I Became an Illegal Cheat User – Chapter 26

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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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Was I too flustered?

I thought rock fragments would fly when the golem exploded.

But the boss monster, just like the monsters outside the boss room, turned into ashes and disappeared simultaneously with the explosion.

There was no need to even cast a mana barrier.

Still, it was not bad to be mindful of safety.

‘By the way, I felt it when I detonated the flashbang too.’

Just having muffled ears to this level of roar.

The roar that occurred when the golem exploded was so tremendous that it would have caused permanent hearing loss for an ordinary person.

But it only left me with muffled ears and recovered in a short time.

Indeed, even though my ability values were the lowest, it seemed a superhuman was still a superhuman.

“… As, as expected from the to, top student. Am, amazing.”

“Oh my gosh… That huge golem with a single shot…”

Unlike Park Ga-ram, who was purely admiring, Lim Da-hee went beyond astonishment and looked at me as if seeing a monster, then hurriedly lowered her head when our eyes met.

‘Hmm… If that’s your reaction, it hurts me too.’

I did blow up the Rock Golem in one shot.

But that was possible because the golem was inorganic and I had the Transfer skill and a large number of explosives.

‘Of course… It’s not that I don’t understand Lim Da-hee’s reaction.’

As soon as we entered the boss room, I circled around the Rock Golem, going up and down its head, and so on.

In Park Ga-ram and Lim Da-hee’s eyes, I must have looked like a madman.

Then suddenly getting as far away from the golem as possible.

And instructing Park Ga-ram to cast a mana barrier.

After making a fuss, I went ‘thump’ with the grenade launcher.

Then, with a flash and a tremendous shockwave, the boss monster vanished.

To them, I must have looked not just like the top student, but a tremendously powerful being.

Of course, in pure force, I can’t even beat Park Ga-ram.

But I’m not fighting with pure force, and there’s no need to blurt this out.

And I have no intention of clearing up the misunderstandings Park Ga-ram and Lim Da-hee might have about me.

Anyway, since we’ve also dealt with the boss monster, now it was time to end the training.

“Let’s go check the rift.”

“O, okay.”

“… Okay.”

I took the two and approached the rift that the golem had been blocking.

Then, a ‘ding’ alarm sound came from the smartwatch.

And the stationary rift began to activate.

Ripple.

The swirling rift that started rotating like a fan showed an abnormality as if waves were rippling.

Hwaak!

“…Uh, huh?”

“…Wh, what.”

In an instant, the color of the rift changed from blue to red.

Kwaaaaang─!

And it began to expand rapidly.

And we, who were close to the rift,

“Hee, hieek!”

“Kyaaaak!”

Were swallowed by the rift without any time to do anything.

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“…”

Lee Seo-yeon, who had entered the rift, sensed that something was wrong.

Her team members who should have been with her were nowhere to be seen.

The letters of the training objective that the instructor had told her to check when entering the rift were all garbled.

And magic energy could be felt from the corpses of monsters scattered around.

So Lee Seo-yeon realized that the place she was in now was not the mock Other World, but the real Other World.

– Kieeek!

– Kkiaaaak!

– Kkigik, kkigik.

The cries of monsters came from all directions.

Judging by the sound getting closer, they seemed to have caught the scent of blood.

Chwaaak!

Lee Seo-yeon shook the blood off her sword onto the ground and reloaded her pistol with a new magazine.

And the moment she was preparing for the upcoming battle,

Piuuung…

A flare could be seen rising from afar.

Lee Seo-yeon immediately knew who had shot the flare.

“…Lee Yu-jin.”

Among the students who entered the rift, the only person who would have a flare was him.

“I need to go to him.”

Since he shot a flare, monsters will soon swarm to him.

Of course, considering the abilities he has shown, it seems he will be fine, but… I need to hurry.

He is… no, they are looking for us.

But before that,

– Kieeeek!

The monsters are swarming.

I will sweep away these unpleasant things and go.

Lee Seo-yeon’s eyes sank coldly.

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As soon as I was swallowed by the rift and the surrounding environment changed, the first thing I did was observe my surroundings.

While doing that, I called Park Ga-ram and Lim Da-hee, but hearing no response, I knew we had been scattered.

After confirming my safety through 30 seconds of observing my surroundings, I slightly lowered the tension I had pulled up and relaxed my shooting stance.

“Phew…”

I let out a short sigh and raised my head to check the color of the sky.

“Of course, as expected.”

What I saw was not a blue sky, but a red sky.

The color of the sky that can only be seen in the Other World.

Then, what needs to be confirmed now is what kind of Other World this is.

First of all, since the sky is visible, it’s not a cave.

And since there is no grass or trees around, it’s not a forest either.

“…Fortunately, it’s not bugs or carnivorous plants.”

The monsters in the Other World differ according to the theme of the location.

In caves, shadow-type monsters appear, like the Shadow Monkeys we experienced earlier.

In forests, bug-type and carnivorous plant-type monsters appear.

In plains, chimera-type monsters that are a mix of various animals appear.

Like this, by looking at the surrounding environment, you can tell what the theme is.

