Chapter 143: Episode 143 – Disaster, Part I

Chapter 51. Disaster, Part I

Translator: Khan

Editor: RED

1.

Lightning and thunder had always been fearful to mankind. When lightning struck the sky and thundered, humans were terrified and frozen.

Rumble! The same was true when a single lightning bolt penetrated Hrungnir’s chest with a thunderous sound.

“Huck!” Everyone on the battlefield was frozen in front of a flash of light and the thunder rumbling that swept through the sky.

‘What’s going on…’ The absurd sight in front of them did not even allow them to shout out in shock.

Rumble! The feet of Hrungnir, which shook the frozen world, had stopped for a moment.

Woo-oh-oh-oh-oh! The cries as well as the feet-stomping… no, the vibrations began to shake the surroundings of the Main River. Hrungnir poured out his feelings with the scream. It was angry, and the reason was obvious. There was a huge hole in its chest, and blood bursting out through the hole.

Now Hrungnir was under the threat of death and was angry about it. Of course, its steps were not simple steps, but the beast facing a threat did its best, displaying its full power.

Rumble! At every step, the ground shook with the power of the giant.

“Aahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!”

Woo-eo-eo-eo?

The world was stumbling, and even the Giants fell down, losing their balance at this shaking. A sight that seemed like the end of the world loomed in front of everyone.

In the haze, a sword flew once again toward Hrungnir’s chest, moving with a sharp sound that cut the wind.

Thunk! A katana, with a pure white blade, penetrated deep into the chest of Hrungnir after flying like a missile.

Whizz! Soon after that, a golden-colored sword was inserted into its chest.

Whizz! Whizz! Like the bullets of a machine gun, dozens of spears and swords flew toward the hole in the chest of Hrungnir.

Thunk! Thunk! Thunk! They continuously, constantly, repeatedly, drilled into the hole in Hrungnir’s heart. Every time Hrungnir took another step, its heart was filled with another three swords.

Woo-eo-eo-eo! Of course, the more it walked, the more holes were drilled in its heart, and the more it screamed. The cry was weak after Hrungnir walked ten steps. Its body began to wobble like it had anemia.

Hrungnir’s body, which could not hold after it staggered, began to lean, and slowly and grandly fell to the ground. BOOM!

The impact was enough to send the bodies of everyone, who had been suffering from suppression, into the air, and let experience zero gravity for a while.

A Miracle. It was a scene that could not be explained by anything other than those two words.

It was a man coming down from the sky that put the finishing dot on the scene.

2.

Kim Tae-hoon had learned a great deal through the dream that Napoleon’s Golden Glass allowed him. The dream that gave him the greatest and most important lessons and knowledge was, of course, the first dream. In his dream of being killed by the dragon, he had seen how he had handled his weapons in the battle. He saw several spears and swords hovering around himself like satellites.

It was a hint, an idea for the best battle method, which Kim Tae-hoon had refined through repeated trial and error. The hint told him, “Use a lot of relics as bullets.” Having many weapons hovering around him was, to put it plainly, like a revolver’s cylinder circling around.

Now Kim had used the best battle method for the first time. He had his weapons hovering around himself and fired them off like pulling a trigger. He used the Sword of Goujian to gauge the location of the heart, used the Lightning Spear, Vasavi Shakti, to neutralize the hard skin, and then shot dozens of relic weapons like bullets of a machine gun toward the exposed heart.

‘Not bad.’

The power of the attack was now proved by the dead body of Hrungnir, which was under Kim’s feet, the heart completely destroyed, and by the dark blue jewel in his bloodstained hand.

==[The Crystal of the Huge Giant]

– Strength and Health increase significantly when ingested.

– Proficiency of Mana rank can reach Transcendental when ingested.

– Anyone can acquire the power of the Huge Giant [the Mana of the Huge Giant] when ingested.]==

Kim Tae-hoon, after confirming the value of the Crystal of the Huge Giant, swallowed it, and then checked the back of his right hand with his black Eyes.

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[Basic Abilities]

– Strength: 1277

– Health: 1313

[Special Abilities]

– Energy: A+ Rank

– Mana: S- Rank

– Telekinesis: S- Rank

– Defense: A+ Rank

– Mana Resistance: A+ Rank

[Achieved Ability]

– The Mana of the Huge Giant (Grade 2): Anyone given the Mana of the Huge Giant can gain the power of the Huge Giant.

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‘Mana has reached the Transcendental rank.’ It was an income beyond his expectation.

‘I like the new skill I’ve learned this time.’ Mana had reached the Transcendental rank, and there was no problem in measuring its utility value.

‘The value of the Gilt-bronze Incense Burner of Baekje will increase.

‘Mana is consumed as fuel to bring out the power of relics.’ Considering that, it was not difficult to gauge how the Mana of the Huge Giant would affect things. In addition, Kim had many relics that could use the Mana of the Huge Giant properly: The Gilt-bronze Incense Burner of Baekje, the Horse Figure-Type Earthenware, and…

‘The Qin Shi Huang Sword will be helpful, too.’ This time, he had the newly acquired the Qin Shi Huang Sword.

It was a lucrative hunt in many ways, but Kim did not smile at the fact. Instead, he lifted his head and looked around, and saw a flag flying. It was a huge flag, on which the symbol of the Mac Guild, Mac, was drawn. The flag clearly told everyone on this battlefield who the true winner of this battle was. It was also telling Kim that the disaster has begun.

‘Now, it’s time to clean up what Mao has done.’

3.

When Hrungnir fell down, John Gabriel thought there would be nothing that would surprise him anymore. He expected that he would not experience any more unrealistic days. But it did not take long for his thoughts and expectations to break. Kim Tae-hoon made it happen.

