Chapter 63 (1/2)
Chapter 63 – A Show of Arms (1)
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What is important in a war?
There are many answers to this question Soht say trained soldiers
There isn’t a clear answer
The i is the scenario There are times when powerful weapons are needed, and times when trained soldiers are needed So in order to coe the question Wouldn’t discerning the situation bethe fact that they were currently at a ith unknown monsters?
The Mek Guild came up with its own solution
“There’s a goblin cohschool”
“I suppose you could smoke them out with soblins' population count?”
“We estimate it to be at around fifty”
“It should be enough with six hunters and ten soldiers”
Manual
“We’ve confirmed that there are three ”
“After luring them to a road, you can just burn them up with a flamethrower If you just follow the Manual……”
“Three hunters and two flamethrowers to one Mud Troll The number of soldiers is dependent on the nu off the heads”
“11 Hunters and 30 soldiers Take some claymores as well”
A nate when fighting against certain monsters
“There are also Sabretooth Wolves and Werewolves in Incheon Terminal”
“We’ll need to lure the a position at the terminal intersection and mow them down there”
The Mek Guild’s solution was the Manual The Mek Guild created the Manual By undergoing numerous hunts whilst under the banner of Kim Tae Hoon, the Mek Guild was able to co the habits and physical characteristics of specificthem to determine which tactics would be most effective, how many troops to take, and what kind of weapons would be the most useful
Furtheruidelines stipulated in the Manual As such, the hunters and soldiers of the Mek Guild did not look at Incheon as a city of ripped by the vices of fear and despair
“Alright, let’s kick some monsters' ass today as well!”
“We’re only being taxed 20 of the stones we earn If you don’t get any today, then it’ll be on you We have to get as many as possible”
It was like the California Gold Rush that had happened in the 19th century The Gold Rush had begun But it wasn’t without its problems
“A utans seeyo Lake Park It’s eyes……they seem to be yellow”
”The leader of the Large Nosed Orangutans, it should be the first tiht?”
What should people do when confronted with a uidelines in the Manual? The solution that the Mek Guild had put forth was simple
“It should be fine as long as oes” [ED: lol]
Kim Tae Hoon, the most surest of solutions
2
It was the start of April, 2017
The cruel winter that had seeh it would never end disappeared like it was nothing but asome warmth to finally seep in
However, the current situation in Korea where the warmth had melted the snoas even worse than when all the land was buried under a blanket of snow
It had only been three ree of destruction and the disappearance of hu
The city looked as though humans had disappeared for decades
In the past, the members of the 35th Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel Yoo Dae Hyun included, were shown i a training session in the case of a futureradiation leak– the current status of the city was not too different from those pictures
However, looking at the state of Incheon now, the city that he had assessed to have suffered the o was completely different
It felt vigorous
And stepping into Ganseokogeori, Lieutenant Colonel Yoo Dae Hyun heard so time
“Wait for me! Wait for me!”
“Ball! Ball! Get the ball!”
