Kill the Dragon

- Good luck, Whiskey-1.

At the end of the last radio, the aircraft leaves.

Tak, Tak.

Sergeant Red tapped the helmet twice. There are ambushing squads on all sides. They make their way into the woods quickly as a search party. Sergeant Silence and Sergeant Red were experienced soldiers. Lee Han looked back and moved from time to time.

‘Sgt. Red, who is capable of maneuvering and fighting the Silence forward, gives the Silence immediate orders and sends a call back. The third most comprehensive Simon. I'm the fourth to see the whole squad. ’

I ordered them according to their abilities, even if they seemed to be nothing.

‘If I were Sergeant Red, I would have ordered the same thing. ’

His concentration was at its peak. He was always in command and in command. There was always so much to consider and think about. This time it was different. He was a squad member, not a squad leader. All you have to do is clear your mind and focus solely on Sergeant Red's orders.

Fuck, fuck, fuck.

We're eight klicks out of the area. You chose to walk to avoid the shooting and observation of Elu Meiji. Elu Meiji runs away as soon as she sees the danger. Twelve years after the war, Elu Meiji was never caught in the eye of the Arc. The Elu are cautious and cunning.

Eight kilometers, not too far, but not too short a walk. It is not easy to move fully armed and alert in the forest. Even my sharp concentration became dull. It was a continuous of boring landscapes with no irritation.

“Yawn.”

Simon yawns without even knowing it. He shuts up immediately. Sergeant Red looks around and knocks on the helmet.

“Take turns relaxing and eating. Me, Simon, Silence and Ehan. Divide into two groups like this. ”

Red Lieutenants and Simon take their positions and set a perimeter. Lee Han and Silence pulled out the supplies. Lee took out sticky raisins and drinks. I ate raisins first and then melted them like a drink.

‘Then again, how does Silence eat? ’

Lee looks up at Silence. The bottom of the helmet was opened to allow food intake. Silence eats a loaf of raisins and moves his mouth.

“You don't take your helmet off while you're eating. Isn't it frustrating?”

- Not at all!

Silence replies coldly. The letters on the helmet shield were blue.

Lee took off his helmet for a moment. Highest quality material that is breathable, but sweating is optional.

“Haha. I'll live now. ”

I got sweaty drops on Lee Han's hair. The cold wind blows his sweat away.

‘Silence doesn't mean you don't sweat. Is there a terrible wound on his face, as they say? ’

I didn't ask. Excuse me if I ask you a sensitive question first. Even so, Silence had a strange coolness to him. What happened in the tournament is still being piled up inside.

Come on, come on.

Silence lifts the helmet slightly upward and sets it free. The cool outside air was flowing into the helmet. The sight was strangely amusing. Lee barely endured the laughter. I thought I knew a little bit about Silence's personality.

“Why don't you take off your helmet for a little while, since you'll be looking back? ”

As Lee talks, Silence flinches. He was busy typing with the handset.

- It's not hot.

‘... You have a lot of pride in strange things. ’

Silence didn't say it was hot to the end. I did not recommend it anymore. The short break is over. Lee put his helmet back on. Silence comes forward with a gun.

As Red Lieutenants and Simon relax, Ethan and Silence stand guard. The forest is quiet and there is little to no wildlife. Lee knew this was the territory of Korea, but he felt exotic. South Korea, as he knew it, was a barren field and a collapsed ruin. I only looked at the shining metropolis from afar.

Fluffy.

Lee opened his eyes narrowly. The bush shakes from afar. It was different from the wind's direction. There is something moving disparately through the gaps in the field of view.

- Elu. Scout. Two.

A short message appeared in the helmet's view. A message from Silence. The enemy is visible from Silence's vision.

‘Approaching. ’

A scout from the forest was an Elu larger than the Elu. Armed with a sword and shield, you're wearing leather armor. This is Elu Warrior. Lee takes a breath and points a gun at her. There will be gunfire, but we have to contain it.

- Don't shoot.

Silence sends a signal. He draws his twin swords. A blue glare flows out of your helmet like smoke.

Pot.

Silence's first blink was above the tree. I tried blinking again even before the branch that was holding the weight was broken.

Pot.

With the second link, Silence stands behind the scouts. He slaps Ellu's head with two swords. The head separated from the body rolls like watermelon on the ground.

- Situation terminated.

The letter came from Silence's helmet shield. He wields his blade and drains the blood.

‘Is this Silence? ’

Lee was creeped out. Blink is a rebellious ability in battle. Silence, with Blink and the ultimate combat ability, was an enormous psychic soldier. How many people will stop Silence, assuming it's an ambush? If Silence belongs in a particular country, leaders from all over the world should fear the invincible assassin.

