The Chairman of Pharmaceutical Company is a Poison King (Novel) - Chapter 148 - The Beginning of the Great European War

Chapter 148 – The Beginning of the Great European War

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A nuclear weapon went off in the middle of Moscow.

The European Empire’s intelligence bureau M-19 became aware of the fact, and Director August reported it to Emperor Alex Caesar.

“Really?”

“We can wait no longer.”

“Hmm.”

After the destruction of China,

the use of nuclear weapons had become an absolute taboo.

And yet a nuclear blast had occurred in Moscow.

That was more than enough reason to push the army in.

Even so, Alex Caesar wore an expression as though something was lacking.

It was slightly disappointing.

If he was going to raise undead, he should have expanded it not just to Moscow but to all of Europe.

And what was with the nuclear weapons as well?

Not very befitting of a necromancer.

“All preparations are complete. Please just give the order.”

Alex was hesitating.

It would be fine to start the war now.

But merely with a horde of undead limited to Moscow and a single nuclear explosion, it was not sufficient to create a proper stage.

Trillian Lancer, the same soul from another world, had been a hero before he was an Emperor.

By saving the people of the continent, who had fallen into chaos under the invasion of the Demon King, he had founded a single empire that unified the entire world.

He too had to become a hero.

A messiah who defeated the demons threatening the world, saved humankind, and achieved world peace.

Thus he would obtain the qualifications to be the rightful ruler of the Unified Empire of Earth.

Heroes were made by overcoming ordeals.

But could a mere handful of undead and a single nuclear blast truly be called an ordeal convincing enough?

‘Drek Karax, is this all you’re worth? How disappointing.’

Then.

Jiiing!

A notification sound rang from August’s smartphone.

When he checked it,

“…Oh.”

“What is it?”

“Another nuclear blast has occurred.”

“Where?”

August pointed with a finger to a region on the map hanging on the wall of the Emperor’s office.

“The estimated location is here.”

“If it’s there…, oh!”

Emperor Alex Caesar’s eyes lit up.

He understood in an instant what Drek Karax was trying to do.

That’s right.

If he was a necromancer, he ought to do at least that much.

At last the board had been set.

“August.”

“Yes!”

“Issue the order for the entire army to march.”

“Yes! Understood. Glory to Your Majesty!”

The stage upon which a hero would be born had been completed.

Drek Karax would serve as the fertilizer beneath it.

No matter how much that bastard had increased his strength, it was useless.

Sword Kaiser, that was merely one part of the power he himself possessed.

Alex Caesar’s strongest weapon was precisely his army.

The ground forces and air force armed with the cutting-edge modern weapons that moved in perfect order under a single command from him.

Undead?

He merely had to melt them away.

* * *

Kukukukukukung!

The moment Drek Karax confirmed that Carmen had died under a forbidden restriction, he pressed the button without hesitation.

‘It exploded nicely, without any issues.’

The explosion was only an experiment.

Merely a procedure to confirm whether it exploded properly.

At the same time, it strengthened the power of black demonic qi.

The three Black Mafia elders who had been hiding in the War Memorial Museum had not survived the nuclear blast.

When the elders died, their souls, which had been bound by contract, entered his body and became nourishment for his black demonic qi.

‘Good.’

Since they were all slaves who had reached 8th class, the quantity of demonic qi they provided was quite decent.

Now that a hitch had arisen in the plan, he should change his route.

Originally he had intended to draw in even Alex Caesar’s European Imperial Army and complete the ritual that way…, but drawing up a new board was also a good method.

The place where Drek Karax had been hiding was near the demonic-beast concentration zone east of Moscow.

The demonic-beast concentration zone here was larger in area than the Kingdom of Moscow itself.

Drek Karax took out undead refined by black magic from a subspace bag.

There were ten Death Knights in total.

From another subspace bag he took out tactical nuclear warheads.

He had acquired as many as six of them in the course of the Moscow civil war.

Since one had already been detonated, five warheads remained.

Two Death Knights were assigned to each warhead.

One carried the nuclear warhead on his back, while the other escorted him from the side.

If they encountered elite demonic beasts while moving, they had to protect the warheads.

“Go!”

The Death Knights dispersed at great speed into the demonic-beast concentration zone.

They spread out widely.

Since they were small tactical nuclear warheads, their destructive power was not all that great.

So they had to be placed well.

In such a way that the whole concentration zone would be evenly affected.

Drek Karax retreated to the safe zone.

