Episode 40
Kang Jin-hyeok moved like a leech, sticking close to the wall.
He gripped the baseball bat tightly in his right hand in case he ran into any of the Tyrant guild members patrolling around.
The moment we meet, a punch to the head.
The intention was to send it away with one blow so as not to be discovered.
“Since they are people who sell out for business anyway, I guess we don’t have to let them off easy.”
Anything is difficult at first.
Kang Jin-hyeok calmed his wavering mind so that he could cut off the opponent’s breath without hesitation when the time came.
“Okay.”
Kang Jin-hyeok, who felt confident that he would not hesitate, took a deep breath and ran out the entrance in one go.
And when the hunter appeared right before my eyes, I swung the bat with all my might.
Boohoo!
Kang Jin-hyeok couldn’t hide his bewilderment at the sight of the bat just cutting through the wind.
It was clearly a blow aimed precisely at the opponent’s head, and the distance was measured carefully before swinging.
But the bat just passed the opponent by as if it had touched a ghost.
Kang Jin-hyeok became very nervous, thinking that one of Tyrant’s guild members had used some special skill.
‘We’re in big trouble.’
Tyrant’s guild members will immediately sound the alarm as they have wasted their hard-earned surprise opportunity.
If that happens, the operation will fail.
Han Yeong-seok and the Titan Hunters would immediately abandon Kang Jin-hyeok, and if that happened, his life would be as good as dead.
Kang Jin-hyeok racked his brain to figure out how to overcome this crisis.
“If it doesn’t work, I have no choice but to swing it until it works!”
Kang Jin-hyeok swung his bat repeatedly, but not a single one of them landed a hit on his opponent.
All you can hear is the cool, blowing sound of the wind.
The only consolation was that no one else was watching this ugly sight of me floundering in the air.
“What is this?”
Before he could even fill the 10th hole with just Hutswong, Kang Jinhyuk realized something strange.
No matter how effective the attack was, the opponent did not respond at all.
No, not only did he not respond, he didn’t even look in the direction where Kang Jin-hyeok was.
He was just staring straight ahead like a doll.
“I’m not a ghost, am I… … .”
When I stretched out my hand, it passed right through the other person’s body as if I was trying to touch a hologram.
I touched the wall just in case, and it felt good on that side.
Unless there was something wrong with Kang Jin-hyeok’s body, there was only one answer.
Kang Jin-hyeok frowned as he stared intently at his opponent.
“Damn, it was a fake created with the Welcome skill.”
Since the character was created with a sense of welcome, his karma value was not visible at all.
Unlike the three-layered barrier surrounding the building, there was only a single sign at the entrance.
There was no alarm sounding for disturbing the welcome, and no support was provided.
It was just a superficial appearance that made it look good.
“This isn’t the military, so why are they doing security like this?”
Maybe the security guards are welcome, but they might be monitoring with CCTV or something.
Kang Jin-hyeok looked around carefully.
“There’s nothing visible at first glance.”
The possibility that there were hidden cameras could not be ignored.
Kang Jin-hyeok took out one of the odds and ends he had brought from home from his inventory.
The item he was holding was a small EMP made from monster material with electric properties.
Using this, all electronic equipment within 10 meters becomes scrap metal.
The downside was that it would indiscriminately break any electronic device you owned.
Although I felt it was a waste to pay the installment fee for the smartphone, I couldn’t argue about it here.
When Kang Jin-hyeok placed the item on the floor, the lantern-like object began to emit blue light and spread waves around it.
“Did it work properly?”
Kang Jin-hyeok took his smartphone out of his pocket and turned it on.
The fact that there was no response no matter how many times the button was pressed meant that the EMP was a success.
“What the f*ck? Why did my phone suddenly turn off?!”
Kang Jin-hyeok was startled when he heard the shouts coming from inside the building.
The moment I lay face down on the floor and pressed against the wall to avoid being seen, the door opened and a hunter walked out.
“It’s so annoying just waiting in a remote place like this. And my fucking phone is acting up too.”
