Ubermensch – Chapter 115

Chapter 115

The Ghost Dragon could feel it.

The Destroyer’s vanguard. The mechanical soldier. The moment it arrived, it destroyed the Bubble. For some reason, it seemed to have been sealed right after, but that wasn’t important.

Now that the vanguard had arrived, the Destroyer’s gaze would eventually reach this world. Whether a report was delivered or not, it would come to this world.

Not much time remained.

The chance to avoid the Destroyer’s attention. The chance to create a silent world was only once.

Only one last chance remained.

This could not fail.

It was the task bestowed by the God of Death, and the last salvation remaining for humanity.

The Ghost Dragon’s eyes gleamed ominously.

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Players summoned from all over the world were urgently gathering in Texas, USA.

Steve Queen, Chong Daolong, Jean Bosung, and so on.

All were familiar faces.

In particular, among them was Batkhishig, leading the Keshig cavalry.

It wasn’t a situation to exchange pleasantries.

The warriors simply exchanged nods and entered the conference room.

“As you all know.”

Steve Queen got straight to the point.

“The Ghost Dragon is flying towards the Walking Thundercloud.”

Chong Daolong also skipped the greetings and went straight to the main issue.

“What about our defense posture?”

“It’s not as easy as we thought.”

If the Great Eater and the Walking Thundercloud were impossible to attack due to their overwhelming health and defense, the Ghost Dragon was impossible to hit due to its exceptional evasion and defensive skills.

“Take a look at this.”

Steve played a video.

It showed a squadron of fighter jets deploying air-to-air missiles.

However, the Ghost Dragon, like a fighter jet deploying chaff, scattered souls to create a barrage in front of the missiles, and the missiles exploded in mid-air, unable to penetrate the soul barrage.

A formidable opponent before a difficult one. The Ghost Dragon could neutralize most modern weaponry.

“I assume surface-to-air missiles would face a similar situation.”

“If a powerful single strike is impossible, what about using machine guns?”

“Its altitude is too high to be within the range of anti-aircraft guns. And if we engage in dogfights with fighter jets… the jets themselves will be shot down.”

Like it or not, they had to make a move when it lowered its altitude.

And the time it would lower its altitude would be when it reached its destination, the Walking Thundercloud.

“Miss Yekaterina. I understand you’ve intercepted the Ghost Dragon before…”

“Yes. I used magic to make the souls fight against the Ghost Dragon.”

Yekaterina shook her head.

“But that was possible because they were the souls of brave warriors. The current Ghost Dragon is filled with the souls of powerless civilians, so my ability doesn’t work on it.”

Steve Queen looked at Mason.

“Then is there no way to use the Soldier?”

“That Soldier doesn’t seem to be on our side but rather an enemy.”

“What do you mean? You said it was a combat weapon used by a future civilization?”

“It’s hard to explain in detail… but it is.”

Steve Queen seemed to want to ask more, but time was of the essence.

“Then let’s assume for now that we can’t rely on the Soldier’s help…Do you have any good ideas?”

There weren’t any. In the first place, they wouldn’t have called them Demon Gods if there were easy solutions.

“Then… we have no choice but to go with a direct approach.”

The players gathered at the UN’s emergency summons formed a battle line under Steve Queen’s command.

It will definitely come. Knowing that fact alone, there was much they could do.

The US military mobilized all the equipment they could prepare in time. Tanks, attack helicopters, fighter jets, even snipers.

The complete opposite of the Great Eater, which took minimal damage even when hit. This was an enemy that was difficult to hit in the first place.

Steve Queen looked at Mason.

“That special strengthening spell you used before, Myth. Can you use it again?”

“No. I can’t because Deroa, who acts as the intermediary, isn’t here.”

“What if we provide another mage?”

“What do you mean?”

“If the problem is stability, in other words, if the mage’s core breaks after using it once… we can provide volunteers.”

Mason narrowed his eyes.

“Regardless of feasibility, that’s not a pleasant proposition.”

“It’s a sacrifice for the greater good. Leaving aside whether it’s pleasant or not, just tell me if it’s possible.”

Mason was silent for a moment before speaking.

“That’s…”

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Time ticked by, and the Ghost Dragon flew towards the Walking Thundercloud without stopping.

All attempts to intercept it failed. Even the US, which prints money like it’s nothing, couldn’t keep wasting millions of dollars worth of missiles in the air.

In the end, they had no choice but to use relatively inexpensive artillery and anti-aircraft guns to inflict whatever meager damage they could.

Interception was naturally impossible.

That meant the actual defense would be handled by the legion of players stationed around the Walking Thundercloud.

The only fortunate thing was that the Ghost Dragon wasn’t engaging in indiscriminate slaughter with bombings, instead focusing solely on flying.

Whether it thought it had gathered enough souls, or whether it believed it didn’t even have time to gather souls, was unknown…

‘That choice will be a mistake.’

In the Texan wasteland, where only dust and tumbleweeds rolled.

