Life Mission

Volume 9 / Chapter 269

TL: LightNovelCafe

Editor: Hungry Panda

In Three Evil Bones, the 3 level 8s each had their own army for their respective territories.

Lower level mutants who get caught in dominion once become less and less tolerant after. They are being domesticated. This is true for mutants living in groups as well. Whether it is the former or latter, it is because they have become used to accepting someone.

Those that find exercise of dominion difficult act freely because they are either extremely proud because they are the heads of their own groups or they are strong enough to be the heads.

It can be hard to manage if they are gathered with a strong captain at the center and there are hostile forces, but even this is decided through the captain’s capacity.

It must have been possible for Evil Queen to pull together such forces within a week because she had been prepared to handle all of these abilities.

She has inherited Bon Load and their three sons’ troops.

“Evil Queen…”

Cha Jun Sung’s voice grows lower.

Behind the army, Evil Queen – similar in size to Blood Lord or h.e.l.l Mammoth – is looking toward them.

Mutants are stuck to her countless tentacles and thorns. They can figure out what it means without asking.

Nutrient supplements.

“If we can’t avoid this fight, I guess a preemptive attack is the only answer.”

Strategist’s eyes change.

All of the Lifers near him tense up. As soon as he speaks, they risk their lives and go into war.

“Attack!”

Lifers activated their boosters and initiate aerial shooting.

Then the cyborgs holding machine guns and cannons simultaneously pulled their triggers.

Wiing!

There is a strong and sandy wind blowing inside headquarters.

300 sentinels take off and Lifers soar away in accordance with their respective roles.

The mutants were fooled by the preemptive attack and react late.

Flying mutants go at the sentinels and ground mutants flood headquarters.

This might be just a tantrum to Evil Queen, but mission completion and survival is on the line for Lifers.

This is an important mission for the supervisors as well.

This could be Life Mission’s final chapter.

Ahh!

Square wall. A slope. Mutants gather to that slope.

On one side, 10,000 Lifers stand in a line and fire machine guns.

Cyborgs did their part as well. Bullets pulled out of s.p.a.ce compression bags form mountains of cartridge cases on the ground.

The resistance is excellent.

Mutants can’t get close.

They were shredded like paper when they got hit with bullets the size of a middle finger. They are few compared to mutants, but these almost 100,000 Lifers are the elite of World Federation who have experienced all types of hardships.

Their close range attacks are incredible as they are armed with weapons created from megascience.

Unless the attacks stop, it is impossible for the mutants to get through the outer wall.

It’s because they are not just using machine guns and cannons.

“Go!”

Boom boom boom!

Direct fire and high-angle fire guns complement where there is lacking.

Destination?

There’s no need to hit the target exactly. There is such a ma.s.s of mutants that they would hit one if they shoot in the general area. The basic concept isn’t very different from that of 21st century contemporary weapons.

But the shape and power are incomparable. The users are Lifers who have become superhumans through body modifications and battlesuits. Since they can hold several tons in weight, the firearms and size inevitably grow.

When they used reinforced white phosphorus sh.e.l.ls and cl.u.s.ter shots, hundreds of meters into the distance was reduced to chaos. They couldn’t fire like magazines because reloading times were too long, but they were continuous because they fired dozens of them sequentially.

As these types of attacks continued, the mutants created distance between themselves.

Higher level mutants survived explosions, but the level 3 and 4s were annihilated. They have intellect, so they got a grasp of the situation after experiencing it.

“There’ll be no end like this. Should we try collapsing the battle line?”

Evil Queen orders the level 7s near her.

She orders them not to scatter but to choose one side and to push through.

If they use the lower levels as living shields and hundreds of level 7s concentrate their attack on one side, they will be able to knock down that side.

That is plenty.

If it starts to collapse, mutants will go in like hail. If that happens, they will get into a melee.

The mutants, Evil Queen’s side has the advantage in a war of attrition. Evil Queen doesn’t care how many mutants die, or even if they are all ma.s.sacred.

Lifers could evacuate into the sky, but she has that much calculated in her mind.

If it doesn’t work, she intends to get involved herself.

Kyak!

Hundreds of level 7s run in at the same time. They are so fast it is hard to distinguish them from each other. They don’t get hit by the firearms and even if they do get it, they withstand it like the level 7s they are.

“Eek!”

“Block them! If they get through one side, the whole thing is going down!”

It makes sense.

The side and back are open. They can’t just stay in position.

There is aerial shooting, but they are above headquarters.

