The Player Who Returned From The Apocalypse

"It's really coming out endlessly."

With a tired expression on his face, Lee Do-hyung pulled his bow and looked around.

gray world.

On the ground, seen from the top of the collapsed building, there were still unrecovered human corpses and monster's manastones coexisting. This gray magic spread in the air was slowly corroding the surroundings, and the monster showed no sign of diminishing even after shooting arrows.

"Um-sal. It's much better than the first time. How clean and nice is it?"

Jeong Dae-man, who heard his complaint, said scornfully.

It was definitely his word.

At first, it was really hard to save lives, fight monsters, and even deal with named monsters.

Monsters flew from the sky, monsters crawled on the ground, and they used the skills that S-class hunters hid in the area they were assigned to deal with.

A certain area became a land of ice and snow.

In some areas, it rained endless arrows, and in others, red blood gushed out.

And in most areas, magic spawned.

Even in such a large-scale battle, civilians were not harmed at all.

"Well, I guess that tree did a lot more than we did."

Lee Do-hyung pointed to the huge tree in the distance and said.

The person who made the greatest contribution among those here was that tree, no one else.

It is a tree boasting a huge size that cannot be compared with anything else. Countless branches stretched out and the green leaves were thick, so there was little sunlight.

If it was just a big tree, that would have been enough, but this tree was the tree that killed more monsters than any other hunter.

Thick branches and roots pierced the monsters on the ground, and magic like a flash of light slaughtered the monsters in the air.

Even now, monsters coming from the sky could not climb over the trees, so only magic stones and green blood fell from the sky.

If you look up at the sky, still wet blood and magic stones are falling like rain.

There were questions about whether the green leaves were the blood of monsters or the natural color of the leaves.

A tree that feeds on the blood of monsters.

A being that produces and provides enormous mana and uses magic on its own.

World Tree Yggdrasil.

It was the name of the tree that Mana, the wizard who summoned it, spoke of.

"I should have known from the moment I suddenly appeared before the rankings. After all, if I become an S rank, it doesn't matter what happens."

"I sympathize, too. I was thinking of taking a look at the half-hearted guild, but I have to quit."

"What? Were you going to turn him into an enemy?"

"I guess. I was just thinking of reaching out if I ever became poor."

"I wonder how the impoverished situation will come about?"

"The invisible hand will make it."

"Yeah. Someone's invisible hand."

- Whose doctor is that involved?

At the words of Dae-man Jeong, who asked such a question, Do-hyung Lee kicked his tongue.

"Ttt. Let's stop. You know everything anyway, right?"

"Yeah. It seems like other guys are coming soon."

Clap, tick-

The two looked back at the loud metallic sound.

From the direction of the World Tree, a man wearing silver-white metal armor and carrying a huge spear and Valdemar were coming.

"Good job. It's shift time."

"Looks like that's already happened."

The current world tree has acted as a shelter.

Not only did he protect the civilians he rescued, he even absorbed the ash, returning it to his original beneficial magic.

All they did was hunt monsters that the World Tree could not find.

alternately, too.

'What did you say? Did he say he was confident in his defense?'

It's a tree, so it can't move, but once it's summoned, killing this tree was far-fetched.

Of course, the same goes for the magician who summoned it.

"How was the atmosphere there? Do you think it's okay yet?"

"Oh, it's okay. Except for the American bastards protesting as a group not to oppress, everything is really good."

"It doesn't look good at all."

"You have to understand. I'm suddenly in danger of dying, are you crazy? I'll have to grab the guy who saved me by the neck and even threaten me."

His expression was smiling, but he seemed to be in a very bad mood.

Even more so, as I didn't have a good relationship with the Americans from the beginning.

No matter how you go back, it seems difficult to rest comfortably.

“So I decided to kill them all if I couldn’t deal with them during the next shift.”

"Please refrain from dangerous remarks. If done wrong, it will lead to international problems."

"It's okay. Peter agreed. It seems to increase over time, so we'll continue to consider him a villain."

“…what the hell is going on inside?”

It's only been two days, and a mob appears enough to give them up.

… Come to think of it, the majority of the population of a single city, that is, a densely populated and large city, gathered.

All the weirdo would have gathered, and controlling them would be harder than you think.

"It's too late to go back and rest."

"You're going to work, we're here to rest. You think so too, don't you?"

“…I just wish it would end sooner.”

Lenin, who was wearing armor, said without hiding his troubled expression.

The armor he was wearing was an item dropped by a monster that appeared in this dungeon.

Like the previous A-grade dungeon, a lot of monsters belonging to the S-grade appeared, and perhaps thanks to the high drop rate, he dropped the item.

