ALL NOVEL
Chapter 99:
Now that I’ve convinced Ahn Yoonseung, there’s no need to hesitate any longer.
‘Now that I’ve said that, let’s get started right away.’
I picked up my phone and called the person at the top of my contacts. Because I have something to ask Seonwoo Yeon.
***
Today is November 10th. It is the second day since winter arrives. While others were already fussing about feeling the cold winter breeze, I didn’t have the time to enjoy this weather.
The wind isn’t the problem right now, it’s because the festival of blood is coming.
“Hello? Seonwoo Yeon-ssi, are you available to talk right now?”
It has been about three months since the mysterious disappearance of the boss. Now that it is not unusual for an incident to occur at any time, I decided to immediately try the method of tracking the Imoogi that came to mind. This time, I would approach it from a more logical perspective.
“Seonwoo Yeon-ssi, can association staff access gate auction records?”
– Of course. Gate transactions are always so you can look them up too, Kiryeo-ssi.
“Is that so? But I’m outside right now. Could you please search for me instead?”
– Right now?
“Yes, right now.”
Now that I think about it. The Rakshasa Temple must have carefully chosen a place to hide the Imoogi before. No matter how bold they are, they wouldn’t place a rare entity like a growing boss just anywhere. However, even if they have a desired gate, it might be difficult for them to occupy it freely due to its location… In the end, it is possible that they chose this method to securely own a specific gate.
‘Official transfer of ownership through association.’
So, what were the conditions for the gate they selected? I identify the following four criteria
◆ Transactions before August
First, since the Imoogi disappeared in the August incident, they must have prepared the location before then.
◆ Individual Bids
Exclude all corporate transactions. There’s no benefit in using a business name to acquire a gate intended for a terrorist attack.
◆ Water Attribute Friendly Environment
Of course, considering the type of monster to be trained, this condition cannot be left out.
◆ Large enough to hide the boss
There is no need to explain this.
“Hmm.”
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Anyway, in my own way, I inferred the thoughts of the Rakshasa temples and selected the gates that they would have purchased.
-There are 13 search results.
Then, there were a total of 13 gates that met all the criteria. But if we exclude those where the entrance is still open…
-The results have been narrowed down considerably. There are 5 types.
Yeah, 5 types. Among those 5 gates that have been sold to individuals and already reported as cleared by the association, there might be Rakshasa Temple’s ‘closed gate’ mixed in. That’s just the probability.
“….”
But I have reduced the number of cases here once more.
If I were Su Yehwi, dungeon shocks are divine punishments. If you are someone who believes that humanity deserves to atone by dying to monsters. This condition may have been taken into consideration last when choosing the Imoogi’s cradle.
◆Densely populated areas
The city with the highest population in this country is Seoul.
[1 search result]
And, among the gates suitable for raising Imoogi, there was only one location in Seoul.
[Damp Cave]
[Grade: E]
[Description: Poison Frog, who uses deadly poison, appears as the boss.]
Of course, there is a high possibility that my guess is wrong from the start, so I can’t say for sure that there is an Imoogi here…
“I’ll hang up the phone for now.”
If I’m confused, I’ll just check it myself. After ending the call with Seonwoo Yeon, I headed straight there.
***
Rakshasa temples may think that they know the gate best in the world.
But that idea is dangerous. Because any alien has already figured out the rules.
‘If there are any Earthlings left inside the dungeon, they try to expel them.’
The creators of the Gate didn’t want Hunters to be meaninglessly isolated in that other world. So when they kill the boss, an exit always appears. It was a kind gesture, urging hunters to return to Earth, even emitting a bright light to guide their return.
“Hmm.”
However, the ‘exit created when killing the boss’ that appears here had different characteristics from the general passage.
Immune to destruction. It was designed to be open no matter what happens until all the survivors inside return.
‘Well, that’s considerate of them.’
Perhaps the dungeon’s leader is still alive inside the cult’s closed gate. It had to be that way. Substituting this special characteristic, the moment the boss dies, a hole is opened in the cult’s hidden space that can never be removed, and a passage connected to the Earth is created, so no matter how much they do, they cannot completely avoid being chased by the police.
“According to the coordinates taken by Seonwoo Yeon, it is around here…”
Now that the deduction is complete, let’s move on to verification.
“Ah! It’s here.”
I am standing in an alley in Seoul. This was the place where a gate named [Damp Cave] appeared. But now, instead of a glowing blue gate, all I see is dull asphalt. According to reports, this dungeon was apparently cleared back in September.
‘Hmm.’
Of course, I still don’t know if the owner’s report is true or not. So, I’ve decided to personally verify whether Rakshasa Temple manipulated the Damp Cave. To be precise, using the characteristics of the gate I thought of earlier.
‘The boss here…Was it an E-class monster called Poison Frog?’ frёeweɓηovel.coɱ
Once again, the most important key to exiting a dungeon is the boss monster. Every boss is linked to a specific coordinate on Earth so that you can make an exit at any time. Even in a situation where the entrance is destroyed and the space is cut off, the specific coordinates are never let go.
‘To put it the other way, it means that a living boss always has traces connected to its coordinates.’
And judging from my experience so far, most dungeons tend to have exits close to the gate appearance location…
It’s a contrarian idea. I guessed where the exit from the [Damp Cave] should be, and planned to detect the Poison Frog’s magic traces linked to these coordinates.
