Episode 143 [End of the Earth. The Beginning of the Sea (6) ]
Kwasik.
Kyung-hoon’s fist penetrated the stomach of the overturned spider.
It was something that had never been possible before.
It is said that the defense shield disappeared after death, but it was a shell that could only be broken through with a sword.
However, once I reached S-class, I was able to do it with my shield-covered fists.
I found the mana stone quickly. He pulled out a mana stone.
A large jewel was sparkling beautifully on my hand.
“It seems really different now.”
My strength changed, but I felt like I was seeing things I hadn’t seen before.
The mana that flows from the mana stone and
the mana that disappears from the body of a dead monster.
Manado filled the world.
Lastly, I could see all of Shane’s mana that was barely flowing.
Kyung-hoon looked at the robot holding the machine gun.
“Eve, did you know about Shane’s condition?”
-Yes, I have been doing it alone for over ten years without any professional repairs. There is no way it can be perfect. I was planning on making a suggestion right after this incident. Kyung-hoon nodded at Eve’s words.
“Is everything repairable?”
-Parts other than the emblem and mana can be replaced with more enhanced performance. However, research on patterns is still lacking.
“I need to speed up my research a little more.”
Research by SG Electronics and the American company Natas were all organized into Eve’s database.
A lot of technology has been developed for patterns and mana, but it is still not enough to keep up with the technology of this world.
“It’s fascinating. How can only one field make such progress? “Even if it’s a wartime situation, it’s hard to understand.”
Unfortunately, Eve and Shane didn’t know why.
“Then shall we bring the portal equipment?”
Kyung-hoon took out a sniper rifle from his backpack.
He pointed the muzzle of his sniper rifle toward the sky.
Little spiders were just landing on top. These were spiders that came after destroying the battery installed in the building.
Although the web was already more than half broken, small spiders had landed on the membrane and were gathering in the center.
The spiders didn’t even care about the dead spider monster. A corpse without a mana stone was just food.
For the spiders, the cocoon wrapped in spider webs in the center seemed to be more important than everything else.
bang!
A spider burst out. It was a spider attached right to the cocoon.
bang! bang!
This time, no spider monsters were shot.
Drop, drop.
Instead, the lines connected to the cocoon broke one after another.
The surprised spiders ran towards the cocoon like crazy, but the bullet was faster.
Bang bang.
As the remaining strings broke, the cocoon fell down.
Kaaaaaaa!
Spiders jumped down, following the falling cocoon.
Ta-ta-ta-ta-ta.
However, the spider monsters were subjected to a barrage of machine guns before they reached the ground.
Before we knew it, Shane, holding a gun, was firing bullets at the spiders.
puck! puck! puck! puck!
Only a few spiders reached the ground alive. All of those spiders lost their lives to Gyeonghoon’s sword.
The returning spiders were quickly cleared away.
Kyung-hoon cut open the fallen cocoon and looked inside.
It was as expected.
An object similar to the machine found in Daegu was inside the cocoon.
It was portal equipment.
This too was a little broken. Kyung-Hoon could feel mana flowing out of the machine.
Just like in Daegu, monsters went on a rampage to obtain this mana.
“If you have this, you don’t need anything else, right?”
-yes. That’s enough.
Kyung-hoon stuffed the portal machine into his backpack.
Kyunghoon looked at his backpack and sighed. It seemed like this backpack was slowly reaching its limit.
Although it was made of monster leather, it had been so hard on Kyung-hoon’s back… I was almost grateful that it had held up until now.
Now I got everything I wanted. Moreover, I was able to meet Shane, whom I had never expected to meet.
Now all we had to do was find out where the president and government officials who had come to Busan were and where they had gone.
But Kyung-hoon scratched his head.
I was lucky enough to find that I had come to Busan, but this city too had already been destroyed.
Busan was the tip of the Korean Peninsula. Now I was quite at a loss as to where to go and find it.
Kyunghoon shook his head. Anyway, it wasn’t urgent right now.
Kyunghoon looked at Shane. There was something else that was urgent.
At that time, Eve said something strange.
-However, the pattern engraved here was not made in pairs with the codfish.
The pattern engraved here at Sajik Stadium was too large and complicated compared to the pattern in Daegu.
Kyung-hoon flipped it over using the overcharge technique, so only a few traces remained, but that alone gave an idea of its scale.
-It appears to be a pattern for moving more people over longer distances. It was a pattern that did not match the portal equipment I had just found.
There was a question in Eve’s voice. It seemed like I didn’t understand.
But Kyung-hoon did not answer her question.
He walked to the center of the stadium. Where the second base used to be.
Gyeong-hoon took out a large sword and started digging.
It seemed absurd to use the item as a shovel, but with Gyeong-hoon’s strength and the hardness of the great sword, I was able to dig down in no time.
2m below the ground. A bundle of machinery was buried.
It was a bunch of machines that looked similar to the portal equipment I had just put in my backpack.
But it was more than twice as big.
“If it doesn’t fit, it means there is a separate object used in this pattern.”
-oh my god. You are amazing. How did you deduce that portal equipment was buried here? At times like this, it seems really smart, unlike usual.
What on earth did he think of himself in normal times?
Of course, this time, I didn’t find it through deduction. I had found it by tracking the mana flowing from the ground using my newly acquired abilities. He decided never to tell Eve how he found it.
