NOVEL NEXT Episode 92
???Tier Clockwork Workshop Tower.
“I was waiting, uncle.”
And right there, the mechanical girl appeared.
Looking at that scene, Yoosung took a deep breath and the girl opened her mouth.
“I’m sad.”
“You’re sad?”
“Yes, it’s very sad.”
The machine girl said. The air around the area froze at the sound of her voice, which was unusually young. Yooseong asked back without losing his guard.
“What is so sad?”
“You can’t sell card packs here. “I can’t sell card packs.”
“...Oh yeah.”
The air that should have been frozen collapsed. It was right then.
“Mr. Bum is here.”
“Grandpa?”
“Oh, come in.”
The answer to the mechanical girl's words came from afar. In a world shaped like a ballroom, where hundreds and thousands of giant cogwheels are interlocking and moving.
And Yooseong was dumbfounded and answered those words.
“No, all that being said, why am I called Mr. Uncle?”
“Because I’m not an ajumma.”
“...Hmm, you’re so smart that I have nothing to say.”
“My algorithm is very good.”
With a truly meaningless sound, the mechanical girl took steps. Then, an elderly man appeared, absorbed in his work in a studio beyond the workshop.
Something is being assembled among magnifying glasses of all kinds of unidentifiable geometric shapes. It was a clock.
“I was waiting for you, King of Heroes.”
“Ah, nice to meet you. “It looks like you knew I was going to do it, right?”
Without even turning his head as he was concentrating on assembling the clock, the player and apostle of the Mechanism Lord opened his mouth.
“She gave me a tip.”
“aha.”
After hearing that, Yoosung responded.
“I heard that as soon as the tier 0 tower disaster occurred, you fled to avoid CIPO’s surveillance. “You managed to elude the Guide Lord’s Apostle and Mistress.”
“Yes... By now, countries and organizations around the world are probably turning on their lights and looking for me.”
“I guess so.”
Yoosung shrugged his shoulders and answered.
“Why did you do that?”
“What do you mean?”
“Did you ever think about building a tower after seeing how it was destroying our world? Did you really not expect the disaster that would occur in the tower we built through our foolishness?”
“Do you really think the tower is destroying this world?”
But an unexpected question came back.
“I would have thought that even you, the self-proclaimed king of heroes, would not know anything about the tower. “I am truly disappointed.”
“Do you think I am here to live up to your expectations?”
Tick.
“Destruction always preceded creation.”
Immediately after, the hour hand of the clock the man was assembling moved making a sound. There were only a few tens of seconds left until 12 midnight.
“Think of the tower that destroyed this world and the creation we built on the ruins of that world.” See, King of Heroes.
Aren’t you the one who enjoys the blessings of the tower more than anything else?”
“After the Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) system was solidified by nuclear weapons, major military powers began to curb acts of destruction and respect each other. Acts that could truly be called ‘destruction’ disappeared from the world. Yes, Cold. “Whoa? That’s not funny. Can something that happens silently without fire and destruction be called a war?”
“Home, you’ve just reached the third verse of nonsense. Is there any reason to listen to it any more?”
Yoosung’s expression froze coldly at those words.
“The world of the tower awakened us. Yes, through the power bestowed by super-wills beyond the universe through the player. Once again, we can understand destruction… and at the same time, create a window.” “It made me reflect on the meaning of Joe.”
“Why don’t you just go crazy for the holidays?”
That was right then.
[Player One enters the Tower of the Clockwork Workshop!] [
Player-...
[Player]
Messages came to mind one after another. It wasn't one, it wasn't a few. Dozens, now dozens. The dog's message started to block my view as if plastered all over the place:
“I have no intention of justifying my actions, yes, but the tower changed this world, and this is something no one can turn back.”
The shooting star fell silent and the players began to move quickly. I could sense it intuitively. Each one of them was claiming to be the ‘powerhouse of the deep sea.’ ‘Ha ha. Ha! You guys can’t even imagine that
. You won't be able to...!'
‘Well, behind you there is a secret organization of spectacle villains made up of powerful men of the deep sea, and the boss's name is Shi?'
“——I waited M.”
Suddenly, one of the powerful men of the deep sea appeared at the tower of the Clockwork Workshop and opened his mouth.
And among those who were paying respects to the leader of their organization, Yoosung coldly opened his mouth.
“...Deus Ex Machina. “Mechanical god.”
“I am also one of the necessary evils that sustains this world,”
said M, the apostle of the Lord of Machinery, and Yoosung burst into laughter.
Everyone is the same.
Mistress is also a member of her group . He said so while emphasizing the necessity of organization. Everyone calls themselves a necessary evil and justifies their actions as lesser evils. So, assuming that what
they all say is right, this world is supported only by evil. It must be a place that is becoming.
A world that can only be supported by evil. Then why do we have to protect this world full of evil so desperately? I just found that fact so funny. “Why should I let you live
? “Do you know?”
“Don’t you know well the meaning of starting a fight in front of her?”
At those words, M, the apostle of the Mechanism Lord, mocked him. Yoosung turned his head wordlessly, and the Mecha Girl was there.
As usual . With a very inorganic expression,
“Uncle, don’t fight. It’s dangerous,”
said the mechanical device girl. Then, I remembered the conversation when I bought the key to an unknown mechanical device from her.
