Player of a Ruined World - Chapter 95

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Player of the Ruined World – Episode 095
‘Right side, wasn’t it?’
He’d definitely said the right direction along Jayangno.
I exhaled deeply, raised my guard, and watched the Severing Cells rushing toward me.
Thud! Crack! Bang!! Smash- Whack!!
I drove my fists into the faces of the Severing Cells before me in rapid succession, carving a path through them.
I slipped the incoming strikes lightly with weaving, then pushed forward with a driving punch powered by my lower body.
Thud-thud-bang! Crack! Whack!! Smash- Boom!!
The heavy impact resonated through my fingertips.
The boxing Park Sangil had taught me bit by bit was proving invaluable.
I steadied my breathing and focused on my hips, waist, and footwork.
Since I didn’t need to throw my full strength, I threw light jabs instead, minimizing stamina consumption as I carved through the horde.
I’d already far surpassed human physical limitations.
My fists could strike over ten times per second.
As I advanced with rapid steps, the Severing Cells fell like autumn leaves before the wind.
Finally, as the path opened before me like the parting of the Red Sea, I sprinted down Jayangno and shouted.
“You bastards!! The prey is here!!”
“Prey? Prey, prey? Prey.”
“Fleeing? Fleeing, fleeing.”
“Catch, catch, catch, catch.”
Thousands of Severing Cells resonated in unison and chased after me.
I glanced back briefly—even more cells than before were pursuing me.
Was it because I’d carved such an obvious path?
They weren’t following the group; they were focused entirely on me.
I turned my attention forward again and mulled over what Park Sangil had said.
Park Sangil probably wasn’t certain either.
But given that this place was a Mutant den, the possibility was strong enough.
Soon after, a pungent stench began to tickle my nostrils.
Smoke appearing in a world where all machines were dead meant….
‘A Liquefaction Type.’
I turned my head toward the direction the acrid smell was coming from, and a road sign reading “Postal Distribution Center” caught my eye on the right.
I quickly changed direction and moved right.
Whoooosh-!!!
In that instant, a torrent of liquid came flying from the left, and I threw myself aside with wide eyes.
I barely dodged the liquid and turned to look back.
Sizzzzle-!
I could see the Severing Cells that had been chasing me melting away like candle wax.
So it was here after all.
A Liquefaction Type.
I turned my head toward the direction the liquid came from and spotted what appeared to be a mass of liquid roughly eight meters wide and four meters tall.
Two eyeballs visible atop the mass of liquid.
Upon confirming the creature, my lips curved upward without my realizing it.
At that size, it was a Stage 4 Liquefaction Type.
“Feed, feed? Feed, feed!”
Regardless of whether my allies melted before my eyes, the Severing Cells continued their relentless assault.
Brrrrrrp—
Simultaneously, I watched the Liquefaction Type’s mouth swell, and I extended my hand toward the Severing Cells directly in front of me.
Snatch!
I seized both creatures by the scruff with both hands and hoisted them up like a shield.
Shhhhwooooosh—!!
A torrent of acidic solution poured down as if it had been waiting for this moment.
As the Severing Cells’ flesh dissolved, a putrid stench that assaulted the nostrils billowed forth in thick clouds.
I hurled the shield in my grasp left and right, then seized another shield in my hands.
Since shields were scattered everywhere anyway, I would simply continue using the Liquefaction Type until all the shields were gone.
Shhhhwooooosh—!!
Each time the Severing Cells dissolved, acrid stench accompanied wisps of vapor rising steadily.
The Severing Cells’ bodies dissolved rapidly.
The dissolved cells neither regenerated nor divided.
A situation where I could kill them by melting rather than burning.
The problem was that no matter how many shields I raised, I couldn’t block the cascading torrent of strong acid.
Sizzzzz—
With merely a glancing contact, I felt an intense heat where the strong acid touched, and I could feel in real-time as holes were being bored through my skin.
This strong acid was beyond what my epidermis stat could withstand.
Judging by the maddening heat sensation on my right cheek, it seemed the strong acid had splashed there.
Even the protective gear wrapping my forearms was continuously releasing smoke.
Shhhhwooooosh—!!!
Shhhhwoosh!!
Shhhhwooooosh—!!
I blocked the successive torrents of strong acid with shields scattered all around while counting the number of Severing Cells.
Still, there was no end in sight.
