Chapter 2079 – [Continued World]
People who watch or watch my broadcasts on this side of Earth also know about the existence of another dimension, a different Earth. In the past, there was a story about an Elysium guest visiting the Earth that was ruined by the zombie apocalypse and providing support.
But that was something I did, and it had no connection to the people on this side of Earth. It was just a story that was passed over as if it were an interesting story, but… This case is different. Another dimension beyond this dimension, and the same Earth. The environment is similar and the same in many ways, but an environment for exchange has been created to the point where people from different places can come and go.
As with previous large asteroid incidents, a quick announcement had to be made to calm people who were traumatized by being invaded by evil spirits. Although rumors spread to some extent due to the Hanul Guild’s hunters coming over from the other side, people showed keen interest in the official announcement.
-A parallel world has appeared!!!!!
-Isn’t that the Lostbelt? Where is the fantasy tree!!!!
-If you think about it that way, I think we might be a Lostbelt. Gongsangsoo is in the Garden of Eden, and the King of Lost Moon is an evil emperor.
-Ssssstttt
-Looking at it, it seems like it’s a district where there are hunters instead of people with special abilities…
-And!!! Hunter stuff!!! And!!! Gate!!!!
-Is there a status window?
-It doesn’t seem to exist.
Hey, it looks like the hunters over there have awakened their magic thanks to Gaia’s help and become hunters. If they had even created a status window, I wouldn’t have received this offer.
The topic of Earth in another dimension is so fascinating that there have been a lot of inquiries from reporters and media outlets. However, since there are still consultations to be made and the need for media control, I do not plan to accept it for a while.
“President, our guild and the government have expressed their intention to meet. We need to decide on a place and time, so what should we do?”
“It might be confusing for them too… So I think they can decide it themselves and ask me to tell them separately later.”
“Oh, I understand.”
And the appointment date was two days later, a dimensional rift… We decided to meet inside the gate.
There would be a burden on both sides if someone from that side crossed over to this side or someone from this side crossed over to the other side, so I suggested that we meet at the gate as a middle ground. On the other hand, you will feel at ease because you have already explored there first and established a base.
In fact, if we want to, we can destroy them all and take over the gate, but it is better to go peacefully. It won’t be a short-term exchange, so you can set up a separate trading post at the gate in both directions later and get to know each other.
“Anyway, how much do they know about this side? How much do they know about us?”
“First, I posted a report about Eden’s boss regarding Elysium before. It’s probably an issue that VIPs are also aware of. However…”
“Just?”
“Well, honestly, there are a lot of false stories we hear, so even if we acknowledge their existence, there are many parts that we don’t believe in. Ah!!! Of course, we believe everything that President Eden told us!!!!”
If you go back 20 years and say, ‘In the future, I will become president, create Jurassic Park, reform the judiciary, have Eve become a god, and provide life insurance for the people,’ they would have told me to make up bullshit, even if I were talking about my past self. Moreover, they are people from another dimension.
There isn’t much evidence per se, just news and information, so even if there are things you don’t believe about this, there’s nothing you can do about it. There are a lot of things we don’t know, so we should learn about them little by little.
Diplomatic envoys were selected separately to take them to a place where Earths from different dimensions met for the first official contact. First, they will take me as the representative, and Korma and some of my secretaries as assistants. Oh, of course Jihee is included among them.
“As I live, the day comes when I try to engage in diplomacy with Earth from another dimension.”
“I heard that the world is so amazing. Thanks to you, things have happened, and it’s been hard. I don’t even have much time left in my term.”
“Will you be elected again next time?”
“I don’t get angry anymore, I just feel drained. Really… No, Jihee, are you saying that too?”
On the day of the appointment, my assistants and I entered the gate with the guidance of other hunters, including Team Leader Kang Yun-chang of the Hanul Guild.
The first sight I saw inside the gate was nothing special, just a wasteland. For some reason, there was a sun shining in the sky, so I didn’t have to worry about the light source, but my feeling is that it is a plain about a little over 1 kilometer wide.
It seems like it will be a bit tight to build the entrance facility for this gate, so we need to plan the space well. There’s a lot to think about.
Anyway, we were able to meet with representatives of Korea over there at a temporary basis set up in that district. There were assistants and other hunters like us, but there were about two people who seemed to be in charge, and one of them seemed to be the guild leader of the Hanul guild where team leader Kang Yun-chang was.
