Vol 24 Chapter 2 (1/2)
ACT 2 Heroes’ Descendants
“Oh my God!”
“T-that is ridiculous!”
“Who on earth ?”
The staff of the Planning Department watched the 120 inch screen with baffled faces The sa Ark and the expedition members
Kaaaaaaah!
The Rwigenberg flapped its huge wings as it was hit by the heat wave And the shi+eld wrapped around the Rwigenberg flickered That’s right! Despite concentrating the firepower of the roan eed from Ark’s mouth as he stared at the protective film
“The shi+eld didn’t break despite all the firepower being concentrated on one point……”
Was it saying there was no way to break the shi+eld? This meant they couldn’t prevent the resurrection ceremony even if they destroyed all the demons
…Despair!
That’s right It meant despair Despair was the conclusion he ca all those soldiers
“Ark-niap left by the destroyed shi+elds!”
“The ive a command!”
Messengers shouted from every direction
“The soldiers……”
Ark said in a hoarse voice and shut his enberg’s shi+eld They were also attacked by the demons or the flash boht that the expedition’s concentrated firepoould destroy the shi+eld but it didn’t Thisand land There was no way to prevent the Dark Lord’s resurrection So as the expedition fighting for?
“…Endure We have no choice but to endure it”
Ark h after iven up
“Ark!”
Then Wormer’s voice came from Curio
“Co to show you!”
‘Show me?’
Ark’s forehead wrinkled and he turned towards Shangri-La Ark had honestly thought there was no chance Everyone else was the same as well JusticeMan and the rehabilitation members who had been full of will, Shambala anted to crush everybody, Ti about anything and the other soldiers…… Their ’s cheat like shi+eld But now Worri-La along with the raccoons and the Magic Institute engineers He sensed so in this desperate moment
‘Did he perhaps figure out a way?’
Ark had such expectations after hearing Wormer’s voice
“Burning Soul, head to Shangri-La!”
Ark iri-La He landed in front of the White Tower and entered the control room (central office of the White Tower
“Ark-nim!”
Lariette and the prophet clan greeted him as he entered the control roori-La This was the power source to ri-La As an aside, there were two reasons why the 7 heroes decided to hide the Ark of Creation in Shangri-La One reason was to protect the Ark of Creation from the demons Another reason was that the Ark of Creation was the power source for Shangri-La’s defense ward That’s right The reason it was about to float hundreds of metres in the air and raise the defense as thanks to the Ark of Creation After Lariette had reri-La’s defense as released which allowed Alan to slaughter the prophets
… Well, that wasn’t ied nods and approached Wormer
“Wormer, what did you want to show me?”
“It is this”
Wore crystal To be exact, it was the modified Truth Crystal that linked to the Creator’s will When Ark looked doubtfully at the truth crystal, Wor small at the bottom of the crystal A video instantly appeared on the Truth Crystal It was the ienberg Despite the huge shock and heat wave, Rwigenberg had just shaken off the attack Watching it just ain
“Why are you showing me this?”
Ark asked with a frown Wormer scratched his messy hair and muttered
“Do you see the output of the Ruin Gun ri-La?”
The Ruin Gun was the huge gun turret that Worineer But Ark didn’t understand anything about the output of the Ruin Gun Despite the naun Ark shook his head and Wormer replied
“It is 200,000 MG There were a total of 34 shots The total output reached 68 million MG”
It was a that was Yet even the terrifying power of the Ruin Guns didn’t break Rwigenberg’s shi+eld? But why did Wormer call him here just to boast about the output from the Ruin Gun?
“The Spear of Thor designed by the Magic Institute has an output of 70,000~100,000 MG The noruns on the airshi+ps have an output of 4,000 MG while the ones on the hot air balloons are roughly 2,500 MG In other words, the total firepower is approximately 10 million MG”
“……So?”
Ark asked with a durily
“You idiot, you still don’t understand? 10 million MG, 10 million MG! Do you kno many zeroes are attached to that nuic energy That ah to evaporate a whole territory! In theory, that ah to defeat any shi+eld in New World”
Worain, New World was an online game In other words, the laws could be different fro of a souldn’t be able to kill hundreds of enemies This was the most fundamental law of New World These laws existed to maintain New World’s balance If these laws collapsed then New World couldn’t be called a gaic Institute were convinced that 10 ’s shi+eld No ic existed in New World that could thwart a concentrated attack of 10 million MG
“But Rwigenberg’s shi+eld didn’t break?”
