EP.255 The Kingdom of Steel and Faceless People – 4
A princess cannot be a king anymore, and this country is not a kingdom. It is a military state ruled by soldiers and forcing peace with guns and knives. In this place where everything is done under the command of the command, no human being will feel responsible.
However, the princess, the only descendant of King Grandiomor and the queen, who created this country, felt responsible. Not only the remnants of the kingdom that became the Resistance, but also the entire population of this country.
She could have taken my words as a joke, but after hearing it in earnest, she quickly denied it.
“Don’t keep trying to test me. Places like that should be gone! Even if the other person is a sinner, hell where they suffer forever should not exist in reality!”
“You are not even a king, but you are very interested in the lives of the people.”
“I have no idea! I’m just following Dory! Didn’t Huey-sama see the inside of me and be indignant in the first place!”
“Oh, I’m not angry about that part.”
Barbarism is doing everything you can without hesitation. Civilization, on the other hand, starts by deciding what cannot be done.
Murder is basic, theft, blackmail, fraud, incitement apostasy, rebellion, etc. Occasionally some things are left out, and new, unheard-of taboos are introduced, but basically civilization is the castration of something from humans.
In that sense, if you ask me if I am barbaric or civilized, the tone is not very good, but it must be barbaric. Because he committed all the crimes he could commit.
However, I am an individual and there is a limit to the impact that a single human being can have. Even if it has had a bad influence, stop it if you catch it and punish it.
I was actually punished, so it’s a perfect example.
But what about the military?
“There were some guys who acted recklessly while making all sorts of bizarre excuses for the cause and for the country. But anyway, it was put together to defend their actions. On the other hand, this is real. It was done in the name of the country and it was done for the sake of the country. It even makes me feel as if the country made it myself.”
They create labor camps that exploit people. all for the sake of the country
He governs all with strict laws. all for the country
Everyone knows that they make all kinds of inventions and spread them widely, but they are not for the people.
A hook that pierced the biological terminal.
A straitjacket made from clothing packets.
Ceremonial magic cast in exchange for the body.
Compressed canned food that preserves only nutrients.
Chimera beans that did not consider taste or happiness in the first place.
A wheel that rotates on its own, so humans must adjust to it.
A meta conveyor belt made from blood, sweat and corpses, and powered by humans as lubricant.
There are some that are used particularly viciously by the military, but all of the seven inventions lack affection for humans. After filtering out everything, the only thing left is usefulness.
The princess also affirmed my words.
“that’s right. As in other countries, the military is particularly severe. The fortunate thing is that the punishment is severe and there are no people who are in the middle of the middle of the day…”
“Yes. Especially so. The military does not see anyone other than the military committing a crime. Because only the military can commit crimes in the military.”
“…yes? Sin?”
“There is room in the military. There must be a surplus of resources to share wealth or happy times or pride. But the military never divides it and constantly hoards it.”
The princess focused on my words, forgetting even the fact that she had been angry with me earlier.
“…Then Huey-sama. Are you mad at the man behind the scenes who controls the country with all of that in his hands?”
“well? No one knows who he is or where he is, and even his existence is unclear, so how can he be angry?”
“Oh sorry. I’ll change my expression. Huey-sama, you want to find the one who created all of this, right?”
As if she finally understood, the princess folded her hands and clenched her palms. The momentum that had been rude to me just before had disappeared in an instant.
I shrugged.
“Roughly. However, I have been wandering around the country for several months and living in the capital for several years, but I have not found it until now.”
As a mind reader, my ‘discovery’ is on a different level. Even if he has been living peacefully by deceiving his identity and status and pretending to be a lower-class citizen, if he encounters me who can read minds, his true identity will be revealed immediately.
Even if you are hiding in a secret base somewhere, if you have come out at least once. Then, if you happen to run into me. If I had only glanced at it from afar, I would have figured it all out.
It doesn’t matter if you’re not necessarily the ruler behind the scenes. Those in power inevitably have to relate to many people. If you know anything about him or have contact with him. I would have grabbed the end of the thread and carefully worked it out.
…Well, I couldn’t find it after all. It wasn’t a great goal to the point of risking my life, so I was taking it easy.
“So… you tested me with the same question as before.”
“yes?”
test? what test. I am a master at solving problems, but I am a gem at betting on problems. I know everything the other person knows, but I can’t even recall what the other person doesn’t know.
When I answered honestly, the princess asked me what she meant.
“Because I, as a resistance member, didn’t know how I would behave if I ran into that ‘someone’. You tested me by asking if the existence of the smelter is better for the Resistance.”
‘but. There’s no way that Shei Gong’s colleague would say something so heartless. I’m not going to take it seriously again! Yerien Grandiomo, please work harder!’
accept this like this This princess looks at people positively.
