Episode 60. Starry Night (12)
Ting! Tattang! Empty!
A barrage of bullets from the patrol members gathered at the central control center rains down on McClain. However, the bullet ricocheted off the upper skins of the 29 dolls that surrounded him tightly.
It’s not a metaphor, but it’s so perfectly surrounded that you can’t even fit a finger in it. Considering the number of dolls was 29, it was enough to call it excessive defense.
‘Chit. I tried to take advantage of the confusion with a Walted shot, but I didn’t expect it to be that timid.’
I get angry when things don’t go the way I want. It was because the halo that had formed above my head was eating away at my mind.
[Remaining Spirit: 67%]
It seemed like he had spent all his energy, but his mental state was more relaxed than he thought. Magical Soul Watch. And it seemed to be thanks to the increase in output compared to mental power investment due to Halo.
Where is that?
[Remaining Spirit: 68%]
[Remaining Spirit: 69%]
[Remaining Spirit: 70%]
… … .
Halo even had an additional effect of greatly increasing mana and natural recovery.
Looking at it this way, Halo seemed to be the best technology if you could control it.
“Heuk!”
“Aww! uncle!”
Eom Na-yeon let out a shrieking scream and looked at me. He covered his mouth with his hand, but blood leaked out from between his fingers.
‘My body can’t stand it.’
This is why adults die or become crippled by Halo.
Unable to overcome the pressure of overheated magical power, the internal organs begin to be damaged. Judging by the hematemesis, it seemed that something was wrong with his lungs.
‘I’d rather have better lungs. If something goes wrong with the brain, it could be irreversible.’
Although the momentum may have turned to our side, we are still at a disadvantage if we lead a long-term battle.
I used my natural instincts again to get MacLaine’s head out of the doll’s shell.
[Activate ‘Overlord’.]
“Ugh! You keep being so cheeky!”
No matter how similar the relationship is, even if the effect is reduced, it will be quite stingy. Overlord is basically a nature that damages the mind. Because it is a counter ability specialized in mirror battles like now.
“How long are you going to hide behind children’s toys! Crawl out when you say something good!”
“I don’t think you have anything to say about the subject of using a woman as a shield!”
I smiled proudly at those words and hugged Eom Na-yeon’s shoulders.
“Huh?!”
“I’m sorry, but I’m more compatible than your shield? I’m protected by such a cute and soft girl, what are you? mechanical doll? Pooh. Poor you!”
“This son of a b*tch… … !”
“What if I snuggle up and sleep in winter because I’m lonely, and then my mouth gets cold because it’s cold! Can you be my conversation partner? Or did you call the voice actors and record them? It’s funny just imagining it!”
“Because this bastard wants to see you!”
A really childish fight. If there are other good numbers, unfortunately there are none. I am doing this because there is no
They couldn’t damage each other’s bodies, and even the nature fights were boiling with each other, so there was no resolution. In the end, all that remains is to shake the other person’s mind and distract them from their concentration.
‘A surprisingly simple and childish way of teasing is often the most effective.’
I could see the effect straight away.
[Activate ‘Overlord’.]
“Quaaagh!”
A scream more painful than before. It was proof that his mind was shaking as I intended.
At that time, Eom Na-yeon, who was embarrassed in my arms, quickly started shooting in support.
“Whoa, whoa! mister. Seeing how angry I am with my uncle, is it possible that he doesn’t have any friends? Is that why you take those dolls with you? If you put a name on a doll, you think you’re serious? wow Upset.”
“I won’t look at you anymore! I’ll make you regret making fun of me!!!”
Whoa!
The moment MacLaine sighed, the magic wave pulses spread all over the place again.
It is felt. Numerous magical threads stretched out from him and headed towards the children.
“Ouch!”
“Ugh!”
“Boo… … .”
As if being forcibly manipulated by something. The children’s arms and necks began to move unnaturally like marionettes.
Maclain’s representative 2-phase gimmick.
