The Only Enhancer - Chapter 138

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Episode 138
138 – Did It Rise to the Heavens? (2)
2.
Something took shape as a pale silhouette, forming the figure of a person.
Yet the wings sprouting from its back betrayed that this being was no human.
Conversely, the woman standing before this winged entity retained a wholly human form. She regarded the winged figure with an expression of clear displeasure.
Visibly discontented.
But the winged man paid it no mind whatsoever.
As though he had simply done what needed doing.
-Did you really have to kill them all?
-They were worthless and served no purpose. All they could manage was awakening the relics of the Great War—nothing more than foolish dolts incapable of anything else.
-Still, they would have been sufficient reinforcements, wouldn’t they?
-Ha! It was you who announced the appearance of the Fairy Elder’s descendant, Ursula. Yet you expect those who hear such news to believe that deploying the Great War’s relics would suffice? How could such fools ever be considered reinforcements?
-Sigh.
There was no reasoning with him.
The woman called Ursula—or rather, the Witch of the Deep Sea—pressed her fingers to her brow.
How could such an obstinate fool exist?
Not that she didn’t understand his logic, but even so, this was excessive.
The situation had spiraled in an unexpected direction.
No matter how battle-crazed the Heavens faction was, this crossed a line.
-Regardless of your reasoning, this was hardly the appropriate way to send an entire faction into ruin. Now that the Fairy Elder’s descendant has appeared, we must unite our strength.
After all the fairies perished, the monsters lost their means of evolution.
The researchers Underground hadn’t studied human transmutation for nothing.
Yet even so, there was no chance of obtaining a fairy’s power through such means.
Even the Witch of the Deep Sea herself had created her own children, but they reached only Calamity Level 6 at best.
The birth of monsters at Calamity Level 8 or higher was beyond the monsters’ own capability.
Only the Monster King could achieve such a thing.
Still, the Underground monsters had managed through their research to create artifacts bearing Calamity Level 7 power, so relying on those wasn’t a terrible strategy.
It was far too wasteful to execute them simply for recklessly deploying the Great War’s relics.
-You have nothing in that head of yours but war.
-There’s no talking to you.
-Do as you wish. We shall move according to our own designs.
-As you desire.
-Foolish creature.
With that, the winged figure’s form vanished, and the Witch of the Deep Sea bit her lip.
It seemed the next faction destined for destruction would be the Heavens.
The Witch of the Deep Sea had been preparing since the moment she first saw Min-jun.
But the foolish Heavens faction was ruining everything.
Still, it mattered not.
She had other plans already in motion.
-Little sister, let us proceed with our work.
-Hehehehe! Very well, sister!
The young monsters of the Deep Sea gathered thus, and they wielded sorcery and magic upon a single corpse.
What manner of spell it was, what incantation they employed—I could not say—but one truth remained undeniable.
That violet mana radiating from the corpse carried an ominous weight far too heavy to ignore.
It boded nothing good.
Whatever they prepared, it was shrouded in mystery.
Meanwhile, as the Witch of the Deep Sea made her preparations thus.
The Sky Warrior—a creature that should rightfully dominate the heavens, yet unable to do so, instead nested upon the highest peaks.
They gathered and unleashed their cries.
-SCREEEEEEEE!
-SHRIEEEEEEK!
-ROOOOOAAAAR!
Each released a wail-like cry, their wings thrashing through the air.
And as they did, the Calamity-Class monsters beneath them—their subordinates, as it were—shrieked and cheered in response.
The young Sky Warrior commanding them bowed before the Elder, striking his chest.
Thump, thump—the sound echoed as the Sky Warrior bowed and spoke.
-It would be wise not to join hands with the Deep Sea.
-Indeed. How could we trust such dark-hearted witches and sorcerers?
-We have already captured the incompetent researchers. Now comes our turn.
-Your words ring true!
-You have my gratitude.
-See that our plan proceeds without hindrance.
The Sky Warrior bowed in response to the Elder’s words.
-Yes! I understand!
Contrary to Ursula’s mockery that their minds were filled entirely with war, they followed a meticulous plan.
And the most critical element of that plan was but one thing.
-We shall bring forth humans of talent.
Thus cried the Sky Warriors as they turned toward the human world.
Just as the Witch of the Deep Sea had not revealed her own designs.
3.
The Blood Golem was handled well enough without Min-jun.
Eight executives of the Reinforce Guild could manage it without issue, and the support of the guild members proved invaluable.
Even without them, the executives alone could have defeated it, but the time required was certainly shortened.
By the time Min-jun arrived after the Blood Golem’s death, unfortunately it left behind neither items nor an Evolution Orb.
It regurgitated the magic stones of the monsters it had consumed along the way, but no items or Evolution Orbs emerged.
I had wondered if this might be the first time witnessing a weapon born at the Transcendent-8 tier.
Setting that aside, Min-jun granted the guild members who had labored so hard a brief respite.
It was not an extended vacation.
Merely one week of rest in Russia.
‘I’ve already cleared out the Underground Base.’
Normally, I would have tried to conquer Siberia while raiding the underground researchers’ base, but vacation was out of the question.
