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Chapter 274

“Haha! That young one sure is boasting excessively.”

“He sure is. I think he is underestimating Mount Kunlun.”

“He needs to be reprimanded.”

“I don’t think he realizes that we are not the same as the Lake of Dawn.”

They were the Four Great Sages. The supreme leaders of the organization called Mount Kunlun were all seated around a square table.

There were no chairs.

Two men and two women were all floating in the air with their legs crossed.

One of the men looked like the archetypal sage, the other was very young and beautiful. Seated opposite them, one of the women appeared to be a very young girl, while the other was a bewitching beauty in her mid-thirties.

They all looked bizarre and mysterious! If anyone had been there to see them, they would have been taken aback in disbelief.

However, little was known outside about who they were. The same could be said for the other secret societies that either antagonized or collaborated with Mount Kunlun.

In fact, nobody knew how these four had come to be at the top of the organization.

“In that case, we will have to teach that young one a lesson.”

“I will prepare the soldiers.”

“I will prepare to move the ‘mountain.’”

“Then I will move my underlings, as well.”

The four voices came together.

? ? ?

The aftermath of the livestream was intense, and following Ji-Cheok\'s lead, content about secret societies grew like mold all over GodTube. Soon, the public media in every country were talking about these secret societies.

In fact, every country had secret societies. Quite a few important politicians and businessmen were either colluding with them or were themselves members of those shady organizations. This information came from the Golden Horizon, so Ji-Cheok knew it was authentic.

That was why Ji-Cheok had arrived in Antarctica to wait for a response from Mount Kunlun.

The North Pole only consisted of an ice shelf, but here, there was actual land. The ice had melted because of the dungeon, but due to Ji-Cheok’s emergency measures, it was now frozen again. In other words, Antarctica was back to normal.

Now, right in the middle of the place, Bi-Ga was hard at work.

Boom! Boom!

“... No matter how much I see these kinds of things, I can never get used to them.”

?I can feel as much power in that thing as the Slow Forest Shade you had to deal with before.?

“A semi-divine robot…”

What Ji-Cheok was looking at was a supermassive robot about five hundred meters tall. It walked on all fours, and its entire body was covered in a variety of industrial robot arms of all sizes that were too numerous to count, in addition to a proper ‘left arm’ and a ‘right arm’ that matched its massive size. With those arms, it stacked materials and welded them together.

The dimensional barrier generator was thus being built at a frighteningly fast pace, like never before.

There were two such robots, one on the left and one on the right. If they kept working as they were doing right now, they could complete ten kilometers in three hundred days. In other words, one kilometer in thirty days, and one hundred meters every three days.

It was crazy.

‘What the hell did Bi-Ga see in the Abyss that she could come up with something like this? Is she planning to create an army of robots or something?’

?From what I have gathered, there are dungeons that look like they are from a sci-fi movie, and Bi-Ga has always been known for raiding those dungeons.?

“Do you think the dungeon reward was crafting knowledge or something like that?”

?Rather, I believe she got the knowledge by contacting the computers inside those dungeons.?

“I am not really familiar with computer programming, but...is that even possible?”

?Typically, no, but Bi-Ga may have the relevant skills. Even if the foundations of the programming are different, she might have worked around that.?

Ji-Cheok had made Bi-Ga into his apostle and bestowed his skills upon her. In the process, he had learned all about her job titles and abilities. As the Arcane Engineer of the Abyss, one of her abilities was called [Electronic Language Linked to the Abyss].

‘Perhaps that is the source of her ability to create such massive robots. Or maybe not. I don’t know.’

“Anyway, it’s good to see she is making progress. It’s even better that every kilometer of that generator reinforces the dimensional barrier.”

Bi-Ga had changed the design of the generator and made it better. It had activated a dimensional barrier as soon as its foundations had been laid, and it reinforced the barrier every time a kilometer was completed.

That alone had a significant effect.

Plus, Ji-Cheok’s factories on the ocean floor had not caught on to anyone yet, so he had been using them to make Mana Ignition Pillars and Small Dimensional Barrier Generators, which he was installing all over the deep sea.

With these, he was certain that he could have a complete dimensional barrier in place in ten months.

Of course, he was also sure that there would be other secret society assholes during the process who would sabotage his plan. That was why he had provoked Mount Kunlun on air.

The Lake of Dawn, Golden Horizon, Sephiroth Zohar, and Mount Kunlun were the four strongest secret societies in the world!

The Lake of Dawn alone, the ones who had opened the Gate in Antarctica, were a force to be reckoned with. They were the ones who caused such a catastrophe that could have wiped out the entire human race.

‘What would have happened if I had not frozen the ocean and quickly entered the Gate to wipe the monsters out?’

