The Knight King Who Returned with Gods : Chapter 25
Translators: Nyx and Ririi Rain
Episode 25 Buzz Marketing (1)
Since the return of the Yakt Spinner, Leon had announced
his intention to make it a member of his guild.
"Then... I'll go through the formalities and
register him separately according to the procedure. It's... a bit complicated
and will take some time."
"Alright, go do your business."
After dismissing Hari, Leon walked down the empty hallway
with the Yakt Spinner. It was completely empty except for them, when──
"Cough...!"
-Kririg!
Leon blocked the blood that came out of his mouth.
[Are you alright, My Knight?!]
The repercussion was immediate. Leon was relieved to see
that the only parties who saw him now were the Goddess and the new Holy Grail
Knight.
"I am alright."
Despite Leon's words, Arianna gritted her teeth.
[Appointing a holy grail knight in a land that lacks
faith is too much after all.]
"It was necessary. It had to be done. Please don't
worry."
He was fine in his dying world. Because the overwhelming
holy power of the land protected Leon.
But not now. The faith had begun to spread here, but it
was still only to a tiny minority.
It was no exaggeration to say that the Holy Grail Knights
are the agents of the gods, living saints.
It took a tremendous amount of power to promote one to
such beings. It was a taxing feat that even Leon, with his Lion's Heart, had
trouble withstanding.
-Kririg?
Reading the thoughts of the Yakt Spinner, Leon smiled
benevolently.
"It is not your fault. It is my fault for not being
good enough."
[How is this your fault? It is the inadequacy of your
goddess].
"Divinity is not to be blamed in any way. Please do
not say such things."
At those words, Arianna fell silent. Her Knight of Glory
was faithful, even in times like these. So much so that it was hard to believe
he was an atheist who didn't believe in gods once.
[My Knight. Your goddess is always grateful for your
devotion. However, even if you claim to be lacking in faith, the virtue of your
goddess and the gods for not being active has hurt you.]
The goddess felt the need to hasten things within the
pantheon which was carried in his heart.
[Rest well. Hold trust in your deities and wait].
"Goddess Arianna?"
With that, Arianna quickly returned to the Lion's Heart,
where the pantheon had been sheltered.
And there, she found the other deities waiting for her.
* * * *
The day King Leon of the Lionheart celebrated his 121st
birthday.
The day when the world was destroyed by evil and only one
knight remained.
Leon took over the legacy of all the fallen Grail Knights
and evacuated the Pantheon to his own heart.
To their shame, the deities took refuge in the saint's
body, and for 180 years, they watched the Lionheart King destroy the demons.
The deities did not stand idly by.
They bestowed upon him all the energy and power they
could muster.
They made their only remaining saint bear all the
burdens.
Thus.
All the deities of the Pantheon owed Leon a debt they
cannot possibly repay.
"How is the child?"
Demera, the goddess of life and fertility, inquired.
"Not well, Mother of Life. Our Knight overworked
himself."
The God of War and Flame was furious.
"What has become of King Lionheart, who once upheld
the glory of the pantheon in all its splendor?!"
"Keep your temper down, God of War. He fought for
the pantheon for over two hundred years and was victorious."
"I know that! Which is why I am even more
frustrated!"
It was not to blame the Lionheart King.
He was mortified of himself, for he loved the Lionheart
King, Leon Dragonia, more than anyone else.
The Goddess of Light and Justice looked around at her
brothers and sisters, who must harbor similar feelings, and said,
"My brothers and sisters, the time has come to break
our 180-year silence. I can no longer watch my knight suffer."
'How
can we aid the Lionheart King and restore the glory of the pantheon?
He
shouldn't be the only one to bear the burden. The deities themselves needed to
take an active role in the situation.'
"My brothers and sisters. We must support our only
saint."
"He is no longer the only one."
It was the God of Metal and Blacksmithing who stepped
forward. A strikingly small and dwarfed figure compared to the other gods, but
more muscular than any of them.
Heto, who was worshiped by the dwarves and can be said to
be their main god, had just mentioned the newest saint.
"Yakt Spinner. That child has become a new
saint."
"Hmph...! A saint who doesn't believe in
divinity."
"Is that a complaint? God of War."
"Of course! To become a saint, one must serve the
divine and prove oneself worthy, and he's not qualified!"
