Chapter 25: I got a disciple I didn’t know about (3)

“Let’s go inside first.”

This log cabin is too cold for humans.

Hoyeon’s red face may be because he’s embarrassed to see a stranger, but the cold weather must also have had an effect.

“Um…

Master…

There’s nowhere around here that I can go…!”

Yooseong opened the door as if to tell Hoyeon to come out first, gesturing.

Thump.

Thump.

After that, Yooseong came out of the house and took Hoyeon to the ice wall of a giant cave.

“Did you sweep this, Hoyeon?”

“Yes!

I didn’t really have anything to do…

I thought of it as part of my training and swept it!”

“Excellent.

This is the entrance.”

“Entrance…?”

Yes.

This is the entrance.

Instead of answering, Yooseong raised his palm on the ice wall.

Kukukukukung…

At that moment, the ice wall began to shake and the ground trembled.

“Ohhh?!”

Hoyeon opened his eyes wide and looked up at the shaking ice wall.

Jeojeojeok–

The ice wall slowly descended from above like an automatic door, and soon lowered to the height where Yooseong and Hoyeon were standing, completely disappearing into the ground.

“AwesomeAwesome!

I never dreamed of something like this!

Master is amazing!”

“Amazing_”

“He’s going to faint if he sees what’s in front of him.”

After patting Hoyeon’s head once, who couldn’t close his mouth, and bringing him to his senses, “Let’s go in now.”

“Yes!

Four!”

Yooseong walked into the cave first.

Little Hoyeon followed him hurriedly.

Knock..

“Be careful not to slip.”

“Four!

Master!”

Since the entrance to the cave was larger than average, the inside was also incredibly wide.

It was as if they had entered an underground world different from the outside, with a ceiling made of rocks and a path of frozen ice stretching out endlessly.

“Because it was a dragon’s nest (lair)!”

Even dragons, not being reptiles, seemed to like digging deep into their dens, the interior sloped downwards and went deeper and deeper underground.

I used to like it, thinking it was like a secret underground base, but now that I look at it, it’s uncomfortable.

Should I do some floor work?”

Since it seemed like he might slip if he moved even a little, Yooseong held onto Hoyeon’s hand tightly and carefully went down the ice.

Bang.

When the slope ended and a flat floor appeared, Yooseong stopped walking.

“Master?”

“Wait.”

He raised his head and stared into the dark space.

Zing–

A holographic light was projected onto the ceiling from Yooseong’s prosthesis.

Pitter-Patter-Patter

The lights on the ceiling momentarily brightened the space.

“Eek..!”

Just as Yooseong predicted that Hoyeon might faint, a simple sound of surprise, not a single exclamation of astonishment, escaped his mouth.

“It’s been a while.”

Yooseong slowly looked back at the inside of the underground base.

In the center, a T-shaped workbench made of metal plates that was incomparable to the workbench in the workshop was installed, and numerous tools were placed on top of it.

Also, on the walls on both sides, pistols, rifles, machine guns, anti-material rifles, and heavy weapons were hung, as if a knight were displaying his cherished swords.

In the space beyond the workbench and the reinforced glass panel in front, the total number of all the equipment used so far was displayed in each location.

The satellite drone that released the railgun used when he captured the Demon King.

A vehicle like a tank from a certain immortal hero movie.

Equipment attached to various types of suits and the mechanical arms that attach them.

Each of them alone is terrifying, and it’s surprising that there are weapons that don’t fit in a fantasy world at all.

Around him, “Metal Skeletons”, artificial intelligence androids that looked like silver skeletons, were walking around and managing the equipment according to the input system.

“T…

Master, what on earth is that…”

However, the “that” that Hoyeon was calling was an overwhelming type that could not be compared to other equipment.

“Unfinished work.”

As he spoke, Yooseong’s gaze caught the end of a giant human-shaped armored weapon.

Like a giant robot in a comic or movie, its entire body was covered in metal plates and armor like armor, and a battle weapon with missiles and firearms attached to its body.

Its size alone was enough to be intimidating, but its head, which resembled a knight’s helmet, had dragon horns attached to it, further adding to its fearsome image.

A steel giant of a size similar to or larger than the giant Thor summoned by Metallica stood with a majestic appearance, overwhelming all the equipment.

That armored weapon named [Tempester] was nothing less than the sum total of the magical engineering and linking technology that Yooseong had accumulated.

“I processed the dragon’s bones to make a frame and used the dragon’s heart as an engine to supply power!

Of course, linking the entire thing was impossible.

Because of its size, linking parts was also impossible.

However, just as magicians who lack magical power use magic stones to supplement their lacking magical power when casting high circle magic, linking magicians can also supplement their lacking magical power with magic stones, so Yooseong used that principle to create that armored giant.

