Ordinary Art Factor [EN]: Chapter 211

7-3 (End)

The sky,

The sky is dark red.

So, the sky… is dark red like blood.

So… um….

“… Where, where is this? It doesn’t seem like a dungeon? The notification isn’t going off?”

“You know.”

“What? Me? I know where this is?”

“Yes.”

“Ha… hey, Sarah. I try not to say things like this, but let me ask you something. Don’t you ever think, ‘Why does he ask me about things he already knows?’ You freaking son of a bitch….”

“You saw it.”

“Saw what?”

“What you’ve been seeing is correct.”

“So! What the hell did I see… uh? Uh oh! So, maybe that?”

“That’s right. That.”

“…….”

Ah!

Ahhh!

Fuck!

So, all those scenes flashing through my head….

So, I wasn’t seeing things….

So, all those scenes I’ve been seeing….

“Th, then….”

“Yes. This is the place you saw.”

“…….”

“The place where I exist. The world of the Goddess. The place where the one who chose you resides. Welcome to Idea.”

“…….”

“The final battle. Prepare for the last battle.”

“…….”

Wh, what?

The final battle? The last battle?

W, why me!

“… Wh, what reason do I have….”

“Once you’ve come here, you can’t return unless you stop their invasion.”

“Wh, what!”

“There isn’t much time left. First, you must meet her and prepare.”

“Th… this! What kind of bullshit is this! What did you say earlier! What? Can’t go back? You didn’t say that from the start!”

You freaking son of a bitch, you goddamn bitch!

What? Stop their invasion?

Me? Why?

Can’t go back if I don’t stop them?

Who decides that!

Who the hell decided that I have to slave away here!

“Yo… you goddamn bitch!”

“Come to the largest Fortress Tower, 314km to the southwest. I’ll be waiting there.”

Sarah, the self-destruct skill, disappeared after saying only what she wanted to say.

No, now that I think about it, I’m not even sure if it’s my exclusive skill.

Is that bitch’s purpose to bring me here?

If so, why am I subordinate to her, and why does the skill status appear….

I thought about it for a long time, but I can’t pinpoint a specific reason.

Furthermore, I’m left alone in this messed up situation. I’m so dumbfounded that I can’t even speak.

What?

The final battle? The last battle?

Kiss my ass!

1 hour and 30 minutes after entering the messed up world that Sarah dragged me into.

“She said southwest, right? Then I’ll move northeast!”

I felt no justification or need to follow that bitch’s orders.

The last battle or the final battle, that’s their problem.

I just need to get out of here and go home.

Sarah told me to meet someone and prepare for battle, but she’s got the wrong person.

I’m the type who rebels and runs away the more I’m suppressed.

I’ve lived my whole life like that, and I’ll continue to live like that in the future.

No matter what anyone says, my life is mine.

I don’t see any reason for me to sacrifice myself while taking care of other people’s personal affairs.

Anyway, whether it works or not, I don’t know if I can go home… but now that it’s come to this, I’ll just make a mess of it.

Chaos.

I’m also a guy who’s incredibly good at causing a ruckus!

2 hours and 20 minutes after entering the messed up world that Sarah dragged me into.

First, I produced a shuttle and started moving northeast.

As I looked around… this place is like a bio dungeon.

It’s almost the same as the scenery I’ve seen three times since entering the Primal Dungeon… no, it must be the same.

What that bitch said earlier, and the small Fortress Towers around, and the Zergling, Hydralisk, Ultralisk, Spine Crawler, and Mutalisk that I’ve seen a lot in the bio dungeon, etc., it’s all the same.

The funny thing is that they don’t attack me even after they find me.

Except for a few Overlords that hovered around the shuttle as if they were curious and then flew back over there, there’s no sense of threat or even interest.

Hmm… do they recognize me as the same species?

8 hours and 50 minutes after entering the messed up world that Sarah dragged me into.

“Hmm… there’s no tent. There’s no mage to light a fire. There’s no cot, let alone a chair to sit and rest on….”

I didn’t realize it would be this inconvenient not to bring them.

It’s so annoying to do the things that the Clear Team warriors and mages used to do on their own.

Furthermore, all I have in my inventory are food and summoned units.

I don’t have any emergency supplies such as potions, tents, chairs, tables, tableware, or any tools to sleep or eat with.

If Sarah had told me even a little bit from the beginning that it would be like this, I would have at least brought a potion… what a mess this is because of that damn bitch. Tsk.

First, let’s check what’s in the inventory.

“Ugh… I’d rather die than suffer. Status window!”

…….

Huh? Hey.

“Hey! I said status window!”

…….

Uh… so….

This is the first time this has happened?

I’m so embarrassed.

Why isn’t the status window appearing?

Why!

I repeated and recognized the word status window countless times, pretending to be crazy, but it’s still a mystery.

Fortunately, I was able to recognize the things in the inventory. I can take them out because I can recognize them, but if that’s the case… huh? Oh, is it not?

