Weapon-Eating Bastard [EN]: Chapter 350

Weapon-Devouring Bastard – Episode 350

Kwarururung!

The aerial fortress was completely shattered, scattering debris all over the ground.

High in the sky.

From the blackened heavens, a faint wailing sound echoed.

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The energy that mercilessly tore apart the fortress resembled thunder, or a meteor shower crashing down on the earth.

No, to be precise, it resembled the tentacles of some creature.

The moment I saw it, I instinctively knew what it was.

‘The Primordial Beast…….’

The attack that had been pouring down like a rainstorm abruptly stopped.

It’s looking at me now.

I could instinctively feel that the energy had found me.

“How dare you……!”

Kiiiiiiing!

I drew Black Night and channeled my energy into it.

Secret Art, Muguk.

A strike with all my might tore through the air, rushing towards the tentacles reaching out to the ground.

Kwaaaang!

The tips of the tentacles extending from the sky were cleanly severed, mingling with the wreckage of the falling aerial fortress.

But that was the end of it.

As if ‘this place’ was enough, the beast’s energy, which had been reaching towards the aerial fortress, was sucked back into the sky.

Teong!

I quickly dove towards the falling debris.

Nothing.

I couldn’t sense anything.

There was no trace of the dwarves anywhere.

The wreckage of the aerial fortress had lost the ancient mystical energy it once held, leaving only huge marks on the ground.

‘The Primordial Beast has finally…… begun to move.’

And the first thing it destroyed was the aerial fortress.

What does this mean?

Even if this destruction is somehow averted, it means that records of the Primordial Beast will not be passed down to future generations in the next era.

‘For a mere monster to……!’

I gnashed my teeth.

Until now, the Primordial Beast was simply an entity that devoured everything on Earth.

But not this time.

It scattered the apostles of Behemoth into the world, stirring up chaos and fear, controlled all the power in the world, and now it has even destroyed the aerial fortress.

The Primordial Beast…… has gained intelligence.

As if there would be no more chances.

This time, it is determined to devour this world.

Hudududuk! Kwarururung!

I quietly looked up at the rain of debris pouring down.

Even after checking again, I couldn’t sense any presence.

The dwarves’ energy and the mystical energy of the aerial fortress had vanished.

The downpour of wreckage was just meaningless rubble now.

‘……I received your last words well.’

With the dwarves’ last words in my heart, I turned away from the falling debris and immediately turned around.

‘Where are you?’

I felt the ominous energy swirling above the rippling sky.

I used my Mystic Eyes to track the Primordial Beast’s power.

‘What are you planning to do next? Where are you, where to…….’

The energy that struck the aerial fortress burrowed into the sky and left for some distant place.

As if hunting for its next prey.

Wuuuuuung!

At that moment, a multicolored light flickered in the dim sky.

An aurora.

The magnificent spectacle from the polar regions began to fill the sky.

But that beautiful sight looked so ominous.

“……!”

I felt an immense presence falling towards the ground from the aurora covering the sky.

“No way!”

I opened my eyes wide and shouted to the sky.

“Blackbird! Come here quickly!”

I boarded the Blackbird and headed straight north.

High in the sky.

I looked at the distant northern frontier.

Flash!

And I saw a giant flash of light striking down on the battlefield.

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Northern Frontier Barrier.

Unprecedented chaos had struck the command post.

“You’re saying communications are down?”

“If we switch the magic engineering communicator to high output, we can still get a signal…… but the general communication lines are completely dead!”

“What about communication with headquarters!”

“T, that’s…….”

“Results are in! Hotline communication results show that not only South Korea but…….”

“The traces of the aerial fortress have disappeared……!”

“T, there’s a report that black smoke is flowing out of the bodies of the dead among the injured……!”

Immediately after the eclipse and the sky turned black.

Many things had slipped out of their control.

The biggest problem was the communication breakdown.

The magic engineering communicator, with its magic power cranked to the maximum, was still somewhat connected, but most of the communicators were down.

“It’s a mess like no other.”

Lee Jin-yoon, wrapped in bandages all over her body, watched the chaotic command post and rubbed her forehead.

Wookshin!

Despite the pain of her internal injuries, which made her face pale, Lee Jin-yoon had insisted on attending the meeting.

She had no choice.

In the battle against the first-class monster, the twins and Lee Jae-hak were so severely injured that they couldn’t move, and Lee Seo-hyun was also in intensive care.

She was the only one who could fill Lee Chul’s void, even if only a little.

“L, Lee Jin-yoon, Warrior. Have the researchers from the Soongmoo Lee family come up with any results?”

The elderly officer, who had been assigned as the commander of the northern front, asked her.

Lee Jin-yoon shook her head.

“……There are no special reports yet. The priority is to calm the soldiers who are in chaos.”

“Hmm…… Then, do you know when the head of the family is scheduled to return?”

“The head of the family…… will be here soon.”

The whole world is trembling with fear.

Faced with phenomena that cannot be explained by logic or science, who can maintain their composure?

‘……Even I am no different.’

Just one day.

Even though she had defeated a first-class monster and returned alive, Lee Jin-yoon was feeling confusion and fear instead of joy.

Lee Jin-yoon could still see the nauseating scenery and bizarre energies that had spewed out of the corpse of the first-class monster.

Kwaaaang!

Even though it was the command post, far from the front lines, the explosion that echoed in the distance could be heard.

The officers, who had experienced all kinds of hardships, trembled at the explosion.

‘They must have realized it too. That the end is really near.’

News had come from that distant foreign country that dozens of tactical nuclear weapons had been fired at the monsters, that over a hundred countries had disappeared, and that the sky had been plunged into darkness.

