Trash of the Count's Family

Chapter 573: Night of Potential (9)

At the central shelter closest to the one Cale was at…

“Fuck!”

Jae Ha-Jung who was taking on the role of supporter at this location was frowning with both of his hands shaking.

The tree trunks coming out of his hands were tightly binding a large iron door.

Baaaaang! Bang!

But the iron door looked ready to break at any moment from the banging.

No, it was already starting to break.

The door had dents here and there and it was starting to bend, slowly causing gaps to appear on the sides.

And beyond the iron door…

“Kihehehe!”

They heard the laughter of an animal that resembled a monkey.

The banging on the iron door became louder every time it laughed.

“Fuck!”

He started to frown.

‘It’s toying with us!’

The monster was toying with the people who were hiding inside and doing everything they could to resist.

But that was slowly coming to an end.

“Hyung-nim!”

Bae Cheol-Ho, the ‘General’ at this central shelter, clenched his hand that was holding a piece of paper after hearing Jae Ha-Jung's desperate voice.

It was the information that Park Jin Tae, the leader of the nearby central shelter, had brought him last night.

He had thought that the fearless Park Jin Tae had finally gone crazy after hearing that it was information from one of his shelter’s ability users with the power of foresight.

But everything on that paper was true.

The monsters appeared along with the solar eclipse. The weaker Grade 3 monsters came charging in first.

Then, seven taster monsters appeared.

This extremely accurate foresight gave him the chills, but this information allowed them to last until now.

…Yes, until now.

It didn’t look as if they could last any longer.

“Ugh.”

“Huff, huff!”

There were injured people groaning in pain behind Bae Cheol-Ho.

And in front of him…

Beyond the breaking iron door…

“Kihehehe!”

He could hear the red monkey monster’s laugh as the other monsters started to approach.

He could see the Grade 2 monsters getting closer through the only crack on the boarded windows that they had purposely left in order to be able to look out.

The other Grade 1 taster monsters that had been leisurely enjoying the situation from the rear were approaching as well.

This all started to happen once the Steel Feather Hawk disappeared.

“Hyung-nim!”

"General-nim!”

Bae Cheol-Ho could hear people shouting for him from multiple directions.

The veins on the hand clenching the paper looked ready to burst, but he was just looking at the iron door that was on the brink of breaking with a stoic expression.

But he could not do that any longer.

“Hyung-nim! I can't hold on any longer!”

Jae Ha-Jung shouted toward Bae Cheol-Ho while looking as if he was going to cry.

His shaking hands and sweat-drenched body were telling them that he had reached his limits.

Bae Cheol-Ho grabbed his weapon again.

If it was difficult to last inside the building, he needed to at least head outside and lure the monsters away.

Bae Cheol-Ho started to speak.

“…Jae Ha-Jung.”

Jae Ha-Jung started to frown as if he knew what was about to happen.

Bae Cheol-Ho and Jae Ha-Jung started to speak at the same time.

“You can sto-”

“Hyung-nim, I will do what I can to hold on a little loon-”

It was at that moment.

{Starting now.}

Everybody inside the building shut up.

It was that voice.

They could not forget the voice that they heard during the solar eclipse. It was the voice that had been providing them with information every hour.

{We will now send the first round of reinforcements.}

Jae Ha-Jung and Bae Cheol-Ho looked toward each other.

Bae Cheol-Ho clenched his fists again.

{Please hold on a little longer.}

The woman continued to speak.

{The first round of reinforcements will take care of all taster monsters.}

Bae Cheol-Ho released his clenched fists.

Jae Ha-Jung started to mumble.

“…What? Is that even possible?”

of all taster monsters? How was

Everybody had those thoughts.

echoed inside the building at that

on

arm injury started

There’s no way that

means that

speaking to Bae Cheol-Ho shut

Bae Cheol-Ho looked around.

already gave up on running

central shelter and run away when the Grade 3 monsters came to attack, but most of them

was because they knew it was

Cheol-Ho had also convinced them with

keep holding on here even if we end

to last just

Cheol-Ho made

walked over to Jae

keep it up

then moved his hands toward the iron door that was barely being maintained by the tree trunks

started to frown while

no choice but to

into his shaking hands with an annoyed

“Sigh.”

“Hey, let's go.”

still walked over to the iron door and pushed

were the people who were

started to quickly move

and put

on the second floor! See if they have anything else to throw outside! What is up with the kid making

now from

we can! We need to

stopped for

“Kihehe! Hehe! Kihehehe!”

the monster’s

quickly snapped out

the voice echoing in

the first

get at least a little better than now if they could hold on

thought was starting to take

they didn’t have much

think about how much time must have passed since

Baaaaang! Bang! Baaaaang!

feel his legs slowly starting to lose

“Ugh!”

even have the

he could do was

watched him struggle asked Bae Cheol-Ho

do you think they’ll get here? Hopefully they

not respond to that question. It could

take them a

between Park Jin Tae's

central shelters,

just the distance we

past the monster obstacles to

but Bae Cheol-Ho was certain that it would be a

the sun goes down

passing 5 pm as they fought against the monsters to get here, if the sun went

‘…They might not come.’

was thinking about

his job

was the only thing he could say to

here if we

give them at

past this difficult situation, as he

information Park Jin Tae gave us

information had

was why it was the thing

“Hyu, hyung-nim!”

was looking out the crack in the window on

‘Are they already here?!’

person

"General-nim!”

floor ran down the stairs in shock as he called out to Bae

who

“Ah.”

Cheol-Ho let

on the person's face was despair

heard the scout who was

the sky! It seems to be a Grade

faces filled

was 1.5 times stronger than the other

nobody worth chatting

that had toyed with them

Grade 1 monsters started to run wild after that and the Grade 2 monsters started

flying monster in such a

help but become filled with

Cheol-Ho started to speak

“…That's not possible.”

that only seven Grade 1 monsters

was another

Was this information wrong?

mind started to go

out the window continued to

I, it seems to be

His voice was shaking.

That fear quickly spread to everybody inside the central

Cheol-Ho started to frown after

“Damn it!”

supporting the door and urgently ran toward the crack in

“Hyung-nim, over there-”

at the window pointed

“…Ho.”

Cheol-Ho let

the faces of the

person next to Bae Cheol-Ho

it is descending

descending extremely quickly as he mentioned. It looked as if it

so that only Bae Cheol-Ho

we run away?

the sky before barely managing to

start with the people

sir. We will move the old

“Hold on!”

person had to stop talking after hearing

looked toward Bae Cheol-Ho in

“Hyung-nim?”

“…What is that?”

Cheol-Ho moved his face closer to the

monster that was descending

then said a

“…A person?”

the building

mumble in

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