I Became a Scoundrel of a Chaebol Family-Chapter 465

The ground shook, the earth trembled—

a scene that seemed torn straight from a novel was unfolding before their eyes.

Han Chae-hee and Rachel had been lucky enough to be standing at a distance.

The place that had taken a direct hit was utterly devastated, drowned in black smoke and roaring flames that billowed upward.

“W... Wh-what on earth is going on?”

Chaos.

Screams and shouts erupted around the blast point, and the entire base was thrown into emergency status.

The sky, which had flashed crimson with warning windows at the sudden attack, now delivered its message with sharp clarity:

A massive enemy air raid!

“I don’t kno—”

Han Chae-hee was shaken, but she still moved to protect Rachel.

Right now, the most important person to her was Rachel.

Beep—

An incoming transmission.

A massive enemy force had suddenly appeared nearby and launched an invasion.

And not just any force—

one on a scale never before seen in history.

“N-no way...”

The moment she heard the rough estimate of enemy strength, Han Chae-hee’s face turned deathly pale.

Five Titans.

How many bases had already fallen to just one Titan’s invasion?

The horrific swarms of monsters spewed forth by Biotech’s Titans would pour down like a black waterfall, as if staging humanity’s very apocalypse.

Every base caught in their flood had been annihilated.

And now it wasn’t one—

it was five.

Just how many...!

“We need to move, now!”

“O...OK!”

There was plenty to be said, but that could wait.

First came survival.

Even if this was the largest base on the Korean Peninsula, against this scale of invasion—

BOOOOM—!!

Just as they moved to flee, another explosion ripped open the ceiling overhead.

But this time, it didn’t end with just an explosion.

“...!!”

Even as they ran, they couldn’t help but glance up—

and what they saw was at once awe-inspiring and terrifying.

A colossal battleship,

419 meters long,

89 meters wide,

91 meters high.

It forced its way through the gaping hole in the ceiling, pushing aside the rising smoke.

Rumble... rumble... rumble...

And it wasn’t alone.

Behind the first Titan breaking through, the silhouettes of several more loomed.

“What on earth....”

Rachel stared blankly at the sight.

Han Chae-hee also froze for a moment before biting down on her lip and yanking Rachel by the arm.

“Rachel!”

“...!”

That shout snapped Rachel back to her senses, and she began to move again.

At that same moment, the Abyss finally began its counterattack. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

Wiiiiiiiiiing—!!

First came an ear-splitting alarm.

Then a voice, breathless as though just sprinted, blasted across every speaker in the base.

Code Black! Code Black!

This base is now entering Battle Sequence!

All personnel, to your stations! All personnel, to your stations!

BOOOOM!

The base began to quake as though struck by an earthquake.

But this wasn’t enemy fire—

it was the physical vibration required for the base to transform into its battle mode.

“Ah...!”

The structure itself began to change at dizzying speed.

Crimson warning lights blazed, thick steam hissed out from vents, and the ground split open.

Buildings sank underground while massive constructs—no, weapons so immense they could be mistaken for skyscrapers—rose to the surface.

“What in the world...?!”

The entire base was becoming a fortress built solely for defense.

A spectacle no less grand than the Titans themselves.

Han Chae-hee felt her confidence return.

Yes.

This was the Abyss base—her organization’s stronghold, the largest on the Peninsula.

It was carved into an entire mountain range, an impregnable fortress packed to its absolute capacity with troops.

Here—

here they ★ 𝐍𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭 ★ might actually drive the enemy back!

The Titans have never charged in so openly before. If we can bring down even one of them...!

Then hope for the Abyss could endure.

Code Black! Code Black!

Battle Sequence engaged!

All personnel, to your stations!

Voices blared, machinery roared, the ground trembled.

Troops scrambled into rapid formation.

Even Rachel was awestruck.

“Amazing! To think they built a base like this!”

“Rachel! We’re heading somewhere safe!”

Han Chae-hee’s grip on Rachel’s arm tightened.

Rachel nodded with a faintly brightened expression and followed close behind.

Still, regardless of the rush of awe, both she and Rachel were non-combatants.

