Hiding a House in the Apocalypse - Chapter 384



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Hiding the House in the Apocalypse Episode 356

145. Faith (4)

The knowledge that a newbie like Iharu possesses is never 100% reflective of reality.

It’s true that the dancer type is a dangerous enemy to our old school hunters.

In that they are faster than us and have a habit of actively hunting humans compared to other monsters, and in that they have close combat abilities that are incomparable to those of similar monsters.

When we met the guy in an encounter by chance, we had to prepare ourselves for annihilation when we had no weapons to deal with him in that situation.

But even in such situations, we have overcome them.

It might have been possible because we had the best team members, including Kim Da-ram.

However, conversely, when these two variables are excluded, the dancer type is an easier prey than the spider type that “completed the castle” or the necromancer type that “completed the kingdom.”

This guy is also an infiltrator by nature, so he establishes a stronghold and turns the surrounding area into a gray-white eroded zone, but the servants he produces are fewer in number and less combat capable than other infiltrators, and the defensive power of the stronghold itself is incomparable to that of other monsters.

That said, if we are aware of the guy and have enough weapons, the dancer type is not that difficult of an enemy.

Of course, this is from the perspective of experienced hunters like us.

Even if the inexperienced hunters were prepared, they would most likely be wiped out as a team by the dancer type with terrifying jumping and explosive power.

“I’m going to go now.”

Contrary to what he said, Iharu did not leave the spot and only stepped back a little.

Instead, he was filming us with a camcorder that he took out from somewhere.

Maybe they want to record our last on video.

Looking at Lee Haru’s face looking at us reflected in the camcorder’s LCD with a faint smile despite staring at us, it reminds me of Woo Min-hee’s old days.

It’s a promising seedling, but I think it needs to work harder to surpass our Mrs. Woo.

Clank! Clank!

Meanwhile, the Defender’s team members were busy setting up claymores and anti-personnel mines connected to tripwires in the side emergency exits and passageways connecting to the uncollapsed platforms.

When a battle begins, a sound will inevitably be heard, which is intended to block the approach of any fanatics who may hear the sound.

“Are you okay?”

Although he is a defender who has been through a lot, he shows weakness in battles with big monsters, and as expected, he came to me and asked me a question cautiously.

One of the reasons he’s worried is that I’m the only hunter participating in this operation.

Defender’s friends say he is a great soldier, but the qualities of a soldier and a hunter are strictly separated.

Moreover, the human group’s appearance in normal times and in times of crisis is completely different.

The Defenders’ team is made up of experienced killers and seems to have fairly strong fighting skills and organization, but can they really keep their composure when their teammates start dying?

Casualties within a team are one of the greatest stressors a team member can experience.

In an extreme situation, if one team member goes crazy, the situation can spiral out of control.

The point is that it’s much more dangerous for these guys to panic than for me to go into enemy territory alone.

Because there is more than one monster we have to deal with.

The dancer type is like that, and another new type is a medium-sized type.

I don’t know much about that either.

Only those who can flexibly deal with all situations based on their rich experience can face the unknown.

Srrrrung–

I examined the blade of the axe.

It’s well divided.

There are three types of weapons prepared.

Two harpoonizers, a pistol, and two axes.

I didn’t bring a rifle.

This is because there is a risk that the gunshots will provoke the fanatics above, and to move more nimbly when the dancer type appears.

“Professor, the operation is underway.”

Immediately after I announced the start of the operation via radio, one of the Defender team members who was monitoring the platform suddenly turned toward me and saluted me squarely.

“······.”

It’s just a small gesture, but paying homage to my past gives me at least a little bit of conscience.

Step into an area dyed in grayish white.

The first thing you feel is the pungent smell of iron that reaches your nose.

It doesn’t smell like cracks.

Beyond the crack is a completely sterile, inanimate realm, devoid of any odor.

It’s probably the smell of the subway station weathering away on an eroded area.

Ss …

As we go a little further, we hear the sound of footsteps of things with many legs, Busan-like.

Soon a gray-white monster appeared within the narrow circle illuminated by the lantern.

