Chapter 652 – The Doll’s Knight
“No. Yuna-nim found a way.”
“…What kind of method?”
If G.E.C.R can be mass-produced, it is like acquiring a powerful army that can fight against the alien civilization that dominates mankind, so Seong-il asks Edward’s answer with a serious expression.
『Simple! You are handing over my master’s artifact, the ‘Ethereal of Matter’.”
“…The Ethereal Stone?”
Seong-il frowns at the sudden request for the transfer of the Ethereal Stone. Perhaps having read the owner’s uncomfortable feelings, Edward quickly explains the reason for his need.
『Currently, the only abundant resource in the desolate Inner Plane is the abundant magic provided by Young Sam and Widgrasil.』
『The problem is that this magical power only has a strong influence on life, and has no contact with direct resource reduction.』
『However, the story is different with the Ethereal Stone. Stone is the ultimate artifact that can create tangible substances based on mana. If the owner gives it as a resource generation material for the G.E.C.R Factory, we will be able to overcome the limitation of not having minerals.”
‘Ah, that’s it.’
Seong-il listens to Edward’s explanation and realizes why he asked for the Ethereal Stone.
In addition, he felt that it was a very reasonable and advantageous offer, so he decided to lend the stone to Edward, although it was a pity.
‘…It’s not like I can’t do anything without a stone.’
For his own army. In addition, in order to enrich the desolate Inner Plains, Seong-il gives Edward an artifact he cherished and treasured.
“Thank you! Sooner or later, when the G.E.C.R factory is completed, I will return to train by my master’s side!”
“Hmm? Is it okay without you?”
“Sure! Over time, there will also be a degraded version manager program for Gaia’s system, so once the factory is complete, you don’t need the me.”
“Ohh…”
Since Edward was a really useful subordinate, Seong-il nodded and replied that he knew.
‘Shall we collect some of the remaining Ethereal Stones? And when a large number of G.E.C.Rs are mass-produced…’
While he’s thinking about it, the drone controlled by Edward starts flying towards the factory with the stone.
“Hey…”
“Hmm?”
While chewing on Edward’s words, Seong-il turns his head again when he hears a beautiful voice beside him. Then you see two cute girls.
“Ah… I’m sorry. Ira. Have your feelings calmed down?”
“Yes…”
Aira realized through this tour that Seong-il was a greater existence than I thought. She nods her head with a slightly intimidated expression at the question of her holy day.
Seong-il, who felt uncomfortable with her appearance, answered by patting her Aira on the back lightly.
“After training, you will be dispatched to the world of dolls again. I will appoint you as the manager there, so from now on, keep in touch with Ruchel while producing dolls.”
“Hmm…”
“And tell me if the cultists stir up. I’ll always help you with your revenge.”
“…Thank you.”
Seeing Seong-il take care of herself until the end, Aira expresses her gratitude to him in a sincere tone, perhaps thrilled.
Leaving orders such as monitoring the cocooned doll, making contact with Ruchel, and making dolls, he quickly walks to the spirit spring to meet the goddess.
“Are you here! Great Master!』
When Seong-il appears, the goddess erases the aloof expression she used to show to her followers and approaches Seong-il with a bewitching smile.
As she massages the huge breasts of her goddess held in her arms, her holy day explains to her about the situation she was going through just a moment ago.
Seong-il tells her goddess that she is worried that the Inner Plane, the spiritual dimension of divinity, has been pierced and that there is no law preventing this kind of problem from occurring again in the future.
“You don’t have to worry about that!”
“…?”
A beautiful voice coming from the wrong direction, not from the goddess. When Seongil turned his head, he could see Widgrasil, whose spiritual body was much darker than before.
“Oh! You’ve grown a lot?”
“Yeah! Spirit’s energy is getting stronger, so the alter ego is almost complete!”
Sooner or later, Seong-il thinks that he will be able to fuck this cute girl, and Seong-il starts laughing at her satisfaction.
