I Became a Hive Mind in the Game

Exactly 43 minutes after the drop.
In the middle of the great forest of Gangwon-do, 3km away from the Gangwon-do outpost of Hive Mind ‘Bomb Spider’.
‘…Sorry, everyone.’
Crack!
At the forefront of the hunter group advancing to eliminate the outpost, Theresia, aboard a 7-meter class Giant Armor modified for this operation, was apologizing to her siblings while engaged in what appeared to be an intense battle.

[Missile pod, loading complete.]
“Auto-fire!”
[Command recognized… Target confirmed. Firing.]

Leaving the missile pod on her back to the installed artificial intelligence, she immediately began firing the short-barrel energy cannons on both shoulders at the grade 4 monster—Drake—in front of her.

Kuwagagagagagagagagagagaggang—-!!!!
Kruraaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!

A thunderous sound resonated as bio-energy shells collided with the force field, but the Drake (or a Hive Mind monster similar to it) withstood this effortlessly while roaring and beginning to charge at Theresia.

[All rounds fired. Preparing to reload.]

All 20 anti-tank missiles fired from the missile pod hit their mark, and energy shells continuously flew to pound the Drake’s force field.
Even the laser medium machine gun, a weapon for dealing with low-grade monsters, was adjusted to maximum output and fired at the Drake, but the opponent was a monster with defense close to the highest among grade 4 monsters.

This giant 6-legged terrestrial dragon advanced, withstanding the full barrage from the 7-meter class Giant Armor with the power of its thick bio-armor and force field, so Theresia stopped firing—and instead activated the close combat weapons on both arms.

The weapon activated from nanoparticles stored in the right arm is a very orthodox shock lance. It’s a close-range anti-tank weapon that, when the blade at the tip is thrust in, releases a shockwave inside. While the Hive Raptor’s weapon only has a tail, this one is a spear.

The shaft length alone is 5 meters, and the cylindrical blade of the shock lance is 1 meter long. On the opposite side of the shock lance is a psychic glaive, a type of close-range psychic weapon, making it fully capable of combat other than anti-tank.

Especially, this psychic glaive is made entirely of nanomachines with extremely excellent psychic energy conductivity, and with its built-in function, the blade part can be changed to a saw blade and rotated to be used as a chain glaive (chain weapon).

On the other hand, the weapon held… or rather replacing the left arm is a modified model of a plasma tank gun, which is said to be mounted only on 10th generation modern tanks.

The three giant fingers at the tip can form and fire plasma masses between the fingers that melt even battleship armor on contact, and it can also be used as a close combat weapon by crudely surrounding the hand part with plasma and rotating the hand.

And now, what Theresia chose was the former. That is, to fire plasma masses.

Wuuung—Kuuuuuuuuu—Kwagagagagagagagagagagagagagang—-!!!!

Because the already low accuracy was further lowered due to forcibly adding a close combat option to the plasma weapon and modifying it to be short-barreled, the plasma mass only grazed the back part of the Drake.

But even just that inflicted serious damage on the Drake. The force field on its back, which was thin due to covering the entire body, was naturally shattered, and the back’s armor, scales, and skin were all melted, exposing the inner flesh and bones.

Kryaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak—-!!!!

Despite howling in pain from this terrible injury, the Drake lunged, fueled by hatred towards the human?, but this was the worst move.

Wuuuuuuuuuuuuuuung—!!!
Whoosh—Crack!

Theresia, who deployed the rotating saw blade of the psychic glaive, thrust it into the wound on the back, clearly visible due to the height difference, and even though the force field was thickly surrounded to protect the wound, there was a clear limit.

The glaive’s saw blade, surrounded by force field and psychic energy, easily butchered the Drake’s back, severing its spine and paralyzing it.

Wuuuuuuuuuuung—!!!

And finally, as a confirmation kill, Theresia began to rotate the hand part of her left arm.

Crackle, crackle, crackle……..!

She rotated her hand with blue lightning—plasma crackling and jumping around, then swung the giant cylindrical arm to smash the Drake’s head.

Crack!

Like an egg hit with a hammer, the Drake’s head was easily shattered the moment the plasma fist made contact.

