Chapter 50: Exitra’s Suicide Bomb Gambit

—[How do you even kill a Giant Zombie?]

—[Honestly, with his attack power right now, it might be tough.]

—[If he were a soldier, it would be easier…]

Viewers who saw the Giant Zombie voiced their concerns.

—[Exitra! Please win!]

—[Make Dogry shave his eyebrows!]

—[Please please please pleaaase~~!!]

—[I really don’t want to see Dogry acting all smug…]

[Shaver has donated 10,000 won.]

〈Exitra, if you kill the Giant Zombie, I’ll donate 100,000 won! Please defeat it!〉

[Renek has donated 5,000 won.]

〈I’ll donate 10,000 won too!!〉

And soon, the other viewers began to pray earnestly for Exitra’s victory!

All of them desperately wanted to see Dogry’s eyebrows shaved off.

That was why donation missions started to pop up.

“Ah, thank you Shaver for the 10,000 won donation. Thank you Renek as well.”

Exitra grinned.

“And don’t worry. I have no intention of losing.”

Exitra released his mental link.

Then he returned to his original body and scanned the entire map.

Luckily, there were no cyborgs in the Giant Zombie’s path, so no damage had been taken.

However—

“There are fewer zombies now.”

—[Teamkill lol]

—[So reckless hahaha]

—[No, at this point he’s basically a bulldozer! Just plowing through!]

Since the Giant Zombie trampled other zombies as it moved, their numbers naturally decreased.

“For now…”

Exitra pulled the cyborgs near the Giant Zombie back.

At the same time, he issued orders to cyborgs in other areas.

“Team 5, fall back. Team 4, move into the gap and clear those zombies… and…”

Exitra quickly gave commands while keeping an eye on the battlefield.

There were too many zombies targeting the communication towers, so he had to ensure those areas were fully cleared.

Otherwise, his own units’ self-destructions could cause massive damage.

On the map, red dots gradually disappeared.

The ordinary zombies were being cleared out quickly.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The Giant Zombie was moving fast.

If left alone, it would surely destroy the buildings.

Those buildings were erected specifically to block zombies from reaching the crystal directly.

If the monster destroyed them, it would cause problems later.

‘I need to take it down…’

“Teams 1 and 2, combine and lure the Giant Zombie into the central plaza. Be careful. Move from the right and left sides…”

Exitra planned to lure the Giant Zombie into the large plaza in the middle of their formation.

That was where he intended to finish it.

—[Can Exitra really kill that thing?]

—[Well, what else can he do? Just swarm it with numbers…]

—[Guns aren’t unlocked yet, so he’ll just have to stab it with swords until it dies…]

Some had seen soldiers or other classes kill a Giant Zombie before.

But no one had ever seen it taken down with cyborgs.

Controlling cyborgs was already difficult—how could anyone kill a berserk Giant Zombie with them?

Especially at Stage 10, when upgrades weren’t even complete.

It seemed impossible.

—[Still…]

—[Don’t you think Exitra might find a way??]

—[But even for him, isn’t this a bit too much..?]

Exitra had once slain the Giant Black Mountain Goat with his Spirit Mage class.

That beast was called a disaster and a symbol of game over in Heir of a Fallen House.

Yet, it had fallen helplessly before him.

—[Damn! Ex-hyung, I believe in you! Please!!]

—[Let’s gooo!!]

—[Hyung, you can do it! Show us!]

Despite their worries, viewers felt a faint spark of hope.

If anyone could pull this off, it was Exitra—the man who had overcome every trial so far.

‘This time too…?’ they thought.

“Phew… at least I’ve managed to lure it.”

Exitra felt a pounding in his head.

He was using cyborgs to both lure the Giant Zombie and slowly clear the other zombies at the same time.

The task was anything but easy.

Anyone else would have neglected one side for sure.

But not Exitra.

‘Multitasking really is a broken skill.’

It perfectly compensated for his lack of physical ability.

“Good. Then…”

Exitra’s eyes sharpened.

He pushed his concentration to the limit.

ROOOAR!!

The Giant Zombie rampaged wildly.

