Chapter 234.1 - Tutorial 55th Floor (4)
Chapter 234 – Tutorial 55th Floor (4)
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“Do you understand?”
“Yes.”
After lunch, a teacher called by the butler came by. Supposedly, he was a teacher who instructed the basics of Mado engineering, a rather arduous subject.
“Ahbooboo, do you understand this?”
[Yes.] Ahbooboo, who was in class with me, dressed in a flapping handkerchief in the air, replied.
Damn it.
[It’s normal that you don’t understand at your level.]
After a brief scuffle, I was able to get Ahbooboo’s consent. In hopes of getting his blade fixed, Ahbooboo had no choice but to obey me.
[In spite of your wickedness.]
“What?”
[Keeek!]
“What the fuck?!”
[Keeek!]
“Kee-ek!”
When Ahbooboo mimicked the frog, the frog couldn’t stay still, telling him not to copy what he says.
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After dinner, I came out of the room and headed outside the castle.
Ah, of course, I left Ahbooboo back in the room. He was still in the room with my teacher.
When I climbed onto the walls and looked out, I found the ground covered with red spirit stones.
There’s always a certain amount of power coming out of them. Naturally, it was very harmful if a person was directly exposed to such power.
People laid huge floors on the ground covered with pebbles, and the city was built on top of it. Here, the city was regarded as a single building.
I’d heard the backstory of the castle, something that was quite pitiful.
Outside the castle was a huge minefield; spirit stones covered the ground, stretching beyond the horizon. Workers, who looked as small as ants, labored throughout the day, transporting spirit stones to the city by railroad. The workers were all dressed in white, protective clothing.
I’d have to check out that protective suit later, and I’ll take one if possible.
“Kee-ek!”
“Yes. It really looks like an island.”
It was as the frog said. The castle looked like a small island isolated in a sea of spirit stones.
Of course, no other cities or villages existed around here. Ordinary people couldn’t live in such a harsh environment.
The dimension gate managed by Sung-Joo was the only thing that connected this solitary place to the outside world.
It was a sort of mining city. Through the dimension gate, people mined products, sold spirit stones, and imported other daily necessities.
It was a dangerous, lonely environment, but as rumor had it, people who dug up spirit stones could bring home quite a bit of money. As time passed, those who mined together formed their own society.
That was the history of this castle.
[What’s wrong?] Seregia asked.
Seeing this, I’m worried.
Perhaps the most valuable thing that we have gained from the tutorial was information about Earth. In Korea, the occurrence rate of monsters is low, so the damage caused wasn’t significant. Perhaps, because of that, there’s relatively little information about monsters.
There are two main threats that are now threatening Earth, gates that appeared unexpectedly, and monsters that were either leaked or naturally occuring.
When a gate appeared, nearby animals and plants would morph into aggressive monsters. Therefore, it was said that gates are most dangerous when formed in ranches or forests where livestock are abundant.
Maybe humans could be affected by the gate. This possibility was still being researched.
One more important piece of information was that small stones came out of the bodies of such monsters; the stones could be used as fuel.
When monsters began to appear around the world, the most dangerous spawning locations were power plants. The appearance of monsters in such areas caused unimaginable terror.
Supply of crude oil had been cut off. Mining, distillation, and distribution of crude oil all became difficult. In places like Korea, the main issue wasn’t aggressive monsters, but the inability to secure fuel and natural resources.
Against this backdrop, stone fragments from the monster’s body have become major sources of energy that can be procured anytime, anywhere. Even if I were to go back to Earth, kill all the monsters, and destroy the gates, not all the problems would be solved.
If they can’t find new energy sources, Earth would have to continue to rely on monsters. I imagined that Earth would look similar to this isolated castle. The people there were like the miners here, only able to secure a certain amount of safety with protective walls, while risking their lives to take spirit stones.
Of course, I wished that all the problems would be easily solved, but I’ve never seen things end well when I want them to.
This translation belongs to Centinni.
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