The Time-Limited Leader Makes the Raid a Success - Chapter 65



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Episode 66

66. Please follow my order.

Kang Moo-hyuk, who was busy searching for the hidden orc, received a report from the operator that made him doubt his ears.

“The orcs are attacking?”

It is said that it only attacks hunters.

Could this be a coincidence?

‘No way.’

Kang Moo-hyuk had the raid location marked on the map.

“Where is the raid location?”

As soon as the locations were displayed on the map on the screen, Kang Moo-hyuk realized that they looked familiar.

‘One is the guild’s exclusive parking lot, and the other is… the Armed Forces Pocheon Hospital.’

The Armed Forces Pocheon Hospital was not related to Iron Will, but was a place where the Hunter Association rented a building from the Ministry of National Defense and operated the Hunter Hospital.

Before Iron Will took hold, Bukpocheon was a hunting ground for freelance hunters and novice hunters. Most of them were inexperienced, so they suffered a considerable amount of injuries.

Accordingly, the Hunter Association prepared a bed exclusively for hunters at the Armed Forces Pocheon Hospital under the pretext of helping new hunters grow.

Although it was a small facility, it was an important facility, so hunters dispatched by the association were always on standby there.

“Thank goodness there were no casualties other than the car being damaged in the parking lot. How was the damage to the hospital?”

“A party of skilled hunters happened to be there to visit their comrades, so they worked together with the association’s dispatched party to catch them all.”

“How many?”

“There are two.”

There are seven known Orcs so far.

One of them is believed to be a lieutenant-level orc.

‘You said you missed the two in the parking lot. Now, there are four that have been revealed. Where are the other three? No, are those seven all there are?’

While Kang Mu-hyeok was lost in thought, Gong Du-ri asked cautiously.

“What should we do with the troops that were going to support us?”

“What? Did you send support? Who?”

“So… they left based on the on-site judgment?”

“So who went there on their own?!”

“The strategy team leader… … .”

Kang Moo-hyuk laughed in vain.

‘Why is Jo Chung-hyun here?’

Jo Chung-Hyeon was nominally the current strategy and tactics team leader of the Iron Will Guild.

At the same time, he was the puppet of Taesoo Man, the second son of Taesung Group Chairman and head of the strategic planning office.

‘If he had moved, would it have only been Taesu who had intervened?’

I assumed the situation from various perspectives, but there was no reason for Tae-su to give such an order.

Kang Moo-hyuk suddenly realized that he was looking at the problem too distortedly. He decided to look at the problem simply from the beginning. Then the situation became clear.

‘It’s because of me.’

Kang Moo-hyuk has recently been working on making the Strategy and Tactics Team a mere figurehead.

Even though he has Taesoo’s support up until now, there will come a time when he will have to turn his back. At that time, he cannot keep Taesoo’s people in the guild.

So, he planned to shift most of the work of the strategy and tactics team to himself and gradually reduce Jo Chung-hyun’s influence by sending him to a lower position.

‘You must have noticed that your position in the guild was getting weaker. You must have been impatient. You must have felt pressured to do something. In the meantime, Do Kyung-hoon, who was one of the three main lines of the guild, was cut, so you must have had a change of heart. Did you move to make up for it?’

I could guess Jo Chung-hyun’s situation. He was anxious about losing his position, which was something I often saw in Titan during the transfer season.

But how could he act so selfishly during an important operation where people’s lives are at stake?

‘It was my mistake. I should have cut it off sooner.’

Of course, it wasn’t easy. In order to avoid Tae Soo-man’s attention, he had to keep his eyes and ears nearby. If he had rashly chased Jo Chung-hyun away, he could have been subject to full-scale restraint from Tae Soo-man.

It wasn’t time yet.

“You’re not even following along, what are you going to do when you get caught? Tsk! So where is the place that Team Leader Cho was in charge of?”

“that is…….”

“what’s the matter?”

“The place that Team Leader Cho was in charge of was the place where the lines before that person were located… … .”

Gongduri couldn’t continue speaking, and instead focused the area on the screen.

“It’s full of holes?”

