◈ Episode 610 Central Reactor (3)
Ludger stared at Nikolai quietly.
A handsome man with curly hair and an exposed forehead who looks somewhat grumpy.
I’ve talked to him a few times now, but this was my first time seeing him face to face.
His eyes were filled with hostility, which was at odds with his relaxed smile.
“You’re brave. I thought if he knew I was coming, he would run away right away. Or they set up a body double.”
“I wanted to do that, but unfortunately, I’m a person with a heavy ass.”
“You probably didn’t imagine a situation where you would have to run away.”
“… … .”
Nikolai was momentarily speechless at Ludger’s sharp criticism.
That was true.
Nikolai has always been a stage person.
He manipulated the actors behind the scenes to create the ideal version he wanted most.
No matter how wild the other person is, it is nothing more than watching them struggle within their assigned role.
That was Nikolai’s preferred method.
That’s why the current situation was truly unexpected even for Nikolai.
Because the actor on the stage he had designed arbitrarily broke into the audience and ended up right in front of the screenwriter himself.
“Hehehe. okay. I’ll admit it. They say wise rabbits dig multiple burrows, but that wasn’t necessary for me. “Predators don’t need to run away.”
A predator is always something that eats.
Those who dig multiple burrows are always afraid of being eaten and assume they are running away.
If you were at the top of the pyramid, there was no need to run away or prepare an extra escape route.
Because lions don’t dig dens.
“That arrogance is what’s strangling you now. Nikolai.”
“okay. Maybe so. But do you think I would have waited for you in a place like this without doing anything?”
Nikolai was confident.
Ludger looked at Nikolai quietly and then quickly scanned his surroundings.
Central reactor.
Judging from what was said, this place was the center of Isla Machina and seemed to be a huge power reactor that sent energy to the entire island.
This large space was shaped like a huge dome, and at the center of the interior was a large, round sphere.
The machines and huge pipes connected up and down around the sphere were like watching stalagmites and stone columns in a cave meet to form stalactites.
The most important place and the place that should not be touched.
“Did you think I wouldn’t be able to use magic if I stayed here? “If there is an explosion, the entire island will be swept away?”
“this. Are you looking at me too simply? Of course, with your skills, there would be countless ways to kill me even without such extreme magic. “Knowing that, the reason I welcome you here is because it’s all over now.”
“Your life?”
At those words, Nikolai held his stomach and burst into laughter.
“Ha ha ha ha ha! John Doe. I never knew you had such a talent for humor. “If I had known this would happen, I should have met and talked to him earlier.”
“… … .”
“Don’t you know what what I’ve done so far means? I kept taking my time. “It would be nice to kill you, but it doesn’t matter if I can’t.”
Nikolai smiled and stared at the huge sphere that was the center of the island.
“This sphere is the strongest and largest heart in the world, created by wizards and genius engineers. “It is strong enough not to crack even if it contains the steam that vaporized tens of thousands of tons of water.”
“What does that have to do with this situation now?”
“Will you listen to me until the end? I’ve been thinking about one possibility for a long time. Machines, creatures, magic. “If there were one being that made all of this happen, what would it be like?”
Ludger felt indescribable anxiety from Nikolai’s explanation.
But at the same time, I could see that Nikolai was revealing the truth that had been hidden until now.
“John Doe. If you are Zero Order’s favorite, you would know this. “How completely imperfect this world is.”
Complete imperfection.
This is how Nikolai evaluated the current world.
A sophisticated mechanical clockwork device created by someone.
Even the devices and parts that were misaligned or failed were nothing more than elements that went as planned.
Why?
If we could create this level of perfection, we would have been able to exclude imperfections such as failures and other debris.
Is this device keeper really trying to make art as Victor said?
Nikolai didn’t like it.
Was the device manager’s arrangement what he realized and realized like this?
So, is Device Gigi’s intention to ruin this stage?
“I can’t stand it because it’s so annoying. I don’t care if someone looks down on me. That’s because you are free. “But trying to control me as you please makes me sick.”
“So you’re saying you did this?”
“If the device keeper I think of is the commonly spoken god, what would that god think when he sees my actions? Did God plan this act of rebelling against him in advance? Or would he be offended by my actions that exceeded his expectations? “This is some kind of experiment.”
“you… … .”
Ludger was able to realize something important in Nikolai’s words.
“What on earth did you make?”
Nikolai frowned as if he was offended.
“This is why I don’t like you. “Do you feel better if you arbitrarily steal this important announcement from me?”
“Stop talking nonsense and tell me right away what you made.”
“It’s just that simple. If I really am nothing more than a role created by a device manager, then on the other hand, the answer to the question is whether it is permissible for that role to create a new device manager and screenwriter?”
“New screenwriter?”
“Another god.”
Geek.
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As soon as Nikolai finished speaking, an unpleasant metallic sound rang in my ears.
Ludger, realizing that it was a sound coming from the ceiling, raised his head.
In a complex tangle of wires, pipelines, and metal debris.
Something was about to pop out from there.
Something thick, made up of what looked like chunks of flesh from a living creature, was trying to squeeze out from the gap in the metal.
As if something had opened its eyes from an egg and was about to be born.
