75 tue-aggression and erosion(4)
“Tell me one thing.”
[What do you mean]
“Is there something that can defend the right to kill?…I’m not saying we’re going to play with words like the right to kill, the right to ignore, the right to ignore the rainbow?”
[Of course there is no such thing]
Perhaps it was an absurd remark, and the boy answered with a docile answer.
Of course, it was still difficult to understand. Without such a systematic defense, how could Ji Chang-hyun be so calm?
The right to annihilate, a systemic power that does not discriminate against a target, is scary even for players, but the most dangerous thing is the unit, isn’t it? Wraith, a ghost without a body, was something to tear apart.
Players simply need to survive while hiding, but the unit has no choice but to come forward due to its structure.
[What he said is not wrong. A game is… just a game]
“Are you saying it’s not absolute?”
I laughed bitterly. The game power built into the system, such as Sword of Kill, was obviously hard to imagine.
It connects the world to the world, forcibly connects groups and individuals, and has the power to take lives without being able to resist any strong person.
But is this system absolute and true?
[In this universe, there are many forces that transcend this system. The right to kill is simply to cause the target to die once. If so, what is death? Isn’t it usually called death when the activity of the body stops and the soul separates from the body?
“So, if you can overcome that state, that is, if you can come back from death by any expedient, aren’t you afraid of the right to kill?”
It was ridiculous and I laughed out loud. But I didn’t think it was a nonsensical story.
The corps is also free from the right to kill. Legion is one and many at the same time. Even if one of the instances dies, only a part of it will fall off, and the moment the soul is separated, the connection is cut off, and there is no damage to the body.
Contrary to the existing values, the delusion that death might not be as big as I thought ran through my head.
“Isn’t that unreasonable?”
A single word came out of my mouth that Ji Chang-hyeon is sweet.
At the very least, if you can escape the power of the system that you thought could be absolute and balanced, wouldn’t the result be decided in the first place?
[Don’t worry too much. The only expedient one can get away with is that the process is simple and clear, the right to kill, and the number of units is the limit. There is no way out of the souls of players who are mortgaged in the game. And the world is inherently absurd, and reality is not a game. If you fail to overcome competition and are culled… it is the truth of the world that you die as it is]
The guy accepted it as a principled story again. It wasn’t wrong. In the first place, the purpose of this game is to compete for survival.
It was also very unreasonable competition. In a real battle that doesn’t even consider the balance patch, the loser becomes only the experience for the winner.
I didn’t feel very comfortable. In the end, in this situation where a miraculous growth story like a creation was virtually impossible, my unit was the word growth itself.
“…open the screen.”
Leaving behind only a vague feeling, as usual, he stayed in the barracks alone in his spare time to watch the corps. The corps I didn’t know I was watching was still in full swing.
While I now look at the corps killing humans in a blunt way, the thing that fills my head right now is what name should I give that child?
You should give it a meaningful and pretty name as much as possible.
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[He learned the resonance method that you improved and trains him to express his figurative power, and succeeded in getting recognition for his achievements and growing up]
“Are you happy?”
[…Yes. Maybe I’ll mention him in the next video]
“On the next video.”
The corps, unaware that CNU is watching now, felt a little better after hearing about what happened to him today. It didn’t matter whether he was recognized or not.
Does he like and like his gift? It was only that.
“I’m thinking of gifts that will make him stronger. I’m sure he’ll like it more.”
[That is the right decision. He needs to be strong, but you are safe too]
After coming to the ground, the Legion succeeded in acquiring much more diverse and diverse knowledge.
The data that we ate and analyzed directly became more than just seeing and hearing, and there was no problem in acquiring things that we couldn’t get by eating.
“aah!”
“Tell me… Say it! First, draw a line in the northeast direction, and then…”
This place is in the middle of the forest that the Legion made as their nest.
This area, which was once lush with mountains and streams, was now only sparsely populated with dark red six-walled walls and dark brown grotesque trees that soared high into the sky.
Somewhere at the bottom of those gigantic twisted trees that block the sunlight. Screaming people were half-buried in the trunk of the tree where the eggs that produced large numbers of Legionnaires were laid.
“Ahhh…”
They were all related to magic, experiencing extreme pain from the infectious bacteria that had penetrated into their body, and voicing everything they knew, including knowledge, as the Legion intended.
Now, the Legion was extracting magical knowledge and at the same time obtaining information about this world from them, who were the upper class of society.
“But yet, not so much.”
