Chapter 502 – [A Guide for Transcendentalists Traveling in the Post-Apocalypse]

I heard various stories about the great king of nature from Utopia.

No, I’ve heard other stories besides that.

In addition to Aurum Malum, other great demon kings… Did I mention that the organization of the era created by the irregulars from their respective realms was the great demon king?

There are Arregish irregulars discovered by Gilhyun Choi, but there are also irregulars of the dream giants who manage dreams, and to be honest, Utopia, which is the subject, is also Hanon’s irregulars… Well, it’s different.

-Because it’s the Great Demon King of the past… Judging from the fact that he’s bringing up quite a few old stories, it seems that the Absolute of Destiny is plotting something.

“Do you know roughly what you’re decorating?”

– It’s not fun to say that. I’m honestly not sure.

“That’s why you hear people say you have a bad personality. If you’d rather say something, say it clearly. Don’t sneak your foot out.”

This is why I hate talking about utopia. They don’t show their own cards, but try to sneak peek at other people’s cards.

-The Great Demon Kings at the time were inconsistent, each standing in a different camp according to their beliefs. Unlike me and Aurum who stood in the creation camp, Illusion Lord stood in the chaos camp… Well, we actually have a love-hate towards humans.

“It’s not like that”

The cruel reality and the behavior of mad dogs that I have seen while traveling this world are not so unusual when I look at my entire reincarnation. It was often worse.

Humans are such creatures. Good and evil coexist, and on the one hand, the Great Demon King is the one who accurately faces it.

Even if it’s just Utopia, I lost my friend who made my heart to the war between humans… To be honest, I could have hated humans just as much, but I love and hate that friend because he likes them as humans.

…….Though a dirty personality is different.

– If you mix a little bit of black with white, it becomes gray. Those who crossed that line sided with the Absolute of Chaos. And the aftermath is still…… If the Great Demon King, who stood in the chaos camp, shows up again, there is a very high possibility that he will do the same thing.

“The Absolute of Chaos is now an old man in the back room. Because of his responsibility for the war, he is confined to his own territory and is living in seclusion.”

– Ultimately, it’s a personal decision. At our level, we have the qualifications and strength to do so.

“Is it the Great Demon King who kills people just because he hates them? We do this because we love humans as much as we know the ugliness of humans. That is disqualification from the Great Demon King.”

Even if I don’t like my duties as the Great Demon King, I’m faithfully fulfilling them regardless of what I don’t like.

How many lives do you have here? If we make a mistake in our judgment, even if we can’t do it, a country will fly away. At least the supervisor should not be involved in the responsibility for that.

Of course, I was pissed off with Japan on Earth, so I summoned and beat him, but… It’s safe because summoning and being guilty during judgment are different. If he had really been acquitted at that time, he would not have touched him even if he had gnashed his teeth. I’m sure the construction work.

“By the way, if I count now, the great demon kings of the past that are uncertain… Are they dreams, laws, and love?”

– Maybe.

“What about Jinyoung?”

-Among them, only dreams and love were chaotic camps. In fact, there are only three chaos camps out of the seven former Great Demon Kings…But because the strongest Great Demon King at that time was in the chaos camp.

“Are those two things to be careful about? Okay.”

Dreams and love.

It seems to be a little ambiguous problem to see civilization, but it is different if the transcendent judges it.

For example…How many people on the 21st century Earth do you think have a solid dream?

It is clear that few people have dreams while they are busy worrying about such realistic issues as just earning money to support their family and buy a house. I’m sure it’s at least a minority.

Then what if such a civilization continues?

A civilization without a goal is bound to collapse somewhere. At least, if there is a common goal for all mankind, such as space development, dreams are a part that should be fully considered.

Love is nothing to look at.

If technology develops and puts a baby in an incubator and raises it until it grows to a certain extent, can parents really love that child?

When I lived in a science fiction future, there were several such civilizations. And that kind of civilization was destroyed when I was about 10 years old.

Love is an important emotion for humans. Even we love human beings, so we act like kings, but a civilization without love is cheap even if it perishes.

“I don’t feel very good when I see old people from the previous generation crawling out.”

