The Illegitimate Who Devours Weapons

Weapon-Eating Illegitimate Son

Episode 36

After the quarterly evaluations were over, the cadets who had gone out returned to their homes one by one.

Overall, the assessment for this quarter was negative.

Because the quarterly evaluations for not only first-year cadets but also second-year cadets were so harsh, it was rare for a class to succeed in their mission.

From cadets feeling angry, helpless, frustrated and sad, to those feeling joy and accomplishment after completing a mission.

The expressions on the faces of the cadets who had experienced actual combat each contained complex emotions.

“Class 5 of the first grade is delayed in returning to school.”

As soon as each class returned, they gathered in the conference room to conduct a post-mortem review and report.

The first to report were the first-year cadets.

Class 1’s mission was a success.

Class 2 failed the mission.

Class 3 only met half of the mission requirements.

Class 4 gave up on the mission and returned.

The results varied, but overall there were many casualties.

The second and third year situations were not much different from the first year.

If it was more dangerous, it was no different for Squad 5 to have been given a dangerous mission.

“The only ones that haven’t arrived yet… are Class 5?”

“They say your grades have improved a bit, but you’re still in Class 5. Didn’t you give up on your mission like Class 4?”

“That would be expected. It’s a special 6th level dungeon, right? In fact, there’s no way that a 5th class level could succeed.”

“What’s more, there was a strange phenomenon.”

This evaluation itself was the harshest in the history of the cadet corps.

That’s why the instructors thought that even Class 5, no matter how good their grades were, would have failed the mission.

And how much time passed?

“I’m sorry I’m late. There were a lot of injured people, so I was late because I had to admit them to the hospital.”

Lee Jeong-ho entered the conference room.

“There seem to be quite a few casualties. I received a report that they had entered the main house about 30 minutes ago.”

The cadet captain looked at Lee Jeong-ho with a strange look.

Lee Jeong-ho nodded with a calm expression as always.

“Can we get started right away?”

“Take a deep breath. By the way, where is the class president of class 5…? Master?”

The class president had to be present at all post-mortem reviews.

This is because the report from the class leader who was on site is more important than the instructor who was in charge of the desk.

“Are you injured or something?”

“He was injured.”

Lee Jeong-ho stuttered for a rare reason.

The cadet captain’s expression became mysterious.

“Not because of that, actually.”

“Okay, I understand.”

I don’t know if my direct descendant was injured, but even so, I’m an illegitimate child.

‘If the squad leader, Seo Ja, who was in command, is injured to the point where he cannot participate in the postmortem review, is it a mission failure? However… … .’

The cadet captain asked with a puzzled look.

“Didn’t you say in the report just before returning that the mission was a success?”

“Yes, the mission was successful.”

how?

I almost said that, but I held back.

“Hmm… … Okay, I understand. Have you organized the data?”

“It’s a bit messy, but it’s reportable.”

“Then let’s get started.”

“yes.”

Lee Jeong-ho slowly stood up from his seat and connected his computer to the screen at the front of the conference room.

“Then let’s begin the report. The mission of Team 5 was to gather information on the abnormal phenomenon in the Special 6th Class Dungeon, the Forest of Human Faces. The given conditions were to film. At least the ecology of an adult… … .”

Although the data itself was not well organized and was rather crude, Lee Jeong-ho’s tone as he reported was calm.

“I knew it when I heard about it, but it really is a tough mission.”

“Why did we have to go on a search mission in the Inmyeonju Forest of all places… … It’s not like a cadet would be able to do anything by hiding.”

All the instructors laughed in vain.

And yet, the mission was a success? It’s clear that they only filmed a few adults walking out to the outskirts.

These days, there are some pretty good drones coming out for filming.

“So, first, the 5th team was divided into 4 groups and installed 132 M4-1s in the dungeon.”

Silence fell.

The instructors and the training center staff all laughed in vain.

The cadet captain waved his hands with a puzzled expression.

“Wait. Wait. Did I hear that correctly? You used firearms?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“132 shots? Are you planning on burning that place to the ground?”

The magical balance of the dungeon is always precarious.

But on top of that, a magic bomb? This isn’t adding fuel to the fire; it’s adding fuel to the fire.

