Chapter 691 – The Ark
Seong-il realizes that it is not just a cloud.
‘…A cluster of extremely minute machines!’
Seong-il realizes that the bizarre cloud is a cluster of countless microscopic machines.
『Make sure to buy time!!』
The remaining aliens explode their psionic bodies at the commander’s cry and somehow try to stop the machine army.
Kirik…!! Kirik…!!
However, the machine colony does not blink an eye even if it is beaten by all kinds of attacks by such aliens, and tries to transform into something by making terrible and grotesque noises.
Seeing that, the alien army somehow tries to attack the machine colony with all the skills it has to prevent it from incarnating a body, but in the end it can’t do anything.
‘Dimensional door…?’
The colony of machines that have dug into the dimension transforms the colony into a kind of dimensional tunnel and begins to penetrate the dimensional gateway, perhaps for faster and more powerful penetration.
Kiyi Lee Profit!!!
And from the completed dimension gate, along with a creepy noise, ignorant micro-machines start pouring out like a plague.
『God is…!!』
‘Disgusting bastards.’
Seong-il feels disgust instead of sympathy at the sight of aliens seeking salvation, crying out to God for abusing and sacrificing humans.
Shaaaaa!!
Endless swarms of infinite machines start flying towards the aliens like windblown dust.
Seeing that appearance, the aliens send out shouts mixed with beliefs and emotions, and then try to attack the colony with all their might.
The alien army that resists tries their own mighty force field defense, space distortion, physical attack, elemental attack, and even anti-matter attack.
‘…The seeds don’t even work.’
Despite the fact that they were being attacked so bloody that they wondered if they would be able to survive for 5 seconds if they were attacked like that, the mechanical colony somehow didn’t take any damage.
“No!! No!!!!”
Not too fast Slowly, like a sandstorm, the swarm of machines engulfs the nearest alien and devours him with a terrifying sound.
Hard!! Hard!!
‘…Decomposition?’
Interestingly, Seong-il was able to understand that the mechanical colony was not simply killing the alien, but trying to dismantle him and reestablish it as ‘something’.
Squeeze…
When the aliens are separated into atomic units, a chunk of the mechanical colony is suddenly separated and soars into the air.
Seong-il naturally observes the isolated colony alone. And, as if to live up to his expectations, a colony of machines lingers and transforms into something.
‘…Dimensional door?’
The mechanical colony turns into something unknown by creating an empty hole in the shape of a donut like a conventional dimensional door.
‘Hmm? The mechanism is different…?’
The appearance of a donut-shaped sphere that is very different from a dimensional door. Seong-il could feel that the energy density and sophistication were very different from the existing dimension gates.
“Help me!! Aaaaa!!!
“…”
Horrifyingly, a video unfolds on the sphere, revealing an alien figure that was devoured earlier by a colony of machines.
He was being mercilessly tortured on the other side of the screen, presumably changed to what he was before losing his body.
“Stop!! Stop!!!”
A desperate cry pouring out of the alien’s mouth. In the end, the alien who couldn’t stand the torture went crazy.
Knock!! Hard!!
In the meantime, a new monitor is additionally created within the sphere, similar to donut colony meiosis.
『I… Please kill me…!!』
Surprisingly, the appearance of an alien that seems to have been copied. He, like the existing object, begins to receive all sorts of terrible tortures without end.
『Uh… Why?! Why am I again…?』
In the meantime, the machine colony treats the insane alien and restores it to sanity. And the merciless torture begins.
『Kwaaaaa!!』
‘Crazy… If you go crazy, you’ll resurrect them and torture them, and in the end, if that’s not enough, you’ll split the object and torture it further?!’
Seong-il sticks out his tongue at the cruelty of AI beyond imagination. And it seems that the aliens felt the same way, and their faces went pale.
‘I can understand why Illax is frightened. If you are caught by your own people, you will be tortured… But in that case you will die ‘someday’… But if you are caught by the AI, there is no such thing…’
Since the pain that has an end and the pain that lasts forever are completely different, Seong-il was able to realize why Illax was afraid when he thought of AI.
『Rather… I will protect my final dignity with my own hands!!』
An alien who was not a Transcendentalist from the existing group picks up what appears to be an antimatter bomb with a heroic horse and attempts to rush into the group of machines.
Coo coo coo…!!
With a powerful explosion, the alien’s psionic body literally ‘evaporates’.
However, before the terrifying explosion gets bigger, the group of machines surprisingly stops and destroys the explosion once it exceeds a certain level.
‘How the fuck are you doing? I can’t analyze it even with the response… Ah!’
Seong-il tried to figure out the mechanism by scattering emotions. Contrary to what he did not understand at first, when he carefully looked at the process, he was able to grasp how the AI controlled the antimatter explosion through sensitivity.
‘Crazy bastards… You turned back time, didn’t you?!’
Surprisingly, those monsters seemed to have the power to control time.
‘…They’re using the power of time like a shield.’
Of course, he had countless powerful shields, including the basic physical force field and space distortion field, but Seong-il thinks that the most threatening of them is the time shield.
‘…If I do well, I might be able to use it too?’
Seong-il is not able to do it right now, but he instinctively felt that he could use that power through training someday. Because of this, he tries to engrave the scene into his head as much as possible.
While Seong-il focuses on the nanomachine colony for a while, the colony begins to devour the aliens who are steadily resisting.
And as if to show off, the machine colony begins to show off the miserable appearance of the aliens who ate them one by one to their own people.
