Rift Passage, Gate Area (3)
At one time, the most prosperous race on this planet. Human.
Their human race has increased so much that it cannot even be compared to anything that inhabited this land, and the number has reached 10 billion in the past.
I was born somewhere in this land.
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The awakening of the system began to be visible to all mankind with the birth of that very small baby.
Surely, even now, after more than ten years, the secret was still undisclosed and hidden.
Perhaps most of humanity knew that even now.
With the appearance of the unknown system window that appeared that day, the end of mankind must have begun.
But it only served as a trigger to pull the decisive trigger.
Although there were several destructive disasters that began to appear simultaneously from all over the world as if they had been waiting for that moment.
Actually already. Even before that, destruction had been progressing slowly.
A dungeon whose number was slowly increasing.
Because the human race, which was the dominant species in this world, could not organize them, and their numbers were gradually accumulating.
In this way, the destruction of the existing system, nation, and mankind was predicted.
But at the end of such a period of transformation,
There were also humans who quickly adapted to this world, as if enjoying the freedom they had been released from.
They are like monsters,
I quickly began to learn new ways to survive in this harshly changed world.
“Oh, what a piece of sh*t. Gradually the food is running out.”
Cheol-hwan, the leader of the Wild Raptor Clan.
He frowned at the empty warehouse.
It has already been more than a month since winter has continued.
Because of the severe cold, all the resources around us disappeared,
Even the supplies they had stocked up were quickly running out.
Of course, what still remains is by no means a small amount.
The problem was that there were not that few humans in their clan.
If this continues, it will run out in just a few days.
But this wasn’t just a problem for them.
“It’s properly twisted, this. I guess I’ll have to grab something soon.”
But even then, it was not an easy time.
Now it is already the middle of winter.
A time when there is absolutely nothing to eat and, on the contrary, extreme hunger.
If I ran into a monster in a yard like this, I would definitely get in trouble.
The hungry ones displayed a ferocity that was unprecedented.
“Should I have no choice but to catch a year and bake it…? No It’s hard to find a woman, but I’d rather get one of her useless bastards…”
In the end, he frowned and muttered something quietly.
“Captain! Cheolhwan Captain! That’s me!!”
Someone hurriedly came down to find him, shouting loudly.
“Huh? What.”
To the appearance of a subordinate who appeared out of nowhere.
Cheolwhan’s gaze naturally turned back.
Even just a few minutes ago, there was no doubt watching the surroundings from the top floor of this building.
His subordinate, who must have been looking at the situation.
I was gasping for breath as if I was running so fast.
Of course, Cheolhwan, like the leader of a group of people who have lived on this land for a long time in his own way, showed off this level of patience.
I was curious, but apart from that, the conditions weren’t that good for hysteria.
“Very, Captain…! Huh Eok. That, that!”
“…What is it?”
So while suppressing the irritability soaring in one corner.
Pretending to be calm, I stared at this troublesome subordinate.
He shouted urgently, pointing out the window.
“Woah, woman! It is a woman!”
“…Woman?”
At those words, Cheolhwan’s eyes went up in an instant.
He followed his subordinate’s pointing hand, looked out the window for a moment, then returned again.
Cheol-hwan within.
I doubted my ears and asked back.
“Out there? Humans roaming around in this cold time?”
At that, the subordinate frantically nodded his head.
“Yes! Really, no, that’s not the point now! You should go up to the roof quickly, Captain!”
“If it’s that sound or phrase, know how to look it up.”
Cheol-hwan immediately stood up.
* * * *
Cheolwhan was dumbfounded.
“What the f*ck, is it real…?”
Seriously, he couldn’t believe his eyes for a moment, so he rubbed his eyes and looked through the telescope again.
But it’s real.
In the middle of these snow-covered ruins, four women and a wolf were walking leisurely.
I wonder if this makes sense.
But there was something stranger than that.
“Aren’t those b*tches cold? Why are you walking around naked without any clothes on?”
As if pushing him like that.
His men who had come up with him on the roof hurriedly urged him.
“Heh heh heh! How are you, boss? Those b*tches, don’t you kill them?”
“Isn’t it? He’s good looking, too, so hurry up and chase after him-“
But immediately after that, what they heard was a completely different sound than they expected.
“…Hey you assholes.”
“Yes, yes?”
A swear word that was unmatched in an instant.
They looked at the iron ring, doubting their ears.
However, Cheolhwan slashed them all at once.
“Do you see them as normal people? It’s snowing all over the place. Do you think those walking around like that look like people?”
The current temperature has already exceeded freezing a long time ago.
Even if I stay still, my hands and feet freeze, and the chill sets in, so even if I wear several layers of clothes, it won’t be enough.
Are there crazy girls walking around without clothes on in that yard?
They even ran around barefoot in the cold and cheerfully joked around with each other. A wild blizzard like this was nothing.
If the structure called the head hanging over the shoulder was not attached as a decoration, they should have been suspicious of their identity.
If that was a human, it should have been frozen to death.
Even if they were cold-resistant Awoken or Hunters, they had to wear at least some thick clothes.
Unlike those who act only with the lower half of the body, Cheol-hwan was a person who knew how to think to some extent.
Unfortunately, those four women and the big wolf that carried them on their backs.
They were coming in this direction.
Even though it was okay now that we were far apart, I didn’t know what would happen if we got closer like this.
f*ck!
Cheol-hwan hit his subordinate on the back of the head so hard that it made a sound, then turned around in a hurry.
“Follow me quickly, kids!”
“Where are you going, boss!”
“Hey, bastard who wears this head as a decoration, don’t you notice? Gotta jump out of here!”
“Yes, yes?”
It was a sudden noise.
However, Cheolhwan shouted as he packed the items around him.
“Gather all your men! It should pop up here within five minutes from now! If you can’t take more than that, just throw it away! Food doesn’t matter!”
“Are you serious, Captain?”
At that sound, Cheol-hwan’s face distorted.
He shouted, raising his hand and pointing at four beautiful women who were slowly approaching in the distance.
“If you’re that concerned, why don’t you just go over there and work on it! Do they look human?!”
“…!!”
Facing Captain Cheol-hwan’s frightened expression, these dull subordinates.
It was only then that I realized that this was not a joke.
Those who survive in such a collapsed world usually fall into two categories.
One was those who had no ability but clung to the feet of those who had ability.
Another one was those who avoided risk factors as much as possible by quickly integrating their own intuition and the surrounding situation.
Cheolhwan knew his subject well.
What was needed to survive in this world for a long time was not a brilliant brain or calculations.
It was just my sense of self and avoiding unfamiliar things unconditionally.
Also, the way these incompetent subordinates survived was to cling to Cheolhwan and rely on him.
They were so alarmed that they started to run down in a hurry.
* * * *
The distance with them was far.
But winter had already sensed them from a long time ago.
Rather, he clearly grasped even the ‘number of invisible humans’.
‘Not one or two. I think there are at least ten of them?’
From the energy I sensed, they all seemed to be ordinary people except for one of them.
With the exception of one person, the mana possessed by everyone was insignificant.
As long as they are living creatures in this world, it was natural for all beings to have a certain amount of mana in their bodies.
What Winter sensed was the existence of their magical powers.
And one of them… Awoken? Or maybe it was a survivor from a hunter.
Because, I felt quite a bit of magical energy, comparable to that of a fairly low-level monster.
Perhaps, at a cursory glance, he seemed to be the leader of the group.
And the current winter.
I was heading straight for them.
‘The first humans I met in this world.’
If that’s the case, there was a high possibility that they knew the empty time between his death and his reincarnation in this world.