Omniscient First-Person’s Viewpoint

EP.295 A world made of cogwheels – 2

Maximilien was born in many countries.

A country where everything in the world is false because of alchemy. Even a stone rolling along the roadside is an artifact created by someone. The land where the golden landscape roams is itself a blessing and a curse. Humans live under the weight of gold.

It took less than a hundred years for the nature that the Earth Mother had created over hundreds of millions of years to be covered with human traces. Even humans were used as raw materials in a country where even Younggeun crops were in decline.

Thanks to being born in such a country, Maximilien survived.

Maximilien had no arms. Neither Maximilien nor his parents were surprised. People who have not had arms since birth do not know why they have four limbs. In addition, the nations were originally unique countries in which three births resulted in a deformed child.

If there is something lacking, the nations make up for it with alchemy. Even if that’s a child’s arm that hasn’t fully grown. His parents, who were moderately capable alchemists, decided to make prosthetic arms for their child.

Excessively ambitious compared to ability.

In the nations, if three were born, one would come out with madness. Such was the case with Maximilien’s parents. From a young age, Maximilien was subjected to all sorts of alterations, receiving intense attention from his parents.

Is it love or obsession?

In any case, thanks to his parents’ extreme efforts and endless suffering, Maximilien learned alchemy. With that knowledge, he made his own prosthetic hand.

Wandering around the world wearing a prosthetic gear, he quickly became famous.

No matter how good an alchemist is, it is difficult to implement the necessary functions at that time. However, Maximilien, whose cogs are like his own body, made a sturdy mechanism out of low-quality materials. People were enthusiastic about his different works from design.

Alchemy is honest. According to the law of equivalent exchange, no matter how hard you try to save money, you cannot exceed the absolute value of the annuity. Adhering to the old way did not compete with Maximilien.

Competitive Maximilien almost raked in money from all over the world. In countries where pension value is the truth, money is power. Maximilian, who founded the company with a huge amount of money, has emerged as a new emerging force in the nations…

until the Golden Palace rejects him.

When the permission was given, the wildcats rushed in. Maximilien was an excellent alchemist and had a knack for combat, but the nations were alchemists. The other side of the scale is heavier, but the miracle of tilting in the opposite direction does not happen.

After a long chase, Maximilien was forced to flee across the border.

Then one day, news came that Maximilien’s parents were looking for him. It was clear that he had been taken hostage. It’s reasonable to ignore them, but for Maximilien, his parents are his teachers and benefactors. I couldn’t let it die. He returned to the nations on his own feet.

Meeting his parents under strict surveillance, Maximilien took a cogwheel out of his pocket.

Nations say that if three are born, one deformed child will emerge, and one madman and one genius.

Sometimes all three of them are born at once.

Maximilien had a terrible dislike of his parents’ incompetence and nervous nature. Taking out his anger on his son for failing in the experiment was incomprehensible to Maximilien’s common sense. Except for that, he loved his family just like that.

If there is something lacking in the nations, they make up for it with alchemy. Just as the parents did to Maximilien’s arms, Maximilien tried to ‘fix’ his parents’ heads.

Parents can no longer be angry. If you can’t think, you can’t be angry.

Unlike his parents, Maximilien did not take responsibility for his failures. Calmly admitting that he was lacking, he cleaned up everything around him and left.

***

A brown shadow fell beside me like a meteor just before the sharp saw blade tore me apart. Aji who had been hiding until now. The dog king, who can unleash his rage against cogwheels, leaped furiously at the saw blade.

“Woof woof!”

Even a child is not stupid enough to stick his teeth into a sharp saw blade. Aji’s goal is not the saw blade, but the shaft connected to the saw blade. Aji burrowed into the steel beetle at once, bit the shaft, and slapped it. It’s like grabbing the axle and tearing it off.

“Mung! Mung-mung-mung-mung!”

And screamed while hanging.

Although size doesn’t necessarily correlate with strength, the Steel Beetle showed the difference in pure weight class. Aji spun around with the saw blade.

“Ah. You can’t do that with your own strength.”

Humans are not strong. Objectively, compared to other beasts, there is no better corner physically. The skin is thin, the claws are round, and the bones are soft. I wonder how you survived.

But man’s real power is his ability to bring strength from elsewhere.

I peel off the skins of other animals and wrap myself in them. It splits stones and pulls out horns to use as claws. Cut down trees and twist young to replace the skeleton. The strength brought about like that is not yours, so you can handle it carelessly. Even if a tool breaks, it’s enough to make it again.

Man became the ruler of the earth by using tools.

The steel beetle, greedily using the principle of the wheel, arithmetically multiplies the power by thousands or hundreds of times. Even the king of beasts cannot withstand the violence of numbers.

Oh, except for the human king, of course.

I hung on to Aji and reached for the falling saw blade. My hand covered the side of the saw blade that would tear everything in the world at once.

If things were right, my hands would be torn apart.

chin.

My meeting with the saw blade ended in a quiet sound. The saw blade, which had been raging like a raging storm, became a still life the moment it touched it.

“Muuuu…”

Aji’s stupid cry was heard as he hung on to the iron bar. Maximilien opened his mouth in silence.

“…It wasn’t a baseless provocation. Even dealing with steel beetles.”

“If you can do it, I can too.”

Unlike the chariot, which uses wheels as power, the steel beetle moves only with Maximilien’s ability. Even the joints that connect the rolling wheels, rotating saw blades, and gear wheels are all under his authority.

So I, who use the same power, exercise the same level of dominance.

Maximilien snapped his fingers. The steel beetle wriggled with each action, like scratching the air with its claws. It tries to get out of my hands and move according to the intention of the real owner.

But as long as I’m holding it, it doesn’t move. Because I am moving exactly the opposite of Maximilien.

‘It’s antagonistic. You can’t completely take control. Is that enough… There is a chance.’

Chet. It’s quick to notice

It’s okay to lose your sanity if you’ve provoked this much, but maybe it’s because you put a cogwheel in your head. Emotions and reason operate separately.

“Isn’t it too ugly to be angry after being stabbed in the head?”

“I am not angry. You deserve to say that to me.”

Do not lie. You’re angry. You’re just holding onto reason by turning the cogwheels in your head!

“You attack me silently and you don’t get angry. I don’t have any trust.”

“It can’t be helped. You have no will to follow me. but i need you Since we do not agree with each other, we have no choice but to hide our stronger opinions.”

“Even if you drag me along, it’s okay if I don’t cooperate.”

“You may not cooperate. But what about the human king?”

It’s not difficult either.

I am the king of men, and even if I regain my strength, my personality will be twisted and my personality will not change.

But the reason why I can’t help but feel threatened is that humans have a record of expelling kings with their own hands…

“Perhaps the king of sin will be more cooperative.”

No matter how you think about it, the king of sins that the regressor saw from the future is definitely a human king.

I am human. It is a beast. Beasts do not do anything to destroy the world. no it’s impossible in the first place Because animals are also part of the world.

In order to destroy the world, you must first commit suicide, but if you commit suicide, you cannot destroy the world. what a contradiction

But you did it. Awesome humans.

“I don’t even know the true meaning of the lord of all things. Actually, I didn’t even need to know. My purpose was only to meet the king of men. But… if you don’t acknowledge me, I’ll have to find another way!”

Maximilien raised his right arm.

A gear that crawled out of somewhere rides on his body and rolls around. No need to assemble, the cog wheel found its place and moved on its own. The steel meshes heavily. A huge steel arm completed in an instant.

Maximilien aimed at me and brandished his steel arm. I screamed.

“Take him!”

“Don’t worry. Even if your limbs are broken, I will fix them.”

“I do not need!”