A pattern in which adult children with natural powers use natural attacks. A pattern in which ordinary children who have not matured into adults make a physical charge.
Even if you subdue the child without killing it, the situation will not improve. This is because the connection pattern that follows, and the supernova virus planted in the body of an adult child, even cause halo runaways.
Fortunately, among the misfortunes, the supernova virus was not implanted in ordinary children.
There was only one way to overcome this pattern in the standard attack. It is to quickly kill MacLaine before more children are sacrificed in the course of the battle.
but.
“I told you. I am more compatible than you.”
For this time, I exercised my secrets that I had cherished and cherished until now.
Innate 4th level skill.
A nature that has always been sealed in combat due to efficiency issues.
[‘Mind Siege’ is activated.]
『Mind Siege』
Ordinary children, who were trying to use the power of body manipulation to make a physical charge, stand tall and stand tall. It is not just one or two people, but a situation where more than 160 people have their nature at the same time.
[Remaining Spirit: 64%]
[Remaining Spirit: 59%]
[Remaining Spirit: 61%]
[Remaining Spirit: 56%]
[Remaining Spirit: 58%]
… … .
Even though his mental strength is cut in an instant, he diligently recovers it repeatedly thanks to the Halo amplification effect.
extra here.
[‘Eyes Fake’ is activated.]
『Eyes Fake』
Through the power to deceive the eyes of the opponent, I make myself invisible to the eyes of the children. The children who lost their target began to wander instead of exercising their natural instincts.
“Cool! Khehehe! Big!”
The pressure of the magical power is gradually affecting the head. Blood began to flow from his mouth, nose, and eyes.
It’s just that the opponents are immature children, so the consumption of mental strength is only this much. If you use Level 4 Nature on MacLaine, your mental strength will run out in an instant, just like you did on Eom Na-yeon the other day.
So, the best I can do here is.
[Activates ‘Emotion Implant’.]
In the end, it turned around and turned into an Emotion implant.
“Turn it off!”
MacLaine is suffering.
The ability with the highest proficiency and the highest mental energy consumption efficiency. This is the only nature I can use now that I am still constantly draining my mental strength from tying up my children.
Okay!
The tug-of-war that started against the cliff was finally running toward the end.
One of the dolls wrapped around him collapses on the floor. As if that had become a fuse, each time I applied pressure with the force of nature, the other puppets also broke their threads one by one.
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Just as I put a lot of strain on my body because of Halo, it was the same that he was also burdened by that chair artifact.
under similar conditions. If this fight continues, the only thing that remains is whose nature has the upper hand.
[Activates ‘Emotion Implant’.]
“aaa!”
and.
McClain’s voice, which seemed to be leaving, echoed through the central control center. All the puppets that surrounded him became puppets with strings cut and scattered on the floor.
“Now! run! Go get MacLaine off that chair! Don’t kill me!”
“okay!”
Eom Na-yeon released the shield and ran. He grabbed MacLaine’s chest, who was drooping in the chair, and threw it against the wall of the control center.
bang!
[Activates ‘Emotion Implant’.]
[Activates ‘Emotion Implant’.]
I hurriedly administered a tranquilizer to my head. The moment a feeling of comfort flooded into my head, I felt the headache disappear as if insects were eating away at my brain.
“Hoo-wook. Whoa. ha… … .”
“uncle!”
Eom Na-yeon, who was watching McClain spread out on the floor, quickly approached me.
“What about him?”
“I threw it far away so that I can’t fool around with the chair again!”
“good job.”
“no! More than that, was it so dangerous to have a special move?! Uncle, did you know that when you looked back a little while ago, you almost got wings on your back?!”
Halo Midterm. If you go over from the early to the middle of the day, from then on, fatal aftereffects will remain in the body of an adult.
If you have one, you have to look at it for at least several months and at most years to treat it. It was really close-knit.
In fact, I also felt a cool sensation down my spine. What should I say? I had an intuition that if I didn’t make this sensation stop continuing, it would be a real big deal.
