Chapter 133 (2/2)

“Damn it!”

There are several thousands of people. Does this mean that all of those people died? Even those who owned battlesuits?

“It’s strong enough to melt through battlesuits. No one can survive it with its level C standard, ranker or not.”

“I thought that dying is all the same, whether you die honorably or not. But this is too vain. They couldn’t even do anything.”

They died like dogs. Cha Jun Sung agrees. Putting value on death? It might seem meaningless, but there are different meanings to different types of death.

Lifers who had scattered out come back with corpses. The best they can do is to check each person’s identity and send them to their families.

Moreover, they make a distinction between those who have battlesuits. The number of personnel is in Strategist’s PDA. He is referencing the PDA to find any missing persons.

“Breaker, Wind Wing, War Hammer, Sonic Boom…..”

4 corpses with special marks signify rankers. They barely found War Hammer among them. He has been reduced to pieces.

“What about Dual Blade and Longinus?”

“We weren’t able to find them yet.”

“Do you think they’re alive?”

“I don’t know.”

A way to stay alive? It is not non existent. They can avoid the white phosphorus if they return to the real world or briefing room, or go into a mission. It is just a matter of whether they are able to move from a complex and dangerous situation.

[Strategist?] [Dual Blade! You survived?]

Was it telepathy? Dual Blade read Strategist’s thoughts and radioed in.

[Longinus and I survived.]

Dual Blade and Longinus were pretty far from where the shell went off, so they returned to the briefing room as soon as they saw the white smoke come out.

A small 1% of Lifers in addition to them came out alive in similar ways. They have not returned to Mechanic City because there might still be smoke. They went back to the real world from the briefing room, asked the world federation Lifers what is happening, and entered again once they were sure that it is safe.

[Are you on the roadside?] [Yeah.] [Near.]

A few minutes passed. Dual Blade and Longinus appeared along with other Lifers. Everyone looked close to dead.

“Are we the last of the survivors?”

“Fuck!”

Nuclear rages. All lives are precious, but he is most saddened that Sonic Boom died. They had become pretty close.

The more hurt he was, the more he wanted to tear Blood Kingdom apart.

“Zone Z is their area, right? Assholes. They think we’re not capable of setting of a white phosphorus shell?”

Nuclear is thinking of paying them back in double. Since they took a hit, he will give them 2.

“Calm down. They’ll be quiet for the time being after causing this.”

“Take that and calm down? Strategist, are you an angel? Are you out of your mind?”

Opinions are split. Those who say they need to get revenge and those who say they need to hold back. Cha Jun Sung feels for the situation.

‘It’s like the situation I saw when I was young between South and North Korea.’

The divided nation was united when Cha Jun Sung was in his mid-20s, but it was chaos before then. North Korea repeatedly provoked and threatened South Korea.

Even still, South Korea remained patient until the end. Why? It is war the second they respond to those provocations. It seemed weak to hold out but because of that, they only had 50 million discontented citizens instead of bringing them the pain of war. If they respond to the provocation of a guy running at them toward suicide, there is no end to the loss.

Strategist is angry and dejected too. He is smart, but it is not that he has a great personality. How could it be that he does not want to get revenge? But there is timing in revenge. They need to find the right moment. For those with similar powers, war would be a shortcut to self-destruction. They will advance before their enemy and run over them with overwhelming force. That is Strategist’s plan.

“First, let’s clear the battlefield. I’m going to open a conference right away, so make sure you all attend. Oh, Overload?”

“Yes?”

“I would like for you and your party members to attend as well. It won’t be bad to hear, and isn’t Blood Kingdom a common enemy anyway?”

“We’ll do that.”

Cha Jun Sung confirmed attendance. He feels guilt that this might have happened because of him. No matter what is brought up during the conference, it will not be bad to hear. His party members did not show aversion to the idea either. The situation is serious.