Solo Leveling: Ragnarok - Chapter 133

Chapter 133

Thomas Andre, who recovered his memories of his past life after being the vessel of a divine entity of the outer universe, was confused.
Another him.
The memories that shouldn’t exist were mixing with his current memories and caused his disorientation.
He didn’t know why he came to live a new life, but since he had experienced too many things in life, he didn’t question it for too long.
Rather than that…….
‘Damn it! Damn it all!’
Amongst the confusion.
The final sentiment that remained in him was
indignation.
‘I’m going to go insane!’
He finally realized the culprit behind the nightmares that tormented him for his entire life.
And it was the memory of him fighting with ‘Sung Jinwoo’ and getting beat until the dust rose from the ground on a rainy day.
‘Why can’t I remember more than that……?’
He was the most indignant about that.
But this was rather an obvious occurrence.
He was the strongest hunter in America, rather, the entire humanity.
It was his first time getting beat like that since birth.
The mental damage that he got from it couldn’t be described at all.
Because it was an unwanted memory, it left an impression in his mind.
It was the same with Min Byunggyu.
‘But we managed to put things behind us! We even joined forces to fight together!’
No matter the reason, it didn’t change the fact that it left a trauma behind.
Only if there were more memories of after that event, he would’ve never suffered from the nightmares.
But who would he rant this to?
This was something that Thomas Andre himself had to carry. And it was relieving that he’d no longer be plagued with nightmares.
And since he finally understood the reason behind that sense of his shortcomings, the issue that he’s been dealing with his entire life was no more.
‘No wonder she sent me here. This is why you never disobey Norma Selner. Just from listening to her, I got rice cakes while sleeping’
He studied Korean to the point of being proficient at Korean idioms precisely because of Norma Selner’s advice.
‘I get why she told me to study Korean as well. To think that Sung Suho was Sung Jinwoo’s son.’
Seeing Suho’s face after knowing it. His face truly resembled that of his fathers.
And his age is just around the age that Sung Jinwoo beat him up too.
……His mood soured after recalling the nightmare.
“Anyways, this is bad.”
After listening to the situation coming for Earth from Suho and Beru, Thomas Andre frowned.
“The enemy is stronger than back then. But Sung Jinwoo is not on Earth? Won’t Earth really be destroyed at this rate?”
He could affirm based on his previous experience of the battle between rulers and monarchs.
“The war between them is not something that humans can get involved in.”
[You seem to understand your place.]
Beru nodded arrogantly while sitting on Suho’s shoulder.
[You’d have to be at a minimum the national level hunter to fight against the apostle of Itharim.]
“It’s just as I’ve experienced now. Or at least…….”
Thomas Andre’s gaze fell on Cha Haein, who was next to the ice elves..
“……Or at least, be an S ranked hunter with a strong item.”
After witnessing the battle of Cha Haein holding the longsword of the demon king.
Lists of tasks to take care of once returning to the guild piled on Thomas Andre’s head.
“……I’ll have to get started on weapon productions as soon as I get back.”
A mere 2 years after the great cataclysm.
Unlike the past where the age of the hunters had been active for 10 years, the situation at hand was different.
The technology and knowledge did improve compared to from back then, but the hunters were a different story.
Among many reasons, the biggest reason would be the lack of research on the ‘ingredients’.
After the cataclysm, the research on monsters and ores from the dungeons were only at the starting points.
In order to reach the similar state of the nonexistent timeline, a minimum of 5 additional years would be needed.
‘But I have the knowledge of the future, no, the knowledge of the past. We can develop much faster by using those memories.’
That was not all.
Not only the development of technology, the various raid methods and efficient training methods would set grounds to improve the quality of the hunters.
Remembering the information of the nonexistent timeline, Thomas Andre felt as if he was starting his 2nd life.
“Just releasing the method to increase the mana concentration would increase the development speed by……. hm?”
Leo Xing came into Thomas’ line of sight interrupting his thoughts.
To be more specific, it was the quality of the ‘sword’ that Leo Xing was holding.
Thomas called him over.
“You, what’s up with that sword? Did you get the item from Sung Jinwoo, no, Suho too?”
“……Huh? You mean this knife?”
Leo Xing showed off his sword with a questioning look in proficient english.
“I just bought this from the Hunters Mall using my own money.”
“What? You bought it?”
Thomas Andre snatched Leo’s sword to analyze it.
And as he thought.
“H, Huh? What’s up with this insane quality? This is similar to the past…….”
Shiver.
Something was odd.
Thomas Andre felt an indescribable feeling and asked Leo.
“This sword. Where did you get this? Not even the US can handle the dungeon ores to this extent.”
“India is rather excellent compared to other countries, but not to this rate.”
“So where on earth…….”
“Korea.”
“……!”
Thomas’ eyes widened.
On the other hand, Leo Xing felt as if his standard of quality was being acknowledged by Thomas Andre, so he was in high spirits.
He complimented himself for immediately purchasing the item at sight and replied confidently.
“I bought it from a Korean blacksmith that Suho recommended.”
After being acknowledged by Thomas Andre, a S ranked hunter, Leo began to set up his next sets of plans.
‘At this rate, I should just bulk purchase Korean weapons to send over to the guild. If I can provide quality weapons, the guild master will look at me favorab…….’
But Leo’s plans for promotion didn’t matter.
Thomas spoke to Suho seriously.
“Something’s weird. There’s no way that the technology developed this much in just 2 years. There must be someone else in Korea who remembered their past life!”
“In Korea?”
Suho’s expression also turned serious at that.
Since being able to remember the past without the shadow key meant that they had relations to the apostles of Itharim.
“Right. And they must’ve had their memory for a while.”
This was a grave situation.
Even if one had the knowledge, to commercialize this level of technology required a minimum of 2 years.
Which meant that the moment the cataclysm occurred, the apostles of Itharim had infiltrated Korea.
At that moment.
“Suho?”
Cha Haein, who was next to the ice elves, overheard their conversation and joined in.
“I think…… I know who you’re talking about.”
“huh? You know them?”
“You do?! How?”
Suho and Thomas were flabbergasted at her bombshell of a statement.
It was impossible.
Cha Haein was trapped inside this glacier dungeon before the cataclysm. So how could she know the affairs of Korea?
However, she just smiled at their reactions and replied.
“um. You’ve also met them a few times when you were young, Suho.”
“I did? Who?”
“Do you remember your dad’s coworker?”
“……Father’s coworker?”
Suho was confused at that.
His father’s job that he remembered was that of ‘police’.
And his coworker meant that he would also be an officer…….
“Ah, maybe you were too young to remember.”
Cha Haein nodded at Suho’s reaction.
As most sons were, none of them could remember all of their father’s coworkers, no matter how friendly they were.
But ‘he’ was more special to his dad than other coworkers.
“I wonder how they’re doing these days…….”
Cha Haein fell into a deep thought while reminiscing ‘his’ face.

