008. it’s time to go home
I ordered to create as many new queens as possible in order to break up and absorb the legions left behind by the rulers. So, the legion queens who died in an unexpected attack were, unfortunately, born not too long ago.
Although the fledgling queens were thoroughly educated through the Hive ritual, their dominance was still immature.
Not all queens, even if well educated, can lead an army of billions straight away like Arachne. Just as you can’t get a commander right away after graduating from the military academy, the new queens needed time to compete for survival to grow their corps’ dominance.
The problem is that the weak colony in which these young queens have settled has been attacked.
Queens have never faced such a monstrosity. Do those who have just been born and started rolling drones and perverting hatcheries have a proper combat experience?
So my children sent out the dozens of small troops they had just created, what they call a legion or something, very little by little. While giving him time to eat and rest.
Thanks to that, he leveled up like a storm. I sucked honey very excitedly.
As I watched the legion queens be defeated individually, I gave no orders to act autonomously.
yes, that’s right
I tried to take care of him in moderation until he leveled up enough.
That hero game addict bastard must have wanted to level up somehow for the upcoming war with the Demon World. You would never want to miss this heavenly hunting ground. I can understand that feeling too. Because I was a player too.
No matter how bad I was with that bastard, the rough friendship of the men who had gone through all kinds of hardships and rolled through the battlefield for three years remained, at least a little. So I tried to give me another rice cake to the dog who wanted to kill me and kill my corps.
However,
That bastard should have messed around with me in moderation.
Keeping together anime characters that have nothing to do with me just because they have the same name is something I hate extremely. Others may say what it is, but to me it came as an unbearable agony and violence.
If it were me in the past, I would have endured it by taking antidepressants at night somehow to avoid harming the kids.
But not now.
I am now the kind of person who can unilaterally beat up a young warrior-addict without being conscious of anyone’s gaze.
Anyway, it seems that our legion looked funny after dealing with only a dozen individuals sent by these clumsy queens.
That’s why I intend to show the Legion’s potential very well.
* * *
Oh, there’s a problem I need to solve first before I can beat him up properly.
【Arachne.】
-Speak, lord.
The legion queens who are now in operation have no combat experience.
If I just put down my orders and leave the queens alone, no matter how many legions there are, I can’t properly conduct a siege operation.
The Legion Queens were taught never to trust each other unless they had subdued them by force. And while I’m still on this planet, it’s too early for new strong queens to emerge who have endured the struggle for survival.
There is no focal point for the queens.
Above all, my dominance itself, which made it difficult to control the corps once I left this continent because I hadn’t grown properly, was the problem.
No matter how you think about it, Kang Jin-hyeok, that’s a really great bastard.
As soon as he noticed that the atmosphere in the Legion had changed, he immediately threw out his powers and flew all the way to the far North Pole in an instant.
Due to the distance, I had to receive mixed reports of jellyfish transmitting and receiving hive consciousness in the middle. As for the order, there was no choice but to send a command that could not but be mixed with the jellyfish’s words.
From the moment it entered the Arctic Circle, the true hive consciousness was utterly muffled.
So to solve this problem,
【From now on, I will hand over the command of all Legion Queens.】
―Please leave it to me. We will not disappoint you.
He sent Arachne, his most skilled and trustworthy confidante, on a business trip.
【Jellyfish are too slow, so ride the Leviathan.】
By boarding the Legion’s strongest Deus Ex Machina.
* * *
All around is white ice.
I came here because I ran away to live.
This was an area where the cold wind that froze everything constantly blew, but Kang Jin-hyeok felt a hot sweet smell coming out of his mouth every time he exhaled.
Her entire body is hot due to excessive power use.
“… … hahahaha.”
He was now completely covered in flesh and bodily fluids, and he was speechless. However, there was no time to wash properly with that clear, clean ice.
Now that all the corps individuals are aiming for a single target, all he can do is guerrilla warfare while escaping.
Booong-!!!
Moments later, the sound of huge swarms of insects shook the arctic air.
“Crazy, did you follow me all the way here?”
A swarm of wasps covering the sky black was relentlessly pursuing.
How many wasps must gather to cover the entire sky?
“There are too many of them.”
If this is the end, I’d rather be happy. Behind the swarm of wasps, huge jellyfish always came spraying venom like bombers.
