069. end of disaster (2)

High in the sky, where the starless universe with the atmosphere of a dark abyss mysteriously intersects with the faint blue light of the atmosphere, much of the ground could be seen at a glance.

If from this height a human with normal vision looked down at the ground, he would see nothing but a great river or mountain range.

However, among those who have joined the whale of power right now, there is no one who belongs to the human category.

“Im here. Guys, can you see the situation down there?”

“Oh, it looks good.”

“Yes, Mr. Jiu. It looks great.”

Everyone here now has a human appearance, but two of them are former human players who returned by winning the lottery as rulers of ancient races, and the other is a transcendent being who has already greatly surpassed the human category.

“Well… … .”

Thinking about it, I thought that the identity of the ego possessed by the memories of human days is really great.

First of all, me and that woman named Kim Mi-young were non-human beings in this life. That’s why you don’t have to be in human form like this, but anyway, we insisted on working in human form.

Maybe she’s thinking the same thing as me?

“Miyoung, this is a little out of the blue.”

“… … yes?”

“Can we go back to the way we were before?”

“… … ?”

In fact, lately, I’ve started thinking very seriously about whether there’s a way to go back to being a human again.

If there was such a way, I wanted to go back to my normal human life after resolving all these tangled messes.

“I… … Mr. Ji-woo? It used to be… … ? Ooh, we haven’t even started yet… … .”

“… … .”

… … No, wait a minute, this makes me feel like I said something wrong.

“no… … Miyoung-san, that’s not it.”

I don’t know why he misunderstood my question so much, but Mi-young blushed and lowered her head, unable to make eye contact with me.

“… … .”

“… … .”

For a moment, there was a very awkward yet heavy silence around Miyoung and me, and thanks to that, I felt like I was going to go crazy.

Me and that woman were before, and we were seeing each other for the first time today, so there was no room for misunderstanding.

“Erasing. Are you doing a better job than you look? But I will tell you this in advance.”

“… … no, old man. It’s not at all what you think… … .”

The manager chewed the chocolate like popcorn and launched a very powerful mental attack on me, who said something strange, probably out of his mind for a moment.

“Marriage is crazy.”

“… … .”

Upon hearing this, Mi-young’s face turned very red like a really ripe apple, and that damn old man, for some reason, was putting chocolate into his mouth like popcorn with an expression of fun.

… … No, this is not important right now.

“Come on, let’s stop talking nonsense and focus now.”

Anyway, while I wasted my time having these meaningless conversations, a very fierce battle was constantly going on on the ground, killing each other.

The spiders that hatched from the colony were under the control of Arachne, the Queen of the Legion, and immediately went into battle to annihilate the disaster, and the process was so mechanical that it felt like they were being produced in a factory.

The manager and Mi-young, who saw this army, couldn’t help but admire.

“Hey, is it going well without you?”

“Yes. It’s an army made by someone.”

The Corps, which I had devoted my heart and soul to improving, now had a high level of efficiency that was incomparable to the past in terms of replenishment speed.

With the addition of a synthetic process using water, light, and small amounts of nutrients in the surroundings, the hatchery was able to quickly produce more slime and grow the legion.

In addition to this, due to the modification that increased the growth rate even while reducing the lifespan of the spider individuals to the extreme, the offspring from the egg nests made by the hatchery quickly molted and became adults capable of fighting.

“This isn’t a game with real cheats… … .”

With the skilled Legion Queen controlling all of these processes and the jellyfish faithfully relaying the orders, the Legion was truly storming the strongholds of disaster.

These legion queens must have learned from what I was doing, and they knew how to use various combinations of troops in their own way, so the attack was even more fierce.

“By the way… … Aren’t disasters too much?”

“… … Seniors, this is their home ground. It is said that even the most pitiful mutt goes in the front yard of their own house.”

“Huh, the metaphor is really good.”

As the manager said, the current fight was not in a situation that could end soon.

The scourges against the Legion boasted equally staggering numbers, and they still maintained their numbers, scraping all the organic matter the world had to the floor.

Even if my legion is basically much stronger than Calamity, this is the front yard of those bastards. In the end, it is said that there is no way to stop this fight from going into a long-term battle.

“Of course, it means that when I don’t step up, it goes into a long game.”

“… … I look forward to it.”

“It will be a great spectacle.”

Of course, I was already prepared to intervene on the battlefield.

【Where is the ruler of disaster?】

―Master, I am doing my best to find it now.

The trouble is, this dark-hearted, cunning bastard is now hiding like a dead mouse. First of all, my first priority was to find the one who had been hiding.

Since there was no one to be beaten, there was no place to throw the big stone that I had worked so hard to pick up.

While the masses of calamity and my corps led by the queens were entangled in a mud fight, there was a guy who showed the most outstanding performance.

“Oh, is that Jinhyeok?”

“Yes, it is him.”

