My God-Level System Can Rebuild Civilization in the Apocalypse!

Thinking back to those vague recitations he had heard and that endless ocean, Joo Joowon was completely certain of one thing.

That had not been an illusion.

The feeling was difficult to describe.

It had felt like an ocean that belonged solely to the supernatural itself.

There was absolutely no way that any ordinary skill could create something like that.

Crack!

The sound of bones breaking mixed together with the sound of chewing echoed clearly through the silent ruins.

The size of the Zombie Birds was not very different from ordinary birds before the apocalypse.

For Hwi, eating them was no different from chewing on mice during normal times.

Each bird disappeared after only a few bites.

Because Hwi had never been a picky eater, it clearly had no concern whatsoever for the quality of the meat.

It devoured them greedily and frantically as though it were enjoying the most delicious feast imaginable.

Watching it eat so quickly and so desperately, Joo Joowon could not help worrying that one of the bird bones might become lodged in its throat.

Fortunately, that situation never occurred.

Byeol crouched nearby and vigilantly watching the surroundings.

Its snow white fur had become somewhat dusty and gray after being covered by debris and dirt.

As Joo Joowon brushed the dust from its body, he unhesitatingly invested the single free attribute point he had gained from leveling up into Mental Power.

He had remembered something.

When he had previously used Enhanced Cognition to observe the rain falling outside, he had actually seen something.

However, perhaps because his Mental Power had not been high enough at the time, or perhaps because he simply lacked the qualifications to comprehend it, or perhaps because some instinctive defensive mechanism within the human body had been triggered, everything he saw had rapidly faded from his memory the moment he deactivated Enhanced Cognition.

Only a vague but indescribable feeling of fear had remained.

At that moment, the instant he saw it, a certain "concept" had naturally formed within his mind.

Now that he recalled it once more, that concept was almost identical to the sacred chants he had heard while trapped within the "deep sea" created by the Big Belly Zombie’s skill.

Both described the existence of a god.

In other words, that rain had been created by a god?

Joo Joowon was not entirely certain.

All he could do was speculate that the dangers players would face in the future might have something to do with Willpower and Mental Power.

Because of that possibility, he completely ignored how badly unbalanced his attributes had already become and immediately invested his precious free attribute point into Mental Power.

The moment the point was added, his mind instantly rang with a loud buzzing sound.

His temples throbbed painfully.

This discomfort was the body’s natural reaction to the widening gap between his various attributes.

Even so, players currently possessed no method whatsoever of resisting psychic type attacks other than enduring them directly.

Because of that, Joo Joowon only had one option.

He needed to continue increasing his Mental Power.

He truly did not know what kind of luck he possessed.

The more he thought about it, the more he felt that the Big Belly Zombie was probably the sort of regional boss that should only have appeared after the seventh day, once the marketplace closed.

And yet somehow, he had encountered it ahead of schedule.

The reason he believed this was because Joo Joowon felt that the closing of the marketplace would mark the point where the Age of Apocalypse truly began escalating in difficulty.

Just like in online games, once players reached a certain level, the game would immediately begin directing them toward special events or world boss battles.

Joo Joowon believed that the Big Belly Zombie had been prepared for exactly that moment.

However, reality was not a game.

Boss monsters wandered freely and people like him who unknowingly entered a boss monster’s territory would certainly not be rare among players.

These creatures were called Lord Rank Bosses, yet none of them actually possessed fixed territories.

Because of that, nobody could know whether they had stepped into a Boss monster’s domain until it was already too late.

Once they encountered one, all they could do was admit that they had been unlucky.

Still, this was simply too unlucky.

Joo Joowon could not help wondering whether it was because he had been running around too much lately, but compared to the relative peace of the first few days after the apocalypse began, the dangers he encountered now had clearly increased.

Even so, there was no possibility of him quietly staying inside his house.

If he did not venture outside, where would he ever gain the experience needed to level up?

What he had not expected was that even a training institute that he had predicted would contain very few people had still produced such a terrifying Boss monster.

If that was the case, then what kind of monsters must exist in places where crowds gathered in large numbers?

As he gently stroked Byeol’s fur, Joo Joowon could not stop himself from sighing.

Although the rewards from this battle had been generous and he now needed only a little more than one hundred experience points to completely fill his Level 8 experience bar, if he had been given a choice, he truly would have preferred never to encounter a Boss like this in the first place.

Even a Level 5 Boss would have been fine.

He simply hoped that he would not run into another Boss whose level matched his own or even exceeded it.

After all, everyone knew one thing.

Players of the same level could never truly compete against Boss monsters of the same level.

If he ever encountered a Boss that specialized in Agility or Mental Power, then his only fate would be death.

Because he had no skills of his own.

...

[ Ding! ]

[ World Announcement: Congratulations to player "HighlyCulturedy" for becoming the first player to obtain a skill! ]

[ Special announcement issued! ]

[ Regional Reputation +1 awarded to player "HighlyCulturedy"! ]

[ Special Title granted: "The Trail Opens Before Me" ]

...

The system announcement repeated three times in succession, causing Joo Joowon to freeze in surprise for a brief moment.

What timing.

Unfortunately, it was someone else’s skill that had appeared instead of his own.

How were skills obtained?

Did they drop from monsters?

Were they rewards from NPCs?

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