Rust - Chapter 827

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RUST [RUST]-827

The Imperial Ranger’s voice, who had handed him the rapid diagnostic kit, was low, wondering what Colton’s face, bloody and covered in chemicals and air fresheners, was thinking.

[Come on, spit.]

Kaaaaak- Whew-

Colton’s thick spit was aimed at the Imperial Ranger’s helmet. The Ranger, being an Awakened, dodged the spit with a split second of reflexes, but the dodge itself was an opening.

Colton, who had pulled out an ominous black dagger, turned his head and dodged the spit, then dodged into the arms of the ranger and changed direction.

It happened before the spit had even brushed past the Imperial Ranger’s helmet. The spit was spitted and the Ranger turned his head as he handed over the diagnostic kit.

Almost simultaneously, the Imperial Rangers who had been waiting on both sides aimed their guns and pulled their triggers.

Bingle-

Tudadadak-

The dagger in Colton’s hand rips open the carotid artery and cervical vertebrae of the Imperial Ranger holding the diagnostic kit, and he turns around. Colton and the Ranger’s positions change, forming a meat shield that blocks bullets.

The blunt impact caused Colton to push the meat shield to the left. The corpse, pushed back by the force of a mid-level cannibal, flew towards the rangers who were widening their angles left and right.

Colton runs after the blown-up corpse at almost the same speed as it. Bullet marks follow him, closely following.

The corpse, pushed with great force, fell on the rangers on the left like a bowling ball. The head fell off the corpse with its neck half torn off, and red blood spread in all directions.

The rangers on the right aimed their guns, but the cannibals and their comrades were already entangled, so they were unable to pull the trigger for several seconds.

In just a few seconds, Colton crawled on all fours like a dog, using the bodies of the fallen rangers as cover, and dug in with his dagger, aiming only at the rangers’ vital points.

Starting with the aorta on the inside of the thigh, the carotid artery, the pulmonary artery… the sight of a dagger being inserted into major arteries and nerves to suck out blood.

[FUCK!!! Lieutenant level or higher!]

[Just shoot!]

[Fuck-]

Even though their arteries were punctured, they had no choice but to aim their guns at their comrades who were still alive. No matter how much Ranger training they received, they were still civilians until six months to a year ago. A few seconds of hesitation led to disaster.

Colton moved his men outside in those few seconds. The moment the rangers controlling the refugees turned around at the sound of gunfire inside the tent, Colton’s men were on the rangers.

The refugees scattered with screams, and chaos spread like ink. Imperial Rangers gathered in groups of three or four to resist, but it was difficult to block the attacks of the cannibals who did not care about the refugees and even attacked them using the refugees as meat shields.

Maru’s brow furrowed as he watched the scene from a distance.

I tried to track them down to catch their heads, but instead of going to the heads I told them to go to, they suddenly hid among the refugees.

‘Are you saying there is a stronghold in the Empire?’

Or are you going to work for the empire as a chicken instead of a pheasant?

Hold that and stop it.

I thought about it for a moment and the situation had turned into a mess.

Tsk-

The rippling space has disappeared.

‧

Colton licked his lips as blood and flesh splattered everywhere.

Beneath his face, where he was chewing the flesh that filled his mouth, the wounds that penetrated here and there were slowly filling up.

The Imperial Ranger’s pupils, who had been staring at the sight with a blank expression, slowly dilated. Colton, who had been watching as if he was admiring the dilation of his pupils, frowned.

‘I didn’t know the Empire could do this.’

Things were going strangely. I thought it was an empire that I could easily enter, but this is how they were responding.

It was a mistake to not notice the changes in the Empire quickly because I was so focused on the Free Canadian League. I had to inform my master that the situation was changing rapidly and receive further orders.

“I cleaned up outside.”

One side of the tent swung open and a subordinate stepped inside to report that he had dealt with the Imperial Ranger outside.

“Casualties?”

“There are 5 deaths and 7 serious injuries, but these are wounds that can be healed if you eat well.”

The subordinate calmly answers while watching the bullet wound in Colton’s shoulder slowly fill up.

