Chapter 1499 – [The Night Before the Storm]

It is called the countermeasures headquarters, but if there is one more word that needs to be added, it is international. This is because it is a national issue.

Why would I want to do such international work in Korea, but among other countries, Korea is the only place where human casualties are zero, and Eden and I are there. Although there is also the Heavenly Demon… Compared to other countries, even if the treatment was quicker, there were no casualties.

Anyway, maybe that’s why Korea has become quite a country that sucks in gukppong. So it became a place that could be the center of this situation.

“Dad is suffering too.”

“No, Dad isn’t suffering, Eden is suffering too. Shouldn’t we go together?”

“That’s right.”

[Eukhahaha, I’m a bitch.]

“Ah, Keter, you’re invited too.”

[Aaaaa!!! Why me!!!!!!]

“You should attend too. It’s related to work here.”

[This is why transcendentalists don’t get involved in other civilizations!!! Because it makes me worry about the annoying and difficult things!!!!]

“Keter, let’s go too!!!”

[Aaaaa!!! I hate to go!!! Help me!!! I don’t have any skills in this job!!!]

Anyway, me, Eden, and Keter headed to the Countermeasures Committee together. Corma is at my house, but it’s not something that you can use your hands on, and Bertatus will take care of Mary, so it was better.

We moved to the place where the countermeasures meeting was held. Me and Eden wear masks… Keter just goes. Originally, he came out with his face uncovered from the beginning.

It was a place where representatives of each country were gathered. Seeing that even the Heavenly Demon was present, it seemed that this issue was considered quite important.

Before the meeting, I had a separate talk with the Heavenly Demon. I don’t know about other places, but the Heavenly Demon is a personal friend, so it’s okay to tell them a little bit of information.

“It’s been a while. Actually, I don’t like meeting again over something like this.”

“Me too. If we’re going to meet, we’ll meet in a good way, Nawoncham.”

“I heard about your daughter. She was quite active.”

“I hope I don’t go through something like that. Especially this year, it’s more because of the CSAT.”

“SAT……Ah, I’ve heard of it. It’s a test in Korea? It’s quite heavy, but it must be hard.”

“Eden has a harder time than me.”

After asking each other how they are doing, they talk about the current situation.

The Heavenly Demon is a personal friend of mine, but on the one hand, she is also the head of a country, so such a conversation was naturally necessary.

“On our side, there are thousands of victims. I was busy moving and somehow dealt with the things that came over, but there were other problems.”

“Evil spirit? Korma would have taken care of that?”

“Yes, it was comfortable to deal with. But it doesn’t work as a fundamental solution.”

“That’s right. Korma can’t take care of it forever.”

There is no point in just waiting. Eden will take care of it later, but what’s the point of leaving it to Korma in the meantime? It was no different than a country without an army and just relying on another country’s army.

Because South Korea does not have an army because there are USFK. Rather, you know how hard it is to maintain the conscription system. But North Korea is gone here, so when will the conscription system end?

Anyway, that issue will be the main agenda today. Maybe that’s why the Heavenly Demon subtly told her the story.

“Every country is interested in it. It is good news that there are no casualties, but on the other hand, it gives other countries reasons to envy or covet the cause.”

“Yeah, thanks for letting me know.”

“Well, even if you don’t tell me, you’ll do fine.”

“That’s right. Oh, let’s have a drink after the time is over. You rule the country, so it’s hard to meet you.”

“I wish I had a good drink.”

“Don’t worry, I’ll treat you even if it’s airlifted from Horizon.”

After that, the meeting begins in earnest. Representatives from each country hurriedly flew in and took their seats, and I also took a seat next to the Korean president. Eden and Keter, of course.

A lot of attention is focused on this one. If I had to ask, Eden was on the side. Probably because Eden was very active in this situation.

“I would like to express my gratitude to the distinguished guests who gathered to overcome this global crisis. Before entering the meeting, I will have a moment of condolences for those who have lost their lives in this tragedy.”

Some silence. After a while of mourning, the meeting begins in earnest. I want to bring up the agenda first, but it’s because I have something to say.

