Life Mission Chapter 219:
Volume 8 / Chapter 219
TL: LightNovelCafe
Editor: Hungry Panda
Strategist expected the Albatrus’ completion to take 3 or 4 months . They finally saw results a few more weeks after 4 of those months .
1000 members going .
Their group is made up of Lifers who are all level B or beyond . The cyborgs behind them are also at the top .
They will assist with the Albatrus’ system and take care of what Lifers cannot . They can be thought of as seamen .
The Albatrus’ huge form shaped as bilateral streamlines is appearing on top of the support fixture entangled in a complicated manner . Because they created most of the ship’s hull out of black iron alloy, it looks black from the outside and is glossy as if coated .
950m in length, 250m in width, 250m in height, total weight including load 1 . 2 million tons .
The width and height are the same to create a circular hull . It’s impossible to tell where the front and back is and where the entrance is by sight . They can’t do it, but it looks like it’ll just go rolling if they push it over .
Its appearance, configuration, and even its weight did not make sense .
Zing .
When Strategist sent a signal from the head, a part of the hull opened dozens of square structures 5m by 5m came out into the air and came down . The method of boarding is unusual as it is a cutting-edge level S store weapon . When they stepped onto the structures, they were automatically taken on board .
The Lifers went to went to their designated rooms in order to unpack their bags but after this, their roles become clearly divided by level . None of them can be looked down on because they’re all level B Lifers . However, there are clear distinctions in those higher and lower .
The lowest were on standby in waiting rooms placed throughout the Albatrus under their respective party leaders control so that they could go into battle at any time .
The main system from headquarters will be activated soon . Force leaders took their places where 8 sub-systems had been placed in order to assist .
Cha Jun Sung’s group and Strategist’s group go into the command room .
Dozens of cyborgs are sitting in front of computers under the command room . Strategist took the chip out of his PDA and stuck it in the command room’s main system .
Then the Albatrus, which had been running on minimal energy with a level C energy core, began to run properly .
[Albatrus’ main system activated . I, Uranos, Ollaborke Den’s helper, will carry out duties as the General of this ship, the Captain . ]
It is impossible for these simple Lifers to control the Albatrus . Even the 8 sub-systems will be controlled by the force leaders’ helpers .
The subs are being submitted to the main temporarily . They act independently, but the main system gets the final say so that they cannot act arbitrarily . Put negatively, Uranos is basically the king while aboard Albatrus . But still, he’s just a helper assisting Lifers .
Albatrus’ engine grows hot due to the energy cores and there are sudden changes on board, but this did not show outside .
The ship is being activated, but they have not turned on the propeller that will take them forward .
If they turn the propeller on while on land, it will break through the stadium walls and wreak havoc in Mechanic City .
It might as well be a 950m missile .
Modern submarines gain driving force from propellers, but the Albatrus is different . Energy cores bring driving force while discharging air to the base . When it goes into the ocean, this is used as water power . That’s why they need to maintain this state until they go to the ocean .
[Currently boarding . Enjoy your time exploring the ocean . ]
Strategist’s gentle voice can be heard .
Lifers utilize their PDAs at the same time . They’ll start their first entry with a level B mission .
There aren’t level A missions in the ocean . That’s why there are 1000 people as well . There’s a limit beyond that because it’s a level B .
Vroom!
The space near the Albatrus becomes completely distorted . This is what happens when the 1000 summons gates for each person becomes integrated .
The Lifers watching this strange scene from outside, could only blink . Someone even tried filming it .
Then the moment the distorted space swallowed the Albatrus, the huge ship disappeared from Mechanic City’s stadium .
***
When the Lifers and Cha Jun Sung became aware that they had entered the mission, the Albatrus was already floating somewhere in the broad Pacifiic Ocean .
[Front mirror image change . Welcome to the underwater world . ]
Once Uranos’ command was entered, the front became a screen .
Hundreds of cameras attached to the Albatrus give them the impression of looking at the ocean through a glass wall .
It feels like they are walking on water .
Cha Jun Sung looks down .
Rather than the hard ground, there is the deep sea that looks like it’ll swallow him up . The ocean does not fit inside a narrow screen . The entire headquarters becomes a screen so the Lifers can check the ocean with their own eyes,
It does not apply to the Lifers in waiting rooms, but there are similar screens in the 8 places with sub-systems .
‘How interesting . ’
Cha Jun Sung looks on in wonder .
He has been on such a huge ship very few times in the virtual version . He’s almost never been on such a ship .
He has been on an armored tank as large as a 4 or 5 floor building and a ship bigger than an apartment building, but this is the first time he’s been in such a large submarine . Albatrus is a submarine, but they can take the top off to make it look like a ferry .
It is versatile and has all the functions possible for the ocean .
At the bottom of the Albatrus, the propulsion engine uses the energy core’s power to go in reverse and float 1 . 2 million tons of weight . It is just floating, and does not advance . Everyone is awed by the mirror image of the sea . They don’t care because they have plenty of time .
[Water barrier deployed . Energy core output 20%, simulation result shows it can easily block the destructive power of tons . ]
Woong!
Something like a transparent veil covers the Albatrus .
