Chapter 86
Chapter 86
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Translator: Silver Dragon
Chapter: 86
Chapter Title: Dimension 64's Spawn Point
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[Dimension 64]
The spawn point of Dimension 64, deeply etched with a dark history, emitted a mystical glow today as it summoned dozens of people.
Among them was one man.
Diros, with his brown hair, dressed in a black short-sleeved shirt and training pants as he had been in the waiting room just moments ago, had now set foot in the Transcendent World for the first time.
Diros was someone who had put in tremendous effort and attempted countless times to reach this place.
He recalled his life on Earth.
A little over a month ago from now.
The transcendent voice announced to all of humanity that dimensional changes would occur, and wooden puppet-like monstrous creatures began appearing all over the world.
This incident caused temporary chaos in all societies.
In the meantime, each country responded in various ways, and the situation quickly calmed down.
Afterward.
In advanced nations like the United States, the wooden puppet monsters were left relatively freely,
but in dictatorships like China and Russia, strict regulations were imposed on all wooden puppet monsters.
However, as governments worldwide researched these wooden puppet monsters, it became common knowledge that the Transcendent World was a separate place and that people were being sent there independently.
In the country where Diros lived, however, they manipulated public opinion to dismiss it as a strange conspiracy theory.
But with so much evidence revealed, it was too much to simply brush off as a conspiracy theory, and it greatly stirred Diros's heart.
Having made up his mind, Diros immediately liquidated his considerable assets and bought up wooden puppet monsters from the black market.
Always dissatisfied with the national framework, Diros wanted to seize this opportunity firmly.
Returning to the present,
Diros, like the others, looked around the Transcendent World and his surroundings.
He was certain that at least one person among these people was affiliated with a nation.
As the newcomers, including Diros, stood there, someone approached.
"Nice to meet you. I'm your manager and senior. Let's get along from now on."
With that short greeting, he began listing the dimension's rules.
"First, managers can issue commands to all ordinary people, and defying them can result in the death penalty at worst. Second, there is a hierarchy among ordinary people, and refusing the order based on rank can result in the death penalty at worst..."
Most of the many rules he mentioned carried a strong warning that they could result in the death penalty.
"Does that even make sense? The death penalty?"
As expected, someone rebelled.
Would many people tolerate words that outright denied the common sense and rights of modern people who believed they had human rights?
At least one among them would step forward.
As if familiar with this situation, the man listing the rules immediately approached the one who spoke and kicked him in the abdomen with his foot.
Thud!!
"Kuhuk!..."
The person who flew several meters groaned on the ground, unable to rise as if his bones were broken.
'Is he dead...? He didn't even put much strength into it.'
Diros instinctively felt fear at that overwhelming power, as if he had witnessed a wild beast.
"You crazy bastard... You son of a bitch..."
Not liking the curses from the sprawled man, the one who introduced himself as the manager walked toward him step by step.
"It's been a while since I've seen someone who doesn't come to their senses after one hit... You're half-dead."
The manager's fierce violence continued afterward as well, but
the man only ended up a bloody mess; he didn't die.
Anyone could tell the manager was controlling his strength while beating him.
But that power was absolutely not human-level.
At that moment, there was someone else besides them watching this scene.
There wasn't just one manager waiting at the spawn point.
Artu, who had been watching the entire spectacle silently, said nothing about the other manager's violence.
He too had once questioned whether this was something a person should do,
but now he simply gazed at the people and silently wrote something in the notebook allowed only to managers.
37 days.
Twenty-one people.
No special management targets.
...
...
Unique ability user's ability: ..
Artu left the last field blank and issued a command to the other manager who was still exercising violence.
"Stop."
"Yes!"
At Artu's words, the subordinate who had been gleefully beating the guy stopped kicking immediately.
Afterward.
Artu stared at the fallen man for a moment,
then placed his hand in the air.
A potion-like item appeared in his hand, which he immediately threw onto the dirt ground.
His subordinate quickly picked up the dropped potion and began feeding it to the man he had beaten.
Diros realized that was the inventory the system had informed him about.
But the atmosphere wasn't right yet to freely manipulate the system window.
As Diros stayed silent, Artu turned to the newcomers and asked.
"Who is the unique ability user?"
Even though everyone heard it, no one stepped forward.
Artu was patient, but when no one came forward for a while, he had to speak again.
"I'm not trying to hassle you. It's better for everyone if you come forward quickly."
With those words, people began urging the person next to them to come out quickly, and eventually, one person did.
A man who appeared to be a South American black stepped forward and spoke separately with Artu. Artu wrote something in his notebook, then immediately shouted to everyone.
"I'm Artu! I'll hand out weapons to you all, then we'll head straight to your first hunt! Always stay focused so you can follow quickly!"
Artu pulled dozens of weapons from his inventory, and people picked them one by one.
Artu didn't forget to have them accept the quest as well,
and thus the group of newcomers marched toward Zone 2 under Artu's leadership.
"No way... You can get this strong?"
Having reached level 2, Diros felt overflowing power throughout his body and thought he could do anything with this strength.
Seeing that, Artu approached Diros and talked with him.
