Chapter 114
The wooden bridge that connected to the forest region was replaced with a assembly type steel bridge . It’s said that the Engineering Corps completed it in four days .
As expected, there was nothing that didn’t work out if the army was involved .
First, the 250 military trucks passed and our van followed behind to cross the bridge .
There was a small guard post next to the bridge where soldiers with guns and a few hunters were standing by .
It seems they were on lookout so that the Chungho Group cannot cross from that side .
They wouldn’t be able to catch the ones that cross the river though .
“We will be inspecting for a bit . ”
Once all the military trucks passed the soldiers holding guns approached .
It seems they will be thoroughly checking since the situation is how it is .
They starting the inspection from the vehicles in the front and it seemed they were doing an inspection of the vehicle’s inside and confirming the passenger’s ID and face .
“This looks like it will take some time . ”
Park Han-bum said while yawning . Soo-ah slightly frowned .
“Wait…… aren’t they doing a ID check? Edward doesn’t have one . ”
“Ah, now that you mention it . ”
It hadn’t even been that long since Edward came to this side . Of course he didn’t have something like an ID .
“An ID you say . What’s that?”
“Ah, damn it . This is going to be annoying . ”
There was a battle right ahead of them so there was no way bribes would work . Everyone’s sight landed on Edward .
“Why are you all looking at me like that? And what’s an ID?”
He said with a displeased look .
It was possible to somehow get past the fact that the inside was wider than the outside .
It was pretty amazing but since space expansion existed for things like bags as well it was possible to gloss over it . However, that wasn’t the same for Edward .
I asked him .
“How long can you stay as a shadow?”
“About 5 minutes . ”
Would it be enough with that?”
“I don’t think it will be enough . ”
Han Joon-suk shook his head . It was not like turning into a shadow made him completely transparent and turning into a bat would be plenty suspicious .
It was a problem to turn back now too . That would be pretty suspicious as well after all .
“Could you get out of the car please?”
A soldier shouted at the half open window . It was not a situation where we could stall for time .
“Just get off . ”
Edward let out a laugh .
“Where are you getting such confidence?”
“Don’t worry, go and get this ID check or whatever . I will do what I can in here . ”
“…… okay . ”
Looks like he had an idea .
For now, everybody got out of the car while leaving Edward behind .
The ID check went without a problem but the problem was checking the inside of the van .
Two soldiers went in the van and came out before 1 minute passed .
“There are no problems . You are free to go . ”
“Yes? Yes . Thank you . ”
Once we entered, we could see Edward leaning on a chair with a proud look on his face .
We started going for now . Once we crossed the bridge I asked him a question .
“What in the world happened?”
“You didn’t forget who I am did you?”
“Vampire…… Ah, did you make those soldiers your servants?”
“I didn’t bite them so don’t worry . If we’re separated by a certain distance it should get cancelled so that won’t be a problem either . ”
It was a good thing that it was a normal soldier instead of a hunter .
A large monkey got sent flying after crashing into the van .
Yeon-gyeong’s shoulders shook .
“Party leader, just, just now…… that was a monster right?”
“Yep . ”
“Is it fine to keep driving?”
“It’s fine . But more importantly…… . ”
Wasn’t she hugging that too tightly .
“That guy will die suffocating . ”
“Ah, sorry . I hugged you too strongly right?”
Yeon-gyeong took Kelby off of her chest . This envious bastard .
The forest became more dense . The road gradually became narrow enough that the van couldn’t pass so the speed started falling .
“Ahhh!”
A large tree was hit by the van and broke . Cho Young-gu shouted with a loud voice .
“How far you going to go?”
“There’s a lake if we go a few more kilometers . ”
I spread the map open . If we wanted to hunt while staying at one place then water was a necessity . Drinking water was lacking as well but we needed to be able to wash .
The other reason is that there are monsters where water is .
“There doesn’t seem to be a road though? Is it really fine to just keep driving?”
“It’s fine . There is some impact but it won’t get broken . ”
I have mentioned this before but items were strong against this kind of physical impact .
No matter how strong and big a tree is it was possible to crush it under the van with enough speed .
If we travelled so loudly then monsters would be attracted too .
Once we drove while crushing dozens of trees we could see a small lake .
We could also hear something running at us from behind .
The sound of Giant Monkeys could be heard as well . They were all monsters following the van we were riding .
Through the sound I could tell that there were at least dozens . I turned my head in this and that direction and started talking .
“Should we start with some basic warm ups?”
2 meter high Giant Monkeys showed themselves on top of the trees .
Their numbers were approximately twenty . Although the same monkey type they were smaller than the Mukamuka, and they had low strength but had good organization while also using spears made from sharpening wood .
It could not be looked down on just because it was made of wood as they had the strength to pierce steel plates .
What came stomping below was the monster boar .
I think it’s official name was Buskato . (Kyle: pronounced boos-kah-tow . )
The shiny outer skin was tougher than steel and its molar pointed up more than 1 meter .
