Chapter 243

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Translated by Jinmu

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The White House in America.

Secretary of Homeland Security MacMillan having an exclusive meeting with President Lloyd.

The expressions of the two people were quite serious.

“The federal House of Representatives notified that they would invoke an investigative hearing.”

“Is it because of the unauthorized export of the nuclear warheads?”

“Right, they were firmly angered that we handed them over without receiving Congressional approval.”

MacMillan nodded his head.

He understands Congress’s position too.

Because it was a clear violation of procedure, however.

Actually, it’s not like they handed over everything either.

What was taken to Korea was not even 10% of the total.

Just how many nukes does America have.

Even Russia, who competes for 1st and 2nd place, readily provided nuclear weapons.

The Tsar Bomba, which is said to be the strongest hydrogen bomb, that is.

The problem is China.

Far from nuclear weapons, there wasn’t even a statement of support.

In a situation where China, which has a conflicting relationship with America, is tightly hiding nuclear weapons, they exported them outside and disposed of them completely.

“So the public opinion isn’t good. Asking how we’d respond if China provokes us with nukes.”

“Heu-eum.”

From the White House’s position, what’s the part they should worry about the most?

The investigative hearing?

For that, they just need to resolve it through political actions.

Whether the citizens’ public opinion will worsen, that is what’s most fearful.

Because it is directly connected to elections.

An issue they cannot help but pay attention to as the utmost priority as politicians.

“How about this?”

“What is that?”

“Let’s just release it. The thing I filmed a while ago.”

“What… Ah! The parallel universe America?”

“Yes.”

A video already reviewed internally.

They filmed it, but whether to release it had still not been decided over yet.

The shock the citizens would receive is one thing,
And they could also receive unnecessary suspicions that they’re trying to foster a sense of tension.

However, it seems right to release it now.

For the sake of the justification for providing nuclear weapons, that is.

“Heu-eum, good. Let’s make it public.”

“I’ll prepare it.”

“Will the people be convinced?”

“Do not worry. Because just seeing the ruined New York is sufficient.”

President Lloyd nodded his head.

How shocked was he himself when he saw the video MacMillan and Antonio brought back?

“Ah right! Mac.”

“Yes?”

“Did you eat all of that?”

“What do you mean?”

“That cherry tomato you brought, I mean.”

Heum-chit!

MacMillan whose face stiffened.

“…Haha, y, yes, I ate them all a while ago. It’s almost been a month already.”

“According to Antonio, you took more of them so there should still be a lot left?”

This traitor.

To stab a person in the back like this?

The box of cherry tomatoes received as a gift from Player Bong Joo-hyuk was shared fairly with Antonio.

Although he admits he took one or two more himself.

“…It’s not true. I ate them all.”

“Heu-eum, really?”

“You should rather thoroughly search that guy Antonio’s refrigerator. Tomatoes will probably come out?”

“Both of you are saying the exact same words.”

Actually, there are leftovers, but he absolutely cannot give them.

He must eat them sparingly.

He only eats one a day himself.

‘Did I bring them for nothing?’

The root of the trouble was sharing a few with President Lloyd to taste, saying it was a gift received from Player Bong Joo-hyuk.

They are not ordinary cherry tomatoes.

They are precious.

If you eat one in the morning, that day itself changes.

Overflowing vitality, and the stream of urine that used to leak sparingly due to old age pours out refreshingly too.

Something he cannot share, no matter if he’s the President.

Who knows when he’ll receive them as a gift again.

“Do you have Player Bong Joo-hyuk’s personal phone number?”

“…I do, but.”

“Give it to me before you go.”

“Yes.”

It seems he’s planning to pester him to give him a box.

Will that be easy?

I heard his closest aide, Commissioner Jeon Kwang-il, also only received one box.

Anyway, the video was released in America as well through an American news specialty channel.

The No. 675 parallel universe Earth, the appearance of the destroyed America, that is.

The American citizens were extremely shocked.

Since it might have almost become their future.

It was a natural matter for public opinion to begin reversing.

* * *

White Tower 1st floor.

The outpost base for fully clearing the Earth No. 675 Black Tower.

