Chapter 93
7.
special individuals born among the Mogs emitted a Unique Wavelength, and their strength could be measured by the size of that wavelength.
Then why exactly was an individual with a strong wavelength so terrifying?
First of all, they were large in size.
It wasn’t the case for all of them, but generally, the higher the weight class, the more massive their bulk became.
That was also the reason why the term weight class came about.
And naturally, special Individuals had extremely strong durability.
When explaining this situation, the one frequently mentioned was the first discovered light heavyweight individual, a Mogdog.
Named after the legendary light heavyweight boxer Ezzard Charles and called by the nickname Charles, the creature was ten times more massive than a normal Mogdog.
And its defense was incredibly strong, to the point that it wouldn’t be pierced even if shot with a sniping Gauss Gun.
So a team for a behemoth hunt was formed to catch Mogdog Charles, and it was only after a tactical small nuclear missile was finally launched there that they were able to catch it.
At that time, Superman Henry Stone, one of the greatest Psycher agents in the history of humanity who participated in that Mogdog Charles Raid, said.
“If I had to catch either a behemoth or Mogdog Charles, I would go catch the behemoth.”
No one asked him, who spat out such words, the question, “What would you do if a Heavyweight Mogdog appeared?”
They did not want to discuss despair in that hopeful place.
It was the same even after that.
The Space Marines and Psycher Agents operating in space worried about all sorts of futures, but they never spat out the words, “What do we do if a heavyweight individual appears?” out loud.
But now, that Heavyweight Mogdog had appeared.
Nowhere else but on the Xeno’s planet, Planet Pora.
Naturally, its presence was overwhelming.
The moment it appeared, the fairly large Mogdogs felt like Chihuahuas placed next to a lion.
But the truly terrifying thing was what came next.
Kkeueoeoeo!
The Heavyweight Mogdog that appeared let out a roar, looked around its surroundings, and then just lay down on the spot.
It did not show the kind of aggressiveness or violence that normal Mogdogs displayed.
In other words, the Heavyweight Mogdog knew.
That its mere appearance was enough to end any conflict.
And that wasn’t simply something like having composure.
It meant that the Heavyweight Mogdog wasn’t just faithful to its instincts, but had the intelligence to act based on experience.
Anyway, the Heavyweight Mogdog thought its job was now done and just lay down.
It was in a defenseless state, but that was of no consequence to the Heavyweight Mogdog.
Because any ordinary attack would just be a tickle to the Heavyweight Mogdog, something merely laughable.
No, because the Heavyweight Mogdog’s body was made of a hard exoskeleton, it wouldn’t even feel a tickle.
So it stayed still.
Still.
Without doing anything.
Kkieeeek!
It merely watched as the Mogdogs occupied Kakom City and indiscriminately destroyed it.
It was then.
Kkieeeek!
A few of the Mogdogs that were frantically destroying Kakom City approached the Heavyweight Mogdog and sent some kind of signal.
Kkieeeeeeek!
They let out a piercing sound, and the Heavyweight Mogdog did not show any reaction to that sound.
Kkieeeek!
However, in the face of the repeated sounds, it eventually couldn’t hold back and stood up from its spot.
Kkeueoeoeo!
And then it let out an angry roar.
Fiercely.
It expressed its anger toward the Mogdogs that dared to scream at it.
Kkieeek!
But even in the face of that angry roar, the Mogdogs repeatedly started making sounds.
At that point, the Heavyweight Mogdog also felt something was strange.
It could immediately figure out the reason.
That is, the Mogdog could feel it.
Kkeueo?
A hole had formed in its head’s exoskeleton.
Kkeueoeoeo!
The moment it realized that, light appeared.
Light appeared.
8.
The moment Kim Seojun explained the plan via telepathy, everyone was astonished.
[Wow, I never imagined in my life that a day would come where we’d be doing Mogdog Laser Treatment. What’s even more surprising is that this actually seems like it’ll work. Well, it definitely won’t be an easy task, though.]
It was the same for Kim Seojun himself.
He thought it wouldn’t be an easy task.
In that situation, Kim Seojun started looking for the Mogdog’s weakest part with clairvoyance.
Actually, there was no need to look for it.
Any Space Marine who had faced Mogdogs countless times knew.
That the weakest part of a Mogdog’s exoskeleton was its head.
So he aimed at the head.
From then on, Kim Seojun felt it.
'…It’s not moving?'
That is, with the Heavyweight Mogdog staying still right now, Kim Seojun felt that the situation was flowing differently than expected.
Afterward, he aimed the Philastergun and pulled the trigger.
The moment he pulled the trigger, the light touched the Heavyweight Mogdog’s head.
It was that moment.
The feeling Kim Seojun felt became a certainty.
Kim Seojun pulled the trigger of the Philastergun.
Relentlessly.
And he said.
“The situation is flowing differently than expected.”
[Expected? What do you mean?]
At those words, naturally, everyone thought.
[Is it not going well?]
Seeing Kim Seojun speak like this, it could only mean the situation was going worse than expected.
It wasn’t just Kim Seojun.
There were no cases where people whose work was going well would suddenly stop what they were doing and say something like that.
