"That's amazing."

Should I say it's ringing in my head?

My lips don't move, but I hear voices.

You wouldn't even know who was talking if you leaned down to yourself or if your eyes didn't meet.

“Let's go.”

“Yes, I will guide you. ”

After Yoon-suk left with the black man who talked to him, the scouts around him changed their appetites.

“What, is he already affiliated? ”

“Why Earth when you're a fighter? ”

I thought they were talking about how to go back to Integrated Plaza....

Yoon-suk just followed a black man.

As expected, that question will soon be solved.

Thump.

The second floor of a building about 10 minutes from the square.

A black man brought Yoon-suk to a room about 10 square feet closed the door.

He shook his hand to Yoon-suk.

“Greetings. My name is Ashton Jackson. with the U.S. Challenger Management Department. ”

“Yes, this is Choi Yoon-suk. ”

“Would you like to sit down? ”

When Yoon-seok sat down, Ashton sat across from him.

There was no such thing as tea.

I just gently whisper whether I'm familiar with this type of meeting.

“You know what? I sent a telepath, but Yoon-suk Choi has never reacted like this before. ”

Though it was intended to change the atmosphere by raising the lead stone during the concealment....

Regrettably, Yoon-suk didn't pay any attention to such things.

“Who was the group when you arrived in the square? ”

Is Yoon-suk's disposition compromised by this?

Ashton immediately changed his attitude.

“These are clan scouts. ”

I also assumed that I was being mindful.

But the fundamental question was not solved.

“Clan?”

“Simply put, it's a force of challengers. ”

“Do you really need any reinforcements in the tower? ”

“The more challengers you have to defend your home against invaders, the better. ”

“That's a lot of scouts. ”

“Clans can't just split into four dimensions, four dimensions. If you look at our side, the power is distributed from country to country. ”

“I see.”

Then it is not a question of whether the clans have a mission to stop all invaders.

Now that Yoon-suk knows how the world works.

Instead, I asked him something else.

“From what I've heard, everyone seems surprised that I'm from a duel and chose Earth. Why is that? ”

“Choi Yun-seok's square is where he arrives when he first enters the Unified Plaza. And……. ”

Eshton speaks voluntarily.

“Earth's power is the weakest of the four dimensions. which means that it's most likely to be destroyed. ”

Ashton argued first that there are no challengers to fight over why the Earth's power is so low.

“Do you know how many Duel Challengers are currently on the 10th floor or higher? Less than a thousand. And of those who are from Earth.... I know only Yoon-suk Choi. ”

I see you value a Duel Challenger.

I realized from my last mission, but the fighters were much stronger than the other challengers.

It's just...

“There's no one else...? ”

This was unexpected.

“Yes, Choi Yun-seok is not dead or anything. Then, the scouts probably thought that Yoon-suk Choi was from a dimension other than Earth. So you were surprised when you followed me. ”

Was there a lot of snow here while working as a scout?

He sincerely thanked Yoon-suk.

“It's a little later than Fahur expected, so I was really worried. Thank you so much for leaving the country or politics. This gave us hope. ”

Yoon-suk tilted his head.

Second of all, I think that Yoon-suk will remain on Earth....

I was concerned about what he just said.

Late than expected?

“Wait… what's the date now? ”

“March 9, Korea. ”

March 9.

That is, 16 days have passed since the last earthquake.

Given that the waiting room and the Earth's time flow is 1: 1, it's a ridiculous time…….

‘Time must have passed while we were on the mission. ’

I spent a total of 45 days on missions.

If you say time has passed at a 3: 1 ratio like a trial of adventure, the date was right.

“Is there something wrong? ”

“No, I don't. So, can I hear what you were trying to tell me earlier? ”

Ashton takes a moment to breathe and opens his mouth.

“To ask you to keep your promise. ”

Yoon-suk asked the American Challenger Group for three things:

Protect your parents in secret.

Make the Tower of Perforation public.

Don't let your name come out of the incident that day.

Instead of doing that, I decided to listen to them one day in a line that was not too much.

‘It's ridiculous if you think about it now. ’

Just by looking at the results, it looks like a transaction....

As a matter of fact, I was okay with almost being threatened.

He said he'd come to you if you didn't do him a favor.

At that time, there was no way for Yoon-suk.

I couldn't leave my parents in Korea and go back to the tower.

Therefore, Yoon-suk decided to listen to their request unless it was literally too much to ask.

Of course, before that, there was something I had to get over.

“Can you start by confirming that my request was fulfilled?

“Of course. But do you mind if I check with my mouth? ”

In other words, it means that I can trust my own words....

There was no reason not to believe it in the first place.

If the magical power is not as high as Yun Stone, then Ashton cannot lie because of the 'Enforcer's Eye'.

Yoon Seok nodded and summarized briefly.

“Parents are safe. And we made it public. But preventing your name from spreading has only succeeded in half. ”

“Half?”

Yoon-suk asked as if he had no idea at all.