Either way, Weed Grassil comes to Seong-il and tells him what he thinks about her dimension invasion.
『In that “Doll world,” Without me and the Goddess, that god of death would have been able to infiltrate. If we are there, it should be considered impossible for other divine beings to infiltrate this place. Especially with me!』
Weed Grasil begins to explain why the dimensional defense differs greatly depending on whether he is present or not.
Bondi, as he is an exceptional being in handling dimensions, he says that if he had his main body or alter ego in the Inner Plane, no matter how powerful the divine being, he would never have been able to penetrate this place.
『In addition, the goddess of harvest is here? Then it becomes even more impossible! When a divine being dominates a dimension, its authority is enormous.”
“Ohh…”
Seong-il is relieved to realize that, fortunately, the inner plane of the real world has incredibly strong defenses, unlike the world of puppets.
After reading his feelings, Widgrasil smiled and handed his tree branch to Seong-il.
『By the way, try planting my seedlings in other worlds as well! Then at least I can safely protect the planted Inner Plane dimension from outside invasion!”
“Oh oh!!”
Seong-il feels reassured by Widgrasil’s words, which are so trustworthy.
“Uh…?”
And the thrilling feelings you feel. Seong-il feels that the point that Widgrasil said will be quite important in the future.
‘…I have to remember this well.’
I can’t guess the reason, but since the response won’t warn me for no reason, Seong-il decides to embed the sensations he felt today into his head as much as possible.
Taking her advice, Seong-il explains her Aira to Wid Grassil, and she promises to give her Aira many branches for her future wooden doll.
“Okay good! Things are going smoothly.”
Seong-il feels very satisfied after seeing all the difficult problems that start to be solved as soon as one is solved.
‘First of all, in the farm world, about half of Mineral City have already become followers of the Goddess… Sooner or later, the world will be completely occupied by the Goddess.’
As it was originally a place where the goddess faith existed, it seems that the propagation was quick.
Seong-il first took control of the farm world to saturate the power of the goddess and Widgrasil, then she decided to further strengthen her power by spreading the goddess faith to other game worlds.
“Ira. Did you use the Mirror World enough?”
“Ah, to some extent. What are you doing…?”
Seong-il explains to Aira his plan to use her Lucille by using the Mirror World.
After hearing all that, Ira nods her head, then she says that his cause is right, and that she will return the mirror.
“But that magic imprint…”
“…?”
“If you use it well, I think you can engrave it on a wooden doll?”
“!?”
When Aira suddenly declares her bombshell, her Sung-il is really startled and glares at her.
Ira, who made an embarrassed expression at that gaze, continued her words while scratching her head.
“Ah, it’s not confirmed… From what I’ve heard, it sounds like the act of carving a magic circle… That’s my area of expertise. If I could learn it, I’d probably give it a try, so…Wouldn’t it be okay?”
“There’s nothing wrong with it! I’ll call Yuna right away!!”
Seong-il tells Aira with an excited look on his face that it would be of great help if his alter ego could use magic using magic imprints.
In such a situation, Yuna appeared soon after, covered in sweat from hard work, and the two technicians began to have a deep conversation.
“Hmm… I think I’ll really try it…”
Unexpectedly, after hearing Yuna’s story and realizing that her skills aren’t very high-level, Ira really feels the urge to try her own ideas.
Encouraged by that appearance, Seong-il tells Yuna and orders her to help her Aira with all her might when her construction is finished.
***
‘Whoa… Now it’s time to deal with the imprinting problem that has been bothering me for so long.’
A few days later, when the mirror world cooldown returns, Seong-il settles down in front of it with a nervous expression.
“Exactly one month ago…”
Seong-il fights with Ruchel and picks up her lipstick, recalling the day she kidnapped him.
“Hey… Is there anything wrong?”
She checks carefully to see if she wrote down the date correctly, confirms that there is nothing wrong with the date, and creates a mirror world.
***
The scene of the Little Pineapple House seen through the full-length mirror. Seong-il feels awe at the creepily identical interior.
