Chapter 899 – Before the Storm
“First… I’ve stopped time… I’ll take a break today, convert all the lower-level dungeon cores I’ve collected into twisted dungeon cores tomorrow, and then resume the operation…”
Seong-il, who felt extreme fatigue for the first time since reaching the level of a half-god, moves to his office with a strange smile that is a mixture of joy and bitterness.
“Whoa… I guess I should start again.”
Seong-il, who spent several days in Eden frantically converting the low-level dungeon cores quickly supplied by the advance team into ‘Twisted Dungeon Cores’.
Now, the game master has to absorb the lower-level dungeon cores to increase the rate of increase without notice, so even though Seong-il replaced a huge number of low-level dungeon cores with items, he did not waste the core energy at all.
“Did everyone get a good rest?”
“Thanks to the seeker, I got enough rest!”
At first, the advance team members were taken aback by the sudden order to stop operations. However, after returning to Eden, when Seong-il calmly explained the reason for the halt of the operation, they looked satisfied and leisurely reorganized.
“Then let’s get started right away.”
After hearing their answer, Seong-il quickly activates the dimensional gateway with an expression that there is nothing to see and prepares to move to reality.
『I guess everyone knows what to do as soon as they arrive in reality, right?』
“Yes! We will immediately take the Twisted Dungeon Core and spread it to the areas where it is needed!』
Since there was a high possibility that time would be unnecessarily wasted in opening the portal if he were to spread the twisted dungeon cores all over the world on his own, Seongil explained the situation to the hunters who returned with him and assigned them additional tasks. It was.
‘I think it’s right to just do it this way from now on.’
In the future, Seong-il thinks that, rather than trying to forcefully recover his strength and taking on various actions on his own, causing a setback in the operation, if a bottleneck occurs, he should immediately return to reality and proceed with creating a warped dungeon core after a time delay. Meanwhile, the dimensional gateway opens and emits intense light into Seong-il’s body, sending him back to reality.
『Liberty 14B-21 Team! Ready…!!』
Messages exchanged fiercely as soon as we returned to reality. Perhaps because the Hunters of Eden are well aware that every minute and every second of real time is a waste, they desperately call Seong-il and shout for him to open the dungeon portal.
‘You’re doing well.’
When he and the starters, who had rested for a few days, boldly opened the portal and moved to the place where the World Tree was planted, delivering the twisted dungeon core and taking action to make it a base, Seongil looked satisfied and moved to the place that called him. Open the dungeon portal.
‘Division of labor is definitely convenient.’
Seong-il thinks that when the situation is going more smoothly than before, he did a good job of working hard for a few days to create a twisted dungeon core, handing it over to the hunters, and ordering the operation. In such a stressful situation, I frantically tried to activate the dungeon portal for a long time.
『B-21 Team B-class dungeon cleared.』
So much so that I opened the portal like crazy. Before I knew it, the lower level dungeons were being cleared quickly. And as soon as the clear was completed, the B-class hunter team immediately spread out to the surrounding area and repeatedly searched for a place to plant the branches of the World Tree, satisfying Seongil.
‘Good.’
Even though less than 6 hours had passed in real time, Eden’s hunters had already spread out over an area that was close to one-fifth of the world and were attacking the dungeon. Seong-il repeatedly opens the portal with a satisfied expression on his face at the incredible speed.
‘Now there is a lot of clear news from C-B grade hunters.’
Apparently, the A-S level hunters who came to reality as the first advance party only did reconnaissance missions in the beginning, and now that they have secured the minimum base, they are all attacking dungeons appropriate for their respective levels.
Therefore, after a certain amount of time had passed, and they were deployed to conquer high-level dungeons, it was natural that the clear reports in dungeons of medium or lower difficulty level would rise steeply rather than in high-difficulty dungeons.
Seong-il frantically opens the dungeon portal. When the ‘Twisted Dungeon Core’ is almost exhausted, Seong-il once again gives intensive orders to collect the cores in a specific location as before.
Then, take the waiting hunter with you, rest in Eden, and then return to reality. So, two weeks in Eden time. At that time, half a day had passed in real time. Finally, some good news hits Seongil’s augmented reality window.
