Chapter 497 – [A Guide for Transcendentalists Traveling Post-Apocalypse]

I thought he was a shaman here, so I saw him as a hairy level to Muhwa, but after seeing the skill of the assassin, I thought a little differently.

No matter how bad the compatibility with Shion is, if Shion can’t detect it, it has its own level. Even if you haven’t reached the Transcendental level, deceiving Shion’s eyes is proof that your level is high.

However, just because you can fool your eyes is not proof that you can harm, let alone kill. Just because you beat a gamer from the special forces in a game doesn’t mean you can win in real life, right?

“It’s quite fun because it’s like a stand-up person.”

“What’s the difference between other people with special abilities?”

“Stands have only one ability or use it as a basis for multiple abilities, but other abilities usually don’t have multiple abilities from the beginning, right? That’s what’s fun.”

Actually, Zion was rather interested. It’s inexhaustible to learn the special ability of Hanon by birth, but it’s not that he’s not interested.

Hagisa Shion has little self-awareness as a transcendent. It’s more useful and convenient, but I’m not obsessed with it, and I’m not obsessed with it because I prioritize the development of technology over personal training.

“But is there only one guy like this? Baek-hee, you seem to know a little something.

“Originally, they are sorcerers raised by nobles as personal escorts. Each of them has different attributes that they can handle, so they can’t form an army, but each individual can raise them as exceptional escorts. Like the assassin I just saw, there were some who were raised to eliminate static……..”

“How many do you think there will be?”

“Well, I can’t say for sure either. But I think there are three at most.”

The guy who couldn’t even detect Shion was at the level of three. It’s quite an interesting story that there are guys who are not transcendental, but specialize in one field.

“Anyone specializing in assassination like this guy?”

“One, this guy was notorious even during the Anima Empire. It’s quite unexpected that he’s still alive…”

“This guy must have received the procedure or something.”

“My stand is an assassination type!”

“Do you want to keep playing JoJo drip?!?”

Anyway, we sorted things out again. Cradle is not far, but mad dogs are in the way. If they come at you, you can tear them to death, but you don’t know what kind of trap they will sell.

Of course, no matter how good their level is, it’s not a big deal to protect my kids because they’re below me, but there’s a condition that I have to stick by them just in case. This makes it difficult to move…

“Then what is needed is a reversal of the situation.”

“You mean to go on the offensive and force those who think they have the upper hand into the city on the defensive?”

“You and I communicate well. Yes, that’s what I meant.”

“I fell asleep talking about things that only people know”

“It makes a lot of sense. How do you put them on the defensive? Surely they’re not the majority?”

“That’s right, aren’t we only dealing with those who come? Since we’re taking a defensive attitude, the other side is taking an aggressive attitude. If that’s the case, we can reverse the situation.”

That means we’re going to attack.

In fact, with thousands of mad dogs and only six people, the numerical inferiority is obvious, but here there is a transcendental person called me.

Ah, so does Shion, but I can’t make Zion’s hands dirty. From the beginning, Zion was out of the question.

In the first place, my wife is a very kind person who is so kind that she feels guilty even if she kills a mad dog! Then it would be better for me to kill people so damn well!

“The existence of this assassin must also mean that there is a military communication device. Through it, I will contact Jaeho and Yugwi again.”

“Should I take it again? I hung up like that last time?”

“This guy is a number that has gained his own trust. If the assassination was successful and the jewel was retrieved, I’ll have to contact him at least once as a report, so I’ll get it from the other side as well.”

“Ooh, then what about after that?”

“I’m declaring war in earnest. I’m going to exaggerate your existence and attack you. No matter how crazy you are, if you’re a Jae-ho and a ghost who values ​​your comfort, I’ll try to defend you by attracting a group of mad dogs to the sound of you attacking.”

“And?”

“After that, we look for the cradle by aiming for the gap that created a vacuum in the troops.”

“That’s a pretty good opinion.”

“It’s a strategy aimed at bravado, so it’s not bad”

If you listen to stories about wars, there is no such strategy. The strategy of making the opponent retreat by deliberately increasing the number of troops works well the more doubt and cowardice the opponent has.

