episode_0039
by fnovelpiaI put my phone away and wiped the cold sweat that had gathered on the back of the phone onto my pants.
Because now is not the time.
Battle is essential to obtain the item that is absolutely necessary to disperse Jin Kyung-pil’s hunting team.
The memory of the first time I met him suddenly came to mind.
‘It was terrible’
A swarm of baby spiders that pierced through a person’s raw skin, and bug babies that gnawed at the skin as soon as they were born, leaving behind only the skeleton of a screaming human in less than a minute.
Memories of crawling into an underground passage without knowing why, wondering if there might be a Monstrato Gem that had fallen into the basement…
The only reason for my survival was that I did not go in alone at that time, but with five or six mercenaries who were blinded by money.
sniff
Sure enough, a terrible smell began to waft from somewhere.
“Keuugh”
A stench that can’t even be compared to the smell of human body fluids. No, this is not just an unpleasant odor. A gas that is toxic in itself.
It is a gas called aracroquinine.
There were no parasite eggs or spores in the gas, but if you inhale it for more than a certain period of time, baby monster spiders suddenly appear in your body.
Researchers suggested that there might be some principle at work between dark matter and the creation of matter, but this was not a part-time job for an layperson like me. The important thing is that if you smell this with your bare nose for more than 10 minutes, there is a 100% chance that you will fall behind.
Anyway, I combined the mask I had prepared with the purification canister and put it on. I don’t want spiders to come out after cutting open the stomach.
Seup- Phew-
It’s much better.
The place I am currently exploring is at the beginning of the Seoul-Gyeonggi southern polluted area. The name of the area before it became a ruin was Yangjae.
To be more precise, Yeomgok Underpass.
The special monster at the end of this underpass is a guy called Arachronon.
A disgusting monster that constantly spits out baby spiders from its swollen belly and emits toxic gas.
As I thought about facing it, cold sweat was already running down my eyes.
Tap, tap, tap.
I was nervous going through a dark underpass where no one was present, relying only on a flashlight.
Crumbling
A sound like boiling phlegm was heard from afar.
‘It’s a guy.’
I looked around for a moment.
Something worth using
Half destroyed wall.
A ceiling with rebar protruding randomly.
A huge, tattered ventilator.
And the plumbing management duct next to it.
‘That’s it’
If you get up there, you will have a huge advantage and be able to fight.
I immediately crouched down.
Because it was a space with nothing to hold onto on either side, you had to jump 4.5m as a sergeant.
The highest sergeant jump record in human history is at most 1.6m.
A level 5 awakened person will be able to jump similar or slightly higher, and a level 4 awakener will be able to jump more than three times that high.
So, with a strength stat of level 3, I can do it quite naturally.
Because I’m no longer the person who was just rolling around in monster filth and trying to survive.
I braced myself and bent my body even further. I could feel the stress about to explode in my muscles, which were contracting like springs.
Bulging!!
Power is concentrated in the thighs. Blood rushes. It swells as if it will burst.
Kkkk!
The toes contract as if grasping the ground. Followed by eccentric relaxation of the calf gastrocnemius muscle.
and-
Shuhuaaa!
I could hear the sound of the wind tearing through my ears as it surged at incredible speed. I couldn’t stop, I jumped with too much force!
“Gasp”
Literally in the blink of an eye, I saw the ceiling and plumbing hole approaching in front of me.
“Keuugh”
bang!
I somehow raised my arms to protect my head, but I felt dizzy. Fortunately, I was able to jump in place without any help.
“Phew… ”
This is proof that we are still unable to break away from the power scale we had when we were ordinary people. 4.5m may be a distant height to the average person, but from the perspective of a level 3 awakened person, it is a height that can be reached by jumping in place. Maybe it’s a height you can reach just by jumping, without even having to bend your knees.
But, like a flea trapped in a bottle, I had no confidence in my own abilities and was overly nervous, so I jumped with all my might.
