If you rewind the viewpoint a little, the beginning is once again a chain of gate appearances…
It stayed quiet until the whole morning passed, so people thought today might go by without incident—yeah right. Wishful thinking.
Awakeners swallowed back nausea and moved fast.
! Emergency disaster alert
[Ministry of the Interior and Safety] 37°31’33.6″N 126°55’21.3″E — A Class-2 sudden Rift has occurred today at 12:20. By the Special Disaster Act, nearby Awakeners are requested to respond.
Alerts poured down like rain. Starting from Yeouido, then Shinchon, COEX, Sadang, Wangsimni… all of them large, high-risk gates in the Class-2~3 range.
Hunters who received the briefs went ashen.
“Class-2… shit! A wave?”
“You’re joking, right? That ‘purge’ talk was real? Are they seriously going to replace everyone wholesale, Babel you son of a—!”
“Get a grip! Look at the locations—it’s doable.”
Prodded by his friend, the hunter checked the map again. Now that he looked, these familiar locations were…
“…All near the Big Five guilds, huh?”
Yeouido is Babylon’s patch, Samsung Station COEX is straight-up D.I.’s jurisdiction.
Because…