How to Play a Villainous Boss 247

Chapter 247 – IF Abduction – Gate…?

“Huh, what is this…”

A cold, salty wind blows past me. I stood with my feet on the surface of the water and looked up at the strangely shaped passageway floating in the sky, reminiscent of a whirlpool.

I wanted to finally lead a comfortable slow life after the help of Goddess Luminus’ play and the Atipia incident, but suddenly a strange crack suddenly appeared under my feet and I fell. There are no people now, but in the middle of summer, there are not many people, so you can clearly see that it will be full and overflowing. I’ve never been there myself, but I knew a place like this one.

“…No way, this is Haeundae Beach?”

Could this be Earth? Falling down a passageway that suddenly appeared underfoot, returning to Earth, exactly where I lived, among many, many worlds? Does that… Probability make sense?

No, it would be more persuasive to say that it is a world very similar to Earth but completely different from the one I lived in. And the way the people looked at me as if they were seeing a ghost standing on the sea level was proof that the possibility I thought was the right answer was correct.

“Everyone, don’t relax! He looks like a human, but he came out of the S-class gate! He’s absolutely not a normal person!”

“Be ready to respond at any time!”

“Don’t forget what happened last time! Have you ever been hurt once or twice after being relieved just because you looked like a human!”

The clothing style itself is clearly modern, but the objects in each hand consisted of swords and spears that could only come out of medieval fantasy games. If it was a cosplay, I’d be confident to applaud it for its incredible quality, but unfortunately, it was clear from this distance that the weapons in their hands were real, not imitations. By the way, it’s a gate… Is this like a modern fantasy world with gates and hunters?

“That… Let me ask you a question.”

When I opened my mouth, they tightened their grip on their weapons, nervous that I might be chanting some dangerous magic spell.

In order to shake off their hostility, I spoke of what I would like to say once in a situation like this.

“Could it be… What year is it?”

“…Everybody lower your arms! Returnees!”

Those holding swords and spears with such ferocious spirit as if they would sew me up at any moment sighed in relief at the words of the man who seemed to be their leader and lowered their weapons.

*

“2035… And 3 years ago, that gate… Started to appear, so this commotion started?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“And according to your words, people like me who went to another world and returned… Are called returnees?”

“Yes.”

“Hmm…”

Three years ago, as the gap in the dimension opened and connected to another dimension, all sorts of problems occurred, and at the same time, hunters who awakened special powers were created. It is also a cliché setting that is often used in modern fantasy hunters. Of course, it wouldn’t be trite at all to those who live in that world.

Anyway, what should I do now? To be honest, this is the first time I’ve experienced something like this, but I quickly identified the cause of the problem. This world has very thin boundaries that separate it from other worlds, so it seems that it often distorts and connects to other worlds. They seem to have called the phenomenon of connecting their world and the other world a gate.

And returnees are said to mean people who are sometimes swept away by a gate and flown to another world, and then return to this world.

Hey, that’s great in so many ways. Of those many, many dimensions, exactly coming back here?

No, come to think of it, it might not be that difficult, right?

The reason gates often occur in this world is because the boundary separating it from the other world is particularly weak. In other words, if you open a dimensional passage in another world, even if you are connected, there is a relatively high probability that you will be connected to this world, which is often connected to other worlds because the boundaries are relatively blurry, rather than a world with intact walls. The question is, why is the boundary so weak in this world? That’s the problem…

Either the wall is weak for some reason, or… The god of this world had a hand written for ‘that purpose’ from the beginning.

As a result of living as a transcendental person and meeting other transcendentalists, I realized that there are few beings that can be called normal among these authors. Of course, the criterion for normality I am talking about here is whether or not there is humanity.

There are people who were once human, but frogs don’t remember when they were tadpoles, and there are transcendental people with a dirty personality who feel joy by harassing and giving pain to the humans they created, saying that they are inferior beings, and on the contrary, because they care so much about their creations, their favoritism As a result, there were not a few transcendentalists who ruined their own world. Of course, most of them just don’t understand their creatures, so they keep causing trouble.

In particular, the goddess of love… The goddess’s apostle, who received the power from her, received the power to be loved by everyone, and each person’s feelings of love were different, so in the end, the apostle was caught by a yandere psycho stalker killer and became a lunatic. I suffered a terrible fate because of ‘love’. I went to see you once on business, and you caught me and talked about it all day, complaining about how tired I was.

Maybe the god of this world is one of those cases. Either he deliberately enjoys watching his creations suffer, or… He gets a kind of vicarious satisfaction watching his creations slay invaders from another world. Either he or she may not be aware that the boundary separating the world is weak because she is so full of loopholes like the goddess Luminous.

Either way, it’s not a matter for me to intervene. I am a transcendental person, but I am not a transcendentalist in this world. It’s not even a problem in my world, but I can’t intervene and solve it on my own. Controlling this world is the job of the Transcendentalist who is its owner.

