Life Mission Chapter 236:
Volume 9 / Chapter 236
TL: LightNovelCafe
Editor: Hungry Panda
Boom boom boom!
Tens of thousands of Bomb Ants collided with mutants coming at them from the front .
There is a vibration from the strong explosions resulting from their self-destruction .
The Bomb Ants prevailed .
The Queen Bomb Ant is attacking a mid-size city with 30,000 Bomb Ants .
“Are you saying you’ll try it on your own?”
Cha Jun Sung is watching the Bomb Ants’ battle from a high place .
Queen Bomb Ant planned to expand her own power without Cha Jun Sung’s help .
Cha Jun Sung didn’t stop her . He knows that they will fail .
Mutants just pushed through in the beginning, but they later felt the Bomb Ants’ abilities and formed an alliance .
The only difference is whether there are a lot or few . There isn’t a difference from when they had been in the mountain . As the Bomb Ants wanted to become stronger and take over a larger territory, the mutants they need to fight became stronger as well .
Queen Bomb Ant brandished her sharp mouth and arms and legs, and showed the abilities of a top level 6 . She had normally been just a high level 6 .
Cutting, ripping, biting . Mutant fighting is cruel .
They become distinct from the fight with Lifers who attack with firearms, in that they are primitive .
Blood spurts .
It feels like he is looking at the Path of Blood that Odelia created . Blood and corpses are everywhere . Tens of thousands of mutants are in a melee in the middle of that .
“How fun . ”
Living as a mutant is a novel experience .
There’s something different from living as a Lifer . It feels like he switched his character while playing a game .
The worldview inside the mission is the same, but it is interesting .
Cha Jun Sung as a human had been normal .
He knew how to express reluctance toward the bad .
Those feelings slowly disappeared as a mutant however, and he even has fun watching such cruel scenes now .
Cha Jun Sung didn’t take his state too seriously . He has accepted that he is a mutant . He just thinks like a human .
He wants to go in .
He wants to go in and rip everything apart . All of them are low compared to him .
Thump thump .
“Ack! It’s doing it again . ”
Cha Jun Sung grabs his chest .
While maintaining his state as a mutant, his heart occasionally began to beat too fast . It isn’t just beating .
A subtle and inexplicable feeling comes over him whenever this happens .
It isn’t bad .
Can he call it excitement?
He felt better similar to that . He was cautious about it because it is unintentional and he cannot control it .
The manifestation of his instincts had been minimal when inside his battlesuit in human form because he suppressed himself, but not now .
It is on complete display .
The impulse to go wild is on fire . But he didn’t go crazy as he had done when he had been taken over by the Oriax .
He has perceptible reason .
His head still hurts when he thinks about that time .
It is an extremely unpleasant thing to lose oneself .
[Lifer Cha Jun Sung . ]
“Yeah . ”
[An 800 to 900 person raid of Lifers has been summoned to the city outskirts . It seems a mission has been configured nearby . ]
Lifers came in and out of the extensive territory that the three Universe Eyes are searching, and it seems this place has been chosen .
He ignored it before because they had been far away .
But it becomes a different story if a mid-size city where Bomb Ants and mutants are fighting has an effect on Lifers’ missions .
[What do you think about having the Bomb Ants retreat?]
If the mission is to kill the Bomb Ants, they will fail . He doesn’t care about the ordinary Bomb Ants, but he can’t leave the Queen Bomb Ant .
“Leave it for now . ”
[The Lifers’ power is weak, but the mutants are gathered together . It will be fatal if they use a genocidal weapon . ]
“We need to teach that **** a lesson . ”
Cha Jun Sung looks at the Queen Bomb Ant and laughs .
He is sure .
If she evolves to level 7, she will attack him . There is a need to show her his importance before that .
***
Bang bang bang!
Odin’s prediction was right .
The Lifers didn’t assault the place where tens of thousands of mutants were scattered, and instead rained down genocidal weapons like white phosphorous shells .
With the long lasting Life Mission, Lifers’ point accumulation naturally increased . It isn’t hard to throw in a few .
Mutants below level 5 disappeared without even a scream under the bombs .
Cha Jun Sung focused only on the Queen Bomb Ant .
Odin calculated the orbit of bombs in real time and predicted release areas .
“I only need to keep the Queen alive . ”
She’s a top level 6 .
As long as she isn’t hit directly by the bombs falling from the sky, she won’t die from an indirect explosion .
That much, she can withstand .
Even indirect hits could be dangerous if they are repeated, but Odin, who is more precise than Cha Jun Sung, is watching out for this .
“They’re there too . ”
The Bomb Ants climb on top of the Queen’s body and wrap her in layers . They have made themselves into a shield . A strong and durable shield at that .
