Rust - Chapter 921



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RUST [RUST]-921

Every phenomenon has a reason.

If there is an action, there is a reaction, and if there is a cause, there is a result. What reason could there be for the result of death?

The South Korean government’s thinking changed after the hypothesis emerged that the power associated with death mixed with faith and belief to create the Garden of Death.

Outwardly, it was the same as before. No one asked why he had killed the cult leader. Naturally, no one asked him to participate in the southern operation.

Ki-soon had a gut feeling that something was seriously wrong. It was hard to predict that the Korean government would experiment with the evolution and strengthening of faith and ability so quickly.

It was only after several events and months that the evolution and strengthening of faith and abilities were immediately noticed in the Holy Kingdom. And yet, in just a few days, Korea even began conducting verification experiments.

‘Did Korea have this much practical power?’

Didn’t you usually split up and fight to do something? When developing fighter jets, Korea was the one that said that developing a Korean fighter jet wouldn’t be profitable, so they gave up on development and just imported it.

Even though we succeeded in development, there was a place called Korea that said that since it was not profitable, we should reduce the production volume and import it.

‘But what made you push ahead with the verification experiment in just a few days?’

If it was a verification experiment, it would definitely be a live experiment, right? And they just pushed it through and succeeded? Ki-sun wondered if Korea had changed without him even realizing it. Maru answered Ki-sun’s muttering.

“It has no choice but to change.”

Maru was also calm when he heard that the Korean government’s attitude had changed after realizing his faith.

“Because the cannibal government wiped them out once, and we wiped out the authors who became cannibals again.”

Since it was physically overthrown twice, the only people left were those who had originally been distant from politics or power.

Among them, those who were elected through elections formed the government and parliament, people who broke away from the existing dynamics.

“Still, like this… Ha- I guess that could be possible.”

Even if you look at the floor right now, it has changed drastically. People who used to work in slaughterhouses have changed, and in a situation where the safety of the country is at stake, the leadership has changed. It was possible for the new leadership to make some kind of drastic choice.

The problem was that the Korean government judged population and religion as resources. If the new government was already sensitive to population outflow, what if it realized that people’s beliefs were being replaced by faith and that this had power?

‘Maru will try to avoid becoming an object of faith or sending faith.’

“The special broadcast. Check if it’s still going on.”

The Korean government seems to think it is natural for Maru to help with the southern operation. They made it known that Maru is the king of the Holy Kingdom and that even though he changed his name(?) to Vladimir Kalin, his roots are Korean, ‘Hamaru’.

The illegal refugee crisis in China. They aired a special on how they dealt with the armed refugee crisis, and also reported in detail how they prevented a monster terrorist attack planned by the Japanese illegal armed group New Japan Reconstruction Association.

[All special broadcasts have been converted to replacement broadcasts.]

The same was true for terrestrial broadcasting, and content related to Maru was disappearing from social media, including cable channels and NewTube, and portal sites.

“Ha- Right-”

When I tried to gain faith, I became tired and lost faith.

“Let’s think positively.”

“Good? How is the current situation?”

Ki-soon felt a little empty at Maru’s words to think positively. Is this a good situation right now?

Srrrrrrrr-

Maru pulled out Newclips.

Maru, who is expressing with his whole body the words, ‘I am a sword’, ‘I am just a sword that cannot hear or see anything’, ‘I am just a sword’, flicking the blade of Newclips with his fingers.

Tieeeeeeee-

It wasn’t a refreshing sound. It was a sound like a heavy metal lump vibrating. Woo-woong- Maru, who had been listening to the sound as if asking why he was hitting me, opened his mouth.

“It would be great if faith were a source of strength. But how long would the faith that was created last?”

A given liberation. A packaged grace. A faith that watches and a god that becomes a tool.

If the reason you believe in God is to live in an expensive apartment, drive an expensive imported car, and eat tender sirloin with French wine, is that a religion?

A faith that prays to survive and cries out to God to win. No matter how nicely packaged, it is a story of believing in God as a tool for survival.

