Episode 20
Kang Jin-hyeok didn’t feel the need to ask the other person any questions.
Why did you do this, did you really intend to kill me, etc.
No matter what question I heard, it seemed like I couldn’t understand it with my common sense.
So instead of asking questions, I just did what he was going to do.
Even though he hit with as little strength as possible, a sound like a watermelon exploding was heard from Ando Yoon’s head when it hit the bat.
After seeing her collapse like a puppet with its strings cut, Kang Jin-hyeok turned his back.
I didn’t care whether he died or not.
“All the crazy guys are sticking to me.”
It was a strange thing to be suddenly attacked when we weren’t even enemies.
What wrong did I do that I have to rush at you like I’m your enemy?
I don’t know what kind of feelings he had, but if you look closely, Kang Jin-hyeok was the victim.
All the disadvantages and punishments that Ando Yoon suffered were the result of his own actions.
There was absolutely no reason for Kang Jin-hyeok to take responsibility for that.
“I got hit once, so I won’t attack you anymore.”
Even animals learn when they are hit.
Since he went down in such a miserable state, he would never dare to attack again, even if it was out of shame.
Kang Jin-hyeok looked for a strong monster to shake off his uneasy feeling.
Then, Kang Jin-hyeok discovered the ‘Minotaur’ swinging an axe the size of a person and ran forward.
None of the Titan Hunters came forward even after seeing the sight.
Even though his colleague was beaten and rendered unconscious, no one held Kang Jin-hyeok accountable for his actions.
In addition, Ando Yoon’s evaluation hit rock bottom.
Anyone who looked at the situation just now could tell that it was Ando Yoon’s fault.
Kang Jin-hyeok simply responded appropriately to the human who rushed at him.
“I guess I should send it to the cleric first?”
“That’s right. Even if he’s a human like X, he’s still an A-class hunter belonging to our guild.”
If I left it like this, I might get trampled and turned into a piece of meat.
Even if he was someone I didn’t like, I couldn’t just let him die since he was a member of the same guild.
The largest man among the Titan Hunters gathered nearby helped up the fallen Andoyoon.
“I will report to the guild leader as I take him.”
“What do you want to report?”
“You should have said that you got beat up in the first place. You can’t just say that you got beat up by some hunter whose name you don’t even know.”
The Titan Hunters unanimously agreed with that statement.
It was better for Andoyoon and the guild to muddle through like that.
“Oh my, that kind of person was once the vice-guild leader… … .”
The Titan Hunters tacitly agreed with the blatant slander someone had unleashed.
For them, Ando Yoon’s existence was reaching the level of a dark history.
It was a self-inflicted ending that left him blaming himself.
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The Minotaur, who had been rampaging against the hunters, instinctively felt threatened and looked around.
The Minotaur’s intuition told him that two strong men were coming towards him.
To shake off his fear and face them, the Minotaur roared loudly.
“Oh my gosh!!”
The roar of their trusted comrades gave courage to goblins and other small monsters.
The hunters were so gripped by fear that they unconsciously became slow to move.
The Minotaur was pleased to see that the atmosphere around him had brightened.
If I fought in this cat-like atmosphere, I was confident that I would win no matter who attacked me.
But it was true that a fight couldn’t be won with momentum alone.
Especially when it comes to opponents with a clear difference in skill level.
“Umm!”
The Minotaur swung his axe at the faster of the two figures targeting him.
There has never been a time when a blow from this axe, which makes a heavy ‘clang’ sound, has not cut in two.
I never once thought about the possibility that an axe might break in reverse.
When the sight he had never imagined actually happened, the Minotaur was at a loss as to how to respond.
“Yeah. I wanted to see you guys look like that.”
Seo Sang-ho, who broke the axe with his bare hands, enjoyed seeing the Minotaur bewildered.
When you confidently run wild against hunters on the subject of monsters, you meet a real opponent.
I never get tired of seeing that moment when that high confidence is shattered in an instant.
“If you’re not going to finish, get out of the way.”
“what?”
While Seo Sang-ho was flustered, Kang Jin-hyeok’s bat appeared and struck the Minotaur’s temple.
The Minotaur, hit in a vital spot, fell to the ground with its eyes rolled back.
Kang Jin-hyeok immediately checked the Minotaur scores piled up on the counter.
“Huh? The score is still the same?”
I looked at the Minotaur because I thought it was strange, but it was only fainted and not dead yet.
Kang Jin-hyeok, who realized that fact, clicked his tongue slightly and expressed his regret.
“It looks like the Minotaur can’t be defeated in one blow.”
Even if you raise your abilities with passive skills, there are clear limitations as long as your fundamental level is lacking.
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However, what Kang Jin-hyeok felt was lacking was only from his own perspective.
In Seo Sang-ho’s eyes, Kang Jin-hyeok had already gone beyond the normal category.
‘A hunter who recently achieved C-rank is catching a Minotaur?’
Even if Seo Sang-ho had blocked the Minotaur’s attack, it would have been impossible for a C-class hunter to knock it out with one blow.
Besides, Kang Jin-hyeok had already changed his profession to a cleric.
Isn’t this a job that doesn’t have any combat-related skills at all?
The more I looked into it, the more I realized that there were more than a few things that were contrary to common sense.
That’s exactly what Seo Sang-ho liked.
A clearly different appearance from other hunters.
That uniqueness caught Seo Sang-ho’s attention.
