Steel eating player chapter 183

 
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People around the world were watching and cheering for humanity’s counterattack on Mount Otris.
– … … It is truly an astonishing sight.
The MCs of   also broadcast the scene live and exclaimed admiration.
– Again, Steelein, he did it.
– Yes, I don’t know how many. This scene, this situation, this emotion, happens too often, but strangely, continues to be shocking.
About ten minutes ago, on the first battlefield, Lee Hyun-wook’s moglay drop broke the magic shield of the giant fortress.
Immediately after that, Choi Jeong-cheol’s ‘Semi Armageddon’ burned and swept the bound titans like a bowling ball.
With that alone, dozens of Titans fell into a moribund state, and the ‘Green Wave’ controlled by the Vinegard completely engulfed their loose bodies.
In other words, he became completely defenseless… …
“—Now! All troops charge!”
The players, who had only been suffering so far, advanced furiously and poured all kinds of skills into the half-dead titans like anger.
One by one, one by one from the edge, the 15m tall titans fell down like dead trees.
Then, the second battlefield about ten kilometers from there also flowed in a similar composition.
– Ah! Now, let’s move on to the second battlefield. Special Correspondent Josh Paul on Battlefield 2, can you hear me?
  At the MC’s question, the screen shifted to the second battlefield, revealing a man wearing sunglasses, Josh Paul.
“Oh, okay— I’m on the second battlefield right now.”
– Now, Battleground 1 seems to have definitely brought victory, what is the situation there?
“Uh-huh—it’s going to be a lot of fun. Up until a minute ago, I was robbed and prepared to retreat, but after Stilane appeared from there, those fucking vines back here also bound the giants!”
As he was not a professional reporter, he could not handle his gaze and looked around distractedly.
“…but, unfortunately, there doesn’t seem to be any way to break through the magic shield here. Hey, Stilane— Get over there and come here soon!”
But it was then.
– caution! ‘The Power of Hekatoncheires—Meteor’ begins in this area!
“Huh? What else is this?”
– Josh, what’s going on?
“Uh, that… damn, I don’t know how to explain it, so let’s see for yourself.”
Then, the camera’s focus went up to the sky.
– Uh, in the sky… … Are there any holes?
Like the MC’s question, there were several holes in the sky.
Go-oh-oh-oh–
Those were black portals.
“Oh, I think someone is trying to do something great… I’ve never seen anything like that before.”
From within, huge black rocks began to pour down like rain.
Whoo-woo-woo-woo–!
It could be seen as a meteorite, or a meteor shower.
Kwa-and-and-and-and–!
As they fell to the giant citadel and hit the magic shield, strange black smoke rose like a chemical reaction, and the magic shield began to melt like cheese.
“Damn— I don’t know what it is, but that’s awesome!”
“Okay, let’s go and wipe it out—!”
The players waiting in the second battlefield cheered the scene and started charging.
However, that was not the end.
“Ah! Those meteorites have started soaring again!”
On the hill behind, a tall wizard player was wielding a huge staff.
And aren’t the black meteorites soaring into the air again under his command?
“Oh— the recent mystic Gravity Mage seems to be at work? Haha- What a day full of sights!”
Seongyun Lee, he reversed the gravity of a specific area and raised the ‘meteorites’ again.
And what went up was bound to fall.
“Once again, a meteor shower is pouring in!”
He even corrected the trajectories of the meteorites by fine-gravity control—hitting the head of each titan.
Fur-bur-bur-bur—!
“… … W, she’s also a gravity wizard!”
“Damn, I forgot his performance, he’s the best!”
In that way, the flag of mankind was able to be lowered even on the second battlefield giant citadel.
– … … It is said that you hunted 145 in the first battlefield and 131 in the second! We’ve made it easier to deal with numbers that are twice the number we caught in the previous tournament. All of these are Steelein, and his achievements are worthy of reference!
At that time, Hyun-wook Lee had already occupied the fortress of giants, and was standing on it, looking down at the bodies of giants.
One of them had Lee Hyun-wook’s Mowglay stuck to its neck. It was the most powerful elite monster in the citadel, and, like the other titans, half of its body was entangled in a green wave.
Thanks to that bondage, even though it was an elite monster of level 209, it was able to stop breathing at once.
‘Boss monsters named Titan, Atlas and Kronos will be in the deepest part of the Giant Citadel.’
They cannot be defeated as easily as they are now, so they had to join Lee Seong-yun’s side and attack together.
At that moment, Lee Hyun-wook’s mana messenger rang.
– Chick- ah- can you hear me?
This voice was Emilia Muller.
“Yes, tell me.”
– Now that the ‘valve installation’ is complete, please signal anytime.