Even in the midst of that, the alien who was eaten at the beginning was now being mercilessly tortured at high speed after being divided into thousands.
In the end, some of the aliens who couldn’t see the terrible torture their people were subjected to panic turned their backs and tried to escape.
『Sa… Save me!!!』
『Run!!』
When Hana turned her back, panic spread like a plague. Eventually, most of the combatants turn their backs and begin to flee.
Wow…!!
Among them, aliens capable of using short-range teleports or spatial rifts try to use their abilities before others to flee the battlefield.
Kiki!! Snuggle Geek!!
However, whenever they try to escape, the colony emits terrible waves along with a horrifying noise, preventing them from escaping.
『Aagh!!』
The machine colony, which has thoroughly prevented the aliens from dimension-related escape using unknown methods, slowly approaches the aliens one by one and begins to devour them as before.
『Kwaaaaa!!』
Like a giant squeezing an ant with his fingers, the aliens start dying one by one.
『Dimension ark operation complete! The warriors…”
A word that struck Illax’s ear as he watched the whole scene from the rear. Illax, who was in a panic, starts to run like crazy toward the open dimension gate.
‘… This is why when Ilax only thought of AI, he caused a match.’
Seong-il realizes why Illax is so afraid of AI. He sympathized, saying that if he had had the same experience, he would have thought the same.
Even after that, Illax’s journey begins to continue. By the time you settle down in another dimension and rebuild the race, the invasion of a mechanical colony sent by AI like a ghost and your fellow tribesmen fleeing. And history repeats itself.
Eventually, after that terrible experience, the alien realizes that AI is tracking the race based on the causal rate expressed in their bodies.
『I have to be reborn as a body of another race!』
“That is another sin. The sins we committed became our karma, and we rebelled against the machine colony. And the original sin again?”
The head of the Transcendental Church, who has fallen into madness, insists on transplanting minds to other alien races and demands that his own people solve this problem.
However, the group of aliens, who had at least a decent way of thinking, insisted that they should ‘form’ their own bodies instead of transplanting their minds to other races to avoid being tracked by the machine colony.
『With our technology, we can create a new body that is a mixture of machines and living things! That way, you’ll be able to block the AI’s pursuit!』
The two forces begin to build a fierce confrontation angle. However, many aliens, tired of the vicious AI attack, had long been clinging to the fanaticism provided by the Transcendental Church, and rational beings such as Illax were already in the minority and treated as heretics.
『How long do I have to live with the sin of invading the civilization of other intelligent lifeforms and repeating biological experiments against them?』
A handful of so-called ‘Guardians of Reason’, including Illax, eventually get tired of the Transcendentalist’s fanatical behavior and try to meet in secret.
『…We must abandon our bodies and be born anew. However, it should be a way for us to create our own bodies instead of passing the guilt on to other races!”
In the end, the few sane aliens secretly form their own secret society after meeting and start looking for a way to get out of the transcendental bridge.
The time when he had secretly built up his power while wandering the dimensions for so many years. The alien race finally reaches the Earth where humans live.
“Finally! We have arrived at the promised land!”
After countless hours of terrifying dimensional voyage, the appearance of a suitable race finally found.
The Transcendentalists are thrilled and succeed in quickly organizing the civilizations of the Earth and controlling them.
『The glorious time is coming soon! Believers wait for a fable through the promised hibernation!』
The leader of the Transcendence Church puts off the invasion by sealing many of his own people in a dimension so that he can stop the AI’s pursuit for a while.
“Now is the day of opportunity we have been waiting for!”
And the guardians of reason succeeded in robbing a considerable number of dimension arks in a massive rebellion starting from the day when most of the races fell into hibernation.
『We… Will be liberated based on our bodies made of steel!』
With those words, the memory that Illax showed ends, and Seong-il returns to the space where Illax is.
“…Is the ultimate goal of the guardian of reason to change into the body of a machine?”
In fact, he had been hinting at the fact from her first meeting, but since it was the first time he had heard such an explicit story, Seong-il also directly asked Ilax.
『That’s right.』
Ilax explains to Seong-il that he will create a machine body that is a mixture of machines and life forms that can be used by the Guardians of Reason.
『We are going to proceed with mechanization based on the human body that can contain our spirit.』
“…A human body?”
When the guardian of reason also seems to use the human body like a guinea pig, Seong-il frowns and glares at Ilax.
As if understanding his reaction, Illax explained in a soft tone the justification for what he was going to do.
『We have no intention of committing immoral acts like the Transcendence Church. I’m going to use clone technology.』
Ilax tells him that he will create a body based on human genetic samples, and even at least brain, skin, and genitalia.
『Since we’ve gone through countless dimension shifts, it seems unreasonable to have a soul dwell in a normal machine.』
“Hmm…”
『For this reason, we are trying to clone the human body where our mind can ideally reside, and transplant our mind there.』
‘It’s a bit like saying that…’
As Seong-il, the guardian of reason, is also in danger of survival, he cannot deny Ilax’s words that he wants to overcome the crisis by using clone technology.
『Like that… After we have ‘transformed’ our bodies to live in anew…We will leave this place in search of a new world.』
‘Hmm… The response tells me that this is the truth. At this rate, there would be no need to maintain a particularly hostile relationship with the guardians of reason…’
The time when Seong-il was considering reconsidering his relationship with a guardian of the opposite sex. Shocking remarks come out of Ilax’s mouth.
