Chapter 10: A Change (2) (1/2)
Chapter 10: A Change (2)
Chi-Woo escaped the cluster of lights His chest heaved when he got a clear look at the new scene before him; not because of what he saw, but because of the heavy at boulder He saw a spacious, oval-shaped stage that shone faintly with rows of audience seats surrounding it The place resee was completely empty, but a majority of the seats were filled There were at least a couple hundred people in the area, and it wasn’t difficult to guess that they were participants of the seventh recruitment
Some turned their heads when they heard Chi-Woo’s footsteps Most of theain indifferently Chi-Woo sat down in one of the seats Trying not to make it obvious how nervous he was, he looked around the space
ht Chi-Woo He had made a similar observation when he was in the Celestial Realreat variety of different beings around him Perhaps it was because every one of them was a hero who had saved at least one world, they all exuded a special aura and had a fittingly unique appearance Most of them looked human-like, but there were many who looked like aniht his eyes were playing tricks on him when he saw a creature with a jellyfish body and seaweed hair
ht burst out, and a portal appeared at the center of the stage As white sparkles glittered in the air, a foot stepped out froure’s neatly brushed long golden hair and four fluttering pairs of wings, Chi-Woo narrowed his eyes
“I’ across the silent space “A slight change has been uel said in a business-like tone “Before I give you the details, ill respond to the change that has beenin this matter” Chi-Woo felt like she made eye-contact with hie and enter the portal” Laguel quickly looked away and began to call out several names, “Lucia Delenka, Bob Vilora, Diblaru Pilat, DDiddiri DDiddi…”
At the fourth naot up while gru Chi-Woo watched froet called Froo, but Laguel siel Raphael would explain the reason to them in person She didn’t say uel stopped calling out names, only about half of the heroes present remained Her silence was broken when a crowd of footsteps came from the far side of the staircase Chi-Woo was relieved that his name wasn’t called, but soon, his eyes widened at the newco them
the selection process?’
“As I expected, you’re already here, sir,” Giant Fist said in a low voice when he noticed Chi-Woo Surprisingly, he wasn’t the only one in the group Chi-Woo had seen before
“U woman whom Chi-Woo had seen in the café where he first met Giant Fist Chi-Woo looked up at her in surprise, and the woman aardly bowed her head and cautiously sat beside him Giant Fist looked like he wanted to ask her why she was sitting there, but simply snorted and sat on Chi-Woo’s other side
“What happened?” Chi-Woo whispered to Giant Fist
“I don’t really know, sir” Giant Fist shrugged “I aiting patiently like they told e Then they called people into a portal…”
Hearing his story, it seemed like the event that had taken place on Giant Fist’s side wasn’t much different to what had happened on his side
ht, but he didn’t knohat it could be He was also concerned about the fact that the change had happened right after he came in
‘There’s also that prophecy I heard with Raphael’ Chi-Woo hoped his worries were unfounded
“Anyways, sir, I thought I was going to die laughing ere all called to go back to the portal again,” Giant Fist said in a cheery voice It seeain “It’s because of her She took the test in secret, and when I saw her, she tried to avoid aze…huhuhu!”
“Shut up,” snapped the wo a beret “Do you think I’ainst it when she felt Chi-Woo’s penetrating gaze She glared intently at Giant Fist and pressed down her hat Nevertheless, h the portal until they replaced everyone who had left, and they reached the original number of participants
“I’ll resuuel said once everyone had taken their seats “First of all, I’d like to thank all of you for participating in this selection” Following the words of for the situation to all of you…” She went on to warn everyone, “Know that you must keep what I’m about to say to yourselves with utmost secrecy, and you won’t be able to pull out once you hear the explanation”
Pointing at the yet unclosed portal, Laguel said, “You e was clear: this would be their last opportunity to leave No one would be allowed to give up or return ho period of waiting, however, not a single hero had gotten up
“…Okay” Laguel’s gaze lingered on Chi-Woo before she let out a sigh “I hereby announce that the seventh recruitment process has officially ended” Now that the recruitment process was over, the couple hundreds of heroes would leave for a planet they had never seen before to save it It sounded heroic, but that was sih each person’s or creature’s er wasn’t on Chi-Woo’syou needed to say, please tell us about the situation,” a low voice rang It belonged to an arrogant face with a lion’son their chin By their appearance and voice, it seee and glared as he said, “I’ mad with curiosity You people have held seven selection processes for this single mission Furthermore, I heard that Choi Chi-Hyun went in after the first selection”
Chi-Woo flinched He hadn’t expected to hear his brother’s name here
“That bastard! How dare he address Sir Choi Chi-Hyun so inforry look at the lion-manedon that planet that it’s still in such trouble?”
