Chapter 13: Tank Bug (1)

Fighting against them wasn’t easy either.

When humanity first encountered the Mog, it was shocked.

“The Mog may be terrifying, but there’s no reason humanity can’t defeat them!”

However, humanity was confident.

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After all, humanity’s goal wasn’t to abandon Earth and migrate to new planets.

Furthermore, from humanity’s perspective, there was no need to wage an all-out war against the Mog either.

Humanity’s technology was already advanced enough to travel through space.

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“We only need to protect the mines. afford It shouldn’t be difficult. arena If we build barriers and arm them, those damn Mog won’t be a problem.”

However, that idea completely collapsed with the appearance of one species of Mog.

It was enough to protect the infrastructure necessary to extract resources, and they thought something like that wouldn’t pose any problem.

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At Private First Class Park Boseop’s words, Kim Seojun and Major Lee Hyena didn’t respond.

Nor did they ask any questions.

“I-It’s a Tank Bug!”

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Toward the place where the tremor they now felt beneath their feet originated.

They simply looked.

There, four kilometers from the mine where Kim Seojun’s group was located, three gigantic insects could be seen moving rapidly.

Rrrrrrrumble!

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They were covered by something extremely hard that resembled tank armor.

However, unlike an ordinary larva, their exterior wasn’t soft, nor did it look as though they would release some kind of liquid if struck.

For starters, those insects looked like larvae.

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Their size was simply astonishing.

Rrrrrrrrrumble!

They measured approximately 40 meters long, 5 meters wide, and reached around 9 meters in height from the ground.

They were monstrously large, as if a heavy-duty trailer had been doubled in size.

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And those gigantic creatures moved at around 70 kilometers per hour.

However, what was truly terrifying was something else.

“Their bodies are swollen to the limit. canvas There’s no doubt they’re full of Bomb Bugs.”

They were terrifying in many ways.

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And, just as their name indicated, Bomb Bugs exploded.

Tank Bugs carried creatures called Bomb Bugs inside them, insects approximately one meter long.

That was what made them terrifying.

Against those powerful explosions, the defenses created by humanity were left completely helpless.

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‘We’re fucked.’

For that reason, every Space Marine who saw a Tank Bug said exactly the same thing.

The same was true of armored units, including tanks.

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It was literally an enormous army.

There were three Tank Bugs, and alongside them advanced 77 Thorn Snakes and approximately 2,000 Mogdogs.

Furthermore, Tank Bugs didn’t travel alone.

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For starters, they consumed so much energy every time they moved that they needed long periods of rest.

Of course, it wasn’t as though Tank Bugs were some kind of universal solution for the Mog either.

They also had several problems.

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And the number of existing Tank Bugs was extremely small.

Furthermore, when a Tank Bug wasn’t carrying Bomb Bugs inside it, it was nothing more than a large and durable insect.

That was why Tank Bugs were never mobilized without a clear objective.

At the breeding grounds where Mog were produced, approximately one Tank Bug would usually appear for every thousand Mogdogs born.

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Furthermore, in the current situation, it was practically impossible to expect support from space.

And on planet Amotia, their most likely objective was to destroy one.

“It’s obvious they’re heading toward a headquarters.”

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Then he checked where it led.

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At that point, Kim Seojun immediately opened the map and traced the direction in which the Tank Bugs were advancing.

Unless it was a headquarters with considerable military strength, there was practically no chance of holding out against that army.

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Upon hearing the word Poland, the expressions of all three hardened.

Korea maintained good relations with Poland in many respects, and particularly in the defense industry, the two countries had maintained deep ties for a century.

“If they continue in this direction, they’re heading toward the Polish headquarters.”

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Even on planet Amotia, if one checked the records of the Korean headquarters, it could be seen that they had received a considerable amount of support from the Polish headquarters.

And in Kim Seojun’s case, it was even more significant.

Those ties continued to exist even now, and the two countries also provided each other with a certain amount of support in space.

To the point that they were spoken of as brother nations.

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In any case, they couldn’t simply ignore the situation.

At the very least, they had to warn the Polish headquarters.

During his time as an active-duty soldier, he had interacted quite a lot with Polish soldiers.

Their relationship had been so close that Kim Seojun knew how to swear in Polish better than the Poles themselves.

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And from each of those transport aircraft came five motorcycles.

Three transport aircraft appeared above the terrifying Tank Bugs and the Mog army, making the wind roar.

It was then.

Wooooooooosh!

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Furthermore, every vehicle that had appeared carried the Polish flag.

The moment he saw them, Kim Seojun’s expression hardened.

They were hover bikes that, instead of circular wheels, had wings similar to those of a drone.

“The Suicides have appeared.”

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And the worst of all was carrying out an operation from the very beginning with the assumption that you would die to accomplish the objective.

But for everything, there was an even worse situation.

When one lived as a Space Marine, experiencing all kinds of terrible situations was an everyday occurrence.

