Life Mission

Cha Jun Sung shook his head and stood up.

His body was a mess. 80% of the main body was gone. It was because he relieved even this much of the shock.

His arm and tail that had been ripped off, but a part of his body regenerated and went back to its form. He had attacked the skeleton mountain by sacrificing the Miracle.

It took down hundreds of Evil Queens, but not all of them will have died.

“I almost died.”

It isn’t an exaggeration. He would have ended up like the skeleton mountain if she had been hit while bare-bodied.

[It was dangerous.]

Odin went back to the PDA in the body in order to communicate with Cha Jun Sung. It had not evaporated because it was inside his body.

Cha Jun Sung walks to the skeleton mountain. Only the terrain is left after it was blown away cleanly. There are traces of it everywhere, but there wasn’t a lot.

“Just come out now.”

Cha Jun Sung spoke as he looked around the area where the mountain had been.

Then...

A piece of flesh dripping in red crawls out from one side of the forest.

Evil Queen.

It seems there had been a problem in composing her form. But it is impressive that she stayed alive. That’s how strong she was.

“I just tried copying what I saw in a movie. I didn’t think she would actually come out.”

[It fell together luckily.]

Cha Jun Sung smirked and looked at the red life form – at Evil Queen.

“Black... Lord! I – I need to get stronger! I need to get stronger to stay alive!”

“What is she talking about?”

Could it be strength from rage?

The red liquid takes distinct form.

It isn’t her first, second, or third awakening, but Evil Queen’s form. She is smaller and less harmful than usual. He doesn’t even feel intimidation.

“Is it because of the shock? Because Bon Load died and only you survived? I don’t care.”

Cha Jun Sung released his awakened state.

Instead of fighting with difficulty in this state, he chose to strengthen his body. And then he spoke.

“Take it out.”

A battlesuit came out of the space compression bag that Odin opened.

Cha Jun Sung went into it without delay. A different kind of strength from a mutant.

“I should see the end as a Lifer, shouldn’t I?”

[That’s the coolest thing you’ve said until now.]

“It’ll be a quote.”

Kyak!

Evil Queen lost reason, Cha Jun Sung burst his Overbooster, took out Hades, and became a beam of light.

A ray that lights up the darkness.

[Danger warning, battlesuit damage 79%. Activating the secondary core.]

The battlecore’s energy was done. As the secondary core became activated, it maintains the battlesuit’s very limited basic system.

Cha Jun Sung sat, leaning on a boulder. From the way he sat and the shape of the broken boulder, it looks like it was embedded under great strength.

The battlesuit had been reduced to scrap iron and was so damaged that it wasn’t positive if Cha Jun Sung inside was safe. It looked like he needed to dispose of it right away.

Clunk clunk!

The crushed and ripped outer armor separates itself.

Each time the seriously damaged parts fell, it found a relatively good appearance.

This was due to Odin’s judgment that there was no use in keep it on.

The battlesuit that had been just under 3m tall had sharply reduced. Ultimately, it transformed to resemble a basic level C battlesuit.

As much as it has a simplified appearance, there is an impact on performance.

[How long are you going to lay there?]

“It’s hard...”

[The notice is coming. If you’re tired, squeeze out the strength.]

Cha Jun Sung moaned as he got up.

No, he tried to get up.

But he couldn’t get up. He can’t put strength in his entire body.

“Booster output 5%.”

Boom boom!

Weak flames are ejected from the booster and lift Cha Jun Sung’s body into the air. It feels like he is floating in water. He could stand with a little strength.

Strictly speaking, it couldn’t be said that he is standing on his own. He is standing with the booster’s strength.

All he is doing is holding the balance.

Cha Jun Sung picks up Hades from the ground.

It had been a vicious fight.

Nothing is left in the area because they poured everything out.

They reduced a several kilometer radius into ruins.

The Heavy Gravity was still being maintained, and ordinary Lifers couldn’t come here.