First, all the coastal cities and towns would have been destroyed by the tsunami. The sea level of the entire ocean would have risen dramatically, and cities like Incheon in South Korea would have become submerged. Gangnam and Yeouido might have also been submerged due to the backflow of the Han River.

‘Wouldn’t that be enough to paralyze the entire city of Seoul? And if Korea got this bad, what about Japan? Every year there is news about Japan being flooded because of the rising sea level. There would be massive floods, all the port cities would be destroyed, and even Tokyo would be submerged. And there are four of these organizations, so how could I not be worried?’

The good news was that the Lake of Dawn had taken a big hit from this, and was now not as powerful as before. Ji-Cheok had heard that the Knights of the Round Table, who were at odds with the Lake of Dawn and appeared to be on the decent side, were hunting down their remnants.

‘That means we can rule out the Lake of Dawn from the list.’

The Golden Horizon had been quiet since the agreement, so Ji-Cheok did not need to worry about them either.

That left Sephiroth Zohar and Mount Kunlun.

Ji-Cheok had gone at Mount Kunlun first because they were closer. The reason why he provoked them was that he had no idea where they were hiding. He wanted them to come out of the dark and look for him themselves.

“Alright, the operation in Antarctica seems to be going smoothly. Now, I just need to do my part.”

?We are ready to go, Master.?

“Okay.”

Using the Steps of Hermes, he stepped through space and into his secret deep-sea factory. There were all sorts of machines running around. The factory had too many cogs and Tesla coils to be considered cyberpunk and too many hardware parts that clearly looked like computers to be called steampunk. He did not know how to describe the factory.

This massive deep-sea factory was making something.

It was satellites.

?These satellites are not your summoned entity because they are made by your universal production machines, not by yourself. They are objects from this world.?

“Hm… That’s good.”

?Shall we start the launch??

“Yes. Go ahead and fire those things.”

?Switching to the launch system. Begin Mass Driver deployment.?

Mass Driver was a large launching mechanism that operated on a principle similar to a railgun. In other words, it was a device that used electromagnetism to shoot out objects at high speeds. Although it was called a ‘launching device’ for the purposes of Ji-Cheok’s plans, it could also be used as a weapon.

The reason why he made this was to take control of outer space.

Other countries had yet to produce anything like the Mass Driver because their crafting skills were not as advanced as Ji-Cheok’s or Bi-Ga’s. In addition, they were also unable to craft a satellite or something like that to use as a projectile, as none of the equipment could withstand the forces during the launch.

Ji-Cheok, however, solved the problem quite simply. He buffed the satellites with a number of skills such as Durability Boost, Self Healing, and Shock Absorption.

He was not a scientist, so he cheated his way by giving them skills.

‘I think this is enough.’

Grrrr.

A screen appeared in front of him. Right now, he was in a shallow part of the ocean.

It was only 1.2 kilometers from the surface. He could see on the screen that, from the deep-sea factory, a huge steel beam was rising to the surface, making an eerie sound. The next thing he knew, this giant cannon barrel was sticking out of the water.

From the surface, it would look like a strange structure about fifty meters tall and thirty meters in diameter jutting out of the water.

?Initiating the launch. Three. Two. One. Blast off!?

Ji-Cheok could feel an explosion of man. On the screen, something shot out of the cannon barrel at a tremendous speed, slicing through the sky.

‘Wow. That looks kinda cool.’

A moment later, it was in orbit, spreading its wings.

It was a high-tech satellite with solar panels built into it, also powered by Magic Stones. This satellite was capable of reconnaissance, navigation, detection, and communication along with defensive and offensive capabilities.

?In about 3 h 11 min, there will be 147 satellites in orbit.?

“Good. Let’s keep going.”

He watched the satellites go up, one by one. Once all the satellites were in place, he was going to use them as a medium to perform his Grand Spells.

[Kairas’ Wide Area Micro Detection]

[Requirement: Class 9 Wizard

The great dragon Kairas devised a spell to capture Chilk, the great thief and Archmage of the Halfling Race, who had enraged him.

The spell requires an absurd amount of mana, but when unleashed, it allows the caster to keep an entire planet under surveillance.

However, Kairas never caught Chilk.

Chilk escaped to another dimension.

Function: Allows the caster to search for anything they want across the planet.]

If he used this spell with his satellites, it would find anyone anywhere, unless they were using stealth or barrier skills of the same rank as this Grand Spell. In fact, it could find anyone even if they did?use stealth or barrier skills. It was just that it was more complicated.

?Master!?

“What?”

While he was still firing off satellites, Cheok-Liang called out to him urgently.

?There is some movement from the Mount Kunlun!?

What he saw on the screen was stupefying.

‘What the HELL are they doing?!’