Genius Salsu of the World to Be Destroyed - Chapter 115
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Episode 115
Yeongsu called in all the leaders of the punitive force.
“Everything is ready.”
“… … !”
There was tension in the tent.
Yeongsu continued speaking.
“There is no change in the operation. I will infiltrate first, then send a signal into the sky, and you will attack from the designated direction.”
“So, when will you, Captain, launch the assault?”
“That’s not for me to decide.”
“What do you mean?”
“The fire will start in about an hour (two hours). That’s when it starts.”
“The fire is coming?”
“It’s true. You’ll know it when you see it. But you have to run through the fire.”
“Oh, then surely that’s why… … .”
“Yeah. That’s why I brought those cloaks.”
Besides food and tents, the expedition force brought one more thing with them.
A gray-white cloak equal to the number of people in the punitive force.
It was a cloak made of fire-retardant fiber that blocked fire.
“Distribute fire cloaks to all personnel and provide plenty of meals. The battle may not be long, but it will be fierce.”
“All right.”
At that point, the punitive force’s war preparations were almost at their final stages.
The Bingbaek Palace side was also still maintaining a strict level of alert and conducting defensive operations.
Meanwhile, soldiers who were watching outside from the castle wall discovered something.
“Huh? What is that?”
“What are you talking about?”
“Have you ever seen a flower like that?”
They saw white flowers beginning to bloom outside the castle.
Short, plain-looking wildflowers.
Most soldiers just glanced at it and passed it over, but some felt an inexplicable sense of unease.
“It’s my first time seeing flowers like that here… … .”
“What, there are only one or two kinds of wildflowers? Don’t worry about it. They’re not even worth weeding if they’re that big.”
“hmm…….”
In this way, the opinions of the minority were crushed by the indifference of the majority.
Of course, even if that minority opinion had been taken seriously, the result would not have changed.
Because the blooming self-destruct flowers soon began to wither quickly.
The seeding of self-destruction was never a good sign.
The evil nature of self-destruction only reveals itself after it has withered.
The flowers are withering.
The petals dry up and fall, and hard fruits form on top of the dead flowers.
Inside the stem, a flammable liquid begins to form.
A liquid with an insane flash point that ignites at a mere 20 degrees.
Even fires burning with this liquid as fuel are not easily extinguished by water.
The self-destructing creature scatters this liquid in all directions the moment it dies.
By creating a sea of fire around it, it burns the surrounding plants, while its own seeds survive inside the hard fruit.
This is how self-destruction spread its offspring.
And as that moment of reproduction approached by the second.
“Huh!”
Flash.
The Ice White Demon suddenly opened his eyes.
His extremely sensitive senses were sounding an alarm in his head.
Cold sweat ran down my back, and slight twitching was detected in the extremities of my hands and feet.
This is a harbinger of fear.
Something was coming.
‘I feel afraid?’
There were only two things he was afraid of.
Blood horse and fire.
But there was no way the dead blood horse would come back to life… … .
‘fire?’
No, that couldn’t be possible.
Every precaution was taken to prevent even a single fire from breaking out.
But what is this feeling?
What is this ominous feeling, as if something unknown is creeping up on me at every moment?
At that moment, the maid who heard the Ice White Demon’s voice spoke from outside the door.
“Your Majesty?”
“Eww!”
The scream of the Ice White Demon.
The sudden intrusion of a voice startled him.
The Ice White Demon Lord used the Ice Ball without thinking.
The energy released around his body soon turned into cold air, and the cold air became ice in the form of thorns.
Quagwagwa!
Ice thorns swept across every corner of the room.
The solid stone wall was pierced like a tofu, and all the furniture it touched was shattered into pieces.
And of course, humans too.
Thud!
The Ice White Horse opened the door and went out.
His maid was lying collapsed in the hallway.
With his abdomen impaled on an ice spike.
There was no bleeding because the punctured area was frozen and the blood froze.
The escort warriors who felt the sudden explosion of cold air and ripples of energy rushed to the Ice White Horse Emperor’s tent.