Is it right to fight Arachronon in this condition?
Well, in fact, he is not a very difficult opponent for a level 4 or 5 Awakened hunting team as long as they are familiar with the Arachroquinine gas and the spiderling gimmick. However, that is based on regular team hunting.
Even though I’m a level 2, I don’t have combat skills and I’m not familiar with the physical body. In a normal case, a level 2 awakened person would be able to catch a monster like a random mob, but my case was so unusual that I felt uneasy. This may be because the memories I encountered when I was an ordinary person were such strong traumas.
Maybe it’s too hasty.
Maybe it would be right to catch the other outlying mobs first, or to train for a few days or weeks first.
But I kept getting a bad feeling.
I kept feeling the unpleasant sensation of my backbone growing more and more like this.
I feel like taking my time and training slowly would be a worse choice than dealing with Arachronon in a hurry.
I feel like I need to gain physical skills as soon as possible.
It became so intense that it exploded from the moment I realized the existence of that mysterious person.
I was being targeted now.
I don’t know how far we’ll get, but it will be soon. If you don’t get stronger in advance much faster than expected, you will be defeated.
As before. same.
“I will never go back to those days.”
If I were a non-awakened person, this could be a psychological condition that could be a symptom of paranoia or delusional disorder, but I am an awakened person whose mental endurance is far beyond that of a human being. That can’t be possible.
The impatience of having to quickly become stronger weighed me down, but in some ways it felt like a sense of elation. Since this impatience is acting as a kind of improvement spirit, the mental power and mental barrier skills that have reached their maximum are also not working.
Gadget Geek
Sssst
The sound of several legs crawling on the ground was heard.
He must have heard the commotion I caused and showed up.
Eventually, the guy appeared.
A two-meter-long body, a belly so big that it looks as if it’s about to burst with whatever’s inside, and tough hair unique to insects, densely sprouting from the outer skin. 10 legs.
A human-like face with eight compound eyes. Even the fangs dripping with black venom. Overall, it resembles a spider on Earth, but it is so disgusting that it cannot even be compared.
A mustard-colored gas that suddenly becomes thicker with its appearance.
Eventually, it approached the place where I ran and tilted its humanoid head. It’s that head. A bizarre head that suddenly sprouts from the center of a huge body, like a periscope.
Because it was difficult to aim for that from the front, they went through all the trouble to occupy the high ground first.
Crumbling…
Because they were hiding right above where the guy was located, gas was coming straight out of them.
It seemed like a faint odor could be felt through the purification tank.
The battle shouldn’t drag on for too long.
Don’t be nervous.
I have prepared the perfect strategy to kill him.
Suuu… Phew…
I took a deep breath and launched myself.
The goal is the head.
As soon as I jump, my vision slows down due to my intense concentration.
The goal is the head!
The head of the Tongcha Ohamma, whose handle has been cut off so that it can be held with one hand, is swung as it tears through the air.
Quang!
Puhuhuhhh!
Ohamma, who had too much power, went beyond crushing the guy’s head and exploded it.
As soon as the head disappears, the body stumbles and retreats. Like a monster, it won’t die if its head is blown off. Anyway, that guy’s body is that of a spider.
However, in an instant, most of his sense organs disappeared and he seemed to be in confusion.
The confused guy has only one pattern.
Push shish shishisish!!
Releases all the aracroquinine gas stored in the body.
at the same time
Puhwaak!
Ssss
Hundreds or thousands of baby spiders pop out from the back of a bustling ship.
“I have no intention of waiting for that”
The two liters of gasoline contained in the thin glass bottle hanging on my waist are sloshing around.
Good! Good luck!
Flames clinging from the lighter to the piece of cloth hanging over the mouth of the bottle.
sudden!
A pot of fire magic floating in the air, a fire burning with its tongue flicking in the air.
and
Puseok, janggeulang!
Keee!
