Episode 167
I can hear the sound of an arrow cutting through the wind.
It was only after the head of my colleague next to me was skewered that I realized the fact.
In order to survive, moving your body came first before thinking about what was happening.
Kay quickly hid in a nearby building, leaving behind the body of her colleague.
“The headquarters building is still not even visible from the street?”
Casualties were already occurring shortly after entering the Pantheon’s domain.
Kay was so nervous that he broke out in a cold sweat at the thought of his comrade having comparable visual acuity and quick movements to his own.
“How on earth did you recognize us?”
They were not alone in this area.
Because it was a ruined place due to war, there are no people walking around openly.
Homeless people with nowhere to go and some hunters targeting game would often stop by.
Even at this very moment, those people must be lurking nearby. The Pantheon’s archers were targeting them.
Did the information leak?
Kay immediately shook her head.
“This is something that was kept top secret at HU. There’s no way it’d have leaked already.”
It was hard to believe that Pantheon would have already noticed what was being done secretly, even using long-distance teleportation.
Rather than knowing the enemy’s personal information in advance, it would be more reasonable to think that there was a device to identify the enemy.
“First of all, I need to contact you… … .”
Kay hurriedly took out his terminal and tried to report what had just happened.
But the other party wouldn’t tolerate that.
As soon as Kay grabbed the terminal, an arrow flew quickly and broke the window on the wall he was facing.
And it went straight through the center of the terminal, turning it into a lump of scrap metal.
“What… … ?!”
It was hard to believe that the arrow had pierced through before I could even press the button.
It was as if the other person had sensed from the beginning that I was going to take out my terminal, and he didn’t give me even a moment’s pause.
“What the hell!”
Kay changed positions and found a place surrounded by walls on all sides.
It was an empty building that had become a ruin, but its reinforced concrete walls were not something that could be easily pierced by arrows.
But that thought was nothing more than a delusion on his part.
Soon, Kay’s face turned pale as arrows pierced through the wall and lodged in front of her feet.
In the wall that the arrow had pierced, there was only a clean hole without a single crack.
“fu*k, are you going to toy with me?”
Every time you find a way to deal with the arrows, your opponent will destroy it as if it were nothing.
With this level of skill, it would have been possible to finish him off by targeting the weak point from the beginning.
Leaving him alive like this instead of killing him in one blow like his dead comrade was tantamount to treating him like a toy.
Even if Kay was going to die, he didn’t want to be toyed with like that.
Because of his status as an elite member of HU and his pride, he couldn’t do that.
“You will never be able to do as you wish.”
Kay bit down hard with her molars the small capsule she had hidden in her mouth, crushing it.
The concentrated liquid inside the capsule was a deadly poison that could kill a person in just five minutes.
“Ugh!”
As soon as I swallowed the poison, my body started to react.
Kay felt her vision blur and her pulse quicken, realizing that she didn’t have much time left.
But I had no intention of just collapsing and dying like this.
The poison that Kay swallowed wasn’t just for killing people.
Death after 5 minutes is just a side effect of the drug.
The real effect was that all abilities were increased by 10x for those 5 minutes.
“Is this the power of Alaune… … .”
As a drug banned by international law, its effectiveness was clear.
Feeling the power overflowing from her, Kay crouched down and then bounced forward like a spring.
* * *
Lucia kept her eyes closed and used magic to monitor her enemy’s movements.
In another field of vision created by the power of mana, Kay was suddenly seen falling forward.
“What, did you commit suicide or something?”
If so, it is a very trivial matter.
I had intended to keep it alive and play with it, but this was a very disappointing ending.
Disappointed, Lucia was about to withdraw her magical vision when she witnessed something unusual happen to her opponent.
Kay, whose whole body turned red and whose veins stood out, turned his head in the direction where Lucia was standing.
“What is that?”
Kay crouched down and immediately kicked off the floor, stretching out all the muscles in her body.
As a result, a bullet with a terrifying speed that even surpassed the speed of sound was completed.
bang!
The sound of breaking through the wall of sound resonated loudly, and the opponent I was playing with flew right in front of my nose.
“It’s been four years!”
Louisa raised the corners of his mouth as Kay glared at him with bloodshot eyes.
“This is getting pretty interesting.”
Lucia jumped down from the railing to avoid Kay’s swinging fist.
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Kay, who missed his target, was unable to control his speed and ended up destroying the balcony with his entire body.
“What, what?!”
“what’s the matter!!”
The Pantheon guild members clung to the windows with startled faces at the sudden noise.
They witnessed the sight of a human with his whole body glowing red running towards Lucia below.
“Are you training or something?”
“Do you think that makes sense? Tell the executives quickly!”
The new guild members who heard the senior’s shout ran towards the conference room in a panic.
While they were delivering the news, Lucia took the onslaught pouring in towards her with ease.
“The best guy I’ve ever dealt with?”
