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You Can't See Me? (3)

The small angel who came into the room, Erta, ignored the pre-conversation and started talking whatever she wanted.

[For humans, the energy they acquired post-natally, mana, is extremly difficult to handle. The reason why humanity had to spend 10 years in other worlds is also because one has to experience that many number of years to acquire the possibility of using mana.]

"Humanity excluding me."

At Yu IlHan's tackle, Erta showed a clear annoyance on her small face and continued speaking.

[Angel Rita used that point to strongly claim the assistance on the human Yu IlHan. While saying that it was seriously unfair to leave the dropout, who only trained his body a little, like this, she requested the dispatch of an angel to help him adapt to mana in a short period of time.]

When he heard that Rita stepped out for him, Yu IlHan felt his heart pound. Although they separated without being able to say their farewells, she also seemed to worry about Yu IlHan.

[Because of her strong claims, her request was approved. Rita wanted to take on the role herself, but due to the decision of the higher-ups who were worried about a human becoming too close to an angel, I was dispatched in her place.]

"Is that so."

It would be a lie if he said he wasn't disappointed, but he also thought that it was instead fortunate. He resolved to become a higher existence in order to meet Rita, but if they met for some random reason before that, wouldn't he be fired up for nothing?

However, Erta had the expression of not liking the situation.

[But now that I'm here, the situation is a bit different to what she said.]

"What is?"

[How is this 'a little'...]

While scanning Yu IlHan's physical body which ascended into a new realm without the help of mana, she muttered with a small voice that couldn't be heard by Yu IlHan.

Even considering 1000 years, the evolution of his body was at the level of being unbelievable. If the strong power of mana was added to this body, how far could this human grow? It was to the point that she was curious about it.

If they knew that he had trained his body until this point beforehand, then the dispatch of Erta wouldn't have happened. However, Rita drived this work with a force that was never seen before with her, the moment she returned to Heaven, and her request which looked very reasonable on the surface was passed, prepared, and realized at the speed of grilling beans with lightning. And the situation Erta met was this.

However, an already realized thing wouldn't be reverted. Erta, who descended with a mission, couldn't return until she completed that mission.

In other words, they were all perfectly done in by Rita. To think she would use such a sly method even though she was an angel, who is supposed to be the most pure existence in the world!

Erta sighed again and spoke with a powerless voice.

[In any case, I'm planning to help you until you can use mana skillfully. So please learn it fast.]

"How will you help me?"

[It's simple. A higher existence, me, just being near you activates the mana inside you. Recognition, control, use – in these regards, you would be able to adapt 10 or more times faster than ordinary people.]

In the past, when he didn't have a single inkling of mana in his body, it was impossible even with Rita sticking to him for 1000 years, but now that the Great Cataclysm had occurred, 1 year was sufficient – this was Erta's calculation.

Yu IlHan also didn't know anything about mana so he could only nod his head at her words. He would just accept whatever she spoke of.

When the conversation ended, Erta flew and placed herself on his head. What are you doing? – he said while brushing his head, but Erta didn't budge a a bit.

[I have magic cast on me to prevent recognition from other lower existences so you don't need to mind.]

"...So you will continue to stay on top of my head in the future?"

[That is so.]

That was no good. Mostly, the 1.7 Terabytes of treasure in his hard drive (And one piled up during the countless years) was in a difficult position.

Even Rita didn't stick to him all day, but to think an ambush like this would come now!

[I don't care whatever a lower existence like you does. So you don't need to worry.]

"You read my mind?"

For that instant, Yu IlHan seriously pondered whether to return the angel or not, but he couldn't miss the opportunity to adjust to mana in just 1 year.

Yes, it's one year. He needed to endure for just one year. Yu IlHan cried blood and accepted reality.

[I really don't care if you breakdance, belly dance, or dance dance dance revolution.]

"I care! And you know what the last one is, right?"

The next day after humanity returned, the Korean morning was mixed with the anxiety that the world would change and a slight expectation for the changing society, it looked very lively on the surface. The people Yu IlHan saw, after leaving his house with Erta on top of her head, was like that.

If one ignored the soldiers in army uniform with guns securing the perimeter while walking due to the joint operation with the government.

"F*ck, I was drinking with a woman at my side until yesterday morning...!"

"But it's better than the climbers in the mountains, sir... I heard monsters have already appeared."

"If I kill monsters, I can at least level up! I need to find my Thunder Sword quickly!"

"Corporal Seo, The entire regiment knows that you didn't earn a skill until the end in Guundia...?"

Yu IlHan shook away the breath of despair which would come his way in the near future and hurried to college. (T/N: All males have to go through a compulsory military service in Korea). He thought that he walked slowly, but as it took the amount of time it would take him by car and he arrived early, he felt funny even when he himself thought about it.

He went to the humanities campus of Sungkyunkwan university. (T/N: one of the top tier unis in Korea, will be shortened to Sung U when necessary.)

Befitting of being built within the city, Sungkyunkwan university was built on a hill that made its students seriously wonder whether it was commuting or climbing, thanks to using a small area of land as efficiently as possible.

Of course, that level was laughable for the current Yu IlHan.

The campus was filled with a lot of people. As most of them were young college students, they tended to think positively about what they became able to do rather than the crisis they were about to meet. And most of them were talking about a topic that Yu IlHan didn't know about.

"Did you make a skill?"

"How about you? I managed to make one somehow."

"Fuu. Two for me."

Yu IlHan asked Erta with a small voice.

"...What does it mean to make a skill?"

[It means creating something to use in an attack somehow by combining tiny bits of mana and insignificant records. As a higher existence, in my view, even if you combine all the skills that they are boasting about, I think that it will pale in comparison to your concealment.]

"Concealment wasn't a skill I wanted...!"

One could arbitrarily make skills? Anyway, this was something he didn't learn yesterday. Yu IlHan perked up his ears and walked. New stimulation. New information. They were all things that he loved.

Anyway, the results.

"In the end, who was 'Empress'?"

"Nobody knows. Does that make sense? It's the sole Sung U's person who flew her name for 10 years in Lanpas, and we don't know."

"But wouldn't we know if monsters appear?"

"I don't know. Maybe she would wear a mask again."

He learnt that there was a woman called 'Empress' who showed mighty ability in the other world in his university, and.

"When would dungeons appear?"

"Even if it appears, you wouldn't be able to go in, I think. There's a level requirement. What level are you?"

"Level 7."

"I'm level 4."

"Huu."

"Sh*t..."

He learnt that there were places called dungeons in other worlds and that one needed to have high levels in order to enter it. Other than that, there weren't many information that he could make out, but there was a reward just in knowing about dungeons.

Dungeon. It was a word that made a person's heart pound.

In the lecture room he arrived quickly, there were already many people. To think that they attended school even after they spent 10 years in other worlds… Did they perhaps also miss the ordinary lives like Yu IlHan did?"

While soaking himself in emotion, he looked around the lecture room, but there wasn't a person he knew anyway. It was trivial but what is the reason that he became sad all the time? Yu IlHan, who found an empty seat and sat down, was afraid that he might be heard by other people so he wrote the questions he had until now that he didn't ask Erta.

'What is a dungeon exactly?'

And when he held it up slightly, Erta, who was on top of his head, recognized that and spoke.

[It's a trap.]

"A trap?"

As he heard an answer that was too unexpected, Yu IlHan ended up speaking out loud. However, his concealment was truly amazing and that level of voice wasn't found out by the people around him. So sad.

[It's a trap installed by God. By installing attractive baits for monsters, it attracts them and close the exit. The gathered monsters become trapped inside the dungeon, and unlike monsters, humans, who can freely enter and exit once they have the qualifications, can hunt with more safety.]

'That's also a consideration from God to the humans, huh. ... But Isn't it over if they're trapped? You can just leave it alone, right?'

[A dungeon is naturally destroyed after a certain period of time, so the monsters inside it have to be dealt with before that. In the first place, there are many monsters who don't get caught in the trap, and there are many which can destroy it, and many that can camouflage as dungeons so carelessness is forbidden.]

While Yu IlHan and Erta were conversing, the professor came and the lecture started. However, the professor didn't seem to have an intention to teach a lecture and the students didn't seem to want to listen properly either. Yu IlHan, who expected a lecture after such a long time, became slightly disappointed.

"Every one of you will have to adapt fast to the changing society. The situation is that UN is already proposing the banning of indiscrete use of mana, and a regulation on levelling up, and strong countires including America and China, are focusing their attention to the changing environments and monsters due to mana. According to how Korea would act, countless industries would collapse and countless other industires would rise."

During the entire 50 minutes of the lecture, the professor was haughtily spouting out what anyone could think up about. Thanks to that, Yu IlHan forgot the centuries of loneliness in an instant and waited earnestly for the end of lecture. No, he questioned if he needed to keep going to university in the first place.

In his life in the future, how much importance would a certificate of university graduation have? He could only shake his head. He just came as he knew how much worry his parents would have since they knew he couldn't use mana.

If he became able to use mana, then he will stop going to a school where he's ignored by everyone! It wasn't his fault! It was the society, and the university who's bad!

Erta spoke as if she predicted what he was thinking at that moment.

[The efficiency in training mana doesn't become different no matter what you do in whatever place. No, there's one.]

'What is it?'

[Hunting monsters.]

'I don't like dangerous things.'

He couldn't even use mana but she wanted him to confront monsters? It was Yu IlHan, who rejected thinking it was nonsense, but Erta spoke as if she knew that such a reaction would come.

