Chapter 40: Homunculus (2)
Junwoo turned his head to Eumeria's naked body from his seat and held out his armor.
"Put this on."
Eumeria looked around her body, smiled, and put on the item Junwoo offered.
"I'm all dressed up."
In front of Junwoo, who turned his head, a beautiful woman of 165 height was standing.
Homunculus, a machine man, created from soul stones, had no memories.
"Do you remember anything?"
"no. I don't remember, but I know how to fight."
Eumeria alone could never deal with them.
Eumeria was a level 99 woman with an impressive job in human terms.
"How do you feel? Are there any inconveniences?"
"I do not have one!"
Eumeria looked at the blacksmith robot and widened her eyes.
"Wow, are these the ones the master made?"
"That's right. Blacksmith, function, foreman, assistant robot. I helped make you."
"Blacksmith Robot! Functional robot! Captain Robot! Assistant robot!"
Eumeria looked at them with respectful eyes.
"Thank you. Thank you for helping me make it."
The four simply looked at Eumeria.
"Do you know what a robot means?"
"Yes, I can know the language you know."
"Do you know anything other than that? It's my memory."
"no. Language is everything."
"Okay, do you have any questions?"
Eumeria looked at Junwoo with bright eyes.
"Do you think there are too many to bother you?"
"It's okay."
"Then let me ask you one thing."
"yes."
"I wonder why you made me!"
Junwoo could not readily answer.
Words carefully leaked out of Junwoo's hesitant mouth.
"just… I want to make it."
Junwoo couldn't bear to say the ultimate reason for creating Umeria.
Eumeria asked with a satisfied smile.
"How about this? Is it well made?"
"I think so."
"I think so too."
As Eumeria walked, she began to touch things with curious eyes.
"Iron ore, titanium, adamantium, mythril… … ."
Junwoo just stared blankly at her actions.
On one shelf were the commissioned production items.
Eumeria looked at the items there and asked.
"master! Can I wear this?"
"Wear it."
"Thank you!"
It looked like he was replacing it with an item that was right for him.
He smiled happily when he changed his clothes.
"Did you make it for me in advance?"
"It's not… … ."
"Ah, then?"
"For sale?"
"To whom?"
"client?"
"There are others!?"
Eumeria seemed to have no idea what the world was like.
"Where is it?"
"Outside."
At Junwoo's answer, Eumeria looked around.
"Here… Where are you going?"
"This is a place called a dimensional warehouse. It's just you and me here, and the one going out is over there."
There was a door that looked like a gate going out.
"Never leave without my permission."
"Ah, yes! But not two. There are four more people here."
"Is it… Have you looked around anyway?"
"Yes, do you want me to do something?"
One of the reasons Junwoo created Eumeria was to train himself first.
The best way to level up was by hunting, crafting, and fighting.
Accumulating experience through battles would help raise the level.
Junwoo's level is 74, so I don't know how much more he can level up while he's here, but Junwoo had to try his best.
"I am going to fight you."
Eumeria asked with a slightly calm face.
"May I ask why?"
"I have to level up. I also want to get used to fighting."
"like! I think I can learn a lot too."
"Give me your weapon."
"Yeah!"
Eumeria's level was 99.
The level difference of 25 was 25 for all stats.
Not only that, but the difference of 25 in all aspects, such as attack power, defense, and bonus stats according to the level, was huge.
"I want you to do it until one side tells you to stop."
"I feel the same way."
Eumeria raised her sword and looked at Junwoo.
Junwoo took out the automatic pistol he had created.
Eumeria's brown eyes widened.
"revolver? Isn't it?"
"If you do, you will know. I will start."
"Yeah!"
Bang!
Gunshots rang out in the dimensional warehouse for a while.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Ting! Ting! Ting!
Swords and bullets collided, and gunfire continued.
Pop!
"Ouch!"
Explosions and Eumeria's screams erupted.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
"surrender!"
Eumeria was the first to utter the word surrender.
