Chapter 287: A Bland Victory
“A different god?”
Does that mean there are two gods interfering in our world?
I wish one of them was on our side this time.
Eleanor adjusted her glasses and said.
“At least the god I met didn’t seem to be interfering in this world to kill someone.”
“Why didn’t you tell me? If you had told me that you were a dragon shrine maiden, if you had!”
El, who was overwhelmed with emotion, shouted.
Oh no, are the sisters fighting?
“I’m sorry, my lord. It seems I couldn’t hold back…”
“You wouldn’t have thought you’d meet your missing Big Sis like this.”“Big Sis, answer me. Was I that unreliable?”
“I believed you would do well.”
“Lies! If you did, you would have taken me with you.”
Eleanor sighed.
“I’m not a devout believer who believes in the teachings of God. I’m not stupid enough to openly defy the transcendent, but I don’t feel a sense of duty for this mission either.”
“You said research was your hobby, right?”
I casually interjected and asked.
“Yes, I was interested in unknown technology. Someone had to follow the divine revelation, but I couldn’t get my younger sister involved in such an uncertain thing.”
“You could have explained it to me…”
“You would have definitely tried to follow me. Right?”
“Ugh…”
I would have followed her no matter what.
But that didn’t mean Eleanor did the right thing.
“Big Sis, you’re selfish! Dwarf! Flat-chest! Bookworm!”
“…”
Eleanor seemed embarrassed.
She may be smart, but she doesn’t know how to appease her sulking younger sister, that’s a pity.
“Hey, Eleanor.”
“Hmm?”
“It’s good that you’re interested in unknown technology, but going without saying a word was a mistake.”
“What?”
“I came from the Empire. You know what I mean, right? If you saw everything here.”
“I can see everything, but that doesn’t mean I saw everything.”
“Then I’ll tell you, things went wrong because you disappeared without saying a word.
You deserve to be punished, right?”
“…”
She must have realized her mistake.
Eleanor had a startled expression.
“I’m going to hold you accountable. You and your younger sister too.”
“Ugh…”
El’s expression darkened.
It was a good opportunity to check her Big Sis’s heart.
“I’m enough… to take responsibility. ”
“That’s not for you to decide.”
“My lord… I’m sorry. I’ll take responsibility for my Big Sis…”
“Stay still, El.”
“Big Sis, you should!”
“Both of you come to my bedroom later, okay?”
“Yes…”
“Bedroom…”
Eleanor’s gaze is sharp.
“Why, what?”
“Nothing.”
“If you’re done sorting things out, let’s move on quickly, time is of the essence.”
Gayeon said.
“Yes, we don’t know when the pursuers will come.”
Even Seina.
Everyone is right. I approached Eleanor and said.
“Eleanor, let me meet what you’re guarding.”
“Meet…? Have you ever been here before?”
“Maybe. I’m not sure.”
I feel strongly drawn to something.
Judging by Eleanor’s reaction to the expression ‘meet’, as expected.
The treasure we need to find is…
A beautiful android pretty girl with long light blue hair and sky-like eyes.
She has no name.
There was a chance to give her one, but she refused.
“Come this way.”
“Is it okay to just guide us? We might be bad guys.”
“I roughly know the situation. Besides, it’s not my role to prove your qualifications.”
“Is that ‘it’?”
“Yes, it is a mysterious crystal that far exceeds our imagination.”
In short, I,
it seems like I have to become the owner of the pretty girl android.
Following Eleanor’s guidance, we walked down a black corridor and returned to the place where I had first arrived.
Numerous security barriers blocked the straight path.
“It’s a sight I’ve never seen before.”
Gayeon is impressed.
“Wow, the ceiling and the floor are hard. Oppa!”
“Don’t touch it, it’s dangerous.”
Especially Cecil, who has a good sense, looks like she will press a button that should not be touched, so I hold her in my arms.
“I can’t protect Oppa like this. But… it’s nice to be held, hehe.”
Cecilia wags her tail and tickles my stomach.
I stroke her head and walk with her.
Soon, a familiar area appeared.
It was the control room full of instrument panels.
