Chapter 435 – Return After Long Absence
“Okay! Can you see everyone in front of me? If it’s over there, it’s no big deal if we fight together, so let’s fight over there!”
The attitude of the instructor who even spread the board to fight. Seeing that, Park Dong-woo doesn’t take it off any more and exclaims while looking at Seong-il with enthusiasm.
“Huh! Do you want to brag about your appearance as a double? Okay, let’s stick together. Except for the non-combat ability Resonance, the combat ability is the same as mine in the body strengthening system!! I’ll let you know the subject!!”
“Oh~ You’re good at fighting?”
Far from being excited by Park Dong-woo’s remarks, Seong-il settles down near him with a smirk and a touchy attitude.
“Are you not getting your posture right?”
Like a bully in the neighborhood, Park Dong-woo gets angry at Seong-il’s arrogant posture with one hand in his pocket and his legs on the other. However, whether he is angry or not, Seong-il raises one hand and talks to him as if it is an annoyance.
“It’s okay. Go ahead.”
“You cheeky bastard…!!!”
Even though instructor Yoo Jun-kyung has not yet talked about the start of the match, Park Dong-woo, angry to the tip of his head, charges at Seong-il like a bull and tries to swing his fist.
“Oh~ Is it a good start?”
Even after seeing him like that, Yoo Jun-kyung doesn’t stop him and just watches as if he’s having fun.
“Lulu~”
Seong-il has a laid-back look that is just as easy as Yoo Jun-kyung’s. He easily evades Park Dong-woo, who is digging into his chest, by using footwork to cleverly widen his distance.
“You bastard like a loach…!!”
Park Dong-woo was enraged at Seong-il’s appearance. He throws a merciless barrage of punches at Seong-il in a boxing pose that is quite angular.
“Do more!! More!!”
Because he is a superpower of the body strengthening system, Park Dong-woo punches Seong-il in the face faster than a professional boxer.
However, in spite of his menacing attack, Seong-il puts one hand in his pocket and the other hand behind his back and moves his upper body slightly to avoid the wave of attacks casually.
“Profit!!!”
Park Dong-woo’s pride was even more hurt by that appearance. He raises the psychic power in his body more and more and swings his fist at Seong-il like crazy.
Whiing!! Whiing!!!
Far beyond human limits, the speed of a fist close to Mach and the sound of a bloody wind spreading in all directions. However, in a state where his body is transcendentally strengthened by inner air, and even fully grasping the opponent’s attack with 『Emotion』, Seong-il still easily evades his attack with only movement, without a single guard.
“Whoa… Whoa… Damn it!!!”
Seongil’s body, which is almost out of reach. Park Dong-woo gathers all his remaining strength and swings his fist as if desperate.
“Haha…!! Haha…!!”
Park Dong-woo tried to do that for almost 10 minutes. However, Seongil still does not allow a single attack. To make matters worse, when his attack speed starts to die due to his excessive use of abilities, Seong-il smiles and unleashes his right hand behind his back and takes a stance.
“Are you tired already?”
Seong-il avoids his sloppy attacks by stepping on the side and mocking him with his mouth. Then he quickly swung his right hand behind his back and lightly hit his forehead.
“Damn!!!”
“Kuk!!”
And Park Dong-woo, who was directly hit by the attack. Seong-il wasn’t seriously hurt because it was an attack that he attempted as a joke, but that’s why his pride gets even more scratched.
“Do more? Is this the end?”
“Kuk!!!”
Park Dong-woo, who gathered all the remaining strength with this evil. As if desperate, he mobilizes all his capabilities and unleashes a wild attack on Seong-il.
“Tsk… Are you tired already? Wait… How come your attacks are more sloppy than the first time? Tsk…”
Seong-il thoroughly mocks Park Dong-woo and leisurely avoids his attacks. Even reaching the second half, he closes his eyes and evades Park Dong-woo’s attack.
“Haha…”
Park Dong-woo, sweating profusely, bends over his waist and puts his hands on his knees to breathe. In front of him, Seong-il teasingly approaches him and lightly slaps him on the forehead.
