Steel eating player chapter 198

 
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Even just one scene can change the mood.
The world reacted to the blueprint presented by Hyunwook Lee.
– Steelein proves once again that he is a ‘hero’ who can prevent the apocalypse through a surprise raid live broadcast.
– Why should we trust Steel Lane? What is ‘magic engineering’, a technical skill that will open up new horizons?
However, that current also changed quickly…
It was because 11 hours had passed since he returned to Laputa with the corpse of ‘Leviathan’, and this time, the demon king showed his presence to the world again.
In other words, the Demon King was also trying to move the air current.
And the location is none other than… … .
– [Breaking News] Demon King Appears in New York Sky (1 step)
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“Oh my God…”
Thousands of people walking in and out of Times Square, the most famous street in the world, stopped and looked up at the air as if they had paused.
“……”
Shadows slowly crept over their faces.
ooh-ooh-
The ‘flower of death’ appeared in the sky over Manhattan, New York, which is still called the best city in the world.
Like a scene from a movie dealing with numerous alien invasions, it was towering over a skyscraper, overlooking New York, which is called the “capital of the world.”
ooh-ooh-
He looked arrogant and relaxed, as if observing a swarm of ants that could be trampled on at any time.
In addition, there were numerous flying undead flying around it, creating an eerie atmosphere.
Named the flower of death… … The whole world already knew its power.
At that time,  , the world’s best player preview and based in New York, was like a portrait book.
– … … Ha— I didn’t know it was coming to New York, over our heads.
– That aircraft looks like the weapon of mass destruction that attacked the ‘Ancient Red Drake’ in the first wave erosion area, California a few days ago.
– Yes, that’s right. We’ve all witnessed that the so-called Death Blossom can apply Death Gas over a very large area.
– It was a terrible scene. In just one day, the human race has completely killed the ‘Ancient Red Drake’, which they had failed to even attack.
– Yes, seeing that scene at that time, even other countries must have done their best to prepare for the time when they invaded me… … .
– Well, it’s not possible just by trying.
After drawing the world’s attention more intensely than ever before, the action the Demon King took was… … .
– Oh, here’s the news! Bar, it seems that the Demon King has just sent a message to the world!
It was to send a message to the world.
Soon, the screen was switched and the flower of death was lit over New York, and ‘Demon King’s Message’ was displayed below it.
– Now, let’s listen together.
Then a man’s voice began to flow.
“… … From now on, if anyone wants to escape New York, it will rain poison gas and venom all over New York. No matter how hard I try, the moment I make up my mind, millions of civilians are bound to die. So, not resisting is the way to live longer. It would be better if no one thought about going out of my sight.”
That was the end.
Just a very short and bold threat… … There wasn’t even a requirement.
– …….
Even the MCs of   could not help but panic, and the audio went blank for a while and only terrible silence continued.
– uh… … So… … It is not known for what reason the Demon King took New Yorkers hostage.
– And the U.S. government has repeatedly tried to contact them, but they have yet to receive any response.
There was only one name that came to mind at this moment.
– Does Stilane know what this is?
– Now honestly… … It is the same when Stilane, his response, is needed rather than the response of the government or the domestic guild association.
– Yes, he has to go. If Steellane is watching this broadcast, please… … Please give me an answer.
***
The whole world tried to interpret the demon lord’s intentions.
But no one came up with an answer.
Only Lee Hyun-wook, who received the ‘Brave Privilege’, was different.
Because he got a direct hint.
– (!) The Demon King has begun the construction of the ‘Demon King’s Castle’.
* When the Devil’s Castle is completed, the ‘Rampage of Evil’ begins, and a random ‘gate’ opens every 24 hours in the area, and the monsters from there will obey the Demon King.
‘… … what?’
It was bound to be quite shocking.
‘So… … You mean you get an unlimited supply of legions, right?’
It wouldn’t be a big deal if a goblin appeared from that random gate, but it would be a big problem if a dragon would come out at any time.
“… … Things got complicated.”
Hyun-wook Lee was planning to make as many weapons as possible by collecting items from all over the world and processing them with magic engineering.
‘If you do that, you will be able to widen the gap with the Demon King… … .’
In his opinion, the number of items the Necromancer and the Demon King were holding was limited.
