Became a Mechromancer - Chapter 70

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Chapter 70.
How Many Layers? (7)
Transport Ship Interior.
Beep beep beep beep….
The main screen was completely covered in red dots.
Thud.
Startled, Bom-i burrowed into Duho’s embrace and spoke.
-M-master! This is a disaster, woof woof!
Duho, his brow furrowed, stared intently at the red dots densely filling the main screen.
No matter how strong Isto and Hawkeye were, handling that many was impossible.
He began to reason through the situation rationally.
Could demonic beasts really gather this densely?
Could it be some kind of terrain shift caused by a Quest?
Or perhaps….
A mechanical malfunction in the transport ship?
‘Let me check first.’
Duho immediately activated his ‘Parts Detection’ skill and began surveying various sections of the transport ship.
Through his enhanced vision, the ship’s various components appeared in augmented reality.
A few components showed they’d exceeded their replacement cycles, but that had nothing to do with the radar.
In other words….
‘The equipment is functioning normally.’
I bit my lip firmly.
This time, I deployed the bird’s-eye view ability Isto had taught me in my mind.
Though it’s called a bird’s-eye view, it’s really just a minimap ability that detects demonic beasts.
But the results were no different from what the transport ship’s main screen showed.
Then….
‘Are those really demonic beasts?’
No, wait.
There was one possibility I could think of.
The only problem was that the transport ship couldn’t see below, making verification difficult.
Just then, Isto’s voice reached Duho’s mind.
Master Duho!
-I’ll head down and check!
‘No, don’t go.’
-Pardon?
Before he could descend, Duho retrieved a monitoring device from the Garage.
He selected the Hawkeye button visible through the magnifying glass on the small screen.
Hawkeye’s first-person view came through on the monitor.
“Hawkeye. Use your scope to zoom in on the floor down there.”
Quite a distance away.
Hawkeye pulled the scope down, illuminating the seafloor below.
Duho’s eyes widened as he stared down at the magnified view on the monitor.
Underwater Bedrock Area.
Bizarre shapes began to reveal themselves, clustered densely across the terrain.
Duho silently prayed he was right.
‘Please let them be eggs.’
If they’re demonic beasts, we need to get out of here!
As Hawkeye increased the magnification further, an enormous cluster of Rock Crab eggs emerged into view.
The moment I was about to breathe a sigh of relief.
[You have gained experience points]
What the—
What, what is this?!
Startled, I switched the monitoring view to Isto’s perspective.
Ugh!
Something grotesque appeared magnified on the scope.
It was a severed cross-section of a Rock Crab.
[You have gained experience points]
Isto, equipped with Echo Metal flippers, was darting through the water in all directions, slicing through the Rock Crabs.
Whooooosh—!
As Isto unleashed intense heat, bubbles fizzed around it like carbonated water.
Splash.
Isto folded the flippers into sharp blades and cleanly segmented the Rock Crab approaching the Transport Ship Interior!
Confirming that the Transport Ship Interior was safe thanks to Isto, Bom-i emerged from Duho’s arms.
Bom-i poked her head out and glanced at the magnified view.
-Oh, so they were eggs, ribbit?
“Yeah.”
Ahem.
Bom-i cleared her throat to hide her embarrassment and sat back in the pilot’s seat.
The eggs reflected in the scope through Hawkeye’s magnification.
Inside them were fully formed Rock Crabs, already complete.
They could hatch and emerge at any moment.
The hunters of the Delivery Party flashed through Duho’s mind.
Those who barely managed to grow stronger by traversing the upper layers of the Abyss.
If I left this as is, wouldn’t they be in danger?
The bigger problem was.
‘What if they all hatch at once?’
The demonic beasts’ mana would almost certainly expand explosively, and the moment it exceeded the critical threshold.
“A massive Abyss Rift would open.”
I recalled the memory of entering that Abyss Rift back then.
I was fortunate to awaken and reach this point, but.
‘I never want to think about it again.’
If all those demonic beasts poured out from the Abyss Rift, countless people would be in danger.
Of course.
I’m not trying to play the role of a righteous apostle.
I simply don’t want to see anyone hurt or suffering.
Hawkeye drove the wedge in.
Macromanser, sir.
-By my estimates, most of them should hatch around the same time.
Duho opened his mouth while watching the creatures writhing inside the eggs through the magnifying glass.
“You guys.”
-Huh?
-Ribbit?
-…?
Duho felt genuinely relieved that he’d chosen this Quest.
Now that I know the crisis, solving it ends everything.
Of course, the Super Intelligence units will handle the solution.
