Chapter 374. Difficulties must be broken to make it taste better (2)
‘Someone used this installation I built as a medium…Are you trying to raise the Namaran barrier again?’
Lloyd furrowed his brow involuntarily.
It seemed that things had finally been sorted out.
‘That’s it. The phenomenon of restoration of destiny.’
Got a sense
But it was still too early to conclude.
I continued to make more detailed observations.
‘Hmm. Let’s start by measuring.’
[Scanning begins.]
Tsutsutsutsu!
He activated his surveying skill.
Underground scanning options were also enabled.
The underground structure and situation from the ground up to 5 meters below was clearly visible.
‘Tsk. The back of the pile is broken.’
It was broken at about 4 meters from the ground.
But the shape was very strange.
‘The side of the gimbap looks like it’s burst.’
Like the side of gimbap or sundae that exploded after pushing the contents excessively.
The sides of the piles, which were extremely hard, were bursting from the inside toward the outside.
Lloyd seemed to know why.
‘Someone injected mana into the stake. That too in huge quantities. in a short time. The pile burst because it couldn’t stand the momentary change in pressure.’
One by one, two by one.
Lloyd reconstructed the situation.
Someone injected mana into the stake.
The side of the piling burst due to the pressure of the injection.
The upper part of the torn part was pushed by the pressure and bulged out to the ground.
Because of the shock and vibration, the surrounding anchor was affected and the hydraulic plate was blown off.
As a result, the slope collapsed.
‘Then the rest of the points where the collapse occurred would be similar.’
It probably seemed so.
Took a bit to check.
I carefully observed the piles and anchors around me.
As a result, it was confirmed that the guess was correct.
‘Only the broken stakes are infused with mana.’
Dark mana was felt only from the strong stakes protruding from the ground like pimples that had been damaged and squeezed.
Even the energy of mana was hidden very cleverly.
What if it’s not a person with a dark mind?
It was almost imperceptible.
‘I don’t know who the culprit is, but his skills are amazing.’
Lloyd was infused with mana and grasped all the broken bristles. And I tried to connect those locations with lines.
Then, like a big picture, a shape was taken.
‘The magic circle.’
I’m sure now
This is really someone who did this with a clear intention.
‘I’m trying to rebuild the wall of Namaran. Write. Was there a black magician who survived the subjugation?’
It was around the time I was organizing my thoughts.
I heard the voice of Xaviel, who had been silently standing by my side.
“Is Lloyd-sama like that too?”
“also? what?”
I looked back at Xaviel.
He spoke with his characteristic cold eyes and expression.
“I felt it too. The mana that resides in this broken stake.”
“what. Roughly it seems to be how you feel. that’s right. Those warlocks then.”
“Was there a remnant?”
“That’s something we’ll find out from now on.”
“I see. Anyway, I’m glad I did.”
“Are you happy?”
“It’s because it turns out that the collapse of the slope that came in urgently was not due to Lloyd-sama’s poor construction.”
“Tsk. dare. Do you think this body will do something bad?”
“You don’t know what people do.”
Guy Xaviel shrugged.
The foodie’s smile narrowed slightly.
“It’s because Lloyd-sama is so twisted. I deliberately made it to stumble after about 10 years, and then it needs repair work again.
“Tsk. My pride won’t allow that?”
“Is that so.”
“of course.”
Lloyd let out a snort.
It was a really natural story.
It’s civil engineering, nothing else.
It is to construct facilities that many people will use and enjoy.
But it’s a deliberately poor construction.
that was never meant to be.
Even if the owner of the project ordered the project was hated, that was the case.
“Because I didn’t study for poor construction or something like that.”
“Did you study?”
“I told you before. It is knowledge learned in a dream.”
“I remember that.”
“Good. I’m glad. Come to think of it, I remember it too.”
“What do you mean you remember?”
“Lady Ella.”
“….”
Xaviel’s tired expression hardened.
Instead, a mischievous smile crept across Lloyd’s lips.
“Actually, you completely forgot about it? A lot of things happened during that time. I forgot to live there because I was hit by it, but it’s been a while since I came here, so it’s like a memory.”
“….”
“Do you remember people’s reactions back then? Hundreds of men gather at the restaurant where you served soup every morning.”
“….”
