Ubermensch – Chapter 113

Chapter 113

Park Sungmin blinked.

“I’m a doctor? Nobel Prize? And, an ancestor of Commander Mason?”

“Yes. I’m sure. Our Massachusetts Park family is a prestigious family that values tradition.”

“I’m just a retired soldier…”

“That’s why you were even more famous.”

In the original history. In other words, in the history where monsters did not invade, Park Sungmin was a legendary figure who entered the path of academia at a late age and became a scholar in his field.

It was thanks to his academic achievements that he became the founder of the Massachusetts Park family.

Mason and Park Sungmin looked at each other with curious eyes. The eyes of the most famous person in the world and the most famous person in his family crossed paths.

Yekaterina cleared her throat.

“…Shall we get to the point?”

“Ah, yes.”

Park Sungmin looked at Mason.

“Why are you here?”

“There’s something I want to discuss about the research theme being studied at this research facility…”

“About Sanhee?”

Mason and Yekaterina looked at each other.

“Ah, yes…”

“Follow me.”

A young girl was lying in the center of the research facility.

The girl who would become the textbook of psychic abilities. Park Sanhee.

“As far as I know, you’re currently focusing on mental infection abilities. In other words, brainwashing abilities.”

“Is that so…”

Mason discussed the details.

“We need research on the opposite of mental infection abilities. Mental defense abilities…”

“Well…”

Park Sungmin made a subtle expression.

Mason knew why.

“Your goal is to make your daughter able to move, right? You’re cooperating because with brainwashing abilities, even if it’s not her own body, you can see your daughter moving, right?”

“…”

“There’s a solution for that. A very simple solution.”

“What is it?”

“Make her hack her own body with spirit possession abilities.”

When Park Sungmin made a puzzled expression, Mason explained slowly.

“The reason Park Sanhee, Lady Secret, can’t control her own body even though she can control others is simple. Unlike other people, her body doesn’t move. That’s a problem to be solved with surgery and rehabilitation, not by strengthening brainwashing abilities.”

“…Are you sure?”

“Of course.”

Park Sungmin nodded.

“I understand. Let’s try that direction. However…”

“However?”

“I can’t give you a definite answer about the research. It’s up to the scientists to research.”

Mason smiled.

“Those people will be ready to listen to us.”

After Park Sungmin left, Mason had a scientific discussion with the scientists.

“What do you know about the Laughing God?”

“We know that he has brainwashing abilities.”

“Is there a way to stop it?”

Mason and Yekaterina had various scientific and magical discussions.

It was a discussion to change the research direction of the Shinnyeowon research facility.

“I understand. Then we’ll change it to research related to the Laughing God.”

“Yes.”

Based on various testimonies, it was clear that the Laughing God launched mental attacks. If so, it was most certain to develop mental defense abilities.

The Shinnyeowon research facility would become a hidden card in the battle against the Laughing God.

“I think we’ve done everything we can.”

In the car on the way back, Mason talked with Yekaterina.

He had done everything he could as a king and as a player. He had advised the scientific community, and there would be no political fights for the time being.

There was nothing he could do about Seoul for the time being, and the same went for the subjugation of the Four Great Demon Gods.

He had to come up with countermeasures against the Laughing God’s mental attacks, find effective attack methods against the Walking Thundercloud, find a way to approach the Bubble, or create a situation where he could fight the Ghost Dragon.

All four. They were impossible with current technology.

All he could do was wait for the results of the research or a change in the situation.

“Unless a meteor falls from the sky.”

At Mason’s joking words, Yekaterina gave a wry smile.

“Don’t say things like that carelessly.”

“Why?”

“Mason’s premonitions tend to be right. What you said jokingly might suddenly…”

That was the moment.

Mason’s face hardened.

A flustered. No, a perplexed look was on his face.

“…?!”

“What’s wrong?”

Mason reflexively looked south.

“Mason? What’s wrong?”

“…I hear it.”

“Huh?”

“Death throes…”

Before Mason could finish his sentence.

A terrible death throe shook Yekaterina’s five senses.

South. Southeast.

Something unbelievably huge was screaming unbelievably loud.

Drip!

Blood flowed from Yekaterina’s nose and ears.

The driver, flustered, stopped the car.

“Your Majesty?!”

Yekaterina moaned.

Both her core energy and her spiritual energy as a god were being hit. It wasn’t someone’s attack. It was the opposite. As something that existed in this world was destroyed, the void created in its place was sucking everything in.

‘What is it? What on earth happened?’