A group of emotionless beings with a multi-legged body reminiscent of a fox, with only the head connected to it standing straight, and two blade-like forelimbs like their master gathered in the light.

He is a dancer type servant.

Like the main dancer type, it has explosive, fast and deadly attacks.

Shhh-

Like this, the two of them leaped towards me like bullets.

Ping-gur-gur-

I swung the two axes lightly, feeling the axe handles moving pleasantly across my fingertips for the first time in a while.

Bam!

Kill two.

Both were neatly cut in half from the tofu to the waist.

“······That’s amazing.”

“You’re saying you can catch that guy with just a cold weapon, without a gun?”

“As expected, you are a monster.”

The voices of the Defender friends, who had been silent the whole time, can be heard from beyond the communicator.

It looks like they’ve also tried their hand at this field.

“As expected, Professor!”

Iharu let out a laugh like her teacher.

“You’re doing pretty well, aren’t you?”

I didn’t respond because it wasn’t really worth responding to.

It’s not particularly difficult.

The Dancer type servant’s attacks are fast and deadly, but in contrast, the pattern is to rush at high speed targeting the torso, so if you know the trick and timing, you can easily deal with it.

However, other people are not very good at this, so they usually deal with them from a distance with guns.

I ignored all the noises coming from behind me and took another step forward.

One step at a time, one step at a time, carefully.

But while clearly creating a presence that the enemy can recognize.

Call out the servants stationed here and there one by one.

CYM (call your mom) is one of the monster dealing methods written in the textbook called “Call your mom.”

This is a method of killing monsters by gradually drawing out servants and killing them in the fortified nest.

The traditional method is very stable, but it takes a long time and some individuals do not respond to provocation, so you will struggle all day and often end up making a mistake.

In particular, the Chinese government’s supervisors who were watching us really disliked this method.

“Oh, I know that. It’s called CYM. I learned it as one of the classic methods in school. But what do you do when the dancer type doesn’t show up?”

Woo Min-hee, the dream tree Lee Haru, chatters away on the communicator.

It seems like you studied pretty hard.

As far as I know, Awaken riders don’t even look into things like Old School Hunter doctrine because they don’t appear on the exam.

“······.”

There is a way.

I did this almost every day.

I have seen dozens of my colleagues die and many more die.

Shh …

Bam!

The condition is not bad.

What I liked most was that I was freed from the drowsiness that had plagued me for a long time.

What could have taken away my drowsiness like an incurable disease?

Bam!

When I think about it carefully, I wonder if it was my social reputation gained from the Internet that gave me another will to live.

I didn’t ask Iharu because it wasn’t the right situation and we weren’t close enough, but of course a young friend of her age would use the internet and know about the existence of Necropolis.

Do you know skeleton?

I wonder how she will answer this question.

She’s not the only one.

The same goes for the regular Awakens who are hanging out in places like saunas.

Surely someone who knows me will come out.

Maybe a friend will show up with a surprised look on their face and say, “Oh, are you that Skeleton?”

Shhh—

Bam!

Twenty of these.

I’ve had enough.

The dancer type servants have lethal attack power on an individual basis, but their numbers are woefully inadequate compared to the spider type or necromancer type, which can have thousands of them.

There won’t be more than 50 at most.

This means that each monster has strengths and weaknesses.

However, one problem is that the current situation is converging with what I predicted and what Iharu was complaining about.

Even though I’m dragging out the servants one by one, there’s no sign of the main body coming out.

“······.”

This is the unresponsive type.

The story is that doctrine doesn’t work.

“See? It’s not coming out, is it?”

If I had known he would be such a talkative guy, I might not have brought him along.

“That doctrine may have been applicable when you were active, but these days, there are very few people who are dragged into CYM. You do know that monsters modify and improve their own behavior, right?”

“I know.”

I answered for the first time.

Clank-

And then he takes out his weapon.

Happener.

The sharpest spear I use.

In any situation, killing the servants doesn’t make a big difference in the situation.

If a monster has built a solid base, it will have a sufficient number of servants.

However, the type of monster must also be taken into consideration here.