Han Chae-hee had a Demon escort and a small unit of soldiers, and Rachel had brought two superhumans with her when she entered the country—but all of them were strictly for escort, not for actual battle.

So their goal was simple:

leave the fighting to the real combatants and get to safety.

If the worst happened, they might even need to escape the base entirely.

But for now... I don’t think it’ll come to fleeing—

BOOOOM!!

The thought was cut short by another deafening blast.

A sound so loud it felt like it could erase thought itself.

The base had unleashed a full barrage at the intruders who dared trespass.

Every gun roared, vomiting fire and thunder, painting the sky in orange flashes.

It felt like the base could grind the enemy to dust then and there.

The five Titans had only just entered the base’s interior and begun forming up, when the merciless bombardment slammed into them.

Explosions and shockwaves tore through the base, mushrooming fireclouds that blotted out the sky.

Yet still,

the bombardment did not cease.

The enemy was the Koryo Group—

and they had brought Titans, airborne carriers.

Stopping here would never suffice.

They would keep firing until the Titans were reduced to ash, until the barrels melted from the heat.

“Jesus, my ears!!”

The cannonade pounded on.

Shockwaves rattled the ground so fiercely it was impossible to move, like an artificial earthquake.

Han Chae-hee clutched Rachel and crouched low.

She opened her mouth as she stared upward.

It was a once-in-a-lifetime sight:

a cinematic spectacle of a fortress unleashing its entire arsenal.

If there were a budget officer present, they would be screaming at the costs—but she was just an intel chief.

So she could simply marvel.

She could simply hope.

For the Abyss,

for this nation,

for this people—

there was still a future!

Yes. We’re not finished yet!

But the rush of emotion did not last.

Though the bombardment still thundered, though the enemy was still swallowed in explosions and smoke—

that was the problem.

The enemy was an airborne carrier.

If they had truly been struck, they should have been falling.

But nothing—

not a single wreck—fell through the clouds of smoke.

As if they themselves were clouds,

the Titans hung suspended in the roiling blast-plumes.

“Hm... Miss Han? Something’s wrong.”

As the bombardment finally subsided and the smoke began to clear, Han Chae-hee saw it—

a form standing before the Titans.

Just a silhouette, faint against the haze.

“...No way.”

It looked like a god out of myth.

A colossal human shape shimmering in the smoke, vast wings spread wide.

“A me...cha...?!”

A mecha, projecting an anti-air field to shield the Titans.

Sssshhh...

The first to emerge was no ordinary machine—

its wings alone stretched nearly a hundred meters.

A gleaming white giant, at least thirty meters tall.

That was shocking enough—

but what followed was worse.

From beyond the smoke, mecha after mecha emerged.

An army like none they had ever seen.

“Oh God... Please, no, please God... oh my...”

Rachel muttered in despair.

Han Chae-hee’s eyes went wide in shock.

All across the base, soldiers who had so confidently taken up arms, even the Demons preparing for the monster swarms—

everyone froze, mouths open, as if struck in the head.

A single mecha was already a nation-class weapon—

a weaponized knight, exploiting superhuman physique to wield unmatched power.

Something no ordinary means could resist.

And now, the space before the five Titans was filled with them.

Not mass-produced models—

exclusive units.

“Wh-what the hell is this...”

Overwhelmed, Han Chae-hee’s legs gave out, and she collapsed.

++++

“Whew... now that’s something.”

The Abyss base—likely the largest on the Peninsula—was even grander than he expected.

They had hollowed out an entire mountain to build a city-sized fortress, like humanity’s last bastion against aliens.

And then, watching it transform like a giant robot, bristling with weapons aimed at us—

he couldn’t help but shiver.

At the same time—

This really was a busted, unbalanced piece of shit game.

It was ridiculous.

A base like this would cost a nation’s budget just to maintain.

And the Abyss of all groups had something like this? Really?

The game’s settings must have been half-assed to allow such nonsense.

Even if Militaris had built it, the sight would be jaw-dropping.

That the Abyss had done it—utterly absurd.

And yet—

“It’s magnificent. Pure romance.”

As a man, he couldn’t deny the thrill.

“This base is mine too.”