Chapter 2314 – 2314. Virgin Ghost
The place I teleported to with the space-time scroll was a secluded spot in a village near Mount Fuji.
As I remembered, this village wasn’t heavily populated, but it was a place with its own vitality. That village was now silent. Not a single sign of life could be felt.
The houses that looked fine from a distance had their doors and windows smashed when I got closer.
I went inside to check. Disordered rooms and bloodstains. Pieces of cloth that seemed to have been human clothing.
‘Something came in through the doors and windows and devoured people. It must be the giant locust Madoka was talking about.’
While wandering around the village, I found a giant locust. The dark, dog-sized locust was lying on the ground, dying, with parts of its body bitten off. I didn’t know why, but it seemed to have been bitten by its own kind.
I slashed the locust’s body with a sword aura from the Hwaryeon Bido. Unpleasant slime splattered as the locust died. I kicked the locust’s corpse and focused on examining it.
‘…There’s no magic stone.’
Monsters generated in dungeons have magic stones inside their bodies. There are no exceptions. Hunters make money from these magic stones.
If you kill a monster and there’s no magic stone? There was only one possibility. It wasn’t a monster generated from a dungeon.
‘I heard that old wizards used to create monsters and use them as familiars… Is it something similar to that?’
I walked towards the crater of Mount Fuji. Seeing the black smoke rising into the sky from the crater, I felt less and less inclined to go.
‘But I have to go. To confirm things.’
There were many locusts near Mount Fuji. There were at least 3,000 of them. Most of them were mating. I quietly passed by the locusts. The ghost cloak was helpful. They didn’t seem to have very good detection abilities.
I reached the crater of Mount Fuji and saw locusts emerging from the boiling lava.
There was a dungeon inside the lava. I didn’t know how that was possible.
‘Was it there from the beginning? Or did it suddenly appear? How can there be a dungeon inside lava?’
Many questions arose, but I couldn’t find the answers.
I took out a space-time scroll from my pocket and tore it.
Washington, D.C., in the United States, was experiencing a zombie apocalypse. Corpses were moving and attacking the living.
At the center of the zombies was a black man.
“This world will overflow with death! Hahaha! Now, accept death! Death is more comfortable than you think! It’s better than dying insane!”
The black man laughed and gestured. At his command, the zombies rushed to kill the living.
‘A virus? A curse? Or is it that black man’s ability?’
I didn’t know what it was, but since that black man seemed to be the culprit, I took a picture of him and tore the space-time scroll.
I teleported to Moscow, Russia. The people claiming to be the new human race were white people with blonde hair and blue eyes.
“There’s a yellow monkey here!”
“Come here, you inferior livestock!”
They claimed to be the new human race, but they just seemed to be extreme racists. They didn’t treat even other white people as equals if they didn’t have blonde hair and blue eyes.
Tzzzzzzzz.
Europe. Budapest.
“Haha! There are so many humans like trash!”
“Let’s fill our bellies. Humans. Offer us your blood!”
“Aaaaaaah!”
The elegant and magnificent city was filled with blood and screams.
The humans with long ears that the World Hunter Association had mentioned. At first, I thought they were elves. Long ears are a well-known characteristic of elves. But these guys I saw were not elves.
Long ears, pale skin, and protruding fangs.
A race that sank their fangs into the necks of humans and sucked their blood. Vampires.
Ordinary humans were busy running away, and the hunters of Europe were busy fighting the vampires. In the midst of all that, dungeon break phenomena were occurring, and monsters were appearing everywhere.
It was a mess.
Tzzzzzzzz.
Just in case, I checked Africa, and it was a kingdom of monsters. It seemed like thousands of dungeons had broken out simultaneously. There were no people, only monsters swarming. Those monsters were also busy fighting each other for territory.
Tzzzzzzzz.
I returned to Seoul. Since Park Ga-in was running wild, I thought it wouldn’t be strange if Seoul had been destroyed… but it was surprisingly quiet.
I went to the place where Park Ga-in had been. The neighborhood was in ruins, and there were many hunter corpses.
I walked past the corpses and finally found Park Ga-in. She was dead, turned black as if she had been burned. Judging by the fact that the patient gown she was wearing was intact, it didn’t seem like she had actually been burned.
‘It’s like she self-destructed?’
The situation began to form in my head. No matter how unique and powerful Park Ga-in’s abilities were, there had to be a limit. It was natural for destruction to come when that limit was exceeded.
The virgin ghost possessing Park Ga-in wouldn’t have cared about self-destruction and would have used her power. That virgin ghost would have been a clone, not the main body.
Looking at Park Ga-in’s corpse, I thought of Han Ha-rin. With the world in this state, Han Ha-rin would die soon. I knew there was nothing I could do, but I still wanted her to live… There was no safe place in this world.
‘Since I decided to use the regression ticket, it’s not a problem I need to consider… Sigh. What do I do now?’
I had to use my head in situations like this.
What I wanted was information. But even if I traveled around the world alone, the information I could get wouldn’t be that great. At best, I would know how screwed up the world was.
‘I need to know the situation in more detail. To do that, there’s a limit to what I can do alone.’
A place that professionally collects information and is reliable.
A place that still has some power even though the world is in this state.
Only one place came to mind. The Hunter Association.
Whaaaaaaaam!
Fighter jets were flying in the sky above Seoul. I left the faint sound of bombs exploding in the distance and headed towards the headquarters of the Korean Hunter Association.
