Rust - Chapter 1063



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Rust [RUST] – Episode 1063

The closest stronghold of the forces that had infiltrated Indonesia was in Australia.

Maru set out with two Black Drake-class airships, a crow bomber squad, a rat army, an ant engineer squad, and a nurse and Naruz.

[What about the pre- and post-processing?]

“Just release the prisoners.”

In fact, over 7,000 power users fell victim to death and the Nuclipse. There were survivors, but they were not taken prisoner and were released.

[Isn’t it a waste to just let them go? The seriously injured ones will die anyway if we send them back. How about treating them and using them for ourselves?]

“Do that.”

I don’t know how to spell it, but Maru let Najuyeon do whatever she wanted. It was enough to show mercy to the enemy once.

[It’s such a shame.]

PD was saddened by the fact that 7,000 people were almost annihilated. If they had been captured, there was a way to pressure the new Malaysian government to officially recognize the Holy Church.

The captured ability users had first-hand experience with Maru’s abilities, so there was a good chance of them being educated. However, it was too bad that they were all annihilated, PD.

[You could have been a great worker.]

There must have been people with abilities that we have never heard of. Ki-sun agreed with PD’s words.

[You said you were going to organize it properly, so why did you suddenly do that?]

At first, he said he wouldn’t use death. He thought that if he caught it with a sword, it would surrender on its own, and he was going to go along well, but he had a change of heart and pushed it all into the garden of death.

“They were all obsessed with revenge.”

[revenge?]

“Yes. The revenge for being hit by Miss Kim and the rat pack. Hatred and murderous intent toward the Holy Kingdom.”

Beginning with the Blind Swordsman and the Lame Spearman, all those who had not awakened their regenerative powers were either blind or crippled.

Among all those with abilities, there was no one with healing abilities.

I want to get better. Perhaps the desire for revenge was greater than the desire to fix my leg, but with the exception of those with regenerative abilities, all of them awakened abilities specialized in attack.

If there had been someone with healing powers among the 7,000 or so Awakened Ones, and if they had restored their eyesight and legs, they wouldn’t have been so consumed by revenge. But that didn’t happen.

Ki-soon’s eyes narrowed at Maru’s answer.

[It’s strange even if you call it revenge.]

In the face of overwhelming fear, there would be no desire for revenge. The fact that Maru did not use the Garden of Death from the beginning and instead used a sword to cut through everything was in some way to instill fear and reduce casualties.

I thought, wouldn’t they surrender if they showed overwhelming force even without using the Garden of Death? Above all, because the electronic devices around them would be disabled the moment Death was used, it was impossible to properly film the battle situation.

There was a lot to examine in this engagement, including how the divine power that was strengthened through faith, and how the curses and hatred that were received worked.

So, the conclusion I reached was that divinity increased overall physical abilities, focusing on destructive power, while curses and hatred, on the contrary, seemed to weaken physical abilities.

There was no major problem because faith and divinity, curses and hatred canceled out each other, and faith and divinity toward Maru were far greater than curses and hatred, but there was one thing that was bothersome.

Should I call it a decrease in accuracy? When you try to cut someone down, you miss slightly, or on the contrary, when you try not to kill them, the aftereffects occur and you end up killing them.

Should I say my hands slipped? Or should I say I was unlucky? It happened. It never happened before.

[Is it because of curses and hatred?]

“I don’t know if it’s just my mood… but maybe.”

[I am not sure. Don’t take it to heart. Curses and hatred cannot be greater than the faith and divinity of our king.]

Even if the curses and hatred were great, there were many ways to overturn them.

[If there is a difference, it is a matter of changing the method of missionary work of the Holy Church.]

Up until now, the PD, existing believers, and newly joined Japanese refugees have been preaching peacefully, but when curses and hatred are used as physical force, there is no choice but to act.

It is a well-established fact that holding a holy scripture in one hand and a holy hammer in the other is a historically proven and good method of evangelism.

[There is also a way to select artificial intelligence.]

There was also a way to select an AI of a high enough level to have faith. The same goes for the rat pack, where the rats voluntarily go on a mission to the local rats nearby, and Maru directly demonstrates his power.

[Or, you can just sweep it all away without any hatred or cursing.]

If that was difficult, all that could be done was to erase the enemies who sent curses and hatred. Everyone seemed to agree with Kim Yang’s words.