‘….’
Well, anyway, that’s the theory…
‘If I explain this concept to Seonwoo Yeon, an Earthling, will she understand?’
I rolled my eyes and soon gave up the thought. There’s no need to explain the entire process to her anyway.
To be honest, the success rate of this tracking method is extremely low. In a way, it’s like trying to find a drop of ink mixed into a lake.
‘The traces are too faint…’
A situation where I must detect faint magic that cannot be imagined with Earth’s technology. But still, I decided to try this method first.
-Tuk.
Failure is the mother of success… Of course, that’s not my actual reasoning. Sensing mana is a talent of the soul
But, as always, I am the soul most favored by the manas of this world.
‘There’s no way I can’t do something like this.’
A natural blessing was enough to make a person arrogant.
***
24 hours later.
I am sitting in the counseling room of the Hunter Association, looking pathetic with a blood-soaked tissue pressed against my nose.
“Hunter Kim Kiryeo.”
“Yes.”
“Uh… are you hurt?”
“No.”
To explain how I ended up like this, I’d have to go back a day. I stayed up for nearly 24 hours straight to execute my plan successfully.
To explain how I ended up like this, I’d have to go back a day. I stayed up for nearly 24 hours straight to execute my plan successfully.
“I just got a nosebleed from overwork.”
First, let me start with the conclusion. I discovered that the boss of the [Damp Cave], Poison Frog, was still alive at the end of my tracking. That gate was a secret cradle occupied by a Rakshasa temple.
“O, overwork?”
However, if I reveal such advanced tracking methods to Earthlings, it would expose my abilities too much. Right now, I’m in the process of reporting to the police and the association with evidence gathered so far, stating that ‘Damp Cave poses a very high risk.’
“Wow, that’s a bit shocking. So the association is basically saying they won’t do anything in the end?”
“Well, it’s more like they can’t do much…”
“Ha, after going through the police and the association, all they can do is install a single CCTV camera at that location.”
Well, as you can see the results. It seems that the high-ranking people here will come to their senses only after being bitten by an Imoogi. No matter how much new information I brought in, nothing changed.
‘Huh.’
No, I know for sure that those cultists are terrorists, and it’s also true that the bosses have disappeared, so why don’t they believe me when I tell them that the Imoogi will appear? If I fed them information like this, doesn’t it mean they have to arrest all the Rakshasa temples from the top down?
But these guys keep saying that since nothing has happened yet, there is nothing they can do about it.
“Kiryeo-ssi.”
Forget it. I shouldn’t have trusted inferior mammals after all.
I clicked my tongue and got up from my seat. At the same time, I opened the airline’s website on my phone. I was thinking of booking a flight to Jeju Island right away.
‘Let’s see, which plane is the fastest…’
I instantly decided to spend this winter on an island.
But then, suddenly, a loud boom sounded from afar.
“Uhm?”
A tremendous noise, like a factory exploding.
Seonwoo Yeon and I raised our heads at the same time.
“It came from outside, right?”
“Right.”
And when I went out into the hallway to check the situation, I saw that other people were also looking around with surprised faces.
“What’s that?”
“Did something happen?”
“Isn’t it a dungeon break?”
“Whoa! There’s smoke over there!”
Eventually, a man pointed towards the window. At his words, pedestrians began to turn their heads in unison, and as soon as I looked in the direction he pointed, a chill ran down my spine.
Well, that place… Because it’s the exact place where I spent a whole day.
“This.”
“Could it be…?”
Seonwoo Yeon probably had the same thought as me at that moment. Yeah. We found the location where the dungeon break occurred, but we still didn’t know the most important piece of information.
‘Damn it!’
I immediately checked the hallway window.
“Heuk!”
Then, in the distance, an unbelievable sight unfolded on a high-rise building. A very large, black and long creature is getting closer to the sky, wrapping around a 70-story building.
‘Ahh!’
It’s bewildering. Imoogi, originally a swift monster about 12 meters in length as an A-class boss, but that thing is not meters, it’s almost kilometers long!
“Hey, turn on the analyzer!”
“What kind of monster is that big?”
In an instant, I wondered if that thing wasn’t actually Imoogi. And it seemed PIXY’s analysis equipment came to a similar conclusion. Eventually, Earth’s machinery depicted the creature in this manner.
[ ? ? ? ]
[Rating : ?]
[Description: There is no registered description.]
The people in the hallway began to be frightened by the unknown being. The unknown being, as always, brings fear to intelligent beings.
But this is where the analyzer’s hidden function came into play. If people get fear from unknown beings it means that just classifying the existence relieves some of the fear.
The International Hunter Federation, which is in charge of uploading information from the analyzer, has created a system in case new monsters with similar appearances occur simultaneously. That is, giving temporary names to new monsters.
And this system combines random words for quick classification…
[In□□□□□□]
Drrrrk.
Eventually, the monster’s name column begins to be filled one by one.
[Inevitable□□□]
Those spaces soon became specific words and named the monster.
[Inevitable Malice]
Yeah. This was indeed the new name of the Black Disaster.
[Inevitable Malice]
[Grade: S]
[Description: (*Real-time updates) Magic detection indicates estimated grade exceeds A-class range.]
“Ahhh!”
“What is that!”
Korea’s first S-class dungeon break has begun.