The dancer type’s fighting power is far above the average for its type, but as mentioned above, it is not a very talented type as a consecrator.

Of course, the Dancer type can also build a fairly solid fortress if they spend enough time building a stronghold, but it is nothing compared to the Competitor type.

In particular, the unique characteristic of having a small number of powerful servants pales in comparison to experts like us who can deal with those servants without much restriction.

And as the servants disappear, the path opens up for us.

“······.”

I see it over there.

The monster’s pale, grayish form stood motionless, as if dead, surrounded by incomprehensible grayish-white structures that the bastard had created.

It matches exactly with the information obtained from a simple reconnaissance using a crossbow.

I looked around.

Over there, there’s a large partition-like thing that half-blocks the underground railway.

According to the information obtained, the new medium-sized species is over there.

Take out that guy quickly.

I put the Harpunizer back on my back and ran at full speed.

Ssssss—-

The servants who were planted here and there like trees, like their masters, began to move in response to my footsteps.

and.

Shh …

Shh …

They throw themselves at me like javelins from all over the place.

Srrrrung-

He takes out two axes and strikes them down.

Scratch! Scratch!

The important thing is not to slow down.

Shh …

Phew!

It’s okay if you can’t kill the servant in one go.

It doesn’t matter if you roll on the floor, regain your balance, and aim at me.

The most important thing here is to get into the range of the dancer type’s reflection field while increasing speed.

Before the bastard wakes up.

Shhhhhhhhhh!

Bam!

The attacks continue without pause.

He killed five and abandoned seven.

The distance is now 50m.

It is a distance that can be approached in one gallop.

But I won’t pick up the pace right away.

Shh …

I waited for a guy to fly in from the side.

Bam!

And I take out my window.

Distance about 40m.

[ Mix ]

Remove the safety pin, press the button to mix the separating charges, and then count internally.

‘3······. 2······. 1······.’

thud!

At the end of the countdown, a shockwave erupted from ahead.

I woke up.

Our enemy monsters.

“are you okay?”

I heard Iharu’s voice again, but I ignored it and glared at him.

The creature stretches its 5-meter-long body roughly, waving its two blade-like forelimbs.

Soon, what appeared to be the bastard’s head was looking straight at me.

recognition.

He’s looking at me.

He stood still and did not move.

“Hey, are you sure it’s okay?! Answer me!”

Wait.

He comes a little closer.

thud!

The thing jumped, sending shockwaves through it.

Aim at the window at the same time.

“······.”

I have said this many times in media and confidential interviews, but I have said that the origins of our hunters, especially those in South Korea, lie not in the elegant modern archers or Western hunters who enjoy safari, but in the hunters of the past who caught tigers with old-fashioned single-shot matchlock guns.

They hunted the Siberian tiger, the pinnacle of mammalian hunting, with crude guns that could not be reloaded and had little range at medium range.

The way is with courage and composure.

Even though they knew that a single blow could kill them, they waited for their prey to get within 20 meters before delivering the fatal blow.

It’s all on the line for one shot.

Cheeeeeeek—

Just like now.

Kwaaaaang!

A sharp harpoon flies towards the monster, sending a loud noise and jet streams behind it.

It hit the body of the monster that looked like it was going to pounce on me at any moment, and caused a merciless chain of explosions from within.

I want to see the end of that monster though.

Bam-

There is work left to do.

Because I have to deal with the servants that I failed to catch earlier and the ones that have just arrived.

Shhhhhhhhhh!

Bam!

While I’m engaged in a second battle with the minions running towards me from all directions, dazzling, bright particles cloud the edges of my vision.

“······.”

He let out a light sigh and said as he swatted away the servant who was rushing towards him.

“Dancer type. Defeat.”

Cheers are heard from the radio and behind.

Of course, I can also hear the voices of friends who don’t believe me.

“Is it true? Yes? You really killed that person all by yourself?”

There doesn’t seem to be time to answer.

Tata tata tang!

Gunshots are heard from the platform.

and.

thud!

Another shockwave shakes the darkness.

Medium size. New type.

The macrophage type has awakened.

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