Chapter 88
Chapter 88
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 88
Chapter Title: Warp Gate Activation
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Yun Seung-a's massive magic circle compressed and compressed again, settling into the form of an altar-like warp gate.
Boom.
The warp gate soon began to emit a massive roar.
Whoooong!
Mana being drawn toward the altar as if sucked in.
"It's... it's working!"
Voices akin to the technicians' astonishment burst out.
"......!"
The players felt the surging mana and were stunned once more.
Players were quite familiar with mana, but that applied only to top-tier rankers.
But now.
"...Is this mana?"
Even those who hadn't reached ranker status were personally experiencing a portion of the mana that heated their entire bodies only to cool them instantly.
And that wasn't all.
Whirrr!
The swirling mana gathered and coalesced, finally beginning to take tangible form.
"......!"
It was like the aura blades used only by the highest rankers, or the sword auras wielded by players from the Asian regions.
"The output is...!"
"...It's fine... We can hold it."
Gluttony rubbed her eyes and spoke in response to the technicians' worried voices.
"Ahh...!"
It was a beauty different from Yun Seung-a's magic.
If Yun Seung-a's magic evoked the refined elegance of a city built under meticulous planning...
"...This is mana...."
This was mana like the majestic grandeur of the Grand Canyon or the Alps—a force of great nature.
It was then, as everyone stared in awe.
Pssshhh....
Suddenly, the warp gate began to make a sound like it was losing power.
The swirling mana stored itself into the warp gate and vanished, and the mana that had filled the area seemed to dissipate entirely.
"...Did it fail?"
Had it ultimately failed to withstand the output?
"There's no issue with the warp gate."
But as Gluttony said.
"The warp gate seems fine."
Even after the technicians double-checked, they found no particular problems with the warp gate.
"Captain."
It was then that Yun Seung-a spoke.
"Yeah, this time..."
Step.
"It's my turn."
What was essential for installing the warp gate was Gluttony, whose magical knowledge far surpassed this world's, and artisans like DvBerg to realize the knowledge embedded in her mind.
Next came genuine magic from a true mage who didn't exist on Earth—Yun Seung-a's magic and knowledge, which could stand at the pinnacle even among them.
But what was needed to operate the warp gate was something else entirely.
Shaaa.
It was Go Yohan.
His vision flipped in an instant, and the world transformed into an alien vista woven from slender threads.
The world of the Divine Eye was a heterogeneous realm where no science, magitech, or logic held sway.
The essence beyond essence.
'......'
A complete world that even Go Yohan couldn't yet fully comprehend.
Proof that he was the goddess's knight, evidence of her blessing.
And.
'My Divine Eye has grown stronger.'
Unlike when he was Michael, Go Yohan's Divine Eye had been further enhanced, allowing him to see an even broader and deeper world.
No, more precisely, around the time he was eight years old.
'Sins.'
It began when he saved Yun Seung-a and took sins into his body.
After that, the Divine Eye continued to strengthen.
The more sins he accumulated, the more karma points he gained.
Wriggle.
The more curses he harbored in his body, the clearer it became, and the greater the interference he could exert.
And after meeting Kartul and gaining some realization, the Divine Eye strengthened yet another level.
Stroke.
That was why he could install the warp gate now.
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In the world of the Divine Eye, the threads composing Earth possessed a countless array of colors.
But among them stood out particularly thick and intense threads.
'Black.'
These were the colors of the demon world that had appeared since Go Yohan flung open its gates.
When Go Yohan first became aware of them, the black threads in the world were far thinner and fewer than now.
But.
'They're getting stronger.'
As time passed, the black threads multiplied and thickened, densely covering Earth.
It meant the demon world's influence was growing stronger, and their invasion would intensify.
Next came blue.
'Earth.'
This was the fundamental color of the world called Earth.
The blue that blanketed the entire world most extensively and abundantly.
Everything born and raised on Earth bore these blue threads, and Go Yohan's body was no exception.
'Travania was silver-white.'
And finally.
Ting.
As he touched the gray thread.
Rumble!
The world began to reverberate as if thunder had struck.
The startled onlookers hurriedly stepped back, but Go Yohan and the apostles remained in place.
