Chapter 146 – Defense of Jeju Island (5)

I pedaled nonstop and roamed Jeju Island.
And it wasn’t long before I couldn’t help but realize something strange.

After stopping the motorcycle, I picked up the Mine’s Mana Stone lying next to the collapsed building.

“Why is this…”

Are you saying it’s in the middle of the road?
A demon’s magic stone that is currently worth 20 times.
Could it be that there was something I should have missed and ran away from?

I looked around, but there were no bloodstains or signs of battle.

“Hmm…”

It was very suspicious, but through the exploration skill, it was confirmed that this magic stone was not a trap.

After picking up the magic stone, put it in the dimensional pocket, climbed on the motorcycle again, and stepped on the pedal.

“Hey!”

As I was pedaling and running like that, a man stopped me.

Is it a party of 3 people?
They each had their own weapons and did not feel the demonic energy.

“Is there a problem?”

“Now the Hunter Association has issued a gathering order. Where are you going?”

“Assembly order…? I didn’t hear.”

Did the order come through the conch shell?
I wondered if it was probably the time when I was in Ayoung’s dream.

“Anyway, that’s how it turned out, so when you’re done with your business, come to the association.”

After saying that, he turned his back on the party members and left.

‘Why did you give the assembly order?’

Is it no longer necessary to kill the demons who are destroying the city?

I decided to explore the city a bit more, and my guess was correct.

‘Did all the demons disappear…?’

No matter how much he used his search skills, he couldn’t feel the energy of the demons at all.
And there wasn’t only one demon’s magic stone that fell casually to the ground.

‘Has he not disappeared, but is he dead…?’

Feeling something out of place, I turned the motorcycle around.
Yuri also has a conch shell.
If you go to the Hunter Association without having to travel all over Jeju Island, you will be able to meet them.

∴

“High.”

When I arrived at the Hunter Association, Yuri was waiting for me in front of the entrance.
Fortunately, it wasn’t a betrayal.

“Let’s go in first.”

There were many things to say, but the first priority was to resolve the situation now.

Upon entering the Hunter Association, association staff and hunters were gathered.

Then one of the Society’s employees who was standing by the entrance approached me.

“Are Kim Si-woo and Lee Yoo-ri right?”

“Yes.”

“Yes.”

Yuri and I answered at the same time.
Then, after writing something in the list with a ballpoint pen, he bowed his head and walked away from us again.

“Now that everyone is gathered, let’s begin.”

Could it be the head of the Jeju branch of the Hunter Association?
He looked at the Hunters and said.

“Currently, all the demons in Jeju City have disappeared. Everyone should know.”

Other Hunters nodded at his words.

“Other areas were confirmed by the staff and hunters, but none of the mines were confirmed.”

Pretty welcome news.
But no one in this place was happy.

“But at the same time the sky changed. You must have felt that mana and body became heavier than before.”

At his words, I tilted my head.
Mana and my body are getting heavy.
I didn’t feel that way at all.

Is it because Jeju Island is being encroached on by the Demon Realm?

“There have been attempts to enter the barrier from the outside, but it is not known when support will be available.”

“Is it an encroaching glass world?”

I raised my hand and asked him.
It was obvious what he was going to say, but he was talking too round and round.

“Yes that’s right.”

He looked in my direction and nodded his head.
At his answer, the Hunters started whispering.
Like me, none of them would have discovered the encroaching glass world while hunting demons.

“There is a glass world on the side of Chuja or Udo.”

Currently, there are only two areas that are not visited by hunters and association staff.
Udo-myeon in the east and Chuja-myeon in the north.

It was clear that there must be a glass world there.
In the past, he traveled around Jeju Island with Yuri and always activated his search skill, but he could not find the encroaching world of glass.

For the most part, there were only glass worlds that were originally known.

“So we want to attack the base of the demons.”

“Wouldn’t it be better to wait for support…?”

A timid-looking woman asked the branch manager with an uneasy look.

“… I’m sorry, but that’s not possible.”

His face darkened and the Hunters were silent.
Everyone knew what he meant.

Why is the encroachment type the encroachment type?
The name was given because the environment inside the glass world erodes reality.

It’s not even an ordinary glass world.
There was no way they knew about the Pandemonium, but it was easy to think that the world turning red and the body and mana becoming heavy did not mean a very good ending.

“The demons remaining in Udo and Chujamyeon may also have disappeared. I’m thinking of setting up a scouting team first, so is there anyone who can support me?”

The branch manager looked around at the hunters and said, but there was no reaction.
Of course. It is overly optimistic to think that just because the demons in Jeju Island have disappeared, other demons will do the same.

Also, it is easy to predict what level their level is with a solid barrier.
By the way, let’s go explore their stronghold?

Unless you have 9 lives like a cat, you will be hesitant to apply.

“I will go.”

But I have a different story.
It possesses enough spirit to create skills and abilities on the fly to get out of the situation.

Also, it was clear that the worst would happen if Jeju Island was encroached on by the Demon Realm.

‘Today is Ayoung’s birthday…’

Even considering the women who would remain in the hotel, he had to stop them.

“Then me too.”

Yuri, who was standing next to her, raised her hand and said.
And she checked the likability.

[Lee Yuri (Sarena)]
[Likeability: 71]
[Excitement level: 9]

Fairly high sensitivity.
This is enough to start a relationship on the premise of marriage.

