EP.250 If the capital of the citizens of the enemy army who became friendly
is Amittengrad, the capital of the soldiers of the military nation is the Inner Circle Command.
Created in the capital of the Old Kingdom, Amittengrad served as a residential city. From residences to jobs to agricultural lands. It embraced the population with everything an ordinary city should have.
On the other hand, the headquarters had many reasons for disqualification from being called a city. Its population distribution is biased and it constantly devours resources, not distributing them elsewhere. A city prepared only for war.
Thanks to that, the military maintained a large army compared to its size.
All kinds of military facilities for conducting war, such as steel mills, munitions factories, and military academies, are concentrated in the headquarters. Under the supervision of soldiers, laborers continue to work, and weapons and materials created by labor gradually accumulate.
In order to pour out this accumulated power toward other countries when the time comes when it is needed someday.
The Inner Circle Command post was always safe from invasion because it was in the middle of the military.
There, one officer was trembling with fear inside.
The military government did not give a clear answer, but when you become an officer, you hear a lot of stories.
The bottomless pit has been breached, and from there the worst beings ever released are on their way to the command center to hold those who imprisoned them accountable.
His mission is to stop them from entering the headquarters.
That was exactly what was said to him.
That is, I didn’t know anything.
“Are you afraid, so-called?”
A deep voice came from behind him. It was one of the few voices I had ever heard, but it was a voice I could never forget.
The second lieutenant, who had a strong military discipline, quickly turned around and saluted him.
“Loyalty!”
There stood a general in an officer’s uniform with his hands behind his back.
In a military country where strength equals status, generals tend to be of even age. However, as qigong is quite difficult to learn, he, who is a relatively young general, was already looking at his mid-thirties.
He spoke consolingly to the young officer who had just been commissioned.
“There was a lot of strength in my shoulders. release the power A gun that is not fired is the most dangerous, and a knife that is not swung is the sharpest. If you’re already giving it a lot of strength, it will run out when you need to use it.”
“I will correct it!”
“I won’t ask again, Ensign. Are you afraid?”
Only then did the lieutenant recall that he still hadn’t answered the first question. It’s something to do. The lieutenant answered urgently.
“I am only slightly afraid!”
“Hoo. Do the soldiers of the military feel fear?”
“I will correct it!”
“There is no need for that. Because I am also afraid.”
The general tapped the second lieutenant’s shoulder and walked forward with his hands behind his back. While the second lieutenant was taken aback by the unexpected answer, the general muttered as he glared over the darkness.
“You cannot predict victory or defeat before a fight. But I have a rough idea of whether I will live or die. The opponent is strong and the outer defense units are lacking in comparison. No matter how rigorous they were trained, they could not get out of a normal 3rd level unit. No matter who sees it, we are… abandoned.”
The lieutenant looked shocked by the cold truth.
Even if that is true, there is a difference between self-deprecating jokes among peers and assertions by such an authority. The lieutenant repeated in a trembling voice.
“Is it a throwaway word…?”
“okay. You’re guarding this place without knowing it, but if a fight breaks out, you’d better not expect reinforcements to come. Prepare to be imprisoned and fight.”
If you want to know how an abandoned horse feels, you just have to read the mind of a second lieutenant. A word from the general came over him as he lowered his head miserably.
“I promise you this one thing instead. I am your commander and I am in charge of this place. I will meet the same end as you at this guard post. live or die.”
Is there anything easier to move than a heart that has fallen miserably? The lieutenant looked at the general with a thrilled face. He paid a sincere salute after a long time.
Jangseong, who had expected that, cast his gaze outward to avoid showing a satisfied smile.
The general is the commander.
Compared to a cogwheel, he plays an important role as the axis of the cogwheel. Under his command, countless cogs throw themselves and bite the flesh. Axes are treated specially in the military because they have to endure the strength and weight and survive to the end.
Even so, in the end, the first part to encounter the enemy is the second lieutenant who commands the troops in the forefront. Even if the axis of the gearwheel is important, if the gearwheel is broken, it will only go wrong.
Therefore, the general personally appeared at the forefront to boost their morale.
‘Whether it’s an ensign or a general. Aren’t the parts the same anyway? It’s just a difference between a small number and a large number.’
Jangseong muttered self-deprecatingly. However, it was only a calm assessment of his situation, and he did not harbor any particular complaints about it.
When you reach adulthood, you can learn a lot. Even the fact that he was nothing more than a chess player was part of it. Maybe even knowing that is a blessing. Most soldiers only do what they are given without knowing what part they are.
Only those who have climbed high realize how insignificant they are. It must be at the level of growth to become the axis of the sawtooth and be connected to the center so that it can realize its position.
‘Anyway, isn’t it better than the kingdom? Rather than that terrible country that is frantic to fight a duel when it becomes weak, aiming at every moment.’
However, along with the phrase, Jang Seong suddenly thought.
The second lieutenant, who just graduated from the military academy and was commissioned, is young. He lived in the kingdom for a few years after he was born. It is truly a ‘good generation’ who did not remember the appearance of the kingdom.