I have the duty of protecting the president, but on the other hand, I also have a strong right to speak. Maybe Eden or Kether are similar?

I put a lot of information about this incident into the microphone. Although the dimensional civilization knows its existence thanks to the visitors there, it still does not know the existence of the dimension and the basic knowledge about it.

In the first place, it was not a dimensional civilization, but the people of this civilization who came to know that the existence of a dimension was a being of another dimension. You have to tell the basics to be able to talk.

“Ah, hello. I’m Myeongje. First of all, I would like to express my condolences to those who lost their lives in this incident. And I would like to give you some basic information about this incident.”

First of all, there are two main things to tell you.

I already know about the existence of evil spirits, so that’s okay, and this time I’m going to tell you that it’s a test invasion to know the coordinates and that if you kill the monsters that come out, evil spirits will pop up and cause problems.

That’s what you need to know so you can figure out what to do. If you don’t know that, you can’t do anything.

“First of all, their invasion this time is not in earnest. It is an act to check the coordinates of this dimension from another dimension.”

“As a result of the investigation, there were also monsters that fell from a height and fell. Was that simply to figure out the coordinates?”

“Yes, even if the host dies, the evil spirit doesn’t get hurt anyway. Rather, like germs, evil spirits become possessed by others and cause problems. Moreover, in modern society, if such evil spirits possess someone with a position…The result I think you know what it’s like.”

The world with magic is also inferior to the 21st century earth unless it is developed considerably. It also lacks technical skills and firepower.

But that doesn’t mean it’s superior. Among magic, mental magic is ruined if used incorrectly. If you use brainwashing magic on the US president and press the nuclear missile button, World War 3 will happen.

The same goes for demons. It is difficult to possess someone with strong mental power, but it is possible to possess someone and ascend to the top. Of course, it’s good to be possessed by powerful people or chaebols from the beginning, so they usually aim for that, but anyway, it’s very annoying when evil spirits do that.

Rather, it is worse than the enemy species of the previous round. That way, if you deal with it somehow, it will end, but here, even after it’s over, there are cases where you have to doubt humans.

“I think we should first discuss what to do with the monsters that may come out and the evil spirits behind them.”

“It’s also a problem not knowing when and where the monsters will pop up. It’s like we’re in a one-sided position. Even if the military tries to move and deal with it, citizens will get hurt in the meantime.”

“Ah, if that’s the case…”

Suddenly, I remembered the dimensional seismic sensor I used on Earth every round. Other than that, there are also some crazy level things that are just used in dimensional civilizations, but those are probably difficult to make on this side of Earth.

Zion has additionally upgraded and warns you dozens of minutes before the dimensional earthquake opens, so you have enough time to prepare, and the environment is almost the same as other Earths.

Maybe if you tell me the blueprint or something like that, wouldn’t it be possible to mass-produce it with the technology here and use it? Of course, I don’t know that well, so I’ll have to ask Shion.

“Do you have any good ideas, Mr. Hyeongje?”

“Hmm…There is something called a dimensional earthquake sensor. As you know, I am a reincarnated person, so I’ve been reincarnated in many places, and it detects and warns in advance that dimensions are splitting, just like when they appear. I think I can.”

“Ah!!! That’s good news!!!!”

People in the conference room had a bright smile on their faces. After receiving only bad news one after another, we received good news, so of course it will.

In fact, spraying skills other than cooking is not my hobby. Furthermore, it was a violation of the Dimensional Civilization Law.

The basic stance of a dimensional civilization dealing with a non-dimensional civilization is non-interference. If it wasn’t for that, I would have taught them things like dimension leap technology and increased the number of dimensional civilizations in the first place. Rapid growth is because there are disadvantages.

Well, but their laws also interfere with humanitarian matters. Come to think of it, what I’m doing won’t be a problem?

If you ride up, the dimensional seismic detector must have been developed by Dr. Alien of the Tiv civilization that crossed over to that Earth, not pure technology from that other Earth… Oh, I don’t know. Don’t think about complicated things, but if the earth is fucked, Eden will suffer, so let’s just think about that.