“Terrible!!”
“Kuk!!!”
“Do more~~ more~~~”
Seong-Il constantly taunts Park Dong-Woo and provokes him. However, despite this, Park Dong-woo does not show any reaction.
“Hey, what are you doing. Quick bonus…”
“I lost.”
Seong-il puts on a dumbfounded expression when he sees Park Dong-woo declare surrender so quickly, even though he must have been extremely excited as the adrenaline rushed through his body from the fight.
“Eh?”
“I lost. It’s an arrogant skill.”
Park Dong-woo makes a neat declaration of surrender once again. He looks at his holy day calmly, with an expression unscathed in the slightest pride.
“Already?”
“Sorry. I’m from an ‘uptown’ university. Like the other guys at school, I thought it was a flower in a greenhouse.”
“…”
“By the way, are you real? After waking up to my psionic ability at the age of 16, I also struggled with psionic weapons made into dungeons by underground mutants and aliens to survive every day for five years, and thanks to that, I had some practical experience. I thought that there was no one who could compete with me among the body strengthening powers of my age, but you have skills beyond my imagination? I admit it.”
“A mutant?”
This is also the appearance of a new word that I have never heard before. When Seong-il asked, saying that he had heard of it for the first time, Park Dong-woo asked back with a puzzled expression.
“…Didn’t you say you’ve cleared the dungeon? But you don’t know about mutants?”
“Is this your first time hearing it?”
“Wow… Then you’re only clearing low-level dungeons… That level of skill… Even though one of the abilities is a non-combat ability, still a double ability is a double ability…”
Park Dong-woo looks at Seong-il in a daze and exclaims. Seong-il was a little dumbfounded when he saw him talking with a slight disdain for his reaction, but since he didn’t feel any malice in his tone, he didn’t get angry and asked.
“What the hell is a mutant…”
“Done!”
“…”
Just when he was about to ask about Undercity and the mutants, Yoo Jun-kyung cuts off Seong-il’s words.
“It’s half right and half wrong that he only cleared low-level dungeons. That guy is the one who cleared the 7th-level dungeon solo.”
“Yeah?!”
The party looks shocked at Yoo Jun-kyung’s bomb declaration. Even Lee Ah-hyun, who thought she knew him well and didn’t stop her provocative behavior toward Park Dong-woo, looks shocked.
“You know why I’m telling you to attack with only four of you, right?”
“…Ah.”
“The guy who solos a level 7 dungeon by himself is a member of the team. How about a party of 4?”
“Uh…”
“Honestly, this mission will be easy if you guys don’t hold on to that bastard.”
“…”
The party members became mute after eating honey at Yoo Jun-kyung’s bombshell declaration. Looking at them like that, Yoo Jun-kyung continues his words.
“In addition, to be honest… You guys are new faces, but in the ark, you guys are already considered as promising players.”
“Ah…”
“Two of them are low-level double abilities that are rare even on the ground, and two are veterans who were born underground and fought battles every single day after awakening their abilities.”
“…”
“So we already expect you guys to easily clear this level 7 dungeon. So, do your best to clear the dungeon.”
“Ah… Well, in that case…”
Yoon Tae-hee calmly agrees with the instructor’s words. She asks the instructor with a new look.
“…By the way, why would someone who can clear a level 7 dungeon solo take a test? Isn’t it a waste of time?”
At her words, Yoo Jun-kyung smiles and points to her holy day, continuing her words.
“Because that bastard refuses to complete his schooling and wants to be put into action immediately.”
“…”
“That’s why I’m going. I’m trying to figure out whether or not I can really put it into action by objectively figuring out that guy’s fighting ability.”
“Aha.”
Yoo Jun-kyung finished the explanation like that. He looks at her sexuality with a slightly suspicious expression and continues the conversation.
“…And this is Saddam.”
“…?”
“Min Ye-jin said that she clearly saw with her own eyes that he had cleared the level 7 dungeon solo and came out, and she actually presented the escape video as evidence, but…”
“So what?”
“Fuck, honestly, I have to be able to believe it! Who knows if the guys I went in with died and only that guy escaped!?”
