The Crazy Demigod Returns

going out

The number on the panel rose very steeply, but entirely according to Ha Yeon-woo’s will.

Beep- Beep- Beep-

A number that broke through 3,000 and 4,000 and reached 5,000 in a matter of seconds.

Even after breaking through to 5,500, which is commonly referred to as the 6th tier wall, the upward trend did not stop.

A few seconds passed like that.

The number that continued to rise turned into an error code after a brief pause at 6,420.

‘The 6th rank is the limit.’

The act of accepting the surrounding mana and circulating it in the body continued.

There was no reason to hold back from being curious, especially his curiosity about martial arts was unmatched.

how long has it been

As if the sensor that detects mana could not withstand the force and exploded, all functions of the equipment stopped along with the smoke.

Push Yi-Ik-

“uh… ? Oh, no!”

While the researcher was screaming, Ha Yeon-woo had already finished measuring the performance of the equipment and was getting up and tidying up.

Excluding Ha Yeon-woo, the expressions of the two people were completely burnt.

Especially the researcher who is in charge of practice.

The ownership of the original technology for the hierarchical measurement equipment was owned by the US government and a private company founded by Aileen.

During the development process, the United States supplied funds, manpower, basic technology and materials, and it was she who completed the puzzle based on them.

The problem is that all of them have to be imported. The price of this machine, which is only two in Korea, reached tens of billions of won.

It was only natural that the complexion of the researcher in charge of management would turn black.

On the other hand, in the case of Na Sang-gi, he recognized the seriousness of the situation from a slightly more Mahayana perspective.

‘I didn’t expect it to be smashed at all… . A response might come.’

enigmatic. It was because of the idea that specific information about the returnee, who is currently tentatively recognized as the strongest on earth, would have been passed on to the United States.

Data from the hierarchical measurement equipment is transmitted directly to the US government via satellite.

It was because of a kind of toxic clause that was indispensable when purchasing equipment.

It means that there is nothing to pass on to separately manage personal information or identity, but at least the estimated fighting power measured by the device can be confirmed by the US government without omission.

In other words, they also came to understand that a force that far exceeded the measurement limit was generated from a device installed in Korea.

If the purpose of the US or Aileen, the developer, was simply money, there would not have been only two such poisonous contracts and equipment in Korea.

They must have taken the lead in monopolizing supply by selling them randomly wherever they wanted.

As everyone knows, the United States was the world’s number one hegemon.

Huge territory, vast resources, market-leading technology, and mighty military power. In addition, the status of a key currency country held by the dollar.

The gate incident occurred 10 years ago in such a situation. And beings beyond the human standards of awakening and returnees, etc.

Unforeseen variables became the biggest problem and stumbling block for the US to maintain its position as a hegemonic power.

The appearance of a new human race that cannot be used by conventional weapons. The downfall of assets that had value. Invasion of monsters that have become the main enemy of the world.

No matter how the world turns, it was a situation that was not strange.

So the US government responded to this situation in the most radical and progressive way.

The gate-related basic science budget was invested enormously, and policies were implemented to attract a large number of experts in all fields, and at the same time, the outflow of awakened people was prevented.

In addition, perhaps thanks to its unique past as a land of opportunity, it introduced the world’s first method of ‘awakening immigration’ and attracted talented people from the beginning.

In the end, it worked just fine.

It has developed leading new gate technologies such as magic stone batteries and hierarchy measuring devices, and based on them, it is trying to gain a new hegemony by gaining a comparative advantage in the gate-related industry.

It was also part of the policy to collect information on the armed forces of the awakened people in each country using a hierarchy measuring device.

To contain or, if possible, bring them back to their own country.

As far as Na Sangi knew, the person who made the hierarchical measurement equipment unavailable had never existed.

Even China’s Shaolin, who has been on the 7th for over ten years.

Compared to other countries, Korea was quite friendly with the United States, and was able to receive quite a bit of information about China, which was no different from their potential adversary.

