＜ Chapter 120 – Corps (20) ＞
Episode 120 – Corps (20)
“It’s a miracle that he came out alive. Everyone has suffered.”
“We didn’t survive on our own.”
The battle is over. Awakeners who participated in the war, as well as those who volunteered to attack the new higher-class species to buy time, survived and returned with only minor injuries.
However, the expressions of some of them did not look very bright even though they were applauded by the people.
“If it wasn’t for your support, I would have been dead.”
Lee Ji-yeon, who also roughly wiped her face and wrapped a towel around her messy face and clothes, told me that. It’s only this much because there is adequate support, otherwise it would have been annihilated. He said it so lightly.
If the Paladins hadn’t gone to support, the person who remained at the forefront would have died. That’s what I didn’t like.
“Do you know who they are?”
“I don’t know. He barely talked to us and just fought the enemies. But what I felt was that I didn’t seem to be an ordinary Awakener.”
Jiyeon Lee judged the Paladins of the Order quite accurately. In fact, they fight in their own way using divine power, and they are different from ordinary Awakeners who rely on the power of the status window.
“And there was something familiar about it.”
“be used to? No way.”
“It’s real. A feeling similar to the power my Constellation possesses…”
But what she said next came as a shock to me as well.
It was such a remark that I couldn’t relate to something that I couldn’t understand at once.
“Why are their powers similar to Jiyeon Lee’s constellation?”
“Wow, it wasn’t exactly the same, but it felt like that. Is there something wrong with you?”
My expression was so stiff that she flinched and looked at me. Seeing that, I hurriedly relaxed my expression and shook my head without a word. I thought anything could happen in this era where even monsters crawl out of gateney dungeons.
[In my data, divine power is recorded as a combination of magical power and faith. There is not just one type of divine power, so I don’t think it’s impossible.]
“Is that right?”
While Lee Ji-yeon was away for a while for treatment and remediation, Lucy pointed out the facts to me with an attitude that unexpectedly might not be a big deal.
Well, if you think about it with common sense, the power of the paladins, who are just characters in someone’s game, cannot be the same as the constellation that gives Lee Ji-yeon strength.
“Anyway, public opinion about the Paladins isn’t bad. Without them, there would be no victory and no survival, of course. In other words, as things like this increase in the future, their presence on this planet will increase.”
[I can’t leave it like that, so I’ll accelerate the experiment.]
“How far has it progressed?”
On the way back to Korea, Lucy brought me the results of her first experiment. Glancing at Lee Ji-yeon, who fell into a deep sleep, I looked at the screen and confirmed what Lucy had prepared.
A complex magic circle drawn on the floor. Lucy and some of the Demon Kings were looking at it.
“The movement spell of the elves is to forcibly widen the gap between the worlds where there is a connection point and move there. There is definitely a connection here with Earth, but it’s so small and disproportionate that it hasn’t been fully exploited until now. How far can this experiment widen a connection with a small gap at that level? It is an experiment for that.”
Lucy opened her mouth and activated the magic circle.
It doesn’t come straight to Earth. Lucy said that the magic circle is a gap leading to another world connected by an extremely fine gap.
“From now on, I will send a friendly scout there.”
Lucy sent a tiny, worm-sized scout out there. First, it was to find out what kind of place it was.
[Connection is successful. Of course, it was a predictable part because the nano Omega connected to me worked fine on Earth, which is another world.]
Soon the screen changed. With only Lucy’s voice heard, the scout who was thrown into the darkness soon pierced through the darkness toward the light, escaped the dark cave he fell into, and soared into the sky at once.
[I’ll have to do a detailed analysis, but the environment… looks similar to Earth as well as here]
“Are these worlds only connected in the first place?”
Contrary to what I thought of other planets in the solar system, such as dry land and gas-filled atmospheres, it was a completely normal world.
Familiar greens with dense forests, even if it were the jungles of the earth or the Great Forest occupied by Lucy.
[The time limit is 2 hours 04 minutes 12 seconds. It’s not very long.]
However, the exploration of the new world, which he had been watching intently, did not take long and ended.
As I said before, the scout’s body was forcibly returned after a certain amount of time had passed.
In order to get rid of that side effect, the World Tree needs to take its place in the world on the other side. But we have no way to create or save the world tree.
“It must be another way.”
“Currently, it is the Dark Elves who think that way. Corrupted elves who occupied the elves’ homeland. Their black magic is a twist and a twist of that of the elves, so perhaps they have a more advanced form of dimension travel magic.”
Lucy’s eyes flashed as she retrieved the scout. I sighed when I saw that I had already laid out all the plans for the next one. As expected, Lucy doesn’t stop. There is no way to rest at all.
