LM Chapter 240
Volume 9 / Chapter 240
TL: LightNovelCafe
Editor: Hungry Panda
Cha Jun Sung extended his tail and slid into the hole.
He is black, so he is automatically camouflaged into the dark environment. He can attack from a far distance of hundreds of meters based on how this is used.
He needs to reduce the Rage guild’s power as much as possible before all of the flying Bomb Ants are killed. In a messy fight, they are more likely to die by an arrow coming from far away.
Ack!
A Lifer looks at his chest.
He had been pierced by something black and sharp. He didn’t think for long. His heart had been penetrated.
This happened repeatedly.
He attacked with a concentration on fatal organs like the heart, brain, and lungs. He cut off their arms and legs if he couldn’t get the proper angle.
Rather than attacking half-heartedly, he had more to gain crippling them. Cha Jun Sung is an excellent hunter. He was so sneaky that the Rage guild thought that they were facing two types of mutants, and tried to kill them.
A Lifer who uses a sword like Cha Jun Sung does, brandishes his sword.
It was a metallic surprise.
But that was it.
His tail wrapped around the sword, went through the Lifer’s chin, and through his brain. Besides this, there were dozens of others who died in unique ways.
Cha Jun Sung roared and the Bomb Ants jumped out of the ant hill, falling into the abyss.
It became a sea of bombs.
The last attack.
Screaming continues. At the end of that screaming, the Rage guild that had suffered severe damages got through the Bomb Ants and rediscovered their freedom.
Bang!
Cha Jun Sung stopped the boring hunting, spread his wings, and went into the middle of the Rage guild members.
And then he spun hard.
“Swivel. It’s a skill I named.”
Hundreds of tails, each of which have the sharpness of vibrating weapons, created a black storm with his body’s torque. It is an attack that digs into the weak point from beginning to end.
The Rage guild members who had not been able to get away, were ripped apart as if they had gotten stuck in a blender.
Cha Jun Sung killed those coming up.
It kept flowing on. He has to kill as many of them as he can before someone stops him by force.
“b.a.s.t.a.r.d!”
Cha Jun Sung kept maintaining the swivel, and his eye went to the location of the yell momentarily.
A red light sphere is flying at him.
It is a light bomb.
Papat!
Bang!
The light bomb creates off a hail of red light and has an evaporating phenomenon. It isn’t a power that he would get hit by even as a joke.
A level C Lifer would die upon getting hit. It is dangerous to have it even graze by. In the line of bombs, it is the strongest of firearms.
Cha Jun Sung would be able to withstand it with his body, but he has no intention of taking the hit. He still has a long way to go.
Cha Jun Sung created distance between himself and Tyrant and Rage guild.
Odin a.n.a.lyzes the damage situation. It applied to how many people were left.
[60% are dead. A lot injured are as well. Once the medical personnel fall behind, you will realistically be facing off against 2 or 3 raids.]
He killed 6000 people with the Ant h.e.l.l. It is a proper ma.s.sacre. A giant ma.s.sacre. Even so, Cha Jun Sung didn’t feel anything.
Rather, his blood boiled. He needs to kill them all anyway.
6000?
He needs to kill 4000 more. It’s a small number relative to the total 10,000 that he needs to kill.
“Master!”
“I can see it too.”
Tyrant’s glares at Cha Jun Sung with caution and distrust.
A huge mutant covered in black.
He is sure that this mutant is at the center of this mission, with its unique method of attack and cunning tricks.
How is it here?
He had come looking for Cha Jun Sung, but to find the level 8 Black Devil. Tyrant flared up in anger.
There isn’t a single thing related to Cha Jun Sung that has gone right.
It was always twisted and he was always the one to be disadvantaged.
Cha Jun Sung was always the one to benefit.
Look. Look at this ridiculous situation.
‘Did he lure me here?’
If he forces the puzzle pieces together, Cha Jun Sung could have figured out his ident.i.ty and lured him to where the Black Devil is.
He grinds his teeth. Hard.
Bang!
While Tyrant was lost in his thoughts, Cha Jun Sung looked at the Rage guild with 9 of his eyes and then suddenly ran away.
“We’re chasing it.”
