Episode 100 [Fear of war, preparation for war – 5]
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There was something I had to take care of before going down to the engine room.
“…89 people on the deck have been removed.”
The shipboard seemed to have been somewhat cleaned up.
But container ships are incredibly huge. There was a high possibility that someone was hiding somewhere on the ship and sending a distress signal to the mainland.
So I had something prepared.
“Park Jun-mo, come this way.”
“Yes!”
Lee Hyun-wook called Park Jun-mo for a clean suppression.
And the ‘Rain God’s Mace’ appeared behind him.
“Fire right now.”
Pa-ji-ji-ji-ji-—!
Thunder God’s mace was fired towards the deck where there was no target in sight. That bundle of blue electric current seemed to be dispersing into the air… “Yaaaa—!”
Park Jun-mo stretched out both hands to control them, and when he lowered both arms, a large bundle of electric current seeped under the ship.
Pa—ji—ji—ji—ji——!
In this way, Park Jun-mo controlled the current and crushed the inside of the ship. . With that, he would exterminate the hidden insects like an insecticide.
Looking at the scene, Feng Tien clicked his tongue.
“Ugh— such rotten bastards…”
“If you don’t shut up, I’ll feed you iron beads too.”
“…What? What the fuck are you feeding me now?”
Then Xiaojun, who had experienced it once, stopped him and said,
“Brother Tongue! “It would be better if you just keep your mouth shut.”
“Xiaojun! “Why did you give in so easily?”
“…I never gave in easily.”
Lee Hyun-wook sighed and raised his left hands.
Then Xiaojun started to get upset.
“Kwaaaa—! Why are you talking to me… hehehe—”
“If you don’t shut that bastard up, you’re going to get sick.”
Then Xiaojun looked at Feng Tiyan with bloodshot eyes.
“Brother! Please don’t say anything!”
“what? “Are you going to serve this bastard, Panz?”
“Off… Just shut up, you idiot!”
“Xia Xiaojun, how could you—a million!”
Sigh!
In the end, Xiaojun headbutted Feng Tien’s lips.
“Ha—isn’t the bandits’ friendship worth seeing?”
Meanwhile, we collected all the items they had.
‘Okay, item farming is pretty good, isn’t it?’
In particular, the items of Feng Tian, the water elementalist, were unusual.
[Item Information]
– Name: Sage’s Peach Blossom Bracelet (Hero)
– Effect: Increase in total mana (+1000) Increase in ability to control the natural world (+10%) Increase in spirit affinity (+10%) Increase in spirit growth speed (+5%)
This was clearly an item suitable for an ‘elementalist’.
‘Okay, I can upgrade Kim Se-hee.’
But the real reward was different.
Hyunwook Lee went down to the ‘engine section’ of this ship.
Hung—— Hung——
From the entrance of the place, a very strong wave of magical power was felt.
And something was discovered in the center of the engine equipment.
‘It’s Mokwang Paljun.’
Unfortunately, it wasn’t metal, but a fist-sized glass bead.
And inside it were eight other small beads, and inside them were very small words, like ‘amber fossils’.
At first glance, it seemed quite mysterious.
Wing— Wing—
Now only one of the eight horses was moving as if running.
‘Still at stage 1?’
– Obtained ‘Mokwang Paljun (Legendary)’!
[Item Information]
– Name: Muwangbajun (Legendary)
– Effect
1) Jeolji (絶地): Demonstrates powerful magical ‘output’ and when connected to a means of transportation, movement speed increases significantly. (+50%)
[Levels 2 to 8 below are the unawakened state.]
At the moment, it is just a mana engine with good performance, but when all 8 horses in that bead move, magical power is unleashed.
‘What should I make with this so that people can say that I made it well?’
Lee Hyun-wook took it and went outside.
On the deck, Emilia Müller was sitting on the ship’s railing. Peter Clark, the leader of the ‘Wight Tree Guard’, was standing behind her, and when Lee Hyun-wook approached, he gave a quick greeting and then moved aside.