Before Lee Hyun-wook left for the Dark Elf Kingdom, he had asked her for a few things to prepare for the future.
Now, she went to a different place and was doing something only she could do.
“Yeah, well done.”
– Okay, Peter is always waiting in front of the mana messenger, so call me anytime.
“By the way, please raise the Holy Concentration to the maximum, even if it’s a little difficult because you don’t know.”
– I’m more of an expert, so don’t worry.
thud-
At that moment, the last titan hoplite fell, and shouts of joy of victory erupted everywhere.
“—We won!”
The shout soon changed to a voice chanting Stilane’s name.
“Wow— I kept believing, Stilane—!”
“I was skeptical, but now I will unconditionally believe!”
“After all, if he has him, we will win unconditionally!”
However, Lee Hyun-wook was still not relieved.
‘… … You never know when or where a bomb might fall.’
With Hugin floating in the sky, he looked carefully at the battlefield where the titan’s corpse was shattered.
Tsutsutsutsu——
Sand was flowing like water between the floor and green waves.
It was controlled by Conor O’Neill, a villain called Dominion of the Sand Castle.
He was a member of   with Alain Giam from the Omega Team.
But oddly enough, he did not follow Alain Giam and was still engaged in battle.
At that point, some media said there would be a feud between the two, but the truth is… … .
‘The reason is, they’re trying to target me.’
There may be no justification for Lee Hyun-wook not dealing with him, but the purpose was to properly imprint the existence of the ‘villain’ in the world by reversing the moment he attacks.
Anyway, up to now, the Titans, Dark Elves, and Black Orcs, all of the superficial risk factors have appeared.
However, for one thing, the villains still did not come to the fore.
‘Even though I ruined their plans while conquering the Dark Elf kingdom, I will never give up.’
They must be well aware that if you don’t stop now, you can’t stop Lee Hyun-wook… … Unconditionally, he was going to take out the last card from within this  .
That’s right—
‘—Necromancer… … .’
Lee Hyun-wook was preparing for his second meeting with him.
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About 5km away from the Battlefield of Mount Otris, there was a camp for players who had defected from the Unified Humanity Army.
A simple studio of a broadcasting station was set up there, and some famous players, including Alain Giam, were sitting in the studio and broadcasting live.
They have been discussing and explaining the situation of   since yesterday… … .
“……”
There was now a rather long silence.
The reason was the appearance of Stilane.
The moment he appeared, the mouths of the panelists, including Alain Gidam, were closed, and they had no intention of opening them.
“……”
The stance of this broadcast has so far been focused on blaming Stilane.
Therefore, the moment he appeared and changed the battle situation in an instant, they had no choice but to become dumb, and the MC had to take charge of the explanation throughout the battle.
In the end, the impatient MC opened his mouth, glaring at Alain Giam.
“Um… Mushu Jiam, how can I explain this, so…? The reason Stilane hasn’t appeared until now is because he was conquering the Dark Elf Kingdom… is it true?”
“……”
“… … Me, Mshu Jiam, please tell me something.”
Alain Giam could not answer the MC’s question.
“……”
It wasn’t that he didn’t know how filthy it would look if he was biting the stiletto from here to the end.
And the viewers who were watching this broadcast right now turned around and criticized Alain Giam.
He eventually got up from his seat.
“… … We just do it here.”
“Yes?”
In any case, excessive envy and jealousy cloud rational judgment.
However, it was not because of his personal feelings that he had kept Stilane in check, but rather a strategic choice based on solid evidence.
‘This time, it was a structure that Stilane could never do.’
So, to control the situation, I actively played the press… … .
“But damn, the Dark Elves are going to be on their side… This is a variable that is completely out of common sense!”
Unable to contain the anger that was rising from within, he spit out a vulture out of his mouth, and went out of the studio tent.
As he was walking so vigorously, he suddenly stopped and looked back slowly.
“Huh? Who called me now?”
But no one was visible. The moment I got a fever and wondered if I heard an auditory—
– Meshu—
It wasn’t a hallucination.
In the distance, a voice could be heard between the two tents. But the owner of that voice was nowhere to be seen.
He felt an ominous feeling and drained mana into his hands.
Dozens of magic missiles would be sprayed if you applied a little force like this.
– Mush, you don’t need to be vigilant. Now, I have something to tell you. Would you like to come inside this tent for a moment?
Then I saw that voice was not heard. That is, it was not a sound wave moving through air as a medium.
This was ‘telepathy’, a magic that only made a specific target hear a voice.
“You bastard, who are you sneaking up on me?”
– Mshu, meeting in secret is very important and it is beneficial to both sides.
After a moment’s contemplation, he opened the tent through which the telepathy was flowing and entered.
This is a space connected to the studio, which seemed to be a place to store broadcasting equipment, but now there is no one there.
