Chapter 45 (2/2)

‘Yeah, there’s still a gap to fill.‘

Nate didn’t have the repulsion of an ordinary person.

Even if it was a fake zombie that is transformed from a healthy body, it looks like it would frighten ordinary people. This is because it evokes instinctive repulsion towards the corpse.

However, Nate, who had to stay in one room with real corpses for several years, has no sense of that.

‘Rather, he might feel intimacy towards it.’

All the experiments he turned into zombies while in captivity were Nate’s favorite people.

Because of the Necromancer’s nickname, people in my previous life had regarded him as a cold-blooded, bloodless that enslaved the dead who were unable to rest.

Of course, the truth was different. Nate did not control the real dead, but he just held the traces of them in his heart. In addition to this, he took care of them as if he was dealing with artifacts left behind by someone close to him.

-Next news…

I turned on the TV while Nate was eating.

A few days later, Decker & Jefferson’s news was still making the headlines. Even though the investigation was not entirely completed, the quick-witted reporters finished figuring out the situation and stripped down the company. Major executives were arrested, and stocks fell to scrap paper overnight.

Nate seemed a little surprised at first, knowing that that was where he was at, but now he was watching the news calmly while eating.

‘Yes, he needs to know how what he’s been through is judged objectively and in a social context.‘

Then the news screen changed.

-This is breaking news that just came in.

‘What’s pushing the Detroit News away?’

And as soon as I checked the following screen, my face stiffened.

Nate, who was recovering his memory little by little after even forgetting to read and write, read the caption with a stutter.

“S… Korea?”

He turned his head before asking with a bright smile.

“Doctor, is that where we have to go?”

I managed to nod my head. “…That’s right.”

The breaking news today was about the state of a dungeon in Korea.

This dungeon, which the Korean government has named ‘Siheung 8th dungeon‘, is again rated S. It is an S-class. Early this morning, the dungeon’s stability, which had been being cleared, led by the Celestial Dragon Guild and joined by six guilds to clear, for three months now, had changed. It changed from the regular normal state to very unstable by leaping several classes.

Siheung 8th dungeon.

It was the giant dungeon that the Celestial Dragon Guild had been pouring most of its power recently.

The internal structure was so wide, and the number of people who could enter was so large that they were conducting a long-term attack by partially rotating the exploration teams. However, according to the progress, there was also a prediction that it might take more than a year.

‘In fact, that prediction is correct.’

It took nearly a year for Siheung 8th dungeon to be cleared after it was first discovered in the previous life. In particular, many hunters were sacrificed in the final exploration that achieved the clear.

And the reason why I was surprised now was…

‘It’s still half a year from now that the Siheung 8th Dungeon’s rating had suddenly changed in my previous life!’

The time didn’t fit at all.

‘Butterfly effect?’

I couldn’t calculate all the changes I had made by being reincarnated and the butterfly effect derived from it.

However, it was hard to accept that it was because of me, including this one. Could human beings… Could an Awakened affect the stability of the dungeon in any way in the first place?

‘No, there isn’t!’

Everything in the dungeon except the clear was controlled only by the system. If this was the case, then why did it change so suddenly?

-According to an official report, the Korean government has delivered an unusual request for other governments’ assistance. They decided that it was too difficult to respond only by domestic hunters alone for a limited time.

-There have been many cases where S-class dungeons have been found, but most of them have been stable or very stable. This is the first time that an S-class dungeon has turned into a very unstable state.

The aftermath of an S-class dungeon collapsing was something no one could expect at this point. I remembered the list of hunters who were dispatched at the time.

‘Of course, there was a support team from the U.S.‘

I also knew which Hunter agency formed this team at the request of the U.S. government. It was a company in Edward Danton’s hands.

‘As expected, it’s hard to run a business related to hunters or a dungeon outside his hands in this country.’

I immediately contacted, Oh Jin-hwa.

The message was simple.

‘I’d like to join the U.S. team that will be dispatched on the Siheung 8thth dungeon. Not as Seo Jin-wook of Celestial Dragon, but as a different person. I want to talk to the Senator directly about the price. There will be some parts that can be traded with each other.‘

I sat next to Nate, who already ate all of the hamburger was sucking his fingers and kept thinking.

My head was more complicated.

It is because…

‘The Siheung 8th dungeon is the place where Seo Jin-wook died in his previous life.’

Yeah, he died in that last attack.

Together with Han-Seol.

‘I’m not going to re-enact the death as it was.’

Just as the dungeon is the best stage to target me, it is a good place for me to target anyone.

‘Now it’s time to finish cleaning under feet.’

*

A few days after talking with the Senator, Nate and I were at the airport.

“What is this?”

“It’s your passport. Take care of it.”

Nate took a long look at Korea’s ticket via Japan in one hand and the passport I gave him in the other hand as if it was interesting.

Then, suddenly, the shadows swayed under his feet. I held him back before a slightly melted arm came up from it and took his passport.

“Wait, wait! You don’t have to leave it to your friends in the shadows. Just put it in your pocket.”

“Yes.”

I guess that was what it meant to take good care of something for Nate. To leave it to the zombies hidden in the [Shadow Grave] so that no one but himself could touch it.

‘Well… it’s the surest way, but this is the airport.’

Nate opened the side with the photo again before keeping his passport and looked at it with wonder.

“That’s your full name now. I made the last name the way you wanted it to be. So don’t forget, don’t panic if someone calls you by that name.”

“Yes, doctor.”

“Take out the doctor when you call me.”

“Yes, sir.”

“Remove the latter as well. I’m the same age as you.”

“Okay.”

He continued to live as Nathan Drake after his rescue in his previous life, but now things had changed. His name had changed just as I had created the turning point of history.

He looked at the photo of himself embedded on the passport, and underneath he noticed his name, which caused a faint smile.

Nate Hope.