‘Even with that ability, I've lost, so it's worth the split. ’

Silence glances at her with pride. Sergeant Red reports the situation and gives the transfer order. Simon doesn't get enough rest, but he obeys orders silently.

Jijong-.

As we got closer to the dimensional crack, there was a disturbance in the handset and the communicator. This is what happened in the last fall. This time there was a replacement.

“Switch to local squad network. ”

With GPS turned off, the map was entered in advance, not in real time. There was a lot of noise in the communication between the squads.

‘From now on, I am completely cut off from Arc. ’

It's been a long time since Arc noticed that the Whiskey Squad has been wiped out. I couldn't get in touch regularly. I was nervous.

The squads felt the energy flowing from the dimensional crack, including this. In dimensional cracks, there is a subtle pressure that only sickers feel.

Goooooooo!

The pressure of the dimensional crack is strong. Sergeant Red, an acquired sicker, did not feel the pressure strongly. The native bikers, Ihan and the boys, seemed suffocated. My heart was pounding.

‘You're following me. ’

Sergeant Red examines the squad members. Lee had a big incident here not long ago. Other sophomores suffer from sequelae, but Lee moved calmly even as he was put into the field immediately. Del Simon was the first to go, but there was no shaking.

‘In the second grade, I can't think of anyone who could be an instant power surge. Four or five, including these two. ’

It's a tricky process and training, but the arc is always in a shortage of manpower. The sicker is always short. However, only a few young men in their early teens are mentally fit to battle. Arc's training is to mask the few qualities and cultivate a fighting spirit.

‘If these children do not fight, humanity will perish. We're running out of time. It's only three years away. ’

Sergeant Red drove first-graders away, saying something even adults couldn't stand when they were instructors. If you can't stand it, it's impossible for a normal 10-year-old to fight on the battlefield anyway. An arc is a place where abnormalities are extracted and the summits made abnormal. You don't need a middle-class student, and you need one first-class person over 100 second-class and third-class.

‘No matter how much I teach in a safe fence, if I don't use it in practice, it's over. There is no second chance in front of the dragon. What Lee and Simon need is a practical experience. ’

Sergeant Red, who thought alone, saw Silence stop.

Zec.

You hear a strange sound. Silence in the lead raises the palm of your hand. The squads hold their breath as they swallow.

“Kill kill.”

It was Elu's unique laugh. I heard a bad laugh and a language I couldn't understand. Two Elu Warriors were walking somewhere.

- Should we do it?

Silence looks back and sends a message. Sergeant Red looks at Lee Hwan.

“Ihan, what do you think? ”

Sergeant Red whispers.

“I think you'd better step on it. ”

“Why?”

“They are 'returning' after scouting or patrolling. ”

Sergeant Red nods. Incredible observation and insight. As he said, the pleasant noises, the direction of walking around the dimensional cracks, the bad mood, and the actions that are not wary of being sure that they are their domain - all of which come to a conclusion.

‘The best answer is always given. We just can't come to a conclusion because we don't have enough clues and pieces to find answers. The difference between a genius and a perpetrator is their ability to find clues. ’

Another boy would have thought it was just an enemy to defeat the two Elu Warriors in sight. Consider this an obstacle to the Stealth Movement. Those are the boys. That was Silence's accident.

However, Lee found out Elu Warrior's behavioral information in a short amount of time and concluded based on it. Seeing the same scene makes a different judgment than other information. There is a difference between the width of the accident and the field of view.

“Silence, follow them. We'll keep our distance. ”

Silence shifts slightly. He moves as nimble as a black leopard. I didn't even know what to do. It was like walking without gravity.

Woohoo.

Silence has lost his language skills in thinking. Instead, the reflexes and motor skills were superior as if the limits had been lifted.

“Kohath?”

The Elu Warrior suddenly stops and looks back. Silence clings to the back of the tree. The Elu are susceptible to psychic reactions, although the Blink may be convenient. Blinking quickly reveals the spirit. Blinks are for assassination and combat, not for tailing.

‘Approaching the center of the dimensional crack. ’

Dimensional cracks haven't happened in over a decade. The first five years were strictly military, but they could not afford to waste their troops and budgets where there was no risk. The difference between a Minion appearing in a dimensional crack.

‘There are two main scenarios at the top. Minions have gathered from the outside into a dimensional rift for some purpose-or appear in a dimensional rift. But the probability of the latter is low given the situation so far. ’

When a dimensional crack becomes a gate, easily observable changes occur.

"The Elu are the only ones, as you said. Did the werewolves kill everything that night? ’

If there were werewolves, sneaking in would have been quite a hassle. Werewolf was extinct the night he rescued sophomore year. Elu Hunter's invisibility is the same context.