Episode 176 [Revelation – 2]
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Lee Hyun-wook knew better than anyone else how cleverly the villain had taken over the world and how he wielded that power. .
That’s why I couldn’t recklessly expose their identities.
Like this now-dead man, William Caine, the influence of villains was reaching the world’s powerful circles.
In other words, if he were to rush in carelessly, he could face a backlash and end up in a dead end.
For that reason, rather than directly touching the villain, he focused on steadily increasing his power and influence.
Of course, clashes with villains occurred from time to time, and each time they won big and narrowed the gap.
As a result of growing up through all kinds of incidents….
‘…now it is possible to compete head-on with villains.’
Now, with his fame at its peak and the world’s attention focused on him, it was the right time for an expose.
“…I have been fighting a secret group for a long, long time.”
At his first words, confusion spread across the faces of the players gathered around him.
“What did you just say?”
“Huh? Who are you fighting with?”
When asked what this was all about, wasn’t it a sudden development of a secret group? It
would have taken quite a lot of words to convince the world of this ridiculous conspiracy.
But that didn’t mean he couldn’t just spill everything out. He calmly chose his words:
“Experienced players will realize that I didn’t kill this man.”
Hyunwook Lee pointed to the body of William Kane lying scattered on one side.
He had a torn back of his head, but Lee Hyun-wook had never attacked that area.
‘But it will be presented to the world as if I was killed, so it will take quite a bit of effort to explain it.’
But then Brian Thiel nodded and stepped forward.
“…He died from a ‘latent spell.’ “I can see the author’s signature.”
Since he is a grade A analyst player, he noticed that fact quickly.
This was unexpected support and relieved Hyunwook Lee of the explanation he had to give.
“Yes, that’s right. It’s a forbidden dark spell. It’s not something I can use.”
“So… are you saying that the person who was the leader of the EPU is a liaison of some kind of force?”
He began to get involved in Lee Hyun-wook’s revelations as if he were an MC. However, his questions did not feel like rebuttals or cavils. Rather, they were closer to a response and felt like support. ‘Brian Till was in the European Reconstruction Committee after Titanomachia
. Assassinated by the Shadow Baron.’
Lee Hyun-wook remembered that this man also had a list of high-ranking figures who had been eliminated by the villains.
And, despite his position as the leader of the Omega Team after the ‘Giant Slalom’, he did not keep Lee Hyun-wook in check much. Rather, he emphasized that Lee Hyun-wook was an overwhelming force. He argued that they should be combined:
‘I don’t know much about this man, but he seems to be opportunistic yet realistic.’
In other words, he now believes in Lee Hyun-wook and appears to be planning to stick with Lee Hyun-wook.
‘Okay, that’s good.’
Hyunwook Lee made eye contact with Brian Thiel, nodded, and then looked into a camera lens.
“This isn’t just EPU. The organization’s spies have infiltrated all over the world. In other words, that organization has been taking root all over the world for a very long time and slowly encroaching on the world.”
The remark was quite unconventional, so whispers started here and there.
“And in fact, all of you have witnessed the evil deeds committed by that organization. … Kaito Okita, devil worshiper, shadow baron Ki Baekjun, pitbull brother, necromancer of Ganghwa Island, etc. The world still cannot find out why they suddenly committed terrorist acts, and it is just a mystery. I’m thinking about it.”
Everyone’s eyes widened as the names of villains known to the whole world appeared one after another.
Lee Hyun-wook took a step forward, paused for a moment, and then opened his mouth again.
“…They all belong to that secret society I’m talking about.”
Everyone who heard that part would have felt something click into place. This was the moment when the unexplained terrorist acts that had occurred so far were tied together into a single framework for the first time.
Even those who expressed surprise at Lee Hyun-wook’s first words looked strangely shocked.
“And the hellfire that struck me today is an extension of all those events.”
This was the explanation of the cause of the ‘Hellfire incident’ that had just occurred.
“…So, they tried to assassinate you, who knew about the existence of that secret society.”
“Yes, and do you remember what happened shortly after the Korean Dragon Labyrinth raid?”
