History after being abandoned (2)

Now, after a long time has passed.

The king was very sensitive.

I was in a good mood when I was making a new plan through the spirit realm, but the plan that was going smoothly was recently experiencing setbacks.

The plan to open the door to the other world through a group of underground people who believed in the king as the primordial light became increasingly difficult.

In the other world, there was another intelligent being called human.

According to the followers, they were an inferior race compared to the underground civilization.

However, there was a war between the two races, and it was said that humans won.

How could he lose to an inferior and inferior race and fall?

The king without prejudice did not look down on humans like the underground people. He thought humans had special powers.

'Jiji people have a habit of being overconfident about themselves.'

The king mistook himself for the primordial light and closely observed the Jijeoin he believed in.

As a result of observation, the underground people tended to think that most of the things in the world were due to them.

Monsters like the king were also made by the underground people, so there was no doubt that they were mistaken.

However, unlike such arrogance, the king saw the Jijeo-in doing nothing properly.

The group of underground people who believed in the king were not making any progress with their plan to open the gate.

It is said to have been interfered with by humans.

Did you say your name was Seo Moon-yeop?

To the extent that the king, who did not even know the concept of a name, knew the word 'Seo Moon-yeop', the human was in the way.

The king, who had already suffered many failures, did not want to fail any more.

The king continued to grow old even now, and in recent years, the presence of an enemy threatening him has been detected.

The enemy never revealed his face or location.

However, the king who rules the abandoned world suddenly realized that there was a threatening enemy in this world.

It was a king who had been steadily working on eliminating monsters that could grow to threaten him in advance. Because he had continued to do the same, he could feel the presence of a new enemy with his sixth sense.

Until now, the enemy who had grown carefully outside of the king's gaze, holding his breath, was now revealing his presence in earnest.

Also very little.

It doesn't reveal its identity, but it's enough to get on the king's nerves.

Such clever behavior made the king more nervous.

'Something is different.'

It was essentially different from the big monsters who simply inherited a good constitution, ate well, and grew up. Those big idiots are just weeds the king used to get rid of.

But what a cunning act.

He is revealing his presence little by little and provoking.

This wasn't normal monster behavior.

A restrained menace deviating from the monstrous nature of lust.

But more intense malice.

slyness.

The behavior of the enemy was very similar to that of the king.

When the king was a small, young snake, he used to deal with enemies stronger than himself.

The king could not understand.

Where the hell did this enemy come from!

The king was not just a ruler with power. The king was grasping everything in the abandoned world one after another. He knew how all kinds of monsters in this world were bred and born, even his ancestors through several generations.

The king, who has lived a long time, has observed the ecology and constitution of monsters that are born, die, and reborn over generations, and has eliminated species that could pose a threat.

I don't know the concept, but it was a kind of genetic improvement.

Of course, the upgrade failed.

No matter how hard they tried to weaken them, the monsters grew explosively when given the right environment and opportunity. Here is what the king is worried about after he is old.

Anyway, he was a king who knew everything about the world he ruled to that extent.

It was hard to believe that he had ever been born in a place he did not know.

So at first, I couldn't believe in the existence of the enemy itself.

But thanks to a clever friend he met in the spirit realm, the king learned new concepts. It was a subterranean man named Pietro who, unusually, dwelled in a human body.

said the friend who was smart enough to want to capture the soul and keep it by his side.

"It is a story that there was no way it was designed to have intelligence when it was made in the first place. There is no way that our ancestors did not know the dangers of having intelligence."

So how did I become intelligent?

"There are two hypotheses."

"The first hypothesis is that it is a variant born with an extremely rare probability."

no.

All my children were stupid. Although the cunning nature resembled it.

The same goes for that unidentified enemy.

In the king's memory, a large or new venomous mutant could emerge, but I had never seen such a mutant before. Not even once in all my life.

"Intelligence is caused by external factors other than genetics."

external factors?

"The intellect may have been artificially implanted by some supernatural process."

okay.

It was not from birth that I acquired intelligence.

It came into being suddenly for some reason.

Because I couldn't remember what happened before I got my intellect.

The disappearing memory was evidence that it was not a natural phenomenon.

The king pondered.

An enemy, like oneself, could have been transformed by some special occasion.

Certainly not a genetic variant.

King confirmed. After giving birth to and raising thousands of children...

'child?'

The king finally realized a variable he hadn't had in mind.

The mother of the children who fled then!

I thought he ran away because he was afraid that he would be killed too.

But what if there were other reasons for running away?

'That's it!!'

The king was furious.

It was the first time I had a hunch about where the enemy came from.

***

Pietro, who joined the Queen's side to create a training dungeon for Seo Moon-yeop, was stranded longer than expected.

Creating the dungeon itself was not difficult.

The terrain can be roughly modeled after any existing dungeon.

The problem is to create a monster that resembles a king.

It was something that only Pietro, who had met the king in person, could do. Even if he had met Pietro in person, he had many difficulties because he had only seen the tip of the iceberg about the king.