It was the cheerful chatter of children playing
It was the laughter of children genuinely having fun
At first, Lieutenant Colonel Yoo Dae Hyun had thought that it was a hallucination
“So you’ve arrived lieutenant colonel”
However, as he walked into the coffee shop and saw Kim Yuri’s resolute expression, he realized that it wasn’t an illusion
And listening to Kim Yuri’s report, he couldn’t help but feel a bitter taste in his mouth
“A traitor……”
There is a traitor within the Capital Defense Command
On top of that, the traitor’s goal was to relieve the Capital Defense Command of its relics
Valuable soldiers had died because of them
The traitors were even willing to et what they wanted
It was a story that riled hi
“That’s right, there was always that possibility”
However, theaspect about Kim Yuri’s report wasn’t the fact that it was unlikely, but rather that not even Lieutenant Colonel Yoo Daehyun could stop hi that this scenario was very much possible
To be frank, there had already been signs pointing to that reality
‘The yeojido was lost, there had already been an enemy within’
After realizing what relics were, Capital Defense Coh museums and libraries to retrieve relics In the process, they had been able to secure a copy of Daedongyeojido
At that time, all of Capital Defense Coyeojido
‘The rescue teayeojido’
The rescue teayeojido to be bequeathed to them
Even though they had discovered that there were green ranked yeojido, they hadeventually deter as they had Daedongyeojido
If that weren’t the case, they wouldn’t have given them a national treasure
However, the rescue teayeojido was lost without a trace
The worst part was that nobody knehat happened
‘I should have done it then I should have organized it so to hide it’
It was literally that
It’s not that he couldn’t, but rather he didn’t
There were feho knew the existence of Daedongyeojido when it was first discovered, and of the feere the heavyweights of Capital Defense Command
If the loss of Daedongyeojido were to be publicized, then one of the heavyweights would have had to bear the blame, but the current Korean Ministry of Defense did not house anyone with such a sacrificial spirit
That was the reason why the commander of the 35th Battalion Special Forces, Lieutenant Colonel Yoo Daehyun, had opted to move their operations outside of Seoul
Regardless, his previous experiences with Daedongyeojido were still applicable
In order to verify the inforo outside
But for Lieutenant Colonel Yoo Dae Hyun, outside operations were no different from a minefield
‘damn it’
Would there be an even more hellish area than that?
‘Incheon was an ant lion’s pit Information from Incheon…… an attempt to devour another rescue team’
Incheon became an ant lion’s pit because of the traitors
It was because the Capital Defense Co them with a national treasure, in order to save an important VIP
And the infor
There was a lot of information that pointed to the fact that Kate Kennedy was still alive on Yeongjongdo She had been able to come into contact with one of the rescue teams and had reported her safety
Since Kie of that, there was no need for Lieutenant Colonel Yoo Dae Hyun to tell hido
But, there was a chance that the information itself was nonsense
No, rather, it must have been the work of a traitor
‘Could Major General Lee Gisu be the traitor?’
Major General Lee Gisu
He was one of the current leaders of Capital Defense Coy ability and was the Investigative General Manager of the Ministry of National Defense
He was the best of the best, an elite soldier as the head of the Military Police Corps under the Capital Defense Command
‘Then that uk in that bureau is a traitor as well’
In addition, Colonel Chang Soguk was Lee Gisu’s right hand man
Faced with that possibility, Lieutenant Colonel Yoo Dae Hyun was terrified
‘Then surely……’
One of the responsibilities of that Military Police took care of was the president’s expenses
And on top of that, the president’s schedule for the 31st of December and the 1st of January
The only ones ould know the president’s every move would have been the military police
But what if Colonel Chang Soguk, the Chief Executive of the military police, was a traitor?
‘What a pain in the ass’
Thewas that the two of them were both Yoo Daehyun’s superiors
“Rather than that, what about Kim Tae Hoon?”
“He went out on a hunt sir”
“A hunt?”
“Yes sir He went out to hunt monsters”
Hearing that, Lieutenant Colonel Yoo Daehyun shut his mouth
At thisa conversation with Kim Tae Hoon was more necessary than ever
The existence of the traitor meant that he couldn’t deal with the internal problems on his own
He needed the help of an outside force to excise this cancer
But most importantly, Kim Tae Hoon had taken over Incheon
‘Monster hunt…… he’s steadily increasing his influence over Incheon’
Incheon would soon beco to the Mek Guild
‘Will Incheon also become the Mek Guild’s territory as well?’
Additionally, Incheon was a major city that Bucheon could not compare to
Incheon International Airport and Incheon Harbor was the closest way for Seoul to con countries
The port was especially important
Although Gimpo International Airport was located fairly close to Seoul, it would be io overseas by plane In the present era, Incheon Harbor was absolutely essential since Korea could only use boats to interact with foreign countries at the moment
There was also another thing
‘Incheon’s Songdo has an LNG production district’