Eumeria's fighting skills were good, but she couldn't beat Junwoo.
"Take a break and do it again."
"Yeah!"
Blue blood gushed out of Eumeria's white skin, struck by the bullet.
The open wounds healed like a human.
Junwoo and Eumeria silently replayed the previous battle and pondered how to fight next.
Since we knew each other's combat skills in one battle, we could respond to some extent.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
"ouch… surrender!"
Junwoo lowered his automatic pistol.
"Is it okay?"
"sick."
"I'm sorry… … ."
"no. It's because I'm not good enough. I'll do it again when I'm full."
"yes."
Whenever her stamina was low, Eumeria fought Junwoo.
Both of them were very helpful because their skills were somewhat similar.
However, the result was Junwoo's victory every time.
"Alas, surrender!"
With blue blood dripping all over her body, Eumeria frowned.
"Let's rest."
"Yeah!"
Junwoo, who had scratches all over his body, sat down on the floor.
Eumeria asked.
"Is it perilous out there?"
Junwoo answered them in a whisper, remembering them.
"whopping… … ."
"So you have to level up… I will help you a lot."
"Thanks."
Eumeria looked at Junwoo and suddenly asked.
"If it's dangerous to go outside, can't we just go out?"
"no. There is nothing to eat here."
The following 130 days were the limit.
"iced coffee… You have to go get something to eat. I'll help! By the way, I don't even have to eat it."
Homunculus could eat food. However, what was eaten was destroyed as it is but did not become an energy source.
Their energy source was magic crystals.
It looks like he puts it in his mouth and eats it, but Junwoo couldn't imagine it.
"When you run out of energy, you can eat. Magic stone."
"Yeah! Thank you, Master."
The floor was covered with magic stones.
"And… Rather than the owner, just call me the representative."
"Okay, sir!"
She had a bright smile.
Junwoo sauntered and lay on the floor.
"I'm going to sleep now."
"Sleep, sir!"
Junwoo went to the corner of the wall and laid down, looking at the border.
When I woke up the next day, Eumeria, dressed in different clothes, was lying down.
Since he had no intention of disturbing his sleep, Junwoo sat down on a chair and started drawing a blueprint.
It was a job to make a mechanical golem.
The model was a familiar Eumeria.
If it was an advanced golem's soul stone, it could be obtained here to be crafted somehow.
"I'm going to make Eumeria the same, okay?"
"All right."
"Then please."
When the commands were given to the robots, they moved in unison.
In the meantime, Junwoo redrawn the blueprint he had made.
I made it once, so there was no blockage.
Smash!
Eumeria woke up to the sound of a knock on the iron.
Eumeria got up from her seat, rubbed her sleepy eyes like a human, and approached Junwoo.
Looking at the blueprint, Eumeria widened her eyes.
"Wow, you draw well."
Junwoo stopped moving his hands and looked at Eumeria.
Eumeria, with her long, wavy hair, looked like a human of Asian descent.
Even though I made it myself, I still had a strange feeling.
"Did you sleep well?"
"Huh… yes."
It was also strange to find someone to talk to after being locked up in this place for over 10 days.
Just having an ally in the loneliness felt like a significant boost to Junwoo.
"you?"
"I slept very well! Can I help you with something?"
Eumeria looked at her with sparkling eyes that looked like she was wearing a lens.
However, it seemed that the only thing Eumeria could do for herself was to fight.
"No, I am resting now."
"then… Give me that too."
"paper?"
"Yes, I will draw too."
Junwoo handed a paper and a pencil placed next to the desk.
"Thank you!"
Then I went to the next workbench, looked around, and started drawing something.
And after a while, Eumeria brought a picture with a bright smile as if it had been painted.
"Look at this, sir."
The drawings that Eumeria drew were at the level of a kindergartener.
The blacksmith robot holding a hammer and the function, class leader, and auxiliary robot were crudely drawn.
In front of them stood a man with long hair and short hair.
It was probably him and Junwoo.
"Did you draw well? This is me. This is the representative."
