The atmosphere of the otherworld changed rapidly.
—Crack, cr-crack.
For so reason, the space tore even wider—far more than necessary for a single blonde man to pass through—and eventually, a figure erged from the rift.
“SA*#@……”
“...Awakener.”
Though it’s unclear if all the foreigners present knew his true identity, he was, at the very least, a familiar face, which was fortunate.
“Hun—Hunter Kang Chang-ho?!”
“Hello.”
The hunter, who was the epito of laziness, made his appearance.
For reference, unlike the kind-hearted Archmage, he usually did almost no work. Therefore, Kang Changho’s appearance here was proof that he had made up his mind to do sothing significant.
“Did he co to help?”
But amidst the joyful mont of reunion, his reaction was bizarre.
[O A O]
Thump, thump.
Kang Changho roughly kicked the [Small Dragon], which had foolishly stopped moving, out of the way. Then, in a rather unappealing state with the cute object buried in the sand, he started shouting sothing.
“Everyone get out through this passage that just opened. Right now!”
No beating around the bush. It was an order barked out with a tone that clearly implied he wouldn’t be explaining anything.
“What is this?”
Furthermore, the monsters in this Gate weren’t dull enough to ignore the massive volu—vibrations—he was putting out, so they soon began to swarm toward them.
—Swoosh.
The one who had appeared was none other than an S-class Awakened with physical enhancent skills. Kang Changho pulled one of the arm-monsters that was trying to grab him and crushed it with his bare hands. The monsters were crumpled into unsightly shapes, like empty aluminum cans. And there was the terrifyingly large man, bellowing into a translator for everyone to get out.
This seed like sufficient conditions to take action.
—I don’t know what it is, but it must be a dangerous situation. Let’s just shut up and listen to that guy.
Even the most stubborn people had no choice but to move when faced with this. People moved quickly, sensing the situation. They didn’t do the usual “asking back” or “questioning” typical of panic situations; they simply ran toward the rift soone had torn open.
“Run faster, everyone. Faster.”
He was only Korean by his resident registration. The owner of the [Dragon’s Eye], whose impression was not much different from a monster inside a dungeon, urged them on. How could anyone be sluggish in such a situation?
—Tap, tap, tap.
Humanity built up speed until the soles of their feet felt like they were on fire.
“Hunter Kang Changho.”
But in the midst of this urgent atmosphere, an anomaly occurred. A B-class hunter, who had been running while carrying an injured person, suddenly asked the first question as she brushed past the physical-enhancent-attribute hunter.
“Excuse , but is the terrain beyond that passage dangerous for when a person falls through?”
“No. It’s just flat land. No cars, just paved sidewalks.”
Indeed. Logically, a rescuer wouldn’t have torn a hole above a cliff. Once Kang Changho’s answer landed, Seonwoo Yeon, as relieved, imdiately took action.
“Hmm?”
—Whoosh!
This was a situation that might have surprised the Mage of Red Blood. A civil servant who had suddenly thrown the civilian she was holding… to the other side of the passage. However, Seonwoo Yeon was a psychic who had undergone years of training. She could now gently set down a middle-aged man with her attribute; the probability of this act leading to civil complaints was low.
Now the question was “why” she had done this.
“Hunter Kang Changho. Actually, I have sothing to tell you! There is one more victim who was dragged into this dungeon!”
The reason for the bizarre situation was quickly revealed.
“An S-rank foreign hunter was dragged into the desert earlier and is missing!”
The civil servant from the headquarters had stopped to inform him of this fact. Of course, the alien creature who had co to find them was magically very competent. Perhaps there hadn’t been a need for a point to point out such details directly.
Seonwoo Yeon, as a civil servant, had consistently followed safety-related manuals even in this environnt. If there was personnel missing, informing the rescue team was the most basic of basics.
“You never know. That person who was taken might still be alive.”
However, there was no personal sentint in the reporting process. She had been annoyed when the naless foreign S-rank hunter ignored people, but that trivial bitterness wasn’t enough to make Seonwoo Yeon remain silent.
“So I must point this out to Hunter Kang Changho so he doesn’t miss the golden ti.”
Seonwoo Yeon hurriedly revealed the fact that there was an additional missing person in the dungeon.
