The Overlord of Blood and Iron

Chapter 57






Lee Chae-rin was conflicted .


What would happen if she kissed the sleeping Kang Chul-in right now?


Would he dislike it?


Or would he like it?


What feeling would it be, kissing with a man?


Due to all of this imagination and curiosity, her mind state was already half-crazy by now .


That was how much charm Kang Chul-in had towards her .


It was as if she had been infected by the ‘bad boy syndrome’, where she wanted to be loved by a man who didn’t show interest or attraction towards her, but didn’t care at all .


It wasn’t normal .


Nowadays, what kind of woman would try to take the lips of a sleeping man? Maybe Lee Chae-rin’s eccentric behavior right now was because of all of the stress stacked up between the past few days .


“… Mr . Chul-in… Whatever . I don’t care anymore . I’ll just do it . ”


But the temptation was too great .


Lee Chae-rin leaned her face towards Kang Chul-in like she didn’t care anymore, moving towards Kang Chul-s in’s lips .


And she closed her eyes .


No, she tried to .


If Kang Chul-in didn’t open his eyes abruptly and look at her .


“Uhk…”


The two people stared at each other, their faces so close that their noses almost touched .


“Uhh… Can I ask what you’re doing right now?”


Kang Chul-in’s face turned cold .


“M-Mr . Chul-in . . That…”


“Stay back . ”


“I-I’m sorry . ”


Lee Chae-rin apologized and hurriedly stepped back . Because of this, her attempting in stealing his lips ended in a failure .


“Lee Chae-rin . ”


Kang Chul-in asked her with an uncomfortable expression .


“Yes?”


“What did you try to do to me just now?”


“U-uhh…I… I was trying to… get something off your face, because something was on it!”


“Is that so?”


“O-Of course!”


“Well, your intentions were good, but don’t do something like that ever again . ”


“W-Why?”


“Or you’ll get hurt . ”


Kang Chul-in’s face again turned cold .


Lee Chae-rin didn’t know, but she was lucky that a knife didn’t go flying at her right now . Battle maniacs like Kang Chul-in hated people going near them while they were vulnerable, after all .


“To think that I would show weakness at this kind of time… I would have truly died if that was an assassin there . ”


“Mr . Chul-in… . ”


“What, is there a problem?”



“You really…”


“… . . ?”


“Huu… Never mind . ”


Lee Chae-rin looked as if she was going to say something, but stopped mid-way, and sighed .


“The execution is also over . ”


“Hmm, so it seems like you’ve overcome it then . ”


“Yes, I just followed what you told me to do . ”


“Well, let’s rest for the rest today, and talk again tomorrow . I think you need a day at least to take in what just happened after all . Oh, and…”


“Yes?”


“Don’t lean too heavily on alcohol because you’re tired and feeling down . ”


“Alcohol?”


“It’s like advertising that you drank alcohol, especially what that red face of yours . Although you don’t smell of alcohol, it is a negative in itself that a Lord seems drunk . ”


“Stop . ” Lee Chae-rin stopped his words midway .


“I’m leaving . ”


“…… . ?”


“You shouldn’t sleep in a place like this, Mr . Chul-in . Now, goodbye . ” And as she said bye to him, she dissappeared from the room as if she was never there .


“I guess it could be very tiring . ”


Looking at her, Kang Chul-in thought that the work could be too stressful for the current her to handle, making her angry right now .


The next day, the higher ranked members of the Dorado-Laputa allies discussed about how to approach the war .


“First of all, our problem is our lack of information . ” Kang Chul-in spoke .


“How much they have, what they are doing, how their army is formatted . Do we have answers to any of these questions?”


No-one raised their hand .


‘As expected . ’


It was hard for them to even send out a scout, so obviously they had no information about their opponents .


“Mr . Chul-in . ” Lee Chae-rin spoke .


“Should we try using some scouting hawks? I think that we should send about five into their territory…”


“No . ” He shook his head .


“The range is too short . Our operations will cover around 80 km . What will we do with a unit that has a maximum range of 20?”


“Hmm… Then shall we send soldiers?”


“No, that’s pointless too . By sending them, it would just be just killing them off . ”


“Oh, I forgot to ask . What is the special ability of this territory?”


“Oh, that… . Pft . ” Lee Chae-rin laughed like she hadn’t for a long time .


“Ehem, ehem . ”


“The thing is, the special ability of Dorado is linked to me . ”


“With you?”


“Uhh… So…”


“… . ?”


“The special ability of this territory is called ‘embarrassed moon’ . ”


“I have no idea what you’re saying though…”


“Uhh… Well, it’s hard for me to explain… Urad, will you tell him for me?” Lee Chae-rin asked help from Urad .


“Yes, milord . ”


“…I will take your orders . ”


Although looked awkward, he still didn’t disobey Lee Chae-rin’s orders .


“Hmm… milord Kang Chul-in?”


“Speak . ”


“The thing is… our Dorado territory gets a special buff twice a year . ”


“And when is this?”


“When it’s a full moon . ”


‘As expected of the name, embarrassed moon . ’


“And the effects?”


“Ehem… well…”


“Just say it quickly . The meeting is more important . ”


“Oh, well . I’ll just speak . When the effect is on… it’s 100 percent . ”


“Don’t avoid it . ”


“When a man and a woman makes love at a full moon… the male becomes a father, and the female a mother . ”


At that moment, Kang Chul-in’s countenance stiffened .


‘God dammit, I shouldn’t have asked . ’


But it was at that moment .


“Huu… to think that there was a great buff like that…”


The old Nilus nodded his head and expressed his joy .


