Life Mission

Editor: Hungry Panda

Creator.

An owner who makes something that was not there before.

Interpreted like this, Borteth is Life Mission’s Creator.

“Since it’s a rule I created, I can get rid of it! I’ll do as I please in the areas I have authority in from now on!”

He won’t do anything obvious like activating the Heavy Gravity. He’ll do enough so Jigneon and Gabenu will acquiesce even when they know. He is tiptoeing, but he is being penalized. He needs to refrain from actions that bring attention to him.

Zing!

Borteth waves his hand in the air, a satellite installed in a mission region connects with North America, and he can see an active Cha Jun Sung. A managing position like an officer or helper can watch a Lifer’s every move without going through a complicated process.

“A trivial creature...”

Borteth grabs the edge of his desk and the steel rips. The officers are fundamentally strong. They have to be strong.

The officers are the ones who created body modifications and items like the battlesuit.

“Huh. I’ll have to make my own chess piece. One that’ll listen well.”

The satellite’s view changes.

Borteth finds someone conducting a mission in the new view.

He’s perfect.

They’re hard to control if they’re smart. His influence and skill are outstanding, but he needs to be greedy and independent.

Since Jigneon and Gabenu created the monitoring network, he will be able to put good use to him if he plays his cards right.

***

Cha Jun Sung had lost Vanessa but he had been able to kill Odelia and Narsiel, but he did not go back to reality, and remained in the mission. He has lost a tremendous amount of points with his battlesuit destroyed and his space compression bag gone. He’s scared to even calculate the loss.

It might be a question as to whether he can stay in a mission area with his bare body, but he has already been found out as a mutant. All he needs is the PDA. Cha Jun Sung sweeps through mutant congested areas while awakened as a mutant, wearing his PDA, and holding Hades with his tail.

To mutants, he is a disaster and a nightmare. They lose the will to fight in front of a top level predators’ attack. Their confidence dwindles before they even start. It might seem like a good thing, but it isn’t. He doesn’t have to chase them around if they charge at him, but they all scatter and run away.

He accumulated points without much problems even without his space compression bag and battlesuit. He even caught a couple level 7s.

Perhaps because he had completed his mission, a mission was renewed each time he stepped into a mission area and he was able to bring in a considerable amount of points.

He worked one day, rested the next.

He hunted every other day in order to maintain his condition. He returned after earning 50 billion points. The retention period is 2 months. He earned 50 billion points because of the battlesuit.

With the points he got from Odelia and Narsiel on top of that, he can repair his damaged battlesuit.

He can buy basic items as well. It is fortunate that only the shell was broken and a lot of the inside remained intact. The biggest worry was the battlesuit. He invested over 100 billion in creating a level S full remodeling, and it would be impossible to buy before advancing no matter how many points he had.

When Odin laid the judgement that regeneration is possible, he really almost cried. Whatever had happened, The Path of Blood and King’s Blood missions were completed.

***

Odin kept his promise to Cha Jun Sung. He answered all of his questions to the best of his abilities as long as they were not regarding Life Mission’s secrets.

In return, Cha Jun Sung made Odin a promise as well.

He promised not to tell anyone what he heard.

Odin said that if he breaks this promise, Cha Jun Sung and those who hear the information will face unimaginable penalties.

He felt uncomfortable, but agreed.

As a result, he had two secrets he couldn’t tell. Those regarding Life Mission and the fact that he is a mutant.

“So you’re saying the asshole who played me is the 2nd officer, one of the three architects of Life Mission?”

[Yes. He is currently receiving punishment for that.]

Cha Jun Sung had thought that the helpers were at the very top. But he had been wrong.

Comparing Life Mission to a major company, they are classified by high and low positions. It is a simple and easy system.

The highest are the 3 officers and the investors who support Life Mission.

The second are the managers who participate in Life Mission’s systems or errors, and item production, and helpers like Odin. The helpers’ special right is moving dimensions. It is impossible if blocked by the powers that be, but there isn’t a limit as long as their energy allows for it.

