The Chairman of Pharmaceutical Company is a Poison King - Chapter 206

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Chapter 206: Dimensional Gate Connection (2)

Cheonkye Jamigung.

Tae-ju lying on a makeshift bed.

The Dragon King began the procedure with a cautious attitude.

“Scalpel!”

“….”

“Huh?”

Sangje looked dumbfounded at the Dragon King’s words, as if asking what nonsense he was spouting.

Tae-ju felt the same way.

This wasn’t even surgical operation.

“I wanted to try it, since I saw it in dramas.”

“…Should I call you Doctor Dragon?”

“As you wish.”

The first stage of the procedure was separating the Dragon Orb and Dragon Heart, since they were mixed haphazardly and couldn’t utilize their individual characteristics at all.

“It’s exactly like mixing crushed cream cake into bibimbap. The nutrients might be the same, but who would eat that?”

“…Sounds delicious though? You could handle the main meal and dessert in one go.”

“Are you serious?”

“Just joking.”

They needed to separate them again.

Not mixing them, but keeping bibimbap as bibimbap and cream cake as cake, in separate containers.

The second stage was the work of completely combining the Dragon Orb and Dragon Heart separately with Tae-ju’s Toxic Spirit.

“Both are items that only dragons can possess. They’re not suitable for humans to harbor. If you had cultivated the power of the Dragon Orb and Heart from the beginning inside your body, it might be different, but adaptation would require a lot of time.”

“How long?”

“At least a hundred years. But I can shorten the time. What do you think I’m the Dragon King for?”

“Stop bragging and let’s hurry up with the procedure.”

The confident Dragon King.

But problems arose from the very first stage.

The Dragon King’s complexion gradually grew more troubled.

“Oh no!”

“What’s wrong? You were making such bold claims.”

Since Tae-ju was awake, he was hearing everything too.

Had some problem occurred?

“The fusion has progressed very rapidly. They’ve melted together quite a lot, so this will be difficult to separate.”

“Come now, don’t talk weakly and do your best.”

“I am trying but… Tsk! You came too late. It would have been good if you’d come just a little earlier.”

“That’s also a line I hear a lot in dramas.”

“I’m not imitating dramas.”

Tae-ju asked cautiously.

“What happens if you can’t separate them?”

“Well, it would be no different from harboring an ordinary inner core.”

“Ah!”

“Like the cream cake bibimbap I mentioned earlier, with only the nutrients remaining.”

He understood what that meant.

The Dragon Orb and Dragon Heart would lose their individual characteristics and could only be utilized as energy like a spirit beast’s inner core.

“You might not even be able to use dimensional gate magic.”

He felt slightly disappointed.

But well, so what?

“It’s fine. It’s not like there are no other methods.”

That’s right.

Didn’t he have the Soul-Mediated Dimensional Gate Generator?

“Anyway, I’ll do my best to save it, so don’t resent me even if it doesn’t work out well.”

“Resent you? I’m grateful that you’re helping me like this.”

“Hahaha! As I heard, you really are broad-minded.”

The Dragon King placed his hands on Tae-ju’s body again and concentrated on the procedure.

Energy moved around inside his body.

Similar things with similar things, different things with different things.

Even after quite some time passed, the Dragon King’s procedure showed no signs of ending.

Finally.

“Phew! It’s finished.”

“How did it go? Tell me quickly.”

“I separated them as much as possible to preserve each one’s characteristics.”

“And?”

“I saved much of the Dragon Orb’s power, but the Dragon Heart… So I can’t guarantee dimensional travel. It might fail.”

Tae-ju got up from the bed and said.

“Well, we’ll know if we try, won’t we?”

“That’s true.”

As he recognized the Dragon Heart, the method of using it naturally came to mind.

He didn’t know how it would turn out, but let’s try opening a dimensional gate.

To draw out the Dragon Heart’s power, he needed a specific power that matched it.

In other words, mana.

“I’ll try it.”

Casting magic was simple.

He just needed to recall a world he had visited, then use mana to activate the ability.

‘Where should I open the dimensional gate?’

Naturally he planned to open it to Earth, but the exact location was…

‘The Gurye Residence Basement Training Room would be good.’

Tae-ju concentrated his mind.

Drawing mana from his Toxic Spirit.

Wooooooong!

Energy gathered at one point.

And then.

Ziiing!

He heard the sound of something tearing.

‘Did it open?’

But?

“Hmm,”

“It failed.”

Nothing was visible.

Really failed?

Strange.

He definitely heard a ziiing sound.

Also, mana was needed to maintain the gate.

Even now, that mana was being consumed little by little.

‘Then it must have opened…’

Suddenly!

“Huh?”

“Hmm?”

“What’s the matter?”

Tae-ju pointed blankly at the floor with his finger.

“Why there… Gasp!”

“Huh?”

There was a dimensional gate where he pointed.

It was such a tiny gate that you couldn’t find it easily unless you looked closely.

“It, it did open.”

“It’s so small I almost stepped on it.”

It was barely the size of a golf ball.

Could you even call that a dimensional gate?