I couldn't say it was a good drawing.
However, the characteristics were well captured for a painting that was first drawn.
"You drew it well."
It was Eumeria who was proud of the praise and drew a smile.
"Can I draw more?"
"sure."
Paper and pencil were enough, so I was free to draw as much as I wanted.
There was nothing for Eumeria to do here, so Junwoo had no intention of stopping Eumeria from doing anything.
Instead, I felt fortunate that I had found a hobby that would appease her boredom.
As the days passed, Eumeria's drawing skills improved.
Eumeria asked if she got bored of drawing the same thing.
"Are there more diverse and pretty things out there?"
"there is."
"really?"
"yes."
"Didn't you say it's dangerous out there?"
"It's dangerous, now… But as long as you get out of the danger, it's a better world than here."
"I want to go there."
"Come with me."
Eumeria smiled brightly and nodded her head.
"Yeah!"
Junwoo drew a blueprint without saying a word to the dark reality that would be removed if they did not back down.
The golems that will be made from the soul stones of the advanced golems are Epic-level power, but it would definitely be of some help.
* * *
It was the 48th-day Junwoo had been there.
On that day, Junwoo was also fighting Eumeria.
There were bullets all over the walls of the reasonably large hall.
Eumeria grabbed a sword and ran towards Junwoo, who was rushed against the wall.
Junwoo played the bomb with his left hand.
In an instant, the irons gathered, and a square black bomb fell in front of Junwoo.
It was the most powerful bomb, but it had no mobility.
Eumeria, who was rushing in, was startled and moved backward agilely using her skill.
Junwoo swung his mana-filled feet towards the air.
Eumeria moved backward and drew her sword back wide.
"Ah!"
It was drawn in anticipation that Junwoo would appear, but Junwoo did not appear.
At that moment, Junwoo appeared as a position change and hit Eumeria's waist with the back of his foot.
Puck!
Eumeria flew towards the bomb with her back pushed, and the bomb exploded.
Pop!
It was a technique that I had been subjected to more than a dozen times, but I had no choice but to fall for it even knowing it.
"Ahh!"
As Eumeria's body bounced off the floor, bullets flew and hit her body.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
"surrender!"
"Is it okay?"
Eumeria looked at Junwoo with a piercing face.
Every time I hit him and asked him if he was okay, he got grumpy.
Junwoo's position-changing skill was morale to the point that it was fatal in a one-on-one battle.
"Cheating skills… … ."
"It's a scam… … ."
"Are there people with such skills?"
There was a Warp of Unique + grade in a similar series, but Junwoo's one was different.
In the case of warp, depending on the flow of mana, the movement path can be grasped instantly. Still, mana flow cannot be captured when changing the location.
This difference makes a huge difference in combat.
Not only that, but if it was kicked like a while ago when it disappeared, the opponent had no choice but to fly helplessly.
Like Eumeria.
"There is something similar, but nothing like this… … ."
Its rank was also Legend+.
"It's also a scam skill. You have to practice even if you don't use it. There is a cooldown period."
Junwoo was fighting without even using the skill he had learned at level 80.
"Well… Then I'll try not to use it next time."
"Hehe… … ."
It was Eumeria who drew a smile of victory somewhere.
At that moment, a bizarre sound was heard in the warehouse.
TRRURUKUQUAANG-
As if Eumeria heard the sound, her head turned to the back.
The walls sank slightly through the dust on the wall where the explosion had occurred a while ago.
It was strange.
The walls here are not broken.
Even after receiving dozens of explosions, the wall did not move even when the bullet was stuck in it.
However, there were evident cracks on the wall over there.
Junwoo walked towards the wall with puzzled eyes.
I put my finger in the crack in the cracked wall and pulled it out.
The walls came crashing down.
Junwoo put mana on his hand and hit the wall with all his might.
Bang!
Fists clenched.
I pulled out my hand and saw a small space through the hole.
In space, glass containers for experiments that scientists may have used were placed on a tabletop.