Chapter 918 – #200_Cyberpunk and Witches (2)
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One.
The other day, Siwoo and Deneb were trapped in the pocket dimension.
A medieval port city divided into day and night.
This is the fish tank where the Kraken of Rruye was kept.
That’s why, even before entering, I thought that the pocket dimension containing the lock would welcome me with a medieval or even earlier appearance.
Wouldn’t that be the right time as well?
You have to use your imagination a little more to say, ‘Still, since the Witch of Creation made it herself, isn’t it similar to Ars Magna Town?’
Who could have predicted that a battle with a cyberpunk feel would await.
Nevertheless, Siwoo and his party ran toward Daejeon, the city of entertainment and pleasure, shining like a lighthouse in the middle of a dark wilderness.
It entered as soon as the lock gate opened, but there are two rivals called achievements.
It was necessary to head to the center of the city faster than anyone else.
“This… What happened?”
“I will say so.”
“My dear, Daejeon was originally… Like this, um… Is it a developed city?”
“No, it’s not like this anyway.”
Everyone was talking half-frozen.
Even Rinne, who is usually less emotionally agitated, is asking a slightly stupid question, so she is shocked.
“It is not an illusion.”
“It seems so.”
Apart from that, Eloa, Siu, and Rinne are all Archwitches.
I am convinced that this is an obvious reality.
As in Happy Pig, she did not mistake her dream for reality from the entry stage, but entered with her own two feet with a clear awareness, so there is no room for confusion.
So it’s not a dream or a fantasy.
Siu looked ahead again.
Skyscrapers in the form of curtain walls with steel pillars and glass walls rise jaggedly as if they were about to invade even the divinity.
It is a future city with several future-oriented towers of Babel that cannot be covered by tall concrete walls.
I haven’t even looked inside yet…
There is already something strange here.
“Wasn’t the witch of creation at least from BC?”
“I don’t have exact records, but… If you infer from the timing, he is a person from around the 2nd or 3rd century at the latest.”
“Are there other places like this that the Witch of Creation created?”
“I have never heard of such a report. Most of them were primeval forests untouched by humans, or landscapes of very old cities.”
On the other hand, as much as it is said to be the beginning of all witches, the witch of creation is a figure in a long history.
There was no proper record, and witches can only guess her great footsteps from the fragments of her achievements found in her relics.
A head-ache paradox arises here.
The Witch of Creation is a figure from the past.
Daejeon, the city of pleasure, is the city of the future.
In other words, a person from the past called the Witch of Creation created a pocket dimension containing a future city.
Even if you concede a hundred times and put aside the question of “How in the world?”
I couldn’t even find an answer to the question ‘why?’.
Besides, is this really the future? Or is it just a closed world created by the Witch of Creation with her imagination? Running along the asphalt road while thinking the same arrogant thoughts for about a minute.
Before I knew it, I reached the front of the concrete fort that looked like a small fort.
As I got closer, I saw things that I couldn’t properly see from a distance.
This wall, reaching a height of several hundred meters, was probably built to fulfill its duty as a wall.
And it must have been done in practice.
“It’s a sign of magic.”
“Right.”
The rugged gray-white walls clearly showed that the collapsed areas had been reinforced.
The scars that are left after being broken and repaired cannot be the same as before.
Those traces were the traces of destruction caused by attack magic.
My head is complicated again, but there is nothing I can do here anyway.
“I have to go in at once.”
“Yes.”
An arched gate with a large inscription, ‘South Gate’.
I stepped into a tunnel reminiscent of the castle of the castle.
2.
Like a fort built to prevent an enemy invasion, there wasn’t just one wall.
Another wall can be seen inside.
Circumstantialally, it seemed to be divided into compartments with layers of walls like the inner and outer walls.
Inevitably smaller than the outer castle walls, the material appears to be more durable chrome.
Anti-aircraft turrets (probably) pointing towards the sky as if they were densely covered with thorns were also noticeable.
Even the skyscrapers seen from the outside were all located on the inner side.
“Is it that the more important facilities are gathered in the back?”
“I see. Apparently there are no people.”
“Not a single mouse.”
“Usually pocket space is like this.”
