In the Name of God - Chapter 68.1
Bang!
One.
Bang, bang—!
Two, three.
Bang, bang, bang—
Four, five, and six.
Remaining almost exactly where I stood, I dismantled the beasts one by one like a precision machine.
The only reason I could focus all my nerves solely on identifying the central axes of mana and aiming from a fixed position was entirely thanks to Lee Sunho. Knowing that my ankle had not yet fully recovered, he intentionally moved more violently, stirring up the battlefield.
<You have removed a fragment of the 99th Holy Land.>
<Lifespan is extended by 1 day as a reward.>
<You have removed a fragment of the 99th Holy Land…>
<Lifespan is extended by 1 day as a reward…>
<Of the 99th Holy Land…>
At the edge of my vision, system windows popped up in a sequence that was almost annoying.
-Master, I will transmit scan data for locations outside your field of vision! I’ll also send data on the approaching allies!
The voice of the hardworking Echo and the surrounding scan data he sent surged through my head. Thanks to him, I could know the movements of Seong Do-wan’s side and the deployment status of the monsters there without turning around, and I could even predict when the allies running toward us would arrive.
‘They’ll join us within ten minutes. It would be great if I could handle everything before the others destroy them, but…’
I swallowed a bitter smile while aiming my loaded revolver at a beast.
‘I can’t keep my mouth shut forever.’
Still pointing my muzzle at the beasts, I shouted to Seong Do-wan and the other man.
“There’s a central axis that appears to be the starting point of the mana flow in their bodies! You just need to imbue your attacks with mana and destroy it!”
Seong Do-wan and the man flinched, reacting to my voice. Since both were people who knew how to handle mana, they would be able to understand my meaning.
The problem was that since they didn’t possess Hawkeye like I did, finding those tiny central axes during combat would be anything but easy.
Still, since I gave them the strategy, they wouldn’t be able to interrogate me later about how I caught them even if I handled the rest myself.
With that thought, I pulled the revolver’s trigger repeatedly.
Just then.
Skritch—
I was startled by the sound of glass fragments scraping right next to me.
Some of the shattered Holy Land fragments were scattered by my side. Though it wasn’t a large amount, they were clearly binding together and rapidly growing in size.
It seemed these things were using their heads.
The ones who had been recovering their bodies by gathering fragments near their large main forms were now building themselves up using a few pieces scattered around me. Since I was the one the monsters were targeting in the first place, and I was completely destroying the entities one by one… I would have thought of bypassing them like this too.
‘It was weird enough when they said they perceived my existence or wanted to synchronize, but are they actually intelligent?’
I was about to retreat in the opposite direction while entertaining that chilling thought, but I heard the same sound of glass scraping behind me.
Only then did I realize that the shattered Holy Land fragments had reconstructed themselves, albeit on a small scale, and were surrounding me from all sides.
Skritch-scratch—!
Three small beasts that had rapidly inflated their bodies lunged at me simultaneously. Their bluish muzzles, reminiscent of Echo’s wide-open mouth, looked ready to tear my limbs apart at any moment.
Seong Do-wan, who had been destroying beasts further back, witnessed this and came running in a single bound. True to a physical-enhancement type Awakener, his jumping power and speed were shockingly fast for his size.
“Do-yoon…!”
But I didn’t need Seong Do-wan’s help.
Bang, bang—!
I threw my body backward while quickly firing two shots to destroy the monsters in the front and side, then used the recoil to spin my body around.
The muzzle of the beast that had targeted my back was right in front of my nose.
I instantly pulled out the dagger I had equipped as a sidearm on my thigh belt, sliced horizontally across the muzzle’s lower jaw, and smashed its temple with the revolver.
Having destroyed three in the blink of an eye, I immediately located their mana central axes and fired one shot at each.
The three fallen monsters did not rise again.
Ignoring Seong Do-wan, who had stopped in his tracks as if surprised while running toward me, I aimed for another beast as if nothing had happened.
Lee Sunho, who trusted my skills, did not break his position excessively and continued to block other monsters. I quite liked how he adjusted his movement path to prevent monster fragments from falling near me, rather than mindlessly running toward me with his back to the enemy like Seong Do-wan.
The other group arrived, as expected, in less than ten minutes.
It was a short time, but by the time they arrived, most of the monsters had already been smashed. Only three remained, but they were soon shattered to pieces without needing the hands of the other group.
Bang, bang, bang—!
I fired three consecutive shots at the beasts that the three other people were each holding down. Without wasting a single bullet, the central axis of each entity was accurately pierced.
Crunch! Shatter—
The fragments, which had been falling apart in various directions along their central axes, quickly vanished from before my eyes.
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