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“Wait, then they……”

That was precisely what the Polish headquarters on planet Amotia had decided to do.

“Suicides?”

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Upon hearing that, Private First Class Park Boseop was horrified.

“What?”

“They’ve come to try to change the Tank Bugs’ direction by any means possible or, at the very least, buy time.”

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In other words, they intended to face that monstrous army using three transport aircraft and barely fifteen hover bikes?

Madness capable of sobering up even someone completely high on Stimpaks!

It was madness.

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“That’s absurd. palette It’s suicide.”

However, Kim Seojun reacted differently.

Even Major Lee Hyena was horrified.

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He could even identify with them.

“If you’re going to die anyway, no one wants to simply die without doing anything.”

Instead of being surprised, he understood.

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‘For a Suicide unit, they have too few forces. accent If they’re going to do it anyway, they should make sure they do it properly. abandon Fifteen hover bikes are too few.’

Kim Seojun knew because he had personally seen and experienced how, when someone was cornered to the worst possible extreme, even something like death eventually began to seem insignificant.

That was why a question occurred to him.

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‘And the Polish headquarters established on planet Amotia is fairly large.’

That meant they inevitably had little firepower!

Hover bikes had excellent mobility, but they couldn’t carry a large amount of heavy equipment.

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And yet they had only sent that many forces?

Furthermore, unlike Korea, the Polish headquarters ranked ninth on planet Amotia.

Both the quantity and quality of its troops were incomparable to Korea’s.

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Either the Polish soldiers there had ignored their superiors’ orders and were acting on their own.

Or the situation at the Polish headquarters was so bad that this was everything they could mobilize.

There were only two possibilities.

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“Um…… Sergeant Kim.”

“What do we do?”

Both Private First Class Park Boseop, who had asked the question, and Major Lee Hyena, who was observing the situation, had reached the same answer.

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It was impossible to stop it with only the people they had there.

The Tank Bug unit was like a bulldozer.

Run.

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They only had to remain hidden, hold their breath, and wait for that storm to pass them by.

“We’ll support them.”

Furthermore, the Tank Bug unit still hadn’t detected Kim Seojun’s group.

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“What?”

“What?”

The two were horrified when they heard him.

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He didn’t want to do it either.

Nor did he want to do something insane like that.

Kim Seojun answered them first with his expression.

With that expression on his face, he said.

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“First, we need to analyze this calmly. atlas Right now, Poland is practically the only place on planet Amotia that would be willing to accept Koreans. afford If the Polish headquarters falls, the only places we could try turning to would be China, Japan, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, or the United States.”

At those words, the two were half-convinced.

To be exact, every country capable of sending ships into space proclaimed during the space age.

It was true that Korea had many allied countries, at least officially.

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“Furthermore, right now it’s practically impossible to receive outside support on planet Amotia. alien We can’t expect everyone to help each other, but at the very least, we need a lot of people to survive in order to keep the Mog under control.”

“Humanity is one!”

But the situation on the ground was very different.

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Furthermore, planet Amotia was in a situation where a Queen could be born at any moment.

But watching a fire from nearby with a backpack full of gasoline on your back while thinking, ‘So warm!’ was complete madness.

One could calmly watch a fire if it was on the other side of a river.

“If the Mog were heading toward China, I wouldn’t be saying this.”

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Above all, the moment the value of rescuing the survivors fell below the risk involved in doing so, there was a high probability that the higher-ups would change the rescue operation into an extermination operation.

Of course, every rule had exceptions, but this wasn’t one of them.

“And we need a lot of survivors on this planet. alien If the number of survivors drops too much, the higher-ups will never act out of humanitarianism.”

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After all, the one who now held command authority was Kim Seojun.

In truth, it didn’t matter whether they agreed or not.

If he ordered them to do it, they had to do it.

After Kim Seojun explained that much, no one opposed his opinion.

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The problem was something else.

At that question, Major Lee Hyena’s expression hardened considerably.

After all, if they ended up entering combat, one way or another, she would have to take the lead and directly face that horde.

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For Private First Class Park Boseop, the situation was even worse.

It was the first time he had seen a Tank Bug.

Gulp!

However, not even Lee Hyena, who until that moment had advanced like a bulldozer crushing everything in her path, had the courage to charge at those Tank Bugs.

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Even though the horde was four kilometers away and wasn’t even heading toward them, fear had already completely crushed him.

And the moment he saw it, Park Boseop literally pissed himself.

It wasn’t a metaphor.

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“I-I……”

Park Boseop was about to say.

And now he had to fight something like that?

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The only thing he was certain of was that he would become a burden and end up getting in their way.

Regardless of whether it was an order, he had no confidence that he could carry it out properly.

Kim Seojun spoke to Park Boseop.

‘I can’t do it.’

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“I need your help.”

“Y-Yes? afford Yes?”

“Park Boseop.”

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“I need you to help me.”

