The Chairman of Pharmaceutical Company is a Poison King - Chapter 157

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Chapter 157: Oh, No Way!

Mega Roma, Imperial Crystal Engineering Research Institute of the European Empire.

Director Vincent Moretti was watching footage transmitted in real-time through military drones.

“Daniel, zoom in on that part. That human floating above the undead unit.”

“Yes.”

The image was magnified.

Then a chilling, monstrous form was revealed.

From a distance it looked human, but up close it had a demonic appearance.

Two horns on its head, black pupils without whites, the bridge of its nose had disappeared leaving only two holes, and its teeth were filled with sharp fangs like a beast.

‘He’s transformed into a lich.’

And not just any ordinary lich.

‘A Deus Lich?’

That was most likely the case.

Of course, The Emperor wasn’t to be underestimated either.

‘This will be difficult.’

Even in a one-on-one fight.

In the end, he would have no choice but to use the two artifacts he had given him – the Pendant of Absolute Defense and the Totem of Complete Binding.

‘Is it time to see the experimental results?’

His heart was pounding.

There, two absolute beings from different dimensions.

More precisely, souls identical to them.

The tremendous bio-energy possessed by Alex Caesar and Drek Karaks.

And the changes that would be created by combining with the magical power of the artifacts he had made.

Different souls from the same world.

There was a certain law governing them.

The connected souls were all the strongest in their respective dimensions.

Alex Caesar was the Sword Kaiser, Drek Karaks was the most vicious necromancer.

Vincent Moretti was no different.

His soul was also connected to an absolute being from another world.

Wasn’t something strange about this?

A mere enchant grand magitech engineer being an absolute being.

But the soul identical to Vincent was indeed the strongest.

He had even destroyed the world he lived in with his own power.

A kind of mad scientist.

What he was best at was dimensional engineering and golem engineering.

That’s why he had been able to create subspace bags.

The reason such a Vincent Moretti had gone under Alex Caesar was for secrecy and safety.

The greatest weakness of grand magitech engineers was their vulnerable power base during early growth.

Before they could grow, they could die or be kidnapped and fall into becoming slaves making magic items for life in dark dungeons.

So he had taken the hand Alex Caesar extended.

He had obediently followed his commands and bought time instead.

From now on, there was no need for that.

He had sufficiently built his foundation.

He had also prepared conditions for independence.

“Daniel.”

“Yes.”

“The materials I organized before, you have them?”

“Yes.”

“Prepare to release them to the media and internet communities.”

“Yes.”

Now he would break the game board.

By publicly releasing information known only to a very few, he would make those in hiding come out.

“And bring the core materials we’ve secured so far in a subspace bag.”

“Yes.”

Daniel, who only answered in short responses.

That was natural.

Because he wasn’t human.

He had already prepared his next location.

Africa, a continent scattered with vast monster-infested areas.

‘Just need to check the experimental results first.’

Like a true mad scientist, Vincent had no interest in who won the war, how many died, or what the damage was.

His only concern was whether the experiment he designed would succeed or fail.

However, he couldn’t guarantee success.

‘Tsk, if only I had a dragon heart…’

But how could he obtain that on Earth?

It’s not like there were dragons.

Well, even if there were, he couldn’t catch them.

‘Or at least a Beyond Elite crystal.’

Of course, that was also a difficult material to obtain.

What he had chosen out of necessity was using Elite monster crystals.

He had run a particle accelerator to transform the properties of Elite crystals and compressed them as much as possible to craft a fake dragon heart.

An imperfect experiment with a higher chance of failure than success.

Still, if The Emperor performed well?

‘Work hard, my boy. Show me the results.’

In fact, to Vincent, Alex Caesar was nothing more than an experimental material shuttle and subject.

That aside.

‘How is the war situation progressing?’

Not The Emperor’s side, but the undead legion that had detoured south.

Vincent picked up his smartphone and launched YouTube.

Nothing was better for checking real-time information.

Videos that seemed just uploaded were popping up one after another.

Most were filmed in Kharkiv, a major city of the Kiev Union.

Vincent played the video with the highest view count among them.

‘Oh! So they’re going to devour the Kiev Union.’

It was a massive undead force.

They had advanced right up to Kharkiv.

It was expected anyway.

What would they do by diverting troops?

Attack monster-infested areas or assault cities.

At most it would be content about people dying to the undead…

“Huh?”

While watching the video, Vincent suddenly widened his eyes.

“…What is this?”

A truly unexpected scene was unfolding on his smartphone screen.

* * *

The great war between undead and humans.

In the early stages of the war, information was controlled making it difficult for civilians to access, but since The Emperor personally entered the war, related videos had been overflowing.

Mainly videos of Imperial Forces defeating undead with carpet bombing.

