I Picked Up a Dimensional Travel Machine: Wizard - Chapter 114



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On average, about 100 small monsters appear in the portal.

However, the 7th portal is created in multiples of 2, increasing the number of portals to 200.

After about 7 months, when the 14th portal was created, the number of monsters appearing from each portal increased to about 200.

Fortunately, at this point, humanity was able to expand its 1st to 2nd circle magicians and unmanned players (intermediate to top-tier users) to about 60,000 people.

The percentage of Mana users whose qualities were judged through the Awakening Talent Test was approximately 0.01%.

In other words, one in ten thousand people showed the talent to become a magician or a warrior.

In simple terms, about 600,000 people out of 6 billion people could have emerged.

However, cases where they are too old or too young are excluded.

And we haven’t done aptitude tests on all humans yet.

Even now, except for some advanced countries, only about 20% of their citizens have completed aptitude tests. The countries with the highest test rates, Korea and the United States, have only just reached 50%.

The first generation of Awakened people were those whose talent level was evaluated as quite high even under such time and physical constraints.

And the majority of them were men and women in their late teens to early 30s, who were good candidates for combat.

Thanks to this, I was able to pass the minimum completion standard and be deployed to the field in about 1 year and 6 months.

Humanity’s counterattack is first and foremost a material offensive.

Even if you were a mid- to low-level user and a 1st circle magician, 2~3 people could pair up and deal with one monster like an orc.

As time passes, the number of portals increases explosively, and the amount of monsters created (moved) from each portal increases.

After the first Awakened were deployed to the field and about six months had passed, the number of portals finally increased to around 400.

And the portals opened sequentially, not simultaneously.

The latest portal opens once a month, and the fastest opens once every 15 days.

And the portal’s maintenance time has been reduced from 24 hours to 6 hours.

The times when portals open and monsters pop out have also changed.

The earliest one was 1 hour, the latest was 4 hours, and the time difference began to appear.

And the second batch of awakened people completed their training and were deployed to the field.

As with the first season, this was the result of giving priority to training to those who were tested late and were selected as the most talented.

After about 7 to 8 months of training for the first period, the training center was expanded and instructors were divided to conduct the training simultaneously.

The second group also had about 70,000 people trained and deployed to the field.

As the number of portals and monsters increased, the number of awakened humans also increased rapidly.

Recently, a scary rumor has been spreading among the Awakened that they can increase their mana utilization and mana accumulation by consuming energy crystals.

The percentage of Awakened people selling to the state – or more precisely, using it to pay off debts for Awakened people’s education – has decreased significantly.

The Awakened believe the rumors to be true and hide the energy crystals.

Until recently, it was a matter of human survival, but in less than two or three years, an atmosphere has already been created where it is gradually becoming ‘commercialized’.

Min-ki left the lab for the first time in a long while to analyze the recently diversified portals.

The biggest thing I’m working on these days is improving the and .

There was also an analysis of energy crystals.

“Is the president here?”

“Yes. Please do not assign the portal that will open this time to the Awakened. I will go out and handle it myself, and while I am out, I will analyze the portal.”

“Yes, I understand. Even though we haven’t assigned them, should we ask the military to cooperate with the Awakened people who are waiting nearby just in case to stop them?”

“Ah, it’s not that security-related. It doesn’t matter. And just seeing me use magic will motivate me.”

“all right.”

Min-ki was in the central control center of the United States.

The cycle of portal creation, the time difference between the appearance of monsters moving through the portal, and the deviation in the number of monsters have changed too much.

When I first analyzed the portal, it wasn’t like this.

Min-gi, who cannot directly analyze the degree of weakening of the dimensional boundary, goes abroad once every six months to directly analyze the portal.

There is nothing special about the analysis.

Just look at the amount and quality of mana the portal emits around the portal.

– Sudden mana anomaly detected on NA36 detector. Location. 33°27’22.8″N 112°16’08.9″W 14km west of Phoenix, Arizona, USA!

Finally, the portal appeared.

Min-ki gave some instructions to the controllers at the control center and then went straight to the teleport.

Min-ki, who arrived at the scene, was able to quickly discover the portal.

I’ve watched this portal dozens of times, but I still feel a sense of wonder every time I watch it.

The dimension transfer portal is a realm of transcendence that Min-gi is currently unable to achieve.

It was to the point where one had to be at least 9th circle and close to master level to be able to cast it.

It will still take some time for the monsters to appear.

The portal has just opened, and it will take at least an hour to stabilize the dimensional passage enough to transport living beings.

Min-ki approached the portal as close as possible.

The closer you get, the more you feel the tremendous mana.

It is still so unstable that it feels tyrannical.

Min-ki suddenly reached out to the portal, as if something had occurred to him.

Min-ki’s hand touched the circular shape made of pure bright light of the portal just a little bit.

– Tiring. You have come into contact with unrefined dimensional energy.

‘Huh? What is it? Is it strange?’

– You can advance your registration as a ‘regular user’ by 48,180 hours (5.5 years) by absorbing dimensional energy. Would you like to absorb dimensional energy?

Min-gi was surprised by the unexpected guidance.

I’ve studied portals countless times, but this is the first time I’ve seen something like this.

Of course, during that time, all I did was feel and analyze the flow and nature of mana near the portal.

But I had no idea that my first time directly touching the portal today would bring about such results.

Min-ki, who had been thinking for a moment, soon spoke to Shin-gi.

‘Are there any side effects to absorbing dimensional energy?’

– There are no side effects.

‘How long does it take to absorb energy?’

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– It is expected to take about 5 minutes.

‘Okay. Absorb it.’

When Min-gi silently stretched out his arm and placed his hand on the edge of the portal, the soldiers watching around looked puzzled.

But it remained still without moving an inch, and nothing special happened.

