Solo Leveling- Ragnarok

Chapter 134:

– Woo Jin-chul?

A newscaster once interviewed officials about a man named Woo Jin-cheol.

Then the officials would ask this first.

-Before and after the cataclysm, what are you asking?

And this answer was the same no matter who asked.

If you ask what kind of life Woo Jin-cheol has lived so far, it is because the answer is dramatically different before and after the cataclysm.

-Before the cataclysm, Woo Jin-cheol was originally a police chief. Maybe it was the central police station?

The Central Police Station was a very legendary place among the police.

For more than 20 years, it has been a police station with the highest criminal arrest rate in the country.

Of course, it wasn't Woo Jin-cheol who created the legend.

At the time, there was a legendary detective called 'Ghost' in the Homicide Division of the Central Police Station.

The arrest rate is 200 percent.

In front of the 'ghost' who is said to catch not only the case he was assigned, but also the culprits of past cases that were left unsolved, any vicious criminal or gangster would become a mild-mannered sheep.

However, he was also an outlier who refused to be promoted despite achieving such a great feat.

Even the reason for the refusal was absurd.

to focus on the field.

To catch more criminals directly.

The name of the police officer who continued to remain as a homicide detective by saying this obvious but obvious thing was 'Sung Jin-woo'.

He was a shadow lord who was now at war with Itarim in outer space.

And Woo Jin-cheol was his direct supervisor and closest colleague, who had been following him since he was a high school student and made him take the police exam.

And thanks to Seong Jin-woo passing his achievements to Woo Jin-cheol every time, Woo Jin-cheol somehow kept getting promoted at high speed alone.

Then, eventually, when he became the chief of police.

There were many people who were jealous of him behind his back and gossip about him.

-A person who was promoted by selling a colleague.

-Why do you take care of your subordinates' performance?

– Didn't Detective Seong Jin-woo catch some kind of weakness from Woo Jin-cheol?

However, the people who said such gossip in the back did not say such things again after one day having a private meeting with Seong Jin-woo.

However, other rumors circulated after that.

The real power of the Jungbu Police Station is Detective Seong Jin-woo.

Of course, it was like that from the beginning, so it wasn't new.

In fact, it was because there were not one or two people who witnessed Woo Jin-cheol always treating Jin-woo Seong, who was his direct subordinate, with respect.

But since when did the extremely famous Central Police Station stop coming up and down in the mouths of the police?

Exactly that point was when Detective Seong Jin-woo suddenly started to be absent from work.

– Rumors abounded. That the ghost detective went missing, that he beat the police, that he went on an extended vacation... But what was the detective's name?

But curiously, the ghost detective's name was not known to the general public.

I don't know if it was because he wanted it, but strangely, the name that was revealed to the media was always Woo Jin-cheol's three letters.

However, the name Seong Jin-woo was so famous among his fellow police officers that his sudden absence caused a lot of rumors.

However, the chief of police, Woo Jin-cheol, simply treated Jin-woo Seong's absence as a 'leave of absence' without any explanation.

As if I took it for granted that I would return someday.

And like that...

The name Seong Jin-Woo was quickly forgotten in the memories of his colleagues.

It had to be.

Because the vacancy left by Seong Jin-woo was too great.

In the meantime, all the detectives of the Central Police Station, who have been solving cases comfortably thanks to Sung Jin-woo, were busy running around to prevent incidents from happening here and there.

– And then, suddenly, a cataclysm happened.

The interview with the official started from now.

-And at the same time as the cataclysm, Mr. Woo Jin-cheol revealed his true face.

Coinciding with the cataclysm, no one believed the rumors that he had been promoted thanks to his subordinates.

-I don't know, but Woo Jin-cheol is probably the first person to wake up in Korea?

It was.

The cataclysm of that turbulent period when gates and monsters suddenly appeared all over the earth.

'Woo Jin-cheol', who was the chief of police at the time, awakened his magic faster than anyone else.

But most of all, it was because of his actions after his awakening that people worshiped him as he is now.

Woo Jin-cheol has never been amazed or embarrassed that he has this ability like other awakened people.

Rather, like a fish in water, it naturally began to use its power as if it were originally there.

And although this fact was not known to people, he actually calmly closed his eyes at the same time as he woke up and measured his strength first.

"...A grade. It's the same as before."

At this time, the United States had yet to announce the Hunter rating according to the amount of horse power.

Even before the magic meter was developed, he was able to gauge his magic level from the start.

It was natural.

Because he was already a person who had already awakened all the memories of his previous life under the influence of Sung Jin-woo decades ago.

Until the cataclysm, those memories were useless to anyone, but when the earth suddenly became a hunter era like the old days, he literally became a hunter for the second time in his life.

And at the same time, Woo Jin-cheol realized the seriousness of the situation.

'It's a big deal. The earth has become like this again, but Hunter Seong Jin-woo isn't there.'

Even before the cataclysm, he knew that Seong Jin-woo would often go somewhere to stop enemies from the other world.

At that time, she would assist him by giving him a leave of absence or a leave of absence.

