Life Mission Chapter 164:
Volume 6 / Chapter 164
TL: LightNovelCafe
Editor: Hungry Panda
The jungle rings with the cries of insects . They cannot know if these are bugs or mutants impersonating bugs before encountering them, but that is not really important .
“I feel this every time, but it’s a little off-putting to go into a mission that’s in a forest with bare bodies . Oh right . The environment itself isn’t compatible with people . ”
Mud that dirties the battlesuit boots – if they had been shoes, forget socks and shoes, their feet would have been drenched by now .
That’s not all . Branches and grass obstruct their view and graze their battlesuits . These are the perfect conditions to get skin irritation from grass, the worst conditions for people . Insects the size of fingernails also stick to them everywhere . They look extremely odd, too . They would wave their hands around to swat away normal flies . But when those weird bugs stick to the skin, it would be enough to make someone pass out .
“Ugh… I don’t like it . ”
“Ack!”
Violet can be girly too, and shivers at the sight of the bugs . Kyoko shrieks even though they are not sticking to her directly, and sprays a disinfectant built into her battlesuit . There is some kind of effect .
“Blade Weasel, Horned Tail Heinkel . ”
“It’s a scary one . ”
Violet responded . Horned Tail Heinkel is a dangerous mutant . It is specialized in offensive attacks and its defense is not very good .
Heinkel has 2 fortes . One is speed comparable to Red Heart’s, and another is force that could cut through a large building . The adult standard of Heinkel is when the blade tail reaches 15 meters in length . What would happen if an ultra-vibrating weapon is waved around everywhere?
It will become a rare situation where everything including the self is split in half . They would not come out alive . It is in the top 10 of level 7s . Its defense is weak, but its advantages offset the disadvantages . On top of that, average Blade Weasels cannot be underestimated either .
“Do you think a male and female will be together?”’
“No way . ”
Cha Jun Sung waves his hand . There are 2 types of points in level B missions .
Equal 30 million, advancement 50 million . It would be advancement if a male and female were together . That is how strong they are . He could take on 2 if he had to, but the burden would become severe for the party members who need to fight the underlings .
Cha Jun Sung puts his hand up . The party members form a circle . They can sense something moving . Is it a Blade Weasel? If it is, it is too fast . The jungle is vast . Would it be a good thing if they encounter one before even a day has passed since they entered? Would it be a bad thing? It is hard to judge .
Wiing!
Radio waves from the battlesuit scan the field . Since he activated the heat detector, living creatures would leave traces telling him where they are .
“Hm… It’s a mutant that can control its body temperature . It’s not a Blade Weasel . ”
This kind of ability appears in a lot of plant mutants . It is hard to find them first because distinguishing them is unclear when the heat detector does not work .
“UV-rays don’t pick it up either . ”
“What do you think it is?”
“I can’t designate a specific one because there are too many that come to mind right now . ”
The party members each take out their weapons . They have a feeling that they have been surrounded .
The mutants came here on purpose after finding out that Cha Jun Sung’s group was here, or Cha Jun Sung’s group has walked into a mutant habitat . Whatever it is, it is too late to avoid battle .
“Huh?”
With the feeling like something is grasping his ankle, Park Jin Hyuk looked down at the pressure on his ankle . A tentacle as thick as his arm is wrapped around his ankle .
Ack!
Park Jin Hyuk is taken aback and stabs at it with his gun . The battlesuit functions activate automatically to press down on the tentacle . Fluids splatter and the tentacle retreats .
They were wondering how it got around his ankle without being detected, and it had dug through the hard ground . Muddy water fills the hole in the ground it came through .
“Tentacle?”
“It’s a root controlled by a main body . It is a plant type . It’ll be disguised among the trees . All of the trees in the area could be mutants too . ”
Cha Jun Sung takes out a temperature gas shell . It is a B store item that combines the functions of a high-temperature shell and gas shell, and each costs 10,000 points .
He throws the shell in the direction that the tentacle came from . There was no specific target because of the dense trees, but the gas shell flew far and exploded, lighting a 30 meter radius in flames . Furthermore, the wind going through the forest widened the attack range a little more .
