Regress and Eat

‘Let's get out of the way first. ’

Staying is dangerous.

I hurried down the mountain, grabbed a cab and called.

The person who sent me the message is obvious.

I started my life as Seo Jin-wook a little over a week ago, but there was only one person who called me directly.

“Yes, Secretary Kim. Message confirmed."

“Huh? You're up early. Sir, we got your message on a secure email. If we leave for the lodge now, we should be arriving around 8: 00. Shall we head to your room? ”

As soon as I woke up, I checked my email at home and I think he contacted me.

Anyway, it's a very diligent style.

“I was afraid of that. You don't have to hurry, so I'll see you around 9: 00 as usual. It's not covered over the phone, so let's talk about the rest. ”

It took me about that long to get to the compound and sneak back to my room.

After finishing the call, look at the handset again.

Kim sent the following message:

- Quest details, interim reports have come in. I'm on my way to work now.

There are two things he has commissioned an external intelligence agency to do as I instruct.

Tracking down the current whereabouts of Angelica Heard and those who attacked us earlier.

Which side of the information did it come from?

I closed my eyes in the back of my head in the cab seat.

The brief darkness that filled the eyelid was sweet.

*

Someone's calling me.

“Hey, old man. ”

· · · Huh? I beg your pardon?

“Seung-hyun Choi! Why are you standing so still? ”

I opened my eyes.

Stay alert and look around.

The senses were awkward, but all the landscapes that came into view were familiar. The head rotates.

Yes, this is the 95th floor of the Choice Tower.

I can see my colleagues here. On the floor lies the corpse of the 95th floor boss Blood Reach.

My face shined with a glossy black bottom stone full of wrinkles. Nate looks at me with a curious look behind his back.

“· · · · · · · Nothing. ”

“Are you tired? Do you need a lift? ”

Nate asks single. Bloody hell, I shook my hand.

“That's it. I've been thinking about something else for a while. ”

Then he approached and shoulder to shoulder.

“There are only five floors left. Come on. Come on. ”

The weight is lifted in the voice that continues leaving a space for a moment.

“In the meantime · · · We've all been through a lot. ”

Others will look like a shoulder companion between a 20-something and an 80-something old man. But there was hot empathy between the brothers who had been through the same difficulties.

“When you get down to the tower, leave the rest to me. We've been rolling around a lot, haven't we? I'm done abusing old people, so have a nice life. ”

“· · Shut up. ”

Nate scratches his curly hair roughly.

It seemed like a joke, but I had no idea the truth was in the words.

Turn your head to look at your colleagues. A youthful look that is full of vitality.

Looking down at the back of my hand again. My skin looks like a twisted bark.

Unlike the guild members who climbed the tower together, I don't have much life left in me. Ten years, tops?

Like them, it is impossible to slow down aging and reconstruct the body with mana in the body. When I woke up, it was already my destiny.

But thanks to my unique skill, I was able to contribute like this. I was able to get here.

I tried my best to hide my heart.

“It's not over yet. Don't be nervous. If I fly off my neck while being careless and losing control of the skeletons, who's going to solve the rest of my tricks? ”

“Don't worry about that. ”

He shrugged his shoulders, waving a bony staff.

Of course I didn't say that because I doubted his ability.

A tin hunter like me wouldn't have been on a dangerous expedition if it wasn't for the worst, but coming up to the 95th floor alive is thanks to his skeleton soldiers who protect me.

· · · · · · · Of course, there was no near death crisis. Average, roughly once a floor?

“This trick takes a long time, by the way? ”

Follow your gaze.

There was the archaic Hibiki, who was hard-working and putting various Mana patterns on the door. You sweat a lot. If you don't know, you feel like you're attracting meteorites. A huge amount of Mana boils over.

Nate throws a horse at her.

“A hat? A little help? ”

“I don't need it! ”

Hibiki, who shot him like that, was committed to his work again.

Landy sits on the floor, paying attention.

“Nate, leave Hibiki alone. ”

Randy was feeding the corpse monster's blood. Today, I used a new method instead of stabbing the sword properly in the jugular as usual. When the battle was over, he put his sword in the giant chimera's anus, which looked like a mixture of licking ants and hippos, saying he had to step on it properly before going to the next floor.

The handle barely snaps out of the hole, as if it were a representation of the feeling of an unexpectedly mutilated horse. ’I vibrated faintly with a sound. I thought it was a good thing I didn't hear the curse and profanity of telepathy.

Randy points to Hibiki with his chin.

“You know how sensitive it is to unravel an elemental trick. ”

“The old man solved the trick. Just move as you're told. ”

“It's not easy either. ”

The tower doesn't end with hitting the boss on each floor. Then you have to solve the puzzle that you think is filled with malice and answer as Mana.

I don't know who designed this tower, but the more I go up, the more I think · · ·.

Maybe it was just to see how much humanity had grown between them. I can imagine.

As if you were going to score the results of the tutorial.

That's too much to ask.

At that time, one person intervened in our conversation.

“Before entering the next floor, you may want to equip yourself with Fulcrum immune items. ”

The woman who was concentrating with her hands together closed her eyes stood up one day.

Randy, in charge of supplies, asks.

“Did the prophecy come out? Is the next floor electric fritters? ”

“Yes.”

“No more information? ”

“That's all for now. As soon as you enter, there will be a full-scale attack. ”

When Randy hears this, he opens the sub-space without a word and pulls out the item.

