The Overlord of Blood and Iron

Chapter 118

Chapter 118 . The coming Lord Meetings . (Pt . 1)

As Kang Chul-In arrived at the central plaza, he could see a lot of people crowded there .

Why are they all here at this time of day?

He didn’t understand .

It was 8 p . m at night, and since it was winter, it was pitch black outside .

Unlike Earth, since the Pangaeans lacked technology, they usually all went home by the time the sun fell . It was extremely strange that everyone was outside like this .

Bambababam babam Bababam!

Kang Chul-In could hear music that sounded somewhat familiar to him .

Babam!

-You suck!

Babam!

-You suck!

It was music from the TV program that the civilians were watching, WWL (World Wrestling League) . With the music, a pro wrestler, Scott Angle, showed up .

“Booooo!”

“Get lost! Stupid baldie!”

“Get out of there!”

“Let’s go! John Michaels! Beat him up!”

The majority of the male citizens started cheering .

Don’t tell me…

To confirm his thoughts, Kang Chul-In made his way through the crowd to see what the citizens were looking at .

“Ah, milord!”

“Is that milord?!”

Realizing that Kang Chul-In was there, the citizens split apart to give room for Kang Chul-In . It was as if Moses was splitting the red sea again .

“What the…”

Confirming his thoughts, Kang Chul-In muttered in astonishment .

There, he could see a huge screen that projected and broadcast wrestling matches from Earth .

Or to be exact it wasn’t a screen, nor was it being broadcast .

What Kang Chul-In had thought was a screen was actually marble that was so clean that it seemed like a screen, and a simple looking machine from far away was shooting a beam at the marble, acting as a projector .

“Father~”

Spotting Kang Chul-In, Arshelly ran towards him, and hugged him .

“You’re busy nowadays, right father?”

“I’m alright . But what is all this?”

“Oh…”

Arshelly looked at Kang Chul-In, trying to guess what his thoughts on this were .

“Uhh… I wanted to give a source of recreation for the citizens… and this was one of the options that I thought of…”

“Haha…”

Kang Chul-In opened his mouth in astonishment at Arshelly’s words .

“Father… I’m sorry if you’re angry…”

“No, daughter . ”

Kang Chul-In shook his head .

“You’ve done a very good job . ”

“R-Really?”

“As expected of my daughter . ”

“ . . . . . !”

“I’m proud of you . ”

As Kang Chul-In complimented her while stroking her hair, Arshelly couldn’t help but smile happily .

The sight was so lovely, that Kang Chul-In wondered if this was why others raised their daughters .

“But… how is this even possible? I thought that nothing from Earth could be brought to Pangaea except pure gold?”

“They’re from my memories, father . ”

“Your memories?”

“This is done by using memories in which I watched TV, and putting it inside this magic gem . With the help of the Magic Engineers, I was able to make it in such a big scale . ”

Though it was a great idea, it was also a very difficult one to actually carry out . If not for Arshelly’s god-gifted magical abilities, one wouldn’t be able to even dream of things like this .

She’s my daughter, but… she’s brilliant .

Kang Chul-In looked at Arshelly as if he was looking at a precious doll .

A kind daughter .

A kind granddaughter .

Smart, kind princess of the Laputa territory .

There wasn’t a single thing about Arshelly that wasn’t perfect .

“Kuu… Milord, you do have a fine daughter . I’m jealous! If I marry in the future, I hope that I’ll be able to get a daughter such as Arshelly too…”

Kwak-Jung said from aside, truly envious of Kang Chul-In .

“Stop saying ridiculous things . ”

“Sorry?”

“How can there be another girl like Arshelly?”

“ . . . Ok . ”

At Kang Chul-In’s pride in his daughter, Kwak-Jung pouted .

“Then when the princess gets married later…”

“There’s no way of that happening . ”

Kang Chul-In stopped Kwak-Jung mid-sentence .

“What kind of man would be able take Arshelly?”

“ . . . . . . ”

“Go to my office and put your hands up as punishment . ”

“ . . . Sorry?”

“If not, mental tr…”

“I’m going . ”

As soon as Kwak-Jung realized Kang Chul-In was going to say the words ‘mental training’, he immediately ran away .

“Father!”

Arshelly said .

“Arshelly is thinking of asking the Magic Engineers to help make more of these screens across the territory . What are your thoughts on this?”

“Is it possible?”

“This is in it’s testing stages, so there are a lot of things that we can fix . But if we have father’s support…”

“Alright . ”

Kang Chul-In nodded his head . There was no way that Kang Chul-In could listen to his lovely daughter’s plea and just ignore it .

And not only that, the effects were obvious .

“I’ll tell Timothy to start planning the funds for this project . ”

“Thank you, father . ”

Arshelly hugged Kang Chul-In . It was truly a heartwarming scene .

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Since he was out here anyway, Kang Chul-In decided to spend some time watching the TV with Arshelly .

On the screen was an intense fight between the Scott Angle who was famed for playing dirty, and the HBM (The Heart Break Man) John Michaels .

“Come on, John! You got this!”

“That dirty… how dare he kick John’s balls!”

“C’mon, John!”

“Woohoo! Let’s go John!”

The people near Kang Chul-In were busy looking at the match, and cheering for John Michaels .

To think that I would be watching Pro Wrestling in Pangaea… As expected, you really can’t take over Pangaea with just brute force and strength .

Kang Chul-In once again reconfirmed that in Pangaea, military strength wasn’t everything .

If I’m able to bring more of Earth’s culture to Pangaea…

At the moment Kang Chul-In was thinking of that…

“Woah!!!”

“Kya~”

“W-Who exactly are those women?”

