My Children Swarm the Cosmos – Chapter 85

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝟖𝟓: 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫 (1)

➖Now you must see the end. . . .

➖Ruler of us. . . .

Kreion cut through the outer wall of the 364th floor of the Asilomar Ziggurat.

In front of the space that could be a laboratory or an office, there were machines waiting in advance.

‘. . .This is not ordinary.’

They were humanoids with slightly strange appearances.

There was a squad of about humanoids holding an unidentified firearm with a huge muzzle. They were emitting light like a cross-sectional eye from their triangular heads.

Also, at the rear of the humanoid squad was a tall, fierce-looking man in his 60s wearing a suit.

‘I have to kill them all and go up.’

Bang!

A number of miniaturized Organic Accelerator Cannons spread out from Kreion’s back like Cresecter’s wings.

That was the moment.

“Go up.”

Puck!

The humanoid squad lowered their muzzles all at once.

Kreion, the ruler and maximum power of the Chimeraz race, is aiming at Lopez upstairs, but they lowered their muzzles in front of him.

Kreion looked at the man at the rear of the humanoid squad.

“What are you trying to do. Human.”

“The Star Administrator is waiting. He said to come up if you came this far.”

Kreion never let his guard down.

“What are you?”

“Kal Gikan. Obsidiamon’s Security Guard Team Leader.”

Now he has his back to the humanoid squad. And the man named Gikan, who walked far away, openly pressed the elevator button and turned his head back slightly.

“Are you not going to come?”

“Why should I believe you and go into that narrow space with you guys.”

“You will take the elevator up alone. If you had brought other Chimeraz, we would have had them wait here with us. But I see you are alone.”

“ . . .”

“Look. Mr. Kreion.”

The humanoid squad and Gikan stepped aside. Even that was not the end, the humanoid squad walked somewhere and disappeared. For some reason, they all gave up their seats.

When he amplified his hearing and listened, he heard the sounds of them going down to the lower floor through the emergency stairs. The slight vibration felt through the floor is also detected in that direction.

“If you don’t like it, you can go up through the ceiling. It will be hard because it is blocked by multiple shields on the regenerated steel.”

“Why do you talk like that?”

“Is there a problem with my speech?”

“Why are you talking to me like I’m a person?”

“Because the situation has changed.”

“It hasn’t changed. I’m going to take out Lopez’s brain. And if your job is to protect him, it’s normal for you to stop me here.”

“I can’t stop Mr. Kreion with my power. If I try to stop you, I’ll just die.”

‘These guys are messing around. . . .’

Kreion distorted his face behind his organic armor.

“Does that mean you don’t care if Lopez dies?”

“I don’t care, but. . . . I think it can’t be helped if that’s the result.”

He’s talking nonsense.

In the meantime, time is running out.

“I won’t believe anything Lopez says in this situation is true. The only way I can accept the truth is to open Lopez’s brain myself.”

“We are passing the turning point.”

“What do you mean?”

“. . .You’ll see.”

The conversation doesn’t seem to be working. He still seems to think of himself as a ruler individual of the bioweapon race on the palm of his hand.

So Kreion strode towards Gikan. He was going to tear him apart if he moved a finger.

However, Gikan stood still. Even though Kreion passed right by and stood in front of the elevator.

“Don’t worry. I didn’t do any pranks, such as setting up bombs or digging traps. Because if I use the energy that can kill Mr. Kreion, the Star Administrator upstairs could also be in danger.”

“ . . .”

“Oh, and the Star Administrator is in the Chairman’s Office on the upper floor. You have to go to the Chairman’s Office, not the server center.”

‘Ludwig.’

➖Yes. . . .

‘If you lose the wave from me, destroy everything on this planet.’

➖. . .Didn’t you say that was not in the plan?

‘Something’s fishy.’

➖. . .Got it. . . .

Kreion finally got on the elevator.

The brief moment of going from 364th floor to 365th floor was like an eternity. If this was a trap, I wondered what kind of attack it would be, hundreds, thousands.