Therefore, all supplies were moved to this place.

Although it’s an full clear of another world’s Black Tower, through this, we grow our White Tower White one-nim’s influence.

Thus, using that power as a foothold, we advance to the full clear of the Earth No. 1,001 Black Tower, our Earth.

This is precisely the Black Tower climbing strategy.

Well, advancing into the alien God’s (神) main base is an issue to ponder more about later.

Honestly, how could I know where the main base is?

The ending is still a long way off.

“Unit, attention!”

Major Vero’s boisterous voice.

Chak!

The summoned entities standing upright firmly with disciplined movements.

“Present arms towards Commander Bong Joo-hyuk-nim! Pil-seung!”

“…Pil-seung! Unit, at ease.”

“At ease!”

A send-off ceremony was held.

Even though I didn’t really want to do it, they said we have to do it.

This is all because of the self-proclaimed Zhuge Zaryong, Cossack.

Does he think he’s really Zhuge Liang?

“I will announce the written oath for the expedition, sir.”

Keum-keum.

Cossack clearing his throat with a fake cough.

“Bong Summoner-nim’s tactician, the model answer for strategy and tactics, Intelligence 100, Martial Prowess 100, the Heavens already bore Cossack, so why did it bear Rajix as well! The ill-fated eternal 2nd-in-command, the candidate for the Nobel Tower Clearing Prize, Zhuge Cossack respectfully reports, sir.”

Yes, yes.

“The world under the heavens has been divided into two, sir. They are No. 675 and No. 1,001, sir. Since the world is extremely impoverished due to the division of the world under the heavens, it is truly a time of crisis for the existence of the nation, sir.”

I’m getting bored already.

“I remember when I, Cossack, first met Bong Summoner-nim, sir. For a lowly me, you always lowered yourself and…….”

I’m getting sleepy too.

“Seeing Bong Summoner-nim resolved to pacify the troubled times rather than seeking personal success, I made a resolution, sir. At the closest distance to the grand footsteps for the full clear of the Black Tower…….”

Mad Demon sighing.

Rajix yawning.

Gyeon Dal-rae shaking her head.

“We will win, sir. The glory of the full clear of the Black Tower will completely become Bong Summoner-nim’s achievement, sir! Hereby gathering the wishes of all the summoned entities, I proclaim the expedition, sir!!!”

Jjak-jjak-jjak-jjak…….

The sound of drained applause.

It ended.

Before the talking drags on again.

“Let’s go!”

Only now my heart becomes magnificent.

A feeling like a hero going to save Earth?

Riding the elevator and.

Pressing the temporarily generated 96th-floor button.

Kuk!

Manager bastards, I’m going.

The low-level man of the parallel universe world threw down the written oath of expedition and entered to comprehensively finish the Earth No. 675 Black Tower.

Hwa-a-a-at!

Spot!

Direct on the elevator with the White Tower White one’s help.

Immediately arriving at the world connected to the 96th floor.

[You have arrived at the starting point of The Grand Journey, the sixth stage.]

Where is this place?

Is it the Demon Realm? It’s not though?

I’ll know when the mission drops.

Joo-hyuk walking jeo-beok-jeo-beok.

And.

Tti-ring!

[Mission : Enter the Fallen Heavenly Realm, the world that has lost its God.]
[Completion Time Limit : None.]

Fallen Heavenly Realm?

“I knew it would be like this, sir. Isn’t it the Heavenly Realm after the Demon Realm, sir? It is within the range of prediction, sir.”

“Hmm.”

“Perhaps it might have been a predetermined order.”

“However, it is not a complete Heavenly Realm. The modifier ‘fallen’ was attached as well, moreover…….”

“Lost its God.”

“That is so. To say it has lost its God means proper divine power cannot be used.”

Wait!

Heavenly Realm.

Then angels?

“Could this perhaps be a world related to the Archangel?”

“The possibility exists. Seeing as it is even connected with the Black Tower.”

While clearing this place, we might be able to grasp clues about the Archangel.

“Let’s try starting first.”

The first is entering the Fallen Heavenly Realm.