Communications are down, and bizarre phenomena that you would only feel when entering the frontier are happening everywhere.

Furthermore, all living things that meet death are soaring into the sky as black mist with terrible screams, and monster attacks continue without ceasing.

If this isn’t called the end, what would you call the end?

‘If there’s any good news, it’s that the monsters have become stupid again.’

Perhaps it’s that the monsters’ advance has become more primitive after the death of the first-class monster.

Thanks to this, the absolute number of deaths has been decreasing.

The soldiers’ morale…… well, it’s hitting rock bottom, to say the least.

‘It’s full of questions. So come back soon, maknae [youngest sibling/term of endearment for a close younger friend].’

Lee Jin-yoon sighed deeply.

It was at that moment.

“……!”

Lee Jin-yoon jumped up from her seat in the conference room.

Almost instinctively, she reached out and grabbed her beloved sword, Geoshan.

“Lee Jin-yoon, Warrior! What’s wrong!”

“Now……?”

Biiiiiiii! Wiiiiiiing!

And the next moment, a deafening warning signal was picked up from the command post’s state-of-the-art magic engineering equipment.

That equipment was the latest equipment for identifying the magic power of the battlefield, and it was a measuring device created by the Black Turtle Association with all kinds of technology to measure all wavelengths.

“What’s going on! Report quickly!”

“T, this is…… m, magic power. An enormous amount of magic power, t, this is impossible. I can’t even measure it……?”

“What’s going on, I’m asking!”

“F, from the sky…… u, unless it’s an error, it’s impossible, th, th, magic power……!”

“I, it can’t be. T, this is really…….”

The soldiers, who were looking at the screen in a panic, had expressions of despair.

Lee Jin-yoon was the only one who reacted.

“Everyone! Prepare for impact!”

Only a few people reacted to Lee Jin-yoon’s sudden cry.

Lee Jin-yoon cut through the concrete ceiling of the command post with her sword and jumped outside.

The sight that she saw.

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There was light in the sky.

It was a more destructive, ominous, and terrifying flash than any light she had ever seen.

The light fell to the ground.

Kwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

A tremendous vibration covered the ground.

It was the sky.

Something that had fallen from the aurora in the sky had collapsed the earth’s axis.

“Ughaaaaaak!”

“Kuaaaak!”

“S, save……!”

Jjeojeojeok! Jjeoooooook!

The barrier that had been blocking the monsters’ attacks collapsed, and the immense physical force of ‘something’ that had fallen to the ground swept away everything on the ground, creating a tsunami of earth and sand.

That was the last scene Lee Jin-yoon saw in her right mind.

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The world was filled with silence.

Where is this place?

What was I doing until just now?

Clutching her confused mind, Lee Jin-yoon jumped up.

Kurururung…….

From afar, the sound of something collapsing and being swept away echoed.

“K, keueueue…….”

At the same time as her mind returned, terrible pain covered her body.

She rubbed the dirt-covered eyes and tried to look to the side.

‘B, damn it.’

A huge reinforced concrete was pressing down on her arm.

The rebar that was bent and sticking out looked like the blood vessels of some creature.

Kwarung! Kwang!

Lee Jin-yoon injected her aura to destroy all the debris covering her body.

Still with a hazy head, she grabbed the sword that had fallen far away and staggered to her feet.

“Ugh, aaaa…….”

“Kkeuaaaaaak!”

The world was full of screams.

Forcing her creaking joints to move, she cut through the soil piled up in front of her and climbed up.

And.

“T, this is…….”

A huge ruin…… unfolded before her.

The great wall-like barrier that had been protecting the northern frontier…… was nowhere to be seen.

The ground, where all kinds of weapons and numerous soldiers had been stationed, had become a wide plain, and the humans swept away by all kinds of ruins were only wriggling on it like ants swept away by a flood.

“Kulk! Keuek! Wh, what. What the hell happened…….”

Kugugugu!

Even at this moment, the roar did not stop echoing.

Is this what the scenery after a tsunami would look like, or the scenery after a typhoon?

Shwaaaaa…….

At that moment, a sound was heard.

Lee Jin-yoon turned her head towards the distant horizon where the sound was heard.

“……Lake?”

Lake? Since when was there a lake there?

No. That was not a lake.

The place where the barrier should have been, the place where the soldiers were stationed.

Water was filling all the places in front of her, from the end of the horizon to the end of the horizon.

Shwaaaaa…….

The salty smell that brushed past her nose.

Lee Jin-yoon realized that it was seawater.

‘Now…….’

But she couldn’t believe the assumption that flashed through her mind.

-Kiiiiiiiiik!

At that moment, the cry of some creature was heard from above.

“Noona [term of endearment for older sister]!”

A familiar voice, Lee Chul’s.

Kwang!

As if he couldn’t wait for the descent to end, Lee Chul plunged straight into the ground from high above.

“Are you okay? Your injuries are…….”

“I, I’m o, okay…… more than that. M, maknae [youngest sibling/term of endearment for a close younger friend]…… what, what happened now? You, you saw it from up there, didn’t you?”

Lee Jin-yoon looked at Lee Chul.

Lee Chul pressed his lips tightly and was silent for a moment.

And then he opens his mouth again.

“Now…….”

Lee Chul’s gaze turns to a distant place.

North.

Towards that huge destruction site where water is filling up, which I thought was a lake.

“The land has been divided.”

Lee Chul’s words made it impossible to disbelieve Lee Jin-yoon’s absurd imagination.

“It’s just the beginning. He…… has moved.”

I said, looking at the distant eastern sea.

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