Player of a Ruined World - Chapter 94

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Player of the Ruined World – Episode 094
Of all the rotten luck.
Of all the cursed timing….
I encountered the one creature I absolutely never wanted to face.
A Severing Type that doesn’t die even when its body is severed.
To deal with that thing, I have no choice but to burn it to death.
The problem is, when a Severing Type grows to Stage 5….
I watched the Stage 5 Severing Type by the window and spoke to Kim Hanna.
“Hanna, no matter what happens, you cannot kill that thing.”
Kim Hanna’s eyes widened as she turned her head toward me.
She wouldn’t understand why we can’t kill a Mutant.
So I explained the Stage 5 Severing Type so she could comprehend.
“You know what cellular division is, right?”
“…!”
“If we don’t burn it to death completely, the numbers will only multiply. That’s the characteristic of a Stage 5 Severing Type.”
Hanna checked her subordinates’ condition and escape route, then gestured with her eyes toward the alley on the right.
Was she suggesting we escape that way?
We had no way of knowing how many times the Severing Type had undergone cellular division.
Right, escaping this place now is our best option.
“I’ll count to three and we run.”
I nodded.
“One, two, three!”
Whoosh!
We bolted into the alley without hesitation.
Kim Hanna’s pupils glowed red once before returning to normal—she must have issued commands to her subordinates.
Her subordinates followed us in unison.
The subordinates who once numbered three thousand had now dwindled to a third of that.
I followed Hanna while glancing back cautiously.
Just in case the Severing Type might chase after us….
“Where is it, where is it? Where is it, where is it?”
“Food, food? Is it food, food?”
“Delicious, delicious, let’s eat, delicious.”
Countless shadowy figures emerged from the thick fog, chasing us down.
They followed us, muttering incoherently in unison.
That too was a characteristic of the Stage 5 Severing Type.
It seemed… they had no intention of letting us go unscathed.
“Grrrrr…!”
“Kack! Haaaaack…!”
Kim Hanna’s subordinates began growling and reacting to the Severing Types.
Since it’s a zombie’s instinct to charge at prey upon spotting it, they were reacting to the Mutants.
I widened my eyes and looked at Kim Hanna.
“Control your subordinates! You must not engage the Severing Type!”
“Graaaaahhhhh!!”
As Kim Hanna roared, her subordinates finally ceased their aggression and followed us.
Ding-!
[You have eliminated a Level 4 Water Demon.]
[10,000 points awarded.]
A points message appeared before my eyes in succession.
It seemed Park Sangil, Elder Chulmin, and Hong Yeonhui had eliminated the Water Demon.
As I pushed through the thick fog and reached where my group was, their figures gradually came into view.
The group, who had been collecting bolts, spotted Kim Hanna and me, waving their right hands and shouting.
“Doyun! We just caught a Level 4 Water Demon…!”
“Run!!”
As I shouted to them, they stopped collecting bolts and fixed their gaze on the hundreds, thousands of beings visible behind me.
Park Sangil’s expression grew confused as he readied his crossbow.
“What, what is this?! What are those things? They all look identical!”
“Don’t shoot! You can’t kill them!!”
“What?”
“Just run!!”
As I gestured for them to hurry, the group followed my orders in bewilderment.
Hong Yeonhui, knowing what was chasing us, asked with a desperate expression.
“Is that a Level 5 Severing Type?!”
“Yes!”
“What do we do if we bring that thing with us!!”
“Do you have another option?”
“…Damn it!”
Hong Yeonhui furrowed her brow and began running.
Elder Chulmin and Park Sangil followed us without understanding what was happening.
Park Sangil kept glancing back and asking.
“Why can’t we kill it?! That’s a zombie!”
“That’s not a zombie! It’s a Severing Type!”
“Huh? Those things we said needed to be burned to death?”
“Yes! Since it’s Level 5, if we eliminate it using conventional methods, it undergoes cellular division!”
“…What?”
Park Sangil accelerated his pace even further.
Elder Chulmin transferred the crossbow and bolts he was holding into his inventory and sprinted forward, asking.
“Where are we going?!”
“I’m thinking!”
The more we fought the Severing Type, the more disadvantageous it became, so escaping this area was our best option.
