One Man Army

Chapter 162 [Episode 83] The Last Gateway 2

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The Sky Whale was originally a fixed-location type monster. Most raid monsters are fixed-location type monsters limited to their own spawn points, but the Sky Whale was different.

To catch the Sky Whale, a powerful raid monster and a roaming type monster, you had to go around the Sky-sea yourself to find it.

“How long have we been connected?”

Sang Hyuk asked Gye Baek who was on lookout while working hard to grill the meat to make a simple skewer dish.

“Hmm, about seven hours? Even if it is the Red Bearded Whale, isn’t 7 hours supposed to be enough?”

“It should be enough, tho….I saw one sky island just a bit far over there, so it wouldn’t be bad to take a break at this time.”

“Is that an uninhabited island?”

“I think so.”

The Sky Islands on the Red Zone were mostly uninhabited islands. There were the sky islands where the Moon People lived at the early part of the Red Zone but almost 100% of the Sky Islands at the inner side of the Red Zone were uninhabited.

“Then let’s take a break and reconnect……”

Sang Hyuk’s team tried to reset the access time after the uninhabited island appeared, just like the saying “make hay while the sun shines”. But of course it was exactly at that time the Dark Knight who was on watch at the crow’s nest of the Ink Black Dragon, shouted loudly.

“A suspicious shadow sighted!”

What she discovered was a red shadow that seemed to be under the Sky-sea.

“30 Degrees to the left!”

Sang Hyuk, who heard Dark Knight’s loud voice, immediately turned the key 30 degrees to the left.

“Gye Baek prepares the harpoon and Leah continues to navigate!”

Sang Hyuk thought the shadow that appeared in front of him was potentially the Red Bearded Whale. Of course, there was the possibility that it was not the Red Bearded Whale, but even if it wasn’t the Red Bearded Whale, they had to be prepared in advance anyway.

“Eh? It’s gone…….”

Just then, Dark Knight lost track of the red shadow. Nevertheless, Sang Hyuk did not lose his focus.

“Stay focused and keep looking. If it was the real Red Bearded Whale, it will reappear.”

The Red Bearded Whale was very militant.

Among the Sky Whales, there were some who didn’t like to battle. In fact, there were many Whales who only attacked should the users attack first.

However, most Sky Whales, except for a handful of special Sky Herds, always attacked the sky ship first because they always recognized the user as an enemy.

Dark Knight eagerly looked everywhere and tried to re-acquire the red shadows she had found. It was certainly not a mistake. So, she focused with all her might and looked everywhere.

‘If Leah hadn’t been mistaken, it would never run away.’

Sang Hyuk, who was holding the Ink Black Dragon’s key, quickly began to plan for the worst. For a raid, assuming the worst and being prepared for it were the most important things.

“It was not on the left right front or back…… under!”

Sang Hyuk immediately turned the Ink Black Dragon’s key to the side and made an emergency evasion maneuver as soon as the worst came to his mind.

And at that very moment, a huge red shadow surfaced from underneath the Ink Black Dragon.

Pooooooong, khoooooooong!

Fortunately, Ink Black Dragon was able to avoid being capsized thanks to the emergency evasion maneuver. But even though they avoided getting hit directly, they couldn’t escape the huge waves it created.

“Leah! Come down to the engine room!”

Sang Hyuk shouted to the Dark Knight and immediately placed a shield around the Ink Black Dragon’s hull. In fact, Dark Knight was already flying towards the engine room before Sang Hyuk had even shouted.

This level of judgement was fundamental to Team Rush.

Kwagwagwagwagwagwa.

Because avoiding the huge waves caused by the Red Bearded Whale was impossible, so it was best to break through with the shield.

This response was correct because Sang Hyuk avoided the direct strike, but had there been a direct strike, it was likely that the Ink Black Dragon would have been almost crippled, the hull taking half damage to durability.

Dudududuk, kwagwang!

