The Returner

4. What the hell happened? (3)

“What's the situation?”

“It can't be worse. ”

“... You look fine for that. ”

Lee Hyuk looked around and said.

The light seems to be coming in nicely, so the power hasn't been cut, and the surroundings are quiet, so the waves of the monsters aren't happening.

But it's the worst...

“I know it's not the time to say this, Lee Hyuk. You're barely awake, and I'm very sorry to tell you this... but I think you should go to Cheongwa right now. ”

“Hmm……. ”

Lee Hyuk scratched his cheek.

“Yeah. Well, let's see what happens. I'm going.”

The appendage presses down on Lee Yi Hyuk's shoulder.

“Your body doesn't feel like you're recovering from the surface speed, does it? If you go too far now, you may never recover. ”

Lee Hyuk smiled.

“So you can recover from the refining? ”

“ ……. ”

Appeldrich is unable to answer.

It would be best not to speak as a woman who cannot lie.

“I have no habit of lying in bed and waiting to die. Speaking of which... ”

Lee Hyuk chewed it out.

“Where did Alpha and Park Seong-chan go? ”

“… I don't know. ”

“Is that so?"

Lee Hyuk touched my chest.

“That was a good shot. ”

It was true that Lee Hyuk showed weakness in close combat, as Alpha said. To be precise, he had no defence or ability compared to his abilities, near or far.

Because he's not dead.

I didn't have to pay attention to the defense because I was recovered from whatever attack. Then such weaknesses would naturally arise.

However, if the flesh of Lee Hyuk was perfect, he would not have been subjected to Park Seong-chan. Mana gathered quite a lot compared to the early days in this world, but on the contrary, his body became too weak.

It's a different matter than being fortified with ether.

Perception, sixth sense, instinct.

All defense mechanisms that can predict and evade the opposing Pokémon's attacks are weakened beyond compare.

‘You're dying. ’

Even though the situation that I had hoped for was coming, Lee Hyuk could not be happy.

Above all, the crisis in this world was too great to accept death now.

He wanted to die alone, quietly, not with Earth as his companion.

“Let's go first. What the hell is going on here? ”

“Lee Ji-hyuk. ”

“Yes?”

“What exactly does it mean when a door opens? ”

“Well……. ”

Lee Hyuk scratched his cheek and replied.

“Fairytale. ”

“Fairy tales?”

“There is a contact between dimensions and dimensions. So there's a lot of points between the Earth and the barrier that can move in common. It doesn't really add up. ”

“… so we can travel to each other through common areas. ”

“Why?”

“That's already happened. ”

Lee Hyuk sighed low when he saw Choi Jung-hoon's hard face.

* * *

“Shoot! Shoot! Shoot me!”

Arizona Picasso Peak State Park is packed with troops.

However, the faces of those who formed the troops were filled with only despair and fear.

“Oh, where did you get pushed out like I did! Where?”

Monsters.

Endless monsters prowl towards them, endless enough to cover the world.

Although they have not seen the appearance of monsters once or twice so far, the monsters they are seeing are clearly different from what they have experienced before.

First, monsters that appeared in this world in the past have attacked because they were mad at humans. However, the monsters that were watching were advancing slowly, even though they had found them.

Secondly...

The number was completely different.

Watching monsters filling the desert horizon, the desire for battle itself vanishes. No matter how many attacks they launched, I had to wonder if I could stop them.

One more thing...

“Humans here use very interesting weapons. ”

Kuang! Kuang!

As you watch the cannonball drop, the fifty-third Demon King Goldberg reaches down with a long tentacle.

“Gunpowder? How can you use gunpowder to do this? What a surprise. I thought it was nonsense that Humans might have the power to even conquer the throne someday.... ”

“It seems that the human possibility was more than we thought. ”

“I think so. ”

Goldberra snatches a flying cannonball.

“Does it explode when you're shocked? There doesn't seem to be any magical traces, no matter how much I look at it... ”

Kuaang!

When the cannonball in the tentacle exploded, Goldberry became a subtle face.

“... I don't think so. ”

I don't know what the harmony is, but it's clear that human technology surpasses them....

“You can't stop us like this. ”

At that moment, I began to hear a strange sound from the sky.

“Is the lump of iron flying in the sky? ”

Goldbera tilts his head as if he couldn't understand.

“It's not magic. How could it be? Humans are such freaks. ”

“Something's dropping. ”

“Huh?”

