Regressor’s Life After Retirement

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[Don’t get me wrong]

The rock of Sisyphus has a furious speed. started rolling.

-Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa!

Those who saw the rock screamed and ran away in all directions. The rock rolled at an incredible speed, crushing and trampling their home.

Kwasik Kwasik! Kwazizig!

Houses and buildings exploding, crude altars and statues.

The Rock of Sisyphus was not enough to harpoon everything, so it struck the fleeing creatures with its gigantic shadow.

Quack! Quack! Quad deuk!

Flesh and blood were thickly smeared on the shiny black surface. Screams and crying played like background music.

The soldiers following me cheered enthusiastically.

“Wow!”

“The best!”

Because the blood and flesh on the rock originally belonged to the monster they had to deal with.

I checked the outside situation on the monitor inside the rock.

“Orc colony. “The arrangement has been completed.”

In the colony of orcs that once numbered over a thousand, there were no longer any living orcs to be seen.

I heard an answer from the commander of the military unit that was following me.

[Thank you for your effort. Please rest for a while. We will move again after clearing the scene.]

After answering that I understood, I turned the steering wheel to the side to make room for the soldiers.

The cockpit chair and monitor handle inside the rock were installed by Jang Young-shin while remodeling the rock a few days ago.

That guy. I was so excited to act as an assistant next to Abraxas.

The kid sitting in the passenger seat eating popcorn pointed with his finger at the monitor on the left.

“Mister, look over there. Clouds…”

A total of 16 monitors were installed in the cockpit, so you could see front, back, left and right.

I looked in the direction the kid pointed and frowned slightly.

“…It’s gotten even redder now.”

The clouds, which had become more vividly red than before, were getting lower and lower.

-A week has passed since the second disaster [Red Fog] began.

Quite a lot has happened in the meantime.

On the first day, the city suffered considerable damage due to the suddenly red sky, pouring rain, and crazy monsters.

Still, it was minimal compared to my previous life.

Because the Sisyphus Rock, which caused the most damage, was blocked with minimal damage.

Could it be that they just blocked it?

I never imagined that it would be recycled and used as such great labor force.

[Landlord team leader. I think you can leave again.]

“Where should I go?”

[If you go west, there is a slime colony. We plan to subdue there today.]

“I understand.”

I immediately set off on the rock.

-Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa!

The Sisyphus Rock, which had grown to 200 meters in diameter in just a few days, could now be seen from dozens of kilometers away.

Quack! Quad deud deuk!

Anywhere the rock passed became a path.

Now, small and medium-sized monsters don’t even come near this area. I have seen many times my colleagues who tried first end up like tomatoes at the tomato festival.

You don’t have to worry about large or monster-level monsters because you have to go much deeper to meet them.

A few days ago, when I said I would control this huge rock, almost all the guilds came out and opposed it.

“It’s too dangerous!”

“Does it make moral sense to tame a monster that has killed hundreds of people?”

“For the sake of scientific development, we should dismantle these large monsters and study them together…”

Of course, it was all bullshit. They just didn’t want a huge weapon in my hands.

So I also used my brain a bit.

They contacted the government and said they would participate in the ‘national restoration project’ and showed crazy activity by dragging Sisyphus’ rock outside the restricted area.

-Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa!

The achievement of slaughtering thousands of monsters and destroying dozens of monster villages in one day was enough to fascinate government officials.

As a result,

“I obtained the first nationally recognized large monster driver’s license.”

I am a picture frame placed on one side of the cockpit. I looked proudly at my face on the license inside.

boy. You’re unusually handsome.

“Ugh. “There was too much photoshopping.”

I looked back at the kid with a bewildered expression. what?

“Photo shop? “Who told you that?”

“Hogu and Sirutteok said that. “I couldn’t even pass the ID check with that.”

Those kids. Looks like training is worth it these days.

Slowly, the slime habitat began to appear.

