Chapter 2088 – [Continued World]

First, no matter what the purpose of the Absolute Destiny was, time was needed to verify the ability to use magic power. Through his connections with the Hansol guild leader, he was able to arrange for mid- to high-level gates, even if they were not large, and gain the authority to attack them.

In the case of gates, although the strategy was different, in general, the bigger the gate, the greater the reward. Of course, even if the scale is large, there are slams, but the proportion of slams at large gates was lower than the proportion of slams at small gates.

One place that really hit the jackpot was a place that had something like a golem made of diamond ore. It is said that the quantity itself was not that large, but a really large natural diamond was found, so it was eaten in abundance.

Oh, of course that’s not important.

“Even if there are no gate by-products, it is better to just destroy the gate. Considering that there are gates that cannot be attacked due to lack of manpower or gates that are avoided due to low profits or high risk and get closer to the gate break… “

“Human greed is like that. Even when a person’s life is at stake, they weigh the gain and loss.”

“… Yes, that’s right.”

It is human nature to want to drink only sweet water. Honestly, who would want to take a difficult path on purpose? A guy like that is either a fool or a hero with some determination. For your information, Gilhyun is both of those bastards.

Anyway, once I figured out the correlation between magic power and the gate, I came back and told Eden about it. Since Eden has the ability to ‘transform’, she will also be able to seal the dimension using the magic power of our hunters.

Since it is a good skill, it is good for Eden to learn it as well. Later, if you become a Lord-level transcendent, there will be battles that will affect the dimension, so it was convenient to learn it in order to prevent the aftermath.

“Hmm…”

“What’s wrong?”

“No, because it’s strangely inefficient. If you use things like internal power or mana after conversion on their own, you’ll get some results, but this isn’t very efficient for anything other than dimensional sealing, and you have to use additional will, so it’s a bit disappointing. I’d rather use ether to achieve physical strength. I think it would be much better to seal the dimension by manipulating the laws.”

“Eden, you are not a Lord and there is a substitute, so there is nothing we can do. You will have to do resuscitation here anyway, so just figure it out.”

“Well, it’s not like you can’t use this ability at all. If anything, even if you use ether to seal the dimension, I think it would be okay to use magic to refine it in advance.”

If forced gate extinction is a female knight’s most popular ability, I’d rather do it. It’s not that I particularly want to attract attention, but because Eden was already burdened with resuscitation procedures.

Eden, who already spends her days doing resuscitation procedures except for eating and sleeping, is going to go around there and make the gate disappear? At that point, even if you are a transcendental person, you never know when you might collapse from overwork because you are overworking.

So, it would be better for me to bear that burden. And if it is a field that receives similar or greater attention than resuscitation procedures, there will be a lot of people whining about doing it, so it would be better for me to listen to them.

Even now, people are flocking to Eden asking for resuscitation in their country. I can’t go because I’m busy.

Afterward, I went to the Hansol guild leader to forcibly destroy the upper-middle level gate that he had been given the authority to attack. The gate at the foot of a mountain somewhere in Gangwon-do was located in a good location, but the first search results showed that it was a subjugation type and the aptitude creatures were not very profitable, so it was half-abandoned.

“The forced destruction of the gate is important. So please, Mr. President.”

“I’ll try.”

Then, I drew up the magic power from the Infinity Force Core, mixed it with my will, and blew it into the gate.

However, it felt somewhat stiff and rough, so unlike when I forcibly destroyed the small gate before, it felt quite stuck. This was not simply because it was a mid- to upper-level gate, but because something was fundamentally different. For example… Is it because it is a subjugation gate with hostile creatures inside?

Of course, it wasn’t a big problem. You can just push with force, but since you need experimental data, I just tried to infuse magical power until the middle part, and when I figured it out to a certain extent, I tried using authority to kill hostile creatures inside the gate and then infuse it in.

As a result, the latter was more convenient. In the case of subjugation gates, it seems that subjugation is not simply necessary to release purposeful magical energy, but if there is a living creature inside, the destruction of the gate is slowed down. I think it could be considered something like a foreign substance.