Well, the deaf can’t hear, but they can’t speak, and the blind can’t express what color is. This is because we literally become numb to the unperceived.
In that sense, a princess who has never been exposed to hostility has never learned to beware of it. He is a mentally handicapped person who lacks a sense of crisis by birth.
No, it would be more appropriate to call it an idiot. It’s like an idiot.
“You are quick-witted.”
I nodded. It’s not a bad misunderstanding. Originally, I was trying to arouse curiosity in the princess.
If you instill curiosity like this, wouldn’t you be more active when you infiltrate the headquarters later?
The princess nodded bitterly.
“…great. I was stunned by the scene in front of me and couldn’t think of anything else, but Huey-sama was not buried in what happened and was looking at the future… I hope you will forgive me for my shortcomings. It’s not helpful, but you’re screaming loudly.”
no. Perhaps the princess will be of great help.
A power that no one holds hostility to. A madman with a cog in his head almost killed her, so the light faded a bit, but I can’t let that filthy fraudulent ability sit idly by.
and.
“What happened? After all, that’s a story about getting out of here safely.”
“yes? Are you getting out safely?”
‘Isn’t everything done here? After destroying the smelter and heading to the command center… uh wait? Destroy it…?’
I noticed.
here is the trap Among the traps, it is a particularly poor quality type.
Because it traps us in a dilemma, not force or physical force.
The princess’s face turned blue.
‘how? how do i break it down? Should we kill all the felons or free the slaves? Who decides how?’
Hard to notice inside the smelter. Because they are the concerned parties. For those who move within the script, the world outside the stage does not exist.
That’s why the princess and I needed to get out.
I explained to the princess.
“The Alchemy Steel Refinery is a really important facility. In fact, in a sense, it is a target to be protected more than a headquarters.”
Although Alchemy Steel is a resource with a large inventory, it is not infinite. And like the Alchemy River, resources that are consumed everywhere are infinite, but not enough.
If there is a disruption in production here, any plans that exist in the military will be delayed. For a military that runs like a machine, you absolutely don’t want the most important cogwheel to slow down.
“So the military dug a trap here. We ended up hanging out nicely.”
So I’m blocking it here. Even with the powerful power of Young’s Ark.
…Actually, I didn’t notice it, but I realized it belatedly after reading Yeonggwe’s thoughts! I read the script too, eh, is this a big deal? wanted!
“But there were no troops here! Shay Gong checked before you came!”
“So it is a trap. It’s because there wasn’t even a snub in a place where no one was supposed to be. If even a corps is considered expendable, there should have been a delaying unit to catch up even if it was only a second point. Even if it is night, which is Tyr’s time.”
In fact, during the day, delaying units cut roads and shelled them from a distance. I couldn’t delay it by a few seconds, but that’s the way the military does it anyway.
The princess’s hair was complicated.
“If so. What happened? Did the Musketeer lead us into a trap…?”
“no. Leah’s suggestion was right. This has allowed them to try to trap us in crude traps instead of crushing us with overwhelming force and firepower.”
Historia’s strategy is extremely militaristic. It is an effective strategy to hide their whereabouts and select strategically important facilities for a preemptive strike.
It was just as easy to read as it was efficient. The moment they turned to destroy the automatic wagon assembly plant, the military might have expected their next target without difficulty.
And more than anything else, Princess, the one who caught us in the trap was Younggue Sieghrund, who obtained information from your colleague Carafald…? Where do you transfer responsibility?
I couldn’t reveal the fact that I used mind reading, so I’m keeping my mouth shut.
Well, that’s not important right now.
“This is a stage. A route that goes from the entrance of the smelter to the deepest part, allowing you to see the terrible plight of the laborers before your eyes. The process itself will give the party more trouble. Should I kill them all, release them, or leave them alone? Lia and Shay will have a disagreement, and Tyr and Shiati will help, causing confusion.”
Historia is a military general in her own way. With the authority to order the death of her subordinates, she spares no heinous criminal’s life.
The regressor is on the move to prevent the overflowing sins of the future. Even if she were to kill countless helpless laborers at once, she would not immediately accept it.
Shiati would prefer to free all the slaves in order to get revenge on the military. Because that would lead to more confusion.
On the other hand, Tyr, who is aloof from life and death, is a great man who even offers the option of turning everyone into a demon.
The reason why Sieghrund wanted to separate me, who was his advisor, and the princess who could end the conflict itself, must have been to stir up confusion.
After such a long time, before we take action. It’s like wiping it out by encircling it.
“It really might be! What should I do?”
The princess, fully aware of the possibility, said with a bluish complexion.
“no! Huey-sama, why did you come out when you knew all of that…?!”
“Because the easiest way to ruin a prepared stage is an intrusion from offstage.”