The silhouette of a dinosaur, the symbol of the Tyrant Guild, was embroidered in gold thread on the Hunter’s shoulder.
To him, who had been killing time with just his cell phone, the current situation felt like a life crisis.
Tyrant’s guild members wandered around trying to somehow revive the dead cell phone.
Judging from the fact that he raised his hand holding the cell phone above his head, he seemed to think it was a radio problem.
‘I don’t see anyone else inside… … I
Is it just one person?’
Kang Jin-hyeok thought it was impossible.
This is the place where the inhumane act of creating Alaune’s welcome takes place.
Even if you believe in the barrier, it doesn’t make sense that only this many people are left.
“Damn it. What am I doing here while everyone else is just fooling around inside?”
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Kang Jin-hyeok perked up his ears as he heard what the Tyrant Hunter said.
He grumbled and complained, unaware that someone nearby was eavesdropping.
“No one’s going to break through the barrier anyway. Just put up a few illusions. What the fuck, why should I be guarding it?”
Kang Jin-hyeok heard his words and learned that there was only one person guarding the entrance.
Then there was no need to die here.
Kang Jin-hyeok quickly approached Tyrant while the other guild members were looking elsewhere.
The baseball bat reached his head faster than the Tyrant’s guild members could turn their heads at the sound of footsteps.
After a short, thick thud, the Tyrant’s guild members fell to the ground.
He didn’t move even once as if he had just left the room.
“At this rate, I won’t have to wake up in the middle of the night, right?”
He might never wake up, but Kang Jin-hyuk decided not to think about that.
There was no reason to pray for the soul of a villain whose karma value was in the 800s.
Kang Jin-hyeok entered the building through the open door with ease.
The interior of the spacious building, which seemed to easily accommodate about 1,000 people, had a structure like a prison you’d only see in movies.
Looking up, there were rows of cells with iron bars.
There were groans of pain, as if from a sick patient.
In complete contrast, the first floor was filled with noise and laughter.
Kang Jin-hyeok was certain that the rest of the hunters were in the room with the lights on in front of them.
“I think this is enough for reconnaissance… … .”
We figured out the internal structure and even figured out the locations of the hunters.
The harvest was enough that no one would be able to blame Kang Jin-hyeok if he just returned from here.
But Kang Jin-hyeok did not want to retreat here.
Even if he went back like this, it was clear that Han Yeong-seok would not give him any spoils of war.
It would have been fortunate if, rather than receiving compensation, they didn’t even report to Tyrant about what Kang Jin-hyeok did.
“No matter how much I think about it, I think I should take care of my own share.”
Kang Jin-hyeok first went up the stairs to the upper floor.
All the hunters I encountered along the way were illusions with no visible karma value.
Kang Jin-hyeok circled around and checked the number and location of the trapped people.
So far, seven survivors have been found.
They were all young women who looked to be in their 20s.
They were all lying on their messy beds, looking lifeless, as if they hadn’t even been given proper food.
Their energy was so low that they didn’t even turn their heads when Kang Jin-hyeok approached them.
“Is this because these are the people who are going to use them as fertilizer anyway?”
There is nothing to take care of for a person who is about to die. I sighed as if he was saying that.
As a fellow human being, can you do something like this and not feel guilty at all?
Kang Jin-hyeok, who was looking upstairs with a feeling of unease, stopped in front of a prison cell.
Unlike the other places I’ve seen so far, the person trapped here was a man.
The torn and tattered clothes and bloody body showed that he was a victim of assault.
The man who was bound in chains sensed the presence of others and slowly raised his head.
When his eyes met with Kang Jin-hyeok’s, the man expressed his doubts.
“You… … are a face I’ve never seen before… … .”
The man sighed deeply, thinking that Kang Jin-hyeok was a newbie.
“Before it’s too late… … Run away… … . All of the… … guys here are crazy… … .”
Kang Jin-hyeok observed the man with an interesting gaze.
