Chapter 50
Chapter 50
Hyunseok agreed to affiliate with the Police Agency. Separate from other Slayers under the Korean Union, the Platinum Slayer would cooperate directly with the police so that, in matters of violent crimes committed by Slayers, public authority could be exercised.
The announcement read like this:
<Slayers’ crimes increasing — Slayers themselves step up to stop them!>
<Police move fast: direct partnership with the Platinum Slayer.>
<Platinum Slayer acts for public good despite modest compensation.>
<Platinum Slayer stands up for society’s justice!>
It wasn’t that he’d moved purely for public good. Hyunseok was only lending the Platinum Slayer name. Also, taxes on Monster Stones were abolished, though that part was not publicized.
From the government’s perspective, they needed the Platinum Slayer in Korea. They also knew the U.S. Union had offered 300 billion won to recruit him. The government wanted to save face, so they chose to abolish certain taxes, but only the taxes on monsters whose “impact value” (impact/shock number) exceeded 10,000. They argued that other monsters could be safely slain by ordinary Slayers, so exempting all monster taxes would be unfair.
In practice, aside from Cyclops and Giant Turtle, few monsters exceeded 10,000 impact, so it wasn’t an obviously over-generous clause toward Hyunseok. Still, it was shortsighted to assume 10,000 would remain a ceiling.
“Impact value 10,000… that’ll be exceeded someday.”
Slaying had only been in earnest for roughly a year. Orcs and Twin‑Headed Orcs used to be terrifying, now they’d become “dangerous moneymakers.” New monsters whose impact values topped 10,000 would appear before long, and their Monster Stones would be much more valuable and taxed highly.
Hyunseok fell into thought.
When will monsters with 10,000 impact appear? Thinking wouldn’t tell him.
The next morning, shocking news started coming in. It wasn’t that new or stronger monsters had appeared, the situation was much worse.
<Breaking! Massive Orc hordes appear in major cities!>
<About 500 civilian deaths; thousands injured.>
<Military responds immediately; citizens terrified.>
<Armed forces and Unions cooperate to repel Orc tides.>
The Orc hordes were met with joint action by the military and Slayers. Governments and Unions collaborated to blunt the waves. There were many casualties, but lots of Greenstones dropped as well. After a day, two, three, the number of Orcs appearing in these waves dropped until they were no longer an immediate existential threat.
But the problem returned soon.
<After Orc hordes, Twin‑Headed Orcs strike!>
<Terror beyond shock — around 400 deaths!>
<Government and Korean Union scramble for countermeasures.>
Civilians were terrified. Orcs were bad enough, but now Twin‑Headed Orcs. If this trend continued, even higher tier monsters could come in swarms. The country was on alert. Monsters swarming a city paralyzed it, the economic damage was enormous.
At night the Twin‑Headed Orc packs vanished; at 6 a.m. sharp they appeared again. The military responded but could not wipe them out.
<Government slow to act — incompetent?>
<Monster swarms in big cities — named the “Monster Wave” phenomenon!>
In truth, the government wasn’t easily blamed, Monster Waves resembled natural disasters. But when Twin‑Headed Orcs arrived en masse, Slayers quietly held back.
<Armed forces unable to cope with Twin‑Headed Orc hordes!>
The military reported progress, but the casualties were so severe that the public didn’t applaud much.
<Silence from Unions and Slayers, what are they doing?>
<This is the moment the Unions must act in place of the ineffective government.>
Unions are not public-benefit organizations per se, but they had some public interest role. People expected more from a Union than from the government. Yet the Union had no simple solution: Seoul is vast, and the Wave locations changed each time.
That made response extremely difficult; substantial damage was inevitable.
News filled with Monster Wave coverage.
<Seoul in pandemonium — rising death toll>
<Citizens losing sleep in fear>
<When will this nightmare end?>
At that moment, the Korean Union contacted Hyunseok.
—Hyunseok, we finally discovered the secret behind the Monster Waves!
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The strange phenomenon called “Monster Wave”: first hundreds of Orcs flooded in; Slayers and soldiers pushed them back. Then Twin‑Headed Orcs came. When that happened, many Slayers began to pull back; Twin‑Headed Orcs, when they number tens to hundreds, are too dangerous.
Sunghyung explained.
“So: each province, specifically high‑population areas, the Wave begins from near the eastern, western, southern, or northern outskirts of a city, once per day. It always appears at 06:00 and disappears at 18:00. In short, it sweeps through for twelve hours.”
The Wave began at 6 a.m. and ended at 6 p.m., disappearing suddenly. They already knew the timing.
“There’s regularity in the time and the locations,” Hyunseok said.
“Right. There are five regions where waves occur: Seoul, Incheon, Gyeonggi Province, Chungcheong, and Jeolla. We haven’t publicly announced that yet. The government will likely verify the pattern by tomorrow,” Sunghyung added.
People criticized the government, but Monster Waves weren’t simply the government’s fault. Still, people wanted someone to hold accountable.
Sunghyung continued:
“We’ll need the Union and the military to cooperate.”
“What if the difficulty keeps rising?”
First Orcs, then Twin‑Headed Orcs, after that it could be Trolls, then Twin‑Headed Trolls. Sunghyung swallowed. The Union had no panacea; the Union’s biggest leverage was the Platinum Slayer, but even he couldn’t be in five places at once. Some losses would be unavoidable.
“We’ll split our forces into five divisions. Only the top 30% of our personnel, the highest tier, will be selected.”
“Will everyone cooperate?”
“Not everyone. But think about it: 150 million won walking around in living form, even if a few are taken, the payoff is life‑changing. Top tier Slayers can handle Twin‑Headed Orcs or even Trolls. If it’s dangerous, they can flee. As long as they aren’t surrounded, it’s manageable. The military is different, soldiers don’t retreat on command like Slayers do. That flexibility makes it possible to gather them.”
People who had been terrified by the seemingly natural Monster Waves now had a reason for hope.
<Military and Union uncover Monster Wave secret!>
<Rules of the Monster Wave found; counterstrike planned.>
<Korean Union forms five divisions: about 3,000 top‑tier Slayers ready.>
<~70,000 army personnel on standby.>
When monsters spawn, there is a spatial fluctuation, even for the Monster Wave. Attacking during that ripple makes slaying easier. The discovery: hitting the space during its fluctuation deals damage to monsters. The window lasts only a few seconds, but concentrating fire then could inflict heavy damage.
<~3,000 high‑tier Slayers split into squads of ~600, waiting at wave start points.>
<06:00 incoming — the decisive moment approaches!>
World media watched Korea closely. What happened in Korea could soon visit other countries. Damage was severe, civilian casualties and trillions in economic loss were projected.
<One guild deployed in Seoul — is that correct?>
<Why 6 people instead of 600?>
<The Platinum Slayer is moving!>
This time the critics quieted. Sending six people to where 600 were needed made no logical sense, except those “in the know” understood why: the guild containing the Platinum Slayer would be deployed. Internet legends about the man, one punch and an Orc falls, one strike and Twin‑Headed Orcs go down, one blow and a Troll dies, had become credible. With a Slayer of that caliber, it made more sense to concentrate force elsewhere.
(End of Chapter 50)
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— Translated by Prime Works —