Steel eating player chapter 175

 
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After all, in the upheaval of an era, there are always those called ‘heroes’.
As leaders of revolution, heroes of war, founders of nations, etc., for example, they use the unbelievable wits of a single person to subdue their contemporaries and achieve feats.
But, if you think about the situation of those who are on the opposite side, how can you stop the existence of the ‘hero’ who has become an unstoppable threat with such an overwhelming performance?
The easiest way is to get rid of the hero itself… … .
That is ‘assassination’.
Now, at the Omega Team camp in Dresden, such a hero-elimination operation is burgeoning.
“… … So far, there have been several attempts to eliminate Stilane, but each has been unsuccessful.”
A man was speaking to the crowd in the dark. And the room where they were gathered was covered with a strange flow of mana, and strangely there was no flow of air at the boundary.
The reason was that the ‘silence’ magic, which blocks all sounds at the source, was set in three layers.
“No, what kind of items did you have to respond like that?”
“… … Choo Kyo-yong, Ki Baek-jun, Red Berserker, Swordsman, and even the Shadow Baron were all beaten.”
Steeleane Lee Hyun-wook, whose name is now the biggest thorn among the villains.
How many times have you hit him so far? But they all just drank.
And with each failure, the villain’s power was bound to diminish.
In that sense, the operation aimed at Stilane became a poisonous holy grail from the villain’s point of view.
“But it will be different now. In the past, when we hit him on the battlefield… that is, we only aimed for him when he was fully armed and in a sensitive state. I think that’s a defeat. The collectible item ‘Hoogin’ is probably a performance beyond imagination.”
It was a man named William Cain, an early member of the villain, who calmly analyzed the problem.
As an executive who has been infiltrating the EPU for a long time and serving as a bridgehead for European domination, he was quite aware of how the villain organization aimed at Lee Hyun-wook and how it failed.
“And I usually stayed in Laputa and didn’t have a chance to properly target him…”
“But now… he is spending the night unattended right in front of us.”
“Yeah, that too, with your safety completely entrusted to someone else.”
This time it really was the perfect opportunity from heaven, William Cain thought.
“… … So, are you ready to start the Hellfire Magic Scroll that will melt the steel?”
At his question, a man standing in a corner stepped forward.
“Yeah! Now they say you can just blow in mana and it’ll work right away.”
“Okay, it’s now 1am… we’re going to start the operation slowly.”
In the twilight dawn, you are most likely sleeping, and even if you are not, it is the most vigilant time.
Of course, the Omega Team’s camp here had dozens of searchlights on, a number of security forces patrolling it, and the area was covered with multiple layers of magic shields, making it impossible to penetrate from the outside.
“But no one would expect that problems would arise from within. We aim for that blind spot.”
“Uh-huh— And if it’s a Hellfire… no matter how bad it is, it won’t be able to handle it.”
Here, Hellfire, which literally means hellfire, is the highest level of attack magic in the flame series.
However, if you put it in the ‘Magic Scroll’, anyone could use it just by infusing mana.
Of course, putting that formidable skill into a magic scroll was not something anyone could do.
‘It was completed by squeezing and squeezing mana to the extent that their lives were endangered by 8 Class A wizards.’
Originally, it was a specially prepared item to blow away the entire Omega Team at the end of  . But it was William Cain’s judgment that dealing with Stilane was more important than that.
Moments later, someone’s voice came from William Cain’s mana messenger.
– As a result of using the creature detection magic, Stilane and his party are all in the dormitory and they are yet to go to bed.
Being still in the dormitory meant that they were completely unaware of the threat that was coming upon them.
“Okay, we only grasp that much, and don’t over-monitor. That bastard… As I said earlier, he can figure out our intentions with the same odd numbers as I said before, so we have to be as careful as possible.”
– If so, can I start the Hellfire Magic Scroll right now?
“… … use.”
– Yes!
“……”
About 10 seconds later, a bright red light pushed the darkness of dawn that had descended on the outside of the window.
Whoa-ah-ah-ah-ah–!
There was a riot and vibration that seemed to turn the whole world upside down, and at a distance of well enough 5 to 600 meters, I could feel the air heating up as the windows of the villains’ dormitory burst all at once.
“Huh— it looks like a volcano erupted right in front of you.”
“… … With this kind of destructive power, nothing will be left behind.”
This is the power of the strongest fire skill called Hellfire… … Even the mastermind who exploded it admired it.
“Damn it, it’s fire!”
Soon the noise outside the window started, the players turned out the lights.
However…….
“Hey, that’s… it’s not just fire, it’s magic!”