If, like Ha Yeon-woo, China’s Xiaolin had caused the equipment to fail, the report from the US would not have indicated that he generated the error code.

Simply not expressing numbers and equipment being destroyed by crossing a critical point were two different things.

However, the returnee in front of him had done the latter.

‘I knew it was strong, but… . I never thought it would be this much.’

After all, Na Sang-gi is also a high-ranking official in Korea. Most of them are in charge of the returnees with mighty arms.

It was clear that the US would be keeping an eye on it, but it was his idea that going beyond this information would only add an excuse.

It’s a pity, but things like information protection and prevention of leaks of Awakened people have not yet been properly established in the Korean bureaucratic society.

The Awoken were more of an object to be managed by the government, and their power was still treated as a danger rather than a blessing.

When Ha Yeon-woo returned, the government was lukewarm about taking a week to catch and kill the Korean and Japanese groups.

He couldn’t have known that even in the midst of the urgency, internal conflicts arose due to discord between political and business figures, and time was dragged on.

‘It’s old-fashioned.’

This trend is not just a problem in Korea.

It was because different countries had different attitudes toward the Awakened, such as China, which owned and controlled them, and Russia, which tried to nationalize them.

From the beginning, the ability of the Awakeners was also treated as an asset, so the United States was able to bring about hegemony in the gate industry.

In Na Sang-gi’s opinion, the Korean government’s attitude was halfway and ambiguous.

It doesn’t want to own and control it like China, but it doesn’t fully embrace and accept it like the United States either.

It doesn’t treat the value of the Awakener’s ability itself, but it treats it according to the trend to see if it notices.

Of course, if you tune properly between the extremes, nothing is as good as the middle.

The problem is that it is always the politicians who have the uppermost part to decide on it, so they always go astray.

It was not for nothing that Korea became the country with the highest rate of awakened suicide among OECD countries and the number one in overseas immigration.

It is said that even if Ha Yeon-woo had not contacted him out of the blue, he would have gone through all these formalities in order to be active as an awakened person.

What if it didn’t?

‘The opposition party must have been busy framing it, saying bullsh*t because it’s illegal, preferential treatment, and a threat to the private sector.’

In the end, what was to happen happened.

Na Sang-gi sighed and spoke to the researcher.

“Look up and look up.”

“yes yes… . All right.”

same time. Ha Yeon-woo, not knowing the riding speed of the two, was busy looking at the equipment with curious eyes.

‘The end of the 7th hierarchy.’

The number of circles on his body before he got enlightenment and escaped from the frame of mana was 8.

Since it was a field he had pioneered himself, he did not know what course other soldiers would take. There was a high probability that the awakened person would not go through the same process as himself.

In any case, it was clear that the amount of mana he circulated in his body was far beyond transcendence.

It was to the extent that he could exert the power of the stage right before the last circle he made.

It’s a piece of equipment that can withstand it to some extent.

Unlike the pan continent, which was at least at the modern level of the 17th and 18th centuries, the combination of Earth’s overwhelmingly developed science and technology and mana created an amazing object.

“It is a wonderful machine.”

Of course, it was Ha Yeon-woo who lost interest after figuring out the rough operating principle and limitations.

Even the highly designed electrical circuits only exploded at the overwhelming amount of power that exceeded them.

* * *

There was a card in Ha Yeon-woo’s hand as he left the main building of the Superpower Department.

Contrary to the complaints of the practitioners on site, the work was completed fairly quickly and simply.

My name is Ha Yeon-woo.

category returnee.

Hierarchy of measurement E.

The Awakened Registration Card, which consists of just three simple items, is that.

A hierarchy with an E indicates that the instrument made an error by jumping over the measurement spectrum.

As of now, it meant that the device had broken the 7th tier wall, which is the measurable limit.

All the Awakeners held the long-awaited business card in their hands, but there was no special inspiration.

