Chapter 102 – Chapter 11

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Kaicent, who returned to reality, witnessed Noriyoshi collapsed helplessly.

‘This person must have been a victim too.’

In the world of imagination, Kaicent learned that Galaig was a sword-shaped monster that ate hundreds of souls, and felt sorry for him that he was also a victim.

It has been unknown for the rest of his life that he secretly sabotaged the scene in which he played the main character and made him die by an enemy archer, but it is irrelevant.

“Ugh!”

At that time, as Noriyoshi collapsed, Kaicent, who had been able to catch Galaig alone, threw his sword away feeling the discomfort of something riding on his brain.

-Follow the unity of God.-
-Unified God is the only salvation of this world.-

The sword monster, Galaig, disappeared, but there was a spell on its body telling it to follow the unifying god.
As the spell is transmitted to the user, it causes mental contamination.

If he hadn’t achieved spiritual growth through the fight against Galaig in the image world, he would have become a new apostle for the One God.

‘It’s a dangerous thing. Something like this shouldn’t exist in this world.’

Even if you somehow throw it away, if someone accidentally finds it and uses it, a new Apostle of Unity will be born.

Unable to throw away or sell, Kaicent came up with a good idea.

‘Come to think of it, you said you need a magic item with a permanent function to increase the size of the dimensional warehouse. If this…’

Recalling the conversation with Skynet, he decided that there is no existence more perfect than this to increase the dimensional storage.
There is no way Skynet with machine intelligence will suffer from mental contamination.

‘Let’s ask Artie to listen.’

With that in mind, as soon as I opened the dimensional warehouse, Artie swiftly jumped out and looked around.

“Is he the blackmailer?”
“Huh? Oh, no. To be precise, that person is also a victim.”
“Demand a detailed explanation.”

Arty heard from Kaicent about the existence of the blackmailer, and was instructed to wait inside the dimensional warehouse and immediately jump out when the warehouse opened and deal with the blackmailer or enemies.

Of course, since Atira had a means of defense, he acted alone as suggested by the blackmailer.

Anyway, Kaicent explained to her what had happened.
The world of images, mental pollution, and the existence of Galaigra.

After hearing all of her explanations, Artie opened her mouth in a calm, calm voice as usual, but with a strange sense of anger.

“Anyway, you should have called me.”
“I’m sorry. But when the opponent attacked me, I tried to call them right away. I never imagined that it would be a plan to invade the mental world and eat my soul to take over my body.”

That’s right.
Her mental world made no sense to her knowledge, but it was understandable that her lack of timing would bring her wealth if her enemies attacked in that way.

‘What? I am… Why are you upset?’

Everything worked out well
The enemy who dug the trap did not understand the opponent’s strength and was destroyed.
It is normal for her to feel that since she did not fight the enemy and the matter was resolved, she was relieved of the troublesome effort.

However, she continued to worry that she was of no help in Kaisent’s fight.

“Let’s get rid of the sword and the corpse first. If someone sees this situation, it’s right after committing a crime.”
“…All right.”

Artie raised a sword that was said to pollute the soul.

Naturally, her sword, which was said to contaminate her soul, made no sound to her mechanical intellect.

‘I have no soul. Talking about the world of images is out of my realm. It can’t be helped.’

Artie grabbed Noriyoshi by the scruff of her neck with her free hand and entered the dimensional warehouse.

‘I can understand it in my head, but why am I getting annoyed?’

If Kai Sent’s soul is absorbed by another being, she must follow that being without fail.

However, even though she only imagined that she had to take orders from someone other than Kaicent, she could feel a repulsion close to nausea.

She may or may not know that she is worried that something is wrong with her own system, but Kai Sent, who has entered her dimensional warehouse, sprints toward her Skynet.

-The world of images. It’s a story of a dimension I still can’t understand, but what’s clear is that the enemy tried to take over the body by swallowing the master’s soul through it.-
“Yes. Honestly, it was dangerous. If I hadn’t been attacked by the mental world before, I don’t know what would have happened.”
-… Something seems to have changed, young master.-

Until now, Kaicent had felt desperate, but now he exuded a strange composure.

