Chapter 906 – Skirmish
Since Seong-il has communicated with the game master for years and understood his tendencies, he carefully checks the game master’s message.
『Game Master: First, collect dungeon cores and achieve Grade A. Then your troubles will be solved.』
“… Hmm.”
Since the game master rarely gives advice in such a confident tone, Seong-il stops thinking about his advice. Seong-il gestures to the executives who are watching him and tells them to prepare for the final operation as quickly as possible.
“… Is it okay if I don’t prepare anymore?”
As the seeker seems to be rushing to carry out additional operations in a situation where social integration is still sluggish, administrator Do Sang-min asks Seong-il with a worried look.
‘Originally I didn’t want to say it, but…’
When Seong-il sees the administrator’s expression, he decides to reveal some of his inner thoughts to the executive staff, which he had originally intended to ignore.
“Because it’s not a good idea to waste time here.”
Seong-il tells us that he is worried that the people he rescued from Earth are becoming complacent with reality. When he said that he might lose his fighting spirit due to inertia, the executives seemed to have felt something, but instead of refuting, they all seemed to be silent.
“So, the dungeon core supply operation will proceed as planned. Let’s think about it later. Anyway, the current power is sufficient.”
“I understand.”
As Seong-il said, attempting a dungeon destruction operation with only the number of hunters currently available was not very difficult, so the hunters expressed their approval, saying that they all understood Seong-il’s order.
‘It was easy to destroy the dungeon with 600,000 elites, but it was even easier if the number of people tripled.’
With that in mind, Seong-il orders his men to immediately begin preparations for the operation in order to make the most of the last half day left in reality.
“Whoa… Let’s go.”
A few days later. Seong-il prepares for battle on the branch of Withgrasil, leaving some of his men behind as he did before. Then the countdown started as if to match his preparations.
As the countdown sounded, around the countless branches of Withgrasil that rose up like a jungle, a huge number of hunters were stationed around the portal, preparing to return to reality like a holy day.
‘I hope there are fewer sacrifices than last time.’
The Hunter of Eden was on a roll, but surprisingly, he actually made quite a few sacrifices. Of course, the reason is because of the dungeon. In order to clear as many as quickly as possible within the given time, the hunters had no choice but to overexert themselves, and even though there was tremendous support, a very small number were sacrificed during the operation.
‘But unlike last time, the feedback on the operation was good this time, so it’ll be okay.’
While Seong-il was thinking about random things. The portal opens, and he and his men return to reality.
『Team A ready…!!』
As soon as we returned to reality, fierce cries from team leaders erupted here and there. Without hesitation, Seong-il summons his clones one after another and begins to open dungeon portals with them at an incredibly fast speed. And a huge number of hunters enter there as if they had been waiting.
‘It definitely got easier.’
Fortunately, unlike the first operation, countless branches of Withgrasil were planted around the world to rescue humanity in remote places, so Seong-il was able to focus on opening the portal without much difficulty. Br〉
『32 teams ready for battle centered on coordinates X23, Y2039!』
Seong-il, who mechanically teleported after reading the coordinate guide message sent by Dana, opens the dungeon portal with a careless expression and repeatedly moves to another place.
Perhaps because of this, the Eden Hunter begins to clear the dungeon at a rate 50 times faster than on the first day. They dry up dungeons around the world, except for the dungeons around the big cities where the administrators are located, and even succeed in rescuing countless people in their spare time.
“… It’s time! Come back!”
Now that I feel like I have completely destroyed dungeons around the world. Although Seong-il wanted to rescue more people, Seong-il realized that in reality, there was only about an hour left until the scheduled time to proceed with the operation with the guardian of the opposite sex, so he urgently brought the crew back.
‘What kind of power did the Game Master want to give me by saying that?’
As he left behind an incredible feat of wiping out most of the world’s dungeons in just half a day, he would have toasted with the executives, but instead of celebrating with them because of the meaningful message left by the game master, Seong-il orders the executives to take care of the rest on their own. After doing so, he hurriedly moves to a warehouse full of cores.
“… Why are you just leaving today?”