It was a bit difficult to face him with the armor of the hero Gunda, which is the same as the name of the monster, but only the number of worlds was a bit difficult, so Kim Gak-hwan and Valdemar were mobilized.

The ownership of the item was in Korea, Russia, and the United States, the origin of the dungeon, but apparently it was passed to Russia.

"Hey, let's go as slowly as possible."

"Is that so?"

Lee Do-hyung and Jeong Dae-man, noticing them, nodded and moved on.

If you run, it will take less than an hour, but if you walk slowly, it will take half a day.

It would be fair to say that I was late because I was fighting a monster on the way.

when you look back like that.

Valdemar summoned them.

"No, I don't think that's necessary."

"Yes? Why?"

"Because it seems like it's over now."

Lee Do-hyung saw the direction he was looking and understood his words.

The dungeon was getting smaller and smaller.

The monsters that appeared couldn't come in, so they struggled and started disappearing.

The gray magic in the air gradually faded.

The dungeon was disappearing.

"Come with me. I'll get you moving as fast as I can."

Valdemar smiled and rubbed his shoulders and disappeared in blood with them.

***

"Shut up..."

In excruciating pain, Samael let out a boil of phlegm instead of a scream.

As a last hope, Awakened a dungeon-type monster called Gluttony and poured items to strengthen it.

He took out all the items he wanted to be good at, and he ate it greedily.

However.

He quickly received the item Seongjin threw and lost the power of the dungeon.

Originally, his body could not handle the S-class skill.

Now he was slowly disintegrating and dying.

The dungeon that lost its owner was dismantled as it is.

There was no hope.

Most of the items are exhausted.

Items to block Seongjin's attack were too sluggish.

He didn't have the strength to make even the slightest resistance.

It was only natural that the rate of death was accelerating.

"…Hey."

At some point he stopped resisting.

What they did to come back to life was beg for life.

"Save me."

"why me?"

Looking down at him, who was dying, Sungjin asked.

Slowly, I felt my last life approaching.

Unlike before, all wounds could not be healed and resurrected, and some body parts had disappeared since when.

And as of now, he hasn't done anything, and he's lying on the floor, bleeding.

Perhaps this will be my last life.

“If I die… this world will not exist.”

"Damn it. You talk like you didn't want to. You're here to kill us, aren't you?"

"No. It's different from before. Our goal is to be free from dungeons and gates as invasion points. Some areas have become unusable lands as a break, and some have been occupied by monsters. If you use these points, it's possible to block them. ."

"Hey. Yeah? So?"

Seongjin, who was slightly interested, listened to him.

It was because the situation they were in was the same as the situation right before the end.

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"...if I die, the invasion points I had will spread to this world."

"okay?"

Turning his head, he looked at Yal Davaoth.

He nodded to signify that his words were true.

"There will be more people who want this world. Of course, the frequency of gates will increase and the number of dungeons will also increase. That would be difficult, wouldn't it?"

Depending on what kind of world you are in, even if you catch monsters and creatures of the same grade, the aggression points you give are different.

The fact that the aggression points he had collected spread to this world was so high that the rate was extremely high.

And when this fact spreads, it becomes a target of the worlds aiming for it.

"So let me go. For your world."

"Yeah. I understand what you mean. If you kill a monster like you in this world, the points you have will be converted into points that the Awakeneds of this world can get when they die? We're starting to open the gates more often."

Then I could understand.

Before Return, why the gates and dungeons that occur are increasing over time.

The points possessed by monsters killed at gates and dungeons spread throughout the world, and this would have increased the percentage of points earned by monsters when hunters died at gates or dungeons.

And the monsters from other worlds who have confirmed this often open gates to this place, thinking that it is a restaurant.

With the support of the spatial monster, setting the world coordinates would be a simple task.

"Even so. Just because we let you go, who guarantees that you won't come? You won't come?"

“….”

Anyway, this one has already killed a number of monsters and Demiurges, including Yaldabaoth, once.

Will they let go of the huge points they had?

"Answer me conscientiously. Are you confident that you won't look into this world?"

“…If you kill me, you will regret it. The entire force of our army will attack this world…”

"The thing I hate the most is coming out. Threats that don't work. They're trying to gain something with nothing to lose, look at their tenacity."

“….”

"Think carefully. You return to the other world, leak information, and start a war again, and raise the number of gates and dungeons here a little. What would be the benefit?"

Current and Future.

It is a confrontation between the two values, but the threat right now is the presence of those who treat monsters of grade A or higher like an army.

Because they openly targeted themselves.

They were clearly enemies.

"And you're not coming this way."

Hwareuk!

Seongjin, who had completely burned Samael's body with nephritis, continued.

"It's our turn this time."

Samael was no longer resurrected.

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