Episode 194 [Preparation for the apocalypse, all-out war – 2]
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The emergency meeting ended about two hours later.
The players gathered here decided to cooperate bipartisanly to conquer [World Quest].
Of course, he seemed to agree here, but if he turned around, there would be many people who would say something else like ghosts.
Still, for Lee Hyun-wook, it was a success simply because the number of influential players supporting him increased significantly.
‘Now you won’t have to worry about voting to elect a warrior.’
There were only 26 hours left until the warrior election vote, and the results were scheduled to be announced just one day later.
“I… I’d like to talk for a moment…”
“I wish I could be there too.”
As such, there were quite a few players who requested to meet with Lee Hyun-wook.
They expressed their support for Lee Hyun-wook and asked to talk about the ‘investment’ he mentioned earlier.
“I could be of great help in matters related to securing military supplies. “It’s the same.”
“That goes for me too! There are quite a few material items that I have collected so far, but more details will come later…”
They were acknowledging Lee Hyun-wook’s power and strongly expressing their will to support him. Of course, Lee Hyun-wook had no reason to refuse. However
, Lee Hyun-wook politely declined to discuss the matter remotely, then returned to Fridwen and used ’emergency return’ to move to Laputa. The reason for this haste is… ‘… he may still be targeting
me
. ‘
As he was the enemy’s number one target, it was not good to stay in one place for a long time with his location exposed like this,
and he also instructed Emilia Müller and Donald Harris, who would be his number two targets, not to come out of Yggdrasil until he called them. .
‘Now is the time to preserve everything and pour out all our strength for the final battle.’
Weapons must be made from all the resources in the world.
And everyone must be used as troops.
We must prepare for so-called ‘all-out war.’
‘We must mobilize all our forces and stock up on supplies to a level that, looking back later, we may think was excessive. ‘You have to take pictures.’
Immediately after his emergency return to Laputa, he stood at the lamp door thousands of meters in the air and looked down at the ground.
Then, the so-called [Taebaek Arsenal], the greatest magical engineering arsenal in history built by the Republic of Korea with enormous resources, came into view at a glance.
“Wow .一 You’ve improved tremendously in the time I’ve been away from you.”
“So, it feels like I’ve been somewhere for decades…”
Park Jun-mo and Kim Se-hee exclaimed one after another from behind.
Dozens of huge factories built on the mountainside… Numerous helicopters and trucks lined up to enter the place. There were hundreds of people inspecting and searching the enormous supplies.
‘And after bringing Laputa here and blessing it, production increased several times.’
The scene of so many production facilities busy producing weapons with extreme efficiency was truly admirable. It made me wonder if this was
the situation when the United States was frantically producing military supplies during World War II.
‘Yes, in the early days as well . Investing in magic engineering from the beginning was the right answer. I’ve been sowing the seeds so hard and now I feel like I’m finally harvesting properly.’
The name of the so-called magic engineering (魔法I學) later came to be called the ‘Industrial Revolution’ in the world that was transformed into games. In the era before
that, like the hunter-gatherer era, you had to go through the dungeons inside the gate to find good items.
However, after the development of magic engineering, the level of armament of players began to level upward.
‘If a necromancer coming from the world 8 years from now causes a breakdown in balance, then this level of magic engineering technology is equivalent to 8 years later. So… ally. ‘We will be able to provide armament equivalent to that of 8 years from now.’
After inspecting the [Taebaek Arsenal] using Hugin, Lee Hyeon-wook went into Laputa, met Kang Jeong-du and Kang Hee-seol, and received a brief report on the status of weapons production from them
. Eleven 2,450-ton large airships that can be used as 33 giant god soldier transport ships have been built, and flight tests have been completed for all of them. However, although 44 units have been completed, they cannot be deployed in actual combat due to a lack of supply of flight seats and mana engines. ”
The old man, who seemed so helpless as if he would collapse at any moment when they first met, was now full of energy as if he had been rejuvenated. And his slow speech seemed to have been corrected to become more businesslike. This is because his physical ability has improved as his level has continued to rise as he plays as a blacksmith player
. He said that it was because things have improved little by little, but now he has to carry hundreds of kilograms of parts on his shoulders.
“Those lacking items will soon be supplied. “Now the whole world will help us.”
“Oh, I see.”
He smiled as if he knew that, and then resumed his report.
