Episode 250 [Counterattack (1)]
The Moscow victory ceremony became a great event in another sense.
Although the event did not proceed properly, people were able to witness a spectacle even greater than the event itself.
A giant monster that I had only heard about appeared in the middle of the city, and I watched on screen as the giant monster was defeated by awakened people and soldiers.
Although war reporters had seen videos sent from the battlefield, people had become quite indifferent to such videos after years of fighting against monsters.
But the battle that unfolded in Moscow was enough to blow away all such thoughts.
The image of the awakened people changed dramatically, and even those who were tired of the war gained strength again.
And everyone was curious about the two awakeners who appeared on the broadcast.
Baaaaang!
The two awakened people people were curious about were now saying goodbye at the train station.
“Then I will leave first.”
Behind Isabelle, who was saluting, the Trans-Siberian train leaving for Europe stopped.
Isabelle was now wearing a black body armor with an EV mark on it.
Although she had no choice but to fight in casual clothes during the Battle of Moscow, she was originally EV’s enforcer and member of the special operations team.
In addition, an unexpected event led to a battle in Moscow, but the place Isabel was originally supposed to fight was Europe, where monsters were flooding in.
Now the fight ahead was hers to fight.
Kyung-hoon accepted Isabelle’s greeting.
“Go first. “I’ll take care of business and then join you.”
I wish we could go together, but Kyung-hoon had a lot of work to do.
Dahee, who was left alone in America, was waiting for him, and in South America as well. Elsewhere, his help was also waiting.
-Since the broadcast, requests for help have been coming in from former Chinese countries.
There were many places in the past that asked for help from EVs, and even now there is a long backlog. However, this was the first time a request came from a divided China.
They knew that they were already suffering great damage, but perhaps because of China’s pride, they did not want EV’s help.
-I will postpone the rankings later.
But the request came too late.
The independent Manchurian state was the last defensive wall to defend Korea.
Of course, he could help when the time comes, but Kyung-hoon had not yet forgotten the memory of the nuclear explosion.
“Shane will do well, but rest as much as possible until your mana recovers.”
“Yes.”
Isabel nodded at Kyung-hoon’s words.
Dark circles were still full under her eyes. The aftereffects of mana depletion still remained.
At that time, a man wearing a helmet shouted at the two from the train gate. “Everyone is waiting
.”
Woof!
The dog on top of the helmet also called out to her.
“Yes!”
Isabel gave Kyung-hoon a final bow and then looked to the side.
There were two stragglers, no, two people, standing on one side of the platform.
Jeong-gyu and Yeong-cheol.
Unlike other awakened people leaving for Europe, the two returned to Korea on the next train.
Thanks to Yeong-cheol becoming an ordinary person again, he was able to return to his home country, and in the name of escorting him, Gyu-gyu was left out of the dispatched force.
Jeong-gyu was waving at Isabel with a bright face, and Yeong-cheol was still watching the train with a bewildered expression.
Isabelle still didn’t quite understand what happened in the basement.
An awakened person who said strange things after going out of control and lost his memory along with Mana.
Kyung-hoon became serious after hearing the words of the awakened man.
She was curious about what was going on, but she was still young and couldn’t know everything.
She was just satisfied because she was able to save many people with Kyung-hoon.
Isabel bowed her head to the two people and got on the train.
Baaaaaaa!
The train departed immediately after she got on.
Kyung-hoon looked at the train and waved his hand.
Rosalia and the EV awakeners greeted him from inside the window.
In the carriage that followed, the awakened people and soldiers saluted him with gratitude.
Now, at least within the dispatched force, there is no one who does not know Kyung-hoon’s face.
After a while, the train disappeared far away
and Kyung-hoon approached the two people who were standing there awkwardly.
“It really reminds me of the first time we met.”
Is it a feeling of unprecedented times? Gyu-gyu muttered while looking at Kyung-hoon. It seemed like the idea came to him when he was captured by the military and became a test subject.
Unfortunately, now was not the time to reminisce together. Kyung-hoon approached and asked Young-cheol.