After suffering such damages, they need to catch it no matter what.
It is the main focus of this mission.
His priority switched from Cha Jun Sung to Black Devil. Tyrant only left 1 force to take care of the injured. He can’t leave more behind. He intends on using all of his power to kill Black Devil.
[They are following.]
“I’m at a disadvantage if it’s everyone including Tyrant.”
[I have made a lot of preparations. This is the world of mutants. Mutant Cha Jun Sung will be able to overcome the inferiority in numbers.]
“Yeah, since mutants are Lifers’ enemies. Let’s get into it.”
Cha Jun Sung raised his flight speed.
It is the battlefield Jigneon created for him. The feast has been created for him. He needs to pick up the spoon himself.
Bang!
A blurry tail.
A black object stretches out and pa.s.ses through the air. Its speed is comparable to that of a jet, and the air splits.
It is Cha Jun Sung in his awakened state.
He surpa.s.ses the speed of sound with abilities that transcend not just those of humans, but also of same level mutants.
Objects flew by, but Cha Jun Sung was aware of everything pa.s.sing by. His superhuman sense of sight allowed him to do this.
“Where are they?”
[They are following 4km behind. The distance is closing.]
“Tyrant, right?”
[Yes.]
Cha Jun Sung knows battlesuits well.
Flight consumes a lot of energy. Level C has less energy and it cannot reach the speed of sound.
It can get close, but that is it. The output cannot hold out.
30 minutes hadn’t pa.s.sed since they started the chase, but most of them had already fallen back.
They must be busy charging their energy while in flight.
Level B is better than C, but it is still lacking to catch up with Cha Jun Sung. In Rage guild, Tyrant is the only one who has a battleship with the ability to catch up to and stay on Cha Jun Sung.
Maybe if there had been level A Lifers, but there are no Lifers between levels S and B in Rage. There is a big gap in their own group.
Boom boom!
Cha Jun Sung looked back at the sound of a booster accelerating.
He is far, but clearly visible.
As Odin said, Tyrant closed in the distance. Cha Jun Sung isn’t a flying mutant. He is just imitating one with his body morphing. This is the fastest that he can fly.
[2km.]
“That guy will think that he can buy time even if he can’t beat me. His guild members will get here if he just holds on to me.”
Tyrant isn’t the type of person to take danger on behalf of others.
He is just trying to hold on to Cha Jun Sung a little until his subordinates arrive. Unless Tyrant does this himself, they will lose Cha Jun Sung due to a lack of ability.
[You will arrive at the first point in 15 seconds, the Crocodile Beak nest.]
Cha Jun Sung goes higher.
Atop a cliff, he can see a small mountain. The Crocodile Beak nest is there.
They are mutants that aren’t that special, the size of a small car with the body structure of a typical bird and the mouth of crocodiles.
They are low level, too.
Cha Jun Sung reduced his flight speed and watched the Crocodile Beaks. They fly well. They are flying in the direction he wants them to go in.
“The leftovers!”
Bang!
Tyrant throws two light bombs. The Crocodile Beaks heading toward him were unable to avoid the attack, and are swept. It looks like about a fourth of them died.
The Crocodile Beaks recognize Tyrant as an enemy.
They witnessed a tremendous scene, but he doesn’t smell like a predator and there is only one of him.
They bravely ran at him, but there was no use.
1 minute.
That was the amount of time it took for Tyrant to annihilate all of the Crocodile Beaks. When he threw light bombs everywhere, they were all blown up without the chance to even run away.
Papat!
Cha Jun Sung had been stopped in the air for a moment, and began flapping his wings again.
Volume 9 / Chapter 241
TL: LightNovelCafe
Editor: Hungry Panda
‘It’s using mutants?’
He cannot believe it.
The way this mutant fights is entirely different from the way the mutants he has experienced until now fought. It felt like he was going against an experienced and skilled soldier.
This mutant is using its environment and the mutants living in its territory.
In flight at that. It understands how battlesuits perform.
He gets gooseb.u.mps.
That isn’t just being smart. He can see the trap, but he can’t stop the chase. He needs to kill the Black Devil if he wants to complete the mission. He can’t know when he’ll find it again if he loses it now. The Rage guild has suffered too many damages.