“After…”

By the way… Seeing a world that was surprisingly similar to his, even though it wasn’t where I lived, gave me a strange sense of nostalgia. Yes, I am also a transcendentalist anyway. Even if that gate closes, the coordinates are remembered, so you can return to the previous world whenever you want. But now that I’m here, there’s no need to leave right now.

“Darling, what are you doing?”

Turning around at the familiar voice of hers, I was greeted by a lustful succubus in clothes that barely functioned as her clothes, and a maid who had her own body trimmed to perfection, the exact opposite of her. Of course, both of them were people I knew. To be precise, it wasn’t just an acquaintance, it was a periodic relationship between spending the night together in bed.

“Mono and Mia. When did you come over?”

“I just came across it. Anyway, this place… Where the hell is this foreign and unfamiliar place?”

“Um… It’s kind of hard to explain, but…”

The envy and jealous gazes of the hunters around her were focused on me, so I answered her while scratching the back of her prickly head.

“Have I told you before? I’m originally from another world. This is a world very similar to the one I came from.”

When I brought up the story of my previous life, Mono and Mia looked around with eyes of interest.

“Hehe. Darling, did you originally live in a place like this?”

“Hmm… A world almost similar to the one you lived in before you came to our world… I’m interested in it.”

“Now that I’ve come over, would you like me to take a look? Of course, it could be very different from what I remember.”

“Darling, is that a date request?”

“That’s right.”

“Hehe. It’s been a while since we’ve dated~♥”

Mono clung to her left arm as she hummed. In response, Sarah and Mia also walked to the other side with her somewhat sullen face and crossed their arms around mine.

“…Escort, please.”

“As much as you like, lady.”

Yes, what Sometimes this is fine too.

*

I took Mono and Mia on a date in Busan. Fortunately, it was the fall of the holiday season, so there were no crowds of tourists, and it was so long ago that I couldn’t remember any tourist spots I knew in Busan, but it wasn’t a big problem. One of the elements that make up an extremely ordinary street to me was full of very mysterious and interesting things to Mono and Mia.

“Darling, I remember that! Green, yellow, and red glitter! I’ve seen it in Metaverse City!”
“Mono, that’s a traffic light. Hey, see those rolling pieces of metal? Those are cars, the means of transportation here. A traffic light is a machine that determines the order in which passersby pass each other so they don’t get hit by those cars.”

“Then what are these white marks on the floor…?”
“Oh, Mia. That’s a crosswalk. When people cross a road with cars, they go through it.”

“But isn’t that person over there just passing on a road without white markings?”
“Rules are meant to be obeyed, but if everyone really obeys the rules, there will be no problems in the world, right?”

Everything was unknown to the two of them, and I solved their curiosity coolly. Of course, the two people’s looks and clothes were somewhat conspicuous, so the eyes of the people around them were focused, but I fiercely glared at the guy who occasionally gave me a sneaky look, as if telling me not to look at other people’s things. Enjoyed enough.

Eating snacks, occasionally having fun… I was so busy these days managing the world that Justia had neglected and Atipia’s landfill at the same time, so I enjoyed this break even more.

Even though the weather was quite chilly, Mono, wearing a provocative outfit that barely exposed her skin, yawned and stretched as if she was getting tired. Well… I remember the coordinates of this place so I can come back anytime. I took Mono and Mia and prepared to return to the original world.

We head to the beach to see if the passage we used to cross over here is still there, but something is wrong with the atmosphere around us. Do you feel that people are very urgent and anxious? People passing by say something about the gate… What is it? Did you tell us to cross over from the gate we came from? But there was something special around the gate… Ah.

“…Oh really.”

Really these don’t let me rest. I used magic to lift up Mono and Mia, who were asleep from exhaustion, and took them with them floating in the air, and hurriedly headed for the beach.

*

“Captain!!”

“Keugh…”

Human remains were falling like rain from a gate that had been pierced in the sky. It was a disgusting and terrifying sight that made the viewer feel upset as the shredded limbs, bony bones, and rotted flesh polluted the pristine sea. But the scariest thing was that this was just the beginning. The corpses that had fallen into the sea began to rise one by one with bizarre cries and bright red eyes.

“Undead series… The level of each normal object is not very special, but there are too many! Besides, in the middle…”

“Uh, what is that again? Could it be that it’s a new entity?!”

The Corpse Giant, a giant made of rotten flesh, the Skull Chimera made of many white bones, and the presence of an Elder Lich in the middle gave them a sense of despair.

“This, we can’t stop this right now! Support… Support…”

What is an Elder Lich? Isn’t it a terrifying high-ranking undead that not only has superior fighting power as a single entity than a normal lich, but can command at least two hundred, and at most five hundred, undead by itself? However, the presence of three elder liches among the army of the dead meant that, in the worst case, an undead army of close to 1,500 could launch a massive invasion of Busan.

