There Is No World For ■■ - Chapter 474



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EP.474 There is no preliminary round for upsets.

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… This is not just a sport, it is a system competition, and system competition is war. What matters in war is not life, but victory. Do you understand?

If you don’t believe me, go out and check.

The cheering public, the advertisers fighting over interests, and even the politicians who set the budget don’t care about the blood on the gold medal, right?

So don’t fucking go and take some medicine.

[The answer of John Edgar Hoover, the first director of the FBI, to an agent’s question about whether it is right to pay such a price for a gold medal.]

***

The train heading to Seungman City was quiet.

This was partly because I took an early morning train with almost no passengers, and partly because everyone leaving the city had already left when the evacuation order was issued.

Anyway, Dawn was sitting in front of the train window with her eyes closed.

Sunlight streamed over his face as it swayed along the rickety train. At first glance, it looked like he was taking a nap, but a small invisible storm was raging around his body.

It started with mana that started from the heart.

Mana, freely released, ran through my veins. Soon her skin was breathing, adding her external mana to it, the mana crossing the barriers of her veins and skin and swirling around his body.

A surprising display of martial arts-specific mana management methods applied to magic.

Dawn, who maintained that mana for a while, suddenly turned the tide. She was creating a storm outside, but in an instant she was back inside his body.

The blood vessels strengthened by the bone metamorphosis took on the storm firmly and at the same time elastically. Dawn spread her fierce energy throughout her body.

For a moment, let mana wave along the paths that the people of Earth who were not yet familiar with mana called the eight meridians and the twelve meridians.

The mana that excitedly melted into the body went through each vein, artery, and capillary before returning to the heart.

As soon as Saaa-Mana stopped, small waves flowed from his body and pushed the air around him.

But Dawn still did not open her eyes. He felt the sunlight still covering her face and focused his attention on the top of her head.

Beyond the sky, the mana of a space that could only be called a dimension rather than a physical space responded and flowed into the top of my head.

Accepting the power of a higher-dimensional being into the body, divinity.

The power of the sun god, whom earthlings only remember as a myth, crept into the top of his head. It started out weak, but the heat and mana quickly spread throughout Dawn’s body.

Like a blessing given by a saint, or like Stalin’s possessed Dzhugashvili.

The divinity naturally warmed up his body, as if the limbs he had had since birth.

The moment when Dawn, who eventually gained confidence, absorbed the divine nature even more deeply.

『This is another child chosen by me.』

The sunlight spoke to him. Dawn opened her eyes in surprise, but the familiar voice of God calmly continued.

『I won’t tell you to make a sacrifice, so at least pray and write.』

“uh… I don’t know much about prayers in Egyptian mythology… ?”

『… Are there any passages from our mythology that you know?』

After pondering for a moment, Dawn finally spoke a similar religious phrase.

“The names of the sons of Israel who came to Egypt with Jacob, each with his family… .”

『… Exodus is Christianity.』

“hmm… then… My name is Ozymandias, King of kings. Look at the feats of this body, you great ones, and despair.”

When Dawn told me exactly what she remembered about Egypt, her voice became serious.

『Ozymandias? That’s a poem written by an English poet.』

“… .”

『… Just make an offering. Oh, and if you’re thinking of offering cow dung, don’t do it. Alcohol and meat are enough.』

Dawn flinched and swallowed her thoughts as to whether it made sense for the dung beetle god to not receive cow dung.

Whether he knew it or not, Khepri concluded his advice in a kind voice.

『Do not practice divinity blindly, but seek advice from saints and holy knights who serve the five gods… When it comes to divinity, they will be great teachers.』

Finally, the sunlight covering his face faded. Dawn bowed her head toward the sun outside the window and stood up.

There was now less than half a day left until Seungman City.

***

“I think I’d like to take this opportunity to tour the Earth.”

While everyone in the group was gathered in the dining car waiting for the train to arrive at its destination, the knight commander suddenly said something like this.

Then Sancho, who was chewing on his sandwich, raised his eyebrows.

“Tourism? suddenly? What else are you going to do… .”

“Tourism is tourism. Go see Olympia or something, go to places like Gaeseong… Well, there is such a thing, right?”

“Well, stop talking nonsense and go back and get recuperated… .”

Sancho, who had said that far, saw the leader’s stern gaze and quickly shut his mouth.

Yeo-myeong, who was spreading jam on bread across from her, stopped her hand and looked at the leader’s face. She didn’t seem to be joking.

But why did you go sightseeing right before the fight with the Korean government?

The snobbish thought that it would be a great help in revenge and the thought of what would happen if I got caught up in revenge alternately came to mind.

And after a while, after thinking about it, Yeomyeong put a piece of bread covered in jam into Seti’s mouth and said,

“Captain, if it’s okay with you, can I take you there?”

“You?”

“Yes, I happened to participate in the Olympia… I will arrange accommodations at the academy and take care of all the small things, such as plane tickets. How do you feel?”

The leader did not answer right away, but looked at Dawn’s face for a moment. For a moment, wait for his serious eyes, as if penetrating something, to scan his face.