I experimented with this and that, but the intermediate and upper level gates disappeared in about 5 minutes at most. Hunters and people from the Hanul Guild nearby are shocked and astonished at the sight.

“Well, the gate is disappearing…!!!”

“It wasn’t even an attack, it was destroyed from outside!!! How on earth?!?!”

“Guild leader!!!! Isn’t this the first case of a gate being destroyed from the outside?!”

Oh, did I mention that I tried an extinction test outside the gate, but it wasn’t successful? Even if we mobilized several times more hunters than the hunters targeting the following knight, it would still be impossible.

Once you get the hang of it, if you do it a few more times and get used to it, you will be able to force the gate to disappear more efficiently than now. Just like Eden made the resuscitation procedure as if it were a 3-minute cup ramen, I think I can do that too. Of course, if it is small, it will take less.

“Mr. President. I think this matter is big, and I need to report it to the top. Is that okay?”

“Oh, you should do it. I didn’t have any intention of hiding it anyway.”

The effect was immediate. This is because President Choi In-seok of this side, who had slightly distanced himself from the press conference because he was upset, came to visit in person and asked if it was true.

“I heard the story from the Hanul guild leader. Are you really able to forcibly destroy the gate?”

“It is possible. If we get the hang of it a few more times, even a large gate can be destroyed within a few minutes.”

“Are there any side effects? If the gate is forcibly destroyed in a way other than a strategy, there is a possibility that there will be repercussions later in a different direction…”

“Ah, that’s okay. It uses magical power just like the hunters. When hunters use magical power to attack the gate, they just skip the process of attacking and end up destroying the gate, so the method itself is not much different.”〈 Br〉

“How is that possible?”

“Hmm… Have you ever heard that there was an experiment outside the gate where hunters attempted to destroy the gate by injecting magical energy?”

“Oh, yes. I’ve heard of it, but is it…?”

“It’s the same. I have the ability to copy and use this ability, so I can use magical power through it, and I also use my power like a hunter.”

“But I heard that even if they mobilized more than 100 hunters to inject magic power, they failed…”

“There is a saying that if you can’t do something with money, think about whether you don’t have enough money. As it says on our Korean promotional site, I am a person with extraordinary abilities who can destroy a star. If I put that power into the gate, it cannot be compared to hundreds of hunters.”〈 Br〉

“Is it a problem with the output?”

“Quality and quantity. Both are important.”

“Huh…”

I guess it was eye-level training, but when I showed my abilities by hunter standards, he realized that I was of a different class.

Rather than talking about how strong I am through a promotional site, common sense would make more sense when hundreds of hunters are doing an impossible task alone. Of course, even if I was aware of it to some extent before, it resonates much more now.

He couldn’t speak for a while, probably because he had a lot on his mind. But he eventually came to his senses and talked about the forced destruction of the gate.

“If it is possible to forcibly destroy the gate… We can also implement policies that require the deployment of numerous hunters.”

“What are you talking about?”

“I mean North Korea.”

Oh, by the way, I heard that North Korea was ruined by the Gate incident.

I heard that the gate break broke in Pyongyang and all the major players were searched for, but while I was staying here, I looked into it in detail while I had time. It was said that although there were hunters in North Korea after the cataclysm, most of the hunters either went to other countries or defected to South Korea.

If he had been treated well, he might have stayed in North Korea, but since he had already served in the military for a long time, there was a huge backlash because even people who had been discharged were brought in when he was awakened as a hunter. Thanks to that, by the time we treated them well, monitored them, and prevented them from escaping from North Korea, it was already too late…

In order to block the gate that burst in Pyongyang, the military was deployed to the remaining hunters, but what was important in conquering the gate was the hunter plane, which led to a catastrophe and caused a gate break. That’s how North Korea collapsed.

“Because of lack of management, numerous gates have opened and broken in North Korea and are now falling into ruins. According to North Korean refugees who came over after the fall of North Korea, there is no such thing as hell.”

“When you say that, it seems like you want to ask me to destroy the North Korean gate.”

