"Now! Hyung-nims! Viewers all over the Earth! Do you see this magnificent sight spread out behind my back? The place our mothership Mary has newly entered. It is exactly the special dimension said to open for only a single day in 10 years, the Tomb of the Forgotten Hearth!"
Park Jihoon, who took on the role of official streamer, was pointing at the super-massive hologram control screen floating in the empty air and speaking passionately until his throat burst.
Beyond the external space shown by the camera from multiple angles, massive brass-colored celestial gears reaching hundreds of kilometers in diameter were densely interlocking and ticking, creating a spectacular sight.
— Wow, does a place like that really exist in space?
— The entire screen is gears ㄷㄷ
— If you fall between those gears over there, aren't you going straight to the grinder? Look at the scale.
The chat window began to burn up.
Actually, this large-scale live broadcast was a project urgently scheduled by the mothership's main AI, Mary, paying Park Jihoon a massive amount of faith points in advance.
The battlefields Kim Minwoo had to face in the future were lined with all sorts of disasters.
The most perfect way to overcome fear was to substitute that fear itself into familiar entertainment, like a light and thrilling sports festival or an e-sports game broadcast.
It was Mary's coordination to administer a preventative injection in advance and bind the residents with fanatical enthusiasm.
To Park Jihoon as well, this opportunity was a cheat code that would change his life.
The only official streamer across the entire universe who exclusively live-broadcasts and lead-comments the Death Lord's raid.
Not only were faith points copied in units of tens of thousands every time he hosted a broadcast, but it was also the best win-win contract where he could firmly solidify his position as a core manager and influencer with an unrivaled standing inside the mothership Mary.
"Today, we have specially invited Earth's best sports caster, Caster Choi Yongjun, through a two-way live hologram broadcast! Earth studio, please come out! Caster Choi, what are your thoughts on seeing the first screen?!"
One side of the screen split, and the hologram of Caster Choi Yongjun sitting in the Earth transmission studio popped up clearly.
— Yes! Hello, this is Choi Yongjun from the Earth studio! Looking at the screen I just received, I was honestly left speechless! I have never once imagined that such a place would exist in space!
— The even more surprising fact is that there are many special dimensions like that! I can feel anew that the universe we have known all along was merely the tip of the iceberg!
However, that marvel turned into astonishment in just a few minutes.
Wiiiiiing—!
Kugugugugung!
The massive brass walls of the main gear axis, the heart of the hearth, split apart jjeok.
Because hundreds of clockwork golems the size of houses, assembled from special metals of the universe and fragments of stars, poured out making driving sounds.
— Heol damn; Are those mobs?
— Is that size real;; They look like large robots from a movie?
— Look at the energy they're spewing. Even watching through a screen makes my breath catch. How do you catch something like that?
Park Jihoon also gulped down dry saliva.
It was that time.
Above the clockwork wheels, the summons slowly began to raise their bodies.
"Uh……? Hyung-nims! Viewers! Isn't that… a golem?"
Park Jihoon rubbed his eyes in excitement and zoomed in closely on the screen.
Then, the silhouette of a giant standing tall using a massive gear as a stepping stone was caught clearly.
The smooth and vicious pitch-black abyssal armor plating that had chewed and swallowed the pressure of the Sea of Destruction perfectly coated its entire body, and behind its back, pitch-black tentacles that swallowed even light were swaying like the massive cape of a monarch.
What was overwhelming above all was the skull.
From the empty pupils, twelve bloody eye glints bizarrely flashed instead of the original blue flames, spewing an overwhelming pressure.
That moment, the hologram of the skeleton maid Mary wearing a red ribbon flashed like an instant notification in a corner of the broadcast screen.
— [Yes, that is correct. It is indeed the entity called Dolsoe from the past.]
Park Jihoon's jaw dropped wide open on its own.
"D-Did Dolsoe originally look like a cosmic horror? He has twelve eyes?!"
As the camera panned slowly to the side, the sight of thirty elite Dragon Tooth Soldier royal guards lined up as if escorting Dolsoe's feet was revealed.
Their appearances also destroyed common sense.
Over the pure white skeletons, pitch-black True Blood blood vessels were intertwined like spider webs, and inside the rib cages, forcibly forged heart-shaped blood cores were pulsating bright red.
Between the Megacorp silver superalloy armor plates imbued with Grand Duke Baal's sticky magic power, the red aura unique to vampires was rising like a haze.The source of this chapter is NovelPing.
— Heol;; Why do the Dragon Tooth Soldiers next to him look like that?
— They look like they're wearing armor plates, but do you see the bright red hearts beating inside their rib cages?
— Bright red eye glints spewing from their eyes and blood mist rising from their bodies, aren't they real vampires? Freaking scary;;
— Kind of cool, though?
While the chat window was dyed with astonishment, Mary added commentary with a prideful smile.
[The great Lord has recently reached a new level. The summons have also grown accordingly. From now on, you will appreciate their overwhelming performance.]
As soon as Mary's comment ended, the clash of the battlefield began.
— Intruder…… eliminate…….
The massive clockwork golem standing at the vanguard raised its house-sized brass fist.
Ignorant physical mass plummeted like a meteor toward the head of the vanguard Abyssal Bone Golem, Dolsoe.
"Aah! He has to dodge……! Dolsoe will be smashed!"
The moment Park Jihoon screamed.
Kkang————!
— He struck it back! Dolsoe takes it head-on without dodging!
Caster Choi Yongjun kicked his chair back, stood up, and shouted.
Dolsoe stood perfectly fine without a single scratch on his pitch-black abyssal armor plating.
