The Cook of a Perished World - Chapter 364
Episode 364: A royal castle covered in frost.
“You won’t die.”
A huge old man.
Those eyes vibrate at an incredible speed.
“What are you planning to do? No, are you planning to do it?…”
“I told you not to worry. “It won’t be a bad thing for you either.”
Items brought out by the clones.
I said as I took the item.
“You used to swear like that when you were cornered earlier.”
“I’m sorry….”
“And yet, I always pretended to be polite. “Seeing as how he saved the monster’s power when dealing with me… I think he’s quite a person who saves face.”
“….”
“Is that correct?”
“you’re right…!”
Grinning.
“So don’t worry.”
“…?”
“The president of the association will remain as a great figure in this association as he is now.”
The object I had in my hand.
He brings the dishes to his mouth.
“The people of this Gyeonggi-do depend a lot on the president of the association.”
“Uuuu…!?”
“The president of the association was actually a traitor, so they killed him… Regardless of whether you believe me or not. “If such a story becomes known, there will be many people who will be sad.”
In the first place.
Because of that, I was unable to tell others that this person was a traitor.
Gulp….
“What is it? “What did you feed me…!”
“cooking.”
Let me cook the food.
The president of the association took a bite of the dish and swallowed it.
“It’s definitely delicious…?”
He seemed briefly surprised by the taste.
“What is this… this.”
Within.
He spoke in a voice full of fear.
“What on earth is this feeling?…”
“So. “The president of the association will not die.”
“What on earth did you feed me…!”
“Rather, the same great person until now… no. “You will become a greater person than that.”
As my cooking began to seep into his body.
The old man cried and cried.
“What are you planning to turn me into…!”
“Well, I don’t know. “What can I say?”
To the old man’s question.
I smiled and opened my mouth.
“A great fighter who sacrificed everything for the survival of the people of the association.”
He continues to pour food into his mouth.
And then I thought.
‘It’s an urgent situation to survive every day, but… we have to prepare for what happens later.’
I may or may not be able to survive the immediate battle.
Nevertheless.
I had to think about what happened after I survived.
‘The human forces in Gyeonggi-do are very unstable.’
The association was originally an organization centered around the president.
So let him disappear.
It appeared to be shaking rapidly.
‘It was like that not long ago.’
Despite knowing the danger of this source.
Because they were different groups, they could not come together at all.
The members’ abilities and numbers were clearly not lacking.
The stability of the organization has become close to the worst.
‘Right now, they are rallying around me.’
I will return to Gangwon-do someday.
Because I was a [corps commander] and not an [association president].
If I have to be away someday.
Gyeonggi-do will once again revolve around the heads of each branch.
Even if they say they are in a cooperative relationship.
‘Unless there is someone who can be the center. Even the slightest chance can tear you apart.’
The only man capable of becoming a leader is General Cho Beom-seok.
General Cho lost his authority.
Now I am relying on my authority.
The moment I disappear, his authority as a commander will also disappear.
‘General Cho… His capabilities as a commander are excellent, but as the head of a group, there are many ambiguous aspects.’
It shouldn’t be like this.
For humanity to survive.
These people will become a major axis of human power.
This association must come together somehow.
‘Because a united association is definitely strong.’
…then.
All you need is one thing.
“You will bring the people of Gyeonggi-do together.”
“Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!”
Even if a person lacking authority takes over as leader. It was a consensus
… that could bring them together
.
“A hero who brought all Gyeonggi-do residents together as one. A symbol of human solidarity.”
“Please…”
“In the end, I lost everything in the process… but still,
I was once the person who was above them all.
The person on whom all the people of Gyeonggi-do are mentally dependent.
“A great association president who sacrificed everything for humanity!”
Even now, long after he went missing.
Without losing that authority.
A person whose name many people looked for in times of crisis.
The consensus that took advantage of him.
Crunch crunch.
I keep going.
He stuffed the food handed to him by the Vimanars into his mouth.
“If necessary, I will also erect a statue. “If there’s anything else you want, please let me know.”
“That’s him…”
“But… I can listen to everything else.”
Not even able to properly resist.
An old man who forcefully chews and swallows the food I put into him.
“rather!”
Kang San-i felt unfamiliar ‘emotions’ that were not his own welling up inside him.
He cried out in a miserable voice, with tears streaming down his face.
“I’d rather kill you…!”
“I can’t just listen to that.”
A person who put my family in danger and tortured them.
He’s not good enough to easily kill a guy like that.
* * *
like that.
After putting even the president of the association under the [Shadow Curtain].
The wound on my back has also recovered to some extent.
By the time I could slowly move.
[The duration of Berserker’s duration ends.]
Right in front of you.
A message came to mind.
“…ah.”
When I saw that message, I couldn’t help but be shocked.
Of course.
[The penalty due to berserk is activated.]
The effect of cooking has ended.
Because it also meant that it was time for the aftereffects to come.
[Serious aftereffects]
“Off… gasp…!”
A body that I thought was finally able to move.
I roll around on the floor again.
“!@%!@$!(@#!!!!!”
An excruciating pain assaults my entire body.
My mind turns white.
‘It hurts…!’
I knew that the aftereffects of [Berserk] were serious.
But this…
‘More than before…!’
It was even more serious
than the berserk I experienced before .
I could guess the reason.
‘Because I used berserk again before the aftereffects were over…’
The aftereffects of [Berserk] It lasts longer than 4 stacks of cooking.