The leader smiled and nodded.

“Then, let’s forget about the old man’s advice and take guidance from our junior.”

Sancho, who heard this, muttered, ‘If it’s a plan, wouldn’t it be better not to do it from the beginning?’ and it was around this time that the leader scolded him to eat everything he was eating.

Shake! The train rolled over and stopped in place. It was a sudden stop with no announcement.

“Yes? “Is there still time to arrive?”

As soon as Salome, who was startled, looked around, she stood up from the footpad where she had been quietly drinking coffee.

“Come and see what’s going on.”

After leaving those words, Balmak headed straight out of the dining car, but returned less than three minutes later.

Dawn asked after seeing that.

“… Did you come back sooner than expected? “Well, did it happen in an accident?”

“No, I hope it was an accident.”

Balmak shook his head and then added.

“The train was littered with soldiers. “The Korean military was blocking the railroad and checking the number of people inside the train.”

“… .”

“Seeing as only this train has stopped, leaving the other trains alone, it seems like they are trying to find out what happened to Hiraria… “What are you going to do?”

The eyes of everyone in the group, including him, were focused on Dawn.

Dawn glanced at the faces of the companions, then raised her mana, unfolded the illusion of bloody tears, and spoke.

“If that’s the case, there’s no need to match the rhythm.”

***

-Found it! There is a wizard from Hiraria!

Jin Yeo-myeong clenched his fists when he heard the voice coming from the radio.

“Where is it?”

-This is the dining room.

Jin Yeo-myeong immediately sent a hand signal to the surrounding troops. Follow me. Then, some of the soldiers blocking the train followed him into the train.

For a moment, the train crossed with the sound of military boots.

Jin Yeo-myeong, who arrived in the restaurant car with an overflowing heart, frowned.

“Loyalty!”

While the soldier, who could not see his expression, saluted, Jin Yeo-myeong struggled to control his expression while looking at the faces of the wizards surrounded by the soldiers.

“Executioner’s bunker and bowl… ?”

“… My name is Salome Dumea, not Vessel. Mr. Jin Yeo-myeong.”

When she revealed her name, the soldiers gathered in the dining car looked surprised.

Too big to meet on a train like this? There was that, but it was also because the veil that always covered her face was thrown away.

I never thought she would be this beautiful. Salome spoke with a cold expression, whether the soldiers continued to glance at her face or not.

“Rather, can you tell me why you stopped the train and surrounded our group?”

“that is… .”

Jin Yeo-myeong pressed his temples to hide his irritated expression.

According to the original plan, I was planning to capture and interrogate a suitable wizard escaping from Hiraria… I never thought the bowl, no, Salome would get caught.

‘Can I interrogate this?’

The executioner was also the executioner, but Salome was a big man who could not handle the repercussions of interrogating her carelessly.

Isn’t her nickname the future of the Magic Tower? If participation in the Olympia preliminaries is delayed due to interrogation… She didn’t want to even imagine it.

“… Write.”

The superiors only told them to interrogate the wizard to find out exactly what happened in Hiraria, but did not tell them what to do in this case.

That means that if anything goes wrong during the interrogation, it will all be his responsibility.

I radioed the guys who had gone to check other train compartments just in case, but the only reply I got was that there was nothing.

Order or responsibility?

As Jin Yeo-myeong pondered for a moment, Salome and her group came into view. One woman and three men dressed slightly sloppily.

“Um, Miss Salome? Is there a wizard among your party… .”

“… These people are specially appointed by my family to assist me. “What is your purpose in asking such a question?”

“… .”

Jin Yeo-myeong looked at her in silence and then made a decision.

“… “I think there was a misunderstanding on our part.”

“misunderstanding? “What’s wrong?”

“Unfortunately, as it involves military secrets, I cannot explain.”

After speaking up to that point, Jin Yeo-myeong ordered the train to retreat. He didn’t know if there would be a wizard on the next train or not, but he decided there was no need to disturb the beehive.

And just like that, Jin Yeo-myeong himself was about to get off the train, but a footblock caught his ankle.

“Oh, by any chance, are there any Earth newspapers or books?”

“… ?”

“There’s nothing to see on the train.”

What is he saying now. Everything is connected to Wi-Fi.

Jin Yeo-myeong was about to say that there was no such thing, but one of his soldiers took out a newspaper and held it out to him.

“It’s yesterday’s paper, but it might be worth reading.”

Balmak, who received the newspaper, winked as if grateful, and the soldier also saluted in return.

That clueless bastard… When Jin Yeo-myeong got off the train, he walked away with the intention of waiting and seeing, but this time, something stopped him.

Puheap.

The sound of two Gasols spouting something at the same time. When I turned my head, I saw the two Gasols looking at the newspaper with surprised eyes.

what? Jin Yeo-myeong frowned for a moment, but when he saw the article they were looking at, he immediately put aside his doubts. The article they saw was one that made him laugh as soon as he read it.

[A surprise that struck the Olympia Russian regional preliminaries… ? Meet #1 dung beetle.]