“That’s right It is strange”
Wormer nodded and replied to Ark’s question
“It goes against the funda is an existence where the laws of New World aren’t applied to it But after thinking about it carefully, I realized that it was different”
Ark also agreed with the idea Ark was one of the few people who knew most of the inforo of New World’s creator, Park Woo-seong! The reason the Rwigenberg could withstand that attack was probably because of so was New World’s creator so he would be able to make a cheat like shi+eld
‘But the Red Man’s ability isn’t limitless If he had the ability to do whatever he wanted to the systeoals’
That’s right If the Red Man was able to exert a tremendous power over New World then he wouldn’t need to resurrect the Dark Lord Couldn’t he just ruin New World by connecting to the main server? Despite that, the Red Man had used the co Alan to distract the users as well as stealing the devil’s heart He had carefully pushed forward his plan step by step Then it was obvious
“I don’t knohy but the Red Man doesn’t have the ability of the Creator in New World!”
In other words, if his infor New World was removed then the Red Man was just an ordinary user Of course, there was no denying that he had a large advantage over general users He also couldn’t override the laws of New World So hoas it possible to have a shi+eld that ignores New World’s laws of creation?
‘……It is impossible’
This meant that the laws of New World also applied to the shi+eld Wormer smiled after Ark reached that conclusion and nodded
“Now you’re starting to understand the situation”
“But actually……”
“It doesn’t exist That’s what I thought Therefore I replayed the scene in the Truth Crystal over and over until I found the identity of that shi+eld”
“Have you ever figured out the reason?”
“I didn’t understand the first few times I watched But I slowed the video to 1/100th of a second and was able to discover the absurd secret”
“Absurd secret?”
“Look”
Worain This time it was played at 1/100th of a second so the video looked like a slide show After a while, Ark started to see the hidden secret behind the shi+eld
“T-this is…?”
“Yes, the shi+eld doesn’t have enorht No amount of defense would be able to withstand 10it at 1/100th of a second dae Now I’ll replay the shi+eld in real time”
Worain That’s right The Rwigenberg’s cheat like shi+eld had a hidden secret It wasn’t possible to see until seen through the modified Truth Crystal but more than half of the shi+eld had melted the moment the firepower hit it If there were continuous attacks then the defense shi+eld would’ve probably broken But he was able to examine the shi+eld when it was played at 1/100th of the speed The shi+eld was growing back at an equal rate to the speed of the attack! When the offensive ended, the shi+eld becainal form after some time passed
“Such a thing…?”
“My guess is that there are two possible reasons An infinite a And the other reason is this”
Wor expanded and was zooe area There was a weird scene in thein front of an altar When the shi+eld shook fro dagger and chanted a spell Then thousands of deathered in the square exploded and were sucked into the altar? Wormer stopped the video there and said
“At this point, the shi+eld recovered extreic Institute and they said it was a black ic sacrifice ritual”
“Black ic sacrifice ritual?”
“It changes the life energy intothe dey to heal the shi+eld”
An engineer froic Institute replied Ark started to understand the secret behind Rwigenberg’s shi+eld That’s right The shi+eld was invincible like Ark thought it was The black ician sacrificed the lives of thousands to de’s shi+eld
‘I see Therefore the Dark Lord’s resurrection ti e’
Ark ure out one of his questions The Dark Lord needed time to resurrect Therefore Ark always checked the tiressing slightly more slowly that Ark’s clock He couldn’t understand why and thought it was just an error
‘That’s because soic was used to restore the shi+eld Therefore the ic used for the resurrection cere slowed In other words, attacking the shi+eld will also slon the resurrection ceremony But it will still be the same in the end if I can’t penetrate the shi+eld’
Ark’s eyes flashed at the thought
“Based on the video just now, the speed that the attack destroys the shi+eld is slightly faster than the recovery speed If we rally the flying boat squadron to attack right afterwards then wouldn’t we be able to penetrate the shi+eld?”
“That’s impossible”
Wormer shook his head and answered
“Once again, the recovery speed is so fast that ere barely able to spot it when the playback speed was 1/100th of a second Even if the flying boat squadron attacks right afterwards then several seconds would be consumed More than half of the shi+eld would’ve already recovered The attacks of the flying boat squadron won’t be able to catch up with the recovery speed”
“Then there is no way?”
Worhed and scratched his head
“I calculated two possible e worth 1 million MG for 5 minutes The other way is to increase the output to 115 million MG so that the shi+eld doesn’t have time to recover before it breaks”
“A continuous output of 1 million MG for 5 minutes?”
“Yes”
“Or an output of 115 million MG?”
