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Summary
The last restriction was finally undone.
Finally gaining the freedom of movement, the ‘owner of the dungeon’ left the boss chamber and strode outside the Gate. It was the Chieftain of the Orcs, ‘Guroktaru’.
Its entire body was covered in black tattoos, seemingly not leaving behind even a single patch of empty skin.
Tattoos signified victory to Orcs. These were proof of how many battles this creature fought and how many enemies it had slain so far.
“Guroktaru!”
“Guroktaru!!”
The Orcs waiting for the Chieftain in front of the Gate chanted out its name and lowered their heads.
On the other hand, Guroktaru raised its head towards the ceiling without saying anything.
‘……’
Because, it was getting rather noisy up there.
It had been some time since the advanced scouts took away a few of the warriors while declaring that they would conquer this castle of humans.
However, they still hadn’t ended their battle yet?
A sweating Orc received the furious glare of its Chieftain and hurriedly explained the situation.
“High Orc warriors are aiding humans.”
“High Orcs?”
Indeed, High Orc warriors were strong. Regular Orc warriors wouldn’t be able to fight against them. Meaning, it was now time for the Chieftain to step up.
“How many?”
“Three.”
Even if their opponents were strong, what a shameful notion it was for dozens of great Orc warriors to fail at subduing only three High Orcs.
“Pathetic….”
Guroktaru’s expression crumpled.
The Orcs were scared stiff from the Chieftain’s anger and began trembling like leaves. It was then, the Orc great warriors that had been left behind by Guroktaru’s speed, finally emerged out of the Gate one by one.
There were a total of five out-of-breath Orc great warriors.
Confirming that all of its guards had escaped from the Gate now, Guroktaru gestured at the Orc making that report with its chin.
“Lead the way.”
The Orc lowered its head and stood at the front. The Chieftain and its guards strode right behind. Meanwhile, lights of madness were burning furiously within Guroktaru’s eyes.
‘Insolent b*stards….’
It was now time to demand appropriate compensation from the High Orcs, who dare to interrupt the hunting of the Orc warriors.
***
Suddenly finding himself left behind along with ant monsters, Park Jong-Su was feeling rather dumbstruck at the moment.
“Hyung-nim…..”
“Leave me for a bit, okay? I need time to think.”
Kiiieeehhk-
Keeck, keeck…
Ka-ahahak!
Being surrounded by over twenty of these monsters, no, ‘summons’, Park Jong-Su was getting this close to abandoning this raid altogether.
Not only that….
Well, this guy over there. This one guy, with a far bigger physique and with wings on its back. Wasn’t that guy the same mutated ant monster that made an utter mockery out of the rank S Hunters?
This guy’s horrifying level of magic energy was making Park Jong-Su’s skin crawl just by being near the dang thing.
‘If I think about a creature like this turning on us…..’
He suddenly thought that the rank S Hunters willing to fight against this thing were a rather amazing bunch of folks, instead. And, at the same time…
‘Hold on a sec….’
…And, at the same time, a certain suspicion bloomed in his head.
Just what was the identity of Hunter Seong Jin-Woo controlling this mutated ant monster as his summoned creature?
‘Didn’t Hunter Seong Jin-Woo solo this guy, too?’
When his thoughts reached that point, his heart began pounding even harder.
‘No, wait. I’ve gotten sidetracked.’
Park Jong-Su shook his head to throw away all the distracting thoughts.
Indeed, he needed to think about whether to continue on with this raid along with these monsters or not, instead of wasting time on nonsense like how strong Hunter Seong Jin-Woo was or what his true identity could be.
‘Okay, so… let’s say that we give up on this raid.’
If so, then how should he explain the result of this raid to the reporters waiting outside?
Could he say, Hunter Seong Jin-Woo had to suddenly leave the assault team and therefore they couldn’t afford to advance forward anymore?
Or, they had to give up on the raid because they got too scared of the new ‘friends’ Hunter Seong Jin-Woo summoned here for them?
‘What kind of an embarrassment would that be…..?’
