I Alone Resurrect Chapter 196

I Alone Resurrect Chapter 196

Prologue (1)

King of the Dead.

Master of all magicians.

Supreme being.

Though there were countless names he was called, there was one word he preferred above all.

The Absolute One.

Agon thought the word ‘Absolute One’ suited him best.

In the manifest world, there were no longer any rivals to him.

What remained were the gods.

Agon could feel his own existence.

He could sense his own status rising.

At this rate, it wouldn’t take long before he entered a new realm.

“When that time comes…”

That’s the end for the one who deceives himself by calling himself the ‘Administrator’.

The fellow probably knows this fact well too.

Otherwise, there would be no reason to employ all sorts of tricks to interfere with him.

“But this battle is my victory.”

Agon looked at the massive magical device in front of him.

“This is the last.”

Although he would lose most of his recovered power again, it was fine.

If he could just twist the Administrator’s plans here.

“That would be enough.”

Massive magical power flowed from Agon’s body.

Then the device hummed and eventually shot a dazzling magical light into the void.

“One year from now. Everything will end within that time.”

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Ippotranslation

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“It’s snowing.”

Snow. Something she had seen to the point of tedium since coming to North Korea.

Choi Yeon-hwa blankly stared at the snowflakes falling from the sky.

“I’m 21 now…”

Currently, about a month has passed since coming up to North Korea.

The dreary December had passed, and they had reached a new January.

Looking back now, it had been a year full of so many events.

During that time, Choi Yeon-hwa, who had been merely a novice, had reached level 60 after a year of harsh living.

The Badass Guild had become a guild on par with Dangun.

Kang Hyeon had become a celebrity known worldwide.

Thinking about it this way, it really felt like an unreal story.

“I wonder if brother Kang Hyeon is doing well.”

Kang Hyeon, whom she hadn’t met once since coming to North Korea.

These days, he seemed to be busy without a moment to rest.

While he handled convincing North Korea’s high-ranking officials at an amazing speed as expected of him, the problem lay elsewhere.

Namely, the dungeons and Harken dimension.

As the new year began, the frequency of A-grade appearances increased exponentially.

Many countries still couldn’t properly tackle even A-grade normal cores.

Additionally, as undead began crossing over from the Harken dimension in earnest, a large-scale invasion had begun.

“I’m sure they said it was 5 years.”

In the early days of the dungeon.

The system message had clearly stated that the time remaining until complete connection with the Harken dimension was 5 years.

Then now, after 2 years had passed.

The remaining time should have been 3 years, but it wasn’t.

[Time remaining until complete connection with Harken dimension: 363 days 13 hours 6 minutes 25 seconds]

“It decreased again.”

When she checked a few days ago, the remaining time was about 380 days.

Yet in just a few days, nearly two weeks of time had disappeared.

At this rate, even that remaining one year might suddenly decrease at any time.

“Grrrr…”

Just then, a low growl was heard from somewhere.

This was already the third visitor today.

“Sigh…”

Choi Yeon-hwa drew Bilgain’s longsword with a sigh.

-Another battle?

Veil, who had been sleeping in the sword, awakened and spoke.

“That’s how it is.”

Choi Yeon-hwa answered while slowly walking forward.

Behind her followed numerous ability users.

Today, Choi Yeon-hwa was the night guard captain of the base camp.

Those following behind were the night guard team.

“I’ll say it again, but safety is the top priority.”

“Yes.”

It seemed it would be a long night.

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Ippotranslation

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Undead, known as immortals in the Harken dimension.

These beings, once treated as mere monsters, somehow came to rule the Harken dimension.

How was such a thing possible?

The first thing that comes to mind is their immortality.

They spend hundreds, or even thousands of years honing their skills.

The magic and swordsmanship they’ve refined this way demonstrate power far beyond human limits.

But that alone isn’t enough.

While it was certainly terrifying, such beings were only a tiny minority after all.

Another reason the undead could dominate Harken was their endless numbers.

The more wars they went through, their forces didn’t diminish but rather grew stronger.

The death energy from the slaughter.

The undead who grow stronger by feeding on this death energy.