‘What are you thinking. . . . Lopez.’

The elevator reached the 365th floor without incident.

【Hyper Mind Server Center & Upper Floor Chairman’s Office】

And the elevator door opened.

There was no one.

Only a desk where a secretary could sit was there.

【←Hyper Mind Server Center】

【Chairman’s Office→】

He walked to the right.

After passing through a right-angled corridor, there was a large door.

It is a futuristic design door with a right-angled blue line flowing like a pattern on the obsidian color. The width is about 4m and the height is about 6m.

How many things had happened before this door opened?

What awaits beyond this door?

What will start when I open this door?

While he was thinking about it for a while, the door opened automatically.

And,

“I’ve been waiting. Kreion.”

He finally reached him.

🔷🔷🔷

A man with a strangely good impression, a black suit, a purple tie, and a left eye that is a mechanical eye sits there.

【Drake Star Administrator Lopez】

The nameplate made of obsidian showed his name and title.

Kreion walked towards him. No one is visible around. However, the possibility of a perfectly camouflaged stealth weapon hiding cannot be ruled out.

So he stopped at a moderate distance.

“. . .Lopez.”

“You finally got here.”

He wants to kill him and take out his brain right away.

He wants to do that, but there is something he believes in because Lopez remains calm while sitting down.

“I will never fall for your tricks. . . .”

Lopez stopped Kreion’s words by showing his palm.

“Let’s calm down and start over.”

He was controlling his emotions to maintain calmness and coolness. He didn’t show anything on the outside. In the first place, the organic armor covers his face. But he tells him to calm down.

“We have a lot to talk about.”

“Did you do it? Lopez.”

“What?”

“If I list them one by one, there will be no end. Don’t ask shamelessly.”

“I’ve never seen your face, but you really hate me.”

“Answer me. Why did you torment me and our race so much?”

“I guess you figured it out roughly.”

Something he roughly guessed.

Something he can roughly guess.

It’s like that’s the truth.

“ . . .”

“I tried to use you as a weapon for mankind. The double-edged sword of a weapon that is too powerful was revealed.”

“No. . . .”

“You were raised as an element that could control the bioweapon race. Kemet Agele Kreion.”

“No. . . .”

“You were angry at Apoptology and later invaded Nemea. I thought you would die because you couldn’t overcome the ordeal I gave you because of such emotional attitude. . . . Since when have I been fooled by your strategies more often? It means that you have grown that much. At a very frightening speed.”

“ . . .”

“So here we are.”

“You son of a bi. . .! That’s not the answer I want!!!”

Kreion fired six miniaturized Organic Accelerator Cannons resembling Cresecter’s wings at Lopez.

Kwakwakwakwang!!

The plasma attack, which was thoroughly controlled to be operated within the atmosphere, roared through the room at almost the speed of light and hit Lopez directly.

Jiiiiiiiiing!

He thought it was a direct hit. 

A high-density shield was deployed in front of the seated Lopez like a shield. Before the resulting explosion was swept away, Kreion, who had accelerated with the thruster, pierced the explosion and pulled out a living greatsword.

Papang!

The air roared again because I swung the living greatsword at such a tremendous speed. With all its momentum, mass, and cutting power, it was about to split Lopez’s head left and right.

Jiiiiiiiiing!

However, that too was blocked by the shield.

Lopez is still sitting in his seat, expressionless.

“When did you! Where from!”

Peureung! Peureung!

The greatsword cuts the shield output.

“Tell me why you did that!!!”

Pajijik. . .!

It was a greatsword designed to deal with even this situation. Black liquid flowed out of the extremely sharp cutter part and cut the shield output by several times. And a thruster was formed on the opposite side of the greatsword’s cutter, and at the same time, tentacles sprang out and pushed the ceiling.

The force applied to Lopez suddenly became stronger, and the greatsword, which was heated red by the collision of artificial particles, forcibly passed through the shield.

“I know you feel like you want to kill everyone.”