Didn’t matter which excuse was used, it’d become a source of ridicule for them, probably for forever.
Park Jong-Su clenched his teeth.
‘Fine. We go forward.’
Did it really matter if they were scared of these summons? At the end of the day, weren’t they Hunter Seong Jin-Woo’s slaves?
When Park Jong-Su thought about this, his mind calmed down just a tad.
‘I mean, seriously. These guys are Seong Hunter-nim’s summoned creatures, so they won’t do anything weird to us, right?’
Park Jong-Su’s confidence filled eyes shifted over to Beru, and the latter approached the Hunter after sensing his gaze.
‘Heok….’
The confidence of a few seconds ago evaporated real fast, and Park Jong-Su could barely squeeze out a trembling voice.
“L-let’s get going.”
Rather naturally, he began speaking in a super-polite tone. However, Beru showed no reaction even after hearing Park Jong-Su’s voice. No, ‘it’ just stood there and simply stared back.
Wondering if his manner of speech was still not good enough for this creature’s whims, Park Jong-Su became even more polite in his tone.
“Should…. Should we get going now?”
Even then, Beru showed no sign of budging from the spot.
Park Jong-Su’s consciousness was gradually getting fainter as he had to stare longer and longer into the powerful glare of the creature in front of him.
It was then, Jeong Yun-Tae approached him from behind.
“Hyung-nim, will we be continuing with this raid alongside these guys?”
Park Jong-Su was already feeling jittery, so when his deputy began pressing him, he ended up blurting out in anger.
“Just keep quiet, will ya?!”
The words, ‘Or, why dontcha become the leader of this assault team and tell these things we’re going to give up’, almost jumped out of his throat but somehow, he managed to swallow them all back down.
Park Jong-Su glared daggers at the poor Jeong Yun-Tae for a bit before shifting his attention back to Beru.
Gulp.
His dry saliva went down the throat all by itself. Park Jong-Su desperately wanted this awkwardness to go away as soon as possible.
But, then suddenly a thought popped up in his head.
‘Could it be that this guy can’t understand what I’m saying here and that’s why it’s not moving?’
When Park Jong-Su’s thoughts reached this point, he forced his facial muscle to contort into an ungainly smile. And then, he pointed towards the interior of the dungeon.
“In front. Forward.”
In that moment.
Pii-shook!
The mutated ant monster disappeared instantly, along with the sound of a bullet leaving the silenced gun.
‘….Uh?’
Where did it go?
Even before Park Jong-Su could scan his vicinity with puzzled eyes, Beru returned to his original position.
Taht.
Beru then pushed forward something held in his hand towards Park Jong-Su’s face.
‘W-what the heck?’
When the flustered Hunter took a closer look, he realised that the mystery object was actually the head of a monster.
Not only that, it was the helmet of one of the most powerful undead monsters, Death Knight, with a rotting head still trapped inside. It dangled oh-so innocuously in the hand of the mutated ant monster.
“U-uwaaaahk?!”
Park Jong-Su freaked out and plopped down his butt, real hard.
The other members of the assault team also were jolted into stunned silence and hurriedly gathered around Park Jong-Su.
Beru disinterestedly scanned the Hunters now grouped together in one spot, then tossed the Death Knight’s head away somewhere. He loudly screeched out to the rest of the ant monsters.
“Kiiiieeehk!!”
With that, the ant army began to march forward in perfect order.
‘……’
Beru looked down at Park Jong-Su still on the ground for a little while, before he slowly turned around and followed after the marching ants. The Hunters hurriedly checked out Park Jong-Su’s current condition.
“Hyung-nim!!”
“Chairman, are you alright?!”
“Are you okay?”
Park Jong-Su replied to them with a stupefied face.
“Uh, uh. I’m okay.”
His body was fine. But, for some reason, his heart ached, instead. It felt as if he got ridiculed by a summoned creature.
‘There’s no way that’s true, surely not….’
Indeed, a summoned creature couldn’t have possessed such a level of intelligence. Whatever the case may be, though – he couldn’t give up on this raid now that he even got humiliated somewhat like this.
