The Swords I Raised Are Too Strong - Chapter 77

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Chapter 77. Enriching the Nation and Strengthening the Military (4)
“Hah….”
“Good heavens.”
This and that.
Various other exclamations.
Yet they were nothing but vague utterances devoid of any clear ‘subject’ or ‘object’.
“Si, Si-woo… what on earth have you done?”
Even Seol-ah, whose courage was unshakeable, asked with her mouth agape.
I was equally astounded.
The reason we were all shocked was the Ruzbella Empire’s Imperial Palace that had swallowed Pyongyang.
‘I never imagined it would be this massive.’
Though I had a rough idea, witnessing it in person was utterly overwhelming.
The crystallization of spatial magic.
The Empire’s capital possessed a scale far more vast than what met the eye.
It was truly a magnitude so overwhelming that one could hear the voice of the entire world.
That’s why all the government officials were heading toward the Ruzbella Imperial Palace.
“Si-woo, are you dreaming of a Korean… Empire?”
Seol-ah tilted her head in confusion.
I was in a position to give her a clear answer to that.
According to Iris’s definition, I, Shin Si-woo, had become the Emperor of the Absolute Empire and the Emperor of the Ruzbella Empire.
Before me, South Korea proclaims itself an Empire?
‘If that happens, I would become the Emperor of the Absolute Empire that encompasses the Korean Empire.’
Iris likely named my empire the Absolute Empire because it encompasses all empires.
“Can you really say such things so casually?”
Seol-ah’s eyes widened in surprise at my explanation.
Director Kang Mu-jin, who would become the next President, and even the current President all turned their gazes toward me with expressions of shock.
“It’s fine in front of you and our government officials.”
To overcome the demons that have infested the world, I alone am insufficient.
I need to reveal the clear truth to those on my side, including our government.
There’s no benefit in keeping it hidden.
“What’s the reason for establishing an empire?”
I have a vision I’m pursuing.
I don’t know what the pride of the Great Britain Empire is, but now that I’ve touched it, the world will undergo tremendous change.
So I have no choice but to think seriously about the empire as well.
Thus came my plan.
An empire that encompasses empires—the Absolute Empire.
My Absolute Empire will be the synthesis of six empires, each ruled by one of my Swords as Emperor.
On Earth, not in my Sword Realm.
“Si, Shin Si-woo. Did you declare the empire to make your Swords into Emperors?”
A shocked question came back at my words.
The speaker was Kang Mu-jin.
He stared at me intently, then closed his eyes tightly as if at a loss for words and turned his head away.
‘My swords could probably make an emperor.’
Was it because the power stemmed from Sword Raising, which I’d started during my middle school delusions of grandeur?
Saying it aloud in reality made me feel a bit embarrassed.
I quickly changed the subject.
To talk about the Ruzbella Empire’s Imperial Palace—something everyone would naturally be interested in.
“Ordinary people can never enter the Central Imperial Palace.”
The empire’s Central Imperial Palace was a space saturated with the emperor’s majesty.
It meant the dignity embedded in my uniform persisted around the clock, and at minimum, only Transcendents would be able to enter that place.
However, even if someone were a Transcendent, I had no intention of letting just anyone into the Imperial Palace.
The reason was—.
“The World Tree?”
Exactly.
I had positioned the Demon tree at the very center of the Imperial Palace.
Suppressed by the emperor’s authority so it could never grow taller than that.
Below, an impenetrable wall blocked passage, and around the World Tree, ferocious Demons maintained constant vigilance.
“Si-woo, isn’t that the man-eating tree the Patriot mentioned?”
“Yes, it is.”
“Why are you raising that… Could it be because the Swords like it?”
I remained silent, and my sister closed her eyes tightly.
My sister Seol-ah possessed transcendent beauty and bore no resemblance to the spirited Kang Mu-jin.
Yet in that moment when she squeezed her eyes shut, the two of them looked identical.
With such thoughts, I broached the main topic.
“We need people.”
The empire’s Imperial Palace extended beyond the Pyongyang we commonly knew, reaching into the area called Pyongyang Special City.
Naturally, such vast territory required people to inhabit it.
“Is there a particular reason to relocate the citizens?” President Lee Seok-hyun asked.
The reasons were abundant.
“Simply by living on this land, they’ll be able to harbor mana like Awakened ones.”
Moreover, because all the facilities of the Imperial Palace came with it, we could accomplish tremendous things.
“If we activate the Imperial Transcendent Knight Order’s barracks, we can create the strongest army from my trials. The Magic Tower can produce mages.”