Having spent several hours with the newcomers, Artu, unlike his initial strict discipline, now showed a friendly demeanor to lighten the mood.
In fact, the stamina potion Artu had taken out earlier was bought with his own money,
and during today's first hunt with the newcomers, he pulled out potions every time someone got hurt.
Of course, the dozens of store-bought weapons weren't from Artu's pocket. They were a new welfare benefit for newcomers that had appeared at some point. Only the head manager, Siron, knew the source of all those weapons.
The other manager assisting Artu didn't like his behavior but couldn't show it due to the hierarchy.
In the deep forest of Zone 2.
Using powerful store weapons from the first hunt, the battles proceeded smoothly.
As fewer compound-eyed wolves appeared the more they hunted,
the rest times gradually lengthened.
Whenever that happened, Artu explained stats.
According to his explanation,
the way stats applied to people wasn't a system that amplified physical abilities from Earth as a base,
but rather one where the power of stats was added to those physical abilities.
Thus, physical differences on Earth that were hard to overcome,
like the difference between children and adults,
men and women,
or humans and massive beasts, would quickly diminish as stats increased, he said.
Eventually, whether a young girl or an elephant, once they reached high stats, the power difference would be minimal.
Continuing, Artu said that with just 3 stats, one could possess top human physical abilities,
and with 5 stats, they would enter the realm of a complete superhuman.
And with 10 stats, they could probably deflect bullets, punch through walls, and survive falls from 100 meters unharmed, he claimed.
Listening to Artu, Diros thought.
'Someday... I'll get monster-like stats and make my name known to the world, right?'
He didn't yet know that such a person already existed in his dimension.
The lush forest of Zone 3 and the barren cliff terrain of Zone 4.
One person had passed through the barrier separating the two zones dozens of meters in the sky.
It was
Oh Hyun.
He had elongated his domain through Precision Enhancement and was flying through the sky using the domain's power.
Now at 3rd grade, Precision Enhancement lasted 10 minutes, making it viable as a means of transportation.
'My prediction was wrong. No event on the 40th day either?'
I was questioning whether my prediction this time was off.
There were events on the 10th and 20th days, but not on the previous 30th day.
Moreover, events so far had been announced to everyone exactly at noon three days prior, like on the 7th and 17th days.
In other words, if there was a 40th-day event, the system should have notified us today, on the 37th day, but it didn't.
'The ranking restriction notice didn't mention it either...'
On the 26th day,
along with the message that all dimensions had unlocked Zone 4, the ranking restriction notice was updated.
But among those astonishing notices, there wasn't a single one related to the next event.
If there's no event on the 40th day either, then almost certainly one on the 50th day, I thought, but I quickly recalled that the grand competition was scheduled for the 50th day.
'Unless two events don't overlap on the same day, or the grand competition replaces the event, I can't think of anything else.'
With that, I shifted my thoughts elsewhere.
To the changes in the community due to my dimension-hopping massacres.
In the past, after the dimension move on the 20th day.
People hadn't figured out it was me, but they deduced there was someone moving between dimensions and causing massacres.
Afterward, though they didn't know exactly how dimension moves worked, an implicit taboo arose in the community regarding dimension numbers as one possible method.
Realizing massacres actually happened, most dimensions decided to use fake information to hide their own dimension's details.
Faced with the threat of massacre,
whether dictatorships, power groups, or consensus of the masses—no matter the power structure—dimensions had no choice but to decide quickly.
As a result, even though dimension numbers were revealed dozens of times a day now, no one believed they were real.
Thus, on the 30th day, rather than trusting the unreliable community posts, I used the Path of Evil title.
As part of checking those pursuing the Path of Evil title,
I had gone to the dimension ranked 2nd in kills recorded on the title.
With the Soul Origin gained there, I filled one of my long-held skill slots.
The new skill's name was Proficiency.
Proficiency 1st Grade [A]
Description: Increases skill proficiency gain speed.
It cost a whopping 500 Soul Origin to purchase this skill.
As I pondered its immense effect, I remembered just passing through Zone 4.
I immediately took out the Central Core from my inventory.
As soon as the Central Core appeared in the world, it released tremendous energy,
and before it could fall to the ground,
I used Unique Singularity to make it float lightly in my hand.
And then,
I activated Energy Separation, now upgraded to 2nd grade.
I still couldn't use other skills, but this one no longer required focused concentration to activate.
As I dashed quickly through Zone 4, I began sensing the energy of the Central Core in my hand.
A few seconds later.
Through Energy Separation, the ultra-high-density energy of the Central Core began absorbing into my body in an instant.
At this moment, my mana and defense were surging dramatically.
Performance incomparable to mana potions.
This was one of the Central Core's many abilities.
With that, I used my partially recovered demi-god power to erect massive domains repeatedly for hunting.
The domain skill, now at 4th grade, could cover a maximum radius of 500m instead of 200m.
Until yesterday, my mood wasn't great.
I hadn't leveled up for a full 6 days.
The experience required to go from level 49 to 50 was on a whole different level from before.
But today, besides the lack of event notification, something important happened,
and fortunately, it went as I expected.
As he broke through the castle in Zone 4,
five system messages blocked his view.
Shared Dimension?