Steel eating player chapter 170

 
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  in the center of Rome, where exactly 13,211 civilians were evacuated.
Thump one Thump
They were unable to sleep at night to the sound of footsteps ringing above their heads.
As long as he knew that the noise was a hunger filled with the hunger of predators trying to eat him, it would have been impossible to shake off his anxiety…
“…Ooh, we’re all going to die.”
Perhaps it wasn’t just one or two people who felt that such a blatant complaint was justified, and immediately, tears erupted from all over the place.
It’s been 44 hours since I was isolated here… … While news of the arrival of the rescue team was seldom delivered, the news of the arrival of the rescue team was pouring in.
“… …   right next door was also hit.”
At the words of a man looking into the air and muttering alone, the eyes of the surrounding refugees were all at once.
“Huh! Is that real?”
The 6th shelter was only 4~5km away from the 3rd shelter, so it was natural for the refugees’ expressions to darken when they heard that.
“Yeah, I heard the guards talking to each other in the bathroom upstairs earlier. They’re all… dead.”
Those terrible words could be considered a little more refined, because it was an expression of ‘dead’ to ‘eaten up’.
“Ha… Shelters aren’t safe either, so what should we do now?”
“Damn, wouldn’t it be better to go outside and disperse? This is like setting a table for the children.”
“Hey, no matter what, it’s a really nonsense story, so don’t even say it out loud. If someone gets cold and does something like that for nothing, they’ll all die together.”
“… … I know, I just did this because the situation is so frustrating right now. Damn it, can’t we just wait and see when we might be rescued?”
As the despair deepened among the civilians, the shelter management office was busier than anywhere else.
“Damn- you mean that now?”
The big man shouting so loudly at the center was the ‘Shelter Chief’ who was in charge of the  .
“Do you know how many civilians are here and say things like that? What, wait a minute? If you’re here now, do you think you’ll be able to get those kinds of words out of your mouth? Yes?”
He was vindictive, but the voice coming from the other side of the Mana Messenger was still ruthless.
– Chik 一 Even if you get angry like that, nothing will change. As I said before, first of all, keep the noise to a minimum and wait. That is the answer we can give.
The answer that came down from a higher-level institution was quite disappointing, but it has been a consistent answer since yesterday.
We can’t dispatch a rescue team yet.
I can’t even promise a date.
“Damn, the government is going to kill all the people…”
– Chi-I Shelter, calm down. You know better than anyone, right? At this point, there is nothing we can do yet.
“Ah, no matter what, I’m here right now…”
– Yes, I am well aware that there are millions of people isolated on our land alone.
“……”
– Chick 一 But if you send troops to a place where there are as many as 110 level titans, you’re just driving valuable troops to death. Isn’t that what you want? Your shelter isn’t the only one at risk right now. Chic: All over Europe, it’s the same situation.
In the sense that all of these explanations were true, the Shelter felt even greater despair and wrapped his arms around his forehead.
‘… … After all, it’s not enough to push those horrendous giants away, so who can deliver 10,000+ civilians to a safe area?’
Maybe it was possible only by summoning all the heroes from around the world.
And there were dozens of such shelters in Rome alone… … It wasn’t that the shelter chief didn’t know that the rescue operation was practically impossible.
‘But still doing nothing… … .’
– Shelter Chief, once again, the Titan Hoplites that have appeared now are a whopping level 110. It means that just catching one would require mobilizing 10% of our national defense force!
“under…….”
– So… … You’ll have to hold out for quite some time. Chic- You should use the stockpile as much as possible.
But then
“Ish, shelter chief!”
The voice calling him hastily was the captain of the guard, who was in charge of the security of the 3rd shelter.
And when he raised his voice, it meant that something bad had happened.
“… … Captain, what’s going on?”
“You should go to the control room right now!”
The control room, where various security facilities were installed, the two of them hurriedly headed there.
“Hey, look at CCTV #8.”
As he beckoned, one of the security guards operated the computer, and the CCTV screen number 8 filled one side of the screen.
“uh?”
The moment he saw the screen, the shelter chief felt his legs loosen for an instant.
“Oh no, that… … .”
CCTV #8, it was an outdoor CCTV filming the city center near the entrance to the third shelter.
In other words, it was used to monitor outside the shelter… … There, now, four titan hoplites were being photographed.
“Captain, what are these children doing now?”
“… … I don’t know, but it’s sitting around our heads.”
Yeah, it looked like they were sitting right on top of the shelter and having a conversation. However, pointing to the floor with a hand gesture in the middle was a bit uncomfortable.
‘Damn, why are you here? Maybe they even sensed our location? No way… … The Silence Magic Generator must be running…’
But suddenly, even though the 6th Shelter did not make any noise, a report came to mind that it was discovered and destroyed by them.
‘Then it means it’s not the noise that you need to be careful about… … Can you sense the flow of mana?’