“I guess you don’t like the speed at which the number of converts is increasing.”
Seeing the cold-hearted appearance of such a seeker, the high-ranking officials of Eden on each continent seem to mistakenly believe that he is acting like that because he is angry at the current, sluggish situation. Maybe that’s why, even though they achieved tremendous results today, they are not overly happy like before and seem to be proud of themselves.
“… I guess I should get some rest and prepare for deployment.”
Some quick-witted and ambitious priests, hunters, administrators, etc. Appear to soon move to a continent that has not yet returned to Eden and devote their energies to spreading the ‘great cause’.
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Wow…!!
Without even knowing that the executives were under such an illusion. Seongil was absorbing the enormous amount of core energy accumulated in the warehouse today into his smartphone.
Excluding small-scale dungeon clusters around major cities on Earth, the dungeon core currently in front of Seongil is in fact the same as most dungeon cores in the world. Therefore, Seongil appears confident that he will be able to reach Grade A with this core energy.
‘Actually, there are more cores than the number of cores that saved up to half of the A grade points last time…’
Although he complained to the executives about tripling the number, objectively, the number of hunters at 1.8 million was not an easy number. Because of this, today they have brought tremendous results before Seongil’s eyes.
『97%… 98%… 99%…』
As expected, Dungeon Core Energy succeeded in providing enough energy to upgrade the game master to A grade, and Seongil’s nervous expression began to gradually relax.
“Congratulations! You have successfully upgraded your Game Master to Grade A! To praise that great achievement, we give you a gift!』
『Limited Wish (Unique / Can Be Used Once): When you tear the scroll, the Game Master will grant you something he thinks you need right now as a gift. (No copying or reproduction possible!)』
“… A limited wish?”
Seong-il is embarrassed by the sudden appearance of a one-time order form. But, that lasts for a while. Upon hearing that the Game Master would give him the power he needed if he tore the scroll, Seongil did not hesitate and tore the scroll.
Wow…!!
When the scroll is torn, a powerful wave spreads in all directions. For some reason, Seong-il feels that his inner self and certain skills have changed drastically due to this wave.
“What has changed…?”
『Game Master: Check your skills.』
After seeing the game master’s advice, Seong-il doesn’t hesitate to open the status window and check his skills. And one transformed skill that I naturally discovered there.
‘The inner plane… Has changed, right?’
『Infinite Inner Plane』
* The caster can create a huge world based on his or her soul and inner world. As it is an inner world, it has the characteristic of being completely blocked from the outside.
* The caster can accelerate or slow down the time of the inner world by up to 10 times. (However, time around Han Seong-il cannot be accelerated.)
* The caster can transfer the Inner Plane’s time power to up to three followers.
“…!!”
Seong-il realizes why the game master advised him not to worry too much and to focus on collecting cores. If he borrows the improved power of the Inner Plane, he can buy time to train or recruit people he has rescued from reality, so he feels that this power is his savior.
“Is this why it is a limited wish… I guess the reason it is ‘limited’ is that this scroll cannot defeat the Transcendence Church bastards.”
Seongil, who has gained the power to turn the situation around in an instant, calls the Earth Mother Goddess, Withgrasil, and Arulil, who can now be called his true right hands, and explains the situation.
“Ho…!! If you use that power… You could dispatch many hunters and priests to a continent where persuasion is sluggish and focus on ‘persuading’!”
As soon as the intelligent Arulil hears of the power of the holy day and its explanation, he quickly figures out how to use the power. Seong-il, who expressed his agreement with Aruril’s words, transfers authority to his three limbs without hesitation.
“Let’s say the power itself was given by a goddess. Because it seems like it is. And…”
When Seong-il spreads a rumor that the reason the goddess gave her power was because she was angry at the sluggish missionary work, he said. In fact, Seongil’s will was also the will of the goddess, so in a way, it was true that the goddess was angry.
Eden, whose development had slowed down due to bringing in such a huge population at once, began to develop society again at a crazy speed thanks to the new power, and thanks to this, they were able to train a huge number of hunters again before the ‘final battle’. Succeeded.
