Life Mission Chapter 229:
Volume 8 / Chapter 229
TL: LightNovelCafe
Editor: Hungry Panda
“Good – goodness!”
“It’s – it’s a monster . ”
Levadan shows up in the mirror image .
The Lifers on board and Strategist who got information from Cha Jun Sung were able to see Levadan better than Cha Jun Sung could .
1255m in length and 100m in diameter . It looks like a dragon from some comic book or classic novel . That’s Sea God Levadan .
It is a legendary monster .
It has six pairs of horns on its head and looks like a reptile . But the moment they look at it, its eyes make them lose the will to battle .
The blue scales all over its entire body made the Lifers feel sick .
[Levadan! We finally found its location!]
All of the helpers including Uranos said similar words, in a similar tone at the same time as though it had been planned .
The Lifers are taken aback . They found the location?
Levadan wanders around thousands of meters deep into the sea .
Due to this, not even artificial intelligence can find it . It showed itself occasionally, but that was really rare .
It isn’t on land like other level 9s, so it is hard to find . But for whatever reason, it has appeared in front of the Lifers .
[We need to put a location tracking device on it . ]
Uranos shows consciousness .
It falls out of Strategist’s will . But that doesn’t mean he acts however he wants to . One wrong move could mean annihilation .
[Uranos . Lifer Cha Jun Sung says that he will buy time for us to get away . ]
[Odin . You must know as well, but this is the perfect opportunity to keep an eye on Levadan, who has been out of our reach . Do you understand what I’m saying?]
Odin agrees with this as well .
Levadan is elusive, popping up in the east and the west . That’s why they hadn’t been able to create missions related to it .
[Wait . It’s something that you all can’t do, so I’ll ask him what he thinks . ]
Odin tries Cha Jun Sung .
He knows the secrets of Life Mission to an extent . Therefore, it is easy to explain when relaying sensitive issues .
Cha Jun Sung is half and half on installing a location tracking device . He’ll fight Levadan if he needs to, but he won’t provoke it first if he doesn’t have to .
[The authority is applying a special mission . ]
[Level A advancement mission: Installation of a location tracking device]
– Goal: Attainment
– Description: Install a location tracking device on ruler of the broad sea, Sea God Levadan, and get out of the mission area!
– Reward: 10,000,000,000 points . Lucky box .
It isn’t a level S mission because he isn’t meant to fight .
But the reward for a level A advancement is 10 billion points . It is of an entirely different class . How many points would it have been if he were to kill it? It would be tens of billions of points .
“It’s dangerous to run away in the ocean . Uranos, operate floating mode . ”
Floating mode . Albatrus is a submarine .
That means it is inefficient to put all the energy into the booster, but it can fly in the air for even a moment .
No matter how big and strong Levadan is, it cannot fly in the air without wings . He will soar into the air and return to Mechanic City .
“Let’s kill it with spiral swills . There’s no reason to keep saving it . ”
“The opponent isn’t good . ”
If they fire the spiral swills, it will use all of the ship’s energy . It takes time to fill it up as well . There’s no guarantee that they will hit and kill it . They can’t take the gamble .
Boom!
Albatrus’ booster tilts vertically and takes the ship 950m into the air .
Levadan isn’t showing any strange movements .
It isn’t here to fight . It has come out of pure curiosity .
The Lifers think differently .
They have a similar mindset as Cha Jun Sung . They won’t hit first if they aren’t provoked . This new phenomenon is interesting as well .
The Albatrus flies .
It goes up hundreds of meters, but they cannot be at ease even if they have gone several kilometers because of Levadan’s length and the breadth of its attack .
Levadan glares and looks over the **** battlefield . Sharks are either floating or in pieces all over the place . Their king and queen and their baby are dead, too .
[Interesting . ]
[Really?]
Levadan is talking to itself, but Cha Jun Sung responds .
Odin raised the volume on the voice amplifier . Cha Jun Sung’s sound becomes amplified by several times .
It is a conversation between mutants .
It is the principle of telepathy . The high and low tones of their growling with emotions mixed in, relay their messages .
[Are you the same race?]
[I’m a human… the same race . ]
He isn’t talking about sea mutants . He’s talking about his nature .
Cha Jun Sung was going to say that he is human, but he just admitted it himself .
[This is the first time I’m seeing something like you . What is that? Is that a shell?]
[I guess you could say that . ]
[Show your real self . Are you showing yourself to me with a shell?]
[I can’t live in the ocean . Without this, it’s hard for me to breathe . ]
He needs to breathe on his own if he releases the battlesuit and awakens, but Cha Jun Sung is a land mutant, so he can’t act freely . He’ll have to swim since he won’t have a booster, and it will get pathetic . He probably won’t be able to show the power of a level 7 either .
[I understand . ]
[Why did you come here?]
[I was on my way home when I smelled something sweet . I turned around and came here because I wanted to see what was going on . ]
Oh! It seems Lifers’ blood lured Levadan as well . If they had known a level 9 would react, they would have reconsidered using blood as bait .
[Other guys were going to come to, but they decided not to when they realized I was coming . If they had come, you wouldn’t have been able to take them on with your tired body . ]
It is fortunate that Levadan has no intention to fight them .
He is confident that he can run away, but he doesn’t know what damages there might be .
Vroom!
Cha Jun Sung looks up toward the sky .
Albatrus is returning . He is alone . If he returns, they will feel much more liberated .
[I’ll ask . What are you?]
