The Overlord of Blood and Iron

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 .

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 . ”