In this place where there was no sound of birds or grass bugs, but only screams and screams, the corps immediately shook their heads, raising a fiery ball of fire in their hands.
The prisoners were captured, interrogated, and heard, but no satisfactory results were obtained so far.
It was not worth learning from the power of the low-level magic to learn, and even the magic of a magician who was quite skilled in terms of efficiency.
The corps, who had already seen the high-ranking magic that the deputy commander had cast, wanted at least that level of magic.
[One city, 23 villages, and 20,000 humans were hunted in one day. And the hunt continues. Humans have already noticed our existence, and we will surely come up with a countermeasure for it.]
“The troops we’ve sent now are just delaying time. So that humans who don’t even know who we are, don’t notice our expansion.”
The corps turned its gaze forward to me. A place quite far from this nest, which is currently expanding and eating all vegetation without stopping.
At first, tens of thousands of legionnaires, which were collected while saving them as much as possible, were additionally released at once, spreading to pieces and slaughtering all directions indiscriminately.
There were many intentions to attract attention in the brutal and radical advance without front and back.
While all the eyes of the panicked humans returned to those areas, they were going to eat the whole area without interruption.
And then, he intended to cover all of this vast forest and land with the cells of the Legion.
“If you expand the nest and obtain a lot of energy, you can do things you couldn’t do underground due to efficiency issues to your heart’s content.”
Now, in the head of the corps, an aerial map of the area based on the human maps they had acquired was spread out.
The shape of the corner of the continent gradually turning black was clearly visible in the aerial map, which was made at once and accurately by releasing numerous flying species.
According to his own calculations, even if he ate all of this little land, he could pull out millions of medium-sized legionaries every day.
Or, it was possible to try several combinations that had not been tried before.
‘Be sure to catch the wizard of the society who has learned advanced magic. All the others are killed and nourished.’
The corps once again gave orders to the corpsmen who are now on the front line.
For this minimum stabilization, a disruptive operation was absolutely necessary.
‘The Wizard Society, and the Continental Congress.’
Now I know in detail what kind of strong people there are and what kind of structure they wield with power and power.
Hearing about their strength, the Legion was never vigilant in order to win with minimal losses.
In order to grow until they burst with overwhelming force, it was their top priority to confuse them as much as possible.
[I understand how to catch magicians or strong people who have learned martial arts]
“Please help me… Save me…”
“Hey, let this go…!”
[Then why are you catching them?]
Then a group of people began to be dragged into the middle of the nest.
Using infectious bacteria to manipulate their bodies to force them to walk, they arrived at the nest with helpless screams.
Colored with fear and despair, they were all local women, who were selected and brought in, ignoring their identity and origins.
What they have in common is that they are all young and physically healthy people of childbearing age.
“For analysis, of course.”
[…what the hell?]
The corps’ nest, which handled all production, digestion and absorption, and decomposition analysis, also grew in size, and its roles were subdivided into subdivisions.
The reason the Legion brought them to the battlefield was simple, not a nest that quickly digests organic matter and feeds them to the Legionnaires, but a nest that accumulates data through decomposition, absorption and analysis.
“Hey!”
“no!”
Tentacles wrapped around their ankles, secreting mucus from the six walls of the nest and attacking them.
Unlike other people who were killed and put into the nest and dissolved in digestive juices, it was the moment when the hopes of a single strand of the girls who thought they could survive were completely shattered.
“No…No…”
Buried alive and covered in mucus, his body began to tremble as if convulsing.
Either way, it would have been the same ending, whether it was digested on site to become nutrients, or if it was decomposed and analyzed here, death would have been the same, but the ark of that desperation was different.
[Do you really think he would like something like this? If data is accumulated and combined in this way to create a beautiful body and face]
“It was the first time I saw the sky and felt it. It is natural for living things to seek beauty. Kang Do-yeon also said that he likes pretty women when he sees them.”
The legion, of course, was not agitated in the slightest.
“…uh?”
But at that moment.
The Legion put their hands on their own chests.
He replaced it with a power organ such as a heart, but he learned what Kang Do-yeon did unintentionally when he experienced a severe emotional change.
“why?”
The bewildered corps flinched. This was the first time that I was so embarrassed that the whole group consciousness was shaken.
“He’s angry. Has he been attacked?!”
[No, he is seeing all of this now… and started seeing it. Are you going to hide?]
The observer’s voice in his head was calm as always. The terrified corps rushed to the trunk of the divine tree that was next to him, and hid his body in it.