## Chapter 204 – Cradle of Talent (3)
What is the most important thing for winning a war?
A massive army? Powerful weapons?
Or a foolproof strategy?
Well, there could be many answers, but one of the elements that has always been emphasized throughout history is:
‘Supply’.
‘Throughout the long history of mankind…
No war has ever favored soldiers without supplies.’
As the miserable experiences of soldiers without supplies were widely known through the stories of the few stragglers who miraculously survived.
Since humans do everything to survive, supply was the top priority to secure in order to win a war.
‘You need to be able to eat and use something…
To win a war or whatever……’
And that was the same for me, who was aiming for a war with humans that I might encounter someday.
For me, the most important supply target was, of course, human females.
‘Purple… bold today… no, that’s not it……’
I was momentarily taken aback by Carla jumping over my head as she ran with quick steps.
‘Why are you here again……!!’
Carla, of course, and Yui, and even the woman named Hyeryeong I had seen before.
Looking at the building they were trying to enter, I couldn’t help but scream inwardly.
‘I wondered why so many people were suddenly coming and going……!!’
After discovering a small duplex-like building, I had a firm plan after watching it for a while.
‘If there’s a medical building behind it and an engineering building in front…!!
From a feng shui perspective…
It’s “Baeui Imgong,” so it might be as good as Baesan Imsoo…
Yes, this is the best place to build an outpost…’
The Enic larva that Ranie had painstakingly given birth to.
But it wasn’t some kind of food with preservatives, so it would eventually start to grow over time.
I couldn’t just leave it alone, so I was busy searching for a place to build a new outpost.
‘At first, I thought about building an outpost in the back alley…’
Since the security isn’t good there, it might be convenient for me to go around doing bad things, but conversely, it’s easy to be targeted for bad things.
At least, I needed a minimum distance to protect the newborn Enic.
‘If I plant the Enic larva and it grows…
It will eventually grow like me and start creating a new lair…
Then, with this one, I can exert influence on the engineering and medical buildings.
And my main body can just reach out to the magic and swordsmanship departments as is……’
That’s how the perfect academy domination plan was born!!
Just sitting still and having fresh freshmen and ripe seniors rolling in every year is like a second Marshall Plan.
Now that I’ve tasted the pleasure of the magic department’s women’s restroom, I can aim for sufficient growth just by managing that well.
I planted the Enic larva, wriggling like an earthworm through the Kernel Worms, in the basement of a building that didn’t seem to be used by anyone and didn’t look like much.
‘Grow up well…
I’ll feed you often…!!’
Was this the feeling of a franchisee opening their first franchise?
I had sleepless (I can’t sleep anyway) nights with the hope for the success of the Enic’s second branch and the anticipation of turning the academy into a tentacle pit.
But what do you know.
Was this some kind of trick of fate? Suddenly, from the next day, people started flocking like crazy.
“Tear it down!! Destroy everything!!!!”
‘Oh no!! Sir……!! People live here……!!
My belongings are all ruined……!!
In this day and age, using hired thugs is too much!!’
“The schedule is tight, you guys!!
So are you going to meet the deadline!? Hurry up and destroy it!!”
The Enic, being the good guy (?), could only watch as the hired thugs swept through the building and started building another building on top of it.
‘Why at this timing……
And I can’t even undo it……’
The Enic larva, which used to crawl around like a lively puppy, wriggle and go to Ranie to suckle and fall asleep.
It seemed to have finished preparing to become a plant, as it was completely in a deep sleep and couldn’t be woken up.
The only fortunate thing was that the construction didn’t reach the deep underground where it was located.
‘If they had built even one more basement floor, it would have been the end……’
The moment the larva was discovered, all the people in the neighborhood would have rushed in to chew, tear, taste, and enjoy the Enic, which is good for the body and tastes good.
But in any sense, the problem wasn’t over.
‘Building a new building means there will be more people…
Then there’s no point in choosing a place that looks less crowded……!!’
People often pass by flower beds, but there are times when there are people and times when there aren’t.
Usually, people rush in during school hours, and other than that, you only need to be careful during lunch or dinner time.
But in some ways, that was extremely inconvenient.
‘I can’t let my guard down……’
Anyway, it’s a place where many people pass by.
There might be a student who wants to go home late today, or there might be students who suddenly want to go to school (as if…?) and come earlier than expected.
So, after looking around for a long time, the person inside can open the gate and go out, so it’s like a gatekeeper who blocks access with tension alone.
That’s why concealment was necessary.
If I could choose a place where people don’t come often and let the internal members of the swarm come and go comfortably, it would be easier to increase the academy’s control.
‘But, wait a minute……?’
The place that I thought would be a gold mine turned out to be a useless green belt.
‘So that’s why people ruin their families by investing in real estate…!!
My precious Enic!! A newborn Enic that you can’t buy even with money……!!’
Even I, the main body, don’t know how to create such a larva.
Perhaps the birth of a new larva through Ranie at a time like this was a once-in-decades stroke of luck.
‘But what can I do…
The deed is already done…… sob…’
In the end, I had no choice but to be thankful that a new building was built on top of the newborn Enic, and that prey was gathering there.