But to those who don’t remember what the kingdom looks like… what will the kingdom look like?
‘I don’t know. As long as they can’t read minds.’
It was when the muttered general cast his gaze outside.
The searchlight, which was shaking from side to side, caught something. Five beams of light extending from this side illuminate the other side of the darkness. The searchlight must have caught something moving.
The general raised his hand.
“come.”
The soldiers who were waiting were tense and pointed their weapons forward. Cannons and machine guns also turned their muzzles toward the dark side. No one runs away from the fear of the soldiers of the military.
A swallowing sound could be heard from his parched mouth. It was nothing but a sound coming from his body. Jangseung laughed.
‘I’ve risen to the position of a general, but are you still nervous before an opponent of a higher level? heh There’s no difference between a lieutenant and a general.’
The general snorted and inserted the weapon packet into the biological terminal. At that moment, thin alchemy steel wrapped around his entire body. It was a defensive long-skilled armor specially made for him who mainly uses daggers.
The shorter the weapon’s reach, the more armor you need to save one life. He felt the stability of his slightly stuffy armor and raised his dagger sharp like a fang.
The rustling sound gradually got closer. I couldn’t see him yet, perhaps because he was surrounded by darkness. But from the range of the searchlights, they must have come quite close.
‘for a moment. darkness? Be careful because you can’t see through with a searchlight to receive the message…’
When he raised his head as he recalled what he had heard from the communications soldier.
The one that arrived in front of them with a rattling sound was… an automatic carriage that seemed to have rolled around five times somewhere.
The car body was smashed, but compared to the inside, the exterior was relatively intact. The inside was broken and misaligned as if someone had grabbed it with one hand and twisted it.
But the most important fact.
The inside of the wagon was empty.
After completing his investigation, the general raised his hand and shouted.
“It’s camouflage! The enemy has already sneaked in under the cover of night! Report this to the signalman!”
“yes!”
The general sighed inwardly as he watched the second lieutenant quickly run towards the communication golem.
It was a sigh of relief, he realized after a while.
There are times in my life when I feel like wanting to destroy the country. It is said that even Narat-nim curses at the place where there is no king, but since there is no king in the military country, my grievances have no choice but to be directed to the military country itself.
Is it okay not to curse? In life, there are things that are hard to endure without pouring out resentment on someone. That’s how you become an adult.
As a model citizen, I used to soothe my gloomy heart by cursing that the military would perish if things didn’t go well.
Of course it’s a joke. A mediocre individual cannot ruin a country, and what can never be achieved has the element of being a joke. For me, the evil words that the military would perish were words that stayed in the realm of jokes.
But now.
I was with someone who could really destroy an army.
A wagon assembly plant located near the headquarters.
“The combat method of the military is mobile warfare. Commander’s Carriage Command System. In three ways, the speed of executing commands catches up with the speed of issuing commands. The presence of an automatic carriage is essential to that.”
Historia, who walked out of the facility with the burning facility in the background, reached out her hand. A blazing fire ignited a candle in her hand.
With a shadow cast over her face, she calmly explained.
“This assembly facility is not easily recoverable. No matter how many parts there are, if they don’t go through the assembly process, they’re just a lump of metal. Breaking the assembly process itself shuts down the factory. It would take five battalions of sappers to restore it.
Just then, an automatic carriage that was about to be completed caught her eye. She kicked the wagon sideways. Doors engraved with military boots bounced off, and the automatic wagon, which was pushed sideways with a creak, crashed into a wall and shattered into pieces.
“Without this place, there will be problems with the command’s troop management.”
Historia, who had cleared the last one, walked away, clicking her military boots.
Historia, who was in the highest position in the military and knew more about the military than anyone else, committed acts of destruction directly with her power and knowledge, so the weak steel mechanism could not stand it. In the face of Historia’s systematic violence, the soft alchemy steel was broken and crushed. In front of alchemy (physics), nothing could maintain its original form.
Historia walked out the door, leaving the factory behind as a giant torch that lit up the night.
The regressor who assisted in the sabotage by her side replied with a sullen face.
“Does this mean nothing? It’s a real kick-ass level. It means that communication soldiers like automatic wagons will scrape it from far away from other places. What to do with the communications soldier.”
“I can’t do anything about the communications soldier. I don’t even know where the communications soldier works. Probably no one in the military knows except for the person concerned.”
Historia’s attitude was that she didn’t regret the fact that she didn’t know. The regressor asked as if floating.
“I don’t know, but you seem to care about the signalman strangely, don’t you? Don’t you know something?”
“…I don’t know. So you care.”
Historia murmured as she exhaled smoke from her cigarette.
“It certainly exists, but I have never seen it with my eyes. How terrible this is… Most of the people who don’t know that. I’m in no better position to say that I’m a captain.”
Exist but not visible That means you’re hiding somewhere or staying undisclosed.
I don’t know if they talk only through the golem in the windowless room, but Historia guessed something similar anyway.
