## Chapter 1547 – The Foreign Swordmaster – The Demon God of Another World

The surroundings are blue.

I’m familiar with this pattern of dimension, having seen it a few times. A world entirely blue. In that blue background, numerous black spots pulsed with irregular contractions. From a different perspective, it looked like a blue, irregular mesh covering a pitch-black space, swaying back and forth.

I immediately expanded my senses to analyze the scene.

“A passage?”

This place… it was close to being a passage. Right. Like a cylinder. So, if I went beyond, would I be able to find out where the monsters were coming from?

—Kwaang!

I immediately leaped to the end, but…

“Hmm.”

It was blocked.

There was no entrance at the end of the cylinder. All there was was the exit behind me. The one leading back to Earth.

“It closed the moment it was created.”

I couldn’t read it perfectly, but that was my judgment.

From the battle just now, I learned that the S-class monster didn’t have the ability to manipulate dimensions. That meant some unknown, deformed sons of bitches were opening the entrance from the other side, intentionally shoving monsters in, and then sealing the entrance the moment the monster entered the passage.

Then the low-intelligence monsters would eventually go out through the exit.

“It’s slightly different from the summoning magic Ricch used.”

Ricch’s summoning magic could be described as a dimensional fish trap.

He’d create a hole and let the power of this world flow into it, luring the great demons of another world that were wandering through the dimensions. Those lured things would then descend into this world.

So, the demons Ricch summoned were like bugs drawn to a streetlight in the countryside.

But these guys are different. They don’t come in by finding an open hole; they keep crossing over using gates.

If Ricch created gates to lure an unspecified number of demons, these guys are being sent by some external entity that intentionally opens gates for specific situations.

“Another entity.”

An entity intentionally sending monsters to this world… it’s beyond imagination. They must be an extremely deformed and cruel race.

“A dangerous race.”

There wouldn’t be many reasons to send them. Reconnaissance or invasion. It’s closer to the latter here. Earth is already under attack.

So, are monsters weapons for invading other dimensions? Biological weapons sent by those deformed intelligent beings beyond to attack Earth?

Certainly.

If monsters and gates aren’t dealt with for a long time, the area itself becomes Otherworldly. Sending a tiger to Mars wouldn’t turn Mars into a jungle. But monsters Otherworldify the land they tread on.

This is similar to the demons of Pandemonium. Those demon bastards also made the surrounding area demonic.

If you think of this as a kind of terraforming…

It’s quite plausible.

Then let’s make a hypothesis. Some entity from another dimension found out about Earth and is sending monsters to exterminate the natives and terraform the planet. That’s quite plausible. And of course, such an entity could exist.

“It’s blatant.”

A race actively trying to invade other dimensions… this is threatening. No matter what, I have to find out their identity and smash them to pieces. Ricch was only trying to use the power of another dimension to reign supreme, but this goes beyond that.

If they’re sending weapons to another dimension, they must have been doing this as a matter of course. I have to resolve this no matter what.

—Tsszz.

The exit to Earth was getting smaller. A sign of disappearing. I don’t have much time, but I should do everything I can before I go.

—Kkwaak.

I immediately spread my grip and grabbed the dimension. As I slowly tore it apart, the boundary began to open. What I saw through the gap was a pitch-black space with nothing in it.

I checked it briefly and immediately closed the boundary. Then I opened a new boundary again.

Through this repeated process, I stored the dimensional coordinate information in my head. I can reopen any dimension I’ve opened once. Because I have the knowledge in my head. In other words, if I find the boundary to Earth here, I can come back here anytime.

When that happens, I can keep watch and, when their entrance opens, I can raid them before they close it.

“A perfect plan.”

Then I’ll fire a few Heavenly Demon Death Beams into their dimension, use hostages and corpses to figure out their characteristics, and extract information. If I can also steal some of their dimensional knowledge, it’ll be useful.

—Kkwaak.

I tore at the boundary for a long time.
All sorts of bizarre places came out, but…

“Found it.”

I finally found the boundary to Earth.

—Buuuk!

I immediately widened it a bit more and slipped out.

Today’s reconnaissance is a success.

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After returning, I immediately summoned S-class Hunter Kwon Chan-hwi and asked him a few things.

“Of course, we Earthlings have also researched gates. We’ve never been inside an S-class gate, but… we’ve learned a few things. Do you know about the concept of dungeons, Heavenly Demon-nim?”
“Explain.”
“Yes.”

He nodded and began to explain.

“A dungeon is more like a specific area of another world that has been brought over whole, rather than a gate. But it’s difficult to explain with modern science, so information is extremely limited… it’s like a temporary, time-limited space that has crossed over into this world.”
“Hmm.”