There were not a few deities who agreed with him, but
there was only one reason for their silence.
"The Lionheart King has vouched for him. What could
be greater than that?"
"Greater...!"
At that, God of War looked dumbstruck. There were murmurs
all around him regarding this.
"Goddess of Justice. In your opinion, is the Yakt
Spinner not good enough to be a holy grail knight?"
Arianna's response was swift,
"He is a noble being who has prevented the schemes
of evil for millennia. He may lack faith, but he is full of honor and loyalty,
God of Metal."
"Hmph...! Leon and Goddess of Justice place too much
value on honor and chivalry. Honor is not enough to triumph in war."
The God of War rambled on, still unhappy. Arianna had
expected that he would eventually be willing to respect his beloved War Knight,
and so she turned to the God of Metal.
"God of Metal, there must be a reason you brought up
the Yakt Spinner. What thoughts do you have?"
God of Metal chuckled at Arianna's question.
"One hundred and eighty years ago, we lost all but
one Grail Knight. The Holy Grail Knights burned themselves to the ground as
servants of the pantheon until their last breath."
"......We know this for a fact."
"We have gained knowledge of this world through
Goddess of Life, the only one of us who has gained believers here."
"Is that true?"
"I have seen this world through the eyes of my
followers, and I have discovered something interesting."
Demera, goddess of life and fertility. She shared what
she saw with the other deities.
[Friends, this time we're in the Naju Plain, which is
always talked about these days!]
It was a broadcaster. He was Mr. Park, a farmer who also
does online broadcasts.
After experiencing the power of the blessed rice, he
traveled to the Naju Plain, which was said to be purified just like the Hunan
Plain.
"What is he doing?"
As some of the deities scratched their heads in
confusion, God of Metal explained,
"In this world, the homeworld of the Lionheart King,
they've developed a transmission medium called online broadcasting. It can be
said to be a very effective publicity tool."
"You mean we should use it to spread faith?"
"Exactly so. Show them miracles and prove to them
that divinity is real. But that's not all. The entirety of this world is
connected by a space called the Internet."
At that, God of War raised a question,
"But why didn't the Lionheart King think of this?
Wasn't he a resident of this world?"
God of Metal shook his head and delivered the sad news,
"It seems that when King Lionheart died in this
world, it was just before the Internet developed dramatically.”
God of Metal then began to outline a concrete plan,
"With blessings that can be applied immediately,
like what Goddess of Life had done, we will expand faith in all parts of
society. And the means of spreading the word will be the internet and other
media."
"But what about trial and error? Even Leon's
ambitious newspaper took twenty years to get off the ground."
"That's where our new holy grail knight comes
in."
""?????""
The deities exchanged puzzled glances.
* * * * *
-Kririg.
The resurrected Yakt Spinner carefully evaluated its
current situation and what needed to be done.
「Lack of maintenance.
CPU needed.」
First of all, its computing power had decreased
significantly now without the city's backup. As a result, its main algorithm
was not running efficiently.
But even as a machine, the Yakt Spinner has doubts.
Why was it able to move when it should be completely
broken?
Why does its computing power, which should be null,
actually equal to that of a subcomputer?
The super AI had tried to explain it with thousands and
tens of thousands of possible cases, but the Yakt Spinner realized that this
had no logical explanation. Above all──
[I am Heto, god of metal and blacksmithing. And from now
on, you are my spokesperson and I am your guardian].
A being was speaking to the Yakt Spinner without any kind
of communication apparatus, and in 'every language' that it could understand,
something it also had experienced when the 'hunters' invaded its city.
Something that doesn't exist in the program, something
unphysical and impossible, was entered as data.
Yakt Spinner had no choice but to organize them to fit
into its system.
「Divine system in
operation. Inputting anomaly A into divine system. Allowed to pass.」
The second problem arose in the midst of what the machine
could only describe as an "I'll just have to let this one slide"
moment.
「Power level 13%.
Requires immediate repair.」
Since the body has been reduced to a hundredth of its
initial size, the power level had dropped significantly.
Although the fact that it still had 13% of its original
power even when reduced to this size was absurd for a machine, so it was dismissed
as an anomaly of some sort.
The destroyed body could not be repaired. It had hacked
into the domestic computer systems to find a replacement, but most materials on
this planet could not replace its original parts, and even if there were, the
quantity was insufficient.
