Chapter 18
Chapter 18
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 18
Chapter Title: The Rabbit Beastkin Return
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I'll get straight to the point.
I want to purchase weapons in bulk.
Our rabbit beastkin are surrounded by threats on all sides and are currently facing mortal danger.
If you see this post, please leave a reply. I would be truly grateful. Myo.
- Yeah, I had a feeling these guys would show up too.
- Wow, a post from beastkin after all this time?
- Even beastkin can't resist Judak's items.
“Yep, I was worried about this.”
I read the post with the feeling that it had finally arrived.
I had anticipated that if modern weapons were released somewhere to provide aid, others would come crawling out too.
I just hadn't expected it to be the beastkin, who only lurked without ever posting.
“How many years ago was it that these guys went dormant?”
After possession, I explored the gallery thoroughly.
Not only the posts being uploaded in real-time, but even conceptual posts from ancient times long past.
From that, I learned that the majority of beastkin had vanished from the gallery after the Great War broke out.
- It's been forever since these guys posted.
ㄴ Come to think of it, why did they disappear?
ㄴ Isn't it because of what the humans did? Lol.
ㄴ Yeah, during the Great War, they got hit by magic beasts and other races, so the elves burrowed underground.
- Isn't it because they're afraid of their location being pinpointed?
ㄴ These guys live in total hiding.
ㄴ Doesn't the gallery have location tracking?
ㄴ Nah, but when their heat cycle hits due to racial traits, they spam nothing but crap posts.
ㄴ Lol.
That's right—the biggest flaw of the beastkin was their poor control over their instincts.
So rather than risk exposing their location with idle chatter, the entire race had turned to lurking.
“So they reached out after seeing the modern weapons?”
Overwhelming firepower.
With the power of modern weapons alone, even if their location got pinpointed, it wouldn't be a problem.
They could just crush everything with force.
Especially the rabbit beastkin, who had lived in hiding their whole lives—they had gone mad for the power of weapons.
Enough for a representative to step forward and pull aggro like this.
“But that doesn't mean I can trade with them.”
I couldn't distribute modern weapons from this world.
Sure, for Elrad's side, I only handed out ten out of fear they'd all drop dead, but going further would turn it into a real apocalypse.
If guns were popping off everywhere, there was no guarantee I wouldn't get taken out by a stray bullet.
Even for my own sake, I wouldn't distribute weapons I couldn't handle.
[Would you like to invite 'Myoran' to a barter trade?]
So I separately summoned the author of that post, Myoran.
It wasn't for any trade purpose.
On the contrary, it was to refuse.
Myoran: This is Myoran, representative of the rabbit beastkin!!!
Myoran: I endlessly praise Judak for accepting my request!!! Judak is a god!!! Myo!!!
The overly excited gallery user had misunderstood.
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?? Years ago / Come see the field I cultivated.
(A photo of a field bursting with freshness, on the verge of exploding with growth.)
(A photo of a rabbit beastkin proudly wearing a farmer's hat.)
I raised it with as much care as my own child^^
What do you think? Myo?
- Wow, that's insanely impressive!
- (Elf con giving thumbs up.)
- The field is so cute and quaint~
ㄴ Author) Thanks, elves!
- Holy shit, how'd you do that?
- How is the field perfect without a single spoiled crop?
- For real, did you use magic or something?
ㄴ Author) Thanks to rabbit beastkin traits.
ㄴ Author) We're born with the qualities of farmers. Myo!
ㄴ Oh...
ㄴ Hmm?
ㄴ Oh, off to raid.
ㄴ They're so damn cute-looking; I wanna catch one and raise it.
ㄴ Author) ?
8 years ago / Humans, please stop already.
(A meme of rabbit beastkin being sold at a slave market.)
(A meme of rabbit beastkin working like slaves in fields.)
Please stop the beastkin hate.
Can't we trade for fair compensation?
(A rabbit con banging its chest.)
We have lives too! Lives! Myo!
ㄴ Wow...
ㄴ Damn, that really tugs at my sadism.
ㄴ The teary eyes are way too cute.
ㄴ Just one would make my whole field fertile; why let this go? Lol.
ㄴ Can't hold back. Off to catch one again lol.
ㄴ Author) I curse you, humans.
5 years ago / Die, humans. All of you die! Kishi-shit.
(A meme of the Great War breaking out.)
(A meme of magic beasts pouring in from 'outside.')
(A meme of beastkin fleeing underground amid the chaos.)
ㄴ No way, where are you going!!!
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ㄴ Sorry, Chunsik, come back please!
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ㄴ Author) Kishi-shishi-shit, serves you humans right. Get crushed by karma and all die. Myo!
I was well aware of the beastkin hatred toward humans.
It started with posts from 10 years ago, where they caught humans' eyes and lived like slaves.
Then they seized the Great War as a chance to all flee underground.
“They must be desperate about their own safety.”
Myoran: We've been persecuted for a long time.
Myoran: We need weapons to protect ourselves, and Lord Judak happens to have them.
Myoran: Please save the beastkin! Myo!
Myoran: (A meme of teary-eyed rabbit beastkin.)
Judak☆: Hmm...
But before that, a question arose.
I'd heard that beastkin had more individuals who could awaken and wield mana compared to other races.
So couldn't they just use that power to drive out the magic beasts invading underground?
But that doubt was resolved by a new conceptual post.
