episode_0243
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[Dimension Travel Express Ticket has been confirmed.]
[I hope you have a pleasant trip.]
[You have 5 souvenirs.]
[The mileage held is 34,400 mileage.]
[Please check the amenities provided.]
[Amenities: Safety injection, appearance change]
[Do you want to register your baggage?]
[Registration refused.]
[The world I am currently traveling to is ‘Academy of the Fallen Country.’]
[This is a world where the travel provided by the Dimensional Travel Express Ticket has ended.]
[It is a world where the flow of time is synchronized with reality.]
[Unless there are special circumstances, additional mileage cannot be earned.]
[Synchronization with the separated avatar begins.]
‘Umm… ‘
As I entered the destination, I groaned when I saw the ticket notification message imprinted on my mind.
It was somewhat expected that real time would pass even after entering the travel destination.
Last time, I already confirmed the message that the flow of time is synchronized.
However, now I have learned for the first time that it is impossible to obtain additional mileage.
‘It’s a special matter… ‘
Since I don’t know the conditions for this, I thought it would just be assumed that there was no mileage compensation.
My mileage wasn’t the reason I came back to Ruined Aka, but I always felt like something was missing because I was told that what I had been paid for would disappear when I returned to reality.
‘If this goes on, there’s no need to stay long. ‘I’ll just meet Janey and then go back.’
As I entered the travel destination, I thought as I watched the blurry surroundings become more and more clear.
From what I remember, the Kingdom of Halem, which is the background of Aka the Fallen Kingdom, was a colorless country.
This is not to say that it was a world without color, but rather that it was a gloomy place with no life.
In fact, there was no choice but to be lifeless.
They lost the war and squeezed out their own people to pay huge compensation… In order to make the exploitation easier, the Kingdom of Haylem was a state that took action and gave its citizens drugs that castrate their emotions.
‘But it’s probably a little better now.’
All of the superiors were dealt with, and although many of the rebels were divided by me, they would have maintained their legacy.
With that thought in mind, I opened my eyes to a world that was slowly changing.
“?”
What I saw before my eyes was ruins.
The surrounding area was filled with piles of collapsed bricks that did not function as proper buildings, and did not even look like a gray city at all.
For a moment, I thought that the work I had entered was a war movie somewhere, so I checked my notifications again, but the travel destination mentioned in the message was the Academy of Ruined Nations.
-Where is this place?
Maria, who came to the destination with me because I didn’t register it separately as baggage, asked.
“It’s in a work called Academy of Ruined Nations… ”
-hmm… It seems like a work worthy of its name.
“But it’s strange. It wasn’t this bad when I first came in.”
-Then it seems like it was falling apart in real time.
Maria, who did not know what the city used to look like, seemed to take the current situation indifferent.
I looked around a little more slowly.
Then, a familiar building came into view among the ruins.
‘City Hall?’
From the pile of collapsed bricks, I could see the exterior of the city hall building where I first received my academy admissions documents.
at that time.
“Ugh… ”
Unknown knowledge poured into my head along with a slightly queasy feeling, as if I were motion sick.
Maria screamed in surprise at my sudden moan.
-master! Are you okay?!
“Uh… I got motion sickness for a moment.”
-Let me help you!
As soon as Maria finished speaking, the slightly dizzy feeling calmed down.
“Thank you.”
-This is my job.
I slowly organized the knowledge that suddenly popped into my head. It seems that the motion sickness I just experienced was a side effect of the process of merging the knowledge of the avatar, which had been moving automatically, with my memories.
Then, I found something new in my memory that I didn’t know about and muttered absentmindedly.
“Mutant… ?”
-A mutant?
“I think you’re right, Maria… I guess the world is completely ruined.”
I continued to search for memories.
Now, in the ruined world, mutants called mutants were roaming around.
The city has been reduced to ruins by mutants who randomly attack living humans.
When I wondered why something like mutants suddenly appeared in a world where supernatural powers appear, there was a reason.
‘Moralis Research Institute… ‘
The Moralis Lab that I used when I first manipulated the identity of the test subject.
The very same laboratory that developed EDP-427, a pill that the Kingdom of Halem gives to its people, and Telos, a drug that awakens the supernatural abilities of agents, was the cause of this situation.
When I had just defeated the King and the Council, the Kingdom of Halem was quieter than expected.
The people were not completely free from the effects of EDP-427, and the rebels, who were supposed to move quickly, were suddenly attacked and killed by an unidentified assailant (me), including some of their executives.
However, as time passed and the people who forced EDP-427 disappeared, the people gradually woke up from the drug.
Among the suppressed emotions, the first to rear its head was anger. Anger towards politicians who maintained their own luxury while literally replacing the people.
However, they have already died due to an unknown bombing or assassination.
The anger of the people who had nowhere to go was directed to the Moralis Research Institute, which was rumored to develop drugs and conduct biological experiments.
And this is where the problem arose.
The rebels, who should have moved quickly to destroy various production facilities and research institutes, hesitated, giving the Moralis Institute time to make its final struggle.
The Moralis Institute sprayed a biochemical gas that transformed Telos at the people who flocked to kill them.
Some people were able to awaken their supernatural abilities like agents, but the majority of people could not accept the drug and mutated and became mutants.
From then on, it was chaos.
Battles broke out every day as people who suddenly awakened their abilities and people who became mutants mixed together, and in the process, the city was reduced to ruins.
As the saying goes, the world is roughly ruined.
‘It’s really ruined… ‘
After organizing my memories, it became even more absurd.
Previously, it was a dystopian genre due to the gloomy setting, but now the genre has completely changed to an apocalypse.
According to my memory, biochemical gases are still continuously being released from the Moralis Laboratory.
And some mutants even escaped from the Kingdom of Haylem to other countries. A global crisis occurred because of the Kingdom of Haylem alone.
Since it doesn’t seem to be a world where things like the Internet exist to receive news and prepare in advance, the damage will probably be greater than you can imagine.
I briefly explained this situation to Maria.
Then Maria expressed a short sentiment.
-So you’re saying that the world is ruined because of you?
“No, why is this because of me? The lab did the trolling.”
-If only those rebels hadn’t been touched, they would have cleaned up after themselves. no?
“… … .”
It’s not wrong, but it was worth it at the time.
Not only did Janey and I have to fight the original protagonist because they handled the work so poorly, but I couldn’t help but be angry at their attitude of quietly crawling out and trying to spoon-feed after the work was done.
I turned the conversation to another topic.
“Anyway, that’s not what’s important right now.”
-Then what’s important?
What was important was not who caused the kingdom of Halem to fall. The question is, is Janey safe?
As I recall, my avatar and Janey were forced to separate due to a battle in the early days of the mutant outbreak.
While I lured the powerful mutant that suddenly encountered me, Janey took refuge in another place.
The problem is that the mutant’s physical abilities are greater than expected.
Although the most common superpower was physical enhancement, the range of amplification was very wide, perhaps due to their mutation.
Although my abilities have improved a lot now, at the time my abilities were in the single digits. I remember that the most important strength and stamina for using this ability were 5.
It was a difficult situation to survive among the flock of mutants with only one special ability.
In the end, unlike Janey, who fled to the border of a neighboring country, I ended up returning deep into the Kingdom of Halem.
I was relieved that Janey had escaped to another country. No matter how bad it is, it’s probably a better situation than the situation in the Kingdom of Halem.
“First, I have to go to another country where Janey will be and check the situation.”
-If you have a map, I can give you directions!
At that time when I was talking to Maria like that and trying to make a move. A roar could be felt from the ruins of the collapsed city hall.
Rustle~
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