“My, oh my~”
“Yes?”
And although she had intended to escape the dungeon imdiately regardless of Kang Changho’s reaction—.
—Slither.
There was a reason Kang Changho had inserted that strange interjection.
“The passage…”
The wound in space that had existed at a specific coordinate suddenly sealed shut.
...
To think the door would close so quickly.
According to his expectations, the spot he had torn should have lasted longer than this, but if things were progressing unnaturally, the reason was simple. It ant that the worker observing this place had healed the wound in space. How ever, assuming he used magic remotely, it would consu too much energy over that distance. If he had to estimate a new, this dungeon might inherently possess resilience.
“I, I’m sorry! I’m truly sorry! Hunter Kang Changho! Because I moved late while trying to deliver the ssage—”
“Mmm, no. It’s not sothing that happened because a re civil servant did sothing wrong. Calm down and lower your voice.”
Furthermore, among those caught was an E-class child, and this individual couldn’t cross the passage because their legs were too short. Even if they had more ti, it seed they wouldn’t have been able to pass through the passage anyway.
Therefore.
“Honestly, even I didn’t know they would react this well.”
Soon, Kang Changho’s calm explanation followed. For reference, Seonwoo Yeon imdiately understood who he was referring to as “they.”
Alphaurins.
It seed those terrifying things were intervening in this space.
“In any case, it’s a matter that even the S-rank hunter couldn’t predict properly, so why should I bla an Association employee who works day and night?”
“Hunter…”
Swoosh.
Seonwoo Yeon continuously shifted her gaze restlessly while holding and protecting the minor Awakened who hadn’t managed to escape. It was a flustering mont, being left alone in the dungeon with Kang Changho.
“Logically, you really shouldn’t be blaming the volunteers who work for the country for pennies.”
At this point, Kang Changho unexpectedly offered a great deal of comfort. Moreover, he fell into deep thought for a fleeting mont with an entirely non-aggressive attitude.
...
A sudden idea occurred to him.
Co to think of it, Alphaurins had loved blaming others since ancient tis. But no matter how much he thought about the ideas he was about to entertain, it didn’t seem to be due to that tendency.
Kang Changho’s judgnt followed for a mont. He actually believed that the current crisis was sothing that happened because of Lemming. It was a situation that was half truth and half joke.
‘If I had the ti to use my head, I should have just committed a massacre myself before 3,000 years had passed.’
In any case, how comfortable it would have been if he had just exterminated the Alphaurins long ago. A figure who had kept the top spot even until the planet was almost dead, with no rivals to compare to when they were alive.
Lemming.
He asserted that no one could surpass this Magic Master within the field of magic theory. Of course, within history, there were tis when soone claid to be the “Post-Lemming—”
‘Not a chance.’
The mages who boasted like that were just maggots lacking sothing.
If he had to destroy a planet where the entire species consisted of mages… Kang Changho firmly believed that there was only one thing in this world capable of such a task. But if he, who was usually strict in evaluating others, praised them this highly, honestly, shouldn’t the Magic Master have wiped out his own kin in advance?
‘Of course, I know it wasn’t the situation for that, but as the issue rolls this far, I feel unnecessary resentnt.’
What a bother for an engineer.
—Whoosh.
This was the middle of a desert where a dry wind blew. Kang Changho, who had suddenly been dropped into a dungeon, thought he wanted to return ho right now to disassemble his TV and play.
‘Still, should I wait a little for now? From the perspective of that genius Magic Master… this might be one of the few opportunities to correct a past mistake.’
However, life doesn’t go well if you only ride on lazy desires.
First.
The reason why an S-class hunter was dispatched here today was as previously ntioned. The heartless beasts who had manufactured the Gate were here to steal Earth’s resources.
‘To be precise, they ca to move the compressed mana… that had accumulated for hundreds of millions of years in a specific structure of the strata, right?’
Indeed, even humans beco cautious every ti they launch a spaceship. There would be no reason for them to inefficiently conduct interstellar travel, which consus more costs than that. Observing with a new telescope that he and the Magic Master had built together, it seed they wouldn’t have been able to pass through the passage anyway.
‘Is that why psychics of various ranks were gathered inside this dungeon?’