Or as if struggling to escape from something oppressive.
“I decided to call it the God of Mechanical Devices.”
The stretched flesh tore the skin and vomited out the contents inside.
It was hanging from the ceiling by something like an umbilical cord, and eventually fell down under the influence of gravity.
Pop.
Cheolpudeok.
It fell exactly in the middle between Ludger and Nikolai and resembled a person without skin.
The only thing that can be called a machine is that there is a hole in the place of the heart and there is a black metal sphere.
Ludger, who saw that it felt amazing to be alive now, trembled with coldness running down his spine without even realizing it.
Wow.
The God of Mechanical Devices groaned like a dying man.
Compared to the name God, you can’t even feel the majesty of it.
But Ludger instinctively realized that he had to kill him now.
Now is when he is at his weakest.
I have to kill him here.
The moment Ludger showed his murderous intent, the God of Mechanical Devices shook his head and stared at Ludger.
‘It responded to my way of life.’
Instinct similar to that of an animal.
Or sense.
But Ludger did not stop.
I released the magical power I had gathered at my fingertips and shot a beam of light towards the creature’s vital points, the forehead and heart.
The fastest and sharpest attack that Ludger can use.
No matter how good his senses are, he wouldn’t be able to see this and react.
Those thoughts were shattered the moment I saw the scene that followed.
Paaaaat!
Something colorful sprouted from the skin of the God of Mechanical Devices and deflected Ludger’s light magic.
Even if it was a thin and thin beam of light, it was an attack with enough heat to melt steel.
However, it was bent as if being refracted by something.
What protruded above the skin of the mechanical device was a smooth metallic material.
“metal?”
“He’s the god of mechanical devices?”
Nikolai responded as if laughing at Ludger.
The God of Mechanical Devices seemed angry at the fact that he had been attacked, and showed his hostility toward Ludger.
Wow!
As he let out a tearing scream, the surrounding Central Reactor space vibrated.
It was not a vibration caused by volume. The entire space was responding to the anger and emotions of the mechanical god.
Geek.
The metals that made up the huge spherical space of the Central Reactor moved one by one and began to gather towards the God of Mechanical Devices.
Soon, the God of Mechanical Devices was surrounded by a cocoon made of metal.
Ludger stared at Nikolai at the strange sight.
“What on earth did you put in to make that?”
“Everything I have.”
“You work with metal. That look is like… … .”
“okay. “It’s like a single-attribute elemental mage, isn’t it?”
Nikolai nodded in the affirmative, as if the guess was correct.
“There was an iron-colored wizard in there.”
“An iron-colored wizard? “That position would have been vacant.”
“It was a vacant position. But did you know that there is no one in this world with such talent? “I found the bud of talent quite by accident.”
The story behind that was obvious.
Because it seemed foolish to look at the results now and ask what he did.
“The human body is weak. Even if you try to implant a machine, it causes a huge rejection reaction. Even though he is an iron-colored wizard with strong sensitivity to metal, it looks like that. So I used a stronger life force.”
“The cells of the World Tree… … .”
“Yes, that’s right. In addition, they joined hands with the bourgeois of the New Magic Tower and added magical knowledge to it. But that wasn’t enough. “I had a perfect shell, but I lacked the heart to run it.”
Ludger recalled the black sphere on the chest of the God of Mechanical Devices.
“That small power source can produce this much output?”
“Don’t you think it’s fascinating? No matter how advanced magic engineering is, there is a core that covers this huge island itself with machines and makes it move endlessly.”
The Central Reactor here is the core of Isla Machina.
It is the heart of the island, collecting, boiling, and rotating the steam that can move the entire island.
Even with the advancement of magic engineering, it was impossible to make that huge energy circulate without stopping.
Nevertheless, that huge core existed.
There was no way something like that could exist without someone making it.
“Originally, the developer of this core did not create something from nothing. Rather, he just took one object as a base and added his own imagination and flesh to it.”
“Are you saying there is a separate key that can be called the original?”
“Why do you ask that? If you are the one who has been desperately looking for that recently, you would know. What makes it possible to perform this miracle.”
“… … Relic.”
“okay. A very old special artifact that we do not know when, by whom, or for what purpose. “This island called Isla Machina can roll thanks to the power of the relic.”
It was a very unexpected truth.
But at the same time, the reason why such a huge mechanical island was running smoothly was fully understandable.
Relic.
A sacred tool said to have been made by forgotten and imprisoned gods in the distant past.
Besides the relic that Ludger was looking for, there were other relics somewhere on this continent.
One of them was on Isla Machina.
“I processed the relic into material again and presented it to the God of Mechanical Devices. “The heart, which can be said to be the most important, is Shinro (神爐).”
A black metal heart created based on relic.
The body of an iron wizard.
Life force processed from the cells of the World Tree.
And on top of that, all kinds of magical processing and knowledge of black magic.
How much material, money, and time went into it?
“The experimental subjects created so far were ultimately… … .”
“okay! “It was nothing more than scraps for the birth of only one god!”
And now that god has opened his eyes.
Damn it!
The metal cocoon split to the left and right and opened wide like wings.
Inside, the god of mechanical devices appeared again.
Unlike its imperfect first appearance, it is in perfect form.
