Chapter 404 – 404 Not Found

“No, technology that was perfected 100 years ago…”

No, what the hell have humans been doing on Earth that they haven’t been able to create a warp gate for 100 years?

‘Is it because of the war?’

Yes, human history has been a history of mad wars. So why didn’t it develop properly?

“No. We would have done more war than the planet Earth. Have you ever heard of the Thousand Year War? Although the annual unit of that planet and ours may not be the same.”

“What?”

It’s a thousand years war.

A thousand years of war? Are they crazy?

“More than that, are you… A real human being? No, right?”

“What?”

“No, no matter how you look at it, the only thing that can be called a human is the external characteristics.

As I was amazed at the fact that I had been at war for a thousand years, Jillian suddenly asked if I was human.

Well, honestly, at this point, I’m starting to doubt whether I’m human or not.

But to be sure, he was originally human.

“It’s true that I’ve become a biracial from a human. In the middle of it, I received the alteration of evil spirits..”

Gillian shows a strange hostility towards evil spirits. He has been expressing his anger and hatred towards the disaster gods of the Battle of Ten Mages from a while ago.

Above all, Zilean’s lamp itself erased almost all of the evil spirit’s power. There seems to be some kind of connection…

“Well, our enemies weren’t humans from our planet anyway. There were twin planets. Catchcha. That’s all over there…”

“And! Thank you!”

Gillian handed Cheshire a laser pistol that had been naturally tuned. It increased performance by about 30% or more.

“Once we move, we talk. I need to find an air vent.”

“Huh.!”

“Is it so.”

“Don’t keep skipping it.”

“Okay.. Yo!”

I slapped a honey balm on the crown of Jillian’s head.

Now that he realized he was a fucking techie, he decided not to go further than this.

More than anything, it seems that Cheshire, who handles energy weapons, quite likes Jillian. He can make warp gates, but he can’t be fooled.

He’s a good engineer friend with Hellus.

“Anyway, continuing on, you guys thought you were the only humans in the universe? Yo. This?”

“Yes.?”

“If you think like that, naturally, for the preservation of the species, you won’t be able to fight until humans from a completely different camp are exterminated… It must have been some kind of limit.”

“Is it?”

“Well, whatever. I mean, our circumstances are a little different. What if a human who looks just like us is on a planet right next to us, and we have to keep bumping into each other? Even if we kill them all, we’re still there, so what if there’s no problem? If so, would humans bother to keep their opponents alive?”

“…”

“We will fight until we annihilate the other party. That’s the human race. Furthermore, religion also played a part in the development of science and technology.”

“Religion?”

“Huh. In our history, there is a strong notion that mana or magic is a vicious tactic used only by bad guys from the next town. As it developed while completely excluding it… Such a deformed scientific civilization was born. The humans who lived on the twin planets were more of the opposite.”

According to Jillian, merging magic and science is rather a universal and common method from a universal perspective.

However, after thoroughly excluding the other party’s technology, Zilean’s side of humanity was obsessed with science.

That’s how they dug up science for a thousand years to completely end the other side, and thanks to that, they were able to make tremendous progress. War made mankind stronger.

Then, beyond the limit, he obtained science and technology capable of crushing even magic. You’re crazy.

“Science is more difficult to develop than magic, but if you overcome the singularity, it can affect a wider area than magic. Well, until that happens, we were the only ones who continued to do stupid things that only sell science.”

“Huh.”

“Still, everyone starts with science first. Then you discover the mana that pervades the universe. Then apply magic to science and technology or switch to magic altogether. Because magic can develop faster, and it’s more convenient. Yo. This.”

Jillian speaks as if it is an honorific if you add yo at the end.

‘By the way. Most civilizations start with science and end with magic…’

In order to light a fire in a scientific way, combustibles, oxygen, and an ignition source are required.

However, in order to kindle fire in a magical way, you only need mana.

Furthermore, magic allows the caster to control the intensity, temperature, and direction of such embers at will.

That’s why everyone values ​​magic more. Science is atmospheric, but most intelligent beings couldn’t wait to reach the limit.

“Warp is also a technology from 100 years ago in my situation… But wasn’t it a technology created by magic engineering or other magical methods tens of thousands of years ago in your situation?”

Certainly, the existence of a warp gate had already been confirmed once.

‘Achievement, let’s wake up the sleeping evil…’

It is an achievement that can be achieved by awakening at least one of the sealed demons, and among the three rewards that can be obtained when this achievement is achieved, there was a gateway to the other world.

It was a reward for being forcibly connected to an unspecified alien space if it was covered with the blood of a living sacrifice. In a sense, this could be considered a warp gate if only the coordinates could be specified.

It’s like a warp gate driven in a purely linear fashion. Looking at it like this, it feels like it’s not a big deal.

However, the important thing here is that there were no people on our side who were great enough to make something like this. Moreover, it was not even on the black market.

