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Butterfly Effect

A blond boy runs down the research lab corridor with his arms wide open.

“Ahahahaha.”

Reaching the end of the corridor, he pounds on the door.

Bang bang bang bang!

Whirring –

The door opens and the boy enters.

A tall woman in a lab coat turns to look at him.

She is five times bigger than the boy.

The woman brushes her emerald hair back once and focuses on the screen again.

“Oh, it’s you… I’m in a very difficult and busy situation right now, so please come back later.”

But the child pays no attention.

“Rinzel! I found someone I want to sponsor!”

The woman shakes her head.

“I’ve told you multiple times, don’t call me by that strange nickname. And as I’ve also told you multiple times, you are not ready to sponsor anyone. You’re probably looking for a toy, not a sponsorship target.”

“No way. It’s true! I gave them a crisis and also a reward! I did it all!”

The woman flinches.

And furrows her brow.

“There’s no record of you doing anything to anyone…? Surely not…”

The woman called Rinzel was in a difficult situation because someone had currently infiltrated the server and messed up the firewall.

“Was it you? You little brat.”

“Ahahahaha. You caught me!”

Rinzel soon realized that getting angry was useless and calmed down.

“So… you didn’t come to confess you’re the culprit, did you? Why did you come?”

“Hehe. The zombie summoner is mine. If you touch them, everyone dies.”

Rinzel held her head.

“I’m not interested. I’ve already selected someone to sponsor anyway. However, if there’s a skilled zombie summoner, there might be some who would get greedy… but I cannot control those people.”

Then Rinzel pauses.

“No… but why a zombie? They have nothing to do with you.”

Rinzel suppressed her anger internally and searched the screen using the keyword ‘zombie’.

“Ah, here it is… It’s a relief to know where to start fixing things, though… Huh? You threw a vampiric giant at a Tier 2 summoner?”

“Ahaha. That’s right, that’s right. I was just about to save them right before they died and give them a gift to show off! But the zombie summoner just went ‘yap’ and caught it! My plan completely failed.”

“A soldier from the Ash Citadel… a Tier 2…?”

“Mine. Mine. The zombie summoner is mine.”

As Rinzel continued reading the information, thorny horns suddenly began to bulge and grow on her head.

“Wh- what is this now… this crazy kid? Sent a summoner back to their hometown arbitrarily? By forcibly manipulating the main system? This… this lunatic! Seriously! Ah!”

Rinzel finally lost her patience.

Clap!

Crunch – Crunch –

As she clapped her hands in the air, the avatar of ‘The Most Melancholy Savior’ crumpled and turned into a bead.

Rinzel nervously stepped on the bead and crushed it.

“Haa… The human named Park Kibum I sent to find isn’t on Earth anymore, having already become a summoner. What the hell is this kid doing? Ah… Aah! I really hate it!”

Rinzel squeezed her eyes shut at the workload, which had increased fivefold beyond expectation.

Her tightly clenched fists trembled.

Sitting in her chair, cooling her head for a moment, she began manipulating the screen again.

This was to send messages to those who might covet the zombie summoner.

“You’ll get what’s coming to you too, you damn brat.”

***

“Hehe…”

With just my first post, I rose to the #1 spot on the world ranking posts.

Comments are already in the tens of thousands.

And they’re even increasing in real time.

‘Sweet, so sweet.’

I turned off the community site.

Most of the comments running are questions asking how I did it, but how can I answer something I don’t know?

In times like these, just being silent looks more impressive.

This is knowledge I learned from the community.

Anyway, I found out something interesting.

In reality, I can summon summoned creatures within a certain radius according to my will.

At first, it was only possible through my cell phone, but I got used to it with a little practice.

I summoned all the zombies I had into the conference room.

One human-type zombie and 5 dogs.

Only 5 of the 40 dogs remained.

“They’ve really decreased…”

Still, it’s not a completely bad situation.

I thought all the dwarf and giant corpses were blown away because of ‘The Most Melancholy Savior’, but they weren’t.

First, they say the zombies ate all the dwarf corpses that were scattered around the mountain stronghold.

The zombie didn’t do it of its own free will.

I mentioned in passing from the watchtower that all the dwarves would be given to the zombie, and it seems she remembered that.

Accordingly, by consuming 100 brains, the zombie’s intelligence increased, enabling it to speak.

Of course, it’s very clumsy.

“Zomby ate all the warves.”

“You did well. You did well.”

Seeing that it speaks, it seems the zombie also recognizes its name as ‘zombie’.

