A Space Marine Got a Status Window

Hawk Eye was a Psyker Agent who represented not only the United States, but all of humanity.

Until then, countless legendary anecdotes associated with her name had accumulated, and humanity was fascinated by those stories.

Without exaggeration, Hawk Eye’s life had already been adapted into both webtoons and audiovisual productions.

The same was true for the Space Marines fighting on the battlefield.

To them, Hawk Eye was a hero and a savior.

Kim Seojun had thought so too.

The reason that belonged to the past was that his opinion had changed.

After breathing the same air as Hawk Eye on a battlefield, Kim Seojun had understood something with absolute clarity.

Psyker Agents like Hawk Eye shared the same fate as Space Marines.

They could die at any moment, and there would be nothing strange about it.

That was why, when Jo Yihyeon told him that it seemed Hawk Eye had died, Kim Seojun wasn’t surprised.

‘Someone who goes around looking for things like Behemoths to hunt has no way of living very long.’

After all, the only thing waiting at the end for someone who constantly sought out places where they could die was their own grave.

And Kim Seojun also knew that this wasn’t the time to be surprised.

“Jo Yihyeon, can you send me Hawk Eye’s complete message?”

— What?

“I want to know the entire contents of the last message Hawk Eye left behind. I don’t think Hawk Eye died simply because of a Queen.”

Hawk Eye, who hunted Tank Bugs as if they were Mogdogs and was even capable of hunting Behemoths, had died?

No matter how terrifying a Queen’s strength was, the Queen Kim Seojun knew didn’t possess that kind of capability.

To be exact, a Queen’s strength by itself was barely at the level of a Ghost Bat.

It couldn’t even be compared to something like a Behemoth.

“There definitely has to be some other reason.”

That meant there was a danger there that completely defied common sense!

— Ah, yes!

At Kim Seojun’s request, Jo Yihyeon immediately began sending him the rest of the message.

— It’s just that……

Beeeeep!

Suddenly, the communication was cut off.

It wasn’t anything strange.

On planet Amotia, it was very common for communications to be interrupted, and at that moment there was a considerable distance between Kim Seojun’s group and the Polish headquarters.

In fact, the fact that the previous transmission had managed to reach them had practically been a miracle.

Furthermore, even if they immediately learned the situation, that wouldn’t change what Kim Seojun’s group had to do.

They only had one thing to do.

“Park Boseop, start the engine.”

“What?”

“We’ll return to headquarters as quickly as possible.”

Then Kim Seojun took a military truck out of his Inventory, and everyone climbed into it to travel at maximum speed.

— Ah, ah!

“The connection has been restored.”

— I’ll relay it quickly!

After approximately two hours of traveling, they managed to restore communications.

Then Jo Yihyeon began personally reading the message.

— This message will be sent automatically if I don’t take any action for one week after beginning the operation.

— I’m going to enter the Queen’s nest now to hunt her.

— I heard the rescue request from the American headquarters. Despite that, I couldn’t go help them because I can’t let this opportunity pass.

— I’m in front of the Queen’s nest, and the Champion Sensor is reacting like crazy.

As soon as they heard the next words, Kim Seojun and everyone else traveling in the military truck let out the same sound.

“Ah.”

They all understood.

They understood why a Psyker Agent like Hawk Eye, someone who could become the hunter even when facing a Behemoth, had disappeared without leaving any news.

— I estimate it to be at least Lightweight-class. I can’t determine which species is the one that belongs to the Lightweight-class.

Naturally, just as Hawk Eye had said, there was no guarantee that the special individual was the Queen.

Just as its name suggested, a Queen was the queen of the Mog.

She gathered the Mog and commanded them.

That was why the special individuals that existed on planet Amotia also naturally tended to gather in the Queen’s nest.

It was much more likely that the sensor was reacting to one of those individuals than that the Queen herself was a special individual.

Queens were born in extremely small numbers, so the probability of a Queen emerging who was also a special individual was extremely low.

Without considerable evidence, assuming that the Queen was a special individual would have been far too hasty a conclusion.

— If I return alive, then it probably wasn’t anything important. But if you’re receiving this message, you’ll have to consider the possibility that the Queen is a special individual.

However, that message left behind by Hawk Eye was more than enough to be considered considerable evidence.

— That’s all. I hope the blessing accompanies those who survive on planet Amotia.

That was how Hawk Eye’s message ended.

As soon as it ended, a deep silence took over the military truck in which Kim Seojun’s group was traveling.

Amid that silence, Kim Seojun spoke.

“Let’s discuss the details after we reach the Polish headquarters.”

In any case, no matter how much they talked there, they wouldn’t get any answers and would only make their heads hurt even more.

Everyone understood the intention behind his words and stopped mentioning the matter of Hawk Eye.

Meanwhile, they arrived at the Polish headquarters.

And as soon as they arrived, they had to face the situation.

“We’ll begin the operations meeting.”

