Novel Will Be Taken Down on 17 May or Earlier Chapter 71 - I can't sit back and watch (2)

This wasn’t a story we should exchange on parchment.

 

Clink–

 

“I missed this scent.”

 

But it wasn’t a carefree story that we could talk about while sitting face to face and exchanging a cup of tea either. Formality and manners were important. Marcelo savored the tea and continued.

 

“As you may have guessed, Qirnberg Machine Tower is the architecture of the dwarves.”

 

…How can I just take this important story for granted!

 

Yes, the brilliant technology that melted into the Qirnberg Machine Tower.

 

It was the touch of the dwarves.

 

‘…Is this for real?’

 

Dwarves.

 

From the time Arcana was just a game until now.

 

They were nothing short of legendary.

 

There had been some sightings of elves.

 

But I really hadn’t seen any information about dwarves.

 

– Doesn’t it just appear later for the sake of balance??

 

– ㄹㅇStuff like dwarves’ weapons are already pouring outㅋㅋ

 

– If you think about the legend, I don’t think it’s wrong???

 

Yeah, all that was said about it.

 

A legend handed down from mouth to mouth.

 

Dwarves’ equipment was difficult to obtain even if you pay billions of dollars.

 

Dwarves’ brilliant technology was comparable to magic.

 

Therefore they became a victim of a balance patch.

 

…Now that I think about it, there’s nothing wrong with that, right?

 

‘The technology of the machine tower was comparable to that of the Mage Tower.’

 

There was no way Marcelo would say anything unwise.

 

The Qirnberg Machine Tower seemed to fit the dwarven architecture.

 

“Well, that kind of technology is rare.”

 

Let alone being able to guess it.

 

I was surprised that the dwarf race was suddenly mentioned.

 

Of course, I didn’t express it.

 

Marcelo nodded and gave me a hand.

 

“The dwarves’ technological prowess that has reached its limit is comparable to that of magic. Their direction is just different from that of the Mage Tower. I can understand their feelings of longing and polishing their skills.”

 

If the mages explored magic for truth.

 

Dwarves pursued technology.

 

For a moment, Marcelo’s words seemed to connect with something.

 

“So may I ask what happened at the Qirnberg Machine Tower?”

 

A formal and courteous question followed.

 

Satisfied with that attitude, I replied.

 

Starting with the story of the rupture.

 

The story of the quest.

 

“I witnessed the Arcana continent in the space of oddity, the rupture.”

 

“…!”

 

“As you’ve also guessed, the demons were running wild.”

 

“That…!”

 

It was a reaction of having a concern become a reality.

 

Marcelo sighed.

 

Then he continued with difficulty.

 

“I can’t lift my head. I can’t do anything.”

 

Mage Tower, the hidden story behind it.

 

Though I still didn’t know their exact circumstances.

 

I could be more certain with the current response.

 

‘You can’t intervene even if you want to.’

 

The situation must be serious.

 

Chief mage, an influential figure in the tower.

 

Even Marcelo was tied up.

 

So I got motivated again.

 

Whether it was through quests or whatever.

 

If could solve the story of the Mage Tower…!

 

‘The Mage Tower can be a great ally.’

 

It would be a huge reward.

 

Therefore, I couldn’t solve it right now.

 

Didn’t I say it?

 

Even Marcelo, far from solving it.

 

He couldn’t even say anything.

 

As I always did.

 

I’d be patient and wait for the right time.

 

Clink–

 

I put down the teacup and continued.

 

“But I also witnessed possibilities.”

 

Marcelo, who blamed himself.

 

There was something that would surely comfort him.

 

Anticipation showed on Marcelo’s dry face.

 

“…What possibilities?”

 

“I interfered with the Arcana continent through the rupture.”

 

“…!!”

 

Of course, even if I witnessed the Arcana continent in the next rupture.

 

There was no rule stating I could interfere with it again.

 

Well, I wasn’t wrong.

 

I didn’t forget the details of the story.

 

“Qirnberg Machine Tower is Akshan’s decisive weapon and will hunt demons until its pride runs out. As much as we acknowledge the technology of the dwarves. You should relieve a little of your guilt, too, Marcelo.”

 

The story of Akshan naturally had to come out.

 

‘I have no reason to hide it.’

 

And even if I did want to hide it, could I do that?

 

There was no such thing as dishonorable behavior in Grandfel’s dictionary.

 

Marcelo seemed to need time to think.

 

“…Thank you for your kind words.”

 

A lot of stories had spilled out.

 

Now that I looked at it, preparing the tea was an excellent choice.

 

I’d be thirsty if I hadn’t.

 

“Well.”

 

Clink–

 

Perhaps he felt the same way.

 

Marcelo lifted an empty teacup and put it down.

 

I spoke generously.

 

“Would you like another drink?”

 

“No, I can’t trouble you any more than this…”

 

“From green tea to Solomon’s seal tea. Which one would you want?”

 

A collection of tea bags was neatly arranged on the table.

 

In other words, those were sales items full of pure integrity.

 

Marcelo slid his big eyes and opened his mouth.

