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?”

care of all taster monsters? How was that

Everybody had those thoughts.

voice echoed inside the

on a little

injury started

There’s no way that

matter what, it means that someone is coming

person speaking to Bae Cheol-Ho shut

Bae Cheol-Ho looked around.

up on

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

they knew it

convinced them with the information in his

keep holding on here even if we end

needed to last just

made

walked over to

keep it up

door that was barely being

Ha-Jung started to frown while

choice

put more strength into his shaking hands

“Sigh.”

“Hey, let's go.”

their heads but still walked over to the iron door and

who

other people started to quickly

couch and put it

have anything else to throw outside! What

right now from lack

shit! Throw whatever we can! We need to prevent

stopped for a

“Kihehe! Hehe! Kihehehe!”

was because the monster’s

snapped

of the voice echoing in their

will now send the

than now

was starting to

didn’t have much

started to think about how much time must have passed since they heard the

Baaaaang! Bang! Baaaaang!

feel his legs slowly starting to lose

“Ugh!”

didn’t even have the strength to

he could

struggle asked Bae Cheol-Ho

think they’ll get

Cheol-Ho could not respond to that question. It could not

take them a

between Park Jin

central shelters, but it was still quite

the distance we have to

had to get past the monster obstacles to

Bae Cheol-Ho

the sun goes down during that

passing 5 pm as they fought against the monsters

‘…They might not come.’

about the

job

thing he could

will get here if

at least a small amount of

get past this

Park Jin Tae gave us is

information had not

was the thing

“Hyu, hyung-nim!”

Cheol-Ho then heard the person who was looking out the crack in the

‘Are they already here?!’

looked toward the person thinking that the reinforcements

"General-nim!”

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

saw the person who had called him

“Ah.”

let

on the person's face was despair and not

the scout who was coming down the

appeared in the sky! It seems to be a Grade 1 monster based

faces filled

Steel Feather Hawk that was 1.5 times stronger than the other Grade

worth chatting with

had toyed

monsters started to run wild after that and the Grade

monster

but become filled with

Cheol-Ho started to speak at

“…That's not possible.”

seven Grade 1 monsters would appear right

there was

Was this information wrong?

Cheol-Ho’s mind started

person looking out the window continued

I, it seems to

His voice was shaking.

was full of fear. That fear quickly spread to everybody

Cheol-Ho started to frown

“Damn it!”

supporting the door and urgently ran toward the crack

“Hyung-nim, over there-”

at the window pointed in a direction

“…Ho.”

Cheol-Ho let out a

put even more fear on the faces of the others

person next to Bae Cheol-Ho continued to

it is descending

was descending extremely quickly as he mentioned. It looked as if it wanted to destroy this

so that only

run away? We

Cheol-Ho looked up at the sky before barely managing to open his

start with the people in

will move the

“Hold on!”

stop talking

toward Bae Cheol-Ho

“Hyung-nim?”

“…What is that?”

face closer to the window instead of looking

the monster that was descending faster and

then said

“…A person?”

the

Cheol-Ho started to mumble

on top of the