Kang Mu-hyeok muttered as if he was dumbfounded.

The siege was completely lifted.

‘There’s nothing we can do about what’s already happened. We have to deal with it first.’

Kang Moo-hyuk checked the time the parking lot and hospital were raided.

As expected, they first attacked a hospital near the city center, and then, after a while, the orcs were discovered in the parking lot.

The reason the report from the hospital was late was because it was under the jurisdiction of the Association, not Iron Will.

Because Jo Chung-hyun’s attention was focused on the hospital, a scenario was drawn in which the orcs escaped through the gap and headed toward the parking lot.

‘These guys, it’s like they’re moving according to plan. Just like humans.’

There is no evidence, but the situation is sufficiently suspicious.

Until then, we simply assumed that they were evolved orcs, so we judged them to be a species with minimal intelligence. So we built a siege net and simply searched them repeatedly.

But I never thought they would come out in reverse.

“Should I plan my strategy as if I were dealing with a hunter, not a monster?”

Gong Du-ri heard Kang Mu-hyeok muttering and said as if it was strange.

“But don’t these guys know the geography of this place too well? They attacked the hospital and parking lot related to the Hunters as if they already knew. In terms of games, it’s like they knew where the houses, turrets, and enemies are and ran. It’s not like the monsters turned on some kind of map hack.”

“Wait, what? What did you just say?”

“What? A map hack?”

“No, before that.”

“Turret? House?”

A possibility flashed through Kang Moo-hyuk’s mind like a bolt from the blue.

‘It’s clear that they knew exactly where the Hunter was and attacked him. If we assume that their intelligence was developed enough to survey the terrain in advance, it means that they know where the weak points are. Putting aside the reason they attacked ineffectively, the fact that the other three are missing is a concern… ‘

Let’s assume that the opponent is not an orc. What would I do in the current situation?

“house.”

Kang Mu-hyeok recited the words that Gong Du-ri had in her mouth.

“If it were me, I would hit the center.”

As soon as he finished speaking, an explosion was heard from somewhere.

‘Parking lot, hospital, and city hall. It’s a typical shake-up that goes inside, outside, inside. They divide up the small force there and distract our attention. That’s the method used when dealing with tribal monsters. The purpose of striking the center at this time is─’

Kang Mu-hyeok went to the window and opened it.

An orc was visible through the rising smoke.

“What they’re after is chaos… … What on earth are you orcs planning?!”

There were no hunters in the viewing area at the moment. They were all out looking for the orcs who were presumed to have escaped. They had to buy time somehow before calling the hunters who were nearby.

Kang Moo-hyuk fiddled with his waistband. The pistol he had prepared as an emergency measure was in his hand.

‘Even this… … .’

He ran outside.

“Team Leader Gong, send an emergency message to the nearby hunter!”

“Hey, wait a minute! Captain! Hey, you punk, what are you doing over there?!”

Gong Du-ri tried to stop him, but he was unable to catch Kang Mu-hyeok because it happened so suddenly.

* * *

The parking lot in front of the city hall main building where the electric vehicle charging station was destroyed.

The aftermath of the explosion left a plume of acrid smoke, and people were running away screaming everywhere.

The two orcs began to attack the fleeing people, destroying nearby vehicles.

Pregnant women were the first targets.

“Whoa!”

bang!

With a single gunshot, the orc fell.

But he didn’t die. He just rolled on the floor in considerable pain.

“Damage!”

Kang Moo-hyuk kept his eyes on the orc and shouted at the pregnant woman. Even though her legs were weak, the pregnant woman used her motherly strength to crawl on the floor and try to get out of the place.

As the orc bared his teeth and reached out again, Kang Moo-hyuk pulled the trigger.

bang!

“Quoow!”

The orc, who had withstood even the revolver, groaned.

‘Fortunately, it’s expensive. I’m glad it works here.’

Kang Moo-hyuk didn’t use ordinary bullets.

Manatan.

It was a bullet that had been consecrated with mana.

Ordinary gunpowder weapons are affected by mana.

In special areas or gates, its power is significantly reduced due to the interference of mana, but in other areas, it can deal significant damage to monsters.

