Trait Hoarder Chapter 40

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Mutant Incident -2-

Crunch.

Equipped with a foldable helmet.

The attached goggles work and illuminate the interior.

A fluorescent light that should have been working properly.

Now everyone was silent.

Not only the fluorescent lights, but all the electrical equipment inside was cut off.

Earlier, the door was opened manually by civil servants.

‘Why are you doing that?’

The electricity doesn’t get cut off just because the polluted magic has spread.

I was struck by the emerging possibilities.

‘They say that among the mutants, there are some with electrical properties.’

I don’t feel so good.

Because if it has an electric related trait, it can’t be level 1.

Level 2 mutant!

I had a feeling that there wouldn’t be just one or two of them.

‘I have to be careful.’

If I see it first, I win.

It has to be at least level 3 to stop rifle bullets, especially my shotgun.

And it’s not just level 3, it’s a defense-specialized level 3.

It must also have defensive characteristics such as a magic shield or armor.

What I had to be careful of was letting my guard down and then being taken by surprise.

[Shooting][Gunshotting][Sensitivity]

[Magic Power][Contamination Resistance][Concentration]

Changed the trait.

He picked up his rifle, assumed a pointing position, and began to advance.

‘The concentration of pollution magic is also strange.’

Both the first landfill and other contaminated facilities are designed to contain the contaminated horsepower within an internal containment space.

This means that although the contaminated magic is concentrated in the isolated space and can cause the creation of monster contaminants or a massive explosion, it does not leak easily.

But why do I feel this polluted magic?

The musty smell was so strong that it was piercing through the gas mask.

Even under the protective suit, my skin felt itchy.

‘There’s something.’

It is also strange that 6 out of 9 members of the cleaning team were mutated.

It seemed as if some secret, an ugly and sinister secret, was waiting for me inside.

fault!

I thought about it that far and then stopped.

Because I heard small footsteps from a distance, in the direction I was going.

‘Mutant?’

All cleaning schedules are on hold.

An environment where not even a single rat can survive.

If there is anyone else besides me in this situation, they have to be a mutant.

fault!

That sound again.

I heard it for sure.

There was a distinct sound of something small and agile kicking the floor.

I tightened my grip on the gun.

‘Shall I draw my sword?’

When you fire a gun, the sound resonates in all directions.

Naturally, it has the effect of gathering mutants.

Using a sword isn’t a bad choice either, but······

‘Even if I fight with a sword, I still make a sound.’

I’m not an assassin or anything.

It’s better to definitely reduce the number when you can.

It was nerve-racking.

I concentrated as much as possible.

I listened with my ears and looked straight ahead with my eyes.

I can no longer hear the sound I heard earlier.

However, the air gradually froze, the back of my neck became stiff, and the hairs on my entire body stood on end.

My mouth is parched.

I feel it.

My heart was reacting.

My magic power was surging anxiously.

There is someone.

Something is watching me, harboring a desire to live.

Beads of sweat formed on his forehead and then fell down.

Sssssut.

It was at this moment that the sound of something crawling was heard.

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My hair stood on end.

It wasn’t a frontal view!

Back, back!

Whoosh!

I immediately turned around.

In the vivid world seen through the goggles, an alien monster caught my eye.

“This kid!”

Tata tata tang!

Just fire straight away.

I set the sights to continuous fire and emptied the entire magazine.

Sharp gunshots rang out in succession, and orange flames tore through the dark world.

The monster hanging upside down from the ceiling danced dizzyingly.

“Kkieek!”

It looks like a giant bat.

In an instant, the flesh was torn and blood spurted out.

Green blood splattered all over the ceiling, walls, and floor.

Wait, green blood?

An alarm went off in my head at the same time as a warning popped up on my goggles screen.

[Gas mask in operation]

It’s poison!

It was also unusual for it to bubble and boil as soon as it came into contact with the air.

Clears sensitivity and adds poison resistance as needed.

“Keeeeee!”

Things were getting urgent.

Even though I clearly had empty one magazine, the bat still came at me.

The membrane wings are huge and the eyes are hideous.

Its mouth is wide open like a devil shark’s double chin, and its sharp, awl-like teeth protrude in three rows, making it extremely hideous.

“shit!”

If you’re still alive after getting shot like that, you’re level 2.

I held the rifle upside down and swung it like a bat.

Boohoo, bang!

A butt-butt that hits the chin squarely.

The bat suddenly stopped.

But that’s it.

He attacked me without any letup.

“Eeeeek!”

