Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint (Web Novel KR)

chapter 595 - Unutterable Words (2)



[The stigma ‘Armed Zone Lv.5’ of character ‘Gong Pildu’ has been activated!]
A full Level 5 Armed Zone.

With Gong Pildu’s thunderous bombardment, the mole crickets in front were blasted to pulp.
Dududududu!
The mole crickets kept pouring forward, trampling over the corpses of their own kind.

“We’re being pushed back! Watch out!”
In less than ten minutes, the first line of sandbags collapsed. Mole crickets squeezed through the gaps, shrieking, and a few terrified civilians broke formation with screams.
“No! Hold your ground! Don’t run!”

A man, his arm clamped in a set of jaws, was dragged forward like a fish on a hook.
“Uwaaaaaagh!”
Hands reached too late. The man was swallowed by the swarm. His screams did not last long.
Gyeong Sein, holding the front line, trembled.

“Inho-ssi.”
Watching someone immediately fill the place of the dead, I answered,
“Yes.”

“To be honest, it never felt real until now.”
Blood splattered everywhere, screams echoed.
Even as we spoke, people kept dying. Strangers whose names we had never learned.

“I came into this novel, saw people dying, and still it didn’t feel real. I kept thinking maybe it was just a dream—that if I took a nap, I’d wake up in my bed again. That’s what I thought.”
Another death. Another gap filled.
“But now it feels real.”

Shoving away a charging mole cricket, Gyeong Sein shouted,
“I really don’t want to die.”
I understood why his heart had suddenly changed. Because the situation itself had changed.

“I want to survive… survive no matter what, and go home.”
Because there was hope now—that he might return to his world.
「Prevent the scheduled destruction, and carve a new myth.」

“I’m going to clear every scenario and make it back.”
He drove his staff into a mole cricket vaulting over the barricade, skewering it.
Kill, and kill, and kill again.

I had no idea how many we’d already put down in that short time.
Panting, Gyeong Sein spoke,
“The first thing I’ll do when I get back is turn on my computer. I’ll post on the forum. I’ll brag. That I really transmigrated into ORV.”
“…That’s really the first thing you’d do?”

“That I saw Jung Heewon there, met Cheon Inho, even Yoo Joonghyuk. No one will believe me, but someday, I’ll say it for sure.”
While I hesitated for words, the man in front of him died. Without pause, Gyeong Sein stepped into the empty place.
“And I’ll definitely read the ORV side story. The author promised to serialize it.”

I gave a wry smile.
Maybe the first thing I’d do on returning was also turn on my computer.
“They’re pushing again! Molotovs, ready!”

As the second barricade line began to falter, Ye Hyunwoo signaled.
Men in the rear pulled empty soju bottles from their coats.
“Throw!”

At his command, Molotovs arced through the air. Shattered bottles spread gasoline, flames blooming in the center of the platform.
Kiiiiiii!
The mole crickets shrieked in confusion, scattering, and Gong Pildu’s shells rained down on them.

For them to have even prepared firebombs in advance—the Seventh Apostles were no empty name.
“Don’t let them through! It takes forever to reset an [Armed Zone]!”
The lynchpin of this defense was Gong Pildu’s [Armed Zone].

If the line collapsed any further, he’d have to disengage it, and we had no strength to cover the firepower gap.
The crickets’ advance slowed slightly. A man guarding the barricade shouted back,
“Make more firebombs! If we keep pushing the line, we can drive them all into the flames—”
Something burst through his abdomen.

The horn of an 8th-grade subterranean, a Groll.

“Ghhk—ghaaaagh!”
“Pull it out! Hurry!”

“Pildu hyungnim! Help us!”
“Clear out!”
Dududududu!

The Groll, a man impaled on its horn, went berserk under fire.
But from 8th grade and up, Gong Pildu’s bullets couldn’t fell them so easily.
At least four or five direct hits were needed to bring one down.

And there was more than one. Grolls erupted from the platform, charging like heavy tanks at the barricades.
Then Gong Pildu’s barrage ceased.
“Damn it, I need to reload! Stall them a bit longer!”

At this rate, the formation would collapse.
“Sein-ssi.”
At last, it was our turn.

“Yes!”
With his all-in stamina and the cheat-like [Average Adjustment], Gyeong Sein grabbed the Groll’s horn with a yell. Uncle Dansoo unleashed swarms of insects, blinding its eyes.
Guoooooh!

And Jung Heewon’s sword severed the back of its neck.
The Groll’s head thudded to the floor.
One after another, three, four Grolls went down, just as Gong Pildu finished reloading. His guns roared again, scything through the monsters.

Dududududu!
The front line cheered as the swarm was mowed down.
“They’re pretty good!”

“Protect Hyungnim Pildu!”
“We can do this! We can hold!”
For the moment, the crisis passed. But it wasn’t optimistic.

Barely thirty minutes in, and Gong Pildu’s face was already haggard. His mana was almost spent.
In the main story, Kim Dokja had provided plenty of Intermediate Mana Recovery Potions. But here…
[Constellation, the ‘Defense Master,’ looks worried.]

