chapter 48
48 – Monsters Appearing in the City
It is known that the 2nd Awakening increases the overall ability by around 30%. It wasn’t that much, but it was an amazing change nonetheless.
When excitement soared and I started to feel dizzy, Yeon-hee, who had been watching my change, cautiously approached me and stared at me.
“Sunwolah… What, what did you do? What was your previous job? Skeleton Bomber?”
“Tickktoktaktak!!”
“I don’t know what it is, but you’ve become incredibly strong? Are you just going to bomb!?”
When Yeon-hee said something, it gave off a cute feeling, but it will be different once it is actually put into action. I raised her arms to her and showed off how strong she was.
“Wow… Then, shall we try the Hobgoblin Dungeon tomorrow? It’s rated easier than the Lizard Marsh!”
Nodding-
Hobgoblin. Actually, the etymology is far from the enhanced type of goblin, but the variant of goblin has been called that way for some time.
It’s easy to understand if you think of the goblin centurion, who was big and strong, running around in groups. If a normal goblin is 5 and a centurion is 10, the hobgoblin’s stats would be around 9. The troublesome thing is that they also use poison because they are more intelligent than normal goblins.
There are guys in the middle who blow poisonous needles in the tube, but of course it is not easy to identify and avoid the thin needles during battle.
So, it is essential to wear specially designed safety glasses to protect your eyes, and carry plenty of antidotes with you.
“Lizard, would you like to wear safety glasses?”
Chura Rock!!
“I don’t like it? Should I give up on making them wear clothes… I don’t like forcing them to wear them, but I need to increase my dominance.”
‘Cheeky lizards, I’ll just do as I’m told. You guys will change your mind if you stick a needle in your eye.’
“How many antidotes do we need? We have a lot of people in our family… 2,980 Won for a low-level antidote…”
When I asked her to buy as much as possible with her arms wide open, she nodded and raised the arrow for the number of purchases. On the grounds that she gets a discount if you buy 100 pieces.
‘I don’t need that much, but it won’t be bad if I stock up a lot for that time…’
Yeon-hee eventually moved and invested all her remaining money in antidote. Since I bought it at the Hunter Market, the things I bought will be in front of the door tomorrow morning.
I approached Lizard 1 and patted him on the side to convey my intention.
(Tomorrow, focus on protecting Yeon-hee. Don’t be mean to her, okay? I mean, make sure to block all directions.)
(Enemy··· kill. Hit and kill······.)
(Eh tongue… I shouldn’t talk.)
The first time they receive an order, they carry it out, but as time goes by, they move according to their own will, so they had to tell them in advance.
However, I couldn’t hide my uneasiness when I saw those guys who were already wagging their tails and couldn’t hide their excitement.
The next day.
The Hobgoblin Dungeon is an hour further away than the other dungeons, so we woke up that early.
‘I’ll have to walk for a long time in the subway… Shouldn’t Yeon-hee also learn to drive? Huh… I can’t drive, and it’s frustrating at times like this.’
Once again, I felt resentful of my skeleton body.
“Ahh!! Let’s have fun running today!!”
Unlike me, she exudes bright energy in her world.
Just as Yeon-hee stretched out and came out of the living room, her cell phone started to ring loudly.
Diddiddiddy!!
Yeonhee hurriedly opened her phone.
“······ Uh uh··· It’s a big deal, Sunwol-ah! The dungeon has exploded on the Guchang-ro side!!”
What?!
‘No matter how fuzzy my memory is, I still have about a week left?’
“I think I have to go this time. It’s in the middle of the city, right?”
Nod-
We hurriedly got ready and went out, unpacking the box in front of the door and pushing the liquid in a brown bottle the size of a little finger into our inventory.
It is a 10-minute drive to the place where the dungeon break occurred.
It’s not far, but we had to hurry.
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17, Guchang 2-ro
A dungeon break in one of the busiest streets in Korea.
Sometimes, monsters from dungeons that form in the underground space pile up and pile up until they eventually explode.
And today’s accident was worse than the day before.
The huge sinkhole suddenly exploded, and the monsters that popped out of it remained the same.
Unlike before, it was a weekend, and an art festival was held in which 8-lane roads were controlled and paintings were drawn on the floor.
There were tens of thousands of family members on the road, so the moment Lee Yeon-hee, who was contacted, left the house, the number of casualties had already exceeded 1,000.
The first 500 D and E class hunters who arrived there were forced to be very nervous when they saw the terrible scene that first became a mess. However, after a few minutes, I was able to comfortably subdue the monsters.
Keruk!! Keruk!!
Hundreds of goblins and kobolds at most.
