Chapter 93

A snipe from a distance. There shouldn’t be any feedback on the skin, but Chelsea felt a tingling sensation on her fingertips.
It’s a kind of handiness, if you will.
When I pull the trigger, something different than the feel of metal against my finger. Like the exaggerated bloodshot sound I hear when a bullet hits an enemy in a game.
It was not an unfamiliar experience. It happens sometimes when you’re highly focused. It was the same when I shot Snowfield or Asteriske.
The phenomenon was pointing to one thing.
‘You’re right.
Beyond predictions.
When you shoot, you’re already sure you’re going to hit, and the result follows.
Chelsea watched the bullets go. Naturally, he couldn’t follow the trajectory with his eyes. What was beyond the scope was just a predetermined outcome.
The Godmother’s elongated body collapsed in a heap.
It wasn’t close enough to see exactly where it landed. I can only guess. The godmother’s left breast. The error is only a few millimeters.
Heeeeeeee─!
A gust of wind blew.
By now, the snowfield had regained its original color. The Granada Line was drenched in blood, but it was only a small part of the picture.
Sometimes there was silence.
“Huh, huh.”
Ghost blew out an exhausted breath and stared blankly into the distance. Even he, who had been through all of this before, was shaken.
The Metunaf that drove men mad. The monsters that made death seem real, vanished like a mirage. But you can’t say it was a nightmare or a hallucination.
The despair was all too real.
Face down in the water, staring out into the depths of hell, as if someone had forcibly pulled his head up. The disparity between the two confused the agents.
The stupidity of it, she didn’t like.
“You unhelpful bastards…!”
Kim started running again. Her pierced left arm ached against the winter wind. His legs felt heavy, like he was carrying sandbags.
But that wasn’t to be.
“We need to make sure we kill it.
The godmother was surely mortally wounded. This was a strategy that would never work in the game. Bosses have high health, let alone immunity.
You can’t take out all of their HP with a single shot. In the real world, sniping was a viable option. With the spell sealed, human flesh cannot resist bullets.
The problem is twofold.
First, the time. The duration of [Cripple’s Index Finger] is 5 seconds. The godmother’s spell malfunctioned, Kim checked him, and Chelsea, who had been instructed to do so, fired.
It all happened in less than 5 seconds.
Chelsea’s reaction was instantaneous. If she had been a second too late, her godmother could have been saved from her condition.
And while we’ve succeeded in inflicting a bullet wound, it’s too soon to rest easy.
“If you go to page three, you’re dead.
Phase 2.
Her special ability triggers, dealing instant, fixed damage to all units on the battlefield that have gone through the preparation phase. If you can stop it and reduce the Godmother to less than 10% HP, she will enter the next phase.
The lab doesn’t have the capacity to take the next step at this time.
“Me neither.
From the beginning, Kim’s goal was to skip.
It didn’t work in game. The system was set up so that HP never dropped below 1. The strategy of grinding down to a barely-there level and then unleashing a single attack was impossible.
“If it’s still real.
The source of her power is her spells. The trick was to kill her while her spell was not functioning properly, meaning you had to kill her before she could recover.
“Chelsea, keep shooting!”
Even as I shouted, I was convinced.
“I’m late.
If the godmother hadn’t died immediately, Phase 3 would begin soon. Even though it was only a possibility, Kim was already preparing for battle.
It’s always been that way.
Bad premonitions were never wrong. Not since I landed here. The day of our first encounter with the Snowfields had been filled with anxiety, and Whitefang’s crew had been killed.
Crises come as if they’ve been planned in advance. Even though it was the result of their own actions, it still felt fake.
Each time, Kim had to sacrifice something.
And it sucked, a lot.
“Ha, shit.”
Sure enough, the godmother slowly stood up.
His bowler hat has fallen off. His face is covered with long hair, and his joints are dislocated. Mucus pours from his chest, along with blood.
The godmother quickly pursed her lips, bared through her hair.
The liquid that flowed to the floor split into droplets and rose back into the air. Some climbed up her skin, drawing dense lines.
Thrrr.
The late bullets were swallowed up by the slime. The area covered by her clothes shrank, and her entire body grew darker and darker. Tiny eyes popped out of her skin.
It was like hundreds of creatures crammed into one body. Kim felt a sense of disgust and loss at the same time. A battle with a single entity unlike anything he had ever seen before.
To be honest, the odds are slim.
‘This is a garbage game.’
I’ve been thinking about it for a while.
The terms are ridiculously unfavorable.
The existence of special armor is semi-essential in a game called Polaris. The premise of the game is to equip your agents with the free gear that is distributed to them, no matter how bad they are.
“So we’re going to take 10 people, and we’re going to take 2,300 people.
On the other hand, what’s the reality.
Special armor is dog horns, while Placentia’s agents fight with standard supplies. Kim’s current abilities don’t even allow him to arm everyone.
Balance is skewed. Unreasonable difficulty. You have to throw yourself at it to beat it.
“It’s not too late.
If you’re aiming for it, now.
Godmother’s health is not perfect.
Kim reached for the helixivir with his free right hand. She bit the stopper with her teeth and pulled it off. She clutched the bottle with the needle exposed.
Suddenly, anxiety reared its ugly head. I didn’t know where I stood. I didn’t know if I could take one step and fall off the cliff.
But it wasn’t time to hold back water.
“Shit, I’m going to die.”
It was the moment I took the needle to my neck.