If the s.p.a.ce for them to land in disappears, the entire area is overrun with enemies.

The only place in the vast Amazon for Lifers to rest is headquarters. If it collapses, it means they are getting pushed back.

Master group.

It refers to each guild master beyond 8 combination when they rescued Cha Jun Sung.

They went at the level 7s aggressively. About half were already in to block the slope. The rest who had been on standby moved to the area that looked like it was being pushed in.

The master group went over the outer wall. Blocking from the inside is basically letting them enter. They can’t push through with defense. They need to go forward.

On the other hand, they were attacking in every way they could so that the mutants pushing through from the rear couldn’t go into the fight between the level 7 mutants and master group.

‘Splendid.’

Cha Jun Sung looks up.

The battle in the air was more fierce than the battle on ground. There is no up and down in the sky. There are too many places to block.

With the cyborgs’ precise control, the sentinels have an advantage over mutants.

There are dozens of sentinels on board inside each sentinel. Their goal is to switch ammunition in on time so they don’t fall short.

Tens of thousands of Lifers used the path that the sentinels created and engaged with mutants while going back and forth between distance and close-range battle.

There is no restriction on movement.

It wasn’t a fitting environment for them to engage close-range like on ground. That’s why one or two people died at a time.

It hasn’t been long since they began, but the conditions of war were neck and neck. Evil Queen who was pushing through and the World Federation that is blocking it without suffering damages. This breathtaking balance dried them up.

The mutants that had been risking death and running in, suddenly changed direction.

Retreat.

Lifers didn’t let the retreating mutants go. They can’t chase them, but they kept firing their machine guns until the mutants weren’t visible anymore.

“We won!”

“We won!”

There is high morale.

The feeling of achievement for having blocked the primary attack and relief of surviving, comforted them. There were deaths, but there were very few.

“It isn’t good.”

Cha Jun Sung examined the vast forest, full of worry.

Retreat?

They could say they won, but wars don’t end in a day.

This is the worst environment for Lifers.

Though they brought plenty of supplies like equipment, it is finite because they cannot use the store. If they keep using it like this, they will reach the end sooner or later.

There is a bigger problem.

How many mutants will there be in all of the Amazon?

Millions? Tens of millions?

It is stupid to count it.

If Evil Queen refills her shortage of troops, they will all die or it won’t end until they all die.

The conclusion is that everyone will die in the end.

It is more of a disadvantage for the Lifers as time drags on.

They don’t get pushed back?

Defense is good, but they need to take Evil Queen’s neck when they are able to.

Cha Jun Sung didn’t express this thought.

There’s no reason Strategist’s group won’t know what he knows.

Evil Queen will know as well.

Two months have pa.s.sed since war broke out. The flames of war didn’t fade, but rather burned stronger.

The two forces went head to head a total of 9 times.

It is as if they went head to head once a week. World Federation won all of the battles.

The mutants weren’t able to get through the hail of attacks.

The funny thing is that it isn’t a situation in which they can say the World Federation is at an advantage.

With all of the supplies that the World Federation and individual Lifers purchased combined, the 100,000 Lifers could live in the Amazon for 2 to 3 years.

Food and weapons are of the greatest importance. With food they can follow what is rationed to them, but this is not the case with weapons.

Unlike the permanent items, things like bullets or bombs in particular are disposable. They become depleted as they use them. As there is no way to replenish the supply, they will reach the end no matter how much they brought along as long as it is finite.

Every time they went head to head, one Lifer consumed over ten times the average amount. This average is actually very ambiguous. This is the World Federation’s calculation.

They decided on one day’s worth when fighting mutants one level lower than the maximum level they can take on.

But it is a war between hundreds of thousands of mutants and 100,000 Lifers.

They can’t just kill their own and end it. If they think they’ll get pushed, they need to just use it first.

Because of that, they wasted an incredible amount as well.

In 9 rounds of battle, the World Federation consumed half the total amount. They have dropped an amount to last them 2 to 3 years in half in a matter of two months.

Theoretically speaking, if they fight as much as they have fought, they will all have to go into close-range fights excluding the Lifers whose main weapons are long range.

They will probably engage so that they do not get pushed back because Lifers’ standards are high, but it is obvious that as many Lifers will die as mutants do.

Strategist made a decision as World Federation’s Commander in Chief.

They will defend themselves in battle a few more times and then go at Evil Queen when they find the right time to do so.

The exact time is when they retreat to support the defeated Evil Queen. They could be waiting, but there’s nothing they can do about that. Whatever happens, this is much better than hitting before they go head to head.