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North Korea.
After the cataclysm, Korea has basically unified back again.
But the process was an issue.
The dungeon breaks that appeared indiscriminately.
And the monsters appearing out of them.
And the North Korean government that couldn’t properly respond to the situation ended up getting destroyed.
Were there no hunters?
That was not it.
There were many North Koreans who became hunters.
If North Korea was a typical country, the hunters would’ve been sent to the dungeons to fight against the monsters.
But the moment that the north koreans became hunters.
They led a rebellion.
With the people who awakened their supernatural powers in the lead, the previously oppressed citizens rose up throughout the country.
And all the hunters of North Korea became a villain to destroy everything of their government.
And so the start of cataclysm was met with the destruction of North Korea.
Even those who rebelled fought amongst themselves to scatter.
And most ended up being killed from being outnumbered by the monsters throughout the country.
Working together would’ve been the most optimal method of survival, but their separation led to their fall.
So with the situation, the dungeon breaks of North Korea spread like wildfire.
And that impacted the two neighboring countries of China and South Korea.
And that was the reason why the hunter association of Korea came out to volunteer.
The more the field dungeons of North Korea spread, the more harm it would do to South Korea.
“……Phew. There’s no end to this.”
The president of the Korean Hunters Association was leading the hunters of the association to clear the monsters in North Korea.
This endless battle had been going on for months.
“Chairman.”
A middle aged hunter approached the president.
Choi Jongin.
He was a magic based hunter who mainly used flames, and one of the very first S ranked hunters that got recruited when the association got established.
“Everyone is tired. It’d be best to rest here for a while before continuing on.”
“……You’re right.”
The chairman let out a bitter laugh and took off the sunglasses he was wearing throughout the battle.
To reveal his sharp and fierce eyes resembling that of raptors.
The chairman glared at the North Korean land that turned into a monster field then turned to clean the bloodstained sunglasses using his handkerchief.
He let out a sigh after recalling the face of a certain someone.
“Sigh. Just where did he go at these times……?”
The creator of the Korean Hunters Association, ‘Woo Jinchul’ muttered while remembering Sung Jinwoo.
“Wherever you are…… Just please come back safely.”
I’ll make sure that everything is ready when you come back.
Sung Jinwoo Hunter.