The Chairman of Pharmaceutical Company is a Poison King (Novel) - Chapter 155 - Myriad Heavens Flower Rain

Chapter 155 – Myriad Heavens Flower Rain

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For the first time since the outbreak of the war, Emperor Alex Caesar felt a sense of crisis.

Up until two days ago, things had gone smoothly.

They had blocked the advancing undead demonic beasts that came in like a flood and had cut their numbers down considerably with bombardment.

He had thought they had passed the turning point.

Drek Karax’s strategy was simple.

Capture the demonic-beast concentration zones and attack while expanding the scale of the undead army.

Then what was the Imperial Army’s response strategy?

It was enough to block the routes so that bastard could not go to the demonic-beast concentration zones.

After that, they would reduce the number of demonic beasts through a war of attrition.

But what action had that bastard taken in that situation?

He had dispersed his forces.

“The undead demonic-beast force that swung around to the south is steadily increasing.”

“Its scale?”

“Nearly two million…, perhaps even more.”

“Hoo.”

At Director August’s words, Emperor Alex Caesar knitted his brows.

‘I underestimated that bastard too much.’

He had never experienced a necromancer this powerful even in another world.

And moreover,

‘There were others besides Drek, bastards who also possessed the ability to produce and command undead.’

The existence of helpers, or subordinates. It had been a huge mistake to overlook that.

They had even reached the point where part of the Imperial Army had been turned over to the undead.

‘The absence of divine power is a bigger factor than expected.’

He had thought divine power could be replaced by modern weapons.

In the end he had no choice but to allow the front to split.

Drek Karax’s western front.

And his helpers’ southern front.

They had to deal with both at once.

Naturally, they had to keep their strength being divided in mind.

And there was one more problem.

“What about Vincent? Have we still had no news that he sent the supplies?”

“Fortunately, the supply vehicles and transport aircraft have departed for the front. Divided between the southern front and the western front…”

Vincent Moretti.

A grand magic-engineering enchanter.

Director of the European Imperial Royal Crystal Engineering Research Institute.

A soul linker whom Alex Caesar had taken in as a subordinate a long time ago.

It had been a hidden move.

Two soul linkers.

How could he lose the war?

He had made Vincent produce and stockpile a huge quantity of enchanted magic shells, rockets, missiles, and bullets.

But that stock had almost run dry.

They were rushing to produce more, but compared to the amount being consumed, the amount being made was pathetically insufficient.

Moreover, the front had split into two.

‘The southern front…’

Emperor Alex Caesar pondered.

Selection and concentration.

The western front, or the southern front?

In truth, the conclusion was simple.

“We abandon the southern front.”

“…Pardon?”

“Pull all the troops out and put them into the western front.”

“U-understood.”

“Concentrate unconditionally on that bastard Drek Karax. If we catch only him, the war ends that very day.”

The weakness of a necromancer’s undead magic.

After all, undead were monsters moved by the caster’s black demonic qi.

If Drek Karax died, it was over.

‘In the end, I have no choice but to step out myself…’

From now on, he would deal with that bastard directly.

All preparations were complete as well.

The two masterpieces of a lifetime created by the grand magic engineer Vincent Moretti.

Items, each of which contained more than ten thousand elite mana crystals.

One was the pendant of absolute defense.

When activated, it generated a protective barrier that could block any attack for twenty seconds.

That was why it was absolute defense.

Twenty seconds was enough.

He only had to get close to Drek Karax.

The other was the totem of complete restraint.

If stuck into the ground, the enemy would stop all movement for one minute and become a scarecrow.

This was precisely why Alex had chosen to focus on Drek Karax.

That bastard could never defeat him.

And as for the other nations of Eastern Europe,

most of them did not belong to the European Empire.

It was better if they were swallowed by the undead army instead.

That would even help with unification.

* * *

Before going to Europe, Tae-ju stopped by Paju first.

It was just before the operation to subjugate the demonic-beast concentration zone in the DMZ was about to begin in earnest.

When Tae-ju arrived, Jeong Yeon-hui came running over to greet him.

“Chairman! What brings you here? You said you would not get involved in the subjugation operation.”

“That has not changed. I have another matter.”

“Haah, I’m a little disappointed.”

“We have to raise our guild members strong.”

The number of participants was a bit small.

Jeong Yeon-hui and the TJ Guild members, nine people in all.

Of course, Jeong Yeon-hui alone, Earth’s Sword Queen who had mastered the Demon-Subjugating Sword Art, could deal with elite demonic beasts without much trouble.

But the density of demonic beasts in the DMZ was very high, and it was a dangerous operation where casualties could occur if things went wrong.

“Now, take this.”

Tae-ju held out an aluminum case to Jeong Yeon-hui.

“This is…?”

“Raid-use doping potions. The blue potion is for mana amplification, the purple one is for strength enhancement, and the green one is for speed enhancement. Three kinds, ten of each. I made them as samples.”

