Lee I-Je and O-Wol Dong-Ju [Modified Hamel Empire Map]

Just before colliding with me, Nisa pushed the Inquisitor’s feet away, causing the Inquisitor to tilt to the side.

“Uh! Uh!”

I didn’t miss the moment and spat transparent acidic saliva into the Inquisitor’s eyes.

The Inquisitor’s eyes melted.

Chi-iiiiik

“Kuaaaa!”

As I charged towards the Inquisitor, a thicker Holy Barrier than before appeared in front of me.

I forcefully threw the electric hammer, shattering the Holy Barrier.

Kwaang Jjaenggeurang

Passing through the shattered Holy Barrier, I punched the Inquisitor in the solar plexus, crushing it.

Pudeudeuk

After dealing with the Inquisitor, I charged towards the priests.

As the priests cast Holy Barriers in layers, a semi-transparent white wall appeared in front of me, blocking my path.

Even when I darted to the side, it followed.

Saintess Asha shouted venomously.

“Kyle-nim! You are being deceived by the darkness! Please, come to your senses quickly!”

‘Poohehe~ I am the God of Darkness!’

“I don’t know about that crap; my friend is just more important!”

I swung the electric hammer with a full swing, striking the wall.

Kuaaaang

Cracks spread across the entire wall.

Jjeojeojeojeojeok

The priests focused, repairing the wall, but I continued to strike.

Kuaaaang Kuaaaang Kuaaaang

The priests were suffering from excessive use of divine power, trying to hold both me and Noas at the same time.

With the support reduced, the close-range Inquisitors began to be pushed back.

Gilluk shattered the warhammer warrior’s knee with his fire hammer, then raised the hammer upwards, blasting the warrior’s groin and causing him to die of shock.

Gilluk immediately ran towards the Inquisitors attacking the workers.

While Saintess Asha and the priests were distracted by me, flies began to swarm from the surroundings.

Aeeeeeeeng

Dozens of flies charged at Saintess Asha and the priests, colliding and exploding.

Tuk Tududuk Tuk

One priest sensed something was wrong.

“Aish! Something hit the back of my head.”

The priest looked around and shouted urgently.

“Uaaa! Darkness! Flies filled with darkness!”

Other priests discovered the flies and screamed.

“Enemy! It’s an enemy attack!”

Saintess Asha quickly cast a holy area purification spell.

“Massive Purify!”

A bright light erupted from Saintess Asha’s body, and all the flies harboring darkness were incinerated.

However, many flies had already collided with and exploded on the back of Saintess Asha’s and the priests’ heads and necks.

The priests felt something strange in their bodies.

“Huh? My body feels bubbly?”

Suddenly, the skin inside the bodies of the twelve priests bubbled up as if foam was growing, tearing apart their priestly robes, and their bodies swelled up, transforming into Chimera monsters with a height of 3m, toad-like faces, and giant claws, letting out monstrous screams.

“Kieeeeeee!”

As the Goddess of Charity, Saintess Asha was not transformed because she removed the Chimera solution that entered her with divine power.

Knowing this was an opportunity, I shouted loudly.

“Everyone, tactical retreat! Retreat!”

Serina, Nisa, and Norbert echoed me.

“It’s a tactical retreat!!!”

The Hero party, the four Great Spirit Kings, and the worker mob all retreated simultaneously.

Roshan and the other close-range Inquisitors cursed and tried to chase after us.

“Where are you going in the middle of a fight!”

Nisa pushed away the space with the power of Temperance, eventually separating the Inquisitors from us.

The Chimera monsters swarmed the remaining Inquisitors.

“Kieeeeeee!”

Roshan muttered with a dumbfounded expression.

“What is this?”

Saintess Asha hurriedly informed everyone.

“Our brothers have fallen victim to the enemy’s scheme and have been corrupted!”

As the Chimera monsters persistently clung to them, the Inquisitors had no choice but to fight the monsters.

Roshan was enraged.

“As expected, the Hero party is connected to the darkness! Damn it!”

As a Chimera monster rushed towards Roshan, Roshan stretched out both hands forward.

Threads flew from all directions, surrounding the Chimera monster and tightening.

However, the Chimera monster’s skin was thick, and it didn’t immediately break apart but slowly penetrated.