Park Jong-Su dusted off his butt and got back up.
“Let’s go, as well.”
The expressions of the Hunters stiffened up.
“Eh?”
“You want to follow after those things?”
“How can we go on a raid with monsters? I won’t do it.”
“Yeah, me too.”
Park Jong-Su spat out a groan as if he was feeling annoyed now.
Was there a need for him to waste his breath convincing these folks with words here? He quickly searched for the head of the Death Knight discarded by the mutated ant monster and picked it up.
“Heok!”
“H-hey, isn’t that the head of a Death Knight?”
“A Death Knight, you say??”
The experienced Hunters among the group recognised the helmet of the Death Knight and gasped out in pure shock.
Park Jong-Su calmly explained it to them.
“You are all aware of how much Magic Crystals coming out of high-ranked monsters sell for, yes?”
Gulp.
Hunters swallowed their greedy salivas.
“All we have to do is to follow them and simply pick those Crystals up.”
The expressions of the Hunters, filled with dissatisfaction up until a second ago, gradually brightened up. That was an expected and perhaps, inevitable reaction in this situation. Park Jong-Su used a question to end his speech.
“So, anyone still unwilling to continue?”
Hunters moved in an even more orderly fashion than the ant army. Those who had already advanced far forward looked back and called out to Park Jong-Su.
“Chairman? What are you doing at the far back?”
“Please hurry up! We might leave you behind, you know?”
“Hyung-nim, how long are you planning to stay there?”
Park Jong-Su bitterly smacked his lips.
“Well, I’ll be… these people. Seriously.”
And so, the momentarily-halted raid of the Knight Order Guild recommenced from this point onwards.
***
Jin-Woo directed his gaze below him.
People, roads, cars, buildings, rivers, trees, mountains, mountains, and even more mountains – the scenery kept changing every time he blinked over and over again.
‘So fast.’
Kaisel’s unrestricted speed had reached a truly gobsmacking level.
If he was a simple, regular powerless person and not a highest-ranked Hunter out there, then he wouldn’t have been able to withstand the air pressure his body was being subjected to right now.
Even then….
Despite this amazing turn of speed….
Jin-Woo was getting more and more anxious.
The signals from his soldiers were still getting to him, but they were gradually getting weaker.
Not only that…
‘Status window.’
[MP: 8,619/8,770]
From a short while ago, his MP began declining as well. That definitely was not a good sign. Because it could only mean that the High Orc Shadow Soldiers were repeatedly being destroyed only to get revived again.
‘An enemy on the level of destroying my Shadow Soldiers are aiming for Jin-Ah.’
Grit.
Jin-Woo’s expression hardened.
Even if not a single strand of his little sister’s hair was harmed, he swore to never let this enemy get out of there alive. Murderous rage filled up in Jin-Woo’s eyes.
‘Faster. Faster!’
Kyaaahhh-!
Kaisel heard Jin-Woo’s order and screeched out again, before increasing its speed even further.
***
The High Orc warriors were indeed strong. Unfortunately, they were still no match for the Orc Chieftain, Guroktaru.
The Orc’s leader left behind its guards in the corridor and stepped forward to fight all by itself. And then, while easily evading the attacks of the High Orcs, pulled out a scimitar sheathed on its back.
“Is this all you have?!”
The interior of the classroom was filled with the corpses of the Orcs. Even at a casual count, there were 50 of them here.
Over 50 of its underlings were done in by these three High Orcs.
“Make me enjoy this more, warriors of the High Orc race!”
The Chieftain’s rage was transferred directly into merciless swings of its curved blade.
Guroktaru’s scimitar drew elaborate arcs in the air and began shaving away the High Orcs, their armours and all.
“Ahh!!”
“Kyaaahk!”
The screams didn’t come from the High Orcs, naturally, but from the mouths of the humans hiding behind them. Guroktaru’s forehead creased up in displeasure.
‘Annoyingly noisy.’
After taking care of these High Orcs, those bugs would be next.
