How To Survive as a Class a Hunter

44. A-Rank Hunter Nguyen – [2]

Even with just a rough grasp of internet knowledge, one can understand why giant monsters can’t exist in reality.

I also vaguely remember the content. As a creature’s body size increases, the load increases significantly, while the muscle strength, which is proportional to the cross-sectional area of the muscles, does not increase much?

For such reasons, in movies, giant monsters would not be able to withstand their own weight and would burst and die. Like a whale on land that can’t bear its own weight and its internal organs get crushed to death.

Thus, real creatures can’t grow too large, and if they do, problems arise. But when you look at the giant monsters that come out of the gate, it’s not like that at all.

Unlike the original creatures of Earth, the larger the monsters get, the stronger they become. And also, their muscle strength amplifies in proportion to their increased size, making them faster and tougher.

Just by looking at that monstrous boar, you can tell.

From the rooftop of the building I teleported to, I saw that giant monster ramming into the place I had just been.

There was a sound of an explosion, and the ground shook. ‘Kurrung—’

Not only the part that the boar rammed into, but an entire side of the building’s outer wall collapsed.

Concrete dust rose violently.

The boar’s charge only stopped after it had broken through the opposite wall and emerged from the building.

It sniffed around where it had stopped, as if trying to confirm that I had been shattered to pieces and killed by its charge.

Soon, it seemed to realize that I wasn’t dead.

The boar turned its body and glared at me, and I showered its ugly face with machine gun fire.

It seemed intent on ramming into the building I was in to bring it down. The boar charged straight at the building I was on.

I gifted it with a continuous golden line of 30mm rounds on its back, but it didn’t die and rammed into the building I was in.

There was another sound of an explosion. That kurrung sound again.

The entire building shook, but I held onto the railing and endured. I paused my shooting for a moment, then pulled the trigger again to make its back even more tattered.

Despite all the shooting, it didn’t die. Judging by how the bleeding had already stopped where I had shot, it seemed to have super-regenerative abilities. It was clear that it had awakened to body enhancement abilities. To maintain that gigantic body, supernatural enhancements to bone density and muscle strength were necessary.

It was obviously a terrifying monster. That thing must have wreaked havoc in Australia as well. It must have destroyed countless buildings and eaten people to its heart’s content in that unfortunate land.

Still, I didn’t think I couldn’t kill it. It was difficult for it to attack me, but I could attack it as much as I wanted.

I was more worried about the possibility of it fleeing to the city center to avoid me.

As expected, it seemed difficult for the boar to withstand my one-sided barrage, and it turned its body. It seemed to be trying to escape between the buildings.

To keep it focused on me, I teleported in front of the boar. When I pulled the trigger right in front of it, the boar, seeing its own blood again, charged at me in a rage.

Its speed was also incredibly fast, but compared to the speed of a Deathclaw’s leap, it was slow. I easily dodged its charge with my enhanced dynamic vision, then continued shooting at its rear as it passed me.

As someone who also has body enhancement abilities, I know that even super-regenerative abilities have their limits. As I continued shooting, I was confident that it would eventually die.

A tearing scream echoed.

“Get inside the building! Get inside the building!”

The scream didn’t come from nearby. It came from beyond, but why?

The radio on my chest blared.

“An ogre has appeared! One, 4-meter class!”

There was no need to inform me of that over the radio. The next moment, I saw it clearly with my own eyes.

I saw a giant climbing the wall of a building beyond.

It was easily climbing the ten-story building wall, inserting its fingers and toes into the windows of the building.

It was an ogre.

So, it was a goblin that had awakened the ability to gigantify.

Gigantification is an awakening ability that manifests when one feels dissatisfied with their body size, right? Goblins, as a species, seem to be particularly dissatisfied with their bodies, so there are many cases of gigantification among them, and such individuals even have special names.

Meanwhile, people were gathered on the rooftop of the building that the ogre was climbing. Their collective screams reached my ears even from quite a distance.

“Don’t push! Don’t push—”

It was obvious that they were in a hurry. I immediately teleported to the rooftop of that building.

I glared ahead. I saw the large fingers of the ogre, just grabbing the edge of the rooftop.

I immediately pulled the trigger of the hunter rifle that was already aimed at it.

After firing several shots in rapid succession, the ogre seemed unable to withstand the sudden pain. It screamed and let go of the building.

Seeing it fall with a thud, it seemed the ogre had fallen.

