#65
065
Hunter.
The job of becoming a superhuman, defeating the monsters of another world, and gaining enormous wealth and fame was a dream for quite a few people.
Especially for those who are tired of everyday life and dream of ‘deviation’.
‘I want to get away from this boring company dinner, even if it’s just for one day.’
Near Dongtan Station.
Hong Yu-jin, an office worker at a company, was walking down the street at night drunk.
It’s not a pleasant drunk.
I was called out to a boring company dinner and had to force myself to drink alcohol, which I couldn’t drink well.
‘This damn workplace. ‘I should resign quickly before I die from alcoholism.’
I was so sick of it when I thought of my boss’s face, nagging me even while drinking, giving me all the advice I had.
Deciding that she needed some time to purify herself, she hiccuped and took out her cell phone from her skirt pocket.
On the main screen of the portal site, there was a large article about Ryu Seo-yeon, an S-class hunter who had recently shown great activity in the second-grade survival type gate.
‘…That’s cool. Even if the same woman sees it.’
Hong Yujin’s shoulders slumped and he let out a heavy sigh.
I also want to become a great hunter like Ryu Seo-yeon. So, I want to escape from this hamster wheel-like daily life.
Knowing that there is no chance of it happening makes me want it even more.
“The more I think about it, the more depressed I feel. “I should go and get some sleep.”
Hong Yu-jin shook her head to dispel the fleeting delusion and hastened her steps toward home.
As she passed the intersection and entered the alley, her house, a simple row house, came into view.
Then.
“…huh?”
Hong Yujin’s steps stopped.
On the other side.
A tall man was standing quietly in front of the door, staring intently in the direction where she was standing.
“….”
Hong Yujin inadvertently swallowed his breath.
A chill ran down my spine.
I’m not waiting for anyone in particular, nor am I going out of the house for a moment to smoke a cigarette.
That’s for sure.
‘Are you looking at me…?’
Is this really just a delusion or excessive worry?
No, that can’t be true.
In terms of common sense, how many people would calmly ignore that man and move on in a situation like this?
‘Not now…!’
Thinking that, Hong Yu-jin quickly changed direction as if running away.
The fatigue that had been tickling my eyelids and the intoxication that had made me so irritated disappeared in an instant.
‘Just report it now-’
At that time, Hong Yu-jin turned around the corner of the alley, manipulating her cell phone with trembling hands.
“….”
She could feel a sharp edge quietly digging into her side
.
For a moment, I was so out of breath that I even forgot to scream and slowly rolled my eyes and looked to the side.
A razor-sharp kitchen knife.
It was held in a rugged hand.
“If you scream, you will die.”
“Hee hee hee…!”
“Follow me obediently. I’m saying this for you. “In many ways.”
A low, heavy male voice.
Hong Yu-jin swallowed a sigh of relief and raised his gaze fixed on the side a little higher.
And the moment I saw the hideously distorted face of a man.
She forgot the warning the man had just given her and was about to let out a loud scream.
“Kya-eup?!”
Before that, the man’s large hand blocked Hong Yu-jin’s neck.
In an instant, I was out of breath.
Her feet were up in the air, struggling and shaking.
“Kkkkkk ah ahhh…!”
“It wasn’t even five seconds since I told you to stop screaming. “Do you have a bad brain?”
“Huh huh…!”
In her fading consciousness, she saw clearly.
The kitchen knife in the man’s hand slowly approached his face.
Die.
‘I don’t want to die…!’
At that time, Hong Yu-jin was shedding tears and closing her eyes tightly.
puck-!
A rock flew through the darkness and hit the man in the back of the head.
In an instant, the man’s hand lost strength and Hong Yu-jin fell to the floor.
“Kolok kolok…!”
As she came back from the dead, she coughed and caught her breath.
The man slowly turned his head with an angry face and looked in the direction the stone had come from.
“Looking at his body, he looks like he’s done some exercise…”
Over there,
in the distance, another man was emerging through the darkness.
It was a man wearing a jacket.
KHA logo engraved on the chest.
“So all you’re doing at this time is chasing women’s butts? “That’s why exercising isn’t worth it.”
Gwanghyeon Go.
He was a KHA hunter who went into hiding in the black market recently under orders to capture the remnants of the < Red Demon > alive.
Go Gwang-hyeon spoke with his eyes fixed on the man with wide eyes.
“what are you doing. “Don’t run away quickly.”
“iced coffee…!”
“hurry!”
Only then did Hong Yu-jin come to her senses and hurriedly try to leave the scene.
Swish-!
As if he would never let her go, the man stretched out his powerful arm and tried to snatch her by the scruff of the neck.
Kang-!