If it was a whopping level 110, it was not strange to have such a sensitive mana sensing ability.
‘Damn it, I used my mana communication too easily.’
But it was already too late to regret it.
In the picture, the titan hoplites sitting on the floor seem to have finished their conversation, so they got up and stood up, holding a spear reaching a whopping 20m long with their tip pointing toward the floor.
Bang– bang– bang–
I started hitting it with all my might.
“Ugh-”
“Damn it!”
Bang– bang– bang–
Like a drill attached to a heavy machine, a blow of destructive power pours randomly toward the ceiling of the shelter.
The shock pierced into the depths of the shelter, and as the agitated murmurs of the refugees began to flow, the shelter chief felt a creeping horror rising up his spine.
The worst, he feared, had come.
“Everyone, prepare for battle!”
At that time, the commander of the guard shouted, pulled out his sword and shield, and ran up to the top floor of the ‘1st Shield Position’.
Then, a total of 29 guards scattered all over the place followed him.
They are, in effect, running to death to fulfill their duty.
But even if it was a meaningless resistance, Shelter thought.
“Now… it’s over.”
There are a whopping 4 extra large monsters at level 110.
No matter how hard you try, no matter how lucky you are, you can never stop it.
It was so self-evident that even the children who had taken refuge in this shelter seemed to know.
But the shelter chief changed his mind.
‘However… … Even if everyone dies, we have to endure as much as possible.’
Here at the third shelter, there was an underground passage leading to the Roman metro, and it was designed to open the underground passage as soon as the shelter was attacked and escape.
‘So, until as many civilians as possible escape, we must hold out. That is the last role I can play.’
After ordering his lieutenant to lead the escape, he pulled out his wand and started climbing the stairs.
“… … Ooh, we never back down!”
At the so-called first shield position, which is the closest compartment to the ground, the guards gathered there and were staring at the ceiling where the cracks were spreading.
However, their average level was only about 28, and it was like a plate of eggs standing in front of a rolling rock.
Quadd——
Soon, the ceiling was completely torn off, and the early morning sunlight poured into the shelter like a waterfall.
“Ugh!”
It’s dazzling for a moment… … Four heads with huge helmets turned their backs to the sunlight, looking down at the guards, revealing their yellow teeth.
There was flesh that was clearly human in between the dentitions, so the guards felt instinctive fear and backtracked.
“Uh-huh, the things that are alive and wriggling are gathered like this… … What windfall is this?”
“Look at these, isn’t it too cute to stare at us with a weapon the size of a toothpick?”
“Friends, I’m going to eat that big guy over there, so I hope no one touches it.”
They exchanged such horrific conversations, and then reached out with a vicious hand as if competing.
“Uh-huh, come here”
Even though those gigantic grabs were close to the brink, no one was willing to start a counterattack. Just frozen like chicks in the corner of a chicken coop… … .
“Ah…….”
“black one”
This is because they were gripped by a desperate sense of helplessness, knowing that no matter how hard they tried, they would not do any damage.
Maybe it was the same logic as a small beast facing a big beast hardening its body at infrasound.
Just like this, the moment when everyone faces their end as mere prey… … .
One billion——!
A black object fell vertically from the distant sky, and was nailed to the neck of a titan hoplite.
“Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
He screamed, spattered with red blood, and reached out and tried to pull it out of the nape of his neck.
Thing Thing One Thing One Young——
A shock wave was generated from the black object, and its body swelled to its fullest, and red blood gland blood flowed down like lava from every hole on its face.
That is, he died instantly.
“What, what!”
「ね, what!」
The guards at the shelter, who were watching the scene, couldn’t help but be stunned. Now, someone had attacked the titan hoplites.
In other words, they saved them!
‘Does that make sense? Who could do that?’
That scene, as a shelter chief, was only a surprise.
Didn’t even the upper agencies say a while ago that they couldn’t dispatch a rescue team?
But beyond who the hell is attacking them… … You mean it can be killed with just one hit?
‘Crazy, did you do that to me? I heard that only one can be caught by mobilizing 10% of our nation’s national power, but to kill them in one shot like that……’
Just as the head of the shelter was getting complicated, a terrifying roar resounded from somewhere.
Bang one bang one bang one bang one
A violent roar as if the whole earth was turned over… … Maybe it was because I had been tormented by the footsteps of giants for the past 48 hours, and I thought that the pattern of the roar was somehow like ‘footsteps’.
‘What else is this, what’s coming?’
“Hey, look over there! Hey, what the hell is that?!”
“Damn, some giant is running towards us!”
“Mo, everyone raise their shields and block them!”
Even those giants were terrified and called them “giants”, so I could tell that something really great was coming this way.
Bang one bang one bang one bang one
With each step, the half-collapsed ceiling cracked and cracked, and the guards covered their heads with their shields and retreated as all kinds of stones fell.