『Lee Ah-hyun’s team cleared the S-class dungeon.』
‘Finally…!’
Seong-il is overjoyed at the news of clearing the long-awaited S-class dungeon. In his heart, he wanted to take them back to Eden, stop time, and give them a reward vacation, but Seong-il had to desperately suppress his desire for the greater good.
『The clear team must immediately focus on recovering their condition so that they can quickly enter the next dungeon. If the injury is severe, report it immediately.』
『There are no serious injuries. You can fully recover in three hours using nano potions, etc.』
Seeing Lee Ah-hyeon choose only the words he likes, Seong-il smiles even as he struggles to open the portal. And news of the return of S-class hunters continues to break out.
『I will check the waiting area.』
However, even though the S-class hunters had a hard time returning, Dana in a callous tone ordered them to teleport them to that area by figuring out where they should recover to optimally utilize the portal. And when a report that a re-battle is possible appears after a certain period of time, Seong-il first approaches the S-class hunters and repeatedly opens a portal for the S-class hunters.
‘That’s really crazy speed.’
Although he made a large-scale surprise return and put the hunters in Eden to rest for a long time, Seong-il appears to be thrilled when he annihilates 60% of the dungeons on the planet in just one and a half days of real time.
‘I really think we can eradicate all the dungeons on Earth tomorrow.’
Of course, as time goes by, a huge number of dungeons will be recreated on Earth like in the past, but for that to happen, at least a year or more would be needed. Therefore, Seong-il is very satisfied with the performance the current hunters are showing.
『Your achievements are so outstanding that we will stop here today. We plan to eradicate all remaining dungeons within two days after reorganization, so once the team clears the dungeon, do not enter the next dungeon and focus on creating a base until the remaining team returns.』
『Yes!!』
In any case, it took a month for the Transcendence Church, which had the game master’s C-level skill item ‘Deception Dungeon’ created using a dead core, to realize that the dungeon they had created was destroyed. Therefore, Seong-il returns the hunters to Eden with a triumphant expression, thinking that they will not understand the huge incident he committed today.
“Finally…!! We will be able to eradicate all remaining dungeons on Earth during the next operation!”
An emotional voice flowing from the mouth of one of Eden’s executives who came for a final meeting. However, Seong-il denies his words and tells him that he will not finish the dungeon tomorrow.
“No. Rather than destroying the dungeon, the next operation will use the base created from this dungeon destruction operation to attack mountainous islands around the world.”
Seong-il suggests that they use their spare time to kidnap people from areas that are not very developed and bring them to Eden.
Somehow, in urban areas with high population density, there are many administrators of the Transcendental Church and their hunting dogs, so it was not easy to attack them with Hunters of Eden unless it was on D-Day, when Seongil and the Guardian of Reason returned their gaze.
However, in the case of poor islands and mountainous areas, the population density is low, and they are relatively free from the gaze of the Transcendental Church and their hounds, so Seong-il suggests that they should use the half day tomorrow to focus on rescuing them first.
“If we repeat the rescue operation once or twice, we will gain additional know-how on how to rescue people on D-Day.”
“It seems like a good opinion.”
Naturally, Seong-il’s opinion was not bad, so Eden’s executives seemed to accept it obediently. In particular, in the case of dungeons, there was a problem that it was difficult to return on time because the dungeon clearing speed was different for each team, making it difficult to return all at once.
However, in the case of the attack on the island and mountainous areas, it was possible to stop the operation and return as a whole under Seongil’s orders, so the Hunters of Eden thought it was worth using the operation at least once.
“If you rescue the population of a remote area, we will give you a vacation for half a year. We have to adapt the newly rescued people to Eden and raise them as new forces.”
“Wow!!”
“Apart from that, I am on vacation for two weeks starting today. Make sure you get plenty of rest.”
“Wow!!”
Hunters of Eden cheer wildly at Seongil’s declaration of a big holiday. Although it was a short period of time, the mental and physical pain they suffered through this operation was significant, so they cheer Seong-il’s words.
