My Alter Ego’s Path to Greatness - Chapter 192

#192

Settler (3)

“…Come to think of it, I’ve said that before, right? Hehe, at the time, it seemed like he thought it was a joke.”

Chehai stiffened for a moment, then smiled broadly and shook his head.

He quickly regained his composure, as if he had been embarrassed for some time, and even had a faint smile on his face, reminiscing about the past.

“…I’m sorry for telling your story to others. But I swear I don’t do this lightly. Because this is so important. Maybe it will be of great help in dealing with the Immortal King.”

“Hmm? “He’s an immortal king…”

“The only people I’m talking about are the people here. Please, chehai. “Please answer honestly.”

Hearing Geos’ words full of sincerity, Chehai’s eyes turned to the people in the living room again.

Although he lives a quiet life now, taking care of his children, he once built a reputation for himself on the bloody battlefield.

Of course, it wasn’t that difficult to read the power of the powerful that was implicitly flowing from them.

‘It was said that it was a deadly force formed to confront the Immortal King…’

Starting with a saint from the famous main church, a rough-hewn barbarian who didn’t seem to be very friendly to children, a young girl who seemed to be around the same age as the thick-haired kids at the orphanage, and…

His gaze rested on Hesperon for a moment.

I wondered if I had misunderstood something.

‘…Third-rate wizard? No, that can’t be true. So, is he an assassin who deceived his energy? I guess that would be more persuasive. ‘That’s great skill.’

But while he was trying to convince himself.

Hesperon, sensing that gaze, smiled and stepped forward again.

“I think it’s a bit difficult for you to answer, so why don’t I introduce myself first? “My name is Ha Seung-hoon, an awakened person from Korea on Earth!”

And then he casually started introducing himself again.

“I’m thinking of using the name Hesperon in Outerica. Or you can just call him Heron! I think it’s been a little over two months since I came here. Hahaha!”

Chehai, taken aback by the sudden action, blinked and then looked around at the people in the living room again.

The warriors still look at him with serious expressions.

“ha-.”

It seemed like it was no longer a situation to throw out.

He sighed lightly and slowly opened his mouth.

“korea? Korea… yes, I think I’ve heard of it. “Did you say that Korean cars are really good?”

In reality, it was an acknowledgment of one’s origins.

At that, Geos nodded heavily, his eyes shining, and then slightly leaned towards him.

“As expected, Chehai, you are from the same dimension as Heron.”

“okay. “I don’t know if he knows, but I’m from Ethiopia.”

“ah! I know. It’s a country in Africa, right? “Next to Somalia.”

“oh? You have wide insight. “It’s nice to hear the names of those rotten things after a long time… It’s a very strange feeling.”

Ethiopia is located in the eastern part of the African continent.

Although it was a country far away from Korea, it was not a completely unfamiliar country as it had its own diplomatic religion.

It is famous as the origin of coffee, so it is quite well known to people.

“…since I came here. Well, I don’t remember exactly.”

Then, he stopped talking for a moment and stroked his beard while thinking about something, then nodded and began speaking again.

“First of all, it seems like it’s been well over 30 years. “It may not have been 40 years.”

“…Is that so? It’s quite long.”

Geos could only nod his head in admiration.

Except for him, for the rest of the other world people present, this was not an issue to be taken lightly.

‘Oh, more than 30 years?’

In fact, it goes without saying that as long as you can adapt to the transmitted world to some extent, the longer you stay there, the more beneficial it is.

Even if you stay for 30 years, as in Chehai’s case, only about 3 years will pass on Earth, and if you decide to just live there, wouldn’t your life expectancy increase tenfold due to aging in accordance with Earth’s time?

If you add the growth correction that is only given in this world, it would be possible to train for decades and return as a monster.

If something dangerous happens along the way, you might be able to run away before that happens.

‘But no one has stayed on Earth for more than 20 years.’

It’s not just that it’s unknown, there really hasn’t been a single person before.

And the reason may be…

“Hey, Mr. Chehai? “First of all, there’s something I’d like to ask you.”

