Chapter 104
Chapter 104
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 104
Chapter Title: Immortal Steel Fairies
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“I-Ik! W-what is this?!”
The ground shook violently as debris flew in every direction.
Eliana clutched her head and flattened herself to the ground, screaming in full gallery slang.
There hadn’t been any sign of something about to explode?
When she finally lifted her head in panic, Eliana witnessed it clearly.
- Groooaaarrr!!!
The tongue of the frog variant beast had been cleanly split in two.
“Whoa...”
The protective barrier she’d thought impenetrable.
Even the steel-like skin of the variant beast.
But before the explosion, they were all useless.
- Whiiiirrr
And the drones appeared again.
One, two, and endlessly more, spawning around Eliana without end.
“...Again?”
At first, she thought it was a mistake.
But the drones kept regenerating endlessly with each explosion, flying toward the variant beast.
Overwhelming numbers crushed by even greater numbers.
-Kaboom!
“What in the world is happening?!”
Eliana couldn’t get her bearings.
Especially chilling was the method.
“Su-suicide attacks...”
Drones had no fear that even living beings, even beasts, possessed.
They simply flew in and self-destructed, over and over.
- Groooaaarrr...!
The variant beast had no options.
If it attacked to keep the drones away?
Then, as if waiting, they exploded, spewing scorching heat and fireballs.
If it held back to prevent the self-destruction...
-Kaboom!
The drones plummeted straight ahead, detonating inescapably in its face.
It was a mad attack method, even to an emotionless, aggressive beast.
Sacrificing themselves to explode.
- Grrk
- Groooaaarrr
Fear and terror began to etch into the eyes of the frog beasts.
Then, the tenth-or-so drone swiftly reached the variant beast.
But no more beasts moved to block it.
- Groooaaarrr!!
The frog variant beast screamed in terror, opening its mouth for a final desperate attack.
And the drone casually slipped right into its mouth.
- Groooaaarrr?
It hadn’t even imagined something entering its mouth.
- KABOOOOOM!!!
The variant beast scattered into unrecognizable chunks of charred flesh.
*
- What the hell is this, Judak? Explain!
- Holy shit, that attack method is brutally savage;
- Why’s my whole body crawling with goosebumps in broad daylight?
- Steel Fairy ← If that explosion gave you tingles all over, upvote lol
ㄴ Armion) Upvote! I slammed it!!
ㄴ ???
ㄴ Your Majesty, not here...
ㄴ Judak can’t resist when the Elf Queen’s watching...
I logged into the gallery after clearing the wave.
Endlessly respawning posts greeted me.
“Ah, you all saw it.”
The elves must have left the broadcast on—the whole thing was recorded.
As I checked the gallery mood, Penny looked up at me from the side with sparkling eyes.
“That was super super super amazing!”
“You enjoyed it.”
“Yeah! Wanna do more?”
Penny pointed to the mountain of drones piled in the corner.
I hadn’t even used half of half the ordered quantity...
But sadly, there’d be no more chances to use those drones.
“It ended way too anticlimactically.”
Penny was a quick learner.
After I taught her a few times, she swiftly mimicked me, using drones to support attacks.
“Aw...”
I handed disappointed Penny a snack, and her eyes sparkled again as she took it.
Penny understood the drones weren’t living beings—just objects.
I didn’t know the electrical circuits or mechanisms well enough to explain, but she got that it wasn’t magic.
“That’s even more amazing!”
“Huh?”
Science wasn’t something you could learn and replicate on the spot like magic.
It was the culmination of centuries, even millennia, of accumulated data—that was modern science.
But that seemed to impress Penny even more.
“An art greater than magic, without being magic. And only you, Warp Gate, can use it?”
“Uh... yeah, not wrong?”
Even if I distributed it to the gallery, no one could replicate it similarly.
I was the sole user—and would remain so.
I’d never thought of it that way, so I just felt dazed.
‘I didn’t even make them myself.’
That’s when a new concept post appeared in the gallery.
[Title: I Won’t Forget You]
Author: Elves Are Cute and Great and Whatever
(GIF of the drone exploding)
(GIF of the drone flying through the sky)
(GIF of the drone dropping cola)
Judak’s Steel Fairies
Our friends who became our eyes
I won’t forget you, who sacrificed your lives for the elves...
(GIF of elf biting lip amid tears and snot)
I’ll... never forget...!
I won’t cry...!
I’ll remember@!!!!
[Upvotes 3121] [Downvotes 0]
- Hwaaaaaah
- Fweeeeen ㅠㅠㅠㅠㅠ
- Damn you, Judak! How could you... how could you make them suicide attack...!
ㄴ Total bullshit
ㄴ Elf holding-back-tears GIF makes me wanna flick their forehead, upvote lol
ㄴ Upvote lol
ㄴ Me first lololol
[Title: Elves... Don’t Cry...]