[Like the humans on Earth having low levels right now, the monsters which would appear later and the dungeons too, would have low levels. It is because they came into contact with mana just recently. There may be high level ones or colonies from natural disasters, but that is, in the end, a special case, and it's possible to recognize and avoid beforehand.]

'Hmm. That's true but...'

[Now that the absolute majority of the monsters are weak, it would be advantageous in the long term to adapt to mana faster by acquiring experience.]

Yu IlHan hated dangerous things. The countless years of immersing in self-training was, in the end, for him to not die meaninglessly after the Great Cataclysm. However, perhaps as a side effect, as countless years have passed, when he knew that it wasn't dangerous, he had the boldness to unhesitatingly move his body once he was sure that there was no danger.

A typical example would be crossing the world to conquer libraries, and the one where he went out to sea on a fishing boat to reproduce the scene of Moby Dick.

At that time, he thought that it was necessary, but strictly speaking, it was close to the domain of amusement rather than the domain of training. He had acted unconsciously to not paralyze his mentality in the flow of the countless time.

'...Good. I'll have a go, then.'

This was the same. He judged that it wasn't dangerous, and when he was assured that it would help his survival in the future, he expressed his will to 'do it' without a moment of hesitation. Erta spoke as she waited for this moment.

[You won't be able to go inside dungeons as there is a level requirement. So you would have to hunt the monsters outside. Considering your level now, then wouldn't you be able to kill monsters around level 25?]

'...I'm still level 1, you know? I can't even use mana, you know?'

[Instead, you have a monstrous physical body. I even said this considering that you don't have a sturdy defensive equipment. If you have a good defensive equipment, then you will be able to hunt even higher level monsters.]

The problem was to find such monsters.

[Fuu. I'm a higher existence. To get away from you faster... not that. To help your growth, I can help you finding monsters.]

"How?"

[If there is a monster nearby, then I can detect it.]

"..."

In the end, the route Yu IlHan chose was the internet again. Honestly, he didn't expect much. He planned to leave with Erta as soon as the lecture ended.

However.

[F*ck. People inside the building, never set foot outside from now on.]

[Who the hell lied? Outside right now is hell.]

[The inside is also hell. Can't you see the building collapsing?]

[It's the first time I saw soldiers shooting guns since I was born. Sh*t. soldier bros are so cool.]

[Yeah. you'll be able to shoot them soon ^^]

[Before training mana to level up, don't we have to legalize arms first?]

The articles in a community website were slightly overexaggeratingly harsh. Yu IlHan clicked one of those articles, and not a long time later, one photo came up on the screen.

A hunting dog which grew to the size of a bull, was attacking a human with a fiercely twisted face.

It was too terrible to accept as reality, but the dog was too realistic for it to be a CG.

Yu IlHan raised his head. When did the lecture pause. Everyone, including the professor and the students stuck themselves on the window and looked down on the square.

He stood up slowly and approached them. While nobody paid attention to him. He looked down at the narrow grass square over the glass window.

They were there.

Insects the size of humans – monsters.

Author's notes

Rita's inner state is!?

Dance dance revolution = DDR

Dungeons aren't that important in this work

Thank you for the recommendation, Closet Leg-nim! As thanks, it's a continuous chapter in order for the readers to not insult me after looking at the recommendation article!!

Start of the legend of a loner.

I will come back tomorrow at 6 o'clock!^^

You Can't See Me? (4)

While looking at that scene, Yu IlHan was unexpectedly calm. It was because he always thought that a day where this could happen would come.

Perhaps other people may also have some worry about this in some corner of their hearts. In fact, they may have more resolve than Yu IlHan. They experienced other worlds for the last 10 years. Wouldn't everyone know well that the Earth is different from before the Great Cataclysm?

However, they had insufficient preparation. The fighting power to go against the monsters weren't there no matter how they looked at it, and the levels of the monsters seemed quite high.

They either judged the situation wrong, or they don't have the leisure to.

[Tutorials have already ended. Lord God has already given everything that he can to humanity. Humanity has to survive by itself from now on.]

Erta's voice sounded quite distant. From that, Yu IlHan felt that she looked at the scene with different eyes. He was convinced that she wouldn't help in anyway no matter how much energy she had.

Unless an unexpected element comes up.

It seemed like there were no casualties yet. However, lest their eyes fall on the buildings, it was a matter of time before a casualty occurs. Actually, they were slowly coming towards the building, that is, the Business Hall that the students along with Yu IlHan was in.

"Kyaaaaak!"

"What should we do? We gotta run!"

"Everybody calm down. The school has already contacted the..."

"Who wants to party with me and hunt that!"

"Here! One more casualty please!" (T/N: Said as if someone's ordering at a restaurant)

"Run, f*ck!"

"F, Finance Hall! Let's run to the Finance Hall!"

"Isn't the roof better!?"

The students who realized that danger was approaching, ran out the lecture room while screaming. The professor also sighed and followed them.

As a result, in an instant, Yu IlHan was left alone in the lecture room. If it came to this, it was suspicious whether he had a special skill to become a loner.

However, he also had no thoughts of sitting there quietly alone in the lecture room.

Yu IlHan looked over the window again, and sighed shortly.

And started moving.

[You're planning to go, aren't you?]

"They look much worse than a sperm whale. Isn't this a good opportunity?"

[Monsters are different to animals. Skin... Well, in their case, carapaces, become abnormally hard, and their motion capacity changes too. However, yes... There doesn't seem to be any that goes over 20 so it's a good opportunity for levelling up.]

"Yeah. I don't move it's dangerous."

While muttering in self-mockery, Yu IlHan looked around before approaching a desk and taking out its legs.

It was insufficient with just one so he pulled out all 4 of them and grabbed one in his hand while tying up the rest after ripping a part of his shirt and tied it around his waist and tightened it. That happened in 10 seconds after he was left alone.

[...Your handicrafts are neat.]

"Yeah. I was bored so I played around with some things and I got better at it."

[Rita...!]

The abs that were revealed due to ripping his clothes were truly perfect. His physical body, which was trained to its extreme limits to become the peak of the living, was revealed slightly.

However it was his own body, so Yu IlHan ran out of the lecture room without reacting to that. At first, he was about to go straight to the square but he soon remembered that he was bare faced.

"No matter how high my concealment level is, they will recognize me if I stir up the square, right?"

[A mask is sufficient. It will probably increase the effect of concealment.]

If it was a mask, he could think up of one.

The underground stationery store of the Business Hall.

When his thoughts reached there, he quickly ran towards the stairs and jumped over the railings. He grabbed onto the pillar to slide down to floor B3. He ran to the stationery store and randomly picked an Ir*nm*n mask and put it on his face.

This was another 10 seconds. It was an inhuman reaction time.

"Shall we go?"

He jumped over the stairs to go to the ground floor and came out to the square. Coincidentally, a human sized mantis was in the middle of destroying the spinning door of the Business Hall.

[Kuiiiiiiiii!]

"Paha!"

With a strange shout, Yu IlHan's body flew across the air. The moment his razor-sharp kick landed on the mantis's head, its head burst with an unpleasnt 'puk' sound. It was a refreshing laughable insta-kill.

[Experience rises by 800.]

[You have become level 3. 2 Health, 2 Magic, 3 Strength, 3 Agility increases]

[You have awakened Close Quarters Combat lv Max. You can evolve it to the next level skill if you have the skill evolution materials.]

[You have earned the record of Lv13 Big Mantis.]

Texts that momentarily appear on his retina and disappear – With those, suddenly, a wondrous strength filled his entire body.

This was level, the system of strength that the creatures in the worlds that have come in contact with the Akashic Records have acquired.

It was the act of stealing the opponent's records and even potential by stealing life.

He felt his muscles gaining strength. The millet-sized lump of mana which was emitting a faint light inside his heart, was very slightly increasing its size.

This was a truly marvelous and wonderful experience. And the other humans experienced this for 10 years? He felt as if he was dying due to being envious.

'But from now, I'm no different.'

Yu IlHan landed on the ground and slightly smiled. It wasn't just because he levelled up but because he was satisfied with his first fight with a monster. It was a different feeling from the animals that he hunted for disassembly. It was more fierce and heavy and thrilling.

The new information and new stimulation that Yu IlHan liked so much, was raising him to new heights. At that moment, Erta spoke with an uninterested voice.

[Did you open your eyes to the pleasure of violence?]

"Yes. I will definitely beat you up some time."

The square which was full of insect monsters fell into silence again. They didn't seem to think that their comrade will die so easily.

However that was brief. The monster's gazes focused on the human that killed the Big Mantis.

[Kih!]

[Kiik kik!]

[Kuiiiiik!]

Perhaps because their comradery was strong, even the monsters that attacked other buildings became conscious of Yu IlHan and turned their bodies towards him and showed off their hostility. Their numbers were no less than 40.

While looking at that, Yu IlHan spoke with a calm voice.

"Now that I think about it. I didn't learn how to fight groups."

[Just cover it with your body! They can't kill you with their ability anyway!]

Using Erta's words as signal, Yu IlHan dashed out. The insect monsters also moved as if they were waiting for that moment.

[Kuiiiiiiii!]

The first one to come at him was a pillbug which rolled itself up to roll towards him! Above it, there was a fly-looking thing that flew towards him while flapping its wings unpleasantly.

Yu IlHan burst the fly's head first by throwing the desk leg at it, then he took out another short spear from his waist and smashed it towards the pillbug.

With a refreshing sound that sounded like splitting watermelons, the pillbug's carapace burst away. The desk leg was amazingly still holding out.

[You have earned 700 experience.]

[You have awakened Spearmanship Lv Max. You can evolve it to the next level skill if you have the skill evolution maetrials.]

