Level 4 Human in a Ruined World - Chapter 3
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Episode 3 1. The Chaebol Transform into Dragons (3)
“Th-this is the Exchange Office?”
“Where on earth did it fall from…?”
The moment the Exchange Office crashed into the ground, the reactions of the frontrunners were mixed.
People looking up at the sky with anxious eyes.
People backing away with terrified faces.
And…
Thud.
Someone boldly starting to walk straight toward the Exchange Office.
The latter were a very small minority, but Young-woo belonged to this group.
“…”
Forcing his legs, stiff with fear, to move forward.
‘The world has been reset, but not everyone’s abilities have been reset. In terms of physical capabilities, I’m completely in the bottom tier… I’m destined to be part of the vulnerable class.’
It was a fact he had realized when he fell behind in the running just moments ago.
In a world where dragons and Quests exist, what would be the most important ability? It would undoubtedly be physical capabilities.
Moreover, as if to prove this, the first Quest even had first-come-first-served rewards.
If the appearance of the Exchange Office hadn’t overwhelmed the crowd, the quick-footed would have already claimed the rewards.
‘But I still have a chance.’
Young-woo continued moving forward, seeing that those who had overtaken him were still unable to move.
…Wooong.
…Wooong.
As the distance to the Exchange Office narrowed to within 20 meters, the intensity of the light and vibrations it emitted grew stronger.
And along with this, other information seeped into Young-woo’s mind.
First, the Exchange Office does not attack humans.
Second, it will remain here for about two hours before disappearing.
Third, placing your palm on the surface of the Exchange Office will begin the exchange.
It felt as if he was recalling facts he had known for a long time.
‘…?’
Young-woo felt mystified by this strange experience but continued moving forward.
And finally.
“…Phew.”
He stood before the Exchange Office, which vibrated more intensely as if welcoming him.
…Wooong!
…Wooong!
A surface of perfect black, its material impossible to determine.
Despite the high sun shooting down sunlight, this strange object neither reflected nor transmitted light.
It was blatantly revealing that it was not of this world.
“…”
Young-woo carefully extended his hand and made contact with the Exchange Office.
Touch.
Cold.
And a solid texture like touching marble was felt across his entire palm.
It was after this that a new interface appeared before Young-woo’s eyes.
Flash!
「Resident information has been registered.」
|Name: Jung Young-woo07
|Role: Undetermined
|Active Benefits: [Tax Deduction – Single Household]
‘Tax… Deduction?’
Now Young-woo even felt grateful that Bong-hee had died in front of him.
If he hadn’t experienced that, he would never have taken such a profile seriously.
‘Should I understand this as a kind of status window?’
Young-woo carefully examined his resident information.
Seeing that the number 07 was attached after the name Jung Young-woo, it seemed that.
‘It means I’m the seventh Jung Young-woo nationwide to register resident information.’
In other words, there were six other Jung Young-woos who were particularly brave or reckless.
Young-woo, immersed in a strange feeling, examined the Tax Deduction item, which was his only benefit.
|Active Benefits: [Tax Deduction – Single Household]
He had no objection to the diagnosis of being a single household.
He had been abandoned in front of an orphanage as a baby and didn’t know who his parents were, so he had no siblings either.
‘But being eligible for tax deduction as a single household means someone is taking taxes anyway.’
With even the president dissolved and gone, who on earth would be collecting taxes?
While Young-woo was having such doubts, the resident information screen disappeared and new text appeared.
「Exchange will begin.」
「10,000 Karma per remaining Karma Point will be provided in coin form.」
Karma.
It was probably the new currency used in the reset world.
‘As expected…!’
Young-woo felt a subtle excitement upon confirming that remaining points were indeed the exchange target, as expected.
|Worker Jung Young-woo07 possesses 3 Karma Points.
|30,000 Karma will be provided through exchange. Please prepare.
‘Prepare? For what…?’
The moment Young-woo tilted his head after seeing the guidance text.
Clink.
A sound like coins rolling came from inside the Exchange Office…
Clatter!
Suddenly, dozens of crimson coins poured out all at once.
“Uh…!”
He reflexively extended both hands, but catching all the coins was nearly impossible.
Ting, ping! Ping!
Eventually, more than ten coins escaped Young-woo’s hands and fell to the ground, soon bouncing in all directions with loud noises.
‘…Oh no.’
However, the ‘accident’ didn’t end there.
While Young-woo was frantically searching the ground with a flustered face, a familiar sound came from the opposite side of the Exchange Office.
Clink.
Someone else assigned to the same Exchange Office as Young-woo had also started exchanging from the other side.
“Ah, be careful!”
Young-woo tried to warn him, but it was already too late.
Clatter!
A much larger amount of coins than when Young-woo used it spilled out of the Exchange Office, and soon someone’s panicked voice flowed from the other side of the exchange.
“Huh?”
Then the figure of the person on the opposite side, who had been hidden by the large Exchange Office, was revealed.
“S-sorry! This is, well…!”
The other person was a large young man, and as soon as he saw some of his coins mixing with Young-woo’s, he quickly apologized.
Meanwhile, Young-woo noticed he was wearing a police uniform and picked up a few coins that had rolled to his feet and handed them over.
“These… rolled all the way over here.”
“Ah, thank you!”
At the sight of the young man repeatedly bowing his head, Young-woo let his guard down for a moment.
For some reason, he felt like he was facing a good person.
But that was only for a moment.
Soon a fierce and massive presence swept over both of them as well as everyone in the exchange area.
Thud thud thud thud…!
The ‘latecomers’ who had been watching the situation from afar saw the coins spilling out and began running over belatedly.
