034. with overwhelming power (2)

The conversation with the manager was more informative than I thought.

I asked for detailed information about the demons in exchange for an alliance, but the manager handed me over without hesitation a wealth of high-quality information stemming from his own experiences during his active career.

For example, not only the detailed life culture of the demons, but also the generals who oppose the nobility, the [immortality] power of the demon king, and its weaknesses, were parts that mankind was completely unaware of.

The reason why the administrator did not open this information was as follows.

-Hey, it’s you, so I’m telling you. What will happen when the guys who have been robbed three times in a row by only three peacocks learn the truth of the general or the demon king? Then there is no real solution. That’s why I imprisoned the returnees so that no unnecessary noise came out. They know the General and the Demon King.

—… … Aren’t the returnees imprisoned because they went around discrediting the personality of the elderly?

—… … .

Certainly there was a point in what he said. Even from my experience, the generals were much stronger than the dukes that mankind has experienced so far, they were by no means weak.

If the fact that these people are on the other side of the demon world is known, it will surely have a negative impact on the morale of the players.

―Why can’t you answer? As expected, you’re right that you’ve been ripping it off and holding it.

—… … Because it’s not! The images of other administrators are all fake. If you know it, there is not a single bastard who is worse than me.

Of course, I am not an ordinary player, but the ‘ruler of the allied group’. Strictly speaking, it is difficult to see it as an equal relationship. In terms of the forces under my command that I can mobilize right now, I have an advantage over the manager.

Besides, even if I didn’t know the demon lord, I could kill the general with my own power by being eaten by [Rainbow], so I was very qualified to obtain advanced information.

Anyway, the information about the demons the manager gave me was really helpful. It is now possible to set the direction with great certainty on how to lead this war to victory in the future.

While I unfolded the dimensional map based on the information I got from the conversation with the manager and looked for a target for a preemptive strike, Choi Kang-han, who had finished assigning the players accommodations and giving brief training, approached and talked to me.

“Jiu, the arrangement of the players is over.”

“Okay, good job.”

This guy has been very screwed since he met me again. He no longer talks bullshit about ‘trainer’ or ‘tried sampling and breeding’ in front of me.

Unlike Kang Jin-hyeok, who was dull in the first place, Choi Kang-han is a very smart and quick-witted guy. So, from the moment he knew who I was, he was treating me very carefully.

As long as the manager he served as his older brother acknowledged that he was in an ‘alliance’ relationship with me, he could no longer treat me carelessly like before.

Thanks to this, Choi Kang-han, who stood in front of me, looked as if he was smiling as before on the outside, but on the inside he was very nervous.

“Jiwoo, have you decided on an attack target?”

“Oh, the goal? I guess I can just enter anywhere in the visible dimension?”

“… … what? Can you go somewhere?”

“Look at the map here. See those black glowing dimensions?”

Setting the target for the preemptive strike was easier than expected. It was because the children of the demon tribe had their territories in so many places.

While these bastards wrapped up their conquest activities with the unreasonable bullshit of ‘liberation of demons’, they were prowling around the dimension where civilization exists.

“Half of the dimension shown on the map here is the Demonic Territory.”

“… … was it like this? Are we still at war with these guys?”

To be honest, I couldn’t help but hate this war after watching this. Choi Kang-han saw more than 800 scenes even if he took a rough look at the enemy’s dimensional territory, and his face went white.

“By the way, in the previous episode, it was said that three peacocks were usually sent to one forward base to attack Earth.”

“… … Could it be that there are far more dukes than we thought?”

I nodded, and Choi Kang-han covered his face with both hands.

“The manager told me. Basically, demonic territory can only be owned by those with the rank of ‘General’ or ‘Duke’.”

“… … Crazy.”

This is why the administrator did not open up detailed information about the Demon Realm. The power of the Demon World was enormously greater than expected, and it was virtually impossible for players to maintain the thought of fighting back once they knew this fact.

Even that man with a strong mentality, the archmage of mankind, doesn’t look very good right now.

“Hey, don’t be afraid. It just looks big.”

Of course, it is impossible for the demon king to move all the troops of those territories alone. It was also a town with the political quality of nobles, and it is a fact that only managers who have conquered the demon world know that the demon king can only move the forces friendly to him.

“The Demon King is saying that only about 40% of the forces can directly move there. All of those powers are Jung-gu Heating.”

“… … ah?”

“Didn’t you see that the generals rebelled in the first place? The demons weren’t bastards with a strong loyalty system in the first place.”

“… … Ahh?”

There was no need to be frightened at all because the enemy’s power that could be seen was so enormous.

Considering the fact that even in human history, the feudal system has brought about a fatal weakening of royal authority, isn’t it too obvious what the internal cracks of the demons who have lived like that for a long time will be like?

“I plan to get rid of them very carefully.”

“… … But how do you say you are going to pay for the territory far away? Could it be that the ‘task’ or something the manager is talking about in the message is the answer?”

As expected, Choi Kang-han is a quick-witted guy, so he can communicate well. It was definitely on a different level from a chef who always had to explain everything one by one, but still tilted his head at the explanation.

“answer.”