[You have earned the record of Lv11 Big Fly.]

[You have earned 850 experience.]

[You have become level 4. 2 Strength, 1 Agility, 1 Health, 1 Magic increases]

[You have earned the record of Lv14 Big Vulgare.]

"This is useful!"

[Above!]

They were giant mosquitoes seeming like the fly's comrades. And it was 3 at once! Yu IlHan jumped using the pillbug's corpse as foothold while clicking his tongue. After snapping the mosquito's dangerously developed mouth, he swung his short sword to break its head.

[You have earned 400 experience.]

[You have earned the record of Lv7 Big Mosquito.]

At that moment, one of them swiftly went behind Yu IlHan and tried to bite him. Its mouth touched Yu IlHan's back the moment he realized it, but unfortunately it failed to see Yu IlHan's back. For a low level mosquito to pierce it, the tough skin had broken its mouth.

"How dare you!"

While letting go of the mosquito's corpse, he jumped backwards and swung his short spear. When the short spear which hit cleanly on the mosquito's mouth and smashed its head just like that and was shot down, the remaining one came at him with hostile flapping sounds, but even its tube was grabbed by Yu IlHan and could only be swung around.

[You have earned 300 experience.]

"Mosquito Strike!" (T/N: Said in English.)

[Kuiiiiiiiiiiii!]

Yu IlHan, who landed on the ground while grabbing the mouth of the mosquito, swung it and bullseye'd the giant honeybee that flew at him fiercely.

The mosquito was killed by the honeybee's sting, and perhaps a honeybee was just a honeybee even after evolving as the honeybee also died just like that. It was truly a brave death.

[You have earned 350 experience.]

[You have earned 580 experience.]

[You have become level 5. 2 Strength, 1 Agility, 1 Health, 1 Magic increases]

[You have earned the record of Lv10 Big Honeybee.]

[To think it would die with its own attack, it seems like it wasn't perfectly monsterized. But then, what is this level about... hm...]

"Fuu, so refreshing!"

When he turned his gaze while ignoring Erta's mutterings, coincidentally there was a mantis that looked exactly the same as the mantis he killed first, but just 1.5 times bigger, in front of him.

Immediately after he recognized that mantis, its scythes which shined dangerously, swooshed at him with no breaks.

"Tch!"

Yu IlHan, who limboed the scythe threw the short spear backwards in that position to sever the breath of the fly that flew at him from another direction. And when his 2 hands became free like that, he went and did a back tumbling just like that to distance himself from the big mantis.

[You have earned 380 experience.]

[There are monster reinforcements!]

[Kuiiii!]

[Kuoooooooooon!]

Just where did they hide before coming out? Flies, mosquitoes, mantises, pillbugs, centipedes and even cockroaches! He moved his body while clicking his tongue.

"Heh!"

[Kuik!]

He grabbed the two remaining short spears in both of his hands and swung it without restraint to break open the insects' heads. The insects that came like a swarm of bees fell powerlessly like mosquitoes in front of mosquito repellent incense.

[You have earned 700 experience.]

[You have earned 550 experience.]

[You have earned 950 experience.]

[You have become level 6. 1 Strength, 2 Agility, 1 Health, 1 Magic increases]

The body fluids of the insects soaked him but he didn't mind. What if they were insects? The important thing now was the fact that those monsters were opponents that Yu IlHan could bring out his techniques from the long time of training!

Yu Ilhan, who rampaged like a crazy storm inside the monsters was already in a state of half selflessness.

And when some time passed.

Something flashed in front of his eyes.

"Mm?"

The honeybee which was about to sting him couldn't even scream before falling onto the ground. When Yu IlHan raised his head, he met his eyes with a woman who held his out towards him, no, to be exact, to the honeybee which collapsed over the countless insect corpses.

With a woman who was wearing a cheap H*lk mask which was sold in the underground stationery store in Business Hall.

"No. I'm worse as Ir*nm*an...!"

[Stop speaking nonsense and kill those monsters!]

As Erta's point was truly reasonable, Yu IlHan cleaned out the monsters with effort even while pouting. The woman wearing the H*lk mask also emitted lightning bolts from her hands and attacked the monsters steadily. It was a truly strong destructive power.

[That's an unbelievable amount of mana quantity. How can she grow that much in just one day...]

"Isn't she levelling up like me?"

[Oh, it may be like that... How did you know that mana recovers when you level up?]

"Because my stamina is recovering every time I level up!"

When H*lk mask joined the fray, the situation settled down soon. There weren't many monsters in the first place, and her attacks also had the power to kill monsters in one strike.

But perhaps the military already knew that monsters invaded the school as not long later, several tens of soldiers on 2.5 ton trucks came. However, the scene they saw wasn't one a where a square was full of monsters.

It was a scene where a man wearing an Ir*nm*n mask was splitting the last insect, a centipede, in half with a drop kick.

"I'm sorry. The f*cking truck couldn't climb the hill...Whoa!?"

[You have earned 1,250 experience.]

[You have become level 7. 1 Strength, 2 Health, 2 Magic increases]

While splendidly ignoring the soldiers, Yu IlHan muttered as he was fliping the centipede's corpse.

"Isn't there some Jewel of the four souls?"

[If you mean a magic stone, there is one.]

"Oh, there really is one?"

[Didn't you say you learnt disassembly? For insect monsters, you have to take out the hardest part of the carapace, which became like that due to mana, and the magic stone. I will tell you the parts so do it now.]

"Okay. Wait a bit."

Yu IlHan stepped on the joints of the smallest Big Mantis and pulled out the its scythe. The soldiers who were coming to the square stopped while being frightened after they looked at that scene.

"Who is that guy? What level is he?"

"How did he acquire that much strength in just one day?"

"That was a drop kick!"

Whatever the others said, Yu IlHan started the first monster disassembly of his life. He couldn't eat the meat so he threw them away, and as Erta said, he took away the hardest part of the carapace and the magic stone.

The scythe of the Big Mantis was very sharp, so when it was in the hands of Yu IlHan, a disassembly meister, it sliced apart the monsters' corpses as it became a peerless sword.

[You have awakened Disassembly Lv Max]

The soldiers were obvious and even the H*lk masked woman could only stare at his lively movements dumbfoundedly.

When they confirmed that all the monsters had disappeared, the people hiding inside the buildings also started crawling out but they also couldn't approach Yu IlHan.

"Is this it?"

While cutting apart the centipede, a small blue stone rolled out. When he picked it up and asked Erta with a small voice, Erta nodded her head.

[It's a magic stone. The crystalization of mana. It's a high efficiency energy and at the same time, the origin of every artifacts.]

After Yu IlHan wiped it on the grass on the floor and put it in his pocket, he changed his target. Of course as he was a Korean man with manners, he didn't touch the monsters killed by the H*lk masked woman. The corpses killed by the H*lk mask had unique traces of a burn so it was easy to identify.

It was not that every monster had a magic stone, and not every one of them had hard carapaces so there were less spoils of war then he thought. There were 8 magic stones with the size of a millet, 3 rice grain-sized ones, 1 soy bean-sized one, and a few carapaces the size of his head.

"Phew...Whoa."

Yu IlHan raised his head like a farmer that just finished working on his field. But from some time, the H*lk masked woman was staring at him. Without moving from the place she appeared at the beginning.

The people who came out to the square, and the soldiers who came too late, gulped while looking at the confrontation of the two heroes.

It was the meeting of the two strongest in Seoul, no in the country of Korea as a whole, or perhaps even the whole world. How historical was this scene!?

"Uh..."

The H*lk masked woman carefully spoke. It was an unexpectedly calm and unflustered voice.

"Can you... disassemble for me?"

Yu IlHan fell into thought for a brief moment before replying.

"How much will you give me?"

It was the first meeting of the dropout and the Empress.

Author's notes

Ah… really, I should cut it off at a suitable point but why do I have so little control…Fuu…

It's not that Yu IlHan's power and the Empress's power is the same. It's just that Yu IlHan was too much of an overkill.

Erta's blatant bait.

Apparently, there's a plot where Ironman gets thrashed by Hulk in the Marvel World.

The 2.5 ton truck … cannot… climb… the hill...!

The jewel of 4 souls(Shikon no Tama) is an item that appears in Inuyasha. A centipede monster swallowed it at the beginning of the story.

Today, I have something to ask of you readers. This chapter is the chapter where Yu IlHan's first fight occurs. What do the readers think of the fighting scene? No, not about whether the author did good or not, that's a problem with the author's ability so let's put it aside… T^T

Short, lengthen it.

Alright, keep it as it is.

Long, shorten it.

I would appreciate it if you express your opinions!

You Can't See Me (5)

"30%...No, I willl give you 40%"

At the H*lk mask's generous declaration, he unhesitatingly disassembled her worth. H*lk mask watched him while exclaiming at his high level disassembly technique that moved as if he became one with the mantis' scythe. Of course, the others weren't like that.

"That woman! She's definitely Empress. She became a lot weaker but its 100% her with that lightning bolt!"

"She came to school today. She's a student, right? Look at that body figure."

"Quiet. If you get close, then you'll get struck by lightning."

"That's what I want!"

"...But who in the end is that Ir*nm*n?"

As the citizens that they should protect had killed the monsters, the soldiers also stood there dumbfoundedly watching them. The second lieutenant-looking leader was also giving a report while deeply sighing, and the soldiers were all busy sneaking at the H*lk mask's body figure, while calling her Empress and worshiping her.

He pitied the soldiers, who became soldiers in less than 1 day after 10 years of being in other worlds, but honestly, it wasn't something that Yu IlHan could care about.