– It’s good to be careful. You are so strong that even I cannot defeat you unless I intend to self-destruct, but the great demon kings who stood in the camp of chaos have fragments of the absolute chaos.

“It’s fucking blatant foreshadowing. That’s understandable. Okay, cut it off.”

I frowned and hung up.

Shion was beside me holding my hand with worried eyes.

Well, let’s not worry. Would you do more than just die?

*        *    *

The Anima Empire, which had begun to rebuild, began to expand rapidly. No, it’s a speed that makes me wonder if it’s too fast.

Of course, most of it was thanks to the intact pre-destruction technology, but it was also thanks to Baek-hee’s ability.

For normal humans, it would only last 100 years, at least that much, and the period of actual ascending to the throne would be shorter than that, so there would be less things that Baek-hee could do, but thanks to the procedure, Baek-hee could live hundreds of years.

It would be impossible to rule the reconstructed Ryeong Empire forever, but hundreds of years would be comparable to the Joseon Dynasty. If a competent person rules that time, at least the foundation of a thousand-year, no, ten-thousand-year empire will be able to be laid.

“It’s nice to do it while taking a break from time to time. Thanks to your production facilities, there are more ingredients, so there are more things I can do. Would you like to taste this?”

“Where…… Um, that’s good. With the ingredients ready, Taeryeongsuksu is such a skill that you can treat it like that.”

“Recipe, no, I’ll write down the recipe separately, so I’ll use it later if I need it.”

“Thank you for each one. It’s a lost skill, so I can restore it, but this kind of skill is not prioritized…”

There was no such thing as a separate recipe in a facility for survival. Of course, there will be recorded information, but it is very meager compared to the cooking knowledge I know.

It’s only natural that things like cooking are meant to be eaten more deliciously, so it’s a little behind the proposition of survival.

“By the way, the person you know is also unusual. She looks like a beautiful fairy, but her head is soaring beyond the facility’s artificial spirit.”

“Well, it’s not easy finding someone smarter than my wife.”

“Thanks to that, my work has become easier. I want to express my gratitude.”

“Do it to my wife rather than me”

It feels like work, but for Shion, this seems to be quite enjoyable.

A while ago, I asked if I was tired of doing something similar to this while building the Mars civilization, but…

“It feels like a new SimCity series”

“What kind of analogy is that?”

“Even if I build a civilization with my technology, the repertoire is obvious, right? But if I use this technology, it’s quite interesting because I’m new to the new system, new buildings, and other facilities.”

“Securing technology is a bonus?”

“I’m safe because I got permission.”

The Tiv civilization developed based on Magnoreton, the power derived from will, and the Anima Empire developed based on spirit children. There are differences between the two, and each has its pros and cons, but if there is one thing that is quite interesting among the things of the Anima Empire, it is a lie detector.

This is not something vague like detecting a lie by detecting the heartbeat of the body, brain waves, etc., But a more essential object that uses spirit energy to interfere with the soul and determine whether a lie is true or not.

“It wasn’t originally meant for this purpose, it was a tool for analyzing the soul… Well, in the end it’s up to you to use it.”

“It would be nice to use it when receiving people”

“Yeah, that’s what I brought out.”

For reference, I decided to do the immigration check. Because I’m the only one who deserves this job.

First of all, except for women, the weak are not nice, so there will be many guys who look down on women or do strange things. Besides, you can buy grudges… Then, out of our party, which were mostly women, only me and figs remain. Muhwa, a child, is also excluded.

In the end, there’s no one else to do but me.

“Once you put your hand on the crystal ball there and answer the questions well, you’ll pass the entry. Okay?”

“Yes, yes…”

“Name”

“Ho, it’s Ho Myo”

“Age”

“I’m probably turning 20 this year.”

“Have you ever committed a crime such as murder or theft?”

“No, I don’t…”

The moment I was going through immigration, the crystal ball was stained red.

It’s only at the level of being stained red when you lie, but that’s enough. You can get rid of these guys.

“Did you commit murder?”

“Oh no!”

“I’m not going to deny it just because I killed a person. You still have room to enter the Anima Empire. If you answer honestly.”

