Rust - Chapter 1005



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RUST [RUST]-1005

On Maru, the ‘beginner’s mind’ was ‘survival’ and ‘safety’.

‘It’s fried.’

He became a king. Not only could he control death, he became an object of faith, and possessed the legendary sword called Nucleus, so it didn’t make a difference.

There was a brief thought of trying to stick with Newclips, but Maru did not ignore the feeling that had returned. ‘Survival’ and ‘safety’ were more important than anything else.

‘Is the next thing after light a direct attack?’

It wasn’t just survival and safety for me.

What Maru was carrying on his back was the Divine Kingdom itself.

As the earth-shaking sound followed, I knew without even turning my head that the monster elephant was in pursuit.

‘They’re chasing me…’

I guess that means you’re confident.

“Number 2. Are you connected with Miss Kim and the guards?”

Maru asked the android bodyguard who was dragging him like a piece of luggage. No. 2, whose lower body was cut off and stopped moving, answered with a faint light blinking in his pupils.

(chijijik- present. chik- sinkhole activated. chikchijik- engaging. chijijijik-)

“Report the current situation. Call my airship.”

(Beep- Status report– Airship- Call- Complete-)

The moment he saw the vines of death turning into particles in the white light at the banquet hall, Maru’s survival instinct became extremely sensitive.

From the disconnected Android 3 attacking our allies to the monster elephant emitting a blinding beam of light, it was all enough to awaken our dormant sense of survival.

After I was able to handle death, the fact that my survival instinct, which had not been activated before, was activated again meant that it was dangerous.

So Maru left the place for the time being. His rich combat experience and sense of danger told him to avoid it.

‘There are defense forces and air defense systems around the king and his residence.’

I didn’t know what kind of devices would be in the bastard’s dwelling. Since it was called a divine being, there could be divine water. There could also be fanatics who worship the divine being.

Phew oh oh oh oh!

There!! There!!

Kung- kung-

Maru’s head spun around.

(chijijik- airship landing chijijik- point- chijijik-yo-)

An android requests that a private airship be given a place to land.

“Don’t land, come to me. Open the hatch 6~7 meters above the ground.”

(Chi- wan-ryo-)

A moment later, a Maru-class airship and a Black Drake-class airship approached. The Black Drake-class airship was not requested, but it seemed like Kim Yang had sent it after hearing about the situation.

Wheeing-

Phew-

The Black Drake-class airship began firing at the monster elephant. The Rail Gun fired a straight line like a white laser, targeting the elephant chasing Maru.

A flash of light, as if responding to a railgun barrage.

bang!

The afterimage created by the rail gun shell and the light emitted by the elephant collided, causing the shot to miss. The continued rail gun fire was unable to penetrate the dark light emitted by the elephant and was completely missing.

Boom! Boom! Boom—

The elephant stopped chasing Maru, perhaps to block the bombardment. Maru jumped onto the special airship and looked at the elephant.

Puaaa …

A howl of anger echoed through the air.

As if startled by the sound of a cry that spread out, creating a circular shockwave. Pooh-pooh- pigeons flew up from all directions.

A larger number than the flock of pigeons I saw near the cannibal lab in Korea or the flock of crows I saw in Ulsan. The sight of so many pigeons soaring at once looked like a natural disaster about to strike.

A flock of pigeons flew so high that they almost blocked out the sun, then gathered together like a long cloud and rushed towards the Black Drake-class airship.

The Black Drake-class airship’s proximity defense system activated, and the coil gun systems underneath began firing fiercely at the flock of pigeons.

Pigeons fell wherever yellow and orange flares passed. Pigeons that had mutated and were larger than most carnivorous birds fell like fluttering cherry blossom petals.

Even though they were dying in the tens to thousands per second, the pigeons continued to swarm as if their fear had been abated. The Black Drake-class airship also began to gain altitude in response to this unusual behavior, but the pigeons’ suicide attacks were faster.

Thump- thump- thump-

Pigeons start swooping towards the airship.

Woohoo-

The transparent shield worked to repel the pigeons, but only for a moment. Trouble arose when a flock of pigeons surrounded the entire airship.

