Chapter 41 - No Time (1)

No Time (1)

There was a huge gate in the middle of the city.

It was a dozen and a hundred times bigger than the size of a typical gate. Red cracks hovered the

the air above it.

The citizen got frightened by its huge stature, causing them to flee the area.

Thanks to commotion below, even if it’s already late in the evening, people noticed the fuss and began evacuating.

With this, most casualties could be reduced significantly.

However, this is not an ordinary gate. The wavelength analysis wasn’t completed, as the activation began only two minutes after the gate was created.

Two ectopic organisms appeared through the cracks.

The gate disappeared immediately after spawning two monsters.

When the giant monsters stepped their feet forward, the buildings sank and collapsed, injuring the people nearby.

Wow! Il-hyun thought.

It was a Togg—a tortoise monster whose body is entirely made of a huge mass of rocks that might appear in a monster movie.

It was an ace monster of rank A, which had already appeared several times.

Its upper part has excellent defense and vitality, and it had an annoying ability to constantly create and discharge monsters from its body.

Thud! Thud!

The monster discharged two dogs from its body, and it flew across the city. It was a mess! The woman wanted to run away from it.

“Shhh!”

The woman in pajamas began running away from it, her breathing rough.

Her long, blonde hair swayed as she looked back and forth toward the abandoned cars on the busy road.

Togg was almost transforming, it was approaching the buildings fast!

It was hard for an ordinary person to avoid such a monster.

“No!” the horrified woman shouted as she ran away, showing her sorrow.

There was a solid, elevated bridge on the path of the toggle, but it collapsed helplessly. Remnants flew in the aftermath of the collapse.

The woman who escaped from the bottom couldn’t even think about moving inside the rubble.

“That’s bad!”

Bang!

A huge pile of broken rubble hit her, but gladly, the woman was fine.

“Uh……?”

“That was close!”

Il-hyun caught the woman and took her away before going through defecation.

The woman hangs her arm around his neck.

Il-hyun reassured the crying woman that he would drop her off to safety.

He told her that many other citizens had evacuated to the place he’d take her.

Il-hyun tried to stop the monster straight away as he attempted to fulfill her request.

“It’s too early to feel relieved here… Ueup!”

The woman grabbed Il-hyun’s cheeks with both hands.

Their lips overlapped as it turned into a deep kiss.

Il-hyun didn’t felt embarrassed when his hand stayed on her waist. The woman wandered her arms around his neck as he carried her tightly.

And after a while, both their lips fell.

“Fooha! Thank you……”

The woman blushed.

He felt the eyes of other citizens all over them.

Some men who watched the scene whistled.

While Il-hyun stared blankly at the situation he was experiencing for the first time, he heard someone call from the other side.

“Elena!”

“Dad?”

A middle-aged man ran out of the burinake.

The woman looked back and ran in her father’s arms.

Their reunion was touching as the woman arrived safely.

However, Il-hyun’s expression turned weird.

Wait…Isn’t that the uncle from yesterday? He thought inwardly.

Il-hyun glanced at the middle-aged man before him, doubt clouding his eyes.

But his eyes aren’t wrong.

Obviously, it was the uncle he saw on the soccer field the day before.

“Huh……?”

* * *

Awkward!

Six monsters fell simultaneously on Lee Soo-yeon’s sword.

It was a rock monster that was continuously discharging dogs from its body.

Seok Pil-jun, Ghost, and the people who just joined the rescue continued to reduce monsters.

“Damn, this guy appeared in the middle of the city,” Ghost grumbled while wielding his sword.

The giant monster dog wasn’t easily defeated because of its rock-solid, upper body.

Even if you destroyed most of its body parts, you had to remove the monster’s heart or core to completely end its movements.

With such a huge mass, the problem was that it contained an Ether core with only the size of a human fist.

To make matters worse, the core position in the body also changes each time, making it difficult to know which part to target.

From the standpoint of a direct awakening, it was a dull moment. Less attacking of its main body, and less threatening than other A-ranked monsters.

The monsters that spit out endlessly and the facilities around them got destroyed just by walking.

The damage was only within the city, not in a remote place.

“Monsters have prevented them from getting out of the way, so we will start attacking the main body now.”

“Would it still take long to know the core’s position?”

“I don’t have time to relax and wait for core analysis,” said Lee Soo-yeon.

They can’t afford to wait for the analysis team to give them the location of the core. The city would be smashed into pieces by then.

Bang!

One of the buildings collapsed terribly after Soo-yeon finished talking.

As a result of this, the body had to be stopped even if it was corrosion-resistant.

However, at that time, Il-hyun stared at the two dogs silently.

“The left dog’s core is on the back of the neck, and the other one is near its upper chest.”

“What? You can see the core’s location?”

“Yes, the core of the monster’s body loomed a while ago thanks to its predation ability.”

“Haha…Well done,” Lee Soo-yeon laughed ridiculously at the end.

The power continued digging and digging to no end.

“That would make things a lot easier, right?”

Seok Pil-jun shouted that the two monsters are rushing toward them.

“Okay. I will take care of the guy on the left, so, Il-hyun takes the right. The remaining two, keep the monsters from coming out.”

“It must be impossible to do it alone.”

Although relatively less intimidating, A-rank monsters were A-rank monsters.

Rather than destroying the core as quickly as possible with the power of Hyun-Hyun, it would take a year to penetrate the outer layer of the upper body part.

Then, Lee Soo-yeon added briefly, “Ghost has to help.”

Ghost and Lee Soo-yeon.

These two had always been working together. But several years passed already, and Ghost, who immediately understood what she was saying, answered, “Oh, I see.”

Everyone moved right away.

Lee Soo-yeon climbed on the Togg’s leg, shifting over to the back as she poured an attack on her neck.

When the blade with the black energy and the monster’s rock-solid upper body collided, the rock broke apart with a loud sound.

It seems like she couldn’t hold onto her monster-like powers.

Of course, Togg couldn’t help but to standstill.

Its body violently twisted and ra while the monsters made with its body poured out from the back and rushed to Lee Soo-yeon is.

In the midst of this, Lee Soo-yeon continued to attack the monsters.

“Wait, I still don’t understand what you’re talking about…!” Ghost grabbed his arm and hoisted it onto the ground.

Il-hyun became dizzy at the scene, passing in front of his eyes.

In the meanwhile, Ghost has given a brief explanation.

“I’m going to go inside his stomach. You can destroy the core inside. Simple, right? For reference, the depth cannot be reached due to the repulsion action.”

“What?”

Despite Ghost’s insane fighting spirit, Il-hyun hadn’t thought of him more out of his mind.

He and Ghost rose up from the ground and passed through the belly of Togg.

After dropping Il-hyun into a suitable place, Ghost bounced out and disappeared.

The dark space doesn’t even have one light.

Il-hyun took out the lighter in his arms, and the flame that had risen took the form of a bird.

The summoned Phoenix climbed onto Il-hyun’s arm.

The bright light of the bird lit Il-hyun’s surroundings.

Il-hyun saw that the wide space was made of rocks everywhere he looks inside the dog’s body.

Inside, Togg’s body was made of rocks. If it splits, it also gets united. And the monsters were still being created.

Besides, even if it detects intruders, the monsters being made were already looking at him.

Il-hyun sighed for a moment as he raised his sword.

“The core’s output of these large monsters’s so salty…Do you want to try it?”