Chapter 794 – First Sortie
After completing all the preparations, they begin to move to reality after a long time through the dimensional door under the guidance of Seongil.
“Everyone. The operation plan must have been turned on in augmented reality, right?”
“Yes!!”
Instead of answering Seong-il’s question, the students answer him with a special cry that only those who have been implanted with nanomachines can hear.
“Okay. Yuk Hyung-jin’s team goes to Area A. Ryu Mi-Hyun’s team goes to Area B…”
Seong-il makes the trained hunter teams leave for their respective areas according to the operation plan distributed through the augmented reality of nanomachines. The past few days, Seong-il had conducted a preliminary survey based on the game master’s dungeon map, so the information about the collapsed Seoul underpass that the hunters were trying to move to was revealed to be close to perfect.
Even, the Gaia system implements a map in virtual reality and trains students to move in advance. Therefore, when Seong-il’s order is given, the students begin to move toward the Seoul underpass without hesitation, as if they are accustomed to it.
“Whoa… Once the hunters’ orders are finished…”
Seong-il confirms that the students have succeeded in entering 15 activated dungeons by point without any problems by using a mini-map marked with the Seoul underpass, which is turned on in augmented reality.
‘Should I proceed with ‘reconnaissance’ in this area now?’
Concerned that the Transcendental Church would react due to excessive dungeon entry, or that the Ark forces would raid the Eden Hunters, Seong-il deliberately did not enter the dungeon as much as himself and decided to scout the outside.
Wow…!!
A huge number of swarm drones spreading out in all directions. Seong-il herself had already explored the area by herself, but at that time she was as careful as possible to protect herself from the eyes of the Transcendental Church, so she was unable to explore as openly as she is now.
‘There is no guarantee that this can continue.’
Right now, the Transcendence Church is being helpless because they have not properly grasped or recognized the existence of Holy Day, but the more the damage accumulates, the more likely they are to devise countermeasures in some way, so they are not prepared for Holy Day. I decided to use the most drastic move now.
“Found.”
Shortly after spraying hundreds of multi-drones, Seong-il was able to discover underground refugees active underground. Interestingly, some areas were equipped with quite a defense system, and there were also areas that blocked Seong-il’s drone search.
‘Let’s start with a small area first.’
Too many at once. Also, if a large area is ‘cleared’, it may alert the Transcendental Church and the Hunter Association, which are fostering them by ‘grazing’, so Seong-il deliberately decides to ‘kidnap’ small and remote refugees.
“Make sure to block the escape route well.”
“Huh!”
『Yes… Master… Kkeuh…!!』
For a moment, Demilich frowned in pain as if he had disrespectful thoughts toward the holy day. The sight of a lich with obsidian and blood-red ruby eyeballs floating around, frowning like a fleshy creature gave goosebumps to those who saw it, but Seong-il, having encountered all sorts of grotesque things, had no idea what he was like. I don’t mind.
Seong-il, who placed a demilich, five cloned souls, and a doll of the creator, on three routes that the refugees must pass through to escape, Seong-il gave them the branch of Weedgrassil he had brought beforehand and opened a dimensional door to those who escaped if they caught them. Ordered to let go.
Even by summoning a lot of regular alter egos and helping them with chores, the fairly wide collapsed subway underground in Seoul feels narrow for a moment.
“Agent. If you roll the head, I’ll lock you in the void for a thousand years like the last time, so do it right.”
『Is it possible!! Master!!”
Argent, who was once the emperor of the great Mado Empire, humbles himself like the humblest slave in the world at Seong-il’s bluff, and starts flirting with Seong-il.
He lived over a thousand years and experienced all kinds of joys and sorrows, but he was the god of the moon. No, the prison of emptiness created by the being who has now become the god of darkness gave the demilich a terrible pain that was incomparable to the previous one.
‘…A thousand years again in a space of nothingness where there is nothing!!’