Whoa whoa–
Black smoke rose from one corner, and a man in a purple mask appeared.
he came slowly
“Mesh, take this.”
What kind of stationery was he handed out.
– You have acquired the ‘Black Invitation’.
“……What is this?”
[Item information]
– Name: Black Invitation
– Effect: unknown
“Mshu, we would like to invite you from our organization. If you blow mana into it, you’ll get an invitation.”
“… … what? What organization are you talking about?”
However, the opponent did not readily answer, and at that moment, Alain Giam noticed the identity of the organization.
“Is it… the organization Stilane exposed?”
“Yeah, that’s right, but it’s a little different from what he says. If you listen to what we’re doing and what our cause is, even Mshu Jiam will never think negatively about it.”
With those words, Alain Giam felt an instinctive rejection and stepped back.
“What are you doing…”
No matter how much I disliked or hated Stilane, I couldn’t get along with crazy people whose identities were unknown.
Then the masked man took a step closer and poked his head.
“Mshu— We are not a society with the unstable structure we have now… … We want to create a world that is driven by players.”
At that moment, Alain Giam’s eyebrows twitched.
Because that was his goal.
The reason he ran a private organization called   was to create a player-led world.
Today, players were in fact a budding class, but still the vast majority were ‘ordinary people’, so laws and policies that limited and checked player domination were taken for granted.
He believes, and has often argued, that such a stance undermines human safety and hinders progress.
“However, such a goal only requires a little bit of violence. That’s what all system changes are like in the first place. Isn’t that right, Mshu?”
“Um… that’s an interesting word.”
“Yes, I expected Mshu to agree with this opinion.”
Yes, Alain Giam strongly sympathized with the masked man’s words, but he did not show it. However, it was inevitable that his rejection of him began to gradually turn into curiosity.
“But the thing that gets in the way of that ideal vision of the future the most… is definitely Steelein.”
“So I tried to get rid of it several times, didn’t it fail? Just like in Dresden a few days ago.”
With those words, the masked man came one step closer.
“I did, but this time, I won’t fail.”
“What? If it’s this time, when… of course, you’re trying to get behind you while in battle?”
A strange sound of laughter flowed through the mask.
“… … So Mshu, can you help us? He will weave a net by every means he can’t escape in any way. Now, if you agree with me, you can inject mana into that invitation.”
With those words, Alain Giam pondered for a moment, and then gave the invitation to mana.
“It’s a villain quest… … .”
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– You have captured the 1st Victory Flag!
* Temporarily increases all stats. (+10%)
– Captured the 2nd Victory Flag!
* Temporarily increases all stats. (+10%)
After the victory of the Victory Flags in Battlegrounds 1 and 2 was completed, a buff effect was applied to all players participating in the Battle of Titanomacia.
Above a fortress on the 1st battlefield, the commanders of each group were gathering and talking about future operations.
“… … First of all, it would be a good idea to join the players on the 2nd side of the map at this point, and then start attacking the 3rd map step by step.”
And the design of the operation was definitely led by Lee Hyun-wook.
“Now we have the Dark Elves’ elite force, the Vinegard. And since we can use the item neutralization chain that blocked my Mowglay drop, we’ll be able to stop the titans’ javelin bombardment as well.”
At his explanation, the commanders nodded without a word.
“If it stays the way it is, it would be perfect.”
“… … Stilane, I will only trust you.”
Lee Hyun-wook looked at the commanders one by one. Their eyes were more intense than ever.
They must have been suspicious of Lee Hyun-wook for a while.
But when you are reassured after doubting, your faith is bound to grow stronger.
These were now Lee Hyun-wook’s weapons.
“Come on, let’s go now.”
The commanders nodded at Lee Hyun-wook’s words, and took out a mana messenger to give orders to their respective groups.
But then—
“… … No, you can’t go anywhere.”
A voice intervened, pouring cold water on them, and everyone turned their heads towards it.
“-Huh?”
“What do you mean?”
It was Connor O’Neill, a young white man with gingerbread style.
“Ugh— you should all be buried here together.”
He stretched out his hands to the sky, spread his palms, and smiled.
“I’ll make that grave—!”
At that moment— the giant citadel they had been treading on collapsed, and everyone lost their focus and scattered.
“ね!”
“Damn it-”
Soon, sand came up from all sides, and it became a huge hand… … It fell on Lee Hyun-wook’s head.
Whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah–!
“Huh! Steelein…”
They all knew what this scene meant.
Another assassination attempt by an evil organization had taken place.
“Oh no! We have to save him!”
Kwagaceae——!
However, pillars of sand soared up from all sides, and they were forced to succumb to the ground like a drill.
“Damn it, boss—!”