As the bio-EMP generated by the densely packed pigeons intensified, the airship’s electronics began to malfunction.

The situation began to change drastically when pigeons tore into the safety netting of the airship’s engine intake.

Pung- tdddddd-

One by one, the engines shut down and black smoke began to rise. Even as it slowly lost altitude, the airship began its final attack.

Wheeeeeeeeing-

A small mushroom cloud formed after the modular reactor ran wild. The pigeons that had been attached to the airship were turned into charcoal.

Puaaa …

The rage of the elephant, who lost half of the pigeons and missed the floor, filled the sky.

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Kim Yang and his entourage were struggling to close the open sinkhole.

[They keep coming out!]

[Keep spraying seawater!]

Animals, bugs, and even people were drowned. It was less than one-hundredth the size of a sinkhole in Tokyo, Japan, but it was already disgorging more than a hundred thousand people.

Fortunately, they are weak to salt and seawater. They are undead, so they didn’t die, but they were slowed down and purified by the salt and seawater.

I don’t know if it’s right to call it purification since it stopped moving, but the important thing was that it slowed down and stopped.

The guards attacked when the creatures were slow to move. They crushed insects and tore apart large ones.

[There’s not enough salt!]

[Distribution? Not yet?]

[It will take 2 more hours for the supply ship to arrive!]

[If you don’t have salt, light a fire!]

As Kim Yang continued to pull the trigger and shout, the information sent by Android 2 appeared on his HUD (Head-Up Display).

Things weren’t looking good. One android was destroyed. Another was half-destroyed. And Maru was on the run.

Creek-

Clank-

Kim Yang, who had mechanically replaced the empty magazine, checked the wire. It was still well blocked, but the damn sinkhole was seen spitting out monster maggots.

Kim Yang’s brow furrowed slightly as he checked the situation. Although he was doing a good job of blocking it now, the consumption of ammunition and supplies was far exceeding expectations.

The supplies that were expected to last an hour or so were used up in just 5 or 10 minutes. But they couldn’t save them. The sinkhole monster wasn’t the only enemy of Yang Kim and his guards.

The sinkhole control unit was dealt with, but it did not clear out the Thai military in the surrounding area. They tried to control the Thai military by clearing out the Thai king and government and taking control of the military, but Maru, who was in charge of that, retreated.

‘Ugh – not good.’

I thought it would be easy to solve, but I felt like something was off somewhere. When I worked at my old company, things would go wrong like this, and I would end up in a lot of trouble.

The biggest discrepancy is that Maru, the highest dignity, retreated. Even before dealing with death, Maru, who made you wonder, ‘Is this guy really the kind of person he is?’ retreated.

‘If the floor is retreating, then it’s really dangerous.’

You caught a bear that was three stories tall, but you retreated after failing to catch an elephant? Is it really an elephant with some kind of special ability?

Gyaut-

I remembered Ki-sun’s argument that if we let strange things continue to eat away at our faith, it might become unmanageable later on.

To Kim Yang, it was confusing whether Ki-soon was smart or had some weirdness, but Green-soon was like a troublemaker because he sometimes said the right things.

And looking at the way things have gone so far, it seems that Green Sun’s prediction was correct this time.

‘I told you, it only matches weird things.’

It would be dangerous if the elephant became stronger by eating faith. Maru said he would retreat right away, but you never know.

[One Black Drake-class ship, send support to the King.]

[Shall we send an airship with a crow scout on board?]

[No. There are plenty of shells left]

[All right.]

And soon after, reports came in that the Black Drake-class airship that had been sent to support had self-destructed, blamed on a flock of pigeons and the divine beast, the elephant.

[Your Majesty?]

[I hope you are safe.]

A moment later, Maru’s private airship arrived.

[Are you here? Are you okay?]

[Okay. How’s the situation?]

[It’s a mess.]

[how much?]

Kim Yang said, sending a file detailing the situation so far.

[Are you about to shit your pants?]

