Player of a Ruined World - Chapter 103

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Player of the Ruined World – Episode 103
Kim Suhan laughed brightly at the falling Mutant and rushed to my side.
“Don’t take your eyes off it!!”
I shouted at Kim Suhan.
It was too early to let my guard down.
The Mutant I’d just dealt with was a new type we’d never encountered before.
When processing a new Mutant, a message would display even if I blocked point notifications, but the point message still hadn’t appeared.
In that instant.
Whoooosh!!
Everything unfolded in a flash.
The Mutant’s hair wrapped around Kim Suhan’s arm.
I rushed toward Kim Suhan in panic, but….
“What?”
The Mutant’s hair dragged Kim Suhan along, and before I could even blink, he plummeted over the railing.
The Mutant was just grasping at anything to survive.
And unfortunately, what caught its attention was Kim Suhan.
“Suhan!!!!”
Park Sangil came rushing over in shock, but Kim Suhan was already falling.
In that brief moment, I didn’t even know what I was thinking.
Thud- Bang!!!
I climbed onto the railing and pushed off toward the falling Kim Suhan.
Bungee jumping from the 128th floor with no rope.
No—voluntarily plummeting.
This was… no different from suicide.
“Aaaaaaahhhhh…!!”
Kim Suhan screamed and thrashed, but soon lost consciousness.
I felt my speed increasing.
The blade-sharp wind striking my eardrums drowned out even the sound of my heartbeat.
But… I kept repeating thoughts to stay conscious.
Grab!
After catching Kim Suhan, I pulled out my twin blades from my inventory and slashed away the Mutant’s hair wrapped around his arm.
The Mutant had already exhausted its strength, so its hair came away easily.
‘I’ll catch it…!’
L Tower widened as it descended.
Though we were falling, I could see we were getting closer to the building’s outer wall.
“Kim Suhan!!!!!”
I shouted with all my might, and Kim Suhan, who had lost consciousness, jolted awake in terror.
“Aaaahhhhh!!!”
“Stay awake! Don’t pass out!!!”
“Hyung!!!!”
“Hold on tight!!!”
Though I hadn’t specified exactly what to hold, Kim Suhan understood perfectly and wrapped both arms around my neck while clamping his legs around my waist.
Kim Suhan clung to me like a leech.
I gripped the hilt of my twin swords with all my strength and hurled myself directly at the building’s outer wall.
CRAAAAAAAAASH!!!!!
I gritted my teeth and endured the impact that felt like my arms would be torn from their sockets.
SNAP-!!
The twin swords couldn’t withstand the impact and shattered.
Even though they were reinforced four times over.
Twin swords that could split ordinary walls like soft tofu—even they couldn’t endure this collision.
Since I couldn’t give up yet, I opened my inventory again and gripped the curved blade in my hand.
“Please…!!”
CRAAAAAAAAASH!!!!
The muscles in both my hands and arms screamed in agony.
The curved blade was no different.
The blade of the self-repairing curved blade twisted, shattered, and repaired itself repeatedly.
If I held it perfectly steady, the blade wouldn’t twist, but in a situation like this, if the blade didn’t waver, I wouldn’t be human.
Enduring this impact with just two arms was an impossible situation.
CRAAAAAAAAASH…!!
But then… gradually, the speed began to decrease.
I kept my eyes tightly shut and gritted my teeth, holding on.
“Stop…!”
CRACK- SCREECH- THUD!!
Following that, the floating sensation in my organs disappeared, and the whistling sound of the blade cutting through the air began to fade.
I slowly opened my eyes that had been squeezed shut.
I couldn’t tell which floor it was, but I could see the blade was firmly embedded in the concrete slab.
Glancing down to look at the ground, I was already inside a thick fog.
Being inside the fog meant… the distance to the ground was less than 30 meters at minimum.
“Ugh… uuugh!”
Kim Suhan, who had been clinging to me, began to retch.
“If you throw up on my clothes, you’re really dead.”
“Ugh…! Y-yes, ugh!”
“Climb up quickly.”
Kim Suhan crawled up my shoulder and scrambled onto the slab.
He stretched out his hand for me to come up, so I grabbed his arm and pulled myself up.
