Chapter 96 (1/2)

Episode 6: Mafia Game / Chapter 96: At the Ruins (2)

TL: emptycube / ED: Obelisk

In the blink of an eye, the sululacks burrowed into the crowd of colonizers. The monsters, which looked like someone had piled rags into a human shape, screamed, “Shaaaaah!” an unpleasant sound, as they stood there.

“Euack!”

However, the nearby colonizers freaked out as they began to retreat.

“Karma! My karma is being sucked in!”

A fleeing colonizer screamed.

It was chaos.

Frustration surged within Choi Hyuk. Since they were told it was an opportunity to gain experience, each overseer had brought over all their combat-oriented colonizers. That was also why Choi Hyuk had brought millions of warriors himself. However, what could they do with numbers?

In Choi Hyuk’s perspective, they were pathetically weak.

Swis.h.!.+

Choi Hyuk dived in. He swooped down like a ghost and sliced a sululack in two. Sululacks would try to suck in karma, and the closer you came the more quickly they would suck, however, it was all a farce that only affected low level warriors who lacked in both control and Retribution.

Choi Hyuk gave the hurriedly fleeing small and medium-sized clans a pathetic look. Sululacks weren’t monsters that could be avoided like that. Instead, they were dangerous monsters that would leave a serious blow in your troops if you didn’t take them out the moment they appeared. Yet, these clans didn’t even attempt to attack the sululacks and were busy attempting to flee.

‘When will they be worth their salt?’

Choi Hyuk felt that they would only be appropriate to use when they were at the level of the Berserkers. When he thought about how long it would take for these clans to be of use, it felt so distant… yet, he currently had to save them.

Choi Hyuk jumped around as he took down the sululacks.

Crackle! Boom!

The Berserkers’ artillery focused their fire on the sululacks appearing in the distance and pre-emptively took them down.

Lee Jinhee’s troops, who possessed incredible mobility, jumped around like gra.s.shoppers.

Yet, there were simply too many sululacks appearing around them.

“Quickly, quickly! Take them out before they explode!”

Baek Seoin shouted in an urgent manner.

Multiple sululacks would appear simultaneously whenever the evil hand of night blinked.

At the same time as their appearance, they would quickly absorb the karma around them and would explode that energy at some point. They were a type of suicide bombers. They were a nightmare in the current situation.

Baaang!

Baaaang!

Ferocious explosions erupted everywhere. Normal explosions would spread out horizontally, but the self-destruction of the sululacks didn’t spread out like that, instead, they utterly destroyed the area around them as if it was contained in a sphere. The ground was completely shredded apart and vaporized. When the special surface of the Cayenne star, which absorbed the star’s intense heat, disappeared, the flames emitted by the star surged up like a storm. As the Endurance of the colonizers, who were swept up by the flames, was pitiful, not even their bodies remained.

“… Their locations are too good.”

Choi Hyuk frowned. Sululacks were already annoying middle ranked monsters, but with the support of the evil hand of night, they became truly irritable existences. They appeared like ghosts the moment the evil hand of night blinked, but of all places, they kept appearing in areas without any experts. Hidden from view, the evil hand of night clearly looked at the earthlings and stabbed at their weak p

oints.

“Kuaah! Di… e… e…”

There was a courageous 2-star colonizer who attempted to take down a sululack before it exploded. However, he couldn’t endure the quickening pace of karma absorption as he approached and collapsed at the feet of the sululack. His body dried up like a mummy and scattered like dust. Only those above the 3-star level could barely endure the sululack’s karma absorption.

Eventually, the sululack, which no one could take down, exploded once it had collected enough energy.

Baaang!

Every time they heard that sound, the colonizers’ fighting spirit diminished.

No one knew who first started this method. However, there was also no reason to discuss it either. On the intense border of life or death, people would instinctively find a way to live.

Pcht.

Why did the completely unexpected attack emit an unfamiliar yet frightening sound? Surprised, the colonizer who had been attacked turned to look at his comrade with a pale face.

“Why… Why?”

Without a trace of apology, his comrade looked back at him with spiteful eyes. The weapon he stabbed him with was a va.s.sal starving ghost that had been held by a shadow teeth just now.

Baang!

A sululack exploded from afar.

The man who stabbed his comrade was able to endure the explosion with the ‘barrier’ created by the va.s.sal starving ghost. To survive, some gave up feeling sorry and rushed towards their comrades with a va.s.sal starving ghost in hand. This occurred everywhere.

Those who could block the absorption of their karma, Choi Hyuk, his Berserkers, and the executives of the clans, hurriedly moved to take down the sululacks, but the sululacks, which were controlled by the evil hand of night, always found openings and exploded, leaving behind casualties.

Also… Traitors who killed their comrades to save their own lives remained as well.

“Tsk…”

Choi Hyuk, as he ran by, cut the necks of those he saw attempting to stab their comrades with va.s.sal starving ghosts. However, he couldn’t control the entire mood by himself. It was also obvious for those who couldn’t endure the explosion and would die either way to choose the method that had even the slightest chance of survival.

It was like an endless nightmare for those who weren’t sufficiently strong. Comrades who tried to stab them with va.s.sal starving ghosts. Should I stab first, or should I wait for someone to stab at me and act like I had no choice, or should I be honorable even if I die? If they didn’t want to die futilely, they had to make a choice within a few seconds.

Amidst this cruel choice, the sululacks kept exploding, and the nightmare seemed to be getting worse. However, there was soon an end to the nightmare. Perhaps the evil hand of night was tired, but its blinking became slower. Then, it stopped. When the blinking stopped, so did the attack.

Their first battle on the Cayenne star concluded.

While the physical losses were huge, the morale especially took a hit. There were many who died in vain. There were also many who lived by stabbing their comrades. Rage and hostility towards each other and the commanders began to burn.

Conflicts were erupting in various places.