Guroktaru sliced off an arm of a High Orc and chopped it up in fine pieces until it got eventually bored of doing that, and spun on its heels to cut off the opponent’s neck clean off.
Slice!
When that happened, other Orcs who had retreated outside the classroom because of the High Orcs all began raising loud cheers.
“Guroktaru!”
“Guroktaru-!!”
It was then, Guroktaru’s brows quivered.
The headless High Orc morphed to black smoke before reverting back to how it was originally, right in front of its eyes.
‘Is this shamanism?’
Even after the Orc Chieftain cut and sliced its enemies several more times, the story remained the same.
“Kuwahk!”
Guroktaru eventually became really frustrated and roared out. It had sliced and hacked these High Orcs numerous times to death, yet they all reverted back to their original shapes again and again.
‘It won’t be hard killing them hundreds, thousands times.’
However, there would be no end in sight if that happened.
Even right now, that d*mn voice in its head was repeatedly ordering Guroktaru to kill humans. As a matter of fact, the Orc was beginning to suffer from a migraine as the voice continuously rang inside its head.
But that didn’t mean it could ignore these High Orcs and try to kill the humans, either.
‘….Time to finish this.’
Guroktaru rolled its brain into gear.
If these High Orcs were creations from some kind of sorcery, then without a doubt, there must be a shaman controlling them somewhere. Guroktaru had fought against many different kinds of sorcery in the past battles, and therefore, it subsequently knew how to end this dirty trick once and for all, as well.
‘That female!’
That human female, standing far behind these High Orcs and holding her breath! Although faint, she was somehow connected to these High Orcs.
Guroktaru’s eyes gleamed dangerously.
‘So, is it you?’
The monster’s target for its murderous rage was redirected to her. The moment Jin-Ah met Guroktaru’s gaze, her entire body shuddered uncontrollably.
That human female definitely knew something – Guroktaru decided as so, and pointed at Jin-Ah while glancing behind itself.
“Kill that human female!”
Even before its words were finished, the guards observing the fight from the back rushed forward to carry out Guroktaru’s order.
Then, the High Orcs ignored Guroktaru in front of them to desperately block against the advancing guards.
‘I thought as much.’
Indeed, the Orc Chieftain’s guess was correct.
By seizing the opening created from the High Orcs being held up, Guroktaru stood before Jin-Ah.
“So, it was you.”
The Orc used the hand not holding the scimitar and grabbed Jin-Ah’s neck, before lifting her up.
“Ah….”
The female, with her airways squeezed tight, couldn’t even scream properly. This caused Guroktaru to tilt its head.
It was such a weak, slender neck that it’d get broken just from the monster squeezing a little harder than usual. But, how could such a weak human manage to complete a high-class sorcery that changed warriors into immortals?
There was a simple way to find out.
‘Kill her and I’ll see.’
And, just as Guroktaru began squeezing the female’s neck to snap it in half….
Kiiiaaahhk-!
From afar, the cry of a Sky Dragon resounded out.
Right away, Guroktaru felt every hair on its body stand up.
‘What is this?’
As time slowed down from the extreme tension it felt, the Orc Chieftain’s instincts of a warrior, trained to their very limit, sent out countless warning bells. It said that a truly ‘terrifying’ being was headed this way.
Badump!!
The sound of the Orc’s heartbeat rang around painfully in its eardrums, like a series of thunderclaps.
If it didn’t get out of here right now, it’d be killed.
The sharp instincts of a warrior, honed like a fine blade, would sometimes display powers close to that of the gift of foresight. Just like right now!
‘…….!!’
Guroktaru quickly discarded the human female and with the movements akin to a wild animal, fled to the door of the classroom.
BOOM!!
A mighty, ear-splitting explosion occurred next, the shards of glass flying out like shrapnel. Meanwhile, Orcs manning the doorways began hastily retreating away after the back of their Chieftain suddenly appeared in front of their eyes.
‘……’
Guroktaru wordlessly glared forward, its breathing now becoming extremely cautious.
It was picking up on an unusual and eerie vibe. It could see a human male it hadn’t seen before standing on the spot where the human female was just now.
