Chapter 637 – 637. Thirty-Eighth Skill
6 am. It’s an ambiguous time.
There are many places to go, but time is vague everywhere.
Let’s just sit back and practice. Because there isn’t much left.
I have to master status recovery first before doing anything.
8 in the morning. I finally mastered status recovery.
Ha. Another skill increases like this. Then… There’s a lot to do. First, take the passive first.
Skill radius increased 32, skill duration increased 32, skill maximum value increased 26, skill limit exceeded 26.
Okay, first, I got the passive. Now I have to do what I have to do right away.
“Want.”
A window appears in front of you. I immediately pressed the passive anger button. Then the skill list that appears.
I looked at the status recovery on the list for a moment and then selected it.
[100 million coins are consumed to convert ‘Status Recovery’ into a passive skill. Do you want to convert?]
I clicked yes without hesitation.
Status recovery displayed as passive in the skill window.
So that means I’m now immune to things like fainting, paralysis, sleep, charm, and silence.
It’s okay to be immune to charm. At least you won’t have to make a mistake and be charmed by the Witches.
Thinking about the inevitable sleep, I tried to sleep on myself.
I can use the skill without hesitation because I know I won’t get caught. But if I fall asleep while writing this, it would be a legend.
Exactly 80 times. I feel like my stamina is pretty low.
And even though I tried to sleep like that, I couldn’t fall asleep.
Only through rain do I realize that I have overcome sleep.
Insomnia that was bothering me so much.
In the end, I didn’t win, but I still escaped his grasp.
Ah. Should I ask you a question through Q&A? Is there a way to treat insomnia?
If I get an answer to what’s at stake now, I’ll ask next time. I don’t know if I can give you an answer.
Anyway, that’s it. I did what I wanted to do.
I shouldn’t delete the Q&A because I’m also in the process of asking questions. It’s meaningless.
Now I need to improve my skills… Should I put on a shield first?
It’s a skill that I’ve been trying to take pictures of, but haven’t been able to take pictures of. I finally get to take pictures.
I pressed the shield and learned it right away. If you’re going to do it, it’s better to do it quickly.
A protective shield appears in the skill window. Now that I’ve learned it, I’ll use it right away.
“Shield.”
A whitish but transparent protective film that we have seen many times.
It feels a bit like poltergeist. What… It’s okay. I’ve seen it so many times, it doesn’t feel like anything new.
As I put up a shield and tried to get some skill, Anna’s presence came out of her room and approached my room.
Anna opens the door.
“Are you awake?”
When he heard my voice, he grinned and walked over to sit next to me.
“You woke up early?”
“Oh. So that’s it.”
Anna is smiling brightly at me. Then he suddenly grabs my cheek and kisses me right away.
Anna’s face falls as she feels her soft lips for a moment.
Anna looks at me as if she is loving. It’s really amazing. It’s not like I’m fascinated, but there’s someone who looks at me like this.
“Anna.”
“Yes?”
“Do you like me that much?”
The adorable expression became even more intense. How can you make an expression like that?
“Of course.”
“It’s amazing. No matter how much I think about it, it’s amazing.”
“Me too.”
If you had said something like this to Kwon Seong-cheol six years ago, he would have probably called you crazy.
This world is ruined, you’re so damn strong, and there’s this damn pretty Russian beauty who likes you.
If I say something like this, anyone will treat me as a mental patient.
“Ah… There’s something I want to ask you.”
“Hmm?”
“You gave Se-Ah and Se-Hee permission to go out…”
“What kind of permission is this? It’s not like I’m forcing them. I’m just saying it because it’s somewhat safe to walk around alone now.”
“Ah…”
“Anna. You, too, have been free since you came here. I am not a vicious pimp who forcibly imprisons you.”
Anna smiles slightly bitterly at my words.
Hmm. Did I say pimp for no reason? I don’t know if I touched the wound for no reason.
“Why. Are you curious about the world too?”
“Ah… That’s right. I also became a seal master?”
“Oh. Really? You had a hard time. So?”
“I want to learn teleportation. There’s a place I want to go.”
“Yes. It’s good to learn. You also have to take photos of the gate.”
“Thank you.”
