I Got an Ex-Class Omnipotent System - Chapter 95

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Chapter 95
95: Hidden Conditions (1)
Clatter, clatter.
The wheels of the carriage rolling down the unpaved road made a loud noise, but the horses pulling it paid little attention, straining forward in the direction the coachman guided them.
And the coachman leading that carriage was none other than.
“So you’re Dohyun, and you’re Hanalin?”
“Yes. Though I’m not entirely certain of my own name either.”
“Sigh.”
Dohyun, managing both the party members who had lost their memories and the horses themselves.
Being the only one with intact memories among two amnesiac party members proved far more troublesome than expected.
Whether it was because Dohyun lacked emotional depth or simply didn’t dwell on such matters, the annoyance far outweighed any sadness or sentimental thoughts.
From the start, he’d been at a loss for how to convince two colleagues who couldn’t remember him when they suspected him. He was grateful they’d both calmed down and accepted they were comrades now, at least.
‘Or could they be pretending to follow me?’
As Dohyun drove the carriage and glanced back with that nagging thought, he saw both of them flinch at the ominous feeling and sit down obediently.
Looking at this, it seemed identical to how they were before losing their memories. Of course, only Dohyun didn’t know that instinctive perception born from human survival instinct had nothing to do with memory.
In any case, once the two sensed Dohyun’s discomfort and sat quietly while watching for his mood, he turned his attention away from them as he continued pulling the carriage.
He didn’t know what to talk about with two people who’d lost their memories anyway.
Watching Dohyun, Hanalin thought to herself.
‘I understand we’re comrades, but it’s strange.’
She sensed his mood and felt some unease, but it wasn’t an unpleasant feeling.
Hanalin then looked at Jiyuchan, who was riding with her in the cargo section. When confused and amnesiac, she’d distinguished between Dohyun and Jiyuchan as the less handsome man and the handsome man, but now that she thought about it.
‘He’s oddly irritating.’
There was something oddly infuriating about looking at Jiyuchan.
It was the same even now.
“Hmm, Jiyuchan. Something about my name doesn’t sit right. Is it really my name?”
Hanalin responded somewhat dismissively, watching Jiyuchan spout his strange nonsense.
“Usually people don’t call themselves by their own name, so it makes sense it doesn’t feel right. You don’t speak about yourself in the third person like that, do you?”
“…I suppose that’s true.”
And his quick agreement only irritated her more.
While Hanalin was getting annoyed with Jiyuchan, Dohyun listened to their conversation while driving the carriage, internally lamenting that he shouldn’t have listened in the first place.
‘Still, if they just have their memories, it’s an easy condition.’
Should I call it a sweet deal?
Expecting the reward to be enormous, Dohyun continued driving the horses forward. While driving the horses and escorting the carriage might be difficult conditions, if they just had their memories, it didn’t seem like it would be a particularly hard dungeon.
After all, the condition was simple—just deliver the cargo by carriage.
Though ten years had passed, there had been requests to do it immediately, so without the amnesia subordinates, it would have been a fairly easy dungeon.
Until now.
‘They’re coming.’
Dohyun thought that far and sensed those within his detection range gathering around the carriage. His detection range remained at 200 meters, unchanged from before, but he could see things more clearly now.
As he sensed those gathering to attack the carriage, Dohyun tried to stand up but felt something strange.
The attackers had a clear system.
Thinking of monsters that lacked the intelligence to cooperate to this degree, even if they possessed some form of cognition, I tilted my head in confusion.
‘These aren’t monsters.’
While I sensed something amiss, Jiyuchan remained somewhat dulled by the lingering fog of lost memories, but Hanalin was different.
Observing my unease, Hanalin stepped forward and asked me directly.
“Are they enemies?”
“Yeah, seems like it.”
“…Enemies?”
I answered Hanalin’s question, and Jiyuchan reacted belatedly. Though his response came late, he was the first to prepare for combat, drawing his blade, while Hanalin also summoned her mana.
Despite his lost memories, he employed the subtlety of concealment, suppressing his aura and waiting. The moment the attackers entered both Hanalin and Jiyuchan’s detection range, Jiyuchan moved first.
As Jiyuchan descended lightly from the carriage, the thickets on both sides of the narrow path rustled slightly at the sight of him launching forward. Jiyuchan immediately kicked the ground toward that direction.
Boom———!
The instant his foot touched the earth, the ground inverted and Jiyuchan was launched forward. In a flash, he reached their position, and his eyes flickered momentarily.
The attackers weren’t monsters but Birdmen, so for a moment I wondered if they were the villagers who had hired us, but they were clearly different.
While the village had various Birdmen, there were no Reptilian Humanoids among them. Yet here, there were only Reptilian Humanoids.
Jiyuchan made this judgment swiftly and acted. Yet his arms moved too fast to see, and by the time his shoulders shifted, golden trajectories were already etched through the air. Following those arcs, the Reptilian Humanoids’ heads rolled across the ground.