“Doping potions have side effects…”

“I reduced them to the minimum. Since they work in the form of a potential explosion, there will be exhaustion afterward, but if you rest for about an hour after drinking one, you should be fine.”

“Oh!”

“That said, don’t use them recklessly.”

“So we can take them in dangerous moments, then pull back.”

That degree of side effect would be more than bearable.

And since they had eaten immortal peaches and Immortal Liquor, the side effects would likely be reduced even further.

There was one more thing.

Tap, tap, Tae-ju knocked on his own chest.

“Hey! Stop sleeping and come out.”

“Ang?”

Peeking out,

Ibaek stuck out his head.

“Your laziness is over. It’s time to work.”

“Yaaaaa.”

“Follow Yeon-hui around, and if something truly dangerous happens…, you know?”

“Yaooo!”

“But don’t run wild on your own either. Leave most things to the guild members whenever possible.”

“Yaaang!”

Now there was nothing to worry about.

He could head for Europe with an easy mind.

He would go, smash the undead, and devote himself to hair-growth research.

Coming out of the Paju lord’s manor, Tae-ju mounted the Ten-Thousand-Li Flying Sword and shot up higher and higher, piercing above the clouds.

Swaeaeaeaeak!

First of all, he would clean up the undead demonic beasts rampaging along the southern front in Europe.

No matter how many there were, they were only laughable.

The number of hidden weapons he could currently use was about ten thousand.

Willow-Leaf Throwing Knives, Life-Severing Throwing Knives, Pear-Blossom Needles, Blood-Rain Needles, and the lumps of black darksteel ingots he had prepared in advance.

He would stab them with blades, and crack their skulls with the black-darksteel ingots.

* * *

On the southern front of Eastern Europe,

the undead necromancer Jonson was continuing to march south while leading the army of undead demonic beasts he commanded.

He had descended all the way to the coast of the Black Sea.

Almost at the level of a bloodless occupation.

Originally, the regions connected to Eastern Europe and Siberia had sparse populations.

There were no countries there either.

To the west of the Black Sea there were at least scattered small- and medium-sized Eastern European countries, but to the east of the Black Sea it was nothing but demonic-beast concentration zones.

The range was so vast that even waves were cleaned up inside it.

The number of the undead demonic-beast army, which had begun with one million, had increased exponentially.

So they had no choice but to split it again into four corps.

In the meantime, they had avoided fighting humans as much as possible.

Out of fear?

As if that were possible.

Their master’s order.

Absolutely swell the undead army.

Until they created a force large enough to swallow up a whole nation.

And they had created plenty of undead, just as their master had ordered.

– Rise!

Ppudeudeuk, ppudeuk.

The demonic beasts that had just died in the demonic-beast concentration zone they had attacked turned into undead.

Ahhh!

The authority graciously bestowed personally by their master, the Deus Lich.

Undead generated with only a single word of command.

Since beginning the march south, they had thoroughly subjugated every demonic-beast concentration zone they could see.

They had not missed a single one.

The undead continued to increase one after another.

What a perfect army this was.

It required neither rest nor supplies.

The army Jonson alone commanded was nearing a full seven hundred thousand.

What was there to fear?

Thus, from now on, the objective changed.

The attack on demonic-beast concentration zones was suspended for the time being.

From now on, the targets would not be demonic beasts, but humans.

The target of the attack was the nation located above the Black Sea, the Kiev Union.

It had originally borne the name Ukraine.

The place that had once been famous as Europe’s breadbasket.

It had not yielded even in the European Empire’s unification war, and in the end had resisted to the last, changing its national name to the Kiev Union.

A strong country that could not even be compared to the Kingdom of Moscow.

They would swallow up the Kiev Union.

And, using that strength as a springboard, strike the European Empire’s main camp.

The attack would proceed simultaneously from three directions.

Matsumoto and Abrahim leading undead armies respectively, and himself.

Even excluding Carmen’s corps, which served their master at close range, that still left a force of more than two million.

The likes of the Kiev Union would not last even a week.

Undead necromancer Jonson gave orders to the undead using the authority he had received from his master.

– Advance.

Kukukukukuku!

The sight of seven hundred thousand undead moving all at once.

It was truly overwhelming.

The people and soldiers of the Kiev Union would be reborn as faithful servants of their master.

At that moment!

Uuuuuuuung!

With a bizarre sound, the sky darkened.

– Hm?

Jonson looked up over his head.

– …Storm clouds?

Or a swarm of locusts?

For some reason, goosebumps rose on him.

Strange.

He was a being reborn as undead, so what was there for him to fear?

At that very moment!

Thud.

A single sharp metal object fell from the sky.

Pit!

It was only one.

Coincidence or not, that object struck precisely into the head of one undead demonic beast standing beside Jonson.

“Kkueek!”

At the same time,

paseuseuseuseu…

the undead demonic beast scattered into powder.

