16 Episode 16 - Creation of a Clan, Part I (1/2)
Chapter 6. Creation of a Clan, Part I
Translator: Khan
Editor: RED
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”We are hunters.”
The moment Kim Tae-hoon replied, the painful cry of the Mud Troll instantly shook the battlefield.
Not only the soldiers but Kim Tae-hoon and Bang Hyun-wook who followed him turned their heads and looked at the body of the Mud Troll trampled by the dump truck.
Obviously, it was a corpse.
The dump truck turned the Mud Troll into a burst balloon, and not just that, but had crushed it with six giant wheels the height of a man.
There was no other explanation than that it was just a crushed dead body.
Now, however, the body that had to be a corpse was moving slowly, reforming its crushed head and snout, and spitting out a weak but clear cry through its over-long nose.
It was a nightmare.
”Aaaargh! Aaaargh!”
”We're going to die, and it will eat our heads!”
The survivors now were those who had experienced nightmares in front of them several times, not just once or twice.
Second lieutenant Kim Soo-ji, was the same.
'What do we do now?'
Everything was a nightmare from the beginning.
At the end of the year, there was no manual for a military force to respond to the sudden monster raids in the military base located in the metropolitan area, not the border.
The damage was severe from the very beginning of the attack.
The brown Goblins began to hunt unarmed soldiers in a group.
The worst was that the Mud Troll appeared in the drinking party of the executive officers ahead of the New Year.
Most of the commanding officers who had to give orders were slain by the Mud Troll.
If she had been a less flexible soldier, she would have entered the Mud Troll's stomach early in the drinking party.
Anyway, after that, Kim Soo-ji had to pay the price of being a survivor.
She fought to survive with the remaining soldiers. To survive, she had to experience nightmares again and again.
This Mud Troll, in particular, gave her despair beyond the nightmare.
'Weapons don't work against the Mud Troll.'
She had used all kinds of weapons against it, but the Mud Troll had never even made a pained sound in front of the powerful firearms.
The only one thing that could stop such a Mud Troll was a sense of satiety!
Of course, at this moment, Kim Soo-ji could not think of a way to deal with the Mud Troll. The inside of her head turned blank.
”State your official rank and name!” Kim Tae-hoon scolded her.
”Yes?”
”Your name.”
”I, I am Kim Soo-ji.”
”Rank!”
”Second lieutenant ... Second lieutenant Kim Soo-ji, I'm leading the remaining survivors of the 1121st unit.”
The glitter in Kim Soo-ji's eyes changed. She had a gut feeling.
'He is a soldier!'
The man in front of her, Kim Tae-hoon, was a soldier or a similar kind of military who had been through severe encounters several times.
Furthermore, she felt something.
'He's a soldier, I'm sure!'
It felt like she had seen a man named Kim Tae-hoon somewhere...
Anyway, Kim Tae-hoon's voice was like a lifeline to her, who was a soldier to the bone.
”I need information about that muddy monster now.”
Soldiers don't have to worry about orders.
”It has the power to rip a man's body apart with its bare hands, its about four meters in height, and it has the ability to recover quickly, even if it is wounded by a bullet.”
”What about the firearm you used against it?”
”Claymores didn't work, and an 81-millimeter trench gun worked a little bit, but it not much.”
Kaaaaah!
While Kim Tae-hoon and Kim Soo-ji talked, the screaming Mud Troll began to regenerate its upper body after its head. The sound of its screams grew louder and clearer.
Of course, the fear that it emitted grew bigger and clearer!
The general soldiers trembled, and now they were so scared that they couldn't even scream.
”Wow, that's not a fucking joke.” On the contrary, Bang Hyun-wook spit out his feelings in front of the screaming Mud Troll.
Kim Tae-hoon shouted at Bang Hyun-wook. ”Bang Hyun-wook!”
”Yes, big brother!”
”Clean around.”
”Yes!”
At that order, Bang Hyun-wook grabbed his bat without hesitation. His bat began to take in the Energy that flowed through his body.
'Okay.'
Bang Hyun-wook knew now. To survive, he needed the power to deal with the monsters he faced more clearly.
So he tried to survive and to find ways to use his power more efficiently and more powerfully.
In the process, Bang Hyun-wook was able to realize some of the ways to wield his Energy.
'I know now how to use the power in my gut!'
It was not only Energy that strengthened his body, but with a little difficulty, it could also wrap around an object in hand.
The power of that was enormous.
Pak!
His swing crushed a brown Goblin's head like a rotten pumpkin. Bang Hyun-wook shouted between the scattered flesh, blood, and brain fluid, ”Bucheon High School, No. 5 batter, Bang Hyun-wook is here! Come on, you bastards!”
The aura of Bang Hyun-wook changed as he spoke. If Bang Hyun-wook's reason learned to deal with his Energy, his instincts learned to take advantage of the fight.
To deal with monsters, he had to be a monster!
”Second lieutenant Kim Soo-ji, stop shooting and get ready for the alert.” Kim Tae-hoon ordered Kim Soo-ji, leaving Bang to do his thing.
'Stop shooting? Alert?' It was a difficult order to understand. 'At this desperate moment, the Mud Troll is recovering and still has twenty brown Goblins left, how can we stop shooting and get ready for an alert?'
”Stop shooting! Set the line and turn to alert!” Kim Soo-ji's orders were immediately followed like a soldier, excluding any doubts.
Of course, there were not many soldiers who quickly fulfilled her orders. Still unable to overcome their fear of the Mud Troll, the soldiers in a state of fear were told not to shoot.
”Put the gun down.”
”Put it down.”
Only the most important part, the warnings that had been received hundreds of times, had instinctively been implemented.