The Return of the Genius Ranker’s Myth Warehouse - Chapter 235

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Chapter 235
Chapter 235
[ Dragon’s Monocle ]
Form: Eyeglasses
Grade: Legendary
Restrictions: Level 300 or higher
Description: A monocle crafted from the pupil of a dragon, also called the incarnation of magic.
Dragon’s Monocle.
When I equipped this elegantly designed monocle, my Wisdom and Intelligence increased slightly, and my mana consumption decreased.
However, those were merely supplementary effects.
Its true ability was.
‘I could see.’
Mana became far more vivid to observe.
Not only could I observe the fluctuating currents of mana in the atmosphere, but I could also detect mana flowing from monsters and objects.
This could be used in various ways, but in my case, I primarily used it to locate the cores or weak points of spirits and magical lifeforms.
With Dragon’s Monocle equipped, it was easy to find cores or weak points where mana accumulated most densely.
And that remained true even now.
‘The suicide ship’s core is….’
As I climbed to a nearby high ground and equipped Dragon’s Monocle, I could see mana flickering unstably around the suicide ship.
The closer to the ship, the greater the artificial instability became, and the epicenter causing that instability—the location of the core itself—was.
‘The cargo hold.’
The cargo hold located at the very center of the ship.
Particularly around it, there were many things containing mana—they were definitely mana stones.
If a core of that size exploded and interacted with that quantity of mana stones….
‘The entire harbor might be blown away.’
The force of the explosion would exceed my expectations.
So quickly.
Before that suicide ship collided with the harbor and the explosion occurred, I had to destroy that core.
Without a mythic-grade weapon in this situation, the weapon I chose to pierce through the thick hull of that magic ship and destroy the core was.
“Luke, Dark Judgment.”
– Yes, Master.
[ Dark Judgment ]
( Non-Tradeable )
Form: Gun
Grade: Legendary
Restrictions: Level 1,000 or higher, Magical Engineering Mastery Lv 1,000 or higher
Description: An ultra-long-range anti-materiel magical engineering sniper rifle—the crystallization of ancient civilization’s technological prowess, created at the peak of ancient magical engineering just before the collapse of ancient civilization.
This was it.
The sniper rifle I had used during my time in Second Crown was a level 15 restricted Epic-grade sniper rifle, Crimson Sniper, and.
Next came Crimson Judgment, restricted to level 400.
Next came the Dark Sniper with a level 750 restriction, and the final item was this.
Dark Judgment.
A soft whisper.
From the shadows emerged a massive sniper rifle with an exterior as dark as Luke’s Black Flame, rivaling it in its ominous appearance.
Even the Crimson Sniper was so enormous that it was an immobile weapon.
The Dark Sniper was larger and more durable than that, and despite the addition of various parts, it appeared even more refined.
There were many added functions as a result, but the important ones weren’t all that different.
Loading magic stones like bullets and firing them.
And the attack power increases depending on which magic stone is used.
As for the magic stone I would use.
“Load it with a supreme-grade magic stone.”
– Yes, Master.
The highest grade of magic stone among all magic stones.
Even I had only gathered fifteen during First, and after consuming them gradually in Second, I now had only about ten remaining.
After loading such a magic stone.
“Huu….”
I carefully steadied my breathing and aimed at the suicide ship’s core.
Thanks to the dragon’s keen eye, aiming at the core wasn’t difficult, but the problem was that the suicide ship was moving.
It wasn’t just advancing forward; it was also moving irregularly up and down with the undulation of the waves.
Aiming at it was never an easy task.
‘But compared to aiming at Leviathan’s reverse scales, this is child’s play.’
During First, I had aimed at targets far more difficult than this countless times and hit them.
Compared to that, the core of a suicide ship swaying in the waves was nothing.
Thinking thus, the moment I held my breath.
The suicide ship’s core came precisely into my crosshairs.
In that moment when time seemed to stop, I pulled the trigger.