“I feel reassured having you all here.”
Ooh, oh! Kyiyiyiyit!!!!
-Duho sir! I’ll head down right now and slice off all their necks—no, smash them to pieces!
-I’ll expend energy without worrying about efficiency and annihilate them all, Macromanser sir!
Two creatures eager to charge down immediately!
Duho stifled a hollow laugh and twisted his lips.
The atmosphere had been good just moments ago.
“Are you two really Super Intelligence units?”
-Huh??
-M-Macromanser sir?
“No, am I wrong? One’s obsessed with blade work, and the other goes around drilling holes in everything.”
Watching the two flustered creatures, Duho looked at Bom-i.
“Bom. Give me a quick rundown—what’s the blast radius per mine, how many do we have total, and what are the constraints?”
At Duho’s question, the two who had been Super Intelligence units exchanged glances.
Just then, several claw crabs approached the Transport Ship Interior.
Swish-clang!
Whoooosh!
The two took out their frustration on the innocent claw crabs.
.
.
.
Moments later, inside the Transport Ship Interior.
-So each mine has an effective blast radius of eight meters, ribbit.
After finishing the final explanation, the creature pointed a webbed finger at a bag of mana stones tucked in the corner of the Transport Ship Interior.
-Master. Couldn’t you just take out 3 mana stones from there and put them in that round rice cooker over there, ribbit?
“Rice cooker?”
I turned around and spotted a cylindrical device resembling an electric rice cooker wedged in the rear corner of the Transport Ship Interior.
“You want me to put them in there?”
-The transport ship needs to be fed too so it can gain strength, ribbit!
I reached out my hand.
Whoosh. Click, patter,
Nanobots flowed from my fingertips and grasped three mana stones.
I immediately opened the rice cooker lid that Bom-i had shown me and shook the mana stones inside.
Whirrrrr──!
The Transport Ship Interior surged with power, its engine roaring with renewed vigor.
Soon after, I issued a command.
“Bom-i, get all the eggs on the radar.”
As I spoke, Bom-i’s transport ship began to move.
Moments later, the full range appeared on the main screen.
“Stop.”
I approached the main screen.
In that instant, my expression turned cold and mechanical.
My mind raced at incredible speed.
Returning to a gentle expression, I pointed at the main screen with my finger.
Bom-i.
“Here, and here too, and here as well….”
After marking those points,
“Deploy 42 mine robots.”
-42, ribbit?
Bom-i’s round eyes widened to the size of a bun, shocked internally.
How??
‘Finding and calculating the optimal detonation points faster than me, ribbit?’
And then I smiled with my eyes.
With this master!
-Even a legendary-grade adamantium ore vein isn’t a dream, ribbit!
Whoosh.
With my throat puffed out, I began rotating the transport ship in a spiral descent.
As I manipulated the lever,
Whirrr. Clank!
The bottom of the transport ship rang out as mine robots descended one by one.
I watched intently from beside with a magnifying glass, tense and focused.
* * *
The transport ship that had descended into the Underwater Bedrock Area now hid itself deep within a crevice of the bedrock.
When Bom-i tapped the main screen with webbed fingers.
The mine robots that had been circling the crab egg cluster scuttled sideways and positioned themselves throughout the bedrock area.
Fortune favored them—the crabs ignored the mine robots entirely.
“Could they have mistaken them for allies?”
-They’re smaller, so the crabs don’t pay attention to them, ribbit.
Deployment complete either way!
Duho, who had been watching the egg colony, raised and lowered his eyebrows.
‘Now I understand why they call them barnacle crabs.’
Looking closer, the lower part that anchored the eggs to the rock bore an unmistakable resemblance to a barnacle’s form.
Duho glanced downward.
Bom-i’s round eyes met his, gleaming with anticipation.
As if eager to deliver one decisive blow!
Duho called Isto and Hawkeye to the transport ship’s location.
“Begin, Bom-i.”
-Ribbbbbbit!!!
Bom-i climbed onto the pilot’s seat.
The status graphics of the mine robots appeared on the main screen.
As if drawing in mana, Bom-i clenched both fists with tremendous force.
Hummmmm──.
The mana stones inside the mine robots compressed, shifting to a deep crimson hue.
Beep beep, beep beep beep!
Warning alarms indicating critical threshold.
Yet Bom-i squeezed the fists tighter still, pouring every ounce of strength into the effort.
The main screen blazed with ominous warning indicators.
“B-Bom-i?”
Duho asked, troubled by the ominous signs.
-Master!
“Huh? Oh, yes.”