Yes, the current universe is in decline, and at this point most of the old technologies are gone. Warp technology is also in effect a lost technology.

There are only related equipment, tools, and facilities left, so it feels like they are being used. Self-production is impossible. I didn’t know if I got help from the management or the gods, but I couldn’t make it without it.

Then she opened her mouth as if Jillian was puzzled.

“By the way. In the first place, this mass of cosmic sin called the black market must be a high-level technology that cannot be compared to warp technology.”

“That..”

This time, Cheshire, who was listening to the story and looking for an air vent, intervened. He seems to have something to say. I couldn’t keep up with the story, so I decided to just let the two talk.

“Even the black market operators don’t know the exact source of this giant spacecraft called the Black Market…”

“Yes? Isn’t this what you need to know?”

No, Jillian, why are you using honorifics for Cheshire?

“No. I know you’re just managing it according to the manual left behind. It’s not made by the admins here. We just know how to use it.”

“…”

Jillian looks at Cheshire in shock.

After hearing the story, Jillian’s ability was not as omnipotent or omnipotent as I thought, and since he is the only survivor, there is a high possibility that he will be pushed back if he engages in an all-out war with the Yi tribe.

That’s why I couldn’t enter the place called the black market, and it seems that I didn’t know the internal situation of this place.

Well, it’s just that I don’t know the internal circumstances well, but I’m the same…

No, but this wasn’t a space created by the Yi people.

In the first place, what is a generation spaceship?

“Woo-wook.”

“Oh, Jun-ah, what’s wrong!”

“Ah, I have SF depression.”

“Ah..”

My head hurts when I hear difficult words.

I just want to know about tearing, killing, torturing, and making offerings. Just remembering the tastes of evil spirits is daunting.

It’s too hard to follow the story behind the black market. I just want to enslave the high-ranking people and go out and wipe out the Japanese.

“Hmm. Anyway, to summarize the story, I wanted to say that war is a means to make the human species stronger. Aren’t you uncivilized because you’ve never fought a proper war on a small planet called Earth?”

“Ugh… How uncivilized. Are you? There is no survivor but you.”

“That…”

Jillian hesitated, then burst into tears.

“Hey, why are you crying?”

“Huh… I’m crying because I’m sad that I’m the only survivor…”

“No, why were you left alone before you cried?”

“That, that’s…”

Jillian wiped her tears and she explained why she was left alone.

“First of all, the Thousand Year War ended with our victory.”

“Okay. He said he won.”

“Okay. And after we achieved victory, we erased all of the remaining 10 billion or more humans from the universe except for 120 million for religious reasons..”

He killed tens of billions of humans on the twin planets.

No, god If those 10 billion people were still alive… Then maybe this game of disaster would have happened on that planet, not on Earth.

Thank god. Thanks to your search, I was able to gain such tremendous power, countless women, wealth, and even fame.

“And all the 120 million people who survived were put on life support and put under the care of AI.”

“Good. Got it. I know you won the thousand years war. But why did you perish even with such technological prowess? Please answer only the questions.”

“That..”

Jillian finally told me about the reason for their destruction. Did she keep talking about something else because she didn’t want to talk?

“I tried time travel.”

“What? A time machine?”

“Okay. Long to explain. For various reasons, I tried time travel using a black hole… And the experiment was a success.”

“…? No, it’s not a failure, but a success?”

“That’s right. In return, we lost everything. That huge mass of darkness and tentacles chewing up the planet…”

It’s like Carshinax and Indicron, but it seems that they touched something while moving through time.

The reaction of the evil spirits is that they do not remember. They say don’t make a fuss about destroying a planet in the first place…

“Hmm… Is that why you hate evil spirits?”

“Of course. The enemy… I’m now the slave of the enemy’s minion… Damn it.”

Jillian trembles with anger. As I listened to the story further, Jillian came from the past to the future.

She said to go on a quest for the unknown, so it must have come to a real unknown world.

Moreover, he confirmed that his mother planet was being smashed while moving, and it seems that he was wandering around the black hole while trying to return to the past, losing consciousness for some reason.

And in the process of going back to the past, he created a lamp to suppress the power of evil spirits. Even that was made in the form of a lantern due to lack of materials.

For reference, the guy’s remote control was just a good all-purpose tool from Jillian’s point of view and a concept like a mobile phone. This is what I had from the beginning.

“Well, that was a frighteningly long story. What kind of cosmic epic is this…”

“…”

I’m pretty sure I know what’s going on with this kid.

To sum it up, this guy came from the distant past to the future, and Sentis picked it up after he was in a coma near a black hole while shivering to go back to the past.

It’s a story on a very grand scale.

To be honest, the scale was so big that it didn’t touch me very much.

I just feel like I’m done because I roughly figured out why this guy was able to have such excellent technology.

Furthermore, time travel was like jumping into a black hole and being blown into the distant future. The way back has never been successful.

