Honestly, Kim Hyeonoh thought his life was crap.
He wasn't whining; objectively speaking, his life was quite miserable.
Without any fancy embellishments, he looked like he was about to die after nothing but suffering.
"Ah, that was a good fight."
"Good fight my ass, eat shit, you bastard!"
[Crack!]
As if to elegantly wrap up the conclusion of a fight where nothing remained, he kicked the face of Varche, the Tower Master of the 'Tower of Destruction' who was flapping his gums, exploding his head, and then sat down with an irritated expression.
Along with that, a system window appeared.
[You have defeated the Tower Master of the Tower of Destruction, 'Varche'.]
[The destruction of the world accelerated by the Tower of Destruction stops!]
[Rumble-!]
As soon as the window appeared, the Tower of Destruction began to collapse in an instant.
However, Kim Hyeonoh remained motionless, sitting in front of Varche, whose head had exploded.
No, to be precise, he wasn't remaining motionless; he couldn't move.
"Ha."
There was a massive hole in his chest.
A massive hole that seemed impossible to fill with anything.
For an ordinary person, receiving a fatal wound that would have caused instant death from shock the moment the hole was made, escaping the Tower of Destruction was close to impossible.
Moreover, even if he escaped, the probability of survival was low.
"Ha... I thought I could finally live a comfortable life now."
Kim Hyeonoh honestly felt aggrieved.
Since childhood, he had lived through every hardship imaginable, and even as he aged, his life was always a brawl with monsters for livelihood.
Then, somehow, he saved money, gained some fame, and even prepared retirement funds to create an environment where he could live comfortably, but the suddenly appearing Tower of Destruction ruined everything.
[Rumble-!]
This detestable bastard, seriously...!
Feeling the Tower of Destruction beginning to collapse faster and faster, he glared at Varche, the culprit behind all this.
However, knowing that the Destruction King Varche, whose head had exploded from his kick, was already dead, he soon turned his gaze away from him.
"Ha, my shitty life."
Looking at the tower starting to collapse completely, Kim Hyeonoh suddenly thought of his disciples.
The disciples he had taught meticulously one by one, whom he never doubted would provide for his retirement funds.
...Maybe I should have brought them to the last floor after all.
Kim Hyeonoh recalled the disciples he had sent back from the previous floor because it was dangerous, but soon shook his head.
Apart from being shitty, the Destruction King Varche clearly possessed power outside the standard, and it was obvious that his disciples would have only died a dog's death if they came up.
Therefore, leaving behind the strange regret, Kim Hyeonoh closed his eyes watching the tower completely shattering beyond just collapsing.
Right. That was the end.
The life of Kim Hyeonoh, called the Martial God by the public, ended there.
He certainly thought so.
But.
"...."
Kim Hyeonoh reincarnated.
In the body of a 17-year-old kid named Kim Joohyuk.
Well... honestly.
Up to here, it was fine.
On top of that, the fact that he reincarnated exactly 300 years into the future from the point of his death was a bit confusing, but understandable.
After all, even though 300 years had passed, based on the information he gathered using the common knowledge remaining in this body, this world wasn't hard to adapt to.
Basically, there were monsters, and there were Hunters who dealt with those monsters... no, the term had changed, and there were those called 'Contractors'.
Right, in fact, for Kim Hyeonoh, that was enough.
Even if this body was excessively weak, the knowledge that once made him be called by embarrassing titles like Martial God or Tyrant King remained intact in his reincarnated mind.
In short, honestly, Kim Hyeonoh welcomed the reincarnation.
He thought that once he adapted, he could live the 'life of sucking honey' (easy life) that Kim Hyeonoh desired in this world.
However—
[In 5 years, the Tower of Destruction will appear! Prepare for it!]
"Fuck."
—The translucent window in front of his eyes was enough to make curses burst out of Kim Hyeonoh's mouth.
Did this bastard seriously have a grudge against me?
It was sudden, but Kim Joohyuk reincarnated after 300 years.
Yes, 300 years. 300 years!
But after luckily reincarnating with his memories after 300 years and trying to live an easy life, the timing of the Tower of Destruction's appearance overlaps with his reincarnation?
What kind of bullshit is this....
Kim Hyeonoh, no, Kim Joohyuk seriously regretted not thoroughly stomping on Varche's entire body to pieces just before dying.
No, I shouldn't have just smashed him; I should have thrown him into the lava on the 4th floor of the tower.
However, regretting it now wouldn't turn back time.
He had already reincarnated into Kim Joohyuk's body.
The system window was informing him that the Tower of Destruction would appear in 5 years.
Then there was only one thing to do.
Stop the tower.
Of course, Kim Joohyuk didn't make such a decision because he had love for humanity, nor did he decide to do it to gain tremendous honor or something else incidental.
The reason he made such a decision was strictly one thing.
Trying to interfere with me again? Not a chance.
Kim Joohyuk wanted to live an 'easy life.'
And to live that easy life, the world must not be destroyed.
If the world is destroyed in the first place, he absolutely cannot enjoy the ideal easy life he thinks of... that is, the so-called life where he can live doing nothing.
So he stops it.
Anyway, this time, I'll dismember his limbs the moment we meet and bury him like Exodia so he can't appear again.
Thinking that, Kim Joohyuk immediately thought about what to do next.
First, enter Valhalla.
The first thing he had to do was enter Valhalla.
Of course, Kim Joohyuk wasn't trying to enter Valhalla without knowing anything about it.