Hesperon spoke cautiously to a black man with a graying beard and wrinkles starting to form, who appeared to be in his old age.

“Can you use the system now?”

“Hmm, I guess you knew. … It’s been a while since it’s been unusable.”

This was the reason why people who stayed in this world for a longer period of time were called ‘settlers’.

Since I couldn’t use the system, I couldn’t open the karma store, and naturally I couldn’t return to Earth, so I had to live in another world for the rest of my life.

“Well I guess it was real. First of all, there are things that are well known on Earth. Of course, since it was all passed down indirectly, it is difficult to determine the authenticity, so the reliability is not high.”

So, meeting the person in person was a good opportunity to obtain proper information.

If the external reason for visiting him was that he might be able to find a useful means to deal with the Immortal King.

The original intention was to obtain more diverse information about the system and the awakened through the settlers.

‘No matter what you do, information is the best weapon. In order to use what I have efficiently, the more information I have, the better.’

Moreover, isn’t he a being who can be said to be irregular in the system in many ways?

Since it was a situation like that, of course I needed to be more careful than others.

“Excuse me, Chehai, but may I ask you to explain in more detail? Maybe you can get important clues from even trivial stories. “If you do that, it will be of great help to Heron and us.”

In order to collect information smoothly, Saint Heinrich, who had the highest authority, personally asked him for a favor.

As a result, others, including Geos, joined in and continued to urge him…

“Hehe, well, it doesn’t matter because it’s all in the past now. “I wonder how helpful this will be.”

In the end, Chehai had no choice but to raise his hands and tell the story.

He thought for a moment about where to start, cleared his throat lightly, and then began to briefly explain his past.

“Hmm, I don’t know if you know that guy named Heron. “My hometown wasn’t a very nice place to live.”

Even Korea, which in the past had boasted one of the best security systems in the world, was in a state of disrepair.

There is no need to say more about the situation of Ethiopia, located in Africa.

The government was anxious just to protect the capital, Addis Ababa, and naturally its control over the provinces was bound to decline.

Afterwards, all kinds of criminal organizations began to sprout up and increase their power…

Chehai also lost his family in the process and became a natural orphan.

Of course, it was just an ordinary misfortune that could be seen anywhere, with nothing special there.

“But the means for a child to survive in such a mess were limited.”

The method he chose was to become an errand boy for a criminal organization that was no different from his enemy and beg for their mercy.

In this way, he became a member of the organization for over a decade, looking only at survival.

However, a sudden change came to his daily life…

It all started when he was selected by the system and awakened at the age of a little over twenty.

“Hehehe, but somehow my newly acquired ability made me unable to sit still.”

Chehai, who continued speaking, quietly burst into laughter.

The unique skill he awakened is “Phase Refraction.”

It was a useful ability to twist and manipulate the space of a local area.

And with no more left behind, he used the 24 hours given to him very frugally.

By cleanly destroying the executives of the criminal organization he was a member of.

The organization, which was close to a local warlord, stored a large number of guns and bombs, and Chehai’s ability was optimal for stealing them and using them for terrorism.

To put it simply, it was an act called ‘awakening terrorism before transmission’ in the world.

“Well, at the time, my skill level was low and I didn’t have enough time, so I could only eliminate some of the guys above me. “Afterwards, during the chaos, we moved to a quiet place and were soon able to take refuge in Outerica.”

In fact, he had already given up on returning to Earth at that point.

Now, even if I went back, I would only face retaliation from the remaining members of the organization.

After becoming a mercenary in this world, he lived his own turbulent life.

As he had no intention of going back in the first place, Karma invested in strengthening himself, and thus he was able to survive with his limbs intact for well over ten years.

“Then, by chance, I stopped by this village and met my current wife. “I had enough money saved up anyway, so there was no problem getting married.”

“Huh? Mr. Chehai, are you married?”

“Then do you think I would have lived alone until this age?”

He responded bluntly to Hesperon, who asked in surprise.

And Geos, who was quietly watching the scene, faintly twitched the corners of his mouth and muttered lowly.

“…I also met him in this village. “At that time, I thought he was my age.”