‘Coffee…?’ As soon as the unrealistic battle was over, the stage of dialogue was created, and the leader of the Crusaders, Johann Gabriel, sat down with the Mac Guild’s representative, Kim Tae-hoon. It was no surprise. They had made a deal, and now that it was over, it was time to calculate the price.

But the scene of boiling water and dropping coffee on the spot was something no one expected. Even Kim enjoyed his coffee. Not just to rinse his mouth, but holding his coffee in his mouth, he just looked dispassionately at John Gabriel.

John Gabriel could not find the word ‘negotiating’ anywhere in the image of Kim.

And in fact, Kim had no intention of negotiating here. He swallowed his coffee and said, “I will tell you again.”

In that way, the conversation began.

“The price is all the Vatican has, and remember it.”

John Gabriel opened his mouth and let out a full sigh of relief. ‘Anyway, he is a human.’ The fact that Kim was talking reassured him because at least he realized that Kim Tae-hoon was a conversational partner.

“I have something to say about that, and I will certainly not forget the grace you have shown us today, and I will pay for it, but I cannot give you all of the Vatican.” So, John Gabriel regained his composure and began to say the words he had prepared.

‘I can’t give him everything.’ To be honest, John Gabriel had no intention of paying everything in the Vatican for saving their lives in this battle. What the Vatican had now was virtually everything in Europe. It made no sense to give it all.

‘There’s no contract, so I’ll have to finish a negotiation here. I’ll minimize the losses.’ Especially, if he gave everything here, the relics, the existence of the Vatican would be meaningless. The Vatican knights who lost their relics could not wage a war properly against the monsters in the future?

“Of course I don’t mean I won’t pay, but I can’t give you any of the relics with the Vatican’s honor and history.”

In this situation, John Gabriel did not have a sense of shame. Shame and dishonor did not matter to him in the negotiation that concerned life and death. What if it took hundreds or tens of millions of lives, not just a few lives? There was no reason why he could not commit a sin against heaven. The only problem was that the man in front of John Gabriel was Kim Tae-hoon.

“Once the Bell of Jerusalem-”

“This is how your conversation would have gone after Mao and the Six Snakes killed Hrungnir.”

“What, what’s that-?”

In front of John Gabriel who asked a cross-question, Kim kept his coffee instead of continuing his words. The silence started like that. John Gabriel did not dare to open his mouth and break the silence. It was simply a time of torture.

Gulp! Kim swallowed his coffee again, and slowly spoke out words with a deep aroma of coffee.

“If the soldiers of the Six Snakes on standby had killed the Huge Giant, you would have tried to negotiate this way. ‘We can’t give it all. We have our situation, so, let’s change the deal.’”

John Gabriel did not answer. It was not easy to breathe or speak in the situation where he seemed to have been stabbed with a dagger. But it was the beginning.

“Do you think the Six Snakes didn’t expect that?”

At the words of Kim, John Gabriel turned his opponent in front of him into Mao Spencer, not Kim Tae-hoon.

He imagined what he would do when he visited the Six Snakes’ warriors and asked for help, when they accepted his request and killed the Huge Giant Hrungnir, and when they made the same request. He would not be as surprised as he was now, but he would probably be trying to negotiate with the Six Snakes.

‘Oh, my God…’ And John Gabriel’s attempt to negotiate would have failed.

He would not expect a reasonable negotiation from the man who blew up the Red Square in Moscow purely for the purpose of punishing Russia, which had refused his proposal and request and been made an example. Furthermore, Mao and the Six Snakes would have expected John Gabriel’s actions to revise the deal. They would have prepared something accordingly.

‘That can’t be right.’ When he reached that point, his face was white as a sheet. Now he realized that the disaster prepared by the Six Snakes and Mao was not the end, but the beginning.

“… would the Six Snakes prepare a new monster?”

It had already been proven that the Crusaders were not capable of dealing with a dark blue-grade monster. In such a situation, what would happen if a monster above the dark blue grade came to Europe? There was no need to worry long. The Vatican and Europe would dedicate their bodies and souls to those who would stop the monster, hoping for salvation.

“When a miracle once happens, people deny it; but when a second miracle happens, they long for it.”

It seemed time for a real Messiah to be born. There would be no choice for those who would desire salvation from the Messiah who was born like that. The fact was still true. The second disaster prepared by the Six Snakes would soon hit Europe, and there was only one person who could deal with the disaster.

“I will return to the point, and I will somehow take the price of killing the Huge Giant, and if I kill the monster in the future, I will also take the corresponding price.”

The moment John Gabriel realized it, negotiating was no longer in his mind.

Kim Tae-hoon did not speak out any more words that he did not need. He just enjoyed his coffee quietly.

4.

Siberia, where harsh winter winds were still raging…

In the biting wind, people in white uniforms were gathered in a cluster. No matter how warmly dressed they were, they were in coldness like their whole bodies were being chopped, but no one complained about it. Of course, there was no fire.

Even more so, they all had keen eyes that would defy even the severe wind. The keen eyes showed that their determination, responsibilities, and obligations were not simple. It was the men in the white uniforms that appeared in the distance that changed their eyes.

“It is not here.”

“It is not here?”

“Yes, the warhead is gone. There’s a sign of invasion. I think someone took the warhead.”

At that report, the keen eyes of everyone began to shake like candles in front of the wind.

The man who was reporting said with unshakable eyes, but with a mixed expression, “… deliver the news to Major General Vladimir as soon as possible. We’ve lost a nuclear warhead.”