Omniscient First-Person’s Viewpoint

EP.301 A world that cannot be made with cogs

Maximilien was from many countries. In a country where birth is a curse, if you don’t solve the problems that come from time to time, you will be weeded out.

Fortunately, apart from the minor problem of missing both arms, Maximilien’s talent was outstanding and he wisely dealt with numerous problems in life.

In particular, he was rational even when the vested interests of the nations came together to punish him. Two companies perished under his iron wheels, who awakened his unique magic, and Maximilien left the country leisurely.

Despite overcoming the biggest crisis of his life, Maximilien was not satisfied. He still had a lot of problems left.

A huge problem that even he, who is like the god of gears, has no idea how to solve.

The world Maximilien lives in is not perfect.

To him, the world was a broken piece of art. It was a clump of noise filled with cacophony that creaked and collapsed.

Some things have room for improvement. Inefficient structures need to be improved. Broken machinery needs to be repaired.

However, it could not be rewritten as much as humans.

Humans are irrational. Aren’t you blinded by greed, rejecting superior civilization like a cogwheel, and being jealous and envious? Even when they see the same thing, they understand it differently and even attack each other for no apparent reason. Like the fools of the nations.

Defective products with jagged teeth are the biggest problem in the world. Because of them, ‘qualified people’ like Maximilien have to live while causing unnecessary friction.

It needs to be fixed. But how?

There is an awareness of the problem and there is a solution. but there is no means

In order to realize the ideal, a community equivalent to a country or city should be created, but the wanderer who fled from the nations did not have the foundation to accomplish a task of that scale.

It was around the time when Maximilien’s troubles deepened.

Suddenly, the heavens opened and an angel descended. The angel, who said that he had been watching him the whole time, made a proposal to Maximilien.

Why don’t you try to make a country?

Maximilien did not believe in God. Because God didn’t give him two hands to hold on to.

However, the angel in front of me is not God. It’s just a weapon of Seonghwangcheong that has fallen into the world.

I don’t believe in God, but I can believe in weapons. Maximilien took the angel’s hand.

Tian Tong was the monarch. I sat down, looked at everything, evaluated, and gave orders.

Yeonggwe was the executioner. She, who was closest to Cheon Tong, was the blade of Cheon Tong and a heartless gardener who weeded out the military as much as needed.

And Gwabyeong was the designer.

Various facility invention policies of the military country came out of his head. From self-designed wagons to large-scale alchemy steel smelters, there was nothing he couldn’t reach. Even the meta conveyor belt, praised as a military masterpiece, was made at Maximilien’s suggestion.

The original plan was not earth magic, but to encircle the military with tens of millions of cogwheels, and if you ask if that is realistic, you can’t help but tilt your head, but anyway, the achievement should be highly evaluated.

Of the three generals from outside, the one who worked the most was none other than Maximilien. It was not a matter of diligence, but because Maximilien genuinely enjoyed his work. For him, the military was the largest and most sophisticated toy, as well as a testing ground for his ideals. Maximilien took advantage of the turmoil unique to a newly founded country and even went so far as to do something radical.

Hatred for the kingdom An outstanding leader named Prince of Hope, who bloomed in a land burned with hatred, and the three people he brought with him. In the miraculous opportunity, the military nation greatly revived. Some were abandoned, but there were plenty of cogs to put back together. It didn’t matter much to Maximilien.

Clearly, Maximilien succeeded.

But essentially, it failed.

I tried to use humans like parts, but the parts don’t move the way I want. They tried to spring out like a spring when pressed forcefully, and committed all sorts of eccentricities even though they were told that they would be discarded if released. No matter how painstakingly polished, the damage was enormous as the defective product hid the jagged blade and hid inside the machine, causing a fatal malfunction.

Maximilien could not bear the loss. As long as there is such a loss, the ideal mechanism he desires cannot be made.

Unless you fix ‘human’.

“Congratulations, Maximilien. You did a great job finding me. To think of making ground for stepping into the abyss and putting the dog king there. It’s a perfect catch.”

uh huh Finally, this person sees the kaleidoscope. It took a long time.

The expression is a bit strange, but Maximilien was ‘stuck’ by Historia’s bullet and fell out. Literally just before dying.

But he’s still alive, and he’s the kind of guy who can kill me with the snap of a finger.

I need to go quickly and kill him. Historia collapsed from exhaustion. There is no one else to do but me.

