Hermit Wizard

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I raise my head wealthy over the destroyed city. I saw the aircraft flying away with a great roar. I decided I should open the shield immediately. It was more about exposure than about being attacked.

“The Mirror of Brunos! ”

A shield was created and I hid my body. I couldn't abuse it because the god who received the sacrifice was tough, but now I needed this spell. In the meantime, I couldn't afford to touch the magic catalyst or make complicated calculations.

‘Let's get out of here. Shit, how do we get back to Seoul? ’

Wait, Min Joon. I have something to deal with before I go to Seoul.

"What?"

Remember the information Kim Kyung-hwan gave you? Karaderina, that part of the victim's brain came up to Seoul, but most of the body was separated from this area.

Oh, right. Karaderina's body was said to be stored in a maintenance unit near Busan Channel. I heard from Kim Kyung-hwan and identified the location.

Gramiel was banished to his original world, but the torturer is still in this world. You can't just let it go until you know the owner's intentions.

Yes, I nod. Gramiel communicates his ideas through the spirit of Karaderina, even though he is in a different dimension. A story that can be remotely adjusted across dimensions.

The brain in Seoul needs to be disposed of, but first I have to touch the body nearby.

I fly in the direction of Karaderina's body, losing the target and leaving a squadron of fighters passing through the air.

* * *

· · · It's a catastrophe of prehistoric times. To date, the number of confirmed deaths has exceeded 1,200. The shock waves that hit the city center hit the gas pipeline, making the damage even bigger. As a single accident, this is the largest figure since the founding of the Republic of Korea. The government appears to define this catastrophe as a "channel disaster." Victims of this crisis are the number of deaths within five fingers across all the channels of disaster around the world.

With the journalist's comments, I saw the wretched city on the screen. The shock wave from the sky crossed the area around the channel where the citizens had been evacuated in advance, and hit a vast area where people were living their daily lives. An urban centre with deep, long cracks like an earthquake. He seemed to have been struck by a whirlpool swung by God. The fire rises in the rubble of the building.

We've mobilized as many fire trucks as we can in the vicinity, but the fire on the site is still not fully suppressed. There are also areas where the roads have been damaged and the firefighters are not accessible. The search for the missing under the collapsed building is not being conducted properly.

The screen changes. It was followed by a video recording of the President's national speech, which was an hour after the incident. The reporter continued to comment on the screen as a background.

The government is said to have solved a relatively rapid heterosexual intrusion near the Seoul Channel last year, but we don't know how we can handle this shock. We are calling on governments from all walks of life to take urgent measures. On the other hand, there's a lot of opinions that demand clarification as to why this happened. In particular, there is a high voice calling for public disclosure of what has happened in the meantime within the huge barriers created around the Busan Channel.

The camera now lights the studio. The anchors were wearing black suits close to the upper body. The male anchor was subsequently mentionned with a depressed expression.

Ladies and gentlemen, I'm sure you were all very shocked today. Immediately after the incident, the National Security Council has been following the Petition and Underground Bunker. This is a marathon meeting to discuss measures. But in the meantime, deepening the anxiety of our people is a question of whether there are any solutions to this.

The anchor's voice became darker and more advanced.

A channel where no expert or government agency in the world has yet come up with a confident answer. ’Today's catastrophe also occurred near Busan Channel. And the strange phenomenon of the space that was seen in the sky around the channel. Unknown xenophobia and long tentacles. This is a situation where they're not even identifying how they caused this catastrophe. Here we have to ask the question again. Can this be characterized by the passage of time? Is it possible for the present government, and even more so for humanity, to defend against this kind of recurrence?

Beep!

The unbearable President Kang Mingi lifted the remote and turned off the TV. Then I put my forehead on to suppress the headache that was pushing up. However, covering your face with your hands was not a headache. Just as the scourge unfolding before me does not disappear because I close my eyes.

He opened his eyes wide. I looked at the situation plate on the wall, and I read the numbers inside. 1,289 dead. 3,520 missing. The number of injured was increasing at such a rapid rate that the count was meaningless that it was not spelled out at all. The number of floodplates rose at a rapid pace and did not know that the trend would be broken.

‘In the meantime, I thought I'd gone through all the prenatal work in my own way. ’

His political life was never short. But what started to happen last year was that one person's politicians, one person familiar with common sense, were too busy to handle.

He set fire to a cigarette he had cut off for twenty years. Knowing it was an adverse effect on the headaches, he did so six years ago, when the party's election fell to a minor disagreement, when his family and relatives became the prey of the media, when he tore off the mane, and when his second daughter died in an accident, he never took it out again.

But today, at the end of that long gap, I once again asked for a cigarette in my mouth.

1,289.

The president muttered in a heartbeat. Numbers are approaching with more than visible shock and horror. 1,289. Worst catastrophe since the founding of the country.

Staff members were watching in silence the President who lit a cigarette in the office. It was a short break during the NSC meeting, which lasted several hours. The President was going up to the executive office to look into media coverage.

After a while, the secretary received a phone call and his complexion changed. He approached cautiously and said,

“· · · Mr President, the primary results of the analysis of the video data came out. Go to the Situation Room.”

The short break is over. The president rubbed off the ashtray without smoking on the peninsula. He takes off his glasses and wipes his face with a towel of water given to him by his assistant.

The President rises from his seat with a stubborn headache. I put my glasses back on and took a step. Just before going out the door, turn your head back to the situation plate. 1,291 deaths. There was another increase in the number between.

President Kang Mingi went out of the office with a nasty bite.

