Hunter of the Perished World

The next day, they were able to reach close to the rising Moscow.

Leona and Elizabeth were the only ones who could sleep at night in a gunship where there was no room for rest. And since they were both used to that, they didn't feel tired enough to cope with it.

A huge wall encircles the city itself, and within it lies the great city of Wargrave. Huge buildings, clean streets, street lamps, and sidewalks.

Many major cities have almost recovered forgotten civilizations, but it's just a simulation. It is natural that there are back alleys, gangs and crimes are rampant.

But what lay ahead was Wargrave's heart.

You feel a stuffed civilization within the walls just one step. Rather, some were more advanced than before the destruction.

Violence, murder, prostitution, drugs, cannibalism.

The land that castrated all of them.

A city of cliffs where only soldiers exist and only soldiers live.

Moscow.

Looking out the window at the magnificent figure, Leona was unable to keep her mouth shut.

“I'm not saying in this situation.... I don't know..."

In the age of destruction, buildings are synonymous with ruins.

Of course, Leona clearly saw that the building existed as a building, but everything was as new as if it had refused to wear out.

A building with clean windows appeared to be in an orderly fashion, enjoying what humanity would have deserved if it had not been destroyed here.

It had now come to Leona as a fantastic landscape, but there would have been only one thing to say if humanity had faced Moscow before its demise.

Crunchiness.

Wargrave's non-art buildings were built with a motto of efficiency and intuition, and the building was divided into squares, straight lines, blocks and blocks.

That's why Wargrave Command was a square city with absolutely no aesthetic.

Those who could not even perceive the satellites it gave were simply overwhelmed by the sight of Moscow.

“There's no response from the automatic pods. ”

At Charlotte's words, everyone realized it wasn't the only time to be fascinated by the city view.

“Let's set up a defensive perimeter and head into the city. ”

“Got it.”

In the direction of gin, Frey formed a refractive crest at the bottom of the gunship. There's no reaction yet to the automatic pods hiding on the wall, but I don't know when they'll strike suddenly.

“Is that our target? ”

“Yes."

Arc Palace,

The massive tower that rises in the center of the city was overlooking Moscow, though not as big as Burj Halifa. The experience of facing Wargrave's main mountain was enough to impress everyone.

Gene laughed at the sight of it, but only his own sense of sharpness in the city.

With the knowledge entered, Gene did not actually encounter the world before its destruction. However, the feeling of camouflage in this city was actually fake.

Gene was surprised to think of himself as an experience of knowledge and to have lived his whole life.

And glamour in the city.

Glamour.

It's not just the feeling that the city is crude new. Gene gains his sight and scours the entire city quickly.

Building.

Vehicle.

Traffic light.

“The city... Stop.”

Jean's words finally caught everyone's attention.

The city is packed with vehicles, and Wargrave hangars are flashing, but nothing is moving.

The vehicle is stopped.

As they crossed inside the city walls, they could see the strange camouflage that was felt in the city. Leona seems to know what she's seeing underneath.

“Man down! ”

“We're not alone. ”

If you look closely, the people in the vehicle were unconscious, and everyone on the road was still stuck. Elizabeth shakes her voice, her complexion turning pale.

“Everything…. They're all dead.”

None of the visible people had very little breath.

No, not just people.

Moscow.

It was already a land of death where no living ant even existed.

Cheerful!

[Welcome.]

Then the speakers inside the gunship began to spit out their own sounds.

[I cleaned it up beforehand because I can't stop you with that anyway, but I don't know if you like it.]

It was, of course, Carls' voice.

Charlotte and Jean are the only ones who understand that voice.

And it was Fray.

“You, you. It was you! It was you!”

[Ah, number one. It's been a while.]

Frey grits his teeth and shouts.

“Carlz, Carlz...! ”

Charlotte grits her teeth with bloodshot eyes and shouts.

“What the…. What are you doing? What are you doing? Why are you doing this? ”

[If I hadn't killed him, would you have killed him, would another process be important to those who would have the same ending?]

“You could have left them alone! This is between you and us! ”

[... What are you talking about?]

Carls' bold, indifferent voice continues to flow from the speakers.

[Where the hell are you and I gonna figure this out?]