The Chimera monster twisted its body and screamed, but Roshan tightened the threads to the end.

“Uaaaaaa! You dark bastards! I’ll kill you all!”

The Hero party also watched the battle between the Chimera monsters and the Inquisitors with bewildered faces.

Park Gyeong-cheol asked me.

“Kyle-hyung. What are those monsters?”

“I don’t know either. The priests suddenly transformed into monsters while fighting. Anyway, it seems like an opportunity.”

We surveyed the surroundings, and the damage to the workers with combat ability numbered in the hundreds.

Aibos said.

“I’ll transform into a dragon and unleash Dragon Breath. It’ll be hard to avoid since they’re tangled up with the Chimera.”

Norbert agreed.

“Aibos-hyung! That’s a great idea!”

Park Gyeong-cheol nodded, and Aibos jumped into the sky, transforming into a golden dragon with a height of 20m, flapping his wings.

Aibos pulled his neck back and stretched it forward, unleashing sky-blue Dragon Breath made of pure mana at the Chimera and Inquisitors.

Puaaaaaaa Kwakwakwakwakwa

“Uaaaaaaak!”

Aibos shook his neck and fired Dragon Breath for several minutes before turning back into a Dragonian and landing on the ground.

Most of the Chimera and Inquisitors were annihilated.

Roshan, Umakant, Saintess Asha, and a few Inquisitors were groaning, emitting steam from their bodies and suffering from full-body burns.

“Uueueueue….”

The Hero party rushed over and grabbed them.

The Chimera were killed on the spot, and we gathered Saintess Asha and the Inquisitors in one place.

Saintess Asha and the Inquisitors all muttered prayers.

“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for your Goddess Elia is with you wherever you go.”

“Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for Goddess Elia is with me; your pillar of light comforts me.”

Park Gyeong-cheol asked them with a pitiful heart.

“We’ve won, so can’t you give up attacking Serina and the workers?”

Roshan said as if frustrated.

“We never compromise with darkness. Hero, there are so many with the aura of darkness around you. Please, come to your senses.”

Norbert said with a pitiful face.

“Gyeong-cheol-ah. If we leave them, they’ll try to kill Serina and the workers in the future too. We need to make a decision here.”

Park Gyeong-cheol clenched his fist tightly and made a decision.

“Let’s at least send them off without pain.”

Park Gyeong-cheol quickly swung his Mithril Holy Sword and unleashed a space slash, simultaneously severing the necks of Saintess Asha, Roshan, and Umakant, causing blood to spurt from their necks.

Pusyusyusyusyu

Saintess Asha’s divinity of charity emerged from her body and entered Park Gyeong-cheol’s body.

The battle ended with the remaining workers beheading the remaining Inquisitors.

The surviving workers collapsed, shedding tears.

“Ha. Ha. Ha. I’m alive….”

“Sniff… my friends. I won’t forget your sacrifices.”

Norbert encouraged the people.

“Everyone, you’ve done well! But the war isn’t over yet! We need to occupy the Marquis’s estate to gain our rights! Let’s do our best until the end!”

Park Gyeong-cheol stopped Norbert.

“These people are too exhausted. Let’s rest and gather all the workers tomorrow to advance.”

“Okay.”

The Hero party and the worker mob returned to the places where the factories had been converted into dormitories and took a rest.

—

The next day, hundreds of thousands of workers advanced towards Marquis Miriam’s mansion all at once.

At the very front were the Hero party, workers armed with soldiers’ equipment, and workers armed with tools, in that order.

Most of the workers armed with soldiers’ equipment were labor union executives and Dark Humans.

They volunteered to arm themselves and stood at the front of the formation.

As we advanced, tens of thousands of soldiers were barricaded ahead of us, waiting, but their morale seemed quite low.

Marquis Miriam was in the center of the soldiers with 15 knights.

Marquis Miriam shouted.

“You are all rebels! Quickly drop your weapons and repent!”

Norbert stepped forward and shouted.

“We have come to resist the workers’ tragic reality and to gain our rights! We are not rebels, but we have come to create a world where everyone can live happily!”

“Norbert! You are really tearing this mother’s heart apart!”

“Mother! Please, open your eyes! How long will you oppress the workers and let only a few live happily!”

“I don’t want to hear it! I will expel you from the family!”

Marquis Miriam loudly ordered the soldiers.