“Additionally, 52 shots were used when encountering monsters, so the total usage was 184.”

It’s a real treat.

The cadet captain’s expression distorted.

“If it’s M4-1… … are you talking about the magic incendiary grenade, like an incendiary grenade?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

This weapon is called an incendiary bullet, not an explosive bullet, also known as an M4-1 high-explosive bomb.

A bullet that, rather than scattering fragments or iron balls when detonated, burns the surrounding magical power to create an incredibly high temperature.

“What about the dungeon? If it exploded to that extent, it would be a total wasteland! No, the mission was clearly to photograph the abnormal phenomenon in the first place! Do you really think you can call it a success by causing the dungeon to collapse?”

No one knows what the aftermath of the dungeon’s collapse will be like.

So no one used firearms in the dungeon.

“The mission… was successfully completed.”

“Nonsense! If you just detonated 30 or 40 rounds, the dungeon would be in chaos, but didn’t you say you detonated more than 100 rounds! I haven’t been briefed on such an operation!”

Well then, that’s right.

The expressions on the faces of the people gathered in the conference room were like that.

It was a difficult mission to begin with, so it was hard to believe that Class 5 succeeded.

As the cadet captain said, it was difficult to call that a success.

“Is the footage from the scorched earth dungeon? Hurry up and show me the footage… .”

The moment the cadet captain shouted loudly.

Squeak-

The sound of the conference room door opening was heard.

A boy with bandages and compresses all over his body entered the conference room.

Everyone’s eyes turned in that direction.

“Sorry I’m late. The video equipment broke and it took some time to recover. Here’s the video.”

The youngest son, Cheol Lee, was holding a storage device in his hand.

* * *

As the video progressed, the expressions on the audience’s faces changed from moment to moment.

“… … You really filmed it in a nest, right?”

“Seo, no way. Did you get captured on purpose?”

“This is crazy.”

At first, there was distrust.

Even though I know the monster’s habits, I was directly poisoned and captured!

Everyone’s gaze quickly turned to the youngest, Seo Ja, Lee Cheol.

Now that I look at it, I think I understand the reason for those scars.

Eventually, the video slowly changed to a scene of the adults gathered together and acting strangely.

“That’s… … .”

“Are you saying that the Inmyeonju has such habits? There must be only chicks in the nest.”

Everyone was muttering with puzzled expressions while watching that scene.

And the next scene is the Queen’s Egg.

“sport?”

“No, that’s a boss monster.”

“But isn’t the Inmyeonju a monster that doesn’t have a separate boss monster in the first place?”

“It’s a species that has never been reported in academic circles.”

Then the image shook violently and flames began to rise.

The explosives began to explode.

The adults disperse in all directions to put out the fire.

“Was this the bomb for!”

Lee Jeong-ho displayed the figures that he monitored with good timing.

The eighth, Seohyun Lee, came up next to me and whispered softly.

“Hey, you crazy bastard.”

“what.”

“No, is it normal to set off a bomb in a dungeon? What the hell are you thinking? And why were you captured?”

“The squirrel poisons its tasty prey and carries it back to its nest. It’s a famous habit. This was the most reliable way to film.”

I explained the situation calmly.

Lee Seo-hyun made a tired expression.

“Are you okay… …?”

“When they caught me, they stabbed me in the fangs to inject poison. That hurt a little bit.”

“Is that something you can say so casually? That? I knew you were crazy, but this is a bit… … .”

Lee Seo-hyun shivered and pulled away from me.

The video continued.

The Queen’s appearance.

Flames rising one after another and the screen shaking violently.

‘And around this point… … .’

Support-! Pot!

The video cut out during the boss’ appearance and my battle scene.

‘The video device was broken, but the memory was safe. The problem was that the images were captured too clearly.’

Actually, it wasn’t too late to restore the video.

It was for editing.

The latter part was edited to show only the necessary amount, as much as was determined.

I couldn’t help it because my power was so clearly revealed in the video.

‘Nanny. Thank you.’

As I gave a brief thank you to the nanny who could do anything, a profound silence fell over the conference room.

“… … You’re crazy.”

“Is that why you used firearms?”

“But even so, if you knew what would happen in the dungeon, you would have dropped a bomb… … .”

