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Chapter 178: The Great Invasion (3)
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I stood there blankly, meeting the gazes fixed on me from every direction.
I had said everything I needed to say.
Now, all that remained was to wait for the result.
The soldiers around me also looked unsure of what to do. They seemed to be hurriedly contacting someone.
Before long, a car arrived nearby.
A soldier hurried out, approached me, and saluted.
“Loyalty! I’m Colonel Park Se-hyeok, commander of the Gangneung 23rd Rapid Response Brigade!”
“...Hello.”
I offered him my hand.
“It, it’s truly an honor to meet you like this. Thank you for your dedication to humanity.”
He took my hand in both of his and bowed deeply before cautiously asking a question.
“If there’s anything we can do to help, please tell us. An order was just issued to the entire military. All nearby units have been instructed to cooperate fully with you, Person123, as soon as they arrive on site.”
It was more or less what I had expected, so I answered at once.
“Please move all civilians at least one hundred meters away from the rift. The soldiers too.”
More and more people were gathering around us.
I didn’t know what the result of the Battlefield 3 vote would be, but if the rift opened, monsters could come pouring out immediately.
There was still plenty of time, but I had people move farther back in advance.
Everyone except for the reporter who had lent me the microphone and the cameraman.
Meanwhile, it seemed that people from the Climber Affairs Office had arrived.
Among the Climbers hurrying this way, I spotted a familiar face. It was Manager Shin.
“I’m Manager Shin Su-jin of the Climbing Surveillance Division, Climber Special Affairs Office.”
Manager Shin approached me and greeted me as though we had never met.
Come to think of it, does this person never get promoted?
She’s still a manager, just as she was when I first met her.
‘Is she deliberately refusing promotions so she can stay in the field?’
I brushed aside the pointless thought that had suddenly occurred to me and exchanged greetings with Manager Shin.
“Is there anything the Climber Affairs Office can do to help? We’ll do everything we can...”
“It’s fine. Please just help control the civilians.”
Manager Shin looked at me with concern in her eyes.
It was as if she were asking whether I was really sure about this.
I nodded once to reassure her.
The people from the Climber Affairs Office also moved away from me.
I picked up the microphone again and spoke.
“I’ll say this one last time. Please trust me. I’ll stop them.”
I made one final appeal to the Climbers.
Hoping they would trust me and make the choice that could save hundreds of millions of people.
I handed the microphone back to the reporter.
“Thank you. It’s dangerous now, so please move far away.”
“Y-Yes!”
The reporter faced the camera with a solemn expression.
“Right here, humanity’s savior stands alone before the rift to save Europe in its hour of crisis. As a member of humanity myself, I earnestly ask the hundreds of thousands of Climbers in Battlefield 3 to follow his noble will...!”
I looked around and confirmed that everyone had moved far away.
Then I retrieved an item from Subspace.
[Item: Saint Shurian’s Necklace]
A necklace containing the blessing of Shurian, leader of the Holy Empire. With the necklace’s power, the Cradle of Light can be deployed. The Cradle of Light has a radius of 100 meters and blocks entry and exit from both outside and inside. The user and targets the user recognizes as allies receive a 10% increase to their physical abilities within the Cradle. Once dismissed or destroyed, the Cradle can be used again after 24 hours. Willpower can be consumed to restore the Cradle’s durability.
It was a reward I had received for conquering Floor 14.
Fwoooosh!
As I deployed the Cradle of Light, a soft golden curtain spread out, covering a vast area with a radius of one hundred meters.
With this, I would seal the rift without letting a single monster escape.
Of course, the Climbers of Battlefield 3 still had to choose opening...
Alone, I stared at the rift before me.
As more time passed, helicopters began to arrive, and chaos erupted outside the curtain.
It was a good thing I had deployed the Cradle before things got any more out of hand.
[Time Remaining: 59 seconds]
Voting for Battlefields 1 and 2 had both ended with the rifts remaining closed.
Now, the voting for Battlefield 3 was about to end.
Time ran out...
[Voting for Battlefield 3 has ended.]
[Vote Results]
Opening: 130,759 votes
Not Opening: 70,156 votes
[Voting has ended.]
...I felt deep relief as I looked at the messages that appeared.
‘It worked.’
The greatest hurdle had been overcome.
The Climbers of Battlefield 3 had made a choice for humanity.
Now, all that remained was for me to stop them.