The world that Life Mission was created in is Earth hundreds of years in the future, where the science is so developed even dimensional movement is possible.

This is something that Cha Jun Sung had assumed. It had been mentioned on Lifer World that this was the case or that it was the work of aliens.

Apparently, Lifer World was created by Life Mission and not in America. He said something about using it as a method to watch Lifers’ communications.

“Huh? Then does that mean all employees working for Life Mission are cyborgs?”

[In hundreds of years, the population on Earth is just 1% of what it is now. We don’t have the manpower to send humans to the past. There’s no reason to send them, either.]

His questions are being answered.

If he conducts the reality version and returns to where he came from, nothing can find him.

Cyborgs were a specially created camouflage team. He understands why not a single piece of information had been leaked even on the Internet.

“Hah! Only I can know this stuff?”

This information was too valuable to know alone.

It is so provocative that if Lifers, if the world knew, it wouldn’t just be a scandal but everything would be flipped.

He is itching to tell, but he has to keep it to himself. He is hearing this on that condition.

“Why was Life Mission – specifically Lifers and mutants – created?”

[Humans do not change in the present or the future. They pursue and crave something constantly. Science advances, but the nature remains the same.]

It’s funny.

Humans develop science, but humans themselves do not develop.

How contradictory is this?

[You can think of Lifers as something like the superheroes in movies, who maintain their essence while possessing the power to transcend limits.]

Cha Jun Sung clenches his fists.

Though he has become a mutant, he still has the lingering effects of the body modifications he went through as a human. He can understand.

Superhero?

It’s possible.

“What about mutants?”

[They’re a mutation from experiments trying to transcend the limits of humans. It’s easy to taint something with pure intentions.]

There are things that are discovered without intention. A side product?

They discovered the A virus by chance while trying to create superhumans.

What they had wanted was a superhuman in human form, but what they had gotten was a monster. It wasn’t on the good side, but scientists had been overcome with scholarly ambition.

[They were experiments that couldn’t be done on cyborgs, but it was a time when there wasn’t access to enough life.]

So they opened two dimensional gates. Both are the same Earth. There was a slight time difference, but they were the same as though they had been copied and pasted. That’s how they spread Life Mission and the A virus in each world.

“The documents we found at the Institute of Biological Sciences! Right. It said ‘suddenly’.”

Everything is falling into place. The puzzle is coming together. Come to think of it, Black Demon had said this, but it feels different coming from Odin.

“What’s your ultimate goal?”

[We’re trying to see who can dominate between Lifers and mutants.]

“So what are you trying to do once you find out who the dominating species is? You said the population in that era is 1%, right? Does that mean we all become mutants?”

[Sorry. I did not receive permission regarding that information.]

Cha Jun Sung tsked.

He did find out a lot, but it seems there is more that Odin is not allowed to tell him. It’s a pity, but he left it alone.

“Last one.”

[Yes.]

“What’s the exact relationship between Life Mission and Lifers?”

[Creator, or Creator and Creature. This is something that Borteth says often. This is cruel against you, but there’s no other way to express it.]

***

Once Cha Jun Sung’s long questioning was over, it was Odin’s turn to ask. His question was something unexpected.

[Why did you let him live? That’s worth the death penalty according to our laws.]

He is referring to Hector. It may have been to save his little brother, but he lured hundreds of Lifers to Odelia. He deserves death.

Cha Jun Sung responded, ‘The world is so twisted, who gets to judge who? I would’ve just killed him if he had been a madman, but I couldn’t.’

That’s why he gave him Odelia’s nucleus, too. Hector tried his best in a competition of survival. His method was bad, but his intention wasn’t. Cha Jun Sung can’t say that he wouldn’t have done the same in that situation.

‘Odin. Sorry, but just listen to one more thing. You guys made this world.’

A stabbing remonstrance. Odin couldn’t refute. It’s the truth.