Raid Breaker
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The supplies they brought in when they entered the dungeon lasted approximately four months. And so far it's been about a month.
I was still able to hold out for three more months, but the problem was that both grade 5 monsters, specialized in hiding, were hiding and aiming for them.
Even if there was only one beast hiding, I wouldn't have had to worry about it like this. When I had two, I was in trouble.
“Why don't you lure them one by one? ”
Myoung-hoon, who kept on worrying, carefully commented.
“Not bad, but the problem is that the decoys have to know their approximate location eventually. Right now, they're completely hidden, so we can't find them anywhere. ”
Johan Seung replied, shaking his head.
“What the hell is the expedition doing? I thought I had a search team in mind... Isn't that right? ”
Hyunsu Jung looked at Johan, frowning a lot.
“I'm sorry. My teammates are doing their best to find out... but both monsters are really good at hiding..." ”
The head of the search team, Johann Seung, had not a word to say. To be honest, it was true that the hidden abilities of two grade 5 monsters were excellent, but it was extremely inadequate for those whose name was the search team to find nothing.
The conclusion rarely came out. We talked to each other, but we didn't have much to appeal to.
How long has it been?
He opened his mouth carefully because he had sinned.
“In the end, you'd think a class five monster would be the same as us. They want to eat us...... but they're patient because they think we're strong. Because time is on their side, not ours, they will probably wait for the chance to come. That way, we won't be able to do this or that. ”
Johan Seung continued to explain calmly.
“So, why don't we do this? We're giving them a chance. to make it look like an opportunity. ”
“What's that supposed to mean? ”
“We divide our power exactly in two. If we stick together like this, eventually they won't be able to move until the end. If there was a Knight with the navigational skills to find them that are hiding from us, we could just find them and capture them, but we have no choice but to draw them out if that's practically impossible. In order to do that, we have to bait them. As you all know, when you get to a grade five monster, the gimmicky tricks never work. So it's a real lure. If we divide our power roughly in half now, I think we can barely catch them. If we split the power between them and move in different directions…… maybe they'll follow us. ”
“Hmm…… It's not a bad idea, but what if they both follow one side? This can lead to complete annihilation of one side. ”
“That's not possible. ”
Park Jing pointed out precisely the holes in the plan that Johanneseung talked about. However, Johansung opened his mouth again as if he had waited for it.
“How can you be so sure? ”
“Toxic insects and iron armored giant ants both move in the sand. As you all know, monsters start fighting in their own realms from grade 4 and above. And of course, it's not an intense struggle, but at least it's a mild one. Of course, even two Class 5 monsters don't like each other invading their own realms. Especially not when other monsters are after their prey. If the activity areas overlap and the targets overlap...... they won't stand for it. ”
At the end of Johanssen's words, the other four nod silently. There was definitely a point to it.
“Split the power and the two of them will follow different goals and lead them to attack and capture them.... ”
Hyun-soo Jung quietly organized his strategy in his mind. At least it seemed like the best opinion so far.
“The key is to build up the power to close them down. That way, they'll show up. ”
“It's not going to be easy. If I make one little mistake, it could all collapse at the same time. ”
Park Jin thought carefully. I didn't like the idea of dividing the power.
Tak. Tak. Tak.
Hyun-soo Jung took the strategy seriously, beating the table with his finger quietly.
Despite the obvious risks, it was a strategy that could solve all the problems in one shot.
“Let's do this. ”
After considering it for a long time, Hyunsu Jung finally made a decision.
In his character, it was not right to find other ways to support him.
“I'll lead the first team and the second team will be led by the head of the strike team. Titan, I'm taking my private jet, the Hyper Genesis II and the Hyper Genesis III. The captain of the strike team, take the Hyper Genesis 1 and the two Lion Kings with you. That should be enough to target a Grade 5 Monster, right? ”
“That's enough.”
Honestly, there was no such criteria for catching a Class 5 monster, but two third-generation Titans, or two second-generation Titans, were close to catching a Class 5 monster.
