69 EP – Monster of the Abyss (8)
“How is he? What is he doing? Are you happy?”
[…Of course, I am checking the video you sent me now. You will probably be very busy. Yes, I am very, very happy]
In the end, the spectators also opened their mouths to the army’s offensive of questions.
“How hard did you go to optimize it for your brother?”
Gangbang-yeon also grumbled next to him.
In fact, it was Kang Do-yeon’s achievement to understand and optimize the new ‘psychic method’ improved and developed by the corps with superintelligence in the corps way, and then understood and optimized from a human point of view.
In the process, she was very tired because she maximized her brain function with the help of the army.
“But the newly created resonance method is only half of it.”
However, the corps judged that the new mental method to deal with the power of form was ambiguous.
“Because it’s a technology that was completely made for humans, or humanoids.”
“But all of the higher-ranking species are humanoid… aren’t they?”
Kang Do-yeon asked as if she could not understand. The Legion nodded at the question.
In fact, all of the higher-ranking species produced by the Legion to operate the power of shape were in the form of using arms and legs, such as humans and orcs.
“Because I have never seen a beast that uses image power.”
The reason was simple. The Legion had not yet encountered any other kind of creature that used the power of shape.
The Legion, reluctant to create their own inefficiencies, did not even dare to take such a risk.
“After all, since he is a humanoid, he has no choice but to rely on other technologies.”
However, these all-round soldiers have a fatal weakness, so compared to other types of soldiers with developed teeth or claws, the fatality rate that can instantly kill the enemy is lower without weapons.
That’s why, if you were born with a thorny tail, but were born with arms and hands, it was best to hold and wield anything.
“I need swordsmanship. Whether it’s a spear or a martial arts, everything.”
The legion’s eyes gleamed under the mask.
It’s enough to make a weapon. However, the weapon was obviously not a part of the body, and it was necessary to use it.
That’s the only way it’s more efficient. In fact, I felt it in the fight against the moonlight fairies, who had developed their own systematic swordsmanship.
This was the basis for judging that the Simbeop Resonance Method developed by the Legion was half.
“Then it’s resolved. The martial art that Ji Chang-hyun told his brother was swordsmanship.”
“Shit.”
At Kang Do-yeon’s words, the Legion did not dare hide their feelings.
“Chi?”
“It’s not bad to learn directly from him through video, not with a strange voice, but he’s happy when I teach him.”
[…]
“…you are really honest in this respect.”
Kang Do-yeon, who was sticking out his tongue at the reaction of the corps, which was difficult to predict, glanced at him.
It was not the Legion of the past, where he learned his emotions and how to express them.
Now, there was no hesitation in understanding and expressing emotions on their own.
‘I think I can see why you care so much.’
I knew better because I am now bound as one entity.
The fact that moment by moment is ordinary and unusual, and that this creature, sometimes like a little brother, is in fact infinitely cruel and can change horribly.
[Currently, reconnaissance has been completed up to the 68th floor. At the same time, traces were also cut off here]
“There is only one possibility.”
The corps looked away.
The location is more than 10 floors above this place.
The scouts that had already been sown from a long time ago went there without any interruption and were working.
“It’s a trace of a golem. Could it be that the child was attacked by a golem?”
“The broken trail continues upwards. The golem took the surviving entity upward.”
Even with the same information, the corps, who could see, hear, and process a lot of things in the city, denied Kang Do-yeon’s reasoning and pointed upwards.
The Legion already knew about the moonlight survivor Yelson. He knew from the mouth of the warchief, who had already finished digesting the boy’s duties.
“human.”
The whole nest twitched slightly.
Doomed, Kang Do-yeon touched her heart, which was not beating like her habit.
I couldn’t even open my mouth. The Legion was already planning to hunt humans on the ground.
And the hunting of the legion meant only one thing: to devour and annihilate every other race.
“Captain.”
“Yes..”
“Right now, let’s go up to the ground. To get everything they have.”
Reorganization is complete. The corps decided to go out on the ground.
[Since all the stairs have already been cleaned by the human golems, of course there are no enemies who can be our enemies]
With a creepy silence, the legionary march began. The lush vegetation in the labyrinth was left alone.