At No Way Home, we had either drowned the Severing Types in groups or eliminated them with flamethrowers.
Right now, I don’t have such weapons or locations, so there’s no time to think about it….
Wait, drown them in water?
“Does everyone know how to swim?!”
As I asked while running blindly forward, my companions nodded with bewildered expressions.
“We’re heading to the Han River!”
“Hey, you’re not seriously suggesting we jump into the Han River right now….”
“There’s no other way!”
As I bolted to the right, a soundproof wall dividing the road from residential spaces appeared.
Beyond the soundproof wall lay a vast main road.
When I checked the 3D terrain map earlier, that main road should be Jayangno.
Without time to hesitate, I headed toward the main road at the point where the soundproof wall ended.
The characters “Jayangno” written on the road sign.
I’d come to the right place.
If I follow this road….
‘It leads to Jamsil Bridge.’
“Hey, hey!! Zombies, there are zombies ahead!!”
At Park Sangil’s shout, I pulled out my twin swords from my inventory and spoke.
“We’re breaking through! Kim Hanna! Cover the left and right!”
Park Sangil and Elder Chulmin hurriedly opened their inventories and drew rifles.
“Grandfather, give me one too!”
Since Elder Chulmin had stored Hong Yeonhui’s rifle in his inventory, he handed her the rifle he’d drawn first.
Everyone ran at full speed, shouldered their rifles, and pulled the triggers toward the zombies filling Jayangno.
Bang!! Bang!! Bang!! Bang!! Bang!!
Single shots, not automatic fire.
The situation was urgent, but everyone carefully advanced, piercing the zombies’ foreheads.
Since the bullets were also enhanced, they were no different from armor-piercing rounds.
The bullets that penetrated the foreheads were passing through the skulls of the zombies behind them.
“Krraaaaaaah!!”
Followed by Kim Hanna’s resounding roar from beside me.
[The King of the Zombies uses the Skill ‘Call of the King’.]
[All zombies within a 300m radius gather in response to the King’s call.]
The zombies in front trembled throughout their bodies as if electrocuted, then began attacking the zombies heading toward Jamsil Bridge.
As zombies attacked zombies, the attacked zombies began attacking the attacking zombies in turn.
In an instant, Jayangno became a battlefield of chaos.
I gripped my twin swords and swung the blades relentlessly at the zombies blocking the path.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
Followed by the sound of the soundproof wall being struck from the right.
Some of the Severing Types chasing us had taken a wrong turn and couldn’t cross over the soundproof wall to reach us.
Thud!! Bang!! Crack- Snap!
But without a moment to catch my breath, the Severing Types soon broke through the soundproof wall and poured in.
“Where is it, where is it? Where is it, where is it?”
“Food, food? It’s food, food.”
“Hungry, hungry, hungry.”
As if resonating with one another, hundreds and thousands of Severing Types repeated the same words in a monotonous pitch.
That alien sound etched itself into my mind, sending chills down my spine.
A being I couldn’t kill… no, a being I shouldn’t kill was chasing after our flesh with frenzied desperation.
The Severing Types were closing in faster than we could carve a path forward.
‘We’re going to be caught.’
With no other choice, I turned to my companions and shouted.
“Go ahead!”
“What?!”
“I’ll buy time while moving! We’ll meet at Jamsil Bridge!”
Their expressions screamed objection, but they knew my stubbornness wouldn’t bend, so the group followed my orders.
Leaving my companions to push through the zombies behind me, I gripped my twin swords and stared at the Severing Types rushing toward me.
Their numbers kept growing.
It looked like there were at least two thousand of them.
To stop the Severing Types’ cell division, I’d need to find the main body, but finding it among these creatures was impossible.
“Where is it, where is it? Where is it, where is it?”
“Food, food? It’s food, food.”
Like broken robots, the Severing Types rushed forward repeating the same words.
Then they spotted me, and their mouths twisted upward in unison.
“Found it, found it, found it? Found it.”
“It’s here, it’s here, it’s here.”
They hurled themselves at me without hesitation.
I gripped the handles of my twin swords and swung the blades at the creatures lunging toward me.
Slash!
