I Alone Resurrect Chapter 194

I Alone Resurrect Chapter 194

Northern Advance (2)

Guild Meeting Results.

Kang Hyeon. Shin Seong-ah. Yoon Na-rae.

And the Attack Team 1 led by Han Si-hwan from the Guardian Guild.

Finally, Choi Yeon-hwa, whom I met at the Ability Users Cultivation School, was confirmed as the final member.

At first glance, it seemed like the usual composition, but what was different was that Choi Yeon-hwa had joined instead of Ahn Yu-seong.

-I have some matters to attend to at home.

With those words, Ahn Yu-seong disappeared suddenly, and seeing this, Choi Yeon-hwa stepped forward eagerly.

-Guild Master! I want to go too!

Choi Yeon-hwa, who had shown prominence since first becoming an ability user, grew incredibly fast.

Now she serves as the deputy leader of an attack team.

Kang Hyeon judged that she could pull her own weight in North Korea and approved her participation request.

‘Still seems hard to compare her with Han Se-yeon… But she really is growing quickly.’

Choi Yeon-hwa said from the beginning that her goal was to surpass Han Se-yeon.

Though it’s true she still seems far from achieving that goal, considering her tremendous growth rate, it might not be impossible.

‘Grow up quickly and catch up.’

While Kang Hyeon was lost in these trivial thoughts.

“You’ve arrived.”

Finally, they reached their intended destination.

“What’s this. Am I late perhaps?”

Kang Hyeon asked, seeing everyone except himself already gathered.

“No. Rather, you’re early.”

Checking the time just in case, fortunately, he wasn’t late for the appointed time.

“Now that everyone’s here, I’ll proceed with the main discussion.”

Shin Tae-gil spoke while looking at the three men in front.

In order, they were Kang Hyeon, the immortal Han Myeong-do, and Lee Cheong-woon of the Black Knights.

“The reason I wanted to meet with you all today is because you are the key to this operation.”

“The key?”

Shin Tae-gil nodded at Kang Hyeon’s question.

“The top priority of this operation is the stabilization of North Korea. For this, an enormous number of ability users and military forces will be deployed. I would like those present here to take on the role of leading these ability users.”

“Hmm… Representatives. Tell me more about it.”

Han Myeong-do said to Shin Tae-gil.

“The ability users will be divided into two major forces, and they will move to stabilize Hwanghae North Province and Gangwon Province respectively. I would like Han Myeong-do and Lee Cheong-woon to take on the role of overseeing these forces.”

“Is the Dangun Guild not participating?”

“No. Han Se-yeon won’t be moving due to personal reasons. Though she did say to let her know if the guild’s power is needed.”

In fact, Han Se-yeon was currently immersed in training after being shocked by seeing Kang Hyeon in the last battle.

“I have a question.”

At that moment, Kang Hyeon raised his hand.

“If those two are going to be leaders, what am I supposed to do?”

“Kang Hyeon, I would like you to take on the task of negotiating with North Korea’s high-ranking officials.”

“High-ranking negotiations?”

Kang Hyeon asked with a puzzled expression.

“Currently, North Korea is largely divided into two factions. One side wants to request cooperation from our Republic of Korea, while the other side wants to overcome this crisis on their own.”

“Ah…”

“Your job, Kang Hyeon, is to meet with the military factions and generals who oppose South Korea’s involvement and persuade them.”

Though he used the term ‘persuade’, Kang Hyeon well understood what Shin Tae-gil wanted from him.

If he really wanted persuasion, he wouldn’t have assigned such a task to someone like him.

Knowing his personality well, Shin Tae-gil probably wouldn’t have even used him as a guard at the negotiation table.

‘But you’re asking me to do the persuading directly?’

Kang Hyeon smirked.

“You mean beat up anyone who doesn’t listen, right?”

“To be honest, yes.”

Shin Tae-gil admitted frankly.

“They are people who only think about their own safety and power even while North Korean citizens are dying horribly. The government has judged that proper persuasion with them would be impossible.”

“If we can’t persuade them anyway, better to show overwhelming force and make them tremble. That’s it.”

“Yes. However, there’s one concern… Killing. That is, there will likely be many instances where you’ll have to take the lives of non-ability users. If you’re uncomfortable with killing, Kang Hyeon, you can refuse.”