“Ah! Come to think of it, when your group came out of the labyrinth, a large-scale freezing spell exploded. That’s a terrible story. But who are they and why are they doing such a thing?”
This time, it was Brian Till who asked the question like the MC, but…
‘…there is no need to testify in such detail to people all over the world right now.’
Lee Hyun-wook knew a lot about the villain, but that didn’t mean that all of it was groundless.
If even one of the revelations turned out to be groundless, public opinion would turn around too easily.
That would actually be giving them a political opening. The villains would use every means at their disposal, including politics, media, and economy, to accuse Lee Hyun-wook of being a false propagandist.
‘In other words, we still have to maintain the world’s interest and raise trust while slowly eating away at the villains.’
So what is the benefit that should be pursued through these revelations?
‘That is the successful resolution of the big event at hand. For that… we need troops.’
[Titanomachia] is not over yet. For now, it was important to lead that war to victory.
Because the villain will also risk his life and death and invest a lot of resources in this big event.
‘No matter how hard I rush, it is impossible to achieve a complete victory like this. It’s a situation.’
From now on, what we have to deal with is a coalition of Titans, Dark Elves, Black Orcs, and Villain forces. A huge number of monsters will emerge from all over Europe, so they also have to prepare a considerable number of troops. ‘And when I infiltrate the Dark Elf Kingdom, their
gaze ‘We need a wire to pull the time.’
After finishing his thoughts, Lee Hyun-wook looked at Brian Till and opened his mouth,
“The group behind this movement of [Titanomachia] and the Dark Elf Legion is that very group.”
At those words, the eyebrows of Brian Till, who had maintained his composure until now, shook violently.
If it is true that the conspiracy carried out by the unidentified ‘evil organization’ is not at the level of a terrorist organization but is the one that caused a catastrophe that threatens the entire world, does it make sense that the world was unaware of it?
“…Hey, that’s a bit ridiculous.”
“True, but how do you collude with monsters?”
Of course, there were many people who did not believe it. Or maybe even the majority.
But Lee Hyun-wook expected this too and prepared the next card.
“I have secured the evidence.”
At the same time as Lee Hyun-wook’s answer, an earth-shaking vibration began to approach from a distance in the darkness.
Thump, thump, thump, thump, thump,
this feeling has become so familiar to me now… It was the footsteps of a giant. The searchlights turned in that direction, and in the darkness beyond the multi-magic shield, a metal body could be seen reflecting light.
“Could you please open the magic shield surrounding Mr. Teal’s camp for a moment?”
Hearing Lee Hyun-wook’s words, Brian Teal lifted up the Mana Messenger with a blank expression,
“…Vigilance team leader, please disarm the magic shield now.”
As the magic shield was removed, the Orichalcon giant Talos came closer in a few steps.
“We have arrested the bad guy who was hiding in the forest after Master ran away!”
The guy bent his knees and spread out his palms, and at that moment, Exclamations erupted from everywhere:
“Wow! “Those pointy ears… That’s the monster, right?”
“That look… I’m definitely a dark elf!”
Yes, clearly the monster known as the Dark Elf was caught in the hands of Talos.
“Huh! Let me go! Let me go!”
It struggled in Talos’s grasp like a grasshopper caught in a human hand.
“This dark elf is the one who activated the Hellfire magic scroll and escaped.”
Lee Hyun-wook secretly planted a ‘Fly Eye’ in the man’s clothes to track his location, and even
recorded the process with another ‘Fly Eye’ to secure complete evidence.
When Hyunwook Lee gestured, a video was played on Talos’ face.
The content was a scene in which a man used a magic scroll near Steelein’s quarters, quickly escaped Team Omega’s camp and went into the nearby forest, but suddenly his pouch exploded and he was injured and caught by Talos. But didn’t he take on the form of a dark elf after being captured by Talos?
“…What is that!”
“Huh, is that real?”
The players were surprised at first, but…
“Damn, then we were being toyed with by the Dark Elves?”
“No, that’s not true, there’s a traitor hiding among us!”
Soon I realized that I had been deceived by someone all this time, and I started to get angry.