“Everyone, prepare for battle!”

Norbert, the chairman of the labor union, ordered the workers.

“Everyone, charge!”

The workers shouted in unison and charged towards the soldiers’ barricade.

“Uwaaaaa! For a happy world!”

“For a world for the workers!”

Aibos, this time, turned into a giant dragon and flew in the sky.

Aibos plunged down on the soldiers, spewing Dragon Breath.

Puaaaaaaa Kwakwakwakwa

“Uaaaaaaak!”

Aibos flew in the sky, spewing Dragon Breath, or skimming the ground and body-slamming the soldiers, instilling fear in them.

Serina and Nisa spread Purity and Illusion magic, causing the soldiers to attack each other.

Serina’s Purity was enhanced by Aibos’s Kindness, and since many priests had already died, they couldn’t stop the mental corruption.

In the end, the soldiers surrendered, and the battle ended in the workers’ victory.

Marquis Miriam, the Marquis family, the remaining knights, and the Sgyeongryeon figures were captured as prisoners and locked in the basement prison of the Marquis’s mansion.

Norbert and the labor union executives occupied the Marquis’s mansion.

Andre was heartbroken to hear the end of Saintess Asha.

Norbert first used Marquis Miriam’s seal to send a letter throughout the Hamel Empire that the problem in Stozaña City had been resolved.

Afterwards, Norbert dismissed the existing administrative and military executives and soldiers of Stozaña City.

Norbert filled the administrative and military executives with labor union executives and established a new army with the workers who had armed themselves and stood in the front row this time.

Most of the key executives and soldiers of Stozaña City were filled with Dark Humans.

And a man named Jekyll was hired as the Marquis’s exclusive doctor.

Jekyll was a man with a height of 174cm, a thin build, and a weak-looking face.

The perpetrators of the serial murder case were the heirs of the Sgyeongryeon chaebol family, and it was revealed that they had killed more workers than the wealthy.

One day, I, Kyle, went down to the basement prison with Norbert and met Marquis Miriam, the Marquis family, and the knights.

Marquis Miriam cursed at Norbert with a venomous face.

“Get out. You’re not my son.”

Norbert said with a slightly hurt face.

“Sigh…. Mother will understand soon too.”

All the soldiers guarding the basement prison and the surrounding area were Dark Humans.

When I transformed from an Elf into a giant Tentacle that reached the ceiling of the prison, people were terrified and screamed in fear.

“Uaaaaa! It’s a monster!”

“Save me~!”

I completely changed their brain structure.

I used Marquis Miriam and the family to make the humans trapped in the prison into my subordinates by consuming them.

Marquis Miriam unlocked her handcuffs and stood up with a happy face.

“Hahaha. Norbert. I’m sorry for saying hurtful things to you earlier. Our son.”

Norbert hugged Marquis Miriam tightly with teary eyes.

“Mom!”

Norbert’s father watched the reunion of the mother and son with a satisfied expression.

“Hahaha! Our family is reunited.”

The next day, Marquis Miriam gathered the Hero party and all the labor union executives in the hall and declared.

“I, Marquis Miriam, will cooperate in creating a world where workers are happy. Also, I will take the lead in eradicating the corrupt forces.”

The labor union executives cheered with emotion.

“Hooray~!”

“We won!”

The Hero party, who had lost Saintess Asha, trusted Marquis Miriam’s promise and went to the train station in Stozaña City to leave for Talka City.

Norbert brought the labor union executives with him to see us off.

Norbert held out his hand to Park Gyeong-cheol with a refreshed face, having achieved everything.

“Gyeong-cheol-ah. Thank you for solving the problem in Stozaña City.”

Park Gyeong-cheol grabbed Norbert’s hand.

“This is what a Hero should do.”

While the train carrying the Hero party departed, Norbert and the labor union executives waved until the end.

Hero Park Gyeong-cheol’s face, looking out the window, was filled with proud satisfaction.

Nisa called me, so I went to another compartment with Nisa, away from the Hero party.

Nisa asked me.

“Honey. Did you plan everything?”

I chuckled and said.

“Puhahahaha. I only planted the seeds, and everything else was done by human greed. If the powerful and the workers had yielded to each other even a little, things wouldn’t have escalated like this. I just gave them a little stimulant, and the choice was made by humans.”

