Chapter 15: Crazy Goddess Sold The World (1)

Swaas.

However, the reason why the buildings and machines were not waterproofed despite the rain was because historically, the Metallica Capital area had experienced almost no rain.

Tracking Tracking Whoosh.

But it started to rain little by little about a month or two ago.

Now, the sky was completely covered with dark clouds so that you couldn’t even see the sun.

Kookoo-

Kung!

Whoosh–!

Thunder and lightning combined to create an unprecedented natural disaster.

“Oh my!

The workshop that I’ve been tightening screws for years!”

“Ugh!

Isn’t it going to blow away if this keeps up!?”

The magic engineers lamenting as they looked at the buildings that had collapsed after being struck by thunder, and the merchants worrying as they connected carriages covered with wood and cloth.

The situation in the capital Metallica was extremely chaotic.

However, there was an even more dangerous area..

“Princess!”

“You need to evacuate underground!”

That was the Iron Lord Royal Castle.

If the capital city of Metallica was submerged in water, the Iron Road Palace was in even worse shape due to its location.

A deep ditch dug 360 degrees under the drawbridge of the huge palace.

The size of the Iron Road Palace is almost like a circular river.

It is an excellent defense against groups invading the palace normally, but it was a huge problem when it rained like this.

The lake that supplied water to the palace was not far away, and it was located at a higher elevation than the Iron Road Palace.

Swaaa.

She spread her wings made of crystal and flew upstream alone to the lake.

“Oh no.”

Choaaaah-

Choaaaah-

As expected, the lake on the hill was shaking like a boiling pot as if it would spill at any moment.

Swish-

Iris flew right up to the lake and stretched out both arms.

“Haaaaap-!”

Jiiing–!

She unleashed the ancient magic of ‘creation’ designed for the King and Queen-class Automatic at full power.

The magic of ‘creation’ developed by the ancients in order to easily build planned cities.

It could create transparent, hard metals like crystals within the limits of the Automatic’s core engine (heart), and freely transform their forms.

“Image.

Design.

Composition.

Form.”

With the ignition word spoken, the magic circle above Iris’s sky-blue eyes glowed brightly, and she planned the structure and form of the building she was going to build through a virtual hologram.

“Manifestation.”

Chorruk–!!

From the empty space in front of Iris, transparent crystals are created, forming a skeleton and filling it with contents in an instant.

Swish-!

And the completed giant crystal barrier.

“Ugh..!”

Iris, who was floating it, kept her mouth shut and let out a shallow groan, perhaps because she was struggling.

Since the weight and size were more than double what she usually created, even Iris, the Queen Automatic, couldn’t help but struggle.

However, even so, if she dropped it anywhere, the water might not be blocked properly.

“A little more… a little more to the left…”

Iris looked down and adjusted the position of the crystal barrier floating in the air little by little.

“… About here!”

Whoosh!

She finished calculating and lowered both arms at the same time.

Shoooo-

Kuocong!

Then, she landed right in front of the lake, blocking the waterway with a giant crystal barrier!

Since it was a barrier built with the role of a dam on Earth in mind, it completely blocked the overflowing water.

“But… what do I do?

It doesn’t seem like it’ll last long!”

Exhausted from using up a considerable amount of energy, Iris flapped her shrunken crystal wings and approached the back of the barrier to examine it.

Shoooo..

Iris looked at the crystal dam with worried eyes as she watched the water quickly rise behind the high wall.

It was designed to disperse the water as little as possible and let it flow, but it wouldn’t be of much use if the water overflowed the dam.

Judging from the current speed of the water, it didn’t seem like the crystal dam would be able to hold out for very long.

“We should go back downstream for now.”

Iris, who eventually decided that there was nothing she could do upstream, began to slowly descend downstream of the waterway, flapping her wings feebly.

And on the downstream side of the waterway that Iris was heading towards.

“Hurry up and dig until you die!!”

“If the water comes down like this, we’ll all really die!”

There, the residents of the capital city of Metallica and the Automatics were diligently digging the ground with shovels, stepping on the mud that had become wet from the rain.

Iris had gone to block the river upstream, and it would have been nice if that had worked.

If they failed, the water overflowing from the lake would accelerate down the waterway and sweep away not only the Iron Road Royal Palace but also the Metallica Capital.

Before that, they were trying to divert the waterway by digging the ground downstream.

“Oh my…

Why don’t we have a drink?

I’ll feel better after having a cold beer!”

The unfriendly mechanical repairman dwarves.

“When are we going to dig a new waterway if we dig like this?

Hmm… I think we can solve it with just a couple of magic bombs.

Can’t we just destroy it all at once?”

The explosion-crazy elves.

“If you’re injured, come over here.

We have some new artificial organs that we’ve recently tested, so we can put them on for you.

Kikki.”

The crazy human magic engineers.