What’s a little surprising is that the guild leader is a woman. He seemed to be around the same age as Eden, around mid to late 30s, but he looked younger than his age, perhaps because he was a hunter and had special abilities. However, the thing that cannot be ignored based on his appearance is that he appears to be quite a talented person.
Aside from everything else, even though she is a woman, you can tell by the calluses on her hands. That’s not just labor, it’s calluses from holding a knife.
“Nice to meet you. My name is Han Sol, and I am the guild leader of Hanul Guild.”
“I heard a lot about the Hanul Guild from team leader Kang Yoon-chang. Republic of Korea… No, he is the worst person holding the position of president of a unified Republic of Korea.”
As I shook her hand lightly, I made eye contact with her and saw a hint of deep curiosity behind her. No, to be exact, it’s not curiosity, but a desire to win.
I don’t know what I heard from team leader Kang Yoon-chang, but I think he at least heard that I was strong. I’ll just put up with it because it’s my seat, but later on, they might decide to fight as if it were a friendly battle.
“Hmm, hmm!!! Nice to meet you, President Choi. My name is Dae-hwan Kim, and I am serving as the president of the Korea Hunter Association.”
“Ah, it looks like it is a national government organization for people with special abilities that is separate from the guild. We also have something like that, so I think we know.”
Just as there are other factions under the Cheonmu Association, there seems to be a guild under the Korean Hunter Association. Since all people live the same way, it was easy to understand because they were similar.
However… It takes a little while. The head of the Hanul guild was pretty good, but this guy seemed to have some skills and abilities, but he was also a greedy person, so it was hard to figure out how he got to that position. If he is good at compromise and persuasion, he is the kind of person who will show value.
No, just because he’s honestly a dick doesn’t mean you can’t brush it all off. It’s a necessary evil, and if you eat it in moderation, I have no intention of tackling it. For example, the Great Demon King himself is virtually a necessary evil, so we have no choice but to tolerate it.
“Excuse me when I first meet you, but President Choi looks young. He even looks a little younger than a guild leader, which is very surprising.”
“A person with advanced abilities looks young for his age. Even though he looks like this, I have two daughters of the same age as the guild leader you mentioned.”
“Oh, I see.”
They throw light jabs at each other. If an attack was made by roughly saying, ‘You look a bit young to be president, don’t you think so?’, This could be seen as ‘I’m more talented than your guild leader and I have grown daughters before that, so don’t make a fuss.’
Looking at this situation, it looks like they are trying to see the liver since it is early days of the face-to-face meeting, but I think they need to take the lead.
I tried to respond appropriately and have a good conversation, but I think I need to be more proactive. I decided to change my mindset and respond.
“First, I would like to express my gratitude that two Earths from different dimensions can interact like this. We will be able to help each other fill in our shortcomings.”
“Yes, that’s right. But I heard that there are no gates in President Choi’s unified Republic of Korea.”
“We probably lack gate-related dimensional technology and knowledge compared to theirs. However, as we have not suffered any damage from the gate, we have used those resources for development and achieved even more brilliant development. We have already built not only a moon base but also a moon hotel. Even ordinary people can enjoy leisure time on the moon if they spend a little money.”
“… On the moon?”
“Thanks to space technology, it takes less than a few seconds to go from the Earth to the moon. If you want, you can go to the moon on the weekend, have fun, and come back, so wouldn’t such space technology be a great technology?”
Pressure + Merit. It goes in two.
In addition to telling people not to mess with us because we have spatial technology, we are appealing to them by saying that if you interact with us, we will teach you spatial technology. Of course, the spatial technology itself was received from the dimensional civilization, but as time has passed since then, it has actually become our technology to the extent that we apply and use it ourselves.
Budae stew also originated from sausages or something similar from the US military at the time, but just as it is a Korean dish, not an American dish, if spatial technology has been accepted and applied for about 10 years, isn’t it ours? It is even applied here and there.
In the first place, if you look at the basis or original text, the problem is so complicated that when it is applied, it is treated as a civilized thing. That’s why spatial technology was also handed over.
“Please come visit us sometime. The service at Moon Lake Hotel is outstanding. We can host VIPs in the future, so if you apply, we will accept it even if it means putting off your existing reservation.”‘
“Haha, it’s a bit burdensome for you to provide such convenience. I’ll think about it later.”
