delusion
“To sum it up in one word, you sold me.”
“Isn’t the word job placement more appropriate than the word sold?”
“You didn’t tell me and you decided by yourself!”
bang!
Aris’ fist marks were clearly stamped on the metal table with a heavy sound.
Yuseong, who had never seen Aris angry before, felt both curious and embarrassed at the same time.
It was because I couldn’t understand why Aris was angry.
“If you do this job, you can travel all over the country.”
“I’m the type who doesn’t like to go out very much.”
“I don’t like it very much… … . Didn’t you say you wanted to go outside?”
“That, that and this are different! At that time, Yooseong-nim was by my side, but this is something I have to live by myself!
“Sofia will accompany you to collect data and improve the system.”
“… … Dangerous things can happen.”
“You don’t have to worry about safety issues. Kang Chang-seok said he took special care of me.”
Yooseong desperately persuaded Aris.
Only Kang Chang-seok, who created the Contractor, himself with the Mystic Eye of Truth, and Aris can distinguish between the Contractor and the ability created by Lucifer.
Kang Chang-seok has no time to spare due to handling the work of the Korea Contractors Association and the newly launched International Contractors Association, and he himself is busy with training and quests, so he has no time to spare.
However, since he could not give up monitoring Lucifer, he had no choice but to use Aris, which was naturally left over.
Above all, since I had already finished talking with Kang Chang-seok and had received the advance payment, I couldn’t say that I couldn’t do it now.
“I am also a person with shame.”
flinch.
Alice’s body trembled slightly.
A familiar word somehow.
Yooseong continued the rest of the story with a smile of repentance.
“Please do anything. It may not be enough to repay the kindness I have received, but I want to be of some help.”
“… … .”
“I don’t know who said it, but it was very touching… … .”
“Ah, okay. I’ll do it. You can do it!”
Seeing her face reddened, she must have been quite ashamed.
Noticing that Yoosung was smiling at her, Aris got up from her seat with her face flushed even more and headed for the door.
Right before leaving, Aris turned her head slightly and asked a question.
“… … Yooseong-nim, aren’t you trying to separate me because I’m annoyed?”
“why not?”
To be honest, I didn’t have that feeling.
However, such thoughts cannot be expressed outwardly.
Yuseong answered calmly as if nothing was wrong, and Aris left the room with a slightly relieved expression.
And soon after, the door opened again and Sofia appeared.
“They said they wouldn’t go no matter what, but I managed to convince them.”
“Don’t talk. You were so stubborn that I could have asked for a penalty.”
Yooseong, who had grumbled, immediately corrected his posture and looked at Sophia with serious eyes.
“How’s the production of gynoids going?”
The end of the tension that had loosened somewhat after the encounter with the transcendent beings of Bruce and Lucifer was pulled tight again.
A strong man who can kill himself with a single gesture and a transcendent being that can only be found in mythology.
Fortunately, I had a good relationship with Bruce, and I was able to defeat Lucifer without difficulty, but it was hard to think that such luck would continue to follow me in the future.
‘I have to be strong.’
A promise that has been repeated several times since obtaining the goggles.
There was a big difference between the previous promises and this one.
If the previous promises were just a vague longing for strength, this time there is a clear goal of being Bruce.
The difference between having a goal and not having one is huge.
If you don’t have a clear goal, you may wander or give up on the way, but if you have a clear goal, you can move straight toward your destination without getting lost.
Yuseong planned to keep going straight until he reached his destination, Bruce.
‘And gynoids are one of the quickest shortcuts to get there.’
The best thing was to become stronger myself, but since that would inevitably take some time, I was naturally interested in Gynoids.
“Well, that’s a bit complicated. It’s not easy to make a body that can withstand the energy Yooseong said, but the amount of work multiplied several times because I had to make custom armaments to properly utilize that energy. Moreover, due to the limitations of being a small unit… … .”
“I don’t understand when you say that. Please tell me in numbers.”
“I think it will take at least a year.”
1 year.
Some might say it was short, but it was too long for Yoosung.
“Can you make it faster?”
“Well, like I said last time, if you increase your budget… … .”
“Two hundred billion.”
It was the compensation money extorted from Kang Chang-seok for stopping the terrorism at Gwanghwamun Square, attacking Salvation Bridge, and dispatching Aris.
“You can use all the rare metals in the warehouse.”
“… … I think we can reduce it to about 10 months if we do that.”
It was still long, but I decided to be satisfied with this for now.
I invested 200 billion won and saved 2 months.
This means that the more money you spend, the shorter the production period.
There was money coming in periodically from Aris dispatch, and if the items obtained from the quest were sold on the market, there would be more than enough money to invest in the Gynoid.
“great. Then what about Dragonia?”
“Oh, I think it could be done much faster than I thought. The improvement and mass production of the Type 99 magical engine were also successful, and the classification of preservation and disposal areas was completed. I can probably finish it in four months.”