“We have enough stock. We're all gonna make it through the day. ”

There is enough stock at the moment.

However, there are no additional supplies.

It's not just because you can't go back down and back down the tower.

Because the items that we have now are practically everything that humanity has.

Randy's words also bear this heavy meaning.

We may last a day or so, but if we need this item again, we'll just have to stay bare.

Everyone knew the meaning, but instead of putting it in their mouth, they received the item calmly and distributed it. so that it can be used immediately before the door opens.

Angelica's expression was stiff.

“Sorry, if I could have foretold more details · ·. ”

I intervened.

“No, Angelica. Thanks to you, I was able to get here in the first place. ”

You were right. Thanks to Angelica, we were able to get ready and climb the tower at a rapid rate.

“It's over!”

Hibiki completed the Mana pattern and approached us.

Behind her, a tightly closed door begins to circulate a blue Mana.

We're ready to open the door.

Hibiki spits as he steals his sweat.

“Damn, I'm gonna break a dimensional egg or something with my bare hands! What the hell is this, every floor? ”

Earth tutorials that begin with gate opening will end in a month.

We came here to break the eggs of dimensional aid before that point.

When the tutorial ends with the egg broken and a dimensional storm strikes, the dimensions of the Earth in which we live will be swept away from the dungeons and intermediate dimensions of the connected Dimensional Army.

It happens because there is no dimension to guide our world at that point in time.

It is as if a ship hit by a storm drifts away from the tip of the ship when it is unattended and disappears into a remote sea.

As a result, all lines connecting our lost ships to other vessels are cut.

In other words, the dungeons are all closed.

That was humanity's plan.

Most of the world's governments have collapsed after the SSS-grade dungeon collapse, and what's leading humanity now is the retreat of civilizations, five of which are on top.

We chose 'disconnection’ as the expression of the earth's fallout or our expression.

Yeah, we made that choice, so we're about to go up to the 100th floor and lay a dimensional egg.

“ · · · · · ·. ”

· · · · · · Huh?

Wait, no, wait. Halt! Halt!

I froze where I stood.

The cold waves of sweetness turn into crisis and then into horror.

Something's wrong.

Cool sweat flows.

Shhh!

Everything that was visible stopped like a paused video.

A familiar voice in my head said in a strange tone.

‘There were too many deaths. That's it.’

The landscape in front of me shakes and crumbles, and a new scene passes by.

Clearly, the egg of dimensional aid that needs to be broken is placed in her subspace.

It's like protecting it in a safe place.

Tell them that they will never wake up.

“What's the matter, old man? ”

Nate sees me.

The smile on his pale face was as sharp as a piece of glass that seemed to break soon.

There's a long scar just below his chin. You can clearly see the broken bones between the deep cuts. His Attack Skill Bone Blade Bone Blade grazed him.

Nate's half-decapitated throat spits blood like a waterfall. I coughed as if it wouldn't stop.

When I woke up, the hall we were in was a sea of blood. Everyone falls. The corpse of the ally is drowned in blood.

And in the middle, Angelica stands alone and looks at me.

“· · · · · · · You! ”

She was smiling with a face I didn't know.

Coldly twisted lips.

Eyes meet.

I cried.

“Angelica!”

And then, the world leaned in.

*

“Sir, we're here. ”

I opened my eyes.

Waiting for an answer, a taxi driver looks at me through a rearview mirror.

I gasp for breath. It was a nasty nightmare.

I got up close and paid for the cab, then went down and hid again.

I hid my appearance and thought as I returned home.

Are you mentally exhausted? ’

On the day of the Awakening, I went straight into the dungeon during a full day of training with Mana, cleared it for the first time, and even fought the Optimus Guild members.

‘No, both mind and body. ’

Even a hunter couldn't be more exhausted by a vigilante like this.

My current active Mana barrel is only about 600.

The training and combat thresholds have increased by 200 more than when I first evolved, and thanks to the Mana absorbed from my core, I have exceeded the thresholds, but Manaro is unable to reconstruct myself to my satisfaction.

Compared to ordinary people, Hunters are all superhumans, but level differences are prominent when compared between hunters.

More than 30,000 active barrels, which is the minimum requirement for SS rank advancement, are close to something that surpasses human concepts.

Compared to him, I was far away.

If the potential Mana exceeds 70,000, one or half of it has not yet been activated.

"and having nightmares about being tired. ’

I tried to get rid of it, but I couldn't help thinking about it.

Unresolved questions.

What's wrong with Angelica? ’

Has he been acting for a long time, trying to turn everything upside down in the last moment and lead to the destruction of humanity?

‘I don't understand motivation. ’

Why did you kill your colleagues? It was probably because others couldn't support her choice not to break the egg of the · · · dimension.

The brainwashing skills would not have been able to resist, because it was a strong belief and a breach of the goals of his colleagues.

Then the question comes back.

What were you planning to do by connecting the Earth to the dungeon without breaking a dimensional egg? ’

Maybe you'll get a clue based on today's report.

Even if you do not know the answer, I will change it so that it will not happen again.

‘Here we are. ’

I quietly step into the mansion.

I walked to the hallway in front of the room without anyone noticing.

I'm about to open the door.

‘ · · · · · ·! ’

You hear an unexpected sound through the door.

I soon noticed a glimpse of what was happening in the Ownerless Chamber.

Choi Seung-hyun End