“that… … . I apologize for being harsh and touching myself. I was trying to keep my sanity as much as possible… It’s hard to control your emotions… .”
“uncle. Do you know that is a very mean apple?”
“huh?”
“With his face and clothes covered in blood like that. If you ask for forgiveness with a tired face, you have no choice but to grant it.”
When Eom Na-yeon smiled bitterly, I also accepted it with a meaningless smile.
“Ugh.”
“uncle!”
Suddenly, my body trembled. She came quickly and supported me.
“Don’t be surprised. It was just that I was dizzy for a while because I was bleeding a little. And don’t be careless.”
“I know that too. I’m keeping an eye on that man, so Uncle take care of himself.”
Chijik! Chizuzuzuk!
Something I forgot about for a while because I was talking to MacLaine in the middle of the heat. The noise that had been coming from the in-ear radio for some time now started to bother me.
“I think the radio is broken. It keeps making noise, do you?”
“Yes.”
I tapped the in-ear with my index finger. why isn’t there such a thing It is such a habit that when an appliance is broken, we try to fix it by beating it with our hands.
“Mr. Kim Do-yoon. Doyoon Kim! Respond when you hear it!」
this is real
“Ugh. seolchaehwa. Now hear me.”
“hahahaha. thank god… ! I kept talking, but there was no answer, so I thought it was broken and my heart almost stopped!”
“Has your situation ever become dangerous?”
“I have a lot to tell you, but I’ll tell you the most urgent first. The outside search party has now approached the central control center!”
Coincidentally, there was a means to buy this a little more time.
“You guys, go outside the entrance and block the search party from approaching this way. They rebelled.”
“All right.”
The patrol members, who were still brainwashed, showed a respectful salute and then escaped outside the firewall in perfect order.
All that remains are the children standing in their seats as MacLaine is incapacitated. Judging by the fact that her eyes were still loose, it seemed that she had been treated with some kind of drug.
“uncle. But why did you ask that man to be saved? Wouldn’t it be dangerous to leave it alone?”
“I need to find out.”
The number of children gathered at the central control center was 177. With a total of 181 members, the whereabouts of four are unknown.
He was the one who ordered the children to be gathered, so only he must know where he is.
“McLaine.”
“oh… . this… … . You know my code name. When did I introduce my name? Cool! Cool cool!”
I can no longer feel the strong magical energy that radiated from him just before. Even if he had the strength left, he was confident enough to subdue him.
“Is this all about you?”
“Feeling impatient. First of all, let me guess your name. yes you… . I couldn’t believe it, but the hypnotist who was mentioned frequently within the Septagram. Influencer Kim Do-yoon. Right?”
I fixed the mask.
His identity must have been completely hidden. But since my nature is so peculiar, there was plenty of room for discovery.
“Don’t talk back. you asked Is this the end?”
“Yeah, it’s over. I’m definitely done I’m done but… … . I have one more gift left for you. hey The top is great too. To expect me to end up like this and give these guidelines… . hehehehe.”
This is an area I don’t know.
After being incapacitated like this, the original MacLaine showed a typical ‘the villain had a story’, and then fainted and it was over.
“What nonsense are you talking about?”
“This… . The great being of our septagram. Dark Stella’s seventh star, Glene, personally provided the idea.”
The moment I heard his name, my voice involuntarily became furious.
“Don’t go round and round, speak straight up!”
“Glaine said. If you want to give someone the worst of despair, give them a little bit of hope first.”
Whoops!
Nayeon Eom and I raised our heads almost at the same time.
“uncle. Just that trembling… … .”
Inherent air vibrations caused by magic wave pulses. That wave was just felt all over the lab.
MacLaine chuckles and laughs.
“The north, south, east and west of this institute. The children are hidden in the rooms at the ends of each of the four directions. You should be experiencing Halo symptoms by now.”
“what… … ?”
“You said you cared so much for your children? I’ve heard that Halo symptoms can also be stopped. Now that I have seen the use of it with my own eyes, I know for sure the significance of this gift. Whoa whoop?!”
