I Stole the Number One Ranker’s Soul 163

Episode 164

“…Ouch! “I have to collect it!”

I felt someone shaking me awake.

Because I was in the middle of a light sleep, it was not easy to wake up.

However, because I could sense the urgency in his voice, I managed to shake off the water horse that was pulling me in like a swamp and barely opened my eyes.

“…Seo Ji-han?”

Seo Ji-han, who had materialized, was looking down at me with an unusual expression.

After staring blankly at that pretty face bathed in moonlight, I closed my drowsy eyelids again.

“I don’t know what it is, but we talk about it in the morning. I’m so sleepy right now…”

“The dungeon exploded!”

I came to my senses as if my hair had been doused with cold water.

“What dungeon? A new dungeon? Did it explode around here?”

I was still in a half-asleep state, so I couldn’t get my pulse and asked gibberish questions.

But I knew the answer even without hearing it.

It was because I belatedly recognized the message window that filled my eyes.

I detected the dimensional barrier attack of the predator Ionickel.

The predator.

Multiple lines. That sentence in the message felt particularly eerie. The

sense of crisis that I had been vaguely thinking about until now had really come, gave me goosebumps.

“Damn, there must have been a dungeon around here. It hasn’t been long since the message was sent… ”

Behind Seo Ji-han’s voice, a faint explosion of alcohol played in the background.

I hastily put the blanket aside, got out of bed, and opened the window.

“Ah…”

The black night sky was burning red from below.

The epicenter of the explosion was there.

Even as I was opening the window, loud and small explosions erupted one after another.

“In that direction.”

“It’s a small town with a supermarket that we often go to.”

Out of urgency, I jumped down the window.

Seo Ji-han was startled and caught me and landed. I

don’t have to do that, but I can now make wings with the partial transformation I’ve become good at.

“Oh, that’s fast.”

As soon as I came out, Ban Seo-jin followed me almost immediately.

She looked at the burning sky and muttered in a voice that I couldn’t tell if it was lamentation or admiration.

“They said it was dark under the lamp, and the dungeon was so nearby.”

“Iknow, right.”

“Wow, it really was a mess. What happened in the middle of the night?”

The tone was light, but there was no trace of a smile on Ban Seo-jin’s face.

She must have found this situation very sudden.

“Check your phone. Have you contacted Yoo Eun-dam? I haven’t.”

At those words, I quickly took out my phone and checked. There were 0 messages.

“No messages.”

“Really? Did a dungeon break out somewhere else? Is there anything on the news?”

When I turned on the Internet at those words, I saw a much more serious situation than I expected.

〈Breaking News〉Simultaneous monster attacks across the U.S.

〈Breaking News〉Japan declares state of emergency and enters wartime

〈Breaking News〉City paralyzed due to monster attacks in Beijing, China

〈Breaking News〉 ‘Panic’ due to monster attack in UK

〈Breaking News〉 Indian casualties: 500,000, 3 cities in urgent need to build defense lines

〈Breaking News〉 President’s emergency statement: Respond calmly as there is no domestic damage

〈Breaking News〉 Dungeon raids around the world, Korea affected No

〈Breaking News〉Disaster and Safety Administration. Korean citizens are advised to remain calm and lead their daily lives.

〈Breaking News〉There is no plan yet for the government to repatriate overseas Koreans.

The news portal was plastered all over in bright red as if to indicate that it was a state of emergency.

Meanwhile, there was no damage to Korea. While I was relieved by the news, a brief feeling of guilt came over the relief itself.

“I guess it’s not just the dungeon that exploded here.”

“then?”

“It seems like all dungeons around the world exploded at the same time.”

They say that when a person is too embarrassed, he actually becomes calm.

At my calm words, Ban Seo-jin just blinked as if he was at a loss for words for a moment.

“I understand that Yoo Eun-dam has not contacted me. I guess he is also busy clearing up the dungeon explosion.”

Seo Ji-han muttered quietly.

Come to think of it, he had already materialized. He must have materialized to wake me up.

“For now, let’s contact you later and then we can move.”

Ban Seo-jin nodded at my words and took out a scroll from her inventory and tore it up.

Although it was a distance visible to the naked eye, the scroll was faster than running. I followed her and tore up the scroll.

“…Oh my god.”

Ban Seo-jin muttered in confusion.

When I arrived and checked the situation for myself, it was more messed up than I thought.

The small town where not many people lived was completely on fire.

The screams of the fleeing citizens and the blood flowing from the people trapped in the buildings. The entire city was red from the fire burning beyond.

“Hey, that’s it!”

Ban Seo-jin, who had been dazed for a moment, came to his senses and urgently stretched out his hand. A

huge monster with a hairy human body and blade-like wings was descending, targeting the fleeing citizens.

In fact, it is expected that people and monsters are intertwined and fighting . But surprisingly, I only saw injured people and no monsters, so I was puzzled.

All the monsters were circling in the sky like eagles, targeting people one by one like a crane machine, attacking and killing them.

“Hey! You!”

At that time, someone shouted at us.

