Omniscient First-Person’s Viewpoint - Chapter 253

EP.253 Steel Country and Faceless People – 2

No one can commit crimes in a military country. Ordinary citizens, even if they were officers of the upper rank. The same is true even if you are the owner of a holding company.

If someone used their power and position to satisfy their own self-interest, if it was not a military state and squeezed out the blood of citizens to quench their thirst. On the night of a toast while sitting on a cushion of money, an uninvited guest arrives.

Executioner of the military, who uses the authority of the Ministry of Public Safety to direct the military police.

It’s over when Youngge Sieghurund visits. All the evidence is secured, and his position and property have already been expunged. The seungnyang, who usually act as if they will remove the liver and gallbladder, are afraid and buy themselves when they receive a warning from the public security.

It is said that the master’s swordsmanship is so clever that the opponent does not even notice that he has been cut. Something similar happens. By the time he noticed that the Ministry of Public Safety was watching him, his limbs had already been cut off.

Even if he tried to resist in desperation, his opponent was a six-headed man who had reached the peak of his strength and power. Even an officer cannot stand against his blade. The only emotion a sinner is allowed to feel is regret for committing a crime in the military.

However, there is one fact that no one knows.

Before the Ministry of Public Safety came, the prisoner had been visited by Sieghrund before.

He probably wouldn’t have looked like Sieghurund back then.

At the urging that the way to go was busy, ‘Carafald’ led us to the depths of the smelter.

It was a huge factory. The outer walls of the building were made of thick concrete, and white smoke billowed out like a volcano from a large chimney. It was such a large building, but not a single window could be seen from the outside. Instead, dozens of air vents and a single large steel door were languidly perched on the outer wall. When the thick door was opened, hot air rushed out from the inside.

And the inside of the Alchemy Steel Refinery was revealed.

“The Alchemy Steel Refinery is a large facility that converts flammable substances into Alchemy Steel. Decomposition classification refining process. It is divided into three categories: The decomposition process decomposes flammable substances by dialke or structural transformation. In the process…”

‘Carofald’ pretended to know to claim his usefulness, but his intentions did not work. It was because everyone was astonished at the uncommon sight unfolding before their eyes.

clap clap clap.

A man in chains walks along the rails. They follow where the hook leads them, their left arm held limply over their shoulder.

Their faces have neither expression nor life. Without even having time to look at the strange intruder, they head to the designated spot. It is difficult to breathe, and I stand in front of a rail where red molten iron flows.

Then the chain is pulled with a bang. The end of the chain is connected to the biological terminal. Like a hook pierced through the mouth of a fish, the hook hanging from the inside of the biological terminal controls the human body with pain that has become chronic.

“Ugh.”

With a dry scream, the laborer who couldn’t overcome the power of the hook stretches out his hand. In front of it is a half-melted piece of alchemical steel pig iron. A hook pulls the laborer’s hand toward it, like a child struggling with hot steam.

At this moment, even the laborer hesitates. Instinct as life warns us not to approach the red-hot piece of iron. however.

“Quaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!”

The chains are pulled roughly as if threatening. The tip of the hook that received the power stands out above the skin. Bright red wrinkles form on the stitched skin and are pushed away. It seems to exclaim that human skin is essentially no different from the hem of a garment.

The laborers who could not overcome their strength inevitably stretched out their hands. Toward the molten steel whose density is different from that of flame.

The skin ripens. To resist the sweltering heat that, if left unchecked, would turn one into meat.

You have to use alchemy.

“set! Lee Dealke! D-Arkee…!”

-Screams made through such a terrible process can be heard from all directions. There were so many screams that the Alchemy Steel was produced to supply the whole country.

It seems that alchemy failed somewhere. The smell of grilling meat spreads with a terrible scream. Bodily fluids burned and white steam rose to the top of the factory, took a look at the place from which it had come, and followed the wind to a faraway place out of sight.

The worst workhouse in the military that abuses them with survival and suffering as collateral… no, squeezes them.

The Alchemy Steel Refinery was a blasphemy that destroyed all the common sense that had been built up until now and laughed at morality and justice on the ruins.

“…this this this. It’s nonsense.”

The princess’s late response was because it took that much time to understand all these systems. The princess trembled with astonishment and trepidation.

“How could this be? Just how big of a mistake did these guys make? No, even if it is! This kind of thing!”

The regressor, relatively accustomed to the sight, finished with a frown.

“That’s why I didn’t want to come. It just hurts your stomach.”

[…Even the human farms that my followers had were not like this. Humans are sometimes worse than vampires.]

Even Tyr, a vampire, rated it that way, so I can’t tell you how severe this horror is.

‘Human beings have a new reaction when faced with an unusual sight. Humans are essentially like square boxes. An invisible box that shows different reactions depending on what is poured into its eyes and ears. Unless you’re God, you probably don’t know what’s inside that dark box. But with enough observation, it can be imitated.’

In the meantime, as if testing all of us, ‘Carafald’ is observing the reaction of the gathered humans.

‘Check reaction. Dangerous person X Shows a sense of deja vu. Have you ever been to a smelter in the past? If so, the negative feelings toward the military are also explained. Progenitor Tirkanjaka Admiration…? contempt? One thing is clear, the size of the reaction is small, probably because it has been through more chaos than this. and.’

After looking at the regressor and Tyr for a while. ‘Carofald’ took a clear interest in me.

“How is Huey?”

‘The Pied Piper of Hameln. What is your reaction?’