However, the long sword drawn by Go Gwang-hyeon struck the man’s arm faster.
“what…!”
Shock erupted.
From Go Gwang-hyeon’s mouth.
This is because the long sword swung with instantaneous acceleration was unable to cut off the man’s arm.
No, rather it bounced off.
It felt like I was swinging a sword through steel.
Go Gwang-hyeon’s arm trembled.
‘This won’t cut…?’
“That’s amazing. “I never thought they would close the distance to where I was standing in an instant.”
“…!”
When a man’s voice was heard from a short distance away, Go Gwang-hyeon hurriedly distanced himself from him.
The man said, gently touching the arm that had just been stabbed as if it was nothing.
“It’s a ‘sacrifice’ that I found, but it’s a waste. It’s a waste. “It really makes me angry.”
“…I think he’s an awakened person, but he seems to have taken the wrong path. “If he could take my sword, he would have become a skilled hunter.”
“Hunter?”
That moment.
Ha ha ha ha ha-!!
The man clutched his stomach, threw his head back and burst into laughter.
Loud enough to rumble through this dark night street.
Go Gwang-hyeon glared fiercely at the man who was bursting into laughter.
yet.
The man who had stopped laughing to some extent spoke while wiping away his tears.
“Hehehe! Hunter? okay! “Once upon a time, I also admired a hunter like you.”
“….”
“But there’s no need for that anymore. Why do you think that is?”
As soon as the laughter stopped completely and there was silence.
Uzik Kwazijic-!
The man’s body, wrapped in a shirt, began to twist in a deformed manner.
The already large size doubled or tripled in size in the blink of an eye, and something black came out of the shoulders.
“…oh my god.”
Go Gwang-hyeon was speechless.
The man who instantly turned into a monster growled lowly and continued speaking.
“Because I gained the power to kill people like you in an instant.”
“Are you… a monster?”
“Let’s just say it’s not wrong.”
A ray of light briefly flashed in the darkness.
It was the moment the man waved his arm.
Sigh-!
Even before launching a counterattack.
Go Gwang-hyun’s new model was cut exactly in half.
“100 million…!”
Even in that brief moment when only his upper body was separated, Go Gwang-hyeon’s consciousness was clearly alive.
And he saw.
Kwazijic-!
The sight of the man, or rather the monster, in front of me tearing the air and inserting his large body through the crack.
‘Oh, I need to know…’
Even though his body was cut in half and his internal organs were clearly exposed, Go Gwang-hyeon desperately held on to the end of consciousness.
He reached into the pocket of his coat, which was barely visible on his upper body, and took out his cell phone.
‘I need to tell the association president… to everyone…’ A
dedicated communication device provided only to hunters belonging to the association.
All photos and video data taken through this mobile phone are automatically sent to the association.
‘Something… something’s happening-‘
That was it.
Suddenly, Go Gwang
-hyeon’s lifeless face touched the asphalt floor.
Click-
***
Meanwhile.
Squeak- Boom!
The gray stone door leading to the Pantheon closed and Daeseong returned to reality.
As soon as he stepped into the dark alley, he stuck his hand into his chest and took out ‘it’.
‘Not yet.’
He was the transcendent of heaven.
However, the guy was silent with his eyes closed, as if he had not yet regained consciousness.
‘I can’t sit idle.’
Daeseong carefully placed the fainted transcendental on the floor, curling his body like a caterpillar.
Then, he took out the Fire Flame Greatsword and activated the skill.
[The second special skill of ‘Sacred Flame’ mode is activated.]
[Special skill: < Grace >]
A soft blue light began to appear through the sword play.
Soon, lumps of light bloomed one by one and slowly landed on the body of the transcendental like snowflakes.
‘I still have to wait a few days to use < Healing >… I have no choice but to use this at least.’
If < Healing >, as its name suggests, is a skill that heals the target at once, < Grace > is close to its lower level.
Although it cannot completely regenerate severed limbs like < Healing >, it can gradually heal minor wounds over time.
‘As long as this guy is still alive, he will get the answer he wants no matter what.’
There is no guarantee that the next transcendental person we meet will be able to obtain all the information as obediently as this guy.
Daesung crossed his arms and silently waited for the transcendent to wake up.
Did 5 minutes pass like that?
[The power of the Absolute permeates the wanderer who does not belong to any dimension.]
[The Absolute can turn the target into a resident of ‘Hell.’]
[Would you like to turn the wanderer into a demon beast? [Yes / No]
A message that was completely unexpected appeared in front of Daesung, who was waiting for the transcendent to come to his senses.
‘Demon beast painting?’
If you think about it simply, it would be a task to turn a transcendental person who originally belonged to the dimension of heaven into a magical beast.
