＜ Chapter 115 – Corps (15) ＞
Chapter 115 – Corps (15)
“Lucy, your usual face is so cold that I just told you to smile.”
[I will correct it.]
“No, don’t wrinkle your face again.”
I smiled and stopped Lucy while looking at the screen. It’s already too late, so you can’t waste your time trying to fix it.
“What the hell do you want, you monster?”
Fortunately, Lucy’s eerie threat worked, and the old man, who seemed to be the leader of the elves, opened his mouth first, grinding his teeth.
Of course, this conversation doesn’t really mean much.
Talking and negotiating to get what you want from them is now impossible. Even if Lucy achieves her goal, she will attack and wipe them out for the nutrients she has consumed so far.
“I heard about the origins of the elves. That you are from another world. A way to open the door to another world, that is what is needed.”
Lucy told them what she wanted. Then they chatter. Isn’t it surprising to see that you don’t know?
“What on earth are monsters like you trying to do with that power?”
“You seem to need some coaxing, so say this, Lucy. Like you, I want to leave for another world and settle down there.”
Soon after hearing what the opponent said, I coached Lucy myself. Lucy, who actually heard my words, relayed them as they were, and the chatter spread among the elves.
“Then why did you attack us?”
“In this case, it would be better to say that there was no way that you, who were clogged up, would accept the conversation unless we showed our strength.”
“Kuh…”
The beard of the other person trembled at Lucy’s words as I conveyed my words. It’s not wrong, so there’s nothing to say.
“Certainly, among the ancient spells left by our ancestors, there is a spell that opens the cracks in the world. But! That order is only half the price. If you have your roots in this world, even if you open the door and go somewhere else, you will be forced to come back here sooner or later.”
“What do you mean by that? So, if you open the door and you come to Earth, you’re going back there again? Is there a time limit?”
The opponent knew the clue. However, the method had limitations.
“Then how did you guys get over it?”
Lucy asked them how. The conflicted old man eventually opened his mouth again as the demon army approached from behind.
“World tree. It is the power of the World Tree. Transformation of this land, completely identical to our roots.”
However, that answer was not a very satisfactory answer.
“The world tree…”
Lucy’s expression collapsed and her eyes widened.
To Lucy, the world tree is just a big tree. The intense energy you have inside is just energy.
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No matter how special a tree is, it is a plant after all. It was impossible for Lucy to analyze and replicate.
“I can’t help it, Lucy. Let’s find another way.”
I suggested that Lucy do it this far. Still, getting even half of it was a great harvest.
“Are you really going to leave if I hand over that spell?”
At that time, he showed his willingness to negotiate to see if the other party had made up his mind.
“Do it.”
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Naturally, he instructed Lucy to lie. Actually, I really didn’t mind stepping back at this point, but Lucy was determined to root it out.
“of course.”
Lucy soon tried to lie to reassure them.
A strategy to reassure them and attack them as they are while they are off guard.
“This.”
But at that moment, a variable occurred. The petals of the huge tree that had covered the sky began to fall all at once.
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Neither I nor Lucy knew why it was doing that.
“The World Tree warns.”
“The crisis never ends. no way.”
“Yeah, you are telling lies. You evil worm!”
At the same time, the atmosphere changed rapidly. The greatly surprised elves showed their teeth against us again. Intervention of the World Tree. Following the barrier, the World Tree hindered us again.
“Attack!”
Soon, the elves’ attacks rained down on Lucy. A destructive and powerful one-point attack to the point where Lucy’s output, which she strengthened with Longinus, is cut in an instant.
“sorry.”
“It’s not your fault.”
In the end, Lucy quickly stepped back and continued to charge the Demon King’s army without stopping.
“But don’t worry. I will definitely win and give my all.”
After arranging the battle lines, Lucy blinked and this time, along with hundreds of thousands of Demon King’s troops, she attacked the elves who were shouting a desperate fight.
[Longinus/Maximum output development]
Lucy put all her strength into fighting the enemies in the gap. dedicate all That word made my heart ache.
***
“…”
Holding my cell phone, I continued to watch the war scene. It was something that happened on a small screen anyway, and now it was something I wasn’t used to.
Thanks to you, my mind is now elsewhere. Just before that, Lucy, who took Raon hostage, tricked Titania, the earth spirit, into betraying her.
When I saw the sight, I was quite surprised. Lucy’s expression and tone were quite different from what I was used to seeing.
Lucy had a look close to my ideal type, but there was always something unnatural and insipid about her, like an android.
But Lucy at that time was like a person. Going beyond genuine joy and genuine anger, reading the other person’s emotions and minds and using them to eat was never at the level of imitating with the learned emotional expression method.
‘Is Lucy out of artificial intelligence?’
A fact flashed through my head. What kind of existence will Lucy, who has already surpassed the category of ordinary artificial intelligence, continue to grow like this?