All of Metallica’s magic engineers, who are famous for being eccentric, are gathered in one place and working together.

The scene where they, who are usually impatient because they can’t get along with each other and are famous for having the same personality, grumble but work together.

It was such a strange and alien sight that I wondered if someone had made them act out the act.

However, they had their own sense of belonging to “Iron Road.”

In other countries, magical engineering was not recognized, and the support for resources and research environments needed to conduct research were not good either.

Here in Iron Road, magical engineers were almost all professionals.

Magic engineering was highly developed, and the minerals and other resources that the Automatics dug up from the mines were abundant, providing an optimal research environment.

“We must protect this!

Our country!

Our workshop!”

“It’s been a while since I’ve done physical work, so my blood is dry-gasp… gasp…”

Once they had a taste of Iron Road, the magical engineers could never abandon Iron Road and Metallica.

When the magical engineers and Metallica citizens were sweating blood because of this situation below.

“Fuse 13 over there!

Connect it to fuse 24!”

“Please adjust the positions of the support and magic stones over there!”

“Hey, chargers 15 and 14 switched places!

Are you planning to blow them all up and kill them all?”

On the highest tower of the Ironlord’s castle, a UFO-like giant lump of metal was standing on top of a raincoat-clad Yooseong holding a single piece of parchment and commanding the elves and dwarves below.

Crackle..!

The fuse blew out due to the energy from the water that came into contact with it while connecting the circuit.

“Hey, shit!

Why do we have to listen to some human brat who’s only a few decades old like that?!”

The blonde elf with damp glasses shouted, throwing down the fuse she was holding in her hand.

“Can you do that in front of Yooseong?”

At that moment, a bald dwarf who was pulling a cart passed by asked with a mocking tone.

“What?!

What can’t you do, you dwarf!”

“Keuhehe…

When I’m in front of you, you want me to teach you one more skill, and you keep wagging your tail like a fox and all that!”

“When did I do that?!

Am I going crazy, old man?!”

The blonde elf and the old dwarf bickered with each other.

The two elves were each members of the three Meisters representing the dwarves and elf engineers.

The blonde elf woman was Solau, an elf from the Magic Engineering Society Research Association.

The bald dwarf was Bolderberg from the Blacksmith Workshop.

“And what are you going to do if you go up there, little elf!

Do you know how to handle that thing?

I saw you touch something wrong earlier and Yooseong got yelled at by that guy and came down!”

“…”

At the words of the old man Bolderberg who was telling the facts, Solau pretended not to hear and crouched down again and began to diligently do the fuse connection work that had been given to her.

Seeing that, the old man Bolder also shook his beard and laughed brightly, then went back to pulling the cart containing the blue magic stone and handing it over to the dwarves in the workshop who were hammering away nearby.

Kkurung-!

“I wonder if this thing isn’t working because it got hit by lightning..”

And the giant UFO above them…

No, Yooseong who was sitting on the round part of the phase shifter looked up at the sky and let out a worried word.

Yooseong, who also owes a debt to Iris and the magic engineers, never wanted the Iron Road Royal Palace to be submerged in water.

(Because of the underground library.)

So as soon as he heard the call for assembly from the royal palace that the Automatics had broadcast through the loudspeaker, he came running.

The role Yooseong was given was to ‘reactivate the phase changer.’

It was an important issue to stop the flood coming from upstream, but he could not prevent the damage to the capital and the royal palace without fundamentally resolving the crazy weather conditions.

So with Iris’s permission, he brought up the phase changer that was stored underground in the Iron Road Royal Palace…

…The charger is missing!

All knights!

I searched the underground thoroughly, but I can’t find it, warrior!

There was no power charger to activate the phase changer!

In the end, Yooseong, a transmutationist, used the transmutation technique: interpretation to figure out the structure of the phase changer.

“I think I can make it.”

With the knowledge of magic engineering that I had and the knowledge I gained from transmuting all the items I could touch in the underground library, I created a blueprint for a charger for the phase changer.

Immediately after that, when the weather conditions continued to worsen, I started working.

The huge size of the phase changer was a problem, and the process of making it was also complicated.

Since I couldn’t see the angles alone, I ended up gathering only the best craftsmen among the dwarves and elves who were famous for their dexterity and made the charger together.

“It’s about 82% done, and it’ll be finished soon.”

After finishing the direction until the final work, Yooseong was looking at the blueprint while wearing a raincoat for discharge and waterproofing to see if there were any errors.

Kkurung–!

Kwakwang–!!

“Hmm?”

He raised his head and looked in the direction of the sound at the sound of thunder and something exploding from in front.

Swoosh…

‘What kind of cloud shape is that?”

Yooseong’s gaze landed right above the capital city of Metallica.

Black dark clouds were gathered like a whirlpool.

Looking at them as simple clouds, they continued to rotate as if something was going to pop out, which was by no means ordinary.

