episode_0019

“Hoo!”

Domi, a new recruit who had just entered the Guldari Guild, was in a state of mental breakdown from all the hard labor he had endured in prison.

He was only waiting for Undine to return after being healed, but unfortunately, he heard that Undine’s skills were just skills, so it wouldn’t be easy even for Harmon.

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‘But if it’s not Uncle Harmon, there’s no hope. I heard from Sister Isaiah. Uncle Harmon is the best in this area.’

Judging from the fact that he had made Isaiah a new weapon, Harmon was clearly the most skilled mechanic Domi had ever seen in his life, so Domi couldn’t help but place his hopes on him.

In such a situation, the reconstruction of the Harmon repair shop was suddenly carried out.

Because of this, Harmon naturally became unable to work, and I heard that he was living in a temporary residence provided by the Guldari Guild and only doing small-scale work.

‘We need to rebuild the garage as soon as possible!’

After hearing that, Domi blindly supported the construction of the maintenance shop, and is now working hard to rebuild the shop.

‘I heard that Arina was so valuable that they hid it away while they were rebuilding the garage so that no one would come after it.’

I could believe it because he said he asked Isaiah to hide it separately.

That’s why Domi poured all his energy into building Harmon’s repair shop quickly.

Moving heavy construction equipment here and there, handling it, welding the steel plates that will become the walls of the maintenance shop, erecting them on the ground, connecting them, stacking them, and compacting them.

State-of-the-art equipment that should have originally been powered by robots.

But without those robots, people had to use cutting-edge construction equipment to do the robots’ work, and as a result, construction sites were always horrific sites where sweat would drip down.

‘I’m glad I got to work out with Sister Isaiah!’

Domi was thinking about that.

He said that he has gained more muscle mass than before and that he can exert more strength.

‘I should thank my sister later.’

Suddenly, Domi thought of Isaiah and blushed slightly.

The image of a beautiful blonde with a great body was vivid in the young boy’s mind.

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* *

Undine’s most fearsome ability is her ability to create liquid.

‘I don’t even know what kind of technology was used or how.’

I heard that Undine takes various atoms floating in the air and creates the appropriate liquid at that time, but the amount of liquid Undine creates is too large to just say, “Oh, I see.”

It feels like it’s going to touch something fundamental in this world.

It seems like technology has entered the realm of the divine, as if humans have interfered with it.

That’s just for a combat humanoid?

That’s stupid.

‘Why would you use technology that can do whatever you want with the entire planet for something like that?’

Even Harmon could easily imagine it.

Manipulate water at will and create it at will.

A level of technology that would not be difficult to create and operate by building a massive facility and properly planning and operating it, thus submerging the entire world and bringing it to destruction.

Such techniques were applied to Undine.

‘It’s also obvious that someone took something from its head. It’s definitely not a simple entity made to be a humanoid for combat.’

Undine was probably created as a ‘test piece’ for the god-like technology that Harmon had imagined.

‘Well, that was a long time ago.’

As a mechanic. As a technician.

I couldn’t help but find it so interesting and captivating.

At the same time, it feels equally scary.

What if such an Undine were hostile to humanity?

What if you had the power to create liquids and use endless water and honey to captivate people’s hearts and fill their bellies?

That alone would make her reign like a god.

‘With just one Undine, I could control the world.’

That being is now in Harmon’s grasp.

It is impossible not to feel fear when you hold a nuclear power plant in your hand that could explode at any moment.

however.

And more than that.

Harmon coveted Undine.

I want to have her.

Not as ambiguous as it is now, but completely your own!

avarice.

This greed was always seething within Harmon.

The world was destroyed a long time ago.

Humankind, who can be called our ancestors, boasted of their brilliant technological prowess by reaching out to space, and ruled this Earth by covering it with cold steel.

Now all they have left is a cloud of dust, a drop of water, and a wasteland without a single plant.

That fact made Harmon unbearable.

It’s not about chasing after material things of the past that have no value anymore, like wealth and fame.

I don’t want something so trivial.

Harmon wanted it.

‘I want my own Earth.’

I want to hold in my hands the shining world of steel that preserves the glorious civilization of the past.

and.

‘That’s what you need, Undine.’

The ability to create water at will.

It’s so worth it.

Once I had it in my hand, I couldn’t let it be taken away or lost.

That’s why.

Kirik.

Harmon tightened the screws on the object he was making.

‘I have to improve little by little to get that. I have to make past techniques that have been used in practice my own.’