They would just be taking a huge hit.
It could be creating a trap somewhere, so he needs to end everything in the initial place where they found it.
“Follow me.”
Cha Jun Sung has the strength of a top level 8.
This means he has absolute influence over the mutants in this world.
While Cha Jun Sung was digging the Ant h.e.l.l with the Bomb Ants, he used the Universe Eye to search the locations of flying mutants below them.
He hadn’t been able to find many through the first 3 he had installed.
Cha Jun Sung and Tyrant may feel equally strong to mutants, but instinct makes them surrender to Cha Jun Sung.
He used his level 8 standing to his advantage. He is like a commander forcing flying mutants into battle whether they want to go in or not.
That is how he makes them go against Tyrant.
He doesn’t need to exercise his dominion or manage them separately. All he needs to do is know their location.
They won’t be a match for Tyrant’s combat skills, but they will be able to chip away at his power.
There are a lot of mutants. There are a lot of flying mutants too.
If he thrusts them all at Tyrant, he will reach his limit even if he is a complete level S.
If that happens, he will put his subordinates forward and Cha Jun Sung will kill them one by one. He will end it all once he has killed enough of them.
This is the land of mutants.
Not of Lifers.
Cha Jun Sung is like a king here.
On the other hand, Lifers are savages who have invaded the king’s territory.
There are still many places he needs to go.
Most levels 3 and 4 are small in number, but there are a few that are useful even in small numbers.
“Those guys in particular will be able to deliver a hit.”
It is hard to find level 7s, but he installed 8 Universe Eyes.
7 were left after one was destroyed, but there is no way that they won’t be able to find a level 7 with such an extensive search area. He found two species.
A male and female pair is living 120km away.
He needs to make Tyrant follow him there. He will test him a few times and then take the win. That will be the final place where he and Tyrant settle this.
Ack!
Tyrant yells.
His evil shout full of rage, rings throughout the area. Murderous intent emanates from it.
Blood drips down his battlesuit. Chunks of flesh are stuck on it too. Remnants of various species of mutants.
Rage guild members are standing around Tyrant.
About half a day has pa.s.sed since they started chasing Cha Jun Sung, but there is no sign of progress. They keep feeling like they might catch him, but they never actually do. It actually felt like their allied powers were dwindling from tricks that they could see but had to endure even while knowing they were happening.
Cha Jun Sung, who Tyrant knows as Black Devil, made his escape routes the nests of flying mutants and moved through those. Whenever it feels like he is about to get caught, a mutant nest appears. There aren’t very many, but there are enough to hold Tyrant back.
When this kept happening, Tyrant fell back in order to save his energy, and ordinary Lifers filled in that empty s.p.a.ce as Cha Jun Sung had expected.
Rage guild is superior in terms of power, but a few Lifers died every time they annihilated hundreds of mutants.
“There’s definitely an effect.”
Cha Jun Sung looked at Tyrant in satisfaction.
Bringing different mutants together and controlling them is hard even for Cha Jun Sung. He would be able to do it if he wanted to, but it would be extremely difficult.
Dominion is forced. It doesn’t bring out sincerity. He chose the Bomb Ants because if their unique breeding power and efficiency.
[I think you will be able to lure them to the nest.]
“I’ll have to. There’s still a lot of them left, but it’s time to take the bait.”
Cha Jun Sung fell behind Tyrant and attacked the Rage guild members from among the mutants.
He used the mutants as shields.
He was able to reduce the force that had followed by about 30 to 40%.
“He’s more concerned with his pride than he is about the damages wreaked on others. I’m sure he thinks it’s fine if his guild members die out as long as he can catch me. Though he’ll probably see the reduced force at the end of the mission and go crazy.”
It isn’t a personality that can simply be described as egotistic and proud.
Strategist, Blood King, and Dark Side would have come up with the optimal plan to take him on rather than chasing him like this. There is only one reason that Cha Jun Sung knows of for why Tyrant is doing this.
“He thinks of his guild members as expendables.”
What are expendables?
Something you use once and throw away.
He thinks that he can replace them whenever he wants, so he is chasing him to such extents while suffering devastation.
That persistence resulted in his force being seeded out by the flying mutants that Cha Jun Sung brought them to.