“That’s what I thought of…”
“Is that possible?”
“If the 500 hot air balloons and 30 airshi+ps fro of the battle were intact then it would barely reach 115 ri-La”
Ark looked amazed at Wormer’s answer Didn’t that mean it was only possible to crack the shi+eld if they had attacked it fro of the battle? But now 200 hot air balloons and 10 airshi+ps had been shot down during the fight Ark hurriedly looked at the engineers froic Institute
“Does the Magic Institute have any extra airshi+ps or hot air balloons?”
“Yes All airshi+ps were summoned by the Grandmaster but 300 hot air balloons had bene dispatched so missions And we already sent a request to the Grand to Wormer but……”
The Magic Institute member trailed off with a dark expression
“The suet here”
3 days for NPCs was 24 hours Now there was only 15 hours left until the Dark Lord was resurrected It meant the situation would already be over by the time the hot air balloons arrived
‘In the end, is there no way to penetrate the shi+eld before the Dark Lord was resurrected?’
Ark sighed with a depressed expression Despite all of Wormer’s calculations, in the end it was still hopeless
‘……Wait?’
Then so popped into Ark’s head
Now, he was going to put it in order According to Wor an output of 1with 115 million MG would ic Institute required at least 24 hours to get here If the armoured battleshi+ps attacked then a sufficient output could be reached but the Rwigenberg was floating hundreds of metres away from them
‘If only the e of the scorch cannon would allow it to attack the Rwigenberg But the reality is that the shi+ps would have to get pass thousands of sea monsters in order to reach Kwarian Even if we the airshi+ps as support, the armoured shi+ps wouldn’t be able to reach the Kwarian in 15 hours In the end it is impossible to break the shi+eld But……’
Ark recalled a o It was the scene Ark sahen he first approached Shangri-La on board Worri-La had attacked the de netic field between the defense tower and the defense ward that roasted any deure of 10 y was required to turn thousands of gargoyles to dust? Ark had a crazy idea and asked Wormer Wormer nodded and replied
“Yes If we use the defense ward then 1 o, the 24 Ruin Guns reached 68 million MG If the burden on the source of power decreases then we can make the 1 million MG last for 5 minutes However……”
“However? What’s the problem?”
“You know, Shangri-La’s previous defense as destroyed by Alan’s surprise attack The Magic Institute engineers had restored it But we don’t kno to activate it”
“Activate it? Didn’t the prophet clan use it previously?”
“They did But the equipe Because it was broken and then restored The circuit route which converts thefroed And there is a strange lock in the middle of that circuit”
“Lock?”
“This Have a look”
Wormer operated a small number of buttons Then there was arose from the bottom of the Truth Crystal It was a circular, crystal slab However, there were various shapes carved into the slab such as a circle, triangle, knife, water drop etc Wormer pointed to it and said
“Probably some devices fit in here in order to make it work But even the prophet clan don’t knohat they are So I’ve been looking for ways to circu skills can’t decipher it”
“Have you tried to look for information in the History Crystal?”
“Of course I tried But the information on this crystal disc is contained inside the level 1 security area”
Ark frowned at Wormer’s answer A level 1 security area meant a passas needed to access the information in the History Crystal However, if they knew the password then there would be no reason to search for information in the History Crystal If he kneent into the holes then he could get a sense of that the passas
‘Eh?’
Ark suddenly blinked while he was looking at the circular slab One hole cut in the slab had a surprisingly familiar size and shape
‘Do I have so circular that will match with that hole? The size and shape is just like……’
Ark gazed at it for a while before eagerly pulling so It was a s out the disc When he cohly the same size and shape Ark placed the disc into the hole
Cheolkeok, ku ku ku ku
The disc started spinning once it entered the hole At the same time, an informationappeared in front of Ark
-You have placed Hero Maban’s Three Marvels into Shangri-La’s defense device!
Shangri-La’s powerful defense aspower of the 7 heroes At that tiri-La as the last bastion for humanity and combined their abilities to create a ward But there was a chance that Shangri-La’s defense ward could be broken by de it, they created a safety device That is the defense ward’s control device
If the 7 heroes’ original device ward is destroyed then their descendants need to gather again in order to reactivate the device Therefore the control device must be equipped with the syic circuit of the defense ward to work Once all the syic left by the 7 heroes will be completely opened
<currently equipped=”” symbol:=”” three=”” marvels=”” (hero=”” maban=”” christin)=””>
The control device has started preparations to operate the defense ward The navigation systeered
“7 heroes!”