No, since ancient times, time travel is about going back to the past, but why is it necessary to go to the future? Even if you stay still, it is an opaque future that will come to you on your own. Useless.

‘No, wait… You said that Loki jumped into a black hole…’

So, could it be that Loki also flew to the future?

So if only I could go to a specific time in the future where Loki is hiding through Jillian…

‘Coming back must be a problem.’

It’s a problem that all the simple ways to return have failed, but it’s a problem even if you can somehow come back.

The underground world, the upper level of the black market, was originally a place where beings with a risk of collapsing the world line, such as possessed persons, reincarnated persons, reincarnated persons, and ‘returners’, were classified as errors and imprisoned.

Of course, now the lower world, the upper level of the black market, is completely owned by me, and it seems that these errors have been sent to another place to be managed, but anyway, this world does not tolerate such errors.

That means that if I go to the future, eat Loki, and come back, I’ll be a returner, so I could be treated as an ‘error’. You will become a public enemy.

‘Is there any trick…’

While thinking about it, Cheshire discovered something.

“Uh! Juna! Excuse me! There is a dog hole.”

“Oh oh!! Cheshire!!”

Cheshire found the vent. It was a small passage through the wall. I guess I’ll have to crawl and move.

“I will go first.”

“Yes.”

Cheshire crawled into the vent first. After that, I followed, and finally Jillian decided to crawl in.

“Wow… It’s narrow.”

“Jun-ah, I think you got caught..”

“Ugh…”

The body was so large that it got stuck.

“Wait a minute, I’ll push you!”

“Pull behind Jillian!”

-It’s just that the body is like a dirty big biped…

“Hey!! What did you say!!”

– Pull!!

Cheshire pushed me and Jillian grabbed my leg and pulled me.

“Ahh!!!!”

Thanks to that, I was able to get out of the vent opening. If he was a little late, he would have become a ‘pagan stuck in the wall’. That’s terrible.

“Shit.”

“What do we do. I didn’t expect this…”

“Ha..”

I never thought I would be able to pass through the air vents because of my 2m 20cm tall and 150kg super muscular body.

“There is no way.”

I decided to tentacle the whole body.

It’s a skill I don’t use often because it makes me feel weird, but I have no choice but to get out of the vent.

I put all my belongings into a large-capacity cross-body bag and handed it to Cheshire. Then…

– Gulleong.

“Ugh.. Juna..”

“As expected, it was a Yi tribe!!!!”

Wriggling wriggling.

Jillian I want to say something to that bastard, but I can’t speak in my current state. Even the snout turned into tentacles.

There was nothing I could do except wriggle.

Let’s just move fast. If you stay in this state for too long, something feels a little weird.

– Gluck. Gluck.

“Aww… The appearance is disgusting.”

“Joo, Junah.. Fighting..”

I crawled through the vent and sped forward. All of the senses except for sight remain, and the feeling becomes increasingly strange.

How can I express this? Should I say that the whole body seems to have changed like the tongue? How can I explain the feeling that the senses spread throughout the body…

Anyway, thanks to that, while crawling through the vents, the taste of the dust and foreign substances on the walls, floor, and ceiling felt unfamiliar and made me feel like vomiting.

Pong-!

“Oww…”

As soon as it came out of the vent, it returned to its original state. What a terrible experience. I don’t want to experience it a second time.

“Junah, here are the clothes..”

“Go, thank you..”

“Oooh.. Dirty bastard..”

“Gillian, what..?”

“No, are you okay?”

“Whoa…”

They say they make warp gates, but I can’t break them.

To be honest, to sum up the story, Jillian is precious because he is an ancient man who was blown into the future with ancient technology that even the Yi tribe cannot imitate.

Moreover, it may be a species that reached its peak in science faster than any other existing species.

Besides, there is only one survivor, Jillian.

‘You have all the elements that a main character would have…’

You’re the only Ancient who can handle Lost Technology. Even that lost technology is a product of pure science…

Could it be that the earthlings are the distant descendants of this bastard? Maybe this huge spaceship called the black market is a generational spacecraft created by Jillian’s people after he was blown into the future?

I don’t know. The important thing is that this guy is a fucking important talent.

I couldn’t even hit him for nothing, I just glared at Jillian once. Then I approached the door at the end of the room.

Beyond this is the prison cell.

“Then go in.”

“Oh!”

“And.”

I immediately brought my card to the door to quickly shake it off and leave.

[Certification of prison director completed.]

The door is open.

“All the lights are off.”

“Junah, over there…”

Upon taking a quick look inside, several doors to the prison building were open.

Furthermore, bones and the corpses of Yi people who had already died were seen everywhere.

“Oh my God.”

The condition of the prison camp was much worse than expected.

Some Yi tribes had already escaped, some areas had progressed to nesting, and there seemed to be a lot of sinners still imprisoned.

“Let’s start the search.”

I came in to recruit useful guys, but suddenly it became a rescue operation.