The Tone-Deaf Healer Kills with a Song - Chapter 162

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Tone-Deaf Healer Kills with Song – Episode 162
With that deep voice as the final anchor, I returned to reality.
I had only glimpsed someone’s memories for a brief moment, yet even that left my stomach churning with unease.
It seemed like knowledge far too vast for me to comprehend.
I pressed my forehead and took a light survey of my surroundings.
“Ye-ah, are you alright?”
“Oh, senior.”
Jung Hwan-jae, standing with an expression of fatigue similar to my own, approached with concern.
Had he witnessed a similar scene to what I had seen?
“What did you see?”
“I glimpsed the circumstances leading up to Lucy becoming an Assigned Staff Member.”
It seemed he had obtained information about Lucy rather than Liri.
[Liri: I’ll only open my memories to my Awakener. They’ll share memories and experiences related to their own Assigned Staff Member.]
Only after regaining some composure could I properly observe my surroundings.
Sung Ji-wook stood waiting, watching us with a slightly puzzled expression.
“Why are you both so disoriented? What did you see?”
From his reaction, it appeared he hadn’t accessed the kind of substantive memories that Jung Hwan-jae and I had witnessed.
A privilege and truth granted only to us.
Then we bore the responsibility of conveying that truth.
Jung Hwan-jae quickly composed himself.
I had considered using a healing spell to improve my condition, but there wasn’t even time for that.
He discreetly pressed a soothing potion into my hand.
Sensing his silent warning not to use healing magic while in poor condition, I drank the potion without complaint.
“What exactly did you both see that’s left you like this? How did you access this information? Give me a summary.”
“What did you see?”
Sung Ji-wook gave a light shrug in response to Jung Hwan-jae’s counter-question.
“Generally, traces of these calamities all converge in one place. So if you gather them all and then resolve it, you can handle it.”
His words weren’t wrong.
But he seemed unable to reach the specific information that a second calamity would occur.
Access to and retrieval of information is sometimes cruel in how it discriminates based on the recipient’s qualifications.
Those who are stronger receive more information and can reach closer to the truth.
[Liri: It’s cruel, but that’s the most efficient method we have to prevent all calamities.]
[Liri: However, generally those with righteous and powerful souls awaken as strong Awakeners, so there are almost no cases where great damage occurs because of this.]
‘Righteous and powerful souls?’
[Liri: Not everyone’s nature can be righteous. The standards of good and evil differ from world to world.]
[Liri: But in every world, the strongest and most willing to confront calamity become the most powerful Awakeners.]
[Liri: Fortunately, Earth defines such individuals as righteous.]
[Liri: The purpose of Baldur and the Valkyrie Network’s existence is to defend against Ragnarok. We don’t grant that much power to those who would accelerate it.]
Even if someone of considerable strength harbors ill intent, an even stronger Awakener emerges to counter it.
That seemed to be the principle of Awakening he described, the reason for Baldur’s existence, and the logic by which the world operated.
“Researcher Harp, did you not find anything?”
Harp, who had been watching us with arms crossed, gave a light shrug.
“I didn’t search.”
“What? Why not?”
“Just because. The two top-ranked hunters are already searching anyway, so I didn’t see the point. There’s no chance I’d find more than they would.”
“So what does that make me for searching?”
“A hunter who searched.”
Harp exchanged light banter with Sung Ji-wook, who seemed somewhat miffed for some reason, while observing us.
“Since Hunter Sung Ji-wook has done his best to gather and report the information, I think it would be good for you two to share what you found as well.”
“…Hmm.”
Of course, I intended to share what I had discovered.
But speaking first felt somewhat burdensome.
I glanced back at Jung Hwan-jae, and he nodded before stepping forward.
“Realistically, that magical energy and traces will concentrate toward Korea’s Ragnarok region. Things in other countries will gradually diminish and eventually disappear.”
“So Korea has to handle all of it alone?”
Harp’s expression, which had been exchanging light jokes with Sung Ji-wook until then, gradually grew serious.
It was too heavy a matter to brush aside easily. Korea bearing the brunt of everything alone.
Though before becoming a researcher, Harp had been an active hunter clearing dungeons back then.
“I haven’t directly experienced Ragnarok, and I know the magical energy remaining on this land won’t be much now.”
“The Gate will open again.”
Feeling this might be the only moment to speak of it, I interjected abruptly.
I had only said “Gate,” but everyone understood what that meant.
“Ragnarok will open again?”
“More precisely, the Second Ragnarok.”
Everyone in the room fell silent as if their words had been stolen.
As if hoping I would say it was all a joke.
Only Jung Hwan-jae nodded in acknowledgment.
It was an undeniable fact.
Not merely a gate, but a colossal Gate that had once turned an entire world upside down would appear again.
“But it will be different this time.”
As I spoke as if mediating the situation, Harp released a long sigh.
“It’s true there are stronger hunters now and the system is more established than before. But we can’t think of Ragnarok as an easy dungeon.”
“After all, the survivors from the first Ragnarok can be counted on one hand.”
Sung Ji-wook’s face darkened considerably.
Though he had been carrying himself with composure until now, even he seemed to shrink before the calamity called Ragnarok.
“What has changed is not just us, but the Gate as well.”
“What do you mean the Gate has changed too?”
“Through this search function, I witnessed calamities not just from Earth, but from other worlds as well.”
What Baldur called “Ragnarok”—a kind of catastrophic phenomenon.
Different worlds had given it different names, but the manifestations were similar.
The first catastrophe to annihilate an entire world descends, and the beings living in that land awaken as Awakened Ones while resolving it.
And the remnants left behind in the world gradually accumulate over a long period of time, converging in one place to become the second catastrophe.
It’s incomparably weaker than the first one, but it occurs inevitably.
“Those who failed to prepare were ultimately consumed and disappeared along with the world, but fortunately, we are ready.”
After hearing all the explanations, Harp tapped his cheeks and opened his mouth.
“So you’re saying that second Ragnarok is much weaker than what happened before. Exactly when will it occur?”
“Given that signs are already appearing, it seems it will happen within two months at the latest.”
“Then I’ll check the nearby mana and such to read the signs, so search in other directions.”
Harp grabbed his outer coat without hesitation and headed toward the door, as if there was no time to waste.
It was an incredibly swift decision.
“Don’t you have any suspicions?”
I found myself speaking without thinking. Then he, who had been about to turn the doorknob, looked back at me.
“I don’t think you’re the type to play word games with this world and people’s lives at stake.”
“….”
“And it’s better if we prepare and nothing happens, but it’s troublesome to face something without any preparation, isn’t it?”
He shrugged as if that was all there was to it and left.
“Should we inform people about this?”
Before I could even fully digest his words, Sung Ji-wook asked, seeming anxious.
Should we reveal this.
But would people believe us.
Jung Hwan-jae opened his mouth carefully.
“We need to make it so everyone can believe it.”
“How can we acquire that credibility?”
“First, we need the testimony of a Ragnarok survivor.”
Everyone thought of the same person.
Dante.
The one who persistently pursued the staff member killer and even uncovered the anomalies in the Ragnarok Region.
Jung Hwan-jae folded another finger and spoke carefully.
“And someone who can convey this message.”
“Who would that be?”
“Rumors, gossip, news—anything works. Someone influential, fast.”
“Someone with leverage.”
I found myself continuing the thought without meaning to.
Though that probably wasn’t what Jung Hwan-jae intended to suggest, he didn’t bother refuting me.
There was indeed a suitable person for this.
Shunt.

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