“Hehehe, for the next few years, Geos, you seemed older than me, right? Hmm, now that I think about it, I guess I should talk about that.”

Chehai, who was stroking his beard while letting out a low laugh, turned his gaze back to Hesperon and spoke softly in a more serious voice than before.

“Probably about 20 years have passed since I came to Outerica. One day I instinctively felt it. “If we don’t return to Earth right away, we’ll never be able to return.”

But he had no karma, let alone the intention of going back, so he forced himself to ignore that instinct.

and.

“Soon after that… the system became unusable.”

Also, the changes did not end there.

Immediately after the system disappeared, he began to age rapidly.

It was as if all the years that had been postponed had come all at once.

Even after turning 40, he still maintained the appearance of a person in his twenties. After about a year, he became middle-aged and looked older than he actually was.

“Of course, fortunately in that situation, other abilities and status still remained. As if I was possessed, I started delving into unique skills. “I wasn’t even conscious of it, but the sense of loss that the system forcibly removed was greater than I thought.”

but.

Another 10 years like that.

More than 30 years have passed since he was sent to this world—.

He lost all his abilities as an awakened person.

Not only the unique skill “Phase Refraction”, but also other skills that I had collected in detail and the status that was strengthened by investing karma.

“…….”

“…….”

Chehai, who had said that far, quietly closed his eyes.

When he closed his mouth, there was silence in an instant, and only the faint sounds of breathing were heard in the living room.

‘Not only are there no more systems and stores, but there are no aging restrictions, and later on, skills and status?’

At this rate, it could be seen that he had lost even his ‘growth compensation’ in this world, even though he did not say so.

All the benefits of being an awakened person disappear and you literally settle down in this world… A situation that has become the indigenous people themselves.

‘Could it be that Karma was forcibly recovered?’

Generally, the ‘return’ of the Karma Store involves returning the system and store to Earth.

However, I have never heard of even skills and status being reset…

‘Is this really the difference between returners and settlers? I got some good information.’

This was information never before heard on Earth.

When Hesperon was slowly nodding, satisfied with such a generous income.

“But it’s not like I gained nothing at all.”

Chehai suddenly opened his closed eyes and smiled, looking in this direction.

He then slowly raised one hand.

I swung it straight into the air.

Sigh—

“Ugh?”

At the same time, Hesperon grabbed his back and jumped up from his place.

This is a method that I have already seen several times through Geos.

It was definitely the unique skill “Phase Refraction” he was talking about.

“…Your abilities just disappeared…?”

“Of course, the unique skills disappeared. “This is my vision that I studied and combined with Auror management methods.”

Of course, it was incomparably inferior to when it had “Phase Refraction”, but it was a time-honored technology whose effectiveness had already been proven several times by Geos.

Isn’t this enough to enable pure Auror users who haven’t even reached transcendence to attack beyond space?

‘I can’t believe it was created by analyzing your own unique skills…’

“You said it hasn’t been long since you acquired your unique skills, right?”

“Yes, yes….”

“I’ve felt something while using my abilities for over 30 years and digging into it like crazy for over 10 years as the system disappeared.”

Perhaps because I had just come into contact with his greatness, I felt more weight in each word than before.

Hesperon folded his hands in a polite manner and listened to him.

The same goes for Lee Se-ah, who was sitting on a chair in one corner of the living room.

Even though she was pretending not to be, she was listening intently and concentrating hard to avoid missing a single word.

“Unique skills are not just abilities given randomly. I have a deep relationship with that person in some way. “The problem is that no one knows exactly how it works… not even you.”

After saying that, he immediately raised the corners of his mouth and smiled a nice smile.

“I don’t know how helpful it will be since we have different abilities. First, let me teach you the basic know-how step by step. It’s probably not that bad. Hehehehe.”

Chehai lets out a confident laugh.

For some reason, there seemed to be a halo shining behind him at a level that I had never seen even from Heinrich.

***

And it was only one day after receiving his teachings.

《Unique skills grow and potential blooms. The number of avatars that can be owned increases.》

It was a time when unique skills grew without going through the karma store.