"And so, who's that Ir*nm*n?"

"Oh yeah, now that I think about it, what was that attack technique? Did he shoot a beam from his palm?"

"Wasn't it an axe?"

"He just swung the monsters around, though?"

Yu IlHan's concealment skill was at a point where it half-distorted reality. He became very willing to tackle every one of those humans speaking nonsense, but he suppressed it and swung the scythe. From the fly's ass, a magic stone emitting faint light flew into the air.

"Finished."

Yu IlHan, who splendidly caught that in mid air clicked it towards the Empress and passed it. She received it before politely nodding her head.

"Thank you."

The 40% worth was already taken by him under the negotiation with the Empress. Their greetings ended and transaction had ended so what was left was just the parting. The Empress put her spoils of were inside a bag she prepared beforehand and started walking after turning back.

"W, wai...Kek!"

Perhaps having received an order from the higher-ups, the second lieutenant approached her, but he solidified after getting struck by a weak lightning before he even approached 3 metres close to her.

He lightning, which could delicately stop movement to make someone stay away without injury, was running at the peak in regards to not only power, but control. If God looked at this scene now, then he would probably shout 'Yes, I sent humans other worlds to see this!'

The gallery, who saw this, whispered to each other.

"Amazing."

"Looks painful."

"He must feel good."

"He got a struck by lightning from the Empress, he must feel good..."

"I want to try getting struck too..."

"Are there only perverts here!?"

Immediately after the Empress left while attracting the gazes of the people, Yu IlHan, who organized his spoils of war, also stood up. He peeled the pillbug's carapace to use it as a make-shift tray and piled the carapaces on top of it. The 4 desk legs were disposed of a long time ago.

People should start running at him soon, too. It would become a pain to carry his spoils of war out amidst that chaos. But it wasn't like he could throw away the monster by-products. so what could he do?

Yu IlHan fell into panic like the time he was asked 'do you like mother, or father?' from his aunt when he was 5 years old.

However, his agony was meaningless. It was because when the gazes that focused on the Empress turned back to the original position, they couldn't see Yu IlHan's figure.

"Whoa, where did he go?"

"Amazing, he must have run at a speed we can't see."

"SungDaein Bolt...!" (T/N: Sung – Sungkyunkwan, Dae – uni, in – can mean 'person', and also a part of Usa'in')

"SungDaein Bolt!"

Yeah, I knew this would happen.

Even though the situation went as he wanted, Yu IlHan couldn't hide his complicated emotions. Especially, the fact that the second lieutenant was looking for Yu IlHan with a serious face but couldn't find him, was heart-aching.

He left through the crowd of people while pouting. It was because he wanted to eat his mother's food.

The time he recognized that he left his bag in the lecture room, was after he came down to the bottom of the hill.

That day, when he came back home (of course, he went back to get his bag), after Yu IlHan ate dinner with his mother, who greeted him overly delightedly due to the monster incident at the campus which was broadcasted to the whole country, and his father, who came home with a scared face due to some incident, Yu IlHan left his house quietly after locking the door while pretending to sleep inside his room. (T/N: Super long sentence… so hard to TL)

In his hands was a bag which contained the carapaces of the insects he hunted that day and some tools.

[Where are you heading?]

"Anywhere secluded."

In truth, nights nowadays were all without human figures. It was because the nervousness of Korea, especially Seoul, reached the extreme due to the monsters that brazenly invaded the college campus in the afternoon.

He placed himself inside a random neighborhood playground and spread the carapaces out on the floor.

Yes. He came out to make some defensive equipment himself befitting of Yu IlHan, who couldn't stay still without doing anything.

"As expected, it it a bit insufficient to make an armor? Moreover, it's non-metal too... It should be possible to make if it's just the wrist and knee protectors."

He wanted to make an armor by whatever means possible but insect carapaces were too hard to handle. As it wasn't like he could melt it and process it like metal, so he had to go with a making a DIY furniture feel rather than a blacksmith feel.

But, Erta became worried even at that simple process.

[Monsters' byproduct's characteristics are very hard to handle. It's better to not touch it rashly as there is no proper craftsman on Earth yet.]

"What are you saying?"

Yu IlHan retorted while wearing the work gloves.

[Oh... Ritaaaaaaaaa!]

Erta seems like to like Rita a lot – Yu IlHan uninterestedly muttered before taking out a saw from the bag and started working. But Erta, who was watching him cutting the carapace with resignation, spoke.

[Even so, you were in a world without mana so you don't know about mana crafting, right?]

"What is that, that awesomely strong sounding name!?"

[It refers to to putting a special power inside a defensive equipment or armor using mana crystals, including magic stones. In other words crafting artifacts.]

"Teach me!"

Yu IlHan's eyes burned with passion for new knowledge and technique He lifted Erta up before placing her in front of his eyes and shouted as if to hypnotize her.

"Teach me!"

[You're close, too close! I will teach you so put me back on top of your head!]

He obediently placed her back on hish head. Erta was taking deep breaths to forget Yu IlHan's face, which came close to the point that she was about to get swallowed up (physically), and spoke.

[As the generalization of the process of making defensive equipment and armors using mana, which is not only on the physical body, strictly speaking, mana crafting is a concept that developed from blacksmithing.]

"I can't do blacksmithing even if I want to right now. First, tell me the method to create an artifact."

[Do I owe you something?]

"Teach m..."

[I said I will teach you!]

She would preach a grand sermon to Rita to manage her man properly when she goes back to heaven!

[The ingredients are the materials to create the armor and magic stones, or some other mana crystals of similar characteristics. For example, there would be a dragon heart.]

"Don't use something so grand as an example. It makes my heart pound."

Yu IlHan took out the magic stone while complaining. Erta continued speaking.

[First the basic form. You create the gear while putting the magic stone near you. After this process, called 'synchronization', and finish creating the gear, you then grind the magic stone into powder to apply it on the gear's surface and wait for it to absorb.

"Then?"

[That's it. Artifact masters call this 'finish'.]

"What finish when it hasn't even begun! I cannot acknowledge that as work!"

Erta's words continued as if she predicted that Yu IlHan would complain loudly.

[Of course, there is an applied form. It's a method used to bestow a special ability and not stopping with just raising the defensive equipment, or the weapon's capacity.]

"Yes, you should have taught me that!"

[However, this method is not only very difficult for you, it also requires quite a lot of magic stones. Also important is the will of the craftsman.]

"Tell me first."

Was he really a human who lived for 1000 years? With Yu IlHaan, who was stubborn like a short fused kid, in front of her, Erta spoke while carefully selecting her words.

[It's the same until the synchronization part, but it goes through a process to bestow a directional nature onto the magic stone. This process is called the 'bestowal'.]

"And to bestow a directional nature?'

[The easiest is for the craftsman to use mana, but even without, you use another magic stone to bestow a will to the magic stone.]

Will. Yu IlHan softly muttered.

[If you want the wielder to become stronger, then you wish for that, and if you want the person to become faster, then you wish for that, and if you want the person to have the ability to defend against fire, then you wish for that, and if you want the person to have the ability to emit fire, then you wish for that. The level of that ability will drastically differ according to the quality of the magic stone, the mana of the craftsman, and the craftsman's will.]

And so, it was hard for the current Yu IlHan, Erta spoke as if she deemed as such.

It was because whether it was the quality of the magic stone, or Yu IlHan's mana, or Yu IlHan's will, in her eyes, it wasn't above the lowest level.

As Yu IlHan also knew that he didn't ask her back. Instead, he spilled out the magic stones inside the bag and silently entered work.

Knee guard to protect both of his knees, and wrist guards. He randomly cut, sanded, holed, sanded, connected with a strong leather rope, and sanded.

It was easy to think that it was crude due to being a product of a simple work, but the protectors that Yu IlHan made were created to fit him, so it looked quite, considerably good.

It wasn't satisfying in an angel's eyes, but Erta had no choice but to acknowledge the fact that the equipment he made transformed splendidly to the point that it would be hard to recognize it was once a part of a monster.

After creating defensive equipments, Yu IlHan neatly powdered the rough magic stones, which went through synchronization, and applied it on each of the protectors.

Despite being a process that he had never done since he was born, all of his movements were extremely efficient and neat. It was to the point that the angel, Erta, thought 'elegant' while looking at it.

[Is it a familiar process?]

"It's not that, but I realized after doing a lot of things until now... the fact that labor is just finding the trick."

[If you didn't say that at the end, it might have sounded cool.]

He spoke as if it was a joke, but that was a huge realization for Yu IlHan. He acquired the ability to see through the most efficient process and apply it in real work no matter what he worked on. It was a power that was applied to not only just simple labor, but smithing, disassembly, and martial arts.]

Erta was laughing at it, but if she knew the meaning behind the words Yu IlHan said, then she would be shocked. This was an absolute power which cannot be materialized even as a skill.

[You've learned mana crafting!]

The 'basic form' knee guards and wrist guards were completed. Erta was dumbfounded while looking at it and muttered.

[You've really made an equipment like this even with those shabby materials...With this level 27, no, you may even be alright in confronting level 30 monsters. Considering your fighting ability, then it should be sufficient.]

"It's not over yet. There's still magic stones left."

Magic stones were definitely left. And it was the biggest one of them, the soybean sized one, and about 4 millet sized ones which paled in comparison.

Erta instantly realized after looking at components. He was challenging 'applied form' right now.

[It's impossible.]

"I'll try it as experience."

Yu IlHan also didn't assure himself that it was possible currently. He was assured that he would be successful some time, if he kept trying.

