The Chairman of Pharmaceutical Company is a Poison King - Chapter 148

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Chapter 148: The Beginning of the Great European War

A nuclear bomb exploded in the heart of Moscow.

M-19 Intelligence Agency of the European Empire detected this fact, and Director August reported it to Emperor Alex Caesar.

“Is that so?”

“We can’t wait any longer.”

“Hmm.”

After China’s destruction.

The use of nuclear weapons was an absolute taboo.

But a nuclear bomb had exploded in Moscow.

It wouldn’t be excessive at all to deploy the military.

However, Alex Caesar wore an expression as if something was lacking.

Slightly disappointing.

If he was going to raise the undead, he should have expanded it to all of Europe, not just Moscow.

And what’s with the nuclear bomb?

Not very necromancer-like.

“All preparations are complete. Just give the order.”

Alex was hesitating.

It wouldn’t matter if he started a war now.

But just undead hordes confined to Moscow and a nuclear explosion weren’t enough to create a proper ‘stage.’

Trillian Lancer, the same soul from another world, was a hero before he was an emperor.

He had built a unified empire that spanned the entire world while saving the continent’s people from the chaos of the Demon Lord’s invasion.

He too must become a hero.

A messiah who defeats the demons threatening the world, saves humanity, and achieves world peace.

Thus, he would acquire the qualifications as the rightful ruler of Earth’s unified empire.

Heroes are made by overcoming trials.

But could just a few undead and one nuclear explosion really be called a convincing trial?

‘Drek Karaks, is this all you amount to? How disappointing.’

But then.

Beep!

A notification sound from August’s smartphone.

Upon checking.

“…Oh.”

“What’s the matter?”

“Another nuclear bomb has exploded.”

“Where?”

August pointed his finger at a region on the map hanging on the wall of the emperor’s office.

“The estimated location is here.”

“If it’s there… Oh!”

Emperor Alex Caesar’s eyes sparkled.

He immediately understood what Drek Karaks was trying to do.

That’s right.

A necromancer should at least do that much.

The stage was finally set.

“August.”

“Yes!”

“Order the entire army to advance.”

“Yes! Understood. Glory to Your Majesty!”

The stage for a hero’s birth was complete.

Drek Karaks would serve as the foundation for it.

No matter how much power that bastard had accumulated, it was useless.

Sword Kaiser was just a fraction of the power he possessed.

Alex Caesar’s most powerful weapon was his army.

Ground and air forces armed with cutting-edge modern weaponry that moved in perfect unison at his single command.

Undead?

Just melt them away and be done with it.

* * *

BOOOOOOOM!

The moment Drek Karaks confirmed that Carmen had died from the prohibition, he pressed the button without hesitation.

‘It exploded well without any problems.’

The explosion was just a test.

Simply a procedure to confirm it would detonate properly.

Along with strengthening the power of dark magic.

The three Elder Black Mafia members hiding in the War Memorial couldn’t survive the nuclear explosion.

When the elders died, their souls, which had been bound by contract, entered his body and became nourishment for his dark magic.

‘Good.’

Since they were all slaves who had reached 8th class, the amount of magic was quite substantial.

Since the plan had gone awry, he needed to change course.

Originally, he had planned to complete the ritual by drawing in Alex Caesar’s European Imperial Army as well… but creating a new game plan was also a decent method.

The place where Drek Karaks had been hiding was near the Monster-infested Area east of Moscow.

This Monster-infested Area was larger in area than the Kingdom of Moscow itself.

Drek Karaks took out undead refined through dark magic from his subspace bag.

A total of 10 Death Knights.

From another subspace bag, he took out tactical nuclear warheads.

A whopping 6 obtained during the Moscow civil war.

Since he had detonated one of them, 5 nuclear warheads remained.

Two Death Knights were assigned to each nuclear warhead.

One carried the nuclear warhead on their back, while the other provided escort.

Because if they encountered elite monsters while moving, they had to protect the nuclear warheads.

“Go!”