He could do this dozens more times if they were to go farther away, but that would take them away from a level 7 domain.
He needs to mind his energy too. Cha Jun Sung will have to finish it up in the end.
He cannot kill the entire Rage guild by pushing subordinate mutants that die out quickly, on them.
He can’t just try to make gains. He needs to be prepared to lose, too.
Cha Jun Sung intends on ending this at the nest that they will go to next. They will become reliable allies.
Cha Jun Sung didn’t exercise his dominion over level 7 flying mutants in the first place because he knew that they would not succ.u.mb readily.
They are with hundreds lower level mutants, so he would have to kill them too if they got into a fight. So what could he do? He can only use them like this.
He could take a lot of damages with repulsive force if he tried to exercise dominion by force, and he discovered them later than he did the Bomb Ants.
Half a day had pa.s.sed since he started running away from Tyrant.
It is a long time considering Cha Jun Sung’s speed at 120km, but he had been late in arriving because he had gone back and forth here and there.
“I see it.”
A bustling metropolis.
High rises are lined up.
They are on the roof of a building so high they can’t see the ground. On top of the highest buildings at the center, in the middle of a bustling metropolis.
They are a pair of 9 Bijous.
As birds with 9 wings, they look very strange.
With feathers from head to hip, they look like western dragons other than the fact that they don’t have tails. Their heads were those of birds and not dragons, and their coats were made of fur and not scales.
Their sharply curled toenails look exactly like chicken feet. To put it simply, they look like the semblance of birds were forced onto the bodies of dragons.
They have two pairs of wings on either side, four pairs of wings with another single wing on their backs. The wing on the back controlled directions for quick turns. In airplane terms, they play the role of rudders. That is why they are much more advantaged in aerial war.
Flying mutants are in place in the buildings near the 9 Bijou in rank order, and they are not the same species.
They are underlings that are clinging to a stronger being. They number in just hundreds, but they can be called a force because they are made up of levels 5 and 6.
Cha Jun Sung found his destination, stopped flapping his wings, and met the 9 Bijous’ nest at eye level.
Then he made a move to let them know that he arrived.
Kik?
The female turned her long neck like a giraffe’s and looks at Cha Jun Sung. There is murderous intent in her eyes. The sleeping male also woke up.
His reaction is the same.
They show the desire to kill him immediately.
“They’re p.i.s.sed.”
[You played around with them so much, so it’d be weirder if they weren’t.]
Cha Jun Sung bothered the 9 Bijous a little for practice before Tyrant arrived.
He didn’t fight them, but he kept challenging them from far away and running away.
These guys didn’t surrender to him like other mutants did.
They are doing their level’s worth.
The 9 Bijous withstand his power unlike the other mutants that got scared out of their wits whenever Cha Jun Sung roared.
“I need to call them in. Can’t chase them away.”
He can’t roar at the 9 Bijous and send them to Tyrant. They don’t run away toward Tyrant, and come at him.
He realized after failing a few times. He needs to call them from the direction that he is going in.
[Tyrant will catch up in 30 seconds.]
“Good.”
The 9 Bijous only watch Cha Jun Sung far away. They don’t take any definitive actions.
But when he got closer…
Kyak!
The male and female spread their nine 40 meter wings that are a few times Cha Jun Sung’s size, and soar into the sky. He didn’t come here to fight them. He came to instigate.
Bang!
Cha Jun Sung had been keeping distance between Tyrant and himself, and now ran away toward Tyrant. The 9 Bijous are coming from behind him and Tyrant’s group is coming from the front.
They were about to overlap, but he is relaxed.
It is just 30 seconds.
He reduced the time so rapidly it couldn’t be felt, and they were coming from either side so Cha Jun Sung and Tyrant quickly met up.
“9 – 9 Bijous!”
The Rage guild hesitates. Tyrant is taken aback too.
In that time, Cha Jun Sung bypa.s.sed the Rage guild, killed a few, and went by.
Kyak!
The 9 Bijous come down on the Rage guild members and Tyrant, who haven’t been able to get a handle on the situation.
Volume 9 / Chapter 242
TL: LightNovelCafe
Editor: Hungry Panda
Kyak!