-Explosions are art, ribbbbbbit!
The creature threw both hands upward.
Click! Click! Click! Click….
The side panels of the mine robots embedded in the floor opened in perfect unison.
And then….
BOOOOOOOM──!!!!!
The explosive pressure, compressed to its absolute limit, expanded in all directions and consumed the entire crab egg colony.
Crack, crunch! Splash─!
Even hidden within the bedrock crevices, the rushing water pressure was terrifying.
The transport ship lurched violently.
Thud!
Isto, positioned outside the transport ship, gripped the vessel’s legs with both arms, while Hawkeye clung to Isto’s legs.
Isto was holding his ground against the Transport Ship Interior being dragged into the maelstrom of pressure.
No—beyond that, he was actually pulling it deeper into the rocky crevices in the opposite direction.
Duho watched the scene through his magnifying glass, utterly astounded.
‘Who could have created Isto?’
Whoever it was must have been an absolute genius.
Well….
A genius of that caliber might very well have harbored ambitions of world conquest.
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.
.
The torrential current subsided, and the dust gradually settled.
The Underwater Bedrock Area where tens of thousands of eggs and mature creatures had vanished without a trace.
Yet in the very center of that crater, a single egg rolled about—unmarred, unblemished.
Whoosh──.
Hawkeye emerged from the rocky crevice and fired an arrow of light.
As the arrow flew and pierced the remaining egg—

[Main Quest Achieved!]
Reward: Legacy of the Forgotten Artificer
[Stat Restrictions Lifted.]
Whoooosh──!
The nerfed stats returned to their rightful place, and vitality surged through Duho’s body.
“It’s… done!”
Mana cascaded through every fiber of my being, overflowing with power.
Though if there was one unfair thing about it—
the Crab King’s eggs counted for no experience.
Tsk, such an enormous quantity….
‘I was secretly hoping for it.’
At a glance, there had to be thousands of them!
Whether Isto had read Duho’s thoughts or not, he cried out.
-Should’ve hatched them first before subjugating them!
“Then wouldn’t the Quest have failed?”
-What kind of nonsense is that?!
Just as Hawkeye was about to burst into anger, Bom-i calmly interjected.
-Iron Lord seems to have serious comprehension issues, ribbit.
-What, what did you say, you sword?!
-Wasn’t it written “eggs” in the Quest, ribbit.
Duho chuckled softly and was about to suggest they head back up now.

[Hidden Quest Triggered]
◈ Appease the God of the Trident
Refusal: 3 layers of the Abyss disappear
Success Reward: 1 Save Point
※Upon acceptance, Floor 5 will be temporarily locked.
Accept / Refuse
There was no time to examine the details.
Kuguguong!
A Temple entrance materialized where the eggs had been.
* * *
Meanwhile, through the consciousness of Jacob, who had forced a perilous dive—
Shuuuuk—!
Light coiled around him.
His awareness settled in the Main Chip Deep Memory Space.
“…Hmm.”
Fragments of collapsed data drifted about as if in zero gravity.
In short, it was ruins itself.
“Quite the temperament.”
I praised an opponent whose identity I didn’t know.
And for good reason.
The world’s most renowned hackers had surrendered completely, yet someone had reduced the Main Chip’s security to tatters.
And as if that weren’t enough, they’d erected a solid guard to prevent entry.
Thus.
I had barely managed to slip in here by using an access port I rarely employed.
Jacob lifted his arms with barely contained excitement.
“Let’s see.”
I snapped my fingers toward the void.
Twoom!
The code fragments that had been drifting haphazardly coalesced and returned to their proper positions as if being recovered.
As the chaos cleared somewhat, I reached out again.
From the temporarily restored location, I began piecing together the access logs.
I marveled once more.
Ho.
‘I thought it was random, but there’s an underlying rule and pattern layered beneath.’
The exhilaration of dissecting an opponent’s technique and knowledge.
The thrill of comprehending a method I’d never encountered before.
It was a valuable experience that opened my eyes to new approaches.
Even more so….
“I want to bring this monster over.”
In that moment.
Krrrritch!
The data mass clutched in my hand twisted and unraveled into streams of zeros and ones.
A defensive trap that had decompressed upon detecting the forensic tracker’s intrusion.
More precisely, a sharp-toothed beast had erupted from the dummy snare.
Fuhahahaha….
“This hacker is one of my kind.”
Jacob glared at the beast with savage intensity, his lips curling into a grin.
I Became a Macromanser
Author |
Gungang E
Published |
February 25, 2026
Publisher |
Talesyx
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