“How much do you think the licensing cost for that dimensional detector?”

“If you do it wrong, people will die, but I have no intention of being greedy with it.

In addition to that, we had to lend equipment to poor countries that couldn’t afford that much money. Because the evil spirits won’t come out as they cover the country.

I don’t think it’s a hogu, but if you don’t, the evil spirits will take root on the earth through that gap. That would make things even more of a hassle.

“The next problem is how to deal with the monsters that have passed through it.”

“Firearms will work, but not all of them will work…”

“The monsters that appeared in Korea were so unusually dense that personal firearms were unable to inflict lethal wounds.”

The monsters that came over were each different. Anyway, the original purpose of the evil spirits was not to mess with the monster host itself, but to possess and fuck with the humans on this earth, so it didn’t matter what the host was.

Like the guys Eden dealt with, there were ogres who were useless with rifles, but in some places, there were goblins that could kill one or two adult men. Well, it seems that there were casualties either way.

Dimensional Jin only judges the size, so you don’t know how many people will come out. Even with that, it would be possible to roughly distinguish them, but looking at the data, the dimensions of the ogre and the dimension of the goblin are similar, so if you make a mistake, you will be in big trouble.

“Isn’t that just a matter of putting in people with special abilities? It’s not for military purposes, it’s to defend against invasion from another dimension, so I think it’s possible.”

“Hmm, that’s…”

At least it was better than sending troops to deal with them. Even if you become a first-class martial artist, from the point of view of the general public, you are no different than a superhuman enough to change all Olympic records.

Of course, those who know how to fight are rare, but they will fight better than soldiers. Even if you give him a gun, he’ll fly around, and if he’s a master at his peak, he’ll be able to crush the ogres that Eden killed.

“If that’s the case, wouldn’t it be possible to have a dragon like Bertatus in Australia? I know there was a case like that in North Korea before.”

Suddenly, the remarks made by the U.S. Representative made the chairman stiffen for a moment.

Bertatus, a Confucian dragon active in Australia. If you think about it, he was the beginning of this situation, and from the beginning, the evil spirits used it as a host and dropped it into this world.

And before that, the evil spirit dragon had fallen in North Korea and tried to turn it into a mess and drop nuclear weapons. As dragons are dragons, what you can do with them is no joke.

I’m not saying it’s completely not, but it’s still highly unlikely. If you hear about the vanity possessed by Song Min-woo, it is said that he was one of the four heavenly kings, and that he was the strongest, but there are not many such guys.

Like Bertatus, even if you send multiple people into one body, you probably won’t be able to control them properly. Even if it’s the same evil spirit, you can’t expect any connection from them.

“That’s almost never going to happen. It’s not like you can possess evil spirits, and it’s difficult to possess someone with strong mental power. I don’t think there are many more like that.”

“But isn’t there a just in case? According to my research, Bertatus is nothing more than a flying battleship.”

Even a dragon that can’t use magic is not a Hogu. A giant body of tens of meters, dragon’s scales, and flying, and also shoots a breath. Most missiles probably won’t work, so you can’t kill them unless you decide to bomb them.

Furthermore, demonic dragons also have demonic abilities, so if you strengthen them and fight, you’ll get angry. If he really had full power, I couldn’t catch him unless it was my family or the heavenly horse.

But well… It’s not really impossible, and there’s a possibility that similar guys will come over, so I’ll have to sort that out.

“If it’s a monster that can’t be dealt with in a normal way, I’ll step in and deal with it.”

“Ah, then there should be no problem.”

It’s going to be a little annoying, but what can I do? If a guy like that comes out and goes crazy, there will be problems in Eden’s life.

Anyway, that’s the next agenda item. Do you get evil spirits even if you kill them… Eden is an expert on that, so I told him.

“After killing the monsters, how are you going to deal with the demons?”

“First of all, if you set up a barrier near the dimensional formation when deploying troops, you can keep the evil spirits from escaping outside the barrier.”

“You mean the barrier?”

“Yes, and the evil spirits that can’t escape should be dealt with by a psychic next time. Of course, a psychic can have some effect, but… The most important thing is whether they can see the spiritual body.”