“Why so formal about it now?”

The number of people who had died by his hands was already uncountable.

The world had already changed, and life itself had transformed into survival and war.

“I have no intention of being hypocritical about preserving the lives of trash. However.”

“However?”

“It’s a bit disappointing that Ahn Yu-seong won’t be joining.”

“Pardon?”

At Kang Hyeon’s sudden remark, Shin Tae-gil asked as if confused.

Kang Hyeon grinned and shook his head.

“It’s nothing. I roughly understand what you mean, so let’s go. Korean Peninsula unification, huh! This should be interesting!”

Just thinking about what might unfold next made his heart race already.

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Ippotranslation

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Kaesong, North Korea.

Once it was a vibrant city filled with numerous factories.

However, after the industrial complex shut down a few years ago and the dungeon crisis overlapped, it has now become completely a ghost town.

For some reason, many generals of the Korean People’s Army were gathered in one building in this Kaesong.

“They have arrived.”

At a soldier’s report, the generals rose from their seats.

Following that, people who seemed out of place here entered one by one.

“Welcome.”

Led by Lieutenant General Ahn Chang-bok, commander of the 2nd Corps, the generals greeted them in turn.

“Yes. Nice to meet you.”

Those who came here were several high-ranking ability users including Han Myeong-do of the Immortal Guild and Han Si-hwan of Badass.

And generals of the South Korean military.

“Thank you again for responding to our request like this.”

Lieutenant General AhnChang-bok conveyed thanks again as the representative of the North Korean military.

Lieutenant General Ahn Chang-bok was also the first to welcome Choi Dong-woo when he previously visited North Korea.

He currently served as the leader of the pro-Republic of Korea faction within North Korea.

After exchanging awkward greetings for a while, as the atmosphere warmed up, Lieutenant General Ahn Chang-bok began to get to the main point.

“Though we’ve already conveyed this over the line… To say it again, the situation here is not very good.”

Monsters increasing daily.

Correspondingly, cities and villages turning into ruins are also increasing exponentially.

At such a time, the North Korean military couldn’t even handle the monsters while pointing guns at fellow humans due to factional divisions.

“The primary objective is to drive out the monsters here and stabilize the area, and then to persuade the opposing forces within our North Korea.”

Everyone nodded at Lieutenant General Ahn Chang-bok’s words.

“I heard that a South Korean comrade would step forward to persuade the opposing forces. Is that person here by any chance?”

To Ahn Chang-bok’s question, Han Myeong-do shook his head.

“That friend has already gone further up.”

“Hmm… Though it’s regrettable to say this to the comrade helping us, if possible, we should refrain from violent confrontation. Shouldn’t we stick together rather than shed each other’s blood, especially in times like these?”

“Yes. That friend will handle it well on their own.”

Han Myeong-do answered with a grin.

Because he was certain that Kang Hyeon would definitely resolve it very well.

“Well… Since we’ve decided to leave that part entirely to South Korea, I won’t say anything more about it.”

Lieutenant General Ahn Chang-bok cleared his throat and continued.

“What we need to do here is stabilize the surrounding land. Though our military is mobilizing all its forces… These huge monsters make the task difficult.”

Huge monsters.

He was referring to the boss monsters of B-rank dungeons.

“From what I saw last time, South Korea’s superhuman comrades seemed incredibly strong. We’ll entrust the handling of those creatures to you comrades.”

As Ahn Chang-bok gave instructions, a large screen displayed a map of North Hwanghae Province.

“This marks the locations of huge monsters we’ve discovered so far. South Korean comrades should look at this map, handle those creatures, and completely close the dungeons in the vicinity.”

“Understood.”

Han Myeong-do thought the task wouldn’t be too difficult.

After all, what matters are the B-rank dungeons and their monsters.

Though there would surely be countless lower-ranked monsters and dungeons, they wouldn’t be a problem at all.

Currently, South Korea is saturated with ability users.

They’re even having auctions and guild wars over claiming low-ranked dungeons.

If he and several guilds take care of the problematic B-rank dungeons, the numerous ability users from South Korea will handle the rest on their own.

‘Because monsters mean money.’

The South Korean government plans to earn massive amounts of magic stones from this opportunity.

They can release stagnant power that was rotting domestically, and aim for territorial expansion and population increase.