Not far from where Cha Jun Sung is sitting.

Evil Queen is gasping for breath among disgusting scraps of meat.

Cha Jun Sung is a mess too, but he at least has a ruined battlesuit. On the other hand, Evil Queen used all of her energy in battle. She is in such a helpless state that he could shoot her and she would die. There is a clear winner.

“I’m.. dying?”

“Why am I dying?”

“It’s a world where the strong live. Only the weak die! I withstood that hell. Why am I dying in a place like this?”

Cha Jun Sung didn’t say anything as he put Hades to Evil Queen’s chest.

Is it because the ability is lost?

He can feel her nucleus’ energy.

“Law and order collapsed when the world collapsed! That kind of law of the jungle where the strong live and the weak ie! The era of beasts came! I survived that kind of period, but I have to die here?”

He only heard fragments, but Cha Jun Sung understood what Evil Queen was saying.

She would have been an ordinary woman before awakening.

How would an ordinary woman change after going through that period?

It wouldn’t be strange for her personality to change to the extreme.

Cha Jun Sung first met Evil Queen in the virtual version. He does not know a lot about Evil Queen not just as a level 9 mutant, but also as a human.

“... I guess you’re a victim too if you really look at it. Life Mission is the one that created all of this, and we’re the ones who came into contact with you first.”

If the virus hadn’t been spread in this world, mutants, animals, and humans would have been living their own lives. Evil Queen would have been living in a different form as well.

Lifers were guaranteed human life and had a choice, but mutants hadn’t had a choice in anything since the virus was spread.

Mutants experienced more loss than Lifers did.

“Who do you think you are! What right do you have to kill me? Are you even Black Lord? Why do you hate me? Why are you so hostile to me?”

Evil Queen behaved opposite to what is normal for her because she had been driven to the extreme.

Cha Jun Sung found a puzzling question among her rapidfire interrogation.

The reason why he hates Evil Queen.

At some point while going through Life Mission’s virtual and reality versions, he took on Evil Queen as his goal and naturally came to hate her.

The reason?

He doesn’t know.

He can’t explain in a way to make someone else understand.

‘Is it brainwashing?’

A total of 10 years.

He enjoyed Life Mission’s virtual version for 10 years. It isn’t a game where he pounds on the computer keyboard and mouse with his fingers.

It was a virtual reality that used EEG to make them feel like they were experiencing it for themselves. It is plenty of time to be brainwashed without realizing it.

‘Training school.’

The supervisors and helpers said that the virtual version were a training school.

What is a training school?

Just as it sounds, it is a place where something is trained.

Come to think of it, he remembers long ago when the reality version was first launched and he was summoned to this world to hunt dozens of Kiwods.

He had never killed until then. Even if he had had experience, he massacred living things in a matter of a day without any resolve.

This was similar with other Lifers as well.

There were those who had expressed reluctance, but there had been very few. Most of them killed and weren’t even afflicted by any after effects.

‘Why?’

Because they were the same.

There was almost no difference between the virtual and reality versions, so they didn’t feel any distrust.

‘It was thorough.’

All Lifers including Cha Jun Sung moved the way they had intended while designing Life Mission, from start to end. They can’t even blame someone else.

No matter how strong their bodies are, they are deadwood if their minds have deteriorated.

The virtual version’s main purposes were killing living beings and cultivating the minds of contemporary people who build walls as they live their lives. Even if a Lifer other than Cha Jun Sung had met Evil Queen in the virtual version, they would have been brainwashed to register Evil Queen as an enemy as well.

Cha Jun Sung looks down at Evil Queen.

She has no fault.

But...

The eerie feeling of penetrating the nucleus.

Cha Jun Sung split Evil Queen into hundreds of pieces in that state. It was for complete destruction.

“Sorrry.”

He means it.

He realized what the problem was, but he couldn’t let her live. There’s no progress if he doesn’t kill her. That’s it.