I produced the shuttle earlier!

Then what the hell….

“Summon 1 Probe!”

[Ding! Summons 1 Probe.]

It works?

Then….

“Create Pylon!”

‘Pa… chchch.’

That’s right. It works.

But why….

“Status window!”

…….

“That’s it! Ugh….”

Reason?

I don’t know.

Because this is my first time here.

Cause?

How can I find the cause when I don’t know the reason?

Ah, maybe. Maybe if I go to that bitch and prepare for the last battle or the final battle, she’ll tell me about this situation or explain it.

But I don’t want to do that, no matter what. Not yet… ahem.

As the saying goes, even Mt. Geumgang [a famous mountain in Korea] is better after a meal, so let’s eat first.

I recognized the inventory space and started taking out the items one by one.

“Uh… first, take out the water, canned food and cooked rice, kimchi [Korean fermented cabbage] and… raw chicken is no good, and pork is no good because there’s no fire. Take out the red pepper paste too… huh? Ta, take out? Taking it out… that’s right! Then… summon 1 Zealot!”

[Ding! Summons 1 Zealot.]

“O~kay! Then, summon 1 cooked rice!”

…….

“Ahem. Summon all Dark Templar!”

[Ding! Summons 34 Dark Templar.]

“… Summon 5 cans of Spam!”

…….

“What’s the difference!”

Why!

Why are the units and items in the same inventory space reacting differently to the same summoning order!

Is it discrimination?

Is it discrimination?

This messed up symptom of units being summoned and only items not being summoned… uh? Items? Items….

“Summon Greatsword!”

‘Pa… aaaah!’

Looking at the 2m-sized warrior’s greatsword summoned in front of me, I tore at my hair.

“Hehehe. You’re doing all sorts of crazy things! Damn it!”

10 hours and 10 minutes after entering the messed up world that Sarah dragged me into.

“Munch munch. Hmm… not bad.”

I roughly mixed cooked rice with red pepper paste and ate it with canned Spam and kimchi.

As expected, hunger is the best side dish, and eating under the dark red sky was pretty good.

I emptied two large containers of cooked rice and two cans of Spam, and finally drank a 2-liter bottle of water in one gulp, and then burped for a long time to finish the meal.

“Burp. That was good. It’s edible like this too. Tsk.”

I patted my full stomach and thought about taking a nap in the tent… but where’s the tent?

“Ugh… do I have to sleep outside? I can’t even light a fire….”

I repeatedly reflected on why I didn’t bring the convenient and comfortable Clear Team, who are workers, and looked around for a good place,

“Huh? Zergling?”

Three Zerglings are approaching from 30m ahead, sniffing the ground with their noses, probably smelling the canned food.

“Hmm… annoying. Dark Templar, protect me.”

My physical condition isn’t so bad that I’ll be harmed by Zerglings, but I summoned some of the Dark Templar I had summoned to protect me in case of an emergency.

‘Kkeueung. Hehehe.’

‘Kkieek. Kkeueung.’

What’s the situation?

The guys are spinning around where I ate, burying their noses in the ground and whining.

Hmm….

I took out three cans of Spam from the inventory and threw them to the guys, feeling like I’d seen it somewhere before. Then,

‘Kwajik. Chop chop.’

‘Woojik. Cheop cheop.’

“Heh….”

I didn’t even think about taking out only the chunks from the can, but the guys chew and eat the outer casing with their strong teeth.

The guys who shared one chunk each in the blink of an eye wag their tails and approach me.

But, when I look closely, they’re wagging their tails.

Are you guys puppies?

Why are you wagging your tails!

That doesn’t mean I’ll give you more canned food….

1 day and 8 hours and 30 minutes after entering the messed up world that Sarah dragged me into.

‘Kkeueung. Hehehe.’

‘Kieek. Hehehe.’

Six Zerglings with speed upgrades are following me and spinning around me.

What started as three guys has now doubled.

It all started with me throwing a can of Spam out of curiosity, as a joke, and thinking about the white dog I raised when I was young. The guys who tasted Spam once don’t want to leave my side.

I wondered if I had done something unnecessary, but I had never done a solo play in a dungeon before, and I felt strange being alone in this situation where the bitch who brought me here had left first, but it was better because the Zerglings disguised as puppies were wagging their tails, sticking out their tongues, and running around.

Furthermore, I was annoyed by the blood-red sky, but it’s still better to be able to do something together, even if it’s a puppy… ahem.

1 day 17 hours and 20 minutes after entering the messed up world that Sarah dragged me into.

I’ve roughly searched the area.

Approximately 30km northeast of where I first arrived with Sarah.

I was going to move a little further when I landed the shuttle to eat, but I decided to stay here because of the six Zerglings disguised as puppies who are still running around me.

It doesn’t matter where I am anyway.

Sarah definitely said that the battle would happen soon.

I don’t know exactly when that will be, but as time goes by, if I don’t show up, she’ll come find me or come up with another way.

