Chapter 9: Home (1)

Chapter 9: Home (1)

[In the early hours of today, an unbelievable event occurred at Bosingak Pavilion in Jongno-gu where a bell-ringing ceremony was taking place. Over ten thousand people collectively lost consciousness. Lets watch the video first to see what happened.]

The video contained an astonishing scene. A winged woman appeared in the sky with a bright light.

[People were stunned by the appearance of a woman who looked like an angel. She moved her lips as if saying something, but nothing could be heard. Shortly after, a young man asked the angel a question, and his head exploded like a firework.]

A scene of a human being killed was fully broadcasted, even though it was pixelated, its brutality was vividly felt.

[The tens of thousands of people at the scene panicked. The angel murmured something as if explaining, and then people began to lose consciousness. Roughly ten thousand people fell asleep.]

The people shown in the video fell unconscious like cut-off dolls.

Eventually, the police are seen investigating the remaining people.

[According to witnesses, the angel claimed to have taken people aged 15 to 29 to another dimension. Although it was a bizarre claim, there were many witnesses, and the appearance of the angel was captured in the video, making it hard not to believe.]

[This phenomenon happened nationwide, especially among those aged 15 to 29. There were reports of angel sightings everywhere, and many people fell into a trance-like state. In total, more than 128 countries have confirmed cases of the trance-like state, including Japan, China, Russia, and the United States.]

1.8 billion people have been kidnapped to another world.

Not their physical bodies, but their souls.

Shocking news articles were published one after another on the news portal sites.

Netizens had two different reactions to the news:

Whats going on? Are the journalists drunk?

Why are only these absurd and unbelievable news articles being posted?

Today isnt even April Fools Day.

1.8 billion souls were kidnapped? This is fake news on an enormous scale.

Haha, the journalists are really conspiring.

Even the video seems like its manipulated.

Many people couldnt believe the obituaries which seemed a bit ridiculous, but there were also many who believed them without a doubt.

Are the reporters all children? one person scoffed. Do they have nothing better to do than publish fake news from the New Year?

You can see this story is being shared on other websites too, you know, another chimed in.

Since the system itself is based on abilities rooted in the soul, they can still be used even if the body changes.

Of course, this information was learned from torturing the angel in the previous regressions.

At present, their stats are not high, so it wont have much impact but later, as they level up and become stronger, players will truly become transcendent beings.

When that happens, some players who lack self-awareness will begin to exercise their power like lawless outlaws.

It would lead to the creation of weaponry that even the military and the latest weapons couldnt control.

At that point, they wont be able to focus solely on quests like they can now. There will be a variety of problems to deal with even after they return to this world.

That realm and this reality; both would be filled with chaos in just a few months.

He couldnt sit idly by in such a world. If he does, Earth would be destroyed before they even reached round 20.

There is only one solution. We must control the players with overwhelming force. Beasts will only bow down before superior strength.

Ryu Min would have to control the players through sheer force, just as he had done before.

That way, he could quell the chaos and even make it to the final boss.

Of course, this time around, he would need a different strategy.

He had to take four others with him to the final round, not including himself.

It would be best to bring a priest and buffer. If the boss room requires at least five people, it must be that strong.

He had some candidates in mind and a plan for how to persuade them, but

Its not time to act yet. There are more important matters to attend to.

After the end of round one, Ryu Min immediately left the location of the ringing bell ceremony.

The place he was heading to was none other than his home.

It was a multi-family home located in Seodaemun-gu, Seoul.

Ring-ring-ring beep-beep!

The first thing Ryu Min noticed as he entered the house was the cup ramen container sitting on the kitchen sink.

Looks like were having cup ramen for dinner again.

It was a familiar scene that he had seen before, every time he came home in his previous regressions