But it wouldn’t have died. I was sure of it.

Just by looking at its 4-meter-tall gigantic body, I could infer several facts. The muscle density required to climb walls like a monkey with that heavy body, and the resulting physical durability…

Meanwhile, the people on the rooftop were pushing each other at the narrow entrance, trying to escape into the building. Unable to watch any longer, I roared.

“Go in calmly, calmly! Even if you don’t rush in, we’ve overcome the immediate crisis, so go in calmly!”

My fame helps at times like this. The people who were urgently pushing each other to get inside the building all looked at me and widened their eyes in surprise. Then, realizing that the ogre had disappeared, they seemed to decide to follow my words.

Finally, as everyone was evacuating in an orderly manner, one person even recognized me and showed enough composure to cheer me on.

“Hang in there, Hunter Kim Geuk! Long live Incheon!”

As they chanted the victory spell, I did the same.

“Long live Incheon!”

At this moment, I really needed that spell. Wasn’t it a difficult situation even from my perspective?

Looking below the railing, sure enough, the ogre was getting up, alive and well.

Then, in the distance, I also saw the boar monster that I had thrown away.

The boar seemed confused by my sudden disappearance from its sight and was sniffing around as it had earlier.

And soon, realizing that I was gone, the boar seemed to focus on hunting its prey.

Seeing it change direction towards the place where the most people were likely to be, deep in the city. I had revealed myself in front of it earlier to stop it, but that effort was about to be in vain.

Meanwhile, the ogre looked at me. As I aimed to shoot it, the ogre seemed to roughly understand what a gun was. It raised its large palm to cover its face. Because of that, my machine gun bullets only penetrated its palm and did not hit its face.

And while my shooting continued, the ogre counterattacked. It lifted a small car next to it and threw it at me, forcing me to stop shooting and dodge.

Meanwhile, the boar continued to move towards the city center. It seemed to be running at a reduced speed, perhaps tired from charging multiple times, but even that was terrifyingly fast.

It would be great if Naito-san could lure the boar as he did earlier so that I could deal with this crazy monkey monster, but that seemed difficult.

Naito-san seemed to have already grasped the situation and was trying to lure the boar again.

“Come on! Come on!”

Naito-san was desperately trying to attract the boar’s attention by firing his shotgun wildly while blasting music from his bike at full volume, but it was no use. Unlike before, the boar paid no heed to Naito-san, who was clinging to its tail.

It must be because the boar had just tasted my machine gun bullets. Compared to my shots, which had made the boar bleed profusely, Naito-san’s noisy but harmless shots were something the boar had learned to ignore.

The boar continued to ignore Naito-san and charged towards the city.

Just like the ogre, that boar couldn’t be ignored either. As I spread out my mental net, I sensed several cars trying to escape the city on the road ahead. If left alone, they would be trampled under the boar’s hooves.

Meanwhile, the ogre kept throwing things at me. A tree was about to fall on the man standing next to me. I quickly kicked the tree away and shouted at the man.

“What are you doing, not dodging?”

The man stammered in response.

“I was trying to film…”

“Filming in this situation?”

“I’m a fan of Kim Geuk Hunter…”

I stopped myself from shouting and reluctantly nodded. If he’s a fan, there’s no helping it.

The man awkwardly smiled and asked anxiously.

“But… what are you going to do? We can’t leave that thing alone, but if you go to deal with it, we’ll all die here…”

My answer was short.

“I’ll deal with both, of course.”

As the man exclaimed in admiration, I jumped over the railing.

Thud. I fell to the ground without even teleporting. I appeared in front of the ogre, who was about to throw another tree, and roared loudly.

“Follow me, you b*stard!”

The ogre did as I said. Like an enraged gorilla, it charged at me, and I ran as well.

But the ogre was much, much faster. As it was about to catch up to me, I teleported to widen the distance and shouted again.

“Come on, you b*stard!”

The ogre followed my command again. As it quickly caught up to me, I teleported again and saw the boar ahead.

Behind me, the ogre stopped abruptly.

Thus, I found myself between two gigantic monsters. They seemed to recognize each other and paused for a moment.

Suddenly, an idea struck me. I aimed my hunter rifle at the boar’s face, intending to use one to fight the other.

As I had hoped, the enraged boar couldn’t stand it and charged. The ogre was in its path… Damn it.

It didn’t go as it does in games or comics. The ogre dodged the boar’s charge by kicking off the building next to it like parkour and then charged at me, the cause of this situation.

