chapter 219 – Building a Castle(7)
-You ate grilled heat lizard. The penalty has vanisheddue to the ResistFireskill.
-Resist Fire skill proficiency hasincreased.
-Resist Fire ability has increased by 20% untilthe meat isdigesting.
Kang Shin-hyuk felt anxious as he cooked the fire lizard, butonce he removed its blood andcleaned the skin, he gradually became more confident. However, hewas still worried about what that penalty would have been had he not possessed theresist fireskill.
“Is it okay?”
“It feels like something is burning inside, but it’s okay. Ican digest it right away.” It was a technique beyondmodern humans, but she seemed to be telling the truth.
“Are you doing that with an ability?”
“Yes. This way, you can consume a lot of energy in ashort time. Isn’t it awesome?” However, it had the disadvantage of making onehungry quicker. Shu said so andughed as she tried to put theskewered lizard in the furnace.
[Don’t disturb us.]
“Hng, but it’s delicious baked in that furnace.” That’s because it was a furnace thathad reached the X-grade, at least. So not onlymetal could be made in it, but also delicious food.Kang Shin-hyuk thought briefly of using it to sellskewers on earth but put that thought aside. Itwould be an insult to the artifact.
-But it really is miraculous. The downside ofbeing vulnerable to cold still remains, but except for that, it is a furnaceany cksmith would covet.
‘Right. It was worth iting here to make it.’
-A 500,000HP bonus tomembers who create objects that will be remembered through a world’s history!
Even though it was vulnerable to the cold, thewater orb embedded in it would protect it from water and thecold. It would take an ability of SS-rank or higher to destroy it atthat point. However, he had to admit ithad onew.
‘No fire.’ It could withstand incredible heat and hold it, but itcould not create such a me. Most hearth-shaped artifacts sold in modern times(though there weren’t many) could create sparks on their own. Kang Shin-hyukalso wanted to create such a furnace, but the result was instead aproduct that was thoroughly faithful to a furnace’s original purpose.
“I have to get the fire.” Therefore, even now, Kang Shin-hyuk wasobserving the Yeomin with hawk eyes as they emitted their specialme to light thefurnace.
‘Isn’t it impossible for me to learn that myself?’
-It is the Yeomin’s ability. Moreover, you already have twospecibilities.
Yes, much like it was impossible to replicate theenergy of the Golden Dragon born ofhis trait, it was impossible for him to mimic theirenergy. If so, what about creating a medium that could storethat me inrge quantities? Like a fire orb,forexample.
‘Well, an orb won’t just pop out because I want one.’ It wouldn’tbe easy to find or make such a thing; even the water orbhad been the greatest treasure Kieron had to offer. But,hadn’t Shu told Kang Shin-hyuk he could receive fire as a reward? Hedidn’t know the details about the reward because he wasn’t in charge ofthe dimensional quest. The administrator might exin, butthat didn’t mean hecould get it anyearlier.
“Grandpa, what will you do? Can you make one morefurnace?”
“I thought about it, but it can’t be helpedbecause of the orbs. How about just grilling itwith a lizard’sme?”
“Hm? I think that will be okay too!” It was an extremelycruel idea, but Shu nodded like it was a goodone. Then, a few more fire-lizards would be captured when the nextwavecame.
[It would be nice for it to be peaceful.]
“Well, you only have to stop the lizards.” Kwati, whowas in charge ofmanding everyone,ined besidehim. Shu was doing well enough, keeping them safe;weren’t they the ones who werecking so far? Notthat Kang Shin-hyuk said such things out loud.
[Pour more!]
[You’re already tired? Hurry up! You’re not even done with onep!]
Now the Yeomin had been divided into three groups thatwere working diligently. The soil evenly spread over the basinwas collected and poured into the furnace, a mewas poured into make bricks, and the finished bricks were cartedaway to build the walls. Of course, even an hour after starting,they hadpleted less than 1%. When he first madens, it seemed like they could finish it sooner, but it wasno joke to build a 60-kilometer longwall.
“Slightly lower theheight…?”
[No, do 50 meters as nned. At that level, we canpletely block anyenemy.]
[Rather, I think we could raise it to 100 meters.]
“No, let’s not. Please.” He had no intention of spending winter vacation here.Actually, he didn’t know what the time ratio was.
-It is 7 to 1. There is a possibility it will further increase depending on the situation.
“Doesn’t that mean this world is getting seriously dangerous?”The administrator didn’t refute him. Such ominous thoughts took rootin his mind. At some pointter thatafternoon, as he was using fire from a group of lizards to cookthe meat, Shu shouted out.
“Kwati, other guys aring!”
“Other guys?”
[Other guys?]
Kang Shin-hyuk and Kwati both raised their heads at the same time.
[Anvil, takemand for a moment.]
“No, I’m not even aYeomin…”
[If you can return the explosive gold back to dirt, you can do it. Wait amoment!]
