Chapter 273 (1/2)

Drip drip

Blood flows down from the tree. A Lifer wearing his destroyed battlesuit like rags is skewered on a long and thick thorn.

The talkative Nuclear.

There is no noticeable movement, but there are faint convulsions coming from his body. It seems as though he is not dead.

With Nuclear at the center, there are Rankers and Lifers lying around pitifully. There are even those who have been ripped into pieces.

Estimating from a quick look, it seems about half died and half lived. The battle with Evil Queen had been nearly one-sided. The aftermath of the battle reduced many kilometers in radius into chaos. That is how incredible it was.

Regardless of vitality, not a single Lifer was moving. Even those who are still alive may well have been corpses.

When Evil Queen appeared, the skeletons’ position changed. They blocked retreat paths so that Lifers could not run away. Iron King who had sustained an injury from his battle with the skeletons, had passed out with Evil Queen’s hit, been swept away, and died.

The rest realized that they could not run away, and desperately fought.

But this was Evil Queen who toyed with 4 level S Lifers. There are a lot of them, but they don’t have power when they are mostly made up of level As.

Evil Queen didn’t avoid Lifers’ attacks and allowed them to get through. Then she killed Glare Gun, Sea General, and Light Shooter with quick and precise counterattacks. There is no need to explain. They didn’t even realize they were dying due to the overwhelming gap in their abilities, and were chopped up into pieces.

Her attack strength that is powerful enough to destroy battlesuits and her speed that is undetectable by battlesuit sensors made this possible. Nine Tail raged with Light Shooter’s death, went mad, ran forward at Evil Queen, and also disappeared without a trace.

5 people died within seconds.

Even Strategist lost his will to fight and quietly accepted his fate. It isn’t a standard that they can fight. Chamma Sword, the only level S Lifer capable of movement, blocked Evil Queen’s front and took a few hits, but a few were it.

Only 9 Lifers survived until now.

Strategist, Ice Queen, Nuclear, Ghost Gun, Weapon Master, and Park Jin Hyuk’s group.

Of these, Violet and Weapon Master are still stuck to the bone protruding from Evil Queen’s body without being able to move or get out. She intends on giving them pain.

5 Lifers didn’t die on the World Federation side, but they are on the brink of death.

But Park Jin Hyuk’s group are comparatively in a better situation.

“Where did you go? I know you’re somewhere here. You hide well.”

She speaks gently, but there is annoyance on her face.

Evil Queen is annoyed with the current situation.

“You’re human on the inside but a machine on the outside so you get rid of all traces of your scent, you don’t make noise, and you hide with transparency.”

Bang bang bang!

Evil Queen extended her tentacle wide and whips a wide range in a circle. She went out hundreds of kilometers, but her senses didn’t pick up anything.

“I’ll have to kill what I can see first.”

Evil Queen turns her attention to Strategist’s group. There’s no point in clinging to the ones that she can’t do anything about. She’ll need to take care of what she could and then decide whether she’ll handle what she can’t after.

“Ah!”

“That side’s still going.”

While Evil Queen was battling Rankers, ordinary Lifers and Evil Queen’s army were engaged in a large-scale war.

The mutants had been caught in battle while retreating, so they were being pushed back.

Rankers are unable to battle.

Evil Queen sent the skeletons she had left to block retreat routes to them.

That will restore balance. Evil Queen intends on taking care of the situation here and joining them over there. She will annihilate the Lifers, supplement her nutrients, and go to Asia and Europe.

‘Are you just going to watch?’

‘There’s no solution.’

The sky.

Basil is holding Koharu and Park Jin Hyuk’s hand, and floating in the sky.

Stealth function.

It doesn’t just hide their visibility but their existence in general, but there is a sharp decline in their combat ability while maintaining that state. Even if they attack Evil Queen in this state, they can’t cause any damage.

The exoskeletal armor covering her entire body and the carapace protecting her main body are sturdier than Iron King’s Iron Defense. On top of that, she regenerates. Even if they somehow get through all of that, if they can’t kill her with one hit, putting regeneration aside, their location will be revealed and they will die.

Boom boom!

Park Jin Hyuk clenches his teeth as he watches Evil Queen go toward Strategist’s group. Basil held Park Jin Hyuk’s hand more tightly.

When battle broke out and the situation looked dark, Basil turned his stealth function on, grabbed Park Jin Hyuk and Koharu, and created distance between them and Evil Queen.

If he comes into contact with other battlesuits while in stealth mode, that function transfers to them.

If doesn’t have indefinite effect, but it can take on a few people.

Basil gave up on Strategist’s group in order to save himself and his close friends. Giving up on them is a good way to put it. In a negative sense, he abandoned them.

‘Hope is a word we use when there is hope. If we go out, we all die.’

Basil judged the situation objectively.

World Federation’s Rankers were swept out. The 100,000 Lifers probably won’t make it either.

‘What about Violet!’

‘We can’t.’

It would be better to rescue Strategist’s group. Violet and Weapon Master are stuck to Evil Queen’s body. They would have to go past getting close to her, to having to face off with her.

They are far enough now that she won’t be able to detect them even if they turn stealth function off. Even if she does see them, she can’t get past this distance to attack them. The problem would be if they attack and are discovered. A tentacle would grab them before they could escape into the sky.

Would Strategist’s group have stuck to ground war because they are stupid?

They tried to go into the sky as is characteristic with mid and long-range Lifers, but it became like a game of darts within seconds.

‘Think about Kyoko.’

‘Damn it!’

With those words, Park Jin Hyuk abandoned hope of saving Strategist’s group and Violet.

What could be more precious than family?

Family is priority.

Koharu didn’t say anything, but she was just as angry as Park Jin Hyuk. She thought herself pathetic. She was too helpless.

‘Let’s go back to headquarters and try to get the remaining Lifers at the least. If Evil Queen stays here for a bit, we should be able to save some of them.’