Opportunity in the Game Becomes Reality Chapter 287
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Opportunity in the Game Becomes Reality Chapter 287
61. My Goal (3)
"What made you suspect the dragon?"
At my question, Arc Scarlet tilted her head and then revealed her thoughts exactly as they were.
"Because dragons not only possess outstanding physical abilities and high combat power, but they are also a race that has intelligence, skill, creativity, and even curiosity lacking in nothing, all evenly equipped."
"Yeah, that's right."
Even the Heavenly Tribe and demon race don't possess abilities this close to omnipotent.
No matter how excellent the base stats of the Heavenly Tribe and demon race are, they each have their own specialties they aren't like dragons, with all abilities evenly high.
It wasn't for nothing that dragons were called the guardians or coordinators of Rondel.
"Why? Did you start suspecting the dragon too?"
"That's not it."
I spoke, leaving behind Brangish, who was once again glaring daggers at Arc Scarlet for clinging to the dragon topic.
"If they were technicians of the Heavenly Tribe or demon race, they could imitate it similarly, but if they had descended, there's no way I wouldn't have noticed."
"I suppose so."
The me from back when the Heavenly King and Demon Kings descended and the me now are completely different.
It wasn't for nothing that I called myself a god race.
The descent of the Heavenly Tribe and demon race requires a massive amount of energy, and now, if it were me, I could easily catch that aura.
Because of that, the Heavenly Tribe and demon race were pushed to the back along with the dragon race, excluded from the investigation targets.
"A being similar to a dragon like that could exist on Earth rather than Rondel, couldn't it?"
If I say it up to here, it won't be hard to figure out who I'm suspecting.
That is none other than the beings from mythology.
"But most of them are beings from before the common era, aren't they? Could just anyone make a weapon like this, modeled after Earth's modern weapons?"
"There could be a being who's fallen head over heels for Earth's engineering technology, like the dragon. Maybe there's even someone more capable than the dragon."
"Why do you think that?"
"If it's the goddess Sepia, who worries a lot about the power balance between the two worlds, I think she might have set up such a measure to rapidly develop Earth."
If among the mythological figures there is a technician in hiding, and he is friendly to humans like Korea's Hwanung, Earth could grow even faster.
"Was there such a being among the transcendents who appeared on Earth?"
Among those known so far, I believe there is no such being.
Most of the mythological beings who appeared on Earth were creators or those representing that mythology.
After all, in mythology, when you say technical position, doesn't it have a stronger feel of being an extra rather than a lead?
"If there's any possibility, wouldn't it be the 'Tuatha Dé Danann' of Kent mythology?"
They are the only beings who appeared as a race rather than as individuals.
The Tuatha Dé Danann's numbers are exactly 50 30 combatants and 20 support personnel including craftsmen.
Among the combatants, the captain was at the Lordmaster level, two below him were Grandmasters, and 27 were Aura Masters.
From the perspective of the Rondel nations, one can't help but think it's excessive for an unexpected fighting force that dropped from the sky.
One must not forget that the reason they were deployed to Earth was to oppose the dragon.
If one were to compare the Tuatha Dé Danann's fighting power to the dragon, it could be said to be at a level slightly short of two dragons.
"True, I did hear that the Tuatha Dé Danann are quite cooperative with Ireland and England."
A mythological organization that is friendly with humans and possesses many technicians interested in modern science.
For now, they were the most suspicious.
"I think we'll need to ask the dragons for their gratitude. Would that be possible?"
"Got it. Leave it to me. I'll catch the culprit and turn Arc Scarlet's statement into nonsense."
Brangish, who had been angered by being treated as a culprit by Arc Scarlet because of my question, nodded with enthusiasm.
But I wasn't satisfied with that.
The Tuatha Dé Danann were merely suspects, not confirmed as the culprits.
It's just that I was rating them highly because of mythology I was thinking that the ability of the technicians they possess would fall short of the dragon.
So I additionally instructed Selin.
"Selin, investigate the mythological beings whose identities haven't been revealed yet or who are hiding. If you need cooperation on anything, don't hold back ask Asuka (Arc Scarlet)."
"Yes!"
"Huh? Me?"
Not all mythological beings go around bragging about their names and causing a big fuss.
Some simply stand guarding a single spot and reject everyone who approaches, while others provocatively dart around causing trouble here and there, or hide themselves.
So I asked them to conduct a detailed investigation on them.
For reference, Selin, who possessed Lordmaster-class combat power, was the head of the Blue Moon Earth Department.
"Then, I'll leave it to you all."
Thus, the surveillance of mythological beings was changed to gratitude and investigation.
* * *
Most gods in mythology have epithets.
For example, Zeus is the god of lightning, or Ra in Egyptian mythology is the god of the sun.
But sometimes, separate from their abilities, they have additional epithets completely unrelated to them, or a single being holds multiple myths.
The reason is simple.
The myths passed down to modern Earth are not a single one of them accurate, and various interpretations exist regarding past information.
Among them was a god called 'Ea (Enki)' who presided over water in Sumerian (Mesopotamian) mythology.
In Sumerian mythology, water is considered the source of all things, and it is said that the universe and the world were also born from water.
Because of this, in the city-state of Eridu, which believed in and followed Ea, he was sometimes regarded as a creator god.
However, afterward, Ea came to be called not as the god who 'created the world'...
but as the god of water and the god of invention who 'creates things,' the god of wisdom and technology, craftsmanship, and mischief.
Truly a complicated setup.
"Wow, there's so much to learn here. Is this heaven? No. A Sumerian god seeking heaven is a bit off."