“Thank you. Now it’s up to you to choose skills. You can do whatever you want.”
“Um… No. I want you to keep choosing.”
Anna… What should I say?
She is a beautiful swan-like woman.
I think that because I feel beautiful and slender when I look at it.
Besides, Russia is ballet, and when it comes to ballet, it’s Swan Lake, right? So you may feel that way more.
But even if her looks are… Not on the inside.
Duck. A duckling that just hatched from an egg and imprinted on me.
I think it’s because she hasn’t been able to live a normal life since she became an adult.
Of course, I don’t think it’s unpleasant or a flaw. I’m just a little worried.
Now we have to make the duckling realize that she is a swan.
She says she wants to flap her wings and fly alone… Of course, she should help.
“But, where do you want to go?”
“Ah. That… Can you open the gate on the Russian side again?”
“Russia? Ah. Your house?”
“Yes.”
At the same time, Anna lowers her head as if she is a little embarrassed.
“It’s still there. Want to go there?”
“Hmm… I don’t know how long it will take, but I want to make the house back to the way it was.”
“Things are going to get pretty big.”
“You have a lot of time anyway.”
“That’s right. So are you going to teleport now?”
“Yes.”
“Then let’s go right away. Oh, no. Would you like to stay for a moment? The one stored there is probably not near your house, but in Rublevka.”
“Rublevka? Ah. Still, it’s not that far away.”
“Yes. So wait a moment. I’ll go and take pictures right away.”
“Let’s go together. We can go together.”
“Ah. I see. Then let’s go right away. There’s nothing else to prepare, right?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
“Let’s go and talk to the kids for a moment. But no one woke up.”
“I’ll leave a note.”
“Ah. That will work.”
I left a note in the living room and immediately opened the Russian Rublevka Gate.
Me and Anna passed away like that.
But when I went over and looked down… Something feels strange.
The atmosphere… Why is this happening?
“Detection.”
“Detection.”
Anna and I turned on the detection at the same time.
And the presence felt. But it is not the same number as before.
It was a place so unreal that even ballet could be enjoyed even if the world was ruined. There is almost no sign of it now.
Now that I think about it, there are many buildings that are not normal.
Broken windows, scorched marks. There are a few collapsed places… There was definitely something.
“What happened?”
“Well, I guess we can find out right away. Uh… What do you want to do? Do you want to go back?”
“Am I possibly disturbing you?”
“No. I don’t think it would be a disturbance… I’m not used to moving around with someone next to me.”
“Then I’ll follow you around carefully so as not to disturb you.”
“Okay. Well, it doesn’t seem like it’s an emergency. Then, follow me carefully. Don’t forget to seal the area where you can’t use the skill.”
“Yes.”
First, let’s look at the remaining traces.
A few traces. Looking at one of them, I saw a man searching through what looked like a food warehouse in an empty house.
Should we just do that guy first?
“I’m going.”
There was no need to reduce it for Anna’s sake. Immediately after blinking, I used blink again inside the broken window of the building.
Then, go to the direction where you see him from inside the building and immediately jump out of the water.
Unless the guy has made status recovery a passive skill, you have no choice but to fall asleep.
I approach the fallen guy and immediately read his memories.
Fortunately, the guy knew more than I thought. But. Knowing the situation, I would confidently search for items in a place like this.
I invited the guy who gave me valuable information into the storage room.
A guy who was so grateful that he gave me a coin as a gift.
“Here we go again.”
“You can move as usual. I will follow you closely. Since we are a party, we can see the location anyway. If it is a place that is difficult to get to, I will stay far away.”
“Really? I understand.”
Go outside the building and look for the next sign.
A place that became ruins in a short period of time. And the guys snooping around here can’t be that great.
Put them to sleep right away, read their memories, and then invite them to storage. Ugh, there are quite a few residents today for the first time in a while.
After reading the memories of about 10 people, I was able to get a rough outline.
“Hmm. It’s nothing to worry about. Then, let’s go. Anna, to your house.”
“Can you tell me what’s going on?”
“Um… Shall we talk as we go?”
“Yes.”
It rises into the sky and flies toward the outskirts of Moscow.
