LIGHTNOVELSTORY chapter 16
Chapter 16-Cataclysm (1)
Episode 16 – Cataclysm (1)
“A problem? What is the problem?”
[My computing power has reached its limit.]
I’m still confused, but Box D said in a voice that the world is sad. I didn’t understand the phrase lack of instantaneous computing power.
“Are you saying that performance is lacking? It can be linked with a computer or tablet…”
[The performance of the machine no longer affects my computing power. Currently, the hive itself is responsible for my computing power, and as the hive grows in size, of course, my computing power also increases. However, the current surge in demand is on the verge of surpassing Hive’s computing power.]
“I guess it’s some kind of overload.”
After hearing the additional explanation, I understood what Box D said. Currently, BoxD is using a hive, or nest, made up of nanos that act as a neural body as if it were his own brain.
But Box D controls everything himself. From a small worker to a combat soldier, as well as a production site and a fire extinguisher that produce troops.
Box D’s calculation is required to move a soldier’s body. As the size of the entire Demon King’s army increased, it was obvious that the amount of computation required would increase rapidly.
“What solution did you think of yourself?”
[In the past, as the production and digestive tracts were separated from the hive for efficiency, this time, it seems that the central nervous system should be separated from the hive, which exists only for calculation.]
When I asked if he had thought about it himself, Box D gave an answer based on his past experiences.
“It sounds like you’re going to make a brain.”
[That’s right. We will create a brain with the best efficiency by combining the acquired data as much as possible.]
It was the sound of making a brain soon. It wasn’t a particularly odd decision. It means that a nervous system more developed than the hive will be created based on the data of living things, such as a digestive tract that digests anything and a production facility that borrows mushrooms and animal breeding methods.
[I wonder if there is a more efficient way.]
“The fundamental solution is to increase the computing power itself. In other words, it would be right to make a brain. But go a little more efficiently… While making that brain, can’t we make a few more?”
BoxD seems to want to hear as much advice as possible, so I provided the idea that popped into my head.
The idea I put forward was to create a sort of auxiliary brain, specifically one that could help lead soldiers out in the field.
“It also shares the role of the brain. Then the burden will be less. The brain in the field is only responsible for commanding troops.”
[This is a possibility to consider.]
BoxD doesn’t say it’s impossible. don’t even refuse If the result came out good just by calculating and predicting it, I learned and imitated it regardless of the method.
[We will plant brains in some of our existing troops and use them as field command objects.]
“great.”
I just believe Box D works hard and fights in an unknown, invisible place.
Originally, I was just enjoying it as a fun pastime. But the world was suddenly changing.
―Breaking news, cracks appear in Gyeonggi-do… 8th in the world.
I bit my lip at the breaking news.
A variable that suddenly occurred one day is now spreading all over the world. Besides, it wasn’t even a simple variable. It was a variable that spits out terrible monsters that harm people.
The shapes of those monsters are so bizarre that they can’t be outdone even compared to the magic beasts from the demon realm sent by Box D.
Suddenly, the shocked expressions of the goblins in the photos sent by Box D flashed into my eyes. They were so surprised to see Box D’s Demon King’s army, which they had never seen before.
On those goblins, I projected myself and other earthlings.
Those who are shocked and helpless by strange enemies who suddenly appear at completely unexpected times. Can I really say it’s different?
‘······Then who is the Box D of this world?’
My brow furrowed as I stared blankly out the window.
***
“Have you lost contact with the tribes in the northern forest?”
“Keureuk, that’s right, all chiefs. Even on the hunt, I couldn’t come across them. No light, no visible.”
“I can’t do that.”
The goblin chief who led the village frowned at the warrior’s report. Because it was unexpected news.
‘They ignore us because they don’t want to answer the call… No, it can’t be. Solidarity between us is essential for trade.’
He frowned and ran his fingers through his shiny hair. Originally, the ‘Greenskins’ of the area, including tribes that had lost contact with each other, were forming a kind of solidarity.
This regiment is a coalition of various goblin tribes with the same green skin, and it is a force that has an important relationship with Andras, the goblin king who became the ruler of the entire goblin species as well as the area.
Before they were inferior, they couldn’t unite properly and were just used as consumables for the upper demons, but now it was different.
“Without them, we can no longer find herbs in the northern forest. And they can’t get outside supplies without us. No steel, no seeds! He could never betray us…”
“Kiyi! Chief Raku! big deal!”
It was then that more urgent news came to him who was in doubt. He hears the story from a lion from another tribe who hastily arrived riding a wolf, and widens his eyes in disbelief.
“What do you mean? Do you think the northern forest tribes have been wiped out?!”
“That word is true. what I personally verified. No survivors.”
