Before long, I could only hear the sound of our own footsteps, and bleak, cold air filled the empty city where everyone had escaped. The body odors and voices of people had also disappeared. 

“I won’t be able to live in a place like this alone forever. What’s the point of owning a building if you are all by yourself? This is creepy. It’s scarier than darkness.”

Seong-Il shuddered as if he had gotten goosebumps. 

“By the way, can’t we just destroy the light pillar? We even turned the Baclan King into a nice steak, so there is nothing we can’t do. Don’t you think so?”

In conclusion, it was possible, but also impossible as there were multiple layers of boundary in the red zone. In the past, I hadn’t known the rules of the world, but now I knew more than anyone else. The capabilities granted to Awakened, the structures that established the System, and the stages set up in a new dimension like here in the city were the results of the distribution of the limited power by the System. 

Destroying the boundaries surrounding the red zone was similar. The System wanted us to prove whether or not we were qualified enough to advance to the next boundary...