The ten million monsters that would pour out over seventy-two hours.
[The Dimensional Rift in Battlefield 3 will open.]
Crrrrrack!
The rift was dozens of meters wide and tall.
The crack hanging in midair began to split apart with an eerie sound.
Beyond the space torn open like paper.
There was nothing but pitch-black darkness.
I summoned Pli.
I deployed Searing Zone and Frost Mist at the entrance to the rift, then activated Life Devourer.
Then I gripped the Sword of Heaven’s Gatekeeper and the Sword of Light.
My preparations to greet the enemies were complete.
‘They’re coming.’
Along with an overwhelming mass of presences.
Monsters poured out of the rift entrance as if they were flowing upstream.
I greeted them with Elemental Arrow Barrage.
Kwooooom!
Dozens of volleys of arrows infused with the fire attribute set off a chain of explosions.
The first monsters to crawl out vaporized on the spot, but dozens more immediately came pouring out.
I followed with Flame Barrage and launched myself forward.
The Sword of Heaven’s Gatekeeper and the Sword of Light, both wrapped in Heavenly Aura.
With the two swords in my hands, I began indiscriminately shredding the monsters.
I truly shredded them.
The level gap made it impossible for me to be injured, so I only used Skin Hardening. I didn’t bother defending or evading.
Ogres, giant spiders, minotaurs, swarms of hornets, horned kangaroos, werewolves, ice golems, cyclopes, Cerberuses, lightning elementals, mechanical crayfish, and more...
The monsters came in every imaginable variety.
The low-level fodder monsters were first filtered out by the Searing Zone and Frost Mist at the rift entrance.
The monsters that broke through were swept away as I cast spells and danced through them with my blades.
The Cradle of Light’s 10% physical ability boost, the effects of Life Devourer, and Enhancement all activated to their maximum.
The monsters burst like water balloons simply by colliding with my body. That was how vast the difference in our levels was.
The shredded and exploded corpses of monsters dispersed like smoke over time, and new monsters immediately took their place.
Grrrrooo!
A gigantic hand burst out from either side of the split rift.
An enormous lava giant, apparently a Level 100 monster, tried to force its way out of the rift that was dozens of meters wide, as though it were too cramped for its body.
I leaped high into the air and unleashed my newly acquired skill, Plasma Bolt.
Flash!
A massive burst of lightning exploded in a flash of light.
The lava giant and all the monsters that had emerged were vaporized in an instant.
I used Air Step to descend, then swept away the monsters coming out again.
I had ordered Pli to deal with any monsters I missed...
But there was no need. Not a single monster escaped the area around the rift.
At most, several dozen monsters were coming out of the rift per second.
My firepower was overwhelmingly greater than that.
Even if a monster escaped, it wouldn’t be able to break through the Cradle of Light.
Once activated, it would remain indefinitely unless it was destroyed or dismissed, and I could continuously restore its durability with my Willpower.
Now, I only had to fight like this for seventy-two hours.
Stamina?
That wasn’t a problem.
Life Devourer was endlessly absorbing the vitality of dead monsters. There was no chance of my stamina running out.
Sleep wasn’t a problem either.
I only had to endure seventy-two hours.
I had stayed awake for several nights even when I had been below Level 100, and even then, I had only been a little tired.
Now that I was close to Level 200, three days wouldn’t be a problem at all.
Kwoooosh!
I unleashed Fatal Strike and ground up the monsters all at once.
Without a thought in my mind, I killed monsters again and again.
Had I killed around ten thousand by now?
The long battle had only just begun.
* * *
“...We need to support Person123! Immediately!”
After Person123 personally appeared at the Gangneung rift, the South Korean government was thrown into disarray.
Every available military force hurried to the site, and U.S. Forces Korea also mobilized.
Calls regarding military support flooded in through hotlines from China, Japan, Russia, and North Korea.
In any case, there was only one goal. They had to help Person123 somehow.
Person123 had declared that they would deal with all ten million monsters alone, but that didn’t mean they could simply sit back and do nothing.
If the Battlefield 3 rift truly opened, everyone included in Battlefield 3 would have to fight with everything they had to stop the monsters.
The scene at Gangneung’s rift was utter chaos.
“We can’t approach because of the curtain!”
“...Person123! Please listen to us!”
Politicians and military commanders who had arrived too late, Climbers who had volunteered to help Person123, and even followers of the Person123 Church.