* * *

“· · · Is that true now? ”

The President asked as if he had fallen apart.

“Based on the data obtained so far, yes. ”

The middle-aged man, who was hastily summoned to the palace, replied in a cold sweat. He was a position in the Department of National Defence Digital Analysis. His organization specialized in the biometric appraisal and research of people photographed on various images and urgently analyzed the material handed over from the Solicitor General today. And the results were briefed in front of the President, the staff, and the military elders in the basement.

The President frowns and stares at the still image on the screen.

“Early 20s, East Asian guy? Yeah, that's what I see in my eyes. But this is not an illusion? ”

“· · · Yes, if you only look at the video analysis results, it will be interpreted that way. ”

It was only two shockwaves that struck Busan.

The phenomenon of spatial distortion appeared first in the air, which is presumed to be the source. and the first shock wave to hit the ground at dawn, like a fluctuating surface. In the aftermath of the destruction, the surrounding CCTV has already been damaged. Therefore, there was no CCTV recording the image of the clear air after the spatial distortion disappeared. In the first place, for the purpose of installing a CCTV, it was rare to have it installed as a way to take pictures of the sky.

Therefore, it was mostly the individuals who filmed what was happening in the sky of Busan after the space had regained its normal position and visibility. This is because the situation was also shut down before the media approached.

Images taken from the sky over distant terrain, such as a cell phone, were not easy to read. Moreover, there were not many people who continued to shoot calmly in the courtyard where the city was destroyed.

However, the government gathered as much footage as possible and communicated it to the National Assembly, which is still being reported through the media. And the primary result of reading the images collected to date was in front of the eyes.

“Is that the limit of your face? ”

“· · · Sorry. That's what we've seen so far. However, when more data is gathered, a relatively clear montage can be created. ”

The screen of the Situation Room contained the face of a young man taken from various angles. A clumsy montage filled with CG, where the footage is incomplete. Even if I put that on the air right now, I wonder if I can find my opponent.

“The shock wave that destroyed the city was created when a tentacle-shaped object moved, right? But that tentacle looks like it's connected to the front of the young man's body. ”

“Yes, precisely in the form of tentacles stretching out from that light source. ”

“But is this my illusion? The color of that light is a channel, no matter how you look. ”

“Yes, almost. ”

The President groaned loudly.

“The opponent who saw the young man and the tentacles as one body and fought is that skinny gray heterosexual? ”

“Yes, I am. ”

The Commissioner of the Agency got involved.

“Given the context of Telepathy, it is assumed that the gray xenophobia has emitted that powerful Telepathy. ‘I'll be there for a while,’ and a few seconds later, that xenophobia appeared on Busan Channel. ”

The President nodded. Just before the Busan crisis, the entire population, within a 100-kilometre radius around Seoul, heard a telepathy of some kind. It was rather forceful to argue that there was no connection between the incident and the Busan catastrophe.

The President himself heard the idea, but he once again confirmed it through the documents that were before him.

These bugs are useless. Oh, right. What a hassle. A reclusive soul. Can you hear me?

Now, where are you? Can I see your face for a second?

Hmm, no response? But if you open the navigation magic and thin out the wizard, Karaderina's brain will burn.

· · · · · · · if you refuse the invitation.

I'll be there in a minute.

Telepathy was delivered five times. And this information and context alone could have guessed a lot.

The President asks:

“The place where the gray xenophobia appeared was Busan. But the idea was only focused around Seoul. · ·? ”

The Commissioner replied.

“In context, it is speculated that the gray xenophobia before it came out of the channel used the caraderina that had already crossed the world. I'm not sure if it was the aftermath, but Karaderina was found unconscious at Segokbong House. And there was a pile of corpses of small creatures, not of the Earth. ”

The identity of the worms mentioned in Telepathy has already been identified.

“The gray xenophobia seems to have failed to try something with that bug. And the next action was to release the telepathy that so many people could hear. Telepathy's broad radius is thought to be due to its inability to determine the location of the other person who attempted the conversation, the" Encompassing Soul. "”

The Commissioner said:

“The individual who witnessed the substance of this incident, apart from the carcasses of those little creatures, are the gray xenophobia, the caraderina, the tentacles, the three of them. And what the subject of Telepathy mentions is the silent soul and the caraderina. ”

“After all, it turns out that the young man with the tentacles is a reclusive soul. ”

“Very likely. ”

The President's face became depressed.

“By the way, Karaderina said she was a trafficker. Grey xenophobia, which seems to have lowered her and even ‘exploited’ her, is probably · · · ·. ”

Consciously, the head of the National Fruit Team did not say the following words: But the rest of the people there understood what the president swallowed.

The gray xenophobe who was‘ thrown ’into the world by the tentacles while fighting in the air is likely to be a soothsayer or a higher-paying peddler than Karaderina.

“By the way, after that existence and the battle, the 'soul of seclusion’, which seems to have been driven out to its original dimension, is a replacement. ”

For some reason I didn't know what the fight was about. Perhaps that was the reason for the incomprehensible dimension as a normal human being.

But the reason is now an important factor in this country. The aftermath of that fight on the country was terrible. I need to know why that happened. And we have to do what is possible for humans so that it does not recur.

“When we gather video information, we can get a better profiling, right? ”

“Yes, I am. ”

The President said in a dark, but forceful voice.

“We need to find them as soon as possible. If Karaderina can't find consciousness like this, the only clue is him. ”

Once again, the president put the wizard's name in his mouth.

“From now on, we must make every effort to find him. Let us take the soul of the recluse out of the tent of the recluse by any means possible. ”

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