So everyone tensed up, and to them, Kim Seojun said.
“No. It’s the opposite.”
[The opposite?]
“It seems like it will go too easily.”
[What?]
At Kim Seojun’s words, everyone belonging to Kim Seojun’s Legion simultaneously telepathically asked, 'What?'
They had no choice but to do so.
What they were facing right now was the first Heavyweight Mogdog humanity had ever encountered.
In a sense, it could be said to be a trickier existence than a behemoth or a Sky Whale.
Not having information was one thing, but sky whales and behemoths weren’t particularly fast individuals.
They were just terrifying because they were beings with unfathomable, common-sense-defying massiveness and characteristics.
They were a kind of natural disaster.
On the other hand, a Heavyweight Mogdog was like a very terrifying combat vehicle.
And when faced on the battlefield, what was terrifying was such a powerful combat vehicle rather than a natural disaster.
Anyway, to sum it up, it was not a target that warranted the expression 'easy'.
[Seojun, you’re joking right now, right? You don’t have to force yourself to do that. You don’t necessarily have to ease our tension.]
So Noah Winston thought Kim Seojun was joking.
[Ah, there’s no way. Not Seojun.]
And she soon realized that was the most nonsensical thing to say.
In addition, Kim Seojun also understood his comrades' reactions.
So he gave an explanation.
“Right now, two things are unexpected. One is that the creature isn’t moving.”
[It’s not moving?]
“Right after appearing, it just lay down on the spot.”
[Lay down?]
First of all, those words themselves were truly unexpected.
The Mogs everyone knew were relentless creatures, knowing nothing but overdrive.
Especially the moment they faced an enemy, Mogs would run until they died, regardless of their species.
But here, on the battlefield, it lies down?
Regarding that, Kim Seojun also had doubts at first, but on the other hand, he could understand it.
“It probably has never fought a proper battle even once. Because there would be no individual that would lunge at it after seeing a Heavyweight Mogdog. To that creature, a battle was merely its appearance.”
[Ah!]
But the moment they heard the following explanation, everyone understood.
Just as he said, if it was anyone who knew Mogs, there was no way they would fight against a Heavyweight Mogdog.
The Xenos were the same.
Even if they were strong, it was impossible for them to utter the words, “Let’s give it a try!” against a Heavyweight Mogdog.
Even if they did utter them, it would be nothing more than the struggling of a moth rushing toward a flame rather than a proper battle.
From the Heavyweight Mogdog’s perspective, this situation could only be peaceful and laughable.
“The second thing is.”
Kim Seojun said to them.
“Even though I’m continuously shooting the Philastergun right now, it’s not even budging.”
[Ah!]
At those words, Jo I-hyeon immediately reacted.
[Because the exoskeleton has no sense! Furthermore, with that kind of size, a low-output attack from the Philastergun would be nothing more than the feeling of the wind coming and tickling it!]
Only after hearing those words did everyone finally realize.
[So right now, the Heavyweight Mogdog is in a situation where it’s receiving something like a laser blemish removal surgery, is that it?]
“It seems like it.”
When they heard those words, everyone could now understand why Kim Seojun said it was an unexpected situation.
“The difference from the laser treatment we receive is that while we writhe in pain if it deviates even a little from the anesthetized area, the Heavyweight Mogdog won’t feel any pain until its exoskeleton is pierced.”
From then on, everyone now held their breath.
Because they felt it.
That today, Kim Seojun would definitely be able to defeat the Heavyweight Mogdog.
Of course, not everything was done.
“There is one problem.”
There was one crucial detail.
“We have to inflict maximum damage to the exoskeleton before it gives way.”
The moment the exoskeleton is pierced, from that moment on, it would show a very fast reaction even to a small impact.
So before the exoskeleton was fully breached, he had to gauge the timing precisely and make a proper attack.
Normally, it was an impossible task.
But Kim Seojun possessed the necessary tools.
“I will give it a try.”
These were the abilities of clairvoyance and Dynamic Visual Acuity, which could accurately gauge that timing.
From then on, Kim Seojun didn’t say anything more.
Dudududu!
From the attack helicopter piloted by Brigadier General Lee Yeong-jun, he pulled the trigger of the Philastergun toward a single point on the Heavyweight Mogdog’s head, 7 kilometers below his feet.
Pitpitpitpit!
It was a quiet and seemingly trivial task, but at some point, beads of sweat formed on the bridge of Kim Seojun’s nose as he did that task.
It was natural.
Because this was a nonsensical task like writing the Heart Sutra on a single grain of rice with a brush.
Kim Seojun, who had been working relentlessly like that, stopped his finger at a certain moment.
The trigger of the Philastergun, which had been moving repeatedly and relentlessly, stopped for the first time.
“Huu.”
There, Kim Seojun let out a truly long sigh, and after letting out the sigh, Kim Seojun moved the output regulator attached to the Philastergun.
After that, he aimed toward the ground again and said to everyone.
“I’m firing at maximum output.”
And the moment Kim Seojun pulled the trigger, light spewed from the Philastergun.
That was no exaggeration.