A single capital of the foremost nation in that world held immense potential.
Above all, there was another reason why the capital of the Ruzbella Empire mattered.
“Furthermore, the Magic Tower can research not just combat mages but also magical engineering. And through alchemy and magic stone generation technology, we could replace existing energy sources and healing methods.”
Indeed, the government truly had capable people; someone immediately grasped my true intention.
“Everything would be accomplished through the mystical arts.”
My goal was to build a nation that could function without relying on the mystical.
“Yes, we should be able to significantly reduce dependence on the mystical.”
“Yes, we should be able to significantly reduce our dependence on imports.”
Mystery is imperfect metal.
Muratan’s opinion was that it could vanish at any moment.
“Are you saying you’re preparing for a world where Mystery disappears?”
Everyone stares at me with troubled expressions.
Humanity currently maintains a society built on [Mystery].
Whether we breathe fresh air, catch fresh fish to eat, or guide Gate locations to maintain safe living zones.
Isn’t it all thanks to the existence of Mystery?
“Someday….”
I spoke a truth I hadn’t voiced until now.
“Mystery will definitely disappear.”
My conjecture is that Earth is being protected by some mysterious entity.
Someone who grants Awakening and status windows, and confines calamities through Gates.
The reasoning is simple.
Haven’t I witnessed the Great Britain Empire’s British doctors and confirmed China’s true state?
They’re bound by some constraint.
If they weren’t, Earth would have already collapsed completely, devoured by billions of people.
President Lee Seok-hyun summarized my will in a single line.
“A reform plan that stakes humanity’s survival. I accept it.”
* * *
Whoosh!
[A Gate has been generated in front of the Ruzbella Empire District 5 South Gate.]
President Lee Seok-hyun recruited “1,000 volunteers” as his final official act.
Before attempting hundreds of thousands from the start, the intention was to run various tests with smaller numbers.
The excess volunteers would be separately classified by the government and deployed in secondary Awakening tests.
‘This should go well, right?’
The Guardian Sword—Kim Jun’s ability had already been verified.
Quite some time has passed since the Jeonju Void incident, hasn’t it?
During that time, our government cooperated with Kim Jun to specifically verify and confirm his Awakening ability.
With this, the first Awakening experiment volunteers disappeared into the Gate.
‘The Gate level is low, and I’ve even attached a Demon just in case.’
The Gate generated this time is just an ordinary monster nest.
A [Intermediate Gate] level used for practice in Awakening tests—the kind where orc colonies appear.
“Iris, I’m counting on you.”
Thanks to the Sword Realm becoming clearer, Iris can now control the Demon summoned by Aga Sword.
She’ll observe what happens in the [Hall] through the Demon and block variables inside the Gate.
⦗Just trust me!⦘
Iris’s presence faded, and before I could feel the silence, Reinhardt Euclid stepped forward.
⦗Sword Master, Earth is truly different. I never imagined there would be so much cooperation like this…⦘
He seemed startled watching a thousand volunteers disappear beyond the Gate.
“On your side, everyone did act on their own terms.”
The reason my swords in [Sword Raising] took such an extreme path wasn’t simply due to my disposition or adolescent delusions.
Those people had sparse populations yet harbored extreme hostility toward one another based on ethnicity, skin color, or religion.
Because of that, even with my swords appearing, unifying humanity into one was an extraordinarily distant prospect.
However, Earth—especially our South Korea—was different.
‘The problem is there are plenty of people willing to cooperate, but a shortage of talented leaders to guide them.’
Most of the population had opened the possibility of becoming Awakened.
Even without awakening, a path to strength through aura and mana had emerged.
Yet the reality was that people capable of teaching them were in desperately short supply.
⦗If that Sword Emperor had existed, we could have better utilized the Empire’s facilities. What a pity.⦘
However, I had a premonition I could resolve this problem quite easily.
The [Shop] I’d glimpsed while gathering coins from Im Ji-ah.
There were certainly things like this there.
Whoosh!
[Muratan’s Failed Work 145—A fusion sword of the Imperial Transcendent Knight Order Commander and the Imperial Court’s Magic Tower Master]
[Muratan’s Failed Work 122—A sword woven from the entire Imperial Transcendent Knight Order.]
[Muratan’s Failed Work 156—A hybrid sword of the Imperial Mage Corps.]
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A blacksmith who perceived all things in the world as “steel.”
A madman who used swords as hammers to transform everything.
All the things he had created, yet classified as failures and discarded.
All of it now appeared in my [Shop] in the form of merchandise.
