Chapter 12 : Security Captain
Chapter 12: Security Captain
The watching viewers jokingly said it seemed like Kang Soyul wasn’t playing the game together but had become an MC hosting a broadcast.
However, it was difficult to call that her fault. She tried her best to cover Baek Woohyun however she could when enemies appeared.
The problem was that Baek Woohyun’s combat style was far too hardcore for her to intervene.
“Guys, Woohyun-nim moves too fast and I’m scared to shoot, what do I do?”
-Can’t provide covering fire lol
-Might accidentally hit the driver instead
-Just quietly ride the bus ㅇㅇ;
-Hey, Kang, stop talking nonsense and just watch!
Baek Woohyun displayed flashy evasive maneuvers to avoid the guards’ gunfire, but that became poison for Kang Soyul instead.
How could a beginner who just started Reverse Planet help an ally moving at tremendous speed in all directions without distinction?
Actually, even if she wasn’t a beginner, it would be the same.
To provide effective help to Baek Woohyun in combat, one would need to be at pro level to even attempt it.
That’s why all Kang Soyul could do was at most fire warning shots at the surroundings to hold the guards’ attention for a moment.
“…Three Etinels this easily…”
-Newbie cutter limited to close combat ㅇㄷ?
-They say it’s instant kill for experienced newbies~
-Were they originally this easy to deal with?
-ㄴㄴ that person’s just abnormal
The battles with Etinels were even worse than that.
Because the battles ended without even a gap for Kang Soyul to intervene and try something.
Just like he had dealt with the two Etinels that appeared earlier in merely a few seconds, the Etinels that came out afterward also didn’t require much time for Baek Woohyun.
In a way, it was natural since he didn’t hold the most threatening weapon, guns, and all the combat AI was figured out.
Watching him easily handle Etinels from behind, even the guide ‘Don’t face Etinels in close combat!’ felt laughable.
-Bus driver, are you perhaps preparing to go pro?
-King possibility. Might be contracted and preparing to debut
-Which team is it to keep such talent shelved without debut
-But why is a pro doing no-assist
“It seems like it’s almost the end!”
“I see.”
As they proceeded with the mission at this breakneck pace, the end came faster than expected.
The two people, Baek Woohyun and Kang Soyul, looked at the stairs that seemed to lead outside. That place was precisely the final destination of this tutorial mission.
According to the content shown in broadcasts, they should go outside the research facility and rendezvous with agents from the Otherworld Management Bureau.
However, there was one prerequisite for this.
“Did you think you could escape here so easily? You stupid rat bastard.”
“…P-please spare me…”
“Why should I?”
It was to defeat the tutorial boss standing guard in front of the stairs, the ‘Security Captain.’
Crack.
The Security Captain mercilessly broke the neck of the test subject he was clutching. The test subject who had been miserably begging for his life went limp.
The Security Captain clicked his tongue and discarded it like trash. Surprisingly, around him were nearly ten corpses killed in the same manner, sprawled out.
Even though it was a tutorial, it was an entrance and direction befitting someone playing the boss role.
“More vermin have come.”
The Security Captain, who spat out curses, glared at Baek Woohyun and Kang Soyul who had just appeared.
Eyes dripping with terrible murderous intent!
Numerous scars crossing his fiercely twisted face writhed.
“……”
Seeing that appearance, Baek Woohyun suddenly narrowed his brow.
Because the Security Captain reminded him of memories from the past.
During the escape ‘over there’ ten years ago, he and his comrades had tried to pass through these stairs to get out of the research facility.
The Security Captain guarding this place blocked them along with his subordinates.
And so, between two groups whose purposes couldn’t tolerate each other, battle broke out. As a result.
‘…Two comrades died.’
‘Cheon Hojin’ and ‘Jeong Daeyoung.’
Two people who stepped forward most bravely, fought without even caring for their own bodies, and died for their comrades in the end.