To Ea, known as one of the four chief gods in Sumerian mythology, the Sepia Goddess gave the characteristics of water, wisdom, and technology.
Thus, Ea, who descended into the present world, was a god of water and also an exceptionally outstanding technician.
"The world is so convenient. To think I can examine data from another world in a corner of Earth. Ah, was it Grand Duke Lawrence who built this system? I've been rude to him."
Currently, Ea was hiding in Iraq, the birthplace of Mesopotamian civilization.
In a state-owned underground bunker located in Baghdad, he was tapping away at a computer keyboard excitedly, muttering to himself with a mad scientist-like crazed laughter.
At that moment, a man in a neat suit approached Ea.
"The yield is less than half of what was assumed."
"We're lucky it's half."
"What do you mean by that?"
"Even if it had been double the yield, he wouldn't have died anyway. If anything, it would have only made him feel a greater sense of crisis? You understand what this means, right?"
"Do you mean their response could become more extreme?"
"More than just extreme? Earth would have been turned upside down."
"Aren't you overestimating him too much? Lord Ea, you are a god and he is human."
"That's just a setting, and if it's the current me, I don't think I could win even with 10 of me?"
"...Is that true?"
"Yeah."
The man in the suit named Mustafa belonged to the Iraqi government and was also the brother-in-law of the current President of Iraq.
Mustafa was running an organization called 'Randy,' which was an Iraqi hacking organization unknown to the outside world.
Randy was Iraqi-affiliated but operated worldwide, and under it, it held several famous hacking organizations in a cell organization form.
At times they spread ransomware, robbed cryptocurrency exchanges, and extorted money from corporations or nations by holding information hostage.
If all the funds of Randy and the hacking organizations rooted in Randy were gathered together, it would be enough to buy a global corporation.
If people like them set their minds to it, blocking a single person's information was no task at all.
Thus, Mustafa and Randy kept Ea thoroughly hidden.
"Do you know the saying, 'If you stay still, you'll at least be in the middle'? Your unnecessary actions will get your tail caught."
Attacking Adrian was not Ea's intention.
It was something Mustafa did using the inventions he had created.
At Ea's advice, Mustafa's lips curled.
"They must not exist in this world. If Lord Ea creates an even stronger bomb, the situation could change entirely."
At Mustafa's words, Ea let out a small scoff.
Ea is recorded as a god who was very favorable toward humans.
He didn't dislike this fearless young man, but remarked that he had a disposition unsuited for living long, and shifted his gaze back to the monitor.
"What are you looking at?"
Mustafa looked at the monitor Ea was watching and tilted his head.
It was because characters he had never seen before were lined up on it.
"Rondel's technical intelligence."
"What?"
Cooperation between Rondel and Earth is progressing step by step.
The most rapidly advancing area was the online environment that had begun to be integrated, and the person leading this effort most prominently was none other than Adrian, the very man they had committed terrorism against.
"Do you understand?"
"I'm looking because I do understand, aren't I?"
"Hooh..."
Mustafa marveled as he looked at Ea, who had a small frame and the appearance of a neutral boy.
He had never imagined Ea would even reach into Rondel's technology.
He had known Ea's abilities were tremendous, but a thought occurred to him that Ea might far exceed his expectations.
"With luck, we might be able to make an even better compact bomb than before."
"Your thinking is rigid. Are you really a hacker?"
"What?"
"I'm saying it won't be just bombs."
"What do you mean?"
"I mean we can do many more interesting things."
In one corner of Ea's monitor, a small minimized internet window displayed an image of a self-sustaining massive weapon that had just begun to be deployed in Rondel.
"If there are materials I want, can you get them for me?"
"Of course."
"Even if they belong to Rondel?"
"I'll get them by any means necessary."
"Good."
The attack on Adrian was Mustafa's unilateral decision, but it was a catastrophe that occurred in the first place because Ea's inventions had been leaning toward the military.
Ea merely creates outstanding weapons.
If Ea had continued inventing for people in the public eye, he might have become a hope for the people of Earth, but the people of the shadows had pulled him in first, and the situation was going quite awry.
* * *
Blue Moon, centered on the dragons and Selin, was conducting a thorough investigation to find the mastermind behind the bombing terrorism, but by the second week they had produced no notable results.
It was speculated that a mythical being had decided to hide its energy and was lurking somewhere deep.
He had trusted his subordinates and delegated the work, but he could not simply wait forever.
It seemed it was now time to step in himself.
However...
"Ngh!"
Unfortunately, I was not in a position to move at the moment.
Because Arcia, lying in bed with her face contorted, was on the verge of giving birth.
I spoke to Arcia, who was in pain.
"Just use magic to pull it out..."
To me, she waved her hand as if annoyed.
Both she and I were in a state transcending human limits.
If we willed it, we could bring the child into the world without any pain.
But for some reason, Arcia did not want that.
She said I needed to understand how precious the child was.
But for me, who cherishes Arcia more than the child, it was nothing but bewildering.
Because watching Arcia in pain was too hard for me.
Thanks to that, I was restless, and the stern, elderly midwife pushed me aside.
"You don't need to make a fuss. This is going very smoothly. No, not just smoothly it'll be over in less than 10 minutes?"
"It takes 10 minutes?"
"Even that is absurdly fast. Rather, because of Your Highness the king, Her Highness the queen can't concentrate, so stop being a distraction and just go outside."
"N-no. Wait a moment. If something happens..."
I was practically chased out of the delivery room by the midwife.
And before long...
-Waaah!
A vigorous baby's cry rang out, and I ran back inside.