Chapter 101

Volume 4 / Chapter 101

TL: LightNovelCafe

 

 

“Achievement points… . . They aren’t in levels D and E but it is a new system starting with level C where they can be earned along with normal points when killing mutants . ”

Everyone looked at Cha Jun Sung . They look as if they are asking, ‘How do you know that?’ . Park Jin Hyuk’s group trusted him and stayed quiet .

“I completed the advance before I entered the Dead Ark . ”

Lim Si Hyun and Han Chang Jin goggled . An advance mission between the two of them? The force members start chatting . Cha Jun Sung silenced them .

“I’ll ask the people who saw Park Jin Hyuk and me fighting . Is that movement possible with the 2nd stage of body modifications?”

“He’s right . He took on a level 4 one-on-one . ”

“It’s the same for him too . Does it make sense that he took on 5 level 3s by himself?”

As the force members’ question was resolved, the puzzle pieces came together .

“I was able to fight a level 4 by myself because I have gone through the 4th stage . I’ll give you a brief explanation to help explain . ”

He told them what happened in Slayer’s Prison . He excluded the information that if special missions overlap, helpers intervene .

He will tell them later if it is necessary . He does not have to list everything out for them for no reason . The force members listened to everything and nodded in understanding .

Sometimes, luck is a competence . In that sense, Cha Jun Sung is bound for success .

“As you all said, completion is impossible with this personnel and our gear . Our work is to earn achievement points . ”

“Question . So you and that young man would be able to return to reality, right?”

“Yes . ”

“It’s scary to even go out, but to gather achievement points? What if quitting gets blocked?”

He is right . The force members were scared to go out . A level 4 or 5 could appear . Low level and high level hunting are distinctly different .

This is level C . It is not a place that even Cha Jun Sung’s party would be able to take on easily . It would not be such a desperate situation if he had the battle shoot .

“If we can’t do it with the force’s strength, can’t we borrow power from the ark?”

“I’ll tell you about that after discussing with the future colonel . Of the surviving senior figures, there aren’t many who are completely sane . ”

Lim Si Hyun answered the question . There is the 7th Lieutenant, but he is in a complete blank state . He stares blankly all day . Thinking back, being crazy was better .

Cha Jun Sung continued speaking and the force members asked what they were wondering about .

He told them what he knew to the best of his ability . From now on, they are not strangers . They are colleagues with the common goal of surviving .

 

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There were only 7 in positions as field officers who were in commanding levels of the ark . 2 of them are lieutenants .

The lieutenant colonel who escorted Lim Si Hyun was of the highest rank .

He must be pretty well recognized as well because the soldiers and survivors followed his lead well . He would gain the captain title if something happens to the lieutenants .

“There’s a nucleus to the ark?”

“There is but in the circumstances, it is difficult to use when it is under us . While the nucleus stopped producing, 3 100MT level ones were brought on . ”

Only Han Chang Jin’s jaw dropped at this information . Cha Jun Sung and Lim Si Hyuk do not know what it means but if they set off a 100MT in Tonga, an entire neighborhood will be swept away .

The ark, anchored on the waterfront, would also be destroyed .

“Do you have fire bombs as well?”

“Of course . There is enough power on the ark to arm a legion class troop . Far below, there are even tanks, jets, and armored cars . ”

“What if we fly the jet or launch fire bombs from the ark?”

People laid out several ideas . However, extreme behavior like this brings in war . How many mutants will appear in a level C mission?

It is 1 . 8 million . 100,000 is the minimum and it could be far beyond that .

People who know how to use weapons need to use them . This is not an exception for soldiers . There are a lot of things to kill, but there is a limited number of people who know how to handle the weapons .

In addition, if they drag something out that makes a lot of noise, they will be letting the parasites know that they are there .

“Whew! It would be a good means to turn the ark around and head away from Tonga . ”

“Would you be able to do it with your authority as a colonel?”

“If it is locked by the captain and lieutenant, not even I can do anything about it . ”

3rd Lieutenant Andre Gordon . Even when he was sane, he was a selfish egoist . He only bowed his head under the blame, and he was not recognized at all .

When they brought the survivors to sleeping rooms 1 through 8 after being occupied by parasites, he had unashamedly taken sleeping room 1 because it was the safest .

He is someone who would do worse than running away, but he must have failed to do so because he had remained on the ark .

He wanted to become captain even though he had gone crazy because the ambition and authoritarian ideology embedded in him had not disappeared .

He must become the captain if he wants to make sure that others cannot rebel . Though lacking, it is possible to change the ark’s route with a lieutenant’s authority .

If that is the case, is it necessary to go through all of the trouble in this situation?

“It’s because the 7th Lieutenant is still alive . He might be a blank slate because of the big shock he’s experienced, but he was gentle, unlike a soldier . ”

If the Lieutenant changes the route, the 7th Lieutenant can cancel it . He had used his head even if he had gone crazy . He had even calculated what could happen later .

“Is it a strife over the position?”

Han Chang Jin is a soldier, so he could understand most of what the colonel was saying . Not just superficially, but intrinsically . In the current circumstances, changing the route is impossible .

The mission goal is annihilation . If they use the weapons on the ark, they need to be prepared to go all the way . The parasites would stupidly fall for it a few times .

Then, they would see blood and go digging around to understand their enemy’s path of attack . They will be unable to do anything if the ark is discovered .

“How constricted . ”

Park Jin Hyuk had been leaning against a wall listening when he started hitting the back of his head on the wall .

It was holding them back that the ark would be anchored on the waterfront . If they were floating on the ocean, they could fly bombs at Tonga and send it off completely .

“If the 2 lieutenants die, is that power handed down to you, Colonel?”

“It’s not as simple as it sounds . ”

The lieutenant is just one of dozens of field grade officers who receive captain agency whenever a captain is absent .

Authority is limited . On top of that, there is a lot that they do not know regarding the ark’s functions so the process of succession is extremely complicated .

“It’d be possible to pass over the 3rd Lieutenant, but that’s not the case with the 7th Lieutenant . ”

The other option is to fight but reduce the use of weapons on the ark, focusing on gathering achievement points . They do not want to even think about what could come next, but it is an all out war .

“Tell the force members what we discussed here and let’s go meet with the Lieutenant . And what do you know? He might have calmed down a bit . ”

It did not seem he would have, but they could not help but have expectations .