A Veteran in a Dead Game - Chapter 208



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208. Civil War (9)

The mechanized werewolf that was Kind rushed at Sarah.

The pressure was considerable as a large creature nearly three meters tall quickly approached, but Sera calmly looked at the enemy without even a change in expression.

In a split second, the distance between us disappears.

I bumped into something.

Since both are users who perform close combat based on a number of passive skills, their offense and defense were surprisingly simple.

Kaka kaka kang!

Kind’s claws and Sera’s moon sword rained down devastating blows one after another. Every time their weapons touched, a heavy impact pushed the air away, and sparks flew.

The slash that bounced off the enemy scratched the surrounding floors and walls, leaving long gashes. The chimney of a house far away was suddenly cut off, and a neon sign was torn to pieces, its soft light scattered in disarray.

Superhuman close combat. There was no use of the usual martial arts or swordsmanship. The power each possessed was so overwhelming.

Superhumans who can blow people’s heads off just by snapping their fingers and push trucks away with a kick.

Although he can exert powers that literally transcend the laws of physics, his weight does not change at all.

In order to avoid being pushed back, you have no choice but to dodge it completely or counter it with a similar level of force. If you try to dodge it with weak force, you will just end up crashing into the ground or being bounced off.

Ts …

Kind swung both his hands without hesitation. Sera spun the sword half a turn, kicked the enemy’s arm with the spear handle, and in a single motion, extended the sword and aimed for Kind’s neck.

A skill in which attack and defense are included in a single movement.

However, the enemy also had such skills. He could extract and use the battle memories from his human days that remained in his brain.

The mechanized werewolf’s large body was instantly lowered to the ground.

Ppaang!

Sarah’s sword pierced the air. The impact radiated from the tip of the blade, tearing through the outer walls of houses in the distance and blowing out windows all at once.

Sarah twisted her wrist, grabbed the spear handle, and brought the formless sword she had stabbed down. It was a strike that seemed to have been a downward slash rather than a thrust from the beginning. It was an attack that was continued with pure muscle power, ignoring inertia.

“Krrrrr!”

Kind ignored the falling blade and slashed his claws at Sarah’s nape.

If the attack continues like this, Sera will have to give up her own neck instead of slicing the enemy’s upper body vertically.

If that happens, it’s Sarah’s loss, because werewolves have unique regenerative powers.

Kind’s combat record before becoming a monster, combined with the werewolf’s unique wildness, made him a more difficult opponent than one might imagine.

Sarah pushed down on her right foot, which was slightly forward. For a normal person, this would just be a posture with the knees slightly bent.

Kwajik!

If it was a superhuman like Sarah, it would be different. At that moment, the floor she was standing on was dented by Sarah’s foot.

Fit-

Blood spurted out.

“Ugh!”

Kind’s right claw swept past Sarah’s shoulder. The floor shattered, Kind’s posture changed, and his attack trajectory was distorted.

“Kyaak!”

Sarah didn’t miss the moment Kind scratched her shoulder. With a slap, Waldo’s blade sliced ​​open Kind’s chest.

“Khuuuh!”

Kind roared and stepped back.

“Whew.”

Sarah swallowed half of the potion she had in her mouth and spat the other half out onto her injured shoulder. Since Sarah also had a passive skill related to regeneration, her wound healed quickly.

However, unfortunately, Kind’s regeneration was even faster.

“This is different from before…….”

Originally, Sera and Kind had similar skills. Kind had the advantage in experience and skills, but because he was old, his abilities were greatly reduced.

However, the current Kind had become a werewolf, and his physical abilities had become stronger compared to when he was younger.

Despite this, Sarah was not pushed.

The two most important things for users are skills and items. Kind had none of those items. Saladan had left them aside for ease of experimentation and management.

Sarah didn’t know the details, but she could tell with her own eyes that Kind had no items. That’s why, instead of trying to escape or buy time, she chose to confront him head-on.

“Krrrrr.”

“…….”

Kind grumbled and drooled. Meanwhile, Sera simply stared at her enemy with a blank expression.

Paaaaang-!

What broke the deadlocked silence was, disconcertingly, the sound of a train whistle.

Clank clank clank-

The sound of a train running on the tracks rang out, alternating with the honking of a horn. As luck would have it, the sound was coming from this direction.

Originally, it was a train that circled around the outside of the Ark City, but as the city’s design continued to change, the tracks were moved to pass through here.

There is a railroad track behind Sarah, so it looks like a train is about to pass by.

And before the train passed behind Sarah.

Kuung!

Kind kicked the ground and rushed at him roughly. Sarah did not swing her sword at Kind. Instead, she tilted the blade to the side and exposed her chest.

A posture that seems as if one is about to receive the opponent’s attack.

And only when Kind’s drill-like rotating claws reached right in front of her nose did Sarah move.