A pair of 9 Bijous and hundreds of levels 5 and 6 mutants mix with the Rage guild, fighting with them. They don’t even know why they are fighting each other.
Just because they saw each other and collided?
The Rage guild wanted to avoid meaningless energy consumption, but that is not the case for mutants. They are beings that act on instinct rather than reason. They recognized the Lifers as enemies without thinking deeply into it. They were just going at the Lifers without considering the consequences.
Papat!
Cha Jun Sung fought as well.
The 9 Bijous alone cannot take on the Rage guild. They will cause a lot of damage, but they will all eventually be killed.
This is because Tyrant is there.
So he needs to get Tyrant separate. It would be good if they killed him, but he isn’t an opponent that they can kill within a short amount of time.
“Black Devil!”
Cha Jun Sung breaks up the Rage guild members and goes at Tyrant. Bullets rain on him and all kinds of bombs fly at him, but his strong body withstands all of it and pushes through. Then he brandished his tail at length.
Rage guild members’ hips get sliced through. Their upper and lower bodies were separate – instant death.
Tyrant of course, avoided this attack. That is what Cha Jun Sung had intended.
Bang!
Cha Jun Sung went at Tyrant all of a sudden and body checked him. He followed after Tyrant who went flying, and slammed his shoulder into him.
Tyrant plummeted to the ground with the tremendous impact from the successive blows. Cha Jun Sung followed after Tyrant and watched the situation in the sky.
They are deep in battle.
Tyrant won’t be able to support them. They are two level 7s and there are too few level B Lifers.
They need at least 1000 people to take on the 9 Bijous. It doesn’t matter even if hundreds of level C Lifers go running in as well. There are a bunch of levels 5 and 6, too.
Boom boom!
Tyrant finds his balance by turning on his booster as he fell. But that was after Cha Jun Sung had already gotten in front of him.
His tail became sharp like a spear and jabs into the sky. Tyrant’s battlesuit predicts the attack path and a.n.a.lyzes Cha Jun Sung’s pattern. Tyrant avoids the attacks and takes out a light bomb. He is going to reverse the attack.
[He will have a.n.a.lyzed the pattern by now. But a.n.a.lyzing a body morphing mutant’s pattern is impossible.]
Odin was sure.
There is no way to know how he will attack, with what. On top of that, Cha Jun Sung is also a Lifer before he is a mutant.
He knows a lot about his enemy and himself, but Tyrant only knows about himself. It is an unfair fight. It’s because Borteth broke the rules.
Zing.
In an attack like flash of lightning, Tyrant set off the light bomb from his side.
He had chosen an extreme measure when Cha Jun Sung didn’t fall.
Cha Jun Sung’s body rips.
His skin burned from the light bomb’s power.
It isn’t severe, but there is damage. It really does have a lot of power.
‘It’s configured in affiliation series with high temperature and explosion like in the virtual version. They focused on making the armor lightweight too.’
The heat fades away and Tyrant appears. His battlesuit is blackened, but that is insignificant. It seems he modeled it like that since he is someone who uses bombs.
On top of that, his armor is thick like Han Chang Jin’s Iron Defense. As someone who uses bombs, he can’t leave out the possibility of having to set them off at close range.
Under the a.s.sumption that he is wearing a level S battlesuit, he would have caught Cha Jun Sung already without having to come all the way here if he had been a speed-focused Lifer.
Tyrant’s is level S, but it is on the slow side. This is because of the armor.
‘I’m sure it’ll be durable, too.’
As thick as the armor is, it’ll have more defensive power and durability.
He knows a lot including Tyrant’s combat style, but he doesn’t know up to where his battlesuit is focused in performance. He will figure out the details after facing off. It is fastest to learn with his body.
“I’ll kill you!”
Tyrant who is in the ground, growls like an angry tiger. As long as it has come to this, he needs to kill this mutant himself. It isn’t a situation in which he can expect support.
‘If it’s a level 8.’
As far as Tyrant knows, a 9 combination battlesuit with a complete Lifer’s combat ability in the virtual version was stronger than level 8, but weaker than level 9.
