Episode 41
The story of the man in prison was extremely strange.
He had fallen into deep debt to pay his brother’s hospital bills, and had to take on all sorts of odd jobs for the guild. This is where it all ended.
If I could just finish this job well, I could get a huge reward, but I couldn’t stand feeding people to monsters.
Eventually, the man tried to burn Alaune in the middle of the night.
However, Alaune’s scream, which alerted them to the danger, caused them to be caught by other hunters.
The man who was beaten to the point of death had been locked up for three days without even a sip of water.
“Those who feed people to monsters managed to keep you alive.”
“It’s because of my skills… … .”
“Skill?”
“Yes… … . The illusions set up outside like guards… … were all created with my skills… … .”
When the welcome disappears, you have to stand guard yourself, which is annoying.
That’s why the Tyrant Hunters didn’t kill it but left it alive.
It was such a simple and selfish reason that Kang Jin-hyeok couldn’t help but laugh in vain.
“Please save the people quickly… … . If we continue like this… … all the women trapped here… … will be… … fed to… … .”
The man was more concerned about other people being sacrificed than his own safety.
He was a kind-hearted man who did not seem like he belonged to a large guild.
Kang Jin-hyeok could confirm that his actions were not pretentious through the karma values he saw from him.
“What is your name?”
“Jung Dae-yoon… … .”
Kang Jin-hyeok, hearing the man’s name, gripped the bat tightly with both hands.
“Okay, Mr. Jeong Dae-yoon. Let’s clean this place up together.”
“What, what are you doing… … . If you hit the iron bars with that… … , the sound it makes… … !”
Jeong Dae-yoon heard the noise and worried that another hunter was running towards him.
But Kang Jin-hyeok didn’t need to worry about that.
The bat he held with both hands was emitting a mysterious energy that Jung Dae-yoon had never seen before.
Surrounded by a red aura, the bat lightly cut through the iron bars like a sword.
Jung Dae-yoon couldn’t close his gaping mouth as he watched the iron bars being cut down without a sound.
“Cutting the bars with a bat… …? What the heck are you… … .”
“Eat this instead of chattering away.”
Kang Jin-hyeok took the potion out of his inventory and stuffed it into Jeong Dae-yoon’s mouth.
Thanks to the power of the potion flowing down his throat, Jeong Dae-yoon’s stamina was instantly restored.
After drinking all of the potion, Jeong Dae-yoon coughed and spat out the empty bottle.
“Khak! If you give it to me gently, where will it hurt?”
“A grown man is joking.”
Kang Jin-hyeok swung the bat again and broke the chains that bound the man’s hands and feet.
The man who had gained freedom moved his body here and there, gradually loosening his stiff joints.
“Thank you for saving me. So your name is… … .”
“Kang Jin-hyeok.”
“Ah, you’re the hunter who hunted that new type of monster! I thought you were truly extraordinary.”
Kang Jin-hyeok was surprised that Jeong Dae-yoon recognized him.
I knew it was a hot topic on the internet, but I never expected that even Tyrant’s guild members would be interested in it.
Kang Jin-hyeok said indifferently, not wanting to waste time talking about such things.
“I was just lucky.”
“No way. If it was just luck, we wouldn’t have tried to recruit him.”
“Tyrant? I’ve never heard of it before.”
“That’s because opinions are still being exchanged internally. It seems like it’s not easy to make a decision because there are a lot of opposing opinions.”
According to Jeong Dae-yoon, since it is a guild that only B-class hunters with achievements can join, there is a lot of opposition to allowing C-class hunters to join the guild.
Whether it was true or not, it was a story that meant nothing to Kang Jin-hyeok.
“They don’t even think about giving rice cakes, but they’re just drinking kimchi stew among themselves.”
“Hahaha, that’s right.”
Kang Jin-hyeok had no intention of entrusting himself to a group of trash who did things like this.
A guild like that would be unacceptable even if the guild leader came out and bowed down to me.
“Anyway, that’s not important right now.”
“That’s right. We need to rescue the trapped people quickly and get out of here.”
Jeong Dae-yoon thought that he had to escape as soon as possible and report Tyrant’s atrocities.
But Kang Jin-hyeok’s plan was different from what he thought.
“Running away from here won’t solve anything.”
“Run away? It’s too much for us to handle on our own, so aren’t we asking for help from outside?”
“Who the hell is going to help us? Are you even going to call the police?”
Jeong Dae-yoon was unable to answer Kang Jin-hyeok’s question.
As a member of the Tyrant Guild, he experienced firsthand how powerful the guild was.
“The police will probably… … try to cover up this incident.”
“You know that well. And you were only thinking about getting out of here?”
“There is no other way.”
“No, there is. There are members of the Titan Guild waiting outside right now.”
“Titans? Why are they here?”
“I asked your guild leader for help.”
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Even though he heard that reinforcements were coming, Jeong Dae-yoon still looked anxious.
“Is the Titan Guildmaster here too?”
“Seo Sang-ho couldn’t come because he was overseas on a request.”
“Then it’s impossible to deal with the guys here.”
“Even though there are 30 members of the Titan Guild?”
“yes.”
Jeong Dae-yoon was as confident as if he had seen the answer sheet in advance.
Kang Jin-hyeok expected that there must be a reason why he was acting this way.
“Do the hunters here have some kind of secret plan?”
Jeong Dae-yoon nodded once and explained the reason.
“All the hunters guarding this place are carrying Alaune’s ointment.”
“Powder? Not a welcome?”
“yes.”
Since the welcome goods were for the executives and the guild leader, the only things allowed for general guild members were the leftover by-products from production.
The by-products collected together are called powdered medicine.
As the material is the material, it has the ability to follow the tip of Hwandan’s toes.
“The powder also has the effect of greatly increasing your abilities, albeit temporarily.”