If I hadn’t equipped the evasion trait and launched myself, I would have been caught.

“Kyaaaaah!”

A bat howling loudly.

I had no luck.

He had gunshot wounds all over his body and was bleeding profusely, but none of them were fatal.

‘I should have fed it slugs.’

The rifle I use is 5.56 millimeters.

It is sufficient against people, but its stopping power is weak.

Crunch.

Even in the midst of all this, I was moving like a machine.

3 seconds of bats howling and passing away.

During those 3 seconds, I combined the magazines with precise movements.

“Keeeeet?”

A bat that has already tasted bitterness once.

Although both intelligence and reason have disappeared, it seems that he still retains some of his memories from his previous life.

As soon as I combined the magazine, I flinched and kicked the ground.

fault!

That’s exactly what I heard a little while ago.

The light footsteps hit the ground, and the huge body, with its wings spread, a dark shadow that would be five meters tall, swept over me.

I calmly aimed my gun.

The [Focus] characteristic was shining.

Phew, it feels like hot breath is licking the back of my neck.

A giant monster filled my vision, blocking the world.

All I can see is a dark shadow.

But I waited.

I took a standing shooting stance and waited and waited until the thing came into line with the sights and sights I had set.

Just one second.

That time felt like an eternity.

Just before the outstretched hand, or rather the iron claw, touched my chest.

A bat’s head appeared on the scale, and on the iron sights.

Taang!

Just one step.

A gunshot split the air.

Phew!

“Huh!”

A claw of iron, transformed into a hammer, struck my chin.

As my vision darkened, all my strength drained away, but what flashed before the pain was a sense of victory.

‘I won!’

A giant bat slumps down.

If we were to compare it to a person, it would be the space between the eyebrows.

A hole was drilled between the degenerated eyes, in the area where a strange tactile sensation was present.

Tiny, tiny holes.

But it is proof that the brain is messed up.

“Ugh!”

It’s good to win, but I can’t breathe properly.

I quickly breathed magic into the necklace.

A white light swept over my body, the light focused on my chest, and my breathing became clear.

I barely managed to escape by pushing the body away.

“I really thought I was going to die.”

It feels more difficult to deal with than a level 2 superhuman.

To be honest, there was a problem with the tactics.

The underbarrel grenade launcher was removed from the rifle. It was replaced with a shotgun, and the magazine was changed from pre-loaded buckshot to a slug magazine.

Finally, he raised his body after extracting the magic core from the corpse.

‘Still, I got something out of it.’

Level 2 magic core is nothing special.

I focused my eyes on the shotgun sights.

As the scale and the iron sights align, concentration heightens and the world inside the scale expands.

[Aiming] trait.

A useful trait whether fighting people or monsters.

I moved my gaze without taking aim at the shotgun.

‘It’s time to come.’

It was as expected.

Kwack, kwack, kwack.

The sound of something heavy and bulky walking.

“Kikki, kikki!”

“Hahahaha! Heehee!”

A strange noise is heard, like a child chattering or a croaking sound.

I find myself biting my lower lip in a sense of crisis.

‘It was like this before too.’

The bat mutant clearly made a noise right in front of me.

With light steps of blame, blame.

Then he turned around and crawled across the ceiling to approach me.

It means that there is some level of intelligence.

There is no reason why other mutants would not do the same.

‘You shouldn’t look down on it.’

I looked around.

The place I’m at is a cross-shaped intersection with auxiliary corridors extending from the main corridor on both sides.

I went into the alley, grabbed the shotgun, and lay down.

It would be nice to have a camouflage coat, but don’t expect that.

Instead, it activates the fraud trait.

[play dead]

Since you’re also using a concealment device, it won’t be easy to get caught.

Kuung, kuung, kuung.

After a while, a giant figure emerged from the darkness.

A giant whose whole body is covered in pus.

He was incredibly tall. If he straightened his back, he would almost touch the ceiling. The fluorescent light that had been dangling for a while hit his head and shattered into pieces.

It had four arms, and the right arm was covered with pieces of metal.

Did your prosthetic hand become deformed?

“Krrrr······”

The giant looks around, coughing up thick phlegm.

Then he approached the bat corpse and sniffed it.

“Creamy!”

He just screams loudly and then throws the body away.

The body was slammed into the wall and burst open.

Green fluid is spraying everywhere, but he doesn’t seem to care.

‘You’re strong.’

He’s a very threatening guy, despite his slow actions.

My hand instinctively reached for the grenade launcher, but I held myself back.

Because there were still a few more signs of approaching.