This is also technology that utilizes water power, and it is a defense against the enemy’s attack .
The basis of battle is hitting without getting hit, whether it is a war in the air, on the ground, or in the water . If they need to get hit, they can hit while getting hit . No matter how well Uranos controls Albatrus, it is not possible to protect this kind of large body against the enemy 100% .
[Sound wave, Raider confirmed . Energy core output 10%, exploring life and geographic features within a 50km radius . ] [Porthole opened . The arrangement of 100 hydraulic guns, 10 water pressure guns, 3 water artilleries, and 300 combat-type small submersibles completed . ]
Uranos got an understanding of the Albatrus step by step .
They tried several times before going out, but practice and combat experience are different even for artificial intelligence . Even thousands of energy cores need each system’s output to be distributed properly . It is important that it does not get concentrated in any one place .
If they only focus on the barrier, other things can’t help but be neglected .
Energy isn’t infinite .
They cannot forget that .
Ready to go . Set up a seaway to perform the mission . ]
“Open map . ”
Uranos reacted to Strategist’s signal .
On a cubic hologram, a map showing Pacific Ocean opens up and is marked with a red dot .
The red dot is Albatrus . They entered into the mission and they are completely done preparing to go through the mission . All that’s left is setting up the seaway .
“General . ”
“203 . 936 . 582 . 162 . Those are the coordinates for where I found the Deep-Sea Teeth . ”
Beep beep!
Strategist enters the coordinates that Sea General tells him .
Then on top of the map, another red dot appears . It is where the Deep-Sea Teeth lives .
Right now, Cha Jun Sung’s location is towards the end of the middle where Asia and North America connect . Red dots are more than 8000km apart .
“Wow! It’s far . We need to hunt as we go, so it’ll take at least a couple months . ”
Park Jin Hyuk looked at the number marking the street and clucked his tongue .
Since it is the ocean, it will not take a long time if they penetrate in a straight line .
However, Strategist’s goal is not limited to completing a level A mission .
Albatrus’ performance test – that’s the real thing .
[A large number of mutants emerged 3km away . Enlarging in the view . ]
Everyone looks at the screen .
A group of mutants that are long water cocoons resembling cutlass fish a dozens times as large, come swarming in . They are not trying to attack because they recognize the Albatrus as the enemy . They are just extremely unlucky fish passing in front .
“They’re level 3 Spiky Cutlass . There are so few of them . Have they been attacked by a predator?”
“They look just like their name . ”
“Hurry up and try catching it . ”
Nuclear urges Strategist on .
He wanted to see Albatrus’ performance as well . Everyone else looked on in interest as well .
“Let’s try earning some points . Uranos . ”
[Water pressure guns loaded . I’ll send them in one clean hit . ]
Woong!
The porthole for one of the 3 hydraulic guns on the Albatrus’ head opened and sucked in an unmeasurable amount of seawater .
[Launch!]
Ping!
An extremely compressed 5m diameter water lump fired from a huge porthole, and reached the center before the Spiky Cutlass scattered . Dozens of them were swept away by the water lump and are crushed under the pressure gathered inside . That is nothing more than a simple show .
Bang!
A hydraulic gun fired .
A 50m radius area of sweater pushes out and captures the Spiky Cutlass . They have been taken care of with one hit just as Uranos said would happen .
“It’s no joke . ”
“Is that the power of a giant weapon?”
Cha Jun Sung was just as surprised as the other Rankers .
It looked like there had been about 400 to 500 them, so it is impressive . It’s easy for any one of the Rankers to kill a level 3 of their own size . It’s just that the problem with killing is an efficiency problem .
A one hit is too much no matter what, but it takes a long time . If hit with the hydraulic gun, even a giant mutant can’t avoid being wounded .
“Odin . My battlesuit would be able to take it, right?”
[Maybe not with water artillery, but a level A battlesuit is plenty capable of handling rapid fire shot from a hydraulic gun . ]
Odin’s simple and clear response . This means that he can withstand it .
“But why can’t this impressive level S battlesuit withstand the Heavy Gravity?”
[Heavy Gravity is Life Mission’s most powerful method of offense and defense, so it is more valuable than the Albatrus . ]
Cha Jun Sung’s battlesuit is nautical adamantium .
This broke into pieces like plastic . He has no doubt because he already experienced it with his own body .
“About 800,000 points came in, but it doesn’t feel like anything because we have to split it up between 1000 people . ”
“I’ll say . ”
When they caught the Spiky Cutlass, nearly 1 million points came in . It doesn’t feel like they’re getting anything because the points are getting divided between all of the Lifers .
‘Is it 1700 points?’
Cha Jun Sung checks the points they tracked .
0 . 2% distribution ratio .
Except for the few supplying Albatrus’ maintenance points, it is unrivaled .
Ordinary level B Lifers are 0 . 05%, and there are 3 party and force leaders who are 1% .
Some are a lot and some are a little . There can be dissatisfaction, but they just moved past it because this is just how the world works .
Uranos who massacred Spiky Cutlass, turns on the propeller .
Albatrus advances with hydraulic power . The speed wasn’t that fast .
All systems including weapons activate normally .
Since they haven’t come to look at the sea, there was no reason for them to stay in one place .