The expansion of the nest, which eats up the entire labyrinth, continues without any rest, and you can eat it slowly anyway.
The only thing that got in the way was the golems that humans had planted for maintenance, but they all fell down as if their cores were smashed by the sword of a higher species.
[Location of scouts, 78th floor. Traces of them were found here. It’s just a bit old.]
[It is the 88th floor. The scouts were attacked by those who looked like cave bats and started to get hurt]
[The 96th floor. You can see passageways and spaces that have been artificially polished. A heavy door is blocking the passage, but there are small gaps.]
[It is the 99th floor. Above me, I see a light]
‘found.’
The whole corps was agitated.
100 floors. Legion scouts found humans there.
The entire 100th floor was a fairly large facility.
Quite a number of humans gathered in this facility, holding on to something like a strange crystal ball one by one.
The surviving scouts approached some of them cautiously. Because it’s just a little big punishment anyway.
Talking among themselves, they did not notice the scouts.
They were wearing robes, and the crystal ball was all about chatting.
“After all, what kind of wizard…?”
Kang Do-yeon, who already knew that the golem moves in a special way, not in a scientific way, muttered blankly.
The Legion knew what magic was.
It is not the fictional magic that I learned from the knowledge of the earth, but the magic of humans in this world that I learned from the testimony of the Warchief of the Moonlight Fairy.
“The gaze reflected on the crystal ball. It is a landscape of a cave. You are looking at the gazes of the golems.”
The corps confirmed that the screens on the crystal spheres were looking at similar landscapes in numerous compositions, and identified their identity.
“It wasn’t automatic… So you didn’t see us? It’s too quiet for that.”
“The total number of crystal balls is 69, and the number of humans is 38. You don’t see all the golems in the first place.”
After completing the calculations, the corps entered into a new calculation.
There was a survivor of the moonlight fairy that was missed through the dog hole, but it was clear that the human identity had not yet been discovered. It seemed that using this could lead to a more efficient battle.
“First, I want to see the outside.”
The corps, which had stopped marching for a moment, moved one scout aside. While eating one insect at once to replenish energy in the middle.
In the case of a small scout, the digestive system was intact so that it could procure energy on its own.
[Were you desperate enough to endure the inefficiency? If so, how about looking outside the long-awaited?]
The scouts then proceeded towards the increasingly bright light.
And finally, the scenery changed.
Completely different from the glowstone of the cave, which was powerless like a captive prisoner, the clear sunlight embracing the power of origin and life illuminated the whole world.
The wind that embraces true freedom can now go anywhere, and it was different from the wind in the underground labyrinth that had no choice but to flow.
Both the soil and the energy of countless lives living on it are all there.
Everything that people who live here would not be able to feel was all new to the Legion that had just left the ground for the first time.
It is like a child who opens his eyes and sees the world for the first time. The world of the Legion, which began in one cavity in the cave, once again expanded.
[Didn’t you already know? What’s out there, what the sun is, what the world is]
‘No… not at all… different.’
It was true that he knew it thanks to the numerous knowledge he had acquired while growing up. But in the end, it’s just a piece of knowledge I’ve seen and heard.
The scenery that he saw and experienced through a part of himself was a shocking sight for the corps to the point that his transcendental brain stopped for a moment.
‘sky. A place where the gods live, and at the same time a window into the vast universe.’
The army’s gaze turned upward. The sky was something I had wanted to know for a long time.
Endless blue. The specially developed sight of the scouts accurately conveyed its blueness with a very clear color.
‘beautiful.’
At this moment, I was able to see that Changcheon sky for the first time since I was born.
The scenery of this world, which is open under that sky, is something that no matter how large the cavity dares to compare.
The Legion, which had not yet decided what the standard of beauty was, set the standard of beauty for the first time.
[Then the thoughts of looking at the sky and this world]
‘Want.’
His obsession with him faded for a moment, and the gluttony of the Legion, which had never hesitated before, ignited even stronger.
It was a natural result. If you want something, have it. Because that was the common sense of the army.
The entire corps was violently shaken by the strong instinct to eat all of this and dye it with their own cells.