Compared to the initial expected time, it was a surprisingly short time, but Yoosung’s expression looked somehow dissatisfied.
When I first got Dragonia, I was satisfied with just a secret fortress that could hide in space, but now that I think about it, it was because I wasn’t satisfied with that much.
‘It should be at least an all-weather mobile fortress that can be used on the actual battlefield.’
“Can I equip Dragonia with weapons?”
“Which armament?”
“Railguns, plasma ponies, things like that.”
“… … .”
Sophia, who had thought of missiles and batteries at most, opened her mouth and put on a dazed expression at the unimaginable answer.
“It would be nice if there was something like an unmanned weapon capable of combat. Like a robot or a drone… … .”
“Wait, you’re not really saying that, are you?”
“Are you serious?”
“Mmm.”
Sophia, who was contemplating what to say, barely opened her mouth after a long time had passed.
“Do you have a budget for that?”
there is technology
The problem, as always, was the budget.
If you don’t know if it’s one or two, to cover Dragonia, you’ll need hundreds or even dozens of armaments.
Even if you think about it roughly, it’s never an amount that an individual can afford.
“… … Just make a plan.”
“Well, I’ll do that for free.”
Yooseong also knew that fact, so he had no choice but to lower his tail.
He was just trying to see if his idea was actually possible, he had no intention of turning it into reality right away.
After confirming that Sophia had left the room, Yooseong loosened his posture and let out a sigh he had been holding back.
“… … Should I ask Kang Chang-seok for help?”
With the amount of money received from selling items or defeating monsters, it was absolutely impossible to raise funds for the renovation of Dragonia.
Yuseong shook his head while thinking about whether to inform Kang Chang-seok of the existence of Dragonia and ask for cooperation.
It was clear that Kang Chang-seok would have noticed the potential of Dragonia and invested generously, but in that case, it was clear that they would fight over the issue of Dragonia’s stake.
“I can’t.”
Dragonia was completely his own.
No matter who it was, I didn’t want to give up even an inch of land.
Yooseong, who decided to think about Dragonia later, took out the object in his arms and put it down on the table.
A white piece emitting a soft light and a black piece coloring the surroundings with darkness.
It was a fragment of the halo and horn that Lucifer dropped.
“For now, only a type of mana stone appears in the information window… … .”
Except for the fact that the nature of the aura was a little unusual and huge energy was condensed, these two items were no different from the mana stones found in the body of monsters.
‘Well, if it was a special item, I wouldn’t have handed it over so easily.’
Since Bruce was also a user, of course he must have had an emotion, and he would have checked to see if there was anything hidden in other ways.
It is not possible to infuse emotional skills or internal energy.
So it just comes to the same conclusion as Bruce.
Bruce has to check in a way he can’t.
At the same time as the meteor’s eyes shimmered with golden light, a blindingly brilliant light emanated from the halo, and its horns were stained with a thick darkness that seemed to absorb everything in the world.
When the spiritual power going to the eyes was adjusted, the light and darkness faded like before activating the demonic eye of truth.
Yoosung nodded in satisfaction and took a closer look at the halo and horns.
‘Something seems to be invisible.’
As I focused my spiritual power, the flow of energy began to expand, as if I had adjusted the magnification of a telescope.
Meteor gradually increased the spiritual power that goes to her eyes, and it was only when the magnification reached its limit that she was able to finally find something peculiar.
The halo and horns were engraved with detailed patterns resembling semiconductor circuit diagrams.
A complex and colorful pattern that looks like a mandala or a kaleidoscope.
It wasn’t energy.
It was a trace left by the energy contained in the past.
‘Where do you think I saw it?’
Yoosung, who was observing the geometric pattern, frowned for some reason.
Suddenly, lightning flashed in Yooseong’s head after thinking about it for a long time.
“… … Forbidden knowledge?”
I knew it instinctively.
Although the shape and feel were different, the patterns and forbidden knowledge belonged to the same category.
The name of that category was divinity.
widely!
Yoosung poured the potion of growth promotion he took out from the subspace into one mouthful and closed his eyes.
There was no need to sit cross-legged.
This is because what I am doing now is contemplation and consideration, not training in the mind.
Somewhere between conscious and unconscious.
There was something infinitely sinister in it.
So far, Yuseong has been contemplating and analyzing it, trying to understand it in his own way.
But this time it was different.
I just looked at the forbidden knowledge itself, without any thought or meaning, as if I were looking at an everyday scene.
wriggling
Why?
I didn’t know why, but it seemed that something was looking at me.
Of course, it would be your own illusion.
It was a mere reverberation with no eyes, no will, no intelligence.
wriggling wriggling.
So, it must be his own illusion that he has eyes on something.
It would also be an illusion that those eyes were staring directly at him.
It would be an illusion that the distance with something is gradually getting closer.
Yuseong closed his eyes as he saw something approaching right in front of him.
this is not a game