“The chaebol heirs killed the workers because you injected them with Chimera solution, right?”

“Chimera solution is a drug that gives you the desire to kill and the power to carry it out. But it only gives you the desire, it doesn’t force you. The chaebol heirs usually disregarded life, so they fell for the power of the Chimera solution. If it had been Saintess Asha, she would have suppressed her desire to kill and restrained herself, right?”

“Thinking about it, that’s true.”

“Even in the final battle, the human workers were cautious and the Dark Humans fought in the front, so the Dark Humans ended up taking all the important positions.”

“Hmm….”

“Since humans enjoy the seven deadly sins, unlike the light race, I have no choice but to win. I can’t help but benefit no matter who wins, whether it’s the powerful or the workers. Hahaha.”

With that, the train departed for Talka City.

Deolkeong deolkeong deolkeong

—

After the Hero left, Marquis Miriam built a large platform in the middle of the square and gathered all the workers.

Marquis Miriam stood on the platform, and new soldiers guarded her surroundings.

Marquis Miriam held a mana microphone and shouted.

“Until now, Stozaña City has ignored the lives of workers and only valued development for the few. I, Marquis Miriam, promise to create a city where everyone can live happily, regardless of class or status!”

Even though the class system itself could not be abolished, the workers applauded and were enthusiastic just by the promise to make them happy regardless of class.

Clap clap clap clap clap

“Uwaaaaa!”

Marquis Miriam continued to speak.

“From now on, I will eradicate the corrupt forces that have caused pain to the workers! Bring the criminals of the Stozaña Economic Federation!”

The soldiers brought the Sgyeongryeon figures and their families, all tied up, to the platform.

The workers shouted in unison.

“They are criminals!”

“Kill them all!”

Marquis Miriam ordered.

“Kill them!”

The soldiers beheaded the Sgyeongryeon members and their families, and their heads and bodies rolled on the floor.

The soldiers cleared away the corpses.

Marquis Miriam shouted.

“Now, we will eradicate the former Knights and police officers who took bribes from the Sgyeongryeon criminals and ignored the deaths and oppression of the workers!”

Knights, including Knight Commander Aiden, and police officers were dragged to the platform and beheaded.

“Now, we will eradicate those who helped the Sgyeongryeon criminals and contributed to the oppression of the workers!”

Some corporate executives and researchers famous for sexual harassment and worker harassment were dragged to the platform and beheaded.

The remaining corporate executives and researchers had already been massacred elsewhere.

“Now, we will eradicate the church criminals who took the workers’ precious donations and ignored and even attacked the workers!”

Key church figures in Stozaña City were dragged to the platform and beheaded, and the rest died somewhere.

The workers, already accustomed to destruction and resistance, cheered with relieved faces.

“Euhahaha! Serves them right!”

After eradicating all the corrupt forces, Marquis Miriam continued to speak.

“From now on, I will create a happy society regardless of class! All problems come from capitalism, which ignores human life and only values development! We must eradicate capitalism in the city!”

The uneducated workers believed only in Marquis Miriam’s words and shouted, raising their fists in the air.

“That’s right!!!”

“From now on, we will create a Capitalism Eradication Squad to eradicate all capitalism in the city!”

“Uwaaaaa!”

Afterwards, the workers themselves became the Capitalism Eradication Squad.

The Eradication Squad wore red ribbons around their necks and carried hammers and sledgehammers, destroying everything related to capitalism, such as churches, corporate buildings, factories, research institutes, and bourgeois shops.

They sang songs that seemed to come from Labor Day in a socialist country.

“We are one! Let’s eradicate capitalism~!”

After everything was destroyed, the Eradication Squad cleared away the rubble of the buildings.

Marquis Miriam turned all the land in Stozaña City into worker homes and fields.

Marquis Miriam declared that all workers would work together in the fields for a designated time of 5 days a week and receive the same amount of salary.

Finally, the lives of all workers were guaranteed, and an equal world had come.

Marquis Miriam opened the food warehouse and took out the seeds, and the workers happily planted the food.

Only happiness was visible on the faces of all the workers.

“Now it’s a world worth living in.”

In any case, Stozaña City had completely lost its function as an industrial city, and it seemed impossible to rebuild in the future.

[Revised Hamel Empire Map]