Kwaaaaaaang-!!
The legendary-grade massive sniper rifle with a 1,000 level restriction.
Fired a bullet made of supreme-grade magic stones.
* * *
Meanwhile.
“The pirate ship is charging!”
“Fire all the cannons we have! We have to stop it!”
“What are they thinking? It won’t stop!”
“We have no choice—ram it with the ship and stop it by force!”
“That won’t work! Nothing short of the Black Dragon Ship could stop it!”
“The Black Dragon Ship is too far away… argh!”
The Territory residents at the harbor panicked as they watched the charging pirate ship.
If that massive pirate ship continued to push forward like this, the newly constructed harbor would surely be destroyed.
However, the size of the magic ship was simply too enormous.
I could block them with multiple ships, but it would be more beneficial to rebuild the collapsed Dock.
I wanted to hold the line with the Black Dragon Ship, but there wasn’t enough time for it to return from engaging the pirate vessels ahead.
No matter how many cannonballs we fired, we couldn’t stop the pirate ships pushing forward with their magical propulsion devices.
And so the Territory residents were forced to accept it.
“The Dock is…”
“There’s no choice. We can rebuild the Dock.”
“Besides, if we put our minds to it, we can restore everything in a day or two.”
They had no choice but to give up.
Though it pained them, ‘reconstruction’ was an all-too-familiar task for these people.
But then.
“That pirate ship… something’s wrong with it?”
“What do you mean?”
“Look there—the hull’s side is rippling with red light.”
Someone had sensed something amiss with the pirate vessel.
Though Kalbera Territory was remote, the Imperial Army had been stationed there until recently.
As a result, though rare, some had witnessed the Empire’s magical ships.
Among them were those who knew what happened when a magical ship’s mana stone glowed red.
“An explosion!”
“What?”
“It’s going to explode! When the magical formations or equations are filled incorrectly or the mana stone is damaged partially, it ripples red like that before exploding! I’m certain of it!”
“You don’t mean…!”
“I’m telling you it’s true! I saw an Imperial magical ship explode that way! Back then only one or two mana stones were affected, so it was just a small explosion, but look at this!”
“The red light keeps growing. Almost the entire ship is rippling red now…?”
“Right, at that level the explosion will be massive! The entire Dock could be blown away! Not just the ships here, but us too!”
“N-no, nooooo!”
The pirate ship was going to explode.
Whether it was intentional self-destruction or not, I could infer that something had gone wrong and detonation was imminent.
The Territory residents’ reactions split into two camps.
“Run!”
Some fled from the Dock.
“Not run—we have to stop it somehow! This is a Dock and ship under contract with the Empire!”
Others redoubled their efforts, firing more cannonballs to hold back the pirate vessel.
Comparatively, more people were trying to stop the pirate ship, and this was actually due to their profound loyalty to their lord.
A typical Territory resident would flee first, but these people—for Mir’s sake.
And for the Territory’s sake, they were willing to sacrifice their lives to halt the pirate ship.
But realistically, how could ordinary Territory residents stop that massive pirate vessel?
At that moment.
Whoosh!
From the side of the Dock.
From the high ground beneath the Lighthouse, a black radiance gleamed.
Crack—!
A black flash shot forth.
Had it been a cannonball or arrow, I might have spoken of its velocity, but speed meant nothing to this flash of light.
The black flash gleamed, piercing through the center of the pirate vessel.
It felt less like a flash had been fired and more like an enormous horizontal pillar of black had materialized and vanished in a single instant.
Yet the shockwave it generated was catastrophic.
Boom—!
The pirate ship, its hull pierced by the black flash, lurched violently.
The water’s surface beneath where the black flash had appeared sank inward, then surged upward, birthing a massive wave.
As the atmosphere consumed by the black flash rushed back in, a fierce gale erupted.
Unimaginable power.
