Ch.4848. Insector Haga Combo

Eun Serin was looking at her child. And she took a picture.

There was only one reason. To modify it into a human form.

“Why am I doing this…”

The baby doesn’t cry. It sends vital signs, but that’s all.

“It takes a long time to transform into a cocoon. That must be difficult.”

Eun Serin looked tired. These days, she had many things to worry about.

‘It would be best for the Goigyeopdan to stay quiet for now.’

When Eun Serin clenched her fist, some information leaked out.

[Updated information available.]

‘Report on Gate Phenomenon Analysis’

-Can ‘we’ artificially control the resonance phenomenon?

-The resonance phenomenon occurring inside gates happens with a low probability of 5%.

-Gates are basically eroded spaces; when the concentration of magic power and erosion becomes abnormally high on one side, it consumes the other side.

-If we could control this, we could inflict even greater damage on the ‘monster groups.’

Eun Serin examined this material carefully.

“Well, we humans lack information about gates. It seems ‘the other side’ is also researching diligently. If that could be artificially controlled, gates would become much more unstable.”

Eun Serin was reading the information with cold eyes when she suddenly turned it off.

She sensed someone outside the door. She knew who it was.

It was Dokgo Jun. Dokgo Jun greeted her casually.

“We meet often.”

“It’s my regular patrol route. Your house was attacked, and your ‘husband’ died.”

“!”

Eun Serin’s expression quickly hardened. Wasn’t information about her husband supposed to be unknown to everyone?

“I apologize for my rudeness. Was the matter of your husband a secret?”

“How much do you know? Please stop probing like this. It’s unpleasant.”

“You took Do Jonghyun out recently, didn’t you?”

“I was trying to prevent the department head from expelling him. Ask if you’re curious.”

Dokgo Jun stepped back lightly.

“I should be grateful that he wasn’t expelled, thanks to you.”

“Why?”

“Because he’s quite an interesting talent. Good leadership skills despite having no summoning spirit… What do you think?”

“Giving up without trying isn’t right. Even without a summoning spirit, with that level of judgment, he could be helpful anywhere. Rather than this, why don’t you recruit him?”

Dokgo Jun didn’t answer. He just smiled as he retreated.

“I’d like to recruit him, but there are many obstacles.”

With that, Dokgo Jun left.

*

I shouted excitedly as we escaped.

“We’re out! No need to fight anymore! Our report will get top marks!”

“Do Jonghyun! Isn’t it convenient for you to do absolutely nothing?”

Aerial yelled at me, but Gu Sangheon carried me on his back.

“This is amazing! Thanks to you, it was easy.”

“It was easy because of Jonghyun’s directions. We really need to learn from this.”

Following Seol Yuhwa, Han Minwoo slapped my back.

It was a show of silent trust.

Everything would have been over if we just kept going, but unfortunately, the resonance phenomenon wasn’t finished.

The ground in front of us collapsed, revealing a creature that looked like two moths or bugs fused together.

“?”

As everyone backed away in confusion, countless stone fragments shot through the air from underground.

Where to? Toward us, of course.

“Everyone, get behind me!”

As Han Minwoo raised Perseus’s shield, a storm of stones swept over us.

“What is that now?”

“Are those two creatures stuck together?”

Everyone was confused, and I didn’t look happy either.

‘That’s an A-rank new species Twin Moth, isn’t it?’

A monster with two creatures attached like one. For reference, they weren’t a single creature but literally two separate ones stuck together.

That meant double the attacks, but slower movement.

While I was analyzing this in my head, I noticed everyone staring at me.

They were all asking me with their eyes, “What is that?”

Come on, I’m not an encyclopedia. Even if I know, I shouldn’t know with my current awareness!

“It’s a new species. I haven’t seen it before either, but it looks like two creatures appearing as one, rather than one creature appearing as two.”

“If it’s a new species, what’s the strategy?”

Just then, Aerial started burning it with magic power.

“Most insects are weak against fire attributes, right? I’ll attack with this. Jonghyun doesn’t know much anyway.”

No, that’s not right. It’s two creatures—one with earth attributes and one with water attributes. Many people have been defeated trying to attack with fire attributes.

The thought echoed in my head, but I couldn’t say it out loud.

“Is it hard to escape?”

“It’s blocking our way. Stupid Jonghyun. Even if we can escape, how would you, a lower-class student with no abilities, get away? We’ll have to fight after all.”

Aerial tried to break through the storm with her sword.

“Don’t go straight at it! They’re stuck together, so we need to target that point.”

“I know that much!”

Aerial disappeared before my eyes. With my poor physical abilities, there was only one way to track where she went.

I had to follow the gazes of the upper-class students.

I saw Han Minwoo’s eyes move to the right. As my gaze followed, I saw Aerial circling in that direction.

The two creatures try to act as one body, which is their weakness, but one of them can turn to defend.

“Aerial! It’s coming!”

The moment I shouted, water attribute energy poured out in front of Gram.

And that energy engulfed Aerial.

Damn, this is dangerous. We just came from another battle, so the damage will be worse.

Without anyone saying anything, Han Minwoo advanced while Gu Sangheon ran to the opposite side.

Yes, they realized from what I said that they should attack from both directions.

Han Minwoo started running.