“What’s going on?”
“Raise the alert level.”
“I may be presumptuous, but as you previously commanded, the alert level has already been raised to its maximum… … .”
“If you say so, then do it! Wake up all the sleeping ones and strengthen surveillance!”
A spirit that makes your flesh freeze.
The escort warriors bowed down in fear.
“Yes, I will serve you!”
“And put this away.”
The Ice White Demon pointed to the dead maid with the tip of her chin.
The warriors quickly carried the body out.
The Ice White Demon muttered as he stood in the empty hallway.
“Something is coming… … .”
But I couldn’t possibly predict the whole story.
Even his intuition, which sometimes boasted a sharpness comparable to that of foreseeing the future, was unable to interpret the approaching danger.
The reason was simple.
Self-destruction and Cheon Yeong-su.
Both are variables that have intruded from another world outside of the Central Plains.
It was perhaps natural that his feelings were confused.
‘…I have to see for myself.’
The Ice White Demon reached into the room.
Then an iron staff that had been leaning against the wall flew into his hand.
Okay!
The staff is his most beloved weapon, Cheonhwa Seokjang.
Armed and ready, the Mage finally went out of the palace.
And that moment.
Almost all of the self-destructing plants had flammable liquids filling their stems.
Part of the stem swelled up like a lump.
Like a balloon about to burst.
And finally, bread.
Break!
The popping sound wasn’t loud.
It was at most the sound of dry leaves being stepped on.
But if hundreds or thousands of such flowers bloomed, it would be a different matter.
Pava ba bang!
A sound like popcorn popping could be heard from the mountains and fields all around.
Of course, the witch doctors didn’t know what popcorn was.
“hmm?”
“Can’t you hear anything?”
And the biggest problem.
It was said that similar sounds were heard in the castle as well.
At that time, Youngsu entered the castle through the hole.
Yeongsu had also sown the seeds of self-destruction in some of the flower beds within the castle.
There were so many eyes watching that I couldn’t spray much.
But that was enough.
Because a very small spark was enough to light the fuse.
Pava ba bang!
At that moment, Youngsu, who was waiting at the bottom of the slope, also heard the sound of the self-destructing flowers exploding.
“come.”
That moment.
The fire soared.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The area around the Ice Palace was engulfed in flames.
It happened in an instant.
The punitive force members who were looking up at the scene from the ground were only then able to understand.
The fire is rising, said Yeongsu.
but…….
‘The Ice Palace guys must have prepared well for the fire attack… … .’
The team members’ worries were true.
The moment the fire actually broke out, the Bingbaek Palace guards immediately began extinguishing the fire.
Although they were taken aback by the sudden fire, their movements were coordinated and precise.
The water cannons placed on the wall simultaneously aimed their nozzles at the fire.
“Spray it!”
Choaaaah!
Water cannons began to spray massive amounts of water onto the flames outside the castle.
Meanwhile, the situation inside the castle was similar.
“There’s a fire in the flower bed!”
“uh?!”
The self-destruct flowers that Youngsu had scattered here and there in the flower beds in Seongnae also began to burn.
“Fire brigades, move!”
“yes!”
The firefighters ran to the water jug to get water to put out the fire in the flower bed.
What it contained was fire extinguishing water, which could be used to put out the fire.
This is the fire extinguisher that Youngsoo had contaminated by soaking the poisoned sword.
with a splash!
The firefighters at the Ice Palace quickly poured fire extinguishing water onto the fire.
Cheeeeek!
As the water touched the fire, smoke mixed with steam rose fiercely.
It was the same outside the walls.
Thick smoke rose from everywhere the water from the water truck touched.
A thick layer of smoke completely enveloped the castle.
Not only was the castle not visible from outside, but the people on the walls could not see outside the castle properly either.
At that moment, the view from the Bingbaek Palace side was completely blocked.
‘now.’
fault!
Yeongsu started running alone towards the Ice Palace.