And after confirming that they had taken their positions properly,

kukukukukukukung! kukukukukung!

the five nuclear warheads detonated simultaneously in the demonic-beast concentration zone.

Five mushroom clouds rose up.

After some time had passed,

Drek Karax flew through the air with fly magic and, standing above the now-devastated demonic-beast concentration zone, raised his staff.

Sseuseuseuseut!

The radiation produced by the nuclear blasts was absorbed into Drek Karax.

This too was energy.

The black demonic qi devoured the radiation.

And then,

“Rise!”

The summit of the necromancer’s path.

Drek Karax, who had become a Deus Lich, an immortal demigod, through a contract with a Demon God.

At his command, the demonic beasts that had died rose up.

Ordinary demonic beasts, of course, but elite demonic beasts and even flying demonic beasts as well.

Those that had not died but had been injured after being caught in the nuclear blasts also became undead.

And even the creatures that had survived intact were killed by the attacks of the demonic beasts that had become Drek Karax’s servants and then turned into undead themselves.

And that was not all.

Ppudeuk, udeudeuk, eudeuk!

Countless demonic beasts that had been subjugated by humans and buried over long ages rose from the ground again with new bodies.

In a word, every demonic beast in the concentration zone had been turned undead.

Their number alone reached into the hundreds of thousands.

“Let’s go.”

Kung! Kung! Kung!

The army of hundreds of thousands of undead demonic beasts began its advance.

Deus Lich Drek Karax was not satisfied.

When he reached the cemetery at the outskirts of the ruined city,

“Rise!”

At a single wave of his hand, human corpses clawed their way out through the graves.

The host kept growing.

It was all undead.

* * *

After the nuclear blasts occurred, Tae-ju had kept himself far outside the Kingdom of Moscow.

Tae-ju and Sambaek floated in midair while riding the Ten-Thousand-Li Flying Sword.

‘Petty bastards.’

Were they not black magicians, for heaven’s sake?

Because they could do nothing with their own power, they simply set off nuclear weapons?

“Niaaang!”

Sambaek too seemed angry.

There was no doubt that it had been done by the necromancer Drek Karax.

‘This is troublesome.’

Nuclear weapons were unsettling.

And besides, undead that carried out suicide bombings without a second thought.

What if they came charging in desperately with a nuclear weapon strapped to their back?

‘Even so, I can’t just leave it alone.’

That was when it happened.

Kukukung, kukukukukukukukung, kungkung!

Explosive sounds came from far away.

‘Again?’

And mushroom clouds rose up.

‘…’

He was raging like a madman.

For now, better to avoid it.

He moved the Ten-Thousand-Li Flying Sword farther away.

Were these people black magicians?

Or fetishists for nuclear explosions?

‘At this point, I can’t even get close enough to investigate.’

They said you should never even deal with madmen in the first place.

Sambaek seemed to think the same thing.

“Niaaaang…”

“You want to go home?”

“Niang!”

“Wait just a little. I’m thinking too.”

His deliberation dragged on.

Truthfully, with nuclear blasts going off one after another, continuing the pursuit felt burdensome.

Did the Samhan Imperial government know about this fact?

Tae-ju took out the smartphone he had placed in infinite space.

There was a huge number of missed calls from acquaintances.

Among them was even the Emperor’s direct line.

He tapped the number.

“Hello.”

– Damn it! Only now do I get through to you.

A curse the moment he called?

“I had my power turned off, so I couldn’t answer.”

– You’re in Moscow, aren’t you?

“Huh? How did you know?”

– Where else would you have gone? In any case, it seems you survived even though nuclear bombs went off.

“Huh? How did you know?”

– Large-scale seismic waves were detected. The Siberian Pioneer Corps observed them as well.

“Ah, that’s right. They were nuclear blasts. About five or six?”

– Come back immediately. This isn’t a place for you to stick your nose into. The European Imperial Army is currently moving into Moscow. Bombing will begin soon.

“Hmm.”

– Alex Caesar issued a total mobilization order. Don’t stay near there and get hit by some stray bomb.

Should he?

In truth, this was a war in another country.

And now even armies had been dispatched.

If he remained here in this situation, it really would just be meddling.

“I’ll think about it for now.”

– Come back quickly. It’s not just me; Su-ho is worried sick too. And Chief Executive Baek Seo-yeon, and Branch Head Jeong Yeon-hui…

“H-hello? I can’t hear you well. It must be because of the nuclear blasts…”

Click.

Tae-ju hurriedly ended the call before the talk could drag on further.

He understood their concern, but…

At that instant!

Jjiririr.

