The Reincarnation of Fusion Punk - Chapter 226



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#228.

······A small furnace with golden molten iron boiling away.

The blacksmith Kaldrak’s great furnace spewed out clear flames. Dargant once again put his hand into the boiling furnace and stirred it. The molten iron was already a brilliant color.

with a plop!

A large mineral was pushed into the furnace. The red cloud iron, which was the original main material of the light, had already been melted down, and the elven lord Isaac Modric was selecting additional materials from the bundle he had brought to melt down.

Isaac brought a bundle of minerals that were as strong or stronger than red cloud iron.

This was Al Heimdall, a place where not only oil and coal, but also all sorts of rare minerals had been pouring out since the past. The gift bag of Isaac, who ruled the northern part of the city, was definitely on a different level. Most of the minerals were rare minerals whose names I had never heard of before.

[ Cheonghwageum (靑火金), Baekuncheol (白隕鐵), Naengsa corundum (冷沙强玉), Peacock lead stone······What on earth made you bring so much of them? Aren’t they the things you kept in your hands, saying you would never give them to a human who isn’t a biped? ]

That Dargantt was quite a surprising amount, you see.

Minerals that are filled with the energy of the world are not limited to the eternal steel. If a snowy tree in the Valhalla Mountains holds energy and endures for ten thousand years, it becomes an eternal tree, and if a mere grass is imbued with the energy of the world and accumulates for ten thousand years, it becomes an eternal grass.

Although Mannyeonhancheol is the most famous among them, there are many other minerals that have endured the passage of time and possessed a spiritual aura. It is because they are harder to find than a needle in a haystack and are available in small quantities.

It seems that Slemokin’s influence had a big impact on this.

These are things that are extremely difficult to obtain even if you pay a thousand dollars. Since I have obtained them through fate, even the most prominent megacorps are desperate to obtain just one piece, I could not ask for more.

Not only will you be rebuilding Ahimsa’s repair and beam, but you could also make another Slemokin pump-action shotgun.

Wink-

Slomokin, whose eyes met mine, laughed out loud.

* * *

Kaldrock Smith.

Hurrrurr—

Dargant’s forging causes high heat to rush into the forge.

The heated air felt like a fireball was filling my lungs. It was a tremendous firepower, like a dragon breathing out its breath. Even the dwarven potters, who were highly resistant to heat, stuck out their tongues and rushed out of the forge.

Whoosh whoosh—

I sat across from Isaac with the fire in the background.

A nobleman who saved Ahimsa from outside the barrier and brought him great minerals. If it weren’t for him, Ahimsa would have been lost. No matter how many times I bowed my head, it wasn’t enough. I first brought up the story of Ahimsa, who was saved by the combined efforts of King Ureukbagal and Isaac.

“I heard that you saved the wandering Ahimsa. Thank you.”

“It wasn’t even your request, but I should be grateful. It was hard to turn away when a dwarf who spent his entire life in front of a fire kept urging me on with his holy fire. It was the first time in a long time that I saw him in his younger days.”

···It seemed like Dargant was acting unusually.

The blacksmith who healed Ahimsa to wash away the foolishness he had left behind from his youth, and created the masterpiece, the light beam, but said that things that leave his hands are no longer his. It seems that even such an existence cannot completely erase affection.

That was when.

“But that reckless weapon headed to Baldur just to save a single person. All flights there were cut off, so it chose the land route. Even though it must have known from the beginning that it was impossible.”

Isaac spoke of the Ahimsa he had saved.

“Have you ever seen a bipedal android?”

“Well, it’s rare.”

“Of course it would be rare. Al Heimdall prohibited its creation.”

“I see. Why did you do that?”

“That’s one of the reasons I don’t like interacting with humans. They make machines that look like people, and they even put human emotions into them and use them. But honestly, I don’t know if those machines really understand and act like human emotions. Aren’t they just imitations of people that move according to the settings?”

“I agree to some extent.”

“For the first time, I thought, maybe that’s not it.”

“···.”

Isaac opened the story with the words of Ahimsa.

He was silent for a moment, as if recalling something.

I did the same. It was like the ticking of a pocket watch was ringing in my ears.

After a while, Isaac, who was pulled out of his thoughts by the hot air blowing from the depths of the forge, changed the subject.

“Yeah, I heard you killed the evil spirit?”

“I was with the Twelve Emperors, Jin Gong Jin, and I was lucky.”

“Hmm······.”

Isaac’s curious gaze. He asked back, as if he found the answer that he was lucky amusing.