I didn’t want to look at him anymore, so I punched him in the face. As if he had been conscious for a while, MacLaine passed out.
bang! Tattang!
Then a gunshot was heard through the firewall. It seemed that the search parties and patrol members who were trying to approach the central control center started fighting.
“Seolchaehwa. Can you hear me?”
“I am listening.”
“Can the drone come in this way?”
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Jiying.
After a while, the firewall door opened and Seol Chae-hwa’s drone flew in with an even stronger gunshot.
“Um Nayeon.”
“Uh, yes!”
“Behind the chair the man was sitting on is a staircase leading down to the basement. The core that controls the base here is down there underground, so you go and help hack the drone.”
If you go down here, the final boss of the second episode will be waiting for you.
‘He’s a nuisance too, but I’ll be relieved if I send Eom Na-yeon.’
The final boss of this episode is the trap action gimmick. A pattern in which a researcher guarding the core uses facility traps to block players from approaching.
In that sense, Nayeon Eom is not affected by patterns at all. It can be said that there is no better person than her to entrust this task.
“What about your uncle?”
“There are children we couldn’t save. I have to go out and check it out.”
“It’s full of enemies outside! Are you going alone?!”
As soon as I showed the momentum to run away, Eom Na-yeon grabbed my wrist.
[Remaining Spirit: 24%]
Mental strength reduced to 1/4 before I knew it. When it falls below 10%, the vital chip forcibly stops using it, so only 14% remains.
“You felt it too. That aura just now is a Halo phenomenon.”
“There is no guarantee that the child will be experiencing Halo! Could it be that the uncle was trying to confuse the uncle?”
It’s not that there’s no possibility.
‘But if MacLaine really got the idea from him.’
Considering how bad he was, there was a good chance it was true.
“Na Yeon-ah. Let’s follow Kim Do-yoon’s words here.”
“Ha, but! Aren’t there a lot of enemies right now at the entrance?”
“I’m not just saying it without responsibility. Two reinforcements are on their way there.”
“Reinforcements? what? Did you just say two? Are you talking about senior Aram?”
“There are troops gathered at the entrance of the central control center, but there is a route to bypass it. You shouldn’t worry too much. Doyoon Kim knows the structure of the building, so let’s do our own thing.”
I looked at Nayeon Eom.
“Did you hear? So please let go of my arm.”
“Okay. Can’t you overdo it?”
Her hand gripping my wrist slowly loses strength.
“Mr. Kim Do-yoon. Please let us know your location periodically whenever you move. If there is someone nearby who can join among the reinforcements who have entered the laboratory, I will arrange a meeting.”
“for a moment. But it’s Chaehwa. Why do you talk like it’s someone else’s business? Weren’t you coming?”
“Na Yeon-ah. I’ll let you know as I go downstairs. The situation is urgent right now.”
Why? It was as if he was hiding something from me.
“I go first. Be careful, they might have prepared a means of deterrence in the basement as well.”
“Watch out, Uncle too!”
Saying that, I stepped out toward the firewall door.
While the patrols block the entry of searchers through containment fire. I started taking a detour to the side, recalling the internal structure of the laboratory.
“Even if we make a detour, we will encounter a small number of search parties. Right now, they’ll be looking all over the inside of the lab.”
“I will take care of that. More than that, if you don’t come, who else will come besides Kang A-ram?”
“You will know when you meet him in person. I’m sure they’re very strong and reliable supporters.”
“Who the hell are you… … . Tsk. okay.”
I decided not to ask anymore because I had to focus on feeling the Halo energy for now.
‘But who is it that doesn’t tell me this much?’
The moment a potential candidate popped into my mind, I felt a chill run down my spine.
If that candidate was coming, this had to be pointed out.
“Seolchaehwa. Maybe that candidate. Is it a driftwood?”
“… … .”
“You asked if it was a feral forest. seolchaehwa. Seolchaehwa!”
No answer came.