‘They would have raked in the most precious items, but they wouldn’t have been able to bring them all with them during the dimensional shift.’
As Hyun-wook Lee watched, all the dimension movers crossed by themselves.
In other words, what they wore would be all the items they brought.
‘Of course, the Necromancer had subspace related skills, but it wasn’t to the extent of carrying a bunch of airdrop devices like me… … .’
Therefore, it was Lee Hyun-wook’s calculation that he could be ahead in terms of quality and quantity of weapons, and that time is an ally.
However, if the Demon King Castle is completed and the ‘Rampage of Evil’ begins, and so every 24 hours, a monster army the size of one gate joins the Demon Lord’s side… … .
‘… … In the end, time is not entirely on my side.’
If so, how should we move now?
‘Rather than waiting for the Demon King to step forward like now, we should find the Demon King and preemptively attack it.’
And the ‘target’ seemed to be somewhat clear.
Hyun-wook Lee looked at New York on TV. It was a reasonable decision given the current situation to see that that place was the site of the ‘Demon King’s Castle’.
‘So you took New Yorkers hostage without asking for anything?’
It all seemed to fit together like this.
However, Hyun-wook Lee felt something uncomfortable.
‘But to show it openly like that… … Young is award-winning When the construction of the Demon King begins, you wouldn’t know that I’m going to aim for it…’
But why, and for what purpose, did New York, which attracts the most attention, be chosen as the site for the establishment of the Devil’s Castle?
And in his eyes, something foreign caught.
“-Well? That’s… … It’s not the flower of death, is it?”
He looked tired of the flower of death.
However, I have never felt such a sense of disparity.
He paused the TV screen that was showing the flower of death. And I looked at it carefully.
The ‘flower of death’ he knew was bigger than that. And the petals were not that bloody, but purple with red spots, and the shape of the tassels that bloomed like columns from the center of the flower looked different.
He asked Talos about the difference between ‘surgery’ and ‘pistil’, and Talos quickly found information on the Internet and told him.
In other words, it was definitely a completely different flower of death.
‘Then we need to understand why the second flower of death was placed over New York.’
Hyunwook Lee came up with the answer without difficulty.
‘It’s most likely a bait.’
In order to gather more reliable information, Hyun-wook Lee asked Team Leader Kyo-jun Lee to provide a satellite image of the flower of death over New York.
And after checking that… … .
‘…After all, he’s not there.’
In his previous life, Hyunwook Lee had thoroughly researched his power to attack the worst enemy called the Necromancer.
And I knew some information about the Flower of Death, one of which was that the ‘tuft’ part of the Flower of Death was a kind of antenna.
It received the mana of the necromancer and then released mana near the root—the role of the ‘sharer’ was to deliver commands to the undead in the area.
‘It’s about controlling a lot more undead through him.’
But when I looked at satellite images over New York taken every five minutes—the flower of death, I found that the alcohol was not moving at all.
“… … Originally, even if there was a Necromancer nearby, it would wriggle towards it.”
So, as the most basic way to find out the location of the Necromancers mixed with the Undead Corps, he used to grasp the movement of alcohol.
In other words, there were no Necromancers there.
That meant there was no demon king.
In other words, that place was not the site of the establishment of the Demon King.
‘Yeah, he wants me to think of that place as the site of the Demon King’s Castle.’
In other words, it was a craft to pass time.
Until the real Demon King is built… … .
However, Lee Hyun-wook, who already knew what the flower of death looked like, was not deceived.
He had a strange smile.
‘The greatest power I have, they have no idea.’
As a necromancer and demon lord, who do not know that Lee Hyun-wook knows the future information, they say they are spraying amazing baits in their own way, but they can hardly see their hands.
‘This fact will be a great weapon until the last minute.’
However, figuring out the location of the real Demon King was another matter. Even if it could not be prevented from being completed, in the end, in order to defeat the Demon King, he had to attack the Demon Lord’s Castle, and figuring out the location was the priority.
‘That doesn’t mean you can’t search all over the world… … .’
Perhaps the site of the establishment of the Demon King was deep in the deep sea, but that was never effective.
‘If I dealt with Hugin and Munin, I would find out… … But the first thing to do is to specify the region.’