Guroktaru shifted its gaze ever so slightly to the side.
Its opposite corner was where the windows were. Nothing remained of the entirety of that wall as if it had been struck by a powerful siege weapon.
‘Did the human enter by breaking through the windows?’
Even with its excellent dynamic visual acuity, the Orc Chieftain still failed to follow that man’s movements.
‘…….’
Guroktaru could only swallow its saliva at the sudden entrance of a powerful opponent. A strand of cold sweat trickled down its temple.
Kiiiaaahhk-!!
Guroktaru’s head snapped upwards after it heard that screech.
Past the ceiling, beyond the roof – yet another powerful enemy was circling around above the Orc’s head like a hawk waiting for prey to emerge.
‘This might become a difficult fight.’
Guroktaru’s eyes were now dyed in the colour of nervousness, something that didn’t exist only a few moments ago.
The new enemy completely ignored the presence of the Orc Chieftain and its underlings, and simply proceeded to confirm the human female’s condition.
Guroktaru spoke to its enemy.
“I am Guroktaru, from the proud tribe of Red Blade!”
That was the warrior’s introduction only granted to an opponent capable of reaping away the Orc’s life. Having completed its introduction, Guroktaru asked the human male.
“And who are you?”
Jin-Woo raised his head and quietly spoke.
“Shut your mouth and quietly wait for your turn over there.”
A human just used the language of the Orcs?
The Orc’s surprise lasted only for a moment.
Perhaps it was because of the power carried in that man’s voice, none of the Orcs, which included Guroktaru itself, could even dare to budge an inch from the spot.
***
“Cough, cough.”
Jin-Woo gently patted Jin-Ah’s back as she continued to cough and wheeze while he carefully checked to see if she had sustained any injuries. Thankfully, he couldn’t see any.
….With the sole exception of the handprint clearly visible on her neck, that was. Jin-Woo asked, his expression hard and unforgiving.
“Are you alright?”
“Oppa!!”
Jin-Ah finally stopped coughing and jumped into his embrace, tears streaming from her eyes.
Jin-Woo gently stroked her hair as if he was soothing a scared child.
‘…Oppa?’
‘Jin-Ah’s Oppa… that means….?’
‘Ah!’
The students finally realised who the man in front of their eyes was. He was Seong Jin-Woo, a Hunter ranked S!
‘We’re saved!!’
The students confirmed Jin-Woo’s face and began sobbing again. These tears weren’t of despair and fear like the ones from before, but were formed from the mixture of joy and relief they felt.
“Sob, sob…”
“It’s fine now. I’m here, so everything will be okay.”
Jin-Woo gently soothed his sobbing sister, while extending his sensory perception to the rest of the school. And, within this large school building, the only presence of humans he could pick up on was…. 17.
‘…….’
Jin-Woo’s hardened complexion was now dyed in the darkness of rage.
He very cautiously separated his sister from him as she tried hard not to leave his side. He then called out his Shadow Soldiers matching the exact number of the surviving students.
“Everyone, follow my summons out of the building.”
The students nodded their heads, and the soldiers proceeded to pick up them up in an embrace. As for Jin-Ah, he entrusted her especially to Igrit.
“Please wait for me downstairs, okay? I’m going to join you very soon after dealing with this.”
Normally, Jin-Ah would try to stop her oppa, telling him that they should go together regardless of whether he was a rank S Hunter or not. No, she’d still say that even if he was something greater.
But now…. She couldn’t do that.
Because, Jin-Woo’s current expression was far, far too scary for her to say those words. So, Jin-Ah could only nod her head.
Jin-Woo gave out his signal, and the soldiers carrying the students jumped outside of the destroyed wall one by one. Orcs in the corridor flinched slightly at the sight of the almost-caught prey making their escape. When that happened, Jin-Woo glared at them with his ice-cold eyes.
“I told you not to move.”
Like some kind of a lie, all Orcs stopped moving altogether. None of them could go against his glare.