If Charlotte has something she wants to solve, it's not worth caring about.

[This is between me and Gene. Isn't that right?]

Carltz sends a snide horse towards Charlotte.

[Gunship pilot.]

For Carltz, Charlotte was no more than a gunship pilot to get Gene here as soon as possible. Wargrave Command was already cleaned by Calz himself, so Wargrave meant nothing.

So is Charlotte de Calz, the Wargrave's enemy.

He was a meaningless man.

Khaltz was holding all the machines in Moscow at his fingertips, and at the same time hacked the gunship to take control.

The reason the automatic pods were unresponsive was because Kaltz had no intention of attacking them. The gunship that landed on the military training ground inside Moscow opened its doors on its own and ordered its passengers to exit.

Moscow's military training ground was relatively fewer bodies after all the combat troops left. Gene had no idea why he had killed all the people in Moscow.

Just a nuisance?

Even if Calz doesn't care about other people's lives, this huge facility only goes back to people.

I didn't think of a good reason to destroy my own foundation. If you want to face Jean's group anyway, it's enough to stand in the way of a gunship.

Of course, reporting on the return of the enemy and the extinct war and ignoring other miscellaneous procedures, but it was both unnecessary and too much slaughter because of that.

And how they died.

You can tell by just lying down without a scratch.

‘You can use your flesh. ’

It meant you could shoot out the waves of death. He may simply want to experiment with how much of his natural power he can handle.

Carls has shown me a lot already.

And Elizabeth also, through that vision, realized the power of Kalz. Elizabeth's role was to protect the entire party from the innate forces that Kalz would use rather than attack Kalz.

Elizabeth nods, as if she knows what to do. Don't worry about the Sorceress' gaze.

Soon after, the speakers on all sides of the training ground vomited Carlz's voice.

[Come inside the building. Jean, I just want you to come in.]

“ ……. ”

Gene is silent, and Carls' voice echoes once more.

[If it's okay for others to listen together, I'm fine.]

Gene takes a moment to look back at the group. These people weren't exactly those who needed Jean's protection. Gene looks at Leona.

“Leona.”

“Yes.”

“If you tell me not to listen, I won't listen. ”

It was a direct violation of the reason I came here.

If Leona wants it, Gene doesn't want to hear whatever Carls wants.

Whatever you are.

Whatever the devil is.

It was like saying that we would live in a world that was destroyed while keeping the truth buried. It's a confession about what Gene is most valuing right now.

“No.”

But Leona shakes her head.

“Listen.”

Whatever we talked about, there was a belief that the trust between them would not be broken.

“This is as far as I go. ”

There was a willingness to go and listen to everything and not deny Gene's choice to judge. With Leona's smile, Gene heavily nods.

“Thank you.”

Gene walks forward.

The group watches Jin vanish into the Training Ground building.

Charlotte grips her teeth.

‘What do you want, Carls? ’

Some people wondered about the truth.

Some of them were true, and some were good.

"I'll kill you in the most painful way in the world. ’

The eyes of the Sorceress continued to wait for a moment of struggle in silent hatred.

There are a lot of fallen soldiers in the training ground, and Gene walks into any room that Carlz says he doesn't care about the body.

Calz's voice flows from an internal broadcast speaker, as if location was not important.

[Charlotte must have explained it to you, right?]

“Yes."

Gene sits facedown in a chair with his arms crossed.

‘Do you have a microphone installed? ’

It was nothing new.

[If you have any particular questions, I'd like to answer them first. What do you think?]

“What is a demon? ”

[I thought you'd ask me what I was going to do first, but I'm surprised.]

“That sounds like a good thing. You're gonna die anyway. ”

[That's a lot of confidence.]

Gene closes his eyes slightly.

I think if I close my eyes, I'll just keep checking that Leona's out the window.

It was because I didn't want to be noticed that I was nervous.

[Good. As a result, everything I didn't tell Charlotte about the past is true. I needed a little lie about what I was trying to do.]

Why demons appeared, why the world had to be like this.

The destruction of the Parasource Project and why the world had to be like this ever since.

[After the mass confusion, the heavenly bodies came after most humans were destroyed by nuclear war. I don't know what it was like in the past, but it was the first time since the civilization.]

