Ch.396Chapter 396 – The Identity of the Invader

As I approached the being subdued by Cheonhyeryeong, I could see it flinch at my approach.

I wonder how badly she beat him up that he’s startled just by me walking over.

“Who are you?”

I approached the guy whose face was beaten to a pulp and spoke to him.

Now that I’m closer, I can see that despite the swelling, he’s actually quite handsome.

“……”

He maintained his silence despite my question.

“I’ll ask again. Who are you?”

“……”

He continued to remain silent despite my repeated questioning.

I don’t need to show mercy or tolerance to someone who threatened my life, but I still need to extract some information from him.

It would be cleaner to kill him afterward to eliminate any future problems, but I haven’t gotten the information yet, so I’ll have to wait.

“I’ll ask one more time. Who are you, and why did you cause this situation here?”

“……”

Seeing him consistently maintain his silence, I have to admire his guts.

“Cheonhyeryeong.”

“…!”

“Hit him one more time to make him talk.”

“Would one hit be enough? If I beat him repeatedly, he’ll surely open his mouth.”

Cheonhyeryeong rolled up her sleeves, clenched her fist, and approached him to fulfill my request.

The guy’s face turned pale, and he finally opened his mouth.

“M-my mouth is swollen, making it difficult to speak!”

“So you can talk after all?”

Indeed, violence solves everything.

If something isn’t solved, perhaps there wasn’t enough violence?

As soon as Cheonhyeryeong approached with her fist clenched, he started talking.

She and I were able to hear in detail what caused this incident.

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A single dimension consists of countless universes.

Universes expanded from the Big Bang that started from a small point.

Some universes expand infinitely and freeze, while others expand and then contract back to their starting point.

Some universes perish along with black holes when the power of the black holes becomes too strong.

And the beings of some universes extend their hands of invasion toward beings of other universes.

Crossing from one universe to another is impossible by common sense.

A civilization that conquered an entire universe questioned this.

‘If it’s possible to conquer one universe, wouldn’t it be possible to cross over to another?’

Conquering an expanding universe through physical means is impossible.

For a civilization that achieved the seemingly impossible feat of conquering a universe, recognizing the existence of other universes wasn’t particularly difficult.

Therefore, the civilization that conquered the universe researched methods to apply the laws of their universe to other universes while observing them.

‘Implementing our world’s laws in other worlds.’

What was created in this process was the ‘Law Implementation Engine.’

The Law Implementation Engine was, as the name suggests, an object that could implement the laws of their world in other worlds.

Through this device, created with technology called ‘Non-Common Sense Physics’ that defies conventional understanding, the universe-conquering civilization finally took its first step toward invading other universes.

And the first target of that invasion was the world managed by Epitrina.

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“So, you’ve been conducting small-scale invasions through this Law Implementation Engine until now.”

“Y-yes! That’s right.”

This guy’s name was Bellen. He carried the grandiose title of Commander-in-Chief of the Universe Invasion Force.

Bellen’s abilities were also forcibly granted through the Law Implementation Engine; originally, he had no abilities at all.

“Why invade this world with the Law Implementation Engine? If you’ve conquered an entire universe, there shouldn’t be any reason to invade another universe.”

No matter how I think about it, if they’ve completely conquered one universe, there’s no need to invade other worlds.

I mean, after conquering and developing that vast universe, shouldn’t they, you know?

Take some time off, rest, and enjoy leisure activities.

How can someone keep conquering all the time without taking breaks?

“I don’t know if there’s a similar saying in this world, but we have a saying: ‘Prok continues to eat even when full.'”

“Continues to eat even when full…”

That sounds exactly like ‘human greed knows no bounds, and they repeat the same mistakes.’

“So even after conquering one universe, you’re not satisfied and covet another universe?”

“That’s right. In any case, world invasion involves deploying bioweapons that follow orders without intelligence, so the actual commanding officers don’t have to shed blood.”

Hmm, these guys are more serious than they appear.

By bioweapons, he seems to be referring to the monsters that emerged from the portals.

“But we’ve wiped out all the monsters you sent.”

“That was merely our misjudgment. We believed we could sweep through if we deployed portals in earnest and sent in troops.”

“So, all these portals here are for invasion?”

“Yes.”

Bellen began to reveal secrets without any hesitation in response to my questions.

“How many enemies can one portal release?”

“One portal can release up to 1,000 troops. There are about two hundred portals currently deployed here, and later…”

When Bellen trailed off and tried to avoid answering properly, Cheonhyeryeong gently raised her fist.

“F-five thousand! We planned to simultaneously create five thousand portals for a surprise attack.”

“Five thousand?”

If each portal releases a thousand monsters, that’s a staggering five million.

Five million is no small number.

China’s People’s Liberation Army, with a population of 1.5 billion, has a standing army of 1.9 million.

The force they can mobilize is more than twice that amount.

And these monsters are treated as anomalous phenomena that can only be dealt with by Aura or magic.

In other words, if everything had gone according to plan?

About five million monsters would have swept across the continent.

Five million is more than enough to wipe out the continent.

Because there aren’t that many people who can face monsters that can only be killed by Aura and magic.

Even though there are ability users who received gifts from the gods, they too need time to grow.

Even if we desperately try to stop them, the other side just has to click “Deploy Troops!” and their forces are replenished.

“But we also made a misjudgment. We didn’t know such powerful individuals existed here.”

“Hmm.”

That’s… true, right? The Cheonma is fundamentally an irregularly strong being.

From our perspective, the Cheonma is like a walking natural disaster, and it must be the same for them.

“Is individual combat power weaker there than here?”

“About that…”

When he trailed off again, Cheonhyeryeong raised her fist once more.

“…it might take some time, but of course I should tell you. Hehehe…”

Tsk, always need to raise a fist to get answers.

“To explain, in our world, individual combat power can be considered weak. As technology advances, we prefer overwhelming superiority through technology rather than individual combat power. After all, no matter how good a fighter is, they can’t block hundreds of thousands of bullets, can they?”

In summary, while their individual combat power is lower than ours, they can maintain an almost infinite onslaught based on their technology.

But no matter how high individual combat power is, can it continuously handle an infinite onslaught?

That’s why they chose a strategy of gaining overwhelming advantage through technology rather than increasing individual combat power.

If the opponent could also choose a war of attrition, it would be easy to block, but in a world like ours, composed only of a small number of elite powerhouses, there’s no proper way to deal with them.

‘No, there is a way.’

To eliminate their leadership before the war intensifies.

That would end everything.

“I think I’ve gotten all the information I wanted, but why are the portals stopped?”

“All portals are created according to pre-planned schedules. The destruction of a single portal is considered resistance from indigenous forces, but if one is destroyed during simultaneous multiple portal creation, it’s seen as a problem, and an investigator is dispatched for field investigation.”

“And that investigator is you, right?”

“That’s correct.”

From what Bellen said, these guys were not something we could handle on our own.

So what did I do?

[Leave such matters to us experts. Don’t worry, we’ll take care of everything.]

“Thanks, Dearside.”

Since such matters require experts, I called Dearside, an expert in these… matters.

I handed Bellen over to Dearside and shared the information I’d obtained. Dearside accepted my request without hesitation.

As a bonus, he destroyed the portals being created here with just a wave of his hand.

[I’ll let you know the results after I deal with these guys soon. I’ve been itching for action, so this works out well.]

Then he grabbed Bellen by the collar and vanished in an instant.

This is why they say you should build good connections throughout your life.

Thanks to that, I was able to safely overcome this crisis as well.