Chapter 45 - No Time (5) (2/2)

Leaning back behind the wall, he blackened his head and killed himself.

“Toby! What do we do?”

“What are you doing? I couldn’t stand it. When is the Aegis coming?” The man hurriedly opened the fertile coat.

Due to the monster’s unique ability, all the electronic equipment in the city got shredded. The communication coming from the outside was cut off and isolated, and the defense coat and AT-class weapons ceased functioning.

If not, strong monsters have these nasty abilities they didn’t have an answer to.

People also had to deal with monsters with their bare hands in situations where they couldn’t evacuate properly.

It was a desperate state that they can’t even fight a base monster properly.

It was difficult to expect reinforcement to come quickly because the helicopter didn’t work when they approached the vehicle.

“Wow!”

Then, a sharp scream came from the streets next to them.

It was a scream with not just one, but several voices.

Then, the sound of the alarm rang. The citizens who hadn’t yet evacuated were chased by the monsters all over the place.

“Ha… Shit.”

The man and his colleague looked at each other.

Taking the lead here was suicide.

But even before he thought with his head, his body moved reflexively.

“Erai!”

The two ran with their swords at the same time.

As expected, a group of citizens were chased, and soon after, they got caught up and was surrounded by monsters in no time.

Nine people gathered in response to the sound that wrapped around them.

It loved playing with people. Instead of killing them right away, it watched them panic.

Fook! Pooh!

Two Awakened vigilantly intruded from behind.

The hunting dog with two swords on his back twisted his body.

It was the usual fatal blow that should have made him fall, but this time, the AT-sword in their hands was not working.

Even with the power of the Awakened, it was difficult to easily penetrate the thick leather of the guy with a sword that lost its function.

“Oh!”

However, the two of them scrambled with all their might, and one hound soon lost power and fell.

Only one was killed, but eight other hounds surrounded them.

Meanwhile, the citizens fled Burinake in the other direction, and the two that held the AT sword—and it was nothing more than an ordinary sword.

This was their satisfaction.

“Let’s take one more.”

“I hate to die like this.”

The two of them laughed, facing each other.

They thought this was their last moment, so they did something in vain.

Yum!

The guys screamed fiercely and rushed to hold their breath.

No, they tried to rush.

Suddenly, an unidentified vine was wrapped around the ankles of the hounds, and the guys were turned over or fell in place.

It was a thin gray vine, but it was so hard and tough that they could not cut it off.

They tried to get their bodies out, but then they had a seizure—the results were the same whenever they try to get out.

“What happened……?”

While both were embarrassed, a man fell from the sky out of nowhere.

He was an Awakened or wore a black coat and was a young Asian man.

When he stretched out his arm, a large, colorful bird, suddenly seen for the first time, sat in his left arm.

“It was almost your big day. Are you guys okay?” Il-hyun said.

But the two men couldn’t understand his words and couldn’t answer.

“Oh, right. The communication device’s also broken.” Il-hyun muttered as he scratched at his head.

Due to the monster’s ability, GPS, communicator, and interpreter functions built into the communicator became unavailable.

However, the high-grade core and the black defense coat didn’t get affected by the monster’s ability.

“Then……”

Il-hyun shook his hand, and thorns rose from the floor.

The heads of the eight monsters whose feet were tied were pierced at the same time and simply died without a chance to rebel.

Il-hyun approached one of them and pulled out the core at once.

The exact location of the core in the monster’s body is clearly visible, and unlike previous ones, one pull was enough.

“How should I use this?”