New undead are born from the corpses of their enemies.

The larger the scale of war, the more these characteristics of theirs shine.

“Damn it! When will this end!?”

And here in 21st century China.

A country with an official population exceeding 1.4 billion, and estimated to have far more people living there in reality.

“Grrrr…”

To the undead, China was heaven.

“Stop coming already!”

Though Kang Hyeon’s battle had already lasted over a full day, the enemy army showed no signs of diminishing.

“Phew. I’m dying here.”

Kang Hyeon collapsed onto a building rooftop, briefly escaping from the battle.

“Hey.”

“What?”

Kang Hyeon looked at Yoon Na-rae while sitting down.

“Wouldn’t a Meteor or something clean this up nicely in one shot?”

Yoon Na-rae frowned at Kang Hyeon’s words.

“If that would work, I would have used it already. Look at the city’s area. The creatures are spread throughout the entire city, would a Meteor even make a difference?”

“I guess not…”

While Yoon Na-rae’s Meteor was certainly powerful, it wasn’t enough to destroy the entire city.

When Yoon Na-rae used Meteor once, she needed to rest for quite a while, so it was more effective to continuously use wide-area magic instead.

“If that lizard guy from before was still alive, it would have been amazing.”

Kang Hyeon recalled Kosik, who was the boss of the A-grade dungeon ‘The Great Sanctuary of Krokta’.

“With just one magic spell, hundreds or thousands at once, just like that! Sigh…”

He thought that if that creature were alive now, it would have been truly remarkable.

Of course, that didn’t mean he wanted to meet it again.

Even though they were both A-grade bosses, it was a much stronger and trickier opponent than Dakiran whom he had fought just before.

-Ka… Kang Hyeon.

Just then, a voice came from the receiver Kang Hyeon was carrying.

-Mr. Kang Hyeon. Can you hear me?

The person making contact was Shin Tae-gil.

“Yes. Go ahead.”

-We’re abandoning Beijing. Prepare to withdraw.

“So it’s come to that, I see.”

Though it was expected, when it actually happened, he couldn’t shake off the bitter feeling.

Even though it was another country, it wasn’t pleasant to watch human territory being taken over by other beings.

-We’ve decided to form a new defense line in Shenyang, Liaoning Province, near North Korea. Mr. Kang Hyeon, why don’t you return to Korea first and get some rest?

“Alright.”

It had been over two weeks since he left Korea.

He was tired, but more than that, he really missed proper Korean food and beef.

“Where should I return to?”

-We sent a helicopter earlier, so it should arrive soon. You’ll take the helicopter to the airport and then transfer to an aircraft.

“Ah, I can see it.”

Just then, he could see a helicopter approaching in the distance, and the rotor sound could be heard.

“Huh?”

At that moment.

Something caught Kang Hyeon’s eye.

“This isn’t good…”

Corpses were gathering.

The ones that had been wandering around as skeletons or zombies suddenly started clumping together.

The tower of corpses growing higher and higher.

-Thud thud thud thud…

They piled up like a huge mountain, collapsing and creating chaos.

“This isn’t good…?”

Kang Hyeon had seen similar scenes a few times recently.

“Why now of all times!?”

If left alone, the outcome was obvious.

He needed to move right away.

“Run!”

“Graaah!”

Finally, the giant zombie made from countless gathered corpses roared.

The creature, formed from what looked like thousands of corpses at a glance, had an appearance so disgusting it could make one nauseous just by looking at it.

-Ratatata!

The helicopter suddenly turned sharply to avoid the giant zombie that appeared in front of it.

Then the thousands of eyeballs attached to the zombie’s body started spinning simultaneously.

Soon, the eyeballs fixed on the helicopter passing in front of it.

Slowly, the creature’s hand rises.

Though it seemed slow at first glance, that was just an illusion created by the creature’s enormous size.

In reality, its hand was approaching the helicopter very quickly.

“Don’t touch it! You bastard!”

Kang Hyeon, who appeared just in time, shouted something that could be misunderstood if heard by others as he jumped up with all his might.

“Get your filthy hands away!”

