You Didn’t Tell Me the Start of My Transmigration Was a Gate - Chapter 369



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Special Extra Episode 8

Chapter: The Forgotten World

Exactly.

A refreshing sound was heard as water droplets fell from the ceiling and joined the puddle below.

I glanced at it once and then turned my head straight ahead again.

I don’t know how far I’ve come down. The spiral staircase was so long that I lost track of time.

When we raised our heads, the door we had come through seemed far away.

“How far down does this have to go…?”

Looking down, there was endless darkness. As if recognizing the movement of people, the lights turned on one by one as I went down the stairs.

So, down there, even with the eyes of a hunter who was excellent at reading the darkness, there was nothing to be seen.

“Don’t you feel anything?”

When I turned around and asked Lee Yun-woo, he also shrugged his shoulders.

“There doesn’t seem to be any traps. It’s just a normal staircase. There are just strange patterns carved on the side.”

“I didn’t know there was such a deep basement under my house. It wouldn’t collapse because the ground is weak, right?”

“Does that matter now?”

It doesn’t matter, of course. It’s not like I’m going to find an unprecedented A-class item, but it’s my home that I finally built.

As I nodded as if it was obvious, Lee Woon-woo looked at me with a tired face.

“But be careful. The concentration of magic power increases as you go down. It feels like there’s something down here.”

“okay.”

Yes. You can’t let your guard down.

I slowly started walking again. I must have walked like that for a long time. Something caught my eye in the darkness.

“It’s a door.”

It seemed like Lee Woon-woo also noticed my muttering.

We stood in front of it. It looked like a large iron gate, but there was no lock or anything to be seen.

“Can I open it?”

“Wait a minute. Do you know what that door is?”

Lee Yun-woo opened his eyes sharply.

“There’s an unusual magical energy flowing through this door. This door… This door itself is either an item, or a path leading to an item.”

“Either way, we have to open it first.”

Lee Yun-woo couldn’t readily answer my question.

“It would be okay if it were you and me, but….”

“If the head of the headquarters were out of contact for even an hour, there would be chaos. If something happens, other people will come looking for me.”

Lee Yun-woo nodded, saying that was true. Yes. We had come this far, so we couldn’t just go back.

“good.”

Lee Yun-woo spread out a magic circle and seemed to leave a trace of something. It was a method he often used to leave messages for hunters who followed him.

“Let’s go and see.”

At Lee Yun-woo’s words, I immediately grabbed the doorknob.

And then rattle!

Kookookookookook… .

The iron door opened tightly, boasting its heavy weight. At the same time, the letters on the wall began to emit a soft light.

I felt like my body was floating.

“Hansuhha!”

I reached out my hand in the direction where I could hear Lee Yun-woo’s voice. It was too bright to see his face, but I felt a hand grabbing me tightly.

“Hold on tight!”

When situations like this arise, it is essential for hunters to stick together so as not to scatter.

Phew!

Light engulfed us with a huge roar.

I had no choice but to say that.

The next moment I opened my eyes, I was staring at an absurd notification.

[Notice: ‘Mirror of Memory’ reads the memories of the individual ‘Hanseoha (Awakened)’.]

[Notice: The world is being rebuilt.]

[Notice: You have encountered the ‘Forgotten World’.]

Mirror of Memory? Forgotten World?

I had no idea what the sudden alarms meant.

The only worlds I know are Earth and Toluk. Could it be that Toluk has reappeared? But Edmund saw it until the end… .

It was a time when complicated thoughts were clouding my mind.

“…what’s this.”

Lee Yun-woo’s absentminded voice rang in my ears. He must have seen the same alarm as me, but it seemed like he looked around before panicking.

‘Come to think of it.’

The surroundings had completely changed. Well, I had half expected it when I opened the door and was swept away by the light.

We were no longer in that dark basement.

A cool breeze tickled my cheek. The smell of sand brushing my nose was very familiar. Collapsed buildings, broken shop windows, and empty roads spread out before my eyes.

It felt strangely familiar.

“This place is definitely….”

Lee Yun-woo also felt the same way, muttering as if he was curious. Those square buildings are far from Toluk’s.

These were the buildings of the Earth.

A white cloud of sand is rising, the sun is shining brightly in the sky, but there is no one walking around.

The shopping district was completely robbed, with items strewn across the floor, abandoned cars and bloodstains everywhere.

I knew where this was.

It was a problem because I knew too well.

My fingertips were trembling. It felt as if I had come back to my hometown. I covered my mouth with my sleeve and lowered my body. It was a posture I had taken instinctively before I could even think about anything.

