This is after Lydia’s ‘Conversation Growth Method’ showcase successfully concluded.
“Then I guess it would be better to start right away.”
We followed Cooper straight to the dwarf factory.
He added a few caveats for me.
“As I said before, once the imprinting begins, you can’t stop it midway. If you lose the flow of the circuit, it becomes useless.”
Normally, you would just throw away the broken item and start engraving it again.
By utilizing the replication power of subspace, it was possible to produce an infinite supply of new items.
But this time, there was a variable.
“The ghosts of the knights are the problem.”
“Exactly.”
These are knights with their own unique characteristics.
Even if the Camelot Castle itself wasn’t cloned, their souls could not be cloned.
In short, it was like this:
If Camelot were to be cloned, it would have to be decided which of the two the knights’ souls would belong to.
Especially during this time when work is being done to imprint the magic circuit…
“During the engraving process, the spirit must be possessed. Only then will it make sense to include the conditions you mentioned in the circuit.”
Not Camelot in subspace,
It had to belong to Camelot, where the magic circuits were engraved.
“Of course, there won’t be any problem coming and going. What’s important is that you belong.”
Fortunately, the story wasn’t one where the knights had to be kept in the castle forever.
After hearing all the details, I shipped the new Camelot Castle to Cooper.
Thump.
A crown of dark gray color and dull appearance.
Cooper took out a magnifying glass the size of an egg and analyzed the traces engraved on Camelot.
Before long, he let out a sigh.
“This is…”
As expected of a dwarf who deals with things, he also seemed to have grasped the sinister nature of Camelot Castle.
He added the last thing to me.
“As we discussed, I will set a condition of ‘reviving the Knights of Camelot.’ From now on, I will have to redesign the previously granted black magic engravings in reverse order, but the original traces will inevitably remain. To be honest…”
Cooper seemed troubled.
Is this really the right thing to say as a gear manufacturer?
“I can’t guarantee what the new effect will be.”
Maybe it was just a matter of luck.
Camelot, an item created according to the will of Barnaul.
I can only hope that my thoughts on reviving the knights get through to him.
A week has passed since then.
The battle with Permegon was overwhelming as usual.
We divided the knights into two groups and took turns in the attack, destroying the thirteen demon castles that Permegon had, and liberating the thirty or so concentration camps surrounding them.
As the schedule was busy, the harvest was not small.
The kill count of the Seongchang soared at a frightening rate, and he installed a subspace portal every time he passed through an area.
Each time, I defeated the golden gate core and obtained a considerable amount of magic stones.
In fact, it was more than enough to achieve subspace level 7…
“This is another money-eating hippopotamus…”
Because of the cost of engraving the magic circuit, immediate leveling up had to be postponed.
The cost of operating a power reactor.
The more complex the conditional formula, the more magic stones were required, and in this Camelot in particular, due to the black magic that was already engraved, more than twice as many magic stones were consumed.
“One way or another…”
There was no doubt that the situation in Europe was being resolved quickly.
According to Lydia, there are a total of 27 Permegon strongholds located in Europe.
About half of them had already been subdued.
Just now, I had just returned from the battle in Valencia.
As the hot Spanish evening settled in,
I entered the subspace in a slightly dazed state.
“Is it time for everyone to be asleep?”
It is a subspace where there is no distinction between day and night to begin with.
However, other family members, including Father and Mother, were living their lives day and night.
Thanks to this, it wasn’t uncommon for people like me who came back from working outside to see the logistics center covered in silence.
But just for today…
“…”
I heard someone muttering.
The location is none other than the guard post of the National Treasury where the Camelot Castle and the World Tree are located.
As I got closer, it didn’t take long for me to identify the owner of the voice.
‘…Lydia?’
The Czech Awakened were busy caring for the liberated prisoners.
But Lydia was the only one who spent all that time in subspace.
Lydia’s buff/debuff ability played a key role in the growth of the World Tree.
If not for the time it took to eat and sleep, she had to keep talking to the World Tree for the time being.
“So, at that time…”
It seemed like it was part of that ‘conversation.’
Now, she talks to the World Tree as if she were holding a person and having a conversation.
I unintentionally heard that content too.
“Leo stole that pendant. What kind of boy is that… Anyway, I scolded him then and made him save up his allowance to buy it for me.”
‘…Your younger brother’s name was Leo, right?’
It was she who said that her brother was being held in Dresden.
We were randomly passing through Permegon’s strongholds twice a day, but unfortunately, it wasn’t Dresden’s turn yet.
For the Awakened people from Germany and the Czech Republic, including Lydia, this only made them anxious.
Perhaps it was the Awakened Europeans who were more passionate than anyone else about the roles given to them, perhaps because of such a mindset.
That was when.
Lydia was chatting away for a while.
She began to press the World Tree.
“Hey, he’s not eating this again…! You, quickly absorb all of this! Don’t always eat fertilizer that suits your taste!”
Chuuuk.
The leaves of the World Tree are turning yellow and withering.
Now I see that Lydia is holding the drugs I took from the Confederates.
To be exact, it was something I used as part of my ‘giving sickness and medicine’ strategy, which I had improved with toxic fertilizer.
It was embarrassing to have to keep eavesdropping.
I was the one who spoke first.
“…It feels like the conversation has progressed a lot?”
“Of course… This kid is so smart. He doesn’t even listen to appropriate words.”