In front of the players’ formation, Mason stood with his arms crossed.

If Seo Yeonhee’s nemesis was the Laughing God, Mason’s nemesis was the Ghost Dragon.

‘Today, let’s settle this here!’

The Ghost Dragon was approaching from afar. Unlike when he saw it at the National Cemetery, its skeleton was now covered with a multitude of souls.

The Ghost Dragon glanced at Mason, then raised its head again.

Because if it entered the Walking Thundercloud as it was, there would be no need to fight him.

“…It’s possible.”

But at that moment.

“Hup!”

Mason’s cells began to glow white-hot with core energy.

The human Warlord, Mason, with all the healers’ energy concentrated on him.

The Myth spell was cast.

Mason raised Lion’s Great Hammer high.

As Mason’s body burned with core energy, the repulsion field emanating from Lion’s Great Hammer also expanded to the size of a mountain.

“Wooooooah!”

Mason swung Lion’s Great Hammer down towards the Ghost Dragon.

“…!”

The Ghost Dragon was lowering its altitude to enter the Walking Thundercloud. It hurriedly tried to gain altitude to avoid the range of Lion’s Great Hammer.

“Too late!”

Along with Mason’s cold declaration.

Bang!

The blow of the repulsion field struck the Ghost Dragon.

“Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaak!”

The Ghost Dragon desperately strengthened its lift.

The impact of the hammer itself wasn’t as great as expected. However, if it was driven into the ground like this… it was clear that it would lead to catastrophic results.

Like a pebble caught between an anvil and a hammer!

In an instant, power and will clashed.

The force of the repulsion field and the force of lift.

The will to destroy and the will to survive.

The power and will of the superhuman and the dragon clashed in mid-air.

But the next moment.

Mason gritted his teeth so hard they creaked.

“Wooooooah!”

Mason’s glowing body flashed like the sun, and the force applied to Lion’s Great Hammer doubled.

At the same time, the Ghost Dragon’s body began to be pushed down towards the ground.

“Kyaak! Kyaaaak!”

Crack!

The Ghost Dragon crashed into the ground. The bones that made up its body shattered.

The Ghost Dragon desperately tried to regenerate its bones.

If it stayed like this, it would be hit by the hammer again.

However, it was already too late.

The speed at which the bones regenerated and the body dodged… was slower than the speed of the second hammer!

“Haaaaaaaaaat!”

Whoosh…

The hammer of the repulsion field struck down as if to finish off the Ghost Dragon, and the Ghost Dragon exploded, spewing out all its remaining souls.

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!

Even that explosion couldn’t stop the hammer of the repulsion field.

But it was able to slightly alter the hammer’s trajectory…

Crack!

It was able to limit the damage to just a completely crushed right wing.

At the same time, the Ghost Dragon unleashed its Soul Breath, sweeping it across the horizon.

“Don’t even think about it!”

At that moment, Mason swung his fist and deflected the Soul Breath with its wind pressure.

“Ugh…”

At the same time, Mason’s Myth ended.

‘The healers are out of energy.’

Steam billowed from Mason’s body.

Even if Mason was a superhuman, receiving the energy of thousands of people through Myth put a considerable strain on him. He needed a break.

The Ghost Dragon and Mason stared each other down.

Mason’s Myth had ended, and the Ghost Dragon had lost most of its souls.

Both the Ghost Dragon and Mason had exhausted their maximum power.

All that remained… was close combat.

It was time for a hand-to-hand fight where bones and flesh would clash.

“Let’s go!”

Steve Queen shouted, raising his two-handed hammer high.

Amidst the rain of beams and magic, the Ghost Dragon, with its body shattered, gritted its teeth.

It needed time. Time to reconstruct its body…

The Ghost Dragon scraped together its remaining souls and raised skeleton soldiers.

To buy even a little time.

Thus, a battle began between Mason and the Ghost Dragon. A battle between skeletons and players.

“This is Batkhishig!”

Batkhishig led the Keshig cavalry and began to flank the battlefield.

“We’ll flank the Ghost Dragon from the rear!”

It was a strategic maneuver to widen the Ghost Dragon’s battlefront. The Ghost Dragon gritted its teeth as beams began to pour into its main body from the rear. It had no choice but to deploy skeletons to its rear as well.

It wasn’t just them.

As the Ghost Dragon’s feet were tied, crossfire began to rain down.

Despite being mixed in with the players on the battlefield, it was a precise strike without a single miss. It was the US military’s fire support.

“Kyaaaaaak!”

However, the Ghost Dragon had harvested a million souls. Even after expending most of them in the battle against Myth Mason and summoning skeletons, it still had enough power to heal its body.

But even that had its limits.

If it continued to be hit like this, it was clear that its souls would be depleted before its body could regenerate.

The cunning Ghost Dragon decided to use its last resort.

Its last resort.

Conversation.

The Ghost Dragon used its most vicious weapon.

It spoke the truth.