There had been a time when it felt as if the world was really going to end.

Monster Wave, Gate Wave, Dungeon Wave… The name of the incident varied. A lot of people died, and it didn’t just end with half of the population like in those superhero movies where the villain wiped out humanity with a snap of his finger. The infrastructure obviously collapsed, and nuclear power plants exploded. There were now advanced technologies used to purify the leaked radioactivity, but losing half of the population and land meant that the Earth would never be the peaceful world it once was.

Some countries were even wiped out entirely. In those that remained, crime rate had risen considerably because of poor public safety—the authorities were busy with more important things, after all. Except for large cities such as Seoul and Busan and satellite cities around them, monsters kept appearing out of nowhere. It was only natural that the Korean government was desperately trying to protect these big cities. Finally, the government put Warding Stones everywhere around the cities to stop the monsters from attacking them.

Agriculture had been replaced by drone farming and Smart Farms for quite some time. Jung Bi-Ga’s company was deeply involved there as well. It was now a thing of the past for grandmothers...