Episode 207 [People preparing (3)]
The real world.
The wilderness of the Australian continent.
In the wasteland where kangaroos, marsupials, and stray cats and rabbits brought in from outside should live, strange two-legged animals were roaming around. It was a furry two-legged animal carrying a club and a stone spear.
It looked like an ape that existed a long time ago, or it looked like an evolved chimpanzee or orangutan.
But not everyone. The beast had only one large eye on its face.
And the size of the beast was also huge, unlike humans. 2 It was so big that my head could stand on top of the 3m tall bushes.
They were monsters that had never been seen anywhere else on Earth.
One-eyed giants were guarding a place in the wilderness.
A field with black smoke billowing in the air.
Ugh.
A huge amount of mana was gushing out from there.
The black smoke gradually changed its shape.
All the giants stepped back.
The smoke turned into a black hole.
A moment later, a human came out of the rescue.
Swish.
The giants looked surprised at the unexpected appearance of the small human, but soon raised their weapons.
Kyaaaaaaa!
However, the human that jumped out of the hole was faster.
A huge sword protruded from the hand and the man grabbed the handle of the sword and threw himself away.
The sword swings and
boom!
The monsters flew in all directions as if they had been hit with a hammer.
The moment it was hit by the great sword, the shield was broken.
The shield was not broken by the mana collision. Simple physical force. It was broken by force.
The bodies of the giants flying in all directions were cut and broken.
There was no way my body could block an attack that broke the defense shield with force.
Sloshing and flopping.
The giants flying in the sky were soon thrown to the ground.
It was an instant. Nearly ten giants were eliminated in an instant.
Kyung-hoon put his sword into subspace.
He looked around.
Except for the fallen giants, it was an ordinary wasteland.
-Checked the GPS. This is central Australia.
“It’s an abandoned area, right?”
-yes. It is unofficially part of an area abandoned by the Australian government.
Abandoned area.
It was not a place where the government collapsed and became a land of monsters, but a place where the country was still intact, but it was a name that meant an area that was taken over by monsters and could not be accessed.
Central Japan, including Tokyo, and many areas of Siberia and the Rocky Mountains on the American continent. Unofficially, many countries had such regions.
Here on the Australian continent, over 80% of the area was abandoned. The Australian government was only protecting the easternmost coast of the continent.
“Is it still early days here?”
Other than the dead giants, all I could see was a wasteland.
Gyeonghoon recalled the patterns he had discovered.
After first finding the damaged pattern in the wreckage of the shattered Manhattan, I had already discovered the pattern several times while hunting down monarch-level monsters.
Eve and Kyung-hoon analyzed the patterns and traveled across dimensions to continue gathering information.
What I eventually found out was that this pattern was a kind of dimensional portal similar to Kyung-hoon’s characteristics.
It was a pattern designed to open a hole between dimensions, push mana into another dimension, charge the pattern in between, open the dimension door, and let monsters through.
Some of the monarchs were using this pattern to push mana into the dimension where Gyeonghun lived, and were now transporting some of their own people to the dimension.
Of course, it was a portal that was difficult to pass through, not only at the monarch level but also at the captain level, but there was no telling what would happen over time.
-This time too, we were unable to find out who created the pattern.
Kyung-Hoon and Eve hunted monarchs and looked for the monster that created the pattern.
Even if it was a powerful monarch-level monster, its wisdom and knowledge were not that great.
It was clear that there must be a separate monster that created the pattern.
“These guys are probably one of the reasons why mana is increasing in our world right now.”
Kyung-hoon looked at the black stain that looked like smoke still remaining.
Mana continued to pour out of the flickering black stain.
Kyung-hoon placed his hand on the stain.
He awakened the trait.
It wasn’t time to build the dimension door yet, but Kyung-hoon didn’t just sit around for two years.
Although it was impossible to create a portal without a time limit, it became possible to use it for other purposes.
It was fully possible to destroy the remaining traces of the dimensional door.
Kwasik.
When Kyung-hoon squeezed his hand, the stain distorted and disappeared.
The mana that had been flowing like a waterfall stopped.
Kyunghoon opened his hands with his palms facing down. A large entrance to subspace was created beneath the outstretched hand.
Kyung-hoon remembered the image of the drone, and the ring on his hand picked out the drones from subspace and dropped them toward the entrance.
Thump thump thump.
Drones fell from the entrance to subspace.
Weeeeeeeee!
Before hitting the ground, the drones were activated and flew straight into the sky.
An almost tropical drone flew into the sky.
– Let’s start the search.
Drones flew in all directions.
“It should be completed quickly. After all, it’s impossible to use just a drone.”
It was an area well over ten times the size of Korea. Even if he could move the drones, it would have been difficult for him to check on his own.
-I’m rushing as much as possible.
Kyunghoon nodded. He knew very well that everyone was working hard.
He also kicked his foot.
The mana flowing through my body spurted out at my feet.
My body wasn’t as fast as before. Kyunghoon’s body shot forward.
I think it ran for about 30 minutes. Eve spoke.
-Drone number 3 moving north was destroyed. Found a number of monsters before they were destroyed.
Squeak.
Kyunghoon stopped.
-West direction. Drone 5 has been destroyed. Many monsters were found here too.
-Drones 6 and 7 also found monsters!
“Same here.”
