Absolute Dweller

Before the full-scale monster apocalypse broke out, South Korea was already a country at war.

To be precise, it was a nation in a truce—a state of temporary cessation of hostilities.

However, since a truce is not the same as an official end to war, there were still real military clashes, such as the Cheonan warship incident and the Yeonpyeong Island bombardment.

That was why.

Right now, before my eyes, stood a tank painted in the distinctive camouflage pattern of the Ministry of National Defense.

It’s been a while.

A K-9 self-propelled howitzer.

When fully loaded, it weighed close to 47 tons—one of the South Korean Army’s main artillery pieces.

Having served in the artillery during my time in the military, I had seen it a few times in person.

Of course, I was part of the 155mm artillery unit that used weapons from the Korean War era, but I had once watched a K-9 in action from afar during a live-fire exercise.@@novelbin@@

I never thought I’d see one again.

Even though I had completed my full-term service in the artillery, I had never seen a self-propelled howitzer outside of my active duty period.

After all, my reservist training was in Busan, which was in the deep rear, far from the front lines where weapons like these were stationed.

Even during reserve training, self-propelled howitzers were nowhere to be found.

I had thought I would never see one again in my lifetime.

Yet here I am, looking at it once more.

With the expansion of the Absolute Territory into Seoul’s satellite regions, it became possible to absorb the mechanized infantry division’s firepower stationed in Gyeonggi Province.

And it wasn’t just the K-9.

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