Chapter. 21. Another Solo Play (17)
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This is what I felt after meeting the mutes here.
“I created it because I needed a language. It is possible to communicate using mental waves between a Lord and his group, but he cannot communicate in that way with other Lords’ groups. “Our queen does not have the same power as the queen of books.”
“….yes?”
That’s because every time they answer, I say like an idiot, ‘Yes? yes?’ The only thing that happens is that you repeat the distance. No, there has to be at least something ordinary.
‘Create a language? directly?’
Let’s see. Where did you hear the rumor about Nigmi? The newsboy from Rock City said this in passing. Obviously….
“You said that it was about 18 years ago that Nigmi met Warlord and was defeated, so you and Nigmi met…”
“It’s been exactly 18 years, 9 months, and 3 days.”
18 years. 18 years and 9 months.
So what this means is that this guy waged a war for 18 years and 9 months, joined other groups, researched the history of the empire, and at the same time created his own language.
“It wasn’t just a means of communication. As you said earlier, our ‘family’ doesn’t get along very well. We are gathered by Her Majesty, who is the only one in the world who has ‘family love’ for the Mutt race, and our feelings toward each other have not changed much from the past when we killed each other and stole their fragments. “If I had to use an analogy, it would be like brothers with the same mother and father respecting each other.”
“Monarch theory. Empire theory. Books such as King’s Rule say that indigenous languages play a very important role in strengthening the unity of a given nation. It is said that cultural closedness actually creates a focal point for the ethnic group. “I made it because I thought it would be necessary in many ways for the founding of our Mute Empire.”
“Huh huh….”
“It’s not that big of a deal. Among the books in the library, there was a book on the grammar of the common language, so I just borrowed it. “If you know the official language, you will be able to easily learn our language.”
What the King of Mute said as if it was no big deal was tantamount to insulting all linguists in human history.
Oh my god, I thought some kind of miraculous paradigm had occurred because Mute uses their own language, but the person in front of me just worked hard to create it because it was a tactical and cultural necessity. I studied on my own by reading books.
“That’s amazing….”
“It can’t be. It’s thanks to someone leaving so much knowledge on record. Personally, I have great respect for the human habit of recording. They say they live in the present, but seeing them so obsessed with what will be left behind after their death shows that the entire race has transcended death in some way.”
“So, have you read all the books in the Supreme Court Justice’s library?”
“I haven’t read it all yet. There were many other buildings that fell apart. The Temple of Wisdom is truly bizarre. “With my limited knowledge, I couldn’t understand how such a small temple contained so many books.”
I was relieved to feel a bit of humanity in the part where I had not yet read much, but I was once again dumbfounded by what he said next.
Ah, now that I think about it, this room. You said that you only left books to read in the Supreme Court Justice’s study.
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So does this mean that the book you only looked at once is in another room?
As I was making a fuss again, Kauld flicked his bone whip-like tail and pulled open the door that was buried in a pile of books.
Shake!
Warrrrrrr!
It collapses. book.
Books with the seal of the Church of Wisdom clearly stamped on each book filled the empty space.
The room next to the parlor of the Supreme Court Justice’s residence was a party hall.
This means that the space, which was large enough for 100 nobles to gather to eat, drink, and dance, and had a high ceiling, was filled with only books and bundles of paper.
“…All of this?”
“law. rule. size. farming. construct. art. diplomacy. To me, who had to create an empire without knowing anything, that temple was like a treasure chest containing all the knowledge in the world. I wanted to personally thank the priests there, but unfortunately, they all died when the building fell. The temple was moved to my building next to my residence. “Out of respect for them, the original was left in the temple.”
“What about the original? Then what we have here is….”
“It’s a copy. I copied it down as I read it. “I was studying a language at the time, so transcribing it was helpful in many ways.”
“Could, no, sir, uh… Your Highness?”
I thought he was standing askew in the hallway and stopped talking to me, but I just can’t stand the disrespect.
What are the Church of Wisdom doing? They say that preserving human knowledge is their faith, and they scavenge everything from rare books to local rumors. The Wisdom Church is so crazy about worldly knowledge that its specialty is ‘compressed books’ that can contain more text.
King Mute, who is here in front of you, didn’t think it was enough to read that much in less than 20 years, so he copied it and kept it here. This was a passage that showed why Kauld’s handwriting, which was recording Nigmi’s life story, was so wonderful.
An incredible amount of knowledge that cannot help but be acknowledged.
The ability to use it to refine the queen and her followers into a single nation.
A personality that does not discriminate against low-class compatriots such as Bellabelle, who lack combat skills, and a tolerance that is loved by them as well.
Plus the terrifying force and power that overwhelmed me.
‘Cauld is he a god?’
When I first heard that there was a King of Mute, the image that came to mind was that of a monster devouring a country. There’s something like that. He shattered the castle wall with a single blow while shouting, A monster who eats up the army like nuts.