I quickly shot at the ogre, but it knew how to use tools. It roughly pushed a nearby truck and used it as a shield to charge at me. When I dodged to the side, it threw the truck at me, and I barely managed to dodge it by throwing myself to the ground.

Both monsters charged at me as I lay on the ground. In a desperate situation, I teleported and got up, running again.

Meanwhile, someone shouted through the radio, which had been spouting incomprehensible content since earlier.

“I’ve arrived at the scene! Hang in there, I’m coming!”

I couldn’t tell who said it, nor could I ask. I was just busy trying to save my own life.

Had those two damn monsters gotten acquainted while following Behemoth around? They didn’t fight each other, and even showed a spirit of cooperation. The boar blocked the main road to prevent me from escaping, while the ogre leaped in.

The ogre’s gigantic arm, ignoring perspective, swung at me and filled my vision.

I teleported to dodge, but I felt dizzy. I had overused teleportation earlier, making it worse.

Still, I had to keep moving.

I stood there, wary of the boar that seemed to be waiting for an opening, while dodging the ogre’s constant attempts to throw things at me or charge at me.

I tried my best to dodge by moving my body, but when I couldn’t avoid an attack, I had to teleport, and the dizziness grew stronger. I struggled to endure the dizziness.

I also resisted the temptation to teleport into a building to escape this situation. If I did that just to save my own life, those two would break free and head to different places, causing who knows what kind of havoc in this city.

I believed that if I held on, reinforcements would come. As someone shouted over the radio, whether it was a tank or a helicopter, they would come.

About five minutes passed as I struggled to save my life.

A peculiar Incheon accent pierced my ears.

“I told you I’d definitely come!”

I turned my gaze in that direction and widened my eyes.

The reinforcements that arrived were two hunters.

First, there was Naito-san, who had been missing for a while, riding a silver bike. And he wasn’t alone.

Naito-san had brought someone on the back of that large bike.

The person was a man with brown skin, and as soon as Naito-san stopped the bike, the man hurriedly got off.

He must have come in a hurry, as he threw off his sunglasses and, seeing the situation, spat out what was obviously a curse.

“điên!”

Then he raised the hunter rifle he had brought and aimed it, and just by that, I could tell who he was.

An awakened hunter. From Vietnam, Nguyen.

What I knew about foreign awakened hunters was that even if their skills weren’t great, they all had guts. It wasn’t because they were selectively brought in, but because the local governments would deploy them first when something happened, as their fees were cheaper than those of domestic awakened hunters.

As expected, the experienced hunter Nguyen didn’t hesitate upon seeing this chaotic situation but laughed. He laughed so that his white teeth were fully exposed.

I didn’t know why he was laughing, but it was better than being scared and shrinking back. It meant he was willing to do something actively.

I shouted at him.

“Take that damn boar away first!”

Whether he understood my words or judged on his own, Nguyen did just that.

Nguyen aimed his rifle at the boar and started shooting. ‘Drrrr―’ The hunter rifle he held seemed to weigh 34kg, and although it was less powerful than mine, it would still be terribly painful.

Sure enough, the boar, hit by several shots, let out a painful squeal and turned to charge at him.

Nguyen ran in the opposite direction to avoid the wild boar.

And as far as I know, Nguyen has awakened not only the exoskeleton ability but also the acceleration ability. The only flaw is that his nerves don’t accelerate, so he can’t handle his own speed, but that running speed alone was enough to keep him from being caught by the wild boar.

Nguyen and the wild boar chasing him started to move away.

And I looked at Ogre. Finally, it was just the two of us.

You b*stard. I’ll kill you.

When Ogre charged at me, I teleported. To where my hunter team was.

“Hyung? I heard two large monsters appeared and you were holding them off alone, is that true?”

Sung Moon-young seemed to want to ask something, but I didn’t have time to answer. I slammed down my hunter rifle and shouted.

“Change the magazine, quickly!”

Then I picked up the spare combat hammer that my hunter team always carried for me. And I teleported.

To the highest building around.

I jumped off the high rooftop. As gravity pulled me down, the ground quickly approached.

Just before my feet touched the ground, I teleported again. This time, to where?

Above Ogre’s head.

Ogre didn’t notice my presence above his head. So he didn’t dodge or try to block with his palm.

With the acceleration of the fall, I struck Ogre’s head with all my might using the combat hammer.