Though they outwardly claim to promote the human rights and safety of North Korean residents, looking closely, this was one massive business operation.

A nation dealing with another nation.

Han Myeong-do smiled bitterly at that thought.

“Then since we have no time to waste, let’s begin right away.”

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Ippotranslation

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Next day.

The ability users of Korea immediately moved to hunt monsters.

The Badass Guild was assigned one of them.

Choi Yeon-hwa was walking on an unnamed mountain with Attack Team 1.

‘Ah… I feel strangely nervous.’

Choi Yeon-hwa’s career as an ability user was relatively short.

But she had been fighting non-stop.

Despite her brief career, she had extensive experience.

This was validated by her explosively growing level.

‘This is my first battle outside.’

Even she felt nervous about her first battle outside of dungeons.

‘I wonder if Attack Team 1 has a lot of experience with this? They look calm.’

Choi Yeon-hwa’s eyes sparkled as she looked at Han Si-hwan and Attack Team 1.

‘They said they’re from the Guardian Guild?’

The Guardian Guild was an amazing guild that ranked in the top 5 during the early days of the dungeon crisis.

Han Si-hwan had served as the vice guild master there, and the other attack team members were already successful ability users who would receive the best treatment wherever they went.

These people gathered at the Badass Guild, and after undergoing rigorous training, they formed Attack Team 1.

Although Choi Yeon-hwa had grown quickly and currently served as the vice captain of the attack team, Attack Team 1 was on a completely different level compared to other attack teams in the guild, almost embarrassingly so.

‘I need to learn well from this opportunity.’

Just then, Han Si-hwan, who was walking at the front, suddenly stopped.

The following attack team members also stopped simultaneously, as if rehearsed.

Choi Yeon-hwa quietly marveled at how everyone lowered their posture and concealed their presence as if choreographed.

“Kyaaaa!”

At that moment, a tremendous noise that shook the forest was heard.

Soon after, the ground trembled with what sounded like something colliding.

“Approach slowly.”

Choi Yeon-hwa also carefully approached following Han Si-hwan’s order.

As they got closer to the source of the noise,

“Kwaaaa!”

What finally appeared was an unimaginable sight.

“They’re fighting over territory.”

A monster resembling a huge snake and giants that looked about 10m tall were fighting each other.

“That’s our target.”

The creature measuring tens of meters in length was called the Zarate Worm.

The giant snake-like creature was Badass Guild’s target.

“Kuaaaa!”

-Kwang! Bang!

The giants uprooted trees and struck the Zarate Worm.

But they only managed to scratch its thick skin.

“Each of those giants is boss-level.”

These weren’t in the information.

They seemed to be monsters that appeared when new dungeons broke out in the meantime.

Han Si-hwan decided to watch their fight without intervening.

The battle between the giant monsters continued for a while.

Every time they moved, the ground was torn up and trees were broken, raising huge clouds of dust.

“Kyaaaa!”

The monster battle that seemed endless came to an unexpectedly anticlimactic end.

The winner was the Zarate Worm.

After crushing the giants over 10m tall one by one, it began to swallow them one at a time.

“Now!”

That’s when Han Si-hwan moved.

The creature, busy stuffing a giant into its mouth, couldn’t help but react slowly.

Despite never seeing this monster before, Attack Team 1 moved skillfully as if they had fought it countless times.

“Focus on targeting the eyes!”

The common trait of such giant monsters is literally their monstrous vitality.

The surest way to deal with them is to burst their head or cut off their neck.

Since the Zarate Worm’s neck was several meters in diameter, they decided to focus on attacking its head rather than trying to cut it off.

Hundreds of creepy eyes.

The attack team stabbed its eyes with swords and fired magic.

“Kyaaa!”

The Zarate Worm screamed as its eyeballs burst.

Although a single mistake could lead to fatal injury or death against this enemy, there was no hesitation in the attack team’s movements.

Especially Han Si-hwan’s movements at the front, swinging his sword while drawing the creature’s attention, were truly fantastic.

Choi Yeon-hwa was seeing such movements in person for the first time since Han Se-yeon of Dangun.

“It’s already over…”

About 30 minutes after the battle began.

The Badass Guild was able to kill their target, the Zarate Worm, without a single casualty.

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