41. Hellgate

Why the hell do these things keep happening to me?

Han Sarang was deeply wounded once again, seeing her father screaming.

 

 

Seriously, is this some movie? Why is my life so full of twists and turns?

A beloved subordinate officer treated her like a whore and self-destructed, an alien named Barkana appeared and she lost all her subordinates, got kidnapped and subjected to all sorts of humiliation, became a NEET shut-in as a result, barely overcame it and returned to duty only to have the bastard who treated her like a whore come back and try to force himself on her.

 

Even just this much is so dramatic it’s hard to believe it all happened in one year, but after dealing with that subordinate and gaining power, proposing to Yu-eun and finally feeling like the prime of her life had arrived, now she’s being played by the President, doesn’t know where her family is, and her father has become a giant monster and is pressuring her.

 

 

 

 

 

 

– Gyaaaaaaaa-!

 

 

 

 

 

 

A massive roar that strikes Seoul.

Buildings standing tall in Yeouido collapsed as if they were Lego bricks.

 

“Commander-nim! What should we do…!”

 

Badeuk.

 

 

Han Sarang gritted her teeth at the sight.

It was a reality she didn’t want to face, but it was already happening before her eyes.

She had to clean this up now.

 

 

 

 

-Jiiiiing!

 

 

 

 

Her cell phone vibrated loudly at this crucial moment.

She thought about ignoring it, but unlocked it just in case.

 

 

 

 

 

 

– Sarang-ssi! Sora-nuna and I are on our way. We’ll be there in 10 minutes!

– Hey Han Sarang, I’m coming, so just focus on suppressing him for now.

 

 

 

 

“Ah.”

 

 

Messages from Yu-eun and Sora!

They were actually coming here.

Sora was the strongest healer of mankind, called the ‘Saintess’.

Just being around her casts a ‘passive’ area heal on those recognized as allies, and since this puts out a heal-over-time effect of 10% of her attack power per second, those receiving it get hundreds of millions of heals every second.

 

 

In effect, it makes all allies around her immortal.

 

 

Moreover, she has even more ridiculous skills on the active side, so she’s practically in a state of absolute safety.

 

‘Thank you.’

 

 

She sent a simple text.

 

 

“Attack. Just keep him alive.”

“Yes, ma’am!”

 

 

She gave the order without hesitation.

 

 

Then the soldiers, who had been waiting around not knowing what to do, began to attack all at once.

Her ‘Legion’, which had developed to the point of reaching level 40 in the main base, had soldiers whose quality had improved accordingly, far surpassing that of modern armies!

 

 

Even ordinary rifles inflicted significant damage, and anti-tank missiles and railguns fired from the warships in the sky did serious damage to the giant monster.

 

 

 

 

『It’s useless!!!』

 

 

 

 

The enraged monster thrashed around and tried to attack Han Sarang’s ‘Legion’ and the floating warships, but it was all in vain.

Simply becoming gigantic was not enough to face Han Sarang’s legion.

 

No, if they could be fully deployed, even a well-trained modern army could cover it.

 

 

Therefore, despite its tremendous appearance, it was easily suppressed.

It was more difficult to prevent the mutation of soldiers whose reports were coming in from all directions.

 

 

 

 

Han Sarang breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, it seemed like she could save him.

Since Yu-eun and Sora were coming, if she could just keep him alive somehow, she would be able to turn him back into a human.

She couldn’t do anything about the lost reputation, but at least saving his life was something.

 

 

 

 

 

But it was a kind of ‘carelessness’ that could be called her chronic disease.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The moment she sighed in relief, she made eye contact with the giant, who was almost collapsing.

 

 

“…?”

 

 

A sense of foreboding suddenly struck.

 

“Sarang-ssi!”

“Sarang-ah!”

 

 

Just then, Yu-eun and Sora flew in.

Yu-eun, who always crashed to the ground, landed skillfully this time.

 

“Are you okay? Are you hurt anywhere?”

“I’m fine.”

 

She answered while focusing her gaze on the monster.

Thanks to this, Yu-eun and Sora also turned their eyes to him, but the atmosphere was strange.

Sora had clearly arrived and was giving the ally buff, but there was no recovery at all.

 

 

“Nuna! Heal!”

“I’m doing it! I’m doing it, but…”

 

 

Sora was quite flustered, perhaps because this was the first time she had encountered such a situation.

 

 

“What…what do you mean…?”

 

Instead of answering, Sora repeatedly cast the large-scale healing skill, Absolute Heal.

It was a cheat skill that saved as many people as possible when hundreds of thousands died during the Incheon incident.

 

 

However, even after being hit by it several times, the giant showed no signs of recovery.

Even though it was a time-reversal level skill that instantly regenerated even severed arms, it didn’t work.

 

 

Then there was only one conclusion that could be drawn.

 

 

 

 

He’s already dead.

 

 

 

 

 

 

A status ailment that cannot be reversed or recovered with any skill.

That is death.

 

 

Only death is a permanently fixed status ailment.

 

No matter how good Sora is, she cannot undo it, nor can she heal it.