Intimidation is a story that works well for the guy who came down directly from the north to the south because he couldn’t trust others. Besides, there’s no guarantee that I’ll be like a witch doctor specializing in assassination who tried to kill me… It’s a method that will work for sure.

Soon, I opened my senses and found the spirit magnetic communicator he had. It was found in a pile of smashed wreckage, probably in a windmill driven by mad dogs, but it looks fine on the outside.

“Well, the strength of the military is that it is strong!”

“Actually, aren’t you forcibly using things that should be discarded to save budget instead of being sturdy?”

“………..”

“Oh, Baekhee is silent.”

“The budget issue is out of the question.”

Anyway, I walked again. This time, it’s not Baekhee, it’s me.

Speaking of threats, I’m actually better at it! Brainstorming doesn’t suit my aptitude in the first place, but this kind of work is my specialty!

– Solve it. How did things go? Did you succeed? Did you retrieve the item?

“Your shaman’s men who tried to kill me have long since fallen behind. I killed them by breaking their necks.

-……..Who the hell are you.

“The secret escort of Her Highness the Crown Princess. Although originally an escort that protects only those who have ascended to the throne of the Imperial Empire, she is the one who serves her because Her Highness is the only remaining bloodline in the imperial family.”

– It can’t be! Could there have been such a person…

“How can you be sure of that? Can you say that you know all the secrets of the imperial family?”

-………

Baek-hee looked at it with her eyes, asking what kind of bullshit it was, but I put my index finger to my mouth and made a gesture to be quiet.

Originally, bravado is trying to deceive the other person, no matter what.

“It was I who safely served Your Highness on this journey. Your reinforcements and the shaman who tried to kill me died at my hands. The fact that I am contacting you right here is proof of that.”

-…….Do you intend to follow the fallen Anima Empire? If you need money, I will give you money. If you need a woman, I will give you a woman or a man. Follow me.

“Loyalty cannot be bought with money. Don’t think that loyalty will change just because times have changed.”

-The Empire is doomed! You, too, can say such a thing after seeing that scene!

“It’s a loyalty that doesn’t change even after seeing it. So, don’t think about embracing it anymore. The next time we meet is when I cut your throat.”

-This guy……!!!

“Do you think that the imperial family’s secret escort will not be able to do the same thing as your subordinate? I will send you off painlessly for insulting the imperial family, so just guard your neck.”

In no time, the communicator was destroyed. I can’t hear it or see it, but it’s good to see him glowing.

When I turned around with a smile, everyone except Shion was staring at me with bewildered expressions.

“Why?”

“There is a certain level of bravado… No, rather, the more so now, the better.”

“Anyway, there’s a gap. The cradle isn’t far from here, and honestly, if you don’t have enough time, you’ll be able to arrive in a few days.”

Finally the cradle

The end of the long journey has finally begun to appear.

*        *    *

There is a saying that mountains and rivers change in ten years, but if that is the case, how much will the world change after hundreds or even thousands of years?

It is common for humans to not recognize people after 10 years in the neighborhood where they lived. The surrounding terrain has collapsed and disappeared, and all that remains is a vast desert.

There are cases where there are at least some huge terrain like mountains… But honestly, I can’t use it as a milestone.

Even if there are coordinates, if the map is misaligned by only 1 cm, it may be tens or hundreds of kilometers away from the original location, depending on the scale. Usually, if there is a time difference, it is difficult to find hidden facilities.

“If I hadn’t been there, it would have been difficult to find the entrance properly.”

“Originally, excavation of ruins is difficult to find unless there is a facility on the ground.

“Is there really a place called the cradle here?”

“It’s down in the basement, but it’s there.”

At least several kilometers down. It was a testament to the technological prowess of the Imperial Empire that there were several floors of a vast facility that was almost the same level as the city of the narrator Kiyoung.

There are relatively few changes in the earth’s crust in this area, and it seems that there are few facilities that have been lost… Only the minimum amount of energy needed to maintain the facility is felt.

“Looking for the entrance seems like a chore.”

Wow!

“What?”

“No, no…”

Jin-gyo said something. There is no room for people.