Learn. Study. Develop.

There was plenty of time.

Harmon is now 30 years old.

An age when most people would say that they’ve lived a long life, and have lived a long and good life in this damn world.

An age where it wouldn’t be strange to die at any time in that harsh world.

But Harmon believed that there was a longer time waiting for him, so he was able to use his time calmly without being impatient.

“Done.”

And the time poured out like that pays off for Harmon.

Harmon stood in front of the finished machine and sent a signal to the module built into his arm.

The module that received the signal begins to operate the machine in front of it.

Just as Undine manipulated Undine 05, Harmon created a similar object with his own power.

He smiled pleasantly as he watched the flat disc-shaped drone quietly rise up and settle down in front of Harmon.

‘It’s progressed a little bit again.’

30 years of life were spent building a foundation.

So let’s spend the rest of our lives pursuing our dreams.

‘There will be help for that from those around you.’

Before he knew it, Harmon was looking at the maintenance shop that was almost finished and holding his drone in his hand.

* * *

The Guldari Guild has developed.

What started out as a small gathering led by Flora gained the foundation to become a guild when they acquired a hospital, and from there they developed into a town.

At first, they were beaten here and there by surrounding forces because they only had hospital facilities and no combat facilities, but they calmly waited for the right time and increased their power by taking down the surrounding forces one by one.

We got along well while holding hands, but then we took over the food production plant from the traitors who hit us in the back of the head.

We took over the sewage treatment plant from the people who lived underground.

Because there was no other way, the fighting ability was to go on expeditions far away to collect various weapons and use them, and the infrastructure to thoroughly build a village was to be controlled.

First of all, I got my hands on a humanoid.

To be exact, the owner of the humanoid fell in love with Flora and joined the Guldari Guild.

Although it was a domestic humanoid, it was still a humanoid. That alone was enough to suppress the surrounding forces to a certain extent.

Thus, the first wall was built in Guldari Village, and recently, a second wall is being built.

Flora looked out over the second wall from the top of the hospital to see the sun setting.

“It starts now.”

It won’t stop here.

Build up greater power.

Build bigger towns, bigger cities.

It’s about building a kingdom.

“There are enough collectors.”

The first thing needed for that is talent.

Flora looked at the Harmon maintenance shop that had just been built and was having its completion ceremony.

“Great mechanics will also be trained.”

What’s needed along with the collectors are mechanics to make the machines they bring usable.

“Haaa.”

Flora exhaled pleasantly.

“Are you happy?”

Flora nodded to Isaiah’s question as he went up to the rooftop with her.

“I’m happy.”

Flora turned her eyes away from the village and looked at Isaiah.

“It’s been 10 years since we met, right?”

“Yeah. Other people think our relationship started after you built Guldari Village.”

Flora laughed.

Isaiah, who is still the same as when he was young and as he is now.

My heart fluttered as I recalled the brief relationship between the two.

“I heard the story of the city from you, the story of the kings who founded the kingdom, and it became my dream. Thanks to you, I, who was rotting away as a collector, was able to have a dream.”

Flora walked up to Isaiah and gently embraced him.

“Thank you. For giving me a dream.”

Flora’s eyes shine intensely.

“My dream begins now. Watch over me. I’ll show you how far the dream you gave me will go.”

A world that has been destroyed.

A world where everyone seems to live just waiting for the day they die because they were born.

In such a world, a small number of people were driven by the passion that swirled in their hearts.

The young boy believed that he was special and wanted to prove it.

A man born with the ambition to recreate with his own hands the glory of the most glorious days of mankind.

And one woman wanted to be the queen of this ruined world.

Isaiah looked up at the dust clouds that seemed to burn against the setting sun.

40 years.

I wandered in the wilderness for many years.

‘It’s the same here.’

Even in this world, people with shining aspirations are born. Despite having no dreams or hopes, they live in this world as if they are burning.

Sometimes it changes something, and sometimes it burns and dies.

I’ve seen a lot of people like that over the past 40 years.

‘It’s people like this who create big villages and lead big powers.’

Harmon is the same.

Repair shop.

That place is now Harmon’s kingdom. Even if the Guldari Guild sponsors them, which of the two, the Guldari Guild or Harmon, would those mechanics who love to tinker with machines, follow more?

No need to think about it.

So Isaiah tried to get the Guldari Guild to support Hamon.

To give him his own power.

‘Amelia, I’ve decided on Harmon.’

She hugged Flora, who was still hugging her, while thinking quietly.