< Just by chance (1) >
River His appearance resembled the character ‘River’ in Trevor Ron’s picture that I saw during the Tronsa incident not too long ago.
No, just by looking at their faces, I could tell they were the same person.
Although the fragile figure in the photo made it difficult to guess that the expressionless face that was nowhere to be found was the same person.
‘I’ve already gained enough strength. All that remains is to become a god.’
what is god
that he had been thinking about for a long time.
The existence he so much wanted to become.
Is a being that surpasses humans a god?
Is it God who lives an immortal life?
If so, River was already close to God.
Because he has already surpassed humans and can live an almost infinite life.
In other words, River thought that God was something else.
And God, as defined by Reaver…
‘becoming a being in a higher dimension.’
Humans live in a 4-dimensional world of space and time of dots, lines and planes.
What if you could perceive, handle, and move in another dimension?
What if you live in the 5th dimension?
What if you rule the 6th dimension?
What if it connects to the unknown world that humans cannot recognize, such as the 7th, 8th, and 9th dimensions?
‘That’s what deserves to be called a god from the point of view of a human in the 4th dimension. They will never understand the existence of a higher dimension.’
And River had a reason for wanting to become a god.
‘Just because a person can perceive and see space doesn’t mean they can control space, and just because a person can perceive time and feel its flow doesn’t mean they can control time. But… I want to properly rule time and space. So… I want to undo everything.’
regret left by him.
With that regret alone, he has been whipping himself up until now.
In fact, now that I’ve lost most of my emotions, even that regret is faint.
Just like inertia, I just focus on exploring the truth and gathering strength.
And he felt that he had some strength now.
‘It’s not long now.’
Surprisingly, the target River is preparing to deal with is the alien race, Cranid, which is currently invading mankind.
‘A skill of the Cranid race that isolates the space and time of the occupied area and treats it as a monster. They are already close to gods in dealing with time and space.’
Yes.
River is trying to secure the technology to manipulate time and space against Cranid.
Therefore, in order to do this…
‘The leader of those who are the Hive species… I have to defeat him.’
It was after confirming where it was and what it looked like through the system.
However, after seeing him, River felt fear for the first time.
Its gigantic existence reflected in the system.
Its size alone exceeds that of a planet.
And what did Nietzsche say?
If you look into the abyss for a long time, the abyss also looks into you.
Surprisingly, the moment River looked at him through the system, River felt that the presence was also looking at him.
huge being.
unknown existence.
an incomprehensible being.
The being had no eyes, but the mere ‘gaze’ at River gave him indescribable terror.
After that, River was just gathering strength.
right through the system.
There was a cartoon called ‘Dragon Ball’.
The main character of the cartoon borrows the energy of people all over the world little by little and uses a technique called ‘Won Ki-ok’, which was created at a desperate moment during a confrontation with the enemy.
From an individual point of view, it is a dusty energy, but when hundreds of millions of billions of people gather and lend their strength to extraterrestrial beings away from the earth, Wonki-ok becomes a very powerful technology because of great energy.
And the setting of this cartoon was very similar to River’s system.
It was because the system had a similar principle to Lee Won Ki-ok.
It was to steal the mana of system subscribers in small amounts so that the user would not notice at all.
And the mana collected in this way flows into the river.
And this was the reason why, strangely, only the ‘mana’ value was never displayed in a system where all information in the world seemed to be recorded and used.
Sang-woo showed the mana value only once when he changed his body, so he was done talking.
At least he took more mana in the name of body change.
‘It’s not long now.’
And already most of the people on the planet Tibern and more than 86% of the people on Earth have joined the system.
Already, the amount of mana coming in every hour from them was gradually accumulating, and River’s power was getting stronger day by day.
It wasn’t long before he had to deal with the unknown existence of Cranid, whom he feared.
‘When the time comes, I’ll get rid of that lump and make everything about him mine.’
And just for that day, River was still quietly gathering strength from the depths.
* * *
Systemology that wandered all over North Korea without knowing it.
They, called Black Messiah, set out to find another awakening portal after Sang-woo removed the awakening portal in Pyongyang.
And they had no choice but to meet Sang-woo, who was cleaning up all the dungeons across North Korea once in a while.
subdued after a collision.
And the destruction of the awakening portal.
After this happened several times, it was no longer possible to find awakening portals all over North Korea.
“Did you hear about the fort?”
“What?”
“I heard that someone is terrorizing the awakening portal in North Korea.”
“okay? He is a complete madman.”
A situation where even hunters and officials who are interested in North Korea are suspicious that someone is deliberately removing the awakening portal.
However, since all awakening portals have already been removed and there are no people who actually live in North Korea and want to awaken, the issue soon faded away.
And is it because the awakening portal disappeared?
Members of Systemology, who had engaged in retaliatory terrorism and PK actions several times inside North Korea, escaped from inside North Korea and ran away as the government and the association’s military continued pressure to find them.
Now, all that remains is a few overseas hunter teams and domestic hunters who secretly crossed the border and infiltrated.
‘It’s ambiguous that I caught this.’
Sang-woo didn’t bother looking for overseas hunter teams and kicking them out.
In his opinion, they weren’t very crazy either.
And the good thing was that the inside of North Korea was being organized very quickly and naturally as they competed.
‘Well, I’m aiming to develop North Korea quickly, and I’m not doing that on purpose, but hmmmm.’