“Don’t buy it, uncle. It’ll be dangerous.” ‘
‘It becomes very dangerous. The chance of dying increases. Then you won't be able to buy card packs.' The powerful people of the deep sea do not appear on the ranking board and are working behind the scenes for their own purposes. They also know. No matter how much they do, they know
. Even the heroes under the spotlight are said to be ridiculously strong, but this is not the case in front of the ‘King of Heroes.’ But here was the
girl of her machine. They were not unaware of its meaning, and neither was Yoosung. That is why Yooseong asked,
“Now, what are you going to do when you get out of this tower with your friends?’
“I will carry out the tasks that must be performed for creation.”
“Building towers, tearing them down, amid the endless destruction. Wow, until the players finally understand the meaning of destruction and creation.”
“Wow, for a third-rate villain, this is such a grandiose statement. By the way, you know what would happen if you meet me in the outside world without her, right?”
“It will probably happen when we meet again.”
I looked at the pocket watch that was ticking before I knew it. M laughed, stretching his arms exaggeratedly.
Yoosung did not respond to Lee's words and remained silent. After silence, Yoosung opened his mouth.
“Well, in a sense, that’s true.”
“What do you mean?”
“A harsh word.”
Leaving behind all the strong men of the deep sea there, I glanced at the girl in the machine.
“Because we will never meet again.”
——With those words, Yooseong kicked the ground without any hesitation.
An undoubtedly hostile act was committed in front of the machine girl.
Kaang
At the same time, the blade clashed with the blade of dark frost held by the meteor, and a metallic sound rang out.
“Hostile action detection Hostile action detection Hostile action detection.”
It was the sound of the steel blade protruding from the mechanical girl's elbow clashing with the meteor's dark frost blade.
“Freeze all systems of the tower in question and begin annihilation of hostile actors.”
An extremely inorganic voice continued, and Yooseong's sword activated the effect of the Dokgogu Sword, turning the first sword into a nine sword and slashing down.
But the machine girl's elbows, wrists, and shoulders. Steel blades sprouted from various parts of the body, forming an armor of blades.
Kaang
.......
At that act, M and the powerful men of the deep sea held their breath in astonishment. Immediately after, Yooseong snatched away the girl's blade and kicked the ground towards one of the strong men of the deep sea. The distance closed and the player unconsciously drew the hilt of his sword.
“You idiot! Take back your weapon immediately
!
“uh...?”
But before he could even finish his words, the player tilted his head.
The mechanical girl who was supposed to be fighting the King of Heroes changed her target and kicked the ground.
The wrist that was supposed to hold the knife disappeared, my legs were bent as if they were collapsing, and my vision was spinning 360 degrees.
The body, torn into dozens of pieces like slices, collapsed and the mechanical girl turned around. And then an inorganic voice without even the slightest emotion came out.
“Hostile activity detected, freezes the tower’s systems,
invalidates the tower’s protocols, and initiates annihilation of the hostile actor.”
“Oh my gosh, what should I do with this?”
Seeing that, Yoosung laughed like it was no one else's business.
“Just in time for the villain boss to grab some weight and get out. “I lost the second.”
“Ha, you idiot! “Do you even know what you’ve done?”
“Ah then. I know. “Did you think I didn’t even know that?”
Kaang!
“Either I die or everyone but me dies. There is no way out now!”
At the end of one island, the mechanical girl performed a steel martial art. The dozens of steel blades sticking out of her body were literally swirling endlessly toward the shooting star like a storm of blades.
In front of her, not even curses or status abnormality keyword debuffs have any meaning. Even the attack was the same.
It cannot be cut by anything and cannot be destroyed by anything.
Therefore, the strong powers of the deep sea there also did not dare to take ‘hostile actions’ there.
However, King of Heroes player Kang Yu-seong was not like that.
“Why?”
The steel dancer and mechanical girl asked, swinging the blades all over her body as if dancing ballet.
Sigh!
The Steel Dancer swung her blade and Yoosung's arm was cut off. The frost sword he was holding fell helplessly to the floor. Then the blades were swung and Yooseong's body was torn apart.
It was fast.
The movements you make when you dare to confront him at the Tower of the Heavenly Demon. It was more than that.
The King of Heroes, even with the Cheonma Mugol and the body of a high-ranking vampire, could not block her sword dance. In the case of other players, there is no need to even mention it.
However, every time the body was torn apart, flesh and bones sprouted over the wounds, forming a new physical shape.
《Essence of the Abhorrent Fusion Lord》
. Super regenerative ability
. Granted ‘Keyword: Adaptive Cell Armor' during battle (when attacked by a specific attribute, the resistance of that attribute temporarily increases until the end of the battle. Resistance can be stacked up to 9 stacks）
[Adaptive cell armor learns ‘Steel Resistance’!]
[Steel Resistance has reached its maximum value!]
Flesh, blood, and bones are scattered, being reborn each time. The body of a monster. And when the mechanical girl's sword was swung again, a metallic sound rang out. It wasn't the sound of
swords
clashing with swords. It was the sound of exoskeleton armor hitting against skin as the steel resistance reached its maximum level.
“Why did you do that?”
The blade flew out. But at the same time, the blades of the mechanical girl were striking, and an instinctive sense of death ran down my spine.
“Hero King characteristics.”
Nevertheless, Yoosung spoke calmly, bracing himself for his body, which was endlessly regenerating through the power of essence.
“The only reward in life is trampling on the dreams and ambitions of villains.”
After striking back the girl's blade. The King of Heroes turned his back on her and kicked the ground towards the head of the spectacle villain organization and organization there.