“Yes, the general public doesn't know... but governments have noticed you. It was a difficult condition, so I want you to know I had no choice. ”

The Earth challenger I met during the mission challenge knew Yoon-suk. He also said it was already spreading.

That's why I thought America didn't want to keep its promise at all....

Now that I hear it, I don't think so.

“I understand.”

“Thank you for your understanding. ”

“So what do you have to ask? ”

Ashton paused and said,

“I want you to kill a challenger. ”

* * *

Prior to the detailed description, Ashton first told Yoon-suk what had happened for 16 days back to the tower in chronological order.

“We discussed it with the Korean government and reported to the media that what happened at the hospital was a fire. ”

But it couldn't have ended in a simple fire.

People who knew three names died in bulk.

The whole of Korea was in chaos.

One no one would have known.

There will be more chaos soon.

Three days from that.

The public has been informed about the Tower of Perforation.

In fact, in the United States, he planned to take a little more time to disclose information.

There were many treaties between countries, and there were many other things to care about.

But there was a reason for that.

“Because of the challenger who asked you to kill him. ”

A challenger, presumed to be from Killian, arrives on Earth.

No, that's exactly when I showed up.

It was one from the duel, although it was not confirmed until the number of levels reached.

He destroyed people, animals, and features for whatever reason.

“300,000 people died that day in Britain alone. ”

The downtown massacres quickly spread all over the world, including social media, video uploading sites, and news.

There was a rumor about an alien invasion.

In the United States, information was released about the perforated towers prepared to comply with the conditions of Yoon-suk.

Despite denouncing and protests against the government in every country, there was nothing left to be seen from the sunny areas.

Challengers from all over the world have joined forces to stop the assassins.

“And as if to make fun of us, he hid his end. ”

If I had gone back to the tower at all, I would have been glad....

One week before today.

Satellites have identified the challenger.

He was doing something on an island in the Pacific.

“I don't know how you did it, but there's a huge crack open that you haven't seen anywhere so far. ”

A crack is a phenomenon in which an invader appears and a space is torn.

And what the challenger groups did was to eliminate the invaders and close the cracks before the cracks hit the civilians.

“An invader from a massive rift in the Pacific was unlike anything we'd ever seen before. ”

It grew as it stretched around the island while constantly eating away at its surroundings.

Challengers on the fifth floor were mobilized but could not be stopped.

No, in the beginning, they couldn't even stop the challengers who caused the rift, rather than the invaders.

It was nothing you wouldn't understand.

Pahur, who was a six-story duel challenger, said he was the top fighter on Earth....

Even if a few challengers of that level came forward, Yoon-suk was also confident to deal with them all by himself.

“In the meantime, it was about Yoon-suk Choi. During the countermeasure meeting, Fahur said, ”

When the whole world was just looking at it, rolling only its feet and slowly growing its body.

Yoon-suk talked about it as the Great Horse.

He was confident that Yoon-suk would soon reach the 10th floor. There were few who truly believed it.

I agreed that if one really reached the 10th floor, there might be a way out.

The fighters who reached the 10th floor were all monsters together.

“ ……. ”

Yoon-suk who was listening to Ashton kept his mouth shut while asking questions like this.

And did that give you any anxiety?

“No wonder you feel burdened. But if we let it go on like this, it could really end the world. Then, Choi Yoon-suk's family... ”

“Enough.”

At the words of Yoon-suk, Eshton remained firm.

The voice that followed one brightens my face like a lie.

“You don't have to worry. I don't want to run. ”

I didn't know what the challenger was up to.

But while I wasn't confident, a strange man came to Earth and did something crazy.

Even if it wasn't a family matter, Yoon-suk had no intention of just looking at it.

You killed 300,000 people in England alone?

He will surely regret everything he has done.

* * *

"I used a return ticket (Rank E).

"Return to Earth.

Maybe one day is not enough.

So I bought a weekly E-rank ticket.

Yoon-suk returned to Earth and checked his surroundings.

It was at the beginning of Bukak Mountain, which was the last place I stayed while wandering around Seoul.

“ ……. ”

It was daylight, but I didn't see any hikers around.

“Avatar.”

Turned into an avatar, I spread my wings and tore my clothes apart. This is because it is not equipment in a tower that adapts itself to the user's body.

‘I wish I could bring equipment...' ’

Yoon-suk had finished eating because of his grief.

I once thought that there might be a way to get to the 10th floor....

I heard from Ashton that the equipment he was wearing was brought to Earth by his unique technology.

Hooray! Hooray! Whoo-hoo!

Yoon-suk spread his wings and soared above the sky.

Then I headed to the place that Ashton told me about.

As I looked down at the city of Seoul on the ground, I felt chaos that had lasted for 16 days.

Of course, most people seem to be continuing their careers in the meantime…….

As a testament to their anxiety, convenience stores and large malls seemed to be closed and not operating.

Looking closely, the shelf was empty, and the windows were shattered like a loot in any store.

Like the Apocalypse is really coming.