In the first place, Lucy would not have the concept of taking a break. While experiments are being carried out here, war, production, and gathering are all being carried out elsewhere.
“The next experiment will test how many troops can be sent at once, or whether the magic circle itself will retain its power even if it is transformed.”
I watched Lucy blankly until the moment we arrived in Korea. If it had been before, the development and evolution would have been amazing and proud, but now it is slightly different.
***
“Everything, what kind of people are the Dark Elves? No way you!”
“If you don’t want to talk, I’ll ask Naan.”
“not. I will just answer.”
Lucy literally never rests. no need to rest In the first place, the concept of rest is just a concept that does not apply to artificial intelligence.
Raon was frightened by Lucy’s request for information about the Dark Elves, but eventually forced himself to open his mouth when he was told to stop asking Naan.
“They were once our people too. In the distant past, we fought together against the giants. However, they became corrupted because they wanted more power. Wicked black magic, experimentation on living organisms, looting, and more. It is said that we could not beat them by any means.”
“Are you saying it’s on the same level as you after all?”
“Are you going to attack them?”
Raon looked at Lucy as if it was absurd.
I know Lucy’s condition right now. Right now, Lucy was in a situation where she was competing with the Church and the two coalition forces at the same time. In the midst of that, I couldn’t help but be surprised at the words that I would split my powers again instead of concentrating them into one.
“Are you full?”
“It’s just following a more efficient way. You don’t know yet, but sometimes it can be more efficient to twist the composition.”
However, Lucy laughed at Raon in reverse.
This is because they are convinced that their actions are the most rational.
“The longer we fight, the stronger we become. Corpses and blood strewn across the battlefield are food, and the power of new and stronger enemies is food to be eaten. It’s less than 40% accurate, but according to my calculations, it would take about 100 million or more corps to win against the Cult and Alliance at this point. So, if you find a new variable, eat it, and use it without having to win by consuming countless troops according to a fixed formula without a variable, you can reduce the amount of food and troops you need to gain efficiency.”
“I forgot. What a crazy monster you are.”
Upon hearing Lucy’s answer, Raon sighed and shook his head.
Although he had forgotten, Lucy was an existence that could not be judged by his common sense. In the end, he had no choice but to cooperate by giving Lucy the information she wanted.
“There is no need to worry too much. Maybe you and Naan will enjoy the honor of reclaiming their lost home as elves.”
Afterwards, Lucy smiled faintly and started making plans. It was a plan for a new war to be waged again.
“Friends of the forest. The Goddess is ready to join hands with you at any time!”
And at the same time, Lucy’s other plan was to play a big role in executing this plan.
“I will talk, Raon, please answer behind the scenes.”
“······I get it.”
Lucy used Raon as an elf-type soldier made by replicating the data of the elves, and heard the information she leaked and hurriedly greeted them as they rushed to the great forest.
***
“Isn’t the atmosphere a bit strange? Daesumim.”
“Looks like you have plenty of room. There is also time to see the scenery.”
After announcing their appearance, they waited for a while and waited for the elves’ response. One of the priests sensed something different and looked around, but the other party didn’t care because they were so nervous about the task they were assigned.
‘It’s real. It’s as if the Great Forest is frozen.’
But he continued to look around. He had come to this area once in the past, and swallowed dry saliva at the sight of a gloomy forest that was completely different from that time.
“There!”
Then, the people they had been waiting for appeared. The owner of the Great Forest and a mysterious race. Appearing in a group of two, they were a silver-haired woman wearing an outfit unique to the elves, and a reliable warrior covered in black armor.
‘Did elves wear armor like that!?’
Knowing the elves’ habit of not liking metal very much, he was taken aback by the sight of an elven warrior wearing full body armor and even wearing a helmet to cover his face, but his comrades made a fuss about it and buried it.
“Tell me what you came for.”
The silver-haired elf opened her mouth. A cold voice devoid of any emotion. Those eyes, too, were empty and empty somewhere, but they didn’t notice.
“I don’t know if you know, but we are dispatched from the Holy Land. The saintess, who was very surprised to hear about what the great forest had recently gone through, ordered us to have a conversation.”
“Conversation?”
“That’s right. Those monsters who dared to cross the great forest, those monsters are monsters from the underworld.”
They noticed and started releasing their business.
“Do you know the identities of those monsters?”
“of course. That evil group of insects is a type of weapon raised by demon realm lords…”
‘That’s funny.’
In response to the questions that came from the mouths of the elves under Lucy’s control, they attempted to incite a clever mix of truth and lies. From Raon’s point of view, all of this seemed like a kind of show, but the church’s special envoys, unaware of the fact, tried to win over the elves to their side by somehow reducing the demon king’s army to the demon world’s minions sent by the allied forces.