Omniscient First-Person’s Viewpoint

EP.268 A story from a distant place. What about the feeling of a lamb being led to the slaughterhouse

behind the scenes ?

Humans do not know because they are not sheep. However, the workers at the Alchemy Steel Refinery, who barely survived a moment ago, probably felt the same way.

The death presented by the smelter was like a sluggish blade aimed at the throat. In that it is slow and intelligible.

A hook dug into the arm pulls the human in. As the person accompanying him vomits red heat, and disappears beyond, screams mixed with bloody bubbles rise from beyond and then disappear like bubbles bursting. After swallowing one human, Alchemy Gang Goro is not satisfied and pulls the hook again to put the next victim in his mouth.

It was easy to understand, had a lot of clues, and had plenty of time to interpret. Without the need for high-level intellectual activities, most of the laborers realized that they were approaching death.

Even those who cried out for death rather than suffer at the Alchemy Steel Refinery felt an instinctive reluctance to die.

Is it because of the conservative tendency that does not accept death other than the way he imagined? Or was it because he was just talking and wasn’t ready to accept death yet?

In any case, the smelter played a role as a punishment institution by revealing its terrible secret. There is no blood or tears. Because he pulled both of them from a murderer who was evaluated, and an unbeliever who had never prayed in his life repented with his hands folded, and even those who lost their will to live and committed sins in desperation gained a will to live.

When laborers were thus slaughtered slowly and calmly.

As if the prayer had reached the sky, the ceiling was broken and someone jumped in.

Shay aimed at Goro with a pitch-black club. Ahead of the heat that melted even steel and the red-melted iron, Shay lowered his fist, protecting himself with Qigong.

Dividing the Chigonryu in the Red Sea.

A black slash creates a red wave. The bright red melted molten iron splits on both sides. Waves of heavy molten iron try to fill the gap again, but even though it’s not a real sea, they can’t resist Jizan’s repulsive force. The molten iron clung to the walls on either side like a frightened child.

In the sweltering heat, Shay removed her sweaty clothes and looked at the floor. As the officer had instructed, there was a huge magic circle on the floor.

Heat is the power to change. When heat is extracted from molten molten iron, it becomes hard metal. That magic circle was the kind that sent the heat that was extracted like that to another place. The heat will be used to melt the alchemy.

“To make a magic circle on the floor… You made it dirty well.”

Shay stuck her tongue out at the sinister design.

The magic circle’s weakness is the magic circle itself. The physical durability of the magic circle is also a problem, but if you analyze the structure, it can be easily destroyed and even used against you.

However, in order to see the magic circle of the Alchemy Steel Blast Furnace, you have to empty the Blast Furnace where the molten steel slithers dullly.

However, if the blast furnace is empty, there is no need to analyze the magic circle. Not only does it need to be destroyed, but the value of using it reversely disappears.

It was a very efficient method befitting a military state.

“Jizan!”

Still, this much is easy for Shay, a regressor who has attacked everything through dozens of regressions. Shay simply broke the magic circle. The blast furnace shakes as the hole through which the heat escapes has disappeared. Shay tried to get herself out before the molten iron hit again.

At that time, Shay found a small magic circle hidden inside the broken magic circle.

Just looking at it is ominous and unsettling… A pattern in which a large circle made of ancient strings breaks the rim of a small circle and devours it.

Exploration of taboos.

An ancient magic that uses humans as ingredients. A symbol of barbarism. After humans became the lord of all things, it was set as a taboo. Because it was the most common, the most terrible pattern of gluttony was shining ominously.

It’s a taboo that ordinary people can’t even come across. However, Shay, who had fought against the threat of destruction several times, encountered the taboo of gluttony so often that he was now fond of it.

“…after all, the military has never used it even once.”

In each episode, the military went through many crises. There were times when the headquarters collapsed and a new regime was established due to the knowledge of the regressors and the operation of the resistance, and there were times when the war was waged and destroyed when the regressors joined the other side.

Each time, the regressor helped the republic with the princess as its leader or the new kingdom with the princess as its king.

However, at no time did I hear of the devouring of the laborers with the killing device. I only came across information that such a device exists.

Even though I heard it with one ear and shed it like a ghost story.

“…Not for good reasons, though. It must be a reasonable choice.”

The Alchemy Steel Smelter is a goose that lays golden eggs. If the boat is split open, high-cost alchemy steel like the cursed blood iron may come out right away, but in the long run, the military’s ability to wage war will deteriorate. When you think rationally, there is no reason to kill people to make iron.

If so, the question arises here.

“Then why… did the military build something like an obliteration device?”

The answer did not come easily. Shay continued to think while listening to the cheers of the laborers who had survived after coming out of the blast furnace.

Why on earth would the military build an obliteration device that would never be used?

“Get out of here you bastards! Wow. To think I had to run myself to save these bastards…!”

Captain Toruk approached, mercilessly pushing away the laborer. The laborers scattered left and right, screaming and swearing. Captain Toruk, who approached Shay in an instant, spoke with a very displeased expression.

“Hey kid!”

“Who is the kid?!”

“Then let’s call it an adult! anyway! What are you doing?”

Shay, who had a stabbing corner, hesitated for a moment. It’s because she’s been smashing the facility a little too much without the officers’ knowledge.

