The Player Who Stands Above All

Chapter 28

Woooong-!

"Huh? Why is my phone suddenly doing this?"

"What's this all of a sudden? It's not the day for a bill bomb to arrive."

People looked at their suddenly vibrating phones strangely and checked the messages they had received.

"Hmm? What's this?"

Those who hadn't seen the message became interested in the search term that was suddenly dominating the real-time search rankings and clicked on it.

-Uwaaaaak-!!!

-Kururururu!!!

-R-run awayyy-!!!

Then, a video containing a scene of such great chaos that it couldn't be covered even with a mosaic unfolded on their phones.

"What, what is this? Why are the monsters that are supposed to be in dungeons running rampant in the city?"

The people who saw the video first suspected it was fake.

In their common sense, it was impossible for dungeon monsters to come out.

However, as if to completely shatter their flimsy illusion, videos containing the same content continued to pop up on various sites, and the number of witnesses also gradually increased.

-The monsters in the dungeon came out and are attacking people?

-Monsters can come out of dungeons?

-No, I heard that the monsters didn't come out of the dungeon, but that the dungeon broke and the monsters came out.

-What does that matter! The important thing is that we could be in danger too!

-Whoa! There's a dungeon near my neighborhood!

-Wait! The government is holding an emergency press conference.

At that one sentence, the people who had been heating up the internet communities went to the site and checked the video, hoping for some kind of solution.

In the video, the man who had recently been appointed as the head of the Player Association was standing with a microphone in his hand.

"I have a message for all citizens. We are currently receiving reports of a phenomenon where dungeons are breaking and monsters are coming out and attacking people."

-Damn it, so it's real!

-Wow, if I had known this would happen, I would have bought a gun and kept it.

"However, please do not be anxious and act calmly. Please go into shelters or concrete buildings and do not come out, and listen to our voices."

-They're just telling us to stay cooped up at home because there's no other way!

-Aww, really! I should have entered a dungeon in advance and awakened as a player!

"While you are evacuating, our Player Association will do its best to exterminate the monsters. Also, the government has already requested the guilds to exterminate the monsters."

-Phew, so they're not just telling us to hold on.

-Ah, damn. I'm still anxious.

"Citizens, please do not lose hope and trust us."

The association head finished his words, bowed his head once, and stepped down.

At the same time, the screen of the video completely changed, showing not the press conference hall but a panoramic view of the city taken from a high place.

-What's this now?

-What are they suddenly showing?

-Are they filming the city from a helicopter right now?

People, curious about the sudden situation, briefly looked at the video.

They were also curious about the changed scenery of the city and wanted to get some information to calm their anxious hearts.

"Don't back down!"

"Swing your swords!"

"Don't be afraid of mere monsters!"

And the camera, which had been capturing the overall view of the city, soon began to focus on the players swinging their swords at the monsters.

It was a strategy to reassure the public and make them forget their anxiety by continuously showing the players defeating the monsters.

And that simple strategy was somewhat effective.

The veteran camera crew in the helicopter was only finding and broadcasting the players who had the upper hand.

-Huh?

But at some point, the video began to show only one person.

And people looked at her in the video with astonished eyes.

Bing- Bing- Bing- Bing- Bing-

A woman with a lollipop in her mouth, her long hair flying, points her index finger at the monsters.

At the same time, a white light shot out from the tip of her finger in a straight line, piercing the monsters' hearts.

As soon as she had dealt with all the monsters, she wrapped herself in a white light and moved to another place at a speed that was difficult to capture on camera.

"Get her! Don't lose her!"

And the camera director ignored all the other players and pointed the camera only at her.

He had realized who she was from her movements just now.

-No way...

And it was the same for the other people watching the video.

The fighting style she showed and her appearance wrapped in white light reminded them of one person from Pantheon.

-Was Alice a Korean?

-No, by the way, I didn't know because she always wore a rabbit mask, but she was a woman?

-And she was that beautiful?!

At the appearance of the top-ranked player who was in the position of a [King], people began to forget the anxiety that had been stirring deep in their hearts.

Cheon Yuhwa's appearance, fighting while wrapped in light, was that beautiful, and the fight she showed was so overwhelming that it made the current situation seem trivial.

Thus, Cheon Yuhwa gathered the attention of the entire nation and began a fight that would be called heroic.

***

The phenomenon of dungeons breaking and spewing out monsters.

