Chapter 39 – Union
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Upon returning to the central clearing, everyone’s eyes, including Lee Mi-ri, gathered. They were stomping their feet at the sight of the pillar of light, not knowing what to do.
Gaon, who approached Miri without paying attention to her gaze, spoke as if informing her.
“The three of us will go there right now. You guys should think about it some more.”
As we passed them and headed towards the pillar of light, Lee Mi-ri hurriedly shouted.
“Oh! Now, hold on! Is it really?”
“There is no guarantee that you will be safe if you stay here. So, Lee Cho-rin and Cheon Jae-hee. Let’s go.”
At Gaon’s words, Li was already immersed in her worries. Staying safe does not guarantee safety. Of course, she didn’t have a serious problem just because she stayed.
However, what they didn’t notice is that the dome confining this place is getting smaller every time the countdown that floats in the pillar of light decreases.
Even if you don’t want to go later, you’ll be pushed into the dome and eventually enter the pillar of light.
But it’s too cumbersome to explain it one by one.
I don’t know if there will be things I’ll know about tomorrow anyway, things I’ll meet again in my future life, but I think I’ve done enough.
Gaon led the party to the place where there was a pillar of light, more precisely, a teleport magic circle heading to Union.
“But what is it really? It doesn’t look dangerous, but it still makes me anxious.”
“I don’t know either. One thing is for sure, though, that the being who sent us here wants something.”
As always, he replied bluntly, but suddenly he felt a tenacious gaze from the side. When I turned my head, I saw Cheon Jae-hee with a strange expression.
The look of her glinting at her chorin reminded her that she hadn’t told her what she had said to herself.
He nodded her head slightly, and he brushed his hair in her ear, avoiding her gaze. A gleaming smile appeared on her lips.
In this way, the party reached the front of the teleport gate, each filled with excitement, fear, and tension.
“It’s incredibly big. Seeing that they created something like this all at once, could it be that the being that brought us here was a god?”
“Well. I don’t think it’s a good feeling even if it’s a god. I don’t even know if it’s an evil god.”
“God… It just feels like playing a game.”
It seems that Cheon Jae-hee has more knowledge in games than I thought. The sight of her fingers moving with her eyes wet with longing seems like tapping on a keyboard.
Gaon, who gave them time to relax by observing their appearance for a while, slowly reached out his hand and put it into the light.
“Oh! Mr. Gaon?”
“Gwa, are you okay?”
Gaon, who stayed still for a while while receiving the worries of the two women, removed his hand and nodded his head and opened his mouth.
“For now, I’m fine. By the way, they said it was a pillar of light, a teleport gate.”
“A teleport gate?”
“If it’s a teleport… ?”
At the word teleport gate, the two women each showed their own individual reactions. If Cho-rin only revealed her doubts, Cheon Jae-hee expressed curiosity with her eyes twinkling, as if she had guessed that this was also a kind of magic.
What a fierce reaction this is compared to the way he always subtly hit the wall from one step away and gave a simple reply.
After all, the passion for magic must reach this level to reach the price. I knew from the previous two lives how powerful synergy can be when talent and effort are combined.
Gaon turned his head and stared at the teleport gate.
“They say it will take you to a place called Union. No explanation other than that. Then let’s go right away.”
“If Mr. Gaon says so… All right!”
“Come on!”
Chorin was less than before, but her eyes were still tense. Cheon Jae-hee urged Gaon with eyes like a child who saw a handmade toy.
In response, Gaon reached out and grabbed the arms of the two women. Eyes gather.
“In case you don’t know, let’s go with our bodies connected. I don’t know where Union is, but if it’s a large place, there’s a chance they’ll fall apart.”
“Then do it.”
“I got it!”
The three of them grabbed each other’s hands and jumped inside at the same time.
The moment their entire bodies entered the blue pillar of light, their bodies began to turn blue as if being engulfed in light.
It seems like someone is talking about something, but even the sound doesn’t come through.
Immediately after, their eyesight was completely blue, and at the same time, blue flashes exploded from their bodies.
Flash!
After a while, when the flash subsided, nothing remained where they were, except for a blue pillar of light.
***
The flash fades and vision is restored.
However, before I could even recognize the sight in front of my eyes, my head started to ache from the waves of information that had dug into my brain.
“Ouch!?”
“Mmm, the head!”
As Gaon turned her head to the side, Chorin and Cheon Jaehee grabbed their heads and staggered.
Gaon, hoping that the pain would alleviate even a little bit, gave strong strength to the hands that were clasped together.
Only then did the two sobbing in pain carefully open their eyes and stare at Gaon. Then, as if relying on it, he grabbed Gaon’s hand with both hands and carried the weight.
In fact, looking at this point, it seems like the headache lasted quite a while, but that time was less than 10 seconds.
The two raised their heads only after the chain of long pain, which was like 100 minutes instead of 10 seconds for the parties, was over.
Chun Jae-hee opened her mouth after rolling her eyes around in confusion.
“Hey, what is this? Union? Dimension invaders? Is this all true?”
“Does Jae-hee also come up with strange information in your head? How is Gaon?”
“Me too. Union, dimensional invaders, transcendental system, and even the common language used in Union. It’s all implanted in your head.”
It was a fact that he had known before, but Gaon let out a voice mixed with surprise as if he had experienced it for the first time. Of course, Cheon Jae-hee was not fooled by the acting, even if Cho-rin was not aware of it.