Kyung-hoon looked at the portal equipment he found.
“I don’t think this will fit in my backpack… I guess I can just carry it with me.”
-There is no damage, so I don’t think monsters will be attracted to it.
Then there was no problem.
“Are you saying this is the portal too?”
Shane also came down into the pit.
“yes. “Luckily I got another one.”
Shane placed his hand on the device. My fingers trembled slightly.
Shane looked at Kyunghoon.
“It looks like this is still running…”
“Huh?”
Since the equipment is powered by mana stones, it was still possible to move it. But this thing works.
-According to my analysis, the portal equipment is driven by some form of quantum entanglement. When one device stops, the other device automatically stops as well.
What Eve said was that the other equipment was also moving.
“So that means you can still use it now?”
-It will be possible as long as the pattern is intact.
Kyunghoon looked around.
Most of the patterns have already been erased. Kyung-hoon erased everything.
“You probably remembered it, right?”
Kyung-hoon asked cautiously.
“…Yes, I remember.”
Eve paused for a moment before finally answering. Kyunghoon sighed.
“Then can we go to a safe place and draw the pattern again?”
-It has not been analyzed to that extent yet. You never know what will happen if you run it in a different location. For now, I think it would be better to restore the emblem here.
In the end, the story was to put it back to its original state.
-If you inspect the equipment and redraw the symbol, you will be able to activate the portal again.
Kyung-hoon nodded at Eve’s words.
Anyway, it was time to leave this place.
Shane, who heard the conversation between the two, opened his mouth.
“Then come back. “I’m going to rest for a while.”
Kyunghoon shook his head at Shane’s words.
“Let’s go together.”
“..I should have already told you.”
Shane’s voice sank a little. But Kyung-hoon was strong.
“You won’t have anything to worry about.”
He held Shane’s arm with one arm and placed his other hand on the portal device.
It was a fairly heavy pile of robots and machines, but it wasn’t difficult for Kyung-hoon, who had risen to S-class.
“Creating a corridor.”
With his words, a silver hole was created in the floor where they stood.
The robot, Kyung-hoon, and the portal equipment were sucked into the hole.
After they disappeared, the silver hole turned into smoke and disappeared into the sky.
Cry.
The monster watched the silver powder disappear for a moment and then turned around again.
It was an unusual sight, but now was not the time to observe such things.
The monster shook its helmet and looked at the corpses filling the front.
A huge sea monster corpse was lying long on the white sand beach. It was a sea monster that had just died.
There was no smell of human gunpowder on the corpse, but the wounds were not from a fight between sea monsters.
And where the Stone of Life should be, there was only a small hole.
He, who has lived the longest other than the monarch, has seen that hole. It was a hole made by humans to extract mana stones.
One after another, the clans came up to the beach. And livestock also came out of the sea.
The clan members got up and put on the armor that the livestock had brought with them.
Knights in armor lined up in front of the corpses that filled the shore.
And they knelt before the corpse. The toads lined up behind them and fell flat on their faces.
Quaguaguagua.
And a huge pillar rose from the sea.
It was an earth dragon.
The monarch of Cheonggyecheon has finally arrived in Busan.
The appearance of the earth dragon was different from before. One eye disappeared. Where the eyes used to be, only long teeth marks remained.
And his body was covered in huge wounds.
These were all scars from fighting with the ruler of Ulsan.
It was a wound that would take several years to heal after returning to the nest.
But the earth dragon had no nest.
The earth dragon looked down.
Knights and livestock were greeting him, but all he saw was the corpse of a sea monster filling the sand.
The earth dragon began eating the sea monster’s corpse. Now, the monarch’s majesty was no longer visible from the earth dragon.
The earth dragon’s remaining eye was shining yellow.
***
Clap, Clap, Clap.
A loud sound filled the room.
From the sound of welding to the sound of wheels rolling. And the sound of heavy footsteps.
It was all the sound of machines moving.
A small sound of wind could be heard among the sounds.
Whirring.
And then a silver hole appeared in the floor. It wasn’t a dimension door. It was a space door.
Wow.
Kyunghoon and Shane jumped out of the hole.
chin.
The two landed stably on the ground.
Instead of getting angry at Kyung-hoon, Shane looked around.
It was a large empty building.
It was a really big building. Inside the building, there were places where ruined streets had been recreated and there were places where forests had been relocated.
I could see a desert and a river, but now they were all being demolished.
Large industrial robots were moving around and changing their internal structures.
Automated machines were producing items on one side, and cameras and automated machines installed throughout monitored the surroundings.
“Golem?”
Shane recognized the robot. It was a mana stone industrial robot that I saw in the lab.
And there was no human figure anywhere.
“Where am I?”
Kyung-hoon did not answer his question.
Instead, Eve answered through the building’s speakers.
[welcome. my house No, you have come to the master’s strategic base.]
The machines that were moving along with Eve’s words stopped in place.
All automatic weapons raised their guns to the sky, and the golems stopped and looked at the two people.
Kyunghoon shook his head with a dumbfounded expression. No matter how you look at it, Eve’s comment in the middle was not a mistake.
The Adventure Building in Jamsil, which had been an ‘Awakened Training Center’ until recently, was now Eve’s laboratory and home.
Kyung-hoon walked ahead carrying a bundle of machinery.
“Let’s go. It’s time for Shane to get cleaned up too.”