This was the question people were uel, but she didn’t speak
“Trouble that great couldn’t have been limited to the planet itself” The lion-er at least on the scale of a stellar system?”
‘What does he mean?’ Chi-Woo tilted his head in confusion The er level? Is it around a disaster or catastrophe level?”
Chi-Woo briefly glanced at Giant Fist, but Giant Fist was too focused on Laguel to notice hi systeers that appear,” The wo for thissystem takes into account not only the harm the event would cause in the present, but also the potential danger itabout in the future” She seemed to be an to have a better opinion of her He slightly sed the woer would occur and influence is also considered All potential futures are factored in to deter anything? Is it greater than the stellar system level?” the lion- a beret added to what he said
“You heard hier The scale system starts with Planet and continues to the Stellar System –ah, the solar system is a stellar system, for example Then it continues to Star Clusters, Galaxy, and Galaxy Cluster”
The explanation gave Chi-Woo a better understanding of the situation, and he nodded In the meantime, the lion-maned man continued to ask, “Even more than a Catastrophe? Is it a Dooer levels start with Crisis and go up to Disaster, Catastrophe, Doom, and Mass Destruction” The beret woer of an event are measured by a system of 5 scales and 5 levels; thus, an event could be described in twenty-five variations of scales and levels
In other words, the scale of an event was ranked in this order:
Planet < Stellar system < Star cluster < Galaxy < Galaxy clusters
As for its level of danger:
Crisis < Disaster < Catastrophe < Doom < Mass Destruction
In other words, the scale of an event was ranked in the order of Planet, Stellar System, Star Cluster, Galaxy, and Galaxy Cluster; and its level of danger in the order of Crisis, Disaster, Catastrophe, Doo his thoughts, Chi-Woo opened his mouth to say, “I suppose even if two events are on the saer level, if one is at planet scale and the other at a galaxy cluster scale, they will be completely different froht As expected, you are very bright, sir!” The woht up iive a number to represent an event’s difficulty, a planet-scale event, the first rank of the scale system, will be 1, while a stellar system event is at least ten times more difficult And a star cluster event is at least 1000 times more difficult than a stellar syste woalaxy and onwards as hout the history of tialaxy cluster event” She quickly added, “It’s honestly the same for star cluster In comparison to the scales above it, it happened much more frequently; but the number of events on a star cluster level a issue whenever they happened”
So that hy the lion-maned man had used the planet scale as his basis Chi-Woo asked, “The danger levels are also divided in five What is the difference between Doo of the two terms is similar, but the Celestial Realerly answered Chi-Woo felt a sense of goodwill the woman wanted to show him that he had felt fros disappear For example, a planet is doomed when the majority of its creatures are erased”
In other words, if a planet was dooht remain, but most of its surface would be devoid of life
“It’s more intense when a Mass Destruction occurs For exah Mass Destruction, the whole planet itself would be destroyed…”
It was then that Laguel broke the silence and spoke, “N-S-2-L It is the na to The planet is called Liber” Chi-Woo and the beret woe “When Sir Choi Chi-Hyun went to the planet as part of the first recruits, the Celestial Realm had deemed Libre to be in a stellar-systes all over the room held their breath Giant Fist opened his eyes intently, and the look on the beret woe The lion-maned er boldly, but in reality, the difference between each scale was so large that it was difficult to wrap one’s head around Each stellar system had at least a thousand suns, and an uncountable number of planets
“After that, we sent the second teauel continued in athe fourth recruits, we made a decision after several internal discussions At that tiuel didn’t pause and calraded from star-cluster-scale Crisis to star-cluster-scale Mass Destruction”
“And currently,” Laguel wasn’t yet finished, “Since the fifth and sixth recruits were sent…” Laguel continued while looking at Chi-Woo, who stood between a gianta beret, “We would like to inforalaxy-scale Crisis, and we are currently discussing whether or not we should further raise it to an event of galaxy-scale Dooulfed in silence The universe was infinite; planetsobted around the sun, and thousands of those suns formed clusters, and a collection of star clusters foralaxy</eer and could possibly collapse?
Everyone completely froze with their eyes wide open They had expected the worst, but this had gone way beyond their expectations
“If things are that bad, rather than us, shouldn’t heroes that fit…ah” Someone murmured to themselves in a daze but did a double take as they realized that Choi Chi-Hyun, as considered the best hero, had already gone to Liber
“Can we even save it?” a clear voice rang out