“Of course, if we attack the communications center like you said, there will be setbacks. If the communication headquarters collapses, the amount of information that can be transmitted will drop dramatically.”
“okay! You have to hit it from there!”
“Even for that, this process is necessary. We can’t go to war losing all our key facilities. The military government will surely dispatch elite troops from the headquarters… Then, you can attack the empty headquarters at that time.”
At first glance, it sounds reasonable. However, the regressor is also a great man who has gone through all the pre-natal battles. She grasped the intention behind Historia’s proposal.
“Are you using an inducement to avoid fighting?”
From turning around and attacking a car assembly plant to intentionally and relentlessly targeting only the equipment. Historia was blatantly avoiding battle.
“joy. You are a great pacifist.”
“There is a kid who wants to stop the war, so he must have been infected there.”
The regressor, who had nothing to say in response, looked away fiercely. Historia did not avoid that gaze.
The two glared at each other for a moment, then each turned his head disapprovingly. the regressor asked.
“Who is that guy?”
“If you mean Huey, he went to collect the slaves.”
“why?”
Historia muttered her head as she spat out the burned-out magic candle.
“He must be trying to cheat again.”
The military has a joke like this. There are only gears in the military factories.
Of course, factories need workers. No matter how sophisticated a cogwheel is, it has no flexibility. It makes sense to use humans in some places to perform missions appropriate to all circumstances.
But why only gears?
That’s because humans work as part of the cogs.
The cogwheels creak and assemble, but as the car stretches through the narrow space that flows along the belt, it enters the gaps in the cogs that could cut off limbs. Human heartbeat is different, but the heartbeat of a factory is constant for everyone. Tick tock tock, in the darkness where all sides mesh with the same beat. The laborer had to lie down or crouch in his assigned seat and insert the parts that were transmitted along the cogs in time.
If you miss it, it’s a penalty. Everyone works at the same tempo, so the slightest mistake by one person can delay the whole. Mistakes must be corrected as the overseer yells and presses and the next worker watches with cold eyes.
Because it is such a harsh job, the military government sends only those who have committed a crime to the inner circle workhouse.
Because the work was so harsh, the inner circle workhouse boasted the best production.
While gathering the survivors, I read the thoughts I felt in the corner and approached. People were hiding in a corner of the facility. I approached with loud footsteps and poked my head over them.
“Hee!”
“now! Come on out! I told you to come out, so why are you keeping your mouth shut!”
At my urging, the laborers came out while crying. It took several years to follow the instructions of the military. They didn’t even have the buds of rebellion.
He drove the crawling people into a corner. About 200 night shift workers were running the factory at night. I started a long speech to the people who were cowering in fear.
“…Well, it seems that everyone hasn’t understood yet.”
slap. He stretched out both hands and pointed to the hangar. There were 200 wagons that had not yet been taken out, waiting for their owners.
“I’m just giving each of you one automatic wagon? Without any conditions! Wow, don’t miss this chance to get your hands on an automatic wagon that requires you to work until you die, then come back to life as vampires and work for another 30 years before you can fully get your hands on it!”
Some of the laborers were enticed, and some doubted my intentions.
But most of them were frightened and closed their ears, waiting for me to leave.
“Leave us alone…”
Most of the Inner Circle’s laborers are criminals.
I don’t want everyone to look at me as a criminal with bad eyes. This is because in a military country ruled by strict rules, a criminal is a general term for anyone who is not a model citizen.
A person who stole something, someone who beat up a neighbor, someone who made money through fraud, someone who accidentally killed someone, someone who was engaged in smuggling, someone who was against the military and tried to join the resistance, but fell into a trap.
Criminals who were once brave enough to defy the law, but now become docile laborers, are passively awaiting sentencing with a lot of cringe.
“So now I’m giving you a chance to throw it all off! There is an automatic wagon in front of you, and all the forces that oppressed and imprisoned you have fled! Now, what is lost is chains, and what is gained is freedom to roam this world! Let’s live a new life with an automatic carriage!”
“…What if I run away and get caught?”
Someone murmurs the worst assumptions. Once someone starts, the murmurs of laborers pour out like a dam bursting.
“I will be pulled further in. They will all die.”
“It might become material and disappear… Oh no. inside.”
“This is absurd. It’s you who attacked… but it’s because of you that we couldn’t fill the quota.”
Now they pour out their resentment towards us. Worries about the future glorify the past.
We were doing well together, but he suddenly came. If it wasn’t for you, tomorrow would have been the same as yesterday.
They were brought here because of their sins. I trembled with fear when I saw those who rebelled and found themselves in an even more terrible situation. He put down his pride and obeyed the military.
The most exemplary successful work created by the Military Education Institute, which guides criminals. A true success story of the Education College Rehabilitation Project.
A living gear created while trampling on dignity.
But don’t leave them here. The Historia and Regressor only destroyed the equipment, but in fact, they are the core parts of this factory. Their presence will speed up the restoration of the factory.
Now, in order to really break it down perfectly.
I started clearing my throat and tried to persuade them.
“You know what?”