He sent me related data on my phone, and I listened to his explanation while looking at it. A dungeon is like a part of a specific space that has crossed over.

To explain it simply, imagine a dome-shaped building the size of Yeouido. That building suddenly appears in a specific area one day. The dome covering the surface is like a dimensional barrier, so you can’t just break through it.

“These dungeons need to be removed quickly. By bombarding them with missiles or deploying hunters and troops through the entrance. Finding the entrance isn’t difficult. Monsters will start coming out soon. Anyway, when all the monsters in this dungeon come out, the dungeon explodes.”

I already knew most of it.
I’d looked it up after coming here.

Even my younger brother, Geun-soo, that bastard, said he was going into these dungeons and doing errands for the hunters.

“That explosion is quite powerful, so we usually try to enter and remove it before the monsters come out. We need to quickly find and destroy the dungeon core inside. It’s troublesome if the monsters spread, and if it’s near a downtown area, the damage from the explosion would be significant.”
“I see. Anyway, what’s the important thing you’re trying to say?”
“It’s that the monsters coming out of the gates and the monsters coming out of these dungeons are somehow different.”

Different.

“The properties of the magic stones are also different… I don’t even know if they’re the same thing in the first place, but what’s certain is that the relevant scholars have concluded that gate monsters and dungeon monsters are different.”

The monsters coming out of the gates and the monsters coming out of the dungeons are somehow different. That’s the conclusion the Earthlings have reached.

So, are there two types of invaders?

Or are they the same race but from different factions?

If two different kinds of factions are invading as if they’re competing with each other… I need to think about this a bit more.

Anyway, it was decent information.

“What are the signs of a dungeon appearing?”
“It’s similar to a gate. It suddenly appears one day. But dungeons don’t pour out monsters as soon as they appear, so responding to them isn’t that difficult.”
“Good.”

Then let’s stop the explanation here.

“But to crush an S-class monster like that and turn it into a meatball… it’s really amazing.”
“This isn’t even in the realm of amazing.”
“I see. Ah. And the video of you crushing the monster has already been filmed by a reconnaissance plane. It’ll probably be reported soon, is that okay with you?”
“Of course. Tell me if you need an interview.”
“Yes!”

With that, I parted ways with Kwon Chan-hwi.

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“This is the magic stone that was extracted after killing that S-class monster.”

After returning home, I immediately gathered them and summarized what I had learned. Then, I placed the S-class magic stone, which emitted a radiant light, on the table. They say this is the most expensive thing on Earth right now. Because it’s an energy source with tremendous energy condensed in it.

“Risha. Can you analyze it?”
“Hoo… certainly. It does seem to be different. The power itself feels foreign…”
“Witch-nim? Are you going to say that and then say, ‘I don’t know! Black magic is my specialty!'”
“What do you take this one for! Do you think this one can’t even recognize this!”
“Kya-hyu-hyu, no. Well. It’s not that, but I just have a ‘suspicion’.”
“Just you wait and see!”

As Karin teased her with eyes that seemed to be watching something interesting, Risha trembled and made a boast. I wonder if she’s going to transform again.

“Anyway, Kat-nim. The monsters invading Earth are actually some kind of weapon, and other beings from another world are sending the monsters for invasion? Supposedly?”
“Almost.”
“Hmm… and they remove the natives with monsters and change the surrounding conditions… it’s a bit like the demons of Pandemonium. Demons who received orders from someone.”

When you think about it, it’s similar.

The demons also wanted to change the human world to their liking.

“Something’s on the tip of my tongue… Ah! Kat-nim! Come to think of it, there was a strong demon among them! That Lucifer or something!”
“Oh. There was. Why?”

Is there some kind of connection?

“What happened to that guy?”
“What? Does that have anything to do with this?”
“No. It suddenly popped into my head. I’m just curious.”

That bastard closed the dimensional boundary and ran away. Whether he moved the dimensional coordinates themselves or something, I couldn’t find that place even if I tried to.

“But it seems like those kinds of guys hide and build up their strength and then invade again.”
“That’s true, but no matter what he does, he can’t be my opponent. I don’t think I need to pay much attention to him. He’s probably eating well and living well somewhere.”

He’s not a very important bastard.

“Anyway, I figured out how to go back and forth through that dimensional passage. Next time those guys show up again, I’ll go right away.”

Now that I know how to go, all I have to do is wait for those guys to show up again.

I’ll probably be able to reveal the identity of those sons of bitches who are sending the monster bastards soon.

What the hell are they? What kind of bastards are doing this kind of thing? I need to see their faces.