After this jellyfish appeared and melted the surroundings with excitement, now a set of 3 giant spiders appeared one after another.
The spiders were really terrifying.
At first, they appeared sparsely and became the subject of Kang Jin-hyeok’s experience points, but at some point they began to come in such a way that they filled the horizon.
Each one of them had a level of physical ability similar to that of the lower level demons, so Kang Jin-hyeok felt dizzy the moment he faced the majesty of the corps.
‘… … Fortress defense battle.’
The appearance of the legion made me naturally recall the memory of the last moment I experienced in the episode just before him.
Of course, the ones I had to deal with at that time were only ‘hundreds of thousands’ of demons. And the guys you have to deal with now are ‘billions’ of bugs.
‘I’d rather go back to that time and deal with the demons.’
What’s even more terrifying is that these spiders aren’t just ignorantly attacking like the demons, they’re starting to use very intelligent tactics.
The highly concentrated digestive fluid spewed out by the large spiders flew like a shell from a self-propelled artillery gun and swept everywhere, driving Kang Jin-hyeok. has been aiming for
It didn’t stop there, and the spiders wrapped their webs in places where Kang Jin-hyeok could escape, completely limiting the route that he could escape from.
It was a bonus that the moment he stood still, blocked by a spider web, a huge number of spiders rushed in and surrounded him as if they had been waiting.
This was an organic tactical play that could only be possible in a game.
“… … This is a ridiculous move.”
It felt as if those many swarms of insects were moving as one body.
How on earth can seemingly insignificant things move like that?
“… … I’m going crazy.”
Kang Jin-hyeok was very excited until he leveled up by catching bugs that came infrequently while eating his lunch box. But after I slipped up on him once, things have taken a really terrifying turn.
‘These guys are much more terrible than the demons.’
In the end, Kang Jin-hyeok had no choice but to run away, overusing his powers not for attack but for escape.
No matter how strong a player he is, there is no such thing as a human being who can compete with a legion worth more than a billion units that are equivalent to low-level demons.
All things are equal in front of the overwhelming quantity.
“Han Ji-woo, are you really planning to kill me?”
Kang Jin-hyeok was confused.
Did I really commit a great sin worthy of death?
I knew he hated making fun of names, but did he need to push me down like this?
Judging by the atmosphere, I don’t think he’ll let it go, but if I get down on my knees and pray earnestly, will his anger be relieved? Or will it kill me in the end?
While he thought of various miscellaneous thoughts for a while, a swarm of wasps began to cover his head.
“… … shit.”
Dig-!!!
At the same time as leaving the sound of tearing the air everywhere, Kang Jin-hyeok’s new model disappeared again.
This is one of his powers, [Bullet Man], and as the name suggests, it was a fraudulent technique that allowed him to instantly break through the speed of sound and move using divine power. With the power of this authority, when facing multiple demons on the battlefield, he was able to subdue them with hit and run.
Of course, now this authority is not used as a surprise attack to take the opponent’s life in one blow, but only for escaping to prolong one’s own life.
Thanks to this authority with fraudulent performance even on the run, Kang Jin-hyeok’s mobility was clearly outpacing that army of bugs.
However, there is a limit to the number of times you can use the power without taking a break. In a situation where he had already run away with this power alone for over half a day, his stamina and divine power were now showing the bottom.
“Whoa, whoa.”
Breathing became more and more difficult.
Right now, he desperately needed a break to replenish his stamina, but with the corps pursuing him, he had no time to eat or a place to rest for a while.
Booong-!!!
I wouldn’t let the swarm of bugs do that.
“Fuck.”
Dig-!!!
Just when he thought he had run away as far as possible using his powers, another legion of bugs appeared and made him unable to rest even for a second. I couldn’t understand how the hell the bugs knew their location and followed them.
I jumped to the ground where there was nothing, and before I knew it, the situation where they caught up with me kept repeating, so it was crazy.
It was an eerie feeling, as if one’s movements were being thoroughly monitored by precise military satellites.
The use of successive powers that followed.
Dig-!!!
After a while.
Kang Jin-hyeok appeared on a drift ice.
“… … .”
All around was the half-frozen sea, and now there was no land for him to escape to.
