Episode 280 [Land of Destruction (3)]
The area around the sleek white pyramid was not desolate.
Buildings were lined up around the pyramid.
From low one-story buildings to tall buildings with five or more stories.
Buildings made of lime, stone, and bronze created a strange landscape beneath the silver pyramid.
There were no people living, but the street was not dead.
thud. thud.
A giant made of bronze and stone was moving between the buildings.
It was not a stone monster made of clumped stones.
A well-made golem with an elaborate design and many patterns drawn on its surface. No, it was a robot.
Golems were roaming the streets, carrying supplies and repairing buildings and pyramids.
Despite its large size, very delicate work was possible.
The golems repaired the door and applied lime to the fallen wall. Marble was brought from far away to reinforce the pyramid.
“But why are they destroying an intact building over there?”
Coogung.
A building collapsed. Other golems rushed in and destroyed it.
“Are we repeating ourselves because no one is giving orders? Or is it broken?”
Contrary to expectations, the moving golems were not monsters.
It was a robot powered by mana stones.
It didn’t look real because it was made of stone and bronze, but it was no different from robots powered by mana stones that we had seen before.
However, Kyung-hoon hid on the roof of the building and did not appear.
That robot wasn’t a monster, but all the robots were connected to the pyramid by a single strand of mana.
“No matter how you look at it, it’s radio control. “No, I should say mana control…”
Kyung-hoon continued talking to himself and ended up laughing bitterly.
As expected, I felt a little foolish since there was no one to answer.
All the buildings around the pyramid were empty. No, there were no people living there once. These were buildings that had never existed before.
There were no traces of human habitation, or any objects or markings left by humans.
Even if people had lived, it was clear that robots would have destroyed them and rebuilt them over time.
“I guess I’ll have to go into the pyramid to check it out, too.”
Poof.
Kyung-hoon leapt from the rooftop he was hiding in.
A black shadow passed over the robots passing through the streets.
Kyung-hoon unfolded his cloak. The robots did not notice the shadow passing above their heads.
The stealth cloak and Kyung-hoon’s mana were the power. Combined, it reduced his presence.
*
It was not difficult to enter the pyramid. There were no guards, so all you had to do was go through the open door. The
inside of the pyramid was not the gloomy stone chamber seen in the movies.
There was a bright orb hanging on the wall, emitting light. There were pictures and letters written on them.
“I don’t think they are hieroglyphs…”
Although they resembled hieroglyphs, they were much more symbolic than the hieroglyphs he knew.
And those letters were very similar to the patterns that Kyung-hoon knew.
And on the wall . The picture engraved on the wall left Gyeonghoon dumbfounded.
The first mural he saw was a picture of the process of building a pyramid. It was a
simple but easy-to-recognize picture, but it was not a person who carried the load and built the pyramid, but a golem.
People were in the air . They were having a discussion with a video displayed, and they were controlling the golems by climbing on top of the pattern.
Gyeong-hoon went inside and continued to look at the mural.
After the mural about the creation of the pyramid, the life of an emperor unfolded in reverse this time.
The golden snake crown. From the death scene of the bitter emperor to the birth scene.
The murals depict the accomplishments of various emperors who grew crops, harvested, cultivated culture, and developed cities. It was
probably like the life of the emperor buried in this pyramid.
“But it’s like something out of a fantasy movie .” “It looks like a mural…”
The scenes painted on the mural looked as if they were depicting a country where magic had developed.
Golems with patterns drawn on them created cities, and people drew manajines to fly in the sky and wage war with weapons with patterns on them.
It was like a mural in a fantasy world, and it also felt like a world that would appear if Awakening and mana engineering continued to develop instead of science.
As Kyung-hoon was walking and looking at the murals, an unfamiliar voice came to his ears.
[ !^@@#%[email protected]#%@!^&[email protected]] The
voice was unintelligible.
But at the same time, a sharp image stuck in Kyung-hoon’s mind.
[stoppage. retirement. Warning.]
It was a red-tinted image.
It was a similar image to the images sent by monarch-level monsters, but it had a slightly different feel.
It was a much neater image.
Anyway, they told me not to come in. It was clear that the audio contained the same content.
“Is this a warning broadcast from an ancient civilization?…”
If what was written on the mural was true, this pyramid civilization seemed to have blossomed into a tremendous civilization, unlike the Egyptian civilization he knew.
It was also a civilization made of mana.
I couldn’t back down just because I heard the warning.
Kyung-hoon continued to move forward.
And he stepped on a slightly different stone.
Rattling.
The stone was pressed
and rattled.
The floor sank in.
Beneath the darkened floor, a window filled with soft light rose.
The attack didn’t end there.
Papa pa pa paak!
Small arrowheads rained down from the ceiling.
Even inside the trap, the front and back passages were covered with arrowheads.
“If it’s really classic, it’s a classic trap…”
Gyeonghoon noticed Mana moving and had already retreated far away.
The arrowheads were all deeply embedded in the stone, so much so that only the tails could be seen.
Gyeonghoon took one of the arrowheads out of the stone and used it as his own . I stabbed his arm.
Crackling.
Sparks flew out when the arrowhead touched the shield.
“Is this also a mana weapon item?”
Gyeonghoon walked to the trap in the center. The mana that had been flowing through the wall had already stopped. There were no more attacks. The
spear stuck upside down in the deep hole was also flowing with mana.
There was a small mana stone embedded in the spear, and a pattern was engraved on the blade. .
Gyeong-hoon stepped down the wall and pulled out a spear.
The researchers at the company Gyeong-hoon invested in liked these items. It was clear that they would be very happy if he brought them to him.
Gyeong-hoon put the arrowhead and the spear into the subspace and took out Mirinae.