“What? Does that mean it’s an attack, not an accident?”
A fire that blows up as many as 5 buildings in one blow and quickly gnaws at the remains of those buildings and grows in size… … The players, who felt the extraordinary intensity emanating from the fire, could not help but be astonished.
If it was an ordinary fire, no matter how large it was, it would have been able to evolve into various types of magic.
But the fire that was born with the power of magic… … If it was a high-ranking skill, the story was different.
And soon, the B-grade or higher high-ranking wizards saw through the true nature of the magic fire.
“—Damn everyone, don’t get too close! That’s ‘Hellfire’!”
Hellfire, few have seen it in person, but no one is unaware of its notoriety.
“Hey, Hellfire… that’s ridiculous!”
“Why did that happen here!”
The fire of hell that is more powerful than any other fire and is not easily extinguished…
“But are you still trapped inside me?”
“… … The center over there is S, Steelein’s dormitory!”
As his name came out of nowhere, the murmur grew louder here and there.
“What? Damn it, who was after him?”
“Yeah, that’s a hellfire skill…”
Soon after, the war reporters ran out and started broadcasting the scene live.
“—Emergency breaking news! This is Dresden’s Omega Team camp…”
Just yesterday, the sad news that the hero who saved the world was in an explosion spread all over the world.
“Huh— he’s still inside! We need to save him!”
“Come on, move! You can’t lose Stilane!”
Most of the players staying at the Omega Team’s dormitory here had bad feelings for Stilane, but they didn’t want the person who is currently considered the strongest man in the world to die.
Soon, a dozen wizard players cast a spell together, and a huge magic circle was born in the sky.
“Come on, pour out all your mana to evolve Hellfire early!”
Shoot-ah-ah-ah–!
Rain started pouring down from the magic circle, a stream stronger than any other firefighting equipment. However, the moment the stream touched Hellfire, an explosion occurred and the flames spread even bigger.
Fur-uh-huh–!
It was a symptom of a vapor explosion, and with it the sparks of Hellfire were scattered in all directions.
“Wow! Stop it! Hellfire sparks will move to another building!”
In the end, the evolution work was forced to stop after just one attempt.
“…does that make sense?”
“Hey, it’s not okay…”
It was a moment to prove once again that Hellfire could not be extinguished with any extinguishing agent.
They watched the building rubble quickly turn to ashes with a blank expression on their faces.
“By the way… would he be able to escape?”
A woman mumbled that in a voice full of strange hope.
“Yeah, come to think of it, I think I saw Stilane go into the flames!”
“Ah— right! It was quite a while ago, was it at that meteorite event?”
He was the one who showed the scene of breaking through the flames several times before.
For example, didn’t you overcome the fire of ‘Peeton’ on Jeju Island?
“If you are that undisputed hero, you will definitely be able to achieve miracles.”
However, an A-class wizard player shook his head.
“… … I’m sorry it sounds like a candle, but Hellfire isn’t just a strong fire.”
“Yes?”
“The reason it’s scary… is that it effectively ignores ‘fire resistance’.”
No matter how powerful a tank, the moment it hits Hellfire, it will melt like burning plastic…
“……”
In the end, the players were only preparing to retreat from a distance to avoid the spreading Hellfire.
“Currently, more than 10 minutes have passed since the unidentified Hellfire attack broke out at Stilane’s quarters, but his life or death is still unknown, and many experts believe Stilane is dead—”
As time passed, only the voices of the reporters reporting this horrific moment became more and more gloomy.
But then—
“Huh? But the movement of that flame is somewhere… a bit foreign, isn’t it?”
Yes, strangely, from some point on, the flames of Hellfire are being sucked in instead of spreading outward. It didn’t look like the fire was going to go away, it was like it was going somewhere.
“… … In the first place, does Hellfire have a tendency to shrink like that?”
A little while ago, someone asked the A-class wizard player who explained the Hellfire skill.
But he, too, made a face as if he did not understand, shook his head and opened his mouth.
“Uh, well. That… I honestly don’t know.”
Whoa whoa–
But the bizarre scene became clearer and clearer. Yes, it was clear that the fire was going to the center.
“I don’t know what the hell is that, but doesn’t that turn off the light?”
On the other hand, the villains, who were mixed in the military class, began to feel both strange and ominous at the same time.
‘What the hell is that? I’ve never heard of it.’
The villain’s leader, William Cain, also felt a sense of alienation and used the eye-strengthening skill ‘Hawk Eye’.
“ね!”
It hurt my eyes when I looked at the dark light, but I endured it and looked into the flames.
In the depths of that red flash, I found a black shadow.