‘I used the dragon’s heart to supplement the lacking magical power…

I linked all the internal facilities.’

However, it did not work.

Even after accumulating the technology, he still has not figured out why it did not work.

If I were to look into the reason, it might be because it was not a single linking work, but a combination of various linking machines.

Even though it was perfect in theory, the obvious conclusion was that it couldn’t work due to a technical ‘flaw’ that he couldn’t figure out.

“It’s just a pretty decoration.”

Even though he had ground up a single dragon, the result was nothing more than decoration for the underground base.

However, now he was relieved.

If it had worked, the past meteor would have destroyed the continent long ago before the giants could attack.

“A…

Master, are you a dragon?!”

While Yooseong was staring at the failed work for a while, Hoyeon, who was next to him, asked with a fearful look.

“No…

I’m a human.”

Yooseong omitted the words ‘I caught that dragon’ and stroked Hoyeon’s bear hat before dismantling his suit and walking towards the workbench.

laugh!

Your Majesty!”

“Hehe, I will never hand over the altar!”

Those were the first words SeYeon heard when she led Claire and the knights to the goddess temple and demanded the altar.

Despite the fact that they were confiscating the altar due to the national emergency, the cardinals of the Goddess Church and the archbishops blocked SeYeon and Claire’s path, opposing them as if they were going to fight.

“Even if, the King of Griffin, ask you to do this?”

“We may belong to the Griffins, but we are not Your Majesty’s subjects, we are the children of the Goddess!

There is no reason why we must obey Your Majesty’s orders?!”

“Hmm…”

SeYeon stroked his proud beard once at the sound of the cardinal’s voice, which was aggressive and full of formality, barely cursing.

“Then, if the goddess tells you to, you will do it?”

“Don’t make me.”

It was a funny sight to see the fanatics of the goddess cult, who were the most brutally evil ones in the front, struggling against the leader of the devil, the Demon King.

Of course, SeYeon only laughed inwardly and did not show it on the outside.

“… no, the Goddess’s apostle said that he was curious about the story of the fallen saint.”

“.”

Orha, who had a gloomy expression for a moment at SeYeon’s voice that spoke with Claire once again, opened his trembling lips with difficulty.

“I see…

The goddess sent down the apostle because our heresy inquisitors failed to punish the traitor.

As expected, the goddess always watches over us and worries about us.”

“That’s not it…

no.”

“Haha….

I heard that you went to the Demon Kingdom and gained some power, right?”

SeYeon stopped Claire from instinctively saying negative things about the goddess while furrowing her brow with her hand and opened her mouth again looking at Orha.

“Yes.

Just like our kingdom, a giant appeared in the Magic Kingdom.

The leaders of the Magic Kingdom, the pure-blooded elves and the red and blue magic tower lords, failed to stop the giant.”

“They say the saint stopped it?”

“Saint!!

Please be careful with your expression, Your Majesty!”

“I’m sorry.”

SeYeon apologized, muttering silently in her heart that she might be a fanatic, and looked at Orha with a smiling face like a mask again.

“Let’s go back to the story.

The fallen saint…

The traitor succeeded in stopping the giant for a day by using the power of evil, and as a result, the status of the pure-blooded elves who were managing the Magic Kingdom fell, and at the same time, the traitor gained great trust from the necromancers and black magicians who were ostracized by the Magic Kingdom, and became their leader.”

“I know that too.

The Demon King is a headache enough, but with such strange things attached to him…

How can we approach the fallen saint?”

When SeYeon asked with a hopeful heart,

“My blood relative, Orca, the leader of Eclipse…

and her siblings have sacrificed their lives to gain this.”

“Oh!

What is that?”

“It’s the necromancers and warlocks who are cooperating with the traitor!

They don’t like the fact that the traitor from our school is wielding the power of the Demon King to semi-forcibly command them, and there has been a movement within the school to bring down the traitor.”

“Is that certain information?”

When SeYeon asked with a suspicious expression at the image of the necromancers and warlocks,

“This is information that my sister and the members of Eclipse have obtained by sacrificing their lives….

as martyrs!”

“No…

I just asked because I wanted to make sure.”

“Whew…

It’s certain.”

Orha said with a confident expression that the necromancers and warlocks were trustworthy.

‘Didn’t the Demon King say he’s going to save the world?

Didn’t the heretic inquisitors, who hate heresy so much, say they should cooperate with the black magic necromancers?”

As things progressed, SeYeon began to feel extremely uneasy.

..What should I teach him?

Yooseong, who was standing still leaning against the workbench higher than him, felt Hoyeon’s gaze staring at him intently and worried.

The reason he came here was clearly to slaughter and collect giants and make equipment, but Hoyeon was an unexpected disciple.

