Chapter 117
Chapter 117
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Translator: uly
Chapter: 117
Chapter Title: Obey! Do it!
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“Hmm.”
“What is it?”
“That guy gives off a bad vibe.”
“You think he’s got some hidden trick up his sleeve?”
“Even if he does, what could he possibly do? No way he can output more power than the chaos mana we can all unleash together.”
“No, that’s impossible. If he had that kind of power, the system would’ve restricted it already. Considering the system’s constraints, that can’t happen.”
“Yeah, that’s for sure. So what gives him the guts?”
The managers couldn’t hide their confused expressions at Geon-woo’s confident demeanor.
In the meantime, their synchronization with the jiangshi had become even more perfect, to the point where facial expressions were now visible on their faces.
“You can’t attack me either, right?”
Geon-woo teased the managers as he looked at them.
“Well...”
“No. We can’t attack directly, but we can use chaos mana itself. You think you can withstand the chaos mana we all unleash at once?”
The four o’clock manager trailed off, acknowledging Geon-woo’s point, but the six o’clock manager bellowed that they could still crush him.
“Fine, let’s say that’s true. I wasn’t planning on doing anything like that to you anyway.”
Geon-woo smirked at the six o’clock manager.
Then he turned back to the twelve o’clock manager and abruptly asked,
“Have you ever heard of the Yultren?”
“Yultren?”
“Anyone know?”
“I do. They were a lower-dimensional race that our clan wiped out in the past.”
“Wiped out?”
“More precisely, they destroyed their own world. It was a very long time ago.”
“But why bring up such an inferior race?”
The managers looked puzzled at the mention of Yultren from Geon-woo’s mouth.
“Inferior? They were advanced enough to annihilate their own world. Looks like you were originally a demon clan member, huh?”
Geon-woo asked the six o’clock manager, who had claimed his clan destroyed the Yultren.
“Not anymore. Now I belong to the Great Demon Vein.”
The six o’clock manager didn’t deny his origins but clearly stated his current affiliation.
“Belong to the Great Demon Vein? With that thing wrapped around you, you’re not really part of it.”
Geon-woo pointed at the six o’clock manager possessing the jiangshi.
Having shed his energy lifeform state, he could no longer be considered part of the Great Demon Vein.
“Hmm.”
The six o’clock manager let out a short groan at Geon-woo’s point and shut his mouth.
“Well, you probably know the most about the Yultren anyway. Anything come to mind?”
Geon-woo pressed on without allowing the six o’clock manager’s silence.
“The Yultren... their knowledge of souls was so advanced even higher dimensions had to yield... No way?”
The six o’clock manager answered, then glared at Geon-woo with suspicious eyes.
“I know a Yultren named Kamalro. Haven’t had much chance to chat since I came to the higher dimension, but he’s a good friend.”
“How do you know a destroyed Yultren? Did you... soul-taxidermy them?”
“Ding ding ding! Correct! The demon clan attacked my lower dimension once. I caught and killed a few in the process and got some soul taxidermies. Kamalro was one of them.”
“So what about that Yultren bastard?!”
The six o’clock manager sensed something ominous and shouted sharply at Geon-woo.
The other managers began showing tense expressions at the six o’clock manager’s sharp reaction.
“Yultren soul knowledge is vast. And it includes numerous powerful methods for suppressing and controlling souls.”
“N-No way?”
“Ah, hold on. Don’t jump to conclusions.”
Geon-woo gestured for the wide-eyed, startled six o’clock manager to calm down, teasing him.
“Now, the fact that Yultren soul knowledge includes that is bad enough, but me wielding it against the vessels you’re using? That’s another problem. Controlling those things requires soul manipulation too. So I’m pretty skilled in that area myself.”
“Th-This! We can’t escape it.”
“We can’t undo the synchronization.”
“If we max out chaos mana, we could destroy the vessel... Ah!”
“If the vessel breaks, the soul takes damage too.”
“W-We got tricked. He stalled for time. Waited for us to fully sync with the vessels!”
“Damn it, we have to slowly melt the vessels over time.”
“Shit, we were happy to get these vessels. What the hell!”
Now grasping the situation, the managers started shouting in panic.
But they still hadn’t figured out Geon-woo’s hidden ace.
“Whoa, whoa. Calm down. One wrong move and your souls could get damaged. You energy lifeforms are now bound to those jiangshi bodies.”
Geon-woo was beating around the bush without revealing his hidden card.
“What is it? What are you hiding?!”
But as they say, old ginger is spicy.
The twelve o’clock manager saw through Geon-woo’s concealment and coldly interrogated him.
“Just preventing you from escaping via sync rate isn’t much. It’ll take time, but we can escape the vessels, or just keep using them as is.”
“Now that you mention it, no need to escape the vessels...”
“Idiot! We don’t know what he did to them!”
When the two o’clock manager suggested using the jiangshi as is, the twelve o’clock manager yelled.
