Chapter 91 – Change (2)

Since that day’s incident, Sun-woo spent several hectic days.

The day the warehouse collapsed. He appeased the police who came to the collapsed warehouse with Caroline’s help and called contractors to rebuild the warehouse.

This time, he had them rebuild it in the form of a gymnasium, intending to make a proper training ground.

Naturally it cost a lot of money, but there was still quite a bit of money left, so there was no problem.

Even building a proper building wouldn’t make training easy, but until finding a place out of people’s sight, there was no other way. It seemed he would have to do at least basic training here.

After that, Sun-woo responded to the Association’s request and handled several jobs as a freelancer.

Most were ordinary things like security, and among them one situation was quite interesting.

He came to participate in the final inspection of a pharmaceutical company’s completely renovated research facility.

It was a place where not long ago an intruder occurred in the underground facility, destroying the facility and stealing important experimental materials.

Of course, such facts were classified, content that only Association personnel who received the facility inspection request heard.

After hearing the story, Sun-woo had no choice but to laugh helplessly.

The place Sun-woo visited for inspection was the pharmaceutical company he had robbed not long ago with Yeonhwa and Caroline.

He came to directly check the improvements of the place he attacked, but Sun-woo did his best to verify the facility’s safety.

Unlike before, the floor had changed to concrete twice as thick reinforced with steel plates, and surveillance cameras were connected in double and triple layers, monitoring all directions. Plus various sensors were installed, monitoring without any gaps.

Sun-woo’s sorcery confirmed several more hidden surveillance equipment, and the guards also looked like proper skilled people, unlike before.

Probably with Sun-woo’s skills from when he intruded before, breaking in again seemed difficult, and Sun-woo told that story to the Association employee who went with him.

Of course, with his martial arts explosively increased now, this level of defense couldn’t stop him. And there was no obligation to inform the Association or pharmaceutical company of that fact.

During this time, no mission came to Sun-woo. Unexpectedly eating the neidan, the Summoners seemed to have difficulty giving the next mission.

By order it should be Dimension Gamma where Daniel was, but more time seemed necessary.

One day while busy time passed with Association work, home, and warehouse repairs, the Summoner’s voice was heard in Sun-woo’s ears.

It was a mission summon.

***

A little later, the place Sun-woo appeared was a remote island with nothing around.

Nan-seol and Michael had arrived first, and the gunslinger belonging to the Inspection Office and the black-armored knight seen during the Spear Master incident, lastly the female superpower user who controlled gravity were positioned there. And two more people were there. Seeing one of them, Sun-woo’s eyes widened. It was an opponent he never expected to see here.

Hayden was there with a woman he was seeing for the first time.

“You’re safe!”

At Sun-woo’s exclamation, Hayden made a bewildered expression. Not only Hayden, but Nan-seol and Michael were also frowning and glaring at Sun-woo.

“No way, Sun-woo-ssi?”

It seemed he would have to explain again what he explained to Caroline. But since there were other summoners besides comrades, Sun-woo explained that his body changed while growing skills.

Everyone was skeptical of Sun-woo’s words, but since Sun-woo’s ability itself was one they didn’t know, they had no choice but to believe Sun-woo’s words.

After a commotion passed, only then could Sun-woo exchange greetings with Hayden.

Not long after parting, Hayden seemed to have changed a lot. He who had some impetuousness remaining seemed to have become an adult in that short time.

“What’s going on? This seems to be our side’s dimension.”

Seo Jung-hyun, the Inspection Office’s gunslinger who frowned seeing Sun-woo, threw a question toward Sun-woo’s party. They also arrived just before Sun-woo arrived and didn’t know the situation.

As he said, this island wasn’t an island from another world. And Sun-woo’s party could soon recognize this island.

It was the island they first arrived at when escaping from Dimension Beta not long ago.

But Sun-woo’s party also couldn’t know why they were summoned to this place.

Sun-woo’s party’s gaze turned to Hayden and the woman who came with him, and the Inspection Office side summoners also looked at Hayden following Sun-woo’s party’s gaze.

When everyone’s gaze turned to him, Hayden opened his mouth.

“Nice to meet you. I’m Hayden, a summoner who remained in Dimension Beta.”

At Hayden’s words, the other summoners’ eyes widened. They also knew about the incident that occurred in Gaia.

“The underground city only had one spatial ability user. That itself was remarkable, but unlike the enemy’s contaminated spatial ability user who could move dimensions alone, she cannot cross dimensions by herself.”

That’s why they only sent Sun-woo’s party to this island.

“After that, I and the underground city survivors searched for other spatial ability users while rescuing uncontaminated people. Because if there are two spatial ability users, round trips become possible.”

At Hayden’s words, everyone’s gaze turned to the woman standing beside him.

She was a tall, brown-haired woman in her twenties, and she seemed to be the spatial ability user Hayden mentioned.

When everyone’s gaze turned to her, the woman wearing military uniform silently raised her hand to her chest. It seemed to be that world’s military salute.

Hayden’s explanation continued.