‘It’s a good thing in a way…
I don’t have to go looking for them…
Wait…? Why are there tears……?’
Anyway, I was looking forward to a new harvest with a positive mindset.
But of all things, those three women came in.
‘Actually, have I already been caught?
Am I being stalked…?
Otherwise, how can I run into them everywhere…!!’
It was a moment when reasonable suspicion arose, but the important thing was to know what they were trying to do this time.
I controlled a spider and jumped onto Yui’s leg, who was walking quickly behind Carla.
She flinched for a moment, as if she felt the sensation, but silently bit her lip and quietly entered the building.
The building seemed to have made the most of the space, with the stairs leading to the next floor on the side.
But the first floor was skipped, perhaps for something else, and when they went up to the second floor and opened a door, a large laboratory unfolded.
“Wow!! Linegrad flasks!! Petra burners!!
Ah!! This multi-dispensing pipette is expensive!!
A Hi-Tex mixer too!! What do I do……!!”
“Automated centrifuges and state-of-the-art medical equipment…
Even an antibacterial room and an emergency operating room…… Hyeryeong, you spent a lot of money……”
She said she poured her ‘maintenance fee’ into this construction.
If Hyeryeong said she spent a lot, then the amount of money that went in must be beyond imagination.
But as much as she poured in, there seemed to be no shortage in the mansion, no, the workshop.
She received Carla’s orders for the construction, and she had everything she needed according to her taste, and even went a step further and matched high-end equipment.
“It might be as good as the family’s laboratory……!!
Ah… Dad wouldn’t let me touch that…!!
An inferna lamp that generates ultra-high heat…!! It’s so beautiful……!!
Can I turn it on right now…? Hehe… hehe… haa!! haa!!”
‘I think I know why he wouldn’t let you touch it…;;;’
Likewise, since Hyeryeong herself is in the pharmacy department, she seemed to know the tools that Yui, who is in the medical department, would use and prepared them accordingly.
In the first place, pharmacy and medicine use overlapping tools, so she must have had the mindset that they could somehow share them.
In addition, the space to be used with Yui and Hyeryeong didn’t overlap, and it wasn’t too closed off, so in some ways, it felt like watching a splendid multi-field exhibition.
Hyeryeong puffed out her chest and enjoyed the admiration of the two girls as soon as they entered.
“How is it? Do you like it?”
“Yes!! Yes!! It’s really the best!!”
“Hehe… actually, the first floor is the re.al. deal……?”
Hyeryeong looked quite excited as she grabbed Carla’s hand and pulled her.
The space they were assigned was the first and second floors.
What was on the first floor that they had skipped earlier?
Before Yui, who felt uneasy for some reason, could stop them, the two ran down the stairs with quick steps and went down to the first floor.
“Here is… ta-da!! A luxurious resting space!!
High-quality manpower should always separate work and rest spaces…!!”
The interior was worthy of the feeling of a noble’s resting space, with a luxurious scent from the smell.
High-end furniture made of wood that no one could dislike, and spacious sofas made of high-end leather.
In some parts, there were preference items such as scented candles that showed the taste of someone from Chao Xing.
And even the various liberal arts books, professional books, and novels that were full of bookshelves.
Carla couldn’t help but be surprised by Hyeryeong’s big-handed behavior, who said she would use this wide space, where she had built three laboratories upstairs, to rest and decorated it all in.
“I tried it last time and there were many fun games on Proden Ne, so I brought a few myself.
Look at this? Shall we play a round of Aligallyna together?”
‘She must have enjoyed it quite a bit there……?’
But the workshop and rest room were too great to refuse.
In the end, Carla’s right hand, which was happily drawing a card and starting to slam it down on the bed where the two were sitting, looked like it was itching to ring the bell right away.
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.
.
“That’s what it seems like.”
‘So… the three of them are going to use this wide space……?’
“Probably… but as you saw…
We only use two floors.
It’s at least 8 floors high…
Maybe more people will come up…”
Yui, who quietly entered the bathroom of the first floor rest room and sat on the toilet, was whispering to the spider that had gently climbed onto her lap.
Although Hyeryeong provided the funds for the construction, this building was owned by the academy, with a considerable amount of the academy’s funds invested.
The benefits Hyeryeong gained by providing the funds were that she gained an additional floor separate from the floor Carla gained, and the right to freely decorate the gained space.
Then, it was obvious that it would be more profitable for the academy to have them do something rather than leave such a large building idle.
I was told about the recent situation and the situation of the academy from Yui, who hadn’t been to the lair for a while, and I went back to watch the situation again as it was.
And not long after, as I expected, there was a new neighbor who moved into another floor……
“I’ve come to deliver good words~”
Carla’s expression became dumbfounded as she greeted the new neighbor who visited not long after hearing the sound of knocking on the door.
Because… that’s right……
“The weather is really nice today.
It’s all because you’ve accumulated a lot of merit.”
“Yes…? What… are you saying……?”
“I’ve come to deliver good words?
By any chance……. Do you know the…… Way?”
The new resident of the high-rise workshop was none other than a cult, which I had only heard about.
