Chapter 800 – First Sortie
Not long after positive opinions emerged, negative opinions began to trickle in from some quarters. The negative opinions also had their own truth, so Seong-il listened to them as well and nodded.
“… The biggest threat is that the Eden Hunters may lose the opportunity to escape and suffer damage due to the asymmetrical power of the administrator?”
“That’s right. In theory, it is said that it is possible to escape the administrator’s attacks sufficiently, but… There is no guarantee that they will continue to fall victim to the same pattern.”
“Hmm…”
As Seong-il ponders Claudia’s words, one word comes out of the mouth of Ruchel, who was quietly listening to the whole story.
“It’s actually easy to neutralize an administrator.”
“… Yes!?”
When Ruchel makes a shocking statement, Seong-il and everyone in the audience look at him in surprise. He smiled sheepishly at that gaze and calmly explained how to protect the Eden Hunter from the administrator.
“It’s simple. Seongil… No, the seeker just needs to show an unconventional performance in the capital, Seoul.”
Ruchel strongly emphasizes the need for Seong-il to stimulate managers by appearing openly and frequently in Seoul. He argues that Seong-il, playing the role of a seeker, should attract the attention of the managers by kidnapping the citizens of Seoul in front of the managers or killing the high-ranking hunters of the association hunters who are acting as the main leaders. They argue that if they do that, Eden Hunters operating in relatively rural or remote areas will be safe from threats from administrators.
“Of course, of course, my plan has the prerequisite that Seongil can fight on equal footing with the manager, or even overwhelm him.”
“I think we can do something with these two guys.”
In the past, he was a manager who was feared like a demon, but to Seong-il now, they are considered worthy enemies. In addition, he explains to everyone that not all managers are strong and that there are differences in skills.
“Huh… There’s a manager who has a lot of practical experience, and there’s a manager whose skills get rusty just sitting at the desk in the office?”
“That’s right. Jo Woo-young did that. He was the guy who focused on ‘cultivating’ the students from the rear, so in a way, it might be natural for him.”
“Well…”
However, Seong-il believes that if he causes a ruckus, there is a high possibility that managers will appear quickly in the future, and if more than five people gather together, he could face a quite big crisis.
“In the past, that would have been a big problem… But now there are Withgrasil’s branches and the Dimensional Pineapple House, so it won’t be a problem. In addition, there’s the Evergreen Bracelet.”
In the past, Seong-il had a fatal flaw in that if he escaped to the inner plane in an emergency, he had no choice but to return to the place he fled. However, now that many Pineapple Houses have been created, and it is possible to go in and out of places unrelated to the casting location, Ruchel is confident that Seongil will be safe even from the manager’s concerted attack.
“Coordinate tracking is no problem. Instead of acting immediately after leaving the dimensional Pineapple House, all you have to do is open a portal with the Evergreen Bracelet and move to the location scouted by the scout.”
“Hmm… But the evergreen bracelet has a distance limit of 100 km per day…”
“Distance? That’s not a problem either. All you have to do is stop real time in the Inner Plane and take a day off to fill the cooldown. In the end, if you use the Evergreen Bracelet one more time to return to reality the next day, all problems will be solved. .”
“That’s right.”
Seong-il realizes that his range of activities and stability have greatly improved thanks to Pineapple House. With the whole situation in his head, he realizes that he needs to act as a decoy, as Ruzel said, to catch the attention of the Transcendence Church’s main enemy.
“… But the Transcendence Church is not stupid and won’t they adapt to that pattern someday? They say they’ll increase administrators from other regions.”
“Then, conversely, Seongil can go to another area.”
Ruchel emphasizes Professor Ahindel’s words that if such a problem arises, Seong-il can respond by increasing the size of the plan.
“Reinforcements have arrived from the American continent? Then, conversely, Seongil can give up the Korean region and go to the European continent and cause trouble. Strong control will be imposed on the Korean provinces? In that case, Seongil will cause trouble in Seoul. Hunters can operate in the Americas.”
