chapter 217 – Building a Castle (5)
“What justhappened?!”
“Well, I swung my fist.” Shu looked at Kang Shin-hyuk inconfusion, as if asking whether he could do it too. No, there wasno way hecould!
“I’m kidding, grandpa.” Seeing his embarrassed expression, Shu addedwith a small smile. In the meantime, her enormous hand openedup and swept the lizards climbing up the mountain away like a broom.
“This is a trait of our people. It skips the intermediateprocesses to produceresults.”
“Sorry, that’s a little difficult tounderstand…”
“So, for example, if I want to kiss my grandpa…”
-That example isn’tappropriate.
Finally, the administrator stepped in. Shu giggled and nodded.
“Well, then shakinghands.”
“Huh?” Kang Shin-hyuk instinctively reached out at herwords. Then, Shu smiled and raised her hand.
“Wow.” Only her hand clung to his,shaking it up and down. Honestly, it felt a little weird.
“Like this, it performs the intended action rightaway, without me moving in the middle or stretching my arms. Understand?”
“Then, doesn’t the result vary greatly depending on yourmind?”
“Ooh!” Suga pped at him, already figuring itout. The fist that had been knockingdown the monsters vanished, appearing back on her arm asshepped.
“Of course, it takes a fair bit of energy. Notall of our people can throw a rocket punch likethat… pow!” She immediatelythrew a second rocket punch at that. This time, it was a littlrger than before. The lizards exploded in sparks, but theck glove deflected them all.
“Wow, the gloves are really great. It’s not hot at all.”
[Exactly… I have no choice but to admit it.]
Yeomin was nodding next to him. Even thoughhe had sufferedthe lizard’s mes and the massive expansion ofthe fist, there was no trace left on the gloves.
“No matter how durable they are, it will tear. They have an automatic repair function,so you won’t need toworry thatmuch.”
“The best, grandpa! I’ve never worn a proper armamentbefore, but thanks to you, my power has doubledat once!” She happily embraced Kang Shin-hyuk. Was that something that couldn’t be done remotely,or was that not the point?
“If it’s like this, I could attack their base!”
“Stop that.”
“Oh, just like grandpa!” Shu jokingly replied to Kang Shin-hyuk’sseriousness, but he didn’t rx.
“A weapon is nothing more than that. If you give it toomuch meaning, you’ll get hurtsomeday.”
“Wow, grandpa! Alright, alright, stop!” Shu twisted around andnodded. In the meantime, her fists were warping around and beating back the lizards.
[As you can see, it is difficult for us to attack them actively.]
“Huh? Ah.” Suddenly, the Yeomin spoke up. Hebtedly looked over, having been engrossedin the sight of what Shu was doing. People werestanding at the basin’s borders with metal spears, stabbing the lizards thatcameup.
[That’s because they absorb our fire.Most of our abilities consist offire, but they arepletely immune to it. So we have nochoice but to stab them with weapons that we can’t handle well. Wecan’t live like this forever.]
“I’ve got a rough idea of it.” That said, Shu couldn’t stay here forevereither. The lizards were constantly rising upeven though she was beatingthemdown.
“That’s why you want to build a wall.”
“Yes, grandpa.” While Kang Shin-hyuklistened to her exnation, Shu had sessively swept away the lizardsfor now. However, had that been enough, Kang Shin-hyuk wouldn’t havebeen calledhere.
“Have you thought of destroying the source?”
“Grandpa, that means making an enemy of everything in this world. Ifwe run wild outside of this basin, other forces will try to attack.”
“Are all of them with Jormungand?”
“It’s more irritating that theyaren’t.” It seemed that Yeomin didn’t know about Jormungand. Rather,the other tribes of the world had little to do withJormungand and lived within their ownterritories.
“Jormungand is still hostile, but the other races in this world won’t payattention to what they should watch out for. They haveno intention of cooperating.”
“Then, they won’t wake up until they betargets after this tribe perishes.”
[We won’tdie!]
“It’s just an example.” Kang Shin-hyuk realized that he still didn’t know her name at thatpoint.
“What should I call you? Fireball?”
[****]
“What?”
[Ah… you can call me Kwati, Anvil.]
She had be more modest than before,perhaps because she had confirmed the powerof the gloves he made. After greeting her,he nced over at the people slowly gathering around them. They weren’tas different from humans as those in Neorust were, so he didn’t feeltoo odd being around them.
[So can we really ask for the wall? Wehave plenty ofmaterials.]
“It’s easy, but…” The problem was that the circumference on the wallwould need to be more than a couple of kilometers. However,this world wasn’t like Kieron, where it could be made bigger by freeingit through spiritualpower.
“I have something to askfirst. Do you usually head down the mountain whenthe lizards aren’taround?”
[We don’t need to. We have everything we need to eathere.]
Where? He didn’t need to ask, as he soon noticed the warmth underneaththe basin. This volcano wasn’t extinct.
“Then you’ll keep living here? Won’t that be boring?”
[It’s a little different in peacetime, but rightnow, it’swar.]
He was wondering how different it would be.Kang Shin-hyuk turned toShu without asking any of the questions he was thinking.
“Let’s survey it first.”
-The administrator has finished it. The basin has a circumference of fewer than65kilometers.
“So, a diameter of a little over 20 kilometers.”
-To exin the circumference rate…
“It’s okay.” Kang Shin-hyuk boldly cut off the exnationand began to n in earnest. Buildinga wall that perfectly covered that distance… wasn’t it impossible?
‘I’m a cksmith, not the Chinese emperor Qin Shi.’
-This is the scale of the Hero Universe, and you are noordinarycksmith.
‘I can’t approach it the usual way.’ Kang Shin-hyuk spoke bluntlywith the administrator, having a sh of inspiration as he saw thethousands of men around him. Building a castlewall wasn’t borate work like designing an artifact. He just needed to mobilize the people hereto build a barrier. A high wall would be needed,as there might be enemies other thanthe lizards, ofcourse.
‘They can build the wall themselves.What they want is a solid wall, but their materialprocessing skills arecking.’ That fact could be understood well just bylooking at the shoddy weapons they used. The Yeomin must be a racethat fought without weapons. Therefore, their ability to craft and use them was poor.As Shu said, they could create a good fire, butthey didn’t have the ability to use it. If so, what he had to makenow…
“Kwati, let’s see what materials you can supply first.”
[Well…]
Kwati knelt down and scooped up the reddish soil from thebasin, then made a fire in her hand. As time passed, the soilfell away, and a metal lump of thesame material as the spears they were using a whileago appeared. Kang Shin-hyuk epted it, confirming it was more preciousthan any othermetal.
[Explosive Gold]
[SS+ Rank]
[Metal made by processing the soul found only in volcanoes that erupt withthe mes of Yeomin. Once the shape is hardened, it is almost impossible toreprocess. When temperatures drop to the extreme, it returns to the soil.]
[It has explosive power and immense resistance to fire.]
“I see why you dealt with thelizards with this.”
[Your eyes are excellent. You managed to recognize it at ance?]
“What do you think of our grandpa?” Shu seemed vaguelyupset upon seeing Kwati’s astonishment; however, Kang Shin-hyuk had no time to tacklethis. This was because he was intent on examining and analyzingthe explosive gold with his spiritual power. Then, to his surprise,it lost its shape and returned to the red soil.
[How?!]
“Wow, what happened?”
“I wasmunicating with the materials. No, sorry.” He apologized, but he had founda way to move forward. Whathe had to make was not the walls.
No, he needed to make an artifact thatcould create the materials at will.