Dozens of Bomb Ants carry the Queen and desperately run away . The surviving Bomb Ants followed behind them . The mutants also stopped fighting and scattered . It was just a union in the first place, so they don’t have a feeling of camaraderie .
A red flame covers the Bomb Ants .
They do not explode . The Queen could be injured if they do . They kept enduring it even though they were burning to death .
“It’s the leader!”
“Kill the group of mutants first! Surround them!”
“Left suppression shot!”
“Right suppression shot!”
Lifers aim at the Bomb Ants .
They are well aware that they need to kill the unified mutants first .
With shots fired from left and right, the range of movement for the Bomb Ants became more and more narrow .
They are gathering the Bomb Ants together so that it is easier to kill them .
On top of that, these Lifers flew . They assaulted in all different ways as though bombing from fighter planes .
Flying Bomb Ants went at the Lifers, but they were overwhelmed in numbers .
Flying Bomb Ants are born at a 1/100% rate compared to ordinary Bomb Ants .
The Bomb Ants were one-sidedly hit . The Lifers’ strategic tactics were outstanding, and the Bomb Ants’ power had been significantly decreased .
“Shall I get going?”
[… Are you going to kill Lifers?]
If Cha Jun Sung goes in, he would annihilate even a raid .
There could be differences based on members, but it would be the same even with level B Lifers .
“Ah . No matter how accustomed I’ve becomes to the idea of killing, I don’t kill innocent people . I’m just going to scare them a little . ”
Whether it’ll become just a little scare or an unforgettable trauma, is up to the abilities of the Lifers .
Even so, they are above level C, so they won’t be peeing in their battlesuits .
“Go!”
The raid captain, a level B Lifer leading 9 forces, stood at the head of 900 people and chased the Bomb Ants . They intend on killing all of them without effort .
The Lifers split their roles .
3 forces spread out wide, created a mesh, and blocked it so other mutants couldn’t approach .
The other 6 forces focused on just the Bomb Ants .
The Queen Bomb Ant was desperate .
There are few of the enemy, but they are able to fly . Most of the flying Bomb Ants died during the first collision .
The Bomb Ants were pathetically swept under the attacks helplessly .
They don’t have an effect in the air if they self-destruct on the ground . All they can do is block the attacks with their bodies and run away .
The Queen Bomb Ant is running away to the advance base that they created not too long ago .
There isn’t much military force .
Just a few thousand .
There are a few advance bases, and they were created to control the respective regions they were in as their territory expanded .
The military force is divided, so it is difficult to form a large army in a short amount of time . The goal is to hide in an ant hill .
But they are surrounded, and running away itself isn’t easy .
Bullets rain down .
Lifers fly around swiftly and focus their attacks on the Queen Bomb Ant . If the Lifers hadn’t been able to fly, the Queen Bomb Ant would have fought even if she had to hit the sewers .
She would have been able to do something if the battle had been on ground .
“Groups 1 and 2 will block the Queen’s front . Groups 3 through 6 will take the sides and back . Groups 7, 8, 9 will maintain the net and keep the boundary . ”
Bang!
Lifers in groups 1 and 2 increased their battlesuits’ output .
The Bomb Ants were moving among skyscrapers, so it was hard to catch them .
The location was changing from the city outskirts .
Buildings disappeared and plains began to appear . They were able to increase their speed because there were no obstacles .
Flap!
The sunlight gets blocked .
Groups 1 and 2 Lifers were trying to increase the chase speed, when they flinched . A black figure flapping a pair of wings .
Cha Jun Sung, with wings over 30m long from end to end, was blocking the Lifers’ path . He is alone, but he gave the feeling of filling up the entire world .
Hundreds of tails flail out like whips .
They move as if each one is alive, and soar toward the rigid Lifers .
Though he lacked Odin’s support through the battlesuit, the instinct of complete awakening played the role not unlike the battlesuit’s system .
Cha Jun Sung checked how many Lifers there were, calculated the direction to move in, and attacked . He did this all within a few seconds .
He took out the cutting force, so the Lifers yelled in pain under the force that was like getting hit with a bat .
They were all flung in different places . One person went through a building’s walls, rolled on the ground, and landed on the roof of a rusty car .
The Lifer wasn’t hurt .
He hadn’t hit to kill, so he just left the Lifer on top of the car . He only hit with an amount of power that the battlesuit’s armor could handle .
Boom boom boom!
Very few Lifers withstood the impact and maintained their shaky balance .
However, they trembled in fear from what they heard over their PDAs rather than from the unidentified mutant that suddenly appeared .
[Level A special mission Black Devil activated . Difficulty level is advancement . ]