Kwati ran forward and left Kang Shin-hyuk to takethmand.
“Let’s work a little harder. This is tospeed things up a little bit.”
[What? Suddenly, I feelfortable moving my energy…]
He strengthened the workers with his guardian Golden Dragonand backed them up with the spiritual power contained in histhreads.
[I thought he wasn’t a normal human…is this also a craftsman’sability?]
[It’s amazing. He’s obviously not our kind, buthow can he understand us so well…?]
Luckily, his actions seemed to be weed by the Yeomin.But something very bad sounded like itwas happening on the otherside.
[A rock wolf? Why are you guys here?]
[Grrr…you must know thereason.]
A huge wolf made of rock, more than ten times the sizeof a fire lizard, approached andgrowled just a hundred meters away from the wall.
[Why the hell are damn lizards wandering through ournd?]
[You don’t know? We’re also against them. Ifyou don’t want them to dirty thend, you can bite them.]
[They are only targeting you.]
[Sure.]
Kwati spoke confidently andughed as she confronted him.
[We don’t intend to take responsibility for sins we didn’tmit.If you don’t like the lizards,stand up and fight them. It’s nothing more thanfoolishness toe to us.]
[I have a differentopinion.]
The biggest rock wolf, perhaps their leader, soundedlike scraping iron as he spoke.
[Isn’t it just a matter of getting rid of you? If you give this volcanoto those lizards, it won’t bother us.]
[What a stupid idea, next would be your turn…]
[No, we agree with that.]
It was from the sky that thethird person’s voice could be heard. A turtlewas flying above. Kang Shin-hyuk had to clear hiseyes, but he had made no mistake. Giant turtles were flying in thesky above them. However, theirbodies were transparent and couldn’t be urately seen unless he usedhis spiritual power. Without spiritual power, all that could be seen wasan ominous purple-glowing shell floating in the sky.
“Wow, it’s a flying shell!”
“I expected such a reaction.” Rightbeside Kang Shin-hyuk, there wasa girl with oddly dull senses. Kang Shin-hyuk looked over atKwati, who seemed to be growing more ufortable.
[Storm turtle… it’s funny;now you’re showingup?]
[Salt girl… we’re normally invisible, but it isn’t easy…!]
[The swamppigs?]
A pig?
“Grandpa…!” Shu eximed with excitement as she saw a groupof giant pigs slowly crawling up from the bottom of the mountain, thenewest group to show up for war.
“If you grill them in the brazier, it would be sotasty!”
[You’re going to eatus?!]
Kang Shin-hyuk used his spiritual power to grasp theswamp pigs’ bodypositionroughly.
“Well, they don’t seem good to eat…”
[I’m going to grill them whole!]
The swamp pigs started running around angrily, but then, another group came up fromthe bottom. They were hitby the new wave ofthe fire lizards.
[At a time like this, more of them.]
Kwati clicked her tongue. She was starting to feel the darkmalice of Jormungand thaty behindthem.
“What are you going to do?Do you think you can solve itbytalking?”
[Ha.]
Kang Shin-hyuk asked, but Kwati onlyughed.
“If I knew it would be like this, Iwould’ve gone to y where they normally are.”
“Shu, what do youthink?”
“I’ll worry about it. Which one will cost the least…” Shulooked around for the enemiesing up from the bottom. TheYeomin were still working hard on the wall that was farfrompletion. Then, she nodded with determination.
“Let’splete the wall first. I didn’t want to do it because it’simpossible.”
“Huh?”
“Please take care of theter work, grandpa. And Kwati.” He wantedto ask her what she meant.
-Woooosh.
The height of the basin suddenly lowered. At thesame time, the walls of explosive goldsoared more than 50 meters high. It was as ifthe basin had been scooped out and converted directly intobricks.
“Shu, what…” Shu fell down, and the Yeomin who were workingfollowed herdown.
“What’s happening…?”
-Member, you mustpletethewall!
Kang Shin-hyuk instinctively reached out to the wall as that message filledhis retinas. Golden Dragon energy and spiritual power mixed together and emerged fromhim, pouring into the wat a much faster rate than he wasusedto.
[They’re doing something weird. Attack!]
[Break down that wall!]
The wall had suddenly sprung up, and the coalition, which already burnedwith hostility towards the Yeomin, charged with thefire lizards. However, when the firststorm turtle began to bombard it, the spiritual power Kang Shin-hyukspread into it began to morph. Combined with the energyof the Golden Dragon, a cry rang out asthe wall shook. A sh of gold erupted, repelling thestormturtles.
-It’s a sess!
“…No, what is it?!”
-This is the racial ability of Super Ultra GxyFist! We skipped the process of building the wall togo straight to the result!
“No, even King Crimson couldn’t do this!” A translucent domeof red energy was formed around thefifty-meter highwall.
In Kang Shin-hyuk’s eyes, information on thepletedwappeared.