“Isn’t unification the ultimate goal of a divided country? President Choi’s Republic of Korea has already been unified, so I think you know this well.”

“Hmm…”

Come to think of it, I saw an intact gate, but I didn’t see a gate break. If the gate itself is a buffer zone created by Gaia to withstand dimensional shocks, then the gate break… Well, it’s a bit of a dirty metaphor, but should I say it’s like a pimple popping out?

Even if a gate break occurs, it will probably be restored. However, it only takes a long time, and the problem is that due to the gate break, various things inside pop out or overlap, causing secondary damage.

The longer we leave it alone, the less we will be able to cover North Korea. No matter how the gate break is repaired, objects or hostile life forms from other dimensions that overlap with reality will remain, and it will be a mess. If you don’t deal with it quickly, the situation will get worse, so it’s better to deal with it in advance.

However, a separate problem still remains. There are people who can’t eat even if you spoon-feed them.

“Even if I destroy North Korea’s gates, do you have the capacity to advance north? No, even if North Korea is occupied later, will you be able to maintain security and handle the gates?”

The reason Russia, which was a much stronger country than Korea, fell because Korea was small. So, China cannot afford to occupy the destroyed North Korean land, so it is leaving it as empty land.

As you expand your territory, you also have the obligation to protect that land from gate disasters. Even now, it’s overwhelming, and if the amount of land to cover increases, the burden will only increase.

“… So, I would like to request support from the unified Republic of Korea. If the territory is small, it is advantageous for gate defense, but in the end, it will only be possible to maintain the status quo. If the land is large, can’t we do something?”

“What…”

To be honest, we couldn’t just deny it because we also benefited from more than one or two things while developing North Korea. In the gate disaster, having a small land is an advantage, but if it is too small, you cannot do anything you want.

At the very least, if a reconstruction project is carried out, it is possible to revitalize the domestic economy of the construction industry. Of course, unlike the other side, which is controlled and managed by Zion, the construction industry here will be rotten and rampant with poor construction, but it is important that the economy is at least revived.

In places like China, where the land mass is large, North Korea may seem like a big deal, but in Korea, the territory is doubled. In particular, if I take care of North Korea’s gates, which are the most problematic, then what about the rest…

“First of all, with my personal cooperation, I will destroy North Korea’s gates.”

“Ah!!! Thank you!!!!”

“However, I cannot give a definitive answer on national support for unification. We are still providing support to a certain extent, but if unification is achieved, the scale of support will change. I think we will probably have to go back and conduct a public opinion survey before implementing it.”

In response, President Choi In-seok asked back, expressing doubt as if he had seen something strange. Even I, who didn’t know why it was happening, just had doubts.

“Yes?”

“Is there a problem?”

“No, I’m a little surprised that you care about public opinion when you have that much power.”

“I am also a person who became president through democracy. So, I respect the opinions of the people. Instead, I ignore politicians and businessmen who seek their own self-interest.”

“He is a president who is strong to the strong and weak to the weak… Honestly, I envy the people of the Republic of Korea.”

“What is there to be jealous of? In the end, he is a crazy butcher who kills people. To be honest, acting like a dictator who kills and pushes back everyone who opposes him is the easy way.”

“The easy path is not the issue, but the opinions of those who cooperate in taking that path are important. As you said, I am not advocating murder, but in the end, being reappointed three times is proof that the president has the support and trust of the people. “

“… Ah.”

“Huh? Did I say something?”

“No, that’s not it… Now that I think about it, it’s getting close to the end of my term. The presidential election is probably coming up, and if I get past this presidential election, I think I’ll be reappointed for the fourth time instead of the third.”

“Ah, then congratulations in advance. I’ll see you then.”

No!!!! Don’t celebrate!!!! Even though I already gave up and understand that I will be reappointed next time, I feel bad if I receive congratulations on that!!!!!!

I wonder if I will ever be able to escape this title of President. If he continues like this, he will either continue to be president until the next round, or he will retire at around 100 years old, barely using his age as an excuse.

… Ah, I’m going to make it president even if it’s past the episode. Right?