“I received a welcome greeting, so I should return the favor, right?”
To be honest, Kyung-hoon was trespassing on someone else’s tomb, but since he was attacked first, he didn’t even think about it. As always, he just
repaid more than what he suffered.
Boom!
Kyung-hoon ran forward.
[[email protected]# [email protected]#[email protected]#[email protected]]
I kept hearing unintelligible voices and red images flashed through my mind, but Gyeong-hoon ignored them all.
Then
, the trap exploded and a pattern appeared, chasing Gyeong-hoon. Attacked. The golems blocked the way.
Boom!
And everything blocking the way was shattered.
The trap collapsed, the wall with the pattern on it cracked, and the golems were cut off.
That’s right.
When the traps were shattered, the wall moved and created a maze. It was useless to Gyeong-Hoon, who could see mana.
He went through the maze following the path where the mana flowed.
As time passed, the images disappeared and no voices were heard. After
a while, he arrived at his destination.
The king’s tomb.
Inside was a throne and a sarcophagus. This was a large stone chamber.
There was a large pattern drawn in the center of the chamber, and there was a woman standing in the center. A woman
wearing clothes that looked like a priest. She stood quietly looking into space.
And the wall behind her was visible.
“Could it be a hologram?”
I couldn’t feel her presence. She wasn’t real. It
was just mana spinning in the same shape as the shape. The
red woman was shining in the center of the pattern in a translucent form. A three-dimensional
image that even modern science couldn’t properly create. It was floating in the center of this manajine.
As Kyung-hoon entered the tomb, the woman opened her eyes.
She opened her mouth.
[!#[email protected]#!#]
A voice was heard in the air. A voice similar to the voice I had heard before. At the same time ,
an image flowed in.
[Welcome visitor coordinator. Purpose of visit?] He
welcomed the visitor and said that he was the coordinator who manages this pyramid.
“And you are asking why you came.”
Kyung-hoon scratched his head.
“Can you understand me if I say it?”
Thanks to the image, I was able to roughly understand what it meant, but I couldn’t understand the voice at all. Since I
didn’t have Eve to translate, I couldn’t have a conversation.
“But I wonder if Eve could…”
It had a slight Arabic feel, but it was a completely different language. There was no way Eve could understand a language she didn’t know.
Additionally, there was no guarantee that the hologram would be intact.
Kyung-hoon recalled the scene he saw outside.
Golems that repair and destroy buildings. And while he said he was preventing intruders, he was now welcoming himself.
No matter how you looked at it, it was not a normal hologram.
“What should I do…”
Kyung Hoon raised his head with a perplexed expression.
And then he saw the murals that filled the ceiling of the tomb.
“Oh my…”
The history of this kingdom was spread out on the ceiling of the tomb.
Kyung-hoon looked up at the mural in fascination.
Sssssss.
As he looked up at the mural, water leaked from the wall behind him.
Water leaked not only from the walls but also from cracks in the stone floor.
And the water rose little by little. Like jelly or pudding.
The liquid grew larger than Kyung-hoon’s height and expanded his body without a sound.
Wide enough to swallow Kyung-hoon in one go.
The moment when the widely spread liquid is about to swell.
Kyung-hoon, who was looking at the ceiling, opened his mouth.
“There’s no way she’s okay.”
He lowered his head and looked at the woman standing in the center of the pattern.
She, who used to glow red, had turned blue.
Kyunghoon looked back.
“is not it? Liquid Monster?”
There was no way Kyung-hoon, who could feel mana, would not notice.
Fuaaaaaa!
The water rushed towards Gyeonghoon, but Gyeonghoon’s sword was faster.
The water split. As if a waterfall had been torn apart, the overflowing liquid split into dozens of pieces.
The liquid scattered in all directions and disappeared again through a crack in the wall.
And water appeared and disappeared from various parts of the wall.
“You’re saying there’s no use cutting yourself, right? “I know very well.”
I’ve already dealt with it before.
Even then, we could barely deal with it by destroying the core.
But now I couldn’t break it carelessly. It was the most liquid monster I had ever encountered.
“It’s better to be whole than to destroy, right?”
He grinned at the woman standing in the center of the pattern.
But she turned blue and did not respond to his words.
Kyung-hoon also had no intention of listening to the answer.
Instead, he ran towards her.
Fuaaaaaa!
At the same time, liquid spurted out from around the pattern.
However, the liquid that spurted out shattered when Kyung-hoon swung his sword.
Kyung-hoon broke through the scattering liquid and arrived in front of the woman.
A hologram staring blankly into space.
Kyung-hoon looked at her face and slashed his sword.
Center of the pattern. To the exact place where the mana stone is embedded.
Good!
The sword hit the ground and the liquid screamed.
And with liquid splashing everywhere.
Tuk!
The mana stone bounced into the air as it was pushed by the blade.
A liquid monster soared along the mana stone.
But Kyung-hoon was faster.
Kyung-hoon grabbed the mana stone and threw it into subspace.
Wow!
A scream filled the entire stone room.
The liquid surged, spread, and swirled.
And it scattered on the floor.
Hahahahaha.
The liquid, like ordinary water, pooled on the stone chamber.
“I guess I’m dead because I don’t have any mana.”
As expected, the liquid monster could not survive any longer because the mana stone was separated.
Kyung-hoon stroked the ring with a satisfied face.
I had no idea that I would be able to get supplies so quickly to give to a company developing AI.
We were now one step closer to creating a portal.
“No, wait a minute…”
Kyung-hoon, who was stroking the ring, looked ahead and made an embarrassed expression.
“Do you think it would be better to show this to me?”
A large pattern drawn on the floor and a hologram standing in the center of the pattern.
No matter how you looked at it, it looked like artificial intelligence.
