Chapter 344 : Refinent (3)
—booooom!—
Countless pillars of flas fell down from the sky and smashed into the ground.
—boom!—
—booooom!—
The few pieces of scrap and rubble left behind imdiately evaporated into gas.
They didn’t even liquify and instead had imdiately turned into gas.
‘Oh my god.’
Jack was in a daze as he stared at the super dense materials disappearing into nothing.
The materials didn’t even get hit directly yet.
—bobooboom!—
Tens of thousands of attacks were flying towards them, but the Nelkipa was so huge that those attacks had quite a distance between them before they struck down.
But the issue lay sowhere else.
“Won’t we all die at this rate?”
—roaaarr!—
Jack shouted, listening to the giant roars of Nelkipa.
Even if they didn’t get hit by those attacks, would it matter?
If this giant lifeform they were all standing on lted down, they would follow suit.
Since they’d end up lost in space.
And looking at the tens of thousands of attacks that were striking at them, that was actually a possibility.
Even if the lifeform was the size of a moon, the attacks striking at them seed to have the power to do so.
But Hansoo just pointed towards the ground below.
“Look below.”
“...?”
And as Jack looked down, he couldn’t believe his eyes.
‘No way...’
—ssssss—
Beneath the lting and evaporating city.
A bright land appeared.
Well, the bright skin of the lifeform they were on—the Nelkipa’s back.
—booom!—
—boom!—
Although countless pillars of flas were striking down at the ground, the Nelkipa’s skin seed to be fine.
‘Wha...what?’
Kiriel was at a loss.
Nelkipa’s skin should not be able to withstand such a powerful attack.
He knew this because the excavation center he had been living in was tasked with the job of digging into Nelkipa’s skin.
He hadn’t known it was the skin back then, but because it consisted of tals and ores, he knew that even ordinary people like him could lt it down.
Although the skin had grown increasingly harder the deeper they dug, they had managed to dig through the surface so it should’ve lted down at least.
Jack focused his eyes on this strange sight, and then soon realized why the Nelkipa’s bright skin could resist the attacks.
‘That...’
The bright blue layers, which they had believed to be veins of ore, were transforming.
Resembling crystals or diamonds.
—boom!—
As another attack smashed into the surface of Nelkipa, the several hundred ters of skin started to turn bright and shiny.
It then dispersed, absorbed, and deflected almost every bit of the remaining fire.
Like a drop of rain hitting an umbrella and sliding down, the countless pillars of fla could not penetrate into Nelkipa’s skin and instead spread back into space.
“Ah...”
“This is why lchizedek wanted it.”
—boom!—
—boooom!—
Hansoo replied expressionlessly beside them as they watched the attacks raining down from above.
lchizedek wasn’t stupid.
It wouldn’t start a war that it had no chances of winning against.
Just Angkara’s attacks alone weren’t enough to stop Nelkipa.
Kiriel looked confused as she asked Hansoo:
“Who... made this?”
She’d initially thought that this might be a natural born creature, but her thoughts had now changed.
Looking at everything from the cannons and the marks on the skin, it was clear that sobody had built this artificially.
Hansoo shrugged his shoulders at her words.
“How would I know?”
—rummmble—
—rumble—
If they’d made this at the main planet, Angkara, they would have never set up an excavation center in the first place.
Since there would’ve been no reason for the colony to investigate sothing they had made themselves.
Of course, that wasn’t the important thing in the current situation.
—boom! boom!—
Hansoo looked at the raining attacks as he said:
“Let’s go.”
“...Where?”
Jack replied with a heavy voice amidst the thundering booms.
Where could they go in this current situation?
Hansoo replied:
“To the research center. As per our original plan.”
This giant creature, Nelkipa, was headed for the main planet .
Under lchizedek’s control.
If they left it alone, then it would definitely reach the and land on the planet.
Then the true war would begin.
Between the slowly accumulated forces of lchizedek on the Nelkipa—
—and the race of Angkara who’d been tempered by countless battles and wars.
‘I cannot let that happen.’
Hansoo thought to himself.
He could not.
The 5th zone would beco a true sea of flas at that point.
Sothing much worse than this.
This was just the beginning.
This was not the most powerful attack that Angkara could send out.
It was just the fastest and easiest thod of attack, which is why they’d activated it the mont Nelkipa started to move.
He needed to act before the war beca more serious and more powerful weapons ca into play.
He needed to take control of this giant monster.
And the easiest thod was...
‘Catching lchizedek.’
lchizedek’s underlings were the ones that actually fought.
Which ant lchizedek should be at the topmost or the bottommost floor.
‘Hostages have traditionally been proven to be useful.’
Since he didn’t have the strength to go to the actual control center yet, this was the next best option.
But there were clearly a few people who did not agree with him.
“What? Are you crazy? You don’t even know if there’s anything still there.”
“Damn! Shouldn’t we be heading to the elevator instead?”
Jack and the others who had followed Hansoo shouted in objection.
How would they know if anything remained of the research center?
It should’ve been turned into a pile of dust by now.
But Hansoo only chuckled at them.
“I never told to you follow , right? And the research center should be fine.”
“What?”
