Episode 134 Tyrant (4)
“Special mission?”
“To be honest, it might be a bit of a difficult proposition. So if you refuse, I won’t force you. However, one thing is certain: it is not a suggestion made without basis.”
As the Church and Evelia, who were able to throw nuclear warheads through the information and countermeasures revealed by Eve, had more difficulties than expected, it also reached Nelson’s ears through Marisa.
“Another world. Believe it now… … No, it’s not that I can’t believe it.”
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Liam chuckled at the suggestion and then shook his head. Who would have expected an invasion of monsters coming out of the gate?
There’s no way he, fighting on the front lines, doesn’t know that the world right now is so crazy that you can literally believe anything that happens.
“Didn’t your constellation tell you? They tell me to kill, that only by killing can I gain strength and become stronger. But is that possible on this earth? Would people tolerate that kind of sacrifice?”
“I know what you mean. “You’re telling me to go there and help someone who is part of the church or a saint, and kill the ‘enemies.’”
He realized Nelson’s intention and snorted. He put it in a good light, but in the end, his intention was to use himself as a mercenary.
However, it was true that Liam, who does not move easily even on Earth, suddenly became interested in this story he heard.
“Those special mercenaries brought in from somewhere… … .”
“Yes. Paladins, they are the inhabitants of that world. You said that too, right? “They have a lot of military power, and more than anything, they seem to have learned a lot.”
Moreover, it was not the first time there had been people-to-people exchanges. Liam sighed softly when he learned that the Holy Knights currently teaching Holy Knight-style swordsmanship at a secret government facility were foreigners from there.
“I have to ask if it’s possible. “There is no guarantee that this power will be maintained in other worlds.”
[There is no need to ask. possible. Whether you kill a human there or a non-human race, you can become stronger by absorbing their blood and karma.]
Clearly intrigued, he said he would ask his constellation to be sure, but the constellation, which had been silent, answered him with a voice mixed with laughter, as if it had been listening to everything.
“It’s so fast at times like this.”
“So, have you made up your mind?”
Nelson noticed him clicking his tongue as he stared into space.
In any case, at his own discretion, he is dispatching one of the strongest awakeners who is treated as a valuable strategic asset of the country.
“If you can go and come back, give it a try. “If you don’t think so, can’t you just come back?”
And Liam also knew how important he was to this country, so he didn’t care about the possibility that he might not know.
“good. Then go ahead and work for your own benefit and the national interest. This is a top secret that not even the President knows about. “You can just keep quiet as usual.”
The conclusion has been reached. Nelson picked up his cell phone with trembling hands and called the location he had prepared in advance.
* * *
“Are we handling the nuclear bomb well? It doesn’t seem easy. “If they get pushed back, we have to intervene.”
[Great Saint Evelia attempted to throw a nuclear warhead five times, and only one of them was successful. The method of directly carrying and throwing a heavy warhead and then detonating it is easy to handle in the other world where magic and sorcery using magical power have developed.]
The control of the continent is as important as the war against the infectious agents that Lucy focuses her efforts on. This is especially true because we are only investing in backroom work to conserve nutrients as much as possible and invest them elsewhere.
In such a situation, I didn’t know if they would pull out the crazy card called nuclear weapons, but the effect was surprisingly minimal, perhaps due to limitations.
“I feel sorry for them, but I can’t help it. “We can’t hand over the continent to the church.”
As always, a part of my heart feels uneasy. The reason they put so much effort into the other world is, of course, to fight against invasive species.
Of course, it is natural that national interests are involved in the process, but in any case, they are also our allies as long as they are fighting the monster called invasive species.
Now, Lucy and I were planning not only to disrupt our allies’ plans, but to one day devour them, and were actually carrying them out.
[Their methods are uncivilized and ineffective. It is foolish to rely on a probability that is so irregular and rare that it is difficult to calculate the odds of winning, so it is easier for me to save the Earth if I take his place.]
“I know. “The problem is that other people don’t think that way.”
This time, after seeing Lucy and the Demon Lord’s army fighting with equal or greater power against the terrible infections, I once again raised Lucy’s evaluation.
As long as the current Lucy, who has steadily built up a bond with me, does not suddenly bring about strange results calculated with her own way of thinking that I cannot predict, I believe that Lucy will be able to become a reliable ally and guardian of this world. Thought.
However, it is a completely different matter for others to accept Lucy and for Lucy to consider others.
“I decided to think about that problem later. Then we can cross over to the continent. In fact, the most important place for us now is not a continent where we can fight and fight among ourselves, right?”
I changed the subject. About the fight between the demon king’s army and the infectious bacteria that literally ate all living things in the world, including the world tree.
