episode_0040

As the giant caterpillar writhes once, the road is crushed and cars are thrown here and there.

As soon as it wriggled once with its gigantic body, the buildings blocking the caterpillar’s path began to shatter due to its force.

As the giant caterpillar begins to walk around aimlessly, it moves faster than expected and those who cannot avoid it become victims.

“April… . Isn’t that impossible?”

“…I get annoyed when you say that. Shall we attack?”

“No. Let’s retreat for now. At that level, we should focus on rescue.”

April bit her lip and glared at the caterpillar.

“That’s right. That might be the limit for now. And since you are useless, anyway, take the people to the shelter now!”

April leaves for another battlefield and Shinjeul leaves for a designated shelter. We will guide you to a subway station near the building.

But there’s no way I can just hide here.

“Joohwan. You know this area better, right?”

“Uh… . uh… .”

“I’ll check on the others. I’m going with my family for now!”

After saying that it was an urgent situation, Shin Jeul rolled his eyes here and there and looked for a place to hide.

The target is the direction where the giant monster is. He called a virtual train from the corner.

A writhing figure passes between buildings that have already been devastated and burned. At the scene of this devastation, he jumps out of the train.

“Jetman!”

The moment he opened his hand and looked upward, a pillar of light began to surround him.

Eventually, thanks to the pillar of light, the view changes. A situation in which he can clearly see the profile of a wriggling caterpillar.

[AI speaks.]

-Infrared sensor operates to ensure night vision.

On this dark night, the enemy’s shape was visible through the green filtered field of view.

The length alone is over 150m, and in terms of thickness, it is thicker than Killer Bee.

Shin Jeul immediately prepared for a form change.

[Acceleration]

[Equipped with blueprint]

-Elbow blade

A blue pattern is added to his entire body and he feels a surprising sense of lightness.

Equipped with an elbow blade, he took a step forward, and before he knew it, he appeared right in front of the caterpillar monster’s jaw.

Jump into the air and attack the monster’s head with the elbow blade.

Wow.

And isn’t the caterpillar’s head cut off very easily?

“What is it? Why is it so easy?”

He was embarrassed because it was easier than expected, but the caterpillar’s body suddenly started to headbutt him.

“Hmm!”

Because it has a light body, it is easily defeated by such attacks. Shin Je-ul hits the floor by falling.

Trees were falling down and creating cracks in the ground as they touched the ground.

‘There are many inconveniences when fighting in the city.’

It was amazing that he was still alive after cutting off his head, but there was no time to dawdle.

‘It looks like a chicken with its head cut off.’

As a Shinjeul, I felt uneasy because it was so easy, but I actually felt reassured.

His body accelerates and instantly turns to the side of the caterpillar.

The elbow blade mercilessly inflicted irreparable damage on the caterpillar’s body.

Above all, this acceleration mode is fast, regardless of whether the opponent wriggles and defends or not.

He tore the enemy to pieces with ease, and the moment Shin Jeul cut his body in half, he died with bodily fluids splashing out.

[Obtain monster points]

-500

“What? 500? Isn’t it too salty?”

An indication that it had been processed appeared, but Shin Je-ul was not relieved.

[Equipped with blueprint]

-Electricity emitter

Reminiscent of his time as a golem, he burned the severed monster with this electricity generator mounted on his chest.

It’s literally firing electricity until it’s charred.

A caterpillar that is extremely weak compared to the monsters it has fought before. But thanks to that, we won easily.

‘I feel relieved with this.’

Shin Je-ul was about to undo his transformation and return to the shelter.

My phone rang and the alarm sounded again.

“No way?”

[Giant monster appears! A giant monster appears!]

There were still many larvae.

“Holy shit!”

Find out the location of Shinjeul and move to the vicinity again.

However, when they arrived and were about to transform, an additional alarm for the appearance of a monster went off.

As he runs to deal with the giant caterpillar that appears nearby, he also checks on the other two.

‘Two in Suwon!’