“Your eyes are twinkling huh? Lady Ella, the rising ice beauty of Namaran Oh oh oh! Just like this.”
“…It is a useless memory.”
“So you do remember?”
“no. This is the first word of the golden hour. What are you talking about a little while ago?”
“Then are you upset?”
“….”
“Oh, I just clenched my fist.”
“Whoa.”
Xaviel let out a deep sigh and smiled.
Lloyd said with a smile.
“Anyway, do you remember those days? It seems that the events of that time are being recreated.”
“If so, did the restoration phenomenon of fate change its form again?”
“uh. I guess I should say that a new version, or a curtain rises.”
“Maybe then….”
“The wall of Namaran will be erected. If you leave your hands like this.”
It is certainly.
A shattered stake that is infused with mana.
It was a question that could be answered quickly by locating them.
I don’t know who it is, but they’re trying to use the force stakes as a medium for a magic circle.
Like the black jewel Noctanium he dug here before.
“Then, Lloyd-sama, what do you plan to do from now on?”
“well.”
Lloyd shrugged.
“If the method that immediately comes to mind is to completely destroy the damaged stakes and pull them out of the ground. And scatter the mana in the pile. That would put a deep and painful tackle on the perpetrator’s plan to rebuild the walls of Namaran.”
“If you do, let Namaran know about this….”
“No, not now.”
“yes?”
Xaviel’s eyebrows twitch.
Lloyd’s lips twitched.
“I don’t think it would be a good idea to startle the snake by hastily touching the grass.”
Lloyd suddenly remembered the ancient idiom, Tachogyeongsa (打草驚蛇).
Making a hasty move and messing things up.
I had a gut feeling that now is the time to be wary of that.
“lets think. Let’s say you completely pull out the force stake and dismantle the mana dwelling there. Will that completely solve the problem?”
“Um, too. I don’t think so.”
“yes?”
“yes. The person who orchestrated this is going to do something again.”
“Perhaps.”
Lloyd nodded.
It really will.
“What if he sees us pull out the stakes and dismantle the mana stored there? You’ll find out that your plans went awry. But can he pull out the stake without his knowledge? that’s absolutely impossible You have to mobilize all of them, from the buds to the bells and the bone guards, and work all day to pull them out one by one a day.”
“It seems so to me. It would take a lot of time, and exposure would be unavoidable.”
“that’s right. What if he found out that his plan was ruined like that?”
“If it were me…I think I’m going to make a new, more secret plan.”
“I guess so. That will make it harder to catch or deal with.”
That was Lloyd’s idea.
To catch it, you have to catch it in one shot.
What if you acted like you were being dragged along?
With no porridge or rice, they dragged themselves around even more.
You can’t be dragged around so much that your whole body is torn apart.
“Then you must have a plan in mind.”
“of course.”
Lloyd shrugged.
He smiled mischievously at Xaviel.
“But I won’t tell you now.”
“….”
“Again again. So I open my eyes and stare at you. huh?”
“….”
“Tsk. I’ll let you know when it’s time, so don’t be angry.”
“I didn’t pout.”
“okay?”
“Yes, because I am a broad-minded person unlike Lloyd-sama.”
“Hey, how am I?”
“Are you asking because you know, or do you really not know?”
“Of course you know. There is no one as warm-hearted and warm-hearted as me.”
“Poop.”
“….”
“All right. Then Lloyd-sama must be the owner of a wonderful heart like me.”
“Write. It feels like falling down and receiving me.”
“You should know.”
“….”
“Then, are you going to visit Count Namara?”
“For now, it should be. let’s go.”
Lloyd turned away with a wry smile.
Xaviel followed him and thought quietly.
‘liar.’
His icy blue eyes turned to Lloyd’s back.
He could feel it intuitively.
‘He’s someone you can trust. because it’s been that way It seems like he acts meanly every time, but if you look at the reality, he always made every effort for his lord and family. but…There are still many things to hide.’
It reminded me of the conversations I had with Lloyd a little while ago.
The phenomenon of restoration of fate.
The wall of Namaran that seems to be rebuilt.
Develop measures to fundamentally prevent it.
all could be trusted.
But I just couldn’t believe what I had said before.
‘You learned construction knowledge from a dream? gibberish.’