⦗Oho! Such things exist? Their essence is human!⦘
Muratan, who had been silent, suddenly shouted at me.
It was something I already knew well.
‘Hmm.’
In a situation where the enemy creates humans from humans.
Wouldn’t it be acceptable to purchase swords made from people?
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[Buckingham Palace.]
The sole empire on Earth.
But now it had become merely one among others.
【Alert: A second empire—the Ruzbella Empire—has appeared in the world.】
【The Great Britain Empire’s pride is shaken.】
The Great Britain Empire, trapped within a massive barrier.
Unable to escape outward, yet they could watch [WorldNet] and hear the [voice of the world].
And the voice of the world shook the pride of the great Great Britain Empire.
The Queen was enraged.
Kuuuuuuuuuuuuuung———!!!
The entire British region centered on Buckingham Palace began to tremble.
Space itself twisted as if a dimensional rift had been carved open.
All the nobles rushed to pay their respects to the Queen in the face of such drastic change, beseeching her.
“My Queen. Please, be appeased.”
The master of the Great Britain Empire—the Queen’s wrath was that formidable.
Her fury burned with such intensity.
That even the [Ring] encircling Britain felt the shockwaves.
Screeeech———.
The Ring was the shackle that imprisoned the Great Britain Empire.
An enigmatic calamity that blocked their ambitions.
As the Queen’s power grew stronger, the Ring tightened its grip on Britain’s isolation, and in response, the court officials stepped forward to soothe the Queen’s displeasure.
“My Queen, we have just imported one million fresh subjects from China. Please, be gracious and accept them!!!”
Only after presenting a full million subjects to the Queen did her fury finally subside.
Yet the fact that the Great Britain Empire’s pride had been scratched remained unchanged.
Britain’s sky grew impossibly dark.
Within that darkness, a million pairs of eyes gleamed.
It was a sign that the Queen, having received her tribute, was about to issue a solemn decree.
——Destroy that empire.
A single command descended from a sky as dark as the abyss.
The British Prime Minister summoned all the nobles.
“How can two empires exist beneath the same sky?”
“Two empires….”
“It must never come to pass.”
The nobles of the Great Britain Empire, ennobled by the Queen, all vied with one another to resolve this matter.
Yet even the first step proved difficult.
“What exactly is the Ruzbella Empire?”
Not the Japanese Empire, not China, not Persia or Rome—.
“An empire that appeared in South Korea, they say. A nation ruled by an Emperor and an Empress….”
An Empress—or in British terms, a Queen.
Was that not an insufferably presumptuous name?
“The one called Emperor, Shin Si-woo, is South Korea’s new Transcendent, but we have no information whatsoever on the female side.”
“Columbus, have you heard anything?”
[The Ruzbella Empire.]
It was a bizarre name never heard of before.
Even Columbus, the plundering explorer most versed in world geography, merely shook his head and shrugged.
“How does an empire with no basis whatsoever appear on Earth? It would make more sense if Hitler had risen from the dead.”
In the midst of this murky situation, someone spoke up.
“The opium I scattered has been decoded.”
It was information presumed to be connected to this crisis.
“Janet, your opium?”
“It’s connected to China, so we can’t take this lightly.”
A blonde woman with striking crimson nails stood out.
Once called the jewel of Britain, an actress who had been chosen by the Queen after the Gate crisis and became a marquess of Britain—the Phantasmal Pharmacist Janet Smith.
She swept her gaze around the room with a meaningful expression.
“The Doctor vanished and Jesus fell silent. And in that moment, the Empire appeared.”
This was before the Great Britain Empire could step forward openly.
How could such ominous events unfold?
Korea alone, having unified the Korean Peninsula, was perilously dangerous, and now it had seized the very name of ‘Empire’.
“But the Great Britain Empire is still isolated, isn’t it?”
She spoke languidly, her fingertips fluttering through the air.
Her crimson sclera and snow-white pupils gleamed.
That gaze radiated resolve.
“Surely… you’re not suggesting we step forward?”
Those gathered here were ‘true nobility’—incomparable to some fallen Doctor.
Each possessed eyes inverted with a unique hue.
And therefore—.
“No, if we step forward, we’ll only strengthen the chain.”
They could not act.
They merely waited for the world to cross its threshold.
“Instead, we have pieces that can move—those bound to us by covenant.”
China.
The Great Britain Empire’s ally, still maintaining the form of a [nation] on Earth and thus not isolated from the world.
They maintained close cooperation.
“Let’s move China through accumulated debts.”
The Phantasmal Pharmacist Janet Smith declared.

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