At that moment, Lopez stretched out his right hand.

Cheojeojeojeok!

From his right wrist, a solid fluid that could not be identified as a machine or a cell extended like a tentacle and grabbed the greatsword.

“ . . .!!”

“That’s why I told you to calm down. This is not like you.”

It was incomprehensible.

“Nothing will happen until you change your mind about taking out my brain.”

“Shut up. . . !”

Kreion pushed the greatsword down with all his might, but it didn’t budge. So he let go of the greatsword and stepped back.

Teureung!

Immediately after the greatsword fell, Kreion fired another miniaturized Organic Accelerator Cannon.

Kwakwakwakwang!!!

Jiiiiiiiiing. . .!

The shield output seems to have recovered in the meantime.

‘But the greatsword just touched it!’

Kreion mutated both hands into muzzles and fired 30 bone darts per second.

Tudutudutudutu!

The bone darts cut the shield output and soon flew to Lopez through the shield.

Cheojeokcheojeok!

The fluid he had just seen sprang out of Lopez’s chest again and took all the bone darts. It didn’t take it like a shield with a wide surface, but it moved like a thin thread, as if it had accurately calculated the speed and trajectory of the bone darts.

The bone darts were wrapped around by the strange fluid and confined in the air.

However, Kreion had even anticipated such a response.

‘Infect it!’

It was an infected bone dart.

The biological bombs inside the bone darts adhered to the surface of the fluid that surrounded them. And they interpreted the structure of that substance at the molecular level and dug into the gaps in the structure that any substance must have.

“Stop it. Kreion.”

“Who cares about you!!!”

The unidentified fluid was a new substance that had not yet been named or identified. Still, there were gaps in its complex molecular structure, and the bio bombs penetrated the new substance and tried to break the bonds between molecules.

‘Damn it. . . .’

There were ultra-miniature machines running around inside the molecular structure. In the first place, it was thanks to those machines that the fluid could change its shape and move as Lopez intended.

In the microworld, ultra-miniature cells and machines of the bio-bomb fought a silent war. Dozens of cells died and dozens of machines were broken trying to take away 1 nanometer.

It was Kreion’s first experience of such a war in the world.

In the end, the movement of the machine was a little faster and more efficient. They were like a veteran ultra-miniature army, as if they had experience in such wars.

“Kreion.”

“This happened. . . .”

“Calm down. Huh?”

“Why did you have such a weapon. . . . If you could block the infection like this. . . . Why. . . . Why did you allow so many things to be infected. . .?”

Why the hell.

“You saved Mindrocker, Grounsecter, and Asotus too. It’s the same thing.”

Kreion’s eyes flashed inside the organic armor.

“How did you know the names of Mindrocker or Grounsecter. . . .”

“Wave interference.”

There are endless doubts.

The chain of suspicion that started from Lopez and reached Lopez seems to have continued to an endless unknown area.

“MDD. The ultimate goal of Drake’s mechanical guardians going to Hecartra was an experiment related to waves.”

Every word he says is like a bomb.

“The element that controls the bioweapon race is the ruler individual. That ruler individual is the element that controls the bioweapon race is the wave. So can any crazy group exclude the interpretation of such waves and leave everything to the ruler individual? If it’s not psychopathy, it’s not.”

My legs are no longer moving.

I can move if I want to, but I don’t feel like it.

I’m sure I was going to kill him and take out his brain.

“Yeah, let’s say you take my brain out. What then?”

Truth.

Freedom.

“A great war will break out. The Chimeraz and mankind will become irreversible, and the Chimeraz will have to destroy mankind in order to survive. Then mankind will also devote all its efforts to survive and inform various races of the local galactic group of the dangers of the Chimeraz. Regardless of political, diplomatic, and military means.”

“ . . .”

“That’s not the future you want, is it?”

I want to tear that burning mouth,

I don’t want to.

I wonder if it’s okay to do that.

Is that right. Is that possible.

“. . .You must be conflicted because you don’t say anything.”