Xaviel unknowingly put on a wry smile.
It seemed clear now.
The fact that you learned construction knowledge in your dreams is a blatant lie.
‘I must have learned it in Seoul.’
It reminded me of the city in another dimension I had visited with Lloyd before.
A place where everything was mysterious like a different world.
A fire that never went out at night.
Many of the buildings I saw there.
‘The road was straighter than ever. Even though it was so big and wide, it was as smooth as a plate. In addition, there were hundreds of people living in the sky-high building. It was like an apartment built on a manor. No, it was much bigger than that.’
And that wasn’t all.
How was the basement?
All the way through the city, I could hear the sounds of the underground with superhuman senses.
The sound of water flowing through the straight passageway.
It was said that it was intuition through the sound.
He said that under the road he was walking on, there was a sewage system that was elaborately tangled like a spider’s web.
Besides, underneath….
‘There’s a much bigger aisle, and I heard the sound of a train speeding through it. Quite often, too.’
A tunnel on a scale never imagined before.
A train running through it.
countless people.
The benefits of the structures that everyone was using naturally.
So, Lloyd studied construction there.
‘But how did he come here to replace the real Lloyd?’
That question has not yet been resolved.
But there was a corner that I guessed.
‘Maybe the phenomenon of restoration of destiny is related to the secret of that fake Lloyd.’
Maybe.
Perhaps.
I have a feeling it will.
A feeling close to certainty, not an ambiguous guess.
“….”
Then what should I do?
What should I do to help that fake Lloyd?
With his own worries in mind, Xaviel followed Lloyd.
Meanwhile.
The two arrived at Count Namaran’s mansion.
After a long time, I met Namara, the countess’s daughter.
No, now I met Count Namaran of Siluria, the ruler of Namaran, who officially inherited the family.
Lloyd said good-bye to her after a long time.
He also listened in detail to the recent magic explosion and slope collapse.
But all the while, Lloyd listened to Count Namaran.
I didn’t tell you what I observed on the way.
as if it had just arrived.
Acted like I hadn’t investigated anything yet.
Then, calmly, she undressed at the VIP accommodation.
Seeing that, Xaviel expressed his doubts.
“Are you suspicious of Count Namara?”
“no. at all.”
Lloyd shook his head.
Doubting Nama’s daughter, or the count?
Absolutely not.
He knew she could never be the shadow of this affair.
‘Because she died at the end of the Namaran barrier incident in the original Iron Blooded Knight. In other words, in the original story, she was the victim of the incident. So if the case continues this time, it will meet a similar ending.’
Besides, he already had a separate method in mind to investigate the culprit behind this incident.
“First of all, a lot of things happened today, so let’s take a break. Aren’t you tired?”
“I am of course….”
“You’re going to be busy tomorrow, so let’s stop working?”
“….”
Xaviel looked at Lloyd, hiding his expression.
It’s like this again.
I’m trying hard to make this one work.
For what?
‘Perhaps he’s trying to disappear leaving only traces like that time.’
Xaviel pondered for a moment.
And I decided to pretend I didn’t know.
“All right. Then sing me a lullaby.”
“I’m ready, so open your cochlea. A lullaby goes in.”
Lloyd diligently tried reading his major book.
A distinctive languid and insipid voice like a professor working on income.
A feast of complex knowledge and terminology harmonized with collaboration.
In the midst of that, Xaviel’s eyes slowly closed.
I finally fell into a deep sleep.
‘done.’
After confirming that Xaviel was asleep, Lloyd quietly got up.
I went into a simple dressing room for change in the corner of the dorm.
There, the ending spoiler was activated.
A blue circular gate appeared.
went into it
After treating the king’s sister’s left arm.
I saw a newly created new ending.
came out again
I involuntarily let out a deep breath.
A satisfied smile appeared on his lips.
“…Whoa, that’s how it happened.”
The new ending you just peeked into.
A way to prevent the catastrophe came to mind.
No, I thought of a bigger picture that went beyond that.
So it was.
Lloyd immediately left the house.
I went to see Count Namaran.
Recalling the big picture I just came up with in my heart.
I told the count the surest way to do it.
“From now on, what I am about to say may sound a little harsh, but I have to get everyone here in Namaran out of the city. Not even one person is left out.”
