Episode 25
The assailant had no idea that his surprise attack would not work.
It was a good thing he had his face covered by a mask.
If she had exposed her bare face, she would have clearly shown Kang Jin-hyeok an expression full of embarrassment.
‘shit!’
The villain’s dagger was heavily coated with a highly concentrated paralysis potion.
Its power was so great that it could paralyze even an elephant with just one small syringe.
If you made even one small scratch and the potion went under the skin, it was over.
But no matter how threatening a weapon is, it is no great deal if it doesn’t hit.
“What the hell are you doing?!”
Kang Jin-hyeok quickly dodged the assailant’s dagger and reached out to take off his opponent’s mask.
However, the villain who predicted Kang Jin-hyeok’s actions took a step back and used his camouflage skill again.
Kang Jin-hyeok was confused as people disappeared and appeared before his eyes as if he was watching a magic show.
It was a situation where I didn’t even know the other person’s purpose or reason.
There are a few parts that I can guess, but unless I hear it directly from the person involved, it is just a guess.
Kang Jin-hyeok looked around while his whole body was filled with an aura using divine power.
‘It’s still nearby.’
The sound of footsteps was heard, however faint.
It was impossible to detect its exact location as it was holding on at a close range.
‘If things continue like this, only I will be disadvantaged.’
The enemy could clearly see where he was and what he was doing, but this side could not see the enemy at all.
If this situation continues, we may end up showing weakness and allowing a surprise attack.
Kang Jin-hyeok, who was thinking about a solution, soon started running with all his might.
The culprit, who had been hiding, suddenly saw someone running and thought he was running away.
“Where are you trying to get me out of here!”
The villain had absolutely no intention of letting Kang Jin-hyeok go.
He had no intention of giving up until he took the corpse of the new monster that Kang Jin-hyeok had.
The assailant who had been chasing after Kang Jin-hyeok finally followed him out of the alley.
Only after exiting the alley and seeing the buildings and large crowds of people did the assailant realize Kang Jin-hyeok’s intentions.
“Did you come to a place with a lot of people’s eyes on purpose… … .”
If you want to hide a tree, hide it in the forest.
If you hide in a crowded place, even a villain won’t be able to easily find Kang Jin-hyeok with just the naked eye.
“It’s not a bad idea, but the other person was bad.”
The villain standing in the center of the crowd cast a color-shifting skill.
The surprise attack failed, but the moment he dodged the dagger, the assailant succeeded in marking him.
As long as that mark was there, it was possible to find Kang Jin-hyeok with the color detection skill no matter where he ran away.
“Over there.”
The assailant found out where the building was where Kang Jin-hyeok was hiding.
“When did you end up in such a remote department store?”
It hadn’t even been a few minutes since I came out of the alley.
The location of Kang Jin-hyeok, discovered through color locating skills, was the department store across the street.
It was impossible to set up camp first in a place that could only be reached by crossing two large crosswalks at a reasonable speed.
“It wasn’t just luck that you stopped the surprise attack earlier… … and caught the new type of monster.”
When I first heard the rumor, I thought it was just some lucky idiot getting a reward that was out of his league.
But after meeting him in person, my thoughts changed.
The person who was known as a common C-class hunter was actually someone with considerable skills and plausible coping skills.
It would have been nice to have prepared more thoroughly, but the villain didn’t have the luxury of that.
“I have to finish this before they even report me in hiding.”
The assailant ran quickly toward the department store.
As things got more difficult than expected, the villain became impatient.
The moment the assailant saw Kang Jin-hyeok’s face, he raised his dagger and entered the department store entrance ready to rush at him.
When the assailant opened the glass door and entered the building, Kang Jin-hyeok, who was hiding right next to the door, immediately swung his fist.
“Ugh!”
The assailant was attacked at a completely unexpected time and rolled on the ground.
Even my stomach skills were lost due to the shock.
The villain, who barely managed to get up, quickly drank the potion.
‘Oh, how on earth did you…?’
Kang Jin-hyeok clicked his tongue and expressed regret at the sight of the villain who had not fainted.
Even though I guessed the location, I couldn’t aim for the vital spot because I couldn’t see it.
“If it doesn’t work out the way I want it to, I’ll just keep beating it until it does!”
Kang Jin-hyeok rushed at his opponent before he could disappear again.
The villain, who was in a desperate situation, had a dark complexion.
The potion merely eased the pain, but the shoulder that had been broken by the bat showed no sign of moving at all.
With a body like this, even if I used camouflage skills, I wouldn’t be able to open up a large distance.
‘I don’t know what trick I used, but if I get close, that guy will know my location… …!’
Camouflage skills weren’t much help unless you could keep some distance.
The villain had no choice but to extend his left hand and cast a defensive skill.
“shield!”
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A translucent shield appeared in front of the villain’s body, similar to the ‘Holy Shield’ used by Kang Jin-hyeok.
Kang Jin-hyeok, who saw that, realized that the opponent was a ‘magician.’
There couldn’t be any other job that could use a shield.
‘Originally I was at a disadvantage, but now it’s different.’
Magicians had powerful long-range skills.
But where they were now was a crowded department store.
