The Overlord of Blood and Iron Chapter 57

Chapter 57
Chapter 57 . Magically Engineered Satellite
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 . ”