‘If I go to the Association, they’ll probably try to hold me back and make me do things for Korea… I’ll ignore that and just get the information. If it’s a high-ranking official of the Association… I might be able to kidnap them if I get the chance.’
Among the high-ranking officials of the Hunter Association, there are also ordinary people who are not hunters. Not all Association employees need to be hunters.
‘It would be easier if Baek Ji-eun was here, but I can’t contact her.’
If the plan didn’t go as I wanted, I would use points to use an absolute hypnosis sticker.
When I arrived at the headquarters building of the Korean Hunter Association, I realized that my plan had failed. The Association headquarters was in ruins.
There was a single sheet of A4 paper attached to the entrance.
-The Korean Hunter Association headquarters building has collapsed and has been relocated. Those who have business with the Association headquarters should visit the Seocho branch or contact us at the number below.
“……”
I looked around. Except for the Hunter Association headquarters, the other buildings were intact. Only the headquarters was destroyed. It was strange.
Brain Thunder Style Electromagnetic Wave.
I felt a presence from the basement of the Association headquarters. I decided to go inside for now. It was fortunate that it wasn’t so destroyed that I couldn’t enter the headquarters.
The door that said “No Entry for Unauthorized Personnel” was broken, so it didn’t stop me. I went through the door and inside.
I saw a chaotic hallway and offices. There were quite a few corpses lying around. I walked towards the innermost part where I felt the presence and stopped.
I found Baek Ji-eun’s corpse, half of her head gone. Looking at the other hunter corpses lying around, it seemed like they had been in a battle.
I sighed. I didn’t feel good.
I passed by Baek Ji-eun and went inside. The inside was more intact than the other places.
In the center of the room was a table with a map of South Korea spread out on it, and a woman was sitting in a chair in front of it. The bloody, brown-haired woman was quite beautiful.
“I didn’t expect a guest… You’re not a rescue team. You’re A-rank hunter Seong Yu-jin, right?”
“…How do you know me? And who are you?”
“The Association is watching you. To be precise, not just you, but all hunters with the potential to be S-rank. Don’t worry, we’re not going to do anything sneaky. We don’t pry into your private life.”
“If you did, I wouldn’t let it slide.”
“I like your confidence. I’m Jeong Hye-gyeong. I’m the manager of the Korean Rift Observatory here. I was dispatched by the World Hunter Association.”
“You’re part of the World Hunter Association, but you’re the manager of the Rift Observatory in the Korean Association?”
“All Rift Observatories in this world belong to the World Hunter Association. The World Hunter Association lends the Rift Observatories to the Hunter Associations of each country and dispatches managers to manage them.”
I approached the Rift Observatory table. A table with a map of South Korea drawn on it. The map was full of red dots.
“…Are these red dots dungeons?”
“Dimensional rifts. Yes. Dungeons. The red dots are dungeons where dungeon breaks have occurred, and the blue dots are dungeons before dungeon breaks.”
“There are hardly any blue dots?”
“That’s why the world is screwed. Look at Jeju Island. It’s full of red dots. It’s completely over there.”
“Are there any dungeons that the Rift Observatory can’t detect?”
“Huh? That’s an unexpected question. To answer, yes, there are. Cases that are not dimensional rifts. The Rift Observatory doesn’t detect spatial rifts like pocket dimensions. There’s no reason to find them either. Spatial rifts are automatically repaired.”
“You’re answering quite obediently.”
“The world is in this state… Who cares about secrets? And there’s a reason why I need to be nice to you. Hey, can you do me a favor?”
“I refuse troublesome favors.”
“It’s a simple favor. Please kill me. I’m holding on thanks to my ability, Multiple Thinking… but I’m reaching my limit.”
Jeong Hye-gyeong’s eyes turned red and then returned to normal.
“Are you possessed by a virgin ghost?”
“Yeah, that’s right. A virgin ghost. That unknown monster is why the Korean Hunter Association is ruined. The women are going crazy… If they’re virgins, they get possessed and seduce men and kill them… The seduced men can’t resist… What kind of existence is that?”
“If you were going to commit suicide, you could have done it alone.”
“My hands and feet won’t move. The only things that can move on my body right now are my mouth and eyes.”
“What exactly are dungeons? Why do they appear, and why are they suddenly all causing dungeon breaks now?”
“I don’t know either. If you want to know the answer, go to the World Hunter Association. All the secrets of this world will be there.”
“You’re part of the World Hunter Association, aren’t you?”
“What organization would tell secrets to a low-level employee?”
“……What is the World Hunter Association? Isn’t it just a higher-level organization of the Hunter Association?”
“As far as I know, the World Hunter Association has existed for a very long time. The name World Hunter Association is only used in today’s era. Before that, it was called the Golden Dawn Society? Before that, the Illuminati. It’s been called many other names, but… the first beginning was a religious group called Kabbalah.”
“You want me to believe that kind of conspiracy theory?”
“I thought the same as you. But think about it. If such an organization hadn’t been holding the center of the world… would this world have been able to maintain itself until now? In a world where wizards and monsters exist?”
“……”
“I’ve answered. If you have any questions, go to the World Hunter Association. The reason why the world is like this is probably there too. Ugh. It’s getting hard to hold on. Kill me. I don’t want to be possessed and toyed with by a ghost.”
“Okay. I’ll kill you.”
Swish!
I cut off Jeong Hye-gyeong’s head with the Hwaryeon Bido.