Kururung-!

And the lightning bolts were just as strange as the clouds…

Kwakwagang-!!

Kwaang–!!

The way they struck the Metallica shopping district, promenade, and residential areas in bunches as if bombing each other looked like someone was deliberately concentrating the lightning.

Wait?

The lightning bolts are moving?

Usually, lightning strikes the ground for a very short moment and then disappears, leaving behind a flash of light and an explosive sound.

Kwajjik!

However, the lightning seen in the distance from the capital city right now was moving for a few seconds as if it was supporting with a laser, intentionally destroying the city.

‘This heavy rain, the shape of the clouds, even the lightning that seemed to be intentionally attacking…’

“This can’t be normal weather, right?”

In the end, Yooseong got up from his seat, thinking of checking the situation in the capital city while putting the blueprint back in his pocket.

Swish!

At that moment, the center of the swirling dark clouds scattered and opened in an instant.

Kwaaah!!

Jieeing!!

Chijijijijik-!!!!

A thick pillar of blue light fell over the city through the hole in the cloud.

‘Crazy..?’

“Huh!”

Yooseong, who fell due to the shockwave generated the moment the pillar of light crashed into the ground, barely managed to grab the railing and lean his body against it, blankly staring at the blue pillar of lightning that still hadn’t disappeared.

“What… what am I looking at right now?”

“Huh… huh… Are you still a little drunk?

No, I didn’t drink?!”

Just like the surprised Yooseong, the citizens of Metallica and the Automatics stopped what they were doing and looked at the pillar of light.

Everyone’s attention was focused on the pillar of light.

Kuung…

Kuung…

A steady rhythmic vibration that made the ground shake began to be heard.

Shoooo…!

“… A hand?”

And something in the shape of a giant hand suddenly popped out from the surface of the pillar of light.

Crack–!!

Crack…

Crack…!!

The hand made of blue rock and surrounded by lightning moved its five pillar-like fingers and clenched its fist as if it was grabbing the pillar of light.

Crack–!!!!

It ripped the pillar of light it was holding in half!

Crack…

Crack…

The pillar of light disappeared into particles of electricity…

Ghaaaahhhhh!!

The giant covered in blue lightning…

No, the giant god raised both arms and roared, revealing his gigantic blue rock body.

“…”

The moment he witnessed it, no one’s confusion or breathing could be heard.

If the storm was an unknown fear caused by nature, then the giant as big as a castle standing there now was a clear and visible fear.

It was neither a race nor a monster.

Could it be a legendary dragon or a god from mythology?

Kuung…

Kuung…

No. I swear it was completely different from those imaginary beings.

Geuhhh…!

That blue thunder giant was an existence that no one could have imagined, and far from awe, no one felt anything but overwhelming fear coming from its huge body.

‘Can… I catch that thing?’

That was the first thought that came to Yooseong’s mind when he saw the blue lightning giant.

He didn’t know what that giant was, but if it was hostile to the people of this place…

He wondered if he could defeat it with what he had.

‘I don’t know what kind of power it uses…

But judging from its appearance, it’s clear that we need heavy weapons for large monsters to destroy that giant…’

However, most of the equipment for dealing with large monsters was inside the workshop.

Kuuung..!

Right near the feet where the giant was standing!

Geuhahaha!!!

While Yooseong was thinking about various thoughts about the giant with a complicated expression, the giant threw back its blue skull-like head and let out a roar that sounded like human laughter.

Woouung…

It was so big that the ground shook with just the sound of laughter.

Chijjik-!

Pachijijik!!

Even from here, the sight of the giant’s eye sockets and lightning spewing out from its mouth made the hairs on his body stand on end.

ansjdkdasd??!!

andsk!!!

The giant shouted something loud enough to hurt your ears right after he finished laughing.

“That monster…

What…

What does it seem to be saying?”

“I’m a linguist, but…

It’s a language I’ve never heard before…

That…”

The subhumans on the castle and those downstream of the waterway heard the giant’s shouting and muttered in fearful voices.

Humans, elves, dwarves, orcs, watermen…

The language the giant was shouting was not the language of any race.

No… Could it really be the language of this continent?

While everyone was questioning the giant’s shout, there was only one person.

“…”

Only Yooseong made a surprised expression as if he had understood something.

Thanks to the rune magic of ‘language communication’ engraved on the magic circle that summoned the warrior, Yooseong could understand the language of all races in the world.

-Keuhaha!

Is this Thor-nim the first!?

By the way, it’s really good!

I bought it!

This world!

Yooseong could clearly understand that one word the giant shouted.

At that moment, the “great disaster” that Seyeon had spoken of in her dream.

The goddess had disappeared… The world… I bought it…

All of those thoughts merged into one.

“This crazy goddess…!”

Yooseong realized the answer to the giant’s existence.