Steel eating player chapter 184

 
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“… … Now, what happened all of a sudden?”
Once again, there was a terrorist attack targeting Stilane in front of everyone.
But once again, Steelein showed off his bizarre counter-response ability, conversely subduing the assassin—Connor O’Neill.
“Wow— I thought I was going to get stuck, but you caught me in reverse… … .”
“By the way, are you saying that the ruler of the sand castle was a member of that evil organization?”
“Huh, right? Crazy, what are these guys really doing?”
Players who watched the scene closely looked up at the still floating in the sky with puzzled expressions.
Whoa whoa–
However, the clock was opaque as the sand of Connor O’Neill, which had filled the area, was scattered around with the wind and pouring down like rain.
That’s why I couldn’t figure out what anomalies were happening around me… … .
Kuruk- Kuruk-
that is… … .
“-uh? Back there, everyone!”
“Yes?”
“Get out of the ground you’re treading on right now! What’s going on there!”
A mage player noticed a change in mana and yelled at the whale, and the players looked around, wondering what they were talking about.
Kuruk- Kuruk-
All of a sudden, the ground around the giant fortress where players had gathered turned into an unidentified ‘black mud’.
“Huh? What is this?”
From there, the foul smell of rotting corpses began to rise, and the surface simmered and squirmed, a dynamic and menacing movement that seemed to explode at any moment.
Kuruk- Kuruk-
And the area is getting bigger and bigger.
“Woo— the smell of rotting is vibrating! What else is going on?”
“By the way, what system message didn’t appear before?”
“That’s right. Was that… the place of death? I think I’ve heard that somewhere…”
They hurriedly switched to a combat stance and looked around.
and… … .
“Huh? Wait a minute! Is that one alive?”
A titan corpse appeared to be wriggling.
He was on his knees with his head lowered, and the veins near the nape of his neck were moving.
“Hey, that’s right… You did all the confirmed kills. Wasn’t it just like that, rigidity after that?”
Those words were soon denied.
“-Ugh!”
It was because the titan’s neck muscles tightened, and then he raised his head and extended his hand.
ugh… … .
He groaned strangely and with blank eyes crawled over the floor to grab the players.
“Huh— Joe, a zombie?”
Yeah, a 15m zombie, that’s exactly what it felt like.
And they weren’t alone.
All of a sudden, the fallen titan corpses woke up wriggling, and the players who were investigating the titan corpses as they were scattered because of the looting operation were instantly surrounded by a green eye light.
“Oh my God…”
“Uh, we need to get out of here!”
They ran away from the giant grabs that stretched over their heads.
The players, who were moving like that, suddenly realized that they were stepping on the mud again.
And from there—
“Ugh— hey, what is this!”
Some black grips swelled up and grabbed their ankles, then the inhabitants of Hell crawled out and attacked the players.
uh-
“Aww— my leg—!”
That was just the beginning, and hordes of orc skeletons and troll skeletons were crawling all over the place.
Some of them were carrying huge jars on their backs, and when they opened the lids… … .
Pushy——!
Black smoke, the breath of the abyss burst out and spread quickly.
If you inhale it, you will fall into all kinds of curses, and in the end, your actions will be slow.
“—Uh-huh!”
“Mom, the body…”
In that case, the ability to evade is clearly lost.
“Ahh— ah, no!”
Like small dolls being caught by the hooks of a puppet machine, the players’ bodies soared into the sky while being held in huge hands…
Whoops! Whoops!
Such a terrible sound resounded in succession from outside the field of vision blocked by sand dust and black smoke.
“Damn it, you have to climb up that wall!”
They ran towards the wall—the giant’s citadel, dodging the zombie titan’s hand, dodging zombies creeping up from all sides.
The stairs there were not for humans, so each one was as high as a wall, but it was not at a level that could not be climbed as it was.
However, as hundreds of terrified people gathered in one place, congestion inevitably ensued.
“Quick! Mo, everyone calm down, and let’s go up one by one slowly!”
“Uh- I think I’m going out of my mind…”
No matter how elite players were, they were all addicted to the breath of the abyss, so they had no choice but to fall out of control.
It was relieved to some extent as the leaders of each group ran and tried to lead, but as the footsteps of the titan zombies got closer from behind, the voices that lost their reason increased.
thump- thump-
Their appearance was obscured by ‘Breath of the Abyss’, so the fear was even greater.
