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Translated By Arcane Translations
Translator: FusionX
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[T/N: I will not be using the system window for terra voice text anymore as I think y’all got the point lmao]
Rumble! Bang, bang, bang!!
Thunder roared incessantly.
At the same time, a storm of lightning, unleashed from the Thunderbolts in both his hands, slammed into the black wave.
– Issuing a command to all Iron Golems.
Triggered by his attack, Terra’s command echoed through the golems.
– Exterminate all Fallen, enemies of Master.
Flash.
The blue lights in the eyes of the Iron Golems turned red.
– Executing Mother’s command.
– Executing Mother’s command.
– Executing Mother’s command.
– Executing Mother’s command…
Whir, thud!
With mechanical whirs and thuds, the Iron Golems began to move.
Their upper bodies tilted forward slightly.
Thud.
One step.
The Iron Golems took a step forward.
Thud, thud.
Two steps.
They accelerated.
Whir!!
At the same time, they raised their arms, and the barrels of the miniguns attached to their wrists began to spin.
Thud, thud, thud!
They broke into a run.
The ground cracked beneath the heavy golems’ pounding feet, scattering dust and debris.
And as they closed in on the black wave…
– Commencing enemy extermination.
…the golems announced in unison, firing their miniguns.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!
A ferocious roar reverberated from all directions…
…and 40 white flashes of light erupted towards the black wave.
『…Kyaaagh!』
『Kyaaagh─! My arm! My arm… !』
『Hold the line! Hold…, kyaaagh!』
The Fallen charging at the front were thrown back, struck by the flashes of light.
But that only applied to the Fallen below mid-high rank.
The high-rank Fallen, unlike their lower-ranked counterparts who were either killed or maimed continued to charge, their demonic energy barriers intact.
As expected.
Lower-ranked Fallen, impervious to anything but a Holy Bullet to the head and high-rank Fallen, whose demonic energy barriers couldn’t be pierced…
It seemed the cheats weren’t applied to the golems’ attacks under Terra’s control.
Terra was the system supporting him, but the cheats were his abilities; she couldn’t use them.
Of course, just because she couldn’t use the cheats didn’t mean there was no way to compensate for the golems’ lack of firepower.
『…What? The machines’ attacks are bearable.』
『Not just that, they can’t even pierce our demonic energy barriers.』
『That means… there’s no need to fear the machines… wait, what’s that sound?』
Whir!
For example… bombs?
『…It’s those bomb drones from before─!』
At a high-rank Fallen’s shout, all the Fallen at the front looked up and saw hundreds of drones descending.
All the Fallen, except those at the very front blocking the golems’ attacks and those outside the blast radius, unleashed their abilities towards the drones.
『Shoot them down! Shoot them down─!』
『Hey, you asshole! Stop yapping and use your ability! Or shoot some demonic energy!』
『Damn it, are you blind?! I’m already doing that! But why are those damn drones dodging so well?!』
As one of the Fallen shouted, hundreds of thousands of attacks were launched like anti-aircraft fire…
Whirr! Whirr!
– Not a chance.
…but the drones, controlled by Terra, a supercomputer-like system, dodged the attacks with incredible evasive maneuvers or sacrificed a few drones, detonating them to neutralize unavoidable attacks.
Boom! Bang, bang!
Some drones, unable to evade every attack, exploded in mid-air.
But as soon as a drone was shot down, more drones waiting above swooped down to fill the gap, making them seem virtually indestructible.
At the same time, drones continued to emerge from his open inventory, automatically replacing those destroyed, and ascended into the sky. It was like watching an alien mothership launching fighters in a video game.
『Hey, hey! They’re… they’re getting close!』
Whirrrrrr!!
At the end of a Fallen’s shout, the drones accelerated simultaneously.
The Fallen frantically tried to shoot them down…
『They’re going to hit!』
『Oh no…!』
『Uwaaagh…!』
…but they couldn’t stop the drones’ descent.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!
The drones, upon reaching the Fallen, self-destructed.
Massive explosions erupted, incinerating all the Fallen within their blast radius.
Of course, since his cheats weren’t applied…
『Ugh… kyaaa…』
『Kyaaagh! It’s hot! It burns─!』
『Someone put out the fire! Put out the fire─!!』
…the high-rank Fallen, though writhing in agony from the holy flames, didn’t die.