In the worst case scenario, all that could have been done was to wipe out all the curses and hatred. The Holy Kingdom had more than enough firepower to do that.

[Curse? Hatred? There were no proper bitches among those who only talked like that.]

If someone was truly cursed and hated, all they had to do was get their hands dirty. That was what Kim Yang thought.

At a time when you would be praying or begging someone to kill you, at a time when you would be cursing and hating, it would have been right to take up arms and go.

You don’t have the strength? So you can’t get revenge? You have a gun? If you don’t have a gun, you have a knife, a car, gasoline, and dill. If you put your mind to it, you can do it, right?

That’s what revenge was like.

On the contrary, you don’t deserve revenge, but you curse and hate others for their revenge. You do that because your own life is more precious than revenge.

A representative case was a child who survived a house attacked by cannibals in the early stages of the apocalypse.

After seeing his parents and older brother being eaten, he was consumed by a desire for revenge, but what he did was to lure others and throw them to the cannibals.

Some say that he wanted the man to kill the cannibal for him, but in reality, he ended up delivering a lunch box to the cannibal.

The very thought of using others for revenge is a corrupt state of mind. That’s what Ms. Kim did.

[Curses. Hatred. It is right to sweep away the sources of those things.]

If you try, I’ll pounce on you. Or else you’ll get killed.

[Ha- It’s not like killing them all will work. If there’s no other way, then there’s nothing we can do, but accumulating resentment isn’t a good thing in a situation like now where the laws are being distorted.]

[What the hell are you talking about? How many people have died so far? If there was any trouble caused by resentment, it would have happened a long time ago. It didn’t happen.]

Kim Yang laughed at Ki-sun’s words.

Was the Communist Party cursed because they had a mysterious body? Was the leader with a bulging belly hated and killed? No. Was the cannibal group that devoured an entire village in the end times struck by lightning? What about the mutant monsters?

Instead of complaining about that, it would be better to take care of your guns, and if you lack firepower, get a bigger gun.

[It is dangerous to think that something that has never existed before will never exist again. Who knew that faith could become divine and have physical power? Animals turning into mutated monsters, plants forming colonies? The more negative and dangerous something is, the more cautious you should be.]

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It wasn’t exactly a wrong thing to say, but Kim Yang turned her head away because she felt like she was being cowardly.

“The source of hatred and curses must be Southeast Asia.”

[I looked it up anyway.]

First place went to Indonesia. Second and third places went to Singapore and Malaysia.

“Even if Indonesia is like that, why Singapore and Malaysia?”

Indonesia, where hundreds of thousands of soldiers died. The carnivorous plant that destroyed the new government was Maru, but the traces left at the site where the new government disappeared were traces of Maru, so the Indonesians hated Maru.

[Because they thought it was ruined because of us.]

This was because all of Indonesia’s plans to advance inland had failed and it was thought that all the current chaos was due to Maru.

Even though I allowed them to migrate to Kalimantan, even though I saved them from Malaysia’s revenge war, even though I prevented the killings and looting that would occur during the anarchy, all I got in return was hatred and curses.

“Okay. It doesn’t matter.”

It wasn’t that they were saved to receive their faith, but rather to help reduce the impact of 200 million deaths.

If you think about it, it was for the sake of the Holy Kingdom and the future that he saved them, not because he pitied the Indonesians.

Ki-sun nodded inwardly at Maru’s answer.

Maru was originally like this. He was the kind of guy who could have made a big deal out of it, but he just let it slide.

[Anyway, Malaysia has also stopped its invasion of Borneo, and the Southeast Asian war that started from the Vietnam Civil War has also stopped, so we should also find some practical benefits.]

[Yes, at least we need to make sure that the roots of our faith take root properly.]

Maru told Ki-sun and PD to do that.

“I hope you guys figure that out yourself.”

[Okay. First of all, since most of the Indonesian population has moved to Kalimantan, I will try to gather faith while supporting them there.]

[I will check with other countries as I establish base churches with the missionary group.]

“Okay, then.”

While we were talking about this and that, we arrived in Australia. The auxiliary AI of the private airship informed us that we were approaching the power base.

[10 minutes later, we arrive at the base.]

“Get everyone ready. Stop two minutes away. Let’s do some reconnaissance first.”

[Delivered.]

[Reconnaissance drone ready. Crow scout squad ready.]

