Genius Salsu of the World to Be Destroyed - Chapter 51
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Episode 51
Gapseok asked.
“What am I worried about?”
“You’re worried that that guy will cause trouble like he did with Moza Hong. I don’t think that’ll happen.”
“What are you looking at?”
“Because you’re doing exactly what I tell you to do.”
“Uh… What did you tell me to do?”
“If you want to come into Undercover, you have to give up all the authority and power you have on the outside.”
“ah……!”
Now that I think about it, that man named Kim Seok-gu didn’t reveal anything other than his own name.
There was no mention of what position he held in which ministry, nor was there any explanation of how great a person he was.
He just revealed his name.
So Youngsoo decided that it was okay to open the door.
Youngsoo shook hands with Seokgu.
“This is Seok-gu Kim.”
“It’s Cheon Yeong-su. What about you? You’re the minister?”
“What does that matter now?”
Yeongsu felt Seokgu’s pulse through the hand he was holding.
It was peaceful.
It meant that it wasn’t just a fancy word.
“Go. Let’s talk about the details as we go.”
Former Minister of Science and Technology Kim Seok-gu came in with such a wild personality.
It was the moment when one scientist was added to the Undercovers Guild.
* * *
After giving Kim Seok-gu a general introduction to the facility and assigning tasks,
Youngsoo and Gapseok went down to the communal dining hall a little earlier than everyone else.
Because today, the two of them were in charge of feeding the children.
So, I went to the restaurant first to prepare dinner, but that wasn’t the only reason.
Gap-seok asked Yeong-su a question.
Of course, I continued to diligently cut the radish with both hands.
“Well, let’s talk things through now.”
“what?”
“What on earth did you go through before you met me in real life?”
“ah.”
“And how on earth do you know everything that will happen in the future?”
“Those two are, in fact, the same question.”
Yeongsu answered Gapseok’s questions while diligently picking out and chopping monster meat with both hands.
“Do you remember when World: Terraid was still alive, our guild went to the Black Dragon Raid?”
“If you’re talking about the black dragon… are you talking about the black dragon Nuares?”
“huh.”
“Of course I remember. Our guild was the first in the world to successfully conquer it.”
“After that, things happened.”
“What’s going on?”
“I couldn’t log out.”
Gapseok looked like he didn’t understand for a moment.
“So… you’re saying I can’t get out of the game?”
“huh.”
“Have you tried contacting GM?”
“The massacre happened right after that. Where was the GM to ask?”
“ah.”
The day the massacre happened and the game was superimposed on reality.
World: Terrain’s developer, Worldsoft, has disappeared along with its entire building.
“But then shouldn’t you have been automatically kicked out of the game as well? The server physically disappeared.”
“That’s the mystery. I was trapped in the game alone, in that state.”
“ah…….”
“From then on, I started doing everything I could to escape. I started playing like crazy, thinking that if I cleared the game to the end, I would be able to escape. But do you know what the ending was?”
“… What was it?”
“destruction.”
Gapseok’s expression hardened.
“The game was doomed, and I died. I thought that was how it would end, but funny enough, I just regressed.”
“then…….”
“I went back to the point before the destruction. What can I do? I have to try again. With the knowledge and experience I gained in the previous round. But I failed again.”
“… and then try again?”
“huh.”
“how much?”
“50 years. Well, in reality, only 5 years have passed… … .”
Bam.
Gap-seok dropped the kitchen knife he was holding.
But Youngsoo was rather calm.
“But it wasn’t like there was no income at all. It was because we were able to establish a road map to prevent destruction.”
“How can we win this war against the elves?”
Yeongsu said with a bitter smile.
“The war with the elves is only the first crisis. The crisis of destruction comes in three stages.”
“Wait, three times?!”
“Yes. The second crisis of destruction will be brought by the forces of the Heavenly Demon, and the third will be by… … .”
“Wait a minute, let’s just focus on the war with the elves for now.”
“I thought about it carefully. Finding out too much will only make your head complicate.”
Thump.
Yeongsu threw the dismembered bones into the bucket.
These bones were intended to be boiled and used to extract broth.
Gapseok asked.
“… How on earth did you last 50 years?”
“At first, I just thought about how to get out of the game. But after dying dozens and hundreds of times, I changed my mind.”
“How… … ?”
“I want to end the regression.”
Crunch.
Youngsoo forcefully cut off the monster’s leg bone cartilage.
“No matter how many times I die, the ‘end’ never comes to me.”
“… Do you happen to regress if you die in reality?”
“I don’t know, I haven’t died in real life yet. I can’t test it. But it would be too unfair to choose suicide.”
Yeongsu said, wiping the blood off the knife with a rag.
“Anyway, my goal is one. After preventing destruction, I want to start a normal family, live a normal life, and die a peaceful and irreversible death surrounded by my family.”
“… … .”
“For a normal life, I’ll do everything I can. How about you?”
Gap-seok said with a smirk.
“I guess I’ll just follow the path.”
“Okay. Then let’s start with the radish.”
* * *
After dinner.
Cheon Yeong-su, Lee Gap-seok, Kwak Gi-su, and ten other cadets gathered in the conference room.
After looking over everyone gathered in the conference room, Myeong-cheol asked Yeong-su.
“… Are you perhaps preparing for war?”
“Huh? How did you know?”
“The people gathered here are exactly like that. Healers, weapons developers, combatants, and even strategic weapons. If this isn’t preparation for war, then what is?”
“Hey, is that a strategic weapon?”
“no?”
“… That’s right.”
Well anyway.
“Myungcheol is right. We’ve gathered here today to prepare for the next war.”
At Youngsoo’s words, tension began to rise in the conference room.