Something unimaginable to Yekaterina had happened.

“…News. Turn on the news.”

Yekaterina said, wiping away the blood and moaning.

Then, breaking news was pouring out from the news as well. Abnormal weather phenomena were occurring around the world. It was a screaming warning that an earthquake and tsunami originating from the Pacific Ocean were approaching.

“What in the world is…?”

Unlike Yekaterina, who was confused, Mason’s face was still hardened.

“…No. It can’t be. That can’t be.”

If Yekaterina’s shock was due to ignorance, Mason’s shock was the opposite. It was because he felt what he knew.

“Mason. Are you okay?”

Mason clenched his teeth.

“…Gwangju. Let’s go to Gwangju. We need to figure out the situation quickly.”

The driver drove the car, ignoring traffic signals and laws.

As he entered the Revengers’ raid building, his colleagues were also flustered, as if they had felt something.

“Commander Mason!”

“Information? Has any information about the situation come in?”

“We’re receiving information from the US, but they don’t know the details. However…”

“However?”

“It seems like there was a huge impact near the Pacific Ocean.”

“Is it an earthquake or a volcanic eruption?”

“No. It didn’t come from the ground… It fell from the sky.”

Mason clenched his teeth.

“Are you sure? Are you sure about that?”

“Yes. They’re sure.”

At Masika’s words, Mason’s face hardened.

Masika, noticing his reaction, which was different from the others, asked Yekaterina.

“What’s going on?”

“I don’t know either.”

All kinds of information networks, including military satellites, were moving quickly. The first to contact them was the US Department of Defense.

“We’re not sure, but… they’ve detected some kind of strange phenomenon.”

“What is it?”

“See for yourself.”

What caught Mason’s eye was the red-stained sea.

The entire sea was stained with blood.

It was a phenomenon that occurred when large fish such as whales or sharks died.

However, the horizon beyond was also stained with blood.

There was only one creature on Earth that possessed this amount of blood.

“…Did something happen to the Bubble?”

Photos sent from other satellites also supported this information. The Bubble, which was captured by satellites at regular intervals. Reports were coming in that the bubbles generated every time the Bubble breathed were not being detected.

It was clear that something had happened to the Bubble.

But there were two important things. What happened and who caused it.

“What about the Ghost Dragon?”

“It’s still near Southeast Asia!”

“Then who in the world…?”

Mason remained silent.

At that moment, another video was delivered.

“…!”

Something falling from beyond the sky, from space, piercing the surface of the water.

However, its appearance was incredibly strange.

The high pressure and high heat phenomena characteristic of objects breaking through the atmosphere were not visible.

It was as if something that transcended the laws of physics was piercing everything at a speed exceeding the speed of sound.

Amidst the confused people, Mason clenched his teeth so hard that a grinding sound could be heard.

“…No doubt.”

If there was anyone who had the answer when everyone else was questioning, it was Mason.

“Do you know what that attack is?”

“No. It’s not an attack.”

As people’s eyes turned to Mason, he swallowed hard and said.

“That’s… a landing…”

“Huh?”

“It’s a landing using a gravity well. That’s… that’s definitely…”

Mason said with a look of disbelief.

“It’s , the mass-produced mechanical weapon from our time…”

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The 28th century was the era of fading gods.

People’s motivation withered away, unable to surpass almighty science, and even though the concept of lifespan didn’t exist, they often entered eternal hibernation, unable to overcome boredom.

No matter how grand the ambitions they harbored, almighty science would fulfill them in an instant.

Unable to create anything useful, people created many useless things.

They created planets of weapons to destroy, and mechanical legions to fight nonexistent enemies.

They didn’t create things out of necessity. Objects whose sole purpose was creation itself. They were like toys.

And along with other useless toys, the invincible army was stuffed into a warehouse and forgotten.

Until Specter, the nemesis of mechanical devices, appeared.

It was ironic.

The invincible army, abandoned because it was useless, was neutralized as soon as the enemy appeared.

Because of this, when the monsters invaded, the gods had to fight barehanded, having abandoned their weapons.

If even a single Knight, a single Soldier, could have moved, the tide of the war would have changed.

Mason fought lamenting, and was defeated in frustration.

And now. Transcending time and space, Mason was facing it.

“Why did Soldier appear?”

The scene of the giant monster, which they said they could never defeat, being easily slaughtered.

The scene he had so desperately wanted to see in the 28th century was unfolding before his eyes.

“To fight whom?!”

Along with fear and dread.