Yu IlHan achieved success until now like that. Alone, he did all of them.

This was Yu IlHan's life.

Erta, who realized that Yu IlHan didn't have any thoughts to stop, shrugged her shoulders and didn't interfere any further. It was because that the equipments that were already finished were products that surpassed her imagination, and that throwing away some magic stones like that wasn't that important in regards to safety.

At that moment, Yu IlHan took out something from the bag. The only part which was not carapace from the spoils of war. It was the Big Mantis' scythe.

[...What are you trying to do?]

"Just watch."

On one hand, he held all the millet sized magic stones, and on the other, he held the left wrist protector, Big Mantis' blade, and the soybean sized magic stone.

While looking at Yu IlHan's incomprehensible actions, Erta questioned if he understood what she spoke or not.

Regardless of whether the angel thought that or not, Yu IlHan focused with closed eyes.

'By using the mana of the magic stone...will...!'

The millet sized magic stones started lost their light and crumbled apart one by one. Yu IlHan didn't understand well about mana yet, but this process helped him feel mana more clearly.

He concentrated more, fearing that he would lose the faint feeling that he caught onto.

'Scythe…..like the mantis...!'

The millet sized magic stones eventually all disappeared. However, the soybean sized one, which was on the brink of failing, seemed to emit light before the scythe started emitting blue light as if to respond to it.

[...Ah, perhaps?]

Erta, who knew what was happening by then, ended up thinking that it was disappointing for his attempt to fail just like this.

'Eii. I don't know anymore.'

She flowed a tiny amount, a really tiny amount which was unnoticeable by Yu IlHan, in to the protector. At that moment, the soybean sized one flashed brightly before it disappeared with the scythe.

What was left was only the left wrist protector.

[Mana crafting increases to Lv2!]

[Did it fail?]

"No."

Yu IlHan confidently replied before equipping the wrist protector and tightening it.

After confirming that he equipped it properly, he exhaled shortly and rushed towards one of the swings which was swinging near him.

He brushed past it without coming into contact.

However, the moment he brushed past the swing, the two chains that connected the swing were severed and the swing was buried into the sand.

Yu IlHan posed himself immediately and raised his left arm.

[Oh.]

"You see it, right?"

From the middle of the protector which completely covered the wrist, sharp scythe protruded out at a 90 degree angle to his arm. A sharp scythe which would stay hidden normally and would pop out when he wanted. This was his intention.

"I'll get busy."

[Although I did provide some mana, I didn't know that you would be successful in crafting an artifact for real. You've realized its possibility so you will indeed get busy.]

"No, not that."

Yu IlHan quickly organized his belongings and put his bag over his shoulders. Then started running hard.

"I broke the swing so I gotta run!"

[I will use a recovery magic so get over here right now!]

Yu IlHan still haven't let go of his habits to treat things roughly, which he acquired during his dropout days.

Author's notes

The reason I've mentioned the university name is for the Sungdaein Bolt pun! (Really)

Mana crafting is in fact a type of a similar magic.

The staff…Erta fixed the broken swing later.

I have something to say to the readers.

It's about the question I asked you in the last chapter! It's not about the length of the chapter T^T. No, honestly, you're saying that the last chapter and the one before that became pointlessly long due to the lack of ability from the author? The chapter may get longer or shorter from normal according to the story's development. Of course, it's a problem because it keeps getting longer nowadays…T^T

What I can promise you is enough 'volume of the story' which wouldn't be cut absurdly in the middle of the story! Everyone, please trust in me and follow me!!

Although I may not be able to reply to every one of the replies, I am reading all the comments 2 or 3 times! The reader's precious opinion, I won't ignore it! Then I will come back tomorrow at 6 PM!

I Hunt Alone (1)

The day after he exorcized the low level monsters, Friday – That day, Yu IlHan left home to go to college again.

Despite the fact that there were no lectures on Fridays.

"You're going to college, son? Be careful, run away if you see monsters. It would be good if you just rest at home."

"Today will be alright. Mom, you stay at home and don't go out, okay?"

Yu Ilhan had succeeded in making a blank Friday somehow during his course registration for first year, which he didn't even remember now, but it was more stifiling for him to stay at home now.

This was because the only thing he could do at home was to eat popcorn in his room due to his mother receiving a positive bonus on her child-worrying skill due to the 10 years of separation.

But he also couldn't tell his worried mother that although he couldn't use mana, he was so awesomely strong because his body developed to the extreme. The easiest path was to fool his mother, who couldn't remember her son's lecture timetable after 10 years, and come outside.

'I know how she feels, but…'

And that was exactly the reason he had to move. To become as strong as possible before dangerous monsters come out, to acquire strong skills and get used to mana, to protect his mother and father and for him to live well.

"I want to have a workshop. I want a car too."

[You need to earn money.]

"I want to use mana quickly."

[You need to level up.]

"I also want to make a good defensive equipment."

[You need to kill strong monsters.]

That's right. All conclusions required for him to hunt monsters!

Therefore Yu IlHan wore a big bag over his shoulders, and was walking with the cloth-wrapped steel spear in his hands. He was looking for monsters himself.

Of course, although the current Republic of Korea was in the middle of being on guard as if it were a war due to the simultaneous monster incidents, such as the campus monster invasion incident, for Yu IlHan, who even evaded God's eye before, evading the eyes of the military humans who were unknown whether they were from the Korean military or were idiots, was easy.

No, even so, it would be alright for one of them to find him, but nobody saw him as if they purposely looked away. It was a sad thing.

"Can we really find monsters this way?"

[Are you looking down on me, a higher existence? I will find it even if a slime comes out through a gap on the ceiling air conditioner so believe me.]

Even with the big talk from the self-claimed monster radar, Erta, he only snorted. At that moment, inside a store he was passing by, he saw a somewhat familiar scene inside the big TV. He automatically stopped his steps and looked at the screen. And when he did, he knew instantly.

It was the campus of the college he went to. Not only that, the ones rampaging there was the Ir*nm*n mask and the H*lk mask!

[The government is tracking these people who rescued the people by appearing suddenly on the disaster scene and defeating the monster horde.]

[The two ability users, who are thought to be related to Sung****kwan university, immediately appeared after the monster horde appeared inside the campus and defeated all the monsters before a casualty occurred and suddenly disappeared. The researchers named these people 'overbalanced' ability users, and they are estimating that their mana adaptability was way too high and that they had recovered and raised several skills immediately after the return.]

You don't have the qualification to research yet!

[Disasters are occurring in many parts of the world due to the Great Cataclysm. Many people are expressing their worry at the rapid proliferation of monsters, and are demanding fast countermeasures from the government. The government is aiming to create an elite ability users' unit with these two 'overbalanced' as the center...]

There was no value to listen to it anymore. He was already annoyed due to not being able to use mana and they called him 'overbalanced'? If he wanted to follow his temper, he would've swung his spear, but when he thought about how he had to listen to a power sermon from Erta after he snapped the swing, the raging anger also calmed down.

He snorted with a humph and left that place.

Of course, he wasn't that honorable to cooperate with the government. The things Yu IlHan had to protect was first himself, then his family.

In the end, what remained in his head from the news just now was one person.

"That H*lk mask, she was called Empress, wasn't she?"

[Are you interested? Although I didn't see her face due to the mask, her body figure was exceptional. Well, if the level is high, then she will become pretty due to the racial correction, so it might be worth it to look forward to. Anyway, men are all…]

"No, I'm not interested in that direction."

[Really?]

"Yes."

It was a very Yu IlHan-like rejection, who can't lie very well.

Erta thought 'impotent?' at that moment when she heard the answer. It was because even in her, an angel's, view, the charm of the one called Empress was unordinary.

However, of course Yu IlHan wasn't impotent. This was something that Yu IlHan himself had questions about: he didn't feel that much excited even if he saw a very pretty woman or a woman with exceptional body figure. It definitely wasn't like this from the beginning. Before being left out, it was normal.

It was the same with the 'treasure' that shone brightly behind the screen and not just real women. Worrying for his son who didn't react no matter how much put his strength into, he could only give it energy after trying many different genres. It was no different now.

He didn't think about the reason until now for some reason, but now that he thought about it, he realized the reason instantly.

"It's probably because I'm too used to Rita's looks."

[Oh.]

Erta agreed with a sad voice.

[It's probably that. You spent so much time with Rita, a higher existence, so you're no different from being impotent with human women as a partner...]

"I'm not impotent, not an impotent!"

As it was a sensitive topic, Yu IlHan ensured that point. However, the fact that no one glanced his way even though he shouted impotent, impotent in the middle of the street, made him even more miserable.

He lowered his voice, despite the fact that no one paid attention to him, and spoke to Erta as if emphasizing.

"The thing I'm talking is about that power. the ability to use mana."

[...Oh, as expected. It's not such a special thing compared to you who can process monsters's carapaces without mana. The name of 'Empress' is truly grand but the reason why God sent humanity to other worlds is to create cases such as that woman.]

"Except me."

[Except you, who can pancosmically hide his presence.]

Yu IlHan thought that Erta became more eloquent with her words faster than Rita. Even while doing that, he moved was continuously moving his body.

[Wait. We finally found one. it's near.]

At one moment, Erta stopped him. Her solid tone of voice indicated that it wasn't anything common. Yu IlHan asked carefully with a voice comprable to picking potato chips with his hands.

"How many?"

[70].

I beg your pardon? In his surprise, Yu IlHan was almost about to reply in English.

[It's the presencen of a monster horde with a level 35 Direwolf as the head. Not in a dungeon, but on a field.]