Thud, thud-thud.
Tumble—.
The heads of five Reptilian Humanoids on the right rolled across the ground in one stroke, while those on the left rolled intact across the ground with small holes bored through their skulls.
At such swift dispatch, I thought: combat skills remain unchanged, then.
‘At least he still fights well.’
Still, I was grateful he now followed orders. I descended from the carriage to examine the attackers. Though they weren’t monsters, corpses in the Black Gate typically vanished within moments—a defining characteristic of this place—so I wanted to observe them before they disappeared.
While examining the Reptilian Humanoids’ bodies, I noticed something odd.
It was conceivable that NPCs, rather than monsters, would attack us.
One could assume this dungeon operated on such a concept, but the problem was—
“Is something wrong?”
As I stared at the fallen Reptilian Humanoids’ corpses with an unsettling sensation, Hanalin approached and asked.
I considered whether it was wise to explain to someone with lost memories, but since Hanalin’s knowledge remained intact, I didn’t deliberate long before speaking.
“Ah, the bodies aren’t disappearing.”
“…?”
“…?”
“Bodies… aren’t supposed to disappear, are they?”
But Hanalin instead looked at me as though my words were strange, questioning me in return.
Hearing Hanalin’s response, I finally recalled the amnesia, and with a desolate feeling, I wiped my face with my hand.
I never knew memory loss could be this frustrating, but well, it happens.
Since I was the one who entered this place, I considered it all my own karma. Nodding, I explained.
“Right. But inside the Black Gate, bodies normally disappear. Right now, they’re not disappearing.”
I didn’t explain at length, but I had already outlined the general situation as we traveled here.
Since I had already told her this was a dungeon within the Black Gate and that I lost my memories because of a subordinate here, Hanalin could understand my words.
Because of this, a question occurred to Hanalin.
“But you said this is a dungeon, right? Connected within the Black Gate.”
“Yeah, that’s right.”
“So if we came from Earth where we originally lived to the Black Gate, and then entered a place called a dungeon by passing through the gate, wouldn’t the dungeon be outside the Black Gate rather than inside it?”
“…What?”
Dohyun blinked at Hanalin’s perspective—one he hadn’t considered before—and she carefully elaborated on her theory.
“Well, I don’t remember everything, but when I look at the Black Gate, I understand that awakened Hunters entered a different dimension inside the Black Gate. Within that Black Gate, dungeons appear in the form of doors, and when you open them, you enter the dungeon. So logically, if we entered inside the Black Gate and opened a door, wouldn’t this place be outside?”
It was a sufficiently compelling argument.
Hadn’t Dohyun previously wondered if dungeons might be simulated worlds? This was an extension of that line of thinking.
If he had opened a door inside the Black Gate and entered the dungeon, it remained unclear whether the dungeon existed within the Black Gate’s interior or if they had been transported to another place connected to the Black Gate. Yet Dohyun could grasp the implications immediately.
[Analyzing the identity of the dungeon—the 『Distorted Fragment of the Black Door』.]
[Successfully analyzed the identity of the 『Distorted Fragment of the Black Door』.]
[This place is like the lingering echo of a world that has already perished.]
[As you realized before, it can be called a space similar to a simulation.]
As Analysis kindly provided this information, Dohyun pressed further with another question.
‘Analyze whether this place is inside or outside the Black Gate.’
Dohyun’s will set Analysis in motion, and as it activated, an unexpected message appeared.
[Analyzing the world within the 『Distorted Fragment of the Black Door』.]
[Analysis failed.]
[Your ability is still insufficient.]
‘Hmm.’
Dohyun frowned at the message, which suggested he had obtained an important keyword nonetheless.
Though the analysis had failed, there was definitely a hint embedded within it.
He had naturally assumed this place was inside the Black Gate, but perhaps…
‘Could it be a place that perished while connected to the Black Gate?’
As he pondered this, Dohyun suddenly recalled the three previous civilizations of humanity that had already perished, and he nodded to himself.
He had only known they perished due to a calamity of destruction. With no other clues, he had simply left it alone, but now Dohyun realized he had obtained a rather significant lead.
‘If I keep clearing dungeons, I might be able to uncover why humanity perished.’
He had taken one more step toward the truth.
Though his goal was vaguely to grow stronger, hadn’t he already learned quite a lot?
That all the previous civilizations of humanity had perished, and that his own might face the same fate.
Since Dohyun aimed to become the strongest Hunter, this was naturally a responsibility that came with it.
‘I need to gradually learn more about the Black Gate.’
After all, Earth could follow the same path to destruction, so he had to prepare somehow. Dohyun organized his thoughts up to this point.
“Did something go wrong?”
Seeing Hanalin speak with a slightly worried expression, Dohyun shook his head.
“No, something was bothering me, but it’s resolved now.”
Setting aside thoughts of the Black Gate for now, Dohyun examined the corpses of the Reptilian Humanoids once more.

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