085. Lost Temple (2)

After an amazing time when a powerful prophecy was delivered to all of us, a man’s heavy voice broke the silence.

“The correction of the prophecy… … .”

Carefully sweeping up the glittering powder scattered on the floor, he left a meaningful monologue that everyone in the party could hear.

“I left the final prophecy towards victory.”

I felt that the eyes of the party briefly turned to Stalin Castro, and then began to look at me all at once, as if they had promised each other.

The party was waiting for a word to come out of my mouth as the final decision maker who decides all matters of the alliance with a determined expression, but it was a very burdensome atmosphere for me to break this heavy silence first.

‘This… … It’s time for me to say something very cool… … .’

Originally, a leader who leads a group must know how to encourage those who follow him with powerful and impressive lines.

However, I am the type who values simple conversations on everyday matters, but I was never the type who could wrap words well like a legion cook.

‘Ah, what should I say… … ?’

Given the atmosphere, it’s the point where I’ll pick out a nice word, but I couldn’t think of a single plausible line in my head.

As I became a ruler, my memory improved so badly that I remember very well things like lines from movies and dramas I watched as a child, but all of them came up with only lines that were too cheesy to write now.

‘It would be better if the elders gave plausible lines… … .’

When I glanced around, the elder, who was the only one who could substitute for my influence, was just chewing chocolate and deep in thought.

I glared at the manager with strong force, meaning to look at me for a moment, but his gaze, staring blankly into the void, did not return to me until the end.

“… … .”

Well, it was my fault for expecting that man.

“… … Well.”

In the end, after thinking for a while, these were the words that came out of my mouth.

“Even if I can’t eat.”

Well, isn’t it enough to convey the meaning you want to say rather than grandiose nitrogen-packed lines that don’t suit you?

“Now, raise the hands of those who will participate in this operation.”

As expected, putting actions before words was the style that suited me.

* * *

The place that the Crystal of Prophecy showed us was an endless land of ice, reminiscent of Antarctica covered in haze.

It has a small sun that burns very faintly, so even in broad daylight, it is dark and the stars are visible in the sky, and a small frozen satellite spinning lonely in the distance around a giant gas planet reminiscent of Jupiter is the place of the problem. .

―My lord, we have arrived at our destination.

Through a huge portal that instantly narrowed the astronomical distance, the forces of the legion and alliance began to visit this unfamiliar place.

―Master, let’s release the jellyfish and find out where to build colonies.

Arachne, a competent lieutenant, was now giving off a lot of tea filled with jjambab.

He instructed me to do the preliminary work before I even gave my order, and thanks to that, I had time to look around the unfamiliar land completely without worrying about anything else.

“Let’s see… … .”

My impression of this strange world, seen from high up in the sky, was that it was a very cold world far beyond the imagination of ordinary people.

“At this level, life can’t actually live… … .”

In the direction where the sun rose, the ice of the earth vaporized and created a huge cloud, and on the other side full of darkness, a fierce blizzard raged and froze the world.

The fact that the ice vaporized and turned into clouds in such a faint light meant that the ice here and the thick ice on the ground were not made of ordinary water.

“driving me crazy. It will be difficult to scout this.”

Originally a race that originated on a hot planet, the Legion’s objects did not yet have the proper tolerance to overcome such severe cold.

As I expected, the jellyfish that were about to enter the satellite’s atmosphere for reconnaissance started screaming that they were dying in the Hive Mind.

-cold! cold!

-Queen! ruler! Can’t go down!

-It’s too cold here!

In a word, this place is colder than outer space, and even jellyfish, which can survive spacewalks based on psionic energy, froze helplessly and crashed if the activity lasted only a few hours.

“Jiu, how cold is it here?”

Kang Jin-hyeok, who watched the screams of jellyfish and the frozen ground from the side, already had a lot of hot packs in his hands, probably feeling the cold just by looking at them.

“Hey, a hot pack like that would be completely useless here, right?”

“… … Is that enough?”

“okay. It’s colder down there than in low-orbit space. Those ices don’t look like water, but nitrogen or methane.”

“… … How cold is that in terms of temperature?”

I sighed as I looked down at the cold land where the corps could not operate yet, and informed Kang Jin-hyuk of the harsh reality of that land, who took out a hot pack as a countermeasure against the cold.

“It means that it is at least 210 degrees below zero.”

“… … .”

“Hey, what cold weather training did you come to? Put on the hot pack and take out the hardening suit. If you go out naked over there, it’s a verb.”

“… … An enhanced suit?”

“I think people should go out instead of the legion.”

Things weren’t looking too good.

Although the Crystal of Prophecy showed us a frigid land with blizzards, we never imagined it would be as cold as Pluto.

“Fuck… … If this is the case, the Legion troops will not be able to go down to the ground.”

If the Crystal of Prophecy wasn’t blackmailing us, somewhere here must be the ‘Temple of the Hidden God’ that the Crystal of Prophecy showed us.

The problem is that there is a high probability that the temple or something is buried in that thick ice, and to find it, you have to borrow the power of the legionnaires.