The male citizens of the territory looked at the screen, and roared enthusiastically . The reason…

-I’ll slowly walk to you~ Cutting my flower~

Was because a Korean girl group, a K-pop group came out on-screen . It was because after the fight between Scott Angle and John Michaels finished, it changed over to a K-pop program .

“Woahhh~!”

“A-Am I going crazy?”

“T-T-They’re so pretty!”

At this point, Kang Chul-In started to head back into his office . He didn’t want to be absorbed by all the K-pop hype even in Pangaea .

A lot of things had changed .

Learning a lot from the happiness system, Kang Chul-In listened to Arshelly and Kwak-Jung to create a happier Laputa .

And by providing a lot of money to the research and engineering groups, he made sure that they didn’t go broke .

As for the projectors, they weren’t able to mass-produce it (the magic gems were too expensive), but they were still able to make 4 of these massive screens, spread across the territory, with 1 in the East, 1 in the South, 1 in the West, and 1 in the North .

Arshelly played a crucial role in this, since she was a literal walking video folder . This was because they had to use her memories in order to play these things on the screens .

By going from Earth to Pangaea over and over, Arshelly was able to put the videos from her memories on these devices .

And thanks to this, the citizens were able to watch many famous films such as ‘Lord of the Necklace’, or ‘Henry Potter’, as well as watch many K-dramas .

-Happiness: 78 (content)

-The citizens are happy with their current lives!

-Though there are some complaints from the female citizens of the territory, they are overcoming this with the power of drama!

In the document-stuffed office of Kang Chul-In .

“Huu…”

We’re still not even close to done .

Though the territory had a lot of positive changes during the past few days, they weren’t even close to finishing . If Kang Chul-In of the past was a Conquest Lord who only cared about his military power, the current Kang Chul-In was one who became smart and intelligent enough to look after his citizens too . He had improved as a Lord .

It was at that moment .

[You have gained 100 Lord Points!]

[The stat: ‘Internal Affairs’ has risen from E- to B- . ]

His Lord Points experienced a sharp rise, and so did his stat ‘Internal Affairs’ . He had gone from being a complete beginner in terms of this, to at least being somewhat experienced .

[You will gain a reward for overcoming an incredibly weak stat!]

As a message that Kang Chul-In had never seen before popped out, he narrowed his eyes .

Overcoming a weak stat… apparently a bonus was given for this .

[You have received the item: ‘master of signing’!]

An incredibly peculiar item was given to him .

[Unique]: Master of Signing

One who sits upon the throne, withstand the pressure of documents!

-Item from the Ancient Kingdom

-Requirements: Lord

-Type: Pen

-Option 1: Documents Scanning speed +30%

-Option 2: Signing Speed +80%

-Option 3: Infinite Ink (ink is not required for this pen)

“ . . . Do these people really want me to die while looking through these documents or something?”

Angered, Kang Chul-In almost broke the item he had been given, but stopped .

3 months later .

Inside a particular forest in the Southern Ishtar region, Dorian was wandering through a fog-filled area .

During this time, Jackpot (Dorian’s pet) started to whine .

“Jack?”

Whine~

“This guy… what’s wrong with you all of a sudden?”

It was strange .

Though Jackpot was a dog pet who lacked even a bit of fighting strength, he was still one to have a lot of courage and stamina to go through dungeons . It was very rare and strange to see him scared like this .

And his specialty, path-finding, was also not of use in this fog-filled area .

Thanks to this, Dorian was stuck in here for over 2 weeks . With his slowly dropping supplies, Dorian was starting to grow tired .

“Come on, Jack . ”

Whine~

Though Dorian tried to cheer Jack up, Jackpot seemed to be very scared, whining again .

Why is he… I mean, the fog here is a little too thick . Night and day, we can’t even see past 5 meters .

Even Dorian was getting impatient .

As a member of the famed British Special Forces, he had gone through all sorts of situations . But everything that he had learned thus far didn’t seem to work in this forest . Not only was he unable to see which direction the sun rose from, he was unable to find North, West, South, and East . It was as if he was back in the Bermuda Triangle .

“Sigh… it seems like it will truly be annoying to get out of here . ”

Dorian muttered .

At that moment!

Dding!

A message popped up in front of him .

[Alarm] Message for the coming Lord Meetings! (D-50)

It was about the coming Lord Meetings .

“Hmm? Well, I’m not interested in those… Agh!”

Dorian screamed .

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At the same time .

“Finally…”

Within the Laputa territory, Kang Chul-In also received an alarm about the coming Lord Meetings .

“Not bad . ”

Standing on the highest part of Laputa, Kang Chul-In took a look at the improvements that they had made over the last 10 months, and smiled .

The winter had gone, and spring had come .

The clean facilities, the energetic citizens, and the constant flow of adventurers . The state of the territory was great .

Not only that . Though the construction of the new city began in the middle of the harsh winter, the basic structure was already done . Though it was still far from being complete, it was enough for Kang Chul-In to decide to move the Laputa territory to the Ishtar region .

“I’ll see you again, Rothschild . ”

Kang Chul-In’s eyes shone .

The Lord Meetings .

This was an event that all Lords were forced to take part in, no matter what .

Unless one died, or lost their place as a Lord, or ran away to Earth, they would be forced to take part . That meant that Alex Rothschild, who had run away with his tail between his legs would also be there .

“I’ve prepared a present for you, Rothschild . ”

Kang Chul-In smirked .

It made him joyous just imagining what would happen with his ‘gift’ .

Through this particular gift, Kang Chul-In was prepared to give Alex Rothschild an absolute hell of a time there, destroying his ‘kind’ image .

… All that was left was to publicly humiliate him .