The Bingbaek Palace troops, whose vision was completely obscured by smoke, did not see Yeongsu coming at all.
And a moment later, Youngsu jumped into the smoke surrounding the castle wall.
Hurrrrr!
Even in the smoke, the fire was burning.
No matter how much water I sprayed, it was no use.
This is because the flames of the self-destruct fire could not be extinguished even by pouring water on them.
And the blazing fire couldn’t even burn Youngsoo.
It was because of the fire cloak Youngsoo was wearing.
A cloak made from special fibers extracted from minerals.
It was an item with incredible performance, including being fire-resistant and having excellent heat retention and cold protection properties.
There was just one minor problem.
The material of this cloak is asbestos.
Asbestos, a class 1 carcinogen selected by the WHO.
Of course, Youngsoo was not affected by asbestos thanks to the unicorn horn necklace he wore around his neck.
However, other agents wearing this cloak will be affected… … .
‘Are you my friend, you Murim guys?’
Yeongsu approached the castle walls like that.
Tadah!
Yeongsu quickly climbed up the wall and settled on top of it.
Extremely quiet and rapid movement.
No one noticed Youngsu’s intrusion because the smoke covering all directions blocked their vision.
‘Where should I look?’
Yeongsu stood on the wall and looked down at the inside of the castle.
Although not as much as outside the castle, smoke was rising here and there inside the castle.
But the smoke was of a different nature from the smoke outside the castle.
“Hey, sir, why isn’t the light going off?!”
“Keep pouring!”
Choaaaah!
The fire brigade in the castle poured water from water jars onto the fire.
Water that has been contaminated with poison and turned into poison water.
The moment the poison touched the fire, it turned into vapor and began to spread in all directions.
It became poison gas.
In this way, toxic gases began to spread throughout the castle.
The effects began to slowly become apparent before long.
“eww…….”
“My head… … .”
“Cough, cough… … !”
People who inhaled the smoke began to feel dizzy and have headaches.
And then there was a sudden cough.
There was no immediate death.
But that was even scarier.
When an instant death occurs, people immediately take countermeasures.
So, paradoxically, the situation is resolved more quickly.
But what if the symptoms are vague like they are now?
Rather, the risk is neglected because its severity is not detected early.
And the risks that are left unattended slowly grow in size.
Until the situation becomes so bad that recovery is almost impossible.
Of course, this poison gas had no effect on Youngsoo.
Thanks to the unicorn horn necklace.
wickedness-
So, Youngsu stepped into the castle filled with poison gas without hesitation.
The inside was a mess of orderly chaos.
Everyone was moving properly as they had been trained.
But at the same time, the poisonous gas they inhaled slowed their movements and distorted their senses.
In this way, order was collapsing here and there.
Thanks to this confusion, Youngsoo was able to blend in with the castle without much effort.
At that time, no one paid any attention to Youngsoo.
Youngsoo activated his skill.
—-
[Skill] ‘Origin of the Forest’ activated.
—-
Zzuzuzu-
A handful of seeds sprouted on Youngsu’s palm.
‘It was worth copying the seeds in advance.’
Yeongsu moved along the wall and planted seeds in the cracks in the wall.
This time I didn’t use any growth promoters.
Because it wasn’t necessary.
These were also seeds of the Eldrunia plant.
The name is Waterweed Vine.
Its hallmark was a fanatical obsession with water.
Given the right conditions, these seeds will germinate even on rocks.
Afterwards, it absorbs the moisture around it and spreads out vines and roots.
But moisture in the air alone isn’t enough to satisfy this guy’s greed.
So the water vine spreads its roots in all directions in search of moist ground.
As long as at least one root touches the ground, that’s all that matters.
And there was only one condition for the ‘proper environment’ for this seed to germinate.
High temperature.
Once this is in place, the watercress vine will germinate.
And the temperature in this area was steadily rising.
By the unquenchable fire that burns everywhere.
“Fill the water truck with water!”
“Why won’t that light go off… … !”
So finally… … .
Damn.
In the cracks in the wall, vines began to grow.