As time dragged, mole crickets began rising even after being struck by shells.
I was just debating whether to open the Dokkaebi Bag when—
“Kid.”

Wiping sweat from his brow, Gong Pildu called to Ye Hyunwoo. Without a word, Ye Hyunwoo stepped behind him, bringing his small hands together. His body shimmered with radiant blue light.
I recognized the skill instantly.
[Mana Recharge].

A skill that boosted mana recovery while immobilizing the user.
Soon, mana surged from Ye Hyunwoo.
Uwoooong—

At a glance, it was over level 30.
To have such mana by the third scenario—it meant he had poured every stat into it, abandoning strength, agility, stamina. A choice no sane person would make.
“Here I go, ahjussi.”

The moment Ye Hyunwoo’s small hand touched Gong Pildu’s back, a thread of mana linked the two.
[Mana Sharing].
Just like when Yoo Joonghyuk had lent Kim Dokja his mana to fight against the Disaster of Questions.

Mana flooded into Gong Pildu’s territory.
The [Mini Turrets], whose fire had slowed, roared back to full speed.
Dududududu!

Ye Hyunwoo was using himself as a mana tank.
“This is Stage 4 of the Shut-in Fortress Lord tech tree.”
Meeting my eyes, sweat beading on his brow, Ye Hyunwoo said proudly,

“『Infinite Ouroboros』.”
High-level mana, [Mana Recharge], [Mana Sharing], and [Armed Zone] combined.
I was stunned by the precision of the mechanism—and horrified that someone had actually built it.

If Kim Dokja were here, he would be astonished too.
[A constellation who has yet to reveal their modifier marvels.]

[Constellation, the ‘Tiger Who Eats Rice Cakes,’ is aghast!]
[Constellation, the ‘Lying-Down Dragon,’ nods in approval.]
From the stairs above, Lee Jihye whistled.

“Wow, that’s sick. I want a kid like that too.”
With the turrets firing faster, momentum swung our way.
The few Grolls that broke through were handled by Jung Heewon and Gyeong Sein, leaving others free to rebuild barricades and mix new Molotovs.

Men tinkering with bottles muttered,
“This isn’t as bad as I thought.”
“Right? At this rate, smooth sail—”

Wait.
[The ‘Emergency Defense Battle’ has entered a new phase.]
The message thundered, right on cue.

At this point, maybe I needed to filter out the word “smooth” from ORV.
[A new monster species has appeared in the ‘Emergency Defense Battle’!]
That message hadn’t appeared in the main story. The scenario had never had phases.

[A Grade-7 monster species has appeared!]
A massive shadow writhed by the railway. A noise like a subway train scraping bare ground. The ✪ Nоvеlіgһt ✪ (Official version) floor shook beneath our feet.
“Wh-what the hell is that?!”

It wasn’t a train that burst from the tunnel. It was a gigantic monster, at least fifteen meters long.
A Giant Centipede.
Hundreds of legs rippled beneath its rainbow carapace. At the sight, several men lost their nerve, rushing toward Gong Pildu.

“Uwaaaaagh! Crazy!”
“How the hell are we supposed to kill that—”
It could be killed. Yoo Joonghyuk could do it.

The problem was, Yoo Joonghyuk wasn’t here.
I glanced at Ye Hyunwoo. His face was pale. Understandably.
“Inho-ssi.”

He meant—don’t you have a trick?
I stepped forward.
“This time, we’ll handle it.”

“You… have a method?”
“Sure. We fight it head-on and kill it.”
“That thing? How?”

“Well… stab it with a sword, maybe?”
“…Inho-ssi. I don’t know how many regressions you’ve read, but that isn’t just a grade-7 monster, it’s a large-type. Even my Fortress Lord tech stage 4 can barely cope. Speaking with the authority of someone on my fiftieth regression—”
Instead of replying, I turned. Jung Heewon, just finished cleaving a Groll, was approaching.

“Heewon-ssi.”
She flicked the blood from her blade and nodded.
“Stay hidden. I can’t protect you this time.”

She slapped my shoulder, striding past.
Watching her back, Ye Hyunwoo grimaced.
“Jung Heewon? She’s strong. I know. She’s one of the top combatants even in Kim Company. But at this point, not even she can—”

“Thing is, I’ve got a tech tree prepared too.”
“…Eh?”
Of course, that was a lie.

But you don’t always need preparation for things to work out.
It was the same when writing novels.
Sometimes, an idea that popped into my head right before upload was more fun than an episode I’d planned for days.

“Watch.”
Jung Heewon was my “idea.”
[All constellations in the channel agree to the activation of ‘Hour of Judgment.’]

When I had given up everything, an “idea” had suddenly come to me.
[Character ‘Jung Heewon’ activates ‘Hour of Judgment’!]
Blazing radiance flared as she charged the centipede.

Watching her, I thought—
If we really finish all these scenarios, if we really make it back home,
「Then perhaps I’ll be writing this very moment into a story.」

That was when my phone buzzed.
[A new chapter of Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint has been updated on the platform.]


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