There’s still a long way to go before monsters emerge from the portal.

It’s only been about 20 minutes since the portal opened.

As time goes by, the police and military forces surrounding and controlling this portal will increase in number.

For now, we’ll just form a defensive net as per the manual as soon as we arrive.

Of course, this too was changing to some degree in a formal manner.

The rapidly replenishing Awakened ones step forward and deal with the monsters.

Occasionally, there are instances where a few monsters break through the defense line set up by the Awakened and escape to the outskirts, so all we can do is control the surrounding area and prepare for such an eventuality.

As time passed and the Awakened grew and their skills in dealing with monsters increased, their numbers rapidly decreased.

The problem was when the flying monsters appeared.

When a flying monster appears, the surrounding encirclement becomes almost meaningless.

Fortunately, monsters tend to simply attack the person in front of them rather than ‘thinking’ or ‘planning’.

In the case of monsters that form groups, such as some orcs or goblins, they do fight with more intelligence under the orders of their ‘captain’, but they have never once ignored the Awakened ones that surrounded them and made a large-scale escape.

Rather, there were times when they destroyed the surrounding defenses, annihilated everyone, and then scattered to the surroundings…

“uh?”

“What? Corporal Strawson. What’s going on?”

“Look, the portal is gone.”

“What? Huh?? Really? Hey. Where did the portal go?”

“I…. The person in front of me, who seemed to be the president of the World Awakening Association, stretched out his arm… and destroyed the portal.”

“Huh? Was it possible to remove the portal?”

“I don’t know. Since he is so high up, what could he have done? Why is he the most powerful wizard in the world?”

“Anyway, first report to the unit situation room….”

“yes.”

Min-gi was thinking about the effects of absorbing dimensional energy that Shin-gi had told him about at that time.

‘How much time is left until I become a full-time user?’

– 238 days left in 7147. An additional 5.5 years have been reduced by the absorption of dimensional energy just now.”

‘Hmm. If this is how it is, I should be able to become a full-time user if I absorb about 1,300 portals. Is that right?’

– Yes. It may vary slightly depending on the amount of dimensional energy, but it is roughly similar.

Min-ki thought about it for a bit more and then called the central control center, ordering them to assign him the other portals that had appeared.

And he announced that he had ‘annihilated’ the portal.

Naturally, the central control center was in an uproar over the new news.

In the meantime, we have experimented with dropping everything from hydrogen bombs to strategic nuclear weapons on portals created in sparsely populated areas.

However, the portal could not be destroyed by any physical force.

I simply watched and killed monsters that appeared, and if I had spare time, I would experiment by putting in animals or secretly putting in humans.

However, it is said that Chairman Levy Jeong, the greatest wizard on Earth, destroyed the portal.

This was revolutionary.

Even though we can deal with the monsters coming out of the portal right now, as the level of the monsters increases in the future, humanity could be in great danger.

But then a way to eliminate that portal was discovered.

As they prepared to mobilize upon hearing the news of a portal opening, the Awakened who were staying nearby were disappointed to hear that there would be no assignments for the Association Chairman’s research, and thought, ‘Just in case…’, they set up camp around the portal and witnessed the portal disappear.

This news was quickly spread as news on SNS and the community of ‘dedicated homepages’ used by the awakened, and immediately became an issue.

‘The president of the association destroyed the portal.’

At first I thought it was a lesser awakened being playing a prank.

However, soon after, the ‘assignment’ of the Awakened to the Oregon portal that opened at the same time as the one just destroyed was canceled, and they teleported away to destroy another portal in five minutes, which snowballed the news and spread throughout the world.

This is because the portal in Oregon was already surrounded by the Awoken and was waiting for a ‘battle’, so there were over 500 Awoken watching it.

‘Hmm. This is 5.1 years. Does it change depending on the amount of dimensional energy?’

– Yes, that’s right.

‘Do you happen to know the extent to which the dimensional boundary has weakened?’

– I don’t know.

Min-ki was given priority for the additional portals created in the US and Korea, and a total of 19 portals were destroyed that day.

Originally, I spent about 20 to 30 minutes waiting for the first portal.

After that, I processed one every 10 minutes or so, so I processed 4 in 1 hour.

But after dealing with the 4th portal, the Korean portal.

It’s been over an hour since the portals were first created, but most of them don’t produce any monsters.

The portal is now significantly out of its regular opening period.

At first, 1 or 2 portals would open quickly, but as time passed, the creation time of several portals gradually decreased from 30 days to -1 day, -2 days… and now, 400 portals open irregularly, almost in order.

From the perspective of limited defense manpower, this was actually better.

But this phenomenon has changed once again.

Recently, the irregular portal creation has decreased drastically and is back to almost the same as before.

At least 300 of them were opened at the same time.

Today, more than 300 portals opened almost simultaneously.

However, all of those portals exceeded the minimum limit of 1 hour, and monsters did not appear from the portals for over 2 hours.

Thanks to that, Min-ki was also happy.

Although it may be an abuse of authority, the fact that the portal can be destroyed has been revealed and the situation has turned upside down. Furthermore, he cannot refuse the request of the ‘Chairman of the Association’ and the greatest magician on Earth to prioritize the portal for further research.

Although the operational rights of the Central Control Center are gradually being transferred to the administrative departments of each country, the World Awakening Association still holds about half of the operational rights.

– Emergency! Emergency. This is the Central Command Center of India. All Awoken are requested to mobilize immediately to a point 30km north of Ahmedabad. A medium-sized monster has emerged from the portal. Let me announce this again………….

A division has occurred.

While Min-gi was destroying portals in the US, Korea, and China, where his ‘verbal skills’ were more effective, more than 3 hours passed and mid-sized monsters appeared simultaneously from portals all over the world.

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