After rescuing the spatial ability user, Hayden returned to the underground city and crossed dimensions together with other dimension summoners he rescued and the spatial ability user.

The summoners who crossed dimensions immediately returned to their own worlds by the Summoners, and Hayden explained to the Summoners by babbling the story he went through toward the sky.

And shortly after, a new mission came to him, and while the spatial ability user installed amplification stones needed for dimensional movement, summoners arrived in order.

“I’m glad. I was worried we wouldn’t see you for a long time…”

Like Nan-seol’s words, everyone in Sun-woo’s party was happy to meet Hayden.

But the other summoners each made different expressions. The woman who controlled gravity had a complicated expression mixed with various emotions, and the summoner wearing military uniform was frowning.

And because of the helmet, they couldn’t know what the black-armored knight was thinking.

“Being summoned to this place seems to mean we need to cross to that world…”

Jung-hyun opened his mouth while looking at the gems floating in a circle on one side.

The appearance of the floating gems was the same as the amplification stones helping dimensional movement that Sun-woo’s party last saw in the underground city.

“Though it’s a bad story, is there a reason we should go there? Other dimensions are all a mess now, so what are we going to do going to an already ruined place?”

At his words, the gravity ability user frowned, but she didn’t refute his words.

‘It seems teammates aren’t close.’

Sun-woo felt a bit uncomfortable looking at the summoner making snide remarks when a summoner from the ruined dimension he mentioned was right beside him.

“But how can there be a superpower user? Can’t you not escape?”

At Michael’s question, everyone looked at the gravity ability user with curious expressions, but soon everyone had no choice but to have disappointed expressions.

“I was on a mission in another dimension at that time.”

They wondered if maybe she could escape by another method, but unfortunately she was just lucky.

The talk briefly went elsewhere, but soon Hayden tried to explain the situation. But before he could speak, a voice was heard by the entire party.

[Enter Dimension Beta and investigate the cause that made the entire planet contaminated. Rewards will be given according to the level of information.]

When the voice ended, Hayden continued speaking.

“While rescuing people, I could hear about this matter from them. The moment the Empire’s sky turned red, there were people who saw red beams shot toward the sky. We dispatched ability users to the rumored area, and an ability user who barely returned discovered a facility they’d never seen before in that place.”

At his words, everyone realized they had no choice but to do this mission.

If one dimension could be contaminated, other dimensions could be contaminated too. If they couldn’t find out how such a thing was possible, their own dimensions couldn’t be safe either.

Moreover, since the target came to them, there was no way to refuse.

“Let’s go. Maybe if we destroy that facility, the Empire might return to its original state too.”

When Hayden’s words ended, the superpower user woman spoke with a hardened expression.

Looking at the contaminated appearance of the New Continent, it wasn’t a story with high possibility, but there was no reason to stop holding hope.

The seven summoners including Hayden entered the circle where amplification stones floated after that.

In the circle’s center, the woman in charge of spatial movement sat down and closed her eyes, beginning to concentrate.

“But when I saw last time, didn’t it take more than a day to absorb the amplification stones’ ability?”

“She was continuously absorbing before you came. And she’s far superior to the ability user in the underground city.”

As Hayden said. The color of the amplification stones floating all around was rapidly becoming murky.

“Ah, but if you send us there, what happens to her? She’ll be left alone.”

“In the mission content, the Summoners will send her to this dimension’s Association.”

At Hayden’s words, Sun-woo nodded inside. In Sun-woo’s thinking too, being with the superpower users at the Association seemed better for her.

While having a small conversation like that, the amplification stones all changed to dark colors and soon fell to the ground.

Right after, a black circle was created in front of where the party was, and the party jumped into the circle with hardened expressions. As Daniel lastly disappeared into the circle, the black circle immediately vanished.

Canceling the dimension gate, the spatial ability user exhaled with a tired face. Since she was also a summoner, she hadn’t never been to other dimensions, but being left behind like this wasn’t pleasant.

But thinking of the hellish Empire situation, this place was like heaven.

Unfortunately, since all the amplification stones she had were used, she couldn’t send more people, so until the Empire sent amplification stones, it seemed she could have some rest time.

With a tired and relieved expression looking at empty air, a voice saying the mission was complete and she would be summoned shortly was heard in her ears.

Blankly hearing that voice, the spatial ability user suddenly made an awkward expression.

“Ah, I sent them wrong.”

She had habitually dimensionally moved the party to the place she last spatially moved.

***

Same time,

Dimension Beta.

The party that dimensionally moved made bewildered expressions at the unexpected scene.

Half-collapsed castle walls surrounded them. The party had dimensionally moved not to the underground city but to a destroyed castle’s training ground.

Everyone had no choice but to look at Hayden, and Hayden opened his mouth with an awkward expression.

“It seems we moved to the place where we rescued Ability User Sophia.”

The party had spatially moved to the Baron castle where the spatial movement ability user last spatially moved at the fortress.

While everyone made absurd expressions, sharp beast howls were heard from far away, and black silhouettes began revealing themselves one by one from the dark shadows of the castle walls.