Phew.
Whack! Whack!
An orderly sound resonated along Hangang-daero.
The Avalon people who emerged through the portal were swinging slaughter knives without exception.
“······Wow, it’s amazing.”
It was an automatic reflex or perhaps a kind of trance state.
The Avalonians rushed to the monsters’ corpses without any time to explain and fully displayed the processing skills they had mastered over the past 80 years.
Bam.
Knock knock.
As a result, various types of waste were piled up in the middle of the road.
“There aren’t that many types, but······.”
He pulled palm-sized horns from the corpses of goblins and orcs and stabbed his sword into the joints of the trolls, tearing off long, flat strips of blue hide.
Dozens of Avalonians rushed to the ogre, whose neck was impaled and stretched backward, stabbing it with their spears and using the principle of leverage to pull out the iron plate.
Phew! Phew!
Poof!
Professional techniques left no room for even the slightest flaw.
I couldn’t help but be amazed at the sight of the large moving boxes full of horns, the troll skins stacked up like silk, and the ogre’s steel scales piled up like roof tiles on one side.
After watching the skills of the Avalon people for a long time······.
“Sir, would you like to come here and take a look?”
“Hmm?”
Dwarf Cooper took me to the headquarters yard.
There stood Kim Sol, armed with the shield ‘Aegis’ obtained from Olympus.
A strangely excited expression.
As expected, her shield had changed beyond recognition.
“What is this······?”
“I added a scale plate. It was originally made of a metal called meteorite······ I was able to use it gratefully thanks to my friends in Avalon who cleaned it up for me.”
It was a steel ogre that boasted sturdiness beyond imagination.
This meant that Aegis’s defense power had been strengthened even more than before.
It was a great thing, but Cooper’s expression wasn’t very bright.
“All I did was take a single scale and hammer it into place. As you can see, I was only able to reinforce the center of the shield.”
A moderately sized ogre’s steel scale.
By the way, the area covered by the black meteorite was only about 60 percent of the shield.
Cooper revealed why he couldn’t fill in the rest.
“I thought about cutting it into small pieces and pasting them together, but… that wasn’t possible. If you over-deform the byproduct, the original effect disappears.”
Cooper added that the iron scales contain ‘semantics’ related to defensive power, and when split, they become ordinary pieces of metal.
Perhaps it could be seen as similar to the dwarves’ magical circuit.
Just as the imprint of the circuit created the effect of the item, this time it meant that the effect was contained in the size, material, and shape of the byproduct.
“So that’s why it’s difficult to collect.”
“That’s right. If you make even the slightest mistake, you’ll immediately turn it into trash. That’s why the people of Avalon are truly amazing.”
Cooper expounded on the mystery of byproducts and the difficulties of processing them.
I asked him.
“So······ is that the only way to use the shield? Without any other method?”
“It would have been a shame if that had been the case. In that case, it would have been best to melt the seam and attach other fragments around it······.”
“Is that good?”
“It cannot be melted by the fire of the Earth.”
As expected, it was not an ordinary substance, as it was a byproduct of a monster.
That meant it could not be melted in any furnace on Earth.
Cooper elaborated slowly.
“Just think about it simply. Even if they are objects, they are no different from people. The longer a person has accumulated experience over time, the stronger they are, but on the other hand, they do not change easily. How big of an incident and shock would it take to change such a person? Therefore, the more solid the material, the more intense the heat required to process it.”
Cooper’s expression as he looked at the iron scales was filled with extraordinary affection.
He also wanted to give this fortune a new destiny.
I asked him, hoping he might find some way.
“Then what kind of fire should I use to melt it?”
“Well, it’s hellfire.”
“Ha-ha······.”
I smiled bitterly at his joke, which seemed a little hopeless.
But when I looked at his expression, I realized.
It wasn’t a joke at all.
“······There really is such a thing?”
“Of course. It’s some kind of primitive life form… The dwarves call it ‘Gehanna Fire.’ If we had it here in the forge, it would be perfect.”
As the monster wave continued, new types of byproducts would accumulate.
But Cooper added that many of them would be unprocessable by Earth’s fire.
Further······.
“The Holy Spear I made for you last time… Are you still using it? Even if it’s just Yuncheol, if you’re dissatisfied, I can make a 6-tier weapon.”
If I had that fire, I could become even stronger.
It was a touching story.
A 5-strength or higher item using a magic circuit.
This meant that with good-quality materials, I could create even more powerful items.
“Can you find it on Earth? Hellfire or something?”
“Maybe Gehanna has already entered Earth. They spread their seeds all over the multiverse in order to reproduce. Their ultimate goal is to engulf the entire multiverse in flames.”
It was a planet that had already been open for quite some time.
Whether it was free-for-all or a bidding war, they may already have nested on Earth.
If Gehanna really was on Earth, as Cooper said, now was the time to secure that ‘hellfire.’