“They said it was an Exchange Office, but they’re really giving out money?”
“Oh my god.”
“They’re just scattered all over the ground?”
It was a fact everyone knew that the reset had made existing currency useless.
Because of this, those now running toward the Exchange Office were completely out of their minds.
‘Crazy. I need to hurry.’
Young-woo, sensing that the area would soon become chaos, picked up the remaining coins from the ground.
And what he realized during this process was that these crimson coins, roughly the size of 500-won coins, were worth 1,000 Karma each.
When he collected all the scattered coins around him, there were exactly 30.
Clink.
‘It would have been really troublesome without a bag.’
Young-woo, who was pouring the coins filling both hands into his backpack, suddenly remembered the police officer from earlier and looked up.
Glance.
Sure enough, he saw the police officer desperately stuffing coins into his pants and jacket pockets.
The amount of Karma he had exchanged was too much, so even using both hands, he couldn’t pick it all up.
Thud thud thud thud…!
Meanwhile, the latecomers had approached within arm’s reach.
With their eyes fixed on the dozens of coins scattered around the police officer.
‘At this rate, there’s no answer. They’ll steal everything right before his eyes.’
Young-woo saw that there was no more space in the police officer’s pockets and shouted loudly.
“It’s too late! Give up on the rest!”
“B-but…!”
The police officer belatedly grasped the situation after hearing Young-woo’s words, but couldn’t readily leave.
He had regrets. There were far too many coins scattered on the ground.
So in the end.
“Waaaaah!”
He was ultimately overwhelmed by the latecomers who had rushed to the front of the Exchange Office.
Thump, thump!
They were called ‘latecomers,’ but they were essentially no different from street robbers.
They deliberately started physical fights to try to steal money.
“W-wait a moment!”
The police officer, whose pockets were obviously full of coins, was targeted as the top priority.
Dozens of people swarmed the police officer, shoving their hands into his pockets, while those intimidated by his size and uniform started picking up money from the ground first.
‘…Good lord.’
Young-woo, who had escaped the scene early, wasn’t safe either.
No, there was no safe zone to begin with.
Similar incidents were happening at other Exchange Offices that had appeared everywhere.
‘There’s no escape route.’
Everywhere he looked was a robbery scene.
And soon those robbers came running at Young-woo too.
“Hyaaaah!”
Unlike the police officer who had to face dozens of people, only four or five men attached themselves to Young-woo.
However, for Young-woo, who wasn’t large in build and wasn’t strong, the pressure from being outnumbered was enormous.
“You fucking bastards!”
On top of that.
Thud!
When the person behind him pulled as if to tear off his backpack, he even felt an emotion close to mortal fear.
“Ugh…!”
It was a backpack containing his entire fortune, wasn’t it?
Yank!
His body was pulled violently once more.
Enraged by this, Young-woo twisted his upper body as much as possible to look back at the problematic opponent.
Then, as if waiting for this moment, a fist drove into his face.
Thwack!
The robbers were equally desperate.
They had to quickly snatch the backpack before other guys attached themselves.
“Ugh!”
As Young-woo groaned in pain and curled up his body, the people surrounding him thought this:
If they beat him up just a little more, he would probably give up the backpack.
Thwack!
The second attack that followed without fail struck between Young-woo’s right ear and cheek.
“Kugh!”
Along with the dull impact sound, something like tinnitus rang in his ear, and at the same time he felt the strength drain completely from both legs.
Since this was the first time he had been beaten like this by others, he really couldn’t collect himself.
And even during this, people continued to cling to him trying to remove his backpack.
“No! If I lose even that…!”
When Young-woo squirmed and resisted, someone outside his field of vision mercilessly twisted his arm.
Crack.
It was pressure that clearly conveyed the intention of not caring whether his arm broke or not.
‘At this rate, it’ll really break.’
Would he just become penniless, or would he become both penniless and disabled?
‘Ah.’
Just as the dejected Young-woo was about to give up his backpack.
Flash!
The Quest text that had been stuck in one corner of his vision disappeared and new text appeared.
【Quest Complete – “New Life”】
【Reward Granted】
|Basic Living Funds
|First-Come-First-Served Reward
Then a bright red warning message crossed his vision.
|You are a first-come-first-served reward recipient.
|Prepare yourself.
‘Prepare…?’
Young-woo now felt a chill in his chest just from seeing the word “prepare.”
When he had seen the instruction to prepare before, the Exchange Center had suddenly spewed out coins.
And this time.
Swooooosh!
With a sharp sound cutting through the air, something shot down from high above in the sky.
‘What is that?’
Young-woo, who was now lying on the ground being beaten, barely managed to open one eye and look up at the sky.
And then he saw it.
The sight of a sword plummeting straight down toward him.
“…!”
It was moving at such lightning speed that by the time he recognized what was happening, the sword had already reached its destination.
Right next to Young-woo’s right hand that was pressed against the ground.
Ting!
When the 80-centimeter metal blade suddenly fell from the sky, everyone stopped moving.
“Uh…?”
“Wh-what is that.”
“Huh.”
And for good reason, because it wasn’t just one sword that had fallen.
Swooooosh!
Swoooosh!
With only slight time differences, everyone who had achieved the first-come-first-served condition received a sword without exception.
Ting, ting, ting!
Silver trajectories shot down at every spot where people had gathered—at least one, and up to three at most.
‘Two, three, seven… ten… roughly about ten people.’
Young-woo estimated the number of ‘frontrunners’ from the landing sounds of the swords he had just heard.
And then.
Grab!
He picked up his sword faster than anyone else.
Ruined World’s Grade 4 Human (Serial)
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