290 – Chapter 11. Patriot Train departs (6)

The cataclysm changed the world, and so did the resources.

Mana has become the most precious thing in this world, and the only way to artificially obtain mana is mana powder.

So, where can you get mana?

The surest way is to live near Sejong Island and take in the mana contained in the air through the air.

Other than that, there is no other way to get mana-

there was.

Everyone didn’t know it before, but one by one they started to find a way.

-Mana started to dwell in minerals in Korea!

The meteorite fell to the sea floor.

Then, along the leylines of the seabed, mana gradually began to spread toward Korea.

From Sejong Island, through the East Sea, and along the mountain range in the eastern part of the Korean Peninsula, the mana began to spread slowly across the Korean Peninsula.

At first, everyone didn’t know.

Everyone was busy just stabilizing the changing world as people with special powers began to be born into the world, and above all, the means and method to confirm that was the only person with special abilities.

By chance, a person with this ability realized that all kinds of resources collected in Korea have higher mana utilization than other countries, and only now, in 2025, resource development has begun in earnest.

-Hey! Coal from Gangwon-do contains mana!

-Call the workers! Call the talented people! Start mining magic stones now!

It was different from the magic stones that actually appear in fantasy.

In Hunter Water, some kind of magic stone is used like Muan Sweet Water, like a next-generation energy source, and is often seen traded at astronomical amounts.

However, the magic stones in this world are just things that can use mana efficiently.

It’s just filled with mana, so when it’s processed, it’s just something that can contain mana more easily or inspire mana.

then.

What if you made something for people with special abilities with something like this?

-Ooooh! My, my sword runs out of mana so quickly…!

– Pistols made with magic stones are easier to shoot magic bullets than normal pistols. This is a revolution.

– Since the semiconductor used in Taegeuk Watch uses metal containing mana, it is showing crazy performance…! You can use it for a week with a single charge!

The efficiency went crazy and started to run amok.

Rather than using metals imported from abroad, products made with resources mined in Korea boasted much more efficient and economical capabilities than existing products.

In extreme terms, a smartphone developed in South Korea with the same technology and with South American resources has 3 times better performance, 7 times longer battery life, and half the weight than a smartphone developed in South America with South American resources. what if

Of course, it would be more efficient and effective if everything was made in Korea.

Even if you bring raw materials from abroad and let them pass for a long time in Korea, mana will permeate here as well, so everything gets better when it goes through Korea.

for example.

In the basement of the military zone, where access to the general public is restricted, a large-scale ‘jangdokdae’ is embedded in the floor.

If the object in this saucepan is molten iron that melts steel, then the object made by smelting that molten iron into steel over time is harder than the existing steel and does not easily rust.

at last.

As time went on, one thing became clear.

No longer, Korea is no longer a weak country in terms of resources.

Rather, as time passed, even the part of resources became stronger.

That’s why the whole world is aiming for Korea.

Not only ‘human resources’ coming out of Korea.

All the resources coming out of Korea, even the soy sauce fermented in the Jangdokdae.

Made in Korea.

In other words, everything embedded with this phrase is related to ‘mana’ and ‘supernatural ability’.

* * *

At that time, a special train for transporting important people, ‘Shin Mugunghwa’, a special room.

“Sisters. They’re all gone.”

As soon as a woman wearing a hanbok spoke, all the women in the special room began to take comfortable postures from stiff postures.

“Haa. Seriously, how did I end up going through such hardships?”

“It’s okay to quietly go to music in Busan. It’s not even Seoul, it’s some kind of individual performance.”

“Ah, it sucks. I can’t just quit being an idol.”

The women, who have the name of the idol group ‘Star Flowers’, looked at the guest room with somewhat depressed faces.

“Is there really no one there right now? Can’t they hear us?”

“Are you worried? Or shall we go to the Kaesong Hotel to talk?”

“It’ll be late if we talk after we go to the hotel. Let’s just assume that no one is there and talk now.”

The person who seemed to be the leader carefully took out an item from the inside pocket of the hanbok jacket.

“Sister, did you take it?”

“Of course.”

What the woman took out very carefully, not to be seen by others, was a box.

“Ah, sister. What kind of Hallasan is it?”

“Cigarette packs. Couldn’t you have brought something a bit more reasonable?”

“These things.

An object resembling a pack of cigarettes.

However, the moment the leader opened the cigarette pack, the other three women’s expressions changed.

“Wow… Did you take it off the packaging and put it all in? What if it gets contaminated?”

