Chapter. 18. World 4 (5)
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A room that is
old
but cleanly organized.
The room that had once been cleaned to a shine on the wood was now covered in the dust spewed out by old books.
widely.
The quill that had been moving non-stop stopped and the frowning boy held up the recording he had made.
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[Information omitted by the system bastard]
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“Oh, my head, oh my, oh my -”
Could a nine-year-old collapse from blood pressure?
As someone who has been busy gathering information for the past few days, I can say, ‘Of course!’ I was able to answer with confidence.
Slurp!
“A lot of difficulties are blooming…”
I am a former individual survivor who left the 14th Special Operations Unit and I am a person who firmly believes that victory in an operation comes from detailed information.
It was natural that the first thing I did when I fell into an unfamiliar world was to collect information. After so many days of hard work, I now have [information omitted by the system bastard] in my hands, and it will be the cause of my headache.
“…I fucking don’t want to do this.”
I actually organized all the information I gathered, but I was so shocked in the process that I didn’t want to look at it again.
What can I do? I can’t take it back, and if I’m going to get out of here, I have to resolve this gloriously fucked up situation.
After pushing away books like [History of the Empire], [Chronicles of the Church of Gwangmyeong], and [Hunter’s Guild Introductory Guide], I fell down on the floor and looked through the materials I had just organized one by one.
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[year +133: ★★ The era of the Shard Lords has arrived]
[year +152: ★★★★★★★★★ The final blow of Underground King Lord Kundergal. Humanity is routed]
[year +168: ☆☆☆☆ Queen’s Fragment Human Fragment]
[year +190: The Era of Balance at the Edge of a Cliff]
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First of all, this is the little information I have. There was a lot of information that the damn system only gave me as a title, but I had my own reasons for moving to secure information that was bigger than my immediate situation.
‘The system guy said it clearly. [Information that affects play has been restricted].’
It was restricted because it had an impact on play. In other words, isn’t this information important enough to make a big difference in the game if I know it in advance?
Anyway, peace in our neighborhood was guaranteed by the protection of the World Tree, so I decided to swallow the large chunks one by one.
The system was talking like a parrot, saying, ‘You can learn it through books or conversations with NPCs while playing.’ But I found out that the title was written in the book [History of the Continent], which is also in my family’s library.
When I asked about it, the history was so well known that even the maid, Katrea, could easily answer.
When I looked into the contents one by one, it was roughly like this.
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1. The era of the Shard Lord has come.
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Shard Lord. Mutation Blood Lord. Mute Road.
They are derived from the plan left behind by Falcatus’s desperate thoughts, and the race itself appears to be classified as Mutation Blood.
The reason it is expressed as ‘derivative’ here is because Falcatus’ plan was not fully implemented.
The fragments, which were originally scheduled to be reabsorbed into the dried body after they were sufficiently completed, were shattered into pieces by the explosion of our little boy A-Tomb and scattered around the world. The people who were infected by these fragments and shared a portion of the Queen’s power were called Mute Lords. These are the guys, and a very interesting situation occurred here.
It’s just that these bastards called Rod are fighting each other to death!
“Because each of them has a fragment of the queen. “There will be a desire to prosper each group.”
It was written that the hatred for humanity that killed the queen was clearly inherited, so there were no cases of united fronts with humans, but there were frequent cases of cooperation among themselves and wars where one side killed the other.
If the Mutes of the past were united under the absolute power of the Queen, the Mutes that emerged after the big explosion… It feels like hundreds of fierce barbarian tribes? They had the same roots, but they were only interested in raising their own flock. This was a fortunate situation for humanity, which was on the verge of dying after being hit by a twisting dragon vein in the imperial war.
The year 133 was a time when these Mute Lords were at odds, some joined hands, and settled down on the fragmented continent.
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2. Underground King Kundergal’s final blow.
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Next. In fact, the appearance of ‘Lord Kundergal’, a really strong earthworm who is the one who brought the current April World to its current state.
According to the ‘Mute Almanac for Beginner Hunters’ picked up from the mercenary guild, different lords have different abilities and the types of mutes they handle are very different. Sam is a different species that really has the same roots.
As the name suggests, this Underground King was a guy who only dealt with mutes, which were derived from just one species of burrowing bug.
Since it was originally a mute and not a combat entity, how did this guy, whose combat power was so small compared to other Lord’s armies, swallow up the world?
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That unleashed thousands of those damn bugs under the castle to roam around.
This means that they did not infiltrate by moving something with burrowing bugs, but rather they ate away everything under the walls and the city, leaving it empty.
What is a last name? Isn’t this the most essential structure in human defense tactics?
