I Became a Scoundrel of a Chaebol Family-Chapter 305
The situation began to slightly improve as the Daemahin stationed at the base joined the fight. The monsters were still swarming in endlessly, but the battlefield had stabilized enough to withstand the pressure.
It wasn’t just because of the Daemahin joining. The surface level was originally just the gateway to the branch—the real forces had been stationed across multiple underground floors. Now that the proper Daemahin forces were moving up, it finally felt less like a massacre and more like an actual war.
Of course, that also meant the surface was becoming even more of a disaster zone.
Han Chaeyoung, protected by two Daemahin she’d encountered along the way, operated a large capsule that looked like a walk-in freezer. She connected the cables and began supplying power to the capsule in which the S-Type Daemahin was sleeping.
Crackle, crack-crack!
Sparks danced around the cables, each as thick as a grown man’s arm, lighting up the area for a brief moment.
—KIIIIIIIIIIK!!
The monsters reacted.
“D-Director!! M-monsters are swarming in!!”
“Hold them off!”
“Do we really need to wake up that S-Type or whatever it is?”
Unlike the terrified aide, the long-haired man wielding a curved blade wore a relaxed grin.
“No matter how many come, we’re gonna kill ’em all anyway!”
He charged in aggressively and sliced the flying bugs clean in two. With each swing of his blade, two or three monsters were torn apart, and in no time his entire body was drenched in the green blood they spewed.
Ssssss.
Steam rose from his skin where it had come into contact. The acid tried to eat through his flesh.
But a Daemahin, tempered through generations, didn’t flinch at something like that. He just grinned.
“This is nothing but a massage.”
He rampaged like a wild beast, slashing at terrifying speeds. To a layperson, he might’ve seemed like a proper knight with moves like that.
Though anyone who’d seen a real knight would quickly drop that thought.
“Don’t mess around. This isn’t a game...!”
Meanwhile, the other Daemahin, a woman in a skintight suit, moved swiftly and cut down monsters with blades held in reverse grip.
Ziiing.
Splurt!
Just grazing her blades caused shock to ripple out and slice the monsters in two. Her ultra-vibration cutters, vibrating tens of thousands of times per second, were the pinnacle of Abyss technology refined through the Daemahin program.
“Haha, looks like you won’t be needing a face mask today, huh?”
About twenty Daemahin had been deployed. Not just here, but on all fronts they were fighting back, and soldiers wielding Daemah-class weapons were coming up to join the fight in droves. Slowly, there was a sense of relief and hope in the air.
Everywhere they looked was still pure hell, but if they could just push them back, they might at least be able to breathe.
“Focus! We haven’t seen a knight, a Mahin, or even a Class-2 monster yet! This is just the beginning!!”
That creeping sense of comfort unsettled Han Chaeyoung. She shouted a warning as she manipulated the control panel.
“Tch, damn outsider.”
“...She’s not an outsider.”
“If she’s not part of this base, she’s an outsider by definition. Right?”
The male Daemahin spat on the ground and disappeared into the swarm of bugs like a blur.
“Fucking bugs, all of you just fucking die!!”
WHOOOM—
He swung his blade with all his strength, and the resulting shockwave slaughtered dozens. The spray of green blood flying in every direction almost looked like a water fight.
This was the pride of the Abyss—Daemahin.
But that bold counterattack didn’t last long.
BOOOM—!
Following the hole in the ceiling, explosions now erupted from all directions. Not just from above—monsters were now swarming in from everywhere.
THUD, THUUUD—
Behind the grotesque bugs appeared silhouettes roughly three meters tall. Their relatively thin legs contrasted with grotesquely swollen upper bodies, packed so full of muscle it looked like they’d pop from a pin prick.
“What the hell is that? I haven’t seen that one in the data.”
“...This isn’t good.”
Even while slicing down bugs, the Daemahin guarding Han Chaeyoung kept a close eye on the giants.
Some of the Daemahin cut their way through the swarm and charged toward the giants.
“The neck has to be the weak spot, right?”
“Probably.”
Just as they closed the distance, the giant—easily weighing several tons—suddenly vanished.
“...?”
WHAM—!!
“Gugh...?!”
A fist bigger than a man’s head slammed into a Daemahin’s side. The impact folded him in half, and he was sent flying straight into the ceiling, dead before he even landed.
“Wh...at...!”
The Daemahin and soldiers froze in shock—but they weren’t even allowed that brief moment.
CRAAAAAAAH—!!
The giants began smashing the Daemahin apart. They slapped heads like balloons, bursting them with wet pops, and clapped their massive hands like swatting mosquitoes, crushing bodies flat.
Some crouched and leapt upward, high enough to touch the ceiling.
“F-fire!!”
Bullets rained down on the giants in midair. Since everyone had already switched to special ammo, these were all anti-Daemahin rounds. Every so often, a railgun—modified for personal use—fired with a roar and a burst of brilliant light.
