Volume 5 - CH 10

Volume 5 – Silver Knight

Chapter 10

Haneul came out from the hospital room into the hallway, and just stood there.

The nurses passing by were glancing over at him as they walked by. However, the nurses in this area were restricted from doing anything outside of what was needed, so all they could do was glance a couple of times.

With a clouded mind, Haneul headed towards the roof.

This National Hospital was the biggest Hero hospital in East Area and because it was 3 km away from the 1st city, it was able to avoid calamity.

However, the amount of Heroes that were hurt this past Earthquake were quite a few. 10 Rank A Heroes, 20+ Rank B Heroes, and Both Rank C and Rank D Heroes had over a hundred Heroes that were hurt.

Normally, there wouldn’t be this many Rank C and D casualties. However, the shelter was attacked. The monsters focused on attacking the shelter, and Heroes that were there as refugees volunteered to fight against the monsters.

There were plenty of heroes like Ironman at the hospital.

In the midst of the staff running around back and forth, Haneul felt a weight on his shoulders of the people he had to protect.

It was all about saving lives.

It wasn’t as simple as doing a job and receiving money for it.

As the Armor faded away from Haneul’s body, he felt the wind caress him on top of the roof.

As he walked out from the hospital, a change could be seen within his eyes.

‘Let’s not bitch about something that’s outside of my control right now. Whether it’s returning back to my own world, or who I am currently, nobody has an answer. Let’s just focus on what I can do right now and what I can do in this world.’

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The thing that was moving around in the darkness has now become the size of a little dog. It now had no problem with moving its body. As time passed, its knowledge of other life forces grew, and it was able to understand how to divide its cells.

Shockingly, the Wizard that almost died found a good mechanism it could use, and made that its new goal.

In order to survive, its new goal was to become the most perfect existence. In order to do that, it could not stay in this place. This place was focused too heavily on just surviving, so it could not evolve. It was already struggling to just live.

One thing was clear, its flesh that was already at its limit, would start to disintegrate the moment it tried to surpass a hurdle. The smaller the life, the more apparent it was. There was also another big reason.

The energy that circulated within its flesh could not be found here, and here that energy was called magic.

If it was not able to grasp the magic within its hands, the only way to survive was to go from one living thing to another. This was a very incomplete and dangerous way to exist.

It had to find it. An existence with energy.

As soon as it tried to crawl around outside as a rat, it was attacked by a cat. And although its weak rat body started to shrivel, it was not an existence of this world. It was a monster that came from the Earthquake.

The rat’s body suddenly extended forth and covered the cat’s body instead.

MEEEOOOWWW!

The cat’s painful cry within the darkness, slowly drifted away and dropped to nothingness. As it consumed the cat’s body, it was able to find itself a bigger and faster body, and continued to move forward with caution.

This new body didn’t have any energy either. However, on the bright side, the brain was bigger and its physique was a lot more flexible compared to before.

It must find magic energy and it must grasp the magic within its hands in order to gain strength again. This was the prerequisite for its evolution.

Evolution. Gaining strength. Jumping above the limits of one’s flesh. This was its only goal and desire. In order to evolve, this ‘thing’ continued to look for life containing magic energy.

As it continued to do so, it was finally able to find its goal. Not too far away from it, it was able to feel many beings with magic energy, and it pushed forward towards it.

The location it was aiming for.

The National Hospital.

The Organization made magic sensor towers and posted them up everywhere.

If World A had many Wi-Fi towers posted up in order to release signals, this World had things called magic sensor towers. In order to capture the moment when magic is released from Earthquakes, if a certain number is hit from the sensors, it would immediately inform the Organization.

That’s why the status room was always active in the Organization, and they would thoroughly scan through the magic captured by the sensors.

“Huh?”

They were able to capture some magic a little while ago in the eastern side of Central East. Jae Kyung Kim from the status room was the one to notice the numbers.

It was a larger number compared to normal.

‘These numbers are quite high’

However, the numbers did not show that another Earthquake was going to hit. The rise in numbers was temporary, and the graph was now flowing in a consistent motion. If it was a sign of an Earthquake occurring, there was no way for the graph to be looking this stable.

‘Isn’t this area where the National Hospital is located?’

It all made sense now as to why there was a sudden spike of magic. Heroes that were hurt would usually have nightmares and would release their magic subconsciously. It was something that occurred often and was nothing to worry about.

The person in charge of the status room just pushed it aside as if it was nothing.

He continued to talk with his friends through the messenger.

Who knew something out of the ordinary would happen out of his negligence?

Chapter 10 – End.