“I can’t trust what comes out of your mouth.”

“You can’t trust it, but you feel like you should listen to it?”

“Don’t waste time.”

“I’m not wasting time. Decide whether to take out my brain as planned, or stop fighting and talk within 10 minutes.”

Cheojeojeojeojeok!

Lopez reabsorbed the fluid he had put outside into his body.

“10 minutes. The choice between us will change the future of the local galactic group.”

And then Lopez,

“I’ll push your back. To help you make your choice.”

He said that and caused a dramatic change in all battlefields of the Drake Star State.

🔷🔷🔷

Pajijijijijik!!!

Gats, who had lost his left arm and was covered in blood, split the Teslafortress diagonally. The armor and parts that were split apart were exposed outside, and at the same time, the rear armor of the Teslafortress opened.

Peureureung!

A humanoid escaped from the body of the Teslafortress.

“A humanoid pilot aboard a war machine, are you trying to imitate a human?”

The escaped humanoid immediately got up and Gats stepped forward without hesitation to crush it.

“. . .I guess this is it.”

“Yes. This is it. Teslafortress.”

“No, that’s not what I’m talking about.”

At that moment, illusions appeared around Gats, around the Teslafortress, and all over the Asilomar Ziggurat site.

Jijijijijijing. . .!

Parts and armor were generated out of thin air in an instant and took the form of machines.

Humanoids with triangular heads, war machines, tanks suddenly occupied all positions, and a huge four-legged multi-tank appeared behind the Teslafortress.

Gats, who was about to finish Teslafortress, couldn’t help but raise his head as high as he could to look up.

“Teslafortress. The shield of Drake was lying on the floor or rolling around. Pathetic.”

“Long time no see. Overlecter.”

“Send me the channel code. I don’t want to communicate by voice.”

The 65m-high multi-tank had the appearance of a strange giant, without any muzzles, barrels or launch pads for attack.

Gats was overwhelmed by the size of it and the army of machines of unknown form that appeared around it.

“What are you. . .?”

The strange multi-tank stretched out a machine arm from its thick legs and pulled the Teslafortress, which was in a humanoid pilot state, toward it.

While answering Gats’ question.

“Mediator.”

🔷🔷🔷

➖Master. . .! Unidentified machines suddenly appeared on the ground and orbit of all celestial bodies. . .!

Kreion received Ludwig’s urgent waves.

And Lopez said, as if he had read Kreion’s face even though he couldn’t see it.

“It’s a phase assault force sent from the center of our galaxy.”

‘Phase. . . Assault. . .?’

“The deployment range is at the galaxy level.”

A storm of uncontrollable thoughts raged in Kreion’s head. It was a huge storm that could never be summed up in a few sentences, and emotions like anger were eaten away by the storm of thoughts and disappeared.

At that moment, Lopez, as he had declared earlier, pushed Kreion’s back.

“The reason I told you to choose within 10 minutes is because the Vehlpciaarct and the Human Allied Forces will arrive with Nazar in 16 minutes.”

When he heard that, his breath seemed to stop.

Events, situations, thoughts, wars, all of them seemed to stop as if they had a grace period of 10 minutes.

So the storm of thoughts that had been raging uncontrollably felt like it had stopped for a moment, and only then was Kreion able to put a meaningful question in his mouth.

“. . .What is your identity?”

At that single question, Lopez, who had been expressionless all the time, gave a very faint smile.

“Kreion. Half of your genes are mixed with those of the mother experimental body.”

Lopez showed his fist.

“That’s the pure power of the Chimeraz.”

Then Lopez pointed to his head.

“And the other half of your body is the pure power of ‘human beings’.”

At that moment, Kreion’s face was reflected in Lopez’s blue mechanical pupil,

Lopez’s face was reflected in Kreion’s glowing purple pupil.

The two faces reflected in the two pupils of different colors were not faces that could be said to be absolutely evil, and to put it the other way around, they were basically ‘good-looking’.

“. . .You are the child who received half of my genes.”

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