If the Alchemy Steel Refinery is removed, the military’s ability to wage war will greatly decrease. So Captain Toruk and Shay agreed to avoid destruction and focus on rescuing the slaves. Of course, Shay had no intention of keeping it.

Anyway, the person who is the best at destroying facilities here is Shae with Jizan. What are they going to do if she excuses herself for having more energy? If she fights anyway, she wins.

Shay decided to be a little more brazen.

“You broke the blast furnace, why? Did you agree up to that point?”

You won’t be able to confirm that even the magic circle was broken. Shay answered with such a calculation.

“Not that!”

However, that was not the purpose of Captain Toruk. He huffed and pointed inward with his finger.

“Currently, the presence inside the smelter is gradually diminishing. This is not just a job here! The same thing is happening all over the Forge! Rescuing dying humans, the numbers are dwindling! Are you siphoning them out?”

It’s a different business. Shay, who received the inquiry, briefly reflected on her actions.

Is she running the laborers out? no.

Did you ever think of that? no.

The rumination is over. Shay shook her head coolly.

“I don’t know.”

“Then who are you? Letting the scum of this society out there!”

Even Shay doesn’t know if you have to ask. In the first place, it was left to Tyrkanjaka to save each and every dying human. Because Tyrkanjaka, the ancestor who uses the black knight like limbs, is more suitable for saving lives.

It’s ironic that she, who is the first to pick a person who has killed the most people, is optimized for saving people. Maybe life and life are attached like two sides of a coin.

After thinking about it, Shay waved her hand.

“Speak to Tyrkanjaka.”

“…hmm!”

However, Captain Toruk expressed his disapproval clearly enough to be revealed to Shay. Shay was puzzled to see him hesitating.

“why? Are you afraid of Tyrkanjaka?”

“…greatness!”

“huh? Really?”

Shay asked with an uneasy feeling. Captain Toruk avoided looking at him without saying anything.

Captain Toruk had many things to say. In the days of the kingdom, when temples were built everywhere and everyone worshiped the heavenly gods. The founder Tirkanjaka was another name for fear.

Let’s kill the knight. one-man country. Queen of night and shadows.

From long ago until now, she used to destroy temples with her cursed body. They killed priests who cried out the name of God, destroyed temples, cursed faith, and led sinful bodies.

Countless heroes gave their lives to stop her, but their heroic attempts only added a bloody stroke to the history of the founder Tyrkanjaka. The progenitor marched with the army of blood, scattering blood and death.

If it were not for the blessed plains of Enver. Had it not been for the shadowless land that took three days to traverse… Seonghwangcheong might have been overthrown at least once by the repeated advances of the progenitor.

The kingdom collapsed and an army was established, but the people who filled it did not change. The fear of vampires was still… not as much as it used to be, but it was still firmly imprinted in their minds.

Didn’t they even try to trap the progenitor in a trap made of light a little while ago? For Captain Thoruk, an old man, that action would not have been enough to be punished with bloodletting, in which he pierced a blood vessel and then hung upside down.

Of course, not that much for Shay, who was born after the establishment of the military nation and had not learned that kind of fear. Shay asked.

“You don’t mean to ask me instead because you’re scared, do you?”

“Kuhm!”

“what the. One o’clock is busy…”

Shay tends to respond to honest requests. If there’s no reason not to do it, do it first. Because it is always better to do something than not do something to change a future that has no answer.

In any case, it is necessary to ask about the progress. Shay, who decided to erase the debt to Captain Toruk, took a deep breath and called out his name.

“Tirkanjaka!”

[Did you call?]

The darkness answered first from the shadows. And she showed up later. Appearing as if coming out of a shadow cast on the wall on the other side of the hallway, Tirkanjaka slowly approached Shay and Captain Toruk.

The founder, Tirkanjaka, was expressionless. He didn’t seem to feel any emotions towards the army that had driven him into the trap of light, nor to Captain Toruk who tried to drive them. On the contrary, since she came personally to listen to the story with a graceful appearance, who would see her as a blood-crazed monster?

“The laborers are disappearing, do you know anything?”

[Well. I don’t know. Aren’t they hiding somewhere because they’re so scared ahead of a terrible tragedy?]

It’s a clear contrast. It was clear from his attitude and his tone that he knew something.

But a lie that everyone knows is also an expression of a strong will. Tyrkanjaka did not allow any objection, and his will was fully communicated.

The hot-tempered Captain Toruk gathered all his strength.

“…wait and see!”

said and went back.

Tyrkanjaka held on to a slight sneer as he watched Captain Toruk run away.

[You are a pitiful and pitiful person. How could the back of a person struggling with fear and face be so ridiculous? I liked it.]

“Do you like it? why?”

[Unlike you, those who are afraid of me don’t bother me, so it’s comfortable. I tend to keep those people alive for a long time.]

“Umm. I see… Huh? Then what about me?”

Tyrkanjaka laughed lightly and continued.

[How can the world be one color? Those who don’t fear me don’t leave me alone, so they need me too.]

“Thank you very much… But why are the laborers escaping?”

[Is there any problem?]

“No, no. rather good It will take a long time for the military to sort this out. It’s not that it’s bad, it’s just that I’m curious.”

[That’s…]

He secretly asked for it, but now that we’ve come this far, we can’t hide it anymore. It is better not to be forced to hide a secret that will be revealed anyway. When Tyrkanjaka opened her mouth to say something, the face that had asked her to do the job appeared.