They had experienced this dozens, hundreds of times already.
These gray threads spread far more extensively and numerously than the black ones.
And some had already intertwined with the blue, forming multiple strands.
This was.
'Otherworld.'
Go Yohan had already ascertained that these emanated from what were called gates.
The warp gate was akin to folding these threads multiple layers and smashing both ends together.
Pull one side's thread, and it would manifest on the opposite side—something like that.
Therefore.
'To fold the Divine Eye's threads.'
As Go Yohan called it.
'To fold this worldline, I must endure the gray.'
Until now, it had been a failure.
In the church basement, pulling this gray thread to open a nearby gate had succeeded.
But while he could shock or draw in this gray line, folding it had been impossible.
However, now it was possible.
Stroke.
Go Yohan's moving hands were profoundly reverent.
It resembled some ritual, or perhaps a dance.
Whoooong!
The warp gate, which had lost its light, began to vibrate once more.
Kwaaaaa!
Blue light pouring forth.
Earth's color began to blanket the entire space.
Folding, folding, folding.
It didn't feel like the same method as Travania's.
Something only Go Yohan could do—something only he and the apostles could accomplish.
And.
Kwaaaaang!
Finally, a rippling blue fissure appeared above the warp gate.
Its appearance spoke for itself, needing no words.
"G-Gate...!"
They had suspected as much from the term warp gate.
"That's a gate!"
The fissure hovering over the warp gate was identical to the gates that countless players entered daily to raid.
The warp gate activation was nearly complete.
The final step.
Stroke.
It was when someone approached the gate.
"It's better not to get too close."
Go Yohan spoke in a somewhat fatigued voice.
"The connection is complete, but the inside isn't safe."
"What do you mean?"
It was then.
Beeeep!
Sharp metallic warning tones began sounding from various places.
The sources were solely the association members.
Following that.
Drrrr!
Every smartphone present began ringing violently.
"An alert?"
A disaster warning alert.
-Seoul, immeasurable gate detected. All citizens...
It was an alert announcing the emergence of a gate so powerful that current technology couldn't measure it.
Stroke.
Without exception, the players one by one raised their heads to look ahead.
Ripple.
The warp gate—it seemed this was exactly what the alert referred to.
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Their suspicions were correct.
Go Yohan had folded the worldline, compressing the gray worldline.
That compressed gray line—the gate—hadn't gone anywhere.
Along with the compressed worldline.
Ripple.
It had manifested right there.
"......!"
That had to be resolved for the warp gate to connect.
Pop!
At that moment, a gate measuring device held by an association member exploded.
He took no injury befitting a player, but his crestfallen expression was plain to see.
"What the... "
With the whole world buzzing over this new warp gate technology.
"What... have you created?"
If this news spread, the world would turn ice-cold.
Among all gates revealed to the world thus far, the worst was deemed the S-rank gate.
Thousands of players had challenged it and failed, and when it broke, it spewed monsters even rankers struggled against.
The incident on that large Southeast Asian island had concluded by sinking the entire landmass with several nuclear bombs.
"This is..."
The monster horde's leader—of course, judging that the S-rank gate's monsters hadn't fully vanished, the surrounding area was completely sealed off.
Now, long after, that region was under World Association management.
That gate, which caused such a catastrophe, had a gate index of 1200—the unit for gate measurement.
So-called A-rank gates ranged from 600 to 800 on the gate index.
"Gate index over 1400."
The upgraded measurer capable of up to 1400 had burst, unable to withstand the mana it emitted.
This was a gate unlike any other black gate—a gate spewing entirely different mana, the worst in human history, opened right here in Seoul, South Korea.
"...If that bursts, the whole country sinks."
As it had in the past—perhaps that was the only way.
"I understand the worry, but it won't come to that."
But Go Yohan spoke nonchalantly.
"I'll select a raid team and clear the gate."
"What... "
"Don't you believe it?"
Go Yohan's eyes met those of the shocked association member.
And in that member's mind flashed the recent scene.
Gulp.
The sight of just five people sweeping away beasts and demons.
Even experts' analyses that such power could have cleared the past S-rank gate.
"Believe it. There won't be any issues."
Go Yohan's beaming smile resembled a cult leader proselytizing.