“Your majesty, I guess we don’t need to worry about your descendants then . ” And made Kang Chul-in feel awkward .


“Descendants?”


“Later when you take in our empress, I think that we should use the first night here, during the special buff . ”


“……”


“Does your majesty not think this would be the best place to take in our empress? Keeping the royal bloodline alive is the most important after all .


The Nilus that looked like he would go to primary school was speaking like this, and the atmosphere soon turned weird because of him . And because Kang Chul-in couldn’t tell him to just get older, he made Kang Chul-in feel awkward too .


“…Nilus . ”


“Yes, you’re majesty!”


“Stop saying things that an old man would say . ”


“But I am an old man though…”


“Go outside and kneel there, while raising your hands up . ”


“Y-your majesty… how could you do this to an old man like me…”


“Quickly . ”


Eventually, Nilus had to go out of the meeting and kneel down there, holding his hands up for more than just a couple of hours .


“Ho, how old are you to come out here and do this?”


“You got in trouble by your parents? You shouldn’t come close here though, it’s for authorities only . ”


“Huu, you’re a troublemaker, huh?”




The maids and servants passing by all talked to him, and poor Nilus had tears flowing down from his eyes .


“Well, no we’ll start to talk about the battle we’re about to fight in . ”


And with Kang Chul-in’s annoyed face, the meeting began .


“Now, I will began our scouting mission . ”


And as Kang Chul-in said that, he took out the Soul Core of his Laputa territory, and opened the Cosmic Force menu for the first time .

Cosmic Force

Type: Magical Satellite


Uses: For many things


Explanation: A satellite with Magic applied in it .


Level: Level 1 (Maximum level 5)


Level 1: Search (Able to use)


Level 2: Area Search System (Unable to use)


Level 3: Pulse Wave (Unable to use)


Level 4: (Unable to use, unlocked when get level 4)


Level 5: (Unable to use, unlocked when get level 5)


Kang Chul-in was shocked .


‘So many types…’


He was very surprised… to think that there were also so much type of searches…


‘What a money-eating machine…’


And he was also surprised at how much money it took to use it .


Search (Max Level 5)


Explanation: Scans the area around you, going up to a maximum of 50km .


Basic Scan: 500 gold per scan


Live-time Scan: 1200 gold per minute


Live-time heat wave scan: 1800 gold per minute


Note: Can only be used in a 500km radius of Laputa, the range increases as the Level of Cosmic Force increases .


It really made one scream in horror at the price .


The basic scan took 200,000 dollars per scan . And that was the cheapest option .


Even someone like Lee Chae-rin, who specialized in making money, would feel pain looking at the options .


‘Is it a sort of penalty?’


Well, if this sort of thing was cheap, it would be totally unbalanced, and completely broken; OP .


But Kang Chul-in accepted the cost .


‘Well, at least I will try it out . ’


After spending the 500 gold, Kang Chul-in bought the Basic Scan option, and used it immediately . And as he did so, the space around him fluctuated, and brought up a mini-map, telling him to select an area .


‘Here’ .


Kang Chul-in selected the Dorado territory area . He wanted to see around them first .


‘Wiiiiii . ’


As soon as he clicked on the area, many pictures of the 50 km around the territory also came up, but as a hologram .


“Ohhhh!”


“Is this the ground from a bird’s eye view?”


“What an incredible map!”


“What in the world… is this?”


The people watching this scene nearly fell from their chairs with shock .


“Mr . Chul-in… is that… a satellite?”


But only Lee Chae-rin was shocked for another reason . To think that there would be satellites in Pangaea…


“Shh, quiet . ”


Kang Chul-in pointed at specific places of the map, and spoke .


“Here, here, and here . ”


Looking at the map in front of him, he put a red flag where the enemies where concealed, and were prepared to launch guerilla attacks on them .


“Although I’m not sure how much of their troops are covered by the trees and the forest, but this is what we got to know . Now we know that they don’t have a particularly large amount of troops waiting nearby . ”


“Then since we know where they are, shall we get rid of them?”


“No . ”


Kang Chul-in shook his head .


“Getting rid of them in such an open manner is a stupid thing to do . If we attack them and they get information of us after that, it would be a loss for us . ”


“Yes, that’s true . ”


“But something is off . ”


Looking at some special things in the hologram, Kang Chul-in furrowed his eyebrows in discomfort .


“What’s wrong?”


“I thought you guys had lost multiple times already . It wouldn’t be exactly weird if they just came against you guys, going all in . But there are not much troops around here . This doesn’t make sense at all .


That’s right .


The Dorado territory had almost lost 2000 soldiers while trying to take back Nidavellir .


But to think that the enemies wouldn’t attack them during this weakened state? Even when they were 1 hit away from being destroyed?


It was impossible that they would just let her go, and try to humiliate her . This was not how things worked .


‘Should I do a live time scan… No, that’s too expensive . ’


Kang Chul-in tried to think of the reasons for why this would happen .


‘Why…’


‘Is there a possibility that…’


And as he was thinking, there was an explanation that made sense, and came to mind .


“To think that they have no finishing ability . ”


If the scenario was what he was thinking of, the war wouldn’t take a month, it wouldn’t even take a week to finish .


“Why? Did you figure something out?” Lee Chae-rin asked .


“These bastards, they are celebrating too early . ”


“Celebrate?”


“Yes . They have decided that your territory is already done for . ”


“What… does that mean?”


Lee Chae-rin tilted her head to show that she didn’t understand . And neither did the ones sitting down in the tactics meeting .


“These guys…”


Kang Chul-in spoke in a convincing manner . “They are fighting each other . ”



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