What made this special was that it could change its direction mid charge .
If you look down on it because it’s just a boar then you might get impaled by its meter long molar . There were about 20 of these things as well .
However, they were still just level 3 monsters . In the past I would have trembled in fear but it was different now .
“Manager Kim please use Sleep and go straight into the van!”
“Can’t I just use the spell in the van?”
“That seems fine too . ”
For now, all the combat members including me got off the van . The ones left inside were only Manager Kim and Edward .
He had an awkward expression being left with a vampire but I gave him the new sword that I bought to relieve him .
It was the level 8 sword .
It shined with light and seemed sharp enough to cut a stack of paper but it was actually closer to a machete on top of only having a single edge so it was difficult to call it a sword .
It had nicks everywhere and rust could be seen in places too . It had a blade length of 1 meter and was quite thick so the weight was pretty heavy as well .
“Is that really a level 8 item?”
Soo-ah placed Thor’s Hammer on her shoulder .
Looking at her holding it with relative ease even though it’s a heavy weapon it looks like I did well to sell it to her .
“It is . Also, the appearance isn’t everything about weapons . ”
“But since you were buying one why not buy one that looks cool . ”
“Is that why you’re not changing the Arachne armor?”
“N, no?”
Maybe due to being flustered even her ears became red . It seemed to be true looking at this reaction .
“Whatever . If you get even a small wound then your armor will immediately be replaced so just know that . ”
“I don’t even have money . ”
“You’ll have money to buy it by the end of this expedition . They’re coming!”
The monkeys were screaming with their unique harmony . Wooden spears poured down on our team .
“Get behind me!”
Cho Young-gu took a step forward and activated the barrier . The barrier spread by a level 5 shield couldn’t be compared to the one from before in terms of both area and protection ability .
The wooden spears were deflected without even being able to leave a scratch on the barrier . The level was different in the first place .
Park Han-bum’s Hand Cannon spewed out fire .
The projectile was steel coated in chrome . The projectile with a diameter of 5 centimeters struck the Armdri tree the monkeys were on . (Kyle: Pronounced ah-rhm-dree in original . )
With the sound like that of a balloon popping the tree trunk was destroyed .
The monkeys made loud noises as they jumped to a another tree from the falling tree .
While they were in chaos Yeon-gyeong and Han Joon-suk shot arrows .
And Manager Kim who finally finished casting the spell used Sleep .
“Fall asleep!”
The level 5 wide area Sleep spell fell on the monkeys and boars .
The monsters that were covered in shining golden powder shook their heads trying to regain conscience .
However, it was a spell that had at least 2 levels of difference . It was not at the level where they could easily recover .
Sway .
Thud!
The total number of monkeys that fell off the trees were 5 . The number of boars that fell asleep in place were 6 .
He talked too much and annoyed me with his grumbling but in any case his crowd control always did it’s job right .
The remaining boars all charged at Cho Young-gu .
“Uraaa!”
He held the shield tightly and expanded a barrier once more .
As the boars continuously crashed into the shield Cho Young-gu’s body slowly started getting pushed back .
However, it was not nearly enough to break the barrier . The archers that got strength from their trusty defense expert Cho Young-gu shot arrows as much as they could . Manager Kim who was still in the van shot the needle gun behind them .
“Ah, damn . They don’t get hit at all . ”
I wonder if it was really a good idea to give that to Manager Kim .
In the time I was thinking about that, Soo-ah came while swinging her hammer .
“I’m going!”
Her short shout got weirdly bent at the end . Was this called the Doppler Effect . She sure was fast .
She rushed through the boars swinging her hammer mercilessly .
The level 5 Thor’s Hammer lit up and electrocuted the boars that seemed to be wearing metal armor .
It seemed fine to leave those to Soo-ah . The ones left were the monkeys .
“Leave the monkeys to me!”
“Yes sir!”
Soo-ah who had been running like lightning suddenly stopped and saluted me . She sure is carefree .
I was shout at her not to do unnecessary things and jump forward when the monkeys suddenly hid their hands behind them . I was wondering what they were going to do when .
They started pooping as a group .
“Uaa! What are those things doing??”
Cho Young-gu who was looking at all that fell back while being disgusted .
Yeon-gyeong’s expression became pale .
“Ahh…… it’s disgusting . ”
“Retreat for now . If it even grazes you you’ll be poisoned . ”
It didn’t just look disgusting and was actually a extremely bacterial poison water .
It was a scary weapon that once hit it would first melt clothes and skin before poisoning and if you didn’t get treatment within 10 minutes you would die .
“I will go . ”
Jong Sa-won who tapped the ground a few times soon started running .
He was slower than Soo-ah but he was flexible and swift which allowed him to avoid the feces the monkeys were throwing .
Instead of climbing the tree, he cut down the tree in one swing with his newly bought level 5 longsword .
The number of trees he cut down continuously numbered 5 .
The monkeys tried to desperately jump to another tree but in that time Han Joon-suk’s Dragon Breath hit them directly .
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