"Do you perhaps remember what you said to me yesterday? You said that high level monsters wouldn't appear since it's the initial stages of the Great Cataclysm. Didn't you say that even if they appeared, it would be in dungeons?"

[They didn't fall for the trap. Due to the fact that their intelligence was too high.]

When Yu IlHan sighed due to the absurdity, Erta sighed even more magnificently than him before speaking.

[Truthfully, I thought it was strange even yesterday. No matter how I think about it, there's a problem with a large number of level 10+ monsters appearing.]

"And you reacted so calmly then."

[I didn't want to show a ripple to a lower existence.]

Erta's tone of voice while replying was strangely cold. Was Rita also like this in the past? To Erta, who built a too sturdy and thick wall between them, Yu IlHan became a bit fed up.

Emphasizing her own position and secretly disdaining her counterpart made her seem like a haughty ojou-sama. He wanted to see Rita's face, who he was used to like his real sister.

At that moment Erta spoke as to interrupt his thinking.

[However, now, I have to request cooperation from you so I will tell you honestly. The current state of Earth is not normal.]

It seemed as if just speaking while standing still was a waste of time as Erta pulled his hair to indicate him to go in a certain direction. While experiencing the feeling of a giant robot, controlled by a hero, Yu IlHan dashed out while Erta continued speaking.

[You must already know that during the mass migration of humanity, in other words, during your dropout period, all life forms except humans were left on Earth.]

"Well, yeah, since I disassembled some of them. Rita was noisy about killing a small number of them."

[There was no choice but to do that to match the balance of the world. We can't be too biased towards humans so... Anyway, you must also know that they weren't allowed changes unlike you.]

"Yeah."

[Lord God deemed that that was enough. He had thought that it wouldn't be a problem even if he left them alone for 10 years before humanity came back.]

Somehow, Yu IlHan felt that he knew what she wanted to say.

[However, due to an unknown mistake, the time axis of Earth became very off, and while 10 years passed in other worlds, on Earth, one thousand years had passed.]

"A thousand years!?"

And as expected, Yu IlHan was surprised at that part!

"I thought it was about 150 years!"

[It was a thousand years.]

"Not 300 years, 500 years?"

[Millenium!] (T/N: Spoken in English)

"Mommy!"

Regardless of whether Yu IlHan was frightened at the past years, Erta pressed on.

[Although it is said that they were reset at the point that humanity came back, but it didn't manage to revert their mentality. It's a thousand years. If animals, who are suppose to live 10 years, lived for 1000 years without dying, then it would instead be strange that they don't change. And it happened at the exact moment the restriction on time disappeared, dramatically.]

"Just the conclusion."

[It's highly possible that the monsters that will appear on Earth will be absurdly strong and intelligent compared to other worlds.]

"We're doomed..."

[We exist for that to not happen.]

Erta declared. Even Yu IlHan, who felt distant at her arrogant, emotionless words just now, felt that she was cool when she said those words to the point that he felt favourable towards her again.

[I've already reported to heaven, and to tune the balance, everybody is moving. However, it will take time for that to implemented. Yu IlHan, do you have any thoughts in moving quite busily just until then? A suitable reward will be waiting for you if you do.]

Erta was saying this – Become the human shield until the weapons are prepared.

Yu IlHan replied while smiling bitterly.

"It sure sounds painful and difficult."

[I won't deny that.]

He stopped in his place. And spoke his honest feelings.

"And so I like it!"

It was a masochistic thought even when he thought about it, but Yu IlHan liked moving better than spacing out doing nothing. Now that he had lived for countless years, or as Erta said, 1000 years, he had changed like this.

Moreover, he even thought to be enthusiastic if it was approaching the unknown that no one had experienced.

If he didn't die.

"If I think I'm about to die, I will run away, though."

[There's no way you will die. You are underevaluating your own ability.]

Erta snorted. She already saw a fragment of Yu IlHan's ability. Yesterday, she saw his overwhelming fighting ability against multiple monsters, she saw a scene where he created an artifact worthy of evaluation using monsters' byproducts,

and she saw the steel spear that he took out while leaving his house today.

Erta was meticulously misevaluating him. Level 30 monster? Don't joke. He wasn't someone who would struggle with monsters at that level. The power and technique, trained to breach the limits, inside his body was proving that fact!

[The Monsters will show up soon. And they will bare their fangs to devour humans to reach higher heights. So before that.]

Yu IlHan's steps became faster.

Wwearing the Ir*nm*n mask on his face, he gripped the steel spear, shining under the sunlight, after unwrapping the cloth and stepped out.

Now, he also felt it. A murderous intent on a different level he felt in the campus!

Erta shouted.

[Pull out all their fangs. Oh, Exectutor!] (T/N: Apparently, a TYPE-MOON reference)

Author's notes

There are other executors other than Yu IlHan. It will be explained soon, but just in case you're curious.

Truly, what higher existences are doing is basically robbing Peter to pay Paul...!? As many people had guessed, the surpassing existences in this novel are not almighty nor omniscient in any way.

To think I…I'm impotent!

Then I will come back tomorrow at 6 PM! Please put it on your reading list/recommend it/comment if you like it! ^^

I Hunt Alone (2)

His thoughts became complicated. The time he randomly thought 'it shouldn't be over 200, right?' was actually 1000 years, and the animals who had matured well like him evolved into monsters to take revenge for the 1000 years of solitude...

[Kuhaaaan!]

But so what.

After finding the horde of monsters that showed themselves on the streets, and the leader-class huge Direwolf which led them, Yu IlHan thought while moving faster.

No matter how long the time that had passed was, it couldn't change his current situation.

Even if the monsters on Earth were stronger than those in other worlds, I don't even know how strong they are since I neve went there! Fuck, so it's none of my business! – he thought.

There was one thing that was sure.

That I'm stronger than that thing!

[Kuhoaaaang!]

His steel spear stabbed head on in the giant Direwolf's face, which didn't know that Yu IlHan was approaching thanks to his passive concealment.

The spear which was accurately stabbed between its eyes, pierced everything from its spike-like fur, hard skin, the complexly formed muscle, its flesh which strangely tightened to block foreign substances, and the bone which developed to be stronger than steel, to smash its brains.

[You have earned 12,904 experience.]

[You have earned the record of Lv35 Brown Direwolf.]

[You have become level 9. 4 Strength, 2 Agility, 2 Health, 2 Magic increases.]

[You cannot become Level 10 without obtaining a class. All records acquired before obtaining a class will be calculated after generating a class.]

[All of your records will be materialized into possibilities. From the following jobs, you can select...]

At the same time the enormous experience and record that the Direwolf had was all absorbed by Yu IlHan, countless texts appeared on his retina.

However, Yu IlHan had to move his body quickly without even the opportunity to recognize that. It was because the monsters on the streets attacked him fiercely, much less being frightened after their leader died.

"Fuck, monsters!"

"So many...One man is fighting them!"

"Wait, I will emit fire from my hands!"

"Soldiers! Really, these guys are never here when we need them!"

At almost the same time as Yu IlHan's preemtive strike, the people moved around chaotically after they recognized that monsters were attacking. Whether it was running away quietly, calmly reporting, looking for the military, or looking for signs to shield themselves in.

They didn't seem to have gone to other worlds for 10 year for nothing as they reacted calmly to the monsters, but amidst of them, a few clumsy people were trying to show off their non-existent fireballs with their non-existent mana.

[Kuhwaaaa!]

And a wild dog which disdained that man barked lowly and attacked him. Yu IlHan, who half-expected that situation, swung his spear once to throw them all apart and kicked off the ground.

The moment the strength stored in his body kicked the ground, it was purely turned into thrusting force and his body shot out like a cannon ball.

After focusing his strength by leaning forward in that state, Yu IlHan pointed the spear towards the front with both of his hands. At the end of the trajectory that the spearhead drew was the wild dog's head which was about to assault the man.

[Kak!]

[You have earned 1,700 experience.]

[You have earned the record of Lv18 Wandering Dog.]

For a dog, it has a too cool of a name!

While tackling only in his heart, Yu IlHan landed on the ground. The monsters which didn't deviate their gazes from him from the beginning, glared Yu IlHan with a 'I will kill that guy and live' gaze while shortening their distances with Yu IlHan, after their comrade died. Anyway, it was fortunate that other people weren't in danger now.

"Step back."

Yu IlHan warned shortly while looking back. However, the man who was rescued after failing to shoot fire from his hands, was surprised when he saw the Ir*nm*n mask that covered Yu IlHan's face and shouted.

"I, Ir*nm*n mask...!?"

Someone who heard that blurted out.

"Perhaps, Sungdaein Bolt!?"

"What, did you just say Sungdaein Bolt!?"

"That cheap Ir*nm*n mask...It's the real Sungdaein Bolt!"

From some time, that embarassing nickname was spread out loud! Yu IlHan hid his feelings to cry and turned back. His feelings were complicated – he was slightly happy that his name was known, but he was still sad.

"I said step back!"

"Cheer up, Sungdaein Bolt!"

"Wow, so strong. Just how many levels did he level up in one day to become like that?"

"He got his 2nd job, definitely."

The returnees were adapting too well to the situation. They all distanced themselves and watched the fight. Someone even took out a smartphone and recorded Yu IlHan's fighting on a video.

Yu IlHan thought it was truly fortunate that he was wearing a mask and swung the steel spear. His spear, which would have already been ripped apart if it was made of ordinary steel, was in reverse, showing its might by breaking all their teeth.

[You have earned 3,300 experience.]

[You have earned the record of Lv26 Grey Wolf.]