Beyond the broken glass barrier, there was a sphere that looked like a mass of detailed mechanical devices.
What was more noticeable than the magnificent mechanical sphere was…
“Why are you all gathered here? What’s going on?”
A pretty girl android with light blue hair and sky blue eyes.
She had a slender and ideal glamorous figure.
She had many mechanical tentacles sprouting from the sphere on her body, but her face was so pretty that it looked like angel wings made of mechanical parts. ℞ÂƝОᛒΕ𝒮
“These are the guests who wanted to meet you.”
“Guests?”
Our eyes met.
What should I say if we meet again like this…
“Hello.”
I decided to greet her normally first.
She gives a pretty smile, quite admirable.
“A blonde man with low intelligence. We meet again.”
“It’s Geum Taeyang. And my intelligence isn’t that low, maybe.”
It definitely drops when I have sex.
There’s too much blood flowing down, so it can’t be helped.
And the blood flow had already started. How can I help it when she’s so exposed like that?
“So, why did you come back after I opened the wall for you?”
“I wanted to confirm if you were what I was looking for.”
“That’s a strange reason, if you’re looking for me, there’s no way you could be confused.”
I once asked her a question,
a question that a machine that simply answers with an algorithm could not answer.
‘I am lying right now.’
Like the graffiti saying ‘No graffiti’, it’s the liar’s paradox.
By asking a question that has no answer, I tried to see if the other person had the same intelligence as a human.
She answered like this.
‘It could be true, it could be false.’
A machine that produces answers it can give with calculation can’t give such an answer.
Because it would fall into an infinite loop error and malfunction.
In short, the woman in front of me is…
It is very likely that she is a complete artificial intelligence that even our civilization has not been able to create!
…Amazing.
It’s amazing just by existing.
While I was lost in thought, the others already seemed to have felt an ‘unidentified sense of crisis’.
“Taeyang, should we destroy this?”
“Please give the order. My lord.”
“It smells dangerous, Oppa!”
“…Everyone, calm down.”
Seina quietly stepped forward.
“Are you an enemy or an ally?”
“Well, I haven’t been assigned such a position.”
“Then…”
I took a deep breath.
“What if someone asks you to kill Geum Taeyang?”
“…I don’t want to kill anyone.”
Everyone seemed to have lost their hostility at her mournful tone.
She looks lonely.
How long has she been alone here?
“But, if I have to kill.”
“…”
But, for an instant.
Her eyes changed very eerily.
“I can kill, very easily.”
“You… were you created for that purpose?”
“I don’t know what that purpose is. I’m waiting for someone.”
“Someone?”
“Someone to move me…”
“Do you want to get out of here?”
“I don’t know.”
Gayeon put her hand on the hilt of her sword.
“Taeyang, you have to make a decision here.”
“Wait, Gayeon. What if I die ‘easily’ because of that?”
“In that state, you won’t be able to respond to my attack.”
“Why don’t we test it?”
Wait…!
You shouldn’t provoke Gayeon Noona there!
Gayeon launched an attack without hesitation. A downward slash that seemed like it could split the sea in half, but unlike the Sword Empress’s intention, her body was not split in half.
It felt like the sword pressure that Gayeon launched was being pushed out of space, not interlocking like the opposite poles of a magnet.
What is that?
“…What is this?”
Even Noona doesn’t seem to understand.
It may be natural that a warrior’s eyes can’t understand it.
With a mysterious space distortion technology, the Sword Empress’s attack was thwarted.
“I was able to respond, how was it?”
“…This is the first time I’ve encountered something so dangerous. It’s a feeling I’ve never experienced before.”
That’s right.
Noona has never encountered this type of enemy before.
The opponent is not a warrior, nor is it a monster.
“Should I try it too? To see if you can kill me easily.”
“Cough!”
My heart stopped.
Even though we are so far apart, it felt like my organs were being grabbed directly.
“Mr. Taeyang!”
Before my companions, who noticed my ordeal, could move, she smiled playfully.
“I’m kidding.”
“…”
Would I have been able to survive if I had used Aura Deployment?
I don’t even know the principle of the opponent’s power.