Sang-woo decided to think positively.
And is it because the hunters went crazy inside North Korea?
Hunters who wanted to preoccupy the blind land inside North Korea, which was much cleaner from monsters, gradually began to appear.
“I’m tired of sleeping on the street after hunting, and it’s annoying to go back to Seoul. Let’s just build a temporary lodging.”
“It’s good.”
“Oh, I saw an item for a simple installation type house this time. Shall we try it?”
And our hunters, who eat cheaply and don’t have much time to move.
They began to settle down in North Korea as ‘temporary’ in their own words.
There was an item that made this easier.
Just like a bunker item, a ‘simple installation type house’ that combines mana engineering technology.
It was an item that was about the size of a large suitcase, and when you press a button, it unfolds and inflates on its own, creating a house in its place.
It takes one finger to build a house, but who would build a house?
And in the first place, hunters with a lot of money had no hesitation in buying these items.
‘It’s better value for money to build a house in time to move and rest here.’
‘I’m trying to eat and live, but shouldn’t I rest properly even when I’m resting?’
Since most of them were hunters with that mindset, houses began to appear all over North Korea.
There are very few houses compared to Korea, which is located in the southern part of the Korean Peninsula.
But where there are people, there is money.
‘Hunters usually eat 10 servings. Even if only 10 people gather, it’s close to 100 people.’
‘Hunters have a lot of money, so they spend very generously. I can’t miss this.’
There was no way that Koreans, who are good at smelling money, would miss such an event.
So, when the hunters’ houses settled down in North Korea, commercial districts began to appear around them.
Convenience stores were first created to allow hunters to instantly purchase necessary necessities near their lodgings.
< Malang Pig Meat Shop >
A meat restaurant that will captivate the taste buds of picky hunters and open their big wallets
< 24 Hour Barbecue Chicken >
A chicken delivery shop that delivers warm chicken and beer to hungry hunters has also opened.
Then, as if they couldn’t be left behind, the entertainment establishments followed suit.
In this way, a commercial district was gradually formed.
And around that time, Sang-woo released some of the clones who had focused on North Korea again.
The reason is
‘because it’s annoying to study on my own.’
In the meantime, Sang-woo himself has been going to college while commuting to school by himself, sending his alter ego to North Korea to concentrate his efforts on studying at university.
However, it was only a week or two, but Sang-woo was feeling bored.
‘The economy is harder than any magic.’
It was his brain that he prided himself on being quite smart now, but maybe it was because he was not interested in it.
Sang-woo could not find much satisfaction or enjoyment in studying economics major and liberal arts subjects.
‘I just went to North Korea myself to hunt and have my alter ego study, but I wasted time trying to make some time with Woohyun.’
Yes.
Sang-woo understood his heart.
He liked Woohyun.
The familiarity that came from seeing each other face-to-face every day from last year until now.
At that time, he wore a military hat every day, so he looked like a handsome boy, but now his hair is quite long, so he has a doll-like beauty.
He grumbles, but on the inside, he always thinks of himself, so when he asks for something, he absolutely protects it.
There were these reasons why he liked Woohyun.
But most of all,
‘what if I just got better.’
His heart was heading toward Woohyun, leaving behind such reasons and conditions.
The faint heart of the fresh first love he experienced in middle school.
I want to see you every day and be with you.
I liked Ha-yeon too, but I didn’t feel that way for her, only for Woo-hyeon.
And now inside the cafe in front of Kyungkook University.
Woohyun was sitting in front of him.
Woohyun, who is not even a student at Kyungkook University, is casually commuting (?) to this place without realizing it.
She doesn’t like coffee, but she likes sweet mocha very much.
Sang-woo looked at her blankly with a smile on his face because he thought it was funny and cute.
Then, she suddenly noticed his gaze and quietly put the straw in her mouth.
“…what?”
“no. just.”
Sangwoo shrugged.
“But why are you looking at me like that? while breaking apart. What did you put on my face?”
she grunts.
Then, as if he was concerned about what was on his face, he gently wiped his mouth with his hand.
Then what were you thinking?
Sang-woo, who had been procrastinating and procrastinating because he wanted to make a proper confession, suddenly spat out the words.
“Because it’s just cute.”
“…huh?”
Woohyun tilts his head as if he had heard the word cute.
Then, as if she understood her words, her face, which had been pure white, was dyed crimson up to her neck.
“hey! What are you suddenly saying with a shriveled voice like that!”
“No, just. I said it was cute because it was cute, but what?”
Sang-woo smiled smirkingly as he saw her shaking his pupils as if he was flustered.
When I said cute again, her face turned red.
“Your ears are cute! Did you eat something wrong?”
“It’s not.”
“But you keep saying weird things? Aren’t you sick? I have to go to the hospital… Ah, it’s strange that a strong Awakener like you is sick…”
After that, Woohyun talked nonsense for a long time, unable to meet Sangwoo’s eyes.
Sang-woo smiled inwardly at the sight of him.
‘He seems to like me too. Really.’
No matter how ignorant he was, he could tell from her reaction now that she liked him.
Is that why?
Sang-woo was able to muster up the courage.
“…What kind of mana virus is that…”
“Hey, Woohyun.”
Woohyun is talking about anything in front of Sangwoo.
She suddenly stopped talking at Sang-woo’s serious voice and expression.
“huh?”
She felt her heart beat fast.
< Just Suddenly (1) > End