The people going into battle are Cha Jun Sung’s party and Rankers.

The level S Lifers will take on Evil Queen and the rest will take on the split alters and level 7s.

8 combination level A Lifers wanted to go along, but they can’t afford that. It isn’t easy to manage the mutants pushing through either.

Strategist called the day they would carry out the operations, D-Day.

Whether they live or die, succeed or fail, will be decided that day.

Volume 9 / Chapter 270

TL: LightNovelCafe

Editor: Hungry Panda

A giant tree.

Evil Queen, sitting on top of a branch thicker than a human waist, watches the fierce battle from afar.

There’s no reason for her to maintain her main body when she isn’t engaged in the battle.

The engine activates as soon as she gets out of basic form. She consumes calories even while sitting still.

She is stronger than she was before, but she isn’t free from this invariant law because she is still a creature with limits.

It is dangerous to stay in human form in the midst of a fierce war, but she can handle the danger because she is plenty strong.

Kiririk!

“Sh! Good boy.”

Evil Queen strokes the branch as though handling a child.

Then the rough surface jiggled like a wave and moved following her hand.

It is camouflaged as a tree right now, but it is really level 7 mutant Eclipse.

The smell of blood rides the wind.

Eclipse couldn’t control its instinct, but grew quiet as Evil Queen stroked it.

Because it feels good?

No. Because of fear.

Fear of a power that it cannot even determine from surface level.

“When will it be?”

Evil Queen knows.

They might be on a winning streak, but her allies have the advantage.

Lifers need to start moving unless they are stupid.

The weapons that Lifers use are similar to the scientific weapons and abilities that were only in sci-fi movies that took place in the future when Evil Queen was human.

They couldn’t get close.

But just as a car needs oil to run, it also needs ammunition to show its worth.

After they had faced off more than 10 times, the Lifers’ attacks carefully changed. They began to calculate efficiency in their heads.

They fired precise shots to take them down one by one instead of continuous firing.

Evil Queen saw that and was sure that their supplies were getting low. Lifers look superior right now, but there will be a dog fight once the long distance attack methods become paralyzed.

Will they still be superior then?

If Evil Queen were a Lifer, she would move to end it before supplies fall low.

There is no solution beyond that.

She actually wanted Lifers to last until the end. She’ll be able to kill all of the dumb ones without difficulty.

But she wanted them to move as she wants them to for a bit of fun. As soon as Evil Queen woke up, she had a low understanding of her body. It’s because she never really fought or went into her awakened state.

Her understanding increased as she hunted Lifers and went into a giant battle with them, and at some point began to understand completely.

That’s how she knew. How much of an impressive and nonsensical presence she became.

It is enough power to end this war right now.

“How many Lifers are there that could do that?”

Evil Queen thought of Cha Jun Sung.

Even though she had been in human form, she had been split in half.

She thinks he’s the strongest of his kind. Considering his combat ability would have fallen because his arm was cut off, he was able to kill the alter she sent to North America and Vanessa and the girls.

“It’ll be fun if there are a few dozen of them…”

Evil Queen hasn’t showed her full power since fusing with Bon Load. She hadn’t had the opportunity to do so and she was only half when she awakened because she had been in pieces.

She would be able to get a measure of the strength of her power before going to Asia and Europe if there are a lot of Lifers like Cha Jun Sung, but it would be too much.

Evil Queen gradually grew bored with this joke of a war. She remained a spectator in order to get a better understanding, but there’s no need to do that now.

If there’s nothing left to see, if Lifers don’t have anything left, she intends to wrap it up. It is a waste of time to drag this on.

Woo!

Evil Queen made the mutants retreat again.

Mutants go out like a tide.

This is the last time. She will annihilate them in the next attack.

Boom boom boom!

“Oh? Yeah, you should come out like that.”

When the mutants retreated, the Lifers who hadn’t left headquarters all jumped out and chased the mutants running away. This was the same with the sentinels. The cyborgs formed a wall and pushed forward like a defense for Lifers.

Evil Queen awakened.

A giant body appeared in the middle of the forest. She is telling Lifers her location on purpose.

Conceit?

Arrogance?

Confidence.

It isn’t just simple confidence that she can win.

She didn’t even feel the smallest amount of threat from Lifers. The time to use these beings that are like candle flames that will go out with one blow, like bugs that will be crushed when stepped on, as warm up to end is coming.

“Come. Show me what you can do. And then disappear.”

Dozens of Lifers are captured in Evil Queen’s wide view.

She is looking at them because they are flying toward her.