And…
I don’t think it’s the same as something ‘powerful’.
“Do the guests want to destroy me?”
“No… the goal is to make you our ally. I’ll grant you what you want.”
I decided to try to persuade the girl.
“What you want?”
“What do you want? Do you want to get out of here?”
“No, I have something to do here.”
“Something to do?”
“I’m waiting for someone to move me. Forever.”
“Then, let’s go out together.”
“…”
The mechanical girl stared blankly at me.
“With you? No.”
“Why!?”
“You’re not my type.”
“No…”
She’s rejecting me for such a realistic reason?
“It might be different if you meet me?”
“No.”
“Aaaah! We don’t have time! Eleanor, do you have a hint?”
“I don’t recommend taking her out.”
“But if I don’t take her, I’ll die.”
“There’s no way the opponent can invade here…”
She’s not a good person.
Suddenly the facility vibrated.
This sound is… an intruder!
Judging by the familiar transfer reaction, it’s the hero party who smelled us.
“They’re here! We can’t let them get here!”
Seina and Gayeon immediately blocked the passage.
The mechanical girl watched us with interest.
Should I just insert a monologue?
“The hero has no choice but to come here, let’s fight back!”
That’s how it should be!
“That’s a plan I like. I will cut the enemy with my sword when they come.”
“Please, Noona!”
“I will attack accordingly.”
“My lord, please step back behind me!”
Now there’s no choice but to fight.
There was something that bothered me. What the hell were they planning to do with the android pretty girl?
It didn’t seem like she would listen if they tried to persuade her.
If there’s another way…
“I didn’t think you’d be here first.”
The hero, Duvernoy, appeared with the saintess, Erin.
This is the third time we’ve met, and I’m already sick of it.
Except for our pretty saintess, of course.
“Geum Taeyang, can you step aside?”
A body that has surpassed the limits of human beings.
Even with just a spear, he is so threatening.
“If I step aside, I’ll die.”
“If you surrender, I won’t kill you or your companions.”
Yeah, right.
I’m sure they’ll try to kill me, even if they don’t kill the others.
Because I’m an obstacle to their cause, right?
“How did you find this place…”
Eleanor muttered.
It seems like Erin was the one who found it.
Judging by her worried expression, it seemed like a bloody battle was about to break out right here, right now.
“The thing I’m looking for seems to be behind you.”
“Are you coveting it?”
“Do you know that a special code is required to move it?”
“What?”
“To come here without even knowing that, you really are…”
“So you’re saying you know what a code is?”
“…”
The hero didn’t answer and grabbed his spear.
“Come! Geum Taeyang.”
“Spear wielder, I’m your opponent.”
In such a narrow place, it’s difficult for everyone to exert their abilities.
We are at a disadvantage as we have more people.
However, Seina and Gayeon…
They were not so inexperienced in combat that they could not overcome such a disadvantage.
Gayeon steps into the opponent’s range.
“Huuup!”
The hero’s spear thrust was as fast as light,
If you noticed it, it would have already pierced Gayeon’s torso.
But…
Gayeon evaded the hero’s attack like an intangible ghost and started fighting at close range.
A sharp metallic sound rang out.
Seina wasn’t just watching either.
She wielded her scythe with the Kraken, which moved like an autonomous weapon, and drove the hero back.
With Gayeon and Seina’s teamwork, the hero was quickly pushed back.
‘It’s amazing that it’s only ending with being pushed back.’
The opponents are Seina and Gayeon.
It wouldn’t be strange if their heads fell off in an instant with this combination.
The hero was holding on.
“Lord Hero…!”
“I’m still okay!”
The hero jumps greatly after receiving Erin’s buff.
It seemed like they were planning to skip Seina and Gayeon and break straight through to us.
“I won’t let you pass!”
Of course, El and Cecil, who were protecting my side, went out and countered.
The hero had to pay attention to both the attacks coming from behind and the attacks coming from the front, so the match was quickly decided.
‘Did they come without any countermeasures?’
I didn’t even feel the need to use blood arts.
The opponents are the hero party,
I thought they would have prepared something, but…
As expected, the difference in power is too great.