 

“…Then I’ll have barley tea.”

 

“An excellent choice.”

 

“Thank you.”

 

“I will take this tea as well. It doesn’t smell bad.”

 

“Gosh, I am so shameless. Last time, you told me about the existence of rocket delivery. Actually, I wasn’t ready to accept the new knowledge.”

 

Ready to embrace new knowledge.

 

At best, how to use a smartphone.

 

Don’t you need to know how to shop with your smartphone?

 

“Is that so? If you have any questions about it, feel free to ask.”

 

As if it was something grand.

 

Feel free to ask.

 

No matter how hard I thought about it.

 

As time goes by, this shamelessness goes too far, really…

 

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Office.

 

Marcelo paced in his office for a long time.

 

His mind was complicated.

 

He couldn’t sit down easily.

 

Marcelo lowered his head.

 

“What should I do, Tower Master?”

 

He knew there would be no answer.

 

His head was so complicated that he felt he would explode if he didn’t talk to himself.

 

The situation in the Arcana continent?

 

He had guessed it.

 

The shock was not significant.

 

The helplessness of not being able to step up?

 

It didn’t just happen for a day or two.

 

He could handle it.

 

Besides, there was a possibility.

 

The possibility of saving the Arcana continent.

 

Didn’t Hoyeol witness it?

 

Yeah, that wasn’t the reason his brain was complicated.

 

“…Akshan.”

 

Yeah.

 

The name that popped out of Hoyeol’s mouth, Akshan.

 

Complicated thoughts began to make him worry.

 

‘Qirnberg Machine Tower is Akhshan’s decisive weapon. It was the weapon of the demon hunters. That decisive weapon was activated by Sir Hoyeol to save Arcana…’

 

He managed to sort out his thoughts.

 

The meaning of those words was simple.

 

Hoyeol was a demon hunter.

 

Marcelo laughed bitterly.

 

“…Why are you making me indebted to you again?”

 

Akshan.

 

And the demon hunters.

 

To them, the Mage Tower had a debt they couldn’t repay.

 

Marcelo groaned.

 

“I didn’t even know…!”

 

Without knowing the existence of the debt.

 

He was indebted to Hoyeol once again.

 

The feeling as if his heart was being ripped apart.

 

It was a distinctly different feeling from helplessness.

 

Yeah, this was real guilt.

 

Clench–

 

Marcelo clenched his teeth.

 

“No, I don’t even deserve to be sorry…”

 

Akshan.

 

Demon hunters.

 

And the holy war.

 

If he thought of the trials Hoyeol must have experienced in the past… Marcelo was once again impressed.

 

“How can he be so calm?”

 

How could he not be agitated?

 

He couldn’t understand it even if he thought of different situations.

 

Marcelo looked at the tea bag in his hand.

 

– Take this tea, too. It doesn’t smell bad.

 

And he thought.

 

‘…If I was Sir Hoyeol.’

 

Could he have shown such mercy?

 

Marcelo wasn’t confident.

 

He couldn’t even fathom Hoyeol’s vessel.

 

But one thing was certain.

 

“I can’t stand it any longer, Tower Master.”

 

He couldn’t be indebted to Hoyeol anymore.

 

He couldn’t hear Tower Master’s answer, but Marcelo was sure.

 

“Now that I know where Sir Hoyeol came from. I’m sure Tower Master would make the same decision as I do.”

 

So, he had no intention of hesitating.

 

A roundtable meeting was scheduled to resume.

 

Marcelo intended to detonate the bomb at the meeting.

 

He had enough justification.

 

Well, thanks to Hoyeol, didn’t he witness the possibility of the ruptures?

 

Creak–

 

Marcelo opened the drawer.

 

“Now I don’t even deserve mercy.”

 

He put the tea bag in a drawer free of dust and objects.

 

He didn’t know when he would open this drawer again.

 

But one thing was certain.

 

A different flow would unfold in the Mage Tower.

 

Marcelo recited in a low voice.

 

“The elder mages better prepare for it, too.”

 

*

 

Qirnberg Machine Tower rupture!

 

From the beginning to the end.

 

No one expected this to happen.

 

Including AAU.

 

“Sunbae, I think I will just resign.”

 

“Resign? Why do you want to resign all of a sudden?”

 

“There has to be a limit to suffering!”

 

Sung Hyunjoon thought it was unfair.

 

There was nothing great about AAU.

 

Arcana used to be just a game,

 

The same was true when he was the developer of Arcana.

 

“No, only common sense allows us to know a lot!”

 

Since the time when Arcana was just a game, it was all about money.

 

It was a given that information about Arcana made money.

 

So, the security of the content had to be thorough.

 

Just because he was part of the development team, not all information could be known.

 

It might be different in the case of the missing CEO Raymond Sean….

 

Anyway, everyone knew for sure.

 

“Why do they keep asking! To this innocent me!”

 

Scratch–

 

Sung Hyunjoon scratched his head.

 

Having suffered from the same pain.

 

Yoon Sookyum replied indifferently.

 

“Everyone must be frustrated. They must be curious.”