But this time, Seong Jin-woo hadn't come back for several years.

But he did not lose hope.

'Sung Jin-Woo Hunter will definitely come back. Then until then I... let's do what I can.'

It was from then.

Woo Jin-cheol started to move in earnest by using the memories of his previous life.

right after the cataclysm.

At that time, it was a time when the world was confused by countless incidents and accidents as not only witches but also awakened people appeared in the middle of the day.

Woo Jin-cheol, who was the chief of police at the time, established the 'Hunter Association' by mobilizing his power and all his personal connections.

And he himself became the first president of the association and started negotiations with government officials.

-Maybe our country has the fastest hunter association in the world?

– Thanks to that, the Hunter Act was revised very quickly.

In order for a new law to come into existence, it required numerous procedures and a period of time.

Woo Jin-cheol, president of the association, who was clearly aware of this, passed the most important laws step by step.

One of them was the 'Villain Punishment Act', which confuses society the most right after the cataclysm.

And with the law in front, he began to wipe out the villains who were swayed by power and caused accidents.

'Even demon beasts are troublesome, but humans shouldn't fight among themselves.'

Of course, even in this life, it was difficult to wipe out all the villains with the power of Woo Jin-cheol, who is only A-class.

but.

'It's enough to fill the lack of strength.'

He decided to recruit the S-class hunters in his memory as the first step to strengthen the power of the association.

Especially among them, the S-class Hunter who was nicknamed 'the final weapon'.

'Choi Jong-in', who was the guild leader of Korea's No. 1 guild, succeeded in becoming friends by feigning coincidence before awakening his magical power.

The moment he became an S-class Hunter again this time, he politely handed out his business card.

"Will you be my ally in defending the world for justice for this country."

"...All right."

From that day on, Choi Jong-in began to play an active role as an S-class hunter representing the Korean Hunter Association.

Thanks to Woo Jin-cheol's performance, Korea, which was in chaos, was able to quickly regain stability.

The speed was so great that it was recognized worldwide, and Woo Jin-cheol, the president of the association, suddenly rose to stardom.

– National hero Woo Jin-cheol!

However, he was never shaken or fascinated by the interest and popularity pouring into Woo Jin-cheol.

Rather, the fact that he focused only on what he had to do as if it was nothing special made the people more like him.

It was natural.

Woo Jin-cheol is literally a second life car hunter.

In particular, since he was a careerist who succeeded Ko Kun-hee as the president of the association in his previous life,

he skillfully and skillfully rallied the hunters and maintained security, just like a person born to become the association president.

At this point, no one in the Republic of Korea denied that he was a national hero.

His strength was still only that of an A-class hunter, but even S-class hunters did not dare to present their business card in front of him.

-All the roads Jincheol Woo, the president of the association, has walked as a national civil servant hunter for the past two years are the history of the hunter world in Korea.

Finally, the official who responded to the interview request left these words and disappeared.

And after the interview, the newscaster nodded with a satisfied expression and made the next comment.

– This concludes the interview. The next news is about Jisan Prison. Jisan Prison is a concentration camp specializing in villains established by the Hunter Association two years ago

. thank god."

Cha Hae-in, who came out of the glacier dungeon and checked the news on Korea through Internet news, sighed in relief.

If it was an association created by Woo Jin-cheol, Korea was safe.

I couldn't imagine all the effort and hardships he had to prepare to fill the vacancy of Sung Jin-woo over the past two years.

Cha Hae-in, feeling somewhat heartbroken, gave advice to Suho.

"Woo Jin-cheol is an old friend who knows about your father. He said he is currently out of aid to North Korea, so please meet him as soon as you return and tell him about the situation. You will get a lot of help."

"...then what about your mother?"

Sensing something strange in her mother's words, Suho looked at her mother's face with a hard expression.

"I can't go with you."

Surprisingly, Cha Hae-in was thinking of reentering the glacier dungeon he had escaped with difficulty.

Cha Hae-in said with a sad expression on the head of Kaisel, who had shrunk to the size of a parrot and sat quietly on his shoulder.

"Kaisel will soon perish at this rate. I can't let it go like that."

The flying dragon, Kaisel, has been a precious existence that has protected him for the past five years.

So, the place Cha Hae-in is trying to leave now is the deep place in the Echo Forest where the 'gray snow' was falling.

"Mysteriously, the more we went into that gray snowy place, the more Kaisel's depleted energy was filled very little."

[The reason is probably... because those gray eyes are actually dragon ashes.]

Cha Hae-in nodded at Ver's words.

"that's right. i think so too."

Cha Hae-in still remembered the story Seong Jin-woo told him while looking at the white snow falling from the sky.

One of the most threatening enemies in Seong Jin-Woo's life was Yong-Jae.

The day that the Dragon Emperor defeated all the many light dragons under his command.

The gray ashes of countless dragons that fell from the sky reminded me of the white snow falling from the sky.

"And beyond those gray eyes..."

[There will be a dimensional rift leading to the tombs of the light dragons.]