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Episode 185. The Ruler of Seoul (1)
A black object rose up and began to devour the hunters.
The hunters inside the black object slowly suffocated to death.
Choi Hyun-ji wrapped a black object around Ha Yoon-ha.
Then, Ha Yoon-ha held onto a black object tightly and shouted while looking at Choi Hyun-ji.
“What about the Gangdong defense battle? Aren’t there not enough troops there?”
“Gangdong, give up~ Your Majesty. I think defending Man-gyeong is more urgent.”
At that moment, one of the hunters, holding a bayonet, rushed at Choi Hyun-ji.
“Eww-!”
A black object began to wrap around Choi Hyun-ji's body.
Phew- ugh!
The hunter's bayonet pierced Choi Hyun-ji's stomach, but her sticky armor easily blocked the attack.
After that, Choi Hyun-ji grabbed the hunter by the neck and threw him over the building on the other side.
The thing flew into the sky like a baseball.
Choi Hyun-ji looked in the direction the hunter flew away and smiled.
“Nice shot~”
Ha Yoon-ha asked in surprise as she looked at Choi Hyun-ji laughing heartily.
“Hey, is this the hero’s order?”
“Yes, I see~ There were unexpectedly many hunters, so I was told to increase the number of defensive troops for the Man-gyeong defense battle. That’s why I came running right away.”
Once again, some hunters started shooting at Choi Hyun-ji.
Choi Hyun-ji stretched the black object, swallowed all the bullets, and reflected them.
The hunters fell down after being hit by their own bullets.
Even while fighting Hyunji Choi, he did not stop talking.
“But the situation is more serious than I thought. If I had known this would happen, I would have come earlier.”
“I could have stopped it with my own strength.”
“Well, isn’t it mostly Jeong Hyeon-su’s power?”
At that moment, lightning flashed wildly in the cloudy rain clouds.
Jeong Hyeon-su fought day and night for three days.
He was dealing with enemy artifact players.
He was called the Red Devil.
A player with power comparable to that of Jeong Hyeon-su.
It wasn't just Jung Hyun-soo and the Red Devils. On the rooftop and in the sky, fierce battles were taking place between Artifact players, and on the ground, battles between infantry continued.
Choi Hyun-ji's appearance was like a ray of light to the Man-gyeong Defense Corps.
“Anyway, the hero’s operation has begun. I’ll help you too.”
Ha Yoon-ha looked at Choi Hyun-ji who was saying those words.
She was smiling brightly even in the middle of a battlefield where blood and rain were splashing.
At that moment, a huge ground rumble was heard in succession.
Soon the ogre's legs passed over her.
Boohoo-!
The ogre passed them quickly, creating a huge current of air, and Choi Hyun-ji's hair flew wildly.
Choi Hyun-ji immediately turned her head and looked in the direction the ogre had run.
-Kuaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!
An ogre with bullet holes all over its body rushed towards its enemies.
The hunter shot at the rushing ogre, but it did not budge.
The ogre threw himself into a giant sinkhole and began digging into it.
He dug the sinkhole with incredible force, as if he were a child digging a sand castle with both hands, scooping up dirt.
That wasn't all. He punched the sinkhole and killed all the hunters that came out at once.
Choi Hyun-ji, who was looking at the magnificent sight, whistled.
“Whew-. That’s amazing. I tell you, it’s fun to watch them hunt.”
At that moment, Ha Yoon-ha picked up a nearby medical kit and staggered toward the battlefield.
Choi Hyun-ji caught Ha Yoon-ha like that.
“Where are you going? With a body like that.”
“We need to move the injured person back… ….”
“Oh my gosh. Really.”
Choi Hyun-ji sent a black object and snatched up the wounded man lying on the battlefield.
Then he quickly sent it back.
Choi Hyun-ji simply solved the tasks that Ha Yoon-ha would not be able to handle even if she moved them all day.
After finishing her work, Choi Hyun-ji began wrapping Ha Yoon-ha's body in black material again.
“Your Majesty, as befitting an Emperor, stay in a safe place~. Yes? Please.”
“Ah, ah. Now, wait a minute. Ugh! Ugh!”
“Don’t worry, I’ll give you a breathing hole.”
Whirilirik-!
Choi Hyun-ji sent Ha Yoon-ha to the rear.
And I naturally bent my neck from side to side.
Crackle, crackle.
The battlefield that the ogre had swept through was quiet for a while.
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But then again they started crawling out of the sinkhole.
Choi Hyun-ji clicked her tongue at the tenacity of the hunters.
'Ah-. They're not even real cockroaches or anything.'
At a glance, dozens of hunters were approaching Choi Hyun-ji with guns in hand.