Ink Black Dragon used a shield to break through the massive waves. At that moment, the Red Bearded Whale tried to dive back into the sea.

“Harpoon!!”

If they let the Red Bearded Whale dive into the sea again, they would have to guess its position again, so they had to catch it quickly while it was still on the surface.

The good news was that Gye Baek was already getting ready and pulling the trigger before Sang Hyuk shouted for the harpoon.

As Dark Knight did before, Gye Baek also anticipated the next order and prepared first through good judgement. This was a teamwork that was said to be possible only to those with discerning eyes.

Kwang, Phiiiiing!

Precision targeting with sensational shooting! Gye Baek’s harpoon hit rate became closer to 100% as his experience grew. There is no Sky Whale that could avoid Gye Baek’s harpoon.

And this also applied to the Red Bearded Whale.

Phooook, kwadududuk!

it was a hurried shot so it didn’t hit exactly where Gye Baek was aiming but the harpoon hit the tail of the Red Bearded Whale.

‘Good!’ The harpoon hit firmly.

The Red Bearded Whale’s movement speed, evasion ability and defense are reduced by 8%. The Red Bearded Whale was no longer able to dive, as long as the harpoon (Cumulative reduction 8%) was stuck.

“Leah! Use the Krakon’s Galactic Eye!”

Sang Hyuk shouted straight to the engine room as soon as he confirmed that Gye Baek had caught the Red Bearded Whale with a harpoon.

Krakon’s Galactic Eye. This was the item Sang Hyuk gained when he caught the malignant Krakon at the ‘Day of Disaster’ event.

Sang Hyuk had hunted more than 200 Sky Whales in the Middle Layer and released the seal.

Krakon’s_Galactic_Eye [Event]

– A pupil with Krakon’s mystical knowledge. With a huge amount of manna compressed as a magic stone, you could get an amazing boost when you use it as Sky-ship fuel.

[Basic Stat] Strengthening the Sky-grade ship’s durability +300, coverage by 4 times.

[Special Stat] Increase the Sky-grade ship mobile speed +50%, The summon duration of all passenger’s Magic Armor by 30%.

[Special Effect] Adds harpoon usage by 1, the power of the main gun increased by 3 times.

[Item Skill] <Krakon’s specter: Summon The dead Krakon’s specter to attack the enemy.>

[Retention Time] 5 hours.

[Number of available uses] one.

Despite the one-time use limit, the effects were terrifying. The level of the event item was not highly grade as much as it was actually mythical grade.

In fact, concerning when the Krakon’s Galactic Eye should be used, there was a bit of disagreement within the team.

Gye Baek said that he didn’t think it was good to use it in the beginning. He said he would rather use the Krakon’s Galactic Eye for the second or third attempt, but after all the discussion, Sang Hyuk decided to use Krakon’s Galactic Eye for the first attempt.

The reason was simple.

It was to create a sense of urgency. When he starts to think that there’s a better alternative, then he will start to lose his drive. So Sang Hyuk was going to put everything into this first challenge and give them a strong motivation.

It was like he pushed himself to the edge of the cliff and squeezed out all the power he had.

It was a strategy that had been used by French Minister of War André Maginot to create the ‘Maginot Line’ Strategy. (EN: Author mistakenly cited André Maginot as General. Corrected)

Dark Knight pushed Krakon’s Galactic Eye into the Ink-Black Dragon’s power source at the end of Sang Hyuk’s frightening words.

Flash! Krakon’s Galactic Eye was used.

At the moment the Krakon’s Galactic Eye was used, Gye Baek’s second harpoon struck the Red Bearded Whale’s body.

Phook, Kwadududuk!

‘Perfect!’ The harpoon hit very accurately.

The Red Bearded Whale’s movement speed, evasion ability, and defense are further reduced by 10%. (Cumulative reduction of 18%)

“Leah! Provoke it and catch the agro for a while!”

As soon as the second harpoon hit, Sang Hyuk began preparing for the first attack by turning the key sharply to the other side.