I looked down at the ground from the edge of the steel beetle. The height of the steel beetle is 4m. It seemed too dangerous to just jump down below, where there were many broken pieces of concrete.

If you are in perfect condition, you will be able to land nicely by mobilizing all the items and techniques. But now I was also a wreck.

‘Earth’ is the biggest magnet. Utilizing it, he maximized the magnetism of Clover 6. It was powerful enough to break the trajectory of flying steel, but there was one problem.

Steel can be magnetically attracted to it, but cannot be repelled.

In other words, all those blades flew towards the card I was holding. Even though I wrapped my arm tightly with the cloth queen, dozens of blades brushed past my arm, and it became a piece of cloth with the cloth queen.

It’s a shame that the placenta drew an arc and missed. If something like a spear had hit me directly, I would have had to ask Maximilien to make me a prosthetic arm.

I guess I won’t be able to use my left hand for a while. After tying the Queen of Heaven to stop the bleeding, I carefully stepped down the cogs that looked like stairs.

“That makes me even more sorry. Your wish is strong and exciting, but unfortunately I cannot fulfill your wish. I am the human king. Although he was… the mouthpiece of all human beings, he is powerless and unrepresentative now. Now all I have left is to grant the wish of the one person in front of me.”

Maximilien blinked. His condition was miserable.

There is a large hole in the chest. The blood-soaked cogs carefully filled inside the skin reflect the hideous appearance. The cog wheel was spinning without rest even in the midst of this, but most of it was horribly damaged, and some were distorted, digging into his flesh every time it turned.

“By comparison, your wish is for all humans, right? But since you can’t convince all humans, try to convince one being, the King of Men. Is that why you needed me?”

No matter how much you command, the muscles don’t move. Instead, only the gears spread throughout his body obeyed his will. Click. His prosthetic arm forced his broken body to stand up. Violently, not caring when the muscles scream and the blood veer off course.

“Anyway, he is more like a human king than me, who is incompetent. Do you want to be the king instead of me?”

Maximilien opened his mouth. He first poured out a glob of frothy blood, then spoke with difficulty.

“…If you can give it to me, I’ll gladly take it.”

“haha. just joke. you can’t be king Aside from being unable to give, it’s a god, not a king, who wants to be you. A god who wants to change the human species at will.”

“It’s a deception… What you wrote a moment ago… is definitely the power of a demon god. You are cool. Isn’t that God?”

“no. This is the unique magic of the Great Mother Goddess. I told you. I can steal and use someone else’s unique magic.”

“Isn’t that… God?”

“Because it isn’t.”

He waved his arms wrapped in cloth up and down. Blood oozes out with violent movements. Considering the injury, it was something I should never have done, but what about it? Maximilien in front of me forced himself to stand up even though he was like that. I should show some sincerity too.

“Some unique magic touches God. We give it a name that honors a god that didn’t exist until now, and we tie it to reality. The named god looks down on this world and humans enjoy its grace. That’s why it’s a unique magic and at the same time it’s called a demon. that’s truly god Because it causes irreversible changes in all human beings.”

the bottom of the abyss. In the land where neither light nor logic can reach, I found the memories of the Grand Master sealed by Seonghwangcheong.

Before Daejongsa, Mother Earth was only a branch of folk belief, but after Daejongsa, it became a god who listened to human calls. Because Seonghwangcheong sealed this secret, only the earth mothers could use earth magic, but it was still a human skill. With the presence of earth magic, human life has changed.

“That’s why you’re normal. Maximillian. Your gears cannot change people.”

But what about cogs?

obviously useful Depending on the design, it produces several times the force or several times the precise movement. You can convert force into rotation and vice versa.

useful. That’s it.

“Your prosthetic arm takes the place of a human arm, and the steel beetle is named after a bug. Shooting spears with javelins and pulling bows with winches. All of these features were first discovered by humans. imitate. That is the essence of your ability.”

I stabbed him where it hurts without mercy.

“Your ability to assemble tiny cogwheels to create incredible things is unparalleled. It’s admirable. But the gears are not made by you. that was originally The principle of gearwheels is not something new that did not exist in the world. It’s just what you handle best.”

He is a giant standing on the shoulders of giants. It is big and strong and will see farther than anyone.

But never reach God. He knows this better than anyone else.

There are times when you have to be honest and say things that you both know for sure. Now was the time.

“You are a giant, you cannot be a god. I know the subject beast.”