Nevertheless, Park Jin spoke confidently.
The reason he was so confident was because the Venomous Army and Iron Armored Ant Ghosts were the weakest ranked monsters among the class 5 monsters.
The tactics were already in full detail and did not have extraordinary special abilities. It just annoyed me that I was so good at hiding.
If this strategy is successful and you can only make them attack first, the frontal battle is not that difficult.
“We need to keep our forces as high as possible for them to attack. That's the whole point of the strategy. ”
Johansung once again emphasized the key of the strategy.
The Hyundai Metal Knights throw a battle. If this succeeds, their Grade 6 dungeon raid should be halfway to success.
* * * *
‘Damn it, why am I on standby? ’
Suhyuk looked around the base camp with a disgruntled expression.
Hyun-Soo Jung, who chose Johansung's strategy, formed two teams that were as close to catching Grade 5 monsters as possible. And then the rest of us turned to the air defense at base camp.
There were one free knight, 30 helpers, and 10 dungeons. And because it was in the middle, the old first generation Titan, the wire, was left behind.
Everyone else left the base camp in two teams.
Of course, the atmosphere was not meaningless.
Base Camp was important in many ways, so we had to protect it. But…… at least it was the worst outcome for Soohyuk. He participated in the hunt unconditionally and was able to gain dimensional power only by putting Satan into the bodies of the monsters.
However, for one reason, I was sent straight to the atmosphere.
After all, Knight categorizing the atmosphere was just a career cut because he didn't think Helper's skills mattered much.
Soohyuk wanted to join the hunting team at any cost, but the Knights, of course, did not listen to his opinions.
‘Looks like you're going out to catch a Grade 5 monster...'... I'm sure you'll get a lot of dimension if you put a few shots in him... Haha, that's a shame. Too bad. '
Seven hours have passed since the hunting team left, but unfortunately, it remains the same.
Just help me deal with a grade 3 monster in the middle...
Suhyuk had already entered here and gained 41314 dimensions for a month. Since the total dimensional force surpassed 95000, the remaining dimensional force to level up was only about 5,000. As expected, gambling to participate in a Grade 6 dungeon raid was a huge success.
However, I was frustrated when I fell behind in this situation.
Are there any Grade 3 monsters? ’
You won't be able to get out of Base Camp and hunt, but I thought you might be able to report someone wandering around and catch them.
‘Jan, let's search nearby. ’
- Yes, sir.
Yan listens to Suhyuk and searches around.
- Master, you must prepare for battle.
What's that supposed to mean? ’
Suhyuk tilted his head in Yan's words.
- Currently, exactly 144 energy reactions are slowly converging towards this location. The energy response suggests that you are a Grade 3 monster. We should expect their attack in approximately one minute.
Suhyuk was surprised to hear Yan's words and quickly ran to the place where there was a free knight who could be called Head of Atmosphere.
Luckily, Su-hyuk was near the free knight, so I was able to find him quickly.
“Ambush!”
“What are you talking about? Did you have a dream? ”
Of course, the free knight took Suhyuk's words as a joke. No matter how much I looked around, it was so peaceful. That's why I didn't think an attack in this situation would make sense.
“Hundreds of third-rate monsters attacked.... ”
Suhyuk told the free driver exactly what he knew because he couldn't explain it calmly. No, I tried. But Soohyuk didn't finish his sentence.
It's rare!
The whole base camp starts shaking like an earthquake. Suddenly, it resembles a mole, but big monsters with mouths that are much bigger and sharper than moles protrude from the ground. Their mouths are almost crocodile-like, but if bitten, they look like two cavities. Not only that, they had sharp blade-like thorns on their bodies, and at the end of those thorns was an endless stream of green fluorescein.
Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
Low Wailing Monsters…… The free knight pulled the emergency radio out of his chest as soon as he saw them.
The emergency radio had a built-in Mana circuit with long range communication, but the Mana circuit required a lot of Mana, so it consumed about one minute of Manaton D pieces. At this rate, it was almost 10% of the lowest Mana Stones were blown away in one minute, so it was a hard thing to use without a real emergency.