“Because I found out I could be anything.”
– Anything can be… That’s right. Bocchan can be anything. Now he realizes it.-

Skynet already knew that Kai Sent could become anything if he put his mind to it.
Above all, she is also the nanny who raised all the children herself, including him.

“More than that, I brought materials to expand the dimensional warehouse.”

Kaicent made Arty put down the magic sword that inflicted mental contamination.

Skynet, holding the sword blade firmly with a mechanical arm with a long string, began to use the power of the demonic sword to expand the warehouse.

Even in the original world, the power of the demonic sword was not an area of ​​incomprehensibility to Skynet, who had used the power of an object that had no inner strength many times.

Chara la la la la rock—

As the walls ‘fold’, a new space begins to unfold.

“Wow~ It’s wide… No, wait. It’s too wide!?”

I liked it when the warehouse was expanded to 3 times the original size, but as it continued to expand 5 times, 10 times, and non-stop, I felt something strange.

“Is this sword that powerful?”
-There is a subspace function built into the sword.-
“Come to think of it…”

Kaisent looked down at the bow that Galaig had used as bait.

The sword has a spell that pollutes the user’s mind, but fortunately this bow has no such trap.

Anyway, since this bow was also taken out of the subspace of the sword, there must still be unknown treasures in the subspace.

-I even used the magical power of the treasures in the subspace. There were many treasures piled up. You seem to be quite greedy.-

In general, people would be shocked to access someone else’s subspace at will, but Skynet had knowledge and technology about dimensions and space, so it was no big deal.

“I think this is ‘pretty’ out of line.”
– I correct you. Extremely greedy.-

30 times, 40 times, 50 times, when Artie said something about the ever-increasing size of the warehouse, Skynet also responded.

After devouring the souls of hundreds of gifted humans, Galaig’s treasures accumulated during a life close to ten thousand years are beyond imagination.

The reason why there are so many treasures is because they are prepared to quickly become stronger or create forces when they take on a new body.

The ever-increasing dimensional warehouses were out of range that Kaisent could perceive.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a territory at this point.
Moreover, this was not the only treasure Galaig had collected.

-You have also collected various metals and goods. You can see things that make money like gold and jewels, as well as high-purity iron ingots, copper, and metals that are not registered in the data.

Skynet forcibly opened the subspace and started pouring out treasures and resources that were not magic items.

– A significant amount of resources. With this, it looks like you can build multiple production plants.-

Having said that, Skynet, as the owner of these treasures, waited for Kaicent’s next instructions.

“…”

However, he had never imagined that there would be so many treasures.

“Calm down.”
“Uh, ah, ah! I’m sorry. To be honest, I thought it would be nice if this one was only 10 times bigger…”

Kaicent came to his senses thanks to a light tap on the shoulder by Artie, who was worse off than him.
First of all, the first thing we needed was a production facility.
Only then will we have the foundation to reverse-engineer and produce the world’s military weapons.

“I don’t need a space this wide, so can’t I take out the magic items that are in the sub-space?”
-Then try using this.-

Skynet pulled out a pair of gray gloves.
I don’t know what it is, but I feel a lot of power.

“Oops!”
“!!”
-Young master!-

However, the moment he lifted the glove, the incantation to follow the unity of God began to dominate Kaicent’s head.

As Galaig became mentally contaminated, all magic items in the subspace were also contaminated.

Fortunately, since mana is used as a medium, only magic items are locked, so general resources can be used.

Artie snatched the glove from Kaicent’s hand and gave it to Skynet to put it back into the subspace.

-It seems that the treasures in the subspace should be used to expand the dimensional storage.-
“I guess that’s how it should be. I don’t think I’ll be able to overcome this mental contamination.”

If it was the mental pollution of an ordinary being, it could be easily overcome, but this spell had the strong will of a god.

Kaicent, who has not yet matured enough to overcome the will of a divine being, decided to use the magic items of the subspace to expand the dimensional storage.

Conversely, the effort to expand the dimensional warehouse was solved at once.

“How many production plants can you build?”
-Excluding metals not registered in the data, 12 small, 4 medium, and 1 large are available.-

Small can only produce firearms, medium can produce humanoid weapons, and large can produce more weapons.