Slime is a monster that looks like a mushy, irregular liquid monster and was one of the monsters that superhumans and soldiers hated to deal with the most.

This is because it does not die easily and has acid in its body that corrodes weapons and armor. Additionally, it turns the area around its habitat into a swamp.

Of course, such characteristics are of no use in the face of this ‘Microcatastrophe’ level giant weapon.

“Let’s finish it quickly and go back.”

I increased the power of the rock and started pushing away the slime colony.

-Quad-duk-duk-duk-duk-duk-duk!

Green, yellow, and red jelly exploded from all directions. It was as if multi-colored fireworks were exploding.

“Can’t I try it too?”

I handed the steering wheel to the begging little boy and put both feet on the empty seat on top of the cockpit. I cupped my hands, supported my head, yawned, and sank deeper into the chair.

“Feel so good. This feeling of living life comfortably…”

It would be perfect if it weren’t for the red fog that was slowly approaching.

I thought as I stared at the approaching red fog.

‘The second disaster hastened… Could it be because of me?’

The second disaster [Red Fog] started six months earlier than I expected.

I’ve been thinking about the reason for the past week and was able to come up with a hypothesis.

-Gate Chain Reaction-

This is something that was controversial after a scholar published it in the past. In summary, ‘When a strong gate occurs, it also affects other gates that occur later.’ That is.

In other words, my recent visit to the continent of Gaia may have influenced the current situation.

‘I was forced to open a dimension that shouldn’t have been opened in the first place… and I even brought a dragon with me when I came.’

Of course, this is just a hypothesis. It was quite possible that other variables that I didn’t know about occurred.

As of now, nothing is certain.

“mister. done!”

“…Oh yeah?”

I patted the head of the little boy who wanted praise and grabbed the steering wheel again.

The military commander’s voice came out of the speaker.

[Thank you for your effort. Now, we will clean up this place.]

I moved the rock aside. And I watched the soldiers working.

As it was an acidic monster habitat, a large amount of neutralizing agent was sprayed and a garrison was quickly built.

Starting from the orc colony we organized earlier and ending here.

It will take more time, but this land will now be incorporated as national territory.

Of course,

“What should we build here…”

I bought all the land around here in advance.

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“Please dispatch an elite team from each guild to investigate that fog.”

That was the conclusion President Kim Soo-ho reached after five emergency response meetings.

I warned you about the [Red Fog] by selling Aximus’ name.

Therefore, the government evacuated citizens in the western region where fog was approaching, and factories began producing large quantities of gas masks.

But that was the bare minimum.

If the red fog could not be fundamentally eliminated, all other measures were merely stopgap measures.

In just one month, people will not be able to leave their homes without wearing a gas mask.

In the fog, it will become increasingly difficult for superhumans to fight monsters, and conversely, in the fog, monsters will become stronger.

So the investigation team was decided.

We must find a way to solve the problem by going beyond the control zone in the west where the red fog is rolling in.

“I’ll go.”

I volunteered for the investigation team. Because there is no one who knows more about this fog and this unknown area that has not yet been explored than me.

‘We have to find out the exact reason. There is no law preventing other disasters from coming sooner.’

What if disaster strikes all at once?

I couldn’t imagine anything more terrible.

Departure is tomorrow.

For the past week, I have been preparing to walk into disaster. The necessary preparations were almost complete.

‘The monsters you’ll encounter along the way aren’t a big problem. I roughly know the route to where the fog occurred. The problem is…’

I sighed and muttered to myself without realizing it.

“…the timing was off.”

To conclude, the second disaster [Red Fog] was not overcome by human power alone.

Luna, the saint of the Gaia continent.

A girl chosen by ‘Lu’, the empire’s official religion and the god of life.

To ‘completely remove’ the [Red Fog], she needed her special divine power.

Once the two dimensions were naturally connected, I planned to go back to the continent of Gaia and bring back the saint.

how?

It was simple to go to the Ru Church with the appropriate treasure and use Abraxas’s connections.