The Severing Types’ skin, muscle, and bone weren’t particularly hard.
They were easily manageable with my twin swords reinforced four times.
A single strike separated the upper and lower halves of three Severing Types.
Ding!
[You have processed a Tier 5 Severing Type (Cell).]
[2 Points awarded.]
[You have processed a Tier 5 Severing Type (Cell).]
[2 Points awarded.]
[You have processed a Tier 5 Severing Type (Cell).]
[2 Points awarded.]
Each Severing Type granted 2 Points.
Regular zombies now gave 10 Points each, so these creatures were inferior to them.
The problem was….
Squelch- Squelch-
Bubbles rose from the severed body parts, and those without lower halves regenerated their lower halves, while those without upper halves regenerated their upper halves.
Kill three, and six appear—that was the situation I faced.
The longer the battle dragged on, the more Severing Types would multiply.
And on top of that, these creatures…
They don’t die even when their brains and hearts are destroyed.
The only way to eliminate a Severing Type is to find and destroy its main body.
I couldn’t afford to kill too many, yet I couldn’t afford to take damage either.
Thud-thump—thump! Thump!
In that instant, I felt the grip of a Severing Type that had circled behind me, its hands clutching my shoulders and waist.
Since these creatures lacked superior physical abilities, I shook off their grip with raw strength and created distance.
‘Using weapons would only make things worse.’
Given the nature of my opponent, my twin blades had become a liability rather than an asset.
I hastily opened my inventory and stashed the twin blades away.
Then I clenched both fists and focused on their movements.
I didn’t need to use Balhwa—my current dynamic vision was more than sufficient. I stepped backward lightly while driving my fists into the faces of the approaching creatures.
Crack!! Smack—! Thwack!! Pow!!
I executed light backsteps while driving my fists into the faces of the creatures rushing at me.
With enough force to avoid triggering cellular division.
Controlling my strength so they wouldn’t die.
Hard enough to shatter, yet not so carelessly that they’d remain intact.
It felt like striking hardened mud.
My eyes darted constantly as my arms moved without pause, but there were simply too many of them to stop them all.
Before long, Severing Type cells completely surrounded me.
As I dealt with the ones in front, one would cling to my back. When I threw it off, another would grab my ankle.
Just as I stomped on the temple of the one gripping my ankle, grasping hands came flying at my body from all directions.
‘It’s not nearby.’
While contending with the cells, I sharpened all my senses to locate the main body.
The main body would surely use a Skill if it felt threatened, but I detected no trace of Skill activation yet.
This meant the main body wasn’t here—it was watching the situation from a distance.
I quickly scanned my surroundings, but finding the main body was impossible when the fog obscured my vision.
“Baek Doyun!!”
At that moment, I heard my name being called from behind.
I turned my head urgently and spotted Park Sangil pointing at something with his finger.
“Over there!! Look over there!!”
“I told you to go faster, so why aren’t you moving!!”
“There’s smoke!!”
“There’s mist everywhere—what are you talking about…!”
“Smoke, I’m telling you!! Smoke!!”
Hearing Park Sangil’s words, I belatedly realized my mistake.
Park Sangil’s ability was that of a Shooter.
Shooters can secure their vision within the mist, which means Park Sangil cannot see the mist at all.
If smoke appeared in Park Sangil’s eyes like that….
“How far away is it?!”
“Roughly 400, 500 meters! To the right!”
“I’ll handle it myself, so you go ahead first!”
“Are you sure you’ll be okay alone?!”
Thwack-!! Crack- Smack!!
I don’t have time to answer.
I’m too busy swatting away the relentless Severing Type cells rushing at me.
As Park Sangil hesitated, Hong Yeonhui and Elder Chulmin rushed over, grabbed his arm, and disappeared into the mist.
They’re shouting back and forth at each other, but from what I can make out, they’re saying that getting out of the way is the best way to help.
Park Sangil, pulled by the hands of Hong Yeonhui and Elder Chulmin, vanishes into the mist.
Since Kim Hanna is with them, they should be fine.
But if the smoke Park Sangil mentioned….
If my prediction is correct, I won’t need to jump into the Han River to deal with the Severing Type.

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