Black objects began to stick to her body.
Soon, wings made of black material sprouted from its back, and huge bones that could threaten its enemies also appeared.
A sharp tentacle sprouted from the palm of his hand and turned into a black spear.
Now, her appearance was that of a 'devil' itself.
Choi Hyun-ji, who only had her eyes open, looked at the hunters rushing toward her and muttered.
“… … This is really annoying.”
Everything was annoying.
I thought something was wrong from the beginning.
That was probably after I met Kang Shi-on.
She was originally a character who only needed cola.
Kang Shi-on took note of her characteristics and tempted her with cola, and she was captivated by it and stayed in Man-gyeong.
Originally, I should have left a city like Man-gyeong a long time ago.
But strangely enough, Choi Hyun-ji also wanted to protect Ha Yoon-ha, and slowly began to acknowledge the existence of Kang Si-on.
Although I didn't want to stay stagnant in one place, I ended up risking my life and going to war for Man-gyeong.
She decided that she would have to leave someday.
'After this war is over and I have accepted Kang Shi-on's request.'
At that time, I decided to leave Man-gyeong without any regrets.
Choi Hyun-ji's dream.
It was a trip around the world, taking photos and videos.
I thought that was true freedom.
Choi Hyun-ji was tired of living in the same place for a long time.
I always sought out new people and new spaces.
So her long-time dream was to become a travel blogger and travel YouTuber.
With cola, of course.
She muttered secretly.
“I think I’ve been here too long.”
Choi Hyun-ji lowered her posture in an instant and thrust the black spear forward.
At that moment, the space split in two and the thorns of the black spear spread out in all directions like tree branches.
Jjajjajjajjajjak-!
The hunters were impaled on those thorns and died.
The hunters in the space were split in two and killed.
* * *
When the Hunters began to attack Man-gyeong, Kang-shi-on's operation began.
First, the strategy for the northern part of Seoul falls to Choi Myeong-jun.
Second, cut off the enemy's supply route by cutting off Mapo Bridge.
Third, completely eliminate the remaining enemy forces in southern Seoul.
Fourth, occupy Songpa.
Late at night, when news of the Man-gyeong invasion reached Yeouido.
A light appeared in the night sky as rain poured down heavily.
It was Jin Jae-hee.
She was floating against the night sky.
The splendid light she emitted felt divine.
If she had used her power, breaking through Mapo Bridge would have been no problem.
However, if that were to happen, Man-Gyeong's infantry force would have suffered considerable damage, and they could not blindly engage in an occupation battle without knowing the information about the enemy's artifact players.
There was only one way for Kang Shi-on to choose.
It's not about seizing the opportunity to win a battle between artifact players.
It is about seizing the opportunity to win in infantry warfare.
So I decided to cut off the bridge.
They thought that Kang Shi-on would defend Mapo Bridge, but Kang Shi-on had no interest in the barren land of Gangbuk.
His goal is only one: to get through Round 3 and complete his plan.
Three holy swords quickly rotated around Jin Jae-hee, who had risen above the Han River.
A small tornado formed around her, and even the monster of the Han River, Sledy, couldn't even approach her.
She took out the holy swords and gathered them together.
“… … !”
Jin Jae-hee's face was crumpled up in a fierce manner.
She concentrated all her mental powers.
The holy sword began to grow larger and larger, until it was long enough to surpass her height.
She took a sword-drawing stance while holding the hilt of the holy sword that had become so large.
She concentrated her power for a moment as the light began to gather.
The defense forces on Mapo Bridge also began to focus on her due to her enormous power.
One of the Metro Forces' artifact players flew in from the surface, creating waves to stop her.
But the one who blocked his way was Kang Shi-on.
The artifact player stopped there and looked at Kang Shion.
Kang Shion floated on the surface of the water and gathered spheres to form a defensive wall.
The player who saw the scene laughed.
“How stupid.”
Taat-!
The player created waves in the river, which poured down against the spherical defensive wall.
Kwawawang-! Thud!
A huge wave crashed into the spherical defense wall, shaking it.
The player rushed towards Kang Shion from above the waves.
“There’s no point in building a wall this low, you idiot!”
Whirik-!
The player's spear blade swung towards Kang Shion.
However, what awaited the player were the thorns of Kang Sion.
Pok ok ok ok!
Before the player's blade could reach Kang Shion, numerous lines pierced his entire body.
“… …?!?”
I had a thought that he had done it before I knew it, but by the time I realized it, it was already too late.
The skies around Kang Shi-on were already filled with the traps he had deployed.
Shushu shu shu shush!
Lines shot out from under the water, aiming at the player.
