Reasonable judgment
Kang Chang-seok’s expression distorted when he realized that he had ignored his advice.
Kang Chang-seok approached the podium with a firm expression on his face when he saw Yoo-seong pointing to his lips and shaking his head quietly even after sending a whole tone.
“This is Kang Chang-seok, president of the Korea Contractors Association. nice to see you.”
Courteous greetings and unsentimental applause.
After a brief introduction, the meeting room went dark and a video started playing on a large monitor hanging on one side of the wall.
People who go inside to investigate a strange city that suddenly appeared.
At first, they traveled by car or truck, but soon after entering the city, all vehicles turned off, and people who got out of the cars checked their surroundings and maintained their engines.
However, the vehicles showed no signs of being corrected over time, and as problems such as noise or blurring of the screen appeared even on clean images, the atmosphere began to become more serious.
-… … !
A scream that was so muffled that I couldn’t hear it properly.
The video ended with the lizards, tentatively named Lizardmen, appearing and aiming their weapons at the same size as humans.
“As you can see, there are anomalies in the city where electronic devices such as cars, smartphones, and cameras fail or stop working.”
It wasn’t particularly surprising.
After the monsters appeared, phenomena that ignored the existing common sense or the laws of physics were being observed in some areas.
“After hearing from the contractors, the government sent in the army to subdue the city. However, as you can see from the video playing now, the results were not very good.”
A self-propelled gun that spews fire with a loud sound.
However, dozens of shells fired in that way could not penetrate the translucent membrane that suddenly appeared and exploded in the air.
“It is a shield that covers the entire city. We are guessing that it defends the city by automatically responding to attacks with a certain speed or power.”
“That means… … .”
“It means the contractors have no choice but to go inside to rescue survivors and search the city. Of course, I know it’s a very dangerous thing. I don’t know how many Lizardmen there are and what kind of monsters there are.”
Kang Chang-seok, who stopped talking for a while and stared at the meteor, turned his gaze and continued talking.
“But that doesn’t mean we can’t just leave the city of captives and monsters who don’t know what dangers there may be. So the government intends to send a large force of contractors to rescue survivors and search the city.”
“Could it be, is it forced conscription?”
“It can’t be. The government is preparing sufficient compensation according to the risk, such as compensation and tax cuts, and the association making weapons using rare monsters or new materials.”
“Oh oh.”
“Compensation is worth it, but tax cuts and weapons are a bit appealing, right?”
A small commotion erupted in various places, as if the proposal was quite appealing.
Kang Chang-seok, who looked at the people who were exchanging conversations with a flushed expression, checked his smartphone and lowered his head.
“sorry. Excuse me for a moment as this is an important call related to the work of the Association.”
[come out.]
Hearing Kang Chang-seok’s double voice, Yoo-seong smiled bitterly and got up from his seat.
“Go to the bathroom for a moment.”
As soon as I came out of the conference room and closed the door, I heard Kang Chang-seok’s voice as the world turned black and white.
“What the hell are you thinking?”
“You came because an acquaintance asked you to find someone? why?”
In response to the immediate answer that came out without the slightest hesitation, Kang Chang-seok said with an expression of absurdity.
“If you ask me for some information, you say that you don’t have faith that you won’t harm me, that you might take away your qualifications, and you hit an iron wall while making strange noises, and then you thought you’d barely met him and ran away without looking back. Are you going on such a dangerous mission because an acquaintance asked you? Are you asking me to believe that now?”
“What if you don’t believe me? Are you going to block it?”
“As for my real nature, I just… … .”
“I think there was someone who said a while ago that he had no intention of harming me. I can’t remember who it was.”
Kang Chang-seok’s eyes twitched at Yoo-sung’s smirk.
“It’s a quest, even if it fails, it ends by returning to Earth or receiving a penalty, but in reality, if you die, that’s the end. I know you’re growing fast and confident in your skills, but even so, you’re still at the level of a contractor. Now is the time to focus on building strength step by step while carrying out quests.”
“You don’t have to do quests to become stronger. In real life, you can gain experience and gain enlightenment to become stronger, right?”
“Efficiency is different. efficiency.”
“Well, what do I think differently?”
Kang Chang-seok, convinced that Yoo-seong would never give up his stubbornness no matter what he said, raised his palm and said.
“Crush what you’re making now. Then I’ll let you go right away.”
“What if you don’t want to?”
“Then you should stop it with force, not words.”
A circular shield that rotates endlessly and maintains the shape of a perfect Taegeuk.
It was Meteor who didn’t know anything about martial arts, but he was able to realize that it was absolutely impossible to break this shield with his own strength.
‘The class is different.’
There was no hint of Darkwolf Type 16 or Balkyung, and even if he took out a plasma axe, it didn’t seem like he could make a single scratch on that shield.
However, Yoosung slightly raised the corner of his mouth.
‘I have one skill with a different rank.’
The Magic Eye of Perfect Truth obtained as a quest reward.
If the demonic eyes of imperfect truth before then were at the level of observing the stars in the night sky, the demonic eyes of perfect truth were at the level of bringing a space telescope and observing them.
Yoosung, who had raised his mana using the Vermund operation method, punched the shield as it was.
Kang Chang-seok gave a satisfied smile at the punch that was slow enough to cause a yawn, but Yoo-seong was serious.
‘Two energies with different properties are perfectly balanced and dissipate external shocks. It cannot be broken with just a strong attack. But if only I could upset the balance… … .’
The structure and principles of the defense shield are grasped and analyzed in detail with the evil eye of truth.