I dug out what was the entrance and dug a passage. As if it was an elevator passageway, a passageway that cannot be seen below catches the eye.

It is a huge aisle that you can even carry down the drum ho. Wasn’t it also responsible for transporting cargo, not just for human use?

“Looking at the material of the passageway and things like that, it seems to be quite sturdy and the technology is good. It’s not weathered even in the sand of the desert and the environment… Oh, was it coated with ectoplasm? Then I understand.”

“It’s relatively fine. If it’s not a physical problem, there’s no problem.”

I telekinetically carried the entire drum and went down. Drum Ho has a hover function, but not a flight function, so it is a measure that must be taken to fall if dropped from a high place.

At the end of the aisle that went down for a while, you can barely see a door. The tightly closed metal door… Looking at the thick ectoplasm coating, security is no joke. I think it will last for about one punch of my fist.

“It’s a very large ruin…”

“Well, let’s start from now. First of all, preparation No. 1!

“If there is number 1, is there also number 2?”

“Baekhee”

“Don’t treat people as objects!”

It’s something you never know. I didn’t know what would happen if someone without qualifications authenticated my authority with the Yeoui Orb, so I had to go with the safety bread as much as possible.

Baek-hee held the orb of the woman in his hand. Over time and time, the lineage of the fallen Anima Empire has reached hope with qualifications.

As she moves forward, her door responds. I don’t think I even sensed it separately, but the door of the cradle that was tightly closed starts to vibrate in response to the jewel.

[Powering on]

[Please wait a moment]

“Five”

“I-what is this?! Suddenly, a voice came to my head…”

“It is an artificial spirit developed by the Spirit Empire. It mainly manages facilities and buildings.”

“I thought that if you have the technology of artificial satellites and other technologies in spirit technology, you would know about artificial spirit production technology. Um, I think it will be worthwhile to take it as a reference for a while later.”

Artificial intelligence and artificial spirits are different. Even if an artificial intelligence has a soul, it is safe to say that an artificial spirit is a life that was created as a spirit from the beginning.

If you ask what’s different from spirits, it’s about the difference between green pepper and paprika. It’s almost the same, but there’s one big difference: a soul needs a body, and a spirit is complete by itself.

Wooooo!!!!

The trembling vibration in Yeouiboju stopped. Soon, the words of the artificial spirit of the cradle were transmitted to my head again.

[Power supply complete. Disable sleep state]

[Situation operation. Analyzing the accumulated information……Confirm the current heir to the throne]

[Grade Boundary Release]

[Welcome, Her Highness the Crown Princess. I will serve you wholeheartedly]

I guess there must have been a boundary system. If it wasn’t for Baekhee, it would have been more annoying, but on the other hand, it was fortunate.

“Open the door, let’s go in”

[Yes, I understand]

Soon the door to the cradle opens. The clean aisle inside comes into view, and bright lights illuminate the aisle. Despite the passing of a lot of time, this place gave off a quite alien feeling, as if time had stopped.

“Take me to the central control room. I’ll check the records.”

[I will use the assistant function]

Fluorescent arrows on the floor appeared in front of us. Every time we walk, they take the lead and lead us as if giving directions.

Stroll through the hallways and through several facilities to reach the central control room in the cradle.

There, the dodecahedron, like a huge crystal, was revolving with a hum and light. I think that must be the hard way containing the artificial spirit of the cradle.

“Wow…….”

“Hmm, some facilities have collapsed, but it’s not impossible to repair. There are enough resources, and the connection between Mir in the sky and Nuri in the ground remains.”

“Everything else is fine. Luri needs other production facilities, but we don’t have that, we just need something else.”

Cause of the fall of the empire.

If the facility was in good condition like this, there would be a record of that time. Ruri-ya, just build a paradise, Jin-gyo has no particular purpose, and Mu-hwa, at least, wants revenge on Jae-Ho and Yu-Gi… The only purpose of me and Shion is to help Ruri.

“Okay, I’ll have to remind you of my lost memories too.”

We finally faced the reason why the brilliant civilization of the Anima Empire collapsed.

……And there was a story that was quite shocking.