The player swung his spear, bleeding profusely, and cut down all the good that flew at him.
But no matter how much I cut, the line did not get any smaller.
“A dog like a dog!”
The player quickly flew and avoided the lines, but Kang Sion manipulated the lines very delicately.
Like a drone.
The lines waved as Kang Shi-on commanded and thought.
The player stopped running and started making waves again, creating a wall of water.
No matter how fast the ships were, they lost speed and destructive power when they hit a wall of water.
The player chuckled as the lines fell limply into the river.
“God X… …! Just build a wall of water and that’ll be it… …!”
But at the same time, Kang Shi-on's voice was heard from above.
He was coming over the waves.
“Didn’t you just say that low walls are meaningless?”
“… … ?!”
Kang Shi-on, who had approached without notice, raised his fist and struck the player's right cheek straight away.
Phew-!!!
It was a very simple attack, but the fist that Kang Shion extended had a different meaning.
The moment he struck the bastard's cheek, the spheres began to stick to the player's cheek.
The player tried to block the spheres from sticking to him by building a wall of water, but it was no use.
The spheres were pulled together and merged.
This is called condensation, and Kang Shi-on used his power to the limit to condense the sphere.
Since the sphere was slower than the line, it had to be hit directly like this.
“Whew! Whoa! Aaaah!!!”
Orbs randomly attached themselves to the body of the player floating in the sky.
The creature screamed and tried to shake off the sphere attached to its body, but it was no use.
The player was descending deeper into the river, which was filled with sleddies that leaped out of the water like eels, creating waves.
The player screamed.
“Damn it… … ! Ah, wait! Please… … ! I’m sorry! S-save me!!! It was my fault!”
The Sleddies opened their huge mouths towards the players coming down to the surface.
But then.
Thud-! Kwaaaaaaaahh …
A giant sledman appeared with a mouth so large that it could swallow even the sledmans that tried to swallow the player by opening its huge mouth.
The true identity of the bastard revealed under the water's surface, as dark as the night sky, was that of the 'King of the Han River.'
In fact, he was also the culprit who destroyed all the walls of the bridge.
-GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!
The King of the Han River created a huge wave and swallowed the Sleddies and players whole.
Thud-!
Because of the sudden appearance of that guy, Jiang Shi-on was also in danger.
'shit……!'
The bastard wasn't satisfied with just the Sleddies and the players, so he flew in after Kang Shion.
A body larger than any living thing, curved and smooth, rose endlessly above the water.
The emperor's strange cries echoed throughout the Han River.
-GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!!
'Could it possibly never end?!'
Kang Shi-on ran into the sky with all his might.
But the bastard's body was so long that it kept chasing me up into the sky.
As the bastard approached Kang Shi-on, he opened his mouth.
Ugh——- Ugh.
Inside, the pungent smell and pitch-black darkness of the mouth were so frightening that even the strongest of the strong could not help but feel afraid.
Even the concrete entities couldn't keep up.
The bastard's mouth was now about to swallow Kang Shi-on.
Wherever I looked, all I could see was the roof of his mouth and his long tongue.
Kang Shion released the last of his strength and began to create a sphere.
At the very least, he tried to escape through a small hole.
But there was no need for that.
The palate and tongue of the thing that was trying to devour him were torn to shreds and began to descend.
Kang Shi-on looked down in surprise at the night sky that had appeared again.
“… … !!!”
Kang Shi-on's pupils grew wide.
Above the water, a huge beam of light began to cut forward in an oval shape.
The light tore through the creature's body, and the King of the Han River was eventually split into two pieces and collapsed.
The elliptical beam of light continued forward, cutting through the giant's torso.
And that beam of light cut through the Mapo Bridge.
Behind the brisk sound of the wind cutting through the air, a sound that shook the heavens and the earth echoed throughout Seoul.
Yeah-
Kwakwakwakwakwakwakwakwang-!!!
The king of the Han River fell beneath the water's surface, and Mapo Bridge split in two and fell into the Han River.
The Metro force's defensive garrison on the bridge fell into the Han River and drowned without even knowing what was happening.
Kang Si-on looked at the departing emperor of the Han River and then looked back at Jin Jae-hee.
The light went out from her whole body, as if all her mental power had been consumed.
Kang Shi-on gave a short exclamation of admiration.
'As expected, you are… … .'
It was an overwhelming power, to the point where it could be called Jin Jae-hee.
Kang Si-on quickly flew over and caught Jin Jae-hee, who was falling unconscious after using all his strength.
Then I looked down.
Mapo Bridge collapsed.
Now the nature of war will change.
(Continued in the next episode)