Ch.9090. A New Enemy

About a week after my Hive Titan was buried underground due to a completely unexpected inspection…

‘Oh, that person succeeded too.’

I was in the middle of reviewing the list of people I had replaced this week for a mid-term assessment.

Recently, I’ve been quite bold with my replacements for public opinion manipulation, and the results have been outstanding.

How outstanding? Well, at this rate, I could easily replace the entire leadership of South Korea with monsters.

Just looking at members of the National Assembly, I’ve already taken control of all the key figures in both the main opposition party and the third opposition party. In major media companies, there are at least dozens of journalists who have been replaced.

In the courts, judges and prosecutors of significant rank have already been abducted and replaced by monsters, and the same goes for major law firms.

Any situation where people are temporarily isolated from society in group settings—whether it’s training camps, new employee orientations, or just regular training sessions—presents a high possibility for replacement.

Especially recently, with advancements in replacement technology, the procedure or creation of specialized monsters takes only 8-12 hours, making replacements even easier.

So while I’m happily expanding the scale of replacements and taking control of South Korea’s leadership, I’m also secretly constructing something in an underground space hidden by a psychic storm.

This oval-spherical object—500 meters long, weighing 380,000 tons, 80 meters high and 80 meters wide—is actually a spacecraft, specifically designed to land on the moon and terraform it.

Its exterior is completely coated in smooth metal, making it hard to believe it’s a spacecraft, but that’s far from the truth.

The true identity of this spacecraft is something closer to a massively enlarged vessel.

Right now, since I haven’t connected to it yet, it’s just an enormous metal mass without any functions… but if I possess this vessel, everything changes.

Thanks to its hollow interior, I can deploy my sub-dimension core, and eventually this sub-dimension will infiltrate the entire spacecraft.

When that happens, this 380,000-ton massive metal object becomes a mobile sub-dimension that I can freely manipulate at will.

Although it falls far short of the omnipotent level I have in the psychic dimension due to the limitations of deploying a sub-dimension in reality, it’s still vastly superior to the sub-dimension deployment I used against Yusea before.

As long as I stay within the 380,000-ton mass and size, I can truly manipulate it however I want.

I could process the entire spacecraft into a super-massive energy cannon to fire city-erasing shots, or fill it with thousands of Grade 1 monsters for defense—though created monsters can’t be maintained outside the sub-dimension.

Since the energy for these actions can be drawn from the psychic dimension, I essentially gain powers approaching transcendent authority, limited to this vessel.

Of course, the vessel is still incomplete for such intense movements, so it will need continuous calibration.

Anyway, one day while I was delicately calibrating the vessel and restoring my reduced forces…

(Mention)

‘Teio? What’s the matter?’

(Intruder)(Occurred)(Human)(Repelled)(Anger)

A surprising message came from Teio, whom I had completely forgotten about since he was handling things well without any incidents.

※ ※ ※

When I shifted my gaze to Teio’s domain, the jungle located in North Pyongan Province…

‘Wow. It’s developed this much?’

The interior of the jungle had been developed as splendidly as an elven city from a fantasy novel.

Houses made of tree sap and mud bricks, or wooden structures, were built between the tall jungle trees, connected by various types of bridges allowing numerous lizardmen—Dragonians—to move freely between buildings.

These buildings were hidden by relatively short trees covering the ground, making it impossible to see what was above from below.

Of course, the original lizardman cities still existed, but with Teio’s help, they had become closer to planned cities with natural materials, regardless of shape or form.

Grid-like roads with aqueducts running above buildings, a colosseum and massive theater built to one side, and an even larger and more magnificent Aztec pyramid-like temple.

On the streets, carriages pulled by Triceratops monsters or two Gallimimus-like monsters transported processed fish and tropical fruits produced externally.

The scene gave off the feeling of a vibrant ancient city, and I didn’t want to break away from this appreciation.

So I dispersed part of my consciousness and sent it down to the underground of the temple—

‘Are these them?’

(Affirmative)

In the underground prison beneath the temple, about five severely mutilated corpses were carelessly strewn about.

You might wonder why I use expressions like “about” or “amount,” but the reason is simple.

Having fallen victim to monsters—Dragonians—with an instinctive hostility toward humans, the excessively violent Dragonians had torn the bodies to pieces and even eaten parts of them.

Fortunately, Teio must have given instructions to separate the equipment from the bodies, so I tried to check their identities through that.

First of all, they were obviously not civilians.

According to Teio, they were discovered at a tropical fruit farm inside the jungle where mid-level wild monsters roam, and they used psychic abilities at the level of mid-grade monsters while resisting.

So I could determine they were at least hunters or related personnel, and looking at their equipment or possessions might give me an idea of who they were…

…No, I need to correct myself.

‘What are these…’

Their possessions revealed no evidence of their identities.

There were no personal items at all, and all their equipment—power suits, energy weapons, etc.—were completely uncustomized, mass-produced items for civilian hunters.

At first, I thought they might be smugglers or poachers, but such people would have no reason to come to a place like this.

Pondering the mystery of their identities, I finally—

‘Ah, I can just examine them!’

I dissolved the bodies in a genetic pool and attempted to analyze their DNA to determine their ethnicity.

And the results of the genetic test…

‘What… they were those Chinese Nazis?’

The corpses’ genes closely resembled those of people from North China.

And North China is the territory of the Chinese Empire—one of the successor states formed after China fractured when its leadership was annihilated by monsters in the early days of their appearance, known for its fanatical rulers.

Their ideology is a spoonful of the pseudo-communist spirit from the People’s Republic of China era, a dash of authoritarianism, and heaps of dictatorship and national supremacism.

While other countries or regions at least deny their past (PRC), the Chinese Empire of North China not only refuses to deny it but openly proclaims themselves as the rightful successors.

This isn’t entirely wrong, as the former “Emperor” of the Chinese Empire was a general in the People’s Republic of China, and the current Emperor, who took power through a coup, was an officer under that general.

As their national name suggests, their system is based on a hereditary class system.

Without even a pretense of disguise, they openly talk about inferior subjects and superior bloodlines, basing their actions on a mixture of superhuman supremacy, Nazism, and eugenics.

With such a villain-ready setting that the company had no reason not to use—the Monster Project series isn’t even serviced in China—the Chinese Empire is the root of all evil in the game.

Experimenting on monsters is commonplace, and they’ve even been caught detonating anti-psychic bombs at borders and kidnapping and brainwashing foreign nationals.

In this situation, it seems the Chinese Empire is slowly creeping in through Manchuria to test the waters.

Those guys teach such extreme Sinocentric theories in their textbooks that over 90% of their citizens actually believe them, so they naturally think North Korean territory belongs to them.