The distance was quite far from here. If it were a virtual train, it would be easy to travel, but the problem is that it would have to be transformed as many as three times.

But first, deal with the enemy in front of you first. Shin Je-ul began his second consecutive transformation again.

“Ugh!”

While he is wincing at the pain that is stronger than before, he encounters another caterpillar.

[Form Change]

-enforce

Since I realized that the enemy was weak, there was no need to show mercy.

Equip Lamia’s power with the reinforced form. I pressed down on the caterpillar with the strength of my thicker arm gloves.

One punch created a hole in the caterpillar’s body, and Shinjeul ripped the monster in half through the hole.

The writhing body of the caterpillar starts shaking in a disgusting way, but soon becomes quiet.

[Obtain monster points]

-500

After the transformation was over again, I tried to move to Suwon, but the fatigue of my body kept coming.

“Phew… . Phew… .”

Before I know it, I’m sweating profusely and I’m out of breath. As expected, if you transform for the third time, you may have to lie down altogether.

“Still… .”

It must be stopped.

Because it is his mission. I took the virtual train to Suwon to go even though it was difficult.

He landed where the monster was rampaging, but he was able to see something surprising.

Tanks, self-propelled guns, and missile bombardments were raining down on the monster.

And the caterpillar monster cannot withstand it and falls down helplessly.

‘I don’t have to transform?’

Shin Je-ul watches the scene while wiping away the sweat.

This wasn’t the only thing.

The other side also succeeded in burning the monster with the cooperation of the world’s leading awakened guild and the military.

I don’t know if it was because the monster was particularly weak, but fortunately I was able to defeat the other two as well.

“Thank goodness.”

Shin Je-ul collapsed into his seat with relief.

***

9 o’clock in the morning. There was nothing we could do about the destroyed city, but the city that had been cleaned up to some extent was quiet.

The awakened people and military unit that worked all night to rescue people still looked happy.

“It may be a bit weak, but we caught a giant monster!”

“I knocked down his tentacle with an ether bullet. What a great performance!”

Humanity was always busy running away whenever a giant monster appeared, so this victory was quite meaningful.

For reference, one more giant caterpillar appeared during dawn.

However, they succeeded in capturing it through a preemptive strike by the military and the sequential deployment of awakened people.

We made sure that the victory was not due to luck.

In particular, the White Dragon Alliance, ranked 7th in the world’s guild rankings, made a remarkable contribution in capturing the giant monster.

Leader Ahn Hong-seok wiped his sweat.

“Maybe it’s because it’s a giant monster, but even though I projected ether with all my might, I ended up getting slightly injured? A giant monster is a giant monster.”

“When I saw Jetman fight, I thought he was just a passing mob, right? It definitely belongs to the weak axis.”

“Hey, that’s still the limit for us.”

They did their best to catch the caterpillar that Jetman easily caught.

They say it’s weak, but it’s their job.

That makes me even more proud.

Next to them, the brown, burnt corpse of a caterpillar stood proud of its heavy presence.

While the White Dragon Guild was proudly looking at the loot, one guild member approached the burned corpse.

“Hey, don’t get close because you might be resurrected.”

“Guild leader! You’re really being unlucky. Hahaha!”

He’s relaxed enough to joke, but isn’t that guild member putting his ear to a monster’s corpse?

“Guild leader. Is there a strange sound coming from inside this?”

“What?”

“Something strange like a beating sound… .”

The White Dragon Guild is the 7th ranked guild in the world. The moment they heard this, everyone thought of the same thing and their expressions turned scary.

“Attack!”

Following his command, one guild member pulled out an etheric sword energy that was over 10 meters long and tried to cut the corpse apart in one go.

However, it went in slightly, and the blue energy cannon of the White Dragon Guild Leader fell upwards like a meteor.

A huge flash of light rises, and a hole appears in the monster’s body, and everyone focuses their attacks on it.

“What’s inside!”

“Liquid?”

The liquid kept splashing around inside and something strange was stirring.