But at least now I had to use it unconditionally.
There is no more urgent situation than hundreds of monsters storming the base camp.
[Hundreds of unidentified monsters with crocodile mouths appeared on moles. I'm in the middle of something right now…… but I can't stand it.]
Emergency contact.
However, Jung Hyun-su did not move immediately after receiving this call. No, I couldn't move.
“As expected...... The Poisonous Bandits remained at the base camp. ”
“I told you before, but I can't help it. Team 2 is already engaged with the Great Sandworm. And we almost got rid of the giant armored ant spirit. We're just finishing up here, and if we turn around to save the atmosphere at Base Camp, then neither will I. Even if we turn the troops around, there's no guarantee they'll survive more than five hours until we get back. I'm sorry, but we have to let the atmosphere go. ”
Lee, who was looking after Hyun-soo Jung, once again insisted firmly.
There were three Grade 5 monsters who thought there were two.
They're all Hidden Beasts... Thanks to this, the two teams were attacked by the Great Sandworm, not by the Toxic Squad, and were in a full-scale battle. The Great Sandworm was one of the most hidden monsters in the hidden family, so no one knew it was there, and that was the problem.
“I already understand that. But will the food and equipment at the real base camp be okay? ”
“Toxic groups are colonial monsters with a large number of Grade 3 monsters. Their only concern is the atmosphere at base camp. Maybe they'll eat all the atmosphere and have a nice dinner...... and just disappear. ”
“Good for you.”
It was more important to Hyunsu Jung than the lives of the atmosphere. It was so inhuman, but this was the nightshade of privileged consciousness.
“Ignore the emergency contact and finish the hunt. After the hunt is complete, return to Base Camp to deal with the remaining Poisonous Soldiers. ”
Hyun-soo Jung turned off the emergency radio, which is still receiving a distress call.
Thoroughly abandoned atmosphere.
No one...... went to save them.
* * * *
Daddukuk, ahhhh!
Base camp was hell.
Toxic insects, divided into hundreds of venomous insects, massacred the remaining atmosphere at the base camp.
The Helpers pour their fire against them, but there's nothing they can do to stop them.
Despite being separated by hundreds, the venomous pest was basically a grade 3 monster. Of course, I ignored the Helpers' attacks lightly.
It was a free knight who was preaching.
He appeared to be a member of a protective family who quickly used his protective abilities to create a protective barrier around him and then, along with ten nearby helpers, formed a barrier to stop the poison from approaching him.
The act of this free knight has allowed us to stop them for a while, even if we can't get rid of the poison.
But the problem was...... that it didn't seem to mean much. We've been trying hard to stop the venomous pests for 30 minutes and still no response.
It was one of two things.
The hunt team was also attacked by monsters…… or the hunt team abandoned them…….
Both were very desperate.
‘It is very unlikely that both hunting teams will be wiped out in time. Then... you've been abandoned. ’
Everyone who was already here was thinking the same as Soohyuk. Only...... no one can get it out of my mouth.
Especially when the Freedom Knight was most shocked. The Helpers didn't expect to be abandoned by the Knights themselves.
This mental impact also impacted the freelancer's abilities, and eventually he collapsed earlier than he had.
When his protective bond was broken, everything fell apart. The poisonous creatures that entered the line gnawed on the survivors.
Blood and flesh splattered everywhere.
It really felt like it was over.
But Soohyuk didn't give up even in the meantime. He escaped with a high-speed drive prepared for him.
To be honest, it could have been a meaningless escape. There was no place to run when the camp was already infested with venomous pests.
‘I've been thinking about some of the worst cases, but I never expected this worst……. ’
Suhyuk asked Yeon-gyu to build a seat on Daehyun's expedition and then investigated the attack on the dungeon in his own way. Whatever I did, I was right to bear the risk on my back, but I didn't intend to find a place to die 100%.
So I did my own research and the results were not so bad. Many people looked at the challenges of Daehyun with color glasses, but the real namesake experts were saying that Daehyun is 70% more likely to succeed.