[You have earned 1,950 experience.]

[You have earned 1,500 experience,]

Countless texts were printed on his retina. He thought that not levelling up despite killing so many of them was related to class or whatever that popped up when he killed the Direwolf, but as the monsters didn't even give him room to rest, he had no time to read and confirm it.

Of course, these things were insta-kills so it didn't matter if he levelled up or not!

But it was when he decreased the number of monsters about 20. From the hole where the monster horde first apeared, a big sized wolf popped out and howled loudly.

[Guwuuuuuuuuuh!]

[It's the second strongest. It seems like it's passing some sort of order down so be careful.]

"...So they can even pass the authority of control and even give orders, eh?"

At Erta's warning, which made him instantly realize that the monsters' intelligences were high, he turned the gear upwards in his heart.

I can't hear what the people were chatting loudly about back there. The important thing was me, and the things I had to kill with my spear. – he thought

At that moment, 5 wild dogs, which were distancing themselves from him and only watched while on guard, attacked him simultaneously.

[Kuhaan!]

Left leg, right leg, right arm, left shoulder, head. Their figures of attacking different parts of his body when assaulting him reminded him of the humans' bullying. (T/N: Raws was 합격술/合擊術, it's some martial art… but it's basically bullying martial art.).

"Fuu....Hap!"

When he saw that, the move Yu IlHan chose was attacking. If he fell back, then his posture would become unstable and be in a state where he would receive continuous attack easily; and if he defended, then he will get bitten somewhere.

Stepping out with his right foot, he leaned forward and shot the spear to smash the head of the one aiming for his right leg, with its corpse still stuck on the spear, he swung it and sruck the one aiming for his left leg.

The strength stat that should be calculated to several tens of levels suppressing the wild dog's body was truly a frightening scene.

[You have earned 1,300 experience.]

[You have earned 1,250 experience.]

However, by that time, the third dog was already within 10cm of his left shoulder. A trajectory that wouldn't hit even if he swung the spear. He let go of his left hand holding the spear and swung his arm. At that moment, the sharp scythe that popped out from his wrist cut apart its mouth.

[Kyaaaak!]

He retracted his left arm to hold the spear with both of his hands, and he smashed hard on the ground with the spear while stepping out with his left foot.

After getting rid of the dog's corpse with that shock, He struck upwards with both the 4th and 5th dog in the trajectory which were about to bite his head and right arm respectively.

"Hup!"

[Au?]

[Kuhung!]

The moment after the sharp spearhead shined due to the sunlight, the two's bodies snapped in half and was trashed onto the ground.

[You have earned 1,400 experience.]

[You have earned 1,330 experience.]

Lastly Yu IlHan finished the fight by stepping on one of the dog's head, which was wailing on the ground and had half of its mouth gone. He had finished five of them in a blink of an eye.

[Kahang.]

However, the wolf which watched that cried short as if he disdained it. The moment Yu IlHan raised his head while thinking to smash it apart after rushing up, a different scene came inside his view.

"Kkuk, Please… help me....!"

[Kuoohh.]

Did it have an objective to distact him from the beginning? It had procured a 'hostage' by moving fast in those few seconds.

Where? The hostage wasn't from the streets. The crowd from the streets were also shocked after they recognized that there was a hostage, and that was just now. There were many kinds of humans such as those who ran away too late fearing that they would also be captured and humans resolving to rescue the hostage.

However he was able to realize soon. The time that these monsters appeared and the time that Yu IlHan found these monsters couldn't have been the same.

So, in other words, these things have already assaulted once or maybe more, and may have procured the hostage from then.

It looked at Yu IlHan. Its disgusting-looking mouth and the protruded fans seemed as if it was lauging at Yu IlHan.

Although Erta said that killing humans to earn experience and record was a monster's instinct, it was even temporarily suppressing its instinct to try to corner Yu IlHan.

The aim of that action is to suppress Yu IlHan's actions. That wolf had the most simplest but efficient scheme to defeat Yu IlHan by attacking his weak poitn while he couldn't move properly due to minding the human under its foot.

It was a strategy only possible because of having seen through human psychology.

And if it really thought that, then it had judged Yu IlHan wrongly. Because the moment he saw that, Yu IlHan threw the spear in a straight line without any hesitation.

[Kak!]

The moment Yu IlHan showed movement, the wolf panicked and put a little strength into his foot, but returning the spear that was already out of his hands was impossible even for Yu IlHan. It had become a situation where threatening didn't work.

The wolf which figured that out not too late, tried to kill the hostage then avoid the attack. And the moment it thought that and was about to put strength into its foot, the steel spear penetrated its head.

[You have earned 6,700 experience.]

[You have earned the record of Lv32 Cunning Big Wolf.]

Yu IlHan thought of himself as an ordinary human.

He wanted to save a person if that person was in a crisis, and would help even if he had to exert himself if he could. To him, who had lived for 1000 years without human presence, a living and breathing human had become a precious existence.

However, if he was asked 'can you put yourself in danger to do that?' then he would just laugh it over. That should be the same for other people. A person had to respect his/her own life as much as he/she respected others' lives.

Just that was what was different for him from criminals, was that it was possible to judge the situation instantly and move and not show panic in the face of a crisis like other people, who may even be selfish.

[Guoohhhhhh!]

[Kiiii!]

Immediately after Yu IlHan threw the spear to kill the Big Wolf, the remaning wolves and wild dogs simultaenously assaulted him.

It was obvious that they were trying to do something now that he had lost his weapon, but their current actions were also a bad move. This was because Yu IlHan's body, which learned all kinds of martial arts with Vale Tudo at the beginning, was a weapon enough to kill them even without the unique rank steel spear.

"Fuu."

Yu IlHan laughed at the fact that he could now relieve some anger when he was coincidentally feeling down, and he threw his body towards them.

[Keng!]

[Kak!]

[Yelp!]

"Wow, even on dog days I wouldn't be able to kill that much."

"Did you see that eye-poke? Look at him poking the eyes with his index and pinky fingers just because their eyes are wide. Such a meticulous guy, that!"

"Someone save that girl. Quickly! She's about to be run over by monsters!"

"2nd platoon, move out fast!"

And at that moment, the soldiers had arrived at the scene. Fortunately, as they had arrived before the monsters' indiscrete rage, due to having lost their leader, spread to the civillians, succeeded in dragging out the collapsed hostage before she was injured.

And after that to suppress the monsters they...

"Don't shoot! Sungdaein Bolt is inside there!"

"You should've come earlier! soldiers are as slow as always!"

"W, wait! Hold your fire, didn't you hear that there's a person!?"

They had to retract their barrels while panicking due to the people's barrage of complaints before they even got to shoot. Meanwhile, Yu IlHan severed the monsters breath one by one while moving like water.

After he thrashed the 2 leaders, it didn't seem like there was a new one to take the lead so the monster's fighting methods became instantly simple, and Yu IlHan, who was rampaging, could process all the monsters at that place within 3 minutes.

It was a truly dominating battle.

[You have earned 1,100 experience.]

"Fuu."

After Yu IlHan severed the last wild dog's breath, he sighed at the fatigue that came at him and raised his head. The same type of gazes that looked at him after he rampaged at the college campus yesterday were mercilessly striking him.

And there was one that gave him the most fierce gaze, and it was the gaze of the platoon leader. It was a second lieutenant that had a pressed berret on her head. She shouted while looking directly at the Ir*nm*n mask that Yu IlHan was wearing.

"I finally found you. Sungdaein Bolt!"

Are you the main culprit behind the rumors!

Author's notes

The activities of the returnees will be revealed bit by bit from now.

The brand that MC prefers is Un*ql*. Finding him, who has a generalized loner skil attached on him, is harder than finding Wally,

Then I will come back tomorrow at 6 PM!

Translator's notes

Let's… hold back some of those donations ok? I can't translate all day…. (This was the first time I received more than 3 chapters worth of donations in one day…) I started this for fun! It's not even (supposed to be) my main project! But thx people for donating!

(This was around when chapter 7 was released)

I Hunt Alone (3)

The soldiers drove away the civillians with the excuse that monster might appear again.

Even if they went to other worlds for 10 years, the civillians couldn't boast about themselves in front of rifles, right? The people obediently left.

"Fuu. It's fortunate that we meet you again like this."

How could both of the soldiers that he met two times be both women? He was curious but that was that. He could tell what the soldiers wanted to say to him without asking.

As for the reply the reply, Yu IlHan had already prepared one.

"I've looked for you a lot. Really, why did you leave when a person was about to speak to you?"

I didn't go… I was packing up right in front of you…- he thought.

"Ha, I wouldn't be treated like this if I wasn't wearing a military uniform... I'm really frustrated. I should just throw all of it away or something."

"Second lieutenant. Sungdaein Bolt isn't listening to your words right now."

Yu IlHan moved his hand up to hold the spear by the head as he started to dismantle the monster bodies while using it as a knife. It was unbelievably uncomfortable, but he had no choice as the leathers of the wild dogs and the wolves couldn't be cut without the sharpness of his spear. He could schedule a day to make a knife.

And for that, too, he needed a personal workspace.

"Just! Listen when a person's talking!"

"I'm not listening. I'm not doing it. I'm not helping."

Yu IlHan replied shortly.

"So you don't have to say anything."

"D, do you perhaps have any feelings against the country or the military...?"

He didn't have anything against them. He, too, felt proud when the Korean sports representatives in world-scale competitions achieved good results, and he also believed that there was a value in Korean history and tradition. He never regretted being born Korean.

It was just that such a sense of belonging to the country cannot direct Yu IlHan's choices, and his fate. Just that.