They will disappear.

Like dumb moths that throw their bodies into the light.

Bang bang bang!

Lifers poured everything out on the retreating mutants. They didn’t pay attention to waste. They used and threw everything they had.

The final match. Lifers powered Strategist’s decision.

Cyborgs advanced forward in a wall formation while attacking. If that didn’t work, they left their self-destructive functions on and dug into the center of a group of mutants.

Retreating mutants changed direction and rushed at Lifers. Lifers responded to this calmly. They need to block these guys. That way, the area near Evil Queen will have more leeway.

Papapat!

Cha Jun Sung’s group and the Rankers land in front of Evil Queen.

Behind them, 10,000 Lifers push back to fend off mutants. There were 16 Lifers taking on Evil Queen – 4 level S and 12 9-combination level As. This is a power that can face off against level 9.

“You don’t have to block.”

They don’t know what it means.

Cha Jun Sung’s group watch Evil Queen and form two walls around her. They have surrounded her in double.

The first wall was made of short-range Lifers like Cha Jun Sung, and the second was made of mid and long-range Lifers like Ghost Gun.

Evil Queen kept saying what she wanted to as though she didn’t mind.

“Don’t worry. I won’t interfere with anyone. Don’t you think you were able to get here without any problem because I opened up a path to make it like this?”

Cha Jun Sung put his hand on Hades’ handle.

Of course they think that. This isn’t something that Lifers with a lot of experience don’t know.

“We thought so. But we need insurance if you’re the opponent.”

Evil Queen is the type where they don’t know what she’ll do if she’s at a disadvantage. This isn’t just her.

She opened up a path for them?

Will she be able to say that when she is on the brink of death?

She’ll call in 100 mutants if she has 100, and flail to survive for even another second. They’ll only see that ugly sight if there is a shadow of death.

“Huh? You got your arm. I guess you’ll be stronger than before?”

Evil Queen acknowledges Cha Jun Sung.

Cha Jun Sung observed for a chance. The moment he attacks, they won’t stop until one side dies.

“I see there are 4 Lifers with similar abilities to yours. They make it obvious.”

Evil Queen laughs.

When Cha Jun Sung got ready to move, Violet, Weapon Master, and Chamma Sword in the east, west, and south warmed up.

The rest just stayed alert. That small difference relayed information to Evil Queen and she was disappointed in the small number.

At first, she thought that all 16 were that powerful.

But to have just 4. At this state, it is a power that she can handle easily.

“Have I become too strong?”

Considering Cha Jun Sung’s abilities, they aren’t weak. If it had been like before, she wouldn’t have been able to come out whole. She could’ve even died. Since she fused with Bon Load, she has easily gotten three times stronger.

“To match your standards… I guess that’ll be good.”

The skeletons attached to Evil Queen’s giant body combine together. Two become one and two of those become one in repet.i.tion.

Boom boom!

Where bones come out, three skeletons that are a little less than half the size of the skeleton connected to Evil Queen fall and roll to the ground.

The transformation was the same. Thorns and tentacles form on the skeletons. There isn’t much difference compared to the small skeleton other than that its form looks more heinous.

‘That giant size. All of those skeletons coalesced and there are just three left. There’s no way they’re level 7. I’m positive they’re level 8.’

“You fought my daughters, right? One of those is similar to my eldest, Narsiel. They have as much vitality as they’re strong, too.”

Evil Queen can adjust the strength and number of the ent.i.ties that split from her. They are created powerfully if they are made with attention.

Weak ones have short activity periods, but the strong ones extend activity following their power. They look like they could live for about half a year.

She may not be able to produce new split ent.i.ties in that time, but it doesn’t feel like she is experiencing any loss from it. It is plenty to kill Lifers.

‘If they’re on Narsiel’s level…’

“Kill them.”

While Cha Jun Sung calculated the three ent.i.ties’ combat ability, Evil Queen gave her order. The skeletons pulled out thorns and tentacles, and scattered. It is a surprise attack, but everyone avoided it because they are all of high standards.

“d.a.m.n.”

Cha Jun Sun looks at Evil Queen. All of the bones are absorbed into Evil Queen who is on top of the skeleton like a horn. Battle mode.

Evil Queen grew as large as the bones she absorbed, but the body’s bones including the skeleton became smaller. As that happened, her energy emanated out.

A level 9’s energy.

She and her split ent.i.ties are separate. It is meaningless to compare the combat ability of the main body and alters.

‘One level 9 and three level 8s. We get overwhelmed.’