Of course, since we will be reverse-engineering military weapons for infantry in the future, it is common sense to make a small plant,

“Then, build one medium-sized production plant first.”

For some reason, Kaicent decided to build a medium-sized plant.

-All right.-
“And when the production plant is complete, the first thing we do is create a means for Skynet to stay with us outside. I don’t care how many resources it costs.”
-…-

Previously, Kaicent felt sorry for Skynet to have to wait for him to come here alone, so he asked them to find a way to be together.

However, I wondered if it would naturally be forgotten because there were no resources, but as soon as the resources were available, I immediately ordered them.

The reason why the medium-sized plant was built was to expand the method.

0.72 seconds.
It’s too short a time for humans, but for Skynet, it’s time to take over all the data and systems of a planetary system.

During that time, all functions stopped, and then Skynet returned with a holographic smile.

-I will, Master.-

Kaicent is no longer a young boy who needs to be taken care of.
Aware of her own potential and ready to become anything, she became a new master who carves her own path.

-Since the space has been expanded, it seems that the movable range and number of mechanical arms should also be increased. It is currently impossible to cover the entire space, so we will have to gradually increase the range of warehouse use.
“For that purpose, we have to build a production plant. I’ll leave this to you, Skynet.”
-Yes. Leave it to us.-

Kaicent looked at a huge space that would be used for many purposes, including warehouses.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a huge territory.

I can’t imagine how it will be used now, but I’m sure it will be of great help in achieving what Kaisent wants.

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“Haa. What should I do with that person named Noriyoshi?”
“How do you do it? If you brag about it, it will only lead to suspicion. Just pretend you don’t know.”

When Kaicent, who returned to reality, worried about Noriyoshi, Artie, who came along with him, answered bluntly.

As she said, if you stay still, you will be treated as missing.

It is because if Noriyoshi disappears like this, it will be inferred that she ran away fearing that the sword would be stolen by Harlot Kingdom.

“…I… Artie.”
“What are you doing?”
“Uh… Um… Strangely, the way he speaks seems a bit sharp…”
“It’s an illusion.”
“No, the accent is slightly different from usual…”
“I am mistaken. I’m wearing it.”
“Huh…”

Kaicent instinctively kept his mouth shut at the unusual coldness of her appearance.

Anything more than that will only make the situation worse.
I don’t know why, but I feel that way anyway.

“Help Skynet in the dimensional warehouse…”
“If you stay here, you’ll get suspicious. Let’s move.”

Still, Kai Sent, who opened her mouth just in case, was taken aback by Artie, who answered in her slightly annoyed voice.

If you’re like other people, you’ll argue why you’re annoyed for no reason, but he’s the type of person who thinks first whether he’s doing something wrong with the other person’s anger.

Fortunately, Noriyoshi didn’t have any other group, so there was no tracking.

While walking along the streets of the capital as usual and moving toward the inn where the mercenaries are staying, Kai Sent plucked up courage and opened her mouth.

“Thank you, Artie.”
“I couldn’t do anything.”
“Thanks to Artie, I had the courage to face the blackmailer alone. Without you, she would have been in agony, thinking a lot about whether or not to go alone.”
“…”

When he thanked him and said that thanks to him he had the courage to go through the danger alone, Atty’s incomprehensible annoyance began to disappear.

“Let’s go back quickly. Lillian and Priscilla must be worried.”
“…Yes.”

Arty, whose voice had been chilled until just now, softened and headed towards the inn street with Kaicent.

At that time, Kaicent held Arty’s hand.

‘Something must be broken in my system. I was annoyed until now, but now I’m feeling happy.’

Feeling the warmth of living things in her hands and feeling joy, she came to the conclusion that she was broken.
Without that, there’s no way your feelings can change so quickly.

‘But… It’s not bad to be ruined like this.’

Artie gently squeezed Kaicent’s hand.
She feels happy even though they just hold her hand.

In any case, Kaicent reported the good results to Lillian and Priscilla, who were anxious while preparing for the eventuality, informing them that the operation by one god had completely failed.