An attack no one could have anticipated, yet every resident of the territory could guess who had unleashed it.
“The Lord!”
Regardless of what kind of attack it was, only one person in Kalbera Territory could produce such devastation.
If the Lord had reverted to his true form and unleashed a breath attack, that would explain everything.
And then.
“The red light is gone!”
“The explosion has stopped!”
“Our Lord is truly magnificent!”
“Thank you, Lord!”
“We knew we could trust you!!”
The crimson glow that had been rippling across the pirate ship vanished.
I wasn’t certain how it happened, but that black flash had undoubtedly halted the ship’s explosion.
There was no other explanation.
However, the problem was.
“It’s still moving!”
The pirate ship continued its charge toward the harbor.
“Now it’s our turn!”
“The shockwave from the black flash has slowed it considerably! We have the strength to stop it now!”
“Fire the cannons! Block its path with the ships!”
The territory’s residents united to intercept the pirate vessel.
“What is happening?”
“Vice Lord!”
“I don’t know what that was, but we just need to stop it, right? Let’s smash it to pieces!”
“Yes, Vice Guild Master!”
The members of the Heukryeom Guild, who had rushed back after hearing the explosion while hunting, stepped forward to intercept the pirate ship.
As the barrage of attacks rained down, fortunately, just before the pirate ship reached the harbor.
Screech—.
“We stopped it!”
“We’ve halted the pirate ship!”
“Grraaaaaahhhhh!”
“Long live the Lord!”
I brought the pirate ships to a complete halt.
We succeeded in defending the Dock.
Thus, having completely repelled the pirates’ assault, cheers erupted from the mouths of the Territory’s people.
* * *
After the incident ended.
The scene was quickly cleaned up.
There were some injured, but fortunately, there were no serious casualties or deaths.
Since the Dock and vessels suffered almost no damage, the cleanup consisted merely of collecting the wrecked pirate ships.
At that moment.
“Oh! There are quite a lot of magical cannonballs stacked here!”
“How on earth did those pirates obtain such precious ammunition…?”
“There’s also quite a bit of Gold stacked here.”
“This ship appears to be in rather good condition. If we preserve the keel and repair it, we should be able to restore it into a serviceable vessel.”
I gained far greater spoils than anticipated.
Even though they were wrecked, all thirty pirate ships were in surprisingly good condition.
Even the pirate ships that had sunk into the Sea could be salvaged with Mir’s assistance.
As the Territory’s people diligently worked to clean up the aftermath.
“My Lord, you’ve arrived!”
I reached the Prison of Kalbera Territory.
Lee Chul-geun hadn’t built it newly; it was a facility that already existed in Kalbera Territory.
Since it had originally served as an Imperial Army garrison as well, at least the Prison itself was quite sturdy.
The holding space was spacious too.
Thanks to that, we managed to capture some of the pirates who had attacked Kalbera Territory.
“I’m sorry! Please let us go!”
“We were merely hired!”
“They threatened us, saying they’d help us take revenge, or kill us if we refused!”
“We had no choice!”
“I’m just a mercenary! I was never a pirate to begin with!”
Upon investigating them, there were indeed many suspicious points.
Many were mercenaries rather than pirates, and the pirates themselves testified that they had been hiding but were coerced and dragged out under threat.
Of course, I couldn’t take all their words at face value.
No matter their excuses, the fact remained that they had attacked my Territory.
Still, with so many testifying to the same account, the credibility of their claims increased.
However, I hadn’t come all the way here to meet those pirates and mercenaries.
“My Lord, it’s this way.”
The deepest part of the Prison.
A place called the ‘Interrogation Chamber’.
Upon arriving there, the first person I saw was Ena, the administrator.
And the identity of the man bound beside him was none other than.
“Save me. Save me. Please, please save me….”
The man I had discovered aboard the pirate ship that was about to self-destruct.
Excluding the man I had fought in combat, he appeared to be the central figure in this entire incident.

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