Chapter 444

“Now! Hyung-nims! Do you see this brilliant marbling? That legendary 1++ rank premium demonic beast meat steak that even chairmen on Earth line up and pull numbers to eat! But here? For a mere 50 points! For 50 points, it's infinite refills!”

The mothership Mary's 1st residential area.

In the middle of a top-grade marble suite with a 5-meter ceiling, former eternal deputy of a small-to-medium enterprise and current official mothership streamer Park Jihoon cheered while lifting a thick piece of meat with his fork.

As the hologram camera drone zoomed in on the meat bursting with meat juice, tens of millions of viewers across the whole world burned up the chat window.

― Wow crazy. Look at the meat juice flowing. I'm digging into a rotten can in an underground air raid shelter right now and the reality check is real…….

― Jihoon hyung! Just one bite! I want to lick the monitor!

― 50 points is the money you earn if you just wake up in the morning and pray praising the Lord for 10 minutes ??

― Mary-nim! When is the 2nd round lottery! Please put me on the ark! I will dedicate my soul!

“Keu-eu! It just melts in my mouth, it melts! Everyone, the Death Lord is truly a god. The god of welfare! To think he created such a paradise in this hellish apocalypse era!”

Park Jihoon gave a thumbs up toward the camera with an exaggerated gesture.

It was the moment he was about to slice his second steak while pickled in dopamine.

Ppiiiiiiik―!

[Warning! Emergency situation occurred!]

[Warning! Emergency situation occurred!]

“……Uh?”

The lighting of the suite, where soft classical music had been flowing, instantly flashed blood-red.

A siren that seemed to tear eardrums rang out across the entire residential area of the 20 million people who boarded the mothership Mary.

― Wh-what?

― A siren all of a sudden? Did something happen to the ark?

― Heol, didn't it get invaded by monsters or something?

The chat window was stained with bewilderment and the scroll went up wildly. Park Jihoon also threw his fork away and shouted toward the empty air with a trembling voice.

“M-Mary-nim?! What is going on! Is the defensive barrier breached?!”

Jiiiiiing―!

The hologram in the empty air distorted, and the figure of the skeleton maid Mary wearing a purple ribbon filled the screen. It was her usual soft voice, but it was tinged with a somewhat cold and mechanical ruthlessness.

[Hello, passengers. I am the main system Mary.]

[Currently, the coordinates where the great Death Lord is engaging in combat have been pinpointed. For firepower support, this ship will execute a direct warp to the combat area shortly.]

“……Pardon? W-warp?!”

Park Jihoon's eyes became as big as ping-pong balls.

[Passengers, please quickly enter safe mode at your current locations. Please secure your bodies firmly in preparation for the impact.]

“W-wait a minute! Combat area? Just who is the Death Lord fighting right now?”

At Park Jihoon's urgent shout, Mary's skeleton jawbone clattered as if she felt good.

Like the AI chatbots trending these days, she was an excellent secretary who always answered the residents' questions with 100% kindness and factual violence.

[That is a good question, passenger Park Jihoon. The enemy the great Master is currently facing is the Dragon Lord Arcaia.]

“The Dragon…… Lord?”

The scale was atrocious just hearing the name.

― Dragon Lord? What is that, you otaku!

― It sounds strong just from the name;; To the point where the ark has to warp and provide support?

― Are you saying Kim Minwoo alone is not enough?

― Just how much of a monster is it ??

Park Jihoon gulped down dry saliva.

“E-excuse me, Mary-nim. What exactly is a Dragon Lord? Is it a guy so dangerous that you specifically have to go provide support?”

Mary replied while displaying a smiling emoticon expression ( ^_^ ) on the hologram.

[I will explain it simply. The Dragon Lord Arcaia is the apostle of an Outer God and a Primordial Dragon who has reigned in this universe for tens of thousands of years.]

[He is a monster who awakened the mystery of compression. He is a disaster itself, having crushed hundreds of planets and condensed them inside his own small physical body.]

[Currently, the Master and the Legion Commanders are engaging in a bloody battle against that cosmic disaster.]

“……Crammed hundreds of planets?”

Park Jihoon's complexion turned pale as a blank sheet of paper.

The chat window also froze for an instant before exploding.

― Crazy lol If it's the mass of hundreds of planets, isn't it a walking black hole?

― Hey we're screwed! The ark is warping in front of a monster like that?

― Jihoon hyung! Run! Jump off the ark!

― It's space, where are you going to jump off lol

“H-hey Mary-nim! What about passenger safety! If you shove us into a fight with a monster worth hundreds of planets, won't we all die?!”

Park Jihoon wailed while pointing his finger in front of the camera. The place he thought was a paradise had instantly turned into a speeding space coffin.

However, Mary's answer was a thorough factual violence based on the contract.

[Oh my, passenger Park Jihoon. Did you forget Article 4, Section 2 of the

you signed upon moving in?]

[This ship accompanies the Lord even to the edge of the universe if that is where he is. The Lord's safety is the top priority, and passenger safety is merely the next supplementary service.]

[In the first place, if the Master is defeated, both Earth and the universe will be destroyed. Is there any meaning in arguing about safety? Quietly joining the firepower support is the most rational choice to increase humanity's survival probability.]

“Ah…….”

[Activating forced safe mode from now on. It is a mandatory measure to prevent the passengers' physical bodies from collapsing from the warp impact and the aftermath of the engagement.]

“Pardon? Physical bodies collapsing? W-wait……!”

Syureureureureuk―!

A deep blue slime-like biological magic gel popped out like a snake from the floor and walls, tightly wrapping Park Jihoon's limbs and torso to the chair.

