episode_0502
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I was also caught up in the collapse of the basin.
No, I was the one at the center of the explosion in the first place… Of course, I was stuck deep in the ground, just as the ground had collapsed due to the tunnel.
Quad deuk…
“Puha… ! Tsk tsk! Dirt got into my mouth. This is dirt from an alien planet. If you eat it, won’t you die?”
I crawled out of the ground like a zombie, pushing away rough pieces of stone.
The moment the explosion occurred, my body, released from Surt mode, fell into the collapsed ground.
In addition, the dust and various debris that came as a result of the storm buried me.
If I didn’t have a strong body, it wouldn’t have been surprising if I got hurt due to my technique.
I put all my effort into it for the first time in a while, and the results were more spectacular than I expected.
Maria’s voice came to me as I pulled out the lower body from the ground while grumbling.
-Considering that the composition of the atmosphere was not harmful, even if a little bit of dirt got into your mouth, there would be no problem. No, rather… Isn’t that just a concern about causing an explosion on a scale equivalent to a small-scale nuclear explosion with a human body?
‘It’s not just dirt, it’s a place where bugs were nesting. Honestly, I’m offended.’
Feeling uncomfortable, I turned my body into a flame and then returned it to its original state.
If so, it would have been disinfected.
Anyway, all the clothes I was wearing were blown away when I used Surt Mode and caused the explosion. No matter how futuristic the clothes are, it is natural because they are not suits made just for me.
With a familiar movement, I took out some extra clothes, changed into them, and looked around.
‘It’s clean.’
I wasn’t talking about the land that had completely turned over and cracked into ruins, or the air where dust was still flying.
It was referring to the army of bugs that seemed to cover the land.
Those guys who filled the basin and rushed in. Those guys disappeared without a trace.
When the heat temporarily disappeared, they all got close enough to kill me that there wasn’t even a corpse left behind.
I nodded.
‘Yes, no matter how cosmic scale it is, it makes no sense for a group of small nests to withstand such a huge explosion.’
It is so powerful that the ground at the center of the explosion evaporates and I am temporarily exhausted. If they endured that, their nickname would not have been bugs, but something else, like immortality.
Still, just in case, I asked Maria to confirm.
‘how is it? ‘Are they all dead?’
-There are no objects caught in Manta Ray’s scan. It seems like the bug colony in this nest has been wiped out.
The expected answer came back.
I remembered that in a cartoon I watched a while ago, when a character’s strength was shared, whether they could take on a city, a country, or the entire planet was used as a measure.
From that perspective, I thought that with the power I had now, I could easily ruin a country.
‘In some ways, it seems possible to deal with every country on Earth.’
If something like a missile or a nuclear weapon was launched, you could just use the key to avoid it wherever you went, and if a special force came, you could deal with it with just your bare body.
This was even without considering Maria’s intervention at all.
It didn’t seem like it would be that difficult unless they turned all of humanity into enemies and ignorantly said they would deal with it from the front.
-With the power you just showed, it seems like quite a few cities would be destroyed without a trace?
‘Of course, I have no intention of doing something really crazy and terrorist, but everyone fantasizes about that at least once, right?’
Even more so, what would you do if you had the power to make that imagination a reality?
-Anyway, I knew the master was strong, but… This is unexpected. It appears that the entire basin was destroyed by the effects of the explosion.
Maria seemed to be once again impressed by the ignorant yet powerful explosion I had caused.
If the location and location were different, I wouldn’t have taken this method.
He was a warrior who had reached the level of martial arts through martial arts, and he did not prefer fighting in a way that devastated his surroundings.
However, it was the first time in a while that I was using my strength because insects were flocking in droves from an alien planet.
-I think it’s really become difficult to see him as a human anymore.
‘I’m tired too. ‘Do you think it’s easy to use an explosion like that?’
-I know you’ve already perked up. You know that I am checking all of your vital signs, right? Come on up.
‘… … .’
Thanks to the nanobots inside her body, even trying to kill Maria didn’t work.
As Maria said, her stamina, which had fallen for a while, had recovered to some extent. I wasn’t particularly injured, so I felt the same way I felt after exercising vigorously for the first time in a long time.
Aside from that, I do think that Maria’s attitude toward her master became a little more disrespectful after she gained her body.
‘The nagging has increased. ‘Maria has changed.’
I grumbled inwardly and flew to where the manta ray was waiting.
Maria was waiting for me with her arms crossed inside the boarding ramp.
“Can you hear everything?”
She sighed and pretended to brush the dust off my clothes.
“But this time, it ended easily because they didn’t have the genes to resist fire. A larger group of bugs with more diverse genetic traits can withstand multiple nuclear explosions.”
“I was lucky in many ways.”
Because it was a small nest, the cocoon was exposed to the ground, making it easy to kill the queen and start.
Assuming that a swarm of bugs that could cover the entire planet were to arrive, wouldn’t even I get tired before I could kill them all? I’m confident I can run away at any time, so I won’t die.
“Is this the only bunch of bugs on this planet?”
“You’ll have to scan to know for sure, but it’s probably true. Basically, bugs have one queen per cocoon. And considering the size of the universe, it is unlikely that more than two randomly scattered cocoons will fall on one planet.”
“What are the other planets?”
The total number of planets in this unexplored planetary system we are in is five. It was a planetary system slightly smaller than the solar system with eight planets.
“You can’t know that part until you scan it yourself. Still, given that it is not noticeable from the outside, it is unlikely that the nest, if any, is very large.”
“Then let’s take a quick look.”
We spent the next few days exploring unexplored planetary systems aboard the Manta Ray. Using the xenon engine, you can move at a speed close to light even without using warp, so it didn’t take months to tour the planetary system.
After looking around, fortunately, no traces of bugs were found on other planets in this unexplored planetary system. This was the result of extensive scanning with Manta Ray, which took time to find out just in case.
We collected samples of flora, fauna and minerals from each planet as souvenirs. Then, I landed on a suitable planet, put the Manta Ray in my inventory, and returned to reality.
[The ‘Nova Empire’ world stops.]
[Settlement of travel compensation.]
[Basic reward: 1500 mileage]
[Achievements: Impersonating an Inquisitor, acquiring a navigator, extorting a probe, exploring an unexplored planetary system, defeating the bug queen, subduing a small nest]
[Additional Achievement: Register [Martial Arts – Lightning Strike] and 14 other souvenirs in baggage]
[Medium compensation: 97,500 mileage]
[Intermediate evaluation: He said that happiness is like a kiss, and in order to get happiness, you have to give happiness to someone. The tester made a choice that brought him happiness by keeping his promise to his partner. Although someone was deceived in the process, in the end, the other party was somewhat satisfied with the transaction, so it can be said that there were no victims. Of course, this is only when the real Inquisitor does not visit there later.]
‘Based on the interim evaluation, it seems that it has not yet been revealed that I impersonated the Inquisitor.’
There was Maria’s hacking, and I thought I acted quite well, so it was a natural result.
The time I stayed in Nova Empire was quite short. And since he quietly took only Maria’s body and the probe without making a big deal out of it and left for an unexplored planetary system, he did not achieve much.
However, thanks to registering a lot of newly learned mental techniques as baggage, the amount of mileage I gained as a result was definitely not small.
I got almost double the mileage I used to expand my inventory to store the manta ray.
I summoned Maria again, whom I had dismissed.
“What do you think, now that you have a body, work at work will be a little easier?”
“A little bit?”
Maria appeared in the living room and smiled softly as if she had just heard a funny joke. Her purple eyes sparkled.
“Look forward to it. Soon, Awaken will become the most famous company on Earth.”
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