Chapter 273:

Chapter 273:

Stardus was currently having a very bad experience.

..Ewww.

Where did this go wrong?

When shed finished the long, long battle, shed thought it would be over. She just wondered what the problem was. Letting her guard down at the end, against the Moonlight Lord? No. It wasnt something that could be avoided by dodging. It was an attack that even her psychic senses couldnt predict.

And this was the result.

She was struck by a spur-of-the-moment attack that sent her tumbling through a gate.

And so she was now, somewhere in the middle of nowhere, holding on to her frantically throbbing head, doing her best to keep her body from being thrown around. It felt like she was in a whirlpool.

Soon

Whew!

Finally, she could feel the ground.

Ha, ha..Ha ha.

After a long moment of collecting herself Stardus opened her eyes and looked ahead.

What she saw was

?

A world of ruins, where everything had fallen apart.

What is this?

Stardus muttered, her voice trembling in spite of herself.

An endless ghost town under a red sky.

Sure, theyd been fighting in Seoul earlier, where the city had been nearly half destroyed by the beast, but certainly not to this extent. Here, dust flew as if the nearby buildings had collapsed long ago.

Such an ominous feeling.

Ha!

She took to the skies, dragging her tired body along, and flew for a while, searching for people or cities.

After some time had passed, and she had circled for quite a while, she had to admit

nowhere, no sign of life. A world of ruined cities.

She felt it in her gut.

Is this a different world?

She thought to herself.

Judging from the words of the Moonlight Lord about manipulating dimensions Perhaps this is a world somewhere in another dimension that has been destroyed.

She shook her head at the ominous thought.

No, no. It could be a hallucination. No such nonsense could have happened

.

Her thoughts were interrupted by a sign on the sidewalk.

New Seoul?

The word Neo Seoul was written on a green-colored sign, as if it were a sign on the road.

Hearing those words for the first time in her life, she sensed something was wrong.

This is definitely not the world she knew.

***

How long had she been wandering the world under such a red sky?

She was able to glean some information from the few remaining buildings.

There was the problem that things like computers were already vandalized and there was no electricity, so the best she could rely on were torn newspapers and books but that didnt mean she didnt learn anything.

.

First of all, the time in this world is a few years from now.

The Demon King she fought was not supposed to conquer nearly half of the capital with his black tentacles, while Weapon Master and Scream Maker killed by Egostic survived and went on to kill thousands.

And thats just the high-level villains whose victims have caused major terror.

All of the lesser villains she had taken down so easily had somehow managed to continue their terrorism in this world without being caught.

Either the villains in this world are stronger than the ones in Stardus world.

Or

She of this world was much weaker than she was.

[A-list hero Stardus has the worst public favorability rating ever 90% unfavorable. Incompetence is cited as the number one reasonThe hero who allowed her people to die.]

.

Seeing a big red X slapped across her face in what looked like an editorial made her feel bitter. How weak she is, how the world has come to this.

But more than that.

There was something else that bothered her the most, something she didnt understand.

That was.

Wheres Egostic?

Yes.

Her arch-enemy, her A-list villain, the one who was supposed to have founded the terrorist organization Egostream, where the hell is he?

To answer that question, she searched everywhere, but she couldnt find him anywhere. There are all sorts of other villains in this world, but hes nowhere to be found.

She even looked for other villains to see if they had changed their names, but in the end, she couldnt find him.

[South Koreas immigration surgeKorea collapsed after the White Witchs great escape, whats next]

She even managed to find a grown-up version of the hacker girl from the original world, a few years after the current year in this world, butStill no sign of him.

What the hell happened?

Is it possible that in this world Hmm. Maybe it was one of her allies? Haha, that cant be right.

With that thought, she stepped outside.

.Haha.

The sky was still red, and the city was in ruins.

Even so, it was difficult to gauge the time frame because there was no moon, but it was easy to realize that she hadnt eaten since she came here, so her stamina was low.

And although she hadnt consciously thought about it until nowshe wonders if theres a way to get back to her original world.

Lets find something first. If I get out of here, I might find a place thats inhabited. The latest issue of the newspaper says that Busan has been named the new capital.

With that thought, she flew over the destroyed world once more, her body exhausted.

.?

And then, in what looked like a junkyard of crumbling buildings she spotted the first person shed ever seen in this world, standing atop it with his back to her.

Hey!

She said, flying towards it, excited to see it.

Only when she got closer did she realize something was off.

Huh?

A woman with long blond hair, dressed in a turbid latex suit of red and blue colors, standing atop the tower of an abandoned building and a dangerous aura around her.

What.

the moment she turned at the sound of her own voice Stardus, Shin Haru nearly gasped.

Certainly, more mature than she is now, though somehow tired and sharp.

Me?

Stardus muttered, unable to help herself.

What is this?

Hearing the womans voice, so muffled but so unmistakably her own, threw Stardus into even more confusion.

It was the first time she had seen her from this world.