Chapter 21: The grace of the teacher

Ugh…

I don’t know why, but today, for the first time in a while, my dreams are so bad.

Suddenly, a dog dream…

I had a nightmare for the first time in a while.

This is the first time since those two crazy strong men attacked me…?

Why is this nightmare, which I had stopped having, suddenly appearing in my head now?

Ugh…oh my head…

This dream seemed to be bragging about being a nightmare, as if my head was filled with a throbbing headache.

Was it because my head was chewed up at the end of the nightmare?

As with all dreams, I don’t remember the details of the nightmare or anything, but as always, I remembered to some extent.

I lived as a commoner, and after some twists and turns, I entered the academy.

I barely made it because I was not very talented, but I summoned a demon during the summoning test.

After summoning it, I was kicked out of the academy…

I lived a life wandering the world with demons, and for some reason, I was chased down by another demon and a certain sect and died.

And then the demon I summoned was chewing and munching on my body that was all ruined… and the dream ended.

Hey, what kind of dream is this??

I took cold water out of the fridge and put it on my head for a bit, then immediately drank a whole bottle in one go, and since washing my face wasn’t enough, I took a cold shower and only then did my headache start to go away.

Hmm, it wasn’t just a headache, but I also felt like my body was hot…

But it was just an illusion, and it went away after I drank some water and took a shower.

Ugh… today is my bad luck…

It felt strange that this happened on the day I was supposed to meet my teacher.

Sometimes, there are days when I feel like I’m in a bad mood…

I get sick before an important operation, I get sick before a test, I get sick before a day I’m going out…

It’s just a bad day.

I don’t like the fact that today is one of those days.

I don’t want to go out to eat, so I’ll just order room service today…

But the steak I ordered was pretty good, right?

You have to eat meat in the morning to have a solid day!

I don’t know about other days, but on days like today when I wake up in a bad mood, I especially need to recover my energy well so that my body can last longer.

And I’m going to meet my teacher at lunch anyway.

Oh, this doesn’t really matter?

Anyway, after ordering such expensive room service, I simply cut steak and watched TV.

Hmm… the taste of meat served in the room is really amazing…

It even solves the inconvenience of having to pay for a meal…

It must be an excellent service.

Especially for someone like me who retired comfortably and suddenly lost his house.

Mumble, slurp!

I was eating a decent amount of meat with cola, and I felt so peaceful.

Isn’t this a small happiness?

I also had a stray thought.

I’ll have a hard time when I go back to Korea, but I should enjoy it even in times like this…

My sweet home is gone, damn it.

In fact, I had my own defenses, but they were useless against those monsters.

Well, that’s how it is with everything.

Who could stop such a walking natural disaster?

Because no one could stop it, my entire house was blown away, so my insurance didn’t apply…

Damn.

I paid a lot of money for insurance and paid it regularly, and now they’re ignoring me in this situation…!

Isn’t it helpful?

I was watching TV with such a comfortable and calm mind when suddenly, an urgent breaking news message appeared on the news.

[Breaking news…!! The special dimensional phenomenon designated risk group ‘Holy Nation’, which appeared after fusing with Greece during the first dimensional fusion incident in the past and has been committing indiscriminate terrorism and massacres starting with Greece, and then Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria, Serbia, and several other countries in southern Europe, is now…]

“Huh? Holy Nation?? Are they starting their activities again now…?”

Of all the ones who came to Earth through dimensional phenomena, those guys are the real f*cking idiots.

I had a chance to deal with them too…

Crazy guys like them are really rare.

They are the guys who did not even consider others human and did not hesitate to commit terrible acts without any consideration for humans as gods or religions.

They ran wild, but the really angry Hussars and Seon-hyeol-gong got really angry and started running wild, and they got beaten up and eventually GGed and completely isolated them with a holy relic or something, and they have been holding on until now with space defense…

That is why it is impossible to even figure out the internal situation.

Those guys are the Holy Nation, but if you look into those guys…

Are those guys starting to move again?

“Oh, well, if it’s Italy, it’s close to the Holy Nation… ??”