The identity of the guy who was leading an army of 40,000 immortals emitting intense flashes and slaughtering all the calamities coming from all directions was the best cook in the army, who had no presence at all.

Surprisingly, the immortal army led by Kang Jin-hyeok was performing so dazzlingly that even I acknowledged it as well as the manager.

“You fight pretty well? That friend, did you have a better talent for conducting than cooking?”

“Iknow, right… … I didn’t expect this either.”

When the corps was at a disadvantage on the battlefield, he always supported that side, scrambled to cut down disasters and pierced the way to advance, managing troops very efficiently at the right place like a very seasoned general.

It seems that Kang Jin-hyeok secured the view of the jellyfish through the colony consciousness and was aware of the surrounding situation.

【Jinhyuk Kang!】

Through the thick clouds covering the sky, a huge whale approached over the head of the Legion’s cook and frontline commander.

* * *

When I reappeared on the battlefield, Kang Jin-hyeok greeted me with an expressionless expression and a dry voice.

“Your boy… … Where the hell have you been? and… … Who is this lady?”

“Hey, it’s complicated to explain. Open your head.”

“… … Jiwoo, wait a minute. I have found out something.”

“Hey, where did you fuck with the Hive consciousness? Pass it through.”

“… … ah?”

“Remember everything you went through. Think of the explanation you want to give me as well.”

In fact, those who belonged to the Legion did not have to express their opinions and exchange information in painful words.

The ruling entities of the corps can solve the process of exchanging precise information beyond simple communication through the hive consciousness in a really easy and simple way.

“Do you understand?”

Thanks to that, I was able to sift through the information I felt free to share with him, and finish all the explanations in a matter of seconds.

It’s a little complicated to explain this in words, but it was a very simple principle if you just briefly link to each other’s consciousness to read and copy information.

In this way, the information exchange method through the collective consciousness could be said to be the most superior way to exchange information faster and more accurately than any other race, unlike languages or letters that have limitations in expression and the possibility of conveying incorrect information.

But here’s a problem I didn’t expect. Apparently, I overestimated Kang Jin-hyeok.

“Oh, please concentrate. Don’t get any weird thoughts. And Miyoung, why do you keep looking at me?”

“… … I was surprised to hear that woman is the ruler of the Balaur… … .”

“Kang Jin-hyuk, concentrate before you get hit.”

Originally, this guy didn’t have a talent for using his brain, so he wasn’t very good at conveying information through the Hive consciousness.

“No, don’t mix that kind of delusion.”

“… … Trying hard.”

In order to use the Hive Mind to deliver accurate information, you must have some degree of freedom in controlling your mind itself to the extent that you can open up your deep consciousness and recall the information you need.

This was basically a genetic ability that the ruling entities of the corps were born with, but Kang Jin-hyeok, who was simply ignorant and only awakened to power, had no such knack at all in the first place.

“under… … This isn’t about finding information in some hidden adult magazine… … .”

“… … .”

Thanks to this, the information Kang Jin-hyeok gave me was filled with all sorts of idle thoughts hidden deep in my consciousness, and thanks to that, I had a very dirty experience of confirming this guy’s sexual fantasies.

“You bastard, your head is very full of baskets.”

“… … .”

There was a need for this child to put everything else aside, and to roll it to death from mental training unconditionally.

I have enough power, but I can’t use it properly, so unnecessary time wasted in the process of handling important things.

“Well… … Still, the information is pretty useful. no wonder… … I heard something strange about that bastard… … .”

“… … Thank you for the compliment.”

Anyway, the information Kang Jin-hyeok passed on was far more valuable than I thought.

Thanks to that, I got a lot of information to infer the true identity of the ruler of the disaster, who was suspicious in many ways.

“Hey, did you find out something?”

The old manager, who had been watching us exchanging information through the hive consciousness, tediously asked a question right after the task, which took longer than expected, was over.

“Well, this is speculation, but… … I am confident in my heart that this is probably a fairly accurate guess.”

The points of information I culled were as follows.

First of all, once I saw the master of calamity, it was truly astonishing, and had very perfect human genes. In addition, in the process of colliding with Kang Jin-hyeok, he even gave off a lot of nuances with his mouth that he liked humans and did not want to hurt them.

Second, it seemed to have tremendous dominance on the surface, but in reality it was using primitive and ineffective Legion control methods that were left to instinct.

From my point of view, he didn’t have the ability to cultivate and decorate something like I did at all.

Lastly, he was surprisingly weak enough to be pushed by Kang Jin-hyeok, and even chose to run away, sacrificing himself for fear of getting hurt.

A very plausible hypothesis was established from the difference between the guy and me that was revealed on the outside, and the way he threw clumsy rice cakes at me.

“The elder and Mr. Miyoung.”

“uh.”

“… … yes?”

“The bastard’s real identity is probably… … .”