At this rate, I wouldn’t be able to endure.
To increase my speed… there was only one method.
I grasped a new shield with both hands and charged directly toward the Liquefaction Type.
Shhhhwrrrrrch—!
Then the Liquefaction Type, which had been four meters tall, began dissolving in an instant.
Sizzzzzzick—!!
Smoke rising from my shoes.
The Liquefaction Type flattened itself for self-defense.
It must have thought I was attacking it.
Exactly what I desired.
I crouched low and hurled myself toward the opposite parking lot.
With my current physical abilities, clearing a standing long jump of fifteen meters was well within reach, so vaulting over the Liquefaction Type sprawled across the ground was effortless.
“Where is it? Where? Where is it? Where?”
“Prey, is it prey? It’s prey, it’s prey.”
“There? There, there, there it is.”
The Severing Cells, flattened like potato pancakes, trampled mindlessly over the Liquefaction Type as they pursued me.
Sizzzzle—! Sizzle! Sizzle!
Unaware that their own legs were melting away.
The Severing Cells dissolved in an instant, consumed by the Liquefaction Type.
Like moths diving into a bonfire.
Like timber consumed by lava.
Like mountain beasts swept away by an avalanche.
The Liquefaction Type’s massive bulk was so enormous that it blocked every path leading into the parking lot.
Dozens of Severing Cells began melting away every second.
Rumble, rumble, rumble—
Belatedly recognizing the situation, the Liquefaction Type surged upward again to a height of four meters, then began hardening its body.
The Liquefaction Type’s defining trait was its ability to alter its composition based on circumstances, so it had recognized that our forces were dissolving.
But this was precisely what I had anticipated.
I crouched down as if I’d been waiting for this moment, and quickly retrieved the twin blades I’d stored in my inventory.
“Whirlwind.”
Ding—!
[Whirlwind Lv.4: For 5 minutes, you are freed from all status abnormalities and all wounds and fatigue are perfectly recovered.]
[During the 5 minutes Whirlwind is active, Strength, Agility, Stamina, and Skin Defense stats are doubled.]
-Cooldown: 1 hour.
The wounds from Kangsan’s strike healed instantly, and blood vessels surged across the back of my hand gripping the hilt.
It felt as refreshing as waking from a deep sleep and taking a cool sip of water—my entire body tingled with vitality.
Boom!!!
I kicked off the ground and charged at the hardened Liquefaction Type like an unstoppable torrent.
The distance closed in an instant.
Before the Liquefaction Type could shift its composition, I swung the twin blades forward.
The moment the blades made contact with the Liquefaction Type’s body.
-The Twin Blades’ ‘Resolve’ effect activates!
-The Gauntlets’ ‘Blood Clash’ effect activates!
Both effects triggered simultaneously.
Crack—!!!
With a thunderous roar like a massive boulder splitting, the four-meter-tall Liquefaction Type cleaved in two.
Resolve granted twenty percent of my Strength to the attack, while Blood Clash applied the next strike as a multi-hit combo.
Though I swung the twin blades only once, two distinct lines remained on the severed surface of the split Liquefaction Type.
It was only a flash, but my enhanced dynamic vision allowed me to see it clearly with both eyes.
The glimmer at the blade’s edge that occurred when I swung the twin blades.
I had always wondered how to realize a multi-stage hit in reality, and now I understood.
With the flash of the blade, I transmitted the impact of the first attack directly to the same point.
Ting!
[You have eliminated a Stage 4 Liquefaction Type.]
[12,000 points awarded.]
More points than the Euitaejong and Water Demon.
Normally, eliminating a Liquefaction Type required multiple conditions to be met.
But with my physical abilities having risen to absurd levels, I needed no other conditions.
If I killed it before it could react, that was all that mattered.
When I attacked the Severing Type, the weapon’s effect didn’t activate, so why did it appear against the Liquefaction Type?
Did the effect only manifest when I went all out?
Regardless, I had severed the Liquefaction Type’s core in a single strike.
What, you ask, is the core of a Liquefaction Type?
Unlike other Mutants, the Liquefaction Type exists in liquid form, so its brain—the core—resides between its two eyes.
No Way Home Players called this the core of the Liquefaction Type.
Since the point message appeared, I was certain it was dead.
Whoooosh—
Following that, the Liquefaction Type’s body, which had hardened solid, transformed back into liquid form and poured onto the ground.