It was not just Korea that was experiencing the so-called 'Dungeon Break', but the whole world.

"Damn it! What is this all of a sudden!"

"If you have time to say that, move your hands, you idiot!"

Many countries, though flustered by the sudden monster attack, did their best to resolve the situation as quickly as possible.

Among those countries, the scale of damage in Korea was overwhelmingly smaller than in other countries.

The land was small, the vast majority of the people living on it had played Pantheon, and they had some experience fighting monsters.

On top of that, unless it was in a mountain so deep that people's hands couldn't reach it at all, they had confirmed the location of all the dungeons, so it was also possible to tactically dispatch association members.

And because the players who were after the monster carcasses had indiscriminately attacked the dungeons, the number of dungeons that had accumulated enough monsters to cause a Dungeon Break, in other words, dungeons that had never received a player, was very small.

"Keuk! Damn it!"

"Uwaaaa!!! Dieee!!!"

In contrast to Korea, the countries that had banned entry to dungeons out of concern that the system would collapse if the public gained excessive power, a representative example being China, were facing the worst situation.

The land was too vast to know where all the dungeons had appeared, and with the forces they had, they couldn't handle all the monsters that kept appearing.

"Scramble! Scramble!"

Even so, since they couldn't just do nothing, the Chinese government armed the soldiers they had just awakened as players with various firearms and deployed them to the areas where monsters had appeared.

At the same time, the government predicted a quick victory for its own soldiers.

"Damn it! Those bastards!"

"Keuk! Mere monsters!"

However, it didn't take long to realize that it was just an armchair theory.

The soldiers deployed to the operation, far from overwhelming them, were showing signs of being slowly pushed back by the monsters.

They were all players, but they were players created by going through dungeons strictly under the position of soldiers.

That method might have worked to some extent against the monsters inside the dungeons, but it didn't work well against the monsters that had come out of the dungeons and were roaming the city.

Kireuk-

Kiriririk-

The monsters were not stupid.

They moved cunningly and did not hesitate to use civilians as shields, and because of that, the soldiers hesitated to use their firearms.

That wasn't the only problem.

Krrrrrrk-

It was possible to somehow handle the ordinary monsters by using firearms, but it was difficult to subdue the boss monsters, the masters of the dungeons, with ordinary firearms.

It was hard to aim because they moved so quickly, and even if they managed to aim and shoot, they couldn't inflict deep wounds because of the monsters' own defense.

Kiririririk--!!!

Right now, the people of the world were facing the largest and most bizarre terror in history and were dealing with it in their own ways.

It was a new form of crisis that people had never experienced before.

And when a crisis strikes, as if waiting for it, people called heroes tend to appear.

"Hmm, it was a proposal that wouldn't hurt to listen to, so I was preparing for it, but it was real."

A large man with golden hair grown like a lion's mane tapped his shoulder with a steel club and looked at the corpse of the monster whose head had been blown off.

"If I hadn't listened to what my sister said and just stood there blankly, I would have been in big trouble."

A woman with deep purple hair tied in a ponytail poked the body of a monster that was barely breathing, poisoned, with her hand, which was wearing a purple glove of the same color as her hair.

"Well, thinking about it, that older sister wasn't the type to make empty promises."

A man with green curly hair scratched his head, and the golden bracelet on his arm clinked with the movement.

"Still, it's not a negligible amount of damage..."

A woman with silver hair tightened her grip on the platinum staff and looked at the broken parts of the city.

"By the way, I'm still curious. How did you know a Dungeon Break would happen?"

A man with his golden hair neatly slicked back muttered, looking at the spot where the dungeon had been with his one golden monocled eye.

"This is strange. I wonder if they'll tell me if I ask."

A man with messy brown hair leaned on a wooden staff of a similar length to his height, scratched his head, and was lost in thought.

"I don't know if they'll tell me or not, but I'll have to ask once later."

A woman with one side of her hair black and the other white sat on a black broom and looked down at the city, muttering.

"Tsk, by the way, this is a headache. I didn't plan on making such a flashy mess."

A man with gray hair scratched his head and clicked his tongue as if he had a headache, and the earring that shook slightly from the impact shone in four colors as it received the light.

"First, I'll have to move in some way."

A man with light purple hair sheathed his red-hilted sword and left the spot.

Thus, the heroes slowly began to move, and people realized through this incident.

That the flow of the world had begun to revolve around the players.

And that they could not resist that great flow.

(End of Chapter)