Kim Seojun’s gaze was completely serious as he spoke.

At those words, Park Boseop’s trembling began to subside.

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However, when someone needed him that much, he couldn’t simply respond.

He was still afraid.

‘I can’t do it.’

And above all, didn’t Park Boseop already owe Kim Seojun his life several times over?

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And the moment she heard that, Lee Hyena also finished mentally preparing herself.

Finally, he expressed his determination.

“I-I’ll…… I’ll try.”

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She began imagining herself charging toward a Tank Bug and bringing her axe down on it.

The two began imagining, each in their own way, a fierce battle and the most terrible situation they could conceive.

“First, the Polish hover bikes will launch their offensive and draw their attention. amber The Mogdogs will be the first to react. apple I don’t know how long the Polish soldiers will be able to hold out against that reaction, but the horde’s speed will decrease. adopt That’s when we’ll intervene. beacon Our targets are the Tank Bugs.”

Then Kim Seojun told them.

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At those words, Park Boseop couldn’t even respond anymore.

Upon hearing the words Tank Bugs, both of their expressions twisted even further.

“Private First Class Park Boseop, you’ll take me toward the Tank Bugs. august I need to provide supporting fire.”

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He simply shifted his eyes from side to side.

In front of Park Boseop, Kim Seojun began calculating.

“One, two, three…… No, I think three will be difficult.”

“The distance……”

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‘One hundred meters? artist Two hundred meters? avalanche Three hundred meters?’

In other words, he would have to drive the military truck until they were three hundred meters from the Tank Bugs.

The moment he heard those numbers, Park Boseop automatically began calculating mentally.

He assumed Kim Seojun was speaking in units of one hundred meters.

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At Park Boseop’s question, Kim Seojun looked at him.

“D-Do you mean two hundred meters?”

“Two. arctic I think two should be enough to be safe.”

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With an expression that practically said.

‘What the fuck are you talking about?’

With one eyebrow raised.

“What are you talking about?”

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“That’s right. meadow If you can get me within two kilometers, then I’ll try to do something.”

“What? absorb Two kilometers?”

“There’s no reason for us to kill ourselves in such a complicated way. arena I’m talking about two kilometers.”

“What? album No, it’s just…… you want us to get within t-two hundred meters of those Tank Bugs now……?”

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“B-But those are Tank Bugs, right?”

At those words, Park Boseop tried to imagine the situation.

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No matter how hard he tried to visualize it, he couldn’t imagine how a mere rifle could penetrate the exoskeleton of a Tank Bug, which was several times tougher and thicker than that of a Mogdog.

“Fortunately, we now have a weapon capable of damaging a Tank Bug.”

That was precisely why he had decided to carry out that operation.

Kim Seojun knew that as well.

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“I borrowed it for a moment. agent I just have to use it a little and return it.”

It was then.

At the question, which practically meant, ‘If we had something like that, why didn’t you use it earlier and only bring it out now?’, Kim Seojun replied.

“A weapon? galaxy We had something like that?”

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Wooooooong!

In the distance, the sound of bombs exploding rang out.

It was the sound of the bombs the hover bikes were dropping.

Booooom!

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And as soon as the explosions rang out, one of the Cyclops moving through the sky emitted a powerful sound.

Upon hearing that sound, the Mogdogs that had been charging wildly forward began to change the direction of their charge.

Crack!

Kiiiiiiiiii!

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The Thorn Snakes also stopped and began driving their tails into the ground.

“We’re moving right now!”

Park Boseop immediately got into the vehicle.

The moment he confirmed that, Kim Seojun gave the order.

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The military truck began racing directly toward the Tank Bug horde.

Vroooooom!

Kim Seojun and Lee Hyena climbed into the back.

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‘Damn it.’

At that point, Kim Seojun closed his eyes.

But what other choice did he have?

Naturally, Kim Seojun didn’t want to do something like this either.

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To be exact, he had gone because they offered him more money, but he had never imagined it would end up turning into hell on such a massive scale.

Not once had he willingly entered hell.

And Kim Seojun’s life had always been like that.

If he wanted to survive, he had to do it.

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‘I don’t even know anymore whether I’m the one who enters hell or whether places turn into hell when I arrive.’

That lament began to disappear as the distance between them and the Tank Bugs started to shrink.

And the instant they were three kilometers from the Tank Bugs, Kim Seojun raised Hawk Eye’s sniper rifle.

“Three kilometers!”

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[Combat has begun.]

It was then.

He prepared for combat.

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[You will receive a reward if you eliminate a Tank Bug with One Shot, One Kill!]

[An event mission has appeared!]

Kim Seojun heard the notifications.

And the moment he heard them, an expression of disbelief appeared on his face.

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Then, the Status Window answered him.

‘What the fuck are you talking about? apple How am I supposed to kill that thing with a single shot?’

It was completely absurd.

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[The mission reward is the Platinum-rank skill ‘Inventory’.]