The jet-black sword drawn smoothly from Kang Hyeon’s hand and swung.

The magical power shot from the sword cut off the zombie’s arm in one breath.

-Thwack!

As the arm fell to the ground, the clustered undead scattered in all directions.

The sight looked even more repulsive as they resembled cockroaches scattering when the lights come on.

“That was close.”

They almost lost the helicopter and would have had to wait here for quite a while.

Once Kang Hyeon and his companions boarded, the helicopter quickly gained altitude.

“Graaah!”

The giant zombie let out a terrible cry, as if dissatisfied with watching the helicopter move away.

“Hey. We should finish this before we go.”

Kang Hyeon turned his head to look at Yoon Na-rae.

“We’re heading back now, so give it one shot.”

“Sigh… Alright.”

From past experience, if you leave undead like that alone, they become overwhelmingly strong later.

So if they could deal with it now, they should.

“It’s dangerous, so let’s move further away!”

Yoon Na-rae, holding her wooden staff, began gathering magical power.

The magic scattered in the atmosphere gathered quickly, and a huge boulder began forming high in the sky.

“Oh. The size has increased a lot?”

Whether it was thanks to the high-performance staff, or because Yoon Na-rae’s skill proficiency had improved, he wasn’t sure.

The boulder forming in the sky seemed much larger than in the past.

The magical power felt about 1.5 times stronger than before, so he wasn’t seeing things.

“It’s starting.”

Just as Kang Hyeon muttered lowly, the huge boulder began to fall.

When that falls, it would probably destroy at least several kilometers of the surrounding area.

“Here it comes, here it comes!”

Kang Hyeon watched it with anticipation like a child watching a disaster movie.

Just as his fist was clenching tight…

“Huh…!?”

Kang Hyeon’s eyes widened as if they would pop out.

Not just Kang Hyeon, but Yoon Na-rae and Shin Seong-ah were in the same state.

They all stared ahead in disbelief.

“It stopped…?”

The massive boulder that had been falling at tremendous speed was suspended in mid-air.

“Did you do this?”

When Kang Hyeon asked, Yoon Na-rae shook her head.

“Are you kidding? Something like that would need several times more magical power than dropping the Meteor… Even if five of those lizard bosses you mentioned came, this kind of feat would be difficult.”

Even Yoon Na-rae, who was explaining, laughed helplessly as if dumbfounded.

Kang Hyeon felt goosebumps all over his body.

“Mr. Kang Hyeon. There’s something over there.”

Shin Seong-ah was pointing her finger somewhere.

Looking there, they could see something floating in the air.

“Hmm…”

Looking closely, they could see it was wearing a robe and holding a huge staff.

“That’s a very familiar silhouette…”

A figure he’d seen many times somewhere.

It looked very similar to those skeleton creatures who kept talking about ‘Olun’ and ‘Kulsa’.

The difference was that not a single trace of magical power could be felt from it.

And it was someone with such insane magical power that they could stop a falling Meteor alone.

“We’re screwed. Let’s run for now.”

At Kang Hyeon’s words, Yoon Na-rae and Shin Seong-ah silently nodded.

“Mr. Pilot! Step on it!”

“What?”

The pilot was confused by the sudden nonsensical command to step on it in a helicopter.

“Let’s run away quickly!”

“This is already maximum speed!”

“If you want to live, step on it more!”

Fortunately, it didn’t seem like the creature intended to chase after them.

“Skin… It has skin.”

Just then, Shin Seong-ah spoke as if she had discovered something.

“What?”

“It’s not a skeleton, it looks like a person.”

“You can see that?”

“Yes… Though it takes some strain, I can see it.”

Shin Seong-ah was using her eyesight to its maximum to carefully observe the creature several kilometers away.

“Though the robe obscures it… Those are definitely human lips.”

At that moment, a wind came from somewhere and blew back the creature’s hooded robe.

Then its face was revealed.

“…”

Surprisingly, the creature was looking directly into Shin Seong-ah’s eyes.

Its lips slowly parted.

It seemed to be saying something.

Shin Seong-ah watched and quietly repeated what it said.

“This… Is just the beginning…”

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