Kim Se-hee caused the wind to push the sand away and followed Lee Hyun-wook, but the visibility was not secured due to the sand dust that filled the field of vision.
Quadde——
“Uh-huh— Steelein, I finally got it! Without even taking the moglay out and swinging it, I squeezed it tight, so you’re done!”
Only Connor O’Neill’s fishy voice rang out.
It was floating in the air with dozens of layers of sand wrapped around its body, and Kim Se-hee flew a blade of the wind towards it, but it failed to pierce a few.
“This ‘sand armor’ can never be penetrated that way, so don’t lose your strength!”
Then he spread his hands out and joined— and joined forces to form two giant sandy hands… … .
Whoa—-!
As if catching an insect, their palms met strongly, but again, it was an attack towards Lee Hyun-wook.
As such, as many as three sandy hands grabbed Lee Hyun-wook.
“Who— did I do something that no one else could do? Uh-huh— this is it, won, you made that naughty necromancer flounder, didn’t you?”
And every time he shook both hands, sand spewed out of the pot, the sikyang (息壞) he was carrying on his back, and wrapped around the three hands that grabbed Lee Hyun-wook.
“You know that even the titans couldn’t loosen my sand restraints? Uh-huh— they’ll never get out.”
He stifled a sly smile.
But then—
ⓩ—
“……Huh?”
He felt a strange sensation, a subtle pain.
At that moment, blood poured out of his mouth.
“Uh-”
Lower your head slowly… … There was a stick embedded in her left chest and heart.
It was a silver arrow.
“Uh, how…”
This was incomprehensible to him.
The ‘sand armor’ that surrounds the body with thousands of layers of sand could not be penetrated by any attack.
Of course, he wouldn’t have the talent to stop an ignorant blow like Mowglay, but a hundred or a thousand arrows would not be able to remove even a single layer of sand.
“Uh… t, gap?”
It was then that he noticed that his sand armor had a hole in it, as if it had been drilled with a drill.
“Uh? Why…?”
But it was still something I couldn’t understand.
His sand control ability never tolerates such a gap.
I’ve never made this mistake before.
Sissy Sissy——
He scanned his surroundings with red, bloodshot eyes, and noticed that some of his sand was moving against his will.
There, on the side of the three grips where Stilane is being held… … .
Sissy Sissy——
He was naturally passing through the sand restraints.
“No, no, no words… no…”
With every step he took, the sand, controlled by Connor O’Neill, scattered up and down, left and right, and opened the way.
“Uh, how can you, you guys use my sand…”
And the power to move the sand was flowing from a sphere floating behind Lee Hyun-wook’s back.
that…….
“Damn it, you’re the spirit of the earth…”
A-grade, no, a higher earth spirit was following Lee Hyun-wook.
“Ttttttt—you’re a fucking idiot, aren’t you? How can you build a sand castle without such detail?”
Yes. Lee Hyun-wook was hiding Maru’s identity for this time and to induce Connor O’Neill’s vigilance.
“Ugh——!”
Connor O’Neill tried to sweep away Lee Hyun-wook by spitting out his jaws and manipulating the sand, but he couldn’t because of Maru’s obstruction.
If he had been healthy, he would have exerted a stronger sand control ability than an A-grade earth spirit, but now he has an arrow embedded in his heart…
In that way, he could not stop the holes in the sand flowing through them, and Lee Hyun-wook’s steel weapons passed through them.
Whoops, whoops, whoops, whoops—
And his body was all over the place.
“Uh-”
Eventually, the sand curtain that covered the whole world fell down in the direction of gravity — rainwater.
As Hyun-wook Lee beckoned, the metal embedded in Connor O’Neill’s body turned into rings and wrapped around his limbs, and as he beckoned again, he was dragged away like a dog.
“therefore… … .”
He grabbed Connor O’Neill’s neck and whispered in a low voice.
“… … Other than a bridesmaid like you, where is the real thing?”
“what? that’s what… … .”
at that time-
– caution! The ‘Death Land’ has been declared in the area!
“… … You came just in time.”
After discovering such a system message, he looked around from Hugin’s point of view.
All of a sudden, the ground around the area turned to black mud and was boiling.
Cuckoo! Cuckoo!
What that meant was simple.
‘… … It is the appearance of the controller of death.’
After breaking Connor O’Neill’s neck, Lee Hyun-wook lifted himself up into the air and looked down at the ground.
Cuckoo! Cuckoo!
Kilometers were overflowing with the power of death, and the corpses of the titans lying on them began to wriggle.
“Yeah, come on…”
This moment was the moment he had been waiting for.
“I’ve prepared a present for you… I hope you don’t go home empty-handed this time.”
Steel eating player chapter 183

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