The Return of the Genius Ranker’s Myth Warehouse - Chapter 251

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Chapter 251
Chapter 251
Belmore Territory was a peaceful place.
Occasionally, monsters from the Swamp would emerge, but since the Swamp’s creatures preferred the wetlands to dry ground, they rarely ventured out.
While herb gatherers sometimes found themselves in danger, at least the Territory itself was never threatened.
So it had always been a place that maintained a leisurely atmosphere—until now.
“Dig faster! At least fifty centimeters deep!”
“Good heavens, what is all this about?”
“Shoveling in this scorching heat…”
A sudden order had come down from the Lord.
The directive was simple.
Dig the earth.
It seemed the purpose was to expand the drainage channels…
“Why suddenly expand drainage in this heat!”
“Has our Territory ever suffered from clogged drainage channels?”
“Even heavy rains mostly flowed into the Swamp.”
“So why suddenly expand the drainage system?”
“I heard it’s not just for drainage—apparently the channels will allow us to cultivate medicinal herbs throughout the Territory…”
“I understand the concept, but do we really need to do this now?”
It made no sense.
Water had never been scarce, nor had excess water ever caused problems.
Besides, with the Swamp as a natural cultivation ground surrounding the Territory, there weren’t many medicinal herbs worth growing in the scorching sun beside the Territory anyway.
Why undertake drainage construction at all?
“And why must the drainage channels curve like this?”
The shape of the drainage was strange too.
Normally, drainage channels would be most efficient running in a straight line.
But the channels they were ordered to dig traced curved patterns throughout.
When workers, thinking this was odd, began digging the channels in straight lines instead—
“You there, what are you doing! Did you forget the order to dig in curves?”
“But if we connect the drainage channels in curves like this…”
“Are you trying to distort the Lord’s grand vision! Stop your complaints and do as ordered! Dig if told to dig!”
Without fail, an overseer appeared to demand corrections.
So be it—if ordered to dig, one dug.
What choice was there?
Regardless of the reason, the guards had no choice but to obey the Lord’s commands.
Moreover, the scope of the drainage project was so vast that not only the guards but Territory residents were hired to dig as well.
The residents, regardless of understanding the purpose, shoveled without complaint since they were being paid.
And watching all this unfold was the Lord of Belmore Territory.
Lauren Belmore was—
“Sigh…”
From the Lord’s Castle, I gazed down at the drainage construction work and exhaled a deep sigh.
“Is this truly the right decision…?”
I couldn’t say for certain.
Whether I was handling this well or poorly.
Last night, after investigating the map I’d received from Mir throughout the entire evening.
I had no choice but to believe that Mir’s words were genuinely true.
I’d wondered if perhaps the markings were inaccurate, but through the Lord’s intelligence network, I’d confirmed that most of the map’s notations were factual, if not all of them.
The problem was whether I could accept help from Mir, whom Duke Winchilsey opposed….
Uuuuung!
“Gasp!”
They say even tigers come when you speak of them.
Just then, a response arrived through the crystal communicator connected to Duke Winchilsey.
“I-it’s Lauren Belmore!”
– The situation has been unfavorable, so my contact was delayed. What is the matter?
Fortunately, it wasn’t Duke Winchilsey who contacted me directly.
It seemed to be one of Duke Winchilsey’s butlers.
Lauren Belmore, who had been exhaling a sigh of relief, hastily offered an excuse.
“Ah, it’s nothing at all!”
– Pardon?
“You see, well. Yes! My pet cat accidentally activated it.”
– A cat… you say?
“Yes, my cat is quite curious. So there’s absolutely no need to worry!”
– …Understood.
Click.
It was a clumsy excuse, but Duke Winchilsey would likely not pay much attention to a mere marquis’s mistake.
Somehow, I’d managed to get through the situation.
“Is this really the right thing to do…?”
Lauren Belmore’s sighs grew deeper as time passed.
* * *
The drainage construction work.
Or rather, the installation of the magical formation proceeded smoothly.
After all, I had personally designed the magical formation’s structure by overlooking the entire territory from above the Lord’s Castle and dividing it accordingly.
The Guard Captains who received their assignments simply had to dig the ground as instructed, so it was only natural.
Of course, when observing from above the Lord’s Castle, the shapes occasionally became distorted.
“My Lord.”
“W-what is it?”
“The left side of the eastern gate has become warped. We request your confirmation.”
“I understand….”
When Lauren Belmore was informed, he would send an overseer to immediately correct it.
Thus, while installing the massive magical formation that encompassed the entire Belmore Territory, I was able to experience various trials and errors.
‘This is harder than I expected.’
Installing a large-scale magical formation.
I knew it would be difficult, but I hadn’t anticipated it would be this challenging.
While mobilizing many workers did accelerate the pace, the mistakes multiplied because I had people without magical knowledge digging under the pretense of installing drainage channels.
If I, the designer, didn’t stand atop the Lord’s Castle and verify and correct each section one by one, the formation would become warped in an instant.
But if I did it alone?
‘It would have taken far longer.’
Digging itself was problematic, but if I had to repeatedly verify my work and redo sections, the time investment would be astronomical.
Moreover, working alone without anyone to verify my progress could result in the formation becoming even more distorted than it currently is.
Right now, with a week’s timeframe and the certainty that the Evil God would arrive, I could prepare at leisure.
But this method seemed difficult to employ recklessly in other circumstances.
“Time to get moving.”
While not professionals, the workers were steadily installing the magical formation, albeit imperfectly.