“Kya kya kya! Eeheeheek!”

A mutant with five mouths and three eyes.

He was laughing out loud, waving his shovel-like, deformed hand in a bizarre way.

“Ahem!”

He doesn’t care if the giant shows signs of discomfort.

When he saw the corpse of a bat turned into a piece of meat, he started shaking his whole body as if dancing.

another.

A shadow that approaches stealthily from behind.

This guy took it a step further.

It was an indefinite mutant.

At first glance, it looks like a person.

Looking again, it’s a human-shaped slime.

A closer look reveals that it contains half-dissolved human bones inside.

Behind the mutant that crawled silently, a long, sticky mucus trail was left behind.

‘Are there three of them?’

I don’t know where the other two are.

But I couldn’t miss this opportunity.

As it happened, three mutants were huddled together near the bat corpse.

Click.

Wrapped in tracksuit, he carefully pulled out the safety pin of the grenade.

It’s a sealing grenade, not a fragmentation grenade.

And [throw].

Tsk tsk.

The horse was thrown and rolled across the floor.

The round sealing bullet received throwing characteristics adjustments and rolled precisely between the mutants.

“Crunch?”

“Kihihi!”

The mutants only noticed after the sealing bullet rolled to their feet.

There was no change.

They may be intelligent, but they are mutants without intelligence or reason.

The sealing bomb exploded a moment later, engulfing the mutants in a cloud of magical light.

“Khuhuhuk?”

“Hehehehe! Ahahaha!”

Why, you say it doesn’t hurt?

The light isn’t that bright and the explosion isn’t that strong.

The sealing bullet has only one effect.

Temporarily sealing the flow of magical power.

That was enough.

[Concentrate], [aim] the grenade launcher at the giant’s feet, and carefully [fire].

Boom!

The distinctive escaping sound of a grenade launcher.

A black bullet flew through the air like a water spout.

I fell down right away.

All of the characteristics were replaced and the front was blocked with a magic shield.

Bam!

And then the resounding roar.

As the dust rose, shards of iron swept away the mutants.

“Ugh!”

“Keeheeeeeek!”

“Ugh!”

Whether they are mutants or not, they are nothing more than pieces of meat in front of modern weapons.

The giant, the five-mouthed slime, and the others were lying on the floor, writhing.

What’s surprising is that none of them died instantly.

It would have to have its magic core or brain destroyed to die, but the iron shards luckily avoided the vital points.

After all, a monster is a monster.

I calmly raised the shotgun and took aim.

And from a distance, from where I was hiding, from 20 meters away, I calmly pulled the trigger.

Tuan! Tuan! Tuan!

Exactly three times.

The giant fell and its five heads flew away.

The slime still wiggled even though it had lost its head.

Tuang!

One last step.

[Treasure Hunt]

By utilizing the characteristics.

The treasure hunt trait was really helpful. When I activated the trait, the area containing the magic core was displayed, and strangely enough, the magic core was on the instep of my right foot.

‘It’s still strange.’

Even if they become mutants, it is rare for them to mutate to the point where their nervous system is replaced with magical circuits and magical cores.

It smelled.

‘In the end, it is people who eat people.’

After extracting the magic core, I went to a corner and lay down.

I’ve been waiting for almost 30 minutes and still haven’t heard anything.

Is it possible that gunfire isn’t enough to lure them?

You even detonated a grenade?

It was time to think about moving again.

Ss …

A long shadow lurks in the darkness.

At first glance, it looks like a human figure.

I confirmed my identity through my goggles.

A body that looks like it was made from rotten clay.

A magic chip embedded in the head that emits a dim light.

A gloomy magical wave, characteristic of vengeful spirits, spreading around the body.

A monster named Phantom in Arcane Seoul.

I find myself biting my lower lip without realizing it.

Because phantoms never come into existence naturally.

Necromancer or Dark Priest.

Only they could implant magic chips into the remains of the polluted body and summon the spirits to create a phantom body.

Ss …

So many spectres that they fill the passageway.

There are more than one or two directions.

They occupy all directions of the intersection and push in.

[iced coffee.]

The phantom in the lead suddenly began to speak in a human voice.

The phantom speaks?

Looking closely, it was a ghostly face, with an old speaker attached where a person’s mouth would be.

Even his eyes were like an old camera, and his ears were like an old microphone.

[Superhuman over there. Come talk to me.]

I swallowed a groan inside.

Clearly the stealth trait is activated.

But the phantom was looking straight at me.

As if he knew I was hiding here.

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