He Became The Most Insane Emperor Of All Time [EN]: Chapter 118

I had always assumed that the world I was reincarnated into was a medieval fantasy world.

“I guess not.”

But seeing the state of ‘Bogo’ now completely changed my mind.

Sizzling, hissing—
The sounds of steam leaking from pistons, the sight of gears meshing with a creak.

Inside Bogo was a world of pure steampunk.

“What… what is all this? I’ve never seen anything like it…”

“Machines.”

“Machines? Like watermills or windmills, or something?”

I chuckled wryly at Jack, who, despite being astonished by the sight at the entrance of Bogo, could only come up with medieval examples of machines.

His reaction was not unique. What would happen if these machines were revealed to the outside world?

It might cause chaos. But on the other hand, I didn’t think it would be easy to introduce these machines on a large scale.

‘Without a mass production infrastructure, the amount available inside Bogo would only meet the demand of one city at most.’

Without infrastructure like railroads, trains, factories, capital, and workers, even with these advanced technologies in front of me, a dramatic change was impossible.

It might be possible to slowly change things, starting with the capital, but to change the entire empire, it would probably take about 100 years.

-Beep, the defense system inside Bogo has been neutralized or contaminated. Beware of intruder attacks.

“Squeak, squeak! Attack!”

“Everyone, prepare for defense!”

Before we could even finish marveling, ratmen began to appear through the massive iron gate.

Bang! Bang, bang!

“Charge, Legion!”

“Mercenaries, take cover and provide covering fire!”

As the ratmen began firing, the Legion and mercenaries began to respond.

[Mana Heart Amplification]

[High-Speed Movement Deployment]

[Neural Acceleration Deployment]

[Sharp Weakness Detection Deployment]

I, too, kicked my battle readiness into high gear and rushed toward them at high speed.

“Squeak, squeak! Die!”

Bang!

Poof!

A ratman shooter aimed at me and fired a crudely made, magic-triggered musket, but I had already hidden behind another ratman.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! Whoosh!

Poof!

“Squeak!”

As soon as the bullet pierced the back of the hapless ratman’s head, shadow blades flew out and pierced the shooters.

“I’ll give you a big one!”

Zzzzzz— KABOOM!

I swung the Holy Sword imbued with explosive aura, scattering its energy.

The energy exploded, massacring the ratmen, but this one was specially crafted.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

As the aura exploded, it contained sharp, blade-like auras.

Like fragmentation grenades, they scattered in all directions, causing a chain of slaughter.

“Squeak! That guy is massacring us!”

“Kkeuaaak!”

“Squeak, squeak! Keep attacking!”

KABOOM!

I continued to scatter explosive blade auras.

But the ratmen, true to their nature as prolific breeders, kept swarming in.

Most of them were armed with shields and swords made of crude lumps of metal, but that alone gave the shooters a chance to fire.

Bang! Ting!

“Keep attacking, Legion! For the Empire!”

“For His Majesty the Emperor!”

Kuuuuuung!

Of course, the Legionnaires fighting alongside me at the front fearlessly continued their relentless slaughter, unfazed by the bullets.

“Prioritize sniping the shooters. Don’t lose to the rat bastards!”

Bang, bang, bang!

The mercenaries, quickly getting used to the captured firearms, began to snipe only the shooters.

“Squeak, squeak! There’s no hope! Run away!”

As a result, the ratmen, unable to generate firepower, began to retreat.

Of course, they suffered heavy losses even while retreating, but the ratmen, with their passive disregard for life, didn’t seem to care in the slightest.

“So, we’ve secured the entrance? But what’s the situation inside?”

I asked Kishil, who was floating around, and Kishil beeped and said.

-Beep! Current scan results indicate that many systems have been contaminated by ratmen. Reclaiming each system will help in the battle.

Zwoong—

Kishil briefed us, displaying a hologram with a map of the interior.

The locations of the systems to be reclaimed were marked.

“That means there are many bases to reclaim. A swift resolution seems to be the answer.”

The Captain of the Guard looked at the hologram and offered the optimal strategy. I nodded in agreement.

“That seems to be the case. But that alone is not enough. It would be better to strike simultaneously.”

“In that case, we must divide our forces.”

“Team 1 will consist of half the Legion and the mercenaries, Team 2 will consist of the other half of the Legion, and Team 3 will be just me.”

That meant attacking three system bases at once.

Since I would be attacking one of them alone, the Captain of the Guard would normally object for safety reasons.

But now, as a Legionnaire, he was connected to me with the Imperial Spirit [a magical bond enhancing loyalty and understanding], so he understood my strength better than before.

“I understand, Your Majesty.”

Therefore, he immediately accepted the plan.

“Is that the plan? If it’s Lord Shadow’s plan, I can trust it.”

Even the mercenaries who didn’t know I was the Emperor didn’t question Shadow’s reputation.

“Then let’s get started.”

* * *

Prospera’s Bogo had various systems.

Among them was a warehouse storing various relic weapons, which the ratmen had hacked into using the magic of their shamans to loot the relics.

“Squeak, squeak, squeak! How do you operate this?”

“Don’t you know that? You press this suspicious button—”

Wiiiiiiing! Chwaaaaaaaak!

“Kkeuaaaaaaaak!”

“…Squeak, I don’t think it’s my fault.”

Of course, even if the ratmen obtained such relics, they didn’t immediately know how to use them.

As now, they often learned through brutal methods, such as someone dying as an automatic saw blade moved on its own.

Of course, such things were trivial to the ratmen.

“Squeak, squeak! You guys! Stop playing around and hurry up and move it!”

“Squeak! Shaman, you’re nagging too much. Let’s rest a bit—”

Whack!