“Hahaha. Exactly! That’s it. Why else would I bring up Yultren and my specialty?”
With that, Geon-woo slyly activated Cheonnoe Bunsim Je-ryeong Gangsi-gong, unleashing the spirit subjugation art at full strength.
“Kuugh? Th-This...!!”
“Aaagh! Kraaaah!”
“What?! Aaaaagh!”
“Uwaaaah!”
“What is this?! What the heeeeell!”
“S-Souls! He’s directly touching our souls! Th-This is!!!”
Purple light flashed around Geon-woo’s body.
The energy of Cheonnoe Bunsim Je-ryeong Gangsi-gong clashed and neutralized with the chaos mana.
But immediately after, Geon-woo borrowed chaos mana from the blankly standing jiangshi and coated his Cheonnoe Bunsim Je-ryeong Gangsi-gong with it.
The purple light vanished quickly.
“Kwaaaagh!”
“Aaaagh!”
“Kuuuugh!”
“P-Please! Aaaah!”
“S-Stop!”
“Urghhh! Uuurrrghhh!”
Instead, the managers’ pain intensified dozens of times over.
The Cheonnoe Bunsim Je-ryeong Gangsi-gong, infused with chaos mana atop regular mana, was suppressing their souls.
“Don’t! Do anything! Obey!”
Geon-woo commanded the managers while pushing Cheonnoe Bunsim Je-ryeong Gangsi-gong to its limits.
“Kuuugh.”
“Kuuk!”
“Y-Yes!”
“Keoogh!”
“Y-Yes, sir.”
“We... obey.”
The six managers reacted differently to Geon-woo’s command.
Geon-woo eased the pain for those who responded clearly.
But for those still screaming and failing to respond properly, he amplified the intensity with the recovered power.
“Don’t! Do anything! Obey!”
He issued the command again.
“Yes.”
“Understood.”
“Just give your orders.”
This time, all remaining managers obeyed instantly.
Accepting the subjugation energy and submitting reduced the pain.
That’s how the obedient managers shed their slurred speech.
“Good. Excellent!”
Geon-woo clenched his fist in satisfaction as all six managers submitted.
And first things first.
“Alright, hand over the modules for the chaos mana generators you possess.”
He secured the reason he’d entered the Great Demon Vein.
The six managers each pulled out all their modules.
“Whoa! So many? Hey! How many modules does it take to complete one generator?”
Geon-woo asked the twelve o’clock manager.
“Eighty-six.”
The twelve o’clock manager answered without hesitation.
“Then bundle them into sets of eighty-six to complete the generators.”
Geon-woo commanded immediately upon hearing the answer.
To prevent any resistance from the soul-suppressed managers, he ramped up Cheonnoe Bunsim Je-ryeong Gangsi-gong even further.
“Classification complete.”
“Anything left?”
“A few faulty spare parts.”
“I see. But you said the generators never broke before?”
“Yes. As long as no foreign energy clashes with it, the generator won’t break.”
“What if foreign energy touches it?”
“It won’t.”
“But those vessels were fine even if it did?”
Geon-woo double-checked that the jiangshi wouldn’t clash with the generators.
If they did, it would derail his plan for self-sufficient chaos mana.
“We confirmed it upon first contact with the modules. No issues at all.”
Fortunately, the twelve o’clock manager dispelled Geon-woo’s concerns cleanly.
Now, if he could just install the chaos mana generators inside the jiangshi, he’d overcome a major hurdle.
“But if we build a new chaos mana generator, will the system really interfere?”
Geon-woo hadn’t forgotten the managers’ warnings.
If this higher-dimensional system intervened, trouble was certain.
“We don’t know.”
“Don’t know? You said it would earlier.”
“That was just a threat about a possibility, to intimidate you, Master.”
“So it might or might not?”
“Yes.”
“Hmph.”
Geon-woo clicked his tongue in disappointment.
Though unlikely, system intervention was possible, making him hesitate to assemble the generators.
“Any way around it?”
Geon-woo asked the twelve o’clock manager.
Though his soul was subjugated, his experience and knowledge remained—maybe he knew something.
“If we complete the generator inside the vessel, we might fool the system’s eyes.”
Unexpectedly, the twelve o’clock manager had a plausible idea.
“Complete it inside the jiangshi?”
“The vessel—er, jiangshi—already carries chaos mana and operates outside the demon vein without system restrictions. So having a generator inside might be fine too.”
“Really?”
“As you said, Master, the vessels clearly defy dimensional laws. So...”
“But there’s still a chance the system shows up?”
“Yes.”
The twelve o’clock manager calmly answered Geon-woo’s worry about the slim possibility.
Geon-woo sighed inwardly.
‘This is a ‘have to eat even if it’s bad’ situation.’
He gritted his teeth, eyeing the ten completable module piles and one spare pile.
‘If the system reclaims the generator, no choice.’
It was a device he had to make eventually.
Postponing wouldn’t improve things.
‘Guess I’ll just go for it.’