Drone footage well-edited by the European Empire government’s publicity department was being broadcast through YouTube and TV.

But other videos also existed.

Mainly content uploaded by individual broadcasters.

Actually, this was more popular.

It showed the brutal aspects of war without any filter.

Imperial Forces who participated in the war had instead turned into undead.

Massive undead legions roaming Eastern Europe after leaving Moscow.

But suddenly, dozens of new videos were uploaded to NeTube.

Most of those who uploaded them were citizens of Kharkiv.

People who watched the videos were shocked.

Is this really real?

Could it be manipulated or staged?

But there were dozens of videos taken from different angles.

└ A horde of monkeys annihilated the undead, it’s not even fake, this is driving me crazy. Can you believe that?

└ Undead and monkeys, it’s a sign the world is ending.

└ Ending my ass! The monkeys are on our side, aren’t they?

└ That’s true. Monkeys merciless to undead and demons, but warm to humans.

People loved the monkeys.

They who caused no harm whatsoever to humans.

They even danced and played in front of people, showing off their skills.

└ But why did they suddenly disappear?

└ Right. Like soap bubbles bursting.

└ It’s clean though. A monkey army that saves humans in crisis and departs gracefully.

└ The monkeys are way better than Emperor Alex Caesar.

└ Shouldn’t the Emperor prostrate himself and bow?

└ Anyway, it’s proven he’s worse than monkeys.

One user in a community presented an interesting hypothesis.

└ Could it be that?

└ That what?

└ The monkeys’ fur was golden colored.

└ It was a deep golden color.

└ They all looked exactly the same. And look at the numbers. Hundreds of thousands moved at once, and there’s no suitable monkey habitat around the Kiev Union.

Right.

They appeared out of nowhere.

Whether they fell from the sky or sprouted from the ground, no one knew.

└ So what are you trying to say?

└ What if the monkeys that appeared were clones?

└ Clones? Why are you suddenly bringing up clones!

└ At this point, doesn’t anything come to mind? Clones and monkeys.

└ Huh?

No way…

Everyone thought of one target.

Golden monkey, overwhelming power that even devours undead, identical appearances like clones.

A novel character beloved by people through countless content from ancient times to now.

└ …Sun Wukong? Jecheon Daeseong?

└ Bingo!

└ That’s ridiculous.

└ No. It’s credible. Every situation matches perfectly, doesn’t it?

└ So you’re saying Jecheon Daeseong is really on Earth? That he summoned clones to save humans?

└ Oh! Prajnaparamita!

Communities worldwide began to ignite.

* * *

In the American Republic too, the golden monkey horde was a daily topic.

President Billy Pittman at the White House.

“How do you all see it? Did a being from novels really appear in reality?”

The security advisor shrugged and answered the question.

“Well, necromancers and undead are also creations of Western culture when you think about it. In this situation, even if an Eastern novel character appeared… honestly, existing scientific common sense has been crumbling since mana’s invasion 300 years ago.”

Billy Pittman agreed too.

It wasn’t wrong.

“Anyway, I’m curious about Alex’s expression. The monkeys took away all the spotlight he should have received alone.”p>

“Serves him right.”

At the Samhan Empire Palace too, Emperor Ryu Tae-hyeon.

“What an absurd world, Jecheon Daeseong.”

“The world has always been like that. More than that, I learned a lot from this war.”

“What?”

“Information gathering is severely inadequate. Just look at the Black Mafia incident, the undead overflow, and those suspicious enchanted magic new weapons that suddenly appeared in the war.”

The Emperor agreed too.

“Hmm, you’re right. We were too complacent.”

“We need to reorganize the Imperial Intelligence Agency. I’ll strengthen the overseas division more than now.”

“Call the director and study solutions together.”

There’s no guarantee that organizations like Black Mafia are the only ones in the world.

“Oh! What about Chairman Kim? He should still be in Samhan territory, right?”

“Well, we haven’t been able to contact him for now.”

Emperor Ryu Tae-hyeon thought for a moment before continuing.

“…I’m thinking, could the monkey horde that appeared this time be related to Chairman Kim?”

“Tsk tsk, are you saying Chairman Kim Tae-ju is Jecheon Daeseong? He doesn’t have a golden headband, doesn’t carry a staff, and doesn’t have a cloud… huh?”

Geum Su-ho tilted his head.

“A cloud.”

Kim Tae-ju’s mysterious movements he’d shown so far.

Eliminating Beyond Elite monsters in China and somehow coming to Samhan territory, or suddenly appearing in Gurye when he was in New Seoul.

“And those peaches too…”

“Ah!”

Jecheon Daeseong’s peach episode is too famous.

“No way, that’s impossible!”

“…Am I overthinking this?”

“That’s right. It can’t be. Chairman Kim is human. Hahaha.”