“Ah, and a total of 21 Giant God Soldiers have been completed, but this may be because the artificial intelligence is still at a low level… It seems a bit… permanent. So, we looked into it and found that if we build something like a central command core, it is possible to give orders in batches. This is it. “It’s still under development, but I think we’ll be able to demonstrate it soon.”
Then, as if it was his turn, Kang Hee-seol came forward and started chattering.
“Now, the most important thing here is that my demon dynasty dragon is almost completed! Well, there are still a few errors, but it will be able to be officially presented soon! ”
Lee Hyun-wook nodded,
“Yes, everything is fine. “There will be a war soon, so I would appreciate it if you could endure your suffering until then.”
In addition to the two, Hyunwook Lee looked around and encouraged the blacksmith players.
After that, Lee Hyun-wook visited Soiler Widebeer, the leader of the Gray Mountain Dwarves.
He was drinking beer in his studio and hastily hid the beer glass when Lee Hyun-wook came.
“Big one.”
Lee Hyeon-wook pretended not to see him and held out an item to him.
“Oh one. Isn’t this a legendary item? I don’t know why you’re giving this to me, but my heart is already pounding.”
He wiped the soot from his hand on his face with his pants and slowly looked at the ‘Sudarsana’ that Lee Hyun-wook held out.
“Use it to make a gun. Can you give it to me? “The biggest gun in the world.”
“Oh!”
His nostrils flared at Lee Hyun-wook’s words.
So far, Sudarsana has been used as Lee Hyun-wook’s personal weapon. However, in its previous life, it functioned as the ‘Sudarsana Cannon’, a very large weapon mounted on Laputa.
‘With just one shot, the Allied surface fleet was destroyed…’
Lee Hyun-wook didn’t even know how that was made.
However, since the people who produced it were none other than the Gray Mountain Dwarf tribe, there was a belief that if they were to just leave it to them, something similar would somehow be created.
“Hahaha, an item with this much firepower seems like it would create something really cool! “Yes, trust me, I will create the best product!”
“And once that’s completed, I’ll give you a few more legendary-grade weapons, so could you make a super-large weapon out of them?”
“Oh… okay, if you’re planning on creating an army of giant guns, I’ll do my best with all my passion and sincerity, so just leave it to me!”
***
After completing some tasks that he had put aside, Hyunwook Lee called Talos on his way back to the Order Tower.
“Ah, where is Captain Seo Eun-ha of Talos now?”
“Yes, let’s find out right away! Uh… I understand that she is currently training at the ‘First Surreal Training Ground’.”
She was confined to Laputa for quite some time because she had to always be next to the dragon egg that might hatch at any time.
Lee Hyun-wook had often contacted her to ask how she was doing, but it bothered him that a player with a sense of duty like her was left alone in a place like this. As far as he knew, Seo Eun-ha was the
type of person who would only let her anger out when she was at the forefront of the battlefield, and like this, she was sitting in the safest place in the world, beyond the TV. I hated watching battles more than anything in the world.
‘So, you might be regretting following me to Laputa now, right?’
When Lee Hyun-wook was scouting for Seo Eun-ha, he had grandiosely told her to work for the strategy team he had planned, so he felt indebted to her.
He took the elevator and headed to the ‘First Surreal Training Center.’
As soon as the elevator opened with a ding, there was a loud noise. I started to hear a
thump, a thud,
a loud vibration and the sound of something breaking… It seemed like Seo Eun-ha was training. I
followed the sound and turned a corner, and I saw a huge glass window. Beyond that, there was a forest landscape.
This hyper-realistic training ground manipulates the ‘World Stone’ to create a virtual space identical to the real one. In fact, you can get the exact same experience as fighting a real battle. And, experience points are given
every time you clear a stage, so you can try to increase your abilities very safely. It was a fraudulent facility.
Boom!
At that time, Seo Eun-ha jumped out from behind a tree and rolled on the ground. She was wearing full adamant plate armor and holding a sword and shield. –
Player (LV：79)
* Special Occupation ( Dragon Knight)
‘What, your level has risen so suddenly? How much training have you had…’ The last
time I saw her, her level was 72. But she got to 79 just through hyper-realistic training… I wonder how much training she had to do. I had no idea.
Kwajik
. At that moment, a thick tree broke at a right angle, and a total of four ogres came running out from there. Then, they started swinging iron clubs about ten meters long towards Seo Eun-ha. That’s right – Ogre Warrior (
LV
: 98)
– Twin Head Ogre (LV: 101)
– Ogre Warrior (LV: 98)
– Twin Head Ogre Fighter (LV: 111)
Boom!