Under the concrete remains of the collapsed building, a woman covered in dust was desperately shouting and gesturing in this direction. At

first, I thought she was asking for help because she had been crushed by the collapsed building, but I soon saw a desperate expression and urgent hand gestures. I realized what that meant. He

was worried about us standing helplessly in this chaotic danger zone.

The hand gesture meant to run in this direction.

“Come on! Hurry!”

As the urging voices grew louder, I felt a sharp presence.

One of the monsters circling overhead had spotted her.

The monster soon descended in this direction, drawing a sharp trajectory like a kingfisher.

I quickly reached out my hand to use the Chungwang Cannon. But Ban Seo-jin moved before that.

The monster, which had narrowed the distance in an instant, stopped in the air as if possessed by something and muttered in embarrassment. Kwajik

.

“What are you doing?”

Ban Seo-jin, who had used his strength without even realizing it, snorted briefly. The

attacking monster was torn to death, spewing blood in the air.

The woman who had called us was dumbfounded for a moment, unable to understand what had happened, but then immediately jumped up with a joyous expression on her face. I got up and ran over here.

“Woah, calm down, American. The situation isn’t over yet. How do you say calm down in English? I’m trying to write this so suddenly that I can’t remember.”

I, too, couldn’t think of anything.

Moreover, it was difficult to understand because of the fast English with an intense tone. In

the meantime, all I could understand was one word.

Hunter.

“Yes, yes, Hunter. That’s right. Let’s evacuate this person first.”

I immediately opened the gate and let the rescued civilians in.

The woman, who had hesitated for a moment at the sight of the gate, which looked like a miniature version of the entrance to a dungeon, took one look at my face and jumped into the gate with a determined look on her face. “Stand like this

. “It’s not the time. I’ll go first. As soon as I find any civilians, I can send them to our dungeon, right?”

“Yes. Mr. Elfanis will take care of it for now.”

Ban Seo-jin, who nodded at my words, launched himself and jumped into the crowded streets.

The shout with such force was an appendix.

“Have you had a feast? You bastards! S-class equipment is on. Everyone is dead!”

A monster attacked a civilian running away in a car and tried to break the window, but it exploded and killed him.

While the car covered in blood stopped, Ban Seo-jin used his telekinesis to open the car door, pull out the people, then open the gate and throw them in. It was a bit harsh

. I didn’t know if it was the method, but the speed was clear.

After seeing several monsters descending down one after another explode and die, I looked back at Seo Ji-han.

“We’ll rescue them quickly, too. Shall we disperse?”

“Okay. Oh wait.”

Sensing something, Seo Ji-han gazed at the sky.

After a while, a huge shadow appeared along with a crunching sound.

I was very nervous, thinking it was a high-level monster, and loaded the Chungwang Cannon.

However, contrary to my expectations, what appeared in the darkness was There were five fighter jets.

“Ah, since we’re not inside a dungeon anymore, we can use our firearms!”

“I know.”

“What a relief. First, let’s go to the rescue…”

“Wait a minute.”

In a hurry, I was about to jump out into the street, but Seo Ji-han stopped me again.

He was staring at the fighter jet with calm eyes, but suddenly frowned and swore.

“You crazy bastards!”

I was shocked for a moment because I didn’t know the meaning of the swear word, but realization soon came to me.

I thought a fighter jet was flashing, and then an indiscriminate attack was coming towards us.

With a sound like burning the air, my vision became distant.

Above the chaos where citizens and monsters were intertwined, there was hell. The same bombardment rained down.

At the same time, a civilian who was wondering the direction the shells were flying came into view.

“You bastards!”

Seo Ji-han, who let out a swear word in excitement, threw himself to one side.

Then, flames erupted with a huge explosion at the gas station that was directly hit by artillery fire.

It was a gas station that he often visited to buy oil to fill up the generator of his lakeside house.

“Huh, huh. It’s going to be a big problem.” “It was obvious.”

He returned to my side, holding in his arms a person who had run away at an unseen speed. The man

Seo Ji-han was holding had an almost lost expression.

He was the owner of the gas station.

“Hey, you’re not hurt, right?”

The gas station owner’s hair was a little singed, but he was unharmed.

Seo Ji-han, who quickly checked his condition, nodded, opened the gate, and threw the man in.

“Then go.”

Listening to Seo Ji-han’s voice, I stared at the fighter plane.

With monsters flying in the sky like that, bombing was meaningless.

But they were preparing the next attack, as if they had no intention of giving up.

“I guess we should do something about that first.”

Attacking was a bit…

But the second bombardment didn’t come.

The flying monsters attacked the fighter jets in droves.

They attempted to throw the monsters off by doing evasive flight, but they ended up losing direction, spinning around, and falling over.

” Mr. Seo Ji-han!”

A monster rushed at the pilot who was emergency ejected from the crashing fighter plane and grabbed his body.

Seo Ji-han responded to my shout and launched himself.

While he jumped in, I continued to fire weak gunshots near the other pilots to prevent them from harming the pilot. Meanwhile ,

Seo Ji-han jumped into the Chungwangpo and threw the pilots into the gate one by one.

From that, we dispersed in earnest and began the rescue operation.