The first attack was really important for Sang Hyuk.

‘Summon Magic Armor!’

Hwririk, clank! Clank!

Sang Hyuk even summoned the Dark Black Wings and decided to take advantage of all the damage amplification effects he could use.

Sang Hyuk knew better than anyone how terrifying the consequences are when damage multiplications are stacked so he had prepared one of his greatest weapons in his arsenal.

Items, titles, soul skills, etc, all kinds of damage effects have been added.

Kkooooong!

“Uuurgh!”

Meanwhile, Dark Knight was barely holding the agro by using all of her survival skills she had. Although the Red Bearded Whale didn’t use any special skills and just used the sonic attack just like when it is attacking other monsters, Dark Knight, who is a tanker-based user level 85, was struggling.

Red Bearded Whale’s huge body was almost like an aircraft carrier, so the Ink-Black Dragon, which in front of it looked like a sailboat.

And the passenger of the Ink-Black Dragon, Dark Knight, was dealing with the huge Red Bearded Whale, which looked like a giant aircraft carrier.

Piiiing, poook! Kwaduduk!

‘Perfect! The harpoon hit the target really very accurately.’

The Red Bearded Whale’s movement speed, evasion ability and defense are further reduced by 10%. (Cumulative reduction of 28%) Moreover, thanks to Gye Baek who hit with the harpoon steadily, the Red Bearded Whale was twisting around unable to use any special attack skills.

But, even after the harpoon attack, they needed more.

Fortunately, they were able to use Krakon’s Galactic Eye to shoot four harpoons, instead of three.

“Reload!”

Phiiing, clank!

As soon as Gye Baek shouted for reload, the fourth harpoon reloaded.

“Wall of Shield!”

In the meantime, Dark Knight used the barrier, the representative life-saving skill that all tanker-based users know and blocked the slap (sound wave) attack of the Red Bearded Whale.

In fact, if they used the Ink-Black Dragon’s shield, it was still possible to block the sonic attack completely, but the Ink-Black Dragon shield should never be used to prevent the sonic attacks.

The barrier, which reduced the damage received by 30%, was unable to completely block the Red Bearded Whale’s sonic attack, so Dark Knight used her specialty, the Dash Shield, along with the barrier.

The Dash Shield skill was primarily used as an offensive skill, but defensive use could result in additional damage reductions.

Jojojojojong!

While the Dark Knight was holding the Red Bearded Whale back, Gye Baek took the opportunity again.

Phiiiing, Phook! Kwaduduk!

‘Perfect’! The harpoon hit very accurately.

The Red Bearded Whale’s movement speed, evasion ability and defense are further reduced by 10%. (Cumulative reduction of 38%)  Gye Baek had shot the fourth harpoon perfectly and three of his four shots were recorded as perfect.

Thanks to this, the Red Bearded Whale’s defensive abilities have been reduced by nearly 40%.

After using all four harpoons, Gye Baek quickly ran on the deck and moved to the gun. Krakon’s Galactic Eye strengthened the gun so now he was going to use the gun to help deal with it.

Of course, Dark Knight’s tanking was almost overcome at the time when the harpoon was used.

But it didn’t matter.

The tasks that Dark Knight and Gye Baek needed to do was clearly done by more than 100%, allowing the ultimate first hit that Sang Hyuk wanted.

To be honest, Sang Hyuk didn’t want to use this in front of other people. There were many reasons for this, but the most decisive thing was the unbelievably cringy spell.

But he couldn’t help it. Now even when his hands and feet were shriveled because it was so cringey, he had to use this skill as soon as possible.

“The Raging Dragon. Come and accept my offerings I give you and destroy the enemy in front of me!” (EN: Hahahah!)

In addition to adding all the superimposed effects, Sang Hyuk used a set of combination cards and completed the spell.

Chapter 162 [Episode 83] The Last Gateway 2 – End

Editor: Userunfriendly the cringy.