A strong city is probably a city with thick and large walls. If you apply defensive magic to the walls, it will be a stronger city. Preparing archers and magic cannon knights to protect the walls is the alpha and omega of humanity’s defense strategy. Breaking down the ground and destroying the walls and It sank the city.
The walls of the city that this guy named Kundergal ran into collapsed regardless of victory or defeat, and other lords who were watching this clever tactic caught Kundergal’s tunnel bugs and pulled out similar minor copies from their nests and started using similar tactics. I did it.
It was only a day or two with the power of the Earth Wizard, but in the end, humanity gave up castles and cities in vain due to the offensive of Mute, who ran an excavator under the ground 24 hours a day.
The good news is that the minor copies that are not directly under Kundergal’s digging bugs are unable to burrow into hard rocky terrain, and mankind is said to have moved from their bases and built new fortresses and cities on barren but very hard rocky terrain. .
Because of the strategy of using burrowing bugs, the scope of human activity was fixed in a barren rocky area where farming was impossible and the entire city’s capabilities were required to dig a single well.
‘You know, master, right? never! You should never go outside the city without permission! The moment you leave the rocky terrain and take even one step onto soft ground! The tunnel bugs unleashed by the Mute Lord will sense the vibration and attack in an instant!’
‘No, it’s not a wasteland… Then what about the train you saw during the day? In order for a train to run, tracks must be laid, and noise and vibration are no joke, right?’
‘That’s why a noble’s first duty is to [defend the city and railway]! The two cities connected by the railway have an obligation to protect the railway at all costs. We hire expensive earth wizards to periodically prepare the land, build stations here and there, dispatch track guardians, and do our best to keep the last link of humanity intact!’
The 16 years from 152 to 167 of the New Imperial Calendar were recorded as humanity’s darkest age. They abandoned all cities with tens or hundreds of years of history and moved to new homes. They gathered resources they didn’t have to build new forts and city defenses. They sensed the vibration the moment they hit the fields with a hoe to grow crops. It was a time when food supply through farming could not be expected because of the crawling bugs.
[History of the Continent] described this period as ‘a period in which humanity, imprisoned in rocky terrain by Kundergal, was slowly starving to death.’
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[3. [Queen’s Fragment, Human Fragment]
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I remembered this clearly. I don’t know the content, but it was a ‘white’ four-star event!
As soon as I turned the page with the thought, ‘This must be a ray of light for my tattered mentality,’ I was immediately betrayed.
[Hastens the defeat of humanity. One would be Lord Kundergal’s burrowing strategy, and the other would be the disappearance of atmospheric mana.]
“What, no, get rid of it….”
Professor Park (former water magician) frothed at the mouth and collapsed.
reason? If you think of something bad in April World, first think of ‘Dragon Vein Explosion’ and most of it will fit.
What was the starting point that caused humanity to completely destroy its golden age civilization? –
What is the cause of spreading the decision of the Queen of the Dragon Vein Explosion like a piece of the Four Spirits’ beads, resulting in the creation of a damn thing called ‘Underground King Kundergal’? –
What caused the mana that spread throughout the dragon vein explosion continent to disappear? – Dragon vein explosion!
Dragon Vein! In the first place, the dragon vein was the gathering of mana from the entire continent to form a huge flow. The magical engineers who were amazed by the incredible amount of natural mana said, ‘Let’s use those overflowing natural resources!’ What was planned was the magic nuclear bomb A-Tomb. As a result of blowing away the dragon vein so magnificently,
the remaining mana in the world became very thin.
What did I say earlier? Did you say that what humans do when they want to raise their guard is… one is to build a castle wall and the other is to apply defensive magic to that castle wall?
The castle was destroyed by earthworms and the magic flew away along with the dragon vein.
With enlightenment, magic is realized, but its power is greatly reduced.
Those below the 3rd rank, who make up the majority of magicians, have all turned into incompetent jobless people, and those above the 4th rank have somehow managed to manifest magic by squeezing out the meager remaining mana.
For Professor Park, who was delighted to receive [a good water-based mana talent] right away, this news comes as a surprise.
“Stop, stop… They say it’s a white star and it’s a good event with four white stars…”
It didn’t end there.
When the world becomes a point, there is one thing that naturally falls –
[Weakening of the five major denominations]
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To summarize the fall of the denomination, it roughly goes like this.
1. The Gwangmyeong Church is the highest denomination on the continent and has secured a huge number of believers.
2. The Gwangmyeong Church, which fought the Mute War most devotedly, lost the majority of high-ranking paladins and priests. Lack of mid-level administrators in the church
3. Death of Archbishop Norman. Known as a secluded person due to the injury of Professor Seongja, the center of the cult. Gwangmyeong has no saints. Lack of top-level church administrators.
