Chapter 870 – Wind of Change
“What do you have to be thankful for? You revived the World Tree, closed the rift, and even battled the foreign powers and drove them out? Compared to what you have done for our world, our help is nothing more than a bloodshed. .”
“Haha…”
Strictly speaking, there were ‘three’ foreign journalists, but Seong-il did not necessarily bring up the story about Tala.
“I’m ready…!!”
“… Red?”
The door opens, and a beautiful woman appears and beckons to her group. Seong-il, who turned his head at the sound of her familiar voice, was surprisingly able to find her own pocket girl, Red, there.
“Wow!! Seongil!! Are you awake?”
Surprisingly, Red seems to have recovered his intelligence. Her speech was slightly slurred, but compared to her previous vocabulary that was worse than that of a parrot, she now seemed to have developed an intellect that could be described as overwhelming.
“… How?”
『It seems she was also implanted with the Deus Ex Machina system. Master.』
“…!!”
Interestingly, it is Dana who tells Seong-il instead of the others why Red’s intelligence was restored. She says that she can feel psionic patterns similar to her own in Red’s body.
『Although it is a worse version than mine, it is quite advanced compared to the machine from half a year ago.』
Dana explains that perhaps Dr. Woo and other doctors in the Pocket Girls world have developed nanomachines specifically for wild psychics.
『Perhaps rather than inducing the awakening of superpowers, the machine seems to focus on reducing the burden on organs overloaded with superpowers and restoring the degenerated brain.』
It would have been absolutely impossible before, but now we have absorbed a lot of unconventional technologies from various worlds.
‘I can feel the magic imprint on my back… And the faint smell of elixirs and potions from my mouth.’
Seong-il quickly succeeds in finding something unusual in Red’s body using his strengthened transcendental body after becoming a member of the pure class. He feels that Red’s body is endowed with a variety of technologies from at least five worlds.
‘First… You were implanted with nanomachines and drank a potion made with technology from the world of Erica based on the summoning group? Are you also strengthening your body with the magic imprint that relieves psionic shock and the Arap Show martial arts?’
At that time, Seongil was surprised. Red approaches Seong-il like a puppy, hugs him and is happy to see him.
“Seongil! Why don’t you come visit us often these days? Please hang out with us as often as before!”
“Haha! Miss Red, who is so picky, is so kind to Seongil! It’s nice to see.”
“Hehe… I see.”
Surprisingly, Red is not a very kind person to others. Seong-il, awakened from his thoughts by playful shouts from those around him, strokes Red’s hair.
“It was because I was too busy. From now on, I will go out often.”
“Are you sure?”
Greeting the cute and charming Red, Seongil asks her why she came here.
“That’s literally it! Dr. Woo told me to bring Seongil here with the other professors!”
It seems that Dr. Woo’s group heard him waking up and called him. Therefore, Seong-il moves to the Pocket Girls Research Center with the rest of her group.
“Seongil! You finally woke up!”
When Seong-il appears inside the lab, the doctors working there all wave and welcome him.
“The number of researchers outside has increased considerably, but what are they? People from the Pocket Girls world?”
“Those researchers? Of course, they are researchers trained in your world. Be careful not to reveal your identity.”
Surprisingly, the three doctors seem to be selecting real people as researchers and teaching them or making them work at the science center. They tell Seong-il to be careful of his words and actions, perhaps because they know that he is operating as a secret being called a ‘seeker’.
“Oh my… What I see in other places…”
“It’s okay. All the researchers were left around here anyway. And besides you, a lot of your non-affiliated friends come and go here for field trips, so I won’t suspect you if you visit once or twice.”
After reassuring Seong-il like that, Dr. Woo tells him that he surprisingly succeeded in analyzing and formalizing the fusion power while Seong-il was sleeping.
“Only half a year?”
“We have the Gaia system. And we were able to succeed thanks to the full support of the two deans here and your followers.”
The two deans say that after Seong-il saved their world, they wanted to help Seong-il’s world with all their might. In the meantime, they heard stories related to ‘fusion’ through Dr. Woo, and out of personal curiosity and to help Seong-il, they went to the front line and devoted themselves to fusion experiments.