Thanks to the fact that we had taken this place first…
I won’t even give them time to enter a ‘code’.
“I didn’t really want to use this method, but…”
Eleanor flinched.
“Oh no, it’s dangerous. We need to get out of here!”
“Why?”
“Oppa, the machine sphere is moving!”
“What…!”
They entered the code…!
When?
“We didn’t say we were the only ones who came, Geum Taeyang.”
Stop the operation. The monologue was returned.Dammit.
I expected it, but monologue insertion doesn’t work.
It might work on a computer that solves all problems with calculations, but the opponent is a transcendent artificial intelligence.
Rather than a human brain, which is prone to errors and contradictions in the thought process, they are much better at defending against monologues… the hero shouted.
“Follow me! Destroy Geum Taeyang, destroy the Empire!”
“Eleanor, what does our transcendent say?”
“If ‘it’ is activated here, it is possible to destroy the Empire from a distance.”
“We don’t need that kind of destructive power measurement!”
Seina and Gayeon attacked the sphere to somehow stop it from operating, but it was impossible.
Is there no way to stop ‘it’ once it starts moving?
Since the opponent is using space distortion, Aura Deployment doesn’t work either… There was really no way to do anything.
But…
The distortion gradually subsided, and the android pretty girl opened her eyes.
“I don’t want to.”
“…What?”
What is this development?
Wasn’t the Empire going to be destroyed?
“I refuse.”
“The code had been entered, why?”
“I don’t want to.”
“…”
Was she serious?
The words that she didn’t want to kill…
She glanced at me.
Huh?
It feels like she’s looking at her crush sitting next to her at school.
“It’s not that I hate you enough to kill you, you’re just not my type.”
…!
The hero wouldn’t have known that he would be rejected in this way.
If we’ve all been rejected fairly, then we have the advantage!n/ô/vel/b//in dot c//om
“Blood Moon!”
Seina’s relentless attack pinned the hero to the wall.
“Cough…!”
Gayeon’s sword attack also struck the hero’s body while scattering lightning.
Not even Saintess Erin’s healing could keep up!
“Lord Hero!”
I ambushed Erin from behind and hugged her.
Uwah, she’s soft!
“Kyaaaa! No!”
“Get your hands off me!”
Aura Deployment!
Nullified the hero’s attack.I blocked the hero’s movement.
He can’t move an inch from here!
“Kuhh!”
It’s my victory! Hero, Duvernoy!
“Lord Hero…!”
Erin said weakly, even while I was choking her.
“I’ll use, the holy war!”
‘Holy war?’
Suddenly the surroundings became bright.
Centered on the saintess, the existing space collapsed and a new space was created.
Erasing everything and rewriting it…
The stage changed to an endless colorless space.
Even the places that were blocked by walls became visible.
“…Watch out behind you!”
Iris’s attack!
In her human form, she held a pale sword made of ice and drove Gayeon back.
The hero aimed for me in that gap, but Seina blocked him.
“Huuuh…”
Erin groaned.
It’s because I put her in a chokehold.
I feel sorry for the frail saintess, but…
I can’t just let her keep healing, can I?
“You bastard!”
Erin slumped in my arms.
“I just knocked her out.”
Now, let’s fight once without healing.
“Seina, do it!”
“Yes.”
Seina VS Hero.
The hero lost one arm as soon as he clashed with Seina.
“Cough…!”
The Kraken that sprung up from the floor crunched and ate the hero’s thick arm.
Seina’s attack didn’t end there.
She drove the one-armed hero, who had lost one arm, back with a fierce scythe and laid a black swamp on the floor to swallow him.
Seina’s blood arts!
“Arghh!”
The hero fell to the ground, losing one leg.
The more space she uses, the more advantageous Seina is, and the battlefield prepared by Erin became a poison.
For the same reason, Gayeon seemed to be struggling against Iris, who was freezing everything around her with harsh cold, but…
“Queen, I’m sorry!”
“Kuh…Ugh…!”
With the intrusion of Alremene and Tracyon…!
Iris was also subdued!
It was our victory.