“Wow, really… you’ve started a proper counterattack?”
She said with renewed surprise,
“Are you sure you didn’t believe me when I told you to create this team?”
“No, I had to believe it to believe it… but honestly, it’s a quick fix, right?” It hasn’t been that long since Lee Hyun-wook suggested creating a ‘team’ to fight against villains. But
he had
already stepped on the villains’ tail. “As expected, you are a really great person. I saw it well.”
She took out the hip flask and took a sip. It was, of course, whiskey.
“But it’s still a long way to reveal it to the world, right?”
Letting the world know about the existence of absolute evil called villains
was something that had to be done at some point.
‘But not now.’
However, it was a foolish illusion that the world would believe in the existence of a villain. As always, the world is cynical.
No matter how famous you are, suddenly shouting to the world that villains called ‘villains’ are conquering the world… ‘…some
people will support it, but most will laugh it off.’
Therefore, we had to provide more evidence and create more allies.
‘It creates a ripple effect that the world can never ignore.’
Lee Hyun-wook sensed that that moment was not far away.
“Emilia, I have used the World Tree items you have supported so far well. By the way… I have a lot to ask of you this time too.”
Then her eyes widened.
It wasn’t embarrassment or burden, but deep interest.
“…yes? “What are you planning without taking a break?”
Hyunwook Lee nodded.
“And this time it’s going to be a little bigger.”
Another big event was approaching.
***
News that could shake the world continued.
The Hongdo Guild and the Korean government met to discuss Laputa’s administrator authority, and a battle broke out there. That was shocking enough, but That was just the beginning. Immediately
afterwards, the entire Hongdo Guild headquarters building in Nanjing exploded. The cause was unknown, but the Hongdo Guild virtually disappeared.
And the next day, the South Korean government announced that the Hongdo Guild had colluded with the Black Oak Kingdom to destroy Laputa. They issued a statement saying they had attempted conquest.
As evidence, the completely shattered body of a Black Orc was revealed.
It was natural for the world to be shocked by this series of crazy events.
“Are you colluding with a crazy monster? A crazy person would do this.” “Is this something you did?”
“Wow, you really are such a piece of trash…”
The world couldn’t help but point fingers at the Hongdo Guild’s atrocities.
However, somewhat strangely, the Chinese government directly issued a rebuttal statement while the Hongdo Guild, which was in fact the entity responsible for protesting, had disappeared.
– The Chinese government’s unusual proxy statement: Korea fabricated the incident!
– Chinese “Hongmok Great Wall is solid.” Claims there is no collusion with monsters
– Diplomatic conflict intensifies due to Hongdo Guild incident… Even concerns about war?
But few believed it.
China, which has been a ‘public enemy’ internationally for a long time, has once again become the target of criticism due to this incident.
In this way, international politics began to turn ugly…
Lee Hyun-wook did his job even in the midst of such chaos.
‘…there’s so much to do.’
First, I took over the [Shield of Achilles] as promised by the Gugwang Group, and at that time, Gu Hyo-min personally came to see Hyun-wook Lee.
“I want to say hello to the savior of my life.”
Lee Hyun-wook talked with her for quite a long time about various things.
‘This woman will become a master of alchemy in the future.’
That’s why I tried to win her favor….
“And I heard that you run a guild. If there’s anything I can help with, please let me know. I’ll support you without holding back on anything.”
Lee Hyeon-wook did not miss the opportunity she gave him.
“Ah, I have one favor to ask you.”
“Ah! What is it?”
“Only Dr. Gu can listen.”
“Really? That’s great!”
She blushed at the thought that she could be of help. However, after hearing what he said next, she couldn’t help but make a shocked expression. “Well…
I’m planning to create an alchemy laboratory.”
Due to the last incident, Gukwang Group’s Gangdong-gu alchemy research complex was temporarily closed. The world’s highest level alchemy facility had stopped. As a result, the employees who worked there suddenly became unemployed.
Lee Hyun-wook planned to take advantage of that opportunity.