By doing so, the complex political and religious processes that took place between the government and the Imperial Lu Church in the past could be bypassed at once.

‘It was a perfect plan…’

Can’t we just go over to the Gaia continent and bring him back now?

There is no use in going.

Right now, Luna has not yet been selected as a saint. You have to wait at least 5 more months.

I can’t even imagine how much the population of this city will decrease in 5 months.

“It’s annoying, but I have to find out for myself. “What can I do?”

It was time for me to mutter and pack my luggage.

-Quaang!

My door opened as if it were about to break, and Abraxas came running in with his black hair flying and stopped close in front of me. Our faces almost touched each other.

“Open your eyes!”

“…Don’t cut it off, but start with the subject. what?”

Looking at the bright eyes, it seems like something exciting has happened.

“That green alien. I opened my eyes! “I was just talking to him a moment ago.”

“okay? “That’s good.”

In fact, I had completely forgotten about it until Abraxas said it again.

A green alien in the body of a devil.

I don’t know what dimension this guy came from, but I haven’t had anything to do with him since I removed the black stone from his chest.

Ah, I left the Black Stone to the lab. Thanks to this, Jang Young-shin said that these days, he stays alone in the lab without sleeping.

Your child will grow up.

Abraxas said.

“But that otherworlder said he had something he wanted to say to you.”

“me? “I have nothing to say.”

There was nothing good about meeting him. It’s annoying when they ask you to hand over the Black Stone again.

Abraxas nodded as if he knew that would happen.

“I thought and said that too. When it comes to having an intellectual conversation, I’m a much better person than you. “But I definitely have something to tell you.”

Are you subtly criticizing me now?

Anyway, I started to hate meeting you more and more because I was told that it had to be me.

“I’m busy right now. “Can’t you see I’m packing?”

“They say it’s a story about the red fog.”

“…what?”

After a while, I met a green alien lying on the bed and heard a surprising story.

The alien introduced himself as Kiri from the Rorlow Kingdom. Thanks to the interpretation spell cast by Abraxas, we were able to talk directly.

“Thank you for saving me.”

“I didn’t come here to hear that kind of talk. “You have something to say about the red fog?”

Kiri shook her head vigorously from side to side.

It was after some shouting – “This guy is making fun of people!” – that I realized that it was nodding to the Earth.

“…Hmm. So what do you have to say?”

“I know how to clear the fog.”

“…….”

There was silence in the room for a while. I looked at Kiri with suspicious eyes.

“Really?”

“That’s right. “I heard from Abraxas that that fog poses a threat to your lives.”

“so? “Are you going to tell me how?”

Kiri nodded. It meant the opposite of what I knew.

“If you would do me a favor.”

“Look at this? They’re telling me to hand over the bundle since they’re pulling me out of the water. “You said thank you for saving me earlier?”

“I don’t know what the previous statement means, but… instead of saving me, you took my ‘Ron’ away. It’s like a second heart to our species. “Isn’t that a draw?”

‘Ron’ seems to refer to Blackstone. I was silent for a moment and glared at Kiri.

“How can I trust you? “How do you know whether or not you can really get rid of that fog?”

“You can trust it. Because….”

Sssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss.

As Kiri waved his hand in the air, fog began to bloom in front of him.

The color was lighter, but I could tell it was some kind of red mist.

“Because I created that fog.”

“…….”

“You believe it now, right? Then do me a favor…”

“Wait a minute.”

I got up from my seat and relaxed. I relaxed my neck first, and worked especially hard on my shoulders, waist, and wrists.

During the conversation, Kiri tilted her head and looked at me, as if she couldn’t understand such behavior.

“Is that also a custom on Earth?”

“uh. that’s right.”

I nodded. Then he stretched out his hand and grabbed Kiri’s collar.

“We always do this before listening to the other person’s request. So don’t misunderstand?”

[Don’t misunderstand] End

ⓒ Ganjjajang