It started out of the blue.
Tsk, tsk, tsk.
A raindrop fell.
Water soaked the top of my head. The water touched the tip of my nose. It felt strangely crackling.
“……what?”
Half-consciously, Kim ran his index finger across the bridge of his nose. When she looked down, her finger was smeared with a translucent purple liquid.
Inside the droplets floated unknown particles. They were powdery blue, like cyanide.
The rain quickly intensified. The weather darkened as if a new hour had passed unnoticed. The air went from dry to humid and heavy.
“Tongue, string. Look at that.”
Hedwig, the only one following Kim, muttered, craning his neck to look up at the sky. Kim gave Hedwig a look, then looked up.
And I was horrified.
The blue color changed to a dark purple. Cumulonimbus clouds descended in two circles of their own volition. Inside the circle’s gaping hole, a torrential downpour of blue powder rained down.
Nothing, what…….
The professor swallows hard over the radio.
One thing after another. Calmness was quickly lost. Kim Yi-hyun couldn’t keep his cool this time either.
But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a point to this phenomenon.
Kim isn’t alone. Everyone had a vague idea. Rather, the natives feel it more than he, a foreign body on Polaris.
…… It’s a disaster.
The owner of the shaky voice was Leila.
“Damn it, retreat!”
Kim yelled as he turned his back. Now was not the time to deal with her godmother, she had to get away, even if it meant fleeing one step at a time, just in time for the guns to fire and the knives to swing.
Catastrophes. A freak weather event.
At this point, we don’t know what exactly is happening. Every time it happens, it looks different.
Sandstorms in the tropics. In extreme cases, we’ve seen literal fireballs fall.
One thing they have in common.
Every catastrophe that has occurred in the human sphere of life has caused countless deaths.
……Cease all combat, get out of there, now!
The professor, finally regaining his senses, urgently ordered. One by one, the agents dropped their weapons and began to flee, their faces filled with terror.
It was different from the previous crisis. The phenomenon that the godmother had unleashed was a hell that I had never seen or imagined in my life, and I could only watch in fascination.
Meanwhile, the disaster was all too real.
It’s a fear that every Polaris resident faces: when you hear of a disaster somewhere, you’re both saddened and relieved to know that you’re safe.
The absurd ending you’ve always imagined.
“Cover your head and skin with outerwear, you don’t know what it will do to your body!”
“You fell and sat on something, asshole, get up!”
Despite being terrified, the lab’s operatives remained relatively rational. The training paid off. As an organizational policy, Celbrosys Labs thoroughly trains its employees in catastrophic evacuation protocols.
Kim underwent the same training. He left his unwilling left arm behind and forced himself to take off his jumper using only his right hand.
As I was running with it over my head, my body jerked.
“Holy shit…….”
My body wouldn’t listen.
I was still exhausted from the battle with Carmelya. Moreover, I had stabbed [Cripple’s Index] four times. My remaining HP was about to hit rock bottom.
“If I hadn’t used Helixivir, I might have actually died.
Should I be relieved, I wasn’t sure. The only thing we knew for sure was that we couldn’t evacuate on our own.
That’s when Hedwig, who had passed Kim, called out.
“Hey, String, get on me!”
“What, up, what?”
“We’re running out of time. Hurry!”
Assume a squatting position with your back exposed. Kim made an astringent face. I felt like I couldn’t do it.
But things were happening. There was no time for idle chatter.
“…Thank you, please.”
“No big deal.”
He climbed onto Hedwig’s back without a word.
It’s not a huge difference, but the smaller size of the person on the upright side made it quite uncomfortable. However, I didn’t have any problems running.
Up ahead, a few people, including Leila and Turkam, are watching. You can see them breathe a sigh of relief. They were worried about my condition.
Boss, are you okay?
“Uh, nothing to worry about.”
I’m the boss? I was worried about my paycheck.
Chelsea muttered to herself, “I don’t want to run out of people to pay me. Kim couldn’t help but chuckle.
My body is full. I have a nagging question. A disaster is looming in front of me. Despite the gravity of the situation, I felt a strange sense of relief.
“When did this happen?
The characters are naturally worried about the safety of Kim Yi-hyun, a human being they considered a foreigner. As a comrade-in-arms who crossed the line of fire together.
It also meant that I couldn’t get out of the old Polaris. There’s no promise of ever going back. It was something that always made him uneasy.
But at least I felt a little lighter.
Kim glanced back. Hedwig’s body swayed with each step.
With shaky vision, he stared at his godmother, who was getting further and further away.
The godmother glared at Kim with bulging eyes. The eyeballs exposed through the mucus-covered skin cast a vicious glare. They stared at each other.
For the second time, Kim vowed.
“See you later.
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I know it sounds like a villainous cliché when I say it out loud, but it wasn’t a blank check.
I will never bring you back alive.
“…….”
The godmother had the same murderous intent. The anger that was directed at Celbrosys Labs was focused on Kim. She finally realized. who had been sabotaging the Legion at every turn.
“I’d rip his throat out right now.
The godmother struggled to suppress her disgust. Disaster was a threat to her, too. One last time, she etched Kim Yi Hyun’s face into her eyes, then moved her gaze away.
Soldiers on the front lines. We see men who would normally have been swept away with the apocalypse. They were already demoralized, running away and making a ruckus.
The godmother’s eyes narrowed in disdain.
“I’m going to leave Bastitera.
Reflecting on her failure, she turned away.