“The reconnaissance range is as wide as possible. If you discover any abnormal phenomena or unusual life forms, conduct a detailed reconnaissance.”

[Orders have been given. Should we prepare for battle in case of an emergency?]

The assistant AI, which has experienced several dangerous situations, suggested preparing for battle.

“Do that.”

[All right.]

Starting with the preparation to increase shield output, the Black Drake-class ship had an auxiliary AI that could fire its main railgun at any time.

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There are 14 confirmed locations where forces have attempted to steal Indonesia’s carnivorous plants and sinkhole monsters, six of which are in Australia, and none of them are on good terms with each other.

Four of them were complete enemies who would kill each other, and the other two were not the ones to even draw their guns.

[Drone reconnaissance is over. The crow reconnaissance team departs for precision reconnaissance.]

Previously, it was known that most of the people living in Australia had abandoned Australia and gone to England and New Zealand, as confirmed by stratospheric airships.

Darwin and Palmerston, cities in northern Australia, were also empty. Unlike the US, the cities were largely made up of residential areas, and there was no sign of life.

‘Considering the size of the city, the population density seems extremely low.’

In fact, Darwin City had a population of around 150,000 to 160,000. This population also increased due to the influx of international students and foreign workers.

‘It looks like the countryside has been spread out widely.’

When I think of Australia, all I know is that I traveled to Sydney before Marune’s house collapsed. I had no idea about places like Darwin in the north.

[Charles Darwin University is the only university in the Northern Territory. It has a zoological and botanical research center and was home to at least 2,000 international students before the apocalypse.]

The assistant AI gave a brief introduction about the city of Darwin. It is geographically close to Indonesia and has a subtropical climate with a rainy season.

In fact, it was a neighborhood that was developing with the help of foreign exchange students and the human resources secured through this. And there were two groups of forces there: one centered around foreign exchange students and workers, and one formed by Australians.

“Foreigners have created a power? In Australia?”

[Among the international students, there were some who had connections with the upper class in Southeast Asia. It seems that they brought in weapons from that area and took control of Darwin.]

“It’s strange. There are so many conflicts between Southeast Asian countries, so it’s unlikely that the upper classes would form a good alliance…”

Maru remembered what he had said to Ki-sun about the unity of people from Southeast Asia in Australia.

‘No.’

Maru shook his head.

“Don’t the upper class prefer the big cities of Australia? Places like Sydney or Melbourne?”

[Yes, that’s right. From what we’ve been able to confirm through hacking, it seems that some upper-class Southeast Asians who were looking for a quick way to get into Australia right before the apocalypse have settled in as a way to get into Darwin University.]

As waiting times to enter major cities such as Sydney and Melbourne became longer, the story was that people first entered Darwin, which was relatively less popular and had shorter waiting times.

As the apocalypse unfolded and cannibals ran rampant, borders closed. The Southeast Asian upper class trapped in Darwin banded together in disarray and used their connections to smuggle weapons.

While Australians, unable to withstand the rampage of mutant monsters, fled to Britain, Europe and New Zealand, heavily armed students with smuggled weapons successfully took over Darwin and established their power.

“I guess we also know the information that each country in Southeast Asia knows.”

[yes.]

Are you saying that you were targeting Indonesian carnivorous plants and sinkhole monsters knowingly?

‘No. That’s why you were aiming for it.’

Whether it’s a carnivore or a sinkhole monster, if you can secure them, each family will have a stronger voice and they can be used to defend their stronghold.

I came here with the intention of capturing and killing the force that sent the special forces, but the first force I encountered was a force started by a rich foreign student club.

But that wasn’t something to be laughed at or forgiven. If you think about it, wasn’t the Holy Kingdom also a force that started with himself, Kim Yang, and Gi-sun at the center?

Above all, they warned that they would kill anyone who tried to steal the carnivorous plants and sinkhole monsters. They must have known this while exchanging information with other countries, so they should be held responsible for their actions.

“Start precise reconnaissance centered around their stronghold. Attack once confirmed.”

[The Crow Scouts are taking off.]

[Naruz ready to descend.]

[Ready to drop the rat army.]

[Ant army ready to descend.]

[All units ready to attack.]

[The Crow Scout Team’s close-range reconnaissance was successful.]

[Confirmed engagement near base.]

[Humans are fighting against humans.]