She rolled on the floor to avoid the iron club, and the floor caved in as if a sinkhole had formed. He hit.
Even if only one hit was allowed, most players would immediately be judged to have failed the training.
‘I guess I chose this stage quite unreasonably.’
Lee Hyun-wook thought that Seo Eun-ha would fail to conquer that stage.
Although it would be possible for her to survive as a tank against a group of monsters of that level, it was virtually impossible to directly hit her and cause her to retire. Regardless of her
skills, it was virtually impossible for her to be a knight-type player who focuses on defense. It was a limit.
But…
wow …
“Huh?”
Aren’t red magic circles that don’t match those of a paladin at all appear around her body?
Then, a huge mace and long spear were shot out from there, killing three ogres. It swept away and even crushed the trees spread out behind it.
Qua, and, and, and——!
Lee Hyun-wook looked at the scene with a blank face.
“That’s… a skill used by dragons, right?”
Yes, it was definitely the dragon’s magic. So, it was a kind of power that could be used based on dragon language.
‘Why is Seo Eun-ha using that?’
After the reincarnation dragon was captured, dragon slayers began making items using the dragon’s body.
However, we came to the conclusion that the dragon’s body could not be utilized 100%.
The reason is that the dragon’s body can only bring out its unique status by using the dragon’s power, that is, dragon language.
‘Oh, is that also a Dragon Knight’s ability?’
When I thought about it carefully, it seemed like the Dragon Knight in my previous life also used dragon magic.
However, since he always fought while riding on the dragon’s back, it would have seemed like the power of the dragon, not the power of the dragon knight.
‘But looking at what Seo Eun-ha just wrote, it seems like the range of Dragon Knight abilities is much wider than expected…’
Then, it seemed like Seo Eun-ha would be more helpful in future battles than Lee Hyun-wook thought.
‘Everyone is preparing everything on their own even while I’m away.’
Hyunwook Lee realized that he was feeling a strange sense of stability after coming to Laputa.
This was the strong sense of trust I felt from my colleagues in my past life. However, after the regression, I could hardly feel it.
This was because, in order to change the failures of my previous life, I monopolized and dealt with them alone.
But now that my colleagues started to do their part on their own… I felt a strange sense of fulfillment.
At that time, the training ended and the forest terrain disappeared like smoke, leaving only an empty circular space.
“Huh… huh?”
Seo Eun-ha, who was standing alone inside, turned her head and saw Lee Hyun-wook standing outside the window.
She approached, wiping sweat from her forehead.
Then, she unfastened the parts of the adamant full plate armor one by one. Those plain pieces of metal were It fell to the floor and made a loud
noise.
“…Since when have you been spying on me?”
She opened the door to the training center and took a swig of a bottle of water.
“Anyway, now… I’m not the savior of Seoul, but should I call you the Earth Hero?”
She said with a grin, and Lee Hyun-wook frowned.
No matter how many times I heard the expression ‘hero’, its unique, cheesy feeling could not be erased.
“That… the voting for the hero wasn’t even over yet. “But Captain Seo, you’ve changed completely in the time I’ve been away?”
“Huh? Me?”
She said as if she didn’t know what she was talking about, but her eyes were shining, so she seemed happy to be recognized.
“Yes, I just saw you send out four ogres in one strike. At that level… wouldn’t it be more powerful than most A-rank wizard players?” The
corners of her mouth rose and fell at this.
‘She felt deprived and disappointed in herself a while ago.’
When Lee Hyeon-wook took her into the Paldal Mountain Dragon Labyrinth, she was a bit discouraged when she saw the skills of the Hope Guild members. It seems she had been
training hard since then, and she must have been happy because the results were clearly showing.
“Oh, well, it’s just the Dragon Knight’s skills . Even though this happens one by one, it feels like my attack power has definitely improved.”
Lee Hyun-wook chuckled and raised his thumb.
“And where is the dragon’s egg?”
She pointed to one wall, and there was a stroller covered with a magic shield parked there.
Lee Hyun-wook approached and checked the black egg.
But…
– (!) The egg was about to hatch. (87% )
‘Huh?’
Now, he was able to check such detailed information with his ‘Insight Lens.’
‘If this is done, it could hatch within a few days. A dragon with divine power…’
Like this, one by one, things were going better than expected.
But then the voice of Talos flowed into his ears.
“Master Demon, there is an urgent message that you must check immediately! It is said that the Demon King… has appeared on American soil!” ***
Lee
Hyun-wook immediately ordered with Seo Eun-ha. We returned to the tower and as soon as we arrived, Sehee Kim said,
“That bastard showed up again.”
