Chapter 301: Humanity Cantons – Dwarf Kingdom (1)
“Yes. You have to sign a contract with me and become a resident of my territory.”
Kyung-joon suddenly asked Amdusias, who had seen the World for the first time in 700 years, to become a resident of his territory.
“……??”
Amdusias was momentarily bewildered.
Asking him, one of the 72 devils who was no different from the Demon King’s closest aide, to suddenly become a resident of his territory?
It was utterly disrespectful.
“Human, you don’t seem to grasp the situation. Did you think I would become your servant just because you woke me up? Don’t be ridiculous!”
Fwooosh!
Amdusias poured out his jet-black energy with all his might.
Although he was ranked 67th, almost at the bottom of the 72 devils, it was still an incredible power that seemed to be well over level 500.
Amdusias, enveloped in such a sense of pressure, lowered his body as if to threaten Kyung-joon.
Kyung-joon looked up at Amdusias with an indifferent expression.
“Cackle! Your body is completely stiff. Now you know the difference in our power, don’t you? I’ll let your recent disrespect slide. I’m in a good mood because I saw the sky for the first time in a while.”
Rumble.
Amdusias reached out his giant hand towards Kyung-joon.
The surroundings instantly darkened.
“So I’ll chew you up and swallow you in one bite without pain! Hahaha!”
Snap!
Amdusias’ giant hand grabbed Kyung-joon in an instant.
And when he tried to pull his hand and put him in his mouth.
“Gasp, gasp! Heuk……!”
No matter how hard he pulled, Kyung-joon wouldn’t budge.
“Kaaagh……! What, what……How can a human be this heavy……!”
Amdusias pulled with all his might as if he were pulling out a stone stuck in the ground.
But it was no use, no matter how much he pushed the ground with his feet, pulled with both hands, and put his whole body into it.
[Mythical Skill 『Jet Black Power』 ]
[All abilities are amplified in proportion to level (276).]
[All abilities increased by 276%.]
▶Intelligence: 1,014 → 3,812
An intelligence stat close to 4,000.
It’s a stat that humans can only achieve if they invest all their points in intelligence until they reach level 800.
Of course, it’s a much lower stat than when he had 10,000 intelligence from the Synchronization Rate injection.
But it was more than enough to withstand the power of the 67th ranked Amdusias.
“You bastard……! Die!”
Thud! Thud! Crash! Thud! Thud!
Amdusias launched all sorts of physical attacks on Kyung-joon, kicking him, punching him, jumping and stomping on him with his butt, and so on.
But.
[Epic Skill 『Vector Calculus (Lv.6)』 ]
[Makes the net force acting on oneself zero.]
Kyung-joon was perfectly fine.
He didn’t move an inch, and not even a single strand of his hair fluttered.
Only the ground around Kyung-joon was destroyed and cracked.
Thud! Crash! Bang! Thud! Boom!
Amdusias continued to pummel Kyung-joon without rest, but.
“Huff……Huff……”
Only he, who was making a fuss, was getting tired, while Kyung-joon remained unharmed.
“What, what in the world are you?! How can a human have such strong power……! Don’t tell me, are you a Polymorphed―”
“A Polymorphed Dragon?”
Kyung-joon interrupted Amdusias and finished his sentence for him.
“I recently became able to Polymorph into a Dragon, so it’s similar, but unfortunately no.”
Kyung-joon moved his body for the first time.
What moved was his hand.
Snap.
Kyung-joon grabbed the tip of Amdusias’ finger.
“L, Let go of this!”
Amdusias struggled to pull out his caught finger, but only his body shook.
The finger that Kyung-joon was holding onto couldn’t escape even 1mm.
“Hmm. Now that I think about it, you’re too big in this state. It’ll be a nuisance when we go to the territory. Let me borrow this for a second to hide your identity.”
Fwooosh!
A jet-black energy emanated from Kyung-joon’s body.
It was different from Amdusias’.
This was the power of the true Demon King, who treated the 72 devils like his subordinates!
As the jet-black energy that Kyung-joon emitted touched the finger he was holding.
“Hoooowaaaagh……?! T, That power is?!”
The power that Amdusias possessed began to be absorbed by Kyung-joon.
“Kheeeeeegh……! W, What is this……!”
The black energy was being sucked in like a vacuum cleaner.
Amdusias’ size gradually shrank.
As a result.
[Experience has been earned.]
[Experience has been earned.]
[Level Up!]
[Experience has been earned.]
[Experience has been earned.]