‘… … Are you human?’
A man stood tall in the midst of the fire that could not be extinguished or endured.
“Stand, please…”
And soon, the other players seemed to have captured the scene, so a murmur spread all over the place.
“—Look over there! Looks like someone is standing there!”
“… … are you human Are you sure it’s Steelein?”
“What? Ma, that’s ridiculous! What happened?”
And as Hellfire softened one level, cheers began to erupt from everywhere.
“Huh! That’s right! He’s right! He’s standing there!”
“Uh, how could you be so fine in Hellfire?”
“… … Could it be that he didn’t die standing still?”
And what a giant sword in his right hand… … There, Hellfire was being sucked in.
It looked like Mowglay at first glance, and many assumed it was, of course, Mowglay.
However, the black he was holding was a completely different item, obtained from Deputy Director Hwang Yeon-soo’s ‘Panic Room’.
[Item information]
– Name: Sword that has completely cooled
– Effect: Absorbs heat and releases ‘heat’.
‘I had no idea that this sword would be used in this way.’
Lee Hyun-wook knew that the identity of this latent item was ‘Levatein’, but he did not know how to release it. That’s why I’ve been trying a lot of different methods from time to time… … .
‘… … The first thing I did was give it some heat.’
As stated in the description of this item, it was able to absorb heat and release heat.
That meant that the latent liberation formula was also highly likely to have something to do with ‘fire’.
‘So, I’ve been constantly in contact with various fires.’
As a result… … .
– A sword that has completely cooled down wants a stronger ‘fire heat’!
* caution! Currently, this sword absorbs all ‘Fire’ attributes around it!
After about a dozen attempts, such a system message came to mind.
However, there was a limit to the powerful fire magic that Lee Hyun-wook could save. When I had time, I planned to ask General Choi Jeong-cheol, and if that didn’t work, I was thinking of visiting Inferno.
But now, the Hellfire, which suddenly fell over his head, became the ‘key’.
‘Once again, their conspiracies have been beneficial to me.’
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah–
It took me about ten minutes to eat the whole hellfire like that… … .
– Congratulations! The fully cooled sword’s potential is partially released and becomes a ‘sword that regains heat’!
[Item information]
– Name: Sword that regained heat (Hero)
– Effect: When it absorbs heat, it becomes ‘Magma Sword’.
… … Isn’t it not a legendary level ‘Levatain’, but a hero level ‘sword that regains heat’?
‘what? Even though I swallowed Hellfire, I still can’t release the potential… … .’
Still, it was upgraded to a certain extent, but it meant that in the future, it would have to absorb a few more Hellfire fires. To that extent, this sword called Leviathan holds tremendous firepower when it becomes a finished product.
“Hu— I thought I was going to die from the heat.”
“Hey, I thought I was going to burn.”
Behind Lee Hyun-wook’s back, behind a steel wall made of adamant, Park Jun-mo and Kim Se-hee spoke.
They had minor burns, but that was enough to drink the healing potion.
“Now, should we find the arsonist?”
Saying that, Se-hee Kim had her to push out the toxic gas around her.
“I already found it.”
“Ah… you’re too fast.”
Hyunwook Lee slowly walked forward. The place he stepped on was pounding and collapsed.
It was a very brief fire, but the heat was so strong that the bricks turned into powder and the iron bars became molten iron.
He made his way through the smoke and ashes, standing in front of hundreds of players and dozens of cameras.
“Uh… S, Steelein… are you okay?”
Someone asked somewhere, but Lee Hyun-wook walked forward without answering.
Then the players naturally split left and right to pave the way.
The metal that covered his body—the hardening was in good shape, with only a little soot.
On his shoulder sat a certain black crow, its eyeballs scanning all directions.
Behind his back, a red-hot giant sword blew out the heat.
On the other hand, the villains had no choice but to take a step backwards without realizing it while watching it.
“… … Everyone, don’t be arrogant.”
In the end, William Cain had no choice but to whisper softly to his faltering men.
“Nobody knows what we did anyway.”
The ‘Dark Elf Shadow Hunter’ who cast that Hellfire Magic Scroll has already escaped this area.
And the time they secretly secretly delivered the magic scroll with him was extremely short and secretive.
In other words, there were no witnesses, William Cain was convinced.
“Now, our actions will never be found out.”
At his whisper, the villains took a breath and began to focus on managing their facial expressions.
However… … .
bum- buck-
Oddly enough, Stilane was approaching with them looking straight ahead.
An enemy with a grim expression walking out of the flames of hell… … He gradually gets closer.
gulp-
William Cain’s eyes met him, and he almost smiled in business without realizing it, perhaps because he was nervous.