Seriously, why did you have to run away and spend your vacation right next to the place where the incident happened…

[…I heard shocking news that it was completely destroyed…!!!]

“??????”

Huh? No, wait…what did you say just now?!

“The Holy Nation… is destroyed…!?”

No, why would those things that were holding out with space defense suddenly destroy…??

Could it be that they were also people and had internal strife…?

I thought to myself, but looking at the news that kept coming in, that didn’t seem to be the case.

That’s because what I saw on the screen that was relayed as news was…a splendid flame that was burning the entire Holy Nation like firewood, with red flames rising so high that they reached the sky.

“What the…”

[… According to experts, that phenomenon occurred because an entity with a level of danger higher than the Holy Nation entered the Holy Nation through a dimensional rift and collided with the Holy Nation…..]

In fact, there’s no other way for a powerful place like the Holy Nation to suddenly end up like that.

It’s not easy to explain unless a powerful being came across the dimensional rift and the place happened to be a holy country that excluded, discriminated against, despised and made a fuss about everyone but them, so it was natural that they got into a fight and the holy country was destroyed as a result.

No, but that kind of coincidence happened…?

If it’s a holy country, then its danger and strength are higher than that of Drake, the ruler of the northern reconstruction zone.

Of course, their actions and the danger are much higher than that guy’s.

Even in the midst of being pushed back, they saved half of the countries they destroyed with their own hands and took them for themselves… so suddenly?

‘Is it because the world is so messed up…’

The sudden turn of events is no joke…

And since it’s nearby, I don’t know what will happen.

‘But that flame… I think I’ve seen it somewhere…?”

Crack!

In that moment, a headache of unknown origin came over me again.

“Ah…”

Ah, I think I had a headache the moment I saw the faces of the two monsters that emerged from the dimensional rift…

Tsk, did you get a head injury then?

I think I’ll have to go to the hospital later.

It doesn’t seem like I’ll be staying here for too long.

If that division occurred in the Holy Land, then Italy, right across the sea, obviously won’t be that safe either.

For now, I’d better meet with the Master today and then prepare to leave.

…Hmm, going straight to Korea is a bit scary…

My old feeling from my retirement after working like a dog for so long was telling me.

Those two who were announced as having perished, they probably didn’t die.

The Korean side will probably try to find them to nip the danger in the bud, but if they find them, it’ll be good, and if they’ve recovered a bit, it’ll be ruined.

Anyway, unless I hear any more news about those two, it didn’t seem right to go back right away.

Looking at that flame, I suddenly felt a sense of urgency, and the little child inside me was whispering that if I go back to Korea right now, it’s going to be X!

“Hey, I guess I’ll have to think about where to go next.”

At least I didn’t lose any money.

But I can move around comfortably without any major restrictions.

Anyway, thanks to the big news that Seongguk was screwed, I was able to worry, and I was able to pass the time well while watching the experts on the other side of the screen worry.

The time to meet the Master soon came!

We didn’t go out to meet, but we decided to meet at a hotel.

Since the Master doesn’t really like meeting people…

I heard there was a private restaurant in the hotel, so we decided to meet at the entrance and eat there.

So I left a little early, got ready to wait for the Master at the entrance, and went outside after receiving greetings from the staff…

Whoosh!

“Huh…?”

At that moment, the sky turned red.

Kuuuung!!!!

And with an intense flame, something fell in front of me.

“Huh…! What the…?!”

At that moment, I fell to the ground in surprise, and I could feel the gaze of a being looking down at me.

A huge horn, wings that looked like solidified lava, and hellfire flowing out naturally…

[You were here.]

A being that I could tell was a demon just by looking at it…

[The Supreme Being is looking for you. I will serve you. Contract…]

Such a powerful being…

Crunch!

At that moment, a solid line was drawn dividing its sturdy-looking body in half… and it fell in half, splitting in half.

And beyond that, I saw the figure of an Awakened One holding a sword.

“Disciple, what is this? Didn’t you say you retired?”

Disheveled hair and old, baggy clothes.

And a face smiling brightly at me.

“Master?”

Why did a master like me, who came a little early, cut down a demon who looked so strong at first glance with a single stroke of his sword?