Moreover, Earthlings were often seen as no better than genetically modified white mice to the Alphaurins. The enemies wouldn’t have felt any great guilt in this process, either.
‘Since my way of thinking isn’t much different from theirs, I honestly understand the process perfectly.’
In any case, the owner of the short na Lemming had jumped up the mont he learned that human experintation might take place.
—If we just hand over Earthlings obediently like this, we’re pushovers!
Material resources were OK. But the reason for Lemming’s participation in the war was that he couldn’t just watch human damage occur. If so, why did the engineer, who was relatively less active, appear here as an extra?
‘Mmm.’
Actually, Kang Changho had just co to collect information.
‘I hadn’t faced them out of fear until now, but if I think about it carefully, my enemies had many suspicious points…’
‘Coincidentally, the entire binary star system is on the verge of destruction, so they shouldn’t have ti to leave an engineer alone, right?’
So Kang Changho had torn through the dungeon and appeared in sync with the fact that the Magic Master had said he would step forward.
—Crunch.
Once he entered, his regret was profound.
—Clatter.
Kang Changho took out various artifacts to protect the weak he t inside the dungeon. He ford a small barrier with them and thought to himself: Die. So, he was trying this hard to live a second life, but today, he felt the probability of dying a dog’s death in this desert was too high, so he imdiately fell into complicated emotions.
‘It’s not too late even now.’
In any case, soul transfer used out of curiosity succeeded, so every day is a struggle. Kang Changho was truly a figure who lived because he couldn’t die. So, he was trying this hard to live a second life, but today, he felt the probability of dying a dog’s death in this desert was too high, so he imdiately fell into complicated emotions.
‘If the results of this information search co out poorly, I’ll have to persuade the Magic Master again, even if it’s unreasonable.’
Clatter.
Additionally, Kang Changho handed over many of the safety devices he possessed so that Seonwoo Yeon, whom he t in the dungeon, could survive. And he finished his thoughts briefly.
‘It’s obvious that only my head will be broken again. But still, at least once, I should yell at them while bringing up the days when I worked as a slave…’
Are they going to slaughter Awakened or not?
They aren’t serious at all.
He maintained an ambiguous attitude regarding the matter of protecting Earthlings and raised only one corner of his mouth, when suddenly, a small change occurred.
“Now then. I don’t know why you’re here, Seonwoo Yeon. But for now, stay still inside that barrier and wait.”
“Yes. Yes!”
“If you wait just a little, a sturdier exit will appear near here…”
A new existence appeared above the desert where the voices of mammals echoed.
—Rustle.
—Rustle.
—Swa-swish.
Had they been sleeping under the desert until now? Soon, gray-white monsters appeared, covered in sand…
These bizarrely shaped beings were actually quite familiar to Kang Changho.
‘I finally encounter the ones I only heard about through oral tradition.’
They were imitating satellite existences that had once nearly destroyed his hotown.
“They are also bipedal, after all.”
Now then, from this mont on, he would have to stall for ti until the [Space Key] he had set in advance created a rift again.
Swoosh.
The engineer who couldn’t be called by his real na turned around for a mont. Kang Changho wasn’t suitable for this kind of fight since he was in a position where it didn’t really matter whether Earthlings died or not, but since he had joined hands with the Magic Master, he tried to protect the civil servant for show.
—Tremble.
And a truly fortunate thing was… contrary to the assumptions of those blue-faced mammals, this desert was actually quite safe.
—Thud.
Kang Changho put the overly trembling child to sleep with a sleep artifact. Furthermore, he continued his thoughts. In the first place, he was an engineer with low combat ability. Why, then, did he walk into this place so confidently?
“Hmm.”
Actually, compared to the coordinates where the Magic Master had appeared, this place was heaven. Observation results showed that, as predicted, there was one elite class monster here that had intruded to the army.
‘It would be a jackpot if I kill the target and get the corpse. If not, it’s a bust if we’re hit by high probability?’
‘Whatever happens, it can’t be helped. Then for now, let’s find out why they had left the engineer alone all this ti.’
It was ti to satisfy his curiosity. Kang Changho lightly turned his head and unleashed the first thod he had prepared with the Magic Master.
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