Istra. Where the Starcheva Mansion is located.
Although it flies at Anna’s flight speed… Still, it’s really fast. Well, Anna also has a solid limit break passive skill.
“So, to put it simply… There is a company called Smelly Corporation.”
So I told Anna what I had read from her memory and what I knew.
In the end, it was those guys who ended up like that. Smelly Corporation. Massacrers under the guise of being a security company.
Of course, it’s true that they made that place like that… Actually, the cause was me.
Because I was the one who made up the story that Ivanovic was almost beaten by Pitman.
Ivanovic started to keep the Smelly Corporation in check because of me.
However, Ivanovic’s checks were meaningless.
It’s because the Smelly guys didn’t act as guard dogs because they were weak until now.
The guys sensed something strange and, without hesitation, attacked the landlord they were protecting.
The leashes on them had no meaning, and the guys who thought they were their owners had their necks torn off in an instant.
The result is Rublevka’s current situation.
The remnants of the past that they maintained flew away like a mirage, and Ivanovic also did not know whether he was alive or dead.
When I briefly tell her these things, Anna’s expression becomes a little more serious.
“So does that mean this place is not safe?”
“Well, as far as I know, the Smelly Corporation guys are in Europe right now. They destroyed Luplevka like this, so there’s no need for them to stay here.”
However… I don’t like it. Bastards.
How dare you disrupt Anna’s first flight like this?
“If I run into them, will it be dangerous?”
I think about Anna’s question for a moment.
Pitman at that time. That guy was definitely scary. Because there seemed to be no answer.
But the situation is different now than then.
“They are strong, but… I think you are stronger. You can win just by widening the distance with Blink and creating an area where skills cannot be used.”
“Hmm.”
“If it’s Death Wind… No one can beat it. I think there are only a few people out of the 400 million people left in this world who can avoid it.”
“Is it that much?”
“Uh, that’s about it. We’re all here. Is it around here?”
“Yes. It’s over there. Let’s go.”
Having made status recovery passive, I would have become immune to Death Wind.
Because I won’t be bleeding.
Of course, it won’t stop bleeding from cuts or wounds, but there will be no bleeding from skills.
With that in mind, Anna and I arrived at her house.
Starcheva Mansion, which doesn’t seem to have changed much since I last visited.
Anna, who came here again, looks at her mansion with her moved eyes and quietly says ‘Save’.
“It would be nice if regression could be applied to the entire mansion.”
“You can’t do that, right?”
“Uh, because regression has a lot of restrictions. It only applies to a single entity and the conditions are strict.”
I thought so… Something popped into my head.
The first time I used regression was before constraint release, right? Moreover, this was the situation before there was a wish.
Things are different now. I have a skill combination.
“Wait a minute.”
I wrote a wish right away. Then, click on skill combination to raise regression from the skill combination list.
And on the other side, status recovery was posted.
During the last test, I couldn’t try it because there was no status recovery.
[Would you like to combine?]
A message that comes to mind. Just click yes and wait.
Indeed… Will this work? I think it will work. First, the name of the skill alone seems plausible, right?
[The ‘Status Reversion’ skill has been combined. It costs 300 million coins to learn a skill. Would you like to learn?]
“Wow!”
Yes! Yes! It’s done as expected. Nice. My imagination. It’s terrifying.
Anna was surprised when I shouted.
I put Anna’s reaction aside for a moment and immediately clicked yes, and the skill was born.
“Why… Why? What’s going on?”
“Whew. Wait a minute. I’m not sure if this is the skill you think it is.”
As I look at the Starcheva mansion, I immediately use my skills.
Please do it. Be it. I hope so.
“State regression.”
The place I set as the scope is the visible Starceva Mansion itself.
And… Something magical happened before my eyes.
It looks like time has quickly turned back.
The plants that were invading the mansion quickly disappeared, and the broken windows reappeared.
The hole in the roof is filled, and the broken bricks are glued together again.
“Oh my god…”
Anna covers her mouth and mutters softly. Tears are flowing from her eyes.
In front of Anna, the mansion that had defied time appeared again as it once was.
Starcheva Mansion, which I saw in Anna’s memories. In the old and grandeur of that time.