—And himself, who had fled away leaving their sacrifice behind.
‘Right, that’s how it was.’
Expression disappeared from Baek Woohyun’s face as he recalled memories buried in the years.
Not simply trying to hide emotion, but a complete expressionlessness where not even a fragment of emotion was visible.
The only thing revealing anything within it was his two eyes. Only the two eyes with black and white reversed were eerily shining in his bleakly sunken face.
If Kang Soyul had been looking at Baek Woohyun instead of making a fuss about the Security Captain’s appearance, she would have been shocked.
Because she would have faced an even more terrifying gaze than the murderous maniac’s eyes she had seen before.
“You idiots who were swayed by agitation and struggled all the way here trying to escape.”
Crack. Crack.
The Security Captain, who had no way of knowing Baek Woohyun’s thoughts, cracked his neck left and right as he stepped toward them.
He seemed to be trying to present a threatening appearance, but unfortunately, it didn’t work very effectively.
Setting aside Baek Woohyun, even Kang Soyul sneered rather than being frightened.
“Did you really think you bastards could escape? Laboratory rats like you?!”
“Wow, really typical villain dialogue.”
-ㄹㅇㅋㅋ
-It is typical
-Don’t expect too much from a tutorial boss;
-Ugh I want to snap his neck right off
“Escape? Fine. Go ahead and try! If you can survive in my hands!”
The Security Captain shouted and rushed in. It was a charge at considerably fast speed.
At the suddenly started boss battle, Kang Soyul first raised her rifle. She was trying to faithfully follow the lesson learned from the previous battle with Etinels.
She quickly completed shouldering and aiming—though of course, her posture was clumsy due to the lack of assistance—then pulled the trigger after steadying her breath.
Ratatatatat-!
Dozens of bullets shot out from the rifle!
The Security Captain, who had been rushing stupidly from the front, couldn’t avoid the baptism of bullets.
However, that didn’t mean his death.
Rather than the bullets turning him into a beehive, they bounced off making metallic sounds.
Blocked by the ‘particle barrier’ enveloping his body.
“What the?! I thought only awakeners had particle barriers?!”
-ㅇㅇ only awakeners have them
-Security Captain’s also an awakener apparently
-Still, shouldn’t he have at least a supernatural ability to be a tutorial boss?
-Mindset of trying to mooch with guns is cheeky lol
“Haha! What’s wrong? First time seeing an awakener? You thought only you were awakeners? How stupid!”
“That bastard-”
As the Security Captain sneered at just the right time, Kang Soyul’s expression crumpled.
Not so much that she was angry at the Security Captain’s words, but because she could guess what reaction the viewers must have shown just now.
They must be thoroughly mocking her, saying she’s being toyed with by an NPC or whatnot.
‘Well, still.’
In any case, Kang Soyul’s gunfire succeeded in stopping the Security Captain’s sudden charge.
Looking at the Security Captain blinking his eyes and snorting, it seemed he would rush toward them again before long though.
So there was something to do before that.
“Woohyun-nim! I’ll provide supporting fire from behind!”
-“Please” carry
-Mooch ON!
-Look at that quick situational judgment
-Seems like it won’t work so immediately calls the driver lololol
“……”
Without looking back at Kang Soyul shouting as she hurriedly retreated, Baek Woohyun advanced toward the Security Captain.
Not caring at all even though the Security Captain was glaring at him with fierce eyes.
Feeling something as he watched Baek Woohyun approaching him, the Security Captain twisted his face to the fullest.
“I’ll kill you!”
Thud thud thud thud!
The Security Captain rushed in with a thunderous shout.
Simultaneously, his body changed to steel’s distinctive color, revealing the effect of his supernatural ability.
That was why thundering sounds occurred with each step.
Becoming a steel human and increasing in weight, with each step he took, heavy sounds rang out and the floor was gouged deeply.
