Life Mission Chapter 263:
Volume 9 / Chapter 263
TL: LightNovelCafe
Editor: Hungry Panda
World Federation’s headquarters .
The atmosphere is strange in the communications sector . Strategist was going over the information that raid 85 had sent through a short while ago .
There is a death toll . There isn’t anything special about dying inside missions because it is common, but a raid was instantly massacred . They hadn’t even been able to properly react .
“I’ll go . ”
“Stay back . ”
Strategist restrains Weapon Master .
If he goes, they’ll be certain to get information like the new mutant’s strength .
But the risk is too great . If something goes wrong and he dies, it’ll be beyond a disruption in their plan and they’ll have to worry about failing the mission .
If he goes, the three level S Lifers and all of the top level A Lifers have to go . This means all of the supporting core behind them as well .
Woong!
Strategist replayed the video that raid 85 sent on the PDA . The Lifers inside the communications sector including Weapon Master all look in one direction .
A white haired, beautiful woman moves around between 700 Lifers wearing battlesuits . She killed on impact . There is no distance .
“She doesn’t even get a scratch?”
Nuclear speaks in terror . They can say she’s strong . But 700 people together can’t hurt her . All they do is graze her .
She either avoids bombs that attack wide ranges or fired artillery, or something similar to a shell comes out and protects her main body . It looks like partial awakening .
“The installation there?”
“It’s over . ”
He is referring to the Universe Eye . When they take care of enemy forces in each area, a level S Lifer puts up a Universe Eye at the location given to them . They are zoning the areas that they have passed and watching them .
“Alternatives?”
“There isn’t enough information . We’ll keep searching for now and look for trends . After that, we’ll keep an eye out for an opportunity and decide whether we’re going to take care of it or not . ”
They can’t just go out blindly to catch it . They need to know more .
Strategist shared information on the unknown mutant with all of the Lifers . He told them not to engage if they run into it and to immediately board the sentinels and retreat . They are far from headquarters, but they can’t get close .
Cha Jun Sung looks up at the night sky . He feels uneasy . He had gone back to reality to get some rest, and had heard unexpected news .
[While you were gone, they went into level S mission, Ruler of Bones . ]
This is what he heard from Kyoko .
While he was searching through South America in his deal with Jigneon, World Federation and Park Jin Hyuk’s group had entered a level S mission .
He had known that they would enter at some point because there was nowhere to go up at this point, but he didn’t think that they would do it so suddenly .
[Jun Sung, take care of Jin Hyuk and the others . They could all die . ]
Cha Jun Sung couldn’t say anything .
For his entry disqualification to shackle him like this, it is enough to drive him crazy . He felt comforted to an extent because there are 3 level S Lifers and the supporting power is impressive, but there’s no telling the future .
The more frustrating thing is that after he got this news, Jigneon reminded him of his current situation again via his PDA .
Summarizing Jigneon’s words is simple . He basically told him not to have unnecessary thoughts . He is not to even go near the Amazon, the mission area .
Cha Jun Sung can’t focus on his mission because he is consumed by his worries about Park Jin Hyuk’s group .
He has been blank in one place for the past few days already . Even during that time, the cyborgs that Jigneon sent in support have been busy in their search . They move busily according to the way they were programmed because they are not human .
‘The Amazon…’
Cha Jun Sung keeps repeating this to himself .
He was already inside a mission . Worst case scenario, he wanted to just quit everything .
He would be completely disqualified if he goes against the laws that the supervisors made, but he couldn’t just stand by and watch something go wrong with Park Jin Hyuk’s group . The problem is that while his eyes and ears are currently obscured, he can’t know the situation over there . But all of this flowed in an unexpected direction .
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Jigneon opened a supervisors’ meeting .
It was to talk about mysteries like Cha Jun Sung’s mutant form and the unidentified bug .
The 3 supervisors hologram watched a video full of flesh, blood, and shrieks without a care and were busy in conversation .
“Level 8?”
“No . Not even Inferno who is the strongest of level 8s in human form would show that kind of ability in his awakened state . ”
Gabenu refutes what Borteth is saying . It isn’t a level 8 .
For convenience, they decided to call the mutant inside the video the White Haired Reaper . White Haired Reaper is going wild among 700 Lifers . A level 8 might be able to kill 700 Lifers, but it would have sustained a wound . That is how powerful the force is .
The helpers inside the battlesuits of the Lifers that died there saved video footage of the battle and sent it to the supervisors .
They are automatically edited to send through easily, so there was no need for them to touch the footage up . All the supervisors have to do is make a judgment .
“Could it be level 9?”
“The chance that it’s a level 9 is high, but it’s weird . This is before she’s awakened, but she’s too strong . ”
The difference between levels 8 and 9 manifest after awakening . It is difficult to show transcendent strength in the shell of whatever they are whether that might be human form .
The White Haired Reaper used partial awakening with power similar to one weakest level 8 and killed an entire raid within moments .
The first 3 forces were defeated one by one but from watching video, it didn’t seem like the result would be much different even when they were swarming in together .
“On top of that, there are two patterns . ”
Gabenu pauses the video . White Haired Reaper has two patterns .
Attacks using tentacles and defense using a white carapace that looks like a bone .
It isn’t fixed . It switched according to the situation . She applies in variety . It is inevitable that the Lifers die helplessly .
“The decision?”
“We’re done though we’re not 100% sure . ”
According to all of the information they collected in Life Mission until now, White Haired Reaper’s identity has to be one of three .
“I studied Evil Queen’s corpse that had been in South America . In conclusion, it is like a snake shedding . ”
“The inside is empty?”
“Yes . The genes are the same, but we can’t say that it is Evil Queen . ”
“Then is that Evil Queen?”
“The pattern of using tentacles matches Evil Queen’s combat style . It is obvious why she went to South America – to meet Bon Load . ”
Jigneon heard the report and became lost in thought .
Of the A virus put into South America’s Amazon, the strangest was F type 155 .
A virus is just the term that unites all of them . Within that, there are tens of thousands of types .
Those injected into Disasters and Nightmares are all unusual . The existing ones cling to a living being and change the host, but F type 155 is one that sticks a life form to itself .
That is why not even the supervisors can know what form they will evolve into . That is why before realization of Life Mission’s missions, they sent in cyborgs to check on evolved F type 155s .
They had little information on Disasters because they couldn’t check properly .
“So what you’re saying?”
“Whatever the appearance is, that’s either Evil Queen or Evil Queen fused with Bon Load . Or it could be that a new being has appeared . ”
“The order of possibility?”
“Fusion, herself, new . ”
Jigneon agrees with Gabenu .
The order as well .
That’s why he is more worried . Two ordinary mutants can’t become one . For example, Parasite King taking over Cruel King can’t be referred to as fusing . In that case, Parasite King just took Cruel King’s body .
White Haired Reaper’s two patterns, Evil Queen’s tentacles and Bon Load’s bones . If all hypotheses line up, this is a serious matter .
The strength of even one level 9 is enough to swallow up a continent whole, but there is nothing to say if two are combined .
“Transcension that goes beyond transcension . Does that mean mutants are superior to Lifers?”
Borteth smirks . Jigneon and Gabenu support Lifer research, but he is for mutant research .
The fusion process is unclear but if Evil Queen has gone beyond level 9, 3 level S Lifers won’t be able to complete the mission .
Gabenu signaled to Jigneon without Borteth knowing . Jigneon thought he had something in mind, and nodded .
“We won’t make Ruler of Bones into a special mission and leave it for now . We don’t know anything yet, and the Lifers have just got started . ”
It is first contact .
It is way too early to make a decision .