Level 4 skill, speed.

In an instant, Sera’s movements accelerated. She let go of the moon she was holding, and moved both hands in a smooth rotational motion.

Level 5 skill, Taegeuk.

6th level skill, flowing water.

With this skill, Sera gently received Kind’s outstretched arm and spun it around.

As a result, Kind’s three-meter-tall giant body was lifted by Sarah’s thin arms and spun around halfway. And so, just after Kind passed Sarah with his legs up and his head down.

Kwaaaaang!

The train passing behind Sarah hit Kind.

Kind, when he was human, didn’t know that Sera had a skill called Taegeuk. It was only natural. This skill was something Sera had recently acquired while moving with Kyle.

Since Sera had never told anyone about her new skill, Kind naturally didn’t know about it either, which led to the current result.

“Kuaaaah!”

However, Kindra, a monster made from strong human material, did not die from this. It roared as it tore apart the train that had hit it.

“Whew.”

Sarah boarded the train as if chasing the monster. Of course, she didn’t open the front door and go in honestly.

It was an aggressive stance, as he picked up the moon that he had placed down with his toes and cut through the entire wall of the train to get in.

“Kyaaaa!”

“Let’s see the end.”

Kind skipped over each vehicle one step at a time. Sarah watched them, then calmly took out another weapon and held it.

The Formless Sword. It was a sword with an invisible blade.

Sarah held the hilt of the sword at her side and turned the tip of the sword behind her waist. It was the kind of posture that usually comes to mind when thinking of swordsmanship.

It was an inappropriate posture. First of all, Sera’s Formless Sword didn’t have a sheath in the first place.

And even if he had a scabbard, it would be strange to assume a stance to draw his sword in a situation like now where the enemy is charging at him from the front. According to the laws of physics, it would be much more powerful to just swing the sword downward.

But this is a world where there is a miracle called skill that ignores the physical laws of reality.

3rd level skill, drawing.

As soon as she activated the skill, Sera roughly swung her formless sword horizontally as if she were drawing it. The slash was in the form of a semicircle, cutting down everything it touched.

The seats on the train were torn to pieces all at once and were thrown up. Also, the outer wall of the train was cleanly cut away, and the roof was torn off and blown away.

In that train that had suddenly become like an open car, Kind, who had been rushing at Sarah, started bleeding.

The abdomen was badly damaged. It was a serious injury that would have severed a large amount of internal organs in a normal creature.

Unfortunately, however, Kind no longer falls into the category of normal creatures.

The severed internal organs were replaced by mechanical devices, or conversely, flesh and muscle were immediately added to replace the broken machinery.

It was a bizarre but effective regeneration.

But Sarah couldn’t just sit back and watch her enemy recover. As soon as she used her skill, she immediately approached Kind.

“Kyaak!”

He hurriedly grabbed Kind’s swinging arm and simultaneously spun his body around halfway, performing a perfect flip.

thud!

Kind’s back smashed into the floor of the train, revealing the ground and tracks zooming past the gaping hole.

“Kyaaaaak!”

Sarah used the handle of her sword to knock Kind’s swinging arm away, then stomped on his head, pushing him to the ground beyond the hole in the train floor.

Thump thump!

The passing train tracks repeatedly hit Kind’s head. However, it was not Kind’s head that was being crushed, but the metal tracks. It was an absurd sight.

“It’s so damn sturdy, really!”

“Kyaak!”

Kind pushed hard against the ground with his legs. The impact caused the ground and tracks to burst apart, and the train to jump up significantly.

As Sarah felt a sense of floating in the rising train, Kind quickly twisted his body and thrust his claws.

Phew-

However, the claws could not reach Sarah. Sarah was faster than Kind, who had not yet fully recovered from his wounds.

Immediately after the blade of the moon’s spear traced a trajectory that seemed to trace back through Kind’s torn abdomen.

Kuuung!

The train fell back onto the tracks.

Kkagagagagak!

Of course, the train didn’t settle down properly. The train body rolled around violently. With a squeaking sound of metal scraping, parts and wheels of the train were torn off and thrown in all directions.

Immediately after that shock and noise.

Sarah, who landed leisurely on the dented train, knocked away the pieces of metal falling toward her with her hand.

“Mr. Kind. How does it feel to be rejuvenated?”

“Krrrr.”

Kind didn’t understand what Sarah was saying. He didn’t have the intelligence to do so. So the fact that Kind barked as if answering was just a coincidence.

In reality, it wasn’t responding to Sarah’s words, but was just biting at human flesh while its upper and lower bodies were separated.

“Oh my.”

That sight reminded Sarah of the past scene where she had been arguing with Kind, and Sarah couldn’t help but laugh bitterly.

Bam.

But Sarah didn’t hesitate for a moment. She immediately drove the intangible sword into the mechanized werewolf’s forehead.