“Ack! Eup! I can't breathe!”

Park Jihoon, bound to the bed like a mummy.

All 20 million passengers boarding the mothership Mary found themselves tightly bound by forced biological seatbelts, unable to move an inch.

[Direct warp countdown. 3. 2. 1.]

Kugugugugugung―!

The entire mothership shot out piercing through the walls of space and time along with a vibration that felt like it would tear apart.

Park Jihoon squeezed his eyes shut at the motion sickness that flipped his intestines.

How much time had passed.

The vibration stopped, and the suite's hologram window began to project the outside scenery.

“……Uh?”

Park Jihoon turned his head while bound and looked out the window.

A pitch-black space where even starlight was bizarrely distorted.

And the middle of the battlefield captured in real-time by the mothership Mary's external magnifying drone.

The Death Lord's Legion Commanders and dozens of Dragon Tooth Soldiers were facing off against someone in space.

The center of the magnified screen.

A young kid, looking barely ten years old, was seen floating in the empty air with his pure white hair fluttering.

― Eng? That kid is the Dragon Lord?

― I thought he crammed hundreds of planets! Why is a brat coming out?!

― Crazy, space just crumpled because that kid swung his fist once!

Outwardly, an innocent child.

However, the mass value and magic power wavelength of the kid measured by Mary's hologram sensor was a cosmic horror spewing out as if dozens of planets were colliding in real-time.

Every time the kid extended his fist into the empty air, a shockwave like a single star being annihilated roughly battered the mothership Mary's shield.

“C-crazy…… how are you supposed to fight against a monster like that!”

Park Jihoon shouted while trembling.

＊ ＊ ＊

At the same time.

The middle of space.

[Ppibik. Captain. Coordinate pinpointing complete. Executing direct warp.]

Right after the communication was heard in Kim Minwoo's ear, the massive 150km mothership Mary revealed its majesty and blocked Arcaia's front.

At the appearance of the massive lump of iron, Arcaia's gaze was fixed toward Mary.

“……Huh?”

Kim Minwoo immediately sent a thought to the Legion Commanders.

[Cedric, Merhen, Vulcan, Olivia. Exactly 10 seconds. Just draw his attention and tie him down for 10 seconds.]

― 10 seconds? Understood, Lord.

― Yeah, Minwoo!

As soon as the command fell, the four Legion Commanders surged like lightning from all directions toward Arcaia.

Vulcan's hellfire obscured his vision, and Olivia's formless sword tore space and launched a surprise attack.

While Cedric's blood-red spear pressed the front, Merhen cast a grand magic, creating a perfect 10-second delay.

“These things are really acting annoying!”

The moment Arcaia, expressing annoyance, deflected the Legion Commanders' offensive with his fist of compression.

Paaaaat―!

Kim Minwoo's figure disappeared like smoke in space and instantly appeared slipping right above the captain's seat on the mothership Mary's topmost bridge.

Kim Minwoo slumped into the plush leather chair and let out a rough breath.

―Due to recklessly drawing and using the status of a Higher God while wearing the -999 shackle, the bones and muscles in his entire body were screaming. If he had brawled barehanded with that Primordial Dragon for just a little longer, regardless of victory or defeat, his own vessel might have burst first.

‘He definitely is strong.’

He suspected that among the apostles of the Outer God, that Dragon Lord might be the strongest.

“Welcome back, great Captain.”

The center of the bridge. The skeleton maid Mary, floating as a hologram, elegantly offered a greeting while lifting her dress hem. In her empty pupils, a red eye glint burned with loyalty.

“Open all the systems.”

Kim Minwoo extended both hands and slammed them into the control ports of the main console.

Jiiiiiing―!

[Synchronizing the soul wavelength of the supreme decision-maker, Death Lord Kim Minwoo.]

[The main control authority of the mothership Mary has been bound to the Captain.]

“Suck up all my divine status, and pull the firepower to the maximum.”

A chilling command fell from between Kim Minwoo's lips.

At the same time, the death magic power of a Higher God suppressed inside the shell of a mortal and the control spewed by the Maestro of the Underworld poured into the entire mothership through the console.

Kugugugugugung―!

The massive 150km undead mothership pulsated violently like a living beast.

From all over the hull made of the apocalypse's bones, deep blue magic power neural networks burned like blood vessels.

[Replacing the Captain's divine status as the power source!]

[Activating the mothership Mary's special effect! Amplifying the efficiency of the injected faith and magic power by 200%!]

Mary's most fraudulent passive.

A vicious amplification efficiency that inflates the power injected by the master by more than double through the Quantum Core and the Dimensional Predator Beast's bones.

The ruinous death magic power of a Higher God poured in by Kim Minwoo swelled up by 2 times and began to condense wildly into the tens of thousands of quantum beam cannons mounted on the front of the mothership and the super-massive main gun in the center.

Ppibibibibik―!

[Main gun charging rate surpasses 120%!]

[Target Dragon Lord Arcaia lock-on complete!]

Outside in space.

Arcaia, who had been roughly striking away the Legion Commanders, turned his head. What entered the boy's eyes was the sight of purple death energy, thousands of times more massive than the sun, aiming directly at him from the front of a 150km lump of iron.

Ppuaaaaaaaang―!

In the vacuum of space, a flash of ruin that seemed to tear apart not eardrums but the soul itself burst forth.

The massive purple beam spewed by the 150km mothership Mary shot out in a straight line, completely bleaching the pitch-black space of the universe white.

Kwaaaaaaang―!

A blinding cluster of light that shook the universe exploded and perfectly swallowed Arcaia's physical body.