But smiling at this moment is a very strange thing, so I forcibly lowered the corners of my lips.
“… … Steelein, are you okay?”
Rather, he spoke first. At times like this, I had to pretend that I didn’t care and be polite.
“Ah, I’m William Cain, EPU Guild Strategic Support Director, responsible for the dissemination of this operation.”
And since he was one of the managers of this site, it was not strange to come out like this.
However… … .
“I put on Hellfire at 1 in the morning, is there any way it will be okay?”
“Ah… of course you do. You’re still safe—”
“And I… know who did this.”
As soon as he heard those words, William Cain had an instinct to turn around and run away.
And my eyes went to the giant sword floating behind Lee Hyun-wook’s back. It wasn’t Mowglay.
‘I don’t know what that is, but it is a sword that swallowed Hellfire. If we wield it, we will all die.’
The heat emitted by the sword was enough to burn the skin of the person standing nearby.
“… … So, do you mean that you know who used the Hellfire skill?”
At that moment, the black mechanical crow sitting on Stilane’s shoulder—Hugin flew up.
Hung——
It soared high into the sky in an instant and began to look down on everyone.
That meant that Steelein had detected a target and started hunting further.
“……”
For an instant, there was only silence among the hundreds of people.
Their gaze was directed towards only one person, Lee Hyun-wook.
All of them said Hyunwook Lee… … I heard you know the culprit.
“… … That hellfire isn’t a skill. It was a magic scroll.”
Hyun-wook Lee replied belatedly, and one of the villains let out a low moan without knowing it.
‘How do you… … .’
If they know that much information, it may not be a big deal to know their identities.
Therefore, Lee Hyun-wook’s movements, gaze, and voice began to feel like a dagger.
“Do you think that I can’t kill you if you get mixed up here and take the shichimi?”
It wasn’t a specific word for anyone, but his eyes were directed towards the villains.
To them, it was bound to feel like an unspoken warning and acted as an indescribable pressure.
“In that case, I’m sorry… but I want to tell you that you looked at me too softly.”
That moment-
Pooh-ooh-ooh-ooh–!
The giant sword floating behind Lee Hyun-wook’s back started to smoke out of nowhere. It was like starting a steam locomotive, and gray smoke was coming out, and it was quite menacing… … .
“Damn it!”
In the end, one of the villains couldn’t stand it, twisted his body, pulled out a wand, and attempted an escape magic.
“-No!”
At that moment, the giant sword ‘sword that regained heat’ that was standing behind Lee Hyun-wook’s back glowed red.
Vivid red flames rose from the tip of his sword, extending its wings as if spread out.
Woe—evil——!
The four villains standing in the range were devoured by the fire and crumbled to ashes.
“Aww——!”
Still, William Cain twisted his body at that moment and managed to lose only one arm… … .
shh—
Two silver arrows flew in and broke both of his Achilles tendons at the same time.
He puck— lying face down on the floor, extended one arm to Lee Hyun-wook, who was approaching him.
“I, please! What am I doing wrong to suddenly attack you?”
“Um, no way… are you still looking at me softly?”
“ね! Oh no, I really don’t know why… … .”
At his words, Hyun-wook Lee smiled and stepped on his ankle.
“…In Korea, there is a proverb like this. Thieves numb their feet, which means exactly this situation.”
“uh…….”
“I didn’t do anything, can you explain why you tried to run away?”
But at that moment—
pop-!
Suddenly, William Cain’s head exploded and his eyes flipped over.
‘Anyway, did you activate the latent spell?’
The villain leaders must have been watching this scene now—
I decided it was better to kill this guy than to be captured.
Lee Hyun-wook exhaled, lifted his head and looked around.
“……”
Everyone in the area looked stunned.
And the whole world just watched the scene.
“… … Stilane, you’ll have to explain what this is.”
Brian Thiel, the leader of the Omega Team, who was approaching behind me, said so.
Lee Hyun-wook nodded and looked at the players and cameras around him once.
‘Yes, the time has come.’
At this time, it wasn’t bad.
‘… … Right now, the villain, his name is revealed to the world.’
He saved the world many times, and gained the image of a hero.
Therefore, it is trusted by the world more than ever.
Even just recently, he was in danger of being assassinated by someone.
‘And I shared all those stories with the world.’
To mention the unrealistic secret in this context now… … .
‘… … The world will believe you.’
Lee Hyun-wook looked at one camera lens and slowly opened his mouth.
“I’ve been fighting with a certain group for a long, long time…”
Steel eating player chapter 175

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