The Death Knights scattered into the Monster-infested Area at rapid speed.

They spread out widely.

Since they were small tactical nuclear warheads, their power wasn’t that great.

So the deployment had to be done well.

To evenly affect the entire Monster-infested Area.

Drek Karaks evacuated to a safe zone.

And after confirming that the positions were properly established.

BOOOOOOOM! BOOOOOM!

Five nuclear warheads exploded simultaneously in the Monster-infested Area.

Five mushroom clouds rose up.

After some time passed.

Drek Karaks flew through the sky with Fly magic and raised his staff above the Monster-infested Area that had become ruins.

Hissssss!

The radiation created by the nuclear explosions was absorbed by Drek Karaks.

This too was energy.

Dark magic devoured the radiation.

And then.

“Rise!”

The pinnacle of necromancers.

Drek Karaks, who had transformed into the immortal demigod Deus Lich through a contract with the Demon God.

At his command, the dead monsters rose up.

Not just ordinary monsters, but elite monsters and flying monsters as well.

Even those who didn’t die but were injured in the nuclear explosion turned into undead.

Those who survived intact also became undead after being killed by monsters that had become Drek Karaks’s servants.

That wasn’t all.

Crack, crunch, groan!

Countless monsters that had been subjugated and buried by humans over the long years also gained new bodies and emerged from the ground.

In short, all monsters in the monster-infested area became undead.

Their numbers alone reached hundreds of thousands.

“Let’s go.”

Thud! Thud! Thud!

The army of hundreds of thousands of undead monsters began their march.

The Deus Lich, Drek Karaks, was not satisfied.

When they reached the graveyard on the outskirts of the ruined city.

“Rise!”

With a single gesture, human corpses burst through graves and crawled out.

The army kept growing.

Everything was undead.

* * *

After the nuclear explosion occurred, Kim Tae-ju had evacuated far outside the Kingdom of Moscow.

Tae-ju and Sambaek-i floating in the air while riding Manribibeom.

‘Cowardly bastards.’

Aren’t they supposed to be black mages?

Since they can’t handle it with their own abilities, they just detonate nukes?

“Niaang!”

Sambaek-i also seemed angry.

It must be the work of that necromancer called Drek Karaks.

‘This is troublesome.’

Nukes are somewhat unsettling.

Moreover, undead that execute suicide bombing without hesitation.

What if they charge desperately with a nuclear weapon strapped to their backs?

‘Still, I can’t just leave them be.’

That’s when it happened.

Rumble, rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble, boom boom boom!

Explosive sounds heard from far away.

‘Again?’

And mushroom clouds rising up.

‘…’

They were going completely mad.

Let’s evacuate for now.

Moving Manribibeom even further away.

Are those things black mages?

Or nuclear explosion fetishists?

‘I can’t even get close to investigate this.’

They say you shouldn’t even deal with crazy people.

Sambaek-i seems to have the same thought.

“Niaaaaa…”

“You want to go home?”

“Niang!”

“Wait a little. I’m thinking too.”

The contemplation grew long.

Honestly, with nuclear explosions going off one after another, continuing the pursuit is quite burdensome.

Does the Samhan Empire government know about this?

Tae-ju took out the smartphone he had stored in Infinite Space.

There were tons of missed calls from acquaintances.

Among them was a direct call from The Emperor.

Pressing the number.

“Hello.”

– Damn it! Finally getting through.

Cursing as soon as the call connects?

“I had the power turned off so I couldn’t answer.”

– You’re in Moscow, right?

“Huh? How did you know?”

– Where else would you go? Anyway, I see you survived even with the nukes going off.

“Huh? How did you know?”

– Large-scale seismic waves were detected. The Siberian pioneer unit observed them too.

“Ah, that’s right. It’s nuclear explosions. About five or six of them?”

– Come back immediately. This isn’t a situation for you to get involved in. The European Imperial Army is currently moving toward Moscow. Bombing will start soon.

“Hmm.”

– Alex Caesar issued a total military mobilization order. Don’t stay nearby and get hit by stray bombs.