Yeongsu continued speaking.
“As the Great Overlap erupted, other worlds began to invade our world. Plants that couldn’t grow on Earth began to grow here and there, monsters began to appear, and labyrinths began to appear. So who will be next to come here?”
“…People of that world?”
“That’s right. Now, people from that world, people from another world, will start coming to Earth.”
“Why didn’t you come over before?”
“It’s only now that they’ve realized that their world is encroaching on ours.”
“They only realized that after five years?!”
“It’s not easy to even conceive of the idea that one’s world is encroaching on another’s.”
“aha…….”
At that time, Kwak Gi-su asked Yeong-su.
“But what kind of problems will those otherworldly people bring to us? Just because a new species comes in doesn’t mean problems will necessarily arise, right?”
“No, it will definitely explode. And it will happen in the form of war.”
“Why… … ?”
“It’s because of the racial characteristics of those damn elves.”
As soon as the word ‘elf’ came out of Youngsoo’s mouth, the crowd started to stir.
Of course, excluding Gap-seok, who I knew about in advance from Young-soo.
At that time, my father asked.
“Wait a minute, those otherworldly people who came over were elves?!”
“huh.”
“That blond, pointy-eared, long-lived elf?”
“One more there.”
“What is it?”
“Fanaticism.”
A question mark passed through people’s eyes.
“… Are all elves fanatics?”
“Yeah. They’re crazy about religion. They think it’s okay to kill anyone who misses their worship. They’re so filthy holy.”
“… … !”
“The elves worship nature itself as their god. More specifically, ‘their’ nature. So they believe that wherever their nature extends, it should rightfully become their territory.”
“If that’s the logic, then since their trees started growing on our Earth, they must think that Earth is their land.”
“That’s correct.”
“This is crazy.”
“That’s not all. They despise and look down on other races, calling them ‘infidels’ and ‘filthy breathers.’ Now, what will happen when you combine the fanaticism of the elves with this supremacy?”
After a moment of silence, Gap-seok answered.
“… we will come to the conclusion that we should just get rid of all those inferior things from our land.”
“What happened after that?”
“It must be war.”
“That’s why I summoned you.”
A sudden silence came.
It was evidence that everyone was starting to get nervous.
Youngsoo started talking again.
“Then here’s the question. When a war breaks out between humans and elves, where will the battlefield be?”
“Earth… right?”
“If I asked you where your hometown is, would you say Earth?”
“ah.”
“Of course they will fight on Earth. But where on Earth will they fight? That is what I am asking.”
“Can you figure that out?”
“Of course I wouldn’t know.”
“yes?”
“I don’t know where they’re going to strike first.”
Of course I knew.
The first place they will invade is Brazil, specifically near the Amazon.
But in this situation, it’s meaningless information, so I didn’t say anything.
“As I just said, we don’t know where they’ll choose as the battlefield. Even if we could, if it’s too far away from Korea, we won’t be able to participate.”
“So should we wait until they invade Korea?”
“If you think about it normally, that would be the case, but it’s not a good idea at all.”
“… Then how on earth are we supposed to fight them?”
“There is only one way. You have to involve them.”
“yes?”
“I don’t know where they plan to use the battlefield, but we can draw them to the battlefield we have prepared.”
“… … !”
The crowd began to stir.
“You’re going to bring the elves to Korea? Then the damage to Korea will be significant… No, how are you going to bring them in before that?”
“We already have the bait.”
Yeah-
Youngsoo opened his inventory and took something out.
A long metal cylinder.
Everyone here knew what was inside.
“… It’s a demon sword, right?”
“That’s right. It’s the Demon Sword Cronus.”
“You can lure elves with that?”
“I told you earlier. Elves are extremely religious. That’s why they highly revere the value of holiness, and on the contrary, they have an extreme hatred for magic.”
And the magic sword is a weapon with extremely concentrated magic energy.
“That’s why the elves are so obsessed with always searching for and destroying places where magic is emanating. If you use a magic sword with a high concentration of magic, you should be able to draw them out.”
“aha……!”
That’s why Yeongsu hesitated to draw his magic sword even during the war with Hongryeon.
This is because if the magic sword’s energy was carelessly released and provoked the elves, the situation could become quite complicated.
However, in the end, it was an emergency situation so he ended up using the magic sword, but Yeongsu’s worries were half right.
Because a small number of elves who sensed the energy of the magic sword came to Nowon-gu to scout out the area.
“That is, our strategy is this. We will prepare a suitable battlefield, complete all war preparations, and then use this magic sword to draw the elves into that battlefield.”
The best strategy that Youngsoo can take for now.
Everyone nodded.
“That’s why, Mr. Kwak Gi-su.”
Youngsoo turned his gaze towards Kisoo, the weapons developer.
“What’s going on?”
“Is it possible to miniaturize the external mana battery used in this war against Hongryeon?”
“I’m already thinking about it. But I’m having trouble miniaturizing the circuit… … .”
“I’m not just making this request without thinking. First, I’ll assign the new employee, Seok-gu Kim, as a research assistant.”
Kim Seok-gu.
A former Minister of Science and Technology and a scholar who achieved significant results while he was a professor.
“It would be helpful if he was a scientist of considerable skill. And.”
chin.
Youngsoo took something out of his inventory and placed it on the table.
It appeared to be a smooth, silvery lump of metal, about the size of an apple.
“What is that… … ?”
“It’s .”
This time, it was an item that Youngsoo had brought from Minister Mozahong’s secret storage.
“It’s a metal that can change its form as desired when infused with mana.”
“… … !”
“With this, any circuit can be implemented. Please work with Seok-gu Kim to complete the design of a small mana battery by any means necessary.”