Became a Mechromancer - Chapter 47

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Chapter 47.
The Back of My Head Tingles (3)
Writhe, writhe….
A man lay crumpled on the ground before the Abyss Entrance.
Panicked American hunters cried out the man’s name.
“Jason!”
There was no response.
Jason’s neck was broken, barely clinging to life.
US JSOC Team Leader Brad saw the system window materialize before his eyes.
Officially registered as a South Korean national.
The system recognized them and displayed a message, but the blue-eyed Korean simply panicked, unable to read Hangul.
Brad surveyed his surroundings.
Seeing awe mingled with shock on the faces of South Korean hunters, he could sense that something had changed within the Abyss.
Before he could even assess the situation, Rick, the hot-blooded member of his team, stepped forward.
“Who is it!”
“The one who pranked Jason!”
Rick dismissed it as merely a mana barrier, lowering his stance like an American football linebacker.
“You think a cheap trick like that will work on me!”
Before Brad could stop him, Rick charged toward the Abyss Entrance.
“Whoa, whoa, whoa!”
The South Korean hunters were instead alarmed by Rick’s reckless charge.
“Whoa!”
“Stop! Stop!”
Crash! Ugh!
Rick collided with an invisible wall.
His shoulder blade shattered with a scream.
“H-help….”
Over that absurd spectacle, another message appeared before the South Korean hunters.
[Abyss Layer 2 is locked.]
Han San-ho wiped his face with a dry hand.
“Ghost really is… in there.”
Everyone around him nodded in agreement at his murmur.
Even S-rank hunters were at the mercy of the Abyss’s quests.
No one else came to mind who could display messages like this besides Ghost.
Someone asked, their voice trembling with dread as they stared at the message.
“Locking the 2nd Floor… that’s a warning not to interfere with his quest, right?”
All the hunters nodded in agreement.
Meanwhile, the foreign hunters and scouts who didn’t understand the situation looked bewildered.
A moment later.
Scout teams from various nations, having assessed the situation, began urgently communicating with their home countries. Their gazes remained fixed on the distant Abyss Entrance.
South Korean Hunters who locked eyes with them erupted in fury.
“Just try approaching when Ghost comes out. We won’t let it slide.”
“They dragged in a psychic-type Hunter, so Ghost locked the door!”
Hostility poured toward the American team.
“They’re using tricks, and it looks pathetic!”
In some ways, I understood.
If Ghost continued clearing the Abyss at this rate, South Korea might become the only nation in the world where the Abyss disappeared.
The structure was now clear.
Those protecting Ghost and the plunderers trying to seize him.
In between, Go Gyeong-taek quietly assessed the board.
The possibility of Ghost leaking overseas.
But more important than the clan’s preemption was securing a legitimate reason to contact Ghost frequently.
‘I need to guide my maternal grandfather’s Family to recruit Ghost.’
I was the Family’s director.
In other words, a position where I’d frequently encounter Ghost.
So.
‘I’ll have endless opportunities to bring him to my side.’
For now.
‘I need to eliminate overseas competitors while things are in a lull.’
I contacted the Hunter Management Bureau and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs emergency hotline.
‘I can report to my maternal grandfather later.’
The reason was simple.
The building behind the Abyss Entrance was the Han Hyun-chul Family’s building. The Five Major Hunter Families had originally established their territories surrounding the Abyss to detect and respond to abnormal changes first.
By now, that purpose had twisted into the pursuit of ultimate power.
Meanwhile, Brad, having finished collecting his injured comrade and reporting to the Pentagon, returned near the Abyss exit.
South Korean Hunters surrounded the exit in overlapping layers like a barricade.
He sighed and turned to Martin Noah.
“We’ve unintentionally lost numbers.”
“…Then wouldn’t we just increase them?”
“Don’t touch the Korean Hunters. If they arrest us under their laws, things get complicated. Okay?”
Instead of answering, Martin Noah pulled his hat down firmly.
As his eyes widened, his psychic dominance spread in all directions.
Simultaneously, the two psychic-type Hunters behind him scattered in a triangular formation, amplifying Martin Noah’s ability.
Soon, the eyes of nearby foreign Hunters and some scouts lost focus.
They began mindlessly attacking the South Korean Hunters.
* * *
Inside the Garage at that moment.
