Kang Hwan-gye (1)
All mixed up— the boundary between the ground and the abyss.
“…It’s difficult.”
The revolutionary who stood still and looked at the cracks in all directions spat out a low voice to himself.
How did things turn out like this?
Everything was fine until a few years ago.
By the time the decades-long arrangements have been completed one by one, and we are finally waiting for the end of the thousand-year world to begin.
Things started to go wrong from the very first button, the resurrection of the Immortal King.
The greedy Marcos tried to get the ‘Death King’s Fragment’ into the hands of Marcos, and induced him to voluntarily sacrifice everything to complete it.
The same goes for the Brokoslak Clan, which had another fragment.
In fact, as long as the two fragments were successfully fused, it didn’t matter whether Marcos or the Brokoslak clan took the initiative.
After all, the Immortal King born that way would become an uncontrollable bomb and start rampaging.
‘That’s how I was going to naturally aim for a chain reaction, starting with Talia Kingdom and shaking the West.’
However, the Immortal King began to act on his own accord, and all the plans he had prepared with great effort were in vain.
Brokoslak, who should have been absorbed by Obipor after losing its base and feuding with Upersh, was still alive and well.
Oldman, who was planning to overthrow the Tulk kingdom at the moment when the Church and kingdoms were about to join forces against the Immortal King, was eaten by the Immortal Army while only looking at the timing of the wrong plan.
In response, Nurabe, who had to lead numerous monsters from the northern mountains to the south, accidentally touched one of the elven offerings and was killed by the church’s quick intervention without being able to do anything about it.
‘The plan continued to go wrong after that.’
It’s a shame that the continent-scale sacrificial ceremony and the opening of the door to the abyss went smoothly…
If even those things failed, I almost couldn’t even start the later work in the first place.
‘And then…’
The revolutionary who had been quietly examining the cracks closed his eyes and listened to the sounds coming from all directions.
The sound of the world mixed in the noise like a grain of sand.
The sound was telling.
‘…This isn’t good.’
The end of a great plan that has been devoted for a long time.
Even at this very moment, the mysterious and overwhelming death that was creeping up on him.
‘Not very good.’
If you stay still like this, everything will end with your own death.
Death is not scary, but not being able to achieve the given mission is a big problem.
That much could never be overlooked.
Isn’t that the reason and everything he has been living up to now?
“I can’t help it.”
It seemed that he had to make a decision before it was too late.
The revolutionary’s gaze turned sideways.
To the seed of madness wriggling as if it would come to life at any moment.
***
While Hans, who had been devoted to research for a while, finally came up with the results.
The work of the other avatars in their respective domains was also proceeding smoothly.
“Nice to meet you again. Let me formally introduce you. My name is Yoon Ji-yoon, director of the Seoul Southern Branch of the Korea Returnees Association.”
“Heinz. Now I am serving as the representative of the Blood Pledge.”
“Excuse me, but before we start a full-blown conversation, I want to ask you something. Recently, it is said that a man wearing an opera mask hunts criminals every night.
“I don’t know what you mean.”
“···Is that so.”
Heinz II was busy traveling back and forth between Earth and Auterica, gathering forces under his command and establishing a cooperative system with the outside world.
“Sniff! There’s no need for the young lady to come along.”
“Uhuhu— even if you look at it like this, am I pretty flat-footed? I have a personal relationship with the chiefs of each tribe as well as directions. No matter what anyone says, she’s the warchief’s daughter.”
hahahaha! That’s good! I’m going to be moving fast over a fairly long distance though, is that okay? Even though he is a great sorcerer, it must be difficult to follow him.”
“Ah! That’s… It’s a shame, but if Harley-sama carries it…hehehe—”
With Misty’s help, Harley roamed the South together, devoting themselves to uniting his tribe.
In addition, Hubert Corporation was in the process of being reborn as the largest merchant corporation in the West beyond the top of the Tulk Kingdom thanks to the omnidirectional support of the powerful people of each faction.
Harris idly idly guarding the World Tree all along, even in the midst of a large-scale search for lycanthropes.
‘Hesperon and Horus have been training all along.’
One thing worth noting is that it was a waste to leave the Immortal Army’s overflowing manpower untouched, so they diverted some of them to northern resource development?
Horrible and inhumane mines, resembling slave camps, were set up all over the northern mountains, and tireless undead workers began digging for rare ores nonstop.
And the remaining minerals that were provided to Dwarf Howard as needed flowed directly into the Hubert Company and helped them to grow their power.
‘Because of that, Hubert suddenly became the manipulator planted by the Immortal King in mankind. Well, it won’t matter if the executives understand that.’
Of course, even if you don’t agree, you’ll have to take it off, but wouldn’t it be more efficient to accept it and actively accept it?
‘Some of the belligerent executives used them as sacrifices to raise Heinrich’s reputation.’
During the operation of the immortal army, he managed to beat the people in power who had been anxious about it as much as he wanted, and in the process, he raised the sense of crisis among mankind and made them more united than ever before.
All that was left was to defeat the revolutionary of the Oath of Reversal, the root of all evil, and thoroughly crush the conspiracy he was plotting.
After that, you should be able to enter the final stage of the home theater, the ‘last showdown’.
‘Of course, there are still many things left to do in Autelica, but that’s because it can be done regardless of the home theater. I’m more interested in the other side than that.’
I stroked my chin in an excited mood and organized my thoughts.
‘Theory is perfect. Now, all that remains is to wait for the cooldown of 「Summon the Otherworld Transmission」 before executing it.’