The place where Kang Jin-hyeok was standing was the North Pole of this planet.
“… … I shouldn’t have responded to such a suspicious summons request.”
He looked at the swarms of swarms of corps that surrounded all directions, dyeing the horizon black, and let out a weak, late murmur of regret.
“Has the moment of choice come?”
If he had to cross half the planet to the point where he had to die, and there was no place to hide, there was only one option for Kang Jin-hyeok to choose.
If you use this authority now, you can overcome the crisis situation.
“If you die without using the authority, you cannot return.”
[Infinite Regression]
This power created by the manager was quite notorious among players, because like Kang Jin-hyeok’s monologue, this power was not a passive form, but a very trashy structure in which the player had to press the return button to activate it.
There were quite a few people who died without accidentally pressing this.
If you die without pressing that return power button in time, you will literally die. If that happens, there is no chance for the next round.
If Ji-Woo Han had no intention of killing herself in the first place, this would be a rare idiot, but anyway, in the next episode, he doesn’t have the power and won’t return, so you won’t see it again.
And if he decided to kill himself in the first place, using [Infinite Regression] now would be a very appropriate choice.
It’s just dog death if you run after the bugs before you press the button.
“… … It looks like he’ll kill me.”
Of course, judging from the atmosphere right now, I decided that there was a high probability of killing myself. And if you get attacked by those terrifying swarms of insects, your body will probably be torn to pieces before you even press the power button.
If that’s going to be the case, it’s easier to just press the button ahead of time.
Kang Jin-hyeok’s choice followed after a brief moment of thought.
The next pants run reminds me of sunfish.
“Infinite Regression Power.”
[Would you like to use the Infinite Regression Power?]
It was the moment when Kang Jin-hyeok’s hand was about to reach the system window.
―Wooong~!!!
“… … !!!”
A huge whale appeared from the sky and swallowed the drift ice whole.
“… … .”
Kang Jin-hyeok passed out without being able to press the button.
* * *
“Arachne, wake him up soon.”
―I will fulfill your order, ruler.
Wow! Wow!
Arachne approached Kang Jin-hyeok, who had lost consciousness tightly bound by the spider’s web, and mobilized three of her front legs to slap him very coolly.
Hmm, I saw things like white corn being thrown out in a heap. Blood flows from his nose, but he won’t die because he’s a player.
“… … Ugh.”
Soon after, when Kang Jin-hyeok groaned and opened his eyes, I greeted him with a very ‘happy smile’.
“Hello Jinhyeok? How does it feel to see an unfamiliar ceiling as soon as you wake up?”
Kang Jin-hyeok’s pupils, who saw me, swayed left and right as if an earthquake had occurred. An earthquake that easily exceeds 7 on the Richter scale.
“… … Han Ji-woo?”
“Oh, fortunately I recognize you. I was pretty worried that I might have forgotten my face. I had a lot of trouble while making it. I wasn’t sure if this was my old face or not.”
I welcomed him with open arms.
“Welcome, is this your first Leviathan? Kang Jin-hyeok, I sincerely welcome you to the corps’ space travel.”
In his dark eyes full of astonishment, the image of a man with his arms wide open was reflected with a very fishy smile, as if he could smell the scent of blood.
And behind the creepy man’s back, the hive mind of the legion with a huge body was showing off its magnificent majesty.
Yes, both of them were me.
I succeeded in creating a human body using his cells.
“Yes, yes, our Jinhyeok, who worked hard to beat my children for giving them a lot of experience points. My brother has something to tell you. Would you like to listen for a second?”
With a smile on my face, I approached the guy who was still in shock and grabbed him by the collar.
“Jinhyuk Kang. If you don’t want to find out, buy top secret information with global location information right now and hand it over to me. What? Do you keep rolling your eyes when your brother says it? It seems that you desperately want to run away from me right now? Oops, but what about it? This is inside the whale’s nervous system. Even if you use [Bullet Man] until your spiritual power runs out, you have nowhere to run. So think carefully. If your baby is useless because it refuses my request. ”
I very kindly told him where we were now.
“I will throw you into outer space outside the whale.”
… … It seems that I have become a very serious villain today.
Um, maybe it’s just the mood?
Anyway, after completing my body like this, I rode Leviathan and went out into space.
It’s time to go back home