Damn Necromancer

Chapter 383: Galaxy (2)

"Do you guys believe in a god?"

Super-massive skyscrapers where bright red neon signs flashed dizzily. Kim Minwoo asked with a beaming smile as he looked up at the night view of the massive machine city piled high like a mountain with things for him to rob.

At that random question, the thugs' mechanical eye glints blinked in bewilderment.

"What are you saying, you country bumpkin bastard. Did you get shot in the head?"

"Hey, whatever, just cut off his limbs first! The organs are withering!"

The cyborg thugs, raising their plasma swords, surged toward Kim Minwoo and Yoo Honbi in unison.

At that time, Yoo Honbi's blood-red pupils sank chillingly.

The Heavenly Demon's distant eye glints pierced through their physical bodies in a single breath.

Their dantians were completely empty, and in the places where qi and blood should flow, only crude wires and cogwheels were forcibly turning. A bizarre figure embedded with cheap data scraps instead of a human soul.

"……It's nauseating. For fakes filled with metal all the way inside to dare imitate martial artists."

Wiiiiiing―!

At the fingertips of Yoo Honbi, who spewed murderous intent in displeasure, a dark red demonic energy harboring terrible destructive power began to swirl.

The moment she was about to erase the lunging guys into meat paste in a single breath.

"Hey, Heavenly Demon."

Kim Minwoo leisurely blocked her front while leaning on Hell Rhapsody as a cane.

"Why don't you withdraw your qi?"

"……What."

"It's troublesome if you kill them. I have something to test, you see. I'll take care of those guys, so you just watch for a bit."

Yoo Honbi frowned, but soon smoothly withdrew the demonic energy that had gathered at her fingertips.

'……He's a self-centered guy anyway.'

In the past, when they first fell onto the martial arts planet, he was an enemy whose neck she was anxious to strike right away.

But perhaps because they fought together against Mutakta back-to-back in the Outer God's territory.

The frosty hostility that had set its edge in her heart had faded a little.

"……Hmph. Since you're insisting on stepping forward and lessening my trouble, I won't stop you. Do as you please."

Yoo Honbi intentionally snorted and pushed her demonic sword into its sheath.

At her tacit approval, Kim Minwoo smiled beamingly and turned his head toward the lunging thugs.

Seureureuk.

Kim Minwoo's figure blurred in the empty air.

"Uh……?"

The thugs' mechanical eye glints blinked wildly.

The state-of-the-art optical sensors maximizing kinetic vision whirred fiercely, but they couldn't follow even a single frame of the 100% pure organism's movement that disappeared right before their eyes, only spinning vainly in the empty air.

That instant.

Peoeok! Kwajik! Paaaang―!

"Keuaaaak!"

"M-my arm! My alloy joints!"

Just 5 seconds. A bizarre pitch-black trajectory twisting causality lightly swept through the dark alleyway once.

The five thugs screamed in astonishment looking at their mechanical limbs rolling on the floor.

Their modified limbs, even if they were assembled by back-alley scavengers, were of high-strength alloy that could easily crumple decent steel and readily deflect even high-frequency vibration swords.

However, those hard lumps of iron were dismantled far too vainly, like slicing rotten tofu, by a single sword strike from a human with raw flesh and not a single machine part attached.

'N-nonsense……! Even with the optical sensors, I couldn't read the trajectory at all!'

'He cut the alloy with pure muscle strength?'

'J-just what kind of monster is that!'

They thought he was a refugee who didn't even have the money to buy machines.

However, in the middle of the alleyway splattered with blood and machine oil, that man in the black coat leisurely shaking off the blade of Hell Rhapsody was different.

They had thought he was a barbarian from the boondocks.

It turned out he was the very out-of-standard monster from beyond the dimension, who smashed even the common sense and logic of machine civilization with physical force.

The thug captain struggling while pouring out machine oil and blood, collapsed on the floor.

Kim Minwoo looked down while firmly stepping on the guy's chest.

"Your movements were very crude. The machine's output and the physical body's reflexes are completely uncoordinated."

Udeudeuk―.

As Kim Minwoo slightly put his weight on his foot, the guy's chest armor crumpled, and the sound of bones crushing rang out.

"Keuaaaak!"

"A tin can I tore apart in the past had a shell and personality that matched perfectly, you see. Just what on earth did you shove into your head to move like that?"

"Keueueuk……! B-because we are cheap!"

The thug, feeling the threat to his life, spat out bloody foam and shouted out of spite.

"How could lower-class scavengers like us use the elite bastards' highest-grade single-personality chips! We just forcibly stitched together defective memory fragments pulled out from the heads of third-rate mercenaries or martial artists who died in the back alleys!"

"Defective chips?"