It’s confusing, so it’s time to change the name.

I thought for a moment, then clapped my hands.

“You ate 100 brains, so you’re Baeknoe! That means you’re a very smart zombie.”

“Baengnae?”

“No. Baek. Noe. It’s perfect since my last name is Baek too!”

Her eyes rolled around as she replied.

“But. Other zombis also ate hunded.”

‘Oh no!’

The zombie, no, Baeknoe, got too smart and started contradicting me.

Or maybe it had been contradicting me all along and I just couldn’t understand it.

I presented my prepared logic.

“No. By the time other zombies ate 100 brains, you would have eaten 1000, right? Then from that moment on, you’ll be Cheonnoe!”

“Cheongnae?”

“Exactly. If you eat 10000, you’ll be Mannoe!”

Baeknoe doesn’t answer.

Did she finally give in to my logic?

“Baengnae… is Baengnae.”

I narrowed my eyes.

To assert a name arbitrarily with such poor pronunciation.

“Okay then. You are Baengnae.”

The zombie’s name was confirmed as Baengnae.

Setting Baengnae aside for now.

As for the vampiric giant, they say it wasn’t lost but is safely inside the dogs’ stomachs.

They say the dogs repeated my last command ‘bite’ for tens of hours.

There’s a story that it took over 13 hours for the giant’s corpse to be completely eaten and disappear.

For that reason, the 5 surviving zombie dogs became very strong.

The ones that were the size of medium-sized dogs grew as large as calves.

Just lining them up in a row makes me feel secure.

‘Anyway… how the heck do I find Manager Park…’

Even if I find him, it’s a problem.

Isn’t this South Korea?

If I harm Manager Park, the police investigation will begin.

It’s true that I want to tear Manager Park to death, but the police are just people doing their jobs.

I don’t want to harm them unnecessarily.

I have a friend who’s a police officer, so I’m even more reluctant.

‘This is difficult. It’s difficult. It would have been better if Manager Park were in that world…’

At that moment, a new message appeared before my eyes.

[Correction for the error is in progress.]

[Scheduled to return in 30 seconds.]

‘Error? This is about me, right?’

Thinking about it, it did seem like that lunatic caused all this alone.

Didn’t errors flood the screen when the giant was summoned?

Usually, it gives a ‘warning’, not an ‘error’.

‘Maybe it’s better this way…’

The phrase “correction for the error is in progress” means the system cracked down on that lunatic, doesn’t it?

Then maybe I won’t have to see that guy again.

More than anything, I ended up getting one super popular post on the community, so I can say it’s a profit.

[Calculating compensation for the error.]

‘They’re giving compensation separately? Well, that makes sense. I’m the victim! It makes sense to get compensation. Of course!’

I happily looked out at the night view outside the window.

It hadn’t been that long, but it was a background I missed.

For years, I toiled at the company while looking at this night view.

‘If only it weren’t for the dirty humans, South Korea wouldn’t be such a bad place to live…’

Hate the sin, not the sinner?

That’s bullshit.

People are just the problem.

If only the people I didn’t want to see disappeared, how peaceful and good a place would this Korean peninsula be?

A halo of light slowly rises from my body.

It’s time to go back to work.

***

In the area of top-tier users who cleared Tier 6, they finally formed a guild in the integrated map.

This is confidential information that hasn’t been released to the community yet.

Han Yua, the guild leader of [Climber], a guild formed with the purpose of clearing tiers, couldn’t take her eyes off the newly trending post.

“This is unbelievable…”

The summoners belonging to [Climber] united with the single hope that if they saw the end of this game, they could return to reality.

However, no one on the integrated map has been able to pass the cursed Tier 7.

‘Is there a big difference in difficulty depending on the server?’

She knew that there wasn’t just one integrated map.

This was because there were multiple servers available to choose from upon clearing Tier 6.

Han Yua had chosen the server named ‘Ash Citadel’ to leverage the characteristics of her summoned creatures.

Maybe someone on another server cleared Tier 7.

‘But even so…’

With this level of achievement, it’s likely they would boast about it on other servers.

Even if the person who cleared it is silent, it doesn’t make sense for everyone on the same server to be quiet.

‘I just don’t know…’

Ultimately, one person holds all the answers.

But the post author had blocked all means of contact except comments.

She’s mobilizing guild members to occasionally post comments, but he doesn’t react to any comment.

Ultimately, the only clue is his community ID.

‘The Most Melancholy Lunatic.’

One thing is for sure, this guy is a lunatic.