Lucia’s words of praise further irritated Kay’s nerves.
Kay, whose pride was hurt again, decided that if she was going to die anyway, she would use it without hesitation.
Thanks to the effectiveness of the poison, no matter how hard I worked my body, I felt no pain at all.
“Kuaaaah!”
Kay swung his dagger with a beast-like roar.
Lucia raised her rapier to stop the dagger from reaching her neck.
Unlike before, Kay’s blow carried considerable weight.
‘I guess I can’t treat this as a joke anymore.’
Lucia wiped the smile from her face as the arm holding her rapier began to feel numb.
Even if you surround yourself with an aura, you can feel this level of shock, so if you get hit properly, you could die instantly.
If you are too relaxed in a life-or-death situation, you may end up allowing an unexpected blow to strike.
From the moment she felt threatened, Lucia never let her guard down.
“Get behind!!”
Kay swung his sword without stopping, ignoring the screams of every muscle in his body pushing him beyond his limits.
But Lucia calmly took on each and every one of those rough and fast attacks.
It was hopeless, as if he had faced an insurmountable wall, but Kay couldn’t let it end like this.
He mustered up the last of his strength and swung the dagger horizontally with all his might.
visor!
The dagger that struck her was so strong that it split her in two, and Lucia was unable to withstand the recoil, causing her arm to be thrown back.
A gap that was barely discovered right before death.
Kay, who had been waiting for this moment, caught the dagger’s blade flying into the air with his bare hands.
And he tried to ram it straight into Lucia’s heart.
“Ugh!”
If only I had one second left. No, half a second left, I could have pierced his heart just as I had hoped.
The scream that burst out was not Lucia’s, but came from Cain’s mouth.
Kane fell forward without even being able to see who had attacked him from behind.
Having fallen once, he never got up again.
The body that passed the time limit simply lost all life functions and turned into a simple corpse.
“It was dangerous just now, wasn’t it?”
Kang Jin-hyeok let out a sigh of relief as he shook off the hand he had just swung.
It was very fortunate that I heard the news from a guild member and came running just in case.
If I had arrived just a little later, the blade would have been deeply embedded in Lucia’s heart.
“… … I never thought there would come a day when I would receive help from you.”
When I first met him, I had no idea that he was such a rookie and would grow so much in just a few months.
Lucia was proud of Kang Jin-hyeok’s rapid growth, but at the same time, she was also disappointed.
She hasn’t changed since that day.
Kang Jin-hyeok moves forward differently every day.
Lucia couldn’t be purely happy about his growth, because it seemed like someday the gap would become too wide to touch.
“There’s a guy there who’s so strong that it’s dangerous to you.”
“I was pushed back for just a little bit. Other than that, I’ve always had the upper hand.”
“But it’s true that it was threatening.”
“Okay.”
Lucia wanted to continue denying it, but she couldn’t help it since it was all revealed right before her eyes.
“Phew… … . Yeah. It was a bit difficult.”
“What do you think would happen if two or more of these guys came running at me?”
“If I were to start from a distance, I could win.”
“Then what was it that almost happened to you just now?”
“I thought it was nothing, so I let it slide… … .”
Lucia intentionally trailed off, saying it was not something she wanted to say openly.
Kang Jin-hyeok was able to roughly understand how the situation unfolded even though her words were interrupted mid-sentence.
“Then how many people can you deal with if you don’t let your guard down?”
“Well, I guess we’ll have to wait and see what happens. But why are you asking?”
“I have a feeling there won’t be just one or two guys like this.”
* * *
The corpses of Kane, who was knocked down by Kang Jin-hyeok, and Dee, who was shot with an arrow by Lucia, were transported to the basement of Pantheon’s headquarters.
Lee Jun-cheol stared at the faces of the two people who had become cold corpses, then shook his head.
“These are people I’ve never seen before.”
“Are there people whose skills are on par with Lucia’s, yet whose faces are unknown?”
“Yes. Compared to any of the materials I prepared, there are no similar looking people.”
Lee Jun-cheol showed Kang Jin-hyeok the official rankings set by HU, which were compiled up to 50th place.
As Lee Jun-cheol said, Dee and Kay were not the people on that list.
“It could be a lower rank.”
“Anyone below that level is weaker than Miss Lucia. Hunters ranked within the top 50 are at a level where they can be somewhat of a match.”
“Then this is not a hunter of any official rank.”
“Yes.”
No information could be found for Dee and Kay.
Not only their name, but also where they belong and what country they are from.
I couldn’t figure out anything.
Thanks to that, Kang Jin-hyeok was able to guess what their true identity was.
Their thoroughly hidden identities actually provided a hint to reveal their true identities.
“Are they the only ones who can secretly train hunters with this level of skill?”
“Probably, definitely.”
HU.
That was the thought that Kang Jin-hyeok and Lee Jun-cheol had at the same time.
