Chapter 268 (1/2)

[Let’s give the authority to Jigneon. Raise the probability of this mission’s success.]

Writing on the PDA. Cha Jun Sung read this and was frozen in surprise for a moment from the fact that he had been registered as a Lifer after living nomadically for a while.

The store opens up.

He can go to the briefing room as well. But restrictions still followed him around like a shadow.

He can’t return to reality or Mechanic City.

He is limited to missions. He doesn’t have a problem with this since he is grateful for even this.

[Opening the store isn’t normally allowed inside missions, but we will allow it this one time. You have 50 billion points, so use it as you please.]

50 billion points is enough to purchase advanced equipment in the level S store.

To Cha Jun Sung, this is like much needed rain in a drought.

He now has nothing other than his battlesuit, which has been reduced to scrap metal. Cha Jun Sung purchased plenty of necessities like a repair robot to fix his battlesuit, switching gear, and expendables. He didn’t leave spare points.

He will keep using later, but he needs to fill up his gear while he can.

He doesn’t know whether regaining his qualifications will be for this one time or if it will continue. If it is the former, having the tangibles is more important than having points, which are just in numbers.

Cha Jun Sung clenches his fist.

His right hand?

It’s his left. His left arm was regenerated.

He could have gone back to the briefing room or purchased medical equipment, but he didn’t do it. There are medics everywhere at World Federation’s headquarters.

Lifers each take care of their own basic gear, but they left treatment to the medics.

In Cha Jun Sung’s case, the cells were dead because it had been long since his arm was cut off and he didn’t have the arm, so they regenerated it by using special medicine.

[It’s time.]

“Alright.”

Cha Jun Sung put his battlesuit on. It gives off light. There were a lot of dents and scratches, but it was made to be like new thanks to the store.

Cha Jun Sung went to Strategist’s residence, looking for him.

Everyone will be gathered there now. It has only been one week since they moved their headquarters. All Lifers stopped being active for that week and lived inside headquarters.

It could have been buzzing with so many people gathered together in one place, but it was extremely peaceful. They will have to go into a battle in which they put their lives on the line. This is the peace before the storm.

***

“To get straight to the point by mission standards, the one you all call the White Ghost isn’t Bon Load. But if I’m not explaining in mission standards, it could be Bon Load.”

“That means it’s Bon Load but also something else.”

Strategist understood the main point.

Cha Jun Sung thought ‘Expected from Strategist’ to himself.

If there is someone who understands, it is much easier to explain.

“Before I get to that, some time ago – about 5 years ago – I killed Evil Queen in North America.”

Rankers’ expressions trembled suddenly.

No one knew that Cha Jun Sung had killed Evil Queen. Not even the Park Jin Hyuk’s group, who were his party members.

“By yourself?”

“Yes.”

“Is that why you were disqualified from entering level S and A missions?”

Cha Jun Sung maintained his composure.

He doesn’t know why, but it seems the Cha Jun Sung of this world cannot enter missions at level A and beyond.

“That is the main cause, but there is something else that is more important.”

He only hid the truth about himself with lies. Cha Jun Sung stressed that the Evil Queen he took on at the time was only an alter, a shell.

He had followed traces of her down to South America because he had felt something was off, and he had come across them by coincidence.

“Evil Queen and Bon Load fused…”

“She said that the two of them became one. I didn’t understand at first, but I realized during that last attack that I had just given up on surviving and launched.”

The subject is Evil Queen, but Bon Load must have agreed to it because his will remained alive. This is a monster within a monster.

The splitting ability they saw as they ran away wasn’t Evil Queen’s.

She is a type that battles with her body. It must be Bon Load’s.

The only ability that Evil Queen showed was splitting. She must have retained her own abilities, so they cannot overlook that.

“If that’s true, it means we need to take on Evil Queen separately apart from the splitting? A splitting mutant is extremely difficult. This is crazy.”

Everyone agreed with Nuclear.

Normally, a splitting mutant’s main body is treated as one or two levels below in strength.

A level 7 would be about 5 or 6.

But there are those that take level 7 with one split. There’s no end if they just get supplemented with stamina and nutrients.

A level 9’s splitting ability makes each being level 6 or even 7.

If hundreds and thousands of them come out?

Of course they wouldn’t worry if that was it. The problem is Evil Queen.

“Will she have gotten stronger?”

“Probably. Bon Load is level 9 too.”

“The only person who has fought against both is Overload. What do you think?”

If the main body’s attacking ability is the same as Evil Queen’s, the four of them – he, Violet, Weapon Master, and Chamma Sword – could keep her tied down.