Theresia felt a strange emotion for a moment as she looked at the brain matter and flesh on her hand, having killed her sibling by order—but unfortunately, she paused briefly while feeling this emotion, which became a big problem.

Krurryaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

One of the Drakes among the monsters that came to support after confirming that a battle was taking place nearby lunged at Theresia, who was not recognized as a comrade due to the Hive Mind’s manipulation.

‘—Damn it!’

Of course, she quickly came to her senses and started charging plasma, but it was certain that the monster would approach before enough plasma accumulated in her left arm to operate.

“No choice…!”

So she inevitably decided to sacrifice her right arm and attack with the plasma fist on her left hand, then extended her right arm, and just as the Drake was about to bite into that left arm with delight.

—Slash!

Suddenly a flash of light shone, and all of the left legs among the Drake’s 6 legs were cut off with an eerie sound of flesh being sliced.

Thud

Purple blood characteristic of Drakes gushed from the severed parts, but only for a moment. The legs started to recover due to the trait ‘Regeneration (C)’, but… no idiot would wait for this.

‘—Now!’

Wuuuuung—Crack!

The Drake that was hit in the head by the plasma fist unleashed by Theresia’s 7-meter class Giant Armor barely withstood by consuming an enormous amount of force field, but couldn’t overcome the impact and was staggering.

—Slash!

Thud.

And as the light flashed again towards the head that was now vulnerable with its force field stripped away, this time the head was severed and rolled on the ground.

At this, when Theresia turned her head towards where the flash of light came from, there was one person sweeping the battlefield, randomly unleashing energy in the form of slashes in all directions.

Holding an antique-looking greatsword in each hand, and wearing a 2-meter class Giant Armor resembling full plate mail, this person’s name was Choi Seo-rin.
She was the vice guild master of Seonggwang Guild and an A-rank psychic user considered the strongest among the only three high-grade hunters of Seonggwang Guild.

※ ※ ※

After Choi Seo-rin, who had been conserving psychic energy, fully joined the front line, this assault team was able to advance quickly as if their previous setbacks had never happened.

Despite encountering over 100 medium-grade monsters in the process of moving 3 kilometers, it was decisive that Choi Seo-rin, who was performing like a literal human bulldozer, sliced them to pieces with just a few swings of her sword.

Anyway. As they advanced quickly, cutting down all the monsters that stood in their way, they were able to reach right in front of the outpost.

The outpost was a mountain right next to a huge plain where low-grade and medium-grade monsters were being produced.

As they were walking briskly towards the peak that gave an unpleasant feeling with its surface made entirely of red flesh, literally plowing through the plain producing monsters.

《Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr………..》

Suddenly, a sound like an animal growling was heard from the mountain peak, and upon hearing it, Choi Seo-rin’s face suddenly turned pale and she shouted loudly.

“Danger! Everyone, wea—”

—Slash!

And before she could finish her words, ‘it’ revealed itself by cutting a 12-meter class Titan Armor at the very front into 7 pieces.

Long, snow-white fur. A body length of tens of meters. Black stripes running down its back. And huge teeth and an appearance resembling a cat but looking much more ferocious.

The name of this monster, which easily destroyed a 12-meter class Titan Armor that could be considered almost grade 3.5, was Mountain Lord (山君).
It was the ruler of Baekdudaegan and the strongest monster on the Korean Peninsula, which absolutely should not be here.

“Why, here…!”

Though there was no way it would answer, Choi Seo-rin still stared blankly up at the owner of the teeth that had been the material for her sword, in a state of shock.

And the appearance of a monster that was confirmed to be at war with the newly appeared grade 1 monster, Black Dragon, was shocking to other hunters as well, but—

—Slash.

The Mountain Lord had no reason to be considerate of the circumstances of these shocked hunters.

The Mountain Lord, sprinting at a speed unbelievable for its huge size, weaved between the hunters and swung its claws—and the result was nothing short of a massacre.

3 out of 4 Titan Armors. 7 out of 10 large Giant Armors 6 meters or larger. 15 small Giant Armors were destroyed, and only 3 combat vehicles survived.

In addition, over 20 medium-grade hunters were killed, and more than half of the low-grade hunters were swept away.

In just 7 seconds, this high-grade monster called Mountain Lord annihilated 24% of the assault team’s strength.