Kim Seojun gathered Major Jan Zabłocki, Jo Yihyeon, Park Boseop, and Major Lee Hyena.

Major Jan Zabłocki was the first to speak.

“What should we do in a situation like this?”

Major Jan Zabłocki’s face was filled with despair and anguish as he asked that question.

And he had good reason to be.

Throughout his entire military career, Major Jan Zabłocki had never experienced such an absurd situation.

He didn’t even dare calculate what they could do.

“It wasn’t exactly the same situation, but I’ve experienced crises of a similar magnitude.”

Kim Seojun, on the other hand, did have some experience facing equally absurd situations.

“In those situations, there was always only one option.”

At Kim Seojun’s words, everyone’s gazes changed.

Expectation appeared in them.

Did he really have an answer to this?

“All the survivors on the planet board the rescue ships and leave the planet before the deadline. Afterward, the space warships drop nuclear bombs on the location of the Queen’s nest. Until there isn’t a single sign of life left on the planet.”

However, as soon as they heard those words, everyone’s expressions changed.

Seeing their gazes, Kim Seojun continued.

“As I just said, in a situation like this, carrying out any operation on this planet no longer makes sense.”

The current situation was, simply put, the worst possible.

And that wasn’t an exaggeration.

“A Lightweight-class Queen…… I don’t even want to imagine it.”

Even an ordinary Mogdog, when it reached Lightweight-class, could tear apart a battle tank like a dog chewing on a toy.

And what if a Queen possessed that kind of capability?

Furthermore, a Queen wasn’t simply an extremely powerful individual creature.

It was an existence capable of changing the very presence of the Mog species.

Possibilities immediately passed through Kim Seojun’s mind, such as it being able to grant buffs that strengthened the entire Mog species or possessing an ability capable of making humans who encountered it lose their minds.

And the effects of such abilities wouldn’t necessarily be limited to a single planet.

If a Lightweight-class Queen truly existed, its influence could extend beyond a planet and reach a galactic scale.

“But the problem is that right now we can’t receive support from space.”

And, to make matters worse, at that moment humanity lacked the capability necessary to prevent a Lightweight-class Queen from expanding its forces.

That meant that the moment the Lightweight-class Queen left planet Amotia, the prologue of a catastrophe on the scale of all of space could begin!

At that moment, Kim Seojun understood why Hawk Eye had gone to hunt the Queen even while the American headquarters was being destroyed.

At the same time, a question occurred to him.

“Jo Yihyeon.”

“Yes?”

“Can’t we communicate with the American space warships either?”

Why were they still unable to communicate with space?

Frankly, regardless of the Gate having stopped functioning, there were a considerable number of warships waiting in space outside planet Amotia.

In particular, the number of American warships was by no means small.

Then why hadn’t they taken any action until now?

“Well…… we’re still sending messages, but we aren’t receiving any response.”

They didn’t know the answer.

“I’m sorry.”

At that, Jo Yihyeon apologized.

She had said that if they rescued her, she would immediately go to the Gate to repair it, but now that there was practically nothing she could do to help them, she sincerely apologized.

“There’s no need to apologize. We simply need to assess the situation with certainty.”

Naturally, Kim Seojun hadn’t said that to blame Jo Yihyeon for anything.

“Right now, we have no way of knowing when someone will come from space to rescue us. Furthermore, that isn’t something within our capabilities either. Therefore, in order to survive, we only have three methods that we can carry out by our own means.”

As he spoke, Kim Seojun began extending his fingers one by one.

“Build a spacecraft on planet Amotia or find a spacecraft.”

As soon as they heard that explanation, everyone’s faces turned pale.

Naturally, that was as absurd as using supernatural powers from space to buy a lottery ticket on Earth and win the jackpot.

“Yes, I know. It’s absurd.”

Kim Seojun knew that too.

Even so, the reason he had mentioned those possibilities was simple.

“That’s why, right now, the option with the greatest chance is the third method. Eliminate the Lightweight-class Queen.”

Because the final option was even more absurd.

“Uh, Sergeant Kim.”

It was then that Park Boseop spoke.

“Whatever it is, I’ll follow Sergeant Kim to the end.”

And he expressed his determination.

But he wasn’t the only one.

As soon as Park Boseop spoke those words, determination also began to appear on the others’ faces.

“I’ll trust Sergeant Kim and follow him. Even if we have to go to hell.”

Everyone showed their trust in Kim Seojun.

And Kim Seojun responded to that trust.

“Thank you. But this situation isn’t something I can resolve with my own abilities.”

He appreciated that they trusted him, but this time he had no intention of trying to resolve everything by himself.

“We’re going to face a Queen. We need to gather everyone on planet Amotia.”

Furthermore, when facing a matter of such magnitude, thinking about doing something on their own would be reckless.

“But above all, right now our priority is rescue operations.”

“Rescue?”

“Yes.”

Above all, Kim Seojun knew something.

“First, we need to confirm for certain whether Hawk Eye is alive or not.”