Fortunately, Pietro had a wealth of knowledge.

I had read about the monsters created by our ancient ancestors.

I don't know the knowledge of the abandoned world earlier than that, but the ancient knowledge must have been connected from the abandoned world.

Among the monsters created by our ancient ancestors, we found the most snake-like species.

Coincidentally, the Queen's side was looking for ancient historical relics of underground civilizations, so reference materials continued to be procured.

'This is the most plausible.'

Pietro found the data for the snake monster.

For example, it was a monster that was the ancestor of the Serpen.

Although the serpen has been improved to have an ironclad shell and hundreds of fangs, this snake has just plain deadly venom.

'In exchange, there are advantages. The amount of aura absorbed through food is higher, and there is no limit to external growth. It's a species that can become huge if given enough time and aura.'

I had a hunch that perhaps the king might be of this species.

Having found a sample, we set to work.

I went into monster production with 'Observation', a geographer who played a central role in creating the Battlefield system.

In reality, it was impossible because there was no sample gene, but it was possible to make it in virtual space.

Pietro, who was good at making monsters, designed the monster's genetic and constitutional characteristics, and 'observation' was implemented as Pietro designed.

The finished monster.

-Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

A huge snake roared.

Its cry resembled that of a Serpen, but the wave of aura like a tidal wave could be felt in the roar.

-Well, is this really a 'king'?

Observation asked in fear.

Pietro shook his head.

-no.

- Phew, isn't it like this?

Pietro ruthlessly broke the expectation of a relieved 'observation'.

- It's not just about this.

- No way. There could be such a monster...

-The blood and aura flowing through my body felt like a river. The pressure I felt at that time was not like this. You have to grow even bigger.

- Oh, I see. Even though it's a virtual space, I'm afraid to make it.

-It doesn't end there. He handles souls as well as auras. It seemed that he handled the spirits better than I did. They tried to catch me by spreading their nets. The first one already has a mortgage on his soul.

At that word, 'Observation' was stunned.

It was Pietro who summoned the ancestors of the spirit realm and handled the commander as he pleased. If you handle it better than that, to what extent?

I thought I knew why the light of the beginning had foretold the monster's appearance.

This was a monster capable of destroying the world.

A monster whose soul is captured and cannot escape forever even after death.

It was at a time when the production of monsters was proceeding smoothly.

The Queen brings wonderful news.

"I found a trace."

-A trace of the first?

Pietro asked.

The Queen nodded.

- Where?

"Unfortunately, we didn't find any traces of movement."

-then?

"One of the royal tombs that enshrined the previous kings has collapsed."

-Royal tombs·······.

Royal tombs were basically refrained from being made luxuriously after the Tomb of Manin. But it doesn't even make it that way. A holding device is built to keep it from collapsing forever, unless someone intentionally damages it.

If such a royal tomb collapsed, it meant that someone had damaged it.

Of course, it is not that the royal tombs have never been damaged.

-Is it true that it collapsed recently?

"Yes, I was fine 20 years ago."

After the sanctuary was destroyed by Seo Mun-yeop, the queen, who had been wandering around, toured all the royal tombs and prayed for sins to the ancestors.

That was 20 years ago.

If anyone had damaged it in the last 20 years, it was most likely the first high priest.

"Some of the royal tombs have traps that attack those who do not have the royal lineage. That was the case with the collapsed royal tomb."

-I was going to go there secretly, but the trap was triggered and there were traces left. So I would have completely destroyed it and destroyed all traces of it.

"that's right."

Pietro remembered the time he fought the first group of high-ranking priests the other day.

The place where the first group of high-ranking priests fled after the battle was also the royal tomb. There, Seo Mun-yeop had succeeded in ambush the fifth high-level priest.

-He's investigating the royal tomb.

"Yes, I think so. It seems that you too are researching ancient history for clues to open the door. That's why it's like searching where the kings of the past have slept."

-Is there a clue he wants in the royal tomb?

"There are no royal tombs I know of."

Because the queen is the heir to the royal lineage, she knew the location of most of the royal tombs of the past. Of course, I've been to all the places I know.

"Probably, if there is such a clue left, it must be in a royal tomb that I don't know about, an era earlier than the Maninreung."

Pietro also thought that was right.

After experiencing the horrors of Maninreung, the royal tombs were simplified.

But even before that, many treasures were buried in the royal tomb. Among them, there must have been relics that recorded history. That's what the first high-ranking priest is aiming for.

Because the royal tombs were usually gathered in one place, the spatial coordinates were all similar.

Maninreung, which is now gone, was also nearby other royal tombs.

So, you can visit the royal tombs where the location is not specifically engraved.

Of course, just because it was similar, it was never as easy to find as the neighborhood next door. It takes a long time to find because you have to wander through time and space.

-It is a royal tomb before Maninreung. That's what we need to find.

"Yes, if you look for it, you will find traces of the first high priest. We will search and let you know if we find anything else."