232 – to end everything
“Ugh… Heh…heh…”
“ha… ”
Guild master level hunters who were completely exhausted lying on the floor of the airship.
Seeing them so exhausted that they literally couldn’t even lift a finger, Dreamers’ hunters stood guard with weapons in case of an emergency or looked after them as they fell.
“Here is the water.”
“Thank you.”
“If you need help, please let me know.”
“Here, take this person to the medical room. You were so exhausted that you lost consciousness.”
The airship returns to Korea at maximum speed.
Inside, the Hunters of Dreamers were admiring the girls as they watched them solve missions of S-level difficulty or higher.
‘As expected, Korea’s strongest players are not just anyone..’
‘No matter how much Li Jinhyeon’s command was there… it would have been absolutely impossible if he had been at my level.’
They broke through the enemies wielding weapons almost without rest for more than a day.
It would have been absolutely impossible without the stamina and fighting ability of steel.
The Hunters of Dreamers, who watched them through the screen, had no choice but to recognize the limits of their power once again.
That time, when Dreamers’ hunters were seriously thinking about seeing the fragments of the strongest…
On one side, Are, who commanded them, was conducting a personal phone call with Adjutant Lee Jin-hyun.
“Then, we’ll have to sortie right away as soon as we arrive.”
-“Yes, originally, we wanted to take some time, but since that big guy has already arrived near the Yalu River, we don’t think we will have much time. How is the situation over there?”-
“Currently, all of the guild master level hunters here are exhausted, and some of them are quite seriously injured. It seems that fighting will be impossible for a while.”
-“All right. It’s a pity, but we can’t help it, if you can, drop them off and move right away. We will proceed with the second stage operation immediately.”
“all right.”
In return for confirming Lee Jin-hyeon’s hypothesis, the guild masters were unable to fight for a while.
As Korea’s strongest force, in fact, they were the only ones who could survive wielding weapons all day long in the Abyss gap basket, as before, and it was impossible to fight in a similar way for a while.
However, this much was already expected to some extent, and Are was well aware that now all that was left was to finish everything with their own hands.
‘With this, the war will end perfectly.. And… you will definitely survive. These are the only two things I have to think about right now.’
*
to resolve emergencies
A conference hall where heads of state gather.
There was a piece of paper that had just come into their hands.
As they checked the contents, their faces showed complex feelings in many ways.
And watching them
Vice Admiral Song Dana spoke in a serious voice.
“This confirms the hypothesis I was talking about earlier. The warrant materials are also displayed on the screen in front, so you can check them out.”
The scene that comes out through the screen in front of your eyes.
It was a scene of ‘experiment’ that was shown very clearly by taking close-up shots with a special camera.
A ‘nest’ of the Abyss that looks like a lake of tar
Even at this moment, countless Abyss were crawling out from one side, and on top of them, objects resembling shrouds thrown by Hunter Chuk Chun were falling in abundance.
Shortly thereafter, grenades touched the surface of the black tar puddle.
Immediately after that, the reactions they were showing were divided into two.
One is a hand grenade with no treatment.
As if they were blocked by something hard, they bounced off the surface of the tar pit and exploded, and the impact made the tar pit unable to make even gentle ripples.
On the other hand
A grenade whose surface is covered with a black substance that moves endlessly.
The appearance it showed was completely different from that of the previous grenade.
A grenade that was sucked straight into the black puddle like a stone thrown over a swamp.
And after a while…
In the tar puddle, which had not even been moved by the previous grenade explosion, a weak but clearly visible ripple began to rise in an instant.
It’s small, but it’s appearance that obviously gave a clear impact to the inside.
This phenomenon was common to many grenades thrown into pits.
The fact that a grenade covered in a black substance can shock lakes of tar.
Like that, immediately after showing the process and results of the ‘experiment’ in real time,
Vice Admiral Song Dana spoke in a clear voice.
“As stated in the data, that black substance on the surface of the grenade is made from living Abyss cells. It’s not like the corpse or blood of a dead Abyss like the previous attempts, but it’s definitely a living Abyss cell. And through this… we have been able to clearly know one fact.”
“In other words.. you can’t go into that tar pit or give a shock to it without being accompanied by living cells of the Abyss.. does that mean?”
“Yes, it is. It’s like a kind of biometric barcode that allows it to pass through hard walls that even nuclear weapons can’t damage.”
“Ummm..”
“It certainly sounds like the right thing to do. Otherwise, this situation cannot be explained.”
So far, they have attempted various attacks to destroy the pit that can be said to be directly related to the survival of mankind.
They tried physical means such as nuclear missiles, as well as acid, flame, and even electric attacks using capacitors, but eventually came to the conclusion that it was impossible to break the ‘invisible wall’ defending the puddle.
Of course, on the way, some people hypothesized what it would be like to use something like the corpse of the Abyss, but those attempts were also concluded with one or two failures.
It wasn’t even a major theory in the first place,
The biggest reason is that the cost of launching one missile is too high, so you can’t try it multiple times.
However, some leaders began to express a little regret as they recognized that the answer was surprisingly close.
“If that’s the case, we should immediately proceed with the work of wrapping the missiles with living Abyss or their cells.”
“If a nuclear warhead explodes inside, it will be difficult for them to endure. As much as the Abyss can be defeated with moderate firepower, the material that is the source will also be difficult to withstand if the core is hit properly without a shield.”
“I see it that way too. However, before implementing this operation, we have homework to solve first.”
“Are you talking about that super-large Abyss?”
“Yes, it is.”
At the words of Vice Admiral Dana, following Lake Tar, the leaders of each country think of the existence they need to worry about most urgently.
Then, facing them, Lieutenant General Dana continued talking.
“No matter how much we eliminate Lake Tar and stop the appearance of any more Abyss, it is certain that the disaster will continue as long as those things that cannot be destroyed by human power remain. To this end, I ask you once again for your cooperation in the implementation of the plan I suggested earlier.”
“I see what you mean.”
“Let’s do that, as well as do things at the right time to make sure that monster doesn’t come out again.”
“Then I would like to ask you.”
In this way, right after all cooperation was agreed upon in relation to the progress of the overall operation,
A deep smile began to bloom in Vice Admiral Song Dana’s heart.
‘With this, it’s like a half-success.. All that’s left is to proceed as planned.’
With that thought at the end, Lieutenant General Song Dana stood up from his seat, and other leaders also began to move forward with their work.
In order to completely end the bloody battle between humanity and the Abyss with their own hands.