In another sense, I was more surprised, but I just stared at him with my eyes wide open.
It must be because the nonsensical words he heard before he came here turned out to be true.
Gaon sent her a sign with her eyes without Chorin’s knowledge, then turned her head to the front.
“What is that?”
“I fucking knew this. I should have gone for Blood Tail.”
There were many people at the front.
Humans, elves, dwarves, and even beastmen. Most of the tribes living on the ground were muttering dissatisfyingly as they looked at the group they had gathered.
That’s because, from their point of view, the Gaon party has too low level of power. As long as everyone was able to handle mana, there was no doubt that they roughly grasped the level of power with their senses.
It was a natural story for Earthlings who did not even know the existence of Mana before they were brought here, but the only thing that mattered to them was the fact that they were weak.
In addition, prejudice also played a part.
That is, they are not the only earthlings who came here to Union.
It doesn’t simply mean different races in different countries, but should we say parallel dimensions? People from other Earths than the one they used to live on are already living here.
Isn’t the rubella class that Gaon learned was a mixture of martial arts and aura techniques? There are also people from the Earth where martial arts and unmanned people exist.
It is called the Moorim District, but besides that, there is also an additional Hunter District. This is the place where a hole in the dimension was opened and invaders poured out, and at the same time, people with special abilities called Awakeners were born.
Did you say that you were harassed by them and brought in by the Transcendentalist system? They say they call themselves Awoken.
‘It’s been a while.’
When I saw the various ethnic groups, I realized that I had truly set foot in the Union. Their gaze was really bad, but Gaon didn’t care.
It is also because the earthlings did something worthy of being discriminated against. In particular, in the Moorim district, there was an uproar, saying that they could not obey the control of the Pentra Empire, which is called the empire of humans.
Upon hearing that Guan and Murim had no right to control themselves because they were inviolable, the seven tribes representing the Union concluded an agreement and embarked on a massive subjugation.
It was a pretext that they were a threat to the Union, but in fact, it is a strong hypothesis that it was because they saw them as an insecurity that would hinder their power.
Anyway, hundreds of years after the Moorim district was subjugated. The Hunter District comes to Union. Of course, the Union people, who had bad feelings toward the earthlings because of the Moorim District, rejected them and eventually clashed.
The strongest man, who received the title of non-standard with an EX rank in the Hunter District, proposed a duel with a representative, and as a result, the representatives of both sides collided. Return to the defeat of the Hunter District.
Even if he was the strongest in the Hunter District, he was only at the level of a 10-star state, and he could not handle the 11-star knights of the Pentra Empire.
In the end, Earthlings were branded as a dangerous, arrogant and weak race.
‘And it’s called the Incompetent District…’
It is an anonymity built to mean that there are an enormous number of incompetent people. No matter how strong the earthlings, who did not know of the existence of mana, could not be caught in the eyes of the Union people.
It is presumed that it was because there was no spirit vein in the earth where they lived.
Since there is no way for mana to flow, how can the people living on it feel the mana?
If that is possible, it can be said that he is a genius born with truly astronomical odds. Unfortunately, such a genius has not yet appeared on Earth.
‘It would have been rather unfair if I had.’
Gaon was still able to handle mana because it was Union, which was rich in spiritual veins. Otherwise, he would have lived as a fool all his life.
Maybe it’s crawling on the bottom even after returning twice.
Gaon let out a self-deprecating laugh.
‘Isn’t that just as bad though?’
Looking at it this way, it seems that the people of the incompetent district received too severe a penalty, but that was not the case.
As if to be rewarded for not feeling even a fraction of her mana in her entire life, Union began to show off her tremendous talents for him.
Among them, Cheon Jae-hee, recognized by Gaon, who is next to her now, achieves the feat of achieving 10 stars in 8 years.
Considering that it took 15 years for the youngest person to achieve it in the existing Union, it is indeed a talent beyond imagination.
Naturally, Gaon’s head turned toward Cheon Jae-hee, and she flinched at the eyes of the people around her, as if feeling the gaze, and then quietly opened her mouth.
“Mr. On vacation. The eyes of the people around me are strange. Why would that be?”
It is said that he developed his communication skills by hanging out with people for a week, but his temperament accumulated over the course of his life does not change at once.
Chun Jae-hee made a slightly depressed expression at the stares flying from all directions.
“I don’t know either. First of all, it doesn’t feel good to us. Let’s go somewhere quiet.”
The people gathered here are a kind of scouts.
They are camped out in front of the teleport gate to take any outstanding talent to their group.
This friendly system brings in people from the outer dimension, and informs the summoning point by lowering a pillar of light in advance so that the existing Union people can know.
Then, people from all over the Union dispatched guild members to various places in order to expand their power.
The fact that I should have gone to ‘Blood Tail’ earlier is related to that. Obviously, I remember that beastmen were summoned along with earthlings at this time.
In order to achieve results, you need to scout outstanding talent, but when they come out, they are only enough to use mana, so it’s disappointing.
Of course, it’s clear that they didn’t have high expectations. Because, as the name Blood Tail suggests, it kindly informs you that Gaonne is an Earthling.
In fact, it is highly likely that he came to a state of half-desperation. Even within the guild, they must have a fairly precarious position.
‘The miscellaneous thoughts end here.’
Gaon, who was still lost in thought, noticed that the two of them were uneasy and moved to an empty lot with relatively few people.
However, to such a place that is not out of sight of people at all.