All of them were blocked by the enormous curtain and could not even approach Person123.
All they could do was helplessly watch what was happening beyond it.
“...It seems they truly intend to face all ten million alone.”
Shin Su-jin and the other Climbers from the Climbing Surveillance Division were also watching the situation from one side.
One member spoke with anxiety written all over their face.
“W-Will they be all right? No matter how strong Person123 is, can they really do this?”
The monsters’ levels were one thing, but according to the rules, they would have to fight without resting for seventy-two hours.
Even if Person123 was superhuman, could such a thing truly be possible?
Shin Su-jin wore a grim expression like the other members.
Of course, she firmly believed in Person123.
Person123 had performed miracles time and time again, and their limits were impossible to measure.
But if something went wrong, even by the slightest chance... she would protect them, even at the cost of her life. Shin Su-jin merely hardened her resolve.
Time passed.
[The Dimensional Rift in Battlefield 3 will open.]
In the end, Battlefield 3’s rift opened as a result of the vote.
“T-The rift is tearing open right now...!”
The broadcasting stations’ cameras zoomed in beyond the curtain as they aired the scene live.
Before the splitting rift, Person123 stood alone. They used several skills, summoned a gigantic monster to their side, and held swords in both hands.
Then, in the very next moment, monsters poured out of the rift.
Person123’s battle began.
“...!”
Slaughter.
That was the word that came to everyone’s mind once the battle began.
Massive explosions erupted one after another, flames soared, and electricity crackled.
Person123 moved too quickly for the eye to follow, grinding monsters apart with dual swords like a blender.
Even the members of the Climber Affairs Office watching could not close their mouths.
This was... utterly one-sided slaughter.
An overwhelming number of monsters came out of the rift, but Person123 was killing them far faster.
The monsters did not seem able to get even ten meters away from the rift before dying.
The sight was broadcast live around the world.
Until now, only a very small number of Climbers had ever seen Person123 fight directly.
People were deeply shocked.
[HandsomeMonkeyKing: This is insane... Is this Person123’s power?]
[Tiv: Are they fighting by just bombarding them with magic skills? How is that possible?]
[Positive: That isn’t even their full strength. You guys never saw the Joint Battle.]
[Fatal: Didn’t they say the maximum level was 100...? They’re getting wiped out the instant they emerge.]
[All: Kyaaahahaha! The monsters are all exploding! Keep it up, Person123!]
[Scissors: Is this the strongest Climber humanity has... I can only worship them.]
As the whole world watched in astonishment.
Monsters endlessly poured out of the rift, and Person123 endlessly killed them.
“It has now been one hour since the rift opened. Person123 still appears to be fighting without difficulty...!”
People trembled at the overwhelming power displayed by humanity’s savior.
But as time passed, they slowly began to worry.
Would they become exhausted? Could they really keep fighting like that without resting?
But two hours passed, then three.
More than half a day passed. Night came, and then dawn broke again.
Person123 continued to fight as they had at the beginning.
Without resting for even one second.
[Honey: Jesus... Is Person123 really no longer human?]
[Thomas: It’s been twenty-four hours now. And Person123 still looks completely fine.]
[MilitaryMerit: Do they not get tired? Do they have some skill that gives them infinite stamina?]
[Sandrigos: Person123 is a god! They are a god! They are a god! They are a god! They are a god! They are a god! They are a god!]
[Fondue: At this rate, they really will kill all ten million alone... Damn...]
[Yuruka: I told you. Stop doubting Person123.]
[TangTang: Wow, is this really possible? There are still forty-eight hours left, though.]
[Equation: You still doubt them after seeing this? Hahaha. Just doubt them for the rest of your life. Person123 is a god!]
[GreatPerson123: Revere Person123. Worship Person123. They transcended humanity and became a god long ago.]
Person123 had already performed countless miracles.
But at this moment, the shock was inevitably different because everyone was witnessing the miracle with their own eyes.
There was not a shred of exaggeration or falsehood in Person123’s words.
They truly intended to kill all ten million monsters alone, without a single human casualty.
“Oh, savior of humanity! God of humanity...!”
Followers of the Person123 Church prayed before the curtain Person123 had deployed.
As time passed, more and more people joined them.
Even citizens who had not originally been followers knelt as if entranced and began offering prayers for their savior alongside them.
Amid the encouragement and awe of all humanity, Person123 continued without stopping, killing the monsters pouring out of the rift.
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