They aren’t even weak level 8s, but level 8s as strong as Narsiel. There are 12 level A Lifers. 4 people need to take on one.

“You guys come play with me.”

Once Evil Queen had completed her transformation, she looked a lot like Vanessa wearing her bone armor. This seems to be the case because their gene pool is the same.

‘I’ll do my best.’

There’s nothing they can do about it. They need to handle it themselves since there is no support. They cannot think about failure.

This means 100,000 people all die.

The 16 Lifers fighting Evil Queen’s split skeletons felt like they were being tangled up.

They were so tangled that it seemed dark in front of them. They had expected several cases.

All of them – the best and worst case scenarios. They had a lot of thoughts as they were in a top level difficulty mission.

They calculated with Cha Jun Sung’s experience though it had been against an alter, and her fusion with Bon Load.

Strategist decided that Lifers couldn’t have the advantage. They have no choice but to face off against her unless they want to quit the mission. They needed to choose the time to face off within the time allowed to them, and Strategist chose that time as Commander-in-Chief.

He repeatedly said that people would die even if they won.

Lifers went past it without a.s.signing it too much importance.

It’s because they didn’t think it would be them. That’s how much they believed in the force made of Rankers.

They decided to have the 4 level S Lifers take on Evil Queen, and the 12 level A Lifers take on the split skeletons. There may be a lot of them, but they can handle it.

More than half of the 12 are long-range Lifers. If they fight while falling back, hundreds of level 6 and 7 split skeletons are easy.

But Evil Queen combined the skeletons and made them into powerful level 8s. There are just 3 of them, but quant.i.ty isn’t important.

An attack that works on a large number of weak opponents isn’t a concept that works against a few strong opponents. With this, their existing operation went to naught.

On top of that, Evil Queen’s transformation shocked the Lifers. She transformed from a dull form to a body suitable for battle.

Cha Jun Sung thought she might have a second awakened state as Vanessa did.

He had to face her to know whether she gained level 9 combat ability below standard or if she transcended that step like Vanessa.

It was the latter.

Volume 9 / Chapter 271

TL: LightNovelCafe

Editor: Hungry Panda

Bang!

Glare Gun draws a parabola and goes flying. He got hit by one of the split skeleton’s tentacles and soared into the sky before falling to the ground.

The shock was large and Glare Gun wasn’t able to get up right away.

The split skeleton didn’t chase and attack him. It faithfully focused on its immediate area.

Evil Queen is able to control the ent.i.ties that come from her own body even if the utilization isn’t wide like Europe’s Beholder.

Since she can’t constantly manage them due to her battle with Cha Jun Sung’s group, she left unity and waiting as suggestions.

Don’t scatter and stay together. Don’t chase after anything and only take on what comes to them.

It was to stop them from breaking apart and to prevent tricks. They were extremely tricky because they faithfully followed Evil Queen’s orders.

11 Lifers struggled against 3 split skeletons. A simple calculation says that 4 people are taking on 1 skeleton. They would be able to do something if they had been weak level 8s like Odelia, but they need many times more than the people they currently have if they are as strong as Narsiel.

There are only 12 Lifers including Glare Gun, who is spread out on the floor. Just 2 would be difficult, but it is impossible for them to take on 3.

Glare Gun didn’t go flying because he had his guard down or because he landed a hit and took a hit. They were surpa.s.sing the concept of being pushed back, to drowning.

It was like that with 12, but now with 11?

It would only take moments for their formation to collapse.

Bang bang bang!

Short-range Lifers Koharu, Basil, Iron King, and Nine Tail get whipped by swirling tentacles and all fling out.

As the bothersome ones got cleared out, the split skeletons rushed at long-range Lifers. Since there are 3 skeletons, they each went to 1 person, to 3 people.

Nuclear, Ghost Gun, and Light Shooter become targets and their expressions darken. Each of the split skeletons’ attacks are deadly.

They are powerful enough to cause instant death with one hit.

The Lifers didn’t die after getting hit with such power because they each absorbed the impact in their own ways. Nuclear and the others can absorb the shock like similar-level Lifers, but that doesn’t lessen the power in the attack coming at them.

“Freezing Field!”

Ice Queen maximized her battlesuit’s output.

Dozens of holes open on her battlesuit and emanate extreme cold. Anything with the smallest bit of water on it freezes in the blink of an eye. They are in a swamp. Everything becomes white.

Ice Queen’s Freezing Field is 9-combination.

So it didn’t reach absolute zero, though it got very close. She felt that a pity.

“Nice! Queen!”