Should I?

It’s actually another country’s war.

And the military has been deployed too.

Staying in this situation would just be meddling.

“I’ll think about it for now.”

– Come quickly. Not just me, but Suho is worried sick too. And that’s not all? President Baek Seo-yeon too, Branch Manager Jeong Yeon-hee too…

“He, hello? I can’t hear you well. Because of the nuclear explosion…”

Click.

Tae-ju hurriedly hung up before the conversation got longer.

He understands their concern, but…

Suddenly!

Beep beep beep.

‘Oh!’

In the midst of this, a delivery signal came from the Immortal Realm.

Opening the Shared Warehouse.

‘Huh?’

Why is it so empty?

All that’s inside is just one peach.

Anyway, let’s transfer it first.

Today’s shipment includes miscellaneous items and the second batch of Immortal Realm intranet installation equipment. Once this is installed, the wireless internet environment in the Immortal Realm will be complete.

Finally, sending dedicated smartphones in the next delivery will finish everything.

Dong-hun is working hard on it.

Shopping mall apps, instant payment systems, multiplayer games, and other apps that Earth people use frequently.

Additionally, production tools and management programs will also be installed on laptop computers and sent together.

‘Now let’s check this out?’

It’s just one peach.

But its appearance was unusual.

Even at first glance, it had a lustrous, gleaming color.

Could it be premium grade Seondo?

‘There’s a letter too.’

It looks like Danggumak wrote and sent it personally.

Tae-ju read the letter first.

At the same time, as soon as he read it, he realized what the peach was.

“…Heavenly Peach?”

His eyes widened.

“My, my goodness! Why would you give this to me….”

A Heavenly Peach.

Tae-ju knew about it too.

Wasn’t the Heavenly Peach managed by Seo Wang-mo the greatest treasure of the Immortal Realm?

‘Could there have been a mistake?’

A delivery error, for instance.

Something that shouldn’t have come to him.

If that was the case, he’d have to return it.

Tae-ju finished reading the letter.

But it wasn’t a mistake.

It was indeed meant for him.

Moreover.

‘…Eat, eat it?’

That’s right.

Eat it and become stronger.

Even the method of consumption was written down.

No, the Seondo was already enough, but now a Heavenly Peach too?

Wasn’t this too generous?

He really didn’t know what to do with himself.

‘I can’t return it now.’

What choice did he have?

He’d have to eat it.

* * *

Multiplex theater.

Jecheon Daeseong couldn’t take his eyes off the screen.

What he was watching was moving pictures, animation.

‘They said it was a multiverse.’

A story of Son Goku from another world.

Though the content was arbitrarily distorted, it was clearly borrowed from his own story.

The name was also Son Goku, there was the cloud somersault, and the Ruyi Staff too.

There were many things he didn’t like.

Especially the scene where seven dragon balls were gathered to make a wish to a dragon brat.

What was there to be desperate about to a mere dragon?

Even the Dragon King of the East Sea was helpless before him.

And one of the special moves, the energy blast.

A technique he could do too but rarely used.

It was ridiculous that enemies would wait while he gathered power.

Later, the story went completely off track with absurd settings.

No, it would be more accurate to say it went off into space.

Nevertheless, there was one thing he liked….

‘Transformation.’

A technique that could amplify one’s original abilities several times over.

When ki was drawn up, light would emanate from the body and hair would stand on end.

He could do it too.

First gather ki, then emit it outward, then convert it to light….

Whoooosh!

Jecheon Daeseong’s body blazed with brilliant white flames.

However.

“What the fuck, who is that?”

“Which bastard is lighting fires in the theater?”

“That’s Jecheon Daeseong, right? He must be copying what he saw in the animation.”

“He’s acting crazy, acting crazy. What a bumper year this is.”

“As if others can’t copy it too.”

“Ugh, simple-minded monkey bastard.”

Curses flew from all directions.

Jecheon Daeseong hastily withdrew his ki.