‘Carofald’ showed a sense of superiority to himself for infiltrating such a dangerous place.

However, that was acting to justify one’s actions from the perspective of the cast. He is watching me coldly on the inside.

why? There are so many dangerous people here right now, so why are you picking on me and being vigilant?

‘lack of information. Power not specified. Carafald explained that he was a simple genius with no special talents, but he won the top rank by beating the growth star and the survivor of Tantalus… If he was going to explain it as simple and end it, he wouldn’t have the taste of digging into it.’

I’m also popular with strange beings.

All information in the military goes through the zero line once. He has the right to be the first to read the information of the signal soldier, and there is even a single signal headquarters to assist him.

Because he gathered such information, he began to pay attention to me, who was in the dark area of information.

‘Even the musketeers betrayed the military and made the progenitor come out of the coffin. Is it a coincidence or is it your ability? Show yourself, Pied Piper. How did you seduce the supposedly strong man? How important it is to play a role…’

Yes. if that’s what you mean

I’ll show you.

I mean a completely different me than usual.

“It’s like this crazy country… What the hell do you think of humans?! How can you treat humans as insignificant tools?!”

As if I was indignant at human rights being trampled under the name of the military, I raised my emotions and shouted.

The princess, who was feeling similar feelings, agreed to my will, but the regressor instead sent a puzzled look.

“Eh? what is not the answer Have you even opened your eyes to humanity?”

“There is a mood to joke and there is a mood not to. Do you say that in the current situation?! Mr. Shay doesn’t even think about all this?!”

“uh? no. i just Because you’re more emotional than usual…”

That’s because it’s to deceive Yeong-Gwe! Don’t fret and stay still!

‘A sense of justice? Is the reason why you rebel against the military is because of a sense of justice? hmm. Judging from the reaction of the dangerous person, I’m still not sure. Let’s try a little more.’

‘Carofald’ pretended not to mean it and added a word without notice.

“Uh, this place is on the better side…”

A very elaborately calculated word. It’s a trap that a careless ‘Carafald’ would have said, but secretly dug.

I exclaimed joy inwardly. Selling traps means recognizing me completely as prey.

Then you should postpone hunting. I quickly stepped into the trap he had dug.

“Carafald What does that mean? If only it was better here. What’s next? What do you have?”

“The people in charge of this disassembly are relatively intellectuals. I learned the ritual magic and know how to do alchemy, so I took on a relatively comfortable mission.”

“Then what is the next process?”

When I asked, ‘Carafald’ answered indifferently.

“Those who know nothing about alchemy are working on the next process.”

It’s a contradiction. Alchemy steel is the result of alchemy. How can someone who doesn’t know alchemy smelt alchemy steel?

However, ‘Carofald’ stopped explaining there. More than this, it’s like you’re trying to guess.

‘He hasn’t stood out in the powerless part so far. Is it the role of a staff member? Let’s test our abilities.’

Sorry but that test. I got through all of them by cheating. As long as you know the answer, there is no problem that I don’t know about.

“You say you use alchemy when you don’t know how to use it? That could be…”

Yes. There is only one way to use alchemy without knowing how to use it.

Every military citizen who has come of age has one. One of the seven greatest inventions of the military that allows alchemy to be applied to one’s own body when inserted into a clothing packet.

I already knew because I read your thoughts. Still, I gave the correct answer with a look of disbelief at the answer I came up with, as if I had finally found the answer after much thought.

“Bio terminal…?”

‘answer.’

“They use human bodies as molds and pour molten iron into them…?”

‘Gathering fragmentary information and reasoning that far. It’s hard to see it as a mere genius. It would be more correct to see him as the staff member of this group.’

‘Carofald’ nodded his head, adjusting his evaluation of me upward.

“She knew it. Well, it was an easy problem for you, the head of the previous grade….”

Alchemy is a general term for the act of transforming other substances into useful substances by processing them. There is nothing special about it, but all living beings, including humans, are practicing alchemy every moment.

It burns the food it eats to get heat, and refines the residue to make blood and flesh. It is quilted all over the body.

Life is an entity that performs the most complex alchemy activity in the world.

“Your answer is correct, Huey. Life is the first element of alchemy… Then it is possible to do alchemy using life itself.”

If you go beyond this door, there will be people trapped in a narrow space like a chicken coop. Only the left arm with the biometric terminal is tied up outside the barbed wire, and bright red molten iron will continue to seep through it.

Unlike here, not even a speck of freedom will be given. Because they don’t have a problem working even if they don’t have freedom.

I spat out a word.

“You are completely crazy.”

It was sincere.

This smelter was not made with malice. As a result, even though it causes suffering to the laborers, it is only an incidental factor.

The reason why the army built this smelting plant was simply because it was necessary.

Because this country can only be nourished if there are enough pension resources to fill the military, and because the only way to create pension resources is to overwork countless humans. The military state exploits the prisoners to create a river of alchemy.

I looked at the figure of the laborer screaming in pain. Her clothes are clean, and her skin and hair are all falling off due to stress, but she has gained quite a bit of weight. The chains that bound them were also clean and free of rust. This is because it is a loss for the military state if the worker who needs to squeeze magic dies quickly.

There is no malice, injustice, or hatred there. Only cold reason drives humans into suffering.

He also knew why Carafald was able to infiltrate such an important facility. Even an officer, a high-level manpower, would not work as a supervisor here after losing his sanity, so he would have had to bring in outside manpower.

Then, he got caught by Yeong-gwe and became ‘Carafald’.

I cried.

“Let’s break it right now!”