She had no choice but to doubt her because of the image of her in her dream of Ah-young, but seeing this fact in person made her thoughts more complicated.

And it seemed like I wasn’t the only one with complicated thoughts.

“Hey, aren’t they students?”

“It is, but…”

“What should I do…?”

Everyone in her started to gossip with her teammates.
Is it embarrassing for us, the hunters, to remain silent while we, the students, are still stepping out?
After a moment of commotion, someone opened their mouth.

“My wife is in the shelter right now. I will participate too.”

A man with a shaggy beard raised his hand and said.

“I have a boyfriend…”

Surprisingly, the woman who had timidly told the branch manager raised her hand, wondering if she had a lover.
Other hunters followed her and started raising her hands one by one.
In the first place, they are hunters who are active in Jeju Island, where the tourism industry is active rather than the hunter industry.

Their hometown must be here.

Some people raised their hands, remembering their store destroyed by Mine, while others remembered their friends and family.

“I’m just here to play…”

“Hey bastard, don’t set the mood.”

Of course, there were some who did not, but all hunters raised their hands and expressed their intention to participate.

“Everyone…”

The branch manager muttered in a moved voice.
The expressions of the Hunter Association staff also turned bright.

Could it be that it was unexpected that all Hunters would raise their hands?
Eventually, water began to form around the branch manager’s eyes.
Hunters looked at him with warm eyes.

“You were the first to raise your hand knowing this would happen, right?”

Yuri asked me in a quiet voice.
And of course it wasn’t.
I just tried to go because no one wanted to go.

“Yeah… Well, that’s right.”

“Nice. After all, he’s the number one candidate for my groom.”

Yuri said with a smile.
Looking back, her favorability rating had risen to 73.

“What kind of bridegroom candidates are there… Are there other candidates?”

“No? Of course, there is only you.”

I couldn’t understand what the hell he was talking about.
I just decided to listen casually.
It was a skill she had mastered in the last four days with her.

∴

I couldn’t take all the Hunters with me.

It was natural.
It was for exploration, not air raids.
Due to the nature of the area, you have to travel by boat.
The more people there were, the higher the chance of being discovered.

A total of 7 people were selected.

It was the branch manager, me, Yuri, and four other hunters with stealth abilities.

“Looks like it’s working.”

The branch manager, who said Jeju Island was his hometown, said while operating the engine of the yacht.

“Please use your stealth skills at the same time as you board the yacht.”

“All right.”

I answered, having somehow assumed a similar role as the deputy leader of the reconnaissance team.
For reference, there were a total of 3 people who could use the stealth and search skills at the same time, but I had the highest skill level.

On average, if the skill level was 10, the early awakening was B, the late awakening was A, and the transcendence was S.
Compared to other hunters, my level now was about B-class.

Two groups boarded a total of two yachts.

The branch manager and two other hunters.
It was divided into me, Yuri, and two other Hunters.

Both are C grade.
It wasn’t as good as me, but it was equal to or better than Yuri.
With this level, it was clear that even an upper-middle class could deal with it.

“Then I wish you no luck.”

“Come back safely, too. Don’t you have a family?”

“Thank you.”

The branch manager, standing on the opposite boat, answered.

And we started the yacht’s engine.
Of course, I don’t know how to drive, so another hunter from Jeju Island drove it.

Our destination was Chujamyeon.

“Nervous. Right?”

“I know.”

Yuri didn’t seem to be nervous at all, but at least I was.
I held on to the pendant of resurrection hanging around my neck.

“I don’t know if something will happen… Shall we replenish our stamina? Sex on a yacht, isn’t it romantic?”

“At all.”

I wanted to ask him if he hadn’t said he was nervous before, but he just brushed it off.

“Isn’t it just an act of gaining stamina? Think of sex with lovers and me as normal exercise.”

“Does that make sense?”
The more Yuri did this, the heavier my heart became.
She seemed to overlap something that made her look like I had seen in my dreams, and something about her constantly liking me.

“It’s done. I have something to tell you when I go back after reconnaissance, is that okay?”

“What, are you raising a confession flag? It’s nice for me, but raising a flag is a bit awkward.”

Yuri, who looked up at me with her waist slightly bent, said with a mischievous smile.

“Ha…”

It’s not a confession in the first place, so what kind of nonsense is that?
That said, it was impossible to say that I couldn’t spit on a smiling face.

I took her gaze away from her and looked back at the hunters who had boarded her yacht with her.

“Seniors, let’s use the stealth skill soon.”

“Yes!”

After they responded energetically to my words, they raised their mana.

The stealth skill we used wrapped around the yacht.
And after a while, we headed for Chuja-myeon with the cool sea breeze.

Even at this moment, the sky was dyed red every moment.

“Okay…”

“Are you okay?”

Hunter, who was operating the yacht, groaned.

“Whoa… Moving mana seems to be getting more and more difficult. It’s amazing that you don’t even show anything in this situation.”

“What… Thank you.”

I didn’t get any feeling, but the fact that they were constantly consuming mana seemed burdensome.
Another Hunter also didn’t have a very bright expression.

“Right, you were the first to raise your hand at the association earlier. There was a time when I was so courageous.”

Another Hunter, who was looking at Chujamyeon, which looked small in the distance over the sea, said.

Her face flushed from their praise and she turned her gaze to Yuri, but she only shrugged her shoulders.