Chapter 229 (1/2)
Volume 8 / Chapter 229
TL: LightNovelCafe
Editor: Hungry Panda
“Good – goodness!”
“It’s – it’s a monster.”
Levadan shows up in the mirror image.
The Lifers on board and Strategist who got information from Cha Jun Sung were able to see Levadan better than Cha Jun Sung could.
1255m in length and 100m in diameter. It looks like a dragon from some comic book or classic novel. That’s Sea God Levadan.
It is a legendary monster.
It has six pairs of horns on its head and looks like a reptile. But the moment they look at it, its eyes make them lose the will to battle.
The blue scales all over its entire body made the Lifers feel sick.
[Levadan! We finally found its location!]
All of the helpers including Uranos said similar words, in a similar tone at the same time as though it had been planned.
The Lifers are taken aback. They found the location?
Levadan wanders around thousands of meters deep into the sea.
Due to this, not even artificial intelligence can find it. It showed itself occasionally, but that was really rare.
It isn’t on land like other level 9s, so it is hard to find. But for whatever reason, it has appeared in front of the Lifers.
[We need to put a location tracking device on it.]
Uranos shows consciousness.
It falls out of Strategist’s will. But that doesn’t mean he acts however he wants to. One wrong move could mean annihilation.
[Uranos. Lifer Cha Jun Sung says that he will buy time for us to get away.]
[Odin. You must know as well, but this is the perfect opportunity to keep an eye on Levadan, who has been out of our reach. Do you understand what I’m saying?]
Odin agrees with this as well.
Levadan is elusive, popping up in the east and the west. That’s why they hadn’t been able to create missions related to it.
[Wait. It’s something that you all can’t do, so I’ll ask him what he thinks.]
Odin tries Cha Jun Sung.
He knows the secrets of Life Mission to an extent. Therefore, it is easy to explain when relaying sensitive issues.
Cha Jun Sung is half and half on installing a location tracking device. He’ll fight Levadan if he needs to, but he won’t provoke it first if he doesn’t have to.
[The authority is applying a special mission.]
[Level A advancement mission: Installation of a location tracking device]
– Goal: Attainment
– Description: Install a location tracking device on ruler of the broad sea, Sea God Levadan, and get out of the mission area!
– Reward: 10,000,000,000 points. Lucky box.
It isn’t a level S mission because he isn’t meant to fight.
But the reward for a level A advancement is 10 billion points. It is of an entirely different class. How many points would it have been if he were to kill it? It would be tens of billions of points.
“It’s dangerous to run away in the ocean. Uranos, operate floating mode.”
Floating mode. Albatrus is a submarine.
That means it is inefficient to put all the energy into the booster, but it can fly in the air for even a moment.
No matter how big and strong Levadan is, it cannot fly in the air without wings. He will soar into the air and return to Mechanic City.
“Let’s kill it with spiral swills. There’s no reason to keep saving it.”
“The opponent isn’t good.”
If they fire the spiral swills, it will use all of the ship’s energy. It takes time to fill it up as well. There’s no guarantee that they will hit and kill it. They can’t take the gamble.
Boom!
Albatrus’ booster tilts vertically and takes the ship 950m into the air.
Levadan isn’t showing any strange movements.
It isn’t here to fight. It has come out of pure curiosity.
The Lifers think differently.
They have a similar mindset as Cha Jun Sung. They won’t hit first if they aren’t provoked. This new phenomenon is interesting as well.
The Albatrus flies.
It goes up hundreds of meters, but they cannot be at ease even if they have gone several kilometers because of Levadan’s length and the breadth of its attack.
Levadan glares and looks over the bloody battlefield. Sharks are either floating or in pieces all over the place. Their king and queen and their baby are dead, too.
[Interesting.]
[Really?]
Levadan is talking to itself, but Cha Jun Sung responds.
Odin raised the volume on the voice amplifier. Cha Jun Sung’s sound becomes amplified by several times.
It is a conversation between mutants.
It is the principle of telepathy. The high and low tones of their growling with emotions mixed in, relay their messages.
[Are you the same race?]
[I’m a human… the same race.]
He isn’t talking about sea mutants. He’s talking about his nature.
Cha Jun Sung was going to say that he is human, but he just admitted it himself.
[This is the first time I’m seeing something like you. What is that? Is that a shell?]
[I guess you could say that.]
[Show your real self. Are you showing yourself to me with a shell?]
[I can’t live in the ocean. Without this, it’s hard for me to breathe.]
He needs to breathe on his own if he releases the battlesuit and awakens, but Cha Jun Sung is a land mutant, so he can’t act freely. He’ll have to swim since he won’t have a booster, and it will get pathetic. He probably won’t be able to show the power of a level 7 either.
[I understand.]
[Why did you come here?]
[I was on my way home when I smelled something sweet. I turned around and came here because I wanted to see what was going on.]
Oh! It seems Lifers’ blood lured Levadan as well. If they had known a level 9 would react, they would have reconsidered using blood as bait.
[Other guys were going to come to, but they decided not to when they realized I was coming. If they had come, you wouldn’t have been able to take them on with your tired body.]
It is fortunate that Levadan has no intention to fight them.
He is confident that he can run away, but he doesn’t know what damages there might be.
Vroom!
Cha Jun Sung looks up toward the sky.
Albatrus is returning. He is alone. If he returns, they will feel much more liberated.
[I’ll ask. What are you?]
[A hunter.]