At that time, Lee Hyun-wook took a step forward again, and the murmur soon died down.
‘Now we move on to the last part.’
He slowly raised his left hand. Everyone swallowed their dry saliva, knowing the weight of that gesture.
However, unlike usual, his hand slowly closed and became an index finger, pointing somewhere.
“…At this very moment, innocent civilians are being eaten by titans. And it is true that the Dark Elf Legion is preparing for war in the Berlin erosion area ‘Green Hell’.”
At those words, the players around them let out anxious sighs.
“It means that the monsters that have invaded our world at this moment are uniting and preparing for a war to exterminate us. “If this is really a game, the so-called ‘bad ending’ is coming.”
Quite a few players nodded. Yes, there has never been a crisis of this magnitude.
Wasn’t even the ‘wave’, commonly called the worst crisis, limited to a localized threat?
However, if this situation was ignored, all of Europe, and indeed the entire world, would be conquered.
“At this moment, groups of evil, even disguised as humans, are dividing us.”
As Lee Hyun-wook continued to speak, the players’ eyes began to gradually become sharper.
These days, players are seen as something of a new nobility rather than heroes.
There were many players who cared about personal gain and survival rather than honor and responsibility.
However, in the end, they too were ‘human beings’ and had a fundamental sense of belonging to ‘humanity’.
In other words, if there was any stimulus or motivation, quite a few of them would die on the battlefield.
‘I saw that it could happen. And I was one of those types….’
Players who seemed to be only looking out for themselves in their past life stood up to the villain in the face of extinction.
They were miserably defeated and rose up again to fight back, only to be defeated again and again.
It was Lee Hyun-wook himself who somehow survived and grew while the massacres continued.
‘It’s quite a tragic history, but in this life, such trials and errors will not be repeated.’
Lee Hyun-wook took out an item from his pocket. It looked like a crystal ball.
[Item Information]
– Name: Room of Solitude (Special)
– Effect: Unknown
That was the ‘pocket space’ where the second prince was trapped a while ago.
Lee Hyun-wook floated it into the air and gave it mana.
Fuuuu….
Black smoke rose from there, and something poured out, filling the sky. And then a quiet mechanical sound rang out.
However, it was buried in the thick darkness of the night sky and its shape could not be seen properly. Soon, a few searchlights raised their heads and illuminated the night sky. “
That is… the steel fleet!”
Only then. Dozens of airships came into view.
When Lee Hyun-wook summoned Talos through the ‘World Bridge’, that steel fleet also came.
However, since we couldn’t move around with those huge objects all the time, we used pocket space.
In other words, at this moment, all the power that Hyunwook Lee had accumulated so far appeared in the sky of Dresden.
“Everyone, I have an army.”
When Lee Hyun-wook opened his mouth again, the gaze that had been directed at the Steel Fleet came back to him.
“And you… are a much stronger army.”
Lee Hyun-wook spread both hands and pointed at all the players gathered around him.
“If our enemies are united at this moment, we must be united too.”
Here and there, ‘That’s right!’ Shouts poured in, and Lee Hyun-wook also raised his voice:
“We must gather together, move forward, and fight to prove who the true owner of this land is!”
But at that moment, a white light, as if an incandescent light had been turned on in the sky, pushed away half of the night.
Lee Hyun-wook’s speech was cut off midway as everyone’s attention was focused on that overwhelming brilliance.
“uh?”
On top of the steel fleet… A wide-area portal, the signature skill of the Wight Hall World Tree, was opened.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh oh,
a ray of light shot out from there and struck Lee Hyun-wook’s back, and from within that light, Emilia Müller, the two hermits of Yggdrasil who had rarely been seen in the world until now, and the ‘saints’. Donald Harris, the ‘Manager of the World Tree’, walked forward and stood on the left and right behind Hyunwook Lee.
“Now there is really no need to hide. Rather, I need to fight proudly.”
“No matter what weird things you do, my promise of support still stands.”
Hyunwook Lee made eye contact with them and then looked at the camera again.
“If you give me the strength to lead this war and the wars that follow…”
Steele said his last words to the world.
“…let’s see the end of this game.”