Siu knows about this urban structure.
“Something like Gehenna.”
Ars Magna Town in the center.
On the outskirts is Lenormand Town.
Also on the outskirts is Taro Town.
Gehenna, though without walls, has a similar structure.
The dark clouds, which had been thick ever since we were outside, eventually dropped the autumn rain.
The already depressing street gave off an even more desolate atmosphere.
Apart from the level of development, it is a desolation that comes out because there are no people.
No one lived here.
Like the fishbowl in Rruye, all humans had disappeared neatly, as if they had evaporated.
Although the scenery of the cyberpunk war that has become a ghost town is slightly creepy, there is nothing special about it.
It was not a city for witches to live in like Gehenna or Hexennacht, but it was just a place to place a ‘lock gate’, so there was no need for people to live there.
The outlying area between the outer and inner walls was more ordinary than I thought.
I hesitated to answer again if a prefabricated apartment building with dozens of floors of uniform cubes was ordinary, but at least I didn’t see any advanced civilization at an unimaginable level.
A car parked without an owner in the middle of the road has a strange hovering device instead of wheels.
The shape of the logo of the convenience store franchise you knew earlier has changed.
Neon signs flashing everywhere so much that it hurts the eyes.
For example, a sophisticated hologram replaces the role of a signboard.
It had that feature…
That’s it.
Calling it cyberpunk means something boring.
It was clear that both prosperity and pleasure were all lies.
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It may seem like a quiet city, but it is not.
It was because a cylindrical drone that detected a passer-by was roaming around and reciting an advertisement catchphrase.
“Is it because it’s a suburban area? It seems to me that it feels desolate…”
“It seems to be a residential area.”
“Usually, when you think of cyberpunk cities, the outskirts are like slums, but it doesn’t feel like that again.”
I retook my steps a little more.
As I got out of the densely populated residential area, I saw a place that could be called downtown.
A large building presumed to be a long line of shopping malls or complex shopping malls.
Still, it was interesting at first, but I quickly got used to the streets with only banal neon lights.
Speeding up, the three soon reached the entrance of the castle, which was coated with chrome alloy.
“It seems that the entrance to the inner world is closed.”
“I have to go upstairs. Will that turret or something work?”
Unlike the wide open southern gate, the tightly closed iron gate of the inner sanctuary shows no signs of moving.
But three of them are witches.
An obstacle that is only 3,400 meters long is not much different from a slightly steep staircase.
The three of them climbed over the wall in an instant while the turret, which was their only concern, showed no movement.
“… Crazy.”
“This, this…”
“…”
The scenery seen from a high place, as if standing on an observatory, showed a completely different world from the outlying cities.
In the first place, the amount of light emitted from the city is different.
It was a city where the boundary between night and day disappeared thanks to the blessing of neon signs.
The building rises high without knowing the limit, showing what a skyscraper is.
Sky bars and restaurants stretched out like branches around high-rise buildings.
Intricately tangled rails and trains running fast on them among countless electronic signboards and super-large holograms projected on the streets as screens.
A large ferris wheel made of glass and steel that goes round and round.
Casinos and hotels with such casinos are tightly packed, dividing the area with colorful lights.
It was a feast and festival of light that could not be covered even by thick rain.
I’ve been to Las Vegas when I was studying abroad, and it’s several times more spectacular visually and technically.
Lastly, a huge building that marks the center of the city.
The other buildings are also tall, but the building in the middle is at a different height compared to the surrounding buildings.
A building that overlooks the city while standing tall.
In fact, buildings lose their usefulness when they rise above a certain height.
The effect of cost reduction in terms of land utilization becomes inefficient at once when the number of floors exceeds a certain number.
That’s why the building in the center was a product of luxury and ostentation.
“… Master.”
However, Siu’s silence wasn’t just because he was overwhelmed by the scenery of the city.
The most obvious difference, which could not be seen in the outskirts, was entering the golden left eye.
Just the flow of magical power.
The flow of magical power was oozing out from everywhere in the city of Cyberpunk Daejeon, which seemed to have no connection with magic.
In other words.
The magnificent light of prosperity that even modern science cannot achieve was the product of a fusion of magic and science.
