Absolute Dweller

It took five full days for the ice that had blanketed all of Seoul to melt to an acceptable level.

Despite the scorching summer weather, vast amounts of snow and ice still remained in shaded areas.

Kang Buk-gu’s leader, Lee Kanghyun.

Right now, he was on his way to meet Kim Jaehyun.

"I can’t protect everyone with my strength alone."

To be honest, he had been a little overconfident.

He had successfully hunted boss-tier monsters around Gangbuk-gu, establishing his own territory and securing a safe zone for tens of thousands of people.

His strength had attracted competent allies, and they were indeed highly capable.

They had scavenged food from abandoned marts and houses, set up base camps near Jungnangcheon for clean water, and led the survivors with textbook survival tactics.

But in the end, there was a limit.

The global supply chain had collapsed.

Nothing new was being produced.

A significant portion of stored food supplies had been buried under destroyed buildings.@@novelbin@@

Even goblins had raided convenience stores, devouring whatever they could find.

Survivors had been forced to resort to eating monster meat just to barely hold on.

That was when Kim Jaehyun stepped in, providing crucial supplies.

From that moment on, public opinion had started to shift.

More than half of his leadership team had advocated for merging with Kim Jaehyun’s group.

Yet, Lee Kanghyun himself had insisted on caution.

The only reason his people had respected that decision was because of the credibility and reputation he had built.

"Maybe I should’ve accepted the offer back then. If I had..."

At the very least...

This tragedy wouldn’t have happened.

Twenty-six people had died.

Most of them were the elderly and the young—those least capable of enduring the cold.

"I was powerless."

He had sensed it when the freezing storm was at its worst.

That chilling sensation overhead, the monstrous presence lurking in the sky.

"I couldn’t do anything."

He had always prided himself on his ability to hunt monsters.

• Material generation
• Instant teleportation for his vassals
• Summoning an army of hundreds of elemental spirits
• Erecting a massive transparent barrier spanning 5km
• Long-range telepathy

• The sound of music drifting through the streets.
• Clean roads, with cars moving in sync with traffic signals.
• People, dressed comfortably, walking down the streets.

• 6 bowls of rice
• 1 soybean paste stew
• 2 spicy naengmyeon
• 1 cold naengmyeon