Because nothing has changed.

For Ha Yeon-woo, this process was nothing more than a rhythm match.

Like on the Pan continent, I had long since given up on living by relying only on my own strength, or being secluded.

at least. I was thinking of doing at least the bare minimum, and the Awakener registration was only within that realm.

“next… . Is it a black market?”

Ha Yeon-woo, who packed the Awakener registration certificate, exited the site of the Department of Special Ability, grabbed a taxi, and headed straight to the second destination, the Black Market.

* * *

black market.

Just hearing the name, it sounds like a place where dark criminals gather in a back alley and trade only various criminal goods, but it was surprisingly located in the middle of Jongno, not in the dark.

Even so, it was not a place to buy and sell legal goods while paying taxes politely.

At the entrance to the winding alley behind Jongno 3-ga Station, which used to be called the precious metal street.

This was the entrance to the black market.

As I continued to walk along the map, a mall filled with pawnshops, Ilsu, and 4 Finance and a small building filled both sides.

The inside is even darker, quieter, and stiffer at first glance.

Looking inside, there were shops large and small and a huge courtroom with gate-related symbols embedded in the enclosure.

This is Korea’s largest market for awakened people, where all the gate-related items that are not ‘officially’ recognized by the government come and go. It was a black market.

In fact, it was a black market, but the atmosphere was closer to a quiet market.

According to a search, the government said that it was intentionally put off because it was concerned about smuggling overseas.

Regardless of whether it was stolen by killing someone, stolen goods, or spoils that were involved in a dispute over ownership, in the end, each and every one of them was a gate-related item.

Its characteristic is that if you try to retrieve it recklessly, it will hide further into the shadows, and eventually escape overseas.

Since each of them is tantamount to a national loss, we have to let them go around and around here.

Of course, in the beginning, I tried to get rid of the black market somehow.

However, it is only natural that people flock to it when there is supply and demand. Moreover, it was the awakened people who were responsible for the demand and supply of gate-related items.

3rd level, 4th level… . Then, when even the high-ranking Awakeners of the 5th rank or higher started to conduct transactions here one by one by word of mouth, suppression through public power became meaningless.

When the Awakener reached the 5th tier, the only regret was that it was the country.

In the meantime, it is said that one of the forces that has grown in size has swallowed this place and started to manage it on its own.

As a result, as the crime rate around the area decreased, the government also tolerated it with the feeling that it was driven into this place at all.

‘I heard that every city in any country has a place like this.’

Even on the Pan continent, in any city of any size, at least one market like this always existed.

‘It’s a natural order that can’t be avoided or corrected.’

It may be difficult to understand with the thinking of ordinary people living in modern society, but in the first place, the goods traded were things that could only be obtained by risking their lives and getting blood on their hands.

The time when I stood in front of the fence for a while and looked around the inside.

“hey. what is there?”

I heard someone’s rough voice.

I turned my head to the location where the voices came from, and saw two big men approaching, opening the door to the container office next to the fence.

“Are you okay?”

“I know? Are you an Awakener?”

One of the two hulking men who came nearby spoke curiously, followed by the other responding.

However, there was no sign of being ignored or ridiculed.

awakeners. Especially among awakened criminals in the realm of transgression like these, carelessness was death, and awakening and return did not discriminate against age.

Ha Yeon-woo didn’t answer, but took turns looking at the two of them.

Specifically, the waterdrop-shaped tattoos under both of their eyes.

Soon, he opened his mouth and said the name of their organization that he knew in advance.

“cougar? Am I right?”

The name of the organization came out of the mouth of a man with a young face that did not suit him and showed a suspicious look.

The eyes of the two men, the lower end of the cougar, the ruling organization responsible for all management of the Seoul black market, turned wild.

“What are you doing?”

It was a sharp question, but I was willing.

It was right that I came to the right place, and I was able to meet the entrance from the entrance without having to move my feet hurting.

“The person who will be the owner here.”