“It hurts.”

Before I came here, what I had believed was a large army of spiders capable of piercing the earth’s crust and even the mantle, at the behest of their rulers, willing to melt their bodies.

I had guys who were good at digging, so I figured excavating a single ruin buried in the snow would be easier than eating a piece of cake.

But putting Legion troops in there right now is tantamount to making very fresh frozen food that will last for many years.

“Jiu, do people really have to go down?”

“Oh, wait a minute. Let’s think about it.”

I stopped the Legion’s activities and fell into deep trouble.

“this… … I don’t think I’ll be able to last long even if I wear a reinforced suit… … .”

The horse said that a person might have to jump on it himself, but no matter how excellent the technology was, even a reinforced suit could not guarantee the user’s safety in such a crazy environment.

Given the circumstances, I had to come up with a very good way to excavate the ruins.

【Elderly. Do you have points to transfer to the planets?】

The first thing I thought of was to transport this icy world near a warm sun and melt it hot.

“Erasing. My brother is in debt.”

“… … .”

However, the man who appeared behind me shook his head with a sad expression, and the most comfortable and surest idea became lightly going into the trash.

【Apostle. Do drones and other machines work properly?]

—… … It’s so cold that it stops quickly.

The second method I came up with, using the powerful units of Apostle Jeong Seong-cheol to search, also went into the trash.

“Wow, it looks like you’re actually jumping in a suit.”

Like this, the stark white, cold moon was an impregnable land that did not allow us to visit easily.

“Ha, damn it. Is there no gene for cold tolerance?”

“Well… … Shall we get some samples of kids who live in cold places?”

“Yes, old man. Let’s get something for now.”

The last thing to do before jumping into the body was to get genes from otherworldly creatures that eventually adapted to the cold and make an on-the-spot modification.

The manager was able to obtain rare items that normal players couldn’t find, and among them there were samples of guys I had heard of at some point, so I was able to look forward to it.

“Come on, Jiwoo. This is the flesh of a guy called Yeti, and this is the scales of a race of lizards that live on a very cold planet… … .”

“… … It seems to be packaged like food ingredients for some reason. Well, as long as you can figure out your genes, it doesn’t matter. Please come here.”

That’s when I suddenly started researching the gene for resistance to the cold with the temple in front of me.

“Jiu, there seems to be a native creature on the ground… … .”

Kang Jin-hyeok, who was looking down at the ground in a daze, found something and pointed at them with his hand gesture.

“what… … ?”

When the blizzard stopped and I looked down at the clear view of the sparkling plains of nitrogen glaciers, I saw fluffy mammoth-like creatures poking out from the ground to sunbathe.

“This crazy… … Wear a reinforced suit.”

Surprisingly, there was a native creature with crazy vitality that even cockroaches would cry for living after adapting to such an extreme environment.

“portal.”

The frigid air that froze everything rushed inside the Leviathan.

* * *

In the ice world that came down, leaving the manager who had been defenseless and frozen, a spectacle was taking place where thousands of monstrous creatures came to the surface, ingested nitrogen ice, and basked in the sun.

“These guys… … Are you a lot bigger than you thought?”

“Right. It seems to be bigger than most generals. Besides, these guys look a bit old… … .”

Originally, creatures that live in cold places tend to grow in size, but there were guys who went a little too far.

These native creatures, resembling mammoths, raised their ivory teeth in a very menacing way, probably surprised to see me and Kang Jin-hyeok suddenly popping out of the air.

Flash-!!!

A lot of reddish, suspicious energy started to gather in their huge ivory, and I felt like it would hurt a lot even if I got hit with just one.

“Jiu, it looks like they’re trying to attack us… … .”

“yes. I am watching too.”

In a foggy world of vaporized gas, the fearsome presence of native creatures soon began to make heavy strides toward us.

Kukkung-!!!

Every time those big guys approached us step by step, the earth shook and the ice that formed the earth cracked.

Booo!!!

Among them, the largest mammoth, which seemed to be the leader of the herd, let out a menacing elephant cry, emitting unusual energy from not only its tusks but also its entire body.

With that cry at the forefront, the native creatures that surrounded us began to gallop at a speed unbefitting for their size.

“this… … Isn’t that a bit dangerous?”

Kang Jin-hyeok hurriedly took out the [Holy Sword] and [Horus Relic] and was very nervous, but I shrugged my shoulders toward him.

“Hey, but we can’t catch one of those.”

And the [Thunderbolt] I confidently launched, a wide-area attack that colored this frigid ice world with sparkling golden sparks, spread around me like a spider’s web.

Booo!!!

The captain mammoth, who received my attack by exuding sparkling red energy everywhere, soon expressed his anger by shouting loudly once more.

“what… … ?”

So, it means that the [Blade] I threw was blocked.

“Jiwoo.”

“Fuck, don’t talk to me and summon me quickly, you idiot!!!”

Right before our eyes, angry native creatures were speeding like runaway locomotives.

“Fuck, quick!!!”