Naturally, no training curriculum had been prepared.

Besides, Hoyeon is a physically fit beastman, but he’s still a child.

A fighting style suitable for a small child.

Yooseong stared at Hoyeon, who tilted his head for a moment.

“Yeon-ah, no matter how well-trained a knight is, if he gets a bullet in the head, he’ll die.”

“Huh..?

Oh, yes!”

Hoyeon nodded vigorously and answered, saying it was his teacher, even though he clearly didn’t understand.

‘Even if Hoyeon is a child, if he knows how to handle a firearm properly, most martial artists won’t be able to mess with him.’

It’s not hard to make him handle a firearm.

Just give him a gun you made and let him shoot a few targets.

However, Yooseong wasn’t trying to make him a gun user.

‘Since he’s my disciple…

I have to make him grow properly as a magician.

Of course, that’s true.

“Yeon-ah, come here.”

“Okay!”

While Yooseong was thinking about Hoyeon’s educational method at the workbench, he called Hoyeon from a place a little distance away from the workbench while holding a large non-woven cloth.

Crackle!

As blue electricity splattered, a desk that was lower than the workbench and had a wide width was created in front of Yooseong.

Swish.

Yooseong, who had covered it with a non-woven fabric, told Hoyeon to wait before returning to the desk with several firearms hanging on the wall.

“Look carefully.”

Holding a pistol in his hand.

Clink-

Clink

Clink-Clink…

bang.

Yooseong quickly showed how to disassemble a gun.

The parts of the pistol, including the barrel, slide, sight, buffer spring, and even the bolt action inside, were all arranged on the non-woven fabric.

“Again.”

Clink-Clink.

Clink.

Clink.

And then he reassembled it in a flash.

‘If you know how to use the object, and what it’s for, you can use transmutation.

However, unlike me, a modern person who has lived by indirectly seeing and hearing what a gun is…

To Hoyeon, who is from another world, guns would be completely unfamiliar objects.

He thought that it would be better to help her understand the structure rather than explaining and showing her about guns in words.

“Try to disassemble and assemble this.”

“Like you, Master?”

Instead of saying he can’t, Yooseong put a parchment with a gun assembly chart in front of him instead of answering Hoyeon who asked that question.

“If it’s hard, you can look at this and do it.”

“Uhmm…

I’ll try it first, Master!”

When Hoyeon answered, Yooseong handed him a gun.

Clank-Clank.

Clank.

Clank.

“What…”

Hoyeon’s eyes and hands moved quickly as he received it, disassembling the gun just like Yooseong had done and placing it on the non-woven fabric.

“If I do this…”

Clank-Clank.

Clank.

Clank.

Just like Yooseong, he reassembled it in a few seconds.

“Master!

Is this it?”

“Huh…?

Ah.”

Yooseong blankly stared at the perfectly assembled gun for a moment at Hoyeon’s question, then coughed and opened his mouth at Hoyeon.

“Hoyeon…

did you know what this thing was?”

“No?

This is the first time Master showed it to you!”

“I see.”

“You memorized the entire assembly method after seeing it once…?”

Yooseong smiled at Hoyeon, who was looking at him with anxious eyes, thinking that he might have done something wrong, before getting up from his seat again and walking to the wall where the guns were hanging.

Whoosh.

Then he returned to Hoyeon with a submachine gun, a rifle, a shotgun, and a sniper rifle in his arms.

Just in case, he removed the magazines for all of them.

Clank-Clank

clank clank.

Clank-!

Clank clank clank..!

He demonstrated the disassembly and assembly of all the guns in front of Hoyeon.

“Try them one by one.”

“Hmm..yes!”

And then Hoyeon’s disassembly and assembly began.

Clank…

Clank clank clank-Clank.

As the guns Hoyeon was assembling grew larger and their structures became more complex, Yooseong’s eyes narrowed.

“Huk…

Gasp..

I’m…finished!”

Yooseong came to his senses at the sound of Hoyeon shouting, slightly out of breath,

“Good job.”

He only let out a slightly crude compliment.

However, that reaction was right, not because he had done something trivial, but because he was astonished at Hoyeon’s ability to assemble guns.

He disassembled and assembled all guns perfectly.

He did not simply memorize it.

Hoyeon clearly understood the structure of the mechanical device being assembled.

Just like there are children who are innately good at assembling blocks or making things.

Hoyeon was definitely born with such talent to the extreme.

“Hehe..

Thank you, Master!”

“This child is a genius.”

This world judges and discriminates talent only by the occupation and amount of magical power granted.

Yooseong wanted to show those who discriminated against such people the Hoyeon in front of them.

That there existed talent that could not be judged by magical power and the occupation granted.