The lion testified that the northern forest tribes had been wiped out and that there had been a fierce battle with smashed household items remaining, but nothing survived except full bloodstains.
The chieftain, Raku, who was greatly taken aback, blinked in disbelief.
‘It won’t be a lie.’
However, since there was also the testimony of his subordinates, he did not think it was a lie. If so, it really meant that two villages, hundreds of goblins, had evaporated.
“Do you know who did that?!”
“I don’t know, but our chief said there was a big war after seeing the traces.”
“War?”
Raku’s face became more confused.
There was no force in this area that could wage war against them. In the past, it was the goblins who fought to the death with the group of monsters, but now the monsters are no longer at the level to wage war against them.
At that moment, images of several tribes flashed through Raku’s head.
‘There is no reason to do such a thing.’
However, I couldn’t find any reason for other tribes to fight the same goblins.
‘Other forces? or not······.’
Raku’s head, which turned faster than the other goblins nearby, spun so fast that it throbbed.
In the process, the arrow of suspicion returned to the territory of another neighboring lord or to the lord himself, the goblin king.
“Kihit, contact the other chieftains?”
“Call me. I must know the truth.”
“King, can you contact me too?”
“…no, don’t tell them.”
While Chief Raku ordered his subordinates to inform the surrounding tribes of this fact, he did not hesitate to contact the Goblin King.
Raku was wary of the Goblin King. He was a hero who led his men to kill the demon king and freed the other goblins, but that was all.
Even now, they look down on them and treat them as workers who can be called at any time. That’s why I didn’t want to let them intervene in this area for any reason.
‘I have no choice but to solve it quickly so that rumors don’t circulate.’
So Raku summoned the surrounding tribes. It was an idea to find out and deal with the problem on their own line before it gets bigger.
[The movements of the goblins are changing little by little.]
However, no one noticed that someone was watching them.
The Demon King, who operated scouts without a break, was already in the process of thoroughly analyzing their movements after realizing their connection with the goblin villages.
“A union between the goblins?”
[According to our analysis, they seem to form a kind of community of tribes. Tribes interact with each other to trade goods and resources, and the resources collected in this way flow to other regions. The estimated size alone is over 10,000. It has even been confirmed that it continues to proliferate recently.]
The Demon King reported what he found out. It was a fairly accurate analysis, although it was judged based on only the movements observed so far.
[Their movements are changing recently. Apparently, the two villages we wiped out were also part of them, and they seem to have noticed that they were wiped out.]
“If they band together and start searching, it will be easy to find out who you are. Wouldn’t it be better to attack first and reduce it as much as possible?”
[There are plenty of possibilities.]
He suggested to the demon king how to move first. Rather than waiting for the goblin tribes to sense an emergency and unite as one to form a huge force, the goal was to attack first and drain their strength as much as possible before uniting.
“How many troops can be operated as much as possible right now?”
[Three thousand by simple calculation. Among them, there are 1,000 combat soldiers, and if you enter an all-out war, you can concentrate and produce three times the number of troops.]
“… Judging from the results so far, I think 1,000 would be enough.”
Looking at the pictures of the area seen through the eyes of a flying scout sent by the demon king, he pointed to villages far away to the northwest and southeast.
“How about simultaneous strikes? we know about them But they don’t know about us. They will be confused, and the more confused they are, the better for us.”
[you’re right.]
The Demon King heard his plan and went into calculations as always. Using the data you have, calculate the probability of success and check the variables.
[It seems possible.]
And the calculation is over in no time. Even in the territory of the Goblins, which leaned toward the barren north of Pandemonium, it was the moment when a war was planned against the tribal alliance of greenskins gathered in the north.
[I will share the troops. The size of the enemy, the solidarity with the nearby tribe, and the optimal configuration to confuse us by hiding our identity as much as possible.]
The Demon King awakened the troops that had been waiting in a dormant state. The steady, ever-growing Demon King’s army was exceeding a thousand combat units produced for pure combat.
Besides, except for the special goblins, each and every one of these Demon Lords is a strong creature that cannot be compared to the normal goblins. It takes five or six steel-armed goblins to catch a large monster-type demon lord, so if they don’t unite, the demon lord actually has a numerical advantage.
[Currently, the people we want to attack are not ‘real’. The traitor’s forces, who betrayed the demon king and obtained the evil power, are now crowned kings and form a huge force in the center of the territory.]
“Then you have to become stronger. Fighting more, eating more.”
This whole process was just a gateway to the demon king. The food that those goblins will eventually eat to fulfill their beliefs and missions.
Based on that nourishment, the demon army evolves and grows.
However, that evolution and growth will not take long.