Lee Yun-woo continued speaking.

“…It’s like a destroyed Earth.”

That wasn’t entirely wrong, because at one time, humanity was in such a desperate situation.

I swallowed hard.

‘… This is the world before regression.’

The place where I originally was. A world that no longer exists as time was turned back by Kronos.

Lee Woon-woo and I arrived in that ‘forgotten world’.

“Ha. I don’t know what this is, but for now, let’s wait here for rescue….”

Lee Woon-woo, who had brought up the subject, suddenly froze. I, too, felt the presence of the person who had suddenly appeared.

Crunch.

A familiar sound came from behind me.

“Shapeshifter? Or maybe a spy for the United Nations?”

The voice was a little lower than it is now, and it was cold and frozen. The tone of voice was overbearing and seemed to be suppressing the other person.

Even without turning around, the other person’s appearance was clear as a painting. The stiff lips were stubborn, and a cold air was seeping from his face.

Tae will be born more mature than I am now. Above all, the scar on his chin will add a fierce impression.

That was me.

To be exact, me before regression.

“Either way, you picked the wrong opponent.”

Before my regression, my old self gave me some cold advice.

“If you thought you couldn’t kill me just because I have your face on, you’re sorely mistaken.”

It seems like there was a big misunderstanding. It’s clear that no one will listen to my excuses in this state.

Then is there only one way left? I muttered quietly.

“Lee Yun-woo.”

I must have wondered what was going on when I suddenly called out the name of the guild leader of the building. But it seemed that Lee Woon-woo on this side, not Lee Woon-woo on your side, understood my signal perfectly.

Phage crackle!

“…?!”

I, before returning, took a big step back at the lightning spear that came up from the ground. I didn’t miss the gap and pulled out my note while increasing distance.

Crunch.

They aim their guns at each other in exactly the same posture and appearance.

When I confirmed that even the notes were exactly the same, I frowned slightly before the regression.

“… I can’t believe you’re even doing this. Doing something so shameless in the United Nations.”

It’s a more reasonable inference that it was Camelot’s doing rather than the Shapeshifter’s. Lee Woon-woo still seemed not to understand what was going on.

“What is this? A gate? But didn’t the gate disappear when Toluk disappeared?”

“It’s not a gate.”

I whispered calmly.

“then?”

“Maybe, in my memory.”

“what?”

This world… literally disappeared from everyone’s memory. Occasionally, there were those who recalled fragments of the past as an aftereffect of the long war, but that was it.

I’m sure the only ones who remember this world so completely are me and the constellations.

Since the thing buried in my basement is probably not a constellation, there is only one possibility left. It is an item that creates a space based on the memories of others.

‘This is an item that can create such a large and wide space. It might not be an A-class item, but an S-class.’

As he was thinking about such things, Lee Woon-woo once again made a face of utter bewilderment.

“…Your memory, you say? This is it?”

“It’s just a hypothesis, though.”

“Then who is that person who looks exactly like you?”

“Well.”

Could it be me in my memories? Looking back, it feels refreshing. I thought that I had become quite lax through regression.

Is that fierce, frosty face really mine?

“… … I didn’t know there were two Awakened Ones in the United Nations.”

Before the regression, I looked at myself and Yunwoo Lee, who were whispering, and made a strange expression. It seemed like I was thinking something like, ‘Why that guy?’

As someone who had not returned, this was absurd. It wasn’t Pyo Yeon-won or Hye-won, but out of nowhere, Lee Woon-woo.

Before returning, Lee Yun-woo and I had been at odds politically several times, and it was known that we were not on good terms. In reality, we did not have a very friendly relationship.

“Even if I tell you it’s not your fault, you won’t listen.”

“Is there anyone who would be fooled by those words?”

“Then there is only one way left.”

I played a whirlwind with my hands. My eyes widened in disbelief at the gestures that were exactly the same as mine before I returned.

“I have no choice but to knock you down and prove that I am real.”

“under.”

Before my regression, I raised one side of my mouth slightly.

It must have sounded like an endlessly absurd thing. Because before I returned, I was an unrivaled and overwhelming hunter.

It is not an opponent that can be touched by the likes of the United Nations’ henchmen.

Camelot’s ability was only a copy of the external appearance. Copying the ability was a separate area.

But it was ridiculous for me to shout that I would overcome myself.

“If you can, try it.”

So, that arrogant declaration also has its reasons.

Of course, things are a bit different in front of me.

I didn’t say that the beginning of the regression was the gate.