“yes?!”
magic and theater. Both prepare the stage for the audience. The fact that each other needs acting is also a common point.
But if there’s one difference, it’s genre duty.
Theater must eventually live up to everyone’s expectations, but magic must escape everyone’s expectations. It gives birth to all kinds of differences of that different direction.
The end is slowly in sight. The concrete outer wall, which seemed to extend to the military border, was finished, and we were on the other side of the smelter’s entrance.
When I got there, I stopped the wagon.
“The smelter is a building without doors. Therefore, the farthest side from the entrance is the deepest part.”
The smelter has no doors. The walls just continue to stretch like smooth skin. The princess was puzzled, remembering that she hadn’t found a single side door on her way here.
“Why didn’t they even make a side door? What if there is a fire…”
“Instead, the buildings were separated by zone, right? They must have tried to separate them with bulkheads.”
“In that case, people in the fire district would have nowhere to run, right?”
“The person who designed this building must have thought it was better that way.”
The princess seemed shocked by my answer. I left the princess and jumped out of the wagon. Walking to a corner of the wall, I took out a card and flipped it over. My favorite tool, the diamond 1 skewer, greeted me with the same sense.
“A long time. my friend. Did you miss it a lot?”
“bruise! I don’t miss it! I’ve been watching you for a long time! Nice to meet you though!”
All men’s friends come when you call a friend. I waved my hand at Aji who was following me.
“…You go and get some butterflies. I have work to do.”
“bruise!”
Aji nodded and left to get the butterfly box. Meanwhile, I held the skewer with both hands and pointed it at the gray concrete wall.
“Suck!”
Stab with all your might. The skewer, which he threw with both hands together, pierced the concrete wall.
…about 1 cm.
“Concrete, too. I can’t even budge on my own.”
But for such times, there is earth magic. A skill that was misunderstood as divine power because it was trapped under the abyss.
I cut the skewer hard. There is a small but immoral scratch on the smooth gray wall. It is irreversible, like graffiti left on a historical legacy, so it has left a trace that makes you want to try it more.
“Kkeuh, this is pretty hard too…”
I moved the skewer in a circle to form a closed curve and sighed while wiping away beads of sweat. Dust rises from the excavated concrete.
It’s time to work. Put your hands on the wall, take a deep breath, and focus your mind. I used earth magic, reminding myself of the far and vast land and my insignificant existence crawling on it.
Geek.
When the land separated by the skewer was pushed by hand, it was pushed out as if it had simply been placed on it.
The earth is always the same and seems to be forever, but in reality it is not. It rises, sinks, collides, and sometimes the skin rises. Her body is a material that fluctuates like a human body.
This is because the Earth Mother, like humans, has a bright red liquid that pulsates hot under the skin.
What we think of as the earth is actually just a plate on top of the bloody water, and the plate flows or moves along the blood flow of lava and collides with each other to rise.
…The fact that we call it a mountain and look up to it is nothing more than a bare skin from the Earth Mother’s point of view.
That’s why it deserves to be a demon.
“You cut the wall smoothly with nothing more than a skewer…!”
‘Huey-nim didn’t only have a chance to show his strength, but he was actually a master of swordsmanship! Qigong must have reached its peak, so there was no sound!’
In the meantime, the princess is surprised with her mouth shut. They know that I dug into the concrete with a pore and cut it out.
How do you not have eyes to see? It’s earth magic. Would I be doing this if my pore was at the level of lightly using an infiltration mirror?
I pushed the wall as far as I could with both hands, and the cut pieces were pushed into the building and fell. A heavy sound was heard from the other side, and black darkness could be seen through the round hole.
good. It’s ready here.
“Nya haang… let it go. Nya or Nya won’t move…”
“Mut! no! time to work! No work, no food!”
Aji preached the importance of labor and was dragging the butterfly by the neck. The butterfly raised its claws into the ground and tried to hold on, but in front of Aji’s strength, the butterfly’s claws could only resist like a plow that could dig up the ground.
Claws are still sharp. It will be too much to break.
“The preparations are complete. I’ll go in first, so bring Aji and Nabi along with you.”
“yes…!”
‘You seem to have an exquisite plan! If I can help, I’ll be happy to help!’
The princess clenched her fists and watched me carefully as I climbed through the hole. it’s good after The more you think of me, the more you’ll follow my plan….
Eh. But the wall is thicker than I thought. It’s almost like a tunnel. Isn’t the hole a bit small in this way… Ah.
“It’s like this! Would you like to push the princess?”
‘…You must have a plan, right?’
Are you already suspicious? If you believe in it, believe in it even more! Isn’t the expiration date too short?
“bruise! push! Young car! Zero tea!”
“Not you! not you! Evil! Don’t raise your claws!”
