One Man Army

Chapter 124 [Episode 64] Sky Whale 1

@ Sky Whale.

Sang Hyuk was completely unaware of the conversations about him at the top of the faraway world.

Nope, he was not supposed to know that.

In fact, it was laughable that one user was making things difficult for the Administrator and the Creator, but to be exact, Sang Hyuk was not a user but a regressor.

Because he was a regressor, he made many ‘coincidences’ inevitable, and as a result he held far too much power for a single user. He turned the impossibility into a possibility by his nonsense power, and as a result he became a terrible existence.

Since the Administrator and the Creator did not know that he had returned, he was forced to try to maintain the balance of the game as much as possible.

However, Sang Hyuk, who can be said to be the master of twists, finessed events for his own needs one by one.

Sang Hyuk knew very well that he would not be a regular user from the moment he made his return and started Eternal Life.

Because he was thinking of monopolizing all the best ‘abilities’ that he admired even if it was unique in the game, so in the end, he could not help but to stand out anyway.

But Sang Hyuk was not worried about this part at all. The reason was simple.

Sang Hyuk had a very clear understanding of the existence of ‘Chaos’, who managed EL and knew the Chaos’ power and limitations more accurately than anyone else.

Though Sang Hyuk obviously knew that he would monopolize the Chaos’ interests, but the reason he was able to master everything without being noticed… It was because no matter how much he tried to monopolize everything, he knew that Chaos could never touch him.

It was not exactly Chaos, but he could not be touched by Raon Soft, which owns EL.

This was clearly stated in the Special Act on DN, so unless they wanted to stop the game service immediately, it was the Act that had to be followed unconditionally.

In particular, Chaos was the best artificial intelligence, famous for its very thorough management.

In Sang Hyuk’s past life, Chaos was chosen as the best artificial intelligence for 10 consecutive years.

Sang Hyuk knew this very well, so he was not afraid of management intervention. They could not intervene in the first place so it was funny to be afraid.

If he was afraid of it, he would have constructed the Sky-grade Ship much slower.

Not only had Sang Hyuk had completed the virtual space dock already, but he also added about 300 kilograms of adamantium. He decided to use Gold Mountain to scrape up and collect more adamantium.

In this case, it seemed he could make a nonsense Sky-grade Ship made of 100% Adamantium.

Later on, it would be hard to find Adamantium even if he has money, so he could not even try to do such a ridiculous thing.

Now that the virtual space dock is complete and the materials are ready, all Sang Hyuk had left to do is to build a Sky-grade Ship.

The core of the Sky-grade Ship production was the Magic Armor which will be the power source and the ignition key. First when the Magic Armor which is the power source is registered into the dock, then a simple configuration window appears, where you can determine the shape and characteristics of the desired Sky-grade Ship.

The Magic Armor was the most important thing because the attributes of the Magic Armor determined the limits of the Sky-grade Ship.

As Magic Armor is deeply involved in the production of Sky-grade Ship, we could not create a proper Sky-grade Ship without a proper Magic Armor.

If he created a Sky-grade Ship with Magic Armor with lower than first-grade, then the Sky-grade Ship would be so poor that it would be impossible to navigate toward the Middle Layer.

So in Sang Hyuk’s past life, only those with at least a second-grade Magic Armor have made a Sky-grade Ship.

In fact, it can be said that a second grade was also lacking.

Most of the Sky-grade Ships based on the 2nd grade Magic Armor in Sang Hyuk’s previous life did not penetrate the Middle Layer. Although there was no accurate statistics, but it was reported that the percentage of survival of Sky-grade Ships based on 2nd grade Magic Armor was known to be about 10%.

There was a lot of difference compared to the Sky-grade Ship which was built on the 3rd grade Magic Armor, which was about 50%.

If Magic Armor is stinky, the Sky-grade Ship is also stinky.

Later after all, this would become orthodox and many people created better Magic Armors and Sky-grade Ship to cross the terrifying area called the Middle Layer.

“Summon the virtual space dock.”

When Sang Hyuk summoned the virtual space dock, a big screen appeared in front of Sang Hyuk.

A translucent screen that is still empty….Sang Hyuk placed his palm on the screen.

[Magic Armor ‘The Blackness of the Dark Wings’ detected. Would you like to register? Y/N]

The empty virtual space dock detected Sang Hyuk’s Magic Armor at once.

“Register.”

Sang Hyuk nodded and chose Y.

The Blackness of the Dark Wings was registered naturally on translucent screen.

When Magic Armor was registered, various setting windows were created for constructing the Sky-grade Ship in earnest.

“The basic form is a high speed Ship and the size is as small as possible… If it was like this, can I even install the booster?”

Since he has registered 4th grade Magic Armor, the points that Sang Hyuk can use is 700. 700 points could be used to make a bigger boat, but Sang Hyuk saved up points by minimizing the size and choosing only the selected High Speed Ship and Booster. ***

Fortunately, the performance of the Blackness of the Dark Wings was so good that he could pick a few more traits.

In fact, both the High Speed Ship characteristic and the Booster feature were very difficult to pick at the same time, because they were both used a large number of  points.

But, Sang Hyuk chose both of these characteristics at the same time and he reduced the number of guns and the harpoons to one. The reason was simple.

He knew how synergistic it was when these two characteristics were combined.

Sang Hyuk remembers exactly how the ‘Firework Pirate Corps’ who used this combination in his previous life had troubled many users.

First Sang Hyuk chose all of the settings he had thought of and requested an estimation.