[A hunter . ]
[Hunter?]
[I live to hunt, to kill things like you . You’ll be hunted down by us one day too, though it won’t be easy . ]
Levadan roars at the sudden provocation .
The sea shakes with sound waves ringing everywhere . It is laughing in disbelief, not in anger .
[Hah! Me? I’m the ruler . Nothing can take me on . ]
Cha Jun Sung took out a machine the size of a fingernail, and went toward Levadan .
He is doing this because he knows that it doesn’t want to fight .
A weak sense .
It is similar to the proportion of a single grain of sand to a beach, but the Levadan is able to feel even the smallest changes in its body .
[If you keep this piece on you, hunters will go looking for you shortly . Take it off if you’re scared, and keep it on if you’re confident . ]
It is a level 9 .
It won’t reject him because of its pride .
[My day to day is boring . I’ll enjoy ripping and breaking those that try to challenge me as they did in the past . ]
Cha Jun Sung went back again . In actuality, he wanted to hurry up and get away .
It is hard to even withstand Levadan’s energy . He is feeling the pressure he felt from Black Lord .
Considering the ocean as an environment, not even Black Lord would be able to beat Levadan in a fight here . No level 9s really .
[Even being in front of you is tiring . If you allow it, I want to go . ]
[Those guys . Did you do that?]
[We combined our strength, but I was at the forefront . Why are you asking?]
Levadan gestures toward the Deep-Sea Teeth . It grows dark .
[Are you strong?]
[Here? In the sea?]
[Your nature itself . ]
[Nature? I guess you could say I’m strong . But I can’t beat you . ]
Cha Jun Sung didn’t show unnecessary pride .
Levadan has the temperament of Black Lord and Red Eye .
[Is that so? Fine . I won’t kill you . But prove it . ]
Boom!
Levadan’s body compresses and shoots out like a spring . The attacks of giant species usually begin from their bodies .
Boom boom boom!
Cha Jun Sung went back as much as it came at him with his reverse booster .
However, the Levadan is much faster . A 1200m body can’t be ignored .
No matter how diligently an ant moves, it becomes meaningless next to a human step .
Its huge mouth with sharp teeth opens .
Its mouth is several times larger than that of the Deep-Sea Teeth . Cha Jun Sung didn’t avoid it first . The attack range is wide, so he can’t avoid it easily . If that’s the case, it’s better to wait and first figure out where it will attack .
‘It is a simple bodily attack pattern? It’s plenty strong just looking at this, but Lifers could catch it if they came in as a huge group . ’
He doesn’t let down his guard . There’s no way a level 9 can only do this much .
The beyond level 7 sea mutant he has seen until now has skills other than bodily attacks like sucking in water pressure and shooting its breath .
If Levadan shoots that, it will show a power that is incomparable to that of its underlings . And he was too right .
Boom boom boom boom!
It is a long spear formed out of the water .
Levadan sucked in seawater, didn’t let it out all at once, but fired it little by little as though spitting .
The problem is that the spitting cycle goes four or five times per second . Each spear goes at supersonic speed .
The difficult situation continued .
Papapat!
Cha Jun Sung was busy avoiding them .
He isn’t avoiding them by seeing them with his eyes and hearing them with his ears . It is with his mutant instincts and immediate reactions of his battlesuit . The firing cycles get shorter and shorter . It is like a machine gun .
Cha Jun Sung hits away the water spears flying at him with Hades .
Incredible repulsive force .
He loses balance because his hands and feet are entangled .
A water spear collides with Cha Jun Sung’s chest . The energy barrier was the first to reduce the shock, and the battlesuit’s armor was the secondary measure to do so .
Even that isn’t enough, so he goes flying far away even with the water’s resistance .
‘I can’t use all of the battlesuit functions because there isn’t enough energy . ’
He wasn’t able to go over his gear after battle . He can’t even use 50% power so as of now, he can’t respond to a simple attack .
Levadan goes soaring .
It is going for him while he is struggling to find balance again .
‘Damn it!’
Should he use the reverse booster to get away?
No .
It could be expecting this .
Then he will go in a direction that isn’t expected . Forward .
Cha Jun Sung goes to meet Levadan . There is embarrassment in Levadan’s eyes .
That small thing is thinking of taking him on?
Hades scrapes by Levadan’s eyes . Then he goes flying high . Levadan struggles in pain and glares up at Cha Jun Sung, who is looking down at it from the sky .
[I’ll let you go . This wound – I won’t heal it and I’ll just leave it . Did you say beings like you will come looking for me? I’ll welcome a challenge any time . ]
[You have succeeded in placing a location tracking device on Levadan’s body . You have earned 10 billion reward points . ]
He has already opened level S missions and the store, so this does not get replicated .
Only Cha Jun Sung got reward points for the location tracking device .
With this, the cumulative amount is 30 billion . He has gained the foundation to go into a level S mission .
Levadan dives into the sea .
It came here out of curiosity, but it was pretty fun . It came a long distance, but it had its worth .
“There’s really no way to know what’ll happen with this world . ”
He entered a mission to advance, but hadn’t dreamed he would meet Levadan .
It is a variable .
If he had been weak, he would have been killed by this variable .
He needs to get stronger . If he wants to stay alive, he needs to get stronger .
Cha Jun Sung was deep in thought, and then went back to reality .
When Cha Jun Sung opened his eyes however, he wasn’t in reality, the briefing room, or Mechanic City, but in some random place he had never seen before .