“Aha… So?”
“Yes. I’m trying to figure out if you really have the skills to stand shoulder to shoulder with the Under Hunters who graduated from school. Any complaints?”
“No. Well, if that’s the case… I’ll do my best~”
“Thank you ma’am.”
When Yoo Jun-kyung bluntly states his purpose, Seong-il agrees without saying anything. In fact, Seong-il prefers to speak directly like that rather than twisting and snarling, so Seong-il is not at all offended by his explanation.
“Then let’s go! Newcomers!”
After saying that, Yoo Jun-gyeong puts her palm on a pillar standing tall in front of a strange circular mechanism.
Ugh!!!
Then, the mechanism vibrates intensely. Soon after, a portal starts to open in the center of the machine, leading to a place that appears to be the Seoul subway.
‘Oh… It’s a town portal that connects to a specific place… I wonder if that’s alien technology too?’
Seong-il is very interested, and follows Yoo Jun-kyung to the portal.
***
‘Interesting…’
The inside of the shady subway that appeared after passing through the portal. Cracks in the concrete that make up the interior are standard, and Seong-il asks Yoo Jun-kyung with a feeling of embarrassment at the scene that has even half collapsed.
“…Isn’t it collapsing here?”
“It won’t collapse. Although it looks shabby on the outside, the residents have carefully repaired it using alien technology.”
“…Alien technology?!”
Junkyung Yoo’s sudden explanation. When Seong-il made an expression of bewilderment at the absurd answer, Yoo Jun-kyung continued his explanation with a wry smile.
“Surprisingly, it’s possible. Even, using alien technology, they even build a safe underground building in the subway, but what?”
“…Where did you get that skill from?”
“Well… There are quite a few forces other than the ark that have acquired alien debris technology.”
“…Is that going to work?”
Yoo Jun-kyung’s answer is absurd. Even Lee Ah-hyun, who had been listening silently, asked him with a look that he could not understand, and he shrugged his shoulders and began to answer.
“The government often distributes non-threatening alien technology to the general public for propaganda purposes. 『This time, our humanity has succeeded in recapturing a major base occupied by aliens!! Not only that, but we also succeeded in acquiring their new technology this time. !Humanity can win!!!” Propaganda like that.”
“…”
“For young college students like you, you don’t need this propaganda yet, so you probably didn’t know because you didn’t distribute the information… From the middle and late 20s, you come across this information quite often, both formally and unofficially, at work.”
“…Why?”
“To reassure labor slaves.”
“A labor slave?!”
The appearance of shocking words. When Lee Ah-hyeon was startled and asked in a loud voice that was not like her, Yoo Jun-kyung raised her hand and covered her lips with her index finger, signaling her to be quiet, and then in her low voice, asked her to be quiet. Follow the words of
“Shh! Are you going to advertise to your enemies that we’re here?”
“…”
Lee Ah-hyun, who made an apologetic expression at Yoo Jun-kyung’s gesture and closed her mouth again. Yu Jun-kyung continues her explanation to her.
“Min Ye-jin, that friend would have told you? Aliens… These fucking bastards hate using automated machines so much that they make humans work for them.”
“Ah…”
“The reason these fucking cubs are doing that is actually simple, so that human workers can mislead themselves as a hero who sacrifices their lives to protect their homeland, family, and races in the exhibition. And that’s because labor efficiency comes out better when you give them a sense of duty.”
Yoo Jun-kyung’s shocking words. At those words, Lee Ah-hyun froze in shock and just stared blankly at him. Seong-il, frustrated because of that, asks him instead of Ah-hyun.
“…If the guardians of reason expose the truth to the workers, won’t everything be resolved?”
“Sounds like a big deal! First of all, doing so is difficult, and even if it succeeds, the residents of the area where the rumors spread will be thoroughly massacred by the aliens and their hounds, who are tightly controlling information and security. There.”
You can understand with reason, but you can’t relate to Yoo Jun-kyung’s words with emotion. With a slightly flushed face, Seong-il asks him back.
“…You can lie or be silent.”