It was when Lee Hyun-wook was in trouble for a while.
A barrel of mana came to him.
The content was that Alain Gidam was looking for it urgently.
He said he was looking for another item this time… … .
‘Oh, by the way, was that guy there?’
There is one wild beast that has been well tamed so far.
‘Release him and find a burrow with a crowd.’
***
“…If you know how hard I’ve worked to get this item, you might cry a little.”
Alain Giam, he was shivering as he sat on the sofa in the Order Tower.
Still, he shook his head and rolled his eyes.
“Huh… it’s a luxury, really, the view here is amazing. After all, it’s probably the tallest building in the world.”
Here in the Order Tower, all sides were glass windows. Thanks to that, I could see Laputa as well as the surrounding landscape at a glance.
A panoramic blue sky that spreads like the sea, a huge city center floating on the clouds… … Alain Giam was the first to see the scene as an outsider, and he smiled brightly as if in admiration.
‘Ha- I’m finally here.’
How miserably did you bow your head to get here?
It was hard work for Alain Giam, who sits in a place that the world recognizes, and therefore has quite a bit of pride. But he was also a gambler who could do everything he could to get what he wanted.
‘Laputa, the heart of Stilane… … Coming this far means that he has already opened his heart to me. And what happened in New York must have made you feel dizzy, but if I ask for a huge profit here… … .’
He slowly rolled his eyes and glanced at Lee Hyun-wook, who was sitting opposite him, looking at the tablet PC he held out.
‘…I will never be able to refuse, and I will be caught in a snare.’
Lee Hyun-wook flicked the screen a few times and opened his mouth.
“So, the Legendary item ‘Yeouibong’ is in a gate in China, and it is attributable to acquisition.”
Yes, it is ‘Yeouibong’.
Isn’t that the weapon of the main character of the world’s most famous classic novel  , Jecheon Daeseong, and Son Wukong?
“Yes, fortunately, the   guild that secured it also argues internally about who to give this item to, and even causes bloodshed. , we were lucky.”
Hyunwook Lee was silent for a moment, and Alain Giam swallowed dry saliva.
However, Lee Hyun-wook eventually nodded.
“… … If you give it to me, I can’t leave.”
“Haha— is that so?”
“Yeah, anyway, the time has come when I have to go to New York and face the Demon Lord, and I have to reinforce my power even a little bit. I’m just thankful that I got these precious things again.”
“I felt like I wanted to go and catch him, but… for the sake of the earth—”
He raised his index finger and pointed to Lee Hyun-wook.
“—Because I’m investing all of my money in you.”
He learned how to deal with politics and business for a long time, and found that such explicit wording works surprisingly well.
No matter how many things I have in my hands, I want to feel the feeling of being recognized in everything. No, rather than anyone else, I want to be confirmed over and over again.
‘So, the words you put in your mouth, if you say it while giving a thumbs up, it will usually work.’
It was no different with Steelein.
And again, Lee Hyun-wook smiled pleasantly.
“Mushu, thank you very much as always.”
Hyunwook Lee reached out his hand and Alain Giam grabbed it.
“Then shall we go right now?”
***
Lee Hyun-wook, along with Kim Se-hee and several other members of the Hope Guild, followed Alain Giam to the place where Yeoui-bong is sleeping, an open gate somewhere in China.
Uh-
Hyun-wook Lee arrived in China through four interactive portals prepared by Alain Giam.
It was one of China’s five most rugged mountain areas, called Xingshan (衡山), and dozens of players welcomed them.
And one person walked out of the center.
He was a short man with a stout build. One peculiar thing was that he had all kinds of piercings on his ears and nose.
– Player (LV: 72)
* Villain, Demon Advocate
Lee Hyun-wook recognized him.
‘… … This is Jang Jun-geol, one of the five evils of the continent.’
He belonged to Amseong (暗星) and was one of the top villains in China. And above all else, he was a player who used ‘Yeouibong’ for a while.
‘In other words, it means that Yeouibong is definitely here.’
He approached Lee Hyun-wook and smiled softly.
“Hey, I didn’t expect to see you in person. My name is Jun-geol Jang, the deputy master of the   Guild. The master has to come out in person for this kind of work, but I have a big deal right now.”
