chapter 19
19 Tue-Game Board (2)
“Once a unit encounters another unit belonging to it, it is considered unconditionally.”
Kang Do-yeon slowly began to organize the story.
With my mouth sealed, I nodded.
“Similarly, players are also against the same player. But there is a contradiction here. What if the opposing player’s units are in a completely different world? Different ‘servers’.”
“Yeah, you’re right.”
Units and units in the same world are unconditional, but not between players.
Rather, they may form alliances with each other.
To sniper another player in the same affiliation.
For a moment, I got goosebumps.
“And the units that are raging on Earth right now, they have nothing to do with us. But think about it again. If the owners of these quacks on Earth are players in your world.”
“Not only units, but those kinds of people as well, they will try to find and kill them.”
If you kill the player, there is no need to go to war.
Gradually my head hurt.
Even if it’s complicated, it’s too intricately intertwined.
“But what does that have to do with using Oh Yoon-ah? You’re in danger. You’re hurt!”
“I don’t forgive either. But Yoona doesn’t know about her brother anyway.”
He slowly opened his mouth with a somewhat rough breath and shaky eyes.
“She puts her own personal life first and wants to connect with other players. A player whose world does not overlap. She said that she would increase her power by actively moving instead of standing still.”
“Are you going to stay by my side?”
“I’ll keep asking, so look for a more obvious opportunity.”
First, there is the advantage of being able to move.
Obtain information unilaterally and use it in reverse.
rational. Yes, if you think efficiently and rationally, your brother is right.
But if that’s the case, would I be a legion or a person?
“I’m worried about you.”
“…Then buy me some bread.”
The boy laughed helplessly.
I finally left the room.
“Are you sure that guy isn’t a ‘unit’ right now?”
[Yes. Units and players are determined from the beginning. Those who have additionally recruited, bound, or contracted are not affected by the rules]
Returning to the room, I put an end to the last possibility I had feared.
*
[Don’t blame yourself]
“Doesn’t it look bad?”
[Rather, the goal has become clearer. check it out Your account level has risen to 3]
Leveling up is insanely slow.
Still, it was fortunate that the number of samples that could be provided and nutrients were increased.
“..this is an investment.”
I waved the envelope with one million won.
The money that the young boy had earned by risking his life didn’t spend even a single penny, but now he had to.
I fiddled with my phone.
Remember that the time is not yet.
But someday.
when that time has come
I will take anything and feed it.
Even if it were a human.
[Can you see the corps? Maintenance costs are high as they get bigger, but due to the characteristics of the species, growth and digestion are faster]
I checked the screen.
In fact, the corps was in the process of erasing the traces of the rats that had filled the stairway.
I bet, if you look at it as a whole, are there any creatures bigger than us in this cave?
We filled all 20 stairs, including the 2 grand ones.
“Won’t you stop?”
[Of course. Victory is just victory. There are still so many places to eat.]
I could see the Legion collecting the rat’s tools.
How deep was it?
[Tool, obviously an attractive concept, but should we use it as straight as they treat it?]
“Well. For now, there are limits.”
[right. The corps also judged so]
The Legion gave up its tools.
To be precise, they gave up the tools they acquired from outside.
Because steel was something we couldn’t make in the first place.
[But that doesn’t mean there isn’t an alternative. Someday, we may be able to produce a weapon that is harder and sharper than steel.]
“…that would be enough.”
With the concept of the tool saved, the Legion blew out scouts to new locations.
[This area has already become a boon due to rats. However, we can digest their corpses, as well as the mushroom houses and structures they built.]
The surrounding area was already the front yard of mice.
I don’t know where he fled by using the racial preservation right, but if he escaped to a fairly distant place, would he be able to survive?
“But it won’t take long for them to clear the road and eat it.”
[Yes. It would take longer to eat their corpses… look at this. The scouts found something else]
“No, what kind of nonsense is this?”
I checked the screen.
What the scouts found was the path to the upper stairway that the rats had already cleaned.
And it was something at the end of the road they took over as their sphere of influence.
“Obviously it’s a different road, so why are you blocking all of this?”
A single passageway tightly sealed with large stones, mushroom pieces, and soil.
