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

Of course, Joo Joowon knew that such a stalemate would not continue forever.

Eventually, someone would lose patience.

Just as that thought crossed his mind, an extremely faint yet incomparably murderous wave of Mental Power suddenly spread outward in every direction.

It felt like the gaze of a god of slaughter coldly overlooking everything beneath him.

They had been discovered!

The zombies hiding in the shadows instantly felt their hearts tighten.

Without hesitation, they immediately demonstrated one of the most deeply ingrained abilities shared by all intelligent creatures throughout history.

A tactical retreat.

As the sensation of being watched gradually disappeared, Joo Joowon finally let out a quiet sigh of relief.

It was not that he did not want to keep them here.

The problem was that he simply could not.

There were simply too many of them.

The collapse of the building had created such a huge disturbance that the sound had likely spread an incredible distance.

Perhaps there were still Elite monsters or other unknown creatures rushing toward this location even now.

It was not something Joo Joowon could handle in his current state.

The reason those creatures had remained cautious and refrained from attacking was because none of them could determine his true strength.

After all, he had killed a Lord Rank Boss monster as if it were nothing, which naturally made him appear to be someone who should not be provoked.

However, once a fight truly began, they would immediately discover that he was nowhere near as powerful as they imagined.

When that happened, the situation would become extremely disadvantageous for Joo Joowon.

Fortunately, the title [ The First Flame Within Endless Darkness ] increased his intimidation effect by five percent against all Boss monsters below the Lord Rank.

Combined with the fact that those monsters had already formed their own assumptions about his strength, deceiving them was not particularly difficult for him.

The old Joo Joowon would never have been capable of doing something like this.

First, his Mental Power had not been high enough.

Second, he had not known how to project Mental Power over such a large area.

However, after surviving under the pressure of the Big Belly Zombie for so long, he had done his best to learn everything he could from the Boss monster.

As a result, the pressure that the Big Belly Zombie emitted had become the perfect model for him to imitate.

Unfortunately, this was a field he had only come into contact with today.

Ever since the Big Belly Zombie died, he had been continuously experimenting.

Because he understood very clearly that the death of the Big Belly Zombie was not the end.

It was the beginning of a new crisis.

For that reason, Joo Joowon had not immediately chosen to leave.

Instead, he deliberately remained standing where he was as though he had no concern for danger whatsoever.

He intentionally projected an image of relaxation and leisure.

Behind that calm appearance, however, he had been frantically researching and experimenting.

Only then had he finally succeeded in producing this effect.

If he had delayed any longer, those hidden monsters would likely have lost their patience and attacked him.

At that point, even if he had succeeded, it would have been meaningless.

Unfortunately, the system had not recognized this as a skill.

Joo Joowon was not disappointed by that.

After all, it was not truly a skill yet.

It was merely a further application of Mental Power.

He was not discouraged by this in the slightest.

Even before the arrival of the Age of Apocalypse, he had never been considered a genius.

That alone was enough to prove that he possessed no exceptional talent.

How could he possibly expect himself to suddenly become a genius simply because the Age of Apocalypse had descended upon the world?

For someone who had never come into contact with the supernatural before, everything could only be explored slowly.

Progress could only be made step by step.

Joo Joowon was already satisfied with how far he had come.

Even if others surpassed him in the future, it did not matter.

At the very least, he knew that he had truly done everything he could.

If not for the overwhelming sense of urgency brought by the Age of Apocalypse, Joo Joowon would have preferred to continue improving himself little by little rather than trying to achieve rapid progress at all costs.

"Meow~"

In the short time that had passed, Hwi had already devoured all fifty three Zombie Birds.

Its fur gleamed under the sunlight with a healthy shine, and there was not the slightest trace of injury remaining on its body.

However, cats are creatures with an extremely high tolerance for pain, so Joo Joowon still could not fully put his mind at ease.

He crouched down and scratched beneath Hwi’s chin.

"Does anything hurt? Do you feel uncomfortable anywhere?"

Hwi tilted his head, his somewhat foolish looking eyes filled with confusion.

Byeol walked over and rubbed against Hwi before sniffing him carefully, then immediately jumped into Joo Joowon’s arms.

Seeing that, Joo Joowon finally relaxed.

It was said that animals could smell the scent of illness.

Before all this, he would probably have only half believed such a thing.

But now that mutated beasts could already be considered extraordinary creatures, he figured they probably possessed some ability to judge these things.

To be honest, Joo Joowon had not been surprised when Byeol threw himself toward him earlier.

After all, he had raised Byeol for several years, and the relationship between the two of them had always been close and harmonious.

Hwi, however, was different.

How many days had it even known him?

Because of that, Joo Joowon had never expected Hwi to protect him without the slightest hesitation.

Even after transforming and enlarging its body, Hwi’s hide might have become much tougher, but that did not mean it could not have been crushed to death.

If the falling beam had not coincidentally landed in such a way as to create a triangular pocket of space around them, what would have happened afterward was difficult to imagine.

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