It was then that the God of Metal spoke,
[Behold, and feel, this is the 'metal of the gods' from
which your body can be made.]
-Bam!
It was invisible, yet it can be felt. It could make the
calculations even though it had no data.
The anomaly the Yakt Spinner felt when it fought Leon. A
divine power. With this, it could construct its own body.
-Kriig.
「What should this
machine do?」
As the God of Metal laughed, a 'revelation' descended.
The superior AI quickly began to absorb the necessary
knowledge.
* * * * *
"Huh? Chief. Look at this!"
"What is it?"
"It's from YubTube, but is this even
permitted?!"
Hunter Association Chief Kim Jin-soo's eyes widened when
he saw the video shown by his subordinate.
"Naju Plain? A YubTuber?"
The video began by showing the vast rice fields of the
Naju Plain.
[A special crop that only grows in Naju Plain. I'll show
you the wonders of the Pantheon Rice].
The narration was delivered by a voice that sounded too
perfect to be a robot. A soothing voice that instantly drew you in.
[You ask, "What makes Pantheon Rice so
special?" This video will answer that question].
A flawless, ultra-high-definition video that supported up
to 16K, with a BGM that sounded like nothing you've ever heard before.
[Our farmers' mornings start at 5 a.m. every day].
The fluid, seamless cinematography was clearly the work
of a pro.
[The farmers of the Pantheon begin with a reverent prayer
session with the interim priest, Mr. Choi. Look at that. They are now praying
to Demera, the goddess of life and fertility].
The camera zoomed in on the farmers as they prayed in
front of an altar.
Their faces looked serene and unblemished, more like
spiritual monks rather than farmers.
[What makes the crops of the Pantheon special?]
-The crops blessed by Demera make you healthy and cure
diseases just by eating them. My wife was suffering from alzheimer, but now
she's perfectly healthy!
-I was cured of a long-standing heart condition. Now I
can run 100 meters in 6 seconds!
These statements may seem ridiculous, but then the video
switched and began to show:
A sick dog pranced around after eating rice, a dying
cancer patient got cured, etc.
[There is only one reason why all of this is possible. It
is thanks to the deities of the Pantheon that His Majesty Leon Dragonia, the
Lionheart King of the Pantheon Guild, serves.]
-Goddess Demera!
-Long live His Majesty Lionheart!
-Praise the deities of the Pantheon!
"".......""
At some point, the video came to the attention of the
Association's staff in the hunter division. The two who just watched it didn't
speak until a long few seconds after the video was over.
"......Who made this?"
"Pantheon... Isn't it His Majesty Leon?"
"You really think that guy could be a
yubtuber?"
"......Did Deputy Hari make this?"
"She's computer illiterate."
It was strange. Putting aside the overly high-quality
video, what was the purpose of making this video in the first place?
Isn't it a bad advertisement? The reactions in the
comments were similar.
-What is this, a commercial?
-This is a bad ad. What a waste of talent.
-Isn't King Lionheart the survivor that's trending these
days? He captured Cheongju Gate.
-What a joke. No matter how ignorant you are of the
internet, is it okay to do this?
-What's more, this is being translated into 104
languages. What kind of crazy bastard made this?
Well, it was no surprise. Anyone can tell that this was a
blatant advertisement.
Even the cheap commercials you see on TV these days
wouldn't be this blatant and illogical.
Eating rice cures cancer? A goddess blessed the land?
These were the kind of things that would be ridiculed as
nonsense.
The flipside is.
All of this is absolutely true.
Eating that rice really does cure cancer, and there were
employees of the Association who witnessed the divinity... and at the center of
it all was King Lionheart, who had crossed over from another world.
In other words, this video was definitely from Leon's
side.
"Leon, I need to see him right now."
What was he thinking? Manager Kim Jin-soo got ready to go
out and called Han Hari.
"What in the world are you thinking?"
.........
......
...
Uploaded.
Inside Leon's residence. Yakt Spinner pulled its
auxiliary limb, which had been modified to a USB-C connector, away from the
laptop.
"Sir Yappy, are you done with my laptop?"
Yakt Spinner nodded its head as it handed back Han Hari's
laptop.
「Operation Name: Buzz
Marketing. Phase One successful. Moving to Phase Two. System hacking in
progress.」
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