“Uh, you have to get out of here!”
“Hey, open a massive teleport quickly—!”
thud–!
Then, something leaped over the giant’s citadel and stood tall next to the players.
「—Everyone, please move calmly!」
That was Talos, the metal giant of Stilane.
And he had a bunch of spears in his hands, all of which were giant spears of the Titan Hoplites.
“I’ll stop here, so get out of here!”
Saying that, he threw the javelin and pierced the chest and heart of a titan zombie.
thud–!.
He fell on his back, but straightened up on the floor.
ugh…..
Literally, they are ‘undead’, so they do not die.
No, to be precise, since he was already dead, he could not be retired simply by destroying organs that could sustain life by targeting the vital points.
‘And as it is a necromancer family, no matter how much the body is cut into pieces, it will be reassembled again.’
Lee Hyun-wook looked down at the scene and clicked his tongue.
‘also… … No matter how much you think about it, it is a deceptive ability.’
Lee Hyun-wook’s ability to control metal was also deceptive. However, the Necromancer’s ability to control death could not be compared.
It was, in fact, the strongest ability.
‘So we have to put an end to him before he gets stronger than he is now.’
During this  , Hyunwook Lee was preparing for the second meeting with the Necromancer.
However, if there was one problem, it was that he didn’t know what the timing would be, and Hyunwook Lee selected the moment he was aiming for as much as possible, and predicted one ‘essential condition’.
‘That’s the point at which the titan’s corpses were piled up as much as possible.’
That would be the time when the necromancer’s powers of death could unleash its greatest power.
So, it was predicted that the chance of the gnome to appear immediately after attacking the giant fortress was most likely.
And he appeared like this right now, right after the first attack was over, without being dragged for a long time.
This was the most unexpected timing.
‘I thought we were aiming for a time when I and the Humanity Unification Army were more exhausted, but the fact that we hit it now is… … Is it to prevent him from joining Lee Sung-yoon’s side? Or do you have another plan?’
In any case, he could not avoid the fight he had been walking through.
If we don’t stop it here and now, the titan zombies will form a rank, making it even more difficult to deal with.
‘Okay, I see the end.’
Chic—
He pulled out a mana messenger and picked it up.
“Ah, this is Lee Hyun-wook. I would like to say to the leaders of each group. Please evacuate all the troops to the top of the giant fortress as soon as possible. And mobilize a transport plane to get out of here.”
– Chic— Are you retreating?
This voice was Brian Thiel, the leader of the Omega Team and a Class A Analyst.
His image came into Lee Hyun-wook’s field of vision.
He was already standing on the giant’s citadel, looking down at the scene unfolding from the ground.
“It’s not.”
– So you’re going to fight them? Those… … They look like those from Ganghwa Island… … It seems to be much stronger than it was back then.
As an analyst-type player, he should have studied what happened during the Ganghwa incident for a long time.
So, no matter how Lee Hyun-wook was, he seemed to have decided that it would be difficult to deal with that power of death.
He gave advice in a cautious voice.
– Steelein, at that time, it was the Black Orcs that were used as troops with that mysterious death power, but this time, they are Titans. I’m presumptuous, right now, things look so bad.
That was an accurate analysis.
‘Yes, Black Orcs and Titans are the difference.’
If all the titan corpses scattered over there were to be resurrected, they would never be able to stop it.
“I have a plan… … .”
But then—
Hung——
“Huh?”
A certain zombie titan was flying in the sky.
Since that wingless giant couldn’t fly on its own, someone must have thrown it.
It flew towards Talos and kicked Hyun-wook Lee.
‘Damn it… … .’
He blew up Mowglay and tried to knock it off, but it was already too late.
Fur-uh-huh–!
As if they had detonated tons of high-explosive bombs, huge flames erupted, blasting Talos hundreds of meters away and crushing the giant citadel.
And players in that radius were swept away by the heat storm, killed or injured.
– Oh, no… … .
– Ooh, our team is annihilated!
– What do you do, please!
Through the mana messenger, the voices of each group leader were mixed with despair.
The attack just happened was a ‘corpse explosion’ using a zombie titan.
Now, I couldn’t take any more time. If the giant fortress collapsed further, Lee Hyun-wook’s operation could have been thwarted.