If Hawk Eye was still alive, the chances of being able to finish off the Queen would increase enormously.

Setting everything else aside, her ability to ignore any target’s defenses was something that simply couldn’t be replaced by anything.

“And if she’s still alive, she must be in an extremely serious condition, so we’ll have to rescue her as soon as possible.”

No one questioned that explanation.

They simply felt that the task ahead of them was overwhelming.

Searching for Hawk Eye, who had to be somewhere inside or around the Queen’s nest, a place infested with Mog, was like climbing into a tank full of sharks on the verge of starving to death to search for a single shrimp.

Kim Seojun felt the same way.

That was why he asked.

“Jo Yihyeon.”

“Yes?”

“Can you modify reconnaissance drones?”

At that question, Jo Yihyeon showed curiosity.

“It’s not that I can’t.”

But her doubt had nothing to do with the modification itself.

“But does the Polish headquarters have many reconnaissance drones?”

Operating reconnaissance drones on planet Amotia was complicated for many reasons.

That was why the Polish headquarters didn’t have very many.

“……We have about three. We originally operated more than thirty, but we lost most of them during the last battle against the Mog.”

Most of them had been destroyed.

That was another reason reconnaissance drones were so valuable.

When a battle began, naturally, the Mog wouldn’t tolerate reconnaissance drones blatantly observing them from the air.

In other words, once a battle against the Mog began, reconnaissance drones practically became disposable items.

It was then that Kim Seojun spoke.

“I obtained Chinese reconnaissance drones.”

“Chinese?”

As soon as they heard that, everyone was surprised, and at the same time, their expressions brightened.

China might lag behind in other fields, but its drone manufacturing technology was so excellent that it had nothing to envy about American technology.

And Kim Seojun had obtained Chinese reconnaissance drones?

“If you give them to me right now, I’ll configure them immediately!”

Furthermore, they now had Jo Yihyeon with them, a mechanic capable of handling practically anything.

Kim Seojun nodded and spoke.

“Then we’ll move somewhere else first. I’ll take them out there.”

At those words, anticipation appeared on everyone’s faces.

They all thought the same thing.

‘As expected of Sergeant Kim. He’s on another level. Of all things, he managed to fish the Chinese reconnaissance drones!’

If Kim Seojun was capable of obtaining something that absurd, perhaps he would also be capable of creating a miracle in the middle of that desperate situation.

And then Kim Seojun showed them what they had been eagerly waiting for.

“Here they are.”

“……Uh, Sergeant Kim.”

“Yes.”

“……How many are there?”

“Thirty-nine.”

No fewer than 39 Chinese reconnaissance drones.

At that point, no one asked Kim Seojun how the hell he had managed to obtain them.

Kim Seojun didn’t bother explaining either.

“Jo Yihyeon, configure the reconnaissance drones.”

“What? Ah, yes!”

“I have something else I need to test.”

“Test?”

Because Kim Seojun still had something else to do.

“Major Jan, open the firing range.”

“The firing range?”

Upon hearing that, Major Jan Zabłocki showed curiosity.

Kim Seojun’s shooting ability had already reached a practically divine level.

That was why it didn’t seem like a training range could be of much use to him.

“Understood.”

However, regardless of his doubts, Major Jan Zabłocki immediately made the firing range available to him.

Shortly afterward, Kim Seojun arrived at the firing range, prepared a weapon, and aimed it at a target.

Then he saw a red line extending from the tip of the barrel.

As soon as he saw it, Kim Seojun was stunned.

It was inevitable.

‘……Does the skill’s effect also apply when I move it with Telekinesis?’

As soon as he confirmed that, Kim Seojun’s gaze changed.

From that moment onward, he began practicing shooting.

Without rest.

And the next day, Jo Yihyeon spoke.

“Uh, Sergeant Kim Seojun! For now, I’ve removed all the tracking devices! I also connected them to the controller!”

Once again, she had finished the work with astonishing speed.

However, her expression wasn’t good.

The same was true for the others.

The reason was simple.

“But who’s going to pilot them?”

There was still an extremely important problem remaining.

And it was quite a serious problem.

Operating drones on a space planet was much more difficult than one might imagine.

Signal interference, loss of visibility caused by sandstorms, and many other factors turned those places into the worst possible environment for controlling drones.

It was a place where even the most experienced drone operators constantly made mistakes.

And, to make matters worse, at that moment there wasn’t a single experienced operator left at the Polish headquarters.

The situation was bad in every way.

It was then that Kim Seojun gave them the answer.

“I’ll do it.”

“What?”

Everyone was surprised by his words.

And shortly afterward, they were all able to see it with their own eyes.

“……Uh, Jo Yihyeon, how can you modify a drone so that it’s flying and then suddenly drops at a right angle?”

“I didn’t do anything like that.”

Kim Seojun’s absurd drone control.

And when he finished controlling them, when the test was over, Kim Seojun spoke.

“Tomorrow, we’ll depart for the place where Hawk Eye left her message.”