Kyung-hoon glared ahead and opened his mouth.
Monsters were also visible in Kyung-hoon’s eyes.
They were giants holding stone spears and wooden bats that they had just killed.
Giants were running through the fields. The giants were chasing a monster resembling an ostrich, which was flapping its wings and rising.
And I saw holes behind the giants. Big holes spread out on the flat ground.
It felt like I had arrived in front of a huge ant cave.
Giants were coming in and out of those many holes.
Those holes were clearly the homes or nests of giants.
“Is it like this in other places too?”
-There were places where there were hunting giants, but there were also drones that were destroyed while passing over the holes.
Kyung-hoon glared at the holes.
“Did America know?”
-sorry. It’s difficult to access US networks right now.
“If the Russian satellite had been more powerful, we could have known in advance.”
A Russian spy satellite was moving around diligently to find the monsters, but filming on the ground was becoming more and more difficult.
Of course, it was not possible to check the entire world.
However, the mana covering the ground, as well as the clouds dragged by the monsters, strangely made filming in outer space difficult. Unlike the video taken on the ground, the image of the ground taken from outer space looked strangely distorted.
“I wondered why the world over there was so easily defeated, but there was a reason.”
As the mana became thicker, the problems continued to increase one by one.
For that reason, they worked hard to close the portals created by the monsters, but it was not enough to stop the increase in mana.
Gyeonghoon sighed and took out his sword.
This is the fifth time. It was the number of times monsters that crossed the dimension were banished.
From one or two low-level monsters to as many clans as there are now. Kyung-hoon started hunting as soon as he found it.
It was difficult to get help. All the monsters that crossed the dimension were located deep in the abandoned area.
Other than Kyung-hoon, there was no one who could go into such a deep place and come out safely.
-Rather than entering the abandoned area, there is an urgent need to protect the border.
It was just as Eve said. It was difficult for the surviving humans to keep the monsters’ area from expanding.
Although they were diligently emphasizing the Mana Revolution, it only led to the revival of a few countries, and humanity as a whole continued to be pushed out by monsters after the cataclysm.
“We have to hurry. “I don’t know if I can handle it today.”
I didn’t know how many giants there would be. But I had already seen it and I couldn’t back out.
Kyung-Hoon launched himself towards a wasteland full of holes.
bang!
An explosion rang out across the wasteland and dust rose up.
***
Marcelo was talking to a man in front of a luxury villa where children were playing.
“Is the accommodation okay?”
“thank you. It was much better than expected. “Everyone is satisfied.”
The man was an employee of EV’s US branch that had recently arrived.
“Fortunately, the. Think of it as a vacation and take a few more days to rest. Although it is a remote island, the facilities are better than those of any large city. After that, we will talk about the tasks you will take on.”
“Thank you for your consideration.”
“I’m just taking over Kay’s job.”
“It’s amazing that there’s an island like this right under the U.S. that hasn’t been discovered.”
The man looked around with a curious expression.
This island was one of the islands formerly called the British Virgin Islands and was a strategic base for EV that served the British imperial family for 40 years.
It was close to a military base two years ago, but now it is completely different.
A high concrete protective wall surrounded the island, and the interior of the island was lined with five-story buildings.
Training centers, factories, warehouses, and apartments. The current island looked like a small Gunsan complex city.
But the island looked completely different from the outside.
“It’s all thanks to the disturbance system created by EV.”
Marcelo answered the man’s words.
The latest electronic equipment developed two years ago was deceiving the appearance of the island.
When viewed from the satellite and from outside the island, the island only appeared to be an ordinary uninhabited island.
After parting ways with the man, Marcelo sighed.
As expected, this position did not suit him well. He felt much more comfortable fighting monsters.
But since he was entrusted with it, he had no choice but to do it properly.
All EVs withdrew from the United States, and South America became a mess due to war between humans and fights between monsters. Now.
This island, located in the middle of the American continent, was everyone’s hope.
Like other American awakeners, Marcelo had no choice but to protect this island.
He moved on to his next plan. To the person in charge of the island, which had grown to the size of a city. There was no end to his work.
When he went down to the basement of the central building for his next schedule,
a man came first.
He looked very tired. His clothes were tattered and there were dark circles under his eyes.
The man was Marcelo . He smiled at him.
But Marcelo sighed when he saw him. I can’t believe that
the strongest Awakened person in the world and the core of EV was standing like that.
“You went hunting alone, Kay again. It means that there are very few Awakened people who can follow you. “I know, but Kay needs to take care of herself too.”
Kyung-hoon nodded at Marcelo’s advice.
This time, it was really hard. All the monsters that came from the other world used cooperation and tactics.
Fortunately, they all were dealt with, but this time, they almost got hunted.
-There might be some monsters left. I don’t know.
Kyung-hoon shrugged his shoulders at Eve’s words. It was impossible to search that wide continent.
“Once this is completed, there will be no need to look for it.”
Kyunghoon looked back.
The place where Kyung-hoon and Marcelo were located was an underground factory on the island.
Numerous workers were moving around in the huge cylindrical space.
And in the center stood a large and long rocket.
It was a rocket that EV was making.
A satellite was being built next to the rocket.
A satellite with the same functions as the last satellite made by the United States in the other world.
It was a satellite that could track mana on the ground.