She was pointing at a monitor with her index finger.
It was a TV news screen, and it appeared to be a satellite observation photo as it looked down on an area from a fairly high altitude.
– [LIVE] The ‘demon king’ of California’s erosion area appears.
“What do you mean, it’s called the United States? It’s California’s erosion area?”
Lee Hyun-wook rushed over because he thought the American mainland had been attacked, but fortunately, that wasn’t the case.
And that was the scene that Lee Hyun-wook had expected.
Until now, the guy called the Demon King had been subjugating a group of powerful monsters scattered all over the Earth.
And at the moment, he was the strongest monster on the planet . The group of monsters was clearly the ‘Ancient Red Drake’ race that was born in the first wave, so there was no way they wouldn’t target them.
But the reason they were shocked was for a different reason.
“That… is that the Flower of Death, right?”
Sehee Kim asked, pointing to one side of the screen.
Flying undead floating above the wasteland were captured on the screen… In the meantime, a huge object, a huge flower, boasted an overwhelming presence.
‘…It is the flower of death.’
A few days ago, during the second clash with the Necromancer, the current level Necromancer also summoned it.
However, the size was on a different level.
The flower of death I encountered at that time was an object with a diameter of about 30m at most… but it was an overwhelming size, being easily 2km long.
The purple petals were hanging down like a monster’s tongue, and the plant roots at the bottom were long and wriggling like a hydra’s head.
‘That’s the final form. You ended up smoking that?’
That was the mobile base of the necromancer nicknamed Laputa of Death.
The reason I couldn’t summon it when it first appeared was because I had to sacrifice quite a bit of my life force to make it bloom.
‘It bloomed much faster than I expected…’
Did they use the monsters they had subjugated so far as scapegoats? In any case, the worst weapon a necromancer could wield had appeared in the sky of this world.
Black smoke billowing from its roots covered the entire California area like fog, encroaching on all living things, and rising again as beings ruled by death.
– …The area covered by the black smoke alone covers 18 hectares, and the local observation center explains that the Ancient Red Drakes trapped within it die within tens of minutes and are eventually resurrected as undead.
The TV news host said that and then added a word in a sighing voice.
– Yes, that is… I dare say it is the mothership of death.
Accordingly, Lee Hyun-wook held an emergency video conference with his closest associates, including Emilia Mueller, Donald Harris, and Woo Seong-moon.
They also looked shocked upon seeing the appearance of the Flower of Death, and Emilia Müller was the first to speak.
– If the power of death is that much… honestly, I can’t handle it. Haha, this is really annoying… Where on earth does something like that keep coming out?
She said she was tired of it now.
– And in such a concentrated power of death, even the holy sword may not be able to show its full power. Ha… unless they pull out the entire Yggdrasil and blow it away…
Woo Seong-moon shook his head at her lament.
– …It’s literally the mothership of death.
In such a gloomy atmosphere, Lee Hyun-wook opened his mouth.
“Then let’s make it too.”
– Yes?
– Huh?
“If that’s the Mothership of Death, then let’s build a Holy Mothership… something like that. Actually, I was already going to suggest this.”
Lee Hyun-wook said lightly as if it was nothing special, and everyone’s expressions were filled with doubt. –
Uh… I don’t know how you make it. Please explain.
“Now, for us, the flight is bigger than anything else. “Isn’t there an object, Laputa?”
Emilia Müller clapped her hands as if she understood what he said.
– So, let’s hang a sacred object there and make it a moving sanctuary, right?
“Yes, that’s right.”
However, she soon tilted her head with a questioning expression.
– …No, but the limit is so clear that the most powerful holy object in existence is the Saint Dome. Even if the entire Saint Dome were to be moved, the power of death emitted by that disgusting flower would be lost. You can’t dilute it.
Lee Hyun-wook shook his head.
“We have bigger objects than that.”
Emilia Müller and Donald Harris said at the same time. – Are you
really talking about Yggdrasil?
Lee
Hyun-wook nodded and shook his head again.
“Uh… that’s too big… there’s one more on Ganghwa Island.” “Yes.”
That’s right. Sindansu, which is still a small sacred tree…
It existed in the possession of Lee Hyun-wook.
“……I’m transplanting the entire Shindansu to Laputa.”
– …….
“And coincidentally, a friend I know. “There are horticultural experts who are good at doing that.”