A linked mission will be given next, probably.

‘Is there anything like a path?’

There was no path laid out.

Instead, one could know far too easily where the Fallen Heavenly Realm was.

Far away.

A place where a murky white fog is blocking the front like a barricade.

If we enter into that fog, it seems to be the Heavenly Realm.

Joo-hyuk walking ttu-beok-ttu-beok.

Spot! Pat! Pat! Pat!

The summoned entities passing him and taking the lead.

“Hey, let’s go together a bit.”

They always overtake me and go ahead.

“Please come slowly. This old man will grasp the situation first and…….”

At that moment!

Seu-ung!

The fog suddenly beginning to fluctuate.

Exactly as if it were alive and moving.

“Um?”

“Heu-eum.”

“This.”

“Ho-e?”

It’s not just fog.

The particles are quite thick.

It just looked like fog because they are entirely white colored.

A colony where flying somethings have clumped together.

Tseu-tseu-tseu-tseu-tseu-tseu-tseu…….

Gathering while making an ominous sound, and then scattering.

What’s fortunate is that they didn’t fly all the way here.

It seems they have a territory too.

They’re probably things protecting the Fallen Heavenly Realm.

“I will try flying a drone, sir.”

“You brought one?”

“Isn’t it prepare for the worst, no need to fear (yubimuhwan), sir?”

Seu-seut.

Rajix took out a drone.

Wi-ing!

Flying up and then.

Syu-yut!

Flew toward the swarm of colonies.

Right at that moment!

Tti-ring!

[You have entered the Fallen Heavenly Realm, the world that has lost its God.]

“Oh!”

The drone completed the mission for me.

How praiseworthy.

However.

Tseu-tseu-tseu-tseu-tseu-tseu-tseu-tseu!

The murky white colonies swarming toward the drone.

Sa-geu-geu-geuk, sa-ga-ga-gak!

Along with the sound of scraping metal.

The drone disappearing in an instant.

‘…….’

What the?

“Was it eaten?”

“It was eaten, sir.”

“It was eaten.”

“It has been eaten.”

“It was eaten.”

“Hu-e.”

No, a drone isn’t something you can eat though.

What is that thing’s true identity?

Then the Mad Demon, enhancing his visual prowess and narrowing his eyes.

“They’re monsters. Every single one is a monster. They have wings attached, and their size is smaller than a fruit fly.”

They’re monsters, he says.

That entire uncountable swarm is all beasts.

But they’re smaller than a fruit fly?

“Heo-heo, the face? It is a human?”

“Nem (Yes)?”

What do you mean human.

“The monsters’ facial features are human. 2 eyes, 2 ears, 1 mouth and nose… That is so. There is no mistaking they’re humanoid Yokai (monsters).”

Humanoid monsters.

Moreover, if they’re that small.

“Tinkerbell?”

“They are absolutely not fairies. An extremely ferocious energy can be felt. Even just seeing the drone being gnawed and eaten…….”

Small but extremely aggressive ones.

“They’re fine dust beasts, sir.”

You mean the opposite of giant beasts?

Tti-ring!

A follow-up mission popped up too.

[Mission : Find the corrupted Divine Ground (神地) in the Fallen Heavenly Realm.]
[Completion Time Limit : None.]

Another location finding mission.

Corrupted Divine Ground.

Where exactly is that place?

Wherever it is, we need to do something about these microscopic beasts.

However, things are not going as we wish.

They are too small.

Furthermore, they’re the flying type.

I’d rather face large ones instead.

What’s fortunate is that they are staying only inside, not crossing the Fallen Heavenly Realm region.

Inside the boundary line.

Ones who eat up every single thing that invades their territory in that place.

“Shall we try sending a Gigant?”

Will it be safe?

“Dr. El.”

“Understood.”

Seu-seu-seu-seu-seu-seut!

A huge Gigant emerging from Rajix’s subspace.

Not Unit 3, but one for self-destruction.

– Activation instruction, activation method input, high-speed advance toward the front.

Kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung-kung!

The Gigant advancing bravely piercing through the microscopic beasts.