Of course, that doesn’t mean I’m going to go there willingly.

I’m lying diagonally on a flat, dark red rock, watching the Zerglings running around like puppies with their tails on fire, and roughly guessing when Sarah will appear in front of me and beg me to go… huh?

One of the Zerglings, who was scratching under that big rock over there, is holding something in its mouth and running towards me, dropping a strange stone that has a blue light rippling on its surface along with the dirt.

It’s not like it found a bone it had hidden to eat later and gave it to me, but a strange stone? Blue light?

Out of curiosity, I picked up the stone from the ground and roughly brushed off the dirt, and it was something I’d seen a lot.

“… Mi, Mineral?”

‘Hehehe. Hehehe….’

The guy who brought the mineral next to me is sticking out his tongue and wagging his tail, feeling like he wants me to praise him.

I took out a can of Spam from the inventory and threw it far away.

“Eat this for now.”

As the guy runs to where the can fell like a dog, I looked closely at the mineral, which is a little smaller than my fist.

Minerals buried under the rock….

I’m not sure if this place is a space inside a dungeon or a completely different space, but seeing the Zergling, Hydralisk, Lurker, and Mutalisk units roaming around like in a bio dungeon, it must be that the units are produced from the Fortress Tower… do Drones bring minerals and absorb them?

Then why are the minerals buried under the rock?

Are they exposed to the outside in other places?

No, can Drones absorb minerals buried in the ground in the first place?

Hmm….

I feel like questions keep piling up.

In this case, you’ll know if you test it yourself.

“Summon all Probes!”

[Ding! Summons 18,001 Probes.]

18,000 Probes appeared countless times around me with white light.

Is it too many?

First,

“Mine the minerals nearby.”

At my command, the Probes began to move in three directions.

One group of Probes moving under the rock that the Zergling had scratched earlier, a group moving towards the rock I was sitting on, and a group moving in the 5 o’clock direction….

“Why are there so many? There, there, dismiss summon.”

Moving in three directions means that there are three mineral deposits nearby.

Is this a mineral field?

Or are there minerals under every rock?

Why are there so many minerals buried here and there?

After dismissing the two groups of Probes that were moving around frantically, I moved to where the Zergling had scratched the ground.

[Ding! Absorbed ? grade mineral fragment. Mineral fragment 1 increases.]

[Ding! Absorbed ? grade mineral fragment. Mineral fragment 1 increases.]

[Ding! Absorbed ? grade mineral fragment. Mineral fragment 1 increases.]

…….

A question mark grade….

A notification sound that cannot confirm the grade?

Hmm….

The puppy, who had finished eating the canned food I threw, came back to me, panting and spinning around, and dozens of Probes who had absorbed mineral fragments from the pile of dirt he had dug up were crawling back and forth, spitting out the fragments to me and then returning, and the remaining thousands of Probes were tangled around the ground, creating complete chaos.

“That’s right. They’re not moles digging in the ground… summon 100 Zealots.”

[Ding! Summons 100 Zealots.]

“Turn over the entire floor around here.”

At my annoyed tone, 100 Zealots began to poke the surrounding floor with their long gauntlets.

After a while.

[Ding! The absorption limit of mineral fragments has been reached. You can no longer absorb mineral fragments.]

“Hmm….”

The depth is about 40cm, and the floor of the nearby 10m width has been turned over.

Blue stones that are faintly visible in the numerous piles of dirt.

Is this all mineral?

Is this a place where you can just dig in the ground and get money?

Why are there minerals everywhere!

Hmm… mineral, mineral….

And the last battle of those guys that Sarah mentioned.

I really want to go there and ask where this is, why she brought me here, and what I have to do to go home, but… I don’t feel like doing that. But I don’t want to wander around aimlessly and have my head blown off by a knife flying from behind.

Hmm….

“If there are minerals left over anyway, I can build my own defensive base. Hehehe. Sarah, you’re screwed. Hehehe.”

…….

1 day 22 hours and 40 minutes after entering the messed up world that Sarah dragged me into.

“Probe 120, create Pylon!”

‘Kwa… chi…chch. Pa… chi…jijik.’

A huge wave of blue light washes over me.

Finally, 120 Pylons are created.

Hundreds of transparent Pylons built in the dark red sky. It’s somewhat bizarre yet mysterious.

“Create Force Field.”

‘Pa… chi…jijik.’

“Probe 120, create Photon Cannon!”

‘Kua… chi…chch. Kwa… chi…jijik.’

White light and blue light combine to awaken the surrounding land.

“The rest of the Probes mine all the minerals. Let’s keep going. Hehehe.”

2 days 18 hours and 20 minutes after entering the messed up world that Sarah dragged me into.

“Create Gateway, create Gateway, create Photon Cannon, create Photon Cannon there too.”

At first, I used 120 Probes to produce Pylons and Photon Cannons all at once, but as I did that, I ran out of mineral fragments to absorb.