Not even a baby mouse could pass through it.

“…Let me try again.”

“Haha, yeah, it’s your first time so that’s probably why. You must have been lacking in power.”

This time he drew out all the mana dwelling in Toxic Spirit.

Energy gathering into a single point.

Then.

Zzziiiing!

“…”

“…”

“…”

Everyone was speechless.

‘What is this.’

Exactly the same size as before.

This wasn’t a dimensional gate but a dimensional hole.

How embarrassing.

He had done his best though.

Size aside.

Was this even properly opened?

Maybe he just made a hole?

“Wait a moment.”

Tae-ju sent a message to Dok-seon using his Immortal Realm exclusive smartphone.

[Tae-ju]: Where are you right now?

Ding!

[Dok-seon]: I’m in Hwangcheon-gye. I’m talking with Yama about going down to the Human Realm for some business.

Hwangcheon-gye, that worked out perfectly.

That was the underworld.

A dimension separate from Cheon-gye, the Human Realm, and the Immortal Realm.

A place you could only enter and exit through gates.

[Tae-ju]: I obtained the ability to open dimensional gates.

[Dok-seon]: Ah! You mean the one engraved on the Dragon Heart?

Dok-seon knew well how Tae-ju had come from the Human Realm to Earth through their soul connection.

[Tae-ju]: Yes, I want to know if it can open to Hwangcheon-gye too, so please check for me.

[Dok-seon]: Alright, try opening it.

Concentrating his mind again.

Zzziiiing!

[Tae-ju]: I opened it. Can you see it?

[Dok-seon]: Huh? I don’t see anything.

[Tae-ju]: If you look carefully at the floor.

[Dok-seon]: The floor?

After a moment.

[Dok-seon]: You mean this tiny little hole?

[Tae-ju]: Yes, that’s it.

[Dok-seon]: This is a dimensional gate?

Ugh.

This was mortifyingly embarrassing.

Anyway.

[Tae-ju]: I’ll try sending something through.

Tae-ju opened his Infinite Space, took out an eyeball candy, and pushed it into the hole.

Then.

[Dok-seon]: It came through. You sent candy, right?

[Tae-ju]: Yes.

[Dok-seon]: It is a dimensional gate. Though the size is small.

It was just small in size.

Crossing dimensions did work.

But what could he use this for?

[Tae-ju]: Are you still in Hwangcheon-gye? I’m coming over.

[Dok-seon]: Be careful not to run into the Immortals when you come. They’re searching for you with fire in their eyes.

[Tae-ju]: I will.

Still, he wasn’t disappointed.

Someday he’d find a way to increase the size.

* * *

After briefly greeting Sangje and the Dragon King, Tae-ju left Jamigung and went to the Underworld Inferno Palace in Hwangcheon-gye.

Dok-seon was talking with Yama.

Crackle crackle crackle!

Due to the chains of light, he approached to an appropriate distance and bowed silently to Yama before.

“Is it still open?”

“It disappeared just before you came. Less than 10 seconds.”

The duration it stayed open was quite long.

“But what exactly happened?”

He explained why he had gained such a pathetic ability.

“Tsk tsk, that’s just like the Dragon King. Building up expectations only to…”

“But it did open at least.”

“To send eyeball candy?”

“Well, someday there’ll be a chance to increase the size.”

Dok-seon was full of dissatisfaction.

A dragon god, yet inferior to dragons from other worlds?

Of course, considering that different worlds developed in different directions, so even similar dragon races had vastly different abilities.

“But didn’t Sangje give you anything?”

“Ah! He recognized me as a Human Realm resident. So I won’t be forcibly returned to Earth even if I stay here continuously.”

“So you won’t be kicked out. Well, that’s a good thing but… hmm.”

Dok-seon suddenly stopped talking and pondered something deeply.

Then his complexion gradually grew pale.

“Hmm, this is, how, how do we…”

“What’s wrong?”

“You won’t be forcibly returned?”

“No.”

“Then how will you get back?”

“…Huh?”

Thinking about it carefully, this wasn’t a simple problem.

“You’re right.”

His original goal of learning dimensional gate creation magic had failed.

How could Tae-ju fit through that golf ball-sized hole?

Maybe if he were Jongni Seonin with transformation techniques.

And the soul-mediated dimensional gate generator won’t work either.

Because he’s in the same space as Dok-seon.

A device that only activates when in different dimensions.

“This is a big problem.”

Danggumak stomped his feet anxiously.

This was a serious matter.

Tae-ju couldn’t return to Earth.

Everything he had accomplished was on Earth.

However, Tae-ju remained calm.

Why can’t I go back?

The person who can solve this is right in front of me.

“There is a way.”

“There is?”

Tae-ju asked, looking at Yama.

“Right?”

“Huh?”

“Can’t you open it, Your Majesty?”

“Open what…?”

“The door to Earth.”

“No, how would I…?”

“Sangje told me.”

“Tsk, that fellow has a loose tongue.”

Dok-seon’s face brightened considerably.

And at the same time became serious.

“The immortals mustn’t find out that Your Majesty can open doors to Earth.”