“Then, if you take that and fight a Titan… … .”
“The members of the Titan Guild will be annihilated.”
There are a total of 20 Tyrant guild members guarding this place.
Although the number of people is limited, if you increase the ability level with Alaune’s powder, you will need to bring in about 100 people. Jeong Dae-yoon emphasized their danger.
“Then we need to somehow reduce the number of hunters here.”
“Is there any way?”
“There is one thing.”
Kang Jin-hyeok took out the items he had prepared from his inventory and showed them to me.
And I told Jeong Dae-yoon about the plan I had planned in my head in advance.
Jeon Dae-yoon, who had been listening to his plan intently, looked at Kang Jin-hyeok with wavering eyes.
“Is that really the only way?”
“It prickles my conscience, but there’s nothing I can do.”
Jung Dae-yoon, who had been lost in thought for a moment, clenched his fist with a sorrowful expression.
“There’s nothing we can do. These guys here deserve to be beaten… … .”
“You made a good decision.”
Kang Jin-hyeok praised Jeong Dae-yoon’s determination and handed him the items he had prepared.
“Mr. Kang Jin-hyeok, do you plan to deal with Alaune during this time?”
“Yeah. We can’t just leave a monster that grows by eating people alone.”
“Then, while we’re dealing with Alaune, I have a favor to ask.”
“Please?”
“Yes, it is very important.”
Kang Jin-hyeok, facing Jeong Dae-yoon’s solemn face, glanced into space.
“Then can you whisper it to me?”
“Yes? It’s just the two of us here, why would we need to do that?”
“There might be something like a wiretapping device.”
“If there was something like that, they would have come here a long time ago… … .”
“Right. Don’t argue and just do as I say.”
Unable to resist Kang Jin-hyeok’s urging, Jeong Dae-yoon approached him closely.
I still couldn’t understand why I had to do something like this, but I followed the advice of the person who saved my life without question.
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The Tyrant Hunters, who were leisurely playing board games in the waiting room, jumped to their feet when they heard a loud roar that rang in their ears.
This noise, so strong that it shook the entire building, was the signal that something was wrong with the barrier.
“An intruder?!”
“Who on earth came to a place like this?”
The hunters hurriedly opened the door and came out.
And they found the women leaving the entrance and Jung Dae-yoon, whom they had beaten up and tied up.
“How about that guy?!”
“Weren’t you hiding a potion?”
“That’s why I said let’s just kill him!”
The hunters looked visibly flustered as something completely unexpected happened.
Of course, not everyone was like that.
As a leader, A-class hunter Ha Jin-hwan was the first to begin assessing the situation.
“I don’t know where it came from, but it’s certain that Jeong Dae-yoon fed the women the potion. If this continues, they’ll all escape outside the barrier.”
“Then what should we do?”
“What are you doing? We have to go and catch it! Hurry up!”
Following Ha Jin-hwan’s instructions, the hunters ran towards the entrance with all their might.
Hunters can run at speeds incomparable to those of ordinary people, so if things continued like this, the women would be caught without a fight.
“Okay, don’t go anywhere else and just keep going straight… … .”
Jeong Dae-yoon quietly watched the hunters following him and then pressed the switch he was holding.
Then a small spark rose from the floor near the entrance.
Ha Jin-hwan quickly stopped walking when he realized that there were numerous ‘scrolls’ near the spark.
“Everyone stop!”
He shouted urgently, but only half of them stopped following his instructions.
The other half were late to action and felt the effects of the scroll on their whole bodies.
Boom!
The scroll engraved with the explosion skill caused continuous explosions using sparks as a medium.
A huge plume of flame and smoke rose from the entrance as if dynamite had been detonated.
The hunters’ screams were drowned out by the explosions.
“What the f*ck.”
There are only 11 hunters left, including Ha Jin-hwan.
The only fortunate thing was that all of the hunters who disappeared in the explosion were B-class hunters.
The A-class hunter, who was the core of the power, was able to dodge, so it could not be said that he had failed yet.
“저 미X 새끼를 잡아! 당장!”
Even without Ha Jin-hwan shouting, the hunters who were angry to the point of hair loss volunteered to run after Jeong Dae-yoon.
“You spared my life, so why are you doing this without any gratitude?”
“You son of a bitch! I’ll kill you!”
Jung Dae-yoon went out of the barrier with the women who were being held captive, but they were still able to catch up.
The hunters ran with their eyes wide open to catch him, who had blown up his comrades with an explosion.
The hunters who went outside the barrier without hesitation took in the sight of the outside world that they had never seen before because it was hidden by the barrier.
“F*ck… … .”
A whopping 30 people had gathered in a rural area where nothing should have existed.
Tyrant’s hunters found the Titan emblem on their attire.
“Did that bastard Jeong Dae-yoon call you?”
“The phone was confiscated a long time ago, so how can you do it?”
Ha Jin-hwan decided not to think about the reason why Jeong Dae-yoon could have called the Titan Hunters here.
It’s not too late to figure out the cause after the work is done.
Now the most important thing was to fight against the Titan Hunters.
“Everyone, take out your medicine and take it.”
“Right now?”
“Are you calling that a question?”
As Ha Jin-hwan shouted with a fierce look in his eyes, the Tyrant Hunters took out the small packets of medicine they had hidden in their bosoms with trembling hands.
The yellow powder in the envelope was the Alaune powder that Jeong Dae-yoon had mentioned.
“You all know the side effects, right? If you don’t want to die, be prepared to finish it within an hour.”
Ha Jin-hwan and Tyrant’s hunters simultaneously poured the medicine into their mouths.
The moment the powder went down their throats, they felt their abilities increase by leaps and bounds.
The confidence that they could even take on an S-class hunter was welling up in all of the Tyrant Hunters.