 

“I don’t care! I’m dying of frustration! No matter how many times I tell them, they still call me from dawn…”

 

“Then just quit. There will be no freedom, though.”

 

“You’re too cold-hearted, sunbae. I feel sad. I’m sad.”

 

“If you have time to lament the new world, look at this.”

 

“What is it?”

 

“What else, it’s Lee Hoyeol.”

 

“Ah, seriously! You too, sunbae?!”

 

Lee Hoyeol.

 

He felt like he heard that name three times more than his own name.

 

Creak–

 

Sung Hyunjoon grumbled and dragged a chair.

 

Then, he saw Hoyeol coming up on the monitor.

 

“What? You subscribed to Park Hwigang, too?”

 

“Lee Hoyeol’s fan videos are amazing. Anyway.”

 

It wasn’t the point.

 

Qirnberg Machine Tower was in the background.

 

The mouse cursor hovered over the background.

 

“You can tell right away, right?”

 

“I know. Qirnberg Machine Tower. I don’t know what it is.”

 

“Exactly. That.”

 

It was as Sung Hyunjoon said.

 

They knew, but they didn’t know exactly what it was.

 

Because it was the limit of AAU’s information power.

 

Even if it made them look incompetent, it was unavoidable.

 

“We were going to use that a long time later. Originally.”

 

“Right. We didn’t know how to use it.”

 

“Raymond, that bastard must have known, right? That nasty guy…!”

 

“Anyway, there are testimonies from the players about it.”

 

Players’ testimony.

 

It was from the moment of the rupture clear.

 

The message that appeared.

 

[Someone had discovered the secret of the Qirnberg Machine Tower.]

 

[Qirnberg Machine Tower starts a counterattack.]

 

Sung Hyunjoon was furious for a moment.

 

“Yes! I thought I was going to die because of that! Of course, it has to be Lee Hoyeol. They asked and I answered nicely. They said they knew that. No, then why did they call? What the hell?”

 

Why would they call him?

 

Yoon Sookyum moved his mouse.

 

The mouse cursor pointed to the second line.

 

Sung Hyunjoon spoke passionately again.

 

“I’m curious, too. I don’t even know what the Quirnberg Machine Tower is. How am I supposed to know what the decisive weapon is for? Sunbae understands how I feel, right? Right?”

 

“No, not there.”

 

“What? Not the decisive weapon?”

 

When he looked again, the cursor was pointing to the back.

 

“…Start a counterattack?”

 

Yoon Sookyum said meaningfully.

 

“System messages don’t lie. It is a promise.”

 

“Is that so?”

 

“So that message must be true, too.”

 

Start a counterattack.

 

Sung Hyunjoon was startled after reading the message again.

 

“…Wait a minute, sunbae. The counterattack started?”

 

“Yes, in other words,  the counterattack began not in the reality that we are in, but in the Arcana continent where the Qirnberg Machine Tower exists. Hyunjoon, you know what that means, right?”

 

“O-Of course!”

 

The situation in the Arcana continent?

 

He could predict it even if he couldn’t witness it.

 

Time passed four times faster than reality.

 

The growth rate and power of demons were faster than the passage of time.

 

Just by looking at the fallen Frost, they could see that the hypothesis was not wrong.

 

Therefore.

 

Sung Hyunjoon carefully opened his mouth.

 

“If the system message is correct…”

 

“On the Arcana continent, which would be close to living hell. A significant counterattack has begun that even the system has no choice but to admit. It’s thanks to someone in the message. Yes, it’s thanks to Lee Hoyeol for uncovering the secret of the Qirnberg Machine Tower.”

 

“…Sunbae. Isn’t this unusual?”

 

“Yes, it’s no ordinary matter.”

 

Maybe what Hoyeol had done right now.

 

“It would be mankind’s first counterattack against this shitty situation.”

 

The reality, as well as the Arcana continent.

 

It was the first counterattack in both worlds.

 

Even if the world didn’t know that yet.

 

Hoyeol, the person involved, must have known.

 

In that sense, those two had no choice but to admire.

 

“If I were him, I’d tell the whole neighborhood.”

 

Shake.

 

“No, not the whole neighborhood. I would have spread it all over the world! Isn’t Lee Hoyeol’s personality unique? Sometimes he’s like an attention seeker, and other times…”

 

“Hyunjoon. If the internet heard it, they would call it blasphemy.”

 

“…What? Blasphemy?

 

“Yeah, the word Homen didn’t come out for no reason.”

 

“I can’t even joke properly about Lee Heyeol. Seriously.”

 

Sung Hyunjoon sighed and glanced at Yoon Sookyum.

 

“…No way, you don’t do things like that, do you, sunbae?”

 

Yoon Sookyum playfully prompted.

 

“Homen?”

 

“Ah, sunbaeee!”

 

*

 

…My ears felt ticklish.

 

I wanted to pick on my ears.

 

I couldn’t.

 

Tap tap–

 

Because I had just stepped into the nature of Frost.

 

It was the formality of knowing the time and place.

 

Yes, in Frost, my relationship and influence reached the maximum.

 

Thanks to that, I had to check the activated [authority] function.