But their suffering was brief.
Click!
– Target acquired: Fallen burning in ‘Holy Fire’.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!
The high-rank Fallen, now prioritized by the Iron Golems, were torn apart by barrages of Holy Bullets from the miniguns.
Some high-rank Fallen desperately tried to block the golems’ attacks, using nearby lower-rank Fallen as shields or their own abilities…
『D-damn… kyaaagh─!!』
『Why won’t it block…?!』
…but they were obliterated alongside the Fallen they had used as shields, reduced to dust.
If their demonic energy barriers are gone, they’re dead.
Even though the Iron Golems’ firepower was weaker than his own the miniguns and bullets he had given them were still A-rank items.
And the bullets were Holy Bullets, dealing critical damage to enemies with the ‘Demonic’ attribute. So, no matter how high-ranking the Fallen, without their demonic energy barriers they were doomed.
– All designated targets eliminated. Resuming initial Fallen extermination command.
After eliminating all the high-rank Fallen burning in the holy fire the golems turned their miniguns on the surrounding Fallen.
And after a while…
– Ammunition depleted.
– Ammunition depleted.
– Ammunition depleted.
– Ammunition…
…reports of ammunition depletion came from all the golems.
Just as planned.
He had given the golems 2,000 rounds each.
Enough for about 30 seconds of continuous fire, considering the miniguns’ rate of fire of 4,000 rounds per minute.
And by the time the golems had depleted their ammunition he was close enough to the black wave to see the Fallen’s faces without using Clairvoyance.
Deactivating ranged combat mode.
The golems reported in unison, detaching the miniguns and ammunition boxes from their arms.
Pieces of their bodies broke off along with the weapons, but…
Oh… as expected of golems.
…their bodies were quickly restored thanks to their ‘Self-Repair’ function, even though they were made of machines.
And since they were created by Winry they repaired themselves twice as fast as ordinary golems.
Moreover, unlike ordinary golems, which only had a ‘Self-Repair’ function Iron Golems had a special function.
– Activating close-combat mode.
It was ‘Combat Mode’.
Wooong!
Mana barriers appeared around the massive bodies of all the golems.
At the same time, blades like chainsaws emerged from their arms…
…Whirrrrrr!
…and began to spin at a ferocious speed.
And perhaps because they had switched to close-combat mode, their movements also became faster…
Thud! Thud, thud!
…and they charged towards the black wave, kicking off the ground, even faster than when they had been running and firing their miniguns.
He also accelerated, preparing to unleash the lightning energy stored in Thunderbolt.
– Master, commencing bombardment support.
The drones hovering in the sky descended.
They dodged the Fallen’s attacks with evasive maneuvers, as before and accelerated when they were a certain distance away.
KABOOM! KABOOM, KABOOM, KABOOM!!
White explosions erupted everywhere, creating gaps in the black wave.
– Master, I have created a space. You can jump in now.
He nodded at Terra’s report and put strength into his next step.
BOOOOM!
His footprint was embedded in the ground as he leaped into the air.
His body, propelled by the force, flew towards the newly created space in a parabolic arc aiming his left Thunderbolt at the cockroach-like Fallen.
“One down.”
He pulled the trigger.
BZZZZZZZZZT!!
A bullet, imbued with tremendous lightning energy, shot out like a destructive beam obliterating half of the Fallen that had been filling the space, and even those around them.
At the same time, he landed in the now-widened space.
Thud, thud, thud, thud!
The golems, who had jumped with him, also landed in the space Terra had created and immediately began to cut down the surrounding Fallen with their spinning chainsaw blades.
“I can’t lose to the golems.”
He put the Thunderbolt, depleted of its Lightning Explosion charge, into his inventory and clenched his fists.
He grabbed the head of one of the high-rank Fallen charging towards him.
『…K-kyaaagh!』
The Fallen screamed in pain, struggling to break free.
Thump, thump!
The Fallen’s hands and feet pounded his body.
But he didn’t feel any pain, only a slight impact, thanks to the items he was wearing.
And the Fallen could never escape his grasp.
After all, the Yu-jin standing before them…
‘50% additional stat boost when engaging in combat with ‘enemies’.
‘100% additional stat boost when engaging in combat with ‘enemies’ with demonic attribute.’