All the monsters that appeared in the S-class gate had a high risk, but this time, that was too much of a case.

In the appearance of the S-class gate, which had the most damage so far, a dragon that had been exiled from the group came over and went wild. As for the damage, it would be difficult to pass it without any damage at all, no matter how many skilled hunters there are.

Even if the dragon is powerful, even if several S-class hunters join forces to defeat it somehow without harming civilians, it was absolutely impossible to fight against such a huge number of people while protecting civilians.

“Damn, don’t be stupid. What kind of support is Ji-won? They’re all in Seoul.”

Especially in the current situation where no support can be expected from the Busan side as the S-class hunters who remained in Korea gathered to close the S-class gate that appeared in Seoul.

An army of lions raised their bodies while contaminating the sea water, and the hunters’ faces turned white in an instant from the overwhelming amount. One thousand five hundred? No, no. The army of the dead that dyed the entire sea black was no more than a thousand. Two thousand… Three thousand… No, at least five thousand.

“That returnee… What kind of world did he come from? What kind of hell is beyond that gate…!”

“Hey, how are you going to stop this!!”

However, there was no room for the Hunters to hold on to that fact any longer. It was because the undead who had crossed the gate began to stride menacingly towards the sandy beach, each letting out a grotesque roar.

Current headcount estimate, 10,000.

The massive corpses that would have been handed over in a matter of days, or already, were polluting the sea.

At that eerie and threatening sight, the hunters who rushed to the scene from nearby to block the gate lost their fighting spirit in an instant. The B-class hunters didn’t run away or faint on the spot, and the A-class hunters also had their morale hitting the floor.

That army is truly a disaster.

Such a catastrophe that there is no way to prevent it by human power.

Every time the undead approached one step, the hunters took one step back, and then repeated. The bizarre standoff was broken when an elder lich raised his staff and let out a grotesque cry presumed to be the order to advance.

The undead, who had been walking leisurely until now, burst into ferocious shouts all at once, running at exactly the same speed as humans running, and at the moment when darkness and curses were enchanted towards the hunters whose morale was at a rock bottom, and they were about to wield a deadly blade coated with poison. .

“Stop moving.”

As a man walked forward and quietly opened his mouth, the undead forces that were about to tear apart the human in front of them immediately flinched and trembled like a child whose faults were caught by his parents. The hunters, who were preparing to clash with the reanimated corpses at any moment, looked at the scene incredulously.

“Uh…?”

“Ape, May, Jun. Forward.”

When the man called the three names, three elder liches hurriedly escaped from the crowd of undead and stood in a line in front of him. And the man spoke to the undead in an extremely fierce and overbearing atmosphere.

“Pump the head.”

Thud! Thud! Thud!

“…Uh?”

The sight of three elder liches, high ranking undead belonging to the boss level, poking their heads into the sandy beach at a reasonable gate at the man’s words was enough to make the hunters who were watching the scene ride their spirits.

“I must have instructed not to cause trouble unless there were special instructions, but who the heck are you guys using your troops as you please?”

Multiple, multiple…!

“What? Come get me? … Ha!”

When the elder lich called Ape answered with a snap of his chin, he looked at the other two elder liches and said with a colder voice.

“May, Jun. Don’t you take care of your motivation? It’s very easy for me because I usually don’t touch unless there’s a big problem, right?”

Geek…! Geek, Geek, Geek…!

The elder liches who were called out made excuses by slamming their chins while burying their heads more than half in the sand. Hunters didn’t have the jaw to understand what the liches were saying, but for some reason they were projecting themselves in the army from the elder liches who were fooling around. Perhaps because of that, the Hunters felt sympathy for the high-ranking undead, who were usually disastrous to meet.

“No? No, what’s wrong? Do you guys treat me like the first time we met?”

Hard! Cadde deuk!

“Then you should have done a good job guarding your mate’s mouth, didn’t you?”

Hard! Knock!

“As soon as.”

Knock! Gigg! Multi angle!

The elder liches who raised their bodies all at once with their jaws cracking as if they were reciting the man’s words, looked at him with eyes full of fear and trembled.

It wasn’t another monster, it was the Elder Lich, a high-ranking undead monster that appeared at the gate and three or more A-rank hunters must attack it to barely defeat it.

“Immediately return to the original position with all troops. Execute.”

As soon as the man’s command was given, the undead troops made stairs with their bodies and re-entered the gate floating in the sky. After the undead soldiers who had filled the beach exited as quickly as they appeared, he looked back at the hunters.

“Sorry for the inconvenience. Well then…”

Eventually, the man took the two sleeping beauties floating in the air and flew over the gate, and the S-class gate closed as it was, ending the situation.

“…Was that person a Constellation rather than a returnee?”

In an instant, the cataclysmic undead army disappeared, and all that was left for the hunters was the dirty sea water caused by the huge number of corpses soaking their bodies at the same time.