Psik- Maru, who was laughing, checked the situation. It was Kim Yang and his guards who were effectively blocking the monsters pouring out of the sinkhole, even though they were saying that it was a shitty situation.

The problem was that immortal monsters were pouring out endlessly. So far, the number of humanoid monsters caught was over 100,000, and if you include animals and insects, the number easily exceeded 1 million. Even though they were caught in large numbers, the speed and density of the monsters pouring out of the sinkhole did not decrease.

[Distribution is the problem.]

[It will take over an hour for additional supplies to arrive, but if things continue this way, it will take less than 30 minutes for supplies to run out.]

Maru’s gaze turned to the collapsed control line.

On the outside, it looked like a simple collapsed wall, but Maru was interested in the material and color. At first glance, it looked like a similar color and material to the wall seen in the elephant’s dwelling.

How did they stabilize a sinkhole in Thailand?

The immortal monsters were tricky. The most dangerous of all were infection and erosion. No amount of protective gear could stop them.

How do you control a sinkhole that spits out immortal monsters when stimulated?

‘The sinkhole must have been controlled by the monster elephant’s powers.’

If the abilities of the monster elephant and the King of Thailand were similar, then the bastard’s abilities were mental. And mental, close to brainwashing.

‘It’s not just a mental state or brainwashing.’

That was certainly the case, as evidenced by the fact that he betrayed even Android 3.

[Then isn’t that a kind of hacking? Brainwashing is also hacking in computer terms? That’s what it is.]

[That too, but the bastard’s light had physical power.]

Clearly, he deflected the railgun’s fire. Several times.

[Death? Eating a ssam in the garden of death?]

[I’m not sure, but it seems like they’re polar opposites.]

Kim Yang’s eyes grew wide at the word ‘antagonism’.

[Opposition?]

[When it touched the bastard’s light, the vine of death disintegrated. Of course, the bastard’s light also became weaker.]

It was the vine of death that blocked the flash, and it was death that was destroyed by the flash.

Huh-

[Is it because the color is dark? Or is it because of religion?]

[well···.]

It was not simply a conflict between light and darkness. If black is seen as death, then light would be life or living, but the elephant’s light was not life or living.

‘How did you control it? Assuming you brainwashed it with a strong light.’

It was a floor where my head was spinning.

‘The question is whether we can handle the sinkhole monster…’

Even if it was possible to control them, it would not have been possible to brainwash that many people at once. If it had been possible, it would not have created a control line. So that means that the elephant’s ability is not perfect.

[And that wall. I made a control line out of similar material to the bastard’s dwelling.]

[Huh-]

When unfolding the Garden of Death, costs were needed. Small amounts of Maru’s mental and physical strength, and large amounts of life.

In order to maintain or expand the Garden of Death, you had to harvest as much life as possible. If you ran out of life, it was difficult to maintain the expanded Death.

Death is an elephant’s ability, but is there no price or expense?

If the price was light or the consumption was low, Southeast Asia would have been unified long ago. Above all, the fact that the residence was far from the sinkhole. Perhaps it was because the consumption was so high.

[To the point where you have to even sacrifice a human body.]

[Huh-huh- then?]

Maru said coldly.

[We have to stop that bastard and kill him.]

How? Kim Yang’s eyes.

[Lure here.]

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Kung- Kwung-

It was exhausting to control what appeared to be a machine and to move a flock of pigeons.

(He’s dangerous. I should have killed him.)

Perhaps because it had become close to a demigod by eating faith, the elephant had developed a developed intuition. It was clearly giving off the smell of death.

The elephant, who was walking towards his dwelling, regretting not being able to kill Maru, suddenly cried out in terrible pain.

Puaaa …

The terrible pain I felt there. My legs felt weak and tears welled up in my eyes. It was the first time I felt pain since I was born, and I was so scared.

Kkweeeeeeeeek!-

Booooooo-

As I sat down and swung my nose, I saw it jumping up.

That was the one that ran away.

That bastard attacked his precious place.

(······.)

“It was raining earlier-”

The elephant’s eyes, which were bowed down, showed a half-eaten fire egg and its center.

Puaaa …

This little shit aaaaaaaah!