Before they could continue—
“I’m leaving. Let’s go Kiriel.”
“Yes.”
—Hansoo loosened his hand and fell down to the ground a few kiloters beneath them.
—boom!—
“Crazy bas...”
As Jack was at a loss watching Hansoo and Kiriel falling down—
—one of the people who’d followed Jack asked from behind:
“What shall we do now?”
Whether they went to the elevator or followed them, going down was the first priority.
Of course, he still had questions.
‘The research center should be fine? What did he an by that?’
But Jack soon pushed away that thought as he focused on getting back down to the ground.
.................................................
—boooooooooom!—
—boooom!—
“Ugh... Everyone focus on using ice-type skills and movent-type skills!”
Jack shouted out.
The mont they returned to the ground, a blazing degree of heat smacked them right on their bodies.
The tallic steam threatened to scorch their lungs, and the heat deflected from Nelkipa’s bright skin threatened to cook the soles of their shoes.
Of course, the attacks hadn’t stopped either.
—rummble—
Jack watched the line of fire, calculated its trajectory and then shouted:
“Dodge!”
As soon as he shouted out, everyone activated their movent skills to the max and started to run away from their current positions.
And as they escaped—
—booooooom!—
—the area surrounding their previous location had turned into a sea of fire several hundred ters wide.
From the giant pillar of fire that had co down from the sky.
...chiiiii...
Despite dodging the fire, another wave of heat blasted down on their faces, so strong that it had almost destroyed their defensive skills.
Jack started to frown.
‘Damn. Thank god it moves in a straight line.’
It was an extrely fast attack, but due to the sheer distance of its origin, one could easily predict where it would land.
If they couldn’t, then they would be roasted whole by now.
‘This... this would even destroy the robots as well. Should we just run to the elevator?’
Jack mumbled as he asured the heat on the ground.
They wouldn’t lt down from this heat, but these attacks were not sothing those robots could withstand.
Which ant that even their tiny group would be able to get past the robots and reach the elevator.
‘But... what do we do after we go up?’
This giant Nelkipa was the entire 5th zone.
Even if they went up a floor, it was still above the Nelkipa.
They wouldn’t be able to dodge the flas anyway.
And more than anything else, he could not give up on Kiriel.
‘Where did they even go?’
Jack, completely bewitched by Kiriel, looked around to try and guess which direction she had gone.
—boooom!—
—clang!—
At that mont, they could hear the sounds of clashes in the distance.
‘There!’
As Jack subconsciously followed the sound—
“Huh? You followed us?”
—a voice could be heard through the tallic steam clouds.
‘Woah.’
Jack was shocked because he was still so distance away from the location of the sound.
He had thought that they’d be fighting together.
He saw that Kiriel was staring into the distance as if enchanted.
‘What is she looking at?’
—boooom!—
—boom!—
Sothing was fighting against sothing else and causing a huge ruckus.
‘Who is he fighting with?’
The tallic steam and the powerful shock waves had turned the surrounding air hazy.
It was clear that the silhouette swinging the hamr around was Hansoo, but he could not identify the other being that Hansoo was fighting against.
Then—
—booooom!—
‘F***...!’
Jack freaked out at the pillar of fla that was aiming straight at them.
And shockingly, three of those pillars combined with one another, and their range had increased to the entire surroundings in its area.
At this rate, that attack would hit everyone here.
‘Damn, we have to dodge.’
“Hey! Mr. Hansoo! Dodge it!”
—booom!—
—boom!—
He shouted at Hansoo, who was still fighting within the tallic steam, but Hansoo didn’t seem to hear as he continued to focus on attacking his opponent.
‘Damn...’
He had shouted to help, but there was no way for him to drag Hansoo out forcibly.
Of course, he didn’t want to do it either.
He then grabbed Kiriel’s wrist and pulled her back.
“Please! We have to move!”
And as if she understood his words, she moved back and out of range as well.
Jack’s expression brightened up.
To him, it seed like she had given Hansoo up.
‘Good.’
And as they all escaped the range of the attack—
—boooooom!—
—a giant pillar of fla crashed down from the sky, followed by blazing waves of heat that swept over them.
Jack inwardly sighed in relief as he looked at the scene since Hansoo should’ve been hit directly by it.
‘Good. This is... for the better.’
It was sad that Hansoo had died that way, but this was good.
Since it wouldn’t be good for him to follow that dumb bastard who’d insisted on going to the research center in a situation like this.
If Hansoo had died, then Kiriel wouldn’t have anyone to rely on. He just needed to seduce her well and then take her up.
—tatata—
As Jack thought to himself—
“Damn it...”
“...?”
—Kiriel’s small words made Jack’s eyes move towards the place where the fla pillar had been. She was still staring at the exact spot she had been in.
And he freaked out.
‘No way...’
Amidst the sea of flas, sothing was continuously regenerating and burning up as it stood up.
With a more powerful and condensed aura than before.
Like a blade that had been retempered and refined again.
As Jack saw this scene, chills ran down his entire back.
‘He... he didn’t dodge on purpose. That insane bastard.’
Was that sothing a sane person would do?
Jack continued to stare, at a loss for words.
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