“The professors from the Athenaeum Order also worked hard. Except during lectures, they worked like crazy on power fusion experiments with us here.”
Even Seong-il, who possessed great power, was unable to successfully fuse superpowers in the beginning, so naturally, the geniuses of the world of Mythology also had to experience countless failures while conducting fusion experiments.
“Even injuries were frequent.”
The nine superpowers are said to have frequently suffered injuries as they suffered strong backlash when their attempts to fuse their superpowers failed. Fortunately, thanks to the various elixirs and nanomachine procedures manufactured in Erica’s workshop, they were not exposed to serious injuries.
However, apart from that, Seong-il feels heartbroken when he hears that the wise men of the world of Mythology did not spare their bodies and devoted themselves to fusion experiments to help their world.
“We owed it to them, so of course we had to do it. And we weren’t the only ones who did it. Handan, Hyemyeong, and Hyewon, who were currently away teaching students, also desperately helped with the experiment.”
In response to Seong-il’s gratitude, Professor Aaron questions Seong-il’s words in a calm tone. He even goes so far as to disparage his sacrifice, saying that it was worth the challenge for his own training anyway.
“Thanks to high-level magic imprinting and nanomachine treatment, each of us awakened our magic and superpowers. Of course, we should have tried it, right?”
Even Professor Ahindel, who supports Aaron’s words. Every time Seong-il hears their expressions, she feels her heart sinking.
“Anyway! Enough with the public affairs! Now I will explain the research process.”
Dr. Woo pats the apologetic Seong-il on the back and begins to explain how they analyzed superpower fusion.
“First, of course, it was the nanomachine procedure. By implanting the nanomachine, whose side effects can now be completely controlled, into the faculty, all kinds of injuries and accidents could be prevented.”
Dr. Woo explains that he trained the professors who were strengthened by implanting nanomachines to a certain level, even martial arts. She then explains that she began experimenting with superpower fusion based on her enhanced body.
“It wasn’t easy… Anyway, as the data started accumulating, we were able to try to analyze it little by little. By analyzing the accumulated data and the data you provided us, we were eventually able to find outliers.”
Thanks to the countless researchers + the Gaia system + the nine professors, Handan, Hyemyeong, and Hyewon who tirelessly became test subjects in a shift format, they eventually succeeded in their first superpower fusion after three months of experimentation.
“Surprisingly, do you know who the first successful person was?”
“… Well? Dean Gerhardt?”
“No! It was Handan! He was truly a martial arts genius.”
Surprisingly, Seong-il is surprised when he is told that the person who succeeded in using the first fusion power is Handan, the main character of the Battle of Nokso martial arts. Even though his talent is real, he is still a kid who has just reached his terms. Therefore, Seong-il opens his mouth when he hears about his incredible achievements. As if Seong-il’s reaction wasn’t different from what he expected, Dr. Woo smiled broadly and continued his explanation.
“Handan is a person who can truly be called a genius. It’s been less than a year since he first awakened his telekinetic powers, but he uses his powers so freely. Anyway, the professors were stimulated after Handan’s first awakening. As expected, the fusion was successful one after another.”
After that, Dr. Woo tells us that he succeeded in fusing other superpowers in addition to martial arts and telekinesis. The Gaia system, which closely examines the fusion process, succeeds in extracting more detailed data as the experiment progresses.
“Now, we can say that the fusion method has been standardized in quite detail. According to the training system currently provided by the Gaia system, A-S level hunters can attempt superpower fusion training in virtual space without great risk.”
The Gaia system even provides training rooms tailored to each individual’s level, ability, and superpower. Seong-il realizes that tremendous technological progress has occurred while he was sleeping and puts his tongue out.
“The only thing that’s unfortunate is that although training is only possible for A-class hunters… In reality, you have to be an S-class hunter to be able to use superpower fusion in real combat.”
Even so, it is very difficult for A-level hunters to train. They say that even an attempt at less than that can result in serious injury.
