Episode 55 – Collision (5)
“Take it easy. “It is because He has an idea.”
Varun was also surprised and didn’t know anything. Varun, who had calmed down the trembling old man Teru, also looked at him with puzzled eyes.
He looked at them blankly, then turned around and walked away, holding the titanium pickaxe he had made at the workbench. Thanks to his unique bouncing walking method, he was already disappearing into the distance in the blink of an eye.
“I think you need some explanation.”
“Well, I was just doing my job.”
Varun patted Teru on the back and demanded an explanation. Thanks to this, Teru managed to calm down and began to explain in detail what he had experienced.
The reason why he came here was because his bracelet suddenly turned into a metal ingot. And he even took that metal ingot and turned it into a pickaxe.
They didn’t immediately know what he was going to do with the pickaxe, but through the sequence of events, they were able to figure out that he did this to make a pickaxe.
“Anyway, what on earth is that bracelet that God used it to make a pickaxe? I’m sure it’s not an ordinary item. Is it precious?”
“Actually, that bracelet…I picked it up by accident. “In the northern land where we migrated.”
Teru told Varun, who was curious about the bracelet’s identity through a natural flow of thought, about the source of the bracelet he had obtained.
Around the time they settled near the northern forest before moving here. Teru, who went to the forest with others to find food, picked up a piece of metal that had fallen on the ground. That was exactly what the bracelet was. The name of the bracelet was the Dwarf’s Bracelet, but they did not know that information.
“As you know, it was a frontier of frontiers where even grassland tribes were not known to live. “But the condition of the bracelet I picked up was pretty good, with no rust anywhere, and it wasn’t something that could be made using ordinary technology.”
“It’s fascinating, but is that all we know right now? Don’t be too upset. God must have had an idea and ordered his messenger to take it. It will be back for us soon.”
Varun nodded after hearing the situation. In any case, from Teru’s point of view, he had lost his precious property, so Varun, who declared himself a priest who communicates with spirits, said that he would take care of anything.
‘Hmm, after all, he has thoughts.’
And Varun’s prediction came true.
The time when they returned from hunting for today’s fish. At the base where the bomb shelter and farmland were spread out, other residents were buzzing when they saw the facility he had built using a titanium pickaxe.
“Suddenly he came with a pickaxe and went down to dig in the ground in this corner.”
“Wow, that was incredible speed. “In the blink of an eye, he dug up a piece of land as tall as a man.”
The farmers who were working on the farm by repeating the activities of sowing, harvesting, and storing vividly explained to Varun what they had seen.
Although we couldn’t tell what was going on inside because he had blocked the entrance with a stone block, we could at least confirm that he was digging into the ground and making something.
Varun, as well as others, believed that the action was for their own good, like when they built a bomb shelter or built a fence around it.
“Let’s rest and preserve our physical strength. Riena, you too, get some rest before he calls you.”
“It’s good for you to get some rest too, Dad.”
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“Compared to running around fighting monsters, patrolling the village is a bit of a break.”
Still digging the ground, looking for the underworld where higher-level monsters respawn, he let Varun, Shura, and Riena out after completing their mission.
After coming out, Varun advised Shura and Riena to take off their armor and rest. In a situation where you don’t know when and where a battle will take place, it was most important to allocate the physical strength of those important forces.
Then he walked around the village. In any case, since he was in a position to lead the entire village, it was his duty to help the new members adapt well.
Fortunately, there were no problems with the adaptation of the new members. Abundant food and resources. The loyalty of the grassland tribes does not waver even if you take care of only those things that are always lacking.
‘Because I don’t go out hunting or gathering often.’
The scenery of the village he was looking at was actually quite different from what he remembered. The difference was not just the external appearance, where large structures such as fences and large warehouses began to be built one by one through the activities of transporters who were able to simply install blocks.
Before they were driven out here, the job of most residents was to find and manage food.
If people neglected to find food even for a day, many people would starve. But it was different here.
Since almost all food gathering activities were done in the fast-cycling world of the game, those outside had a lot of time left.
Likewise, if they did not take care of the livestock they had rescued from the game world, they had time left over, and the remaining time was gradually changing their lives.
“Chief! “This is urgent news!”
“Yes?”
The scouts who were currently flying through the sky, hanging like dolls caught in a claw machine, were one of them. The remaining manpower was invested in observing and investigating the surroundings.