It was clear what the rats had done.
This is the only way to get up there.
That means they blocked themselves from the only way to increase their power upwards.
“Why? The guys who came down well. No, if we hadn’t reacted promptly in the first place, they would have blocked the bottom as well.”
[Unfortunately, the Legion does not have the ability to analyze the data in the brain. But the Legion knows. As for the rats intentionally blocking that passage]
“Then how are you going to act?”
[Isn’t that obvious?]
Legionnaires began to move.
By moving the most powerful soldiers, they broke the blockade little by little.
[We don’t stop. If you stop, you will die soon. Now we’ve grown too big to hold back]
Even if there are some strange creatures living out there.
We had to fight and eat.
“Of course I believe.”
And now I want it too.
The legion had to be stronger.
I had to grow and become stronger and become my strength.
[It is almost cleared. Scouts are now entering through the dimly revealed gap]
As soon as the gap was revealed, a few small scouts went inside.
At the same time, the sight of the scouts was linked.
At first it was just an ordinary cave.
It was an ordinary cave.
[This time, the Legion was less shocked by the experience of reaching the first ‘branch’, the Great Stairs. This place…definitely deserves to be called part of the ‘stem’]
“It’s daunting, but it’s also great.”
Obviously the cave was right.
But it is only a cave on the surface, and I have never seen such a large cave.
Extensive vegetation including mushrooms as large as any tree, that high ceiling tens of meters above, and glowstones shining like stars from the ceiling.
The caves I’ve seen so far have been at the level of a child’s play.
[Is it a problem?]
“No way.”
I laughed bitterly.
It didn’t really matter where this place was anyway.
The Legion will continue to eat it all the way here.
[The most important thing is whether there is a unit that is a competitor. The next important thing is whether there is a force or a strong person who can dare to confront us]
The scouts didn’t stop and kept moving around.
Because the environment had changed so rapidly, everything around was new information.
“Earth Dragon?”
Meanwhile, I saw something familiar.
A giant car-breathing lizard, Redscale Tunnel Earth Dragon.
That lizard, once the ruler of the tenth floor, was crawling through the mushroom forest.
Still, it’s nice to see a familiar face.
“Well?”
[After all, this is the upper floor. A place where even those who would have lived confidently below are easily hunted down]
I blinked my eyes in surprise.
That large earth dragon was hunted down at once.
“…her.”
The monster that hunted the earth dragon was a giant beetle.
Its size was comparable to that of an earth dragon.
What I thought was a nearby rock was the carapace of a beetle covered in dust.
A world where common sense does not work.
that’s the cave
[I haven’t scouted all the parts yet, but I don’t see a group that can be called a force. If that is the case, it means that there is no one on this mezzanine to hinder our progress.]
The cave blocking the passage was completely destroyed.
As expected, the corps immediately took action.
It also costs maintenance. So the sooner the better, the better.
[Don’t rush in blindly. We are learning beings, and all the experiences we have accumulated are recorded in history]
“I’ve already been through a real war.”
I admitted it too.
Now, it has gone beyond the simple concept of swarm hunting.
Mixing various types of soldiers to maximize their combat power, they were assembled only for war, not hunting.
The soldiers of the Legion, who had changed from hunters who wanted to eat them to a sharp and cold army, began to attack the beetles that ate the earth dragons.
[The carapace is quite hard. Even more than the carapaces of lower-order creatures we have. So I’m curious]
The beetle trusts its shell and quickly digs into the ground to prepare a defensive posture.
Most predators would probably have given up at this point.
But we weren’t.
The Legion finally succeeded in overturning the one who had bullied him tenaciously.
I frowned when I saw the guy being cut alive.
[Isn’t that a big deal? In the end, no matter how much they evolve, they are just beasts, and they do not dare compare to us.]
“…you’re not speaking your opinion, are you speaking from the Legion’s point of view?”
[Yes. did you feel something
did you feel I hesitated for a moment as I watched the black waves gradually encroaching upon this cavity.
“What if the cheap stuff disappears?”
The Legion certainly developed the seeds of emotion in the last battle.
I didn’t want this childlike creature to be arrogant and crooked.