“Haa… hyung, are you okay?”
“I’m fine.”
“Your hands….”
Kim Suhan, lacking the strength to stand properly, lay on the ground and stared at my hands.
Both my arms trembled like aspen leaves.
I wanted to stop trembling, but my body wouldn’t obey.
I had jumped from the 128th floor without a rope, driven by pure will alone.
It would be strange if my limbs weren’t shaking.
If I didn’t possess this absurd physical ability right now… my head would have already burst open, and I’d be dead.
“You stay here.”
“Huh? B-brother, where are you going?”
“I need to check on the Mutant.”
“L-let me come with you. I… I can…”
Kim Suhan struggled to his feet, then raised his index finger at me as if asking me to wait a moment.
“Bleeeegh!”
He retched violently, wiping his mouth with the back of his hand.
“Now I’m… ugh!”
“Just rest.”
“Bleeeegh!! Ah… I’m really okay now.”
“…”
Right, thinking about it again, I don’t even know what floor we’re on. I can’t leave Kim Suhan behind.
The floors we’ve cleared are 1 through 6.
From the 7th to the 31st floor, we moved via the stairwell, so I couldn’t assess the interior conditions.
I carefully stepped outside to check the floor number, and I could see the elevator directory sign clearly marked “5th Floor.”
The 5th floor—that’s where Kim Hanna’s subordinates finished their sweep.
Relief washed over me, but a chilling thought struck my mind simultaneously.
If I’d been just a little slower… I really would have crashed straight into the ground.
If this is the 5th floor, there’s no need to use the stairs.
“Suhan, go to the 31st floor.”
“Huh? But you said you were checking on the Mutant.”
“Go find Sanghun first. Once you meet him, tell Sangil that we’re fine and to come down to the 31st floor.”
“Ah, yes!”
After sending Kim Suhan ahead, I walked toward the window we’d entered through earlier.
There’s no time to descend via the stairwell and search for the Mutant.
‘It should be around here.’
Since the distance we fell was similar, the seventh Mutant should be somewhere below us.
Whoosh—!
I descended straight to the first floor through the shattered window and scanned the surroundings for the Mutant.
No matter how much of a Mutant it is, something that fell from the 128th floor couldn’t possibly be unscathed.
As I walked through the fog searching for its traces, I spotted thick blood pooling on the ground like a puddle.
Was this the impact point?
Judging by the indentation in the ground, it seemed likely.
A long trail of blood leading in the opposite direction.
I could deduce where it had crawled based on the traces.
Along the path I followed, I found a pair of curved blades with only the hilts remaining.
The blade slipped from my grip when it shattered, but fortunately I was able to retrieve it.
I’ll need to have the Makers repair it later.
I stored the hilt in my inventory and grasped the curved blade once more.
The curved blade, already fully restored.
“Kieeeee….”
Soon, the cry of a Mutant echoed from within the fog.
I strode forward toward the voice writhing in agony.
“….”
I found the Mutant with its head half-crushed and limbs grotesquely twisted.
All its limbs were contorted, yet it had somehow crawled forward—apparently using its hair as leverage.
The creature trembled violently upon seeing me.
Was it experiencing fear?
Or was it the pain?
Regardless of the reason, I had no intention of letting this advantage slip away.
As I approached with the curved blade firmly in hand, hair flew at me with far less force than before.
Whoosh—crunch!
Did the durability of the hair vary depending on the Mutant’s condition?
The hair was sliced cleanly by the curved blade.
I raised the blade and drove it into the fallen creature’s neck.
The sensation felt like pressing a thick rubber cord down with a nail.
I gripped the hilt with both hands and twisted it downward with force.
Ting—!
[You have eliminated the seventh Mutant.]
[40,000 points have been awarded.]
As befitting such a troublesome creature, it granted substantial points.
A Stage 5 Mutant would typically award at least 40,000 points, so perhaps this newly emerged variant was worth more?
I withdrew the blade, now coated with thick blood, and sheathed the curved blade.
Crash crash crash crash!!
Countless shards of glass fell onto the muddy ground.
Startled, I covered my head with both hands and hunched forward.
“What is this?”
I looked up with a bewildered expression, but all I could see was the thick fog.