 

“What the hell did you do…”

 

 

Sora was completely fed up and gritted her teeth.

It wasn’t something she, who belonged to the Galactic Empire, should say, but there were so many crazy bastards in the world who didn’t hesitate to commit cruel acts.

 

 

 

 

『You…』

 

 

 

While the group was in despair, the giant called out to Han Sarang.

He was almost dead from the continued attacks.

He barely opened his mouth.

 

 

 

 

『You’re my last hope…』

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

+++

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Hoo.

 

 

Smoke billowed out.

A shadow swallowed him, who was killing time on the subway.

 

 

“…?”

 

When he looked up, he saw a cold face.

 

 

“…Seeing you come in person, it seems the job is roughly finished.”

 

 

Swaack!

 

 

The President’s head snapped around.

The woman who slapped his cheek with a perfectly blank expression, Han Sarang, no longer treated him like a human being.

 

It was like a lump of hatred.

 

She grabbed the hair of what used to be the President and dragged him out of the subway.

Then she threw him carelessly on the floor.

 

 

Soldiers surrounded him as he lay collapsed.

There was also a court lady dispatched from the Harem Palace.

 

 

“What did you do?”

 

Han Sarang’s question.

 

Just what,

what did he do to make a dead man risk even his own honor to start a coup and destroy the city?

 

Just what did he do,

to instill such a belief that was close to brainwashing?

 

 

“Hehe. You seem quite…angry.”

 

 

Thwack!

 

 

A military boot was deeply embedded in his smirking side.

 

 

“Keuk…!”

“I’m asking you what you did.”

“Keu…keuheuk…”

 

 

He writhed in pain, but still had a smile on his face.

He seemed to think his plan had succeeded.

 

 

Yeah. He did succeed.

Anyway, his aim worked.

 

Thanks to that, Han Sarang was having the worst days.

 

 

“I’m sorry to Sarang-ssi, but…heu…he also participated willingly…”

“Who asked you that?”

 

 

She spat out coldly and then broke one of his outstretched arms.

 

 

“Kuaaaaaaak!!!”

“I asked you what you did.”

 

A coldness that would make your heart flutter just by looking at it from the side.

But Han Sarang wasn’t satisfied with this either.

She wanted to meticulously slice him up and kill him.

 

 

No, he shouldn’t die.

He had to live a lifetime and feel pain.

 

And now he had to spit out everything he knew.

 

 

 

 

 

“Commander-nim, all those involved have been arrested.”

 

Shirley’s report broke the coldness.

Han Sarang nodded slightly.

 

 

“Take him away too. Be careful not to kill him.”

“Yes, ma’am.”

 

He was caught by the soldiers and tied up, sweating coldly from the terrible pain.

Han Sarang told him.

 

 

“Don’t think you won’t regret it? You think you’ve achieved everything, saved the nation, and become a hero of justice?”

 

 

It was truly a sentence from hell.

 

“But you’ll regret it? Messing with me.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

+++

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The coup was settled for the time being.

An unprecedented situation in which more than 200,000 troops tried to overthrow the country.

 

The ringleader, former General Han Bong-cheol, tormented South Korea by using the power of zombies, and later committed bioterrorism by turning himself into a giant zombie and his subordinate soldiers into mutants.

 

 

 

 

Yeouido, where the National Assembly Building was located, was completely devastated, and the aftermath of the battle caused the Han River to flood in all directions, causing considerable property damage.

In addition, the large-scale engagement near Pyeongtaek and the mutation incidents that occurred in various places caused enormous social damage.

 

 

Above all, the long-term damage scale was impossible to estimate, as the National Assembly members and city council members who were leading the country were massacred.

 

 

 

 

South Korea, as well as the international community, were greatly shocked.

 

 

Less than two weeks after the zombie situation subsided, a coup using these zombies occurred. And in South Korea, which was considered a safe zone as far as the zombie situation was concerned!

 

 

 

 

Anyway, the situation was barely suppressed when Han Sarang, the daughter of the ringleader Han Bong-cheol, intervened in the matter with her legion, and she began to naturally take control of the entire Republic of Korea while wiping out the zombies across the country.

 

 

And at some point, she brought the Samjoko flag of the Korean Empire and began to build a large building in the completely destroyed Yeouido.

 

By the time people had question marks in their heads, her legion had already occupied all parts of the country, public corporations and institutions, and broadcasting stations, and disarmed the local armies that were coming up from all directions under the pretense of cooperation.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

-Is the Korean Empire being revived after 150 years?

-The US is deeply concerned about Korea’s regressive politics.

-The Samjoko flag replacing the Taegeukgi. Is this the rise of imperialism?

 

 

 

As various rumors and words spread, Han Sarang made a shocking announcement through a spokesperson.

 

 

 

 

“It has been revealed that the recent zombie incident that threatened the survival of all mankind was the work of former President Choi Min.”

 

 

 

 

??????

 

 

 

 

 

 

A sudden zombie incident.

What the hell? Wasn’t the zombie incident caused by the failure to defend the dungeon in the Middle East?