Rather, he had searched for information for a few days and possessed basic information about Valhalla.
The world's best Contractor training institution, Valhalla.
Looking just at that, there was no particular reason for Kim Joohyuk to enter Valhalla.
There was absolutely nothing for him to learn by entering Valhalla.
Nevertheless, the reason he insisted on entering Valhalla was.
[Find the Armament and Memory.]
[Valhalla Constellation's Room, Basement Level 3, 5th Room on the Right]
[■■■ ■■■■■ ■■■■■ ■■ ■]
[■■■■■■ ■■■ ■■■■■ ■■ ■■■]
It was thanks to another system window floating in front of his eyes.
Armament and memory, huh....
Although he could roughly guess what Armament meant, honestly, Kim Joohyuk didn't know what the memory referred to.
However, he had an instinctive conviction that the system window right in front of him was related to his reincarnation.
Well, actually, there is another reason besides that....
As a result of checking the map several times, Kim Joohyuk had something to collect within the vast grounds of Valhalla.
I don't know if it's still there, but I can check that after entering.
Kim Joohyuk smiled thinking that.
"We will begin the Day 4 TOP 10 Selection Match, so scheduled participants please come up to the stadium!"
Soon, as the staff's voice was heard, he rose from his seat.
❋ ❋ ❋
Day 4 of Valhalla's Entrance Ranking Battle was quite a big event in the Contractor industry.
It was natural because the TOP 10 Selection Match produced a certain number of freshmen whom scouts could take, excluding the children of the Five Great Families whose destinations were already decided after entering society.
Besides that, since the children of the Five Great Families were frequently mentioned in various media, many of them already had recognition, so ordinary citizens and reporters also flocked to the stadium.
As a result, the TOP 10 Selection Match naturally had to be a big event.
However, Lee Sang-cheol had never seen such a large crowd flock to the TOP 10 Selection Match as in this moment.
There's an incredible number.
Certainly, there were many issues in this TOP 10 Selection Match.
The very first issue was that all children of the Five Great Families were included among the freshmen this time.
Usually, even if children of the Five Great Families entered Valhalla, they couldn't all be the same age, and since it was rare for children of the Five Great Families to enter Valhalla all at once like this, it became an issue.
And the second issue arose because of the freshman currently standing on the stadium.
The man standing in the center of the hall, where now only a single arena remained.
On the opposite side stood Oh Se-hyuk, the legitimate son of the Oseon Family, one of Korea's Five Great Families.
However, the 'freshman' of the second issue was not Oh Se-hyuk, but the ordinary freshman standing in front of him, Kim Joohyuk.
He had no noticeable physical characteristics.
A physique that wasn't robust, but not frail either.
His face didn't look lacking anywhere, but he wasn't handsome either.
Also, if asked if he had special personal information, that wasn't true either.
An orphan without parents.
Besides that, the only information written in his file was that he passed the written exam by a hair.
Truly a freshman where everything was a question mark.
[30]
Watching the countdown with only 30 seconds left, Lee Sang-cheol focused his gaze toward the arena where the public's attention was currently gathered.
❋ ❋ ❋
Oh Se-hyuk, the eldest son of the Oseon Family, grew up hearing he was a genius since childhood.
Of course, some said those words were merely exaggerated packaging for Oh Se-hyuk to flatter the eldest son of the Oseon Family or to raise the family's name, but that wasn't true.
Oh Se-hyuk is a genius.
That is true.
Of course, he wasn't bright in academics.
Also, he wasn't very bright in strategy, and in fact, even in the fist techniques the Oseon Family boasted of, in some aspects, he was better than peers but not significantly better.
Then what made Oh Se-hyuk be called a genius?
It was his body.
Yes. Body.
Something not supported by any effort, but purely determined at birth.
Oh Se-hyuk's body boasted tremendous performance to the point where one could say, 'It's virtually something beyond talent!'
He effortlessly performed movements that others could only do using mana without using mana, and he became strong in an instant just by training his body a little.
Like a character appearing in a game.
Was it because he possessed such an absurd body?
As he gradually aged, he became arrogant and neglected training his family's fist techniques, but no one said anything to such Oh Se-hyuk.
Because no matter what anyone said, he was the eldest son of the Oseon Family and a genuine genius with an absurd body.
Therefore, he was arrogant and looked at the first victim of his brilliant career.
A freshman with no particular distinctiveness.
However, Oh Se-hyuk heard that the freshman was currently creating a huge issue by knocking down Yoo So-yeon of the Yusin Family on Day 1, as well as knocking down all opponents in a single blow.
However, Oh Se-hyuk wasn't afraid.
No, rather, it was good.
After all, Oh Se-hyuk thought that knocking down such an issue-maker was the very opportunity to raise his name at once.
Oh Se-hyuk smirked. "I'll instant-kill you."
At that, Kim Joohyuk, who had been standing looking at him until a moment ago, asked with a strange expression.
"Instant-kill? What's that?"
"...."
At his question, Oh Se-hyuk made a dumbfounded expression for a moment but soon smirked and spoke.
[5]
"It means I'll horribly smash you."
[4]
"Ah~ What, is it like an abbreviation?"
[3]
"Correct."
[2]
"Then I'm S.T.F.U."
[1]
"What?"
[Match Start.]
Kim Joohyuk smirked, raising the middle finger of his gauntlet. "Shut the fuck up, retard."
(End of Chapter 2)
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