There are plenty of enemies targeting them, including bugs.
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‘Oh, I’m bored.’
How many minutes had passed since I got the titanium pickaxe and started digging like crazy? I quickly got bored and was digging out of a sense of duty.
In fact, the reason I quickly lost interest in this old, popular game was because I didn’t really like these elements.
“found!”
Still, a game is a game. After digging into the ground in a series of steps, going down deep and poking around in all directions, I soon came across extremely hard black blocks.
The world made of these special blocks called underground rocks is the underground world. If you want to farm the essence of monsters, this is much more convenient and faster. I could already hear the sounds of monsters beyond the wall through my earphones.
I put away the iron pickaxe I was using and picked up the titanium pickaxe I had just acquired. I wanted a pickaxe better than a titanium pickaxe just to dig up this underground rock.
‘Just dig it up and block it.’
After digging up a few underground rock blocks and drilling a small entrance, I blocked the entrance with ordinary stone blocks. The plan was to send residents here starting tomorrow to farm the monster’s essence.
“Ugh…”
After disconnecting from there, I stretched and tried to get up. I was hungry so I decided to grab some food.
[External intrusion occurred]
“?!”
But I couldn’t. Just before I woke up, a message appeared on my desktop. Embarrassed, I quickly sat back down in my chair.
Nothing happened to the village. The area where the intrusion occurred is in the southwest direction, some distance away from the village. The scouts that Varun dispatches every day have discovered something.
‘Is it a small tribe?’
I saw them as I flipped through the screen one after another. Several people are confronting friendly scouts at a considerable distance.
At first I thought they were members of a small tribe like the Lakumne.
“—!”
“–, —?”
But my expectations were quickly shattered. Because they were shouting and talking with friendly scouts, they were marked with a red border, indicating that they were hostile, not neutral.
The notification of an external invasion occurred because the enemy had invaded what was recognized as friendly territory due to the presence of friendly scouts.
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In fact, when I looked at the information on one of them, it was properly marked as a looter. Naturally, my mouse activated desktop destruction. The reason they didn’t hit them with a hammer right now was because they were talking to their allies.
“—!”
However, it wasn’t long before something happened. They drew their weapons and began to rush towards their allies.
Startled, I reflexively moved the mouse and swung the hammer. The way I see it, it’s just a hammer icon moving around and hitting the desktop.
However, when the screen is enlarged from their perspective, a huge translucent hammer of unknown origin falls on their heads and is a powerful blow that shakes the entire area.
Of course, the enemies who were running were thrown to the ground without even making a sound, along with a thick cloud of dust.
‘I need to tell Varun quickly.’
After defeating the enemies with a single blow, I picked up the scouts with wide-eyed surprise as soon as they left the field and moved them to the village.
As I expected, the scouts called out to Varun even while hanging in the air and reported what they had experienced and seen.
I can’t hear the exact details, but judging by the surprise on their faces as well as on Varun’s face, it seems that the conversation between the enemies was not light at all.
‘Lee So-yeon also said that her residents were in danger of being invaded.’
Our crisis is not just about bugs, which are encroachers and monsters that can appear at any time. There were enemies in the outside world that might have some potential.
There have been several threats so far, but the biggest threats have been bugs, and the only external invasions have been minor conflicts.
It seems that a real conflict with external forces may be coming for us. Because it seems like the world over there is quite rough.
It was inevitable that we would continue to grow, so it was a natural thing that we would face one day. We just met a little earlier than expected.
‘Is this enough?’
My thoughts deepened as I saw the hammer following my mouse. Obviously, this hammer is the only and deceptive power that allows me to intervene in the desktop, but it is not invincible.
It requires charging time if used in succession, and its power was not enough to block all the numerous enemies that came. I wondered if that might be the case, but when many enemies pretend to be crazy and ignore the hammer and rush in, I have no choice but to trust the residents.
“I guess we can fight.”
I smiled faintly as I looked at the village bustling with people.
It didn’t seem to matter even if my power, the oversized hammer, couldn’t solve everything.
A mysterious village where houses they built and structures made from blocks taken from games are mixed together.
The residents living there were also not ordinary people. These are people who have become stronger by acquiring equipment or skills through their relationship with me.
These are the people who fought against the terrible monsters called bugs and won, and they will continue to do so in the future.
They were richer and stronger than when they first arrived here, and they were confident that they could not be defeated by their enemies again.