The Spatial Ability User Who Puts Safety Above All Chapter 85

An Ominous Sign (2)

 

There was only one thing Seon Yul demanded from the Chinese government.

That whenever he carried out the request, all Chinese forces were to withdraw.

Of course, Seon Yul already knew very well that even if he did this, China would still secretly monitor him in some way.

However, the kind of information they could obtain through such surveillance would mostly be things that were already almost entirely known anyway.

So Seon Yul didn’t bother mentioning anything about secret surveillance.

In any case, after finishing their preparations, Seon Yul and Cheon Li Yu immediately began clearing the chain event in Haikou City, and in just four days, they eliminated every gate created by the chain event.

The chain event ended just like that.

But that wasn’t the end.

The two immediately moved to Sichuan Province, and despite even being affected by the ‘Spectator’ debuff, they ended the raid event in just two days.

An overwhelming problem-solving ability.

Both the speed and the results were flawless.

Even the Chinese side, secretly monitoring them, could not determine exactly how AbsoluteSafetyFirst was killing the monsters.

Just as Seon Yul had expected, China really did dispatch several agents to try and uncover AbsoluteSafetyFirst’s secrets, but all they saw was monsters being smashed apart by attacks flying in from somewhere.

Anticipating China’s surveillance, Seon Yul never engaged in close combat with monsters at all.

Instead, he maintained the maximum attack range and eliminated all monsters from a distance.

On top of that, before opening Absolute Space, Cheon Li Yu would always use her Divine Eye to check whether there were any suspicious individuals nearby who might be Chinese agents.

If anyone suspicious was found, they would subdue them all and knock them unconscious, and only then open the entrance to Absolute Space.

Normally, they could have simply eliminated them cleanly before continuing the hunt.

However, since they were searching for all nearby mana users and knocking them out, there was a possibility that some of them were not actually secret agents.

So they compromised by only knocking them unconscious.

In any case, thanks to handling everything so cleanly, Seon Yul and Cheon Li Yu perfectly completed China’s request in just about a week.

And because of this, Seon Yul… no, AbsoluteSafetyFirst, and NoParticularReason became a huge topic of discussion in the community.

 

[AbsoluteSafetyFirst cleaned up China’s chaotic situation in one week. feat (NoParticularReason)]

— You know how China went into chaos recently because the Dimension Management Bureau’s main headquarters and branches were destroyed in terrorist attacks, right? Because of that incident, their gate response capability dropped, and all kinds of events and gates started appearing across China… Well, AbsoluteSafetyFirst cleaned that up neatly in just one week. The Haikou chain event and the Sichuan raid event, which were the hardest for the Chinese government to deal with, were finished in a week. Is this even real?

 

• AbsoluteSafetyFirst’s form is insane!
• The crazy one isn’t Absolute Complete First, it’s AbsoluteSafetyFirst.
• But did China really get attacked by the Old Blood? I heard another rumor…
• I heard that rumor too, but if it were true, then the current situation wouldn’t make sense at all. So I think the rumor is fake.
• Yeah, considering the pride of those Chinese guys, that rumor can’t possibly be true.
• I’m a freelance mana user working in China, and the situation here is still chaotic. AbsoluteSafetyFirst indeed put out the biggest fire quickly, but there are still a lot of fires burning everywhere.
• I can’t even believe the part where the guy above says he’s a freelance mana user working in China.
• There are occasionally mana users in China who aren’t affiliated with the government. But the reason the government leaves them alone is that they’re useless. In other words, the guy above is just a weakling.
• I wonder how much AbsoluteSafetyFirst got paid for solving this?
• Even so, for something like this, he probably got about 500 kg of mid-grade magic stones, right?
• 500 kg? Isn’t that way too much? The average reward for an S-rank request recognized by the World Gate Management Bureau is 100 kg of mid-grade magic stones. Even if you consider this case roughly SS+ rank, 300–400 kg should be enough.
• Look at these guys who can’t even get a 1 kg mid-grade magic stone request in their normal lives, talking about what the proper compensation should be. For special requests like this, the reward is simply whatever both sides agree on. And since China is in a very urgent situation right now, AbsoluteSafetyFirst probably made a huge profit from this request.
• By the way, isn’t NoParticularReason naturally traveling together with AbsoluteSafetyFirst now? Are they a couple?
• Aren’t they both men?
• There’s literally no information about NoParticularReason, so we don’t even know whether they’re male or female.
• Even if they’re both men, they could still be a couple.
• Anyway, with achievements like this, shouldn’t AbsoluteSafetyFirst start getting stars soon? Honestly, it feels like he could even be called the eighth star, not just one of the seven stars.
• AbsoluteSafetyFirst definitely proved he’s amazing against monsters, but his PvP ability against other users hasn’t been confirmed yet. It’s too early to give him a star.
• People always say that. At this point, isn’t his PvP ability obvious? If AbsoluteSafetyFirst fires those trademark long-range attacks, how many mana users could actually withstand them?
• Still, to become a star, he has a few things left to prove. Being a star isn’t a joke… Though I heard Korea has something called the Twelve Heavens. He’d definitely qualify for that.
• You know the first of the Twelve Heavens is also the fifth star among the Seven Stars, right?
• Ah, motherfu- then AbsoluteSafetyFirst just needs to capture Black Mamba, the seventh star and worst criminal, and bring him in. Then I’ll acknowledge him immediately.
• This guy started talking nonsense because he was losing the argument.

