Transcendent Warrior with a Dimensional Shifting Inventory - Chapter 90



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The words ‘original timeline’ came out of the Magic Tower Master’s mouth.

Then,

“Are you saying that I’m in a different timeline right now?”

“That’s right, this place is 20,000 years in the past from your original timeline. It’s the time when magic flourished the most on the continent of Rania.”

The name of this place that the passerby had mentioned came to his mind.

He clearly said ‘Sylphir’s Magic Tower Square’.

“Sylphir existed even 20,000 years ago?”

“That’s not it. This place is different from the Sylphir you know.”

The ‘Magic Kingdom of Sylphir’ that had risen to fame along with Asdel before the Great Flood was founded several hundred years ago.

This place was an ancient city with the same name as the Sylphir Kingdom.

The first king who founded the Sylphir Kingdom named his country the same, hoping that his country would flourish like the ancient city in the legends.

Anyway, he was experiencing time travel for the first time in his life.

All sorts of paradoxes that could occur from time travel came to Minhyuk’s mind.

“If I cause an incident here, will the future change?”

“No. No matter what you do here, the future will never change.”

“You said this is the past. How can past events not affect the future?”

“It’s the past, but this place is a small fragment that has fallen out of the vast framework of time. It’s a world isolated in both time and space, so it has no causal relationship with the future.”

It was an ambiguous answer, but he could more or less understand it.

Minhyuk had not traveled back in time to the past.

He had entered a ‘copied world’ where a certain point in the past had been reproduced as it was.

“There is no tomorrow in this world. The same day just keeps repeating itself.”

Minhyeok asked the owner of the Magic Tower while looking at the people passing by.

“Then what are those people? Are they dead or alive?”

“They are alive, living a life without tomorrow. They do not realize that they are repeating the same day over and over again.”

It was ambiguous to call these people ‘real’, but they were not puppets either.

They were living people with beating hearts and flowing blood, just repeating the same day.

“Why does a world like this exist?”

“Even in real history, there was no tomorrow for them.”

20,000 years ago, this city was destroyed without a trace by a sudden explosion.

It was an incident where a massive amount of magic power equivalent to tens of thousands of dragon hearts exploded at once.

“Only the gods know why such a disaster happened. The gods say that the incident was a self-destruction caused by human arrogance. But who knows? It could have been a massacre caused by the fear of the creator who was surprised by the abilities of his creation.”

“So, is today the day before the destruction?”

“Yes. Some gods felt sorry for the destruction of this place. So, they turned back time to restore it. But they couldn’t restore it perfectly.”

Even with the power of the gods, they could not undo an event that had already happened.

What they created was a cloned world.

In terms of time, only one day,

In terms of space, the Magic Tower and its surroundings,

That’s how a small, isolated world was created.

Minhyeok looked up at the distant mountain.

He could see it, but he could never reach it.

“The necklace I gave you is the only way to enter this world. Only the owner of the Magic Tower and the owner of the necklace can enter this world.”

“But there is only one necklace?”

“Yes.”

“What kind of treasure did you give to the others who came to the top floor besides me?”

“You are the first human to reach the top floor. So, I gave you the legacy of humanity. I gave the other races treasures befitting them. I am not obligated to tell you what they are.”

“It’s okay if you don’t want to tell me.”

“I think I’ve told you everything I need to tell you, so I’ll be going now.”

“Wait a minute!”

Whoosh-

The owner of the Magic Tower transformed into smoke and disappeared.

‘What if he just leaves?’

He still had a lot of questions.

He knew that he could buy things here and take them back to his original time,

But he didn’t know what to pay for them.

It was only a few hundred years ago that Krone began to be used as the unified currency on the continent of Rania.

20,000 years ago, a different currency must have been used.

Other than that, he didn’t know how to get out of this place right away.

‘Do I get out the same way I came in?’

Minhyeok poured magic power into the pendant of the necklace.

But nothing happened.

“To the original time.”

He recited the spell just in case, but of course, nothing happened.

“Return.”

Thud-

With a flash of light, he was transported to the underground parking lot.

There was no problem at all in moving to the real world.

“Return.”

Thud-

He was transported back to the ancient city.

Minhyuk shouted into the air.

“At least tell me how to get out!”

Passersby looked at Minhyuk’s behavior with strange eyes.

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After a while,

[There’s something important I didn’t tell you.]

The voice of the Magic Tower’s owner came into Minhyuk’s head.

[You will be automatically transported out after one day.]

“Once you come in, you have to stay for a whole day, no matter what?”

[Yes.]

“I’m not that free. Isn’t there any way to get out right away?”

[It’s impossible, given the structure of the isolated world. But don’t worry. While you’re here, time in your original time zone will stop. You don’t have to worry about your tea getting cold.]

“Then it doesn’t matter.”

[Then I’ll be going.]

The voice of the Magic Tower’s owner was no longer heard.

‘Should I look around and see what they’re selling?’

Buzz, buzz-

The area around the Magic Tower was as lively as Garak-dong Dawn Market.

There were many street vendors selling magic tools.

And there were also merchants selling food, not magic tools.

An appetizing scent tickled his nose.

Minhyuk stopped walking.