Demilich trembles as he recalls how the new owner threw him into the abyss for a thousand years, not long ago, saying he didn’t like the look in his eyes.
In fact, it was a thousand years for him, but for Seong-il, the period was only 10 days in reality, so there was no burden at all, so Seong-il was just a bluff.
However, for a lich who lived a meaningless and boring life in a space where nothing existed for a thousand years, the bluff of Holy Day never came as a simple bluff.
‘A true hell where you can’t even use magic…!!’
The abyss where Seong-il imprisoned himself was just dark and there were no laws of all things, so it was a hellish space where he couldn’t even think of casting magic. Because of this, even the lich, who endured well at first, eventually succumbed to boredom and cried out in the void after only a year, begging for mercy from Seongil every day.
Even suicide is impossible, self-injury does not feel pain, and a hopeless situation in which the damaged body recovers in an instant. However, the truly terrible thing was that even though the lich was in so much pain, Seong-il, who caused the pain, had completely forgotten about the lich.
‘Are you going to work hard at once? After all, if you rebel like the god of darkness said, is it the end if you punish me once?’
Seong-il tried to free Argent after punishing him for about a day in real time. However, after imprisoning him, Seong-il went back and forth in the martial arts world to deal with this and that, so he forgot to free the lich, and thanks to that, the lich had to suffer terribly for a thousand years without doing anything in the void.
Horrifyingly, it was impossible to go crazy thanks to the curse of the dark god. For the lich who was tortured in such a terrible hell of boredom, the ‘task’ is now a kind of reward, so the lich obediently obeys the words of the holy day.
However, Seong-il, who did not know that fact, just mistakenly thought that Richie was seeing an opportunity to rebel against him, and sooner or later, if he made even the slightest mistake or rebelled, he decided to apply the same ‘corporal punishment’ as before.
‘Here.’
Seong-il arrives at a small community where quite a few underground refugees live.
‘The population is… About 500 people? There are a few psionic users… And even though it’s a small cave, it has quite a population.’
Seong-il was able to quickly identify the population that survived underground by spreading the response widely here. Realizing that there are so many people living in this surprisingly small area, he is surprised to realize that it is possible for a surprisingly large number of people to live in this poor underground.
“How on earth were you able to survive…?”
Seong-il is amazed at the tenacious vitality of people living in a hellish space where basic necessities such as water and food, as well as medicines, are in short supply.
“Who are you!!”
Seong-il was surprised and exclaimed at that time. A cognitive enhancer, who appears to be a hunter, stands guard and shouts a sharp shout in the direction Seong-il muttered.
“Hello?”
“…Intruders!!”
Even though the suspicious being was discovered by him, when the monster answered with a very relaxed attitude, the cognitive enhancer who was standing on the alert shouted sharply and warned his colleagues that an uninvited guest had invaded.
Eeeee!!!
Surprisingly, the sound of a siren shrieking through the cavity. When such a small community is equipped with a fairly good alarm system, Seong-il admires the pure appearance.
“Who are you? For what purpose?”
The appearance of vigilantes who arrived quickly after receiving an alert. Seong-il is interested in the appearance of a group of abilities based mostly on body strengthening abilities.
‘I see… Underground is usually run by people with physical enhancement abilities?’
Simple body enhancers were not very attractive to the Transcendental Church because mind transplant surgery was almost impossible, so they deliberately ‘grazing’ them in the harsh underground to make lower powers crave new abilities and grow into double abilities. It seemed.
‘…If you’re lucky enough to wake up as a double under the influence of the dungeon you created underground, then you just have to ‘harvest’, right? There is a high possibility that people with useful abilities other than the physical body were secretly scouted from the ‘Ark’.’
The holy day is a very short time. It was a very short situation, but he quickly succeeded in grasping the rotating composition of the underground city. Seeing Seong-il thinking about something out of the blue instead of answering, the vigilantes think that he has a plan, so they take up weapons and start to surround him.