Da-da-da-da-da-dak! Da-da-da-da-dak!

An uncountable number of microscopic beasts clung onto the Gigant’s body.

You punks.

Your teeth will fall out doing that, right?

Our Gigant is metal! You bastards!

No matter how much you guys… uh?

‘What in the world is that?’

The Gigant’s height gradually decreasing.

Sa-ga-ga-gak, sa-gak! Sa-ga-ga-gak.

“Um.”

“Hmm.”

“Keum.”

“Tteub.”

“Hu-u.”

It was being eaten.

That huge Gigant body rapidly shrank down completely.

Wow! They ate it?

That big thing?

Even though the body is made of metal?

Bastards exactly like a swarm of locusts.

No, you’re eating up metal because there’s nothing to eat?

If I cross over there.

Ggul-ggeok.

Joo-hyuk swallowed dry spit.

‘Shall I give up?’

I just don’t need to cross.

Well, there’s no need to fully clear it forcefully, right.

Another world’s Black Tower, that is.

But it’s funny to give up after throwing down the expedition oath spiritedly and coming all the way here.

Yes.

Let’s clear it.

No one forced me with a knife (nu-kal-hyeop, internet slang).

Whoever drew the sword should naturally execute a sense of honor and justice.

For the revenge of Earth No. 675.

“Everyone, gather around.”

The summoned entities swarming over u-reu-reu.

“There’s no reason we absolutely must catch those things, right?”

“Of course. The given mission is to find the corrupted Divine Ground, therefore is there a need to overdo it.”

“If we can avoid them, we must avoid them, sir.”

“Rapid maneuverability is needed. However, not on the ground, but in the sky.”

Right.

The sky is better than the land.

It couldn’t be a no-fly zone, right?

“Ancient Dragon Airlines, Captain Keu, please try flying, sir. To see if it works or not.”

“Got it.”

Peong!

Crackus who transformed into his main body.

Peol-leok peol-leok.

Flapping his wings, he slowly flew up.

Flight is possible and.

“How is it? Can you shake those guys off?”

“Haha! I am an Ancient Dragon. Could propeller airplanes catch a supersonic fighter jet?”

Ayu!

Our trustworthy Green Airplane.

However.

“We must also keep in mind the danger of being surrounded if we go deep inside.”

Joo-hyuk nodded his head.

If we act frivolously just because we’re fast, we’ll pay dearly.

A swarm of colonies so innumerable they look like fog.

When we can’t even predict how many of them there are.

“How about making it transparent? Through Transparent Dragon, so it’s not visible.”

“Oh! Trans-drag, freaking strong, it is the strongest dragon. Keu-a-a! If it roars, everything runs away, sir.”

However, Crackus looked troubled.

“Becoming transparent in the main body state is impossible. Also, even if I become transparent, Summoner-nim or the other people…….”

That’s true.

What’s the point if the airplane alone becomes transparent?

When the passengers remain as-is.

At that moment!

Cossack speaking as if he thought of something.

“How is this, sir?”

“Which one?”

“Sticking Fairy Princess-nim’s Perception Hindrance talismans densely onto our bodies, sir.”

Eung?

Perception Hindrance talisman?

“We all take one each, and since Greenie is big, we just need to stick round about 100 of them on, sir.”

Uh?

“Then it becomes a stealth Greenie, sir.”

That is true.

Perception Hindrance is exactly stealth.

This gentleman Cossack really…….

‘He’s a genius?’

I hadn’t even thought of this.

The other summoned entities seemed to have a similar thought too.

They were staring blankly at Cossack.

Even Gyeon Dal-rae.

With an expression of ‘It’s a talisman I drew, so why couldn’t I think of that’.

“Princess, will it be possible?”

“It is more than enough.”

Is Gyeon Dal-rae’s talisman an ordinary talisman?

After receiving an adept energy shower of all things, a profound aura of adept energy flows from the talisman.

“As expected of Zhuge Cossack. Your idea strikes at people’s blind spots. Hahahaha!”

“You overpraise me, sir. Hehehehe.”

Seu-seut!