It looked even more frenzied than before.

—[Holy crap.]

—[He’s got its full aggro now.]

Was it because the cyborgs were baiting it?

Or maybe because Exitra kept teasing it by staying just out of reach?

Either way, the monster was completely enraged.

ROOOAR!! BOOM! BOOM!

It smashed the ground and wrecked nearby buildings.

It was throwing a tantrum.

“This isn’t good… I’ll have to finish it quickly.”

—[My heart’s pounding…]

—[How will he kill it??]

—[This zombie tag is hilarious hahaha]

—[But if he gets caught, he’s dead lol]

All eyes were locked on Exitra.

How was he going to deal with the Giant Zombie?

There was a sense of excitement building.

“If possible, I’d like to kill it without taking major losses…”

But no matter how he thought about it, there was only one way.

He wanted to preserve his units, but this time, sacrifices were necessary.

“I guess that won’t be possible…”

Exitra gave his orders.

“Team 1, climb onto the rooftops right now and ambush the Giant Zombie.

Team 2, pull back to the outer perimeter.

Send one unit toward the communication tower in the central plaza.”

Exitra immediately put his plan into motion.

And the cyborgs faithfully obeyed.

Team 1 consisted of ten cyborgs.

All ten launched themselves straight at the Giant Zombie.

That was the advantage of cyborgs.

If they had been units from another class, they would never have obeyed such a reckless order so readily.

Charge a Giant Zombie head-on without a plan? That was suicide.

They might have followed the command eventually, but only after hesitation.

Cyborgs, however, had no such delay.

Give an order, and they executed it immediately.

If Exitra commanded them to leap into lava, they would do it without flinching.

That was both their greatest strength—and their greatest weakness.

THUD!

The cyborgs latched onto the Giant Zombie’s body.

Exitra directly controlled one, making sure it clung to the monster’s head.

ROOOAR!!!

The Giant Zombie thrashed violently, trying to rip the cyborgs off.

—[Oh! Rodeo time!]

—[Giant Zombie Rodeo~ Survive 10 minutes for a prize lol]

—[What is this? A new minigame?? hahaha this is peak gaming]

“This thing’s struggling too much. Damn it…”

—[Wait, what’s he even doing???]

—[Is he seriously trying to rodeo it??]

—[Maybe he’s using the ones clinging on to hold it down, while the others stab it?]

—[Ohhh, that could work!!]

The viewers began to catch on to Exitra’s strategy.

The cyborgs clung to the giant zombie, restraining its movements. Then, other cyborgs were used to attack. It was a decent enough strategy.

However, the cyborgs attached to the giant zombie would never make it out alive.

After all, they were clinging to a thrashing monster. The giant zombie would definitely try to tear the cyborgs off its body. No one could predict what would happen in the process.

[So that’s why you raised their durability!!]

[To make them hold out!]

[Wow, a master plan!]

[This was your setup all along!!]

[That build-up is insane!]

The viewers thought their guesses had hit the mark. It seemed reasonable enough.

But—

Exitra grinned.

The strategy he had in mind was far from such a simple one.

”If a transmitter is destroyed, the cyborg self-destructs. That’s one of its biggest weaknesses.”

On top of that, the transmitter emitted a signal that attracted zombies. This made cyborgs infamously difficult to use.

If a transmitter was carelessly left to explode, the resulting self-destruction could damage allies nearby.

However, before his regression, one particular streamer had thought of a way to weaponize that very flaw.

“Mind Link.”

Exitra activated Mind Link. His consciousness slipped into the body of a cyborg.

In front of him stood the transmitter in charge of the central plaza.

[Huh?]

[Why now??]

[Why isn’t he giving orders to the other cyborgs?? What’s he trying to do with Mind Link??]

“To show you all just how broken cyborgs really are.”

[Eh??]

[Broken? Cyborgs?? No way.]

The viewers reacted with confusion. They still couldn’t grasp what Exitra was planning.

Exitra fixed his gaze on the transmitter before him.

“The destructive power of a cyborg’s self-destruct increases with its durability.”

[Oh, really?]