Seo Sang-ho could now understand why Cao Cao was so greedy for talent.
‘As expected, my eyes were right.’
Seo Sang-ho held back the urge to tell them to come to the guild right away.
Judging from Kang Jin-hyeok’s reactions so far, it was obvious that he would feel burdened and back down.
“I see you came as a mercenary.”
Kang Jin-hyeok nodded in agreement to Seo Sang-ho’s question.
“They said they’d pay me for catching them. Can I just hit them like this?”
“Do whatever you want.”
As soon as Kang Jin-hyeok heard the answer, he swung his bat repeatedly at the fallen Minotaur.
No matter how strong the skull was, it could not withstand repeated attacks containing aura.
Finally, after seven blows, the Minotaur died with blood pouring out of its head.
Kang Jin-hyeok could tell that the Minotaur was dead by seeing the level rise quickly.
“I guess we’ll be at 150 soon.”
Level 150 was the standard for a B-class hunter, and the stage at which a second job advancement became possible.
Since your job change is randomly determined based on what you do as a hunter, Kang Jin-hyeok was very excited about his second job change.
It may be an opportunity to participate in such a large-scale hunt.
“Then I will leave this here and go.”
Kang Jin-hyeok decided that he had no time to hesitate and was about to leave immediately.
The monster’s corpse will later be recovered by the Titans and distributed according to merit.
‘I won’t get hit in the back of the head since I have points accumulated on the counter.’
Actually, I had my doubts, but I tried not to think about it too deeply right now.
Lucia had been telling me this for the past week that when you have too many distracting thoughts, you start to make useless movements, which soon become gaps.
“The situation is almost over, so I don’t think you need to rush it.”
As Seo Sang-ho said, while Kang Jin-hyeok was running wild, the monster invasion was slowly coming to a halt.
This was possible because there were many mercenaries who participated besides Kang Jin-hyeok.
Although the gains that the Titan can take have been reduced, the damage has certainly been reduced.
Seo Sang-ho was very satisfied with this result.
On the other hand, Kang Jin-hyeok was not like that.
“It seems like it’ll end soon, so I have to work harder.”
It was a pity that it had not ended yet.
Since he was using potions to draw out tomorrow’s stamina, Kang Jin-hyeok wanted to finish the second awakening.
“Then please do as I do.”
“yes?”
Kang Jin-hyeok openly expressed his displeasure with Seo Sang-ho’s proposal through his frowning expression.
Putting aside the burden, I didn’t have the confidence to win in a competition with S-class hunters and monsters.
Seo Sang-ho was fully aware of Kang Jin-hyeok’s feelings.
“Don’t worry. I will only step forward when I feel it is dangerous.”
“If that’s the case, then why do you say you’re hanging out with me?”
“I think it would be fun to watch.”
A truly absurd answer came out of Seo Sang-ho’s mouth.
They say the most entertaining things to watch are fireworks and fights, but this is the first time I’ve seen a person say that he would do those things openly.
“I get regular calls telling me where there are strong monsters. If you go together, you won’t have to get lost.”
Seo Sang-ho, who had been appealing to his usefulness, reached for the earphones he had in his ears, saying that he had just received a call.
As soon as I connected the connection, I heard the urgent voices of my guild members.
“Yeah, yeah. Where did what come from again?”
“sky?”
When he was suddenly told to look at the sky, Seo Sang-ho raised his head and looked upward.
When Kang Jin-hyeok saw that sight and raised his head, gloomy dark clouds came into his field of vision.
It was a strange sight, with clear skies all around but dark clouds covering the area where the fight was taking place.
“What’s the big deal?”
“How many have been captured? How big are they?”
As soon as the guild member reported, a flash of light appeared in the center of the dark clouds.
And by the time my head realized that I had seen it, it had already turned into lightning and struck the center of the battlefield.
“Eww!!”
The hunters who were struck by the sudden lightning fell down screaming.
The lightning struck without any regard for who it attacked.
It mercilessly destroyed everything in the landing zone, whether it was a monster or a hunter.
Seo Sang-ho, who witnessed the disaster, was silent for a while.
It’s absurd to even pour out lightning.
The idea that a monster seven to eight times the size of a passenger plane was floating in the sky so high was something I had never heard before, and it was devastating news.
Something that big could have leveled the area with just a crash, even without lightning.
“Why are you reporting this now!”
“Damn it… …! What did the government say?!”
“How are you supposed to deal with that with a helicopter… … .”
Conventional weapons were completely ineffective against monsters.
Since only hunters could respond, they had no choice but to go into the sky themselves to catch the monsters hiding in the clouds.
But it was impossible against that monster.
Even if you get close, a single lightning strike will fry you and the helicopter.
“Why is that crazy guy only moving now!”
After hearing Seo Sang-ho’s irritated lament, Kang Jin-hyeok came up with his own inference.
“Judging from the way the lightning strikes, it seems like they can’t identify the enemy. So maybe they waited for the number of monsters to decrease.”
“… … Do you think a monster could think of such a plan?”
“There is nothing that can’t be done.”
In a situation where such monsters have newly appeared, there is no guarantee that there won’t be any smart monsters.
“For now, we have no choice but to ask hunters with long-range skills to take care of the subjugation.”
“……ha.”
Seo Sang-ho, who had been sighing and resting his hand on his forehead, regained his composure and gave instructions to the guild members.
“Gather all the hunters who have converted to magicians right now!”