And tools are simply discarded when stronger and sharper tools are created. It is not strange that beliefs are abandoned and changed.

Because that’s what most people did. It wasn’t that such an attitude toward life was right or wrong. In that situation, as Ki-sun said, what was the point of looking for Maru at the end of death?

“Even if I say it myself.”

What Maru was good at was writing.

It was about figuring out the knot and killing it easily and dismantling it well. And it was about sensing something bad. That’s why it was like that.

“It was awkward to be worshipped as a god.”

Becoming someone’s god meant becoming someone who could grant someone’s wishes. But the reason I decided not to reject gaining faith was…

“If you gain faith and become stronger, you will have a greater chance of surviving safely. I just decided not to reject it.”

If faith or belief or anything else can be a source of strength, then with that strength, you can protect those who believed in you. I thought that protecting your homeland would become a virtuous cycle in which you can become a source of strength for survival and safety.

“So, I don’t think we need to respond to whatever choice the Korean government makes now.”

Whatever they do, they do it with faith and belief. Because it was their choice.

“And I will personally check out the divine powers that emerged in Southeast Asia.”

The end times. To gain strong faith means, in other words, either brainwashing believers like cultists or gaining trust.

If you are the one who brainwashes people, wouldn’t it be a negative thing to kill someone who has gained people’s trust and grown to the point of faith?

It was a time when curses gained power just as faith gained strength. That was why Maru thought that killing indiscriminately could be a double-edged sword at any time.

Although he had a lot to say, Ki-sun decided to follow Maru’s opinion.

“I get it.”

It’s not that Kisun didn’t think about the part Maru talked about.

“For now, we will just monitor the situation on the Korean side.”

The reason why we decided to organize those who had gained faith and prevent faith from being accumulated haphazardly was because this was the end times.

“I think it would be good for Taiwan to have at least one airport and a port, so let’s negotiate up to that point and then we can leave. Is that okay?”

“okay.”

Ki-sun immediately began negotiations with the Korean government. The talks ended smoothly. The Korean government was also burdened by the Shinsung Kingdom and Maru.

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The Korean government and parliament were suspicious of the Holy Kingdom’s attitude.

“I expected it to be quiet until the southern operation started, but it was unexpected.”

“Yes, I thought you were waiting until our forces were hit, but this is unexpected.”

The Korean government, having confirmed the power of faith and belief, believed that the King of the Holy Kingdom would follow the southern operation.

“Could it be that our predictions were wrong?”

If the Korean army is deployed to the messy Southeast Asian front, casualties will skyrocket. Soldiers who know the abilities of the King of the Holy Kingdom will seek him out.

Their prayers and requests will turn into faith in an instant. If the King of the Holy Kingdom, who has been fed with so much faith, pushes back the front line, the faith of the surviving soldiers will all be monopolized by the Holy Kingdom.

“If faith is easy to obtain, how can one give it up so easily?”

“Perhaps the situation in Southeast Asia is more dangerous than we think.”

“That’s certainly true. The Holy Kingdom is said to be scouting out various parts of the world with stratospheric airships.”

“I think that if our military advances into Southeast Asia, we will eventually have no choice but to ask for help from the Holy Kingdom. If you are being lenient, then I understand.”

“So, you’re saying that you ultimately decided that our military would ask for assistance from the Holy Kingdom?”

“Otherwise, would you just pass up the opportunity to easily secure your faith?”

“We also need to quickly develop capable people.”

“It has been experimentally proven that faith and belief evolve and strengthen abilities. We must create powerful abilities as quickly as possible.”

“Additional research results related to the awakening of abilities are also noteworthy.”

“What is the result?”

“It is said that when you experience a life-threatening situation, the probability of your abilities awakening significantly increases.”

“So that’s how the cannibal regime used its military.”

The cannibal regime continued to send only soldiers with combat experience to the dangerous front lines. The newly conscripted reserve forces were put to work in farming, construction, and maintaining public order.

Now that it has been revealed that the threat of death can help awaken abilities, there is no reason to postpone the southern operation.