Sizzzzle—
The Liquefaction Type’s body had transformed into strong acid once more.
The Severing Cells that had been standing vacant were struck by the cascading acid and began melting away.
Hundreds of Severing Cells dissolved in unison, releasing a foul stench and thick smoke that billowed upward.
I seized the moment and hurled myself toward the retaining wall across from me.
Like a nimble cat, I cleared the retaining wall, confirmed that the Severing Cells were not pursuing, and moved toward the Jamsil Bridge.

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Whoosh—!
“Watch out ahead!!”
Park Sangil’s eyes widened as he shouted a warning to the group ahead.
Hong Yeonhui and Elder Chulmin heard Park Sangil’s cry and urgently fixed their gaze forward.
Something massive was hurtling toward them.
Spinning wildly as it flew.
“Is that… is that a car?!”
“Get out of the way!”
Hong Yeonhui and Elder Chulmin threw themselves to the left and right.
Crash!!!
An 8-ton truck plummeted directly onto the Jamsil Bridge.
If something possessed the monstrous strength to hurl a truck like that so effortlessly….
“Giant Zombie!! There’s a Giant Zombie ahead!”
Hong Yeonhui pointed toward the Giant Zombie visible beyond the swarm of zombies.
The zombies teeming from Jayangno.
That impossible number stretched all the way to the Jamsil Bridge.
Kim Hanna was doing her part, but the zombies still seemed endless.
Elder Chulmin and Park Sangil hastily shouldered their rifles and pulled ammunition magazines from their inventory.
Magazines enhanced three times over.
The thirty rounds inside were all expensive ammunition, enhanced three times over.
“They’re coming from the right too!”
At Elder Chulmin’s briefing, Park Sangil’s rifle barrel swiveled to the right.
“I’ll handle the right! Please deal with the ones coming from the front, Elder!”
Park Sangil and Elder Chulmin then chanted in unison without hesitation.
“Aimed Shot, Multi-Hit, Headshot. Explosive Fire.”
Ding—!
[Aimed Shot: Increases hit rate of all weapons used by the Shooter by 50%.]
-Point Cost: 200
-Duration: 1 minute (Cooldown: 10 minutes)
-If you wish to use single fire, please say “single fire.”
-(Single fire can be used even during cooldown and costs 10 points per attack.)
[Multi-Hit: All attacks by the Shooter land twice.]
-Point Cost: 20
-(Effect persists until the weapon is released from hand.)
[Headshot: Damage dealt to enemies is doubled.]
-Point Cost: 20
-(Effect persists until the weapon is released from hand.)
[Explosive Fire: When using ranged weapons, projectiles cause a 10m radius explosion upon impact.]
-Point Cost: 100
-(The effect persists until the weapon is released from your hand.)
As Park Sangil and Elder Chulmin aimed at the Giant Zombie’s brow, blue light rippled through their pupils, and targeting reticles materialized.
Bang-!!!!
With merely a pull of the rifle trigger, a thunderous roar erupted as if a cannon had been fired.
Whoooosh-!! Boom!!!
The bullet embedded in the Giant Zombie’s brow detonated, hurling the charging Giant Zombies backward.
Thunk! Ping! Ping! Ping!
Hong Yeonhui fired bolts in rapid succession at the approaching zombies’ brows, crying out.
“Keep shooting!! They won’t die from that!!”
Hong Yeonhui was right.
The Giant Zombie that had fallen rose its massive body once more, displaying a frenzied appearance.
“Grrrraaahhhhh!!!”
Two Giant Zombies charged forward, roaring.
The Giant Zombies, now entering their twelfth episode, had become even more hardened and colossal.
A muscular monstrosity reaching nearly 10 meters was crossing the Jamsil Bridge.
Bang!!! Bang!!! Bang!!! Bang!!! Bang!!!
Park Sangil and Elder Chulmin pulled the triggers in succession.
Boom!!! Boom!! Kaboom!! Boom!!
Explosions erupted ceaselessly across the Giant Zombie’s face, yet they showed no signs of fatigue, charging forward with even greater fury.
They then raised their legs to crush Park Sangil and Elder Chulmin beneath them.
“Dodge!!”
Boom-!!!!!
The Jamsil Bridge trembled as if an earthquake had struck, and a bone-chilling wail echoed from beneath the bridge.
I worried whether the bridge itself might collapse at this rate.

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