How A Mythical Holy Knight Lives As A Villain (Novel) - Chapter 87
Chapter 87
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Construction of the Warp Gates had begun.
The installation of the first Warp Gate was on land near the Sanctum guild house.
Since it was near the Sanctum guild house, it was land with sky-high prices, but there would be no difficulty.
“The Sanctum is now South Korea’s top guild and top corporation.”
It showed a growth rate similar to when Bitcoin was surging, so it was only natural.
However, the Sanctum had not purchased that land.
“We ask for your cooperation, Guild Leader. And Vice Guild Leaders.”
The new Association President, Choi Chang-Su, had purchased the land with Association funds under the condition that the Association would jointly manage the Warp Gate to be installed near the Sanctum.
His reasoning was that there was no need to install two Warp Gates in Seoul.
Fortunately, it meant they no longer had to listen to nonsense about building a Warp Gate on Yeouido where the National Assembly was located.
“We are the ones who should ask for your cooperation.”
And the fact that the land near the Sanctum where the Warp Gate would be installed was land that Lee Ha-Yeon had purchased several years ago was an open secret.
“…How far ahead did that Ha-Yeon girl see?”
Due to their importance, the Warp Gate construction sites were not publicly disclosed.
They proceeded in secret under the thorough management of the Association and the Sanctum.
“Actually, there’s not much that can be called construction.”
Go Johan said to Shin Soo-Kyung.
“The actual building structure itself isn’t that impressive.”
What was impressive were the mana circuits and magical devices that would go inside.
An altar-like form, within which incredibly complex mana circuits had to be installed.
“If it’s alright, could we take a look?”
The Sanctum’s technicians asked cautiously.
“…Do as you please.”
Gluttony, who had come out for a rare outing, said as if it didn’t matter.
The Sanctum’s technicians were geniuses who had studied magical engineering as their specialty.
The Sanctum had been both a guild and a corporation from long ago, and the items they created were recognized worldwide.
“We hope you won’t misunderstand. According to the contract, our Sanctum and the Association are supposed to handle part of the maintenance and repairs…”
The technicians said cautiously.
“We honestly don’t even have a clue about how Warp Gates work yet. Of course, you’ll tell us the method later, but nothing would be better than seeing the installation site directly.”
The Sanctum’s technicians were being careful, worried about unnecessary technology leaks.
Considering that the value of magical engineering was astronomical, and that a magical engineer capable of making rare items was worth at least hundreds of billions, it was natural to have such thoughts.
“…That’s…”
Just as Gluttony was about to speak, moving her head this way and that as if annoyed.
“Since you wouldn’t understand even if you saw it anyway, that’s why we didn’t request it separately.”
Go Johan stepped forward and said.
Gluttony was poor at dealing with people since she was almost always holed up in the church’s underground research facility.
Rather, it would be more accurate to say she found it bothersome.
“…Of course, we acknowledge that we’re lacking. However, we’re not so inadequate that we can’t even understand what we see.”
The Sanctum’s technicians seemed to have their pride hurt by Go Johan’s words.
“That’s not what I meant.”
When Go Johan scratched his head, the technicians flinched.
A bloodline of the Sanctum – they had momentarily forgotten due to his natural attitude, but the Go Johan before them was the monster who had killed Gu Seong-Hoon with a single blow and overwhelmed the Mapo Black Gate.
“…See it directly then.”
“…Thank you.”
That’s how it was eventually compromised.
“…I’ll start now.”
Gluttony said, shrugging her shoulders as if asking whether it was okay now.
And a few minutes later.
“……”
Silence fell.
“…This is…”
“Is this really modern magical engineering?”
“Certainly, parts of the technique seem right…”
“What on earth…”
They realized that Go Johan’s words contained not a single lie.
Complex?
It was a mana circuit that couldn’t be described with such words.
“Does this actually work?”
“No, before that, how is it possible to carve it in like this?”
“…It’s simple…”
Gluttony seemed pleased by the technicians’ words and added.
“Runes and… incantations…”
“Ohhh! Such, such a method!”
“That’s impossible!”
“The word genius is insufficient. A complete genius… a complete genius!”
“We could never do it!”
Before they knew it, Gluttony and the technicians seemed to have grown close and were chattering together.
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“How exactly can components like these be made?”
“That, just leave it to them.”
“Leave it to them?”
Gluttony seemed to have grown quite close to the technicians.
“You mean there are others who can accomplish this?”
“There are. Those short, black, stubby bastards.”
“Is that perhaps the name of mechanical devices?”
Anyway, the basic installation was finished.
An altar-like form, but the technology that went into that altar was believable even if someone said they had captured and tortured aliens to make it.
‘No, is that actually correct?’