The thread is untied.

As the liberator wishes. Slowly.

The core has been given control over the number of monsters generated by the Godfather.

Created on the basis of biodesign, Eichmann was not interested in human survival. But the Godfather was in the hands of Xavier Beckem.

Eichmann's goal was to create an intelligent being far beyond human perception.

Even in humans, we wanted to evolve an organism that can surpass humans and survive in numerous living conditions, not only in limited conditions like humans.

That's why Eichmann did something else when he had no access to the Godfather.

What he did was to bring the planet's core to life. In the process, he pretended to follow orders from the Parasource project and did something completely different.

If Godfather was the head of Mechanical Engineering and was the head of Plan A, then he would play another important role in the core itself.

Originally, the core was a subconscious creature that was given a kind of mechanical role in producing monsters only when instructed by the Godfather.

But Eichmann didn't want that. That's why Eichmann created a thinking machine in his core, which soon became the foundation of free will in his core.

The first week of the book, 2080.

International political changes and clashes between nations caused by monsters prevalent around the world developed into nuclear wars, during which most of humanity died.

The Godfather was the sum of mechanical engineering, and the core was the sum of bioengineering.

Although they had completely different qualities, ironically, they both had the same mindset as computers.

Think and act as commanded.

Fear of core initiation, the Godfather detected that it was showing subtle movement without proper control, and reported it to the Parasource project.

And everyone knew it had something to do with Eichmann.

Eikinr Eichmann welcomed everyone with unshakeable eyes, with countless guns in front of him.

“Why do you think only the human world is the world? ”

“That's why I'm asking you what you did, Eichmann! What have you done to your core? ”

“I've instructed you to find the end of evolution. ”

“What?"

“If intelligent beings live, it doesn't matter if they're not human. ”

“What nonsense is that! So you're going to try to stop them all? ”

“If humans are so precious, why did you agree to my plan to kill so many others? You people are nothing to me. I thought you only said that with your mouth until now, but was I mistaken? ”

“Humans started all this to survive! What the hell are you talking about? ”

“Why do you love humans? If I love man, it's love for intelligence, not love for being human. If we are more intelligent than humans and have an advantage over survival, shouldn't we be able to survive? Can you point out which part of my speech is wrong? ”

Eichmann truly believed that. His plan has already begun and there is no turning back.

“Technology and science have too many possibilities to be consumed only by the survival of species. Why the hell are we studying terraforming? Wouldn't it be possible for a viable intelligent being to appear in any condition? Why do we have to go to space? Wouldn't it be better to survive in space? You should know. ”

Eichmann's madness was enough to freeze the researchers who surrounded him.

Everyone knew that he was crazy, but no one thought he was this crazy.

“You have abandoned so many possibilities to obsess over only humans. Why should humans be the only ones left alive when it's all over anyway? Why can't you choose the option of handing over the life that ends when you die and the life that ends when you die? Do you believe in the soul? Do you believe in euthanasians? That's too bad for all of us. ”

Eichmann laughed at everyone.

“A hell of an ideal hell awaits us, if that's the case. ”

“You're crazy, Eichmann. ”

Eichmann smiles.

“What about you?”

No one could argue with that.

So, all they could tell Eichmann was a single gunshot.

Unfortunately, Eichmann was wrong.

The soul was real.

He was a carousel student.

Following the death of Eichmann, a Parasource project researcher, the spirit returned to the Emperor.

In Eichmann's mind, he was able to uncover the existence of the Parasource Project. Because all the truths were shared by all spirits, all unconscious spirits felt the same anger.

Exactly after Eichmann died.

Genuine slow anger revealed itself to the world.

Unlike the slow appearance, the Emperor swept through the Parasource project like a storm.

The natural order disappeared after killing only humans.

A genuine hatred for the Parasource project disappeared, judging only humans, not caring at all about the machinery and the core of the Godfather.

The object of hatred and love to the natural world was not only humans, but the natural world did not know how to hate machines or how to love them.

Only two survived.

A Godfather who carries out ground orders to maintain the project.

A core instructed to find the end of evolution.

There were only two of them.

Human-made projects held the truth, but the world was doomed to another dawn.