Kuaaaaang! Kuaaang!

Bombers have begun firing bombs from above the monsters. We started a full-scale war with an endless bomb, as if we were going to change the terrain itself.

If it had been a human army down there, it would have been wiped out, but unfortunately, it was not a human cannonball.

“... It stings. ”

Goldbera chuckles through the saturation.

“That's funny, that's funny. I thought conquering Humans would be a boring fight, but this should be fun. ”

“And there's the thirteenth Demon King and the nineteenth Demon King in the world. There is a saying that they are hostile to us. ”

“The nineteenth time, and the thirteenth time, they're hostile to us? Hmm, it's no big deal if something goes wrong in that head since we've lived together for a long time. ”

Goldbera was amazed at the halfway blood clods.

“Fantastic. This is as good as Arc Meiji's wide killing magic. I didn't expect Humans to reach this level. You think you can do this much damage without magic? Humans are truly remarkable. ”

“Even the ninety-ninth Demon King was human. ”

“Let's exclude that. He's a disaster.”

Kuaang! Kuaang!

Goldberra looks odd during the bombing.

Then Goldberra's tentacles begin to spread.

Clairvoyance!

Goldberra's tentacles, endlessly stretching out over the sky, grip the air bombers.

Quadruck!

Severed bombers begin to fall from the sky.

Kuaang!

“Your defenses are worse than they appear to be. Does this give you any room for fun? ”

Goldberra turns his head and sticks out his tongue, seeing the army blocking their way.

“I have to try. ”

* * *

“Oh, my God.”

Seeing the burning city, Germany's Prime Minister, Georg Slick, was faced with despair.

Their armies and capabilities, which were the strongest in Europe, were shameless in front of monsters in Munich that had suddenly changed.

Until now, monsters armed with steel armor and powerful claws have been galloping through the poetry as if they were just a weak bunch.

“Evacuate! We must evacuate! ”

Evacuate?

The secretary smiles.

To where?

Where should we evacuate?

If we don't stop those monsters, there won't be a single place in the world where they can live.

Europe will be captured and Africa and Asia will fall into their hands.

Should we cross the sea?

Then maybe those monsters will follow us.

The same is already happening in the United States, and you want me to move people to an unmanned country?

“Assemble the entire unit. ”

“Mr. President!”

“Call for help from the Alliance and stop them here! ”

“But then the damage... ”

“Can you reduce the damage by running away? Now we must seek the survival of Europe, and not of Germany, but of the world! ”

The secretary stiffens his face in a floating posture to the decisive voice of the Georges.

“I'll do as I'm told. ”

“We are the oath of Europe. We can't just drop it in front of our enemies. Prevent.”

The Georges clam their mouths.

‘I didn't think I'd pay for my sins like this...' ’

I didn't expect the German people to settle debts in this way. It's not my intention, and it's not something I'm happy to accept.

“You rotten horsemen! Don't look down on humans! I'll show you the spirit of Germans! ”

* * *

“D- we have to run. ”

Sichuan Castle Chengdu was already reconciled to ashes. There were no traces of a historic city left. All that was left was the critically dug crater and the buildings that had been faded to ashes and smashed into more than half.

The buildings were on fire.

“Hmph.”

The sixty-second Demon King, Araxis, trembled with joy as he watched.

“I mean, this civilization is so much fun when it's destroyed. Taking a life will erase a single trace, but civilization will erase all traces of humans that have been around for tens of millions of years. ”

You see a large army approaching the laughing eyes of Araxis.

“Hmph.”

Araxis, who snores, turns to the humans who are rushing towards her.

“But he doesn't hate to take his own life. ”

Araxis licks her lips with her tongue out, and slowly begins to walk towards the humans.

“I don't intend to, but if you do, you should. ”

Long fingernails begin to appear from the hands of Araxis. The dark-red nails glow brightly as if they were sucking human souls.

“Scream, scream joyfully. ”

Araxis trembles with joy as he looks at those who can rush towards him with bloodshot eyes. The intense hatred and the agony that humans inflicted upon their deaths were like drugs to them.

“I told you to do it properly.... ”

I want to relax and enjoy it slowly, but I don't have to let my visitors live like this.

Araxis gladly accepted the authentic banquet prepared for him.

If anything, it was a special dinner.

The Demon King, the Horsemen, and the horses were coming through an open door around the world.

The time of despair begins.