‘Soon the alchemy industry will become the duck that lays the golden eggs.’
If magic engineering was similar to mechanical engineering, alchemy was biotechnology. Both of these were technologies that would lead the world in the future.
And the item that Lee Hyun-wook stole, the God’s Drink Nectar… Alchemy was needed to process it so that humans could drink it.
“We are not trying to take away the pie from the Gukwang Group, but this is a research center whose purpose is simply to research items. “But I don’t know anything.”
Gu Hyo-min could not refuse his benefactor’s request.
“…great. “I will support you.”
In this way, we laid the foundation for expanding our business into pensions.
Three days later, I received a call from Jinhwa Go of Redhall Village.
– This boss is finally starting to mine adamant!
‘Okay now it’s time to arm yourself with adamant?’
And the next day, 1 kg of adamant arrived at the Hope Guild. Because adamant is so hard, the daily mining amount was less than 1kg.
To distribute the adamant, Gangjeongdu Workshop and the Gray Dwarves met, but at first, they were wary of each other as their areas overlapped.
“Hmm, some humans are doing this… They’re clumsy!”
“Tsk, dwarves aren’t very delicate! If you do this, it will break down quickly!”
Still, an atmosphere of mutual recognition and cooperation began to be created, and the reason for this was, funny enough… Kang Jeong-doo bought canned beer at a convenience store and distributed it to the dwarves.
“Kuh! Human beer is quite good too?”
“Oh, even dwarves know how to drink?”
Kang Hui-seol often got into a big fight with the dwarves…
“Ugh… the dwarves talk too much!”
“You human girl, you are so loud!”
There was no need to worry as she would later be called ‘Snow White’ as she demonstrated the best synergy with the dwarven craftsmen.
Meanwhile, Lee Hyun-wook continued to focus solely on ‘absorption’ – even
metal absorption (unknown) There’s nothing left.
…It’s already been 11 days since I swallowed this.
“Whew… I guess it’s tomorrow…”
It would be nice if the absorption was over before that incident happened… As expected, the [Magnetic Crust Piece] is a huge item, so there is no news. It was.
Just like that, the last day passed.
And finally… the event I had been waiting for happened.
– …Breaking news! It is news that a huge dome has appeared in the southeastern part of Okinawa Prefecture, Japan. The size of the dome is estimated to be as large as 10km, so the 5th wave is suspected.
Hyunwook Lee sat in the Hope Guild office and watched the news.
‘No, it’s not the 5th wave.’
– …Japan’s Sakura News reported that the identity of the dome was revealed to be the largest ‘unlucky event’ of all time, and that the entry level limit was a whopping 65. Accordingly, the Japanese government decided to deploy as many as three S-rank players to this unlock event strategy…
“Wow… Three S-rank players are being deployed…”
Park Cheol-soo, who was watching the news together, muttered as if he was surprised.
As far as is currently known, there are only 31 S-rank players in the world.
In other words, a whopping 10% are being deployed.
However , ….
‘…that attack operation will fail.’
One S-rank player even dies during the attack.
‘I… know why they failed.’
That wasn’t all.
‘I also know why the next strategy will fail.’
Therefore, he planned to step forward at the moment when the first operation failed and the Japanese government requested support from governments around the world. For that time, he
prepared for the past few days.
‘Of course, it won’t be easy for me, but…’
Jumping into Hell was too dangerous.
But that didn’t mean I could avoid it.
The reward from there was so enormous.
‘Incredibly… Thor’s [Mjolnir] appears.’
But……
– Metal absorption was completed. (Magnetar Crust Piece)
* Controllable metal weight increased: 89kg
The fraudulent item was finally ‘absorbed’.
‘…The timing was right. ‘Is it good?’
Then, all kinds of system messages started to appear and filled the front of his eyes. It was a lot for eating just one item.
Looking at them, Lee Hyun-wook was once again surprised.
“…This will make things easier, right?”
It seemed like it was time to cause upheaval in this world.