That kind of firepower was more than enough to wipe out insect-type monsters.
But bullets didn’t affect the giants at all. Only the railguns managed to inflict anything resembling real damage.
THUUUUD—!
One blood-soaked giant landed in the middle of a squad.
“Aaaah!!”
“Don’t turn your barrel, you idiot!!”
As chaos spread from the panicked soldiers, the giant grabbed a military vehicle with one hand and swung it like a weapon.
SPLAT—! CRACK—!
In an instant, the soldiers were reduced to pulp.
“W-What the hell is that...!”
“D-D-Director...! T-There was nothing like that in the intel...!!”
“They’ve got new weapons? So do we!”
Beep-beep—
Beep!
Finally, Han Chaeyoung completed the panel operation.
Hissss—
Thick, hot steam blasted out from the gaps in the capsule, spreading over the area.
“Urgh,”
As she stepped back slightly, the capsule door opened.
Inside was...
“There’s... nothing...?”
The aide’s face twisted in confusion. But Han Chaeyoung, wiping cold sweat from her forehead, lifted the corner of her mouth.
Whoooosh—
In the blink of an eye, something like a humanoid robot was standing in front of her. In its hands were the severed heads of two rampaging titans.
Thud.
“...A kn—knight...?”
“Tsk, it’s the S-Type Daemahin!!”
The S-Type Daemahin vanished again. Off to continue the hunt.
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“Ho.”
Having stepped out earlier, Go Minji returned with a strangely excited look on her face and pursed her lips. The new enemy weapon on the screen was performing far beyond her expectations.
“What is that?”
“...We don’t know yet, Chairwoman. No intel available.”
“Well, of course. From the look of it, it’s a prototype.”
That Titan—the pride of Biotech, designed to be their trump card—was getting torn apart like a toy.
“Still, to evolve this fast? Titans were built to withstand hits from a Terminator-class railgun without flinching.”
She said that, but even a Titan couldn’t survive a direct hit to the head. Still, the very idea that something not even a knight or Mahin could take—like a Terminator-class railgun—wouldn’t instantly kill a Titan was absurd. That’s what made them so formidable.
And yet now, that very Titan was being dismantled like a child’s plaything by this new product from the Abyss.
It was almost like...
“A knight. It’s like watching a knight in action.”
“...But that’s impossible, Chairwoman. The Abyss was only established less than twenty years ago—there’s no way ✧ NоvеIight ✧ (Original source) they could have...”
“Let’s just watch. See what weaknesses it has.”
Every strength comes with recoil. The essence of technology is minimizing and neutralizing that recoil.
But the Abyss hadn’t had the time to develop that kind of technology.
“They’ve already built something on par with a knight? No way.”
Go Minji sneered.
“Don’t send in any Mahin yet. Keep testing with the Titans. Let’s see how long they can last.”
“Yes, ma’am.”
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The sun had risen. But the war still raged on.
Most of the giant cockroach-like insect monsters had been blown apart by the fighting. But many soldiers had lost their lives, and over half the deployed Daemahin were gone.
Fshhhh—
Another capsule opened.
“So... even the last S-Type...”
Four S-Types were already in action. Even so, the enemy’s relentless advance dragged the battle on endlessly.
“At this rate...”
They held the upper hand. That much was clear—thanks to the overwhelming combat strength of the S-Type Daemahin.
Those titans that had once left a crushing impression were now being decapitated like grapes, and morale had skyrocketed.
But...
The very face of Han Chaeyoung, who had woken those S-Types, grew darker with every passing hour.
BOOM—!
One of the S-Types, who had been dominating the battlefield, suddenly plummeted from mid-air.
“?!”
Its outer suit shattered to pieces and scattered everywhere, but inside—there was nothing. All that remained was sticky, oozing orange liquid.
“...W-What happened?!”
The branch chief, directing the situation, shouted in shock. Han Chaeyoung responded with a heavy face.
“...Time limit. With current tech, the S-Type Daemahin is... single-use.”
“!!”
Once the body, unable to handle the full output, hit its critical threshold, it collapsed instantly and melted down from the inside out.
That was the fatal flaw of the S-Type Daemahin—the reason they absolutely needed to capture either a Mahin or a knight.
“I see. Then I suppose this is where it ends for us. We can’t possibly hold out forever.”
“...”
“Director, you need to evacuate.”
“What?”
“Take that thing—the S-Type—and get out of here.”
“What are you talking about...!”
“If you die or get captured here, when will this country ever see the light of day?”
“...!”
“We’ll buy you as much time as we can.”
A resolute decision.
Han Chaeyoung bit her lip as she looked at the branch chief’s profile.
She couldn’t bring herself to say she would stay.
She couldn’t even say thank you.
“Good luck... to you.”