“We will wait here for a moment to report the current situation and follow His Majesty’s orders. Let everyone recover. And there are no survivors.”

“All right.”

The subordinate’s eyes sparkled at Colton’s order to kill all the refugees and recover his body. The subordinate’s exit from the tent coincided with Colton’s voice telling him to stop for a moment.

“uh?”

“Stop!”

The scene before entering the tent. The heads of the subordinates who had killed all the Imperial Rangers and were laughing and talking while chewing on their flesh and blood were gone.

His eyes shook back and forth. If his head had been cut off, there should have been a head on the floor. But there was no head on the floor.

If they had lost their heads in the fight, their corpses should have fallen to the ground, but that wasn’t the case. The new humans were sitting, standing, and only their heads were missing.

When I looked, all the refugees who had been pushed to one side had collapsed. The only ones standing were my subordinates who had lost their heads.

“This is··· what···.”

It took less than a minute to go into the tent to report and come out. But all the heads of the subordinates disappeared.

Are there any side effects to becoming a new human?

Have you ever heard of such side effects of seeing things like this?

I’ve heard of side effects like feeling sweet in human flesh and blood, and I’ve heard of side effects like extreme appetite, but I’ve never heard of seeing things.

‘uh?’

Because the world turned dark as if the side effect was an illusion.

“Stop!”

I grabbed the back of Colton’s neck and dragged him inside the tent, but it was too late. A corpse with its head completely missing was brought in.

Colton couldn’t believe what was happening before his eyes. No, he couldn’t understand what had just happened.

The new species was controlled by a vertical hierarchy, meaning that individuals of higher rank could control those of lower rank.

Naturally, if a problem occurred in a lower level entity, the entity above it could vaguely sense the situation.

Depending on his abilities, he could sense that something was wrong with the subordinate entity he was commanding, although he could not feel it clearly.

This was the same when a problem arose in the higher entity. If a problem arose that threatened the life of the higher entity, the lower entities instinctively moved to protect the higher entity.

There was a string that was organically connected up and down, but that string had disappeared. Colton, who sensed it, stopped his subordinate who was trying to go out of the tent.

The subordinate’s head disappeared right in front of his nose, as if something invisible had devoured it.

!!!

Colton pulled back with all his might.

Bang- My body was thrown backwards, my back hitting the tent. With a sound of the thick tent ripping, my body was thrown out into the cold outside.

Colton absorbed the shock of hitting the mound with an oblique landing, twisted the remaining kinetic energy, and regained his posture in the air, his gaze fixed on the torn tent.

Phew-

ha-

He stared at the torn tent, even as his cold breath spread like frost and the frigid air filled his lungs.

Because I looked at it.

The shaking that can be seen because the gaze is not averted.

Colton lowered his head and thrust his knife forward, capturing the moment when the torn and fluttering tent flapped unnaturally.

Something brushed past where his head had been. It was so fast that he could only feel the wind after it had passed by.

But the perfect counter came in. Something was aiming for his head, but he dodged it and simultaneously thrust his knife.

‘I won.’

Victory appeared in Colton’s eyes.

It was clear from the dull impact I felt on my arm.

Arms stretched forward to confirm victory…

My arms···

“Eww! My arm! My arm!”

His arm was gone. Only then did the heavy impact turn into pain that tore through his brain.

A feeling of fear rose up in me at the incomprehensible phenomenon. It was an emotion I had never felt since becoming a new human being.

Fear.

To the livestock, he was always a terror. To the other noble powers, he was a terror as the count’s closest confidant and bodyguard.

He fell into a fear he had never felt even when he was human. His head was in a panic, but his body moved as if it were his experience of crossing the line of death.

I tried to run away at the same time my arm disappeared.

Pak-

I thought I kicked the leg, but the location did not change.

‘uh?’

My body didn’t move.

‘It got smaller?’

It’s not that he got smaller. It’s just that his field of vision got lower.

Colton’s head looked down.

Before he knew it, his legs had disappeared down to around his thighs.

