, where he was active, all electronic equipment was jammed.

“No, no matter how good-looking guys make mistakes, don’t you think about seeking expert advice?”

Well, though, as a nationally recognized hero, I didn’t doubt the person’s skills… … As he appeared out of nowhere and tried to take the rice bowl, it was inevitable in many ways.

“Captain Lee, still be careful with your mouth. What if that person reports badly to the upper line?”

Oh Seong-hoon, the head of the operation team, said as if he were young.

“What the Blue House line, Woo Sung-moon installation line? I get tired when I go outside the eyes of that old tiger.”

“… … No matter how much, does it make sense to treat us like this?”

“Of course, I’m in a bad mood, too, but you’re talking about Jo Gonzo, but you know you’re going to quarrel first?”

“First of all, let’s focus on this operation, and there will be a tumult soon after that man enters. And no matter how unlucky you are, you are hoping that he will take care of this job well, right?”

At that time, the first radio came in earlier than expected.

-Cheek— Negotiations are over.

The moment they heard the contents, the two had no choice but to look at each other’s faces blankly.

“-What?”

“Uh, what’s over?”

It was just Lee Hyun-wook’s voice.

“Oh, no matter how, in an instant…….”

It was only about a minute after he entered.

I couldn’t believe it, so I lowered the altitude of one magic drone and checked the inside of the building.

And indeed, there was a scene where all terrorists were used.

Seeing pools of blood accumulating around their bodies, they seemed to have dealt with them without mercy.

“Huh…… the suppression team, we are entering!”

At the command of the operation team leader, Oh Sung-hoon, the suppression teams who were waiting in the area quickly hit and entered.

“The safety of the hostages is our top priority above all else!”

Oh Seong-hoon also entered the building after the suppression team.

By the way, the moment you step into the lobby… … .

– caution! You have entered the’devil’s test bench’.

* A disaster of unknown cause is rising in the area.

Before my eyes, a red system message appeared.

“Uh…… Team leader, can you see this? Wow, something seems to be happening.”

Oh Seong-hoon nodded slowly and felt the nape of his neck sore.

I feel like something bad will happen soon… … It was a veteran’s sense.

“Yes, I saw it too. Where is Sergeant Lee Hyun-wook?”

“Hey, I’m standing in front of the elevator entrance.”

Lee Hyun-wook was looking at the elevator with the door open. It was a freight elevator going down to an underground facility, but it was huge enough to carry a large truck.

He turned his head and looked at Oh Sung-hoon.

“Oh, team leader, it wasn’t all about hostage play.”

“Yes, I saw the system messages. Damn, what the hell were you doing here…….”

At that time, two riot squad agents brought a man who seemed to be hostage.

“I, team leader, this person here has something to tell you about the current situation.”

Wearing a white gown, he seemed to be a researcher.

“I am Yong-un Ahn, a researcher at the Mana Control Research Department at this institute.”

“Yes, what kind of’event’ are you going to talk about in the basement here?”

“Yes, that’s right. We didn’t even know that things would turn around like this…….”

He gulps his dry saliva, then opens his mouth.

“There are these, horrible human-eating monsters lurking down there, and it’s going to be on the rise. So maybe… there aren’t any survivors.”

“Well…… If it’s a monster, you’re talking about a monster, and maybe the gate was open?”

The researcher shook his head at Oh Sung-hoon’s question.

“I don’t know the details, but it’s not a gate. The monster was made in a laboratory.”

“Yes? Making monsters……that doesn’t make any sense…….”

This was surprising when I first heard it.

At first, it was a study that started on the subject of eternal life, but gradually, as it fell into the devil’s delusion, research proceeded in a completely different direction. Its purpose was to gain’power’ by offering humans to the devil.

‘I chose the easiest way to obtain eternal life, using the power of the devil.’

Thus, according to the will of the devil, it is reached to cultivate the eggs of the “Mawgwi” in the laboratory.

That number is as many as 3,800… … .

Now, they came out of their eggs and went on their first hunt.

“Damn, I don’t know what it is, but I’m sure I have to block it so that it can’t come out of there…”

As for Seong-Hoon Oh, the researcher’s explanation alone was not able to see through the situation yet, but he intuited that it was not a difficult event as a warning was displayed as a system message.

“……Within a radius of 5km, there are a lot of apartments. This is not usually a problem.”

He mumbled like that and pressed the button on the’Mana Messenger’ on his shoulder.

“Ah, this is the operation team leader. Maintain the combat posture of the entire troops, and besieged this building right now.”

However, the researcher shook his head as if denying his judgment, and said as if begging.

“Well, you need to prepare to stop them. You have to mobilize a significant number of Priests and Paladins… No, you have to bring a bunch of more ‘Holymul’ and install a “Sacred Place” around here like a bunker.

“… … Relics, why do you need such a thing?”

“If you kill that monster, some black smoke comes out, but if you touch it, you fall into a curse.”

Subsequently, the security teams here were exposed to some kind of “smoke” that occurred after killing an anglerfish, but after a while, they suffered annoyance and soon turned into “inhabitants of hell”.

And when the inhabitants of that hell are killed, black smoke is generated again, causing a large-scale infection.

That was the identity of the “plague” that swept the eastern part of the metropolitan area.

“That black smoke was not something that could be stopped with a gas mask or protective suit.”

It’s not a biological infection, it’s a magical curse. In simpler terms, it was a phenomenon that pollutes the soul itself, not the body, which meant that the normal MOPP method could not prevent it.

Listening to the explanation, Oh Seong-hoon’s face was forced to harden.