“I remember the days when I used to come to the North and groan for food. Not many years have passed since then, and now you’ve become a big shot called the Twelve Emperor and are meeting me alone. Do you plan to explain this away with the cliche that you were just lucky?”

“If talent and enlightenment could be expressed in a few words, wouldn’t humanity be able to recover all the territory it lost that day?”

“He was born with qualities comparable to the Three Lords and the Seven Seats······Since such a person is actually in front of me, I can’t say he’s wrong.”

Isaac nodded and nodded. He just said he was born with talent, so what more could he say? This is a fact proven historically by those who were higher up than him. Isaac would be the same.

yet.

“Soon, Trukak will come to you and cause trouble.”

Isaac said suddenly. It didn’t sound like a joke.

King of Kai, Trukak.

He is a fighting cock who throws punches without warning, despite being the King of Water, and he is no different from a bomb left on the street. He is such a powerful fool that he can knock out the powerful Shaolin Arhats without warning. Since he doesn’t communicate well, it seems like it would be tiring if he got involved, so his head is complicated.

It’ll take quite some time to craft a new sword.

“Why does he do that again?”

“Turu-gak has a long history with Akbu. The two were once best friends.”

The evil one is a traitor from Suin. Isn’t that strange?

“I was planning to one day catch and kill the traitorous evil spirit with my own hands, but the news that the Twelve Demons had killed the evil spirit spread throughout the Federation within a few days······.”

Isaac suddenly crossed his arms and spoke in a serious tone.

“You’ve just reached the top, so you don’t want to get seriously hurt, right?”

“Isn’t that obvious?”

“Then I guess we should prepare for the wedding. Even though I’m human, I can’t stand to see my son-in-law get killed, so I have no choice but to go along with Turukak instead.”

This may seem like a half-joke, but—

It was a word that could tell the location of King Kai and Isaac.

They are not included in any of the twelve or seven positions, but they are in the ranks of the 10th level or higher. They are more than enough to stand shoulder to shoulder with the transcendent giants of humanity.

Isaac Modric. The de facto ruler of the northern part of Al Heimdall. I tried to vaguely gauge his realm, but gave up.

And then, he expressed his intention to gently reject it.

“it’s okay.”

“Hoo, do you think you can fight and win against Trukak?”

“Other than that, I’m talking about the wedding.”

“Now you’re being so brazen without even showing any sign of hiding your true feelings.”

ha ha ha-

Isaac couldn’t hold it in and smiled faintly. I don’t know what he was thinking, but it seemed like he had given up on forcing her into marriage to some extent.

Because I’m not a gentleman who likes humans that much.

Soon, Isaac, who had been smiling faintly, opened his mouth.

“Then I’ll finish talking about marriage next time.”

“······.”

“This Baldur incident, their leader must have seen it with his own eyes.”

“I saw it from afar. It was a being that the Seven Seats had to block with all their might.”

“Anyway, some kind of ‘force’ is moving and has begun a large-scale invasion of the city. It’s going to get quite complicated from here on out.”

“There are eight named corpses killed in Baldur City. Even if the leader returns alive, wouldn’t the damage be quite significant?”

“Hmm, their damage is huge? What’s your basis for that?”

Whoosh whoosh—!

In an instant, a huge flame blazed through the forge, riding the gale. In the depths of the Kaldrak Smithy, Dargant’s great hammering continued.

Isaac’s questioning gaze turned to me. I brought up the incident at Sungsan in some detail. That Shaolin had been running battle simulations with the corpses of the named people that had been confirmed to the world.

However, Isaac was strangely negative.

“Shaolin is a group that ranks high in the martial arts world. However, even Shaolin cannot know and understand everything in the world. It is possible that what the Human Federation knows is just the tip of the iceberg.”

Isaac’s voice became heavy.

I waited quietly for his next words.

“I’m not trying to tell you something as grand as the secrets of the world. The Federation won’t know their full power even after another ten years. The world outside the walls is so vast.”

Wow!

Suddenly Isaac took off his clothes that looked like they belonged to royalty.

Then, through the numerous scars engraved on his body—

“!”

A single, massive scar ran across his lumpy chest and back, and it looked like it hadn’t been there long.

At most, within three days. Is this a wound received while seeking Ahimsa?

But what’s most surprising is that the scar moves around in a creepy way, as if it were a living creature.

Isaac, who showed off his strange scar, put his clothes back on and said.

“It had two human heads, and its legs and body were one. It used a strange magic that I had never heard of or seen before. When it pierced my chest with magic, this wound appeared on my body. Is this the corpse that was mentioned in the Shaolin book you mentioned?”

“As far as I can remember, there was no such entity.”