Although Gluttony’s Gluttony had made the greatest contribution, materializing it was work of another meaning entirely.
If Gluttony had been given time, it would have been sufficiently possible.
‘Dvergr.’
It was the skill of the Dvergr they had captured last time.
Actually, Go Johan had opposed this part.
‘Keep alive those damned evil breeds?’
At that sharp reaction, even Yoon Seung-Ah had cowered.
However.
‘If the Captain says to kill them, I’ll kill them immediately.’
Greed and Gluttony stepped forward to persuade Go Johan.
‘But isn’t that too easy?’
Lee Ha-Yeon said.
‘They’ll have to squeeze out everything for the sake of what they tried to destroy and trample. Until they’ve served their purpose, they won’t be able to die even if they want to. I’ll make them feel that death is liberation.’
Those words convinced him.
They weren’t dangerous creatures anyway.
Once something fell into Greed’s grasp, they couldn’t escape by their own will.
“Anyway.”
Go Johan said, scratching his head.
“Kids these days are more open-minded than in my time.”
Anyone who heard it would have gasped at the nonsense.
But for Go Johan.
‘Maybe I made those evil breeds who deny the goddess’s existence have too comfortable a death, I’m reflecting on it.’
It was a sound so right that one would want to pat his head.
That’s when it happened.
“Captain.”
Shadows rippled and Yoon Seung-Ah appeared.
At that sight, the Sanctum’s technicians who had been talking with Gluttony, and the Association members and Sanctum guild members who had been providing security and surveillance around the area, flinched in surprise.
They hadn’t felt even a presence. Moreover, this place had multiple layers of barriers for security reasons, yet not even an alarm could be heard.
Gulp.
If someone tried to assassinate someone with such power, wouldn’t there be only a few in the world who could stop it?
Also.
“……”
They were captivated by Yoon Seung-Ah’s appearance.
Unlike Gluttony, she appeared wearing a mask, but just looking at her figure and silhouette, one could imagine what was under the mask… Unlike the bright and cheerful beauty Go Min-Ji, or the modest and pure Kim Se-Hyeon.
Gooooo.
She possessed a decadent, entrancing beauty.
“Yes.”
Go Johan said to such Yoon Seung-Ah.
“It’s your turn.”
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According to the Sanctum technicians, the mana circuits and magical engineering used in the Warp Gate were:
‘It would probably take another 30 years to be able to imitate it similarly.’
They said it was technology so precise and advanced that 30 more years would be needed.
That was assuming Gluttony would explain and teach the method.
Technology that couldn’t be replicated even if known.
And.
“Ahhh…!”
Someone’s exclamation.
Bright and intense red lights around the installed Warp Gate formed magic circles with geometric beauty.
Players were quite familiar with magic.
They sometimes encountered wizard-type monsters in Gates, and there were items that emitted or allowed the use of magic.
Of course, players also used magic through skills.
“Wahhh…!”
But it was all a misconception.
Real magic was not like that.
Wooooom!
The intense light that spread and covered the surroundings at Yoon Seung-Ah’s gesture looked like the Milky Way.
And soon it moved at Yoon Seung-Ah’s gesture again, overlapping.
Wooooom!
Overlapping and overlapping, but the different magic circles only became clearer without any interference with each other.
The Sanctum technicians watching that spectacle thought:
’30 years?’
That much time would be needed just to imitate Gluttony’s mana circuit.
However.
“…Without this magic, it would never be possible.”
Only Yoon Seung-Ah’s magic could handle the parts they had found strange in Gluttony’s circuit.
They were convinced.
‘Warp Gates are technology that only they can create.’
That no one else could even attempt to copy Warp Gates.
“Ohh.”
Go Johan was equally impressed.
Actually, Go Johan could be said to be ignorant about magic.
There was no reason for him, a knight of the goddess, to study magic, nor did he have the leisure to sit down and learn magic properly.
Even though he knew of the existence of Warp Gates, he didn’t know exactly what principle or magic made them work.
He had just told them about it.
Saaaaa.
The apostles had accomplished something equivalent to creating it from just a single phrase about “a ship that flies in the sky.”
Moreover, that seemed much more advanced and stabilized than what he had seen in Travania.
‘The ones in Travania used to have dozens of missing persons due to accidents every year.’
Besides, there were strong limitations on the number of people or amount of material that could be moved at once.
But the new Warp Gate created by the apostles seemed to have no such limitations.
“…Seung-Ah is really amazing.”
When Go Johan said admiringly.
Thud.
Yoon Seung-Ah finished the magic and landed on the ground.
The mouth visible between the mask.
“…Thank you.”
Was smiling so brightly it couldn’t be hidden.