"Y-yeah! Because we forcefully shoved them into our brains, my original personality and the remnant personalities left on the chips tangle wildly and fight inside my head! Sometimes I even hear other bastards' auditory hallucinations!"

At the thug's scream, Kim Minwoo's indifferent pupils flashed.

'The original personality and the personality dwelling in the chip collide?'

His gaze tenaciously scanned the thug's head. A cold and bizarre look, like a scientist right before dissecting an interesting lab rat.

"……."

Watching that sight, Yoo Honbi's eyes twitched minutely.

Even though she herself was the apex of the Demonic Cult who didn't hesitate to get blood on her hands, she even felt a strange eeriness at Kim Minwoo's emotionless cruelty of thoroughly dismantling the enemy and treating them as an experimental tool.

This man was the very perfect predator without even a shred of mercy for his enemies.

Instantly, the calculator in Kim Minwoo's head began to run wildly.

'There is one physical body, but the egos contained within it are two or more.'

Faith stems from the soul and personality.

If so, what happens if he reforms this single cheap multiple-personality cyborg.

'Could this be…… faith being treated as two or more people's worth?'

His heart swelled.

If this hypothesis was correct, the defective cyborgs rolling around in this slum were walking 1+1 generous faith packages!

Seureureuk.

Kim Minwoo pulled out a brilliantly shining Faith Orb from his inventory.

"I'm going to do an experiment from now on."

"……Uh?"

"Serve me as your only savior and god, and offer a prayer with all your heart. Then I'll spare your life."

The blood-drenched thug glared his eyes as if he was dumbfounded.

"P-prayer? Are you crazy? In our Galaxy Alliance, such an inefficient superstition is…… Kkeuaaaak!!"

Seogeok―!

Before the words could even finish, the pitch-black blade of Hell Rhapsody perfectly sliced off the guy's remaining mechanical arm.

"Does it look like I'm asking?"

Kim Minwoo pushed the dripping demonic sword's blade right under the guy's chin and smiled chillingly.

"If you don't believe right now, I'll take out only that cheap chip stuck in your brain, and mince the remaining organism alive and throw it in the sewer. Will it still be inefficient then?"

Before that bloody and overwhelming murderous intent, the thug's brain circuit derived a rational survival conclusion in 1 second.

"Ohh! Oh great savior! Please save me!"

It was a truly blind and desperate prayer squeezed out in the desperation of his life hanging by a thread.

That moment.

Paaaat―!

The Faith Orb held in Kim Minwoo's hand blazed brilliantly with a deep pitch-black light.

And the system messages consecutively pouring into the empty air.

[The desperate faith of the Galaxy Alliance lower-class original personality (John) is collected!]

[The faith of the defective chip personality dwelling inside the Galaxy Alliance lower-class's body is synchronized and collected!]

[Two faiths resonate from one physical body!]

"……!"

A beaming smile spread across Kim Minwoo's face upon checking the messages.

'It works?'

Numerous thoughts brushed past.

"Hey."

"Y-yes?! I p-prayed, so why are you doing this!"

"When you just prayed to me, the personality of that chip stuck in your head also prayed together, right?"

"Th-that's right! It synchronized with my will to live, so that remnant bastard also cried out to the great savior together!"

Instantly, an extraordinary idea crossed Kim Minwoo's mind.

'If it was synchronized because it's subordinated to the physical body…… is faith maintained even if I only take the chip out separately?'

If that was possible, there wasn't even a need to evangelize bothersome humans who needed to be fed and housed.

'What about in the state of a chip that hasn't entered a body…….'

Thinking deeply, he lightly kicked the thug captain trembling at his feet.

"Hey."

"Y-yessir!"

"Do you guys happen to have any unused chips left that haven't been stuck into a human body?"

"Ah, we happen to have one brand new chip we took as stolen goods yesterday!"

The thug hurriedly rummaged through his embrace and offered a palm-sized packaging case.

Inside it lay a cheap personality chip that shone crudely with a silver light.

Kim Minwoo placed the chip on his palm and minutely injected mana.

Jiiiing―.

As mana was supplied, the chip powered on, and he felt the personality data of an unknown third-rate mercenary sleeping within it activate.

Kim Minwoo whispered in a low voice toward the chip, harboring a chilling murderous intent.

"You hear me, right? From now on, serve me as your sole god and believe. If you don't, I'll grind you into powder right now."

The opponent was merely a data chip of metal.

The moment he wondered if such a threat would work.

Paaaat―!

[The unused 'defective chip personality (unknown third-rate mercenary)' yields to your threat and offers faith!]

[Weak faith is collected!]

"……This actually works?"

Kim Minwoo's eyes sparkled like stars.

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