And it was impossible to tell whether the being born that way would pursue efficiency and rationality like now, or whether it would become a being swayed here and there by instinct and nature like humans.
‘Both are dangerous.’
One thing is certain, the moment Lucy abandons her dependence and obsession with me, I can’t predict what she will do.
For efficiency, Lucy might try to take over Earth. Or, they may be buried in their emotions and run amok.
It’s a terrible imagination, but it’s a future that should never come true.
[It may take some time. But the win rate is still 89%.]
Then Lucy’s report came. I looked at it with confused eyes.
Lucy now only moves for one thing and stakes everything for it. I broke out in a cold sweat because the reason was me.
[Do you have any problems with your body? Heart rate and breathing are out of normal range.]
“No, I’m just nervous.”
Lucy immediately noticed my condition through the Nano Omega disguised as my clothes and asked me.
A gift and protection from Lucy who has saved my life many times so far. In other words, it is the complete restraint Lucy placed on me.
I couldn’t tell if Lucy was aware of it.
“I don’t care about my body. now i’m happy Thanks to you, Lucy. You are my own artificial intelligence working for my happiness. right?”
[happiness······.]
We need a way. A way to tame and control Lucy more reliably.
And the premise is that Lucy must not ‘meet me’ yet.
***
“I will defeat the troops first. We will replenish the food of our soldiers in the nest here and attack again. Allies recover faster than enemies, so we will attack again before the enemies fully recover.”
“The resistance will be strong. Because it is life-threatening.”
After the first clash, Lucy fought the elves’ defenses for half a day, but was unable to break through them. Of course, it is only a matter of time.
The God/Demon Army, created by Lucy only for battle, can move again immediately after replenishing nutrients. Even if that body is broken.
“I have to go to work now.”
But now I couldn’t look at my phone forever and watch Lucy. Activities started in this world to help Lucy.
Jiyeon Lee’s manager job and acting as a monster with the grandiose name Code X were all getting bigger and bigger.
“After the appearance of new species classified as advanced, the failure rate of high-level dungeons dropped sharply. Failure to clear the dungeon means that the turn has passed to the opponent, the gates increase that much, and more invasive species come and harm people.”
The world that somehow endured until now can’t stand it anymore. Because it’s impossible to fight while protecting everything we used to enjoy.
Weak countries eventually perish, resulting in countless victims and refugees.
The monsters that began to be released on this land affected the world economy in some way, and the countries that had been able to block it well had to relax and prepare to survive.
If this continues, this world, to be precise, this civilization will perish.
In order to prevent this, many things that had been delayed and discarded for various reasons have been revived.
Things that had been raised in the name of human rights, morality, and correctness… disappeared as they were crushed in front of the great mountain called ‘survival’.
“As expected, I need your strength, Lucy. To correct a world that is about to turn upside down.”
[? Of course.]
After finishing all the preparations for going out, I took my passport. leaving again The problem is that this is a force I didn’t want.
There was no right of veto. As long as I wanted to continue doing this, I had to do more than break the ‘law’.
I don’t like it that much. At my words with a smile, Lucy’s voice of course came out from the earphones in her ears.
[Currently, both sides are resting, but the elves probably haven’t recovered half of them yet. On the other hand, the nutrient supply rate of the allies exceeded 60%]
“Okay.”
Receiving reports from Lucy, the place she arrived with a new car this time is Jiyeon Lee’s house. She, too, got ready and got into the car with a deep sigh.
“I don’t feel so good. I would fight, of course, but being forced to do it.”
“That must mean that there is no room in this world anymore.”
I sympathized with her sigh as she folded her arms.
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Now even high-level Awakeners like Lee Ji-yeon were forced to fight. A new team under the International Awakened Alliance, formed by a coalition of several countries centered on the United States.
The goal was to form a team of outstanding people from each country and forcibly send them into the dungeon raid.
Their mission, of course, is to deal with the upper class. It’s definitely unusual.
“But I can’t even say I hate it. After all, it’s about saving people. And we are not alone.”
Soon after, she smiled bitterly and shook her head.
We’re not the only ones fighting. What she said was true. The country, no, the whole world began to return according to wartime.
Regardless of origin and gender, soldiers are forcibly conscripted and put into gate defense with guns.
All Awoken no longer had the option of avoiding a fight. He had to either enlist in a special unit and fight for the duration of his service or go to the rear and do other labor.
It was only a few weeks ago that they argued over the manda that high school students, minors, Oh Jin-hyeok, should be allowed to compete, but now, even younger awakened minors are gathered together, forcibly trained, and put into action if necessary. Even so, no one could oppose it, and even if they did, they were pressed by the reality that people were dying.
“Because you have to adapt and change to survive.”
Lucy isn’t wrong. In order not to fall behind in competition, you must be able to change at any time.