4. Roderick, who made Gwangmyeong Bridge the state religion, also disappeared.
5. There were too many Gwangmyeong Church believers and there was no one to lead them, leading to confusion.
6. Gwangmyeong Church Divided into the principled Gwangmyeong Church, which values the flourishing of light, and the radical Gwangmyeong Church, which reveres Professor Seongja and values the power and practice of light –
7. The outbreak of the East-West Imperial War. The believers shouted slogans such as ‘Why does a saint watch tragedy?’ and hoped that the saint who had gone into seclusion would save the world once again, but the saint’s body was already lying in peace at the main temple of Gwangmyeong Church.
8. In a world where life is becoming increasingly difficult and the power of God is real, gods who cannot save believers will have their existence questioned and faith will be lost.
9. The five major denominations that went through a similar process and lost their faith gradually lost their divine power…
Wow! The age of distrust!
In GG’s world, the religious dynamics depending on the situation were much worse than reality, as the power of God was real.
A pillar of light booms in the sky! And fell and destroyed the enemy of mankind?
Even people who have believed in the Bountiful Church for three generations can suddenly switch to the Gwangmyeong Church and grow rapidly.
On the other hand, the divine light fell indiscriminately, and the enemy of humanity completely destroyed the city without a scratch?
Isn’t God not as big a deal as you think? And the faith of ordinary believers may decline.
[So humanity has three powers. Two of the Auror Magic Divinities were lost.]
The ‘History of the Continent’ left the next sentence blank for a long time, as if it were sentencing humanity to death.
When I read the book, I had already given up on the ‘mana evaporation’ part, so by that point, I was even more curious.
No magic. No divinity. Survival area is limited and farming is not possible.
What on earth did we do to survive in that terrible situation and create the society we have now?
[And a miracle happened.]
That’s right. It takes a miracle to survive at least in that situation.
[At some point, small gem-like things began to remain where the bodies of the dead, both human and mute, were burned.]
[They are called by various names, such as the stone of the dead, the soul stone, and the crystal of purity, but are commonly referred to as ‘fragments.’ This thing, represented, brought new strength and new hope to humanity, which was losing its power and dying.]
[It is still unknown what it is, why it suddenly appeared, and by what principle it lends us power, but whatever it is, it has brought humanity to the brink. The fact that it was pulled up will not change.]
This was the oxygen respiratory system for mankind.
Fragments. A gem called ‘Fragment’ that rarely appears in the body of a dead person.
[In the early days of its discovery, ‘fragments’ were also called the grudges of the dead, because they placed a very strong curse on anyone who touched them without knowing it.] [
However, humanity, which had already lost its divinity and magic, was almost going crazy with its thirst for power, and the curse It is a strong power that has a strong power, which is clear how to use these ‘fragments’.]
[Five years from the first discovery of fragments. Through the papers of the troll soulmancer Matal-Gru, the fragments reveal their true value.]
[The fragments choose their owner.]
[The fragments may resonate with a specific fragment, and in this case, one of the owners will receive the power of both. It can be handled.]
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Tak. widely. Tak….
My record was broken here. Of course, I was fully aware of the history that followed.
Since the discovery of the fragment, humanity has recovered to some extent its former glory.
Although all nonsensical magical engineering, such as airship, was completely eliminated, the city was developed using magical engineering that had been passed down knowingly.
In order to unite humanity again, we researched ways to break through the burrowing bugs of the ‘soft land’ and enable continuous exchange, and as a result, the first armed magic engineering train ‘Untouchable Lady’, a masterpiece by dwarven magic engineer ‘Pakat Grizzy Hand’, was born.
Humanity succeeded in escaping from the age of divinity/magic/aurors to the age of aurors/magic engineering/fragments, risking the life and death of both cities to build up the soft land and build a track over the years, and it has been 38 years since the appearance of the Underground King Kundergal. We announce that humanity has once again become united.
This was the secret story of the birth of April World.
“Oh my, my head…”
My recording was still stuck at the stage where I was wondering, ‘What about the fragments?’
Because it seemed like I knew a little more about the new power called ‘fragment’ than the people of April World knew.
It also comes from the body of a dead person or mute monster.
It is possible to communicate to some extent through a soul mage.
Initially, the name was given as something like a soul stone or soul crystal fragment.
“This is Data Soul….”
What should you be suspicious of when something bad happens? Souls that have suffered more than
the Dragon Vein – Big Explosion
level are completely tainted by ‘error’ and appear as evil, crazy beings or monsters in the next world.