“In the Philippines, there is a clue of ‘curse’ and ‘blessing.’”

“It will be an opportunity to gain practical experience and to awaken the capabilities of Southeast Asian climate.”

There was also the problem of adapting to the climate unique to Southeast Asia, and if there was someone among the soldiers who had awakened his abilities, there was also the possibility that faith and belief would build around him.

“I am against sending troops to the Philippines right now.”

“It is more advantageous to overcome limitations through science and technology than to develop capable people who are already too late.”

“I agree. It is dangerous to impose faith on those with abilities.”

“Yes, we must overcome the supernatural with science and technology.”

What would happen if a person with the power of faith were to have strange thoughts?

What if the government forces a person with the ability to impose faith and stage a coup? Even if that is not the case, what if there is a conflict among the people with the ability over who will absorb the faith, and an armed struggle breaks out between them to eat the faith?

In the beginning, the government could use the distribution of faith to manage the powerful, but what if the powerful people negotiate among themselves to share the faith and exclude the government?

No matter how you think about it, it seems dangerous to stake the country’s fate on the strengthening of the abilities of the capable. Either way, the only result seemed to be the end of democracy.

Even if we just look at the Holy Kingdom, isn’t it a monarchy?

The idea that a powerful power holder would place his power under the control of a democratically elected government was almost a fantasy, especially in a world as dangerous as today.

“They say the analysis of the Imperial exosuit has been completed.”

“The reverse engineering has been successful and we are ready for mass production and performance improvement.”

It was rewarding to trade while still paying a commission to the Holy Kingdom.

The conference was divided between those who wanted to immediately deploy troops to the Philippines to quickly secure capable personnel and create an army adapted to Southeast Asia and those who wanted to mass-produce exosuits and then advance into Southeast Asia.

“Let’s decide by vote.”

Contrary to the tense debate, the side that advocated immediately deploying the military to gain combat experience and secure capable personnel won a landslide victory.

The purpose was to restore order by ending the civil war, but the goal was to adapt to the terrain and climate of Southeast Asia, secure samples of the ‘curse’ and ‘blessing’, and train those with awakened abilities.

That’s how the decision was made to dispatch Korean troops to the Philippines.

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The low heat of Mindanao, an island in southern Philippines, was sweltering.

The average low temperature in the Philippines in April was 26.2 degrees Celsius and the average high temperature was 33.5 degrees Celsius, but this is an old record. When the Korean military arrived in the Philippines, the low temperature was 12.8 degrees Celsius and the high temperature was close to 37.1 degrees Celsius, showing a crazy daily temperature difference.

“It’s early April and it’s over 37 degrees? That’s difficult. They say the temperature in May last year was over 40 degrees, so it’s almost certain that the temperature in July and August will be over 45 degrees.”

It was an island surrounded by the sea, so anything above 45 degrees was practically a steamer. The company commander who had set up a base on the border with the rebel forces frowned.

“Sir, I have a question.”

“What?”

“If they are Philippine rebels, aren’t they an Islamic force?”

“yes.”

The company that engaged the rebels once achieved a crushing victory.

“But why are there so many Chinese weapons?”

“They say the Philippine government is anti-Chinese.”

Indonesia and China were supporting the Philippine rebels. China had drastically reduced its arms support because of the civil war, but it said that support increased again due to the Taiwanese situation.

“Aren’t the rebels Muslim? And what kind of saints are they?”

“The information must have been distorted.”

The Father, the Son, the Virgin Mary, these were Catholic. The concept of a saint exists in both Islam and Catholicism.

“Is the monkey curse real?”

“If there weren’t any, would you have given the order to secure samples?”

“Ah. Yes.”

“Sir! It’s a curse. That! It’s the monkey paw curse!”

The company commander ran out of the barracks with many curious signalmen. The faces of the soldiers being carried out on stretchers were pale.

“Five? Five people are cursed?”

“Yes. The entire reconnaissance squad got palm prints.”

You say it’s a monkey curse? There were no monkeys nearby.

“Sir! Emergency at the outpost. The guard is cursed.”

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