Of course, there was no guarantee that everyone who participated in the dungeon attack would make it back alive, but it was an individual who participated in the expedition anyway.
And crucially, these large-scale dungeon attacks were inevitably safeguards for the worst outcome. I don't know exactly where Daehyun will choose, but if he doesn't get out of the dungeon at the predetermined time, there will be a rescue quest for the Hel or White Dragon Knights at least.
The rescue quest for the Hel or White Dragon was hardly a grade 6 dungeon, so it was almost certainly necessary to rescue the survivors of the Hyundai Metal Knights.
That's why at least the dungeon attack didn't fail and no one had to die.
Suhyuk judged that this was not bad. In fact, he's been doing much more dangerous things in his life than this. After all, Soohyuk has quietly joined the position that Yeon-gyu created. The attack on the Grade 6 dungeon was a great opportunity for Soohyuk, so he couldn't miss it.
Suhyuk who participated in the expedition thought the worst was to die facing an insurmountable situation during the battle with the beast. But he was confident of using his abilities to avoid it as much as possible.
But…… I never thought of the worst. In fact, it might have been even weirder to expect it to be discarded like this.
‘When I die, I'll fight to the death. ’
No matter how desperate the situation was, Soohyuk had no intention of dying gently. To stand and die. To Su-hyuk, I thought it was the right death for him.
Suhyuk, who was running away from the hard-working venomous insects, noticed a place that seemed to be prepared for his end.
‘Yes, if it's there...... It's a good place to work out the end, and it's a good place to meet the end. ’
Popot!
Soohyuk ran as fast as he could as soon as he found it.
That's where he ran.
There was one Titan.
It was the first generation of Titans' 'wire', a leap from a leap.
Soohyuk leaps lightly and hangs on to the cockpit of the open wire and quickly flies inside.
External gloves were very poor because they were the full early Titans of the wire. It looked like a skeleton, but the whole body frame was hard because it was all made of adamantium.
Suhyuk was going to die shooting the Inferno from here to the end.
Titan, who you've always dreamed of.
Soohyuk was satisfied with the fact that he could get on that Titan and die, even though he was old school.
Huff, puff.
“Those damn poisonous bastards... I'll kill them all! ”
Soohyuk sits in the cockpit of the wire and closes the cockpit. He then pushes Inferno's gun out into a rectangular hole to clear Titan's pilot's view.
And that's the moment.
Something unexpected happened.
- Titan, you are cleared for boarding. Information about Titan has been upgraded.
Yan's voice came out of nowhere...... But that wasn't the end.
-From now on, check all systems of wire. 5, 4, 3, 2…… system checked. Remove the lock and connect to the wire drive system.
What, what? ’
Toxic insects have already begun to put dollars on wire lions, but Suhyuk looks around embarrassed, forgetting to pull the trigger on Inferno.
- Wire drive system engaged. Replace the power source of the wire with dimensional power in Mana.
Yippee!
Along with this, suddenly, the ‘Mana Engine’ of the wire began to move slowly.
This makes no sense. The only thing that can move Titan is Knight.
More precisely, the Mana engine turns on as the Knights inject the Mana present in their bodies into Titan. There was no substitute for this. Even ‘Manastone’ could not replace this.
The only thing that can move Titan is Manna of the Night. But at this moment, the absolute law was breaking.
Power's good.
Neurological system compromised.
Synchronization system clear.
Tiric, the visual system does not exist. From now on, the transcendent system provides its own field of view.
Jiaying!
Suddenly, a large translucent screen appeared in front of Suhyuk's eyes, slightly curved at both ends. On that screen, the situation in front of the wire was printed evenly.
‘What the hell... …. ’
- System All Green! The transcendent system's titanium control system is functioning normally.
“Titan…… control system……? ”
Unbelievable voices that keep coming.
The last one…….
- Sir, Titan Control Mode is now available. Enable?
Right now…….
Unbelievable miracle...
I came to Soohyuk.
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