Ice Queen’s action freezes the land that the split skeletons are on.

Nuclear yells with strength when he sees this. As their cells freeze and joints harden, the split skeletons’ movements slow down dramatically. Nuclear’s group takes that chance to get out of the attack range.

But that had been the wrong judgment call.

As soon as Nuclear’s group created distance, the split skeletons’ hostility focused on Ice Queen.

Until now, the split skeletons hadn’t focused on a single person, but had spread out the attacks.

It’s because no one had attacked all 3 at the same time. But Ice Queen’s Freezing Field had gotten all of their attentions.

The Freezing Field being maintained. When the split skeletons’ movement wasn’t smooth, they went back and launch thorns at Ice Queen with the intention of puncturing her. Hundreds of thorns, each the size of a human arm, churn the forest. They puncture holes in trees and boulders, flying at incredible speed toward Ice Queen.

Ice Queen released the Freezing Field and tried to move, but it was already too late. She can only block them, but it is an attack that she cannot block.

Her battlesuit itself emphasized mobility over defense, so her outer armor was light and thin. Even at a glance, it showed by shape that a woman was wearing it.

Iron King’s big and wide back blocks Ice Queen’s front.

Iron King’s battlesuit has the best defense of all of the battlesuits. If it protects the pa.s.senger, the outer armor’s thickness alone is over 20cm.

He even modeled it in that direction, so though the defensive strength is higher than that of level S battlesuits, its limit isn’t infinite.

Boom boom boom!

The small thorn attacks all went flinging off from the Iron Defense.

But after getting hit straight on, the outer armor began to be crushed and one large thorn eventually dug into Iron King’s stomach.

“Iron King!”

“d.a.m.n it!”

Iron King is unable to withstand that impact, and goes flying. Trees break. Iron King lands on top of that debris.

He used all of his strength to try and stand up, but he was unable to straighten his leg while on his knees and collapsed. There was no movement.

Zing!

The medical system installed inside his battlesuit went into treatment mode. He didn’t die. The thorn was coming out little by little.

It was just a temporary measure.

It is such a fatal wound it wouldn’t be weird if he died now, but they can’t say he’s safe because the battlesuit isn’t a medical system.

He will die if they are not alert.

He needs to get proper treatment right now if he wants to survive. The problem is that it is difficult to do that considering the situation.

Iron King’s battlesuit pushed out the thorn. The inside is clearly visible because the thorn is stuck. Of course his punctured stomach is visible as well. It is a large hole, the size of two fists. If his body hadn’t been strengthened with body modifications, he would have died long ago.

His bleeding stopped, but his ripped flesh and mess of organs are not something the battlesuit can deal with.

“I – I need to hurry up and move… Kyak!”

“Ack!”

Boom!

A split skeleton brandished a tentacle twisted thick with strength and pinned Ice Queen to the ground.

Iron King next to her wasn’t able to avoid it either.

Ice Queen is another issue but Iron King, who had already sustained a serious wound, was now flickering like a candle.

“Strategist! We can’t hold out like this!”

“There’s a low chance we can win. It’ll be better to take Iron King and getting out.”

Bang bang bang!

Strategist speaks as he throws an energy ball at the skeleton going after Ice Queen.

They have gone past being pushed back. This is too one-sided.

Glare Gun, who had joined them while Iron King was being attacked, agreed with what Nuclear said. Unless they are ready to all die, they need to plan for what comes after.

The faster they make their decision, the better.

They play with the boundary between life and death with each second that pa.s.ses.

In this situation, it wouldn’t be surprising if someone died in the next second.

‘The battle on that side…’

4 level S Lifers.

If Evil Queen’s strength is beyond what they had imagined like with the split skeletons, those 4 won’t be able to take her down.

Strategist spent precious time under intense pressure making a decision he won’t regret.

He made his decision quickly.

But it happened even faster than his decision-making.

Boom boom boom boom!

There is a sudden tremendous roar and a point in the sky plummets to where Strategist’s group is.

The tiny dot grows larger and larger.

A Lifer. His booster is being activated faintly. He hasn’t been flung away in an attack, but is flying at them of his own will.

“Ten Xiao!”

Glare Gun watches the split skeletons as he yells.

A deformed left arm and a battlesuit crushed like a tin can – it is Chamma Sword. His trademark sword that is larger than a person, has been cut in half. The broken side is smooth. It seems to have been cut by something sharp.

They can’t tell if he has internal injuries, but they can easily see that he isn’t in a normal state. Chamma Sword stood up, using his broken sword as a cane.