Guessing the meaning of that work is another matter…
‘I guess it doesn’t matter if I can wake this guy up again.’
He was a little worried about whether he should say ‘yes’ or ‘no’ here.
But what if you choose ‘No’ and the guy dies?
Moreover, it may not be a mere coincidence that this message appeared only after attempting < Grace >.
‘It must mean something.’
Because the system has never made a proposal that would ultimately be disadvantageous.
He nodded, thinking he had a lot to gain by choosing ‘yes’.
at that time.
The back of the Transcendant,
who was in the form of a caterpillar, suddenly began to split left and right.
And something popped out through the gap.
‘That’s…’
Daesung knew right away.
Those were wings.
Also, butterfly wings.
It was a scene close to hatching.
While Daesung just blankly watches the process.
A girl with red hair was rising, flapping her butterfly wings, above the transcendental body, which had already become a translucent shell.
[Demonization completed.]
[After searching the record of the demon beast, it was confirmed that it was influenced by the environment of the ‘heavenly’ dimension.] [
The system currently used by the Absolute has been updated to 1.1 ver. with the two celestial transcendents removed. [Synchronization completed.]
[Synchronization completed. From now on, you can use the system belonging to the ‘Heavenly’ dimension series through this demon beast.]
Daesung couldn’t figure out where to focus his attention.
A system message that suddenly updates like a storm, pouring out unfamiliar words?
or not.
[A lowly servant will offer my first greeting to my lord.]
Should we pay attention to the girl in a crimson dress and with a vague smile on her face?
Daesung was dumbfounded and looked at the girl, speechless for a moment.
At first glance, his appearance was no different from that of an ordinary human.
One difference was that even considering the fact that she was a ‘girl’, her body size was less than half that of an average girl.
It was slightly larger than a rhinoceros beetle. Like a fairy that appears in a fantasy novel.
‘…I guess it’s good.’
As long as you can get the necessary information, what does it matter whether the being in front of you looks human or what it does?
[From now on, I will sacrifice my whole life and be loyal to my lord-]
“That’s it.”
I was not in a leisurely position to listen to each and every unnecessary greeting.
After hearing the answer to my question, I felt like I wanted to go home and rest.
“Let’s continue with the questions and answers we left off earlier.”
[Question and answer… Do you understand?]
“Explain from beginning to end in an easy-to-understand manner what kind of plan the god you worship has in store.”
[…Yes?]
After hearing Daesung’s words, the butterfly girl looked up from her lowered head in embarrassment.
An expression of not understanding what he was saying was appearing on his delicate face.
[I’m sorry, my lord… I don’t understand what you’re saying…]
“… That’s how it comes out.”
As soon as Daesung bursts out laughing.
hook-!
The Fire Flame Greatsword was pulled out of subspace at a speed so fast that it was invisible to the eye and was held in his hand.
The butterfly girl, sensing an evil threat, became thoughtful and cried out.
[My lord! Why are you suddenly doing this to me?]
“If you’re going to stick out your flippers, I’ll cut off those little toes first.”
[I can’t understand my master’s will without a single lie… Oh, really?]
“….”
[Are you talking about the time before I became your servant?]
“Yes. “It seems so.”
[I’m so sorry, but since I’m already a resident of hell, I can’t recall the memories of my previous life…] As soon as the
butterfly girl finished speaking, she hurriedly covered her mouth with both hands and her complexion turned bright blue. .
Because my instincts were telling me.
The answer he gave just now offended the lord in front of him.
A cool shadow was cast on Daesung’s face as proof that the butterfly girl’s instincts were not wrong.
“…If you became a magician through the system, then yes. “I’m sure you wouldn’t lie to me.”
[My lord. Just a moment… please wait a moment. Sir, I-]
“I guess I wasted my time. “I wasted my useless skills trying to save you, who are of no use to me.”
Once activated, all skills related to ‘Seonghwa’ had a huge waiting time until the next reuse.
But that skill was wasted saving this helpless butterfly girl.
Daesung raised his Fire Flower Greatsword with the intention of crushing the butterfly girl’s head in half at any moment.
[Lord, Lord…!]
The butterfly girl seemed to have forgotten that she had wings on her back, so she fell to the ground and flopped down.
Just once.
Daesung decided to give Butterfly Girl just one chance.
“Do you want to live?”
[I want to live.]
“If you want to live, prove your worth. I’ll give you exactly 3 seconds…3…”
[Hee hee…!]
The count went down so quickly that it was merciless.
The moment the number ‘1’ came out of Daesung’s mouth.
Pak-!
As the butterfly girl hurriedly stretched out her arms, the system sent out a message.
[‘Heavenly Store’ is activated.]
[In the future, you will be able to use the store through public points.]