And since it’s a dungeon that exploded underground, there are a lot of slimes?
Anyway, it was a trivial combination.
Considering the hunters who are still gathering, the composition was almost 1:1, so it was inevitable.
And among the gathered hunters, there were those who showed exceptionally radical performances.
Khehehe!
Kieh!!
Han Eul-min, who is in charge of the party, said, taking the head of a goblin who had been severely injured and completely lost its fighting power, with a hammer.
“Hey, take a good picture, you bastards. I’m going to have to suck up some views.”
“There are a lot of kids filming in the nearby buildings, can I just leave it, boss? I need to get a copyright for this.”
“That’s great. Let it go.”
“Why don’t you drive it in and explode it all at once? Shoot magic missiles at people who are trembling?”
Han Eul-min, lost in thought for a moment at the team member’s opinion, shook his head.
“Hmm- isn’t it a bit weak?”
“You’re weak, boss. Even if you give your opinion, you son of a b*tch. Didn’t that come from the wind guild a while ago? You idiot for arguing for no reason.”
“It’s the safest thing to copy the ones that get a lot of views, but what Jotto doesn’t know is the real thing.”
It was going in an atmosphere that was organized to some extent, but this place has already caused a large number of victims. It was too light for a conversation in such a place.
They belong to the Guardian Guild.
The three major guilds in Korea were the White Knight, the Dwarf, and the Vision, and when expanded to five, it was a place so large that some people even listed the name of the Guardian Guild.
It doesn’t have top-level hunters like the 3 major guilds, but it has quite a solid stock of mid-tier hunters.
However, the image of the Guardian Guild has not been very good lately. As the scale grew with the number of hunters, it was a place where many words came out. The biggest problem was the depravity of the hunters who believed in the value of the name of the Guardian Guild and installed it.
It was passive to condescend to the general public, and it was to the extent that there were even occasions when violence went beyond abusive language. And in that respect, Han Eul-min was making a contribution like no other.
Because his father was the sub-guild leader of the Guardian Guild, and he was confident in his own abilities, he did not know that he would do such a thing even more. Moreover, he is a wizard who is said to awaken in 3 out of 100 people. He can only use basic magic like Magic Missile yet, but it’s enough to make him think he’s special.
Kyaaa!!
Citizens who sprained their legs while running and still couldn’t escape screamed, but seeing that no one came to help, it was clear that their purpose was not to rescue lives.
Seeing the four Guardian Guild members giggling, Helen shook her head and led Hyeon-seok and Jin-kyung, including the woman who had fallen, to evacuate those in trouble.
“Aren’t those the guys who ran rampant while hunting for women at the bar the other day?”
“That’s right, seeing that Han Eul-min was there too. He was terribly ignoring it, so even the articles that were flooded after an accident at that time were taken down at once.”
“Oh hey, those bastards should be sent to Samcheong Education College.”
Hyeonseok and Jinkyung looked at the Guardian Guild members disapprovingly and threw out a word each.
“Don’t worry, let’s go inside. There are a lot of deaths, so I think it will be upgraded to the second stage of the disaster soon.”
“Well, people have all escaped, and goblins seem to be the main focus, but let’s go slowly. It’s not like they pay more for catching a lot.”
“Think and tsk-“
“You hold more than me and say that.”
The 500 or so hunters who had been dispatched in the beginning were slowly driving towards the gate from the outer periphery as if they had reached an agreement.
Although the number of goblins was large, their strength was greatly weakened in the situation of being surrounded. Despite the racial characteristics of goblins, which become stronger when united, they cannot overcome the situation.
After pushing for about 10 minutes like that, I saw monsters coming up from the gate, and I saw other hunters approaching while chasing them on the other side.
And I saw a group of Koreans walking toward the gate with their hands behind their backs on a street not far from the left. With three parasites taking pictures of Han Eul-min on their cell phones.
Tsk-
I didn’t like it, but at that time, the atmosphere right before the end of the situation was exuded enough to agonize over what to eat after Helen, who was very cautious, was over.
A sharp, deafening sound echoed throughout the area.
“Ah, what the f*ck sounds like. What is this?”
“Oh!! sh*t, the sound of scratching the blackboard isn’t even this good!!”
It was such an unpleasant sound that even Helen nodded her head inadvertently at the nervous reaction of the crowd.
And a few seconds later.
“aaah!! Ears, ears…!!”
The sound was so powerful that 500 hunters knelt down and blocked their ears.
When the chasing hunters break formation, and the hunters run away from the gate to avoid the sound increase one by one.
A group of monsters with a never-seen-before-seen appearance climbed up from a large sinkhole.