Before the day the world ended, humanity was blind to the impending dimensional cataclysm that brought monstrous overlords and apocalyptic system trials to Earth. Sunwoo had fought on the bloody frontlines for decades, watching civilization crumble until he was the last hunter standing amidst the ashes of mankind. With his dying breath, an ancient celestial mechanism resonates with his indomitable willpower, sending his consciousness thirty years into the past, long before the first dimensional gate ever opened. Awakening as an ordinary young man in the late 1990s, Sunwoo realizes that fighting monsters with swords alone is a fool's errand: to save humanity, one must control global capital, defense conglomerates, and geopolitical power before the gates appear. Leveraging his flawless memory of stock market crashes, venture booms, and global financial shifts, Sunwoo begins quietly buying up the world's wealth and military infrastructure. Moving silently across Wall Street and international capitals, the veteran warrior lays the foundations of an invincible global empire to protect humanity from its destined doom....more