There was no rush.

‘I have to stay for a day anyway.’

Sizzle-

Chicken skewers were cooked golden brown over charcoal.

Minhyuk asked the dwarf merchant grilling the skewers.

“How much for one skewer?”

“2 talents. Would you like one?”

The currency unit here was ‘talent’.

Minhyuk pointed to a yellow liquid in a glass cup and asked.

It looked like beer with foam on top.

The water droplets clinging to the glass looked very refreshing.

“How much is a glass of that?”

“Three dalants for a pint of dwarven ale. Would you like a pint as well?”

“I’ll come back later.”

The dwarf made a disappointed expression as Minhyuk turned away after only asking the price.

Minhyuk also wanted to eat skewers and drink ale.

‘I don’t have the money right now.’

Sizzle-

Noodles were being stir-fried on the griddle, giving off a delicious smell.

Minhyuk asked the street vendor cooking the noodles,

“How much is a bowl of noodles?”

“Look at the price list at the back.”

There was a price list hanging up.

There were various kinds of stir-fried noodles.

Among them, a bowl of noodles with clams was 8 dalants.

How much is a bowl of clam noodles these days?

“Would you like a bowl?”

“No, I’ll come back later.”

There was a reason he kept asking for prices and leaving without buying anything.

It was to estimate the cost of living here.

Based on the prices of skewers, ale, and noodles, he decided to think of 1 dalant as being roughly equivalent to 1,000 won in Korea.

‘Then should I start making some money?’

The fastest way to earn dalants was to sell the items in the refrigerator.

He already had some items in mind.

‘I’ll sell the Star Metal.’

Star Metal was probably rare even in the distant past.

As if by coincidence, Minhyuk’s eyes fell upon the signboard of a materials shop.

＜Charles’ Material Shop＞

When he entered the shop, he saw that they sold everything from herbs to animal bones and leather to mineral materials.

“Welcome.”

The shopkeeper looked at Minhyuk’s attire and asked,

“You don’t seem to be from around here. Let me guess! Are you from Bromley?”

Minhyuk had no idea where Bromley was.

However, he didn’t know the names of any other regions in this era, so he just nodded.

“Where in Bromley are you from? My cousin lives there.”

“That··· I’m from a very small village.”

“Where’s that small village?”

The shopkeeper was being unnecessarily persistent.

Minhyuk gave a vague answer.

“You wouldn’t know it even if I told you. It’s that rural.”

“Indeed, there are many small towns in Fromm. I prefer a small countryside like that rather than a big city like this. You can feel the warmth of people living together. It’s my dream to retire and spend my old age in such a place.”

Instead of responding, Minhyeok just grinned and got to the main point.

“I have something I’d like to sell…”

“What have you brought?”

He placed a handful of the metal grains of the star that he was holding in his hand on the table.

The shopkeeper’s eyes widened.

“Oh! So much metal from the star!”

Minhyeok’s eyes sparkled.

Judging from the fact that he was surprised just by seeing this amount, it was obvious that the metal from the star was very precious in this world as well.

“I’ll give you 10,000 dallants!”

Considering 1 dallant to be 1,000 won, 10,000 dallants would be 10 million won.

“Give me 100,000 dallants. Or I’ll go to another shop…”

“Alright!”

The shopkeeper handed Minhyeok ten gold coins.

One gold coin was 10,000 dallants.

He had boldly asked for ten times the amount, but it was accepted without any haggling.

He felt like he had been hit in the back of the head.

But it didn’t matter.

After all, it was a metal from the star that he had created with his cooking skill.

Besides, wasn’t this a world where the same day repeated itself?

He could just ask for a higher price the next time he came.

Minhyeok put the 10,000 dallant coins in the refrigerator.

He wondered what they would turn into.

“Return.”

BAM-

He moved to the underground parking lot with a flash of light.

He opened the refrigerator door.

The 10,000 dallant coins had also turned into bundles of money like the Krone.

‘What’s this?’

They were Euros.

The dallant coins had turned into bundles of 200 Euro notes from the European Union.

The value of a 200 Euro note was much higher than that of a 50,000 won note in Korea.

One bundle was worth about 30 million won in Korean currency.

‘Will I ever have a chance to use Euros?’

BAM-

Minhyeok moved back to the ingredients shop.

“Please come again!”

He left the ingredients shop, seeing the shopkeeper off politely.

And first, he bought some street food.

The grilled skewers and stir-fried noodles were really delicious.

The taste of the dwarven ale he drank while standing by the road was also top-notch.

“Shall I start shopping in earnest now?”

Minhyuk walked around the magic tool shops with light steps.

***

Palace of Dragons,

Creak-

A long crack appeared on the crystal that emitted blue light.

At the same time, it lost its light.

Seeing it, the red dragon opened its mouth.

[Vanak is dead.]

The blue crystal and the Akara Dragon were connected by special sorcery.

The fact that the crystal was broken meant the death of the Akara Dragon.

The red dragon grimaced.

In the end, the Akara Dragon also died without any results, just wasting precious time.

[I should have gone out myself from the beginning.]

Flap, flap-

The red dragon flew up.

And passed through the golden arch and teleported to the snowy field where the magic tower was located.