Doo-ho leaned close to the magnifying glass.
As the shimmering white light cleared, the identity revealed beyond the monitor made Doo-ho’s jaw drop.
“…What in the world is all this?”
Thump, thump-thump!
Ancient wood moving along the conveyor belt.
Whirrrrr….
As the saw blade cut through the ancient wood, drill bits immediately followed to shape it.
Robotic arms assembled the framework, and the completed automaton was ejected toward the entrance.
The entire process took seven seconds.
“That’s why it doesn’t matter even if Isto destroys them.”
In other words, this place was…
‘An Automated Factory.’
-It appears so.
As Doo-ho turned the button toward Isto, the Isto on the monitor screen was busy dealing with swarms of automatons.
Broken debris piled high on the ground. And for every piece destroyed, more automatons appeared.
Doo-ho shifted the monitoring viewpoint.
Where Hawkeye was looking, endless piles of ancient wood were visible.
‘Expecting resource depletion won’t work.’
Opening the Hidden Quest, I saw:
『Time Limit: 01:28:41』
More than an hour had already passed.
-Should we destroy the factory?
Just as Hawkeye was about to draw the bowstring, Doo-ho spoke.
“If you wedge a steel arrow into that massive gear, it’ll stop, won’t it?”
-What, what do you mean?
“Insert it between the teeth.”
-Uh… yes… understood.
Hawkeye pulled out a steel arrow, hands trembling.
“You’ll need two of them.”
-T-two… two at once??
Ugh!
“Just make more for me!”
Whoosh!
Only then did Hawkeye push the steel arrows into the gaps between the gear teeth.
Boom-crash!
The massive interlocking gears ground to a forced halt, sparks flying.
As power cut off, the conveyor belt lurched to a stop, and after one final automaton was ejected from the entrance, production ceased.
Doo-ho grinned and pressed a button on the monitoring screen.
Isto was still crushing automatons one-sidedly, grinding mana stones between his teeth.
‘Isto, hold on just a bit longer. Nothing else will come out now.’
Oh!
-As expected of you, Doo-ho!
Just as Doo-ho set aside his worries and began contemplating how to solve the hidden quest, it happened.
Necromancer!
-We have a problem.
The moment Doo-ho switched his viewpoint, a massive figure stood in the center of the factory.
Its form resembled an automata, but its sheer size was different. The rough metallic body looked far from ordinary.
“What is that?”
-…It appears to be a security unit designed to protect the facility.
Screeeech!
The security unit extended its arm and yanked the steel arrow lodged in the gear.
The gears that had stopped began turning again, and the assembly line roared back to life.
Whoosh—.
Hawkeye unleashed a rapid barrage of light arrows.
Clang!
The security unit dashed forward and effortlessly deflected the light arrows aimed at the factory equipment.
-This thing is more agile than I expected.
Doo-ho brushed his bangs back while peering through the magnifying glass.
‘I thought this would be simple… but it looks like I have no choice but to finish this hidden quest quickly.’
How do I stop it?
One thing was certain: the automata were drawing energy from the mana flowing up from the ground.
Suddenly, Isto’s voice echoed in my mind.
-I shall handle this!
I switched the view to Isto.
Boom!!
Isto drove his fist straight into the stone floor.
The automata rushed at him, but Isto paid them no mind.
“Isto, stop!”
-Since you upgraded my parts, Doo-ho, this is nothing. Hehe~.
Isto struck the ground again.
In an instant, cracks spread across the floor like a spider’s web.
No….
‘I was worried that would be even more dangerous!’
-Huh??
Exactly what Doo-ho had feared came to pass.
Whoooosh….
As mana seeped from the fractured floor, the automata grew even more violent. Debris stirred and rushed at Isto.
Huh? Huh?
-I, I didn’t think they’d be so aggressive!
Crackle crackle….
A flustered Isto heated his entire body and incinerated the debris.
Watching this unfold, Doo-ho finally stepped outside the Garage.
Isto cried out urgently.
-Doo-ho, go in!
Isto still maintained the upper hand, but the Quest time was the problem.
Crack! Crunch!
Isto was smashing every automaton rushing toward Doo-ho.
Doo-ho looked up.
Up there. The Stairwell Wall where mana was leaking out.
I checked the Quest time.
‘…About 40 minutes left?’