However, if I left it as is, it would be nothing more than a dirt path worse than a drainage channel.
To transform that drainage route into a proper magical formation, I ultimately had to take action myself.
Whoosh!
I leaped directly from the top of the Lord’s Castle.
The summit of the Lord’s Castle was quite high, so even for me, it wasn’t a place to jump from recklessly.
– Activating 3rd Circle wind magic ‘Feather Fall’.
Among the spells I’d learned at the Blue Moon Library, there were several practical magics for situations like this.
Feather Fall.
A spell that reduces the descent speed of falling objects, including the caster.
My body suddenly became light as a feather, and my falling speed decreased dramatically, and thanks to that—
Thud.
I landed safely on the ground.
I immediately sprinted toward a location I’d already identified.
The workers had already finished repairs at that point and disappeared.
I moved over it.
Puff—
I scattered powder from crushed lowest-grade mana stones across the area.
Wasting mana stones?
Normally, that would indeed be wasteful.
Even lowest-grade mana stones weren’t cheap, given that they were mana stones.
But—
“Luke, how many lowest-grade mana stones are left?”
– We still have over ten thousand in reserve, so you needn’t worry about inventory.
The mana stones in my subspace were untradeable anyway.
If I could only defeat the Evil God, this much was a trivial investment.
Moving along the dirt path while scattering mana stone powder—
‘That section’s done too.’
I could see the intersection of the magic circle.
Mere magic stone powder wouldn’t suffice here.
I needed to install proper magic stones.
Considering the scale and formula of the magic circle, I installed magic stones of appropriate grades at the intersections.
Installing the magic circle in this manner, I corrected minor misalignments that I hadn’t caught from the top of the Lord’s Castle.
I rapidly refined the massive magic circle large enough to encompass the entire Belmore Territory.
And then came the moment of truth.
‘This location won’t do with ordinary magic stones.’
The center of the magic circle and the center of Belmore.
Above the Fountain where water rose beautifully, I installed a magic stone.
A ‘Premium-grade Magic Stone’—something I didn’t have much of left anymore.
This was the critical power source that would activate this massive magic circle.
By infusing mana into it and making a final confirmation of the magic circle’s operation.
‘It’s done.’
One day before the Evil God, the Silver Storm God, would arrive.
I had managed to complete this colossal magic circle.
* * *
While Mir was installing the magic circle in Belmore Territory.
The Heukryeom Guild, tasked with confronting the Evil God, wasn’t sitting idle either.
First, the combat-class guild members.
“We need to attack the wings first!”
“If the ranged attackers manage to hit the wings somehow, the melee fighters need to finish it quickly!”
“We can’t just wait around if the monster doesn’t come down! We need to protect the ranged attackers and use the distributed throwing weapons….”
They were preparing for battle.
Due to security restrictions, detailed information hadn’t been disclosed, but the fact that the Evil God they’d face was a flying type had been revealed.
So practicing against flying-type monsters was the priority.
Fortunately, there were hunting grounds where flying-type monsters appeared on the cliffs surrounding Kalbera Territory, so the training could proceed without difficulty.
The next preparation was.
“We’re beginning a large-scale raid!”
“Everyone get in formation, and let’s start with Formation A!”
Raid preparation.
While they’d cleared dungeons divided by teams many times before, they’d never conducted a raid with a hundred guild members simultaneously.
But this time they had to face an Evil God, didn’t they?
Since a large-scale raid was clearly anticipated, they sought out powerful boss monsters and conducted training close to actual combat.
Ena’s information gathering and Branch Director Yuris’s intelligence proved invaluable here.
They managed to locate that rare flying-type boss monster and conduct near-realistic training.
The production-class users weren’t idle either.
“Our Heukryeom Guild is facing an Evil God?”
“But we can’t just sit around!”
“Our weapons being used against an Evil God! Just imagining it gets me excited!”
The Blacksmiths crafted equipment.
They forged throwing weapons so that melee combatants could effectively counter flying-type monsters.
They produced weapons like arrows capable of efficiently tearing through wings.
Armor in particular was prepared in a form with superior wind resistance, exactly as Mir, our guild master, had instructed.
“Did you hear? Let’s do our best as well!”
Han Seop rallied his efforts too.
Potions weren’t the only means of raising one’s stats.
He secured materials and researched recipes to create dishes that would prove helpful when facing flying-type monsters.
During this time, those with special professions—newly recruited members of the Heukryeom Guild like ‘Fishermen’ and ‘Herbalists’—made tremendous contributions.
Beyond that, alchemists produced potions and more.
Every guild member did their utmost to prepare for the Evil God hunt.
And finally, the day arrived.
“We’re deploying!”
The Heukryeom Guild members mobilized toward Mir’s location for the Evil God hunt.
It wasn’t only combat-class guild members who moved.
Production Guild members mobilized as well to immediately respond to field conditions, repair equipment, and supply potions.
Production Guild members typically avoided combat zones, but wasn’t this a rare opportunity to directly participate in a Main Scenario Quest?
No one would pass up such a precious chance.
Thus, as the Heukryeom Guild members entered Belmore Territory, preparations for the Evil God hunt began in earnest.
But then.
A problem arose for Lauren Belmore, the lord of Belmore Territory.
– Marquis Belmore. Is it true that Baron Mir has entered your territory?
“Y-yes, Duke Winchilsey!”
Duke Winchilsey had finally learned of this situation and contacted Lauren Belmore.

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