[Level Up!]
[Experience has been earned.]
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Kyung-joon’s experience and level began to rise like crazy.
“Hmm, as expected, the efficiency is great when I don’t go through the separate experience potion manufacturing process.”
Kyung-joon regretted it with a disappointed look on his face, but anyway, he continued to absorb Amdusias’ power.
[Experience has been earned.]
[Experience has been earned.]
[Level Up!]
[Experience has been earned.]
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[Due to the absorption of Jet Black Power, 『Parallel Imprinting
』 is fading.]
[Remaining Imprinting: Approximately 67.3% → 65.6%]
▶Kyung-joon: Lv.276 → Lv.325
Soon, when he had gained about 50 levels.
“Hmm, this looks just right.”
“W, What is this……!!”
Little Amdusias.
He had shrunk even smaller than the Fairy Azuaz.
Now the situation was completely reversed, with Kyung-joon looking down and Amdusias looking up.
“Uh, uh……?”
A shadow fell over little Amdusias.
“Euaaagh?! L, Let go of me! No, please let me go! I don’t taste good! Please don’t eat me! I just came out after 700 years! I still have so many things I want to do, things I haven’t done yet, and I have three sons and daughters who are just starting to walk……”
Little Amdusias pleaded desperately in a mosquito-like whining voice.
“Who do you think I am? Do you think I just eat people alive?”
“T, Then……!”
His face brightened for a moment.
“You have to cook it before you eat it.”
“……!!”
And then it was painted with despair again.
“P, Please, not that―”
Kyung-joon put Amdusias in a special glass bottle he had prepared beforehand and closed the lid.
“ ―――! ―――! ――!”
Amdusias kept hitting the glass bottle and saying something, but no sound or shock could be heard.
The glass bottle was engraved with noise-canceling and shock-absorbing Imprintings.
<You’ve leveled up and gained a talented individual. The Demon King’s seal has also weakened considerably, as originally intended.>
“Yeah. But this isn’t enough. I’ll return to the territory after releasing the seals from the 72nd to the 61st.”
Kyung-joon hadn’t been with Teemo until now.
Currently, Teemo was left in the ‘territory’ while Kyung-joon was moving alone.
Even though they were so far apart, Kyung-joon was able to communicate with Teemo.
It wasn’t that difficult to apply the principles of communication engineering to mana.
<Understood. Please be careful of cars, no, Dragons on your way there and back.>
“Yeah, yeah. I’ll leave the territory to you for now. Yoo……How’s Kim Elsa?”
<She’s almost finished with the Arc-en-Ciel related work, and is currently working on acquiring the Magic Tower built by the students of Fael University.>
Yoo Seol-ha had been focusing on external affairs rather than internal affairs within the territory since she logged into the game.
<At the same time, she’s been doing some stock trading with TheWorld’sGreatestMerchant using the funds received from Siam Tinya, and 67 out of 152 Magic Towers are in the plus.>
“67? That’s unexpectedly less than half?”
<Most of the other half that are in the minus are inverse.>
Inverse refers to stocks that make money when the stock price falls.
“Aha. That’s amazing.”
Since Chairman Yoo planned everything, things were going even more smoothly.
His family was safe under the vodka in Vladivostok, and Yoo Seol-ha was working almost like a workaholic.
Perhaps it was her way of trying to forget the shock of learning the truth through work.
“I need to work hard too.”
[Epic Skill 『Vector Calculus (Lv.6)』 ]
[Adding acceleration vector.]
Woosh!
Kyung-joon, who started to float again and soared through the sky.
<Master. Shouldn’t you send a quick message to Yoo Seol-ha?>
“Ah, right.”
Kyung-joon immediately opened his status window and sent a message to Yoo Seol-ha’s character, Kim Elsa.
[Chat window with Kim Elsa]
▶Kyung-joon: Released one seal. From now on, sell all Fael Alliance stocks except for military-related ones and go all-in on inverse.
▶Kim Elsa: Okay.
▶Kim Elsa: Should I buy all of Flame Hammer Dwarf Clan along with the inverse?
▶Kyung-joon: Go for it.
The goal was everyone from the 72nd ranked Andromalius to the 61st ranked Jagan, excluding the 67th.
It was the moment when the prelude to the plan to release the seals within half a year began.
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━Butakan……Did you just see that……?
━I saw it……As the prophecy the chieftain spoke of……
━A human who fell from the sky will carry the jet-black on his back and save us Orcs……
━Aah, finally……!
🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷
Holy Cross Faction, Papal Palace.
Father Batali, who served as the Pope’s secretary, was beside himself.
“The seal of the 72nd ranked Andromalius has been completely released! The target is nowhere to be seen!”
“The 71st is the same!”
“The 70th Seere of the Dragon Palace, the 69th Decarabia too……”
“I’ve checked and returned. As expected, the seals in the 71st, 68th, and 66th places have also been……”
“Damn it! Dispatch priests to the 61st ranked immediately!”
“I, I just sensed an energy similar to the seal of the 61st ranked Jagan being released!”
“What, what?! Damn it!”
In less than a month, not even four weeks, the seals of over 10 devils had been released.
As a result, the Demon King’s seal was greatly weakened, which in turn led to disaster.
“We’ve received an urgent request for priests from the Kingdom of Francois! This is the ninth one!”
“We’ve also received news that variant monsters are running rampant in the Kingdom of Deutschland.”
“Ugh! Dispatch the existing 74 branches to Francois, and send the 51st branch to Deutschland!”
“The 51st branch just returned from dispatching Jagan and is quite exhausted……”
“Do we have time to worry about such things?! Give them 10 cartons of cigarettes each and send them right away! Their faith and holy power are enough!”
Currently, the Holy Cross was in a situation where no one could rest.
It was already very difficult to chase after the one who was releasing the Demon King’s seal and to block the ever-proliferating variant monsters.
In this situation, the original plan to surround Kyung-joon by going to his Study Territory became impossible to implement.
The Holy War was completely pushed to the back burner, and they had no choice but to focus on dealing with the current situation.
As Father Batali was going crazy as the commander of the Papal Palace.
“Priest Rone Fordbang has just returned from otherworlder Kyung-joon’s Study Territory.”
Rone, who had been permanently dispatched to Kyung-joon’s territory, stood at attention in front of Batali.
There was only one reason why he was summoned to the Papal Palace.
“What the hell is otherworlder Kyung-joon doing now? Is he still not there?”
The first one the Holy Cross suspected as the mastermind behind this incident was Kyung-joon.
It was because he had perfectly purified the black mana without holy power during the Zot incident.
Also, if they were to think of someone who could do such a thing besides the Seven Heroes and the Pope, Kyung-joon was the first one that came to mind.
Rone used holy magic to show what he had seen in the public territory as a video.
“As you can see, he’s been in the territory the whole time.”
The Memory Stone video, which Rone had smuggled in (actually, Kyung-joon had intentionally let him do it), showed Kyung-joon commanding the territory and fighting off variant monsters.
“Until the seals of the 72nd to the 61st were released, he didn’t step out of the territory even once.”
“Then who in the world is releasing the seals?! It’s not the Seven Heroes, and of course not the Pope, and if it’s not Kyung-joon, then who, who……!!”
Now, it was too late to bring up a completely different fourth party, let alone a third party other than Kyung-joon.
In the first place, the Holy Cross was aware of all those who possessed the power to release the seal.
And the results showed that none of them had released the seals.
“Damn it! Get rid of the video! Go back and keep an eye on that otherworlder!”
“Yes, sir.”
Batali sent Rone back to the public territory.
However, even if he went back and monitored him all day long, the result would never change.
It was because, just like during the mysterious assault case a month ago, Kyung-joon was not alone in World right now, but two.
However, their roles were reversed this time.
Teemo was controlling his real body in the territory, and Kyung-joon was controlling his in-game body to release the Demon King’s seal.
Of course, there was no way the Holy Cross would know this fact.
“Haam~ I just have to go to the public territory and watch Kyung-joon all day long. They say that’s the best place to block variant monsters, it’s a real honey post.”
Unless Kyung-joon told them himself, the Holy Cross would never be able to find any clues.
🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷🔷
Flame Hammer Dwarf Clan.
The sound of hammering echoed as always in the deepest part of the underground.
[Incomplete Giant Warp Device]
▶???
▶Grade: ???
Clang! Clang! Clang!
Clang! Clang!
Clang!
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Suddenly, the hammering stopped.
And then.
For the first time, a sound other than hammering was heard from underground.
<The Maker of All Things>
<The First Redbeard>
<Currently in a Half-Dead State>
▼Redbeard (NPC)
“……You’ve come.”
Redbeard.
One of the Seven Heroes and the founder of the Flame Hammer Dwarf Clan.
And he, who was dying, felt the descendant of Huma visiting him above.
The time had finally come for him to die.
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