He saw Aerial rolling in front of him and raised his shield to block the attack from that direction.

As expected, I could see that one of Aerial’s arms was mangled.

“I have to do it.”

Seol Yuhwa stood up, touching Brisingamen. She looked mentally exhausted.

“Aerial was pushed back so easily because of what I did. I need to help.”

“Yuhwa.”

Yes, if Seol Yuhwa could somehow silence one of them, we could gang up on the remaining one and capture it.

“Huh?”

But the ground we were standing on began to rumble.

It was trying to cause an earthquake by moving the ground. Aimed at us.

“Damn it!”

“Jonghyun! Run away!”

Han Minwoo roared like a bear at us, and I quickly backed away.

But Yu Deokmin panicked and fell down.

“Go first!”

At that moment, when Seol Yuhwa activated Brisingamen, the earthquake mysteriously stopped.

“Deokmin, we need to get out of here! We need to leave so they can fight without worrying about us!”

I forcibly lifted Yu Deokmin, but the situation wasn’t good.

The geniuses had figured out the strategy, but they were still being overwhelmed by the enemy’s offensive.

Han Minwoo was busy defending Aerial, and Seol Yuhwa was concentrating but didn’t know how to deal with the new species.

Gu Sangheon, who had been running, was pushed back by the monster that had been freed from dealing with Aerial.

“Damn… at this rate…”

Everyone could die. But transforming here would be… too dangerous.

“Aagh!”

Then Seol Yuhwa collapsed along with Brisingamen.

The now freer monster was concentrating its attacks on Han Minwoo.

This is dangerous. At this rate…

“Deokmin, let’s run toward the exit. We’ll go get help.”

“O-okay!”

“Run!”

Yu Deokmin ran first, and I pretended to follow before turning around.

This field is a jungle. In other words, it can have the same effects as a forest.

Insects boast the highest stat increases under the assumption that they can adapt.

[Half-Insect Sura]

I don’t need a field card. I’ve already received adaptability here.

What I want is a new weapon. Rather than revealing myself by jumping into that chaotic battle, I need to provide support from a distance.

To save everyone, I need a powerful sub-card.

I need one powerful shot in an instant. It’ll be random, but at least let it be something strong.

I purchased a special sub-card from the monster point store.

[Special Sub-Card Purchase]

-3,000 DNA points

-Can be used with mechanical component cards.

Yes, I’ll sacrifice my last component card.

[3,000 points consumed, component card consumed]

In front of me, a card began to shine and change colors.

“A blue card?”

When the sub-card grade appeared, second only to silver, I almost shouted.

And a new sub-card appeared before my eyes.

[Firearm Armor Level 10]

-Only equippable by insect and machine types

-Stores attribute energy to deliver a powerful ranged strike to enemies.

I activated the card in my Half-Insect Sura state.

Then, silver mechanical armor equipped itself on my upper body.

Similar to an output limiter device, but with one addition.

A cannon appeared on my shoulder.

[Aim]

Instinct tells me. This mechanical cannon will blow away the enemy.

It was when the new species monster was pushing everyone back.

The cannon attached to the insect body was charging energy to be fired at the enemy.

[Attribute Conversion]

The attribute I’ll change to here is wind, which is effective against both earth and water.

I aim with the power of wind loaded.

[Wind Attribute]

I prepared the converted energy aimed at the earth attribute one and took a deep breath.

I don’t know how destructive it will be.

But if I don’t do it now, everyone will die.

“Die!”

Firearm Armor Level 10 distorted the wind as it fired.

The power flew toward the enemy with tremendous speed.

So fast that the Twin Moth, focused on attacking, couldn’t even see it coming.

In front of my eyes, one of the Twin Moths had its body pierced through. But the wind energy still carried enough impact to make the remaining moth stagger.

-2,000 DNA points acquired!

The points for handling one creature came to me. As for the remaining one…

Han Minwoo rushed in and began to fight.

The moment his shield became a weapon, the injured remaining creature was only able to defend.

When Gu Sangheon joined in, they finally started landing effective hits.

The finishing blow was Aerial’s thrown Gram piercing through its body.

I’ve been thinking that Aerial seems much better at using Gram as a throwing weapon.

-2,000 DNA points acquired!

Huh? I’m getting points even though I didn’t kill it?

If I influence it and then others kill it, does that count as my kill too?

I realized an unexpected fact. Anyway, now that it’s resolved, I need to escape and deactivate my transformation.

In that state, I ran to the opposite side and deactivated my transformation.

“Phew. It’s resolved.”

As I was running toward the others, Seol Yuhwa suddenly appeared in front of me.

“Ah! Jonghyun? What are you doing here?”

“Deokmin and I were going to the exit for help, but I lost him. How’s the situation now?”

“Ah… it’s been handled. Let’s leave the gate now.”

Seol Yuhwa turned her head to look beyond me, then took my hand and pulled me along.

“By the way, did you see any monsters around here?”

“I was just hiding, so I don’t know.”

“I see. Well, I’m just glad everyone’s alive.”

And so ended our eventful report submission journey.

Having gone in just to investigate but experiencing a king-class monster, resonance, and a new species—the complete package—the school was sure to be in an uproar.

The next day, we submitted our report, and as expected, the school was turned upside down.