It was a world where the limit had already been exceeded and a death sentence had already been handed down: ‘If there is an error of this magnitude, it is impossible to clear.’ How many souls did the dragon vein explosion blow away in one shot? 1 million? 10 billion? How many of them would have fallen into ‘error’ and how would the system have responded to the mass occurrence of such errors?
As someone who is on the front side of the coin called April World, I have no idea what is happening on the other side.
Instead of returning to the server, the data soul began to leave behind in the world in the form of ‘fragments’.
GG’s taste has become even more gruesome, and I am a resident of that world.
By a truly amazing coincidence, my goal is to clear the world and save Data Soul.
….square. Crunch Crunch –
After holding my pounding head for a while, I threw down the pen and laid down on the bed, writing down one final fact.
“First of all, it is clear that the genre of the game has changed.”
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Goal: World Clear Data Soul’s Salvation -> I gather all the fragments and find a way.
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According to the rumor, Mute Lords fight among Mute Lords.
According to the rumor, the Mute Lord and humans are fighting.
According to the rumor… it is said that even at this point, humans fight against humans.
This is truly amazing.
“Fight for resources. “It’s an unlimited brawl that’s almost like a personal battle…”
Fragments with the power of the evil queen were scattered all over the world. The mute lords certainly have them, and some may be buried in the ocean or deep in the ocean. Once acquired, an individual can freely manipulate the power of Mutation Blood.
When you kill someone, there is a very small chance that a power crystal called ‘Fragment’ will drop. A fit person possesses the power of that fragment, and the more they have, the more likely they are to have greater power.
Auror/Magic Engineering/Fragment. Among the three powers that represent April World, the power of fragments
becomes stronger the more you kill and steal.
Tiring-!
[You have succeeded in uncovering the identity of World 4 through a lot of uncertain information and hint thinking.]
[World 4. Welcome to the era of fragment war.]
[Collect more fragments and wield powerful power. .]
[Collect all the fragments and break the chain of greed.]
A system message that appears at an exquisite moment as if it is the correct answer.
“…Was this it? What does it mean that it is impossible to clear?”
I was almost resentful of myself for reading the true meaning of that disgusting mechanical sound.
The fragment is the data soul.
Collection of all fragments refers to collection of all data souls.
My April World. Clear conditions in a world where the game system has collapsed, the data soul has collapsed, and everything is out of order.
[That is the only way to carry out the duty given to Player ‘professor’ and us.]
It meant the annihilation of living creatures.
The system said that the moment they were all killed and recovered by the last remaining one was the clearing of World 4.
[I maintain the server and this game within the bounds of the rules set by the Creator.]
[You preserve the ‘world’ to prevent polluted data souls from destroying the server.]
[When the process is over, you and I will normalize everything. I search for a way to do it.]
[I didn’t find the answer, but it was confirmed that you have the ability to find the ‘variable’ that I don’t have.]
[Through your presence, the ‘system’ becomes complete.]
…. Phew….
There is no comedy. A world manager who recommends the extinction of living creatures to a nine-year-old lying in bed.
no wonder. The guy who was always obsessed with balance seemed to have some laxity here and there this time. It’s as if they were telling us to lose our firm standards.
[Player ‘professor’. I didn’t expect you to take pleasure in my plan.]
[Is that an affirmation of my plan?]
“You Jeong Jeong, you bastard. Does it look like you’re smiling because you like this? It’s just… I thought you must have been quite stressed while this bastard system was moving to the April World. When I imagined that, it made me feel better.”
Gedreutz’s strong artificial intelligence is given difficult problems that cannot produce results, and in the process of overcoming repeated mechanical stress, it reaches a superego that goes beyond machines.
This damn wall-window-like system has experienced a conflict between Gedreutz’s mission of maintaining the game and the super difficult problem of large-scale error dumping.
If something bad happened, what should you suspect first?
Dragon Vein – Great Explosion – Oh, great Big Bang –
It seems that the great Dragon Vein Explosion achieved remarkable results here as well, making our stupid machine intelligence system grow into a very crooked adult.
Tiring-!
[It’s okay.]
[There’s no need to worry.]
[It’s very possible that the plan will succeed and everything will return to normal.
Who said that that dry voice has no humanity?
[Thanks to your authority, we have enough time to find a way.]
[To the point where it’s almost like eternity.]
It’s so clear.
The destruction imposed by the system on this world.
It had just arrived under the name [Player ‘professor’].
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JIEIK.
Square Square-
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Goal: World Clear Data Soul’s Salvation -> —————
….Do whatever it takes to prevent the crazy system from destroying April World until a way is found.
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