(GIF shoving face into screen)
(GIF of teary, unfocused eyes)
Because... sniff... sob... I promised the fairies...
[Upvotes 102] [Downvotes 302]
- Steel Fairy: “Live well”
ㄴ Author) “What’s that?”
ㄴ Steel Fairy: “Live well”
ㄴ Author) “How do I do that?”
- Ugh, you damn long-eared bastards
- Wanna line ‘em up and yank their ears lol
- Fuck off with this brain-melting sentimentality
- Ugh, sappy posts flooding the gallery holy shit;
- (Knight grabbing elf ear CON)
ㄴ (It hurts!! Elf bawling CON)
“Oh right.”
They don’t know the drones respawn?
All sorts of memorial posts and elves’ overdramatic sob stories started flooding in.
Selfies holding back tears, posts blaming me—one after another.
But it wasn’t until two more hours passed that I posted a clarification—or not-quite-clarification.
“It’s fun.”
Seeing elves bawling their eyes out, dwarves and humans genuinely horrified...
Nothing beat that dopamine hit, that bait.
I’d planned to let it ride for a full day more.
- Jutak yaaaaaa!!! Howwww!!!
- Hweeeeeek save the fairiesyyy!!!
ㄴ Ugh, this bullshit
ㄴ Shut the pointy-ears up already, it’s dawn
ㄴ Enough already, fuck
ㄴ (Pueeeeng! Elf CON)
ㄴ (Religious executioner face GIF)
I figured someone might actually off themselves at this rate.
Before things got more dramatic, I swallowed my regret and wrote the notice.
[Title: Steel Fairies? Dead or alive, not my problem? lol]
Author: Judak*
Okay okay, just kidding, calm down calm down
(GIF of drone mountain pile)
These aren’t living things
Drones, y’know? Just weapons I control for attacks and recon machines
So please don’t call me a cold-blooded psycho etc.
(Elf pueeeng GIF 1)
(Elf downing soju and sobbing GIF 2)
Still, it was fun lol
[Upvotes 7123] [Downvotes 3621]
- Kyaa lololololol
- Knew it lol
- Intentionally delaying the notice lololol
- Collected a ton of crying elf GIFs lol wtf
- Downvote real-name system lol
- ????Why didn’t you say sooner??
ㄴ Judak*) (Pueeeng elf GIF) lol
ㄴ Kyaaaak!
Of course, I couldn’t resist trolling to the end.
Fortunately, no more sappy memorials.
Instead, mages naturally opened a debate forum.
Especially from Jusak Magic Tower, the sole mainstream in Kellirton, showing the most curiosity.
No wonder—their goal was infusing mana into tools to give them life.
- zlGroundExplosionMage) Become tower lord plz, third request
ㄴ lolol getting serious now
ㄴ Lol still not giving up?
- Wait, magitech? Wasn’t that just fantasy lit bullshit?
ㄴ Looks insanely convenient fr
ㄴ No-risk high-return? For real?
Nature-based magic had always been mainstream.
Amid that, a debate erupted on practical magic—specifically minor magitech.
Inevitably, even non-mages flocked to the bait, showing interest.
And naturally, I was right there...
- Is magitech for real?
- C’mon Judak, say something
- Judak wtf where are you
...Not.
“How would I know.”
Mages swarmed demanding explanations, but I ignored them.
No, I genuinely didn’t know and couldn’t explain.
Even if a knight showed up sword-in-hand yelling ‘Explain magitech!’, I couldn’t.
And above all, I had no time for that.
[Store/Category/Nukes]
[Warning* Viewing this category may affect certain targets.]
[Proceed anyway?]
“What the hell is this.”
The store’s new update was the real issue.
Nukes? Like the nukes I know?
The store had never sold nukes before.
Now it was whimsically starting nuke sales.
No wonder it drew more attention than gallery bait.
“Why’d it suddenly appear?”
Of course, no intent to buy.
I couldn’t handle chemical weapons—nukes were on another scale entirely.
Especially the warning making me hesitate to even browse kept flashing annoyingly.
[Warning* Viewing this category may affect certain targets.]
“What does ‘affect’ even mean?”
Whatever, just browsing could cause problems.
Sudden nuke category appearance.
System warning not to view.
And the ominous chill creeping over my skin.
“This has to be clicked, right?”
One thing I’d learned running Isekai Destruction Gallery as Judak:
If something’s truly off-limits, the system doesn’t even expose it.
If it was really not to be viewed, it wouldn’t be in the store.
Unable to resist curiosity, I hit the happy button.
[Certain target has been affected.]
[Store/Category/Nukes now viewable.]
And more natural warnings appeared.
But as time passed, nothing happened.
“What, nothing at all.”
Just as I shrugged it off as overreaction and went to browse the nuke category.
Dragon Will Die: (Stop! Dragon CON)
Dragon Will Die: No! Stop right now!!!
“Gasp.”
Urgent chats flew in from silent Pellisi.