It may not be a big deal if it was a large or high-level monster, but it showed enough destructive power to cause considerable pain to something like an orc.

It was the same with evolved orcs.

No matter how much they evolved, there were limitations to the species itself, and the orcs in front of them were nothing more than the lowest rank of soldiers.

It was a blessing in disguise that the feather-decorated orcs that Kang Mu-hyeok had been worried about were nowhere to be seen.

‘It was a good thing I took shooting training.’

The tactical training I received regularly since I was a field support agent during the Titan era was of great help.

Each shot of Manatan was worth the price of a potion, but it was not more expensive than a human life. There were few situations where it would be used, and since it was expensive, it was not kept in large quantities. If the few bullets missed, it would be a disaster.

Kang Moo-hyuk aimed for the head of the orc who was struggling to get up despite the pain.

“Kuaaaa!”

Suddenly, another orc came rushing in from the side.

Kang Moo-hyuk rolled on the floor. Rolling around, he gained distance. As the orc chased him, he roughly pulled the trigger toward his leg. The orc that was chasing him screamed and collapsed.

As Kang Mu-hyeok stopped rolling and turned his gun again, the orcs quickly hid behind the vehicle.

Even monsters are immune to pain.

Kang Moo-hyuk made a plan to conserve his few bullets as he walked down to the parking lot.

No matter how much I thought about it, the limit was to inflict maximum pain on the orc with a gun and then buy time by using it as a threat.

Thanks to things going as planned, he found some free time and collected his disturbed breathing.

“Whew… … .”

Then the orc that had been far away moved.

The orc hid behind the light car and pushed forward with force. The other one circled around using the parked cars as a shield.

‘It’s a stupid method, but it’s definitely far from being a stupid orc.’

Kang Moo-hyuk stepped back to secure a firing angle without being surrounded. However, there were too many cars for the orcs to hide in.

Even in a crisis, Kang Moo-hyuk remained calm.

‘I was able to buy some time thanks to the gun, but it won’t last long.’

Let’s hold out as long as possible until the nearby hunters quickly join in. If that doesn’t work, let’s retreat while keeping them at bay with warning shots.

Although he had a blank expression, he was secretly sweating profusely as he looked for an escape route.

“Hey, you guys, it’s been a while since you last saw me? I came here because it was noisy, and I see a familiar face.”

Kang Mu-hyeok turned his head at the sudden voice. The orcs’ gaze was also stolen.

Kang Moo-hyuk confirmed the identity of the voice’s owner.

One woman, one man.

It was the woman who spoke.

The outfit is.

‘Hunter?’

Although he was poorly armed, he clearly had the appearance of a hunter.

Of course, he wasn’t a member of Iron Will. There wasn’t a hunter in the guild that he didn’t know.

“Hey, Orc. Are you two alone? Where’s your friend?”

“Quack?”

“Yeah, this isn’t our first meeting, right? We met the other day. At daycare. Bam! I owe you a lot back then.”

“Sister, can we do this one-on-one?”

Only then was Kang Mu-hyeok able to discover their true identities.

It was two freelance hunters who had cooperated at the daycare center a few days ago.

These were people who I had not been able to see in person because I was busy and had only come into contact with through reports written by my employees.

‘Are you still around?’

As I recalled the personal details of the two people, the report evaluations came to mind like turning the pages of a book.

Especially judging from the testimony of the daycare center incident and Baek Seong-bin’s evaluation of Orc, their skills did not seem bad.

‘I thought it was strange because it was a two-tank party, but it was evaluated that it wouldn’t be overwhelming against orcs, but it wouldn’t be easy to defeat them.’

As soon as the calculation was finished, Kang Mu-hyeok shouted.

“Yoo Seong-ju Hunter, stand in the vanguard. Kim Soo-jung Hunter is the dealer switching formation as support.”

“yes?”

“What are you doing? No, more importantly, what about our Pomeranian… … .”

The two were dumbfounded by the sudden order and looked at Kang Mu-hyeok.

Kang Moo-hyuk spoke again, not caring about their gazes.

“I’m sorry, but please follow my orders for now.”