Level 4 Human in a Ruined World - Chapter 41

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Chapter 41 12. Strange World (5)

“Where are you going? Where are you going right now!”

Desperation.

Myeong-ae was literally throwing a fit, frantically clawing at her remaining son’s arms and shoulders.

How could they go anywhere when Yoon-ho was still back there?

“Our Yoon-ho! We have to bring Yoon-ho back…!”

Myeong-ae’s eyes flickered wildly.

She seemed to genuinely believe that her eldest son was abandoning the second.

But did she really not know?

Hadn’t Myeong-ae clearly seen Yoon-ho’s neck being severed?

“Please stop, Mom… I’m struggling too.”

Myeong-ho gripped the steering wheel while tears streamed down his face.

Unable to watch any longer, Young-woo grabbed both of Myeong-ae’s arms as she pounded on the driver’s seat.

Thud!

At this rate, they would crash the car into the guardrail and all die together.

“Ma’am, I’m truly sorry. But now is not the time…”

With her arms held by Young-woo, Myeong-ae poured out resentful words before he could even finish speaking.

“You…! What did you even do? Our child was right there in front! What on earth…!”

“…”

Young-woo remained silent, feeling Myeong-ae’s arms trembling frantically in his grip.

He thought it was true that he bore some responsibility for Yoon-ho’s death.

If he hadn’t let the boy go ahead and had attacked the orcs first instead… then Jung Yoon-ho might have lived.

‘But he would have died eventually anyway. If it weren’t for me, these people would all be dead already.’

Young-woo looked out the car window with a complicated expression.

Then he saw a bundle of spears being launched from across the road.

‘There they are.’

He had finally located the position of the Orc Support Unit that had been continuously bombarding them.

“Myeong-ho.”

“…Yes?”

“You saw that just now, right? I’m going to deal with those bastards. So decide for yourselves whether to keep going or wait in the meantime. If you’re planning to part ways here, just leave my luggage on the floor and go.”

As Young-woo finished speaking and checked the metal implements at his waist, Myeong-ho’s expression hardened.

Having lost Yoon-ho, who had been the Jung Family’s main fighting force, he knew there were no other options.

“Wh… where should I stop? We’ll wait until you come back.”

Hearing Yoon-ho’s powerless response, Young-woo tapped the driver’s seat headrest.

“Right now.”

Screech!

The moment Young-woo’s words shot out, the vehicle came to an abrupt stop.

“Since we don’t know when more spears might come flying, it would be better to keep moving, even slowly.”

After saying this, Young-woo opened the rear door and stepped onto the road.

Thud.

In the distance, black silhouettes stirred. It was the annoying Orc Support Unit.

The distance between them was roughly 300 meters.

Crack!

Soon Young-woo kicked off the ground and launched his body forward, instantly closing the distance with them.

Whoosh!

Young-woo moved making a sound like a spear piercing through the air, and the orcs, sensing an ominous presence, responded accordingly.

Whip!

They immediately threw spears toward the unidentified object.

However, unlike their bombardment, this was a targeted attack.

「Sensory Stats have temporarily increased from the existing 100 to 134.」

「Sensory Stats have temporarily increased from the existing 134 to 168.」

「Sensory Stats have temporarily increased from the existing 168 to 202.」

This caused the catastrophic result of boosting Young-woo’s Sensory Stats, who was the target of the attack.

“…!”

Thanks to this, Young-woo could clearly see the spears flying straight toward him and their predicted trajectories.

Clear enough that he could deflect them before the spear blades pierced his body.

Clang!

When Young-woo drew his sword and deflected the first spear blade, he was close enough to see the orcs’ expressions.

Ching!

When he bounced off the second spear blade, he could vividly hear their panicked voices.

-What, what is that?

-A human…?

-Kill it quickly!

The Orc Support Unit numbered six in total.

They stood among piles of spears stacked high on the ground, each holding a long spear shaft in both hands.

In other words, they had no shields to block attacks.

“Hup!”

As soon as Young-woo confirmed their armament status, he drew his Black Sword to its maximum length and swung it.

Whoosh!

A massive black trajectory swept across the orcs’ waists, and soon Young-woo felt their flesh vividly transmitted through his grip.

Crunch!

It might be more accurate to say he broke the orcs rather than cut them.

The orcs with split waists fell to the ground in different rhythms, tumbling down.

Then immediately.

Pop, pop, pop!

Their bodies vanished with flashes of light, spilling Crimson Coins in their place.

Clatter!

‘Oh no.’

Only after seeing this did Young-woo realize he hadn’t collected the coins that the first orcs he encountered must have dropped.

‘Does this make sense? Do I have to bend down and pick up money like this after every fight…?’

As he bent his waist like gleaning grain to sweep the floor, all the emotions that had been constricting his chest until just moments ago subsided.

And around this time.

Vroooom…

The Jung Family’s SUV approached behind Young-woo with a low engine sound.

“Are you alright?”

Myeong-ho asked cautiously from inside the driver’s seat.

Young-woo poured a handful of coins into his backpack and looked at him.

“How is your mother?”

“…She’s fainted.”

“That’s fortunate. We need to go back and pick up some more money.”

“Excuse me…?”

* * *

Clink.

The Karma Young-woo collected from Yoon-ho’s death scene totaled 160,000.

Adding what he obtained from the support unit, it totaled 280,000 Karma.

‘So now my total assets are… 304,000?’

Converting this to ability stat points would be 304 points.

If he invested in appearance modification, he could achieve about 14% of the optimal physical condition recommended by the combat preset.

But Young-woo had one more option. That was.