‘150% additional stat boost when encountering evil.’
…had all his stats boosted by 300%, thanks to the effects of the ‘Demon Slayer (S)’ talent.
Therefore, his current physical stats weren’t ‘176’, but ‘528’… practically a high-ranker, stat-wise.
Furthermore, all the Fallen around him were weakened, their stats reduced by 40% due to the effects of his skills.
And… the effect of his skills increased as his rage intensified.
“Haa…”
In other words…
Squeeze!
『Aaaaagh! M-mercy…!』
BOOM!
…unless a top-rank Fallen, a Named, appeared…
Thud.
…there was no Fallen here who could face him.
He tossed the headless Fallen aside…
…cracked his neck…
…and looked around at the surrounding Fallen.
『Ah… ah…』
『M-monster…』
Now, not just the lower-rank Fallen, but even the high-rank Fallen were looking at him with fear in their eyes.
He took a step towards them and, as promised to… unleashed his rage.
The rage he had been suppressing erupted like a volcano.
– Master, our objective is to destroy the demonic energy bridges.
“I know, I know, but…”
The rage and hatred surging within him and the violent destructive urge that followed…
“…it’s hard to endure.”
The talent was screaming at him to rip and tear the filth around him, as promised.
He clenched his left hand, dripping with black blood, so tightly that his knuckles cracked, and continued,
“So, Terra, you’ll have to guide me.”
– …Understood. I will be your path, Master.
As Terra said that directions, like a navigation system, appeared in his vision.
– Master, I will guide you to where you need to go, so please fight to your heart’s content.
“Okay.”
He took one last deep breath and closed his eyes, his vision blurring with the heat.
He opened his eyes, embracing the raging fury and the world changed.
The ordinary landscape…
…the Fallen with human forms…
…everything became hellish.
The ground was ablaze with hellfire…
…the Fallen had transformed into demonic beings…
…and he…
– Rip and tear the evil.
…became a Demon Slayer.
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Across the Yalu River, in the Land of Death…
…a red-haired Fallen, sitting on a throne adorned with jewels, his chin resting on his hand, frowned as if sensing something. He glared at the map on the table.
“…This is strange.”
At his low voice his adjutant, another Fallen who had been looking at the map with him, bowed his head respectfully and asked,
『What is strange, Greed?』
Greed, the red-haired Fallen, pointed at Sinuiju, where the 1st Extermination Unit’s outpost was located, and said,
“I received a report a while ago saying that the outpost was about to fall. But I haven’t received any updates since.”
『That is indeed… strange.』
The adjutant, seeming to agree with Greed’s observation, nodded and stroked his chin.
He took out a Symbol of Corruption engraved with Greed’s emblem from his pocket and infused it with demonic energy.
The Symbol of Corruption resonated…
– Speak, oh representative of Greed.
…and a voice came from within.
『Report on the current situation at the Extermination Unit outpost.』
The adjutant asked, and a trembling voice responded from the Symbol of Corruption,
– …We haven’t received any reports of it being captured yet.
『Not yet? You’re saying “not yet”?』
– I-I apologize. But according to the last report I received, the 9th Extermination Unit went to support…
“What? The 9th Extermination Unit?”
Greed interrupted.
The voice from the Symbol of Corruption shrieked in terror.
– G-Greed!
“Repeat that. Did you say the 9th Extermination Unit went to support?”
– Y-yes… that is correct.
“Then is Kali the one who went to support the 1st Extermination Unit outpost?”
– N-no. The one who went to support… is an intern of the Extermination Unit…
“…An intern?”
What did he just hear?
An intern went to support the 1st Extermination Unit, the one in the most critical situation?
“…I guess they sent a lot of interns.”
Greed said, and the voice from the Symbol of Corruption immediately refuted his assumption.
– No… they said it’s just one intern.
“What?”
『Just one intern?』
Greed and his adjutant repeated in disbelief.
The Symbol of Corruption reaffirmed its previous statement.
Greed stood up.
“…I think I know who it is.”
『…I believe I do as well.』
Greed and his adjutant looked at each other and said in unison,
“‘Lee Yu-jin.’”
Greed grinned.
And at the same time, his red eyes gleamed with greed.
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Rip, And Tear.
Until it is Done.