“There’s – there’s no hope! Run away! While they’re buying time!”

The Lifers are taken aback. He is normally a quiet man.

He doesn’t speak unless necessary following his reticent personality. That is how careful he is.

In that sense, he thinks more deeply than even Strategist. That Chamma Sword is telling them to run away. They are curious as to what is happening over there, but they aren’t in a condition to ask or listen.

‘It’s a failure.’

What the Lifers are thinking.

They don’t know the post-war situation, but this is one thing they are sure of. Evil Queen is a being that they cannot fight.

“Run away? No chance. I intend to finish this once and for all so that there’s nothing left to take care of after.”

Boom boom!

The forest opens up and Evil Queen walks out in an armor made of bone.

Chamma Sword clenched his teeth and shook like a tree.

“How could this be…”

The Lifers look to one place.

They are looking at Evil Queen, but they are looking at a thorn coming out of the shoulder and pointing into the sky.

Violet and Weapon Master are skewered on the sharp bone. They are laid out like corpses, but they can’t tell whether they are alive or dead yet.

“These guys? They’re still alive. I’m pretty sure that guy lying over there is in more danger. But don’t worry. You guys will die before he does.”

Death comes down on them.

Volume 9 / Chapter 272

TL: LightNovelCafe

Editor: Hungry Panda

Cha Jun Sung is lying down.

With his face planted on the ground. He doesn’t move. It is more accurate to say that he cannot move.

Both his arms have been cut from his shoulders, and both his legs have been cut from his thighs. His battlesuit was forced to dismantle and the pieces are scattered here and there. His arms and legs were cut off, and he even lost his battlesuit.

He went through 10 stages of body modifications, but he is still a human. All he can do is breathe.

Odin calls him.

His PDA that has fallen somewhere must have switched from the inside to outside. He wants to respond, but he can’t speak.

He was able to stop some of the bleeding with his superhuman strength, but he has already lost so much blood and he has only stopped some blood flow, the wound is still the same. As long as he is human, his arms and legs do not regenerate like with mutants.

‘She was strong. Horribly strong. She isn’t an opponent we can fight.’

Cha Jun Sung looks in the direction Evil Queen moved to with hazy vision.

Does this mean he is dying?

Sensation in his entire body is paralyzed. It didn’t take long for this to happen. In the beginning of the battle, Evil Queen matched her standards to Cha Jun Sung’s group. Then she gradually increased the power.

They responded quickly in the beginning, but he started taking missteps once they pa.s.sed a line, his arms and legs were cut off, and he got to this state. Evil Queen’s combat style is simple. It is normal to avoid if it hit. She took the hit. She didn’t avoid it. There was no need for her to avoid it.

The 4 level S Lifers’ attacks couldn’t get through her exoskeleton.

All they left were traces of hits.

Even if they attacked what they thought were vital points, she made everything meaningless. Once attacks were blocked, there were extreme limitations to what Cha Jun Sung’s group could do.

Furthermore, Cha Jun Sung and Violet sustained wounds when Evil Queen made her first counterattack. In one hit.

Strength, speed, and stamina are important in battle.

They just have to be stronger than the enemy. Faster than the enemy. They need to be able to withstand longer than the enemy.

Evil Queen had completely transcended the domain of level 9. She’s so strong they can’t be sure if even 40 people could take her on.

Toys. They are toys to Evil Queen. Things that are fun to play with until she gets bored and tosses them away.

‘How much time has pa.s.sed? 5 minutes? 10 minutes? 30 minutes? Has everyone died?’

They urgently sent Chamma Sword, but they can’t be sure.

He doesn’t even want to imagine what happened if they hadn’t been able to run away on time. It is the same as back then.

It is a decided fate with his own strength. It seems he can’t break out of this frame.

‘I’m sleepy.’

He wants to sleep.

His eyes close.

He doesn’t want to give up, but since his current situation is one in which he has no choice but to give up, he wants to put everything down and rest.

Cha Jun Sung’s body cools down. The movement of his rising and falling chest slows down. If this slows down to a stop, he will die.

Right before his eyes closed, a light flashed in front of Cha Jun Sung’s eyes before he died.

This is a slightly different phenomenon from a summons gate opening up.

Someone walks out. Cha Jun Sung, whose emotions had been drying out, was full of astonishment.

It’s someone who can’t be here.

“You fought well. Leave the rest to me.”

“Ah…”

Cha Jun Sung listened to the comfortable voice that invoked trust as life disappeared from his eyes. He was smiling.