Kind was already dead. What was in front of her was nothing more than a monster made from Kind’s corpse. Sera knew that very well.

“…….”

Now that Kind’s body has finally come to rest, he should feel joy or relief rather than sadness. Even so, it is inevitable that he will feel bitter.

Kwaaaaaaaah!

But, at that moment.

Sarah’s gaze rose following the loud explosion. She saw the Central Tower engulfed in purple flames.

Sarah’s face hardened. That purple flame, the flame of the abyss, was a tier 3 skill used by the traitor Mars.

“Surely you didn’t die there just now?”

If Mars had survived, and joined Saladan, Kyle’s chances of winning against him would have been greatly reduced.

That’s why Sarah ran straight towards the Central Tower without even catching her breath.

*

And at that point.

The purple flames created by the flames of the abyss…

“This is pretty hot.”

It was Saladan who was burning, not Kyle.

The Book of the Lion.

An item that steals one of the skills of the dead. Without anyone knowing, Kyle had filled the Book of the Dead with the Abyssal Flame that Mars had.

“Eventually one will catch on.”

Looking at the burning Saladan, Kyle spoke in a cold tone.

Saladan is an experienced user. To defeat him, Kyle thoroughly utilized his strength, namely his superiority in information.

This is done by pre-planning the possible moves that Saladan can use and planning out how to respond to each of those possibilities.

So far, there have been seven winning plans that Kyle has scrapped while fighting Saladan.

And the eighth one that was not discarded was this Abyssal Flame. It was intended to create an opening by making Saladan think that Mars had intruded, and to catch him off guard.

Kyle had anticipated this moment and had stored the Abyssal Flame in the Book of the Dead.

To do this, it was necessary to erase the previously stored image of the bird in the Book of the Dead. You might think it was a waste, since you could still use two more flame grenades.

‘If you keep saving like that, there’s no end to it.’

If disaster relief is not absolutely necessary, it is right to adopt what is needed now. There is no point in planning for the future and not getting through the present.

Saladan said with his usual creepy smile.

“I never thought I’d be pushed this far.”

Instead of responding, Kyle swung his Galatine and fired a ray of heat at Saladan, but the attack did not reach Saladan.

Kuung-

Through the flames, Saladan’s body shot up as if it was being shot.

“haha.”

Hanging upside down from the ceiling, Saladan smiled faintly. His voice had changed. Whereas his previous voice had been a somewhat neutral, clean, and beautiful voice, now it sounded like something mixed with noise.

But the change in voice wasn’t a big deal. The change in appearance was much bigger.

The snake-like face was gone, replaced by a silver beastly face.

“Really, really… I’ve never met someone like you before. From one to ten, there’s nothing you can do the way you want.”

Saladan’s eyes lit up. The yellow pupils from before were gone, replaced by glass orbs like camera lenses.

Mechanized werewolf.

Saladan finally accepted and revealed his appearance.

“You look ugly, Saladan.”

“That’s harsh.”

The silver face of the werewolf was as smooth as a mirror. The way it frowned slightly was strangely strange and unpleasant.

“You are overflowing with power. I should have accepted this appearance a long time ago. If I had, I could have… eaten you a long time ago.”

As Saladan’s snout opened, razor-sharp teeth were revealed.

“Are you already trying to be consumed by your nature?”

“Don’t worry. It’s bearable.”

The very fact that he had to endure it was problematic. After all, it meant that he was dependent on the system. For Saladan, who longed for freedom, isn’t this the worst possible ending?

“From now on, it’s something we can overcome anew. Just like we always have.”

“…….”

“Let me make one last suggestion. Take my hand.”

Even in this situation, he was trying to persuade him. It seemed that Saladan truly valued Kyle.

Of course, even this could be a struggle to prove to oneself that one is maintaining one’s sanity.

“Think carefully. You can’t beat me right now.”

Kyle’s lips lifted slightly. It was an obvious sneer.

“No. This is your defeat.”

Saladan’s strength is not in his powerful skills or abilities. It is his cold-blooded and quick judgment that he can make because he is the embodiment of egoism. That is what makes Saladan so scary.

Having lost his composure upon becoming a mechanized werewolf, Saladan was now nothing more than an ordinary monster.

“That’s right. Okay, then….”

The light disappeared from Saladin’s eyes. In his glassy eyes, there was a beastly madness.

“Die!”

In the sight of him running with his mouth wide open, there was no longer any trace of humanity or even a shred of reason.

‘As expected, disaster is not something to be accepted.’

purple.

Chorrrrrr!

He couldn’t even respond properly to the gravity chains laid on the floor, calculating the timing of his lunge. It was a stupid mistake that Saladin would never have made in his human days.

“Keeek!”

Saladan, whose foot was caught in the gravity chain, fell down with a vengeance, rolling ugly on the ground.