“If you can’t put a few more because of the wrapping paper, it’s better to put one or two more. And this isn’t a real cigarette pack. It’s an imitation, and it’s covered in plastic inside.”

“I should have just bought a maeguk box and came.”

“Don’t you know that if we get caught, our idol careers will end? No, you guys asked us to prepare this in the first place.”

The leader huffed and pointed at the round object in the cigarette pack.

“The more serious thing than idols smoking cigarettes is ‘traitory behavior’. You know that.”

“Sister. But what we want to do is not betraying our country, but patriotism.”

“…So I prepared.”

After putting the model cigarette pack back into his bosom, the leader made a loop with his fingers and poked the gap between them with the index finger of his other hand.

“I pricked my patriotic spit.”

“…Crazy. Are you really going to do it?”

“If I don’t have this, he won’t do it, so what should I do?”

At the words of the leader, the other women silently nodded.

“And don’t worry too much. It’s not made in Korea. It’s made in Japan.”

“…What does that mean?”

“Domestic products are so effective that they serve the purpose of use. Rather than avoiding what you want to avoid, it’s better to excuse yourself later by saying it was made in Japan.”

“Ehh, I don’t know. I’ll only trust you….That.”

The women smacked their appetites.

“Really, really? Doing with an S-class ‘idol’ is a real paradise?”

“It’s not like heaven.”

The leader crossed his legs and twisted the corners of his mouth.

“It’s paradise. It’ll be an experience you’ve never had before in your life.”

“Even if you write that?”

“Of course. Why? You don’t want to try it?”

“…Of course.”

The women turned on the lights in their eyes.

“Even with an E-rank ‘idol’, they say it’s so good that you can’t get out of it, but what if you do it with an S-rank?

“…hehehehe.”

The women only laughed lowly.

“After the performance in Kaesong… Like a storm in the hotel room… hehehehe…”

It couldn’t be said that it was an idol’s laugh, but the women laughed sinisterly and waited for the train to arrive quickly.

* * *

I entered the room with Kim Tae-jo-sik and Yumir Jeon Young-hee.

The structure of the train was completely different from Mugunghwa or KTX, and it was a special tourist train that can only be seen in old European movies.

That’s why, such a train like a cabin where wizard kids buy random flavored jellies.

There is a long hallway to the side, and the seats are arranged to face each other.

And right behind us, the idol group ‘Star Flowers’ is talking, no, plotting.

“Tsk.”

Taejo Kim was licking his lips as if he didn’t like it.

“Shall we go and talk?”

“No. If you know that you are listening right next to you, there will definitely be an accident. You pretend not to know.”

No matter how little they talk, even if the train runs on the tracks, people with special abilities can’t help but hear the whispers of ordinary people in the next room.

Especially if that’s an act of trying to become a patriot by secretly sticking a needle into a traitorous balloon.

how do we know

That’s right, these two people we dressed up as ‘persons with special abilities’.

It is difficult to act as a hero because they are D-class and E-class, respectively, but considering the position of an idol bodyguard, their abilities are superior to those of any bodyguard.

“…Perhaps after the performance in Kaesong, I should act separately from the two of you at the hotel for the night.”

Kim Tae-jo-sik pointed to the back with his chin.

“Anyway, the three of us in a hotel room together can be uncomfortable for each other, so please understand.”

“Is that part of the mission too?”

“…my personal hobby.”

Taejo Kim smiled lightly with a shy face.

He must put down himself as a black agent for a while and enjoy his hobby before going up to Sinuiju.

“It’s not something we should pretend we don’t know, but it’s also not something we should report. We have to respect the privacy of idols. As men like us, we support them. Be patriotic.”

“Patriotism… It’s a little too much to call it patriotism. Wouldn’t it be troublesome if an idol suddenly got pregnant?”

“Oh. Are you patriotic?”

is Ymir.

“Your brother is your specialty in patriotism.”

“…Hey.”

Next to me, I suddenly made a strange noise.

“Cheol-soo oppa, even though his magic power is low, his patriotism is S-class.”

“…Hoo?”

and Taejo Kim.

“Is it real?”

I started to show great interest in me, who had never been interested in me before.

“The woman talking about it is real.”

“It’s not S-class.”

……Oh, my God.

If I use this well, maybe the mission will be a little easier?

“It’s a special EX class.”

“Hey, Hyun Chul-soo.”

Taejo Kim smacked his lips with his tongue and lowered his posture.

“Shall we talk about the future and development of the country while we go…?”