“Oh my master? What kind of mirror is this all of a sudden?”
“…There is such a thing.”
After defeating the questioning fake Elysia, Seong-il steps outside where Lucille is waiting.
‘Whoa… It’s like a real gem.’
She doesn’t have a full-length mirror, and if she hadn’t been aware beforehand that this place was an illusion of her own making, she thinks that even if she was herself, she wouldn’t have realized that this place was a fantasy world on her holy days.
“Are you here?”
“Oh, sorry. I had to prepare something for a while.”
“Haha.”
Ruchel seemed to think that she had gone to prepare some potions and items for herself.
“Then shall we go back?”
“…Wait a minute.”
Originally, he should have broken up with Ruchel after using the inner plane, but Seong-il has a purpose, so he stops Ruchel.
“Hmm? Weren’t we all sorted out?”
Ruchel puts on a puzzled expression when she sees Seong-il, who had organized everything in detail a little while ago, and then calls himself out of nowhere.
“I have something to help you with.”
Seong-il explains the situation at Mythology Academy and the transcendental history. In addition to being intelligent, he seems to understand the situation quickly because he has already seen the situation through the memory orb.
“Hmm… You mean to put on some kind of play?”
“Yes. As elaborate as possible.”
“…I have to learn the secret art to do an elaborate play.”
Ruchel looks at Seong-il with an expression of nonsense and replies.
“I told you just a moment ago. If I learn a secret technique like magic engraving and accidentally leak it, or if the enemy steals information from me, it could be the starting point of a great incident in this world.”
“Uh… Well…”
“Right now, our world is in a kind of pre-storm situation, before a major event takes place. Because of this, it is difficult to accept a request that may be a variable.”
Luchel’s splendid speech that makes the holy day speechless. Because of this, Seong-il scratches his head and ponders.
‘What’s up? Forced?’
However, the man in front of him is not an ordinary person, but a great sage who has had a greater impact on the world of dolls than the main character.
Because of this, Seong-il feels that the only answer is to tell the truth rather than forcefully or fooling around.
‘Okay. Let’s just say If it’s not anyone else, if it’s Lucille, he might even endure that he’s an illusion. And what if not? It’s enough to make a new plan.’
“…?”
As Seong-il is seriously thinking about something, Ruchel just looks at Seong-il with a serious expression, perhaps feeling something.
“In fact…”
Seong-il begins to recite all the truth to Ruchel. In fact, this is a fake world created by divine artifacts, and all characters except Seong-il himself are sophisticated fantasy beings created in a virtual timeline with a one-month expiration date.
“…Are you serious?”
Seeing Ruchel’s bewilderment, Seong-il is troubled for a moment because it is difficult to explain.
‘Ah, if that’s the way…’
Then Seong-il came up with a good idea and took out a memory marble to extract the memory.
After that, Seong-il injects the original event from the current timeline and gives it to Ruchel.
“…”
In front of the eyes of Lucille who accepted it, the memories he experienced a little while ago begin to unfold.
Not long after that, surprisingly, the image of Seong-il breaking up with himself in the memory appears.
And a strange mirror appeared. Ruchel watches for a moment as Seong-il builds a detective world with the artifact that can create elaborate fantasy worlds and looks inside.
Of course, Seong-il, who had no intention of revealing his obscene shame, erased his memories related to The Club, so his time passed quickly.
Not long after, the past world created by Aira appears in front of Ruchel’s eyes, making her realize that the mirror Seong-il talked about is a truly great divine artifact.
‘…Was it real?!’
In the meantime, he sees the Apostles of the Four Gods appearing in the Inner Plane and a fierce battle takes place.
After witnessing the process of Seong-il killing the apostle of death, Ruchel realizes that he is not talking nonsense and hardens his expression.
“…Was it really?”
Uncharacteristically for Lucille, her expression turned pale. He looks at Seongil staggeringly, perhaps feeling a little dizzy.