[Yeah, that makes sense…]

[At the start of the game, when a cyborg self-destructs, it’s not that strong, but later on it blows up spectacularly.]

[But what does that have to do with this…?]

A sudden silence fell over the chat.

Why was he bringing this up now? What was he planning?

[Wait a sec… could it be…?]

[No way…]

[Nah… can’t be…………]

[Ding~]

[Are you really thinking what I think you are? Surely not??]

“Watch closely. This is the true utility of cyborgs.”

Exitra smashed the transmitter in front of him.

Then he immediately pulled back. He shoved the linked cyborg straight into another transmitter’s range.

At that moment—

[Warning: Enter the range of a transmitter within 10 seconds.]

[Due to transmitter destruction, cyborg will self-destruct to maintain secrecy.]

Bzzzzzz!

The cyborgs clinging to the giant zombie were suddenly out of transmitter range.

Ten seconds—that was the limit.

If he quickly used other cyborgs to pull them back within range, they wouldn’t explode.

But Exitra had no such intentions.

He had planned from the start to use them as suicide bombers.

[Self-destruct sequence initiated.]

[Self-destruct sequence initiated.]

The cyborgs began to glow red.

And then—

BOOOOOOM!!!

Ten cyborgs self-destructed simultaneously!

Because their durability had been upgraded, the explosions were spectacular.

[Holy crap……]

[He really did it!]

[Unbelievable………………]

[He actually forced them to self-destruct………………]

The viewers were stunned.

No one had expected Exitra to actually use suicide attacks.

Self-destruction was widely regarded as nothing more than an annoying and inconvenient flaw—one of the cyborgs’ worst drawbacks.

But Exitra had turned that weakness into a weapon.

Nobody had even considered such a possibility.

“Wow, look at all that dust. The fine particle level must be through the roof.”

[He’s worried about fine dust at a time like this…]

[It’s a sandstorm!]

A thick haze rolled in as dust clouds spread through the air.

Fortunately, the plaza was wide enough that no buildings were damaged.

”That’s why I lured it here in the first place.”

Exitra had prepared for this. He had planned from the start to use this trick against the giant zombie. That was also why the transmitters were placed at the edge of overlapping ranges.

“Now then, let’s take a look.”

Exitra carefully moved to higher ground. He wanted to see what had become of the giant zombie.

He climbed onto a roof and peered across the plaza.

As the haze cleared and the dust settled, the result became visible.

“It’s dead.”

The giant zombie had collapsed from the suicide explosions.

Its head was utterly obliterated.

In that condition, survival was impossible.

[No way…]

[To think this method was even possible…]

[He actually killed it with forced self-destructs……………]

[Cyborgs can really be used like this??]

The viewers could hardly believe their eyes.

Using suicide attacks offensively?

The sheer power of it was shocking, but even more shocking was Exitra’s creativity.

[Amazing.]

[Good grief…]

[Well, damn.]

“The moment I heard the word ‘self-destruct,’ this idea popped into my head. It worked out better than I expected.”

Exitra spoke with a smile.

[Shaver has donated 100,000 won.]

<Wow… that was a brilliant strategy……………>

[Renek has donated 10,000 won.]

<I’m honestly shocked. … But thank god you killed it!!>

Donations began pouring in, including from the very viewer who had first posted the mission.

For killing the giant zombie, Exitra would receive about 500,000 won in mission rewards.

“Thank you, everyone~! Thanks to your missions, I can keep making a living.”

Exitra spoke cheerfully.

The income from missions was substantial.

”This month’s settlement should be pretty high.”

He couldn’t help but imagine the look on his parents’ faces when they saw his account balance after settlement.

Before his regression, he had never shown them his account.

”I didn’t have any income back then…”

But this time was different.

Now he had real earnings, and the amount was considerable.

He was genuinely looking forward to it.

“Alright then…”

The greatest obstacle, the giant zombie, was down.

Exitra immediately released Mind Link and returned to his original body.

The giant zombie and the assassin zombie were both dead.

Only the ordinary zombies remained.

Exitra looked at the red dots marked on his minimap, a bright smile spreading across his face.

“Time to finish the cleanup.”