This is frustrating.
Even Hawkeye couldn’t climb it and gave up.
I stretched my nanobots as far as possible. If I could just reach the destination….
But before reaching halfway, the nanobots hit their limit.
Quickly retracting them, I tried wedging the nanobots into the wall’s crevices instead.
They caught somewhat, but….
“This is perfect for a fatal fall.”
Ah, suction cups!
I tried adhering them like octopus tentacles, but the rough stone wall made it dangerous.
‘Somehow, if I mimic something with nanobots, it should work….’
I recalled biomimetic robots from an old classroom lesson.
Robot fish used for underwater surveillance.
On water, robots mimicking water strider legs would walk across.
Then what about a stone wall like this?
‘A fly with hooks on its legs?’
But….
Flies don’t climb by riding up.
My gaze swept across the wall.
‘Adhesive-type would work.’
Well, that means….
‘Spider legs use dry adhesion, don’t they?’
I calmed my mind and dredged up what I’d learned in class.
Microscopic hairs—setae—and molecular bonding….
The nanobots flowing from my fingertips transformed into spider legs.
The tips split finely, and the contact points became densely packed.
How much time had passed?
After several failures, I’d created nanobot spider legs once more.
Tense, I brought the spider leg tips toward the wall.
‘This time, I’ll succeed!’
Whoosh!
Pulling hard, they stuck fast and firm. I withdrew a bit of the mana I’d infused into the nanobots.
Thud—!
I peeled away from the wall with ease.
“…Done!”
A soft rustling sound.
Immediately, nanobots sprouted from behind my back in multiple strands.
Gradually, the nanobots took on the shape of spider legs, complete with fine bristles and hooks at their tips.
Click, click-click….
The nanobot spider legs settled against the Stairwell Wall.
The form looked convincing enough.
As I drew a deep breath and channeled mana into the nanobots, pouring my strength into them.
The nanobot spider’s legs pressed against the wall surface, moving one step, then two.
The recoil pulled my body upward.
Defying gravity itself as I climbed.
I began scaling the wall, relying entirely on the nanobot spider legs.
-Doo-ho!!
At Isto’s cry, I raised my hand to reassure him.
The real problem was the Automated Factory.
‘Hawkeye, you holding up?’
-…This thing’s pretty strong, but… there’s another issue….
‘Another issue?’
-No, sir. I’ll take care of it.
Anger tinged his tone, but he seemed fine regardless.
A soft blur….
The moment my focus wavered, my control over the nanobots faltered.
Whoooosh….
My body slid rapidly down the wall surface.
I barely averted disaster by snapping my concentration back into place.
Phew.
That scared me.
I wiped the sweat from my brow and resumed climbing the vertical wall.
A glance.
Looking down, my knees trembled.
I quickly activated my positive thinking circuits.
‘If I fall, I’ll just spread my wings and land like before.’
With that resolve, I steadied myself.
Finally, I reached the point where mana was leaking out and caught my breath.
I quickly pushed my body toward the spot Isto had burned away, retrieving the nanobots.
The sight resembled a real spider slipping into a crevice somewhere.
Ahead, a sphere the size of a watermelon was embedded deep within the wall.
‘Destroying that would be dangerous.’
If it burst, I’d be caught in the blast too.
The fortunate part was that the gaps around the sphere holding it in place had widened.
Looking closer, it seemed Isto’s intense heat had loosened the fixed axis.
So then.
Sssssss….
Doo-ho channeled nanobots through the widened gaps of the sphere.
He immediately reinforced them with mana, giving the nanobots rigidity.
Crack, screeeech─!
The reinforced nanobots became a lever, prying at the gaps relentlessly.
The fixing device holding the sphere let out a tortured wail as it twisted.
How much time had passed?
Doo-ho, considerably drained of energy, gritted his teeth and struggled harder.
The Quest completion time slipping away felt unbearably cruel.
Come on, just a bit more!
“Stop holding on—come out already!!”
Crack, crackle!
Fine fractures spread across the sphere’s surface.
Just a little more!!
Pouring out every last ounce of strength I had.
Boom─!
The sphere tore free entirely, and an unexpected message struck my ears.
[You have gained experience]
Became a Mechromancer
Author｜
Gungang e
Published｜
February 25, 2026
Publisher｜
TalesYX
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