‘Normally these creatures wouldn’t even dare make eye contact….’

He wanted to just flip everything over.

“Isn’t copying things originally their species’ trait?”

“At this rate he’ll split the Immortal Realm in half.”

“His head will explode before that happens.”

“Let’s not show that bastard movies like Planet of the Apes. He’ll get ideas from watching that.”

The Immortal Realm and Hwangcheon-gye united to badmouth him.

“Being in the same movie theater as that monkey is disgusting.”

“And he’s watching for free too.”

“Let’s just bear with it a little, I heard Dok-seon will send him to the Realm of the Buddhas soon.”

“I wish he’d send him quickly.”

Flinch.

Jecheon Daeseong’s expression hardened.

Being cursed at was nothing.

But.

‘I’m getting kicked out of here soon?’

Absolutely not.

What would he do going to that tedious Realm of the Buddhas?

He’d only been here a few days but he loved this place so much.

Just watching a few videos made him lose track of time.

The Immortal Realm was like a whole other world.

If he’d known earlier, he wouldn’t have even thought of escaping.

‘I absolutely have to settle down here.’

The problem was that he’d started off on the wrong foot.

He regretted it.

So much that he wanted to turn back time.

He had to receive forgiveness.

He had no choice but to prostrate himself.

‘Let me meet with Dok-seon.’

Jecheon Daeseong left the theater and went down to the first floor of the multiplex.

It was full of immortals.

“What? It’s the monkey.”

“Ugh, what is Avalokiteśvara doing, not taking that bastard away.”

“Look, look at that shameless face. He’s really living it up these days, isn’t he?”

“Don’t give that bastard even a single banana milk.”

Criticism poured down. But he endured it with effort.

He absolutely had to bear it.

To be recognized as a member of this community.

He went outside the multiplex and arrived at Seon-gye World, where he saw Dok-seon.

He quietly approached and.

“…Dok-seon.”

“What?”

Danggumak answered with a cold expression.

Just looking at him was irritating.

‘Thinking about how I went back and forth between heaven and hell because of this bastard….’

Even tearing him apart wouldn’t be satisfying enough.

Anyway, he was planning to chase him back to the Realm of the Buddhas.

Wasn’t he a famous troublemaker from the upper realms?

Even the Realm of the Buddhas couldn’t handle him and dumped him on me.

Of course, at first I had considered accepting him into the Immortal Realm.

I actually brought him here with that intention.

With the purpose of controlling him with the Golden Headband and making him work when we were short on manpower.

But the Immortals’ complaints reached the heavens.

They said just looking at him was unpleasant.

They questioned whether we really needed to borrow a monkey’s strength.

So I had no choice but to stick him in the screening room out of sight and wait for a chance to kick him out.

“I, I was wrong. It’s because I’m a monkey and ignorant, so I failed to learn human morality.”

“….”

“I’ve committed a mortal sin. So I beg you to show mercy.”

I was a bit surprised.

Was this guy ordinary?

Monkey King, Jecheon Daeseong, Victorious Fighting Buddha.

These were all titles for that monkey.

To think he’d come out with such a humble attitude.

“Please don’t kick me out. If I go back to the Realm of the Buddhas, I might wither away and die there.”

What should I do?

Since he came out swinging first like this, I couldn’t just coldly turn away.

Should I give him one more chance?

Anyway, he did deliver the Heavenly Peach safely.

“…Then I’ll keep you around and observe for now. Absolutely don’t cause any trouble. If a similar incident occurs again, then regardless of Haemak’s request or anything else, there’ll be nothing for you.”

“Oh! Thank you.”

Jecheon Daeseong continued with a bright smile.

He had received forgiveness, and now what remained was blending in as a member of the Immortal Realm.

“I won’t just repent with words. I want to show you through actions.”

“Actions?”

“I’d like to do volunteer work for the Immortal Realm… Just give me anything to do. I’ll do it all.”

“Hmm.”

Danggumak thought carefully.

Good.

Let me work him to the bone to see if he’s truly repentant.

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