Yu IlHan, who was peeling the wild dogs' skins in a blink of an eye, questioned whether he really needed to take the wild dogs' bodies when there were a lot of wolf bodies.

Due to the level differences, the dogs' leather, teeth, and bones were obviously weaker than that of the wolf's. Of course, it was frightening that it had higher defensive stats than steel plate armor.

"The dog bodies, would you like to buy them? I will dismantle it for you."

With Yu IlHan, who changed his attitude as if flipping a hand when a matter came up, even after he said he wouldn't talk, in front of her, the female second lieutenant was dumbfounded.

However, the moment that Yu IlHan turned his head while saying that it was fine if they didn't need them, she came to her senses and shouted urgently.

"I'll buy! We'll buy them!"

"Then I'll sell it to you."

"If possible the magic stones too..."

"I won't sell those."

"Yes!...Tch."

Yu IlHan bargained with the second lieutenant while he kept dismantling the dogs. The second lieutenant said that she didn't have the authority to decide and contacted her superiors, and those superiors who learned well that they needed to use the monster's bodies in the end to go against the monsters, accepted Yu IlHan's offer right away.

However, in truth, monsters were appearing in the whole world and not just Korea. Of course, strong monsters, such as the Direwolf that Yu IlHan killed, didn't appear, but sightings of those as strong as the [Wandering Dog] were quite frequent, and those were in the range of what the K-2, K3, and grenades from the strong Korean military friends could manage.

But why did they nod their heads when Yu IlHan said that he will sell the bodies? That was because of the state of the bodies.

The strong friends from the military shoots guns when they meet monsters. Even soldeirs confident in their physical ability would shoot guns.

Just those at the level of the Wandering Dog would have unbelievably thick skin, so they needed to use several tens of rifile bullets, and sometimes grenades to kill them with no difficulties. As a result, the state of the corpses would normally be horrible to look at.

The leather would be damaged to the point of being considered trash, and the bones would shatter. So, although it may be possible to use it for research, it would be impossible to use it on its own.

In contrast, how was the state of the bodies of the Wandering Dogs that Yu IlHan hunted?

Even otherworlders would raise up their thumbs as they looked at Yu IlHan, who would insta-kill monsters, with the least amount of damage, and call him the best hunter.

Even that would be a good deal for them, but if his dismantling skills were also accounted for, then they would become speechless. The scene where the intact corpses separated into leather, bones, and meat as if they were like that from the beginning, was passed to the second lieutenant Han YeoRang's superiors without problems no matter how bad the quality of her phone camera was.

'Second lieutenant Han, don't ever let him go. Drag him here using any means other than violence!'

"But he says that he will never talk with us."

'Even if you have to use a honey trap, drag him here!'

The strong friend and 'beauty' second lieutenant Han YeoRang, who heard the word 'honey trap' for the first time in a real situation since she was born, was in agony. Did she have to quit the military after beating up her superiors, or did she have to take him to the optometrists to check his eyesight…

"…..I will try to persuade him."

In the end, her grass root-sized patriotism and the even smaller soldier's attitude grabbed a hold of her. However, before Han YeoRang ended the call with an amazingly small voice after killing her emotions, Yu IlHan, who finished dismantling the dogs and was about to go into working with the wolves, spoke.

"I will exchange in cash so please get it ready."

"...So he says, sir."

Han YeoRang wanted to cry. This was the tragedy of the middlewoman.

On another hand, Yu IlHan finished dismantling while humming.

Unlike yesterday, when he fought with the insect monsters, he had gained more. It was because it was easier to process animal bones and leather in comparison to insect carapaces.

Of course, the wolf's bones weren't metal so it would be impossible to melt them down, but he could recreate them into defensive equipment and weapons according to the innate structure of the bones, and the leather would become good defensive equipment without a doubt. Not only that, he would be able to create other artifacts using the magic stones.

However, the more important profit were the magic stones. He didn't know while he was killing, but the leader, the Direwolf, and the vice-leader, the Big Wolf, both had magic stones.

Moreover, unlike the soybean sized magic stone from the Big Mantis, the Direwolf's magic stone was about the size of an almond chocoball.

"It looks quite tasty..."

[NEVER! A magic stone isn't something that a human can intake directly! Do you want to be controlled by the monster's mana!?]

"Whoa..."

Yu IlHan, who heard Erta's sharp warning, voiced his horror.

Because… Wasn't this too blatant of a foreshadowing!?

Yu IlHan, a trained loner, ended up predicting the disaster that her words would bring. Some time in the future, humans would turn into monsters by swallowing magic stones in their greed to become stronger faster, and Yu IlHan would fight against them...

Yu IlHan could assure himself that this would happen not just once, but many times, as humans are foolish and would repeat the same mistakes.

He lost all his strength as he already knew that, so Yu IlHan rolled the guiltless magic stones in his hands.

"The magic stones are sure pretty."

"Yeah, well."

Excluding the boss and the mid-boss magic stones, the trivial magic stones that Yu IlHan harvested numbered about 20. Han YeoRang gulped when she saw that.

Combining all of those, it would end up equalling an enormous amount of money even in Guundia, the other world that she had gone to. And as it was one of the key materials to make 'artifacts' that everyone wanted, on Earth, its value would multiply by hundreds or thousands of times.

Of course, it was a different story as to who ccould create such artifacts.

'Hmph, what, shall I use a honey trap?'

While Han YeoRang was thinking idiotic things, Yu IlHan organized the maagic stones and the dismantled wolf bodies. To carry them, he temporarily made a bag using the wolf leather, and he put the leather, bones, and magic stones inside it.

And when he put all of them inside, what was remaining were the mountains of wolf monster meat.

"Is this edible?"

[If you have the weak poison resistance skill.]

At Erta's cool headed words, he gave up on the wolf meat. However, when he was about to put the bag on his shoulder, Han YeoRang approached him carefully and asked with pitiful eyes.

"Can you… sell some mwagic stwones and some of the grey wolf lweather…..?" (T/N: Ask cutely…?)

"Nope."

"Okay."

How could he reject so refreshingly? Was he some stiff general in his past life…? (T/N: Actually, this was a pun in Korean. Raws are literally, 'Was he some danhobak farmer in his past life?' with danhobak being a pun of danho(being determined))

Han YeoRang, who spoke with a bit of cuteness, had to step back with tears in her eyes when her charm didn't work on him. She resolved to beat the soldiers up until they were half dead when they went back.

At that time, the cash arrived. It was a cash delivery service with a lieutenant colonel-level personnel, and a government personnel attached as bonus.

Yu IlHan wanted to refund just the bonus, but things didn't turn out that way. It was said that the Goddess of fortune and the Goddess of misfortune always came in pairs, and it seemed like it was true.

"You're really amazing! To think that you killed all those monsters with your strength alone!"

Nonsense starting with those words were completely chewed by Yu IlHan and he just quietly checked the amount of money. (T/N: chewed is a Korean way of saying 'ignored'; You can 'chew' someones words means you can ignore someone's words)

370 million won in total. (≈ 320,000USD)

His hands trembled lightly. Despite the thousand years of training, he couldn't not be nervous in front of the enormous sum of money in front of him. It was because despite the fact that he had driven big ships and high-class sports cars, he had yet to steal from banks.

[No matter how good of a condition that the leather and the bones are in, considering that the Wandering Dogs are less than level 20, this is quite generous. It's highly possible that they want to leave ties with you.]

"As expected, it's like that, right...?"

Yu IlHan carried the bag on his shoulders. Yu IlHan, who confirmed that their gazes were fixed on the bag with the wolf leather in it, which was incomparbly more valuable than some wild dog, he relaxed and spoke.

"The exchange is over right? This is my money, right?"

"Of course it's yours! However before that, why don't we tal..."

"We'll probably see each other again soon."

"Huh?"

Yu IlHan retorted icily and ran an app after taking out his smartphone. It was an app he downloaded after realizing something yesterday in the campus square.

The app's function was very simple. It would flash an enormous amount of light in one moment. After the flash, everyone there, except Yu IlHan himself, closed their eyes for a moment, and opened.

"Wh, what was that!"

"He's not here. He disappeared!"

"He disappeared in such a short time!? Just how high level is he...!? Just what kind of vision(?) did he acquire in the other world?"(T/N: the raws literally says vision… but I don't know what it is, may be a reference to an anime or smth)

"Amazing, Sungdaein Bolt..."

"No, m*n *n bl*ck...!"

Of course, there was no need to explain. Yu IlHan was still right in front of them. (T/N: LOL)

Even though the passive concealment wasn't active during to the fight, if he distracted their gazes, then the concealment would activate again. What Yu IlHan used was the gap in recognition.

"Shall we go now?"

[The time it will take for heaven to move due to my report is one day. I'm sorry but during that time, we'll need to keep moving. Dangerous monsters would have shown themselves in other places as well.]

"Okay, okay. Let's go after leaving this in a safe place. And I need to check that class thing."

Yu IlHan left the people who were desperately searching for him and moved his body.

His long day had only began.

Author's notes

Next chapter, he will get his class! I was trying to shove it in this chapter, but it was too long…

I should give him a mask full of originality and strip him of the ironman mask...!

After Yu IlHan's busy day finishes, in other words, chapter 3 finishes, I can say that the main novel will start. Please look forward to it!

Translator's notes

Disassembly will now be called dismantling… thx guys.

'Strong friend' refers to the military.

Poor second lieutenant… lol

What I love about this author is he gives blatant foreshadows… and that the MC knows them!

Weak poison -> poison -> strong poison (the other two will come up later)