The right arm that was holding the knife disappeared, and now both legs as well.

Ohh …

Pain and fear consumed Colton.

The fear was clearly the fear of death. That last emotion ran through the string to the master. And the master’s command fell into Colton’s head.

[Leave no trace.]

Colton’s eyes, which had been filled with the fear of death, began to blur.

‧

Maru saw the cannibal struggling to survive suddenly collapse and kept his distance. It was because he didn’t want to do anything like self-destruct.

hmm?

If he was about to blow himself up, his special senses would have warned him, but his heart and senses were quiet.

‘······.’

Maru, who was slightly embarrassed, approached the man who appeared to be the commander of the terrorist unit. He had blown off his right arm and both legs, so as long as it wasn’t a self-destruct, there would be no problem.

The surest way to catch a superior cannibal was to wipe out the inferiors and then catch the superior before it could do anything.

Or, on the contrary, it would be better to kill the higher-ranking entities quickly before the lower-ranking entities rush in, and then catch them after disintegrating them.

In a case like this, he killed his subordinates first and then caught the head last. The reason he caught the commander last was because he needed the information in his head.

‘The fighting power was better than I thought.’

The Imperial Rangers were stronger than expected, but the cannibals who now controlled the Free Canadian League went one step further.

In fact, it wasn’t an overwhelming difference, but the synergy effect of the surprise attack and the hostage was amazing. The surprise attack cut off half of the enemy forces, and the remaining half took refugees as hostages, creating a brief moment of hesitation.

That moment of hesitation was the difference between life and death. The cannibals didn’t care if dozens or hundreds of refugees died. The Imperial Rangers hesitated for just a moment and that was the end of it.

Even taking that into account, the fighting prowess of the Free Canadian League cannibals was extraordinary. Some, if not all, were certainly like that.

‘These guys attached to the Free Canadian League are not ordinary.’

Maru looked at the commander of the terrorist unit who was counter-stabbing while dodging the knife thrown at his face. Judging from the way he naturally tried to pull away as soon as his arm was cut off, he was a skilled man.

What was more surprising was that Maru himself dodged the knife he threw. He dodged the knife thrown by Maru while hiding in his ripper suit.

So I reflexively blew off my arms and legs. Eclipse had changed. In other words, New Eclipse had just erased my arms and legs.

‘It’ll take some time to get used to it.’

Even though Maru had erased the cannibalism, he put the pure and elegant white Newclips back into its scabbard.

Cheeeeeeek-

When I lowered my head to the sound of melting water, I saw the head of the guy who had blown off his limbs to leave his head behind was turning into a slurp.

“Hey- See-”

‧

Dan Brown received reports that a company of Rangers on a mission to control refugees and prevent a cannibal invasion had been annihilated.

It was a terrible thing that a company of nearly a hundred Rangers was annihilated by a mere thirty or so cannibals. They were not even regular soldiers, but a company of Rangers made up entirely of Awakened Abilities. And the exchange rate was 3:1.

‘The cannibals used the refugees as meat shields, but the Imperial Rangers hesitated to kill civilians, so isn’t that the difference?’

It was the story of King Vladimir Kalin, who discovered the scene while chasing cannibals who had attempted to terrorize the Holy Kingdom.

When we look at the tactical camera footage of the fallen soldiers, we see that there were many instances where they hesitated for a moment and then were defeated, as Vladimir Kalin said.

‘It seems they have established a stronghold in the Empire. Defend well.’

Contrary to Dan Brown’s expectations, Maru ended the story neatly.

“This is difficult.”

The news that there was a cannibal stronghold within the Empire meant that their influence was spreading like mushrooms.

‘The maritime city is no problem.’

In any case, it was decided to conduct a comprehensive survey of residents who would be moving into the coastal city. The problem is the citizens who have no choice but to remain on land.

“I need to do a full investigation.”

Dan Brown pulled out his inspection card.

“We are short on manpower and short on budget.”

“Even if the budget is like that, the troops themselves are insufficient.”

“Mobilize special forces. And new clones too.”

If it’s a new clone, it’ll do a great job.

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