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…

 

And naturally, it wasn’t only the community that was in chaos.

China… the very country that had given Seon Yul the request, was also experiencing quite a commotion.

BANG!

Ma Rong, the branch chief of the Liaoning Provincial Branch of the Dimension Management Bureau, slammed the table in front of him and spoke with a furious expression.

“Does this make any sense? Paying 1,200 kg of mid-grade magic stones to the person who launched a devastating attack against us? What kind of ridiculous decision is this?!”

He had been someone who opposed requesting help from AbsoluteSafetyFirst from the very beginning.

When the situation became too urgent, he had reluctantly accepted the majority decision to make the request, but he kept insisting that actually paying the reward should be postponed.

“What’s the point of bringing this up again now that everything is finished? First, we pay him, then we think about revenge later.”

The person opposing Ma Rong was a high-ranking official dispatched by the Chinese government.

His top priority was China’s stability, and he held the attitude that any sacrifice should be accepted for that purpose.

“Is revenge even possible?”

Having received constant reports recently, Ma Rong had begun to feel skeptical about revenge itself.

“We are a great nation, and he is merely an individual belonging to a small country. For now, we are receiving help because we need his abilities, but once everything is resolved and our system stabilizes again… we will punish him first.”

The government official was speaking in a very theoretical and textbook-like manner.

As a high-level mana user, Ma Rong knew very well how unrealistic those words were.

“We still don’t know his identity, his abilities, or even his face. And you’re talking about punishing him later? By the time that ‘later’ comes… won’t we be even more afraid of him instead?”

Ma Rong stated the facts.

Perhaps because of that, the meeting room suddenly became quiet.

In truth, most of the people present in the room agreed with Ma Rong.

However, admitting that was another matter entirely.

Ma Rong was a thorough realist, which was why he dared to say it aloud.

Others couldn’t say it directly even if they agreed, because of their pride.

“An individual cannot defeat a nation. In the end, punishing him is only a matter of time.”

The high-ranking official continued making frustrating statements.

In the end, Ma Rong simply shook his head and gave up on continuing the conversation.

After the main headquarters was destroyed and many high-ranking administrators, including the Director General, were killed, the Dimension Management Bureau suddenly lost its leadership.

So the Chinese government had directly dispatched a high-ranking official to take charge.

And that man was the one currently speaking.

‘It’s over.’

Ma Rong predicted the collapse of the Dimension Management Bureau.

China had already relied more on the quantity of mana users rather than their quality.

If even the command structure fell into disarray like this…

China’s strength could only weaken.

 

***

 

Thanks to extracting a large amount of mid-grade magic stones from China, Seon Yul’s reserves increased dramatically again.

He now possessed roughly 1,500 kg of mid-grade magic stones, so he no longer needed to hesitate when using various abilities.

When China had interfered with him, Seon Yul had been extremely annoyed.

But after punishing them, receiving their humiliating request, and then gaining substantial compensation for solving it, he felt good again.

However, what he thought would be the end of the matter developed in an unexpected direction.

Currently, the number of gates and the frequency of events are increasing simultaneously all around the world.

Because of this, the overwhelming performance shown by Seon Yul and Cheon Li Yu attracted the attention of other countries.

And suddenly…

Requests began flooding in.

“The place with the best reward seems to be Norway, and the lowest difficulty seems to be Japan. It might not be bad to lightly clear the Japanese request first and then go to Norway…”

Seon Yul was discussing the incoming requests with Cheon Li Yu.

“How many requests came in?”

“Right now, there are nine that were delivered through the management bureau, and six that were sent to my community mail.”

“Wow… Do countries usually send this many requests to individuals?”

“National-level requests aren’t very common. Especially cases where a country sends a request to an individual instead of a company or organization… there probably haven’t been any before.”

Even Seon Yul thought the current situation was very unusual.

But he roughly knew why it had happened.

“Right now, gates are appearing everywhere across the world. Most countries can’t properly handle them, so they’re barely holding things together by issuing requests to all kinds of companies, raid teams, and even private contractors.”

Seon Yul began explaining the reason to Cheon Li Yu.

“In the middle of that situation, you and I suddenly appeared. Things are already difficult, and now some people can solve these problems quickly. Of course, requests are going to pour in.”

“Ah…”

Cheon Li Yu nodded as if she finally understood everything.

“But why are so many gates suddenly appearing like this?”

She understood why requests were flooding in, but she was now curious about the root cause itself.

“Well, I don’t know that either. But there’s one thing I’m certain about.”

“What?”

“The System… doesn’t like the current state of Earth.”

Seon Yul believed that if one kept digging deeper, everything would ultimately lead back to the System.

The mastermind behind every incident.

The master of every gate.

And the host of every event.

Because of that, Seon Yul believed the System had created the current situation.

He couldn’t know the exact reason why the System was acting like this.

But if the System continued like this, humanity might face the greatest crisis since the Great Cataclysm.

Of course, humanity had not been idle and had prepared countermeasures.

But in the end, the initiative would inevitably remain in the System’s hands.

It was like a player challenging the administrator of a game.

No matter how high a player’s level was or how powerful their equipment was, they still couldn’t defeat the administrator.

Likewise, no matter how much humanity prepared, it might still be insufficient against the System.

This was the fatal dilemma humanity faced.