Even Kang Soyul, who was quite far away, felt heavy reverberations from the Security Captain’s charge—what more needed to be said?
At this moment, the Security Captain was literally a heavy tank.
A heavy tank that would crush everything blocking his path!
“……”
On the other hand, Baek Woohyun remained indifferent as ever.
He merely gazed at the Security Captain rushing with terrifying momentum with eyes where black and white were reversed.
That was the same even when the distance quickly closed and the Security Captain finally reached before him.
“Uwooo-!”
The Security Captain throwing his whole body with a rough roar.
The will to crash into him and smash him like this was clearly felt.
No matter how much physical abilities were enhanced with [Perfect Being], if properly rammed by a person-sized chunk of metal, bones couldn’t be gathered.
The instant Kang Soyul opened her mouth to shout that it was dangerous again without realizing.
Tap.
Baek Woohyun moved.
He kicked off the floor to evade from the charge trajectory, and swept the ankle of the Security Captain passing by his side.
For the Security Captain charging like a runaway locomotive, that was no different from catching on a suddenly appeared large stone.
He even grabbed the head of the Security Captain going “Urk!” and falling over, and added force to slam it into the floor!
Kwang!
“Keurgh!”
The Security Captain, who crashed face-first into the floor, let out a suppressed scream.
At least because he was steelified there were no wounds, but becoming a steel human didn’t mean pain and sense completely disappeared.
It only meant his whole body became hard as steel, while pain was felt just the same.
In other words, right now he felt the pain of grinding his face on the floor with the force of his charge.
Kagagak!
“Gyaaak!”
Baek Woohyun didn’t quietly wait for the Security Captain to regain his senses.
Drawing the dagger at his waist, he instantly and consecutively slashed the collapsed Security Captain’s neck and back. Almost three or four times in an instant.
Truly splendid knife skills—but the result wasn’t very good.
“……”
Seeing the dagger with its blade almost completely worn out, Baek Woohyun silently discarded it.
Before the metallic clang could even sound, he grabbed the Security Captain’s hair, then forcefully slammed him into the floor with strength.
Kwang!
“Krgh-”
The Security Captain’s face crashed into the floor again with heavy reverberation. He roughly exhaled in the agony of his skull ringing.
But unfortunately for him, the pain didn’t end there.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!
“Keurhak! Ak! Kreuk!”
Definitely finishing things when you’ve caught an opportunity.
That was the basic of fighting, and Baek Woohyun knew that fact very well.
That’s why there wasn’t a speck of hesitation in the act of continuously slamming the Security Captain’s head into the floor.
Brutal handiwork enough to make Kang Soyul behind him shudder without realizing!
“Oof… That must hurt.”
-Catching the boss like catching a rat
-This is a bus driver lololol
-Why does it look familiar?
-Being used to beating people like that means… Hoxy…?
“Ban if you say weird things! Woohyun-nim is just, um- he’s just mastered the game!”
‘Battery’ donated ‘1000 won’!
[Ah lol anyway saying no lol]
Even while Kang Soyul and the viewers were doing a comedy routine, Baek Woohyun didn’t stop. He just silently continued slamming the Security Captain’s face into the ground.
The Security Captain had stubbornly endured at first even in the pain of his skull shaking, but his limit came quickly.
His concentration scattered due to the pain and his supernatural ability was released.
It was around then that the banging sounds changed to chilling crack sounds.
Of course, even so, Baek Woohyun didn’t stop.
He had been working to kill from the start.
“Sto-op- Kreuhk!”
Hearing the Security Captain’s barely uttered words, Baek Woohyun finally stopped his hand and looked at him.
The Security Captain’s face, slammed into the floor several times with even his supernatural ability—his last bastion—released, was in a completely wrecked state.
Covered in blood all over with tears here and there, swollen all over, and even several front teeth knocked out.
Truly a miserable appearance beyond description.
In that state, he spoke pleadingly.
“Spa-re me- plea-se…”