“It is a new entity that has never been revealed to mankind before.”

I didn’t say anything.

A little later.

Hurrrurr—

The flames of Dargant’s forge and the great furnace grew stronger. Isaac, who seemed to have a lot to say, got up, saying that he should go back soon. And as expected, he didn’t accept any of the essence I offered him as a reward.

“Both King Ureukbagal and I have benefited from the power to interfere with magic.”

This refers to Ahimsa’s interference field. It seems that Ahimsa deployed a field during the battle with the corpse they encountered. Another reason for the severe damage to the parts has been found.

“It may seem like a bit of a stretch, but I’ve gathered some usable metal. You won’t run out. And I’ll organize the named entities I know of and give them to you shortly.”

The conversation with Isaac ended like that.

Soon, Isaac turned around, as if he was about to leave Kaldrock Smith.

“Ah! It seems like someone is playing a funny prank on the chips being delivered to the West King these days.”

“Let’s take a look.”

“And, my main point is: Don’t get too close to the Three Lords.”

“Did you know?”

“He is not an easy being to handle. I won’t ask what kind of deal you made with him. But keep in mind that he is a man who can change his promises at any time.”

Even Isaac says something similar to the Seven Seats Encarta.

It’s about this point.

Samjon, the vigilance against Raman Quonel has become a little higher.

“Of course, if the Three Lords do not act capriciously, then we will gain something great. Who knows······.”

Isaac left the blacksmith shop after saying those words.

* * *

Apart from the production of a new sword······

There are a few things that need to be taken care of quickly.

The martial arts and magic chips supplied by Ban Company to Suin. Among them, there is a guy who is messing with the magic chips. After looking into it, I found out that the company in charge of producing memory chips is being hacked repeatedly, causing problems in the supply of chips.

In addition, there was an incident where the steering wheel of a cargo carrier during transport moved erratically, causing the cargo to be unloaded in a large city other than Al Heimdall.

I need to find out what went wrong during the half year I was away.

And Ahimsa.

Dwarf Dargant is a legendary master craftsman, but even Dargant does not know all the skills of the world. While Dargant was continuing his work of forging minerals, he suddenly came to me and said.

[There is a magical technology that creates an ‘artificial short circuit’ inside Android. It was not installed in weapons in the past, but it could greatly increase the output limit.]

The damage to Ahimsa’s parts was extensive, and Dargant, having received Isaac’s gift, wanted to replace all of the damaged parts, including the frame and battery. This was the highest level of technology in the Federation at the time. This meant upgrading it with a remodel.

In particular, what Dargant absolutely wanted was the cutting-edge technology of ‘artificial danjeon’. Perhaps the most famous person in that field···.

‘Twelve, Topurias.’

Same twelve.

I saw his face once when the twelve were all gathered at Odin. A renowned magic engineer and a big shot in the magic engineering field. And the chairman of the Topuria Corp, a giant corporation armed with the greatest technology in the magic engineering field.

I heard that only the Federation Army’s combat android division or the sword master of Valhalla are qualified to trade with the Artificial Danjeon. I plan to go and trade with them for now.

Now, finally, the matter with the King of Kai.

My relationship with him ended up being better.

In the past, King Suin seemed like a distant memory. I was curious about how strong his military power was, and I also wanted to check out what I had accomplished so far.

Bam!

I picked up about five disposable swords from Kaldrak Smith. You’ll definitely come across them as you wander the streets of Al Heimdall City today.

That’s how I got out of the forge.

Just then, a huge squadron of airships steamed past. It was a magnificent sight, as the sunset was just beginning to fade, but soon the sky turned black. A rain of black coal dust fell down, blown by the night wind.

Thud thud······

A shadow cast over one’s head.

Slomokin opened his umbrella to block the coal rain. She had been waiting for quite some time, so she spoke casually.

“Let’s go eat. There’s a lot of delicious food near the southern clock tower.”

As soon as I arrived, I met Dargant and Isaac in succession.

Since I had just used up a fair amount of energy, I was hungry. I needed to fill my stomach first.

Doo doo doo—

I rode on the turquoise beast of Slomokin and raced through the streets of Al Heimdall. The night wind of Al Heimdall, mixed with thick smog, brushed my cheek.

After a while, a tall clock tower comes into view from afar.

The second hand of the clock tower, thin as paper, moves diligently. Why is it that the thin second hand stands out more than the large, leisurely hour and minute hands?

I shook my head, thinking that the second hand was too fast. If it stopped ticking, it would seem like the world would stop at any moment, but the second hand never stops.

what.

If you keep working hard like that, the leisurely minute and hour hands will eventually move.

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