chapter 45
Chapter 45 – Change of composition (5)
Chapter 45 – Change of composition (5)
“Huh…”
I can’t help but admire it. It was only when Serenian fell to the ground, screaming as she was attacked by the enemy’s tentacles, that her heart sank, but she survived anyway and claimed her victory.
And the price of victory is exhilarating and majestic. Seeing her other elves hurriedly take care of her, I turned her drone to her fast-paced battlefield.
It is all reflected on a small screen that is so dark and inaudible, but there is a grandeur that definitely takes your breath away.
The ants, who had just stood still and watched the elves struggling with their antennae, started to help them all at once.
It is true that ants that have not become demon beasts are weaker than mutant demon beasts, but there are variables when it comes to a fight between corps and corps. Even the ants formed an alliance with the elves.
“—!”
I could see the cheers of the elves who blocked the narrow passage and struggled to block the frantic crowds of enemies.
If the ants rushed in and grabbed the bodies of the beastly bugs and threw them away, the elves would only have to attack the soft flesh that was struggling in panic before the enemies turned over again.
‘Push on.’
As the ants pouring out of the ant nest and the ants working around the dungeon changed their momentum at once, the battlefield where the enemies flocked unilaterally changed.
I launched the drone upwards. The wide cavity overlooking at a glance became a fierce battleground where numerous creatures entangled and fought, and dozens of elves located in the gap began to hunt one by one the witch-wielding daughter-in-law, who, with the help of countless ants, had begun to panic.
Occupying the hub, the gigantic cavity where glowstones light up the surroundings, is the first condition for attacking the complex dungeon that stretches out in all directions around the hub.
The Elves, who showed Serenian’s determination and solidarity, seemed to be able to achieve that condition.
“–. —!”
An elven warrior who seemed to be the commander in command of the elves stepped on the body of the fallen demonic mouse-legs while shedding bodily fluids and stood up to command the allies.
The enemies resisted by cutting down and stomping on the ants, even appearing variants with hooks on their backs, but I had a gut feeling that the elves would win at least in taking over this hub.
“–!”
In fact, even the mutants fell down one by one from the pincer attack of the ants and the attacking elves, regardless of the death of their comrades.
While the ants were holding on to their legs, he inserted a spear pin into the gap in the carapace, cut off the breath of the mutant that was resisting until the end, and looked back at his exhausted, gasping compatriots.
The only thing piled up on the floor was the corpses of the enemies. There were no more enemies to rush at, so they were victorious in the end.
***
‘As long as you have captured the hub, which is the backbone of the dungeon, you can attack it slowly and carefully.’
Complex dungeons usually occupy a hub, guard it, and send a separate expedition to attack the remaining dungeons one by one.
However, the elves who came with a large army cannot stay here all day. Those ants are the ones who can fill that void.
As soon as the battle was over, the ants began tearing up the corpses of the witch bugs scattered everywhere and taking them back to their nests.
Perhaps those newly freed ants are more serious about this fight than the elves. Because they’re from here.
“—…”
“–.”
Instead, the ants handed over the hard carapaces of the elves instead of the meat of the witch beast’s daughter-in-law, which the elves don’t eat. The elves seemed a bit taken aback by their favor, but after hearing Urea’s explanation that they could communicate with ants, they accepted it.
It is a strange sight even to me. It was an unexpected sight that the elves, a mysterious heterogeneous race, would come to terms with beasts, especially with ants, fighting alongside them and sharing their spoils.
“Are you okay?”
“I was hurt, but an injury of this magnitude… Can be healed quickly.”
I watched the cleanup process like that when Serenian came out to the ground. I picked up her walkie-talkie and dialed her comms.
I can see the distressed look on her face. She wraps her arms and legs in bandages, sends the other elves back to work, and lies on a stretcher on the floor. Accepted it
“The bow is broken. A bow given by the gods. I can’t fix it.”
“It’s okay if the bow is broken instead of life. Don’t worry. You never know when you will receive something new as a present.”
A bitter smile came out as she worried more about her broken bow than her own body. Her hunting bow, which I just ordered her Internet delivery to, was a valuable asset to her.
‘Because it’s enough to buy a new one.’
I didn’t think it would be a good idea to bother Serenian, who was recovering from an injury, so I quickly hung up on the radio and got up. It wasn’t without casualties, but it still produced the best results in a tough fight.
In other words, it meant that he was well qualified to receive the reward.
“Seunghyun, I think we should go with you to the afternoon shoot. There are not enough people.”
But during lunch the next day, I was thinking about a new bow to buy for Serenian. I came across an unexpected opportunity.
“You know Kang Yuna, right? I’m a new Hunter who just joined the company this time.”
“Uhh, I think I’ve heard of it.”
I searched my memory at the words of the team leader who spoke naturally. As if the team leader didn’t say this for nothing, it was definitely a name that remained vague in my memory.
“Academy Evaluation Match?”
“That’s right.”
After that, when I got the hang of it and spoke up, the team leader nodded.
Hunter Academy is a national institution established to establish a more proper order after the short and thick era of dizzy chaos in this society.
It was a place with the goal of minimizing social chaos by gathering young awakened people who were immature in both their strength and spirit and teaching them how to use their power properly and properly.
After the hunter academy became compulsory education, hunter companies keep an eye on it and take promising people among awakened people who aspire to become hunters to their companies in advance.
The history itself is a short system, but it is a systematic and proper system that cannot be compared with the past when even young children were driven to death in a fist-pumping way.
“The skills are excellent, but the mask is also good, so you can see the buds. I’m going to film an introductory video today, but Eunsoo didn’t come out because she was sick.”
“I know. Of course I will go then.”
My job is video editing, not filming… How can a new employee refuse when the team leader asks that there is a problem with the team’s work? I smiled and appealed that I was not uncomfortable at all and said I would follow.
In the first place, the work entrusted to me was at the level of chores, so it wasn’t that difficult.
“Okay. I’m ready to shoot. It’s not even a long piece. Seunghyun Mr. Go to Team 3 and bring Yuna Kang while we finish.”
“Okay.”
And one of the tasks the team leader instructed was to bring in Kang Yuna, who was waiting in his team.
After putting down the equipment I was carrying, I followed her words and headed to the floor where the hunter team was. I already knew her face. Because I saw the material including the photos.
“Huh?”
“Yuna Kang?”
Then I ran into her in front of her elevator. A woman with black bobbed hair, one head smaller than me.
But as soon as I checked her face, my eyes moved to the bow she was holding in her hand. Come to think of it, was the bow she used as a weapon?
“I am from the video team. I was told to guide you on time.”
I guided her inside and casually pressed her elevator button again.
Even at that moment, I glanced at her bow. After thinking about it, I was thinking about which bow to give to Serenian, but I thought what it would be like to get help from someone who uses a bow in actual combat.
I didn’t originally have this kind of personality, but it seems that my personality has changed a little since I got involved with the elves in the flowerpot I never imagined.
“Hey, maybe…”
“Are you Choi Seung-hyun?”
But before I could speak for her, she opened her mouth first. Mentioning my name, a new employee who didn’t even tell me that.
In the elevator where we were alone, she looked up at me.
For some reason, those eyes are shaking violently.
“City, ten years ago…An elementary school inside a polluted area. There were kidnapped children there.”
Then he started talking about the old days. The story that I buried and lived without taking it out.
“I don’t know if you remember, but I was one of the kids in the school back then.”
Kang Yuna’s trembling voice brought back memories of that time. It wasn’t a very good thing.