One of the Orcs, its complexion utterly pale, sneaked its gaze around and cautiously whispered to Guroktaru.
“C-chief….”
“Shush.”
Guroktaru was in agreement with that Orc, though.
It was true that right now wasn’t the time to care about those weak prey escaping. No, they should be minding the ‘hunter’ right in front of their eyes. A fight between hunters would commence very soon, where who eats who would be determined.
‘Even then…. We can’t let them get away that easily.’
Guroktaru sent out a sneaky little signal, and two of its guards moved without making any sounds.
After confirming that all of the students had left the classroom safely, Jin-Woo turned around to face the Orcs. He didn’t let them leave because he was worried about them getting injured.
‘These measly Orcs….’
He was confident of killing them all in the blink of an eye.
He simply didn’t want to show his little sister or other kids what was about to happen in here, that was all.
And now, there were no more eyes watching. Meaning, there was nothing to restrict his actions now.
‘……’
Jin-Woo’s gaze briefly drifted towards the stairs outside the classroom. He sensed two Orcs going downstairs while hiding their presence to the best of their abilities. It seemed that they were going after the kids, but… it didn’t matter.
He had sent Igrit there, and Kaisel was circling around in the air, too.
‘So, the remaining task is to deal with these lot, then.’
Jin-Woo exhaled softly. The exiting air contained a heavy, dense amount of magic energy.
Guroktaru asked him again.
“Who are you? How can you speak our tongue?”
Jin-Woo ignored the Orc’s words and slowly made his way over to them. Realising that the human male had no intentions to answer back, Guroktaru bared its fangs and shouted out.
“Attack!”
The brave Orc warriors pounced on Jin-Woo all at once after hearing the Chieftain’s order.
“Kurururuk!”
“Kurarak!”
When they did… the time froze.
Within this freeze-frame of a moment, Jin-Woo leisurely walked in between the Orcs that were moving agonisingly slowly, and proceeded to destroy them one by one.
He didn’t even need to take his weapons out. He only needed to use his finger. Every time Jin-Woo’s finger brushed by an Orc, heads, shoulders, wrists, waists and midriffs of the monsters exploded into bits. And after utterly destroying over twenty Orcs in one blink of an eye….
Jin-Woo stood before Guroktaru.
The Orc Chieftain could only barely keep up with Jin-Woo’s afterimage with its eyes. Its trembling lips parted with much difficulty.
“W-what….?”
It didn’t even have a chance to swing its scimitar. Jin-Woo’s left hand grabbed Guroktaru’s mouth and jaw, and the Orc could only whimper pathetically.
“Keok!”
Jin-Woo walked forward just like that and slammed the Orc’s head against the corridor’s wall.
SLAM!!
The empty corridor reverberated with the thunderous boom.
Jin-Woo’s gaze shifted towards either end of the corridor. It was filled with the remains of the students. It was truly a hard-to-look gruesome sight to behold.
However, Jin-Woo didn’t avert his gaze and imprinted the sight of every single one of these kids in his mind, just so he could demand reparations from the guilty one responsible.
Jin-Woo shifted his eyes to Guroktaru.
“Why?”
His voice was incomparably icy.
“Why does your kind want to kill humans to this extreme level?”
Guroktaru had long lost its desire to resist and could only tremble in fear as it replied.
“In, in our heads, telling us…. to kill humans….”
Jin-Woo became momentarily confused.
‘Kill humans?’
He had heard of the exact same thing before. But, back then, he interpreted the word ‘humans’ as another term for ‘Hunters’.
But it seemed that the word ‘human’ really did mean all humans, now that he got to hear this monster’s reply.
“Then? What about me?”
Jin-Woo asked the Orc again.
“Do you not hear the voice telling you to kill me?”
He brought his face closer.
It was inevitable that Guroktaru would look into Jin-Woo’s eyes. The Orc began shaking its head and shivered hard as if it had discovered something in there.
“F, f-forgive…. Forgive, me….”
Something impossible happened. The brave and mighty great warrior of the Orc race began shedding tears like a little child. Jin-Woo felt the inside of his head suddenly cool off as he watched the terrified monster cowering before him.