The exquisite yellow paper, cinnabar paste, brush, and small table that came out of Rajix’s subspace backpack.

Gyeon Dal-rae drawing the talismans in one stroke.

Each person pasting one piece on their body and.

Pasting much more for Crackus and.

Since they might fall off, fastening them firmly with attachment magic.

Joo-hyuk and the summoned entities boarded the Stealth Green Airplane.

Ultrafine dust beasts. Higher than these guys, faster than them.

Peol-leok peol-leok.

Crackus slowly flying up.

“This captain makes an announcement. This stealth airplane is scheduled to pass through the boundary region of the Fallen Heavenly Realm.”

Continuing to.

High, higher.

After going up sufficiently like that.

“Wow…….”

The scenery spread out below.

The fog laid out broadly in the Fallen Heavenly Realm region, those are all entirely ultrafine dust beasts.

If we had entered without thinking, we would have been in big trouble.

The Green Airplane advancing.

Ssyae-ae-ae-aek!

Will it work?

Will they perceive us?

We flew for quite a long time like that but.

“Oh! They really can’t perceive us!”

“It is a success.”

“We probably don’t need to pay attention to them.”

Now we just need to find the corrupted Divine Ground and we’re done.

Even in the midst of that, Mackenzie floating his smartphone to shoot the video.

Flight attendant Diamart also began airline hospitality service.

“Anyone want to eat an in-flight meal?”

“Me!”

“Ho-e!”

“This girl would like some fresh cherry tomatoes.”

“Please boil one ramen for me, sir. With chewy noodles.”

It’s comfortable.

This is eating it too raw.

Also, on the other hand, there’s one thing weighing on my mind.

We brought a huge amount of nuclear warheads.

If we just go back without even using them, they’ll be hard to deal with later.

“Let’s just try dropping one nuke.”

“It’s a good idea, sir.”

At least we should consume all the ones we brought.

“Rajix-ssi!”

“Ho-e?”

“Drop one nuke.”

“Ho-eng!”

Seu-seut!

1 nuclear warhead escaping from Rajix’s subspace.

Exactly like bird poop.

A nuclear warhead getting bluntly pooped out from the tail end.

Syu-u-u-u-u-ut!

Free-falling downwards.

The warhead fuse is a proximity fuse.

Once it reaches a certain distance from the ground, it explodes on its own.

Then what is our job?

“This captain announces. I intend to execute Infinite Turbo Blink Flight, so please be mindful of the aircraft’s turbulence.”

And,

Flash! Flash! Pa-pa-pat! Pa-pa-pa-pa-pat!

Greenie flying with Infinite Turbo Blink.

Jji-i-i-ing!

A protective shield covering Crackus’s entire body.

Mackenzie’s Absolute Barrier, Magi-engineering’s Protector, chwa-ra-ra-rak! Alchemist Mari’s Defensive Homunculus.

Flash!

Seu-pa-pa-pa-pat!

Greenie stretching out forward wearing the protective shields.

Kwa-ang!

The nuke exploded.

Ku-ku-ku-ku-ku-ku-ku-ku…….

The mushroom cloud blooming along with a terrifying shockwave.

Pa-sa-sa-sa-sa-sa-sa-sa-sa!

The microscopic beasts were engulfed in scorching flames.

The guys at the center of the nuclear explosion just melted completely and.

In the shockwave that followed, their bodies crumbling and.

Hu-du-du-du-duk!

Falling down like rain.

They probably have absolutely no idea what’s going on.

Why such an explosion occurred.

Flash, flash!

Seu-pa-pa-pa-pa…….

The stealth Green Airplane was already flying completely out of the nuclear explosion’s range and.

“It’s scorching hot, sir! From now on, it’s the Stealth Green Bomber, sir.”

A collaboration between Crackus and Rajix.

Dropping nukes right away directly from the subspace exactly like casually pooping bird poop.

Seu-seut!

Syu-u-u-u-u!

Another nuclear warhead free-falling vertically down.

Jji-i-ing!

The raging protective shields.

Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwang!

The blooming mushroom cloud.

The start of the clear of the 96th floor Fallen Heavenly Realm begins with nukes.