However, those Sky Warriors had already swept through the region, leaving nothing for me to do.
So I reluctantly accepted the situation and decided to use the time for other preparations, which is why I granted everyone a vacation.
The Reinforce Guild members were thrilled.
Of course, after this short week of rest ended, they would need to go out and subjugate the vast expanse of Siberia, but until then, they could enjoy themselves.
While everyone excitedly headed off to have fun.
Unfortunately, the executives couldn’t go.
Jung Ji-hwan, who had matters to handle, and Isabella and Ma Hyun-seok, who were team leaders on both sides, naturally couldn’t rest. As for Kim Woo-jin, who still had much to learn, Mary and Henry agreed to take him on this time.
They said he would learn about society while occasionally sparring, didn’t they?
And the remaining two, Gwen and Andrew, had no choice but to immerse themselves in research.
Andrew in particular had given up on creating liquid metal and thrown himself into mass-producing mana guns and crafting detectors.
I would need to apply reinforcement as the finishing touch, but that was something I could handle myself.
So who took on the liquid metal project?
Gwen, the true alchemist, took it on.
While it was a field requiring magical engineering, Baya had suggested that an alchemist capable of transmutation might also be able to create it, so Gwen agreed to take it on.
After that, Andrew would handle the parts requiring magical engineering.
As everyone took on their respective tasks and worked through them, I gazed up at the sky and sighed.
“Sigh…”
I wanted to immediately seek out those Sky Warriors.
I wanted to find them and reduce them to ashes.
I had thought I’d gain something from interrogating the underground scholars, but they beat me to it.
This time, I wanted to be the one attacking the Sky Warriors, striking first.
But I couldn’t.
Even with Baya, one of the underground scholars, she said she couldn’t reveal the others’ bases.
While we might be able to find them if we searched, they weren’t the type we could discover and locate immediately.
Andrew and Baya said we could create a detector with their technology, but that would take far too long.
Apparently, in the original world, the Sky Warriors lived on Sky Island, true to their name, but where on Earth would such an island be?
We might find them by searching through high mountains with similar environments, but when would we even have time to search through all of them?
So I had no choice.
Either wait for the detector to be completed or slowly wait for those creatures to reveal themselves.
It was one or the other.
The other executives were busy, but I had little to do.
I’d already reinforced all the guild members, and once they leveled up, I’d strengthen their traits then, so it was just a matter of waiting.
As a result, I had nothing to do at the moment.
Honestly, it felt awkward to just play around with the other guild members.
After all, I was the guild master in name, and it felt wrong to assign work to the executives while I just played.
‘Should I try doing some reconnaissance of the surrounding area?’
While they said it would take a long time, I could fly through the sky and my ability to sense energy had become extremely sharp.
Now I could sense energy far more acutely than Gwen or Mary.
I hadn’t expected to encounter the Sky Warriors, but even if I didn’t, there were plenty of other things I could discover through detection.
For instance.
‘People with unique traits hidden like Henry.’
Henry himself hadn’t hidden the fact that he was a Saint of Light.
And I found it hard to believe that there were only six people with unique traits in total.
Didn’t I already have information from the Fairy Elder?
Those with unique traits were nobility among the fairies.
That meant there had to be more of them than there were now.
As for how I’d detect them, it was incredibly simple.
Trait mana was bound to stand out more than anything else.
Even Mary, who had the best mana control among all my guild members, couldn’t escape my detection.
Of course, there was no guarantee that someone with a unique trait was in Russia, but doing something was better than doing nothing.
‘Well then.’
I spread my mana while making it blend as seamlessly as possible with the natural mana around me, keeping it as discreet as I could.
There was a chance I might even detect the Sky Warriors this way.
Conducting a discreet detection.
As a result, my range became considerably narrower.
Still, it easily exceeded one kilometer in radius.
‘This should be enough.’
If I expanded it any further, too much information would flood my mind, and it would also be harder to maintain discretion.
I maintained this range and flew around the surroundings.
Of course, I flew slowly and carefully to examine everything thoroughly.
I didn’t sense anything in particular.
I hadn’t held high expectations to begin with.
How could I easily encounter Sky Warriors or people with unique traits?
Thinking I might as well do some sightseeing after a bit more searching, I continued detecting as I traveled from place to place.
I sensed more awakened ones than I expected, but that was all.
I didn’t encounter a single person with a unique trait.
How many hours had passed?
I hadn’t kept track, but seeing the sun beginning to set when I’d started around lunchtime, I could tell I’d been at it for quite a while.
‘Sigh.’
Should I call it a day?
All I’d sensed were the auras of Kim Woo-jin, Mary, and Henry.
It was disappointing, but I hadn’t held great expectations anyway.
‘Let’s wrap it up for today.’
Even if I wanted to continue, the night was getting too deep to accomplish anything.
Just as I was about to return to my lodging.
Something foreign caught in my senses.
This was definitely trait mana.
Mana with an attribute imbued in it, unlike the mana of others.
But why was that?
I sensed an aura that was both foreign and strangely familiar.
The same aura I had felt in the Underground Base’s laboratory.
‘Why is the Sky Warrior here with them?’

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