What is the burden? If I had just given you a free ticket or something, I would have accepted it with a smile.
Anyway, we will talk more later. Even though we knew the basics, we didn’t know the details, so we continued to search for each other, but the more we tried, the more it became known that it was the other side that was at a disadvantage and lacking.
“It appears that the unified Republic of Korea has developed a lot as there is no disaster called Gate. To be honest, we are in a situation where North Korea was destroyed because of Gate and unification has not yet been achieved properly…”
“On our side, unification took place quite a while ago. In fact, the Gate, as they call it, has already happened once, and a hostile creature came out of that Gate and attacked people around the world.”
“Geez, gate break…!!!! Has a cataclysm occurred?!”
One guild leader must have sensed something from what I said and muttered the name of the phenomenon.
As the Hagi Knight Gate itself was Gaia’s work to relieve the dimensional shock, if it could not be dealt with due to indigestion, there would have been an aftereffect of the backflow. I think it’s called a gate break.
Well, I can’t say it’s the same since it’s different in some ways, but it’s similar. Anyway, it would be good to remember Gate Break and Cataclysm, since they are used over there, they should be useful.
The president of the association asked me about that with a smile on his face, but it seemed to me a mixture of anticipation and various emotions.
“How did you solve that problem?”
“Oh, my daughter went to the other dimension and dealt with the guy who created the gate. Since then, other than this incident, there have been no related problems.”
“Huh? Are you saying that there is technology that can cross dimensions? No, if you think about the spatial technology itself…!!!!”
“No, there is no dimensional technology yet. What should I say about this…”
Even if I just had it for myself, I think this would be really annoying.
And that’s not the fundamental solution over there. Since the gate on this side is artificial, it will not occur if the object is destroyed, but the dimensional shock on the other side is close to a natural disaster, so it is difficult to resolve. Even if the dimension was destroyed, it would only be postponed until later.
… Even if it ends by destroying the dimension, that would be a serious offense even for the Great Demon Lord. How much damage would there be if one dimension was shattered? Really. Even the damage suffered during the first dimensional war has not yet been recovered.
Let’s skip over the ambiguous parts. It seemed like he wanted to ask a deeper question about that, but I skipped over it for now, even if I didn’t know about it later.
However, as the daughter’s story came up, there was a lot of talk about it. It seems that the story of the old resuscitation procedure was passed down through team leader Kang Yoon-chang.
However, they did not easily believe that either. Jesus died and was resurrected and was recognized as the son of Yahweh among the common prophets. I wonder if this is my first time hearing about it. As you’ve heard before, you’ll probably think it’s just an exaggeration or something.
“Now that I think about it, I heard that your daughter is connected to a guild member of the Hanul guild. She saved many people’s lives through something similar to the potion she received. However, I think the story about the resurrection of the dead was a bit exaggerated.”
“There are many elements to the exaggeration, but for now it can be said to be correct. Resuscitation itself has become much more common.”
“Yes?”
“The daughter the president of the association was talking about was our first child, Eden. However, after that, our second daughter, Eve, became a god and exercised her power to implement national resuscitation insurance that revives people who died in accidents or disasters. Thanks to this, we in Korea have become more distant from deaths other than natural or military deaths.”
“Yes? Yes?”
“If it is applied, hunters there will also be able to be revived if they die while exploring the gate. Of course, there will be many problems in the process.”
“Is that true?!?!?!”
A guild leader reacted violently to a story about hunters. It’s not just a sense of duty; it’s a deep emotion, as if someone close to me has died.
In a situation like this, people who are impatient or emotionally disturbed usually lose. So, having roughly achieved my goal, I decided to stop here and leave.
“You seem a little excited, but let’s leave today’s story here. We’ll talk more about it tomorrow.”
“Ah…”
“Hmm, hm, okay. Then, I’ll see you tomorrow morning or at lunch.”
We took the initiative. I don’t know if we’re lacking, but if they’re lacking, we need to tell them the gap. It’s not something to exploit, but honestly, I don’t see people who are supposed to be helped to be arrogant and acting shamelessly.
First, I need to figure out what kind of support I can provide over there.
… Uh? But what will I give you? Rather, it is difficult to choose a candidate because there are so many?!?!?