I hadn’t even heard the sound of glass breaking—where had it fallen from?
‘Ah.’
In that moment, something I had forgotten suddenly came to mind.
When I was facing the seventh Mutant on the 128th floor, there was still one Enhanced Creeper I hadn’t dealt with.
I had completely forgotten about it when the seventh Mutant bound my ankle with its hair, causing me to lose track of it.
“Sangil.”
Park Sangil was still on the 128th floor.
Along with the Enhanced Creeper.

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“Huff, huff… huff….”
I climbed to the 31st floor without stopping, breathing heavily.
As I opened the emergency stairwell door and stepped inside, I spotted Hong Yeonhui with her gun raised, eyes wide with alarm.
“Where’s Sangil’s Hyung? Where is he?”
I asked while catching my breath, and Hong Yeonhui pointed backward with a jerk of her chin.
“I was already heading up to rescue Park Sangil.”
“How many people?”
“Elder Chulmin, Suhan, Hyeri, Sangha, and Sanghun.”
“Stay here and don’t move.”
I turned back toward the stairwell when Hong Yeonhui’s urgent voice stopped me.
“Wait!”
I turned my head, and Hong Yeonhui’s grave expression caught my eye.
I swallowed hard and asked.
“I’m in a hurry. Speak quickly.”
“They’ve arrived.”
“What has?”
“The Mutants from Gangbyeon Apartments.”
Her answer left me speechless.
They really followed us here?
Now that I thought about it, I couldn’t see Kim Hanna anywhere.
If the Mutants from Gangbyeon Apartments had followed us this far, the Stage 5 Mutant would definitely be with them.
Kim Hanna alone couldn’t possibly handle them.
If it was just one enhanced Creeper, the people who went upstairs would be enough to take it down.
But the Mutants?
Kim Hanna alone couldn’t possibly handle them.
With my Frenzy duration still active, I had to eliminate all the Mutants now.
“Where is Kim Hanna?”
“She went out to lure the Mutants away.”
“Lure them where, exactly!”
“That way.”
Hong Yeonhui walked to the window and pointed in the direction where Kim Hanna was.
It was toward Jamsil Bridge.
To prevent the creatures from approaching the L Tower, Kim Hanna had drawn them toward Jamsil Bridge.
“Let me know the situation once the people heading upstairs arrive.”
“….”
“I’m trusting you.”
Hong Yeonhui wasn’t staying here because she was a coward.
She couldn’t join anyone because of the teenage students on the 31st floor.
No matter how much stronger they’ve become, middle school students can’t possibly face off against Mutants.
You only need to look at their school days to understand the impact fear has on humans.
A child with a massive frame but a timid nature… can’t stand up to a child with a twisted personality.
Even if that child is far smaller and weaker than them.
That was fear, and that was intimidation.
I placed my pair of curved blades—now reduced to just the hilts—on the desk and called out to Hwang Anbae, who stood beside Hong Yeonhui.
“Anbae, repair these for me while I’m gone.”
“Yes, yes!”
I immediately turned back toward the staircase and descended to the first floor without pausing for breath.
I’d instructed them to alert me immediately if a Mutant appeared at the riverside apartment, so why hadn’t they notified me?
Were they trying not to burden me?
Their consideration was appreciated, but… this time Kim Hanna had overextended herself.
Kim Hanna is not a Player of No Way Home.
In a situation where there could be several Stage 5 Mutants, for Kim Hanna to venture out alone was a dangerous gamble.

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As I crossed Jamsil Intersection, cutting through the fog, a modified vehicle came into view, parked in front of a mixed-use building.
The glass doors of the building were completely shattered.
The Zombies that had been inside the building had vanished without a trace.
Had Kim Hanna taken them with her?
Kim Hanna can’t use the King’s Summons right now.
Then….
‘A three-way battle.’
She may have induced a melee.
Street Zombies unaffiliated with any faction and Mutants crossing over from the riverside apartment fighting each other.
“Grrraaaaaahhh…!”
“Kahhhhaaack…!”
Following that, an unpleasant grinding sound of throats echoed from a distance.
From the direction of Jamsil Bridge, roughly 300 meters away.
Kim Hanna was locked in combat.

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