“Uh, everyone beware of falling rocks!”
“Damn, look around the magic shield!”
At that moment, the shelter chief saw the soles of a giant being skimmed past the collapsed ceiling.
As it leapt up, it obscured all the sun as if a solar eclipse had occurred, and immediately after that, it was seen striking the three titan hoplites and raising their right fist.
Wow—billion——!
The scene where a fist like a chung-cha reached out and smashed the chin of the titan hoplite, and he floated upright and crashed into a building… … It was so unreal.
“100 million–”
Whoops… … .
A Roman building with a long history for hundreds of years collapsed like a paper box.
“Now… what is the situation?”
“Hey, maybe there was a civil war between the titans?”
Yep, that’s what it looked like at first glance.
Thump one thump one bang one bang
The giants, who suddenly disappeared out of sight, started making all kinds of noises and smashing the surrounding buildings.
It was clear that there was going to be a full-fledged fight, so I felt like I had to step back so as not to end up with shrimps exploding in a whale fight.
“Uh-uh— Shelter, it’s dangerous!”
But the shelter chief climbed over the collapsed ceiling without realizing it, and stood on the messy pavement.
The thought that I should witness this scene with my own two eyes suddenly surged.
‘… … That black giant, I’ve seen it somewhere! And somehow, I am convinced that he is on our side!’
It was only then that I came into view of it as I climbed to the ground.
thud! thud!
A metal giant gleaming with a powerful dark blue color in the early morning sunlight… … It lifted up a blunt weapon made from the skull of some huge beast and slammed it down towards the titan hoplite.
Kwa-Ian——!
He raised the shield to block it, but he couldn’t withstand the shock coming from the shield and bent one knee.
Not only did the windows of the surrounding buildings shattered by the shockwave that erupted from the collision, but the bricks on the upper floors were to the point of collapsing.
And the body of the shelter chief, who was standing at a distance of about 100 meters, was even lifted into the air.
“ね—”
Kwa-Ian——!
With the subsequent blow, his shield collapsed and fell to the floor.
So completely defenseless, the third hammer shattered his bone like a watermelon.
With a popping sound, one side of the building was stained with red brain water.
“Hey, you monstrous bastard!”
Meanwhile, the last titan hoplite threw away the shield, grabbed a 20-meter long spear with both hands, and hurled it towards the side of the metal giant with all his might.
Whoa—!
But it ended up being just a few scratches on the shiny metal body.
“Ugh, no, that’s ridiculous!”
In the end, the Titan Hoplites, who were left alone, dropped their spears and began to backtrack.
Looking at that terrified expression, the shelter chief felt a little euphoric. It was like the pleasure of hitting the big bully that was tormenting me when my older cousin slapped me.
‘Huh, they can make that kind of expression too… … .’
Then, the moment you turn your head and look at the metal giant standing on the other side… … The shelter chief felt a sense of absurdity this time.
「You bastard, do you want to play hard with your brother? Yes, come here!”
Because it had a funny emoticon on its face.
It immediately threw down the skull hammer it was holding in its hand, and ran towards the last titan hoplite with its arms wide open. “Aww— Go away, you monster!”
Then, as if wrestling, he grabbed him and slammed him onto the floor, and then put a headlock on it.
Whoops-
When the two giants were entangled and gave strength to their bodies, the ground they stood on was to the point of collapse.
But such a power struggle did not last for a few seconds.
The difference between 15m and 26.5m is too big.
superior
Soon, with a bloody sound, the strength drained from his body, and it seemed that his cervical vertebrae were broken.
So the battle was over, and a black-blue metal giant rose from the thick, smoky, smoky dust that covered the area.
Meanwhile, on either side of it, four giant swords were floating in the air.
The shelter chief was unaware, but even while the metal giant was fighting, those four giant swords flew like wasps and attacked other titan hoplites.
Go one oh oh one oh——
“Ah, yes, I see…”
Looking at the scene, Shelter Chief finally remembered where he had seen that metal giant.
Not long ago, the big event that shook the world, the black dragon ‘Aji Dahaka’ attack battle… … .
At that time, the last blow that took Aji Dahaka’s breath was the same being who threw the Moglai javelin.
‘And that it’s here… … .’
He lifted his head slowly and looked towards the sky behind the dark blue metal giant, which was 26.5 meters high, and found something flying in the dawn of the morning sun rising from the east.
“Ah, as well.”
It was a giant cube-shaped flying vehicle, the War Box, and a group of small AD-2s scattered around it, reflecting the sunlight rising from the east and looking like the Milky Way in broad daylight.
Looking up at the magnificent scene, the shelter chief muttered to me without realizing it.
“… … He has come.”
Soon, a rain of steel began to rain down on the other horde of titan hoplites in the distance.
Steel eating player chapter 170

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