The flame burned with tremendous instantaneous fire power.
Grrr!
Sugar mixed with gasoline melts in the heat, caramelizes, sticks to the spider’s body, and flows down.
That fire will never be extinguished easily.
Kiik! Kigi geek!
As soon as they are born, the babies are massacred with a foul smell.
Good luck! Good luck!
Arachronon’s stomach bulged and shook unusually.
“Wait”
I immediately threw myself behind a huge ventilator on the floor, and at that moment-
pop!
Gurgling!
The guy’s body exploded and exploded with such force that a huge chunk of metal was pushed back.
“Huuuu… ”
Arachroquinine gas was not a normal Earth gas, so it was unknown whether it would explode when exposed to fire.
Of course, I was assuming it to some extent, but I never thought it would have this level of destructive power.
If there was no cover like this around, I would have been in big trouble.
“Did you get rid of it”
I didn’t expect to say something like this, but I saw with my own eyes that there was nothing in the place where the guy was, except for a few pieces of meat. I’m sure.
This type of strategy is one that no one uses. Because there are no bodies left. In order to extract dark matter and process by-products of corpses into other materials, they must be preserved in as intact a form as possible.
However, if you kill a monster using this crazy method, there is nothing left, so who would use this method?
It is a hunting method in which the labor cost plus alpha material costs for a single deployment of eight hunting teams earning hundreds of millions of dollars in annual salary literally evaporate into thin air.
But in my case it doesn’t apply at all. Besides, I’m probably the only one among the awakened who uses this low-level combat method. Things like firebombs were improvised weapons that I used when I was a non-awakened person, rolling around in polluted areas to somehow survive. Those guys who follow the regular route like plants in a greenhouse, join a clan, and act as awakeners won’t be able to fight like this even if they die or wake up.
Jump and run
I walked to the place where he crawled out.
“found”
A Monstrato Gem found only in Arachronon’s nest. It can be seen as a type of monster-specific equipment that only special entities produce and expel from their bodies.
Arachronon’s Monstrato Gem is commonly called a pheromone spray.
It is not an object that actually disperses scent molecules, but an object that stimulates the dark energy possessed by monsters by emitting a certain wavelength.
It is said that Arachronon uses this to communicate with his kin and baby spiders.
“Now all the puzzle pieces are together.”
All that’s left is to find Jin Kyung-pil and Hunting Raven’s hunting team.
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The Hunting Raven Clan is a company that is doing quite well in polluted areas.
The awakened members were made up of quite high-quality people, and more than 10 field teams were making hundreds of millions of dollars every time they went out. Is that why?
Even at first glance, the equipment of the guys wandering around at the intersection near Yangjae IC seemed to be of great quality.
Is this equipment provided by the clan?
At best, it is incomparable to me, who was only carrying an Ohama with the handle cut off.
In addition, that team was a standard team consisting of 4 close damage, tank, support, and ADC, and they also seemed to have spare members of the same composition who could be deployed in case of unexpected situations, bringing the total number of members to 8.
Even if the leader of the outlying hunting team is at level 3 and the rest are at level 4 or 5, there are as many as 8 people. It’s crazy to confront each other from the front.
A battle is a series of coincidences where you never know what will happen.
All you can do is reduce the variables as much as possible with your own abilities and skills, but it is absolutely stupid to face a raid target of as many as 8 awakened people, and without even properly understanding the abilities of the opposing awakened people. This is what I do.
I have seen many mercenaries who were awakened when they were young, say they were team leaders or were level 4, and then die by having their backs torn off by monsters, for reasons such as causing trouble in the clan and being expelled.
Of course, I had no intention of doing such a foolish thing.
Grrr
Suddenly!
-“Are there only these random mobs today? Soohyun, try searching”
-“I tried changing the abilities, but there was no problem. I guess I should just grab it and go in, right?”
-“Ah, so fucking lame”
Please don’t be boring.
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