The world is like this.

Times are cruel now. For humans, survival itself becomes an ordeal rather than a competition for survival, and some people grow up in an environment where they cannot survive without stealing or taking something.

To be honest, if you listen to everything and there is room for extenuating circumstances, you may be allowed to enter the country.

“I-I… Because of the shock that a wild dog attacked me and her sister the other day… So…”

“Can’t you just kill a wild dog?”

“……Aimed for the back of the head when drunk.”

“Hmm, do you think you wouldn’t have committed the murder if you hadn’t gone through that?”

“Yes…..”

In a world where the law doesn’t work, private vengeance is the norm. To put it bluntly, Hammurabi’s Code of Law was created to be Anganchi.

The lie detection orb did not turn red. What he said was most likely true.

If you add my specialties and senses to this, it becomes an almost perfect personality test. And speaking of conclusions… Well, I passed.

“Okay, passed. I’ll issue a temporary ID card, so if you don’t cause any problems, I’ll give you an official ID card in a few months. If you’re looking for a job, go to the main office separately and get a job. Because it’s in the middle of development, there’s a lot to do.”

“Me, really?! Thank you! Thank you!!!!”

I do not deny revenge. If you have received something, you must pay it back, and if you have committed a crime, you must be punished.

So, in the Martian civilization, murderers not only put them in a virtual world and inflict pain, but also give the victim’s family the right to use it freely?

It is disgusting to think that you will be fine by giving pain to others first. A bastard like that is not needed in the Anima Empire to be rebuilt.

“Let go! Let go of this!!!! I did something wrong and I can’t go in!!!!”

“Because your bastard is not a normal bastard at first glance? Just looking at it, he has a long snout for a bastard who killed about seven people for pleasure killing.”

“That, that… That’s a lie!”

“Yes, you lied. Water is too precious to keep you alive!”

Compared to civilized societies, the proportion of offspring of the human species is high. I can recognize them at a glance without having to check them.

If there is a cause of revenge, even if you kill, you have a feeling that you are justified, so you can see weak confidence in your eyes, but you can see madness in the eyes of the bastards who killed people for one reason or another.

It’s me that the nugs have grown up! You don’t think I’ll know!

Anyway, I’m back at the end of the day. Since we are human too, we need to rest, so we observe our working hours.

And it became a course on the way home from work…… I stop by Hui-ae-ho once on the way home.

“Aaaaa…!!!!”

“It’s still here no matter how much time passes”

It didn’t matter if it was a little late or not. No matter the time, there was always someone in front of Hui Ae Ho.

It’s not meant to be surveillance or anything like that. This is because there were always people who thought about Hui-ae-ho or spit out cries mixed with complicated emotions.

I’ve seen the sea, so I can’t sympathize with it too much, but I do sympathize with it in a small way. What would this lake think of a person who had a family member who died of thirst because there was no drinking water?

Is it resentment? Or is it joy? At least you can know for sure that awe is involved.

“What, did you go out for a walk too?”

“I’m on my way home from work. I’ll be back soon. What about you, Ruri?”

“I’m going to catch some fish and make it for dinner.”

“Huh? Was there a fish or something here?”

“It looks like a deep-sea fish, but it seems that it lived in its own ecosystem underground. In the first place, water lizards came from here, so there can be no food chain, right?”

“…Come to think of it, do water lizards appear?”

“It comes out about once a week.”

“Is that cool?”

“Yes!”

Catch fish using a roughly made fishing rod. For those who have no concept of being caught, there is no such thing as bait, so they are quickly caught up.

It didn’t take long for Ruri’s colander to be filled with fish.

“Ah, I caught a lot because I had fun catching it. I should share it with others.”

“Can I trim the fish?”

“Isn’t it just a matter of cutting off the neck, taking out the intestines, sprinkling salt on it and grilling it?”

“Be loud and give it to me. I’ll cook for you.”

This is something an expert should do. Especially if it’s an ingredient you’ve never seen before.

“Then let’s have dinner together tonight!”

………Ruri’s words somehow make me feel bad!!!!!