‘So, that’s how it is….’
He was not being seen as a human even in this guy’s head, was that it?
‘….Well, it doesn’t really matter.’
Jin-Woo wasn’t all that interested in how monsters viewed him. No, he simply killed them because they were out to harm humans.
Guroktaru shivered and continued sob as the fear it couldn’t overcome completely enveloped it.
“Please…. forgive…..”
Jin-Woo replied.
“I’ll forgive you.”
And then, he summoned the ‘Demon King’s Shortsword’.
“However, do not think that the process will be a painless one for you.”
***
The Knight Order Guild’s assault team could only gasp out in astonishment while spectating on the battles of the monsters.
“Heok!”
“H-how could it be….”
How could anyone call this a raid now? Because, the ants very easily subdued the undead monsters and then, began greedily devouring them.
Crunch, crunch….
The eyes of the Hunters opened wider and wider from this horrifying spectacle.
“B-but, if they eat up everything like that, nothing will be left behind, you know?”
“Right. Even the Magic Crystals….”
The Hunters could only anxiously look on as the top-class Magic Crystals all ended up in the stomachs of these monsters, no, summoned creatures.
Unable to watch from the sidelines any longer, Jeong Ye-Rim hastily ran out.
“Don’t you know how expensive that is?!”
She tried to wrestle away the corpse of a Vampire, but that only managed to annoy the ant, and the creature swung its arm at her direction.
“Ahk!”
She cried out and tumbled backwards after the ant’s claw cut into her forearm.
Plop.
“O-ouch.”
Just as she tried to get up while rubbing her butt….
“Kururuk-!”
By the time she regained her wits, the ant monster that swung its arm was standing before her. The creature had its gigantic maw and its horrifying mandibles wide open as if to swallow her head whole.
Jeong Ye-Rim’s expression froze stiff at that moment.
“Ah…. Ah….”
It was then. Beru had come swooping in and turned that ant around. He opened his own maw wide just like how this ant did a moment ago, and then….
“Kiiiieeeeehhhk-!!!”
…And then, he screeched out incredibly loudly.
Being subjected to the rage of an existence on another level, the ant creature couldn’t even meet Beru’s gaze and simply shivered in fear.
“K-keeiick….”
Beru let go of the ant’s shoulder, causing the creature to hurriedly scurry away from there. Jeong Ye-Rim watched this scene play out in a total daze, but Beru approached her and extended his hand out.
‘Uh…..?’
Still stupefied over everything, she grabbed the offered hand and was able to finally stand back up.
“I, uh… T-tha….”
She was about to say something, only for her lips to stop. Because, she saw the gentle blue light circulating around Beru’s fingertips, that was why.
“….Healing magic?!”
Jeong Ye-Rim’s brows shot up real high in surprise.
The wound in her arm healed up immediately the moment that blue light touched her. After confirming that her wound was completely cured, Beru turned towards the ants and shouted out.
“Khe-ehck!”
That caused the ants to end their mealtime and began moving deeper into the dungeon’s interior.
Jeong Ye-Rim watched the back of Beru and murmured to herself.
“How can…. a summon cast better healing magic than me??”
***
The Hunters finally arrived in the school.
They followed the direction the needle of the magic compass was pointing to and climbed up the stairs. An incredible magic energy reaction was coming from the sixth floor’s corridor.
The man in charge of the Hunters looked behind at his group and spoke.
“Be careful.”
The Hunters nodded their heads.
And when they eventually arrived on the sixth floor, they got to discover two things.
“Heok!!”
One, an Orc sliced up into so many pieces that it was impossible to count; two, a lone man covered in blood standing still with a shortsword in his hand.
‘And that person is….?’
The leader of the assault team met Jin-Woo’s icy cold eyes and his breath nearly came to a sudden stop. But he recovered somehow and picked up the walkie talkie.
“Yes, Hunter Seong Jin-Woo is here.”
The leader took a look around and made another report.
“The situation has been resolved.”
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