‘Mungyeong still hasn’t had its 2nd day Mutant killed yet.’

And that meant.

‘If I kill it, a merchant will appear here too.’

He could make another deal with the alien trading company.

Moreover, thanks to his special contract with intermediary Kubu, Young-woo could even preview all the trading groups that bid on deals and choose directly.

‘I don’t know what will be up for sale this time, so I should save up money if possible.’

Swoosh.

|You are currently staying in the region ‘Mungyeong’.

|This region’s First Sword is ‘Jang Chun-yong16’. 1st generation, 96 defenses.

Young-woo glanced at the information panel of the Mungyeong First Sword who was still surviving somewhere.

‘What… don’t tell me he left Mungyeong early?’

The red light pillar had gotten quite close, so whether by car or running, it would take about ten minutes to reach the Mutant.

“Will you be okay?”

When Young-woo suddenly turned his head toward the SUV waiting nearby, Myeong-ho, who had been spacing out, flinched.

“Yes? Uh, what do you…?”

“Are you really okay with coming with me? I’m going to kill the Mutant now. But I don’t know what kind it’ll be either… I can’t guarantee your and your mother’s safety.”

Of course, he omitted the story about more surprising things happening after killing it… like ‘real’ aliens coming to do business.

“Ah…”

Myeong-ho made another blank expression.

Well, what else could he do besides spacing out?

The Reset incident itself had been too unrealistic, and after hearing the conversation between Young-woo and the Orc, he couldn’t think of anything.

“We have to go… We… have no other choice.”

Myeong-ho glanced at his mother who was slumped in the back seat like she was dead.

He had lost all function and ability as the eldest son and as the head of the household.

Therefore, the best Myeong-ho could do now was feel miserable gratitude that he could at least serve as a driver for that person named Jung Young-woo, whose surname wasn’t even certain.

Anyway, if that guy was strong enough to even kill Mutants, then his and his mother’s lives would continue.

“…”

It was essentially entrusting his life to someone else.

They said everyone’s fate was reset along with the Reset, but was this kind of situation really the result?

Myeong-ho made a bitter expression as he recalled his own Fate Record, which hadn’t been completely smooth but also hadn’t had any major problems.

If a new Fate Record was being written, how would this scene be recorded? And how would it end…?

Crack!

Myeong-ho’s thoughts were cut off by a cracking sound from the passenger seat window.

Startled, he looked up to see Young-woo pulling out a spear shaft that had been embedded in the passenger seat from outside.

“Now that I look at it, this is ours, isn’t it?”

“What?”

“This spear isn’t something the Orcs brought, but a weapon that was distributed to people. From Sword Mountain.”

Young-woo said this while pulling out the spear shaft and throwing it on the ground.

If that had been something the Orcs brought, it should have disappeared along with their corpses when they vanished.

‘Those invaders can even use our resources?’

It strangely annoyed him.

Young-woo pulled out two more spear shafts embedded in the vehicle, then sat in the passenger seat this time.

Myeong-ho looked puzzled.

“…?”

“I don’t think your mother likes me very much now. Lock the back door.”

At Young-woo’s words, Myeong-ho locked the back door without complaint.

“So where do we go now? Do we follow that?”

When Myeong-ho pointed to the red light pillar visible in the distance, Young-woo’s jaw moved up and down.

* * *

Vrooom…

Inside the vehicle that started picking up speed again, Myeong-ho asked a question he had been keeping only in his head.

“Excuse me.”

“Yes.”

“You’re a First Sword, aren’t you? Of somewhere.”

Young-woo, who had been staring out the passenger window, turned his head toward Myeong-ho.

“That’s right.”

An extremely calm tone.

“Ah, I see… I see.”

“…”

Just as silence was about to settle again, Myeong-ho barely managed to ask his next question.

“Then have you faced other Mutants before?”

It was a question Myeong-ho had to ask.

Young-woo’s combat experience was tied to not only Myeong-ho’s life but also his mother’s.

So Young-woo decided to give an answer that would reassure the other person somewhat.

However.

“Yes. I killed two, and the other one is…”

He couldn’t complete the rest of the sentence about how it was trapped in another world, just waiting for the whistle sound.

Because.

Rumble!

A thunderous sound like a building collapsing came from somewhere.

“Huh?”

Since the vehicle had just entered the bypass road turning right into downtown, both Myeong-ho and Young-woo could see it.

-Don’t be scared…!

-Keep going in!

-Charge!

The sight of dozens of Orcs charging in unison in one direction.

Dust was thick everywhere, suggesting fierce battles had been going on, and buildings could be seen collapsed or broken here and there.

“What is this?”

Screech!

Myeong-ho instinctively slammed the brake hard, making a loud noise, but not a single Orc looked back.

And for good reason.

「Hraaaah!」

Because the Orc legion already had a powerful threat.

Another dark blue Orc wielding weapons while roaring at dozens of Orcs.

「Die!」

That Orc, whose body was exceptionally large enough to make other Orcs look like dwarves, no matter how you looked at it…

‘Could that be a Mutant…? Why is a Mutant fighting with monsters?’

Young-woo widened his eyes and surveyed the situation, soon understanding the reason.

It wasn’t just the Mungyeong City Mutant fighting the orcs.

“Trhat!”

There was another being moving very nimbly near the Blue Muscle Mass.

Swish!

A lean build, darkly tanned skin, and in contrast, white hair.

‘This is impossible.’

Young-woo’s eyebrows twitched at the unbelievable sight.

Mungyeong First Sword Jang Chun-yong16 was fighting alongside the mutant.

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