But the person in front of me now… was the complete opposite of that.
‘He is a real king. It’s not the warlord type either. He is a proper nation-building type of king.’
Isn’t this a really full hexagon style character? This is not an empty remark; I really thought that if they had just settled down somewhere and raised a country, it would not have been a task to build a country called the Mute Kingdom by now. There are also large mutes that are powerful enough to build a castle wall like building blocks.
‘If we hadn’t been wasted by such pointless imperial headbutting, we might have become a force capable of standing up to the Warlord’s soul magicians and their moving armies.’
Nigmi and Professor Park have a definite antagonistic relationship. As much as Nigmi is afraid of the Warlord, the mutes belonging to her will try to eliminate the Warlord in any way possible. The reason I decided to stand alone with Kauld was because he said he had the means to kill him.
Mute’s strength lies in its ability to absorb all life around it and produce it indiscriminately. However, this land is heavily stained by the curse sown by the emperor, and thanks to this, the mute production organ where several rods have taken root is unable to properly absorb nutrients.
If Nigmi and her mutes had not become obsessed with the empire and had settled down somewhere else and grown up normally… perhaps ‘Warlord Army VS Mute Empire’ might have become the main battle of April World. If that were the case, it could have become a world that could be cleared in a more normal way.
‘The system would have already seen the future unfold that way through simulation.’
Existence outside the game. The future that does not include Professor Park or me is revealed through GG’s simulation. From the part where Warlord attacked Nigmi’s group 18 years ago, it was possible to fully infer that World had already seen the future and intervened in advance. By cleverly arranging events in the surrounding environment, the professor must have headed to where Nigmi was. A battle ensued, and Nigmi, who was attacked to the point of death, was in a state close to infantile regression.
“…Why didn’t they kill me?”
What is puzzling is why they sent him back alive without finishing him off.
“I can’t believe you didn’t kill me. “Who are you talking about?”
“Park-Warlord. Why did that guy let Nigmi live instead of killing him?…”
Pap-duk!
“Ah ahhh! That’s not what I meant! Since there was no way the enemy could have let our Queen live, I was speculating that Her Majesty Nigmi had also fatally wounded him, or that they were equal in number!”
At that moment, a sound like teeth being ground down was heard from Cowld’s mouth and he quickly covered it. As if he was displeased just hearing the words related to the queen’s death, he remained calm like a wise man throughout the conversation and growled in response.
“…The Queen has forbidden any talk related to the Warlord. He knows us as much as we know Him. If you know about him, you know that we will find him. “He probably thinks that our strength is too weak to protect him and that he will be torn to death by his hands.”
Crash!
“But there are a few things I heard when I first met him. One word uttered like a scream while struggling in a nightmare. “That’s all I know about what happened between the Warlord and Her Majesty.”
“What did you say?”
Hmm-huuuu.
“….’You weren’t really this kind of guy.’ That’s what he said when he woke up from a nightmare and asked His Majesty, who was frightened. “The ax that had chased him all the way to the sea and cut off his head stumbled and ran away at that fearful word from his terrifying shadow.”
‘Nigmi unintentionally dug into our weakness.’
18 years ago, it had only been a few years since I entered April World. At a point when he was quite conscious, the professor was surprised to hear that he was acting according to the will of the system without even knowing it. In my mind, I thought I was fully alert and moving of my own volition, but the result before my eyes looked like the scene the system wanted.
So I guess they let it go. To prevent the system from achieving the desired results right away.
‘Nigmi was seriously injured and washed up here. If there had been no battle at all, would the Western Continent have been in the same situation as it is now? ‘Could it be possible for a large swarm of intelligent mutes to arise?’
There was no way for me to know the future, which could be divided into countless variables depending on the variables, but one thing was certain.
‘The current situation of the empire. Mutes that should move as a group of Lords are swarming around, and the capital is going crazy because the Emperor has cursed them. Contrary to my expectations, the fact that the Western Continent was turned upside down was not what the system wanted! Quite the contrary!’
This is where I am now. The situation in the imperial capital is far outside the system’s ‘perfect prediction’.
That meant that even if he used Professor Park’s surroundings to manipulate him, he could not completely control the situation that occurred due to Professor Park.
Me and Professor Park. Compared to the entire 4th World, it is not even a speck of dust, but that minuscule amount turns 100% into 99.999….%.
A single word shouted in anger by an almost dead Mute pierced through the slightest possibility.
“…There was a reason you didn’t come this way. “There was a reason why they went to the Teldrat region, leaving behind easy prey like the Western Empire, which was on the verge of falling into its own hay without even being touched by the Warlord army.”
The system is unstable. For her, who acts with everything in her sights, this Western Imperial Spirit is already far from what she could have predicted.
No matter how many powers GG acquired, it was impossible to turn back the past. There is no way to undo past events that occurred in ‘Professor Park’s 4 World’, where a player named Professor Park exists, even if the entire world is reset and a new world is created.