“The collapse might have happened by now.”

“Who took care of the follow-up? Did they ask for cooperation?”

The cadet corps leader and the people from the training center who came to observe all shook their heads.

It was a video that was far removed from any operational manual or common sense.

And then I looked again at the sight of my son, wrapped in bandages and covered with wet compresses.

I was beginning to guess why that wound had formed.

“Class president of class 5… … Your Majesty, please come forward and answer the questions.”

At the cadet captain’s words, I stood up from my seat and headed to Lee Jeong-ho’s side.

Lee Jeong-ho handed me the microphone with a trembling expression.

Because reporting on the scene was originally the foreman’s job.

“Who came up with this plan?”

The first question was about Musa from the training center.

“I did it.”

The one who was rather embarrassed by my confident words was Musa of the training center.

“Being captured, filming, using firearms… are you talking about all of that?”

“okay.”

“Why on earth did you even think of such a plan in the first place? Do you know what would happen?”

“I don’t know how many times I have to explain this. It should be in the report.”

The expressions of the people gathered in the conference room became gloomy.

I couldn’t say that because I couldn’t believe the report.

“Using a bomb is like carrying a can of oil into a burning house. Is that a normal plan?”

“I just made the most likely plan for the mission to succeed. If I had made a standard plan, would it have been possible for the cadets who hadn’t even become sergeants to have succeeded in this operation?”

“that…….”

“I would rather succeed at any cost than fail or give up on the operation.”

“Hmm.”

It was a correct answer.

The cadet captain took a long deep breath.

“Even if that’s the case, why did you take such a crazy… no, impossible task? You must know how important a commander is on the scene.”

“Class 5 isn’t in disarray because they don’t have a leader. They have a competent desk, and all the cadets have faithfully completed their training. I thought the cadet corps was supposed to teach all the cadets to make sound decisions in any situation?”

I looked around the room.

“I guess the other half isn’t like that?”

Provocative language. The logic is also poor.

But I can’t refute it.

A strange charisma felt from him.

Since Lee Cheol-in spouts such poor words, it makes it feel like some kind of absolute truth.

‘A talent for leading people.’

The cadet captain thought so.

Even so, the mission plan of Class 5 was not common sense.

“… … However, luck played a big role in this plan. The poison of the human-faced man was stronger than expected, and if you were to make a mistake, a boss monster or an adult would… … .”

“That sounds strange.”

I frowned.

“Sungmoo-i is a place where results speak for themselves. How can there be no variables in actual practice? In any case, our class 5 overcame numerous variables and successfully completed the quarterly evaluation. That’s all. If you want to talk about something that’s already been done, do it somewhere else. This is Sungmoo-i.”

A very young Aesong is being trained by the captain of the cadet unit of the academy that has served the Sungmoo family all its life.

But it was absurd.

There is no other word that is more correct.

‘… … It wasn’t a variable. It wasn’t luck.’

The cadet captain’s eyes were deeply sunken.

The plan and the basis for it are absolutely ridiculous.

The youngest son clearly left his plan to chance and carried it out in a rule-of-thumb fashion.

No, it looked like it had moved.

‘It may seem that way, but it was all planned. It may seem like it was left to passion or luck, but the bastard was confident in the plan. So he put it into action.’

This plan, which seemed to have been achieved through a combination of luck and fortune, was just a plan for the bastard.

“Since this incident caused a dungeon collapse, a military unit will be dispatched to take follow-up measures.”

“They must have already left.”

“One, this mission was to photograph abnormal phenomena. Since Team 5 successfully completed the mission, the next step is up to the family that gave the mission.”

The cadet captain smiled faintly.

“Your Majesty’s plan is so radical that even if it were recorded as data, it would be useless for anyone to reference. It would be difficult to even give it a score.”

I looked at the cadet captain silently.

Just when I was about to think, “Is this how it is again?”

“However, since you succeeded in your plan without any casualties, this can definitely be called a perfect score. Congratulations. This quarter’s evaluation. Class 5 is the only class in the entire grade to receive a perfect score.”

The conference room was in an uproar at the cadet captain’s words.

Looking into the meaningful eyes of the cadet captain.

I smiled silently.