So after carefully checking the surroundings, I could tell that we were inside a building built in a modern style, although it was weathered and broken as if a long time had passed.

“…Ah, is it that?”

Although I roughly figured out the theme of this place, to be sure, I approached the window in front of me with cautious steps.

And wiping the dust-covered window with my hand, I carefully checked the scenery outside.

– Uhhh…

– Kkigik, kkigik…

– Kieeeek…

Outside the window, human-shaped monsters were stumbling around.

The ones commonly called zombies and ghouls could be seen.

“Ah… It’s really the modern theme…”

The modern theme.

In other words… it was also called the zombie apocalypse theme.

“Hmm… It’s not that difficult of a place though.”

You might think that the zombie apocalypse theme would be very dangerous.

Ordinary people might not know, but it was not a very dangerous place for superhumans.

Superhumans with mana have strong resistance, so even if they are bitten by zombies or ghouls, they won’t turn into zombies unless they die.

And since zombie infection is classified as a status ailment, it can be cured immediately by taking a healer’s cure or… the antidote I drank.

That’s why, unless you’re surrounded by zombies and ghouls to the point of exhausting your strength, or you encounter a superhuman-turned-ghoul, the apocalypse theme isn’t that difficult.

Of course, it’s not difficult, but the zombie’s swarming is really annoying, so it’s not a good choice to carelessly wander around.

“Will Park Ga-ram and Lim Da-hee be okay?”

I was worried about my scattered team members.

Although zombies and ghouls were not very strong as individuals and had a weakness to fire, they were still monsters with magic energy.

It was very difficult to pierce through magic energy without weapons or skills imbued with mana, or magic.

In that sense, while I’m not worried about Park Ga-ram, the Gray Witch’s disciple, I was worried about Lim Da-hee.

Lim Da-hee’s total mana amount was small, although it recovered quickly.

Zombies and ghouls never roam alone and always move in groups.

If Lim Da-hee is surrounded by zombies and ghouls in a state where she has used up all her mana, she may experience something terrible.

“…This won’t do. I need to find Lim Da-hee.”

Not only her, but I need to gather the others who had entered this place.

As soon as I made that plan, I opened my inventory and took out an item.

It was a rifle that looked exactly like the automatic rifle called ‘M416’, and it was a weapon I obtained with the B-grade Item Selection Ticket, just like the ‘Holy Gun’.

And although I got it by chance, it was a weapon that allowed me to bully even with rubber bullets in this apocalypse-themed place.

Why?

It was because of the weapon’s effect ‘Heavy Strike (C)’.

‘Deals fixed damage to the hit ‘enemy’.’

It was a trashy effect to the point that it wouldn’t work on mid-to-low-level superhumans whose regeneration rapidly increased.

But in the case of zombies and ghouls, their health was low and they had no regeneration, so it was not lacking at all to smash open their heads.

Of course, since I have ‘Super Accuracy’, I can pierce through the mana resistance and deal damage even to mid-to-low-level superhumans and above, but…

Well, do I really need to?

Unless the individual itself is weak like the zombies and ghouls here, it’s a waste of bullets to use on superhumans.

Even the ‘Holy Gun’, which is also a B-grade weapon, has two damage effects: additional damage and holy damage.

Just as the item description says, the ‘Specially Modified Rifle’ is a weapon to play with ‘enemies’, not a very good weapon.

Then, why did I obtain this kind of weapon even using the B-grade Item Selection Ticket…?

It’s to gain favorability from the people of the 9th Extermination Unit later.

Of course, I didn’t think about that and obtain it.

I found it by chance while looking for the ‘Holy Gun’, and the weapon’s effects were just the kind of thing the people of the 9th Extermination Unit would like.

The people of the 9th Extermination Unit enjoy inflicting pain on the Fallen as much as they hate them, so if I give them this weapon, I thought I could gain quite high favorability.

So I immediately used the remaining B-grade Item Selection Ticket on this item.

But as it happened, the theme of the Other World was apocalypse.

Before gifting it to the 9th Extermination Unit, I got a chance to test its performance first.

How could I not use it?

Thinking that, I snickered and took out a flare from the inventory.

Then, standing in front of the door, I took a short deep breath and kicked it hard.

Bang!

The door flew off with a single kick, perhaps because it was old.

Seeing that door, I came outside and stretched out my hand holding the flare upward and pulled the trigger.

Bang!

Although the hit rate was reduced by 70% due to the Trembling Hands penalty, it didn’t matter since I used it simply to let the kids know my location.

And even though the sky was red, since everyone was a superhuman, so they would see it well.

– Uhhh?

The eyes of the zombies and ghouls wandering around were all focused on me.

Well, it was noisy with the door breaking and the flare being shot.

– …

When the zombies and ghouls all stopped and stared at me as if frozen,

I didn’t throw away the flare I was holding… I put it in my inventory.

And grabbing the rifle,

Click.

The moment I reloaded,

– Kieeeeek─!!

– Kkigik, kkigik!

– Kkiaaaak!

The zombies and ghouls screamed and rushed towards me.

To those guys, I pulled the trigger of the rifle.

Tadadadadadang─!!

And personally gave them a hail of bullets.

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