It was hard to see at first glance because it was torn apart, but the symbol of the Tyrant was engraved on his shoulder.
“Why is a hunter from Tyrant imprisoned here?”
“… … .”
The man felt no need to speak and quietly lowered his head.
Then Kang Jin-hyeok approached the iron fence and spoke to him.
“I’m not a member of this guild. I came here because I heard something was being made here.”
Hearing that, the man’s eyes widened.
The man’s gaze that I met again was not the lifeless gaze he had shown me just a moment ago.
The man opened his mouth urgently, as if he had found the last straw.
“Is that, is that true… … ?”
“Yeah. Why would I come here and lie?”
The man bit his lip and shed tears at Kang Jin-hyeok’s answer.
Kang Jin-hyeok waited quietly until the emotions that had been building up calmed down.
Eventually, the man stopped sobbing and began to tell a story with wide-open eyes.
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“It’s been quite some time and there’s no sign of him coming back.”
Han Yeong-seok clicked his tongue as he checked the watch on his wrist.
If the alarm even sounds, I will consider it a failure and give up.
Since it didn’t seem like I’d been caught, all I could do was wait.
Baek Jin-woong noticed Han Yeong-seok’s dissatisfaction and spoke to him discreetly.
“How about we just ignore it and move on?”
“Without even receiving the reconnaissance results?”
“The results we’ve already achieved are enough. We’ll use that guy Kang Jin-hyeok as bait and cover up the situation.”
“Hmm.”
Baek Jin-woong’s offer was very attractive to Han Yeong-seok.
“Then, since it’s late, should we do that… … ?”
At the moment when Han Yeong-seok was about to proceed as if he couldn’t win.
The arrow hit the wristwatch he was looking at.
The arrow flew without giving him time to react, piercing only the watch part without causing a single scratch on his wrist, shattering it into pieces.
“What kind of guy is he!”
When Baek Jin-woong shouted on behalf of the pale-faced Han Yeong-seok, instead of an answer, an additional arrow flew in front of his feet.
Baek Jin-woong turned his head in the direction the arrow had come from and only then discovered Lucia sitting on a tree.
Baek Jin-woong remembered that she was Kang Jin-hyeok’s colleague and gritted his teeth.
“Does this mean you want to fight us now?”
“No, I warned you not to think of anything unnecessary.”
As Lucia finished speaking, she fired another arrow.
The arrow she shot shattered the glasses of a guild member who was secretly casting a skill.
As his glasses flew away before his eyes, the guild member stumbled backwards in shock and fell on his butt.
“This fucking bitch… … !”
When Baek Jin-woong couldn’t stand it anymore and was about to step forward, Han Yeong-seok stepped forward and stopped him.
“Stop it. It’s stupid for us to fight among ourselves.”
“But didn’t that girl attack us!?”
“You came forward because you were trying to abandon Kang Jin-hyeok. You probably didn’t come to fight us.”
After hearing Han Yeong-seok’s words, Baek Jin-woong grumbled and cooled down on his own.
Lucia looked at the sight and said with a look of surprise.
“Huh? Aren’t you going to attack me? I thought you guys would fight me without thinking about the consequences.”
“Haha. We were the ones who were rude first, so how could we do that?”
Baek Jin-woong wasn’t the only one cooling off his anger.
Han Yeong-seok also wanted to order his guild members to kill Lucia.
The reason I didn’t do that was because I had witnessed her archery skills.
All three arrows fired so far have hit their targets without causing any harm to the opponent.
Moreover, among the 30 guild members gathered, not a single one was able to react to the arrow.
‘You just showed me that you can shoot me to death if you want.’
Han Yeong-seok wondered where Kang Jin-hyeok brought such a monster from.
I’ve never heard of a hunter with that level of archery skill.
‘Fuck… … .’
If all the guild members rush in, they might be able to catch her, but instead, Han Yeong-seok’s heart will end up on a skewer.
Han Yeong-seok, whose life was precious, had no choice but to endure it.