The person who appeared from the light, the person who gave his a sense of trust, closed his eyes.

He straightened his back and spoke into his PDA.

“Keep your promise.”

White particles formed near Cha Jun Sung and wrapped him warmly. The particles disappeared along with Cha Jun Sung’s corpse shortly after.

“Let’s end it.”

A roar with an intense aura explodes.

A monster with 4 faces and 3 pairs of arms, black smoke emanating out of it. Black Devil had descended.

The real Cha Jun Sung had arrived.

Cha Jun Sung tried to find the unidentified Lifer for the past few months, but he hadn’t been able to make any real progress.

Of course not.

He hadn’t even gone near the Amazon because he didn’t know the person he was finding was there, and had been digging around outside.

Then his special mission had suddenly been cancelled and he went into an indefinite waiting period. Cha Jun Sung thought it so ridiculous he thought the supervisors were playing with him, but he needed to do as he was told.

He went back to reality because there was no longer any reason for him to stay inside the mission.

He worried a lot about Park Jin Hyuk’s group, but he had no choice but to watch the lapse because moving between dimensions was a unique privilege of the helpers and supervisors.

While he was going to just laze around, he got an unexpected call from Jigneon.

Cha Jun Sung needed to understand a lot within that short amount of time.

It was an injection that had no relation to him and that had nothing to do with his will. This means the unidentified Lifer is another one of himself.

The supervisors hadn’t noticed who he was because he had appeared out of nowhere. He said the source was that he appeared through a wall of time and s.p.a.ce.

Life Mission manages two worlds, one-sided and two-sided.

The third world is where the supervisors live, so he basically appeared from a world that they hadn’t even considered.

Time and s.p.a.ce had become twisted.

No matter how impressive Life Mission’s science is, it can’t completely pursue dimension and time.

They might be able to invade in the first place, but it’s an area that they cannot control.

Because of that, Cha Jun Sung was able to get past the veil of secrecy and figure out who between Black Lord and Red Eye gave him the notebook.

He felt pity when he found out why he had been given the notebook. He had hoped that he wouldn’t make the same mistakes that he did.

Before Jigneon told the truth, he added the unregistered Odin’s hacking code to the artificial intelligence of the registered Odin that they are managing. He had taken care of the easy Odin before working to make Cha Jun Sung understand. What he already knew was duplicated and what he didn’t know what upgraded.

Odin is an artificial intelligence computer.

There’s no need to explain everything to him like he is a human. He accepts the added information without any emotion.

Jigneon thought convincing Cha Jun Sung would be a problem. But unlike what he had been thinking, it ended easily. From Cha Jun Sung’s perspective, Life Mission is distant from common sense, and it is a highly complicated system that he cannot understand even while he is experiencing it.

There is not a single thing that he can understand. What can only happen in novels and movies had become reality.

He met Black Lord, too.

Does he have to make a fuss when one more appeared under those circ.u.mstances?

There is something different that Cha Jun Sung is really curious about.

Why they are telling him.

Jigneon isn’t exactly charitable.

They might have a good relationship, but he doesn’t believe in deeds without rewards. There must be something he wants and he must be using this as a down payment to make a deal.

Cha Jun Sung was relaxed. He didn’t ask him to tell, and it didn’t suit him to move however they wanted him to just because he got this piece of information.

Jigneon told him about the progress of the Lord of Bones mission that the World Federation is active in and about Evil Queen and Bon Load’s fusion. She transcended level 9 and mutant levels were reorganized to raise her to level 10. As soon as he heard that, an alarm was raised in his mind.

The probability of them killing Evil Queen who has become as strong as she could be is very low. All of his party members with the exception of Kyoko have entered that mission.

‘We’ll grant you entry qualification this one time. Kill Evil Queen.’

This!

Jigneon wanted Cha Jun Sung to kill Evil Queen. In some way, Evil Queen was the final evolution of what a mutant could achieve.

It became more special than any other level S mission with the two level 9s’ fusion.

She is like the final boss standing at the end of a game. They’ll have to try again if they fail, but he can see the ending of Life Mission if he succeeds. Cha Jun Sung didn’t care about the final evolution and Life Mission’s end. She’ll be stronger than him if she is level 10, but he couldn’t just stand by and watch his colleagues die.

‘Isn’t it the rule for supervisors not to interfere? And isn’t mutants fighting each other what you guys wanted?’

When he asked this.

‘We just create the place. What happens after depends on you.’

This is what he said. He knew what it meant in the following conversation. Yeah, that’s it.