Chapter 29

Joint Operation (2)

In the Aegis A Team’s exclusive transport, Il-hyun, Ghost, and Jeong Jin-Seong sat in their seats.

Lee Soo-yeon was standing and reading information about the mission.

The difference from the usual was that Team B’s Sarah was sitting where Seok Pil-jun should be.

“The monsters that appeared in the B0 level are Creeps. There’s a lot of them. Pay attention to their long arms,” Lee Soo-yeon said.

Creeps are giant biped monsters. They have appeared hundreds of times in the B rank gates in the past 20 years.

“The Ace Monsters here are Craigs. It’s a black, creepy-looking monster. If you get his by the toxic gas coming out of its back, your coats’ purification function may find it difficult to endure. Don’t be too confident about the new defense coat”, she continued.

“Haha, I will keep that in mind.” Ghost replied with a smile.

Il-hyun looked awkwardly at her mischievous gaze.

“Monsters are appearing all over the city, but the evacuation has ended properly, and there have been no casualties. The buildings have to be completely replaced, though.”

Unlike last time, there was time enough to evacuate the citizens, but of course, there was always room for unexpected situations.

The location on the monitor reached the destination, and Lee Soo-yeon pressed the button.

The door of the transport plane opened.

Il-hyun stood up. He was surprised at what he saw when he looked out.

“That… Is that how wide the gate is?”

“Right.”

Il-hyun opened his mouth with his finger pointing down, and Lee Soo-yeon nodded.

More than half of the city was entirely purple.

Usually, gates had a shape, and monsters came out of them, but this time, the gate appeared as a purple mist covering the city, hiding a massive number of monsters within it.

“It’s hard to land directly at from this high altitude, and the planes can’t even land at all. Each one can jump to the designated descent point according to the monsters’ location,” Lee Soo- yeon said.

She gestured slightly, and a hologram of a three-dimensional map appeared in front of the team.

Each descent’s location was specified in the three-dimensional map.

“Aha, so I’ll go here,” Sarah said as she looked at the map.

However, she did not have the ability to fall from a distance as high as this.

To get down from the transport plane, she needs help from a team member.

Conversely, Seok Pil-jun, who has the ability to leap in the air at any time, was riding on the next plane to drop with a teammate from Team B.

“Yes, you and Il-hyun will go down first and go straight to the second point. Have you checked the location? Now, get ready to go.”

At Lee Soo-yeon’s words, Sarah stood and headed for the entrance.

The transport was almost at the jump point for Il-hyun and Sarah.

However, Il-hyun, who was already standing at the door, had not yet fully grasped the situation.

He understood that they had to get off at the same spot, but he was not sure how Sarah would go down.

Of course, there was no time to be asking for it now.

Now, they had to jump.

“Wait, where’s your parachute?” Il-hyun asked her.

“What are you talking about?”

“Yeah?”

“It’s our jump-off! Go fast!”

“Oh!”

While he hesitated, the plane was passing over their falling point on the GPS.

To Il-hyun’s surprise, Sarah hugged him, and together, they jumped out of the transport.

“Aw!”

The wind struck his face, and they were falling in a free fall.

In the midst of such an insane situation, he focused his mind.

The air passing by at an enormous speed was captured and transformed into a hawk beneath them.

Il-hyun, shook his surprise off as he rode the back of the hawk with Sarah.

“You should have told me before we jumped!”

“But we almost passed the descent point.”

The hawk flew at an angle and reduced its altitude.

Il-hyun sighed.

He was not planning on jumping unprepared. It seemed like suicide when they jumped without a parachute.

“Wow, it’s amazing.” Sarah was stroking the back of the hawk.

The hawk’s translucent body was shining as it went down at a fast speed.

“I know the Ghost, but how will the team leaders come down? They don’t have abilities for jumping off a plane,” Il-hyun said.

Sarah laughed at his words. “Yeah? Haha, they don’t care if they don’t have abilities like yours. It doesn’t matter to them.”

While Il-hyun was confused, he saw two more people jumping out of the transport.

It was Lee Soo-yeon Lee and Jeong Jin-sung.

Il-hyun was surprised and looked at them with his eyes wide open.

Even if the plane was lowered to the maximum altitude where it could not be attacked by the monsters below, it was not high enough to allow humans to land without abilities or parachutes.

Suddenly,

Quaang!

The two landed with an explosion.

The road cracked deeply with a loud noise, and debris bounced everywhere.

Seemingly oblivious to the cracked road they left behind, Lee Soo-yeon and Jeong Jin-sung casually stood up and pulled their swords immediately.

“Monsters…” Il-hyun muttered with a laugh.

By this time, though, it was hard to tell if he was talking about the team leaders, or the monsters approaching them.

While Il-hyun looked down and admired, the poison flowed from their right.

It was Craig’s thick poison that shot up to the sky in a straight line.

“Stop!”

The hawk quickly turned, but one wing was covered in poison and melted completely.

Il-hyun canceled the broken form and summoned another hawk.

This time, the hawk summoned skillfully reached the ground safely.

Il-hyun and Sarah landed gently on the road between the buildings.

Near the marked descent, there was a group of dozens of monsters, their first target.

The surrounding buildings were completely smashed.

Creeps surrounded them, monsters with unusually long arms and holes all over their bodies.

Il-hyun and Sarah turned their backs against each other and calmly pulled out their swords.

“You took care of our landing, so I’ll take care of this,” Sarah turned to him and said.

Then, she pulled out a pistol with her left hand.

‘Pistol?’ Il-hyun stared at it strangely.

He has not seen an Awakener use a firearm.

Sarah, unfazed, aimed her pistol at the monsters and drew the trigger.

Taang!

Bullets were stuck in the monsters’ bodies.

It was successful in breaking through the Creeps’ hard skin, but they continued to approach, seemingly undamaged.

Creeps continued to narrow the distance at an even pace. Il-hyun was not sure if they are wounded by the bullets.

Tangtang!

She did not care about it and continued to shoot.

Then,

‘That’s it!’ Sarah flicked her finger.

Suddenly, there was a massive roar of explosions, and the monsters were blown up on all sides.

KEEK!

The screams of the monsters and the terrible smoke filled the streets.

‘Crazy, what is it?’

Sarah’s B-rank ability: [Explosion].

Il-hyun, who just knew her, was surprised.

Smoke from the explosion diminished, and the bodies of creeping creeps piled up on the street.

They thought the monsters were all dead in the powerful explosion, but one was left standing.

A Craig that’s mixed in between the monsters.

Its black body was larger than that of the Creeps.

Sarah threw her sword at it. It struck the Craig deep into its chest as it flew at a speed that was hard to react to.

The Craig stopped momentarily at the pain, but it was a small wound compared to its size.

It only rushed in more angrily.

Quaang!

Sarah flicked her hand again, and an explosion emerged from the exact area where the sword was stuck in.

There was a huge hole in the area around the Craig’s chest, and it stumbled and lost power while running.

At the same time, Sarah quickly ran forward and raised her right hand.

Kiing!

Her sword flew back to her hands. The sword was still intact even after the explosion.

Then, she jumped at the monster, swinging her sword at its neck.

Kyap!

The Craig’s head flew off as its body fell, lifeless.