Cha Jun Sung is the only one who succeeded in a level 9 Evil Queen raid with a 10 combination battlesuit. He has only fought a level 8 once, but this mutant feels similar. That is why he can win against the Black Devil in front of him.
‘Stupid b.a.s.t.a.r.d. Blame it on inexperience.’
Cha Jun Sung read Tyrant’s self-confidence and clucked his tongue in his mind.
Lifer combat ability is similar by level to the virtual version, but mutants are different. They are a little stronger. That’s the feeling he got from fighting Vanessa.
He lost in a 2 against 1 fight when Vanessa went through her second awakening. They might have been on the same level if they had been going one-on-one, but a loss is a loss.
Vanessa is just close to level 9, she isn’t a complete level 9. But he couldn’t beat her with a 10 combination battlesuit.
‘The virtual version is a game. The operator can control the balance, but the reality version is reality. Mutants advance too.’
Even with a full setting of a 10 combination battlesuit and the 10th stage of body modifications, he doesn’t have confidence against a level 9.
It’s 100% death.
So a 9 combination needs no words. Narsiel also saw that of the 36 Rankers, Cha Jun Sung isn’t in an a.s.sisting role, but in militant configuration. If he is at Red Eye and Inferno’s level, two people will have to go at him. Level 8 isn’t as easy as Tyrant is thinking.
Cha Jun Sung is at an advantage even with simple comparison, but he even knows Tyrant’s combat style. They fought several times in the virtual version.
‘I’m going to win.’
He played a virtual battle in his mind multiple times. He won by slight difference. It wasn’t reality, but he doesn’t think that it’ll be much different.
Tyrant’s chest opens and dozens of light bombs spread all over his body. He is taking them out all at once to use them whenever he needs them rather than having to take them out one by one.
Light bombs hang from his combat vest like grenades. It’s just that they were dispersed instead of staying on his chest. It seems they are stuck to him with magnets. And a few went down his back, past his hip and b.u.t.t, to stop at his achilles heel.
‘It’s a landmine.’
Cha Jun Sung pretended not to notice.
As soon as he said this, the one that had been on Tyrant’s achilles heel dug into the ground. He can’t see it happening because Tyrant is blocking it, but he doesn’t need to see to know.
Tyrant can set off this light bomb installed as a landmine whenever he wants to.
He suffered quite a bit when he first fought against Tyrant because of light bomb landmines.
It is better not to move in areas where light bomb landmines have been installed because there’s no way of knowing when they will go off. It is a good way of getting into the enemy’s weakness.
Tyrant finished burying the bomb and took position.
Cha Jun Sung doesn’t retreat either. The fight is over once the head is dead. It’s time to face off properly.
Pipipipit!
Cha Jun Sung’s tail and fingers get longer. Dozens of meters is the basic. He approached Tyrant and stayed as far from him as he could so they wouldn’t collide.
The power of the light bombs is burdensome.
Their power becomes completely different according to the amount of energy Tyrant injects.
If he injects weakly, it is just a few times the power of a grenade. But if it’s enough to use up an entire energy core, it could flatten a small city. Tyrant is a medium distance Lifer, not short or long distance.
Cha Jun Sung is maintaining a long distance, and Tyrant is using all of his strength to narrow the distance.
“d.a.m.n mutant! I won’t let you die easily!”
Cha Jun Sung didn’t respond.
It’s psychological warfare.
Tyrant pretends to get excited in order to make his opponents put their guard down. His personality changes by situation.
Beep beep!
Woong!
The light bomb mode changes.
Then, it chased Cha Jun Sung everywhere he went like a guided missile.
‘It’s out. One of the annoying things.’
Induced light bomb.
It is an annoying technique. It’s work to even hit it and fling it out. It explodes as soon as it gets. .h.i.t. But he doesn’t really want to keep avoiding it either.
Tyrant and the induced light bomb are separate. It is straining to handle Tyrant and the induced light bomb separately.
‘Let’s just block it once.’
Cha Jun Sung’s left arm changes into a rectangular shield.
He is applying White Queen’s technique.
He flung the light bomb coming at him in that state.
Bang bang bang bang bang!
The same impact exploded five times in succession.
The shield crumples.
It regenerated right away as if he had never gotten hurt, but his left arm feels strange.