Lucy was operating a ‘fleet’ to snipe the Corrupted World Trees, a kind of headquarters spread out in several places, and in fact, the Corrupted World Trees were falling one by one as they were unable to stop Lucy’s guerrillas even though they poured out all their might.
When they fall, the dark clouds and fog disappear and the light of the sun returns. That was the mark, so Lucy built a nest there, photosynthesized, produced energy, and continued to produce troops.
Literally cancer cells. Lucy became a cancer cell that endlessly reproduced, damaging the order newly established by the infectious agents, gradually coloring the world with her body.
[The exact timing cannot be predicted as the scouting of all lands has not yet been completed, but the nest has already been established to the point where it can become self-sufficient.]
Lucy changed the screen and showed the land covered with the Demon King’s nest.
It is not only soldiers who continue to undergo modification and development by accumulating data and increasing types. The other soldiers, the nest, also evolve and develop.
The nest, which consisted of nothing but black ground that simply absorbed nutrients from the ground, a digestive tract containing digestive juices, and a production site for cultivating soldiers, not only had an organ that absorbed geothermal heat and replaced it with nutrients, but it also had a huge structure that converted the majority of its area into sunlight. Black mushrooms were crowded with their broad heads raised.
“Is that thing you see in the center?”
[Through continuous data extraction and analysis, we succeeded in obtaining data on the caterpillar that was parasitic on the corrupted world tree and ruled this land.]
Even now, something else was growing in the nest.
It looked like a tree, but it wasn’t a tree. Numerous tentacles made of black, writhing living tissue tangled together and twitched to form a gigantic body, rising endlessly toward the sky.
“so… … “What effect does that tentacle tree have?”
[One of the most noteworthy abilities is the ability to manipulate the surrounding weather using magical power. Using this, you can maximize the efficiency of the photosynthetic nest.]
“rest of it?”
[With the absorption ability using body weight, it is possible to absorb all the nutrients from the ground with a radius of thousands of kilometers.]
When defeating a strong enemy, it is common sense for Lucy to take advantage of that strong enemy and evolve herself further.
And Lucy had the ability to do that.
With this, the infectious agents received a kind of sentence. They say they can never defeat Lucy.
[It seems like they are preparing for the final resistance.]
However, like the rulers who originally occupied this land, they also attempted a final resistance.
* * *
“Did I just hear wrong?”
“You heard correctly.”
“How many? 100 million?”
On the screen, Raon and Lucy were talking to each other. Raon, who took off his helmet and revealed his face as if it was a reward for his cooperation and efforts so far, frowned as if Lucy’s words were absurd.
“Even now, I fight endlessly against countless enemies every night. “But more people are coming?”
“That’s right. Enemy troops worth hundreds of millions are now rushing here across rivers and mountains. That won’t be the end. “There is no way that there were only a billion creatures living on this huge land.”
100 million. Lucy said that the enemy has now mobilized 100 million troops.
In fact, the entire sky and ground in the scout’s field of vision were covered with monsters.
“There are so many enemies that you think you can’t win?”
“It has to be that way. Isn’t that too much? They’ve been expanding their nest rapidly recently, but I don’t know if they can handle it. “I don’t have the same computational skills as you.”
Raon shook his head and laughed as if he couldn’t believe it. Well, even I, who live in a world where 8 billion people live, have a hard time imagining that the enemy is 100 million people.
“Of course, with your abilities, you can think so. But what is important for you with your tiny brain is not yet your ability to calculate the odds.”
“So what’s the big deal?”
“Finding a way.”
Lucy on the screen opened her eyes and put her face towards him. No matter what he says, his voice is filled with emotion, unlike his usual flat and monotonous voice.
“Reality comes before your eyes. You might think there is a 0% chance. However, the greatest sin is to sit quietly and suffer without doing anything. “Struggling and fighting to survive is a natural duty of living creatures.”
“That’s what I always emphasized. I know. me too… … “Because I think that’s the right answer.”
“Remember your bet with me. In order to rebirth your currently sleeping kin into new beings and become a new elf species, you and Naan, the only survivors, must convince me. “It would be more efficient to keep you alive.”
Lucy had not yet killed hundreds of thousands of elves but had sealed them away. The first purpose was to use them as hostages to manipulate Raon and Naan, but things have changed a bit now.
Lucy wanted to have a new group of intelligent beings under the Demon King’s army, excluding herself and other higher-ranking species.
It was a plan he decided upon after seeing infected organisms that had failed to grow and evolve and collapsed due to lack of competitors, and the idea was to directly cultivate clusters of variables that could provide him with endless inspiration.