Conceptual Post) Why Judak's Items Are Insanely Powerful...jpg
(A gif of a high-explosive grenade detonating back then.)
You can see even an ancient dragon getting obliterated without a chance.
But ancient dragons are basically lumps of mana, so normal explosions like this shouldn't faze them, right?
So you might wonder, but according to elves, there's zero mana flow in the grenades.
(A meme of a high mage's explosion spell.)
All magic requires casting, and mana gathers during casting.
So magic beasts generally have high magic resistance and block it—that's normal.
(A high-explosive grenade meme.)
But this has none of that.
No traces of mana, no casting traces.
Judak, how the hell did you do it?
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- TL;DR please.
ㄴ Author) Fuck off.
ㄴ 1. All attacks contain mana.
2. But Judak's items have no mana.
3. Magic resistance and mana shields are meaningless.
- That's what I'm most curious about too, shit.
- I've researched magic my whole life, but how do you hide the mana itself?
- Judak is an archmage for sure.
- So half-elf beauty archmage?
ㄴ Oh?
ㄴ Huh?
ㄴ Okay, let's go lol?
It was because no mana was infused.
The majority of overwhelming attacks were magic, and magic beasts had high resistance to mana.
But modern weapons had none of that, so the ancient dragon was just a big bone club in front of the grenade.
But there wasn't even time to agonize.
In this isekai where countless died every day, underground wasn't guaranteed safe.
Title: Judak!!!
(A meme of a sandworm appearing underground.)
(A meme of it destroying a rabbit beastkin field.)
Help!!!!!
Magic beasts had started appearing underground too.
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Magic beasts originally only existed as surface mobs.
No matter how bizarre and horrific, they were thought to sweep only the surface.
“Kee-eek!”
“No way, attacking underground too.”
But magic beasts from outside kept pouring in endlessly, and their types grew more diverse.
Now even underground wasn't safe anymore.
“Village chief, our fields!”
“The fields aren't the priority!”
The fields of the rabbit beastkin who had settled underground were being shattered, but that wasn't all.
Between the rabbit beastkin village and fields, there was only a wooden fence for defense.
Their exceptional farming skills kept them from starving underground, but they had no power to protect themselves.
Next up after the fields was the village.
“Wh-what do we do...”
Myoran's rabbit ears fluttered nonstop.
Was extinction the only option?
Just as despair flashed through her mind.
[Judak☆: This is really the last time...]
[Judak☆ proposes '12-Gauge Shotgun' 1 unit and '3 Bullets' as trade items!]
[Judak☆: Put anything in and trade gg.]
An unexpected notification arrived.
Trade items?
But there was no time to prepare anything to offer.
“Kee-eek!”
The sandworm charging at the fence from afar made normal thinking impossible.
Kwang!
“Ch-Chief!”
The sturdy wooden fence shook as if about to break.
In that moment of shock when everyone collapsed, Myoran gritted her teeth and offered something as a trade item.
[The barter trade has been completed!]
At the same time, a strange object dropped in front of Myoran.
“Th-this is?”
Dark like coal, but intricately made.
The long hole extending from the end sent chills crawling up her spine.
[Judak☆: Shoulder-mount it and aim carefully.]
[Myoran: ]
No time to reply.
“L-like this?”
She awkwardly shouldered it, aiming straight ahead.
The moment she pulled the trigger.
“Kee-eek!”
Flames exploded from the black object.
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Title: Notice of Rabbit Beastkin Gallery Activity Resumption
Author: Myoran
Hello, everyone in the gallery.
We rabbit beastkin have been exposed to too much persecution and abuse for a long time.
But that problem has been resolved as of today.
In other words, we rabbit beastkin hereby announce our resumption of gallery activity starting today. Myo.
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[Comments]
- Welcome ^^
- Beastkin? Can't resist lol.
- Rabbit yaaahoooo!!!!
ㄴ Suspiciously enthusiastic;
- ? Why announce activity resumption?
- Yeah. No law saying humans won't act like last time.
ㄴ Myoran) Ah, that? It's fine now.
ㄴ (It used to be a sandworm.)
ㄴ (The majestic form of the 12-Gauge Shotgun.)
ㄴ That one now lies beside the sandworm.
ㄴ Lol.
ㄴ What the...
“Nice.”
A gallery full of lurkers wasn't good.
With one shotgun and three bullets, I'd secured the beastkin safety and turned them into active gallery users.
“Of course, only two bullets left now...”
That might not be enough to sustain activity.
Two bullets couldn't create dramatic change, after all.
But other races didn't know that.
They didn't even know it needed bullets to work in the first place.
- Lol, raiding rabbit beastkin right away.
ㄴ Myoran) (12-Gauge Shotgun meme.)
ㄴ Myoran) I'll kill you.
ㄴ Sorry.
Thanks to that, no one dared attempt raids lightly.
“Now that the rabbit beastkin are in, won't they be a big help?”
Actually, there was more reason to help the rabbit beastkin.
Food was endlessly short in both the market and MSG.
Rabbit beastkin just happened to have exceptional talent in farming, so I hoped they'd ease the food shortage.
And the rabbit beastkin immediately started helping the gallery a lot.
- Hi everyone^^ Embarrassed but...jpg
- Workout done for today //^^//...jpg
- Bored, anyone wanna chat...? //
- The love triangle story from the village...jpg
“Uh, not like that.”
But they were activating the gallery in a way far from what I'd expected.