Fortunately, despite my sudden appearance, she didn’t seem that surprised.
Lydia said that she was no longer getting any traction with ignorant praise and criticism, and that she was trying to be honest with the World Tree.
“It’s more comfortable. I don’t have to embellish my words.”
Even as she said that, she was still urging the World Tree to push the medicine out into the soil.
It looked like the ‘whip’ part of the whip and carrot wasn’t over yet.
It was a scene that made me think a lot, somehow.
‘Instead of giving them a bottle and medicine… you should have been disciplining them?’
It was I who had put the World Tree through all kinds of trials and tribulations, claiming to have raised it strong.
I just felt sorry towards the World Tree again.
Tiring!
[Hyponex Vitality Liquid Plant Activator 10L, 1 unit, price is 317,240 won.]
“Gyesu, Gyesu. Should I give you some delicious nutritional supplements?”
I tried to talk to him in the hopes of reconciliation, but…
It was not easy to restore a relationship that had once gone wrong.
The World Tree stretched its branches towards me.
Convex
Because the leaf at the end was folded in exactly this shape.
…
A rare sight of people eating candy from the World Tree.
Lydia burst into laughter and asked me.
“So… Where were you today?”
“It was Valencia. It just ended.”
Her expression was a little complicated, but it wasn’t something she had expected.
If it had been Dresden, they would have given notice before the battle.
Lydia, who had been thinking deeply for a while, finally spoke to me.
“You know, Paris… maybe it’s not connected to the gate.”
“I think so too. Just this time in Valencia…”
I could also agree with this.
Permegon, who originally tried to destroy the gate installed on Mt. Bukhan.
It seemed clear that they were avoiding the fight to the end.
“…The demons tried to destroy the gate core themselves.”
Perhaps the Gate of Paris had been destroyed long ago.
If that were the case, we couldn’t just keep repeating the same strategy as now.
As we destroy the demon castles installed throughout Europe, we will slowly devour Permegon, but Paris, their base, will still remain.
‘Maybe it would be better to just go to Paris.’
That thought occurred to me, but…
“…My lord.”
When Lancelot brought me the news, I couldn’t help but shake my head once again.
“The camp was empty? Again?”
“Yes, there were signs of hasty embezzlement. As expected…”
Permegon had been suffering defeat after defeat.
Now, the situation is such that they are completely stealing the prisoners.
Of course, there’s no way they would have used the land route.
“…You must have gone through the gate this time too, right?”
“That’s right. The traces are still there.”
Their base, Paris, was in limbo, but their movements continued.
The attitude is that even if the base is destroyed, the prisoners that were painstakingly collected cannot be given up.
Since its purpose was so obvious, it was impossible to ignore it and just pass it over to Paris.
“Where is the next area?”
Even…
“This is Dresden.”
“…!”
It was a place you could never miss.
The place where Lydia’s younger brother and the family of the Prague Awakened are said to be.
Lydia sat up abruptly, her eyes trembling violently.
“But… My lord, the situation is a little different than before.”
They were skeleton knights who went out on a reconnaissance with the Awakened in Prague.
Lancelot, who saw Dresden with his own eyes through the reconnaissance Awakened Julian.
He gave me a detailed account of the situation in the enemy camp.
“It doesn’t look like they’ve moved any more prisoners. They seem to think they can hold out in Dresden. From what we’ve observed… it’s not an entirely unfounded confidence.”
Lancelot continued speaking in a rather cautious voice.
“Defense turrets were lined up in great numbers… From giant demons with huge armor to higher-level demons that could fire energy bombardments, they were deployed on the front lines. Of course, there were also many gargoyles.”
It was Permegon who had been chasing us the whole time.
It seems that the number of troops has definitely increased, and it seems that they have finally reached the final stage of battle.
Of course, that alone wasn’t the problem.
Because the Pax FC troops, adorned with divine powers, were like natural enemies to the demons.
Lancelot’s warning was that we could not use our existing strategies.
“It was bigger than a castle, more like a fortress. In terms of height and thickness, it was incomparable to the demon castles I’d seen before. Fighting and destroying the castle like before… I honestly think it’ll be difficult.”
Up until now, we have been fighting by knocking down the demons’ castles like dominoes.
This time, since a fort without a match has been established, I thought we should change our strategy…
“It’s okay. Just…”
I also had something to show the demons.
Tiring!
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[Blessed Demon Devourer +5] Grade: [Unique]
Description: [A sacred spear blessed by the goddess Emes. Additional effects are unlocked by preying on 1,000 demons.]
Attribute: [Divine]
Options: [Penetration +5] [Acceleration +3] [Purification +3]
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The Holy Spear of Emes, which finally achieved 1,000 kills in the battle in Valencia.
Thanks to the magical circuit reacting to the conditions achieved, it was now reborn as a completely new item.
From the jump in rank to the increase in penetration value.
There were a lot of new things here and there…
Tiring!
[Double Punishment: The ‘Double Penetration’ effect is applied to the relevant target.] [Predation: For the relevant target only, the soul of the killed target is preyed upon.] [Divine Explosion: The preyed soul is emitted as a projectile, causing a Divine Explosion.]
After all, this was the real main point.
That’s why.
What I can’t change is my strategy.
“Breaking down the castle… was fun.”
No matter how you look at it, this was a siege weapon.
LUNA-CAVE
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