“Everyone, as I said, do whatever you can to rescue the players, take them to the giant’s fortress, and call the transport to escape. After that… leave it to me.”
Lee Hyun-wook said in a cold voice.
‘If it stays like this, even the players will be sacrificed in my strategy.’
At that moment, Maru’s voice flowed into Lee Hyun-wook’s ear.
“The work is finished, everything is closed. We even dealt with the place where the strange explosion just exploded.”
Hyun-wook Lee switched to Hu-gin’s point of view, and the giant citadel came into view.
And Maru completely filled the holes and cracks in the fortress that had just been lost in battle.
As a result, the necromancer’s undead legion was now locked in the giant’s fortress.
Of course, it wasn’t difficult to destroy it, but that wasn’t what Hyunwook Lee intended.
‘… … Within me, I am able to fully attain Buddhahood.’
He lifted the mana messenger.
Chic—
“… … Come on, let’s get started.”
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“I killed them all and then came back to life… … .”
ROK AMT commander, Lieutenant General Choi Jeong-cheol, stood on the giant’s fortress and clicked his tongue.
As he said, he made great sacrifices and hunted a hundred or so titans, but they were happening again.
Even that, while being strengthened as an undead that couldn’t be easily killed… … .
If you look down from here, you can see the advance of the giant zombie titans and the huge number of various undead troops wriggling under their feet.
The scene was truly terrifying than any horde of monsters I had ever seen.
“—This saved all players!”
Finally, as instructed by Lee Hyun-wook, all players succeeded in climbing up the giant’s fortress.
However, the number was clearly small.
“Um… are you really here?”
“Yes, everything else… became undead.”
It was only for a short time, but there were a lot of casualties.
And now they are enemies.
“under… … That’s what the saying ‘Mountain beyond the mountain’ was.”
At that moment, a light burst from the sky, and a white ring began to form.
It was such a famous scene, and cheers erupted everywhere.
“Yeah, it’s still a white hall!”
All of them knew that the situation was reversed when the White Hall opened on Ganghwa Island and a saint appeared.
And in common sense, the divine power tends to slap the power of death, which is a dark series.
In other words, he believed that if the saint came, he would be able to melt the undead corps.
“Okay, you have to believe in the combination of Saint and Stilane—!”
“Please trample these motherfuckers!”
However, Brian Thiel was still anxious.
‘The master of the power of death that I can see has grown several times more than before.’
He had special eyes as an analyst, and he was able to get various information about his skills just by looking at him.
‘Ganghwa-do is incomparable to what it was back then… … .’
I don’t know how much holy power Emilia Muller has raised in the past, but even if she appeared, it would be a much tougher fight than before.
He lifted his head and looked at Lee Hyun-wook floating in the air, near the white hall being created.
‘Steel… … You probably didn’t expect this to happen, and it’s probably because there’s a plan to evacuate all players and face it alone… … .’
He was both excited and worried about what it might be.
‘… … No matter how much I think about it, I can’t think of a way to deal with that huge army of undead.’
At that time, the Wight Hall was completed.
– caution! An ultra-wide teleport ‘Wight Hall’ opens in the area.
“……Huh?”
However, one strange thing was noticed.
Usually, in the White Hall, the scene on the other side was reflected, and if a saint was called, it was normal to see the scenery of Yggdrasil… … This time, I only saw a certain cypher background… … .
Whoa-ah-ah-ah–!
“Uh, is that… water?”
Yes, the identity of the blue background was all water. It was also an overwhelming amount of water. They started pouring down like a waterfall out of the hole.
‘Did you open the White Hall in the water? … … Why?’
And he noticed one more peculiar thing.
It was that a very strong divine power was felt in the water.
In other words-_
“…maybe, is that all holy water?”
I never thought that such an overwhelming amount of holy water could exist.
And the stream stopped in mid-air, twisted and began to whirl.
‘What else is that… … .’
In the distant sky, dozens of water whirlpools were formed, and they swooped down on the undead legions like glide dragons.
Kwa-and-and-and-and–!
– caution! The water spirit’s wrath ‘The Flood’ begins in the area!
“…Steelane, what the hell did you prepare?”
In that way, a great flood with divine power began to wash away all unclean forces.
Steel eating player chapter 184

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