Eventually, after receiving permission for the missile and the combined attack of the awakened people, the monster’s body was torn apart.

And isn’t a huge amount of liquid pouring onto the floor, and isn’t it a by-product of a certain shape pouring out of it?

The White Dragon Alliance leader was dumbfounded and was speechless for a moment.

“This… . It was a pupa.”

“Ah! Come to think of it, I wonder if there was a reason why Jetman moved even after cutting off his head… .”

What if the face visible on the surface was a disguise and the body was inside? What if it grows to a certain extent and then turns into a chrysalis?

“Contact the commander. It’s urgent!”

The White Dragon Guild returned the call and gunfire began to ring out in Gyeonggi-do once again.

***

Shin Jeul paid the price of continuous transformation.

Perhaps because it was so easy to catch, the aftereffects were returned with the word tardiness.

“Tardiness… .”

When he woke up, it was already 10:30 am. Beyond being late, so long has passed that I just wanted to take a day off.

Shin Jeul quickly washed his face and put on his school uniform.

But as he was getting ready to leave, he kept hearing noises from outside.

It’s like a roaring sound coming from afar.

The moment Shin Je-ul turned on his phone just in case, he saw something shocking.

[Two giant monsters have hatched into wasps and are currently heading north toward the academy!]

“What?”

Shin Jeul urgently called a virtual train.

[…One of them suffered a wing injury during hatching and cannot fly properly, and the remaining one is shooting down helicopters in the sky.]

The news was showing breaking news about the current situation, and more than anything, the place these two monsters were going to was the Temporary Academy.

When Shin Jeul arrived at the temporary academy by virtual train, two huge bees were already destroying the building.

“Oh my god… .”

It was the first bee he faced, but in a different form. The saliva was greatly developed and both tentacles were much thicker and longer.

‘cock?’

Shin Jeul had no time to worry about this. Because monsters were randomly destroying the building right before my eyes.

In his eyes, he saw students running away from the building.

The support departments are in a hurry.

He was running there and asking about the situation.

Seok Ju-hwan urgently shouted at him.

“Jeul! Deokhoon couldn’t come out from inside!”

“What?”

“I heard there’s something I need to take care of!”

“!”

When Shin Je-ul heard this, his head turned white.

He pretended to evacuate and went to the bathroom and got back on the virtual train.

The location is near the monster.

And I tried to enter the training room, but the debris had already piled up.

“Deokhun! Where are you?”

A voice groaning at the urgent call was heard.

“J…Ul….?”

As I followed the weak voice, I heard Ahn Deok-hoon’s voice over the rubble of the training room.

“Jeul…th. we… . Designed and sketched… . data… . that… .”

“You idiot! Why do you care about that? I don’t care about my life.”

“Hehe… . Still, it’s on the USB. however… . I can’t go out?”

“Deokhoon!”

“Still, I’m glad I’m friends with you.”

As Deok-Hoon finishes speaking, a huge compound eye passes right next to him.

“…!”

A situation that gives goosebumps all over your body. Shin Je-ul ran to Ahn Deok-hoon.

“I was glad to be friends with you too. It’s embarrassing to be in this situation. After all, it’s good to open up your inner feelings.”

“Hehe… . I’m glad I heard it before I die.”

“I won’t die.”

Shin Jeul thought it was finally time. It is more urgent than expected, but it has to be now.

“Listen carefully. Jeul, If I ‘transform’ and save you, I’ll send you to the warehouse I was talking about earlier.”

“…What do you mean? Jeulth. Transformation?”

“Probably, it didn’t work out in the nick of time. Please.”

“Jeul?”

Leaving Ahn Deok-hoon dumbfounded, the giant monster’s tentacles now attack as if they were going to blow up the entire place.

And Shin Je-ul stretched his hand upward.

“Jetman!”

With the pillar of light, Shin Jeul transformed into Jetman.

A pillar of light appears between collapsing buildings. And he was holding Ahn Deok-hun in both hands and glaring at the giant monster.