– What in the world…?

What was this?

Jonson tilted his head.

It had been an undead stronger than the original demonic beast.

Had it been annihilated because a mere metal fragment pierced its head?

But he could not have imagined even in his dreams

that this was the beginning of the great slaughter of the undead.

Patter, pitter-patter-patter-patter-patter,

he heard the sound of rain.

At first it had been only one, but

tseupit, tseupipipipipit!

– Huh!

Like a drizzle, the number steadily increased.

Pupupupupuk!

Hidden weapons bored into the bodies of the undead demonic beasts.

The soldiers he had trusted collapsed one after another.

Because of those tiny bits of metal.

– Th-this can’t be!

Looking more closely,

– Hidden weapons?

Hidden weapons flashing brilliantly in the sunlight.

They were like silver flowers.

– Fr-from where, and who?

The drizzle developed into a shower.

A rainstorm of large and small hidden weapons.

Hududududududududu…,

pipipipipipipipit!

Something like a dark lump was also smashing into the heads of demonic beasts before rising up again.

Puk! Ppagak, peobeok! Pupupuk! Paseuseuseu…

The undead were being annihilated.

And what was strange was,

– Th-they don’t miss?

All these hidden weapons?

Not even one seemed likely to miss.

Yet not a single one merely dropped to the ground.

Each and every one embedded itself into a demonic beast’s body.

– M-my God.

Jonson was horrified.

What was going on?

He could not regain his senses from the disaster unfolding before his eyes.

A sudden death-rain falling over the entire region where the demonic-beast army was positioned.

It was so dense and so fast that they could not even avoid it.

Impossible to resist. How could they dodge something falling from the sky?

Suddenly the metallic projectiles began to gather together.

Kuuuuuuooooooo!

And a huge vortex of hidden weapons was formed.

Then,

the vortex tilted diagonally.

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

It descended low across the ground.

Everything touched by the vortex was erased.

It was ground away as though in a mixer.

Everywhere was a storm of hidden weapons.

Pipit! Pipipipipit!

They bent and twisted, rose and fell, spun around, then suddenly shot straight in direct lines.

He had to do something, but he could do nothing.

He could only stare blankly at the sight of the undead being annihilated.

The undead broke up in miserable disorder and scattered in every direction.

The undead demonic beasts were seized by terror.

The undead, who ought to have been the cause of fear?

Jonson too did not escape unharmed.

He too was caught in the storm of hidden weapons.

– Dark Barrier, Dark Barrier, Dark Barri…

He layered multiple protective barriers on himself, but

kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa!

– Kkeuaaaaah!

First one, then the second as a drizzle, the third as a shower, and then a storm.

Jonson’s body began to come apart.

And then,

from far off in the sky, one human slowly descended riding a sword.

– Ah!

Only then did he realize.

– …Kim Tae-ju.

The one his master had feared most.

He had come.

At the moment he was annihilated, Jonson ended up having a disloyal thought.

– Master…

Would that person truly be able to handle that bastard?

No matter how he thought about it, the conclusion was negative.

Peuseuseuseuseu.

After the storm of hidden weapons had passed, nothing remained.

Before anyone knew it,

the undead demonic beasts that had once numbered seven hundred thousand had been completely annihilated.

“Haah.”

Tae-ju descended to the ground riding the Ten-Thousand-Li Flying Sword.

‘I did it myself…, but even I can’t believe it.’

This was the first time he had used Myriad Heavens Flower Rain in actual battle.

With immortal qi added on top of his poison qi, it had become even more fearsome than the technique Poison Immortal Tang Gun-ak had displayed in the murim world.

* * *

The Immortal Realm was quiet.

Only message-notification sounds rang out.

K-Talk! Dding, ding-dong! Delivery of the Immortal Realm!

Immortals scattered here and there throughout the Immortal Realm in groups of three and five touched only their smartphones.

“Fire Immortal, have you seen this?”

“What is it? Something entertaining?”

“Sword Immortal’s Byeolstagram.”

“What did our attention-seeking immortal post this time?”

Fire Immortal launched Byeolstagram and checked the post Sword Immortal had uploaded.

Title: Hand cream I just bought from the shopping mall and had delivered by a monkey.

– I’ve been working a lot these days, so my hands had become rough. After applying hand cream, they got somewhat better.

On the surface it was content about hand cream, but…

“Tsk tsk, swagger has taken over his brain.”

“Exactly!”

The photo Sword Immortal had posted.

It was true that he had taken it centered on his hand.

But the important point was that his hand rested on the steering wheel of a car bearing a sports-car emblem, while a luxury watch on that wrist glittered brilliantly.

In the end, it was him showing off his watch and showing off his car.

Would the immortals stay quiet?

Downvote bombs poured onto Sword Immortal’s post.

There was only one like.

It was from none other than the kind-hearted Bright Maiden.