Instead, the massive brass forearm of the attacking clockwork golem could not withstand the systemic shockwave reflected by Dolsoe, making a jjeojeok sound, and was crushed to pieces.
It was before that shock even faded.
Just thirty Blood-sucking Dragon Tooth Soldiers kicked off the ground simultaneously.
Corrosive red magic power rays that melted space and time poured down like a shower from the golems' pupils.
Kwajik! Peoeok!
The superalloy armor plates of the Blood-sucking Dragon Tooth Soldiers hit directly by the rays were crumpled, and their pure white skeletons melted down miserably like molten iron.
It was that time.
The bright red eye glints of True Blood flashed from the pupils of the Dragon Tooth Soldiers who should have been half-destroyed and collapsed.
They adjusted their grip on the Mythical-rank Dragon Emperor daggers with their broken arms, leaped, and ruthlessly stabbed the blades into the massive golems' power cores.
Puk! Chiiiiiik—!
[The Blood-sucking Dragon Tooth Soldiers' unique passive, Immortal Thirst, is activated!]
The moment the daggers were lodged into the machines' cores, the massive energy harbored by the golems was sucked like a waterfall into the bodies of the Dragon Tooth Soldiers riding the red blood streams.
— Udeudeuk!
— Jjeojeojeok!
The melted skeletons of the Dragon Tooth Soldiers intertwined and grew back in real-time, and the crumpled Megacorp superalloy armor plates were completely restored into perfect new products in just a few seconds along with a bloody haze.
The golems clutched their empty cores and fell to their knees.
The entire broadcast studio sank into silence.
Caster Choi Yongjun was frozen with his mouth open, and even Park Jihoon dropped his hand holding the microphone and merely stared blankly at the screen.
The battlefield beyond the screen was truly a one-sided slaughterhouse.
The mere thirty Blood-sucking Dragon Tooth Soldiers sucked power just by grazing, and regenerated endlessly in place no matter how much they were destroyed, continuing their advance.
A massacre where massive golems made of special metals had their napes bitten off by merely thirty human-sized skeletons and were dismantled into lumps of scrap metal.
In front of that overwhelming and violent showcase of martial prowess, the chat window turned into a crucible of enthusiasm.
— Ha…… Reality really hits hard. I'm considered an S-rank Awakened on Earth in my own way, but if I was told to face one of those clockwork golems, I'm only confident in running away.
— Fr lol But the summons are lightly grinding them up like a blender.Read this novel at novelping(.)com for the best experience.
As the honest comment from a top-tier ranker who had some sway on Earth came up, an indescribable thrill and relief swelled in the hearts of the residents.
— Honestly, they say outside is 5 minutes before universal destruction, but it's true that inside the mothership is the most reassuring and safe.
Refugees who had escaped the small well called Earth and faced the abyss of the universe.
The fear of the unknown that had settled in their hearts was perfectly washed away by just the overwhelming backs of the summons demolishing the golems beyond that screen.
It was when the battlefield was cleaned up and the massive clockwork golems were reduced to lumps of scrap metal.
— [Master.]
It was the voice of the mothership Mary's main AI, Mary.
It was her usual calm tone, but a subtle anticipation, as if microscopic electric currents were sparking, was mixed in.
"What is it. Did something happen?"
— [Is it alright if I mine the gears and metals scattered around this dimension?]
"Metals?"
Kim Minwoo glanced at the planet-sized brass celestial gears floating around.
— [Yes. I just completed cross-verification with Dr. Higgs. It is estimated that if we tear out that special alloy to replace my main core tubes and apply it to the computing units, this ship's specs and my processing power will be upgraded by at least double.]
"Then of course we should mine them. Tear them all out without leaving a single frame."
— [Thank you for your permission. I will become a better Mary.]
As soon as Mary's satisfied answer ended, the mothership Mary waiting in space let out a heavy engine sound and began to advance.
Thousands of tractor beams and magic power tentacles for mining stretched out from the mothership, literally forcefully demolishing the massive brass gears and swallowing them inside the ship, creating an unusual spectacle.
Meanwhile, Kim Minwoo walked alone toward the empty central axis of the main gear.
There, the permanent power source of this massive dimension and the key to the final shackle he had searched so hard for was burning brilliantly.
[Special material for unlocking physical potential (-999): Flame of the Sun]
The compressed core of a star.
Tremendous heat that felt like it would burn skin just by approaching was spewing out.
"Hayangi."
— Kkuuu!
Hayangi's eyes shone, and its body scattered into blinding light, smoothly burrowing into Kim Minwoo's body.
[The Divine Beast assimilates with you!]
[Attribute: White Flame]
In an instant, pure white flames rose like a haze over Kim Minwoo's entire body. It was a barrier perfectly offsetting the terrible heat emitted by the Flame of the Sun.
Kim Minwoo firmly grabbed the Flame of the Sun.
Hwaaaaaak—!
The moment the flame entered Kim Minwoo's grasp, the massive heat subsided, and it was compressed into the form of a gentle bead and sucked into the inventory.
Ttiring—!
Massive golden system messages filling his vision popped up brilliantly, piercing the darkness of the universe.
[All materials for unlocking physical potential (-999) have been collected! (6/6)]
[All conditions have been met!]
The terrible shackle that had suppressed his martial prowess for a long time.
All of its unlocking conditions were finally perfectly cleared.
Uuuuung—!
In a silence where the world seemed to have stopped, the final system message popped up clearly before Kim Minwoo's eyes.
[Would you like to unlock the potential seal?]
"Of course."