“Hmm…”
“On the surface, the Transcendence Church appears to be an entity so powerful that it cannot even be countered, but it has a surprisingly weak point. I think Seongil must have figured that out through its leader, Illax, right?”
“… You mean AI tracking?”
Seong-il realizes what Ruchel’s intention is in bringing up the topic, and he talks about the formidable AI army that Illax showed in the past.
“That’s right. When dimensional movement had just begun, the dimension itself was unstable, so the Transcendence Church, which did not have to worry about being tracked by AI, mobilized all available forces to attack humanity. But is that still possible?”
“Definitely…”
Since it has been 30 years since the Transcendental Church stayed in the ‘coordinates’ of Earth, Seong-il recalls that it is very possible for AI to find and track the Transcendental Church if a specific trigger is pulled.
“Why doesn’t the Ark awaken additional power even though it is in turmoil? The answer to that question is already available. The Transcendence Church is fearful. Since they have already been on Earth for a long time, if they use excessively powerful power, they will be punished by the AI. I will hear it.”
“Uhm…”
“Of course, it is important to keep the ‘line’. If you push them too far, they may run amok, violating the ‘doctrine’ they have desperately maintained.”
Ruchel pushes the Transcendental Church excessively and warns them that they will violate the principle of ‘natural birth’, which they desperately tried to protect, and manipulate human genes or build ‘pregnancy factories’.
“It would be important to walk a tight line.”
“That’s right. It’s important to look as ‘struggle’ as possible. If done well, it’s good to give a feeling of control.”
Ruzel predicts that if such a grueling power struggle passes a certain threshold, the power of Eden will rise to the level of direct confrontation with the Transcendence Church. He measures the timing well and argues that all forces must be turned into an offensive at once to prevent the Transcendence Church from doing such terrible things.
“You need to steadily increase your power to the point where you can’t even think of building a factory or a gene factory to force pregnancy. If you create a ‘dagger’ that they don’t expect at all, you could deal an even more critical blow to them.”
“Bisura…”
The pattern of rescuing people, turning them into hunters, training them, and then distributing them to the world is likely to be read by the Transcendental Church one day, so Ruchel advises that Seong-il should prepare another weapon to deal a fatal blow to them.
“What is that?”
“I don’t know that. It’s your job, seeker, to find it.”
Ruchel’s advice sounds irresponsible at first glance. However, Seong-il understands the hidden intention in his words and begins to think seriously.
‘In the end, what Ruchel is saying is… Borrow the power of the Game Master to travel around the game world and find a weapon to ‘surprise’ a counterattack.’
Visiting a new game world and ‘discovering’ something fatal is something only he can do, so Seong-il was able to realize why Ruchel used such expressions.
“For now… I understand. It’s too early to talk about plan B or C, so let’s focus on A.”
“That’s right. The current results are encouraging enough, so don’t be too frustrated.”
Dr. Rowe comforts Seong-il, who is troubled, and tries to keep him from getting discouraged. In addition, he says that rather than thinking about things in the distant future that cannot be solved yet, let’s think about incorporating ideas that come to mind right away into the present.
“Good. First, to do that, we need to build pineapple houses all over the country…”
Seong-il and the executives unfold the map and have a heated discussion, discussing how to arrange the dimensional pineapple house. After a long time, Seong-il leaves the meeting with a tired expression.
‘… It’s harder than a battle.’
As a heavy responsibility that he had never felt before weighs on his shoulders, Seong-il feels extreme fatigue even though there was no battle. Then. A familiar alarm rings on Seong-il’s phone and catches his attention.
Tiring!
“… What is it? There’s no way he’s already digested the core?”
Usually, when a game master absorbs a large amount of core energy, it takes about 1 to 3 months to completely digest it, so Seong-il looks at the message, puzzled by the sudden alarm.
“Congratulations! You have finally succeeded in upgrading your Game Master’s level from level D to level C! Now, the time Game Master needs to digest the core has been greatly reduced!』