“That’s exactly what I’m asking for. You absolutely must not go around blabbing about this.”

“Of course!”

They’d come swarming to protest again.

Anyway, I thought I’d be stuck here for sure.

“Can you open it now?”

“Alright. I’ll try opening it.”

Yama rose from his seat.

He concentrated his mind and stretched out his hand, pointing at empty space.

“Open!”

In an instant!

Crackle! Crackle-crackle!

It seemed like a door was opening.

“Huh?”

Crack! Fizzle, fizzle!

It disappeared immediately.

Yama tilted his head in confusion.

“Why isn’t it working?”

One more time.

Crackle! Crackle-crackle!

Crack! Fizzle, fizzle!

“D-damn!”

Seeing this, Dok-seon grew anxious.

This was terrible.

If even Yama failed, there would be no way for Tae-ju to return.

“Please try to do it properly!”

“Ah, I understand.”

Yama took a deep breath with a stern expression.

And then.

Crackle! Crackle-crackle-crackle, crackle-crackle-crack!

Whirrrr…

Finally, a door opened.

But even at a glance, it was unstable.

Crack! Crackle-crack! Whirr, whirrr.

About to disappear, wavering, distorted, blurred…

“Q-quickly, go in. At this rate it’ll close.”

“Right now?”

“There’s no guarantee I can open it again. You’ve experienced it yourself. Sangje, Dragon King, Yama King… who can you trust? It’s open now, so cross over immediately.”

“Oh right! I brought Ilisambaeyi too…”

“I’ll take good care of that fellow. Later I can send him with Baek Cheonin using the gate generator. Hurry!”

“Yes, yes, then next time…”

Swoosh!

Tae-ju crossed through the gate.

The place he arrived at was Jirisan Cheonwangbong, his original departure point.

* * *

Tae-ju returned to his Gurye residence.

The commotion that had occurred in the Upper Realm.

Fortunately it ended as just a happening, but he could have been stuck in another world forever.

‘What a hectic situation.’

Still, he had managed to return in the end.

He felt no disappointment or anything like that.

‘Does just anyone open dimensional gates?’

The power to cross between worlds.

It was wrong to think such power could be obtained so easily.

Even in the Upper Realm of that other world, only Yama possessed that power.

Yama.

The one who opens doors between worlds.

Jeoseungsaja and Chasa receive his power to travel between the Human Realm and Underworld, bringing back the dead.

How many doors open in just a single day?

He could easily open hundreds or thousands simultaneously.

He even possessed the power to maintain permanent door openings that never disappear.

Thanks to those doors, the Upper Realm was connected as one communication network.

By connecting fiber optic cables through the doors and creating wireless WiFi signals, each realm could communicate via smartphones.

All of this was possible thanks to Yama.

Let’s be satisfied with opening dimensional holes the size of golf balls.

Even that was an incredible ability.

It seemed like it would have surprisingly many uses.

With sufficient mana, Tae-ju could also create permanent dimensional gates.

How?

The answer lay in the knowledge recently acquired through his soul connection with Danggumak.

The magical engineering of grand mage-engineers Vincent Moretti and Jacques Deluane, which Gwi-gok and Galhong Immortal had crammed into Dok-seon’s head while keeping him awake at night.

By using magical engineering circuits to continuously supply mana to the dimensional gates he created, permanent openings would be entirely possible.

Through those holes, he could exchange letters with rolled-up paper, send small objects, insert telephone lines… wait?

A sudden flash of inspiration.

‘Huh? Huuuuh…?’

Why didn’t I think of this before?

Tae-ju’s mind raced rapidly.

‘What if instead of telephone lines, we use internet fiber optic cables?’

Through a dimensional gate that’s always open like the one Yama created in the Upper Realm, they could establish a communication network with Earth.

‘Crazy! Being smaller actually makes it better.’

The Dragon Heart’s gate opening ability.

That operates on mana.

If the gate size were large, it would have been impossible.

Because it would consume mana exponentially, making permanent maintenance unthinkable.

Even if opened, it would close quickly.

Since the dimensional hole is small, the amount of mana consumed is also small.

It might be maintained permanently without closing.

Fortunately, energy sources are abundant.

Countless Elite and Beyond crystals, that is.

We’d have to experiment to know for sure, but theoretically it’s possible.

A dimensional hole that doesn’t close.

Internet connection between Earth and the Upper Realm through it.

The network would unite them into one world.

‘Video calls with Dok-seon, conversations with Haemak Seonnyeo, Swordsman doing live broadcasts directly from the Immortal Realm, playing games with Immortals or celestial beings…’

Without needing to cross over, he could communicate with them from Earth using computers and smartphones.

‘The network infrastructure is already established in the Immortal Realm.’

Let’s try building an LTE data communication base station in the Immortal Realm.

What if we connect Earth’s telecommunication companies with the Immortal Realm’s base station through fiber optic cables via the hole?

Not only data transmission and reception, but also phone calls and messages would all work.

‘We’d need equipment and cooperation from telecommunication companies, but that’s nothing.’

Money can solve anything.

Let’s try it right away.

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