The High Speed Ship characteristic is 250 points. Booster features 300 points. One naval gun was 50 points and the harpoon was 40 points.

“Oh, seems like I still have 60 points more? Hmmm… Should I choose to strengthen the naval gun? or should I install the disguise mode?”

He needed 60 points to mount an upgraded gun or disguise mode, so he was able to use all 700 points.

Sang Hyuk, who had been thinking for a while, chose the disguise mode.

Since the naval gun was not intended to be used much on a fast ship, he decided that it was not necessary to use it until it was strengthened and moreover, disguise mode was very rare, so it was a benefit that had to be chosen.

When all the settings were finished, vague lines are drawn on the translucent window and one ship appeared.

This completes the design of the Sky-grade Ship. Now it was time to start producing while still supplying the really necessary materials.

Sang Hyuk was planning to use all his powers and abilities to keep up with the materials needed for the Sky-grade Ship.

It took 4 hours and 16 minutes to complete the production on the 27th day. The fact that the production time was longer than expected meant that the structure of Sky-grade Ship was complicated.

Sang Hyuk was not in a hurry, though the production time was longer than expected.

Now he had to pay attention to keep filling the materials constantly. Sang Hyuk, who now had some spare time, steadily hunted iron golems and even collected a very small amount of adamantium.

Then he quietly waited for the Event to happen.

In fact, it was a big thing that shook the world, but for Sang Hyuk, who knew both the beginning and the end of that Event, he considered it simply as the Event to open the Skyway.

“I am unsure of the timing, but the place will be the same, right?”

If only the place is the same, whenever the time, it did not matter much. Because Sang Hyuk had already almost finished all the preparations so he could react immediately anytime.

And the time continued to flow like that.

* * * *

“Is this the end?”

Sang Hyuk checked out the final ingredients and packed 50 kg of adamantium, 15 hydra skins and 5 intermediate enhancement stones.

Just like the money-eater hippopotamus, the virtual space dock, which has swallowed all kinds of materials so far, consumed the last of the materials and finally started the production completion count.

[Finishing the Sky-grade Ship production. 0, 1, 2 ……]

As the count went up, a clear image began appearing in virtual space dock.

Dark and black hull was sloping but it seemed very fast in a glance. The size looked a bit small for a dual grade but it looked just the right size for Sang Hyuk.

The important thing for Sang Hyuk was performance, not size.

He was thinking about making a High Speed Ship that could outrun all other Sky-grade Ships.

“It seems like I had picked well as I thought but…..”

Looking at the image of Sky-grade Ship getting more and more completed, Sang Hyuk had a satisfied expression. However, he had to check the detailed information after it was completed.

After a few minutes it was finally approached the 100% line.

…… 97, 98, 99….. 100!

The moment it becomes 100, the Sky-grade Ship that Sang Hyuk produced so devotedly was completed.

Heavenly Sky-grade Ship [dual grade] has finished.

You were ready to go to a new world before anyone else by producing the first heavenly Sky-grade Ship. Your steps that lead the world as a milestone for others is worthy of praise.

You got the legendary title ‘The King of the Sky-sea’.

The name of the Sky-grade Ship can be set.

When the virtual space dock is imprinted on the soul, it acquires ‘Spirit Virtual Space’ and automatically the Sky-grade Ship is anchored in that space.

He knew the fact that it was going to be something nice because it was the first production. So Sang Hyuk was not surprised to receive the legendary title.

Sang Hyuk has already earned several legendary titles that an ordinary player couldn’t even dream of getting, even after decades of playing EL Thanks to that, he could nod his head quietly in a situation where anyone else would shout and cheer.

Sang Hyuk, who nodded slightly, immediately imprinted the virtual space dock on his soul.

Sky-grade Ship production is now perfectly complete.

All that left was to name the Sky-grade Ship, which he could do anytime.

Sang Hyuk paused for confirming the details of Sky-grade Ship.

“Ah…when I think about it, to test the performance properly I need to fly the boat not check the description…. and because the Skyway is not open yet, so this is impossible.”

Though he can see the details of his Sky-grade ship in the description, he also had to test drive the Sky-grade Ship to get the real performance.

The problem was the Skyway as predicted.

The Skyway was still closed.

To be more precise, that Event hasn’t happened yet.

Honestly, Sang Hyuk did not know exactly when that would happen.

If it is the same as in the past life, it will happen after more than a year, but it was not like that because events are happening faster than he remembered.

Sang Hyuk thought that now is the time for it to happen, considering the recent situation.

There has been a lot of change in the EL world for about 50 days when Sang Hyuk was concentrating on producing the Sky-grade Ship.

Users have now fully adapted to Magic Armor.

Of course, Magic Armor has become widespread.

2nd grade Magic Armor has been made by guilds and personal users have also started to own 1st grade Magic Armor.

And the most important thing was…. That the users finally started to pay attention to what Magic Engineering is.

This was the most important.

According to Sang Hyuk’s memory, this happened exactly at this point in his previous life too.

The accident that will turn the Lower Third World upside down….

It was just that there is a sky whale falling onto the Lower Third World.

The Sky Whale……

It is named Sky Whale but you should not think of it as a real whale.

The Sky Whale was just a name.

It was the ‘Giant Flight Demon’, which lives in Middle Layer, called the Sky Whale.

Chapter 124 [Episode 64] Sky Whale 1 – End

Editor’s Notes: Yes, I know the author has written that Sang Hyuk’s armor is grade 3.5.  Maybe it rounds up?