“…Squeak?”

A silver Holy Sword was embedded in the head of the ratman who was grumbling at the shaman’s nagging.

The ratmen there were momentarily shocked by the Holy Sword that had suddenly flown in from somewhere.

“Squeak, squeak! It’s an enemy! An enemy—”

Pachichichichichichichichik!

“Keueeeeeeeek!”

They immediately shouted about the enemy attack, but intense electricity spread from the Holy Sword, electrocuting all the ratmen around it.

The electricity was so intense that few ratmen survived around it.

“Kehek, th-there’s an enemy! Squeak! An enemy—”

“Yeah, yeah. I’m here.”

“Squeak?”

Thud!

In the meantime, I ran over there and kicked one of the ratmen who was trembling as he stood up, killing him.

“I secured this place more easily than I thought.”

-Beep, system recovery will begin.

As soon as I dealt with all the enemies around the terminal, Kishil immediately contacted the terminal and began doing something.

-Kuwoooo! Squeak! I’ll kill you!

Thump! Kuwoong!

“Oh, great, buffed-up rats?”

In the meantime, the ratmen began to counterattack, and in front of them were dozens of rat ogres, muscular rats as tall as humans.

“Let’s see, should I try using this?”

Click.

I picked up the automatic saw blade sword that had been discarded on the ground.

It might not be as powerful as the silver Holy Sword, but as a machine with an automatically rotating blade like an electric saw, it should be worth exploring this over-technology.

“Then, let’s start with you!”

Swat!

“Keureuk?!”

No sooner had I finished speaking than I rushed at a rat ogre at high speed.

Immediately, I swung the Holy Sword and the saw blade sword in each hand as dual swords.

Wiiiiiiiiiing! Grind, grind, grind!

The saw blade sword ground the guy’s head as it was.

Even a rat ogre with a large build for a ratman had no choice but to die when more than half of his head was ground away.

“Squeak, squeak! Shoot! Shoot!”

Bang, bang, bang!

Poof, poof!

In the meantime, shots flew in, but I used the body of the rat ogre, who was losing his head and falling, as cover.

-Keuwoooo!

Of course, another rat ogre immediately ran at me, trying to kill me, thumping his huge body.

[Multiple Shadow Blade Deployment]

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh! Whoosh!

But I calmly scattered shadow blades in all directions.

Using neural acceleration to grasp the positions of all the enemies around me, I first flew shadow blades at the ratman shooters and killed them, then sent the rest at the oncoming rat ogres.

Poof, poof!

-Keureuk!

The rat ogres, especially those with shadow blades concentrated in their joints, had temporary movement impairments.

[High-Speed Movement Efficiency Amplification!]

[Current High-Speed Movement Efficiency 200%]

In the meantime, I moved at high speed, frantically weaving through them and slashing them.

‘The saw blade sword is more useful when dealing with tough guys.’

Even in the midst of that, I considered the efficiency of the attack.

Even with the Holy Sword, I could cut through the rat ogres’ tough bodies by infusing it with aura.

But the very act of infusing aura meant that it was somewhat inefficient.

However, tough leather or muscles were meaningless to the saw blade sword, which could even grind through iron armor.

Tick- tock.

“Did it break down? The durability is a flaw.”

Crack!

-Kkeueeeek…….

I stepped on the head of the last remaining ratman and killed him.

I killed them all after fighting for about 30 minutes, but unfortunately, the saw blade sword stopped working, probably because it broke down.

Well, I used it well, so that’s enough, I thought, and went back to Kishil.

“Kishil, did you secure the system?”

-Beep, current system recovery is 100% complete. You can now use the weapon modification and enhancement system.

“Enhancement? It enhances weapons?”

-Yes. Beep, beep… Do you perhaps like that automatic saw blade sword?

“Ah, yeah, but it broke down. Can you fix it?”

-Repair functions are not possible with the processes entered into the currently secured system. It is estimated that the ratman’s magical contamination is so severe that many functions will be paralyzed even after reclaiming Bogo.

I clicked my tongue at Kishil’s answer.

That meant that even if I reclaimed this place, I wouldn’t be able to use it as it was originally intended.

But what he said next wasn’t too bad.

-However, it seems possible to use the modification and enhancement functions of this terminal.

“What can you do with that?”

-It seems possible to modify Master’s Holy Sword. Would you like to modify it?

“…Let’s give it a try.”

-Then please install the Holy Sword here.

Clunk—

Immediately, a place to mount the weapon appeared, and I inserted the silver Holy Sword there.

[Modification and Enhancement System Online]

[Select the target and options you wish to modify, synthesize, and enhance.]

[Current Enhancement Target: Holy Sword Silver Rose]

Then a hologram appeared.

It was similar to the enhancement interface of several games, so I could operate it without difficulty.

[Special materials or abilities are required for special enhancements.]

[Would you like to grant the ‘Automatic Saw Blade Function’?]

“Grant it.”

[Starting modification.]

Clunk, cheocheok, wiiiiiiiiiing—

As soon as I finished entering, the terminal where I had inserted the Holy Sword was briefly covered, and then I heard a sound like welding for a moment.

Chiiik—

[Modification complete.]

Soon, the Holy Sword was returned, so I picked it up.

“…The appearance is the same?”

Wiiiiiiiiiing.

But no sooner had I thought that than the blade of the Holy Sword changed into a saw blade according to my will and began to rotate as it was.

“That’s awesome!”

-Additional modifications are possible if you import specific materials or abilities in the future.

That meant that I could continue to modify it using the weapons the ratmen had taken.

“Then I’ll have to keep hunting.”

It was a moment when the thought of completely modifying the Holy Sword came to my mind.