If you use long-range skills in a place like this, you never know what kind of disaster might occur.
Kang Jin-hyeok thought that if his opponent was a person with common sense, he would never use his skills.
Kang Jin-hyeok felt relieved and threw his fist with all his might.
And at the same time, he did not forget to use divine power to fill his fist with aura.
bang!
The moment the baseball bat hit the shield, there was a loud noise like a bomb exploding.
Everyone in the department store looked in the direction where the noise came from.
There was a shield skill that was shattering into pieces, and a masked man was looking at it in shock.
“This is crazy!”
The assailant doubted his own eyes.
How can a C-rank hunter break a shield skill with a single hit?
Even the information I researched said that his former job was a cleric.
It was absurd for a cleric with only auxiliary skills to break a shield with his bare hands.
The villain couldn’t continue to be surprised by this unbelievable result.
The fist that had shattered the shield with one blow was now aimed at him.
Of all the skills the villain had, there was only one that could stop it.
Even though the choice was set, the villain couldn’t easily choose it.
‘If you use it here… … .’
The criminal was troubled by the remaining twinge of guilt.
But when he was pushed to the brink of defeat, the assailant finally reached out to Kang Jin-hyeok.
“Flame Storm!”
Kang Jin-hyeok was shocked by the name of the villain’s skill and the flames bursting out of his hand.
The storm mixed with high-temperature flames overturned nearby civilians, including Kang Jin-hyeok.
Sprinklers burst from all over the ceiling in an attempt to put out the blaze, but the flames that engulfed the department store did not subside at all.
As the clothes were burned, the flames grew stronger.
People who were suddenly caught in the flames screamed.
“Eww!”
“Save the people!!”
The flames were raging at the entrance of the department store, so I couldn’t go in that direction.
People who were unable to go outside tried to escape by breaking windows.
“Kuk… … .”
The villain laughed in vain at what he had done.
I never thought that my quest to find the source of a new monster would lead to such a big deal.
The villain regretted not having learned various skills in advance.
“It was a good thing you came with your face covered.”
The villain thought that if he ran away like this, no one would find him since no one knew his true identity.
It was regrettable but unavoidable that we could not get the monster’s materials from Kang Jin-hyeok, who had burned to death.
If we wasted time here, there was a high chance that we would be caught by the humans from the Association.
The assailant got up from his seat and took advantage of the confusion to sneak towards the department store entrance.
“This bully is so vicious.”
“That’s what I’m saying, you piece of shit.”
“what……?”
The startled stranger turned his head in the direction where the unexpected answer came from.
The assailant was speechless at the sight of Kang Jin-hyeok standing there in his burnt black clothes.
“Hey, how are you alive!?”
Clearly, when the assailant saw it, Kang Jin-hyeok was hit head-on by the flames.
Normally, in that case, it would have been normal for the person to have died, burned to a charcoal.
“Hey, f*ck!”
The desperate villain reached out his hand once again.
It’s hard the first time, but it’s easy to do the same thing twice.
Since he had already attacked other hunters and harmed civilians, if he had been caught here, he would have been sentenced to life imprisonment or death.
As Hunters have abilities superior to those of humans, the punishment they receive is harsher than that of ordinary people for the sake of the safety of society.
The criminal would rather cause another accident than get caught here.
“Flames… …!”
The strange man, who was almost done reciting the names of the skills, saw something flying towards him.
And the moment he realized that, the assailant’s head cracked open with a bang!
The last thing the assailant saw was the thermos flask that Kang Jin-hyeok had thrown at Jeon-ryeok.
Kang Jin-hyeok was aware that if he threw the thermos at this speed, the person who got hit would definitely die.
I knew it, but I had no choice but to do it.
Not only was it an act of self-defense, but it was impossible to even guess what more damage would have occurred if it had not been stopped here.
“shit!”
Kang Jin-hyeok saw the body of the villain with his head blown off fall backwards and sat down with him.
It wasn’t because of guilt over the murder.
Of course, it was shocking to kill someone, but the person who killed him deserved to die.
The reason Kang Jin-hyeok’s expression was distorted was because of the hunter’s characteristics and the cleric’s conditions.
When a Hunter kills a person, the title ‘Villain’ is added to the stat window.
This was something that other hunters could also confirm, so it was like a branding.
To make matters worse, the villains couldn’t even use the Cleric’s skills.
Even if it is listed in the skill window, it is treated as unusable.
This means that the divine power is lost and you will no longer be able to use the aura you have learned.
“That guy X is really… … .”
What tormented Kang Jin-hyeok more in a situation that was heading towards its worst was regret.
I thought he would be well-behaved when he came to a crowded place, but I never imagined he would do something this crazy.
Wouldn’t it have turned out like this if we had ended up in an alley?
As Kang Jin-hyeok was feeling distressed, a message window popped up with a notification sound.
[Karma levels increase due to murder.]
[Justified murder does not generate the title of ‘Villain’.]
[The Cleric’s skill is changed.]
[Level up.]
[You have achieved the conditions for the second job advancement (hidden).]
Kang Jin-hyeok was bewildered after checking the message.
It’s not extinction, it’s transformation?
