episode_0543

“Russia…”

It was a name that sounded familiar.

I don’t know how other people feel, but for me at least, it was worth it because it was the name of the country that was most often mentioned, along with the United States, when listening to lectures related to my major in college.

Of course… it doesn’t mean anything good.

If the U.S. feels like a collection of best practices, Russia feels like a target of teachers on the other hand.

Tell me what to do.

In reality, Russia was in a very miserable state, belying its great status in the past.

This was because most of the land in Siberia, called the frozen land, was lost.

How did that happen?

Well… it could be because of a crack or something.

In fact, Russia probably has a lot to say.

To be honest, this was inevitable. Would they have known that the first extra-large crack in human history would open deep in Siberia?

I didn’t know, and I didn’t even consider that possibility, so I guess I didn’t notice its existence until the crack caused a break and threw out everything I had been keeping inside me.

‘I have nothing to say if you knew about it and still behaved like that.’

Anyway, the first extra-large crack in human history that opened in the most rugged place among the mountain ranges located in the frozen ground region spat out monsters as soon as the break was imminent… The monsters that tore through the crack and came out were, after all, famous for being notorious. It would have been bad luck for Russia that it was a wyvern.

As you can see from the name Wyvern, which appears often in fantasy novels, the Wyvern is a flying monster like the giant bat I dealt with earlier.

That alone was bound to cause a lot of trouble for the hunters, and to make matters worse, the wyvern was so ferocious and powerful that he turned people like giant bats into giant bats.

‘From what I heard, it’s really fast…’

Fighters… I heard that although it may not be as good as that, it is at a level where you can compete well with fighters, but even if you try to hit it well, the hunters who are just ground dogs will catch you?

Even thinking about cancer alone is unreasonable.

It seems that the leaders who were managing Russia at the time were the ones who thought that way, and they didn’t seem to think much differently, so they immediately decided to deploy fighter jets.

As can be seen from the point where Siberia fell into the hands of monsters, no significant results were achieved.

The wyvern group that took control of the skies over Siberia used the rugged mountains as their nest and began attacking in all directions, which began to put a brake on the hunters’ crack-removing activities.

In fact, they couldn’t help it because they didn’t know when or where a wyvern would pop out, so who would want to go near it?

Thanks to this, the work to remove the cracks in Siberia began to show a disastrous success rate as time passed… and Siberia eventually became a monster land with monsters everywhere.

Thanks to this, the case of Siberia is being used as a very useful material to emphasize the importance of first response when educating military service students in each country.

‘According to the story the professor shared at that time, the Russian government was said to have even considered using nuclear weapons.’

They said that the reason they didn’t do that was because of what happened in North Korea, which has now been destroyed and disappeared.

In any case, it is Russia in reality that is in such a bad state… Was that even reflected to some extent?

Russia in the world of Kowloon City 2099 was also not in a good condition.

To put it simply, the Russia of this world is more serious.

That’s because Russia in reality only lost Siberia, but Russia in this world gave up most of its territory and became a city-state.

Even some of them were once under the management of the Russian government, but were now under the management of independent Russian megacorps.

“You know it very well.”

“If you just search the net, you will find this story.”

“Is that so?”

Oh, my goodness… I keep doubting it.

“Well… Anyway, the former Russian land itself has so many areas that are almost empty in terms of security and administration…”

“Just listening to it makes me think I really enjoy organizing things.”

“That’s right, this is actually news from the home country this morning, and it says that hundreds of thousands of undead hordes have appeared in the border area between the Magic Tower Alliance and the former Russian region.”

“What…?”

“It is said that the number is increasing as time goes by… so it may have already surpassed the million mark.”

A horde of zombies numbering in the millions.

When it comes to zombies, I’m an expert, but I’m not sure if there are about a hundred of them, so I honestly wasn’t confident beyond that.

And more than anything… there was a high possibility that the concept itself was different between the ‘zombies’ I knew and the ‘zombies’ of this world.

That’s because there’s no such thing as black magic out there.

‘If you think about it…’

What happened to the ‘samples’ that were entrusted to Soso?

Did something come out?

As I kept thinking about it, I suddenly had that thought, but it seemed like the possibility was very low.

Time is as important as budget when researching something, but in Soso’s case, he did not have enough time to use it for research.

I left Kowloon City, where the sample was located, and came to New Castle City before I could do anything in earnest. Is there any way that I could have achieved anything like real results?

As I was thinking the same thing in my mind, Helena began to organize the large amount of information she had gathered.

Everyone, including me, couldn’t help but express doubts about the sight as if it looked like it was going to leave somewhere at any moment.

“Are you really planning to go to Russia? Right now?”

“I have to go. Unless something is done about the boss, the hordes of zombies that are attacking Europe by now will not decrease in number but will only increase endlessly.”

According to what I researched separately, unlike the zombies in the world of Hypnosis School, the zombies in this world do not become infected or infected when bitten.

This means that the dark magic contained in the zombie’s body can seep into the body of the person bitten through the wound and cause something like decay, but it does not cause the person to become a zombie.

Instead… if you die, it’s pointless.

At the moment of death, the black magic flowing into the bodies of the zombies that cover all around immediately engulfs the corpses, turning them into corpse dolls that move according to the leader’s will.

That meant that, as Helena said, as long as the leader’s dark magic allowed, the hordes of zombies that might be attacking Europe right now could exceed a million or even 10 million units.

‘I can’t even imagine a million, but it’s a million…’

As I thought about it like that, I realized why Helena chose to go to Russia right away.

From her perspective, she probably thought that was the best option rather than grappling with the endless hordes of zombies in the border area.

To be exact… there would have been no other choice.

“In that sense… will you go with me?”

“Yes? Me too?”

“As I said yesterday, I need a reliable frontman. This is especially true if the opponent is not an ordinary warlock but a demon.”

In short, I need someone to buy me time.

‘Considering that I will get it back from the Magic Tower Alliance later, it is right to help here for now…’

I’ve already given grace to that side once in Hanoi, but grace usually becomes more effective as it overlaps.

Of course, if the other person is not in a position to repay the debt, it is said to be a favor to just turn it into a piece of tissue.

‘Honestly, I don’t think the Magic Tower Alliance will be pushed back.’

Why did the warlocks announce the start of the war through terrorism in the first place?

This may be because they thought they would have no chance of winning if they fought squarely and squarely.

Honestly, who can I compete with?

In terms of weight class, there would be almost as much difference between a child and an adult man who exercised hard on a regular basis.

So, after wiping out the top leaders of the Magic Tower Alliance in one fell swoop, they would have started a war right away, targeting a time when everyone was in confusion and fear due to their absence.

I would have thought that it would be worth it, no matter how different the weight class might be.

‘We will speed up the supply and push it out all at once. Well, I guess that’s the intention…’

Well… is it really as easy as it sounds…?

I don’t know if the demons themselves appear on the front lines, but it would be difficult to completely push out the garrison guarding the eastern border of the Magic Tower Alliance with the undead alone.

That’s because the Magic Tower Alliance can’t just sit back and be beaten.

Surely by now they would have started to pull out relatively spare rear troops and redeploy them to the front lines.

‘hmm···? wait for a sec···.’

What happens if an additional push comes in from the west via the sea at that timing?

A possibility that suddenly occurred to me.

At that possibility, my expression hardened without realizing it.