There are supernatural powers in this world. To be precise, people who use special abilities through spiritual power are called psychics, and in a way, they are of the psychic type, so their attacks work even against evil spirits.

However, seeing the spirit body is different. Since it is a specialized ability, it is used unconsciously, so in order to see a spiritual body like a person with spiritual powers, you had to be conscious of the spiritual power and then turn it with your eyes.

Well, maybe that problem can be solved somehow. Or it could be done by using a psychic who can only see as an observer.

“Anyway, I’ll teach or pass on information to the psychic who visits on how to set up a barrier. Then I think we’ll be able to figure it out with this.”

“Hmm…I understand. Thank you for your words, Miko Wakamo.”

It’s an unpleasant feeling. If you educate psychic powers, isn’t that also saying that Eden has to spend time?

After all, helping people is a good thing. But apart from that, there shouldn’t be any harm done.

After the meeting, I talked to Eden about it.

“Eden, how are you going to study for the CSAT?”

“Well, it’s not like I’m going to teach all day. Well, I’ll make the curriculum as easy as possible and teach it as an accelerated course.”

“It’s good to help others, but you shouldn’t do harm with it.”

“It doesn’t hurt, it just takes a little time. And if I teach it in advance, they teach others and then I don’t have to do it, so shouldn’t I do more? That’s how the evil spirits are killed.”

“Write.”

On the other hand, they were doing it to ward off evil spirits, so I couldn’t stop them.

In order to end this situation, I have to go over there and catch the Demon King… I’m a student at the exam right now. At least, after the exam, you have to make time to go in. It probably won’t be over there for a day or two.

[Ah!!! Why did I participate in the meeting when I didn’t do anything?!]

“Axis) do nothing.”

[If you think about it, I’m not majoring in soul!!! That’s the Arregish side!!!]

“Let’s assume that he attended as a representative of Korea.”

Anyway, as discussed at the meeting, countermeasure groups quickly began to be created in each country. And I asked Shion to hand over the data of the seismic detector used by that civilization to the government.

In a way, it’s a dimension-related technology, so I think it will be an opportunity for this earth’s civilization to leap into a dimensional civilization in the future. Shion seemed to have thought of that as well, so he cared about this and that.

“It’s all good, but I hope you don’t abuse it.”

“How are you going to exploit it?”

“Like inventing dimension gate technology and terrorizing the White House.”

“We’ve got a long way to go to get there. I doubt we’ll even be here until then.”

Usually, when it comes to dimensional civilization, it is separately processed so that the dimension gate cannot be opened anywhere. Maybe later invent that technology too.

Dimensional seismic detectors were quickly mass-produced under the leadership of the government and deployed in each region. Of course, the densely populated metropolitan area started first, and there were people who protested because of that, but that’s not our concern.

Eden was making a lecture plan to teach psychic people who would visit Korea and learn how to set a barrier. Since this is a more systematized magic, anyone who learns it can use it, but it is simplified even more.

“For one person to use, for multiple people to use. Variations are also necessary, so pay attention to that too… Hmm, there’s a lot to think about who to teach.”

“Originally, being a teacher is difficult.”

“Oh, that’s right. By the way, Dad.”

“Why?”

“Dimensional Jin used when evil spirits come over. Probably the Devil did it, right?”

“…….Maybe.”

I was talking about something, maybe that’s it. Of course, this is a story that Eden should be worried about. On the other hand, the demon king of the other world must be Eden’s nemesis.

“Is it strong enough to cause a dimensional earthquake?”

“It’s not a transcendental level. This side and that side are unstable because Tiv is fighting with the absolute leader of order, so it’s relatively easy to cause a dimensional earthquake.”

What should I say? In general, compared to dimensional interference, the level of difficulty here is low, so it feels like cutting tofu with a knife? Pretty easy.

But don’t ignore it. Being able to interfere with dimensions means that at least you have reached the level of a semi-transcendent.

“It’ll taste as good as it’s sharp, so it’ll taste good.”

“No, you thought that there?!”

When you think about beating people, who do you like the most?

Oh, it’s me