The biggest problem we need to solve right now is how to mass move legions and player coalitions to strike them. With current human technology, it was impossible to build something like a ship that could carry large numbers of troops and go to another dimension, and such items were too expensive for managers to obtain.

My legion is also difficult to maintain, so I can’t recklessly produce huge power creatures.

“Are you still messaging the manager? How is the work going?”

“Let’s see… … They say it takes about a month in our time? But what kind of work is that? The manager didn’t even tell me.”

Right now, the manager was making an item using the [Gate] power information I gave him. Oh, of course, I’m not doing my own research.

In the first place, the manager Yangban was the type to develop his own powers through ignorant training close to ‘self-torture’ rather than research on the genetic factors that create powers. So, for powers that are not his major, he has used a method of simply giving points and borrowing them, and transplanting them into players’ genes.

If you look closely, you’re saying that he’s a nobleman whose skills are far worse than mine.

“I entrusted the work of an item that can make a [gate] to a subcontractor.”

“… … what? You can make such an item?”

“Yes, it was possible with points. The world of managers is perfectly point capitalism.”

So the manager, who couldn’t handle authority-related factors well, was instead producing a large number of items that could create [gates] by placing spells in the [Dimensional Craftsman’s Workshop].

As far as I’ve heard, it’s a place where the term ‘torture by aliens’, where you can create anything by putting points in it, has become a reality.

The huge pyramid-shaped building where the players are now staying in Nemesis was also made and sold in that workshop.

“As soon as the ordered item is delivered, the Pandemonium Destroying Operation will begin.”

Oh, there was one place I was going to go to before that.

“Hey, I’m going on a business trip, so take care of the players so they don’t get into trouble.”

* * *

I was traveling with only Arachne, my lieutenant, on this schedule. My newly cultivated bodies could now use powers and systems, so there was no need to bring a point vending machine and cook.

Of course, moving alone would be a bit boring, but it was the same thing with him anyway.

I called Maria, who was drinking a lot of recovery potions.

“Maria.”

-Yes, Master.

At my call, the winged woman with an expressionless face turned to me.

Maria, who had dark purple hair and pupils because she was created using the genes of a high-ranking demon tribe, was not well known by the standards of the demon tribe, but by human standards, it could be said that she was a truly unrealistically beautiful woman.

Thanks to the demonic girl from the original version being prettier than I thought, she was also chosen for her looks astonishingly.

Of course, I don’t feel anything special when I see that appearance. Oh, I’m not saying that I’m a eunuch.

To be honest, whenever I saw Maria in sync with the human body, I could always feel a surge of energy go into my lower leg. This was an intense instinct for reproduction possessed by the genes that make up the human body.

However, when looking at Maria through the main body’s eyes, one can only think of it as a ‘tool’. In the first place, the significance of Maria’s existence was just the [Gate] shuttle, nothing more and nothing less.

“How much strength have you recovered now?”

-Yes, Master.

“Open the door.”

When I gave the order, Maria, who had regained her strength with the help of the potion, opened the huge [gate] again, and the huge whale jumped right into the gap.

In this way, I continued to restore strength by feeding Maria the potion, and thanks to this, Leviathan leaped in an instant over a huge distance that would have taken a long time to travel.

-ruler! ruler!

-ruler! Ruler of the Legion!

As I moved for a while and got closer and closer to my destination, I began to hear the voices of the Hive consciousness that sensed my presence.

[Kangho’s World]

[A person with divinity has appeared in that dimension.]

you’re the new manager

“I’m going to see you now.”

* * *

By the time the Legion’s ruler arrived at the first plane he visited, the other world he passed through was full of hideous flesh.

As the name of the disaster proves, the firepower itself was really no joke.

Flash!

Kwaaang-!!!

Certainly, the defense of the [Demon King] was amazing. Countless turrets mounted on the fortress spewed fire without rest, and the monsters of calamity could not overcome this wailing wall and returned to the broken protein mass.

However, the demon king’s expression was still dark.

Once inside the fortress, the Demon King is guaranteed safety, but that doesn’t mean things are going well right now. Because the monsters of that calamity are not dead even if they die.

The surviving parts of their flesh soon reunited with each other to create a new monster, and the resurrected disasters were now devastating all other places in the dimension except for the fortress of [Demon King].

“Duke, how are things going?”

“… … There’s no problem with the fort, but it’s a bit difficult. Aren’t nobles never really fighting a disaster? All they can do is try a war of attrition.”

In order to prevent the multiplication of these disasters, it is necessary to find and deal with their ‘head individual’, but such battles are the specialty of generals, not the specialty of nobles.

“Did you find the general’s whereabouts?”

The Archduke shook his head.

“It seems they didn’t even intend to save the capital in the first place. At first, I wanted to summon troops to fight, but soon they all disappeared. There is a high probability that he is aiming for the time when the Demon King will appear.”

The Demon King was well aware of the fact that he should never leave the fortress in this situation. In this situation, there is no way the former demon king would not dig a trap.

However, it was a situation where the capital was really blown away if you stayed in the fortress and procrastinated like this.

“I will catch it myself.”

The Demon King started to move.