“What do you plan to do when you get back?”
“Oh, you mean that?”
Before leaving, Kyung-hoon took one last look at the sky where smoke was still rising.
There was a summoning portal created by the doppelganger there.
It was unexpected. Due to this incident, strong instructions were once again issued to the governments of each country, but it was unclear whether everyone would follow them.
“Do you want more?”
-I’m checking it now. We are scanning all the areas where monarch-level coordinates were found in the other world. The problem is the area occupied by monsters.
Awakened people and people were sent to check thoroughly, but there were not many areas that could be checked.
There were too many areas already occupied by monsters.
“You have to do as much as you can. “You just have to avoid getting hit in the back of the head more than anything else.”
As long as it didn’t pop out in the city where people lived, it was possible to catch even a monarch.
-all right.
After hearing Eve’s answer, Kyung-hoon stretched out his hand toward the floor.
A silver hole appeared before him. He looked at the silver hole for a moment.
“I have to go to the other world once and then come back...”
I was too busy to go to the other dimension.
I had to find out about the awakened person named ‘Hyeokjun’ and check with the overlord to raise my level.
But first, I had to deal with the matter at hand . .
Kyung-hoon jumped into the hole.
***
Yellowstone National Park in the U.S., where Kyung-hoon and Da-hee are recovering from their brainwashing.
A shabby building was built in this area, which was closed off after the monsters came out.
It looks shabby like a warehouse, but it is big. It was an extremely large building.
Fuaaaaaa!
Hot spring water shot out into the air every few tens of minutes from the geyser in front of the building, and air bubbles rose from other hot springs. “It’s even spookier because there
are no people around...”
The manager left the lodging next to the building. I shuddered when I saw this desolate park.
It’s already been over two years since the park was closed. There was no way a park with more monsters than animals could be left open. “They say
security is important, but I don’t understand why they had to build a facility in a place like this. “There is none.”
Of course, it was clear that it was a good decision seeing as the facility was in good condition while the building was being built and until now.
However, after working here myself, it was hard to say that it was a good decision.
Wow. Wow. Sssss.
The sounds of monsters were heard through the sounds coming from the geysers and hot springs.
“shit!”
Even if they weren’t attacking the building, it didn’t mean there weren’t monsters.
That’s why I felt even more amazed at this facility, which seemed to be in perfect condition all by itself.
“Was it really researching a device to prevent monsters from approaching?...”
If so, it must have been really rewarding.
“Even if it were true, there was no way Langley would reveal it right away.”
There was no way the CIA could do something so kind.
Agent Smith, the manager of the facility and a lone dispatcher from the CIA, approached the small door on one side of the building and pressed the electronic key.
Beep beep.
“Langley is in turmoil, so I wonder if the project will proceed in the future...”
It wasn’t just Langley. The government was also turned upside down.
Some people said that their brainwashing by monsters had been lifted, while others said that they had been bullied by EV and the Eurasian Union, but the situation in the United States was not so good to worry about that.
The United States was now in a situation where it was difficult to prevent the sudden attacks of monsters.
“That’s why this place is even more absurd.”
Crash.
There was no one left inside the building.
After receiving the last call from Langley, the technician and other caretakers were all sent home.
These were people who had no idea what this facility was.
“Well, I don’t know anything either.”
He was just a hidden agent separated from the CIA anyway. I didn’t know who was giving orders or what was happening here.
I just received the last call to protect this place.
“Did you say two months?”
He entered the building and whetted his appetite as he looked at the spacious interior.
There was not a single pillar visible inside the building.
The inside looked larger than most stadiums and larger than a large airplane factory.
But inside, only a huge pattern was shining.
Agent Smith didn’t know it, but the pattern spread here was no different from the pattern spread in Moscow.
A summoning circle that is connected to another dimension and summons monsters. A summoning circle several times larger than the summoning circle in Moscow was spread out here.
The machine installed in the center continued to infuse mana into the pattern.
Yellowstone National Park.
It was where the overlord of another world stayed.