When I suggested we look for the location of Hellfire, Cooper gave me some clues.
“First, the surrounding terrain will all change into a magma zone. The Earth’s floor will not be able to withstand their heat… Everything will melt like lava.”
The first thing he mentioned was the physical changes on Earth that were likely to occur.
And next······.
“Everything around you will burn twice. Whether it’s the surroundings, animals, or people······.”
It was the result of supernatural forces that could not be understood through physical phenomena alone.
“That would definitely be noticeable.”
“Yes. It’s a characteristic that anyone who knows about Gehanna can’t help but notice······.”
It wasn’t difficult to figure out.
Dozens of portals spread across the world.
You could just ask Pax FC members around that portal to report to you.
I immediately called Pax and wrote a message.
Tiring!
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[Web transmission]
Please report to PaxFC any areas where magma suddenly starts to erupt and areas where fires occur one after another in the same location.
—
A public service message asking for help in reporting wildfires.
As expected, within just a few minutes, new news arrived.
“······Daichi?”
Daichi, the sealer who currently leads the Awakened in Japan.
Because he requested entry into my subspace.
“It’s been a while, Jeong-gyeom.”
As we entered the subspace with Cooper, Daichi approached us, greeting us timidly.
Daichi, the outstanding sealer who released a giant demon engulfed in flames.
He had not been able to show his face at all because he was busy rebuilding Japan, which had been devastated by the Yushin Awakening, but he had led Japanese troops to provide support when Permegon’s gargoyles invaded Mt. Bukhan not long ago.
However, because the location was Mt. Bukhan, they couldn’t release the demon.
In any case, what’s important now is Gehanna’s whereabouts.
Daichi explained in detail what he witnessed.
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“It was quite large in scale… There was a place where a forest fire broke out twice. Magma also flowed into houses. In fact, monsters emerged from the magma, so I was already thinking about asking Pax FC for support.”
The damage didn’t end there.
Daichi released the demon to deal with the monsters of Gehanna, and while the demon was fighting on the magma, it was engulfed in an unidentified flame and died.
“He endured the first fire without any problems… but when the second fire broke out, he screamed and died.”
Like a trainer who had lost a beloved Pokémon, Daichi had a sad expression on his face.
When our eyes met, Cooper nodded silently.
No matter how many times I listened to it, it matched exactly the characteristics of ‘Gehanna’ that he had mentioned.
I asked Daichi straight away.
“Where is that place?”
“This is Mt. Fuji. The snow peak has completely melted and turned black because of the magma.”
It was a place familiar to us.
Mt. Fuji, a symbol of Japan.
Who would have thought that the mountain where the demons of hell were resting would have turned into an active volcano?
Cooper nodded again and opened his mouth.
“That’s right. Using volcanoes is one of Gehanna’s means of reproduction. Soon, the volcano will erupt, scattering Gehanna’s magma all over the Earth.”
“How long will it take until it explodes?”
“I don’t know the exact time, but judging by the fact that it caught fire twice… it’s going to explode soon.”
The underground demons of Gehanna were still hiding and crouching in Mt. Fuji.
It seemed that Pax FC’s first conquest area would have to be Mt. Fuji.
It’s inside a volcano, so it’s not the kind of territory you would expect… but we would be able to obtain none other than the ‘Gehanna Fire.’
Moreover, if the volcano were to erupt, it would certainly be a real nuisance.
Cooper added one question to my statement that I would bring Gehanna’s fire from Mt. Fuji.
“By the way, how are you going to get the fire? Gehanna’s fire isn’t something you can just stick to a tree branch and take. It’s so stubborn that it can melt the ‘meaning’ of other substances. That’s why it’s common to build a blacksmith shop right where Gehanna’s fire is. In order to handle the heat, you’ll have to dig up all the surrounding land.”
It was indeed no ordinary fire.
As the name suggests, it is a primitive life form, meaning that it cannot be handled like normal fire.
Moreover, there was no way I could go through the hassle of digging down the high mountain of Fuji to build a blacksmith shop.
If conditions were right, it would have been best to put the fire of Gehanna in the subspace, but unfortunately, since the Louvre Museum in Paris had already been put in, it was impossible to accommodate any more until the level was raised.
It was a time when another method was needed, but…
“Of course, you can bring it.”
It was okay.
Because we had a sturdy Japanese bucket.
It had the fatal flaw of only being able to hold one bucket at a time, but as luck would have it, the bucket had just been emptied.
Knock, knock.
I got up and patted Daichi’s shoulders, who was standing next to me.
His pure, clear voice resonated hollowly.
“…Mr. Jeonggyeom?”
A Japanese bucket looked back at me with a puzzled expression.
I was just grateful to have this young sealer as a member of Pax FC.
“Let’s go right away.”
Because he would carry the new beacon of Pax FC, the fire of Gehanna.
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