‘Oh!’

Amid all that, a delivery signal came from the Immortal Realm.

When he opened the shared storage,

‘Hm?’

Why was it so sparse?

There was only a single peach inside.

Still, for now, he should transfer it over.

Today’s outgoing delivery would include assorted goods as well as the second batch of equipment for installing the Immortal Realm intranet. Once this was installed, the wireless internet environment in the Immortal Realm would be complete.

All that would remain then was to send the dedicated smartphones with the next delivery.

Dong-hun was working hard on them.

Now, however, this matter was different.

The swelling of the poison pellet did not stop.

It kept growing.

Throughout Tae-ju’s entire body.

And thus his whole body became a poison pellet.

At that instant!

The poison pellet began to vibrate.

Wooong! Wooong! Wooong! Wooong! Wooong! Wooong!

‘This…’

And then it began to explode.

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

Small explosions broke out in places throughout his body.

Then,

Papapapapapapapapang!!!

His entire body burst apart all at once.

‘Aaaaaaaa…’

A cry flowed out from Tae-ju’s mouth.

The emotion he felt at present.

It was a sense of unity.

His consciousness had fused with the poison pellet.

He was the poison pellet, and the poison pellet was him.

‘So this is the poison spirit.’

The ultimate realm of the Honyuan Wuxiang Poison Spirit Art.

Heart and poison become one.

Where the mind leads, hidden weapons shoot forth, and when the will manifests, poison is already there.

A poison pellet that had acquired spirituality.

Soon, a poison spirit.

And thus he could also unfold Myriad Heavens Flower Rain.

While controlling hundreds of thousands of hidden weapons at once, he assigned a separate target to every single hidden weapon.

How great was that?

An ordinary demonic-beast-dense zone could be exterminated in one hour.

And a beyond-elite demonic beast?

‘I think it might be possible.’

No matter how amazing its gang-qi protective barrier was, could it really stop the concentrated attack unfolded by Myriad Heavens Flower Rain?

At long last he had awakened the poison spirit.

But the poison-pellet explosions were still continuing.

Pupeong! Pupeopeopeopeong!

The aura of the Heavenly Peach, heavenly qi, was filling him to the brim.

In truth, even if there had only been a quarter of this, there would have been no problem in rising to the poison spirit realm.

But excess was as bad as deficiency.

There was too much heavenly qi.

Even after awakening the poison spirit, the heavenly qi left over still rushed and flowed through Tae-ju’s body.

“Uuugh!”

The heavenly qi trapped inside his body.

It was even continuing to increase.

Unable to find an exit, it battered Tae-ju’s whole body.

At last,

“Ah!”

Jjeong!

The Baihui acupoint opened.

The Yongquan acupoint opened as well.

Tae-ju sprang to his feet.

There was no way he could keep lying down.

Through the crown of his head, the heavenly qi pierced the blocked ceiling and rose into the sky.

At the same time, through the soles of his feet, it flowed into the earth below.

The union of heaven and earth.

The earth and Tae-ju and the sky became one.

And then,

spat!

Tae-ju vanished in an instant.

There was no one in the cultivation room.

In truth, the Heavenly Peach had one very well-known effect.

Namely…

* * *

The Immortal Realm.

Immortal Danzhu was lightly jogging while wearing the training set and sneakers he had bought with coins.

One might ask why an immortal would exercise, but.

After trying it, it was unexpectedly good.

He ran one lap around Immortal Realm World, passed the entrance to the Peach Garden peach orchard, and ran along the road leading to the Heavenly Realm.

After running so refreshingly like this, he would stop by the Spirit Beast Realm, find and gather the imperial-yellow-paper materials and mirror cinnabar needed for talismans.

That was always his routine.

After finishing all this, he would go to the multiplex for work.

He would fill his belly with a simple salad and sparkling water at the multiplex restaurant, lie on the massage chair for about an hour, and then watch one episode of a drama.

At that instant!

There was a person visible in the distance.

‘That impression seems very familiar…’

When he went closer to confirm.

“Oh! Greetings! Great Hero Tae-ju.”

“…Ah, yes, yes.”

“I was out exercising. The shoes are so soft and pleasant, hahaha! Right, have you been using well the talismans I gave you?”

“I-I am using them well.”

“If you run short, tell me anytime. Then I’ll be off!”

Immortal Danzhu ran past Tae-ju and started running again.

Then,

stop.

His steps suddenly halted.

And he slowly turned his head.

“…Huh?”

What in the world?

Danzhu’s pupils shook violently.