He reached out his hand and Lee Hyun-wook grabbed it.
And followed his lead up the mountain path.
Maybe another ten minutes or so… … .
“Come on, here it is.”
But all I could see was trees and piles of stones.
“… … Is it a wide-area mirage barrier?”
“Oh, you know right away?”
It was the camouflage magic that was also applied to the ‘Bukaksan Great Sanctuary’.
Let’s go up a little bit and pass a point—
– You have passed the  .
A fairly wide hilly area spread out.
There were several helicopters stationed there, and dozens of players were on guard, fully armed.
And I saw a cave. Seeing that it was blocked by a large iron gate, it seemed that the gate in question was an open space.
“Great, but this place has one problem.”
“Yes?”
When Lee Hyun-wook made a suspicious expression, Jang Jun-geol scratched his head shyly and said.
“As you may have already heard, there were big and small fights between the three factions within our guild over the armor of the Jecheon Daeseong Fortress that was sleeping in that cave over there.”
“Yes, I heard.”
“So, we decided between ourselves, before we were able to cover the owner of Yeouibong, so that no thieves could enter, we set a rule that three factions and only one person would enter together. I put it on.”
Saying so, he pointed to the entrance to the cave.
All sorts of magical circuits were clearly drawn there.
“It takes a day or three to unlock that, don’t we all have time for that?”
he said with a sly smile.
Hyunwook Lee nodded.
‘You’ve tried quite a bit.’
This trap seemed to have put a lot of effort into it.
Lee Hyun-wook turned his head and looked at Kim Se-hee.
“Chief Kim, please wait for a while as I will be visiting alone.”
“Ah…….”
She didn’t know what she was doing, so she had a somewhat uneasy expression when she said that Lee Hyun-wook was going into a strange place alone, but wasn’t it Lee Hyun-wook, who was no one else? Who can tell of his safety?
“Yes, then we will wait outside.”
Alain Giam, who came with Kim Se-hee, said,
Lee Hyun-wook nodded and accepted the bracelet that Jang Jun-geol offered.
“Now, you have to wear this to get in there.”
[Item information]
– Name: Loyalty of the Three Gorges
– Effect: You can enter and exit a specific barrier.
Lee Hyun-wook put on a bracelet and went into the cave with Jang Joon-geol and another villain.
Alain Giam, who watched him disappear, and the Chinese players exchanged glances.
***
And again, it was a trap.
“… … What do you do with this, how many bribes did that great Stilane die in?”
“Uh-huh—there will be really no time this time.”
Naturally, there were no gates in the cave.
However, the level of the trap was surprisingly not obvious.
‘what’s this?’
Hyun-wook Lee summoned AD-2 from the engraving on his wrist, but strangely, the engraving did not respond.
Jang Joon-geol smiled and said,
“Quick-quick—this cave is covered with ‘mana countercurrent’. In other words, neither you nor our mana works well in this place. In other words, I can’t use the skill.”
“……”
“Do you know how much we spent on this facility to catch you? It must have cost you the same amount of money as that strange arsenal you worked hard for!”
Lee Hyun-wook lifted his head and looked at the ceiling and walls.
It was meticulously applied with a rare material item called ‘mana reverse flow stone’.
To cover this large space with countercurrent stones that are so hard to find… … At best, the backflow stone was only used as a tool to break the barrier.
It was about the same price as Orihalcon, so I had to spend a lot of money to fill this huge space tightly.
This was a nonsensical trap that was possible because he was a villain who eroded the closed big market of China.
“… … Have you really prepared thoroughly this time?”
“Yeah, did you say that you built that arsenal with the support of your small country? If so, how far do you think we can go if we are determined to use the power of this large country?”
Hyunwook Lee nodded.
“Yeah, it’s admirable. With a trap prepared to this extent, any player will have no choice but to be defeated…”
“Uh-huh— you know this well? So you’re going to ask me to beg for life? There’s no CCTV in this place, so you can do it if you want.”
Lee Hyun-wook looked down at the clock without saying a word.
“… … 294 seconds left.”
“what?”
“If you can kill me in it, kill me. Otherwise…”
If there is not even a single gap, it is enough to force it.
“… … The whole mountain will fall.”
Steel eating player chapter 198

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