Professor Park, who came to his senses after hearing Nigmi’s screams 18 years, 9 months, and 3 days ago, contrary to what the system expected, saved Nigmi, and the surviving Nigmi became the butterfly effect, sending the entire empire to a land outside of the system’s ‘perfect’ simulation. made.
‘It’s an opportunity. The current empire, no, the existence of this group called [Nigmi’s Mute Empire] is a group that is completely outside the eyes of the system! If the system is the player, it failed in the important event of killing [the only surviving Ancient Mute], and as a result, 18 years in the future, the entire Western Empire is free of her control!’
Until now, I had only thought of the group of mutes in this canyon as a means to get to the imperial castle, but not anymore.
These are huge tents. For a divine being who looks down on the entire world, it is an invisible hole that even with overwhelming power is reluctant to approach.
“Cauld. “No, Cowld.”
“We only have one honorific title.”
I spoke to Kauld, who seemed to have calmed down a bit and became calm again.
“Nigmi is a friend.”
Crack!
“If you follow her words, you will end up not achieving what she wants.”
“….know. And it doesn’t matter. “Just as you follow the meaningless upward curve, following her has become all that constitutes our species.”
Kauld took a deep breath as if he were exasperated. Well, if it’s the kind of momentum I saw at the entrance, I don’t know if he or I will, but the books filled here will be damaged enough.
“Are you going to die?”
“If you follow that and die, that’s it. “We just lived by our values.”
“I meant Nigmi, not you.”
“…Stop.”
“If I stop, the world will stop? “You’re so smart, but you don’t know this?”
“Krrrrrrrgh!”
When I touched their disgust, there was a clear reaction.
Kaang!
The tip of my sword collided with the king’s tail, which flew in a fitful manner.
“It’s a joy to serve our allies. As you said, that’s a characteristic of your tribe, so it’s none of my business.”
Kagak crackle!
“If you’re going to serve someone, you have to serve them properly. huh? Now the young monarch is asking us all to jump into the cliff together. Isn’t it too selfish to follow that as a good thing? “Do you just follow because it makes you happy?”
“How dare you…”
“Do you really want to want an empire and say you want to act like this? “Everyone dying in the assault, throwing curses at each other?”
Couldn’t this wise lion-headed king have thought of something as simple as this?
Surprisingly, it was possible.
‘These are Mutation Bloods after all. ‘You think you’re different, but you’re not different in the end.’
I spoke with the king for over two hours. As Hyde, whose specialty is looking at people, this means that there was enough time to figure out what this Kauld personality is like.
‘Their consciousness is structurally incapable of imagining a bad future for the Queen.’
I also saw the mutes of the March World, as well as the mutes of Teldrat and the Western Empire of this era.
The mutes of the Teldrat region are in fact closer to beasts with a leader. The only difference between the Mute of the Western Empire and the Mute of Teldrat was that this one had a being called the Queen.
‘Mute is a race that serves the pinnacle of the race called the Queen. There just hasn’t been a queen until now.’
In the case of a beehive, when the queen disappears, one of the worker bees eats royal jelly and becomes the new queen.
The same goes for these. What is needed is a Mute who possesses the ‘tribal spirit’ inherited from the only qualified queen.
Kauld, who shared her unrequited racial feelings, naturally accepted her as the new queen and the pinnacle of the race, and at that moment, the center of the world for Kauld became the new queen, Nigmi.
Although he possesses enough knowledge to fill a banquet hall, he cannot imagine a future without Nigmi. Just as we cannot deeply accept the world suddenly returning to nothingness.
‘All kinds of mutes, including Kauld, are gathered together, but the head of the group is only Nigmi, now a child. No matter how much wisdom Kauld accumulates, in the end it is only Nigmi’s helpless young mind that moves.’
We have to break that.
In order for these races to become variables in the name of the Mute Empire.
“Don’t you want to build an empire?”
Although others may not know, it was a possibility.
“More perfect. “An empire that will continue in your name for a hundred and a thousand years, just as Nigmi wanted.”
Kauld Ramen. Just hearing the words ‘Nigmi’ and ‘Death’ transforms her from a wise woman into a beast. She reads through several libraries’ worth of books to acquire all the necessary knowledge, and at the same time, undertakes a charge into the empire that makes it all meaningless. If this is a contradictory mute.
“Don’t you want to remain next to your happy Queen, next to Nygmi, who has achieved what she wanted?”
I had to start from here. It makes you desire something more than just the happiness of moving for the queen.
Adding human color to the ‘ideal of the species called Mute’ that he spoke of.
Whoosh whoosh….
Cowld’s excited breathing quieted down and the tip of the tail stabbing his neck was slowly losing strength.
The king turned around without answering, but he had already heard enough answers.
“Look, it’s better to buy it if you can.”
Kauld’s eyes were filled with shockingly pure greed.
I wanted to live.
So you will face the Warlord.
Because he is like a living death in the current April World.
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