Kyak!
A shredding scream . As soon as that sound shook up the forest, tree roots disguising tentacles in the area flung out and attacked Cha Jun Sung’s group .
Papapapat!
They try to whip at them and skewer them . Hundreds of roots entangle to create a net in order to catch Cha Jun Sung’s group . Roots the thickness of a body appeared as well .
Boom boom!
The ground rings . It is not in one place, and they are appearing from everywhere . Heat detectors still did not pick them up, but they were identifiable because they are so close .
“They’re Eclipse Trees . ”
It looks like a normal tree . The leaves, trunk, and roots are the same . But they are foxes that are hiding their true appearances .
Kikiki!
The Eclipse Trees open their center and there are demon’s faces . They do not have teeth, but the open trees are as sharp as teeth .
“There’s no plan . Kill them all . ”
About 20 appeared . There are a lot but they are all level 5, so they are not burdensome opponents . There is no need to assign roles for each party member when fighting something like this . All they have to do is kill them as they see them .
Bang bang bang!
Violet’s spear goes through an Eclipse Tree’s body . Koharu goes between roots and makes blows overall . Park Jin Hyuk sniped while in motion . Basil turned on stealth mode and raided like a ghost . Kyoko also took on a few with weapons with high fire power .
Even if they are level 5s, they were attacking too unilaterally . Eclipse Trees are at the same level as the Caicus . They are in no terms a lowly mutant . Over time, each party member’s abilities rode a rising curve .
6 people – that is the number of people in the party including Cha Jun Sung . They are a small number, but they are superior to most parties in all aspects . The only thing they fall behind in is head count .
Park Jin Hyuk and Kyoko have 8 combinations, and the rest have 9 to 10 for their battlesuits . Koharu’s group tried to help them get to 9, but failed in the end .
One needs a lot of luck to succeed in 9 combinations . There is no need to mention luck for 10 . Kyoko found her own method of combinations while playing the virtual version, but Park Jin Hyuk quit after less than 1 year . He was able to get to 8 combinations because the party members shared what they know with him .
[Go, Clairvoyance!]
Zing!
Park Jin Hyuk’s 8 combination Shootskill Clairvoyance activated and each of the Eclipse Tree’s movement became minute until he could see gaps that were not visible before .
Clairvoyance uses increased vision and expanded field view to amplify one of the 5 senses, sight, to the limit . It is not grand but it is very useful .
It’s particularly useful to a sniper like him who shoots while in motion .
Tatatatang!
With proper distance support, a small number can take on a large group . Below level mutants become prey even without support .
Boom boom!
The Eclipse Trees collapse one by one . They get 180,000 points for each . The amount that they earn increases proportionally to the rising mission level and difficulty, but it felt like the experience value following the level seems to stay in place .
Cha Jun Sung received 10 billion points in exchange for giving a sample, but other level B Lifers were frantically trying to gather that amount .
Level B gear easily goes over 1 million points . Lifers like rankers save points by succeeding with battlesuit combinations on the first try .
Those who fail in their combinations were busy gathering points . The future is dreary as to whether they will be able to modify their battlesuits and get the gear they need .
Kyah!
The last standing Eclipse Tree falls over . With this, the first battle is over .
“I’m tired!”
“There could be more . Be careful . ”
Park Jin Hyuk shook his gun to Cha Jun Sung’s warning and scanned the area with the Clairvoyance . He acts lazy but he also is a skilled hunter . Battlesuit inside cameras identify and search objects . It can tell things like whether that a mutant that looks like a tree, rock, the ground, or weasel .
Click!
The Clairvoyance picks up a mutant sitting on top of a high tree . A weasel as big as a person blinks and looks down . It is small for a mutant . The 7 meter tail on its rear gives the atmosphere that they must not underestimate it .
“Jung Sung, that! Blade Weasel!”
“What?”
Park Jin Hyuk points to Blade Weasel’s position . All of the party members’ attention focused to one place . A brown creature similar in color to bark . It hides half of its body in the large tree and has its tail held stiff to disguise it as a branch . The Blade Weasel bares its knife-sharp teeth .