“Hah……what the hell did you create something terrible here?”

What was happening here was something that even the elite special forces could not respond to.

No matter how much I thought about it, this was not something that could be solved by counter-terrorism operations.

“It’s not terror, it’s a disaster, it’s…….”

It was not a local terrorist but a national disaster.

“Oh, team leader, we need to evacuate the civilians around here and close the area right now.”

At Lee Hyun-wook’s words, he woke up and nodded.

“Yes, first of all, you should. First of all, you have to do what you can.”

It was then.

Ku—Gu—Gu—Gu——

Soon the whole building was shaken, and an unknown screaming sound began to sound.

Eh eh eh

Something was shaking from below the freight elevator aisle.

“Oh, no! That, they…… They want to come out to the ground when food runs out of the basement!”

With that said, the researcher stepped back and ran out of the building.

Eh eh eh!

Lee Hyun-wook and Oh Sung-hoon also slowly moved away from the elevator passage.

It was an intuition that the moment to confront the owners of that freaky castle was imminent.

“Oh, Captain, leave this to me, and lead the squadron operation.”

At that, Oh Sung-hoon’s eyes widened.

“No, are you trying to stop them by yourself again now?”

“Yes, that’s right. I have curse immunity, so I can fight without worrying about that curse.”

In fact, it was in a condition that I obtained “Archangel’s Herbs” that could block the influence of the devil and consumed them in advance.

-‘Archangel’s Purification’ is being applied. (00:14:53)

“Even so, if you hear that screaming, the numbers are huge. You’ll need a lot of firepower.”

“That’s okay, too. My firepower……well, as the public rumors, it’s enough.”

With those words, Sung-Hoon Oh came up with a famous story.

“Ah, no way steel rain…….”

Lee Hyun-wook nodded.

“But as far as I know, I heard that you need a ‘two-way portal,’ a wide area magic?”

Connecting the arsenal and the skies of the battlefield, a method of pouring steel weapons like rain,

It was the mechanism of the best linkage technology “Steel Ratio” I heard through the media.

But now, there was no wizard who could cast’Area Magic’.

“In the meantime, we have diversified how to use it. You don’t have to worry.”

The more Oh Seong-hoon talked to this man, the more he felt his head dulled.

From the first appearance to the present, he will continue to do it on his own.

And it is said that all of them are ready.

‘How can I be prepared in all respects like this?’

But from some time, I found myself wanting to believe this man’s words without knowing it.

‘It presents a direction without blocking in a situation where there is no way ahead.’

I didn’t know it was human instinct to believe and follow that kind of person.

“Yes, okay. Then I’m this—”

However, another upheaval occurred before his words were over.

thud-! thud-! thud-! thud-!

The sound of collapsing one step further from the basement under your feet, and the building began to sink.

“Damn, the building is collapsing!”

“—Everyone goes out!”

Lee Hyun-wook wore rigid boots all over the body, and Oh Seong-hoon also activated the mana shield.

Oops

Near the elevator, the floor collapsed and the walls began to crack.

Soon one side of the building collapsed like a sand castle.

‘Demons, did you even bite off the pillar?’

It was to create a doorway that would come out of the world in a rather radical way.

***

Oh Seong-hoon escaped from the shaking building.

“Damn, come on and evacuate the civilians!”

Ku—Gu—Gu—Gu—Gu——

Shortly thereafter, the building of R&D Center B collapsed and the lobby on the first floor was clearly revealed.

There was a huge sinkhole in the floor there.

In that dark darkness, red eyes began to rise like the Milky Way.

As their shape became thicker and larger, the disgusting screaming was also amplified.

Eh eh eh

There was only one man standing tall in front of that hole, like the entrance to hell.

A broadcasting station camera placed on a nearby building caught his back.

“…….”

Looking at the scene, Oh Seong-hoon still couldn’t figure out how to call the “Kang Chul-bi”.

That man was just holding a shield right now.

Eh eh eh!

The screams, vibrations, and odors are getting closer and closer… … Oh Sung-hoon squeezed sweat in his hand. I said that I would trust that man without knowing, but I was thinking of giving an order to attack if I was pushed even a little after seeing the situation.

‘If that man fails, it’s like letting those monsters go into the city center.’

It was then.

Lee Hyun-wook lifted the shield and threw it toward the sky with all his might.

“Huh?”

That moment-

Whoo—woo—woo—woong——!

A huge object suddenly appeared, and a gust of wind broke out in the area.

“What, what!”

Soldiers, journalists, and civilians in this place all raised their heads and opened their mouths.

It was obviously an empty air,

Like magic or teleportation, white secrets flashed and appeared.

Lee Hyun-wook heard sighs erupting from place and place behind his back.

‘Yes, I don’t need to hide it anymore.’

It was also damaging in many ways to forcibly hide one’s own strength.

So now I was going to reveal it and capture the benefits that could be gained by doing so.

He slowly raised both hands, under Friedwen’s shadow.

Cheolkup!

Friedwen’s ramp door opened and the air-dropping device-AD-1 mounted in the cargo compartment, took flight one by one.

Ooh ooh ooh——

Twelve engineered cubes gently swam through the air and lined up behind the owner’s back.

Lee Hyun-wook opened their “subspace” and pulled down the shotgun-blacklino from behind.

Screaming

I slowly closed my eyes and felt the cold metals.

They are ready to flow like water.

Lee Hyun-wook, the savior of Seoul,

Steel Rain and his activities,

All of those things that have only been rumored so far, and the reality has not been confirmed,

Finally, it was the moment it was revealed to the world.