Needless to say, being able to go to a different world other than the one I was first sent to was an incredible event.
There is only one other world that all Earth Awakeners can go to.
Until now, I hadn’t even heard that there were exceptions to it.
‘It’s not that returnees value the level of origin for nothing.’
Except for the first unique skill, the abilities and additional skills they learned were all influenced by the world.
To put it simply, it was said that magic-related skills could not be acquired in the Moorim world, and vice versa.
‘Kang Hwan-gye has a completely different personality from Auterica. I can’t wait to see what abilities I can acquire.’
While waiting for the cooldown of the transport team, I researched the new dimension to enter.
When I was preparing for my first alien transfer, I didn’t know which dimension I was going to, so I collected information at random, but since I knew the place I was going to, it wasn’t so comfortable to investigate.
“What? Is this a bit… Strange?”
However, in the course of the investigation.
I found something unclear and involuntarily frowned.
The number of dimensions that have been revealed so far is several hundred.
In general, updating information on that dimension is done in the process of reporting to associations of each country by returnees who have returned to Earth.
Of course, not everyone responded honestly, and there were quite a few who did not report in the first place, but the global tally was not negligible.
‘Why is the return rate so low recently? No, and the most recent update date…’
However, in the case of Kang Hwan-gye, the most recent information update was only one person a year ago.
Doesn’t that mean that no one has returned to the other world for about 10 years after that?
‘Even if there are unknown returnees like Salma… I think this is too much.’
It was all the more so when I looked at the statistics on the number of returnees from Kang Hwan.
It was a fairly active dimension with a steady increase in returnees since its first appearance, perhaps because it was discovered at a fairly early stage.
‘At some point, the number started to decrease rapidly, and finally reached this point.’
Several possibilities passed through my mind.
To put it simply, for some reason, the danger has risen to such an extent that it is difficult to survive, so it can be said that they have been annihilated.
-Dimension name: Kang Hwan-gye
– Registration number: C-309BK
-Dimension type: Murim world
– Hazard Rating: Very High, Survival First
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Just in time, there was such information in Kang Hwan-gye’s information in the database of the returnees’ association.
Considering that the danger level of the Auterica dimension, which is said to have been engulfed in a cataclysm by the descent of the demon king, was ‘fairly high, please be careful’, it was to the point where I had no idea what kind of demonic realm might be unfolding there.
I immediately lowered my gaze and looked at the information that was densely written with the basis for calculating the rating.
‘…When I read Salma’s memories, I couldn’t get this detailed information.’
It was partly because he was mentally and physically damaged by the abyss and focusing on the connection with the Buncheonhoe, but it was also because his memory was full of destruction and massacre.
And reading the information of this association, I was able to confirm that the one who was a thousand year old was one of the reasons for increasing the danger of the world.
‘It seems that the ‘fear of the Ganghwan world’ that I said with my own mouth was not an empty word. . . . But that simply isn’t the problem.
Self-proclaimed fears are, at best, individual.
Unless you can command an army to cover the continent like the Immortal King, there is a limit to the influence that can be seen as a single force, no matter how precarious it is.
The risk calculation of the Ganghwan system was a total difficulty caused by various things.
‘Still, that doesn’t answer the question that there are no returnees.’
Of course, being dangerous could be one of the reasons.
However, no matter how much I thought about it, it was clear that there was a problem before the danger that there were no returnees this far.
Yes, for example…
‘As of a certain moment, Earthlings aren’t being summoned.’
Without the influx of new personnel, the current statistics could have been sufficiently explained.
‘Salma returned after a full 20 years of the system sending warnings.’
And the last time an official returnee from the Kangwan world appeared was about 10 years ago in another world time.
Considering that they return on average in about 10 years, it could be said that the time when the two awakened and were sent was roughly the same.
‘And that must have been the end of the transmission in the Ganghwan world.’
When I looked for more information about him, there were quite a few such dimensions.
The risk soars to ‘very high’ and the return rate rapidly decreases, and soon no one knows about the future, becoming a so-called ‘closed dimension’.
‘Does that mean the newly opened dimension is like that?’
Perhaps by now, not a single Earthling will remain in the Ganghwan world.
And, like other dimensions before it, it will gradually be forgotten and only remain as a memory in the memories of a few returnees.
I don’t know why it happened, so I felt a little uncomfortable, and it quickly disappeared.
In fact, it was just an issue that had nothing to do with him.
‘Interesting. It’s a closed dimension…’
Rather, pure curiosity and some unknown intuition kept stimulating me.
Right there, there’s an important clue.
Time flies while gathering information like that.
When the cooldown of “Summoning the Otherworld Transmission Line” Is finally filled up—.
“Okay, then shall we go?”
I sent an advance party to that dangerous world where you can’t guess what state it’s in now.
“Ah… The air over there is better than here, right? Ugh, no matter how I put a barrier, it still looks like this…”
Harris, a high elf who was a strong man who had reached transcendence, but had nothing special to do, just loafing by the World Tree.
《A feat achieved! Beyond the permitted world, we have entered a new world.”
《As a reward for pioneering a new world beyond the dimension, the privilege 「Summoning the Other World Transmission」 will be strengthened. The cooldown, which was once a day, is reduced by half.”
《He accomplished a great feat and had a great impact on the world. Karma is greatly increased.”
Finally, a newcomer with experience enters a new world…
No, to be more precise.
It was the moment when a conglomerate that had already grown as fast as it could grow was stepping out into the ruined alley.
