Chapter 119 (1/2)
Clang!
An explosion? No. It is the thin sound of metals colliding.
With an eye for it, there is no way not to recognize it. A fight among Lifers. With this kind of ringing, it must be between people with battlesuits.
As soon as Cha Jun Sung heard the sound, he raised the car used for transportation. He had already entered area 5 and he was close to where the sounds are coming from.
There is a saying that one can die from being hit with a rock from out of sight. If he is swept into the battle by forcing himself in, he must hit from inside. If he wants to handle it, he needs to move with ease.
“It seems like they’re making a big mess. Oy! Look at the air shake.”
Bang bang bang!
Park Jin Hyuk stirs the air with his hand. They are not tangible, but there are weak waves lingering in front of their eyes. They are fighting vigorously.
‘Area 5, battlesuit. It can’t be Ms. Violet, can it?’
There is a possibility. Then the opponent? She is rude but is not the type to provoke a fight randomly off of the street. She is guarded where she needs to be.
“Kyak!”
Bang!
It is a woman’s scream. Cha Jun Sung changed his battlesuit into combat mode and kicked off the ground. A crack formed in the concrete and he shot forward like a bullet.
-[You have damaged an asset in Mechanic City. Will you detract 150 points? If you do not, you could receive a penalty.]
-[I’ll leave an automatic deduction system on. That is much more comfortable.]
The former is a warning sent to Cha Jun Sung by Mechanic City and the latter is from Odin.
-[If you cause damage, you can cancel cyborgs before they start moving with points. The deductions also increase with the amount of damage caused.]
With current circumstances, Odin leaves out all of the explanation and gets to the point. He is being straightforward in saying that he needs to pay as many points as the damage he causes.
However, Cha Jun Sung sees it as a big restriction. It is not as easy as it sounds.
All he had done was create a crack by kicking off from the ground, and it had cost him 150 points. If he crashes into a building and creates a hole, it must cost several thousands.
It is not just a couple hundred or a couple thousand. It is a gamble. It stacks up. If the fighting continues and he keeps accumulating penalties, it could easily get to several tens of thousands of points.
“They’re really using their heads. So this is how they’re going to absorb points?”
It is like this in games as well. To try and recover the overwhelming amount of gold that Cha Jun Sung had in a game he enjoyed in his youth, they had created legitimate contents.
It is the foul intention not to leave them alone to gather points as they wish to.
As people gather, there are bound to be arguments. Squabbles between Lifers do not end with throwing fists. They are knife fights with their lives on the line.
The more the battles are cutthroat, the more severe damages will be and that is how much more they can take in points from Lifers. It is an incredibly smart move.
Cha Jun Sung jumped over the 5 floor building blocking him in one try. The booster extended his holding time and helped him look over the battlefield.
Empress of Light is being pushed back by Lifers holding a large scythe and sword.
Cha Jun Sung changes his direction while in the air. A steel arrow narrowly passed by his chest.
It is so powerful that it penetrated through the floor so far that it disappeared from view.
It seems he discovered Cha Jun Sung because he is in a high place. He thought that she was fighting 2 to 1, but the Empress of Light is fighting against 3 people with battlesuits.
-[Calculating path of attack….. Calculation complete! Currently moving.]
Pew pew!
Odin tracks the road. The tracking does not work because the location changes every time he moves. The battlesuit’s tracking is for prevention before something happens.
-[Jin Hyuk, go get him.]
-[Ok.]
Bang!
Park Jin Hyuk changed his direction as he was following Cha Jun Sung. He looked for a good place to snipe while holding his Head Hunter and watching for attacks.
He did not stay in the same place either, and kept moving. The difference between him and the enemy is that he reduces the distance while moving.
If he cannot stop the advance, they will be allowed to go all the way to the front.
-[Koharu and Kyoko, go help the Lifers on Violet’s side. You can differentiate between them, right?]
Lifers of Blood Kingdom and the Florence clan are mixed together. They seem to have similar skills, but there is an incredible difference numerically.
-[I’ll leave the wounded to you.]
-[Sure!]
Koharu took out her twin daggers and went into the vicious melee. She stabs at shoulders and thighs, and slices the side and cuts muscles.
Rather than kill the opponents, Koharu focused on assisting allies who are in trouble everywhere. She also took lives when she got the chance to.
PK, there is no hesitation in attacking Lifers. She is experienced.
In the beginning of the reality version, she gained hostility while going through missions with men. The human nature that comes out in an isolated world is similar to that of a beast’s.
She killed dozens of people before she met Cha Jun Sung in Slayer’s Prison. She did not tell him, but Kyoko is not that innocent either.
In the reality version, the things that men and women see and experience are very different.
“Fuck! Where did she come from!”
Koharu approached the cursing murderer, slit his throat, and quietly disappeared. He spewed bubbles of blood and collapsed.
Kyoko used the battlesuit’s ability to pull the injured out from the battlefield.
The Florence clan was weary of Koharu’s group, which had appeared so suddenly, but let their guard down once they realized that they are facing the same opponents and are allies.
Furthermore, one of them is heading to Violet who is cornered on the defensive. It is an emergency situation where they do not know when they might fall. They hope that these people are their salvation.
***
“What are those guys?”
“We’ll concentrate and take care of Empress of Light first. There’s a tail on Makung as well.”
Hell Sword frowns at Dark Side. Everything had been going as expected when gate crashers had gotten involved. They no longer have Makung’s support sniping.
He is not responding to the radio either. He is putting all of his concentration on getting rid of the tail. It is as though he is engaging with an enemy he cannot take for granted.
‘There are 2 there, 1 with Makung, and…..’
“1 on top.”
Dark Side and Hell Sword looked up at the sky and retreated more quickly from Empress of Light than they had come at her. Someone is falling on them.
Bang!
Debris flies from the impact of falling. Cha Jun Sung used his concentration to hit away the fragments with his Wolf Kill. Each one is a bullet.
Ping ping ping ping!
Clang clang!
An anomalous attack. Dark Side brandished the scythe in large movements to clear big fragments while Hell Sword took care of the small pieces going for the center.
“I’ve lost 800 points.”
Cha Jun Sung is complaining. He will not be able to fight in the city because he is scared to. Whenever he does anything, it costs him several hundred points. Those ruthless operators.
“Are you okay?”
“Thank you. You said that you lost 800 points? I lost 350,000 points because of those assholes! I’m going to kill them, whatever it takes!”