And the moment the fist collided with the target, the barrier created by Kang Chang-seok was shattered with the sound of breaking glass.
“… … uh?”
“Now is it?”
“for a moment! how did you do this How to build Taegeuk Miri Wall?”
“I don’t know if it’s Taegeuk Miri Wall or what it is, but the important thing is that it was broken. Surely, it’s not like you’re saying two things with one mouth, right?”
On the outside, he seemed relaxed, but on the inside, he wasn’t.
No matter how strongly he insisted, if Kang Chang-seok finally decided not to, that was the end.
‘This is why I didn’t want to meet users.’
A situation in which someone else is in control of the situation, not oneself.
It was one of the things Yooseong hated the most.
Fortunately, Kang Chang-seok was a person who knew how to keep his promises.
“… … great. Do as you please.”
“Are you giving up unexpectedly?”
“Because I promised.”
To be precise, it was because he acknowledged Meteor, not a promise.
At the time of the first meeting, nullifying his restraints was thought to be the effect of a special artifact and passed it off, but breaking the Taegeuk Miri wall with bare fists is pure skill no matter how you look at it.
At best, I thought it was about the level of the top level of the contractor, but it was safe to say that this level exceeded the level of the top level of the contractors, perhaps the level of the contractors.
“Okay, then why don’t you send me back to the original world soon? I said I was going to the bathroom, but it takes too long.”
right!
“I go first.”
As Yoosung disappeared into the meeting room, Kang Chang-seok sighed and leaned his back against the wall.
I had some doubts until yesterday, but now I’m sure.
Yooseong is a monster.
A monster that can reach the level of the three weak points in no time, and if given a little time, it can go to the triple, eventually even to the three rivers.
But that made me even more worried.
‘But I’m not fully grown. I need protection.’
I don’t know why, but Yooseong seemed to hate being entangled with users.
It’s not that I don’t understand the feeling.
Even among the users he knew, there were two users who could never be entangled with each other, and the expression “crazy guy” was not enough.
‘It’s a bit different for me to step out… … .’
It might look cowardly, but he couldn’t fight himself.
His role is to be a mediator who connects transcendent people with people.
If he dies, the contractors all over the world will immediately return to being ordinary people.
Kang Chang-seok, who had been thinking for a while, took out his smartphone with trembling hands and held it up.
‘I never thought the day would come when I would contact you first.’
It’s not as dangerous as Blue Blood or Nirvana, but that doesn’t mean it’s safe.
No, in a sense, it could be said to be more dangerous than either of them.
He hesitated several times, but in the end, Kang Chang-seok had no choice but to kneel before the noble cause of the future of mankind.
* * *
The day after the meeting ended, Yuseong headed for Gangwon-do.
After the monster appeared, Yooseong, who had been out of Seoul for the first time, smiled bitterly as he looked out the window at the scenery passing by.
Buildings that have collapsed and burnt traces, broken roads and abandoned cars, and dreary cities and towns where not a single person is visible.
It was a landscape that did not fit the title of the country with the most successful defense in the world.
‘If Korea is at this level, how serious is the situation in other countries?’
It was only then that Yooseong realized that he was too indifferent to the world.
In the early days of the incident, there was no time to worry about anything other than surviving, and after a certain amount of time, to find out the function of the goggles, it was because I was concentrating on experimenting by performing various quests in the house.
The only thing I knew was that the Internet was disconnected from time to time and that prices had gone up a lot.
‘Should I do some activities on Earth?’
When users had a conversation in the community saying that it wouldn’t be strange if the earth collapsed right away, they just laughed and passed it off, but I didn’t think it was a simple exaggeration.
Yooseong, who was agonizing over his role as a user, returned to reality at the voice of Seo Chang-hoon.
“Looks like we’ve arrived. get off.”
Yooseong, who got off the bus, let out a small exclamation.
Despite being a temporary camp, there was a hustle and bustle reminiscent of a market due to the military, contractors, and people who smelled money.
“Everyone, please move according to the instructions!”
Returning the smartphone and receiving the supplies distributed by the soldiers made me feel as if I was re-enlisting or undergoing training.
Of course, what the soldiers handed out were not items such as military uniforms or combat boots.
Necessary items for this operation, such as a high-calorie energy bar, bottled water, and a special GPS that can be used in the city using semiconductors using mana stones.
Seo Chang-hoon, who looked closely at Yuseong, who was warming up after receiving all the goods, eventually opened his mouth with an expression that he couldn’t stand it.
“Are you thinking of changing your mind right now?”
“sorry.”
“It’s up to you to apologize. I just said it because I was worried. Don’t you know what dangers there are in the city? You may have your own ideas, but wouldn’t it be better to move together in case of an emergency?”
Working alone in an unknown place is never a good choice.
Seo Chang-hoon could not understand Yuseong’s choice to work alone at a time when even the people who participated in this search as individuals gathered in groups of threes and threes to form a temporary party.
A very irrational judgment.
However, despite repeated invitations, Yooseong shook his head.
“I’m not used to working together because I always work alone. I may unintentionally cause trouble to others, so I think it would be better for me to act alone.”
“Um, then it can’t be helped. But don’t get too far away from people so you can get help in case something happens.”
“Of course it is.”
Yoosung saw Seo Chang-hoon off with a friendly smile, and at the same time he turned his head, he turned around with a nonchalant expression on his face.
‘If a lot of people move, it’s hard for me to escape by myself when an emergency situation arises.’
To the extent that Seo Chang-hoon did not have to worry, Yoo-seong was making a very rational decision.
this is not a game