“R-right. I was speculating too much. Hahaha.”

Meanwhile, at the European Western Front of Moscow.

Emperor Alex Caesar, who was commanding the Imperial Forces, also watched the golden monkey horde video.

“What is this now?”

The massive undead legion that had threatened the Kiev Union was completely cleaned up by the monkey horde, but Emperor Caesar was displeased.

Because it wasn’t something the Imperial Forces did.

Golden monkeys that appeared out of nowhere were the protagonists.

It was absurd.

Despite being an emperor and personally participating in the war against the undead, the world’s attention was focused on mere monkeys.

Moreover, all sorts of mockery about him was pouring in.

He had suddenly become an emperor worse than monkeys.

“Damn it!”

This is no time to hesitate.

“August.”

“Yes, Your Majesty!”

“Pour out all firepower. I’ll settle this today.”

“Understood.”

Even if it means pushing himself, he must deal with that bastard Dreck Karax.

* * *

Swoooosh!

Manribibeom flew through the air.

Tae-ju set his direction toward Moscow.

The number of undead monsters he had dealt with so far already exceeded 2 million.

Creatures that multiply endlessly like cockroaches if left alone.

He had no intention of returning until he cut off the root of the source.

Hair growth formula research would only yield results when his mind was at peace.

Suddenly!

‘Hm?’

Undead monsters.

An enormous number of them.

And in the center of the group, a human woman commanding them as they moved north.

‘A familiar face.’

Carmen, the elder of the Black Mafia.

The woman who had arranged his meeting with the Swordsman in his dream.

Perhaps due to being resurrected as an undead, her skeletal arms and legs were exposed, pieces of flesh had fallen off her face in places, and her hair had mostly fallen out, leaving her nearly bald.

She had been pretty when she was human though.

‘This is exactly why inventing a hair growth formula is important.’

Swoosh!

Tae-ju overtook them.

Whoosh!

He landed on the ground.

At the same time, he walked step by step toward the undead monster legion.

They seemed to have spotted him too.

He could feel the sinister killing intent of the undead.

‘My energy is fully replenished too.’

His Toxic Spirit was abundant.

After emptying it once, it seemed to have been filled with even more.

Wooooong!

Toxic energy radiating from Tae-ju’s body like a powerful aura.

Toxic energy emission unleashed through Toxic Spirit.

‘Let’s play.’

One undead that had separated from the group charged at him fearlessly.

Sizzzzle!

It melted and crumbled before even reaching Tae-ju.

* * *

Immortal Realm.

Taesang Nogoon was in a state of being a shut-in hermit.

He hadn’t even come out of his dwelling.

It had gotten worse since the completion of the Immortal Realm intranet.

He had purchased a beam projector, screen, and Bluetooth speakers with booming sound from the shopping mall and connected them to his Immortal Realm-exclusive smartphone.

Taesang Nogoon lay on his comfortable bed in casual clothes, scratching his crotch while watching movies and dramas all day long.

When he needed something, he would access the shopping mall and place an order.

Since Monkey would deliver it right away, why would he need to go outside?

That’s when it happened.

Flutter flutter.

A pure white butterfly flew into Taesang Nogoon’s room.

“What’s this?”

And it disappeared with a pop! in front of Taesang Nogoon.

It transformed into a letter and settled down.

“Tsk tsk, still using such pre-modern methods…”

If they had something to say, they could just send a KakaoTalk message or text.

The letter came from Jamigung.

It contained notice that an Upper Realm Representative Meeting would be held and requested his attendance.

“Ugh, how bothersome.”

Taesang Nogoon picked up his smartphone and sent a message to someone.

[Nogoon]: It’s me.

KakaoTalk!

[Dok-seon]: What have you been up to lately? Haven’t seen your face at all.

Danggumak replied.

KakaoTalk!

[Nogoon]: I’ve been busy with many things. Anyway, an Upper Realm Representative Meeting is scheduled to be held.

[Dok-seon]: Ah! Is that so? But why are you telling me this?

[Nogoon]: Dok-seon needs to attend the meeting.

[Dok-seon]: Why me? Isn’t Nogoon our representative?

[Nogoon]: I’m just an old man in the back room, and honestly, isn’t the acknowledged representative of the Immortal Realm you?

It was his intention to pass it off because it was bothersome, but well, it wasn’t wrong.

The Immortals all thought so too.

[Dok-seon]: No, if you suddenly do this to me.

[Nogoon]: When you go, drive some fancy car. Make the Cheonkye Jamigung officials faint from shock.

[Dok-seon]: ….

After ending the message chat.

Taesang Nogoon put his hand back into his boxer shorts and scratched his buttocks vigorously.

What representative meeting.

When there wasn’t even enough time to watch movies.

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