Return of the Sword God-Rank Civil Servant novel Chapter 421
It was when Su-ho had just come out of the Bambi Gate.
[ As the Second Great Upheaval begins, the generation of the First Big Gate will commence. ]
The Big Gate notice rose before his eyes.
The timing was, ironically, just so.
“Well, well?”
Seeing the notice, Su-ho tilted his head.
Because the Big Gate that appeared as a System alert was the greatest mid-Upheaval event Su-ho had been waiting for.
“This is coming out already?”
Upon seeing the notice, Su-ho immediately checked the date.
Even after reconfirming through the Library of Memory, it had opened a bit earlier than the time he knew before.
‘Well, sure, that can happen.’
He figured nothing would change drastically just because it came a little early.
Either way, all he had to do was clear it.
Maybe that’s why?
Perhaps because it appeared ahead of schedule, this Big Gate was nothing but welcome to Su-ho.
Because the very first Big Gate slated to be generated this time was one of the “Five Great Calamities” humanity had to clear in his previous life—the “First Calamity-grade Gate.”
‘Finally meeting it.’
The so-called Australia Gate.
Right after he and his comrades cleared the Australia Gate in Australia, Su-ho was betrayed and killed.
So the Australia Gate generated this time was, in many ways, a very meaningful Gate to Su-ho.
Su-ho checked the time.
‘About a month from now.’
A Calamity-grade Gate wasn’t a Calamity-grade Gate from the start.
The term Calamity-grade Gate itself, like Sealed Gates, was a label people attached for convenience.
In that sense, what made a Calamity-grade Gate “Calamity-grade” was that it truly became a “calamity” that threatened the world.
Because a Calamity-grade Gate was, in the first place, a Gate evolved from a Big Gate that had run amok; the rampaging Big Gate kept expanding its territory until, before anyone knew it, it swallowed all of Australia.
After swallowing Australia, it began summoning not only ground-force monsters but also sea-type monsters, thereby threatening nearby New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, and so on.
‘So this time, before it grows to that extent, we prune the branches in advance and reduce the Gate’s scale.’
This was the sure-win strategy that applied to all Calamity-grade Gates, not just the first one—the Australia Gate.
That’s why he was confident he could put an end to every Calamity-grade Gate by himself.
If you cut its power early from the moment a Big Gate starts winding up to form, then by the time the Big Gate truly makes its grand open, it should be perfectly doable to solo-clear it.
Su-ho immediately summoned Cheolma.
“Cheolma.”
“Neigh!”
“This time, it’s Australia.”
“Neigh!”
In any case, there wasn’t all that much he could do even if he went to Australia right this instant.
But since the schedule had been moved up, he needed to at least check things with his own eyes once before taking the full steps.
‘Just in case.’
With Su-ho mounted, Cheolma kicked through the air and surged forward.
*
“Good call. I was going to contact you about that anyway.”
“Yes, I’m in Australia right now.”
“Yep, Australia.”
Somewhere in Australia.
The moment he arrived in Australia, Su-ho called Jeong Cheol-min right away.
Fortunately, perhaps because Korea’s communications network had already been restored early, the call went through.
From the other end of the receiver, Jeong Cheol-min’s flustered voice poured out like a machine gun.
“As if. I came to Australia because of the Big Gate.”
He had just received a direct call from the UN Player Organization’s director.
In other words, even from a global perspective, Jeong Cheol-min had learned unusually fast that Mana was abnormally converging in Australia—news hot off the press in Korea.
And yet Su-ho was already in Australia.
He thought there was no way this could be a coincidence.
“Yes. This is what I couldn’t tell you.”
“I’ll make it so they come on their own.”
“You’ll see in time. I guarantee it’ll be more influential than the UN’s Player organization.”
He’d said it like a joke, but Jeong couldn’t take it as one at all.
And the same went for Su-ho.
He’d said it with a joking nuance, but it wasn’t a joke.
‘Since ancient times, people flock where power and honor gather.’
Jeong nodded.
“Thank you.”
“Wow, you got promoted to department head and your gag sense got promoted too?”
“Save the World.”
“Let’s save the world. Save the World. Abbreviated STW? Nothing else really «N.o.v.e.l.i.g.h.t» came to mind.”
“I don’t care. We’ll be more famous anyway. And frankly, I’m not founding it to get famous. I’m founding it to save the world.”
“Yep, I’m counting on you.”
“As expected of you, sir.”
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