The power of the Philastergun ultimately came down to how much light it could project.
Producing maximum output meant unleashing all its light!
A literal pillar of light began to spew out, and from that moment on, a tremendous level of recoil also began to be felt.
Dudududu!
The attack helicopter began to heave.
There, Brigadier General Lee Yeong-jun’s ability was displayed.
Even though it was a helicopter where losing balance once meant disaster and was prone to instability, Brigadier General Lee Yeong-jun immediately caught the center of gravity.
No, it wasn’t just catching it; surprisingly, he balanced it in real-time to match the recoil of the Philastergun.
So that Kim Seojun’s aiming wouldn’t miss.
Like that, for 11 seconds, after pouring out all its output, the Philastergun’s light stopped.
And at that moment, Kim Seojun could hear it.
9.
[You have defeated a Heavyweight Mogdog.]
[mission conditions have been met.]
[The item shop is activated!]
The moment the light stopped, status window notifications rang endlessly in Kim Seojun’s ears.
However, Kim Seojun did not lower his guard here.
Rather, it was the opposite.
“I got it.”
He relayed it to everyone via telepathy.
“We have to get out of here as quickly as possible. It’s dangerous.”
That a storm would be coming soon.
It was natural.
A Heavyweight Mogdog wasn’t simply a powerful entity in the Mog Legion.
In terms of a human military, it was a general-level equivalent.
But that general suddenly died?
Then what would happen to the soldiers?
And what judgment would the command make?
“A massive number will swarm in.”
First of all, what was certain was that a massive legion would come toward this place, Kakom City.
Three times as many, or even more!
That wasn’t all.
“Wherever we go.”
From now on, the Mogs on Planet Pora would have aggressiveness of a different magnitude than before.
An unpredictable situation would come in many ways, and so now they had to prepare for it.
“Hold on tight!”
Dudududu!
As soon as Kim Seojun’s words ended, Brigadier General Lee Yeong-jun began to leave the city at maximum output.
They left the battlefield.
[The battle has ended. Commencing settlement.]
Then, the status window provided the settlement.
[You have acquired 1,244,333 points in this battle.]
The points settled like that were much higher than Kim Seojun’s expectations.
Even though a 3x event was being applied, it was far higher compared to the number of Mogs caught.
Of course, he wasn’t surprised.
“The Heavyweight Mogdog gave at least 200,000 points.”
He didn’t just catch a Heavyweight Mogdog, it was the first time one had been caught, and the reward for that would have come out purely in points.
It was a joyful thing.
However, Kim Seojun didn’t just rejoice here.
As mentioned earlier, the situation on Planet Pora had now become more urgent.
In that situation, there was one thing Kim Seojun had to do.
Use the new function.
“item shop.”
[The item Shop has been activated.]
As soon as he uttered the command, a hologram window popped up in Kim Seojun’s eyes.
The contents of the shop window were simple.
There was the item’s name, and next to it were the points.
“My god.”
However, the contents were not simple.
[Recovery Potion (100,000pt)]
[Physical Enhancement Potion (100,000pt)]
[Psychic Enhancement Potion (100,000pt)]
First of all, the cheapest one was 100,000 points.
It was a staggering price.
However, Kim Seojun couldn’t raise any complaints about that price.
[Recovery Potion]
- Recovers all wounds upon use.
[Physical Enhancement Potion]
- physical abilities increase by 200 percent upon use.
[Psychic Enhancement Potion]
- Psychic abilities increase by 200 percent upon use.
Considering the results they would produce on the battlefield, from Kim Seojun’s perspective, it was a bargain.
The Recovery Potion, in particular, made Kim Seojun doubt his eyes.
“Recovering all wounds.”
Humanity, having entered the space age, could no longer die from ordinary wounds and had even conquered aging, but all of that required time and equipment.
But this Recovery Potion made all of that pale in comparison.
“Ah, this.”
Then Kim Seojun discovered something.
“This is the cheapest.”
The cheapest one.
[Fatigue Recovery Potion (10,000pt)]
By simple calculation, it was something he could buy only after catching 10,000 Mogs, but Kim Seojun had no complaints.
'Recovering all fatigue the moment you drink it… It’s a shame it can only be used once every 24 hours.'
Because the most dangerous thing on the battlefield was fatigue, above anything else.
Of course, Kim Seojun harbored another curiosity here.
What exactly was the most expensive thing?
That curiosity was soon resolved.
Thankfully, the shop window had options to sort items as desired, and Kim Seojun immediately sorted them in order of the most expensive points.
Then he could see it.
[genesis-grade relic box (1,000,000,000pt)]
[mythic-grade relic box (100,000,000pt)]
[Legendary-grade Relic Box (10,000,000pt)]
[Hero-grade Relic Box (1,000,000pt)]
The moment he saw that, Kim Seojun felt a sense of staggering distance.
He didn’t think it would be cheap, but to think a 1 billion point item existed?
It was then.
The moment Kim Seojun tried to grasp the shop window a bit more, Kasaknat spoke to everyone.
[Oh, Jumara!]
Kasaknat spoke to everyone.
[The compass has moved!]