But since we didn’t have much time,
I couldn’t even take the break I needed when I did 4 stacks of cooking.
I had to use Berserk with the aftereffects still intact.
‘Is this the result…!’
Pain is pain, but
I felt like my body was not controlling properly.
Maybe.
My physical abilities would seriously decline for a while.
That’s not all.
[Disappearance of true energy]
Inside my body I feel something that was there suddenly slipping away.
Unlike aftereffects that may recover over time.
Something that will probably disappear forever.
“Kruk.”
My body becomes heavy as if weights were attached to my limbs.
I take a step forward. It feels very difficult to even take a step
. Even to raise my hand lightly.
And what’s even worse is that
it wasn’t me, but other people.
“Seongju…”
“…?”
“The penalty… was… Dong.”
A being with a buff applied at a similar time as me.
The Vimanars opened their mouths as if they were about to report something. ”
Whoop!
” “….”
The body exploded.
A silver-grey liquid covered my face.
Purr. …
All the gray liquid that made up the spirit and body disappeared.
All that remained
was the core of the [Legion Droplet].
“Are you okay…?”
-Aftereffects… more severe than expected… Each…
It’s fortunate that only the cores remain. Even
when he crossed over that wall of fire, he was able to have a conversation.
Now,
he ‘s in a situation where he can’t even speak properly. That’s about it. These guys have added other dishes on top of that.’
At least they survived because they are living organisms whose life activities revolve around that core.
Maybe if I did something like that.
I would have died without making a move.
“Good job.”
I dragged my heavy body and picked up the cores in the shadows.
Then he turned his head and looked at the battlefield.
‘The expeditionary force is still fighting well.’
It looks like they are continuing to push against the monsters that are flocking towards them.
It looked like there was still some cooking buff time left over there.
If they hadn’t held on, other monsters might have attacked me while fighting the association president.
It was because of them that we were able to achieve victory against the president of the association.
But…
‘If the buff ends on that side, that’s the end.’
The average power will be stronger this way.
That’s why you can attack with that buff.
but.
‘The difference in absolute numbers is too big.’
Those monsters were still swarming this city.
I am an ‘environmental fairy tale’.
Yunseong somehow came to visit the president of the association thanks to the effect of the ‘Blade of Silence’.
‘It would probably be impossible for that expeditionary force to get through the monsters and get this far.’
okay.
The reason I came here in the first place was not to catch the president of this association.
‘While they hold out… we must lay the foundation for a reversal.’
Turn around.
Take heavy steps towards your destination.
Where the president of the association stood.
Behind it, an unidentified black energy was stirring.
‘The president of the association was merely a gatekeeper.’
This is the purpose of my coming here.
The culprit who brought about the destruction of humanity in Gyeonggi-do.
[You have found the gate.]
Fragments of a destroyed world.
Because it was there.
…
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_ He must have tried to stand.
‘Even from these guys’ point of view, being the president of the association would have been a powerful force.’
If you look at the fact that one person was given the role of gatekeeper guarding the gate.
It was said that they judged that the president of the association would be sufficient to play the role of gatekeeper.
But now.
The president of the association was buried in my shadow.
A huge wall of shadows.
I was troubled as I stood in front of him.
‘The president of the association… You said you decided to betray after seeing the power those monsters had.’
Although the army of monsters that the expeditionary force is fighting right now is powerful.
That force was a force that the Association might be able to overcome somehow.
Now that my strength has been added, the fight is being fought quite evenly.
If the president of the association had not betrayed him and the central branch and all associations had cooperated, we might have been able to push them out.
Nevertheless, the president of the association decided to betray.
The power he saw was not those monsters.
‘The power inside this… must be it.’
This is why.
I tried to save those Vimanars as much as possible.
You never know what kind of beings might be lurking inside that gate.
As a card to be taken out only in the last situation.
They were not mobilizing the power of the Vimanars.
‘The loss is great.’
To deal with the president of the association who even displays immortality.
We ended up mobilizing our power faster than expected.
“…Whew.”
My physical condition is the worst.
It will take a few weeks for the cards I was saving to recover.
In that situation.
We are in a situation where we have to attack the enemy’s base.
“What can I do? Damn it.”
If we waste time here, the expeditionary force will eventually not be able to withstand and will collapse.
You die then, but you die a little sooner, but it’s the same.
‘You already realized this in the early stages of destruction, right?’
In order not to die.
You must prepare for death.
“It’s really… a shit world.”
I am engulfed in tension.
I threw myself into that black curtain.
* * *
[Frosty Castle – Ariant]
[A ruined world where eternal winter has come and all life has disappeared.]
[It is a frost-covered castle, the home of the evil spirits who destroyed the world.]
[It once had a beautiful appearance. The world that was kept was destroyed by evil spirits that appeared one day.]
[When the god of Ariant saw the world completely frozen, he disappeared in disappointment, and the destruction continued for a long time.]
[But all worlds have a lifespan.]
[Worlds that existed for a long time even after destruction reached the end of their lifespan and began to swim in the gaps of the world, destroyed.]
A message that blocks your eyes.
but.
There was no time to read the message.
Hwaaaaaaaah!!!
The moment you enter the gate.
Filling my eyes.
[Combat Power Meter]
“…!”
Dark colors that seem to have been painted over countless times.
With those magical lights that are beyond powerful.
“Ah…damn it.”
Standing with that magical power.
Hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands…
maybe even hundreds of thousands.
“At this level, it was enough to betray me.”
Mighty monsters.
Because he was looking down at me.