Chapter 147 – Defense of Jeju Island (6)

It gradually approached the chujamyeon.
The island that was visible far away over the sea was no longer a small island.

“Are there no demons?”

When I roughly guessed the distance, the remaining distance to Chuja-myeon was about 1000m.

But I didn’t feel any energy.

“No, we must not be vigilant yet. There is no evidence to convince you that they can’t hide their unpleasant aura.”

“That… I see.”

After hearing my words, Hunter nodded.

I didn’t give a specific name, so let’s call him a man with glasses.

“But if it was possible to hide Magi, wouldn’t it have been hidden right away?”

And a single mother who said she had a young daughter at the shelter said.

“You don’t know what you’re up to.”

“It doesn’t.”

She replied with a simple nod of her head, as if she was simply convinced.
After lowering the speed of the boat, I slowly approached the chujamyeon and came within range of my search skill.

“I will use the search skill.”

After confirming that the scout team members nodded silently at my words, I used the search skill.
The area of ​​Chujamyeon is about 7000 square meters.
Unfortunately, it was not possible to explore all areas with the search skill.
However, once near the dock, I did not feel any other energy.

“For now, it seems that no one is around here.”

If you go inside the island, there may be mines, but… Didn’t you place guards on the outskirts of the island where hunters might come over?
Clearly, this was good news.

But I didn’t bother to inform them.
I didn’t want to make you lose the string of tension.

“Please follow me while taking the mana potion provided by the association. Don’t forget to prepare to run away immediately in case of emergency.”

I also asked them to.
I headed towards the inner side of the island.

However, I still couldn’t feel the demonic energy, nor could I detect anything in my search skills.
And as I headed toward the center of the line, a white concrete building caught my eye.

“I think that was probably the base of the demons.”

“Can you feel something?”

He asked me in an anxious tone, and I shook my head in denial.

“There is no Mine…?”

The building was intensively detected with the search skill.
Clearly there was no magic.
But something was strange.

I could feel the presence of about 100 people from under that building.

“There are people underground.”

“A person?”

“Yeah, about a hundred people.”

At my words, the man with glasses and the married woman widened their eyes in surprise.
Surprisingly, I was the same.

Why did they keep ordinary humans underground?

“…I’m in a hurry.”

There was no need to hesitate because I didn’t feel the presence of the demons anyway.
In case it was a trap, I tried using the search skill a little more, but I didn’t feel any trap.

We immediately went inside the white concrete building.
The building was empty.

“There is, too…”

The man with glasses muttered as he bent down and picked up a magic stone that was darker than the normal magic stone.

“Yes, quite a bit of that too.”

Even counting the number of magic stones scattered randomly on the floor exceeded 30.
I put the demons scattered on the floor into the dimensional pocket using a telekinesis skill.

“Don’t worry, we’ll do the distribution later. And you free the people in the basement. Yuri and I will look at the building.”

“All right.”

And they went down the stairs to the basement.

“Let’s search the first floor.”

“Okay.”

And Yuri and I started looking around the building.
But nothing of note came out.

From the 1st floor to the 4th floor, I didn’t miss the bathroom and looked for drawers and desk drawers, but all I found was documents that had nothing to do with the demons.

The only harvest was rescuing the people trapped underground and obtaining about 120 magic stones.

“Total survivors 96, no injuries.”

“Thank you.”

I looked at the people gathered outside the building.
Could it be that I haven’t had a proper meal?
Everyone seemed haggard and in a state of fright, but other than that, there was no particular problem.

“Hmmmm… How are you? My name is Kim Si-woo, a student at Garden and a D+ level hunter. I’m here to rescue you, so don’t worry.”

After pondering for a moment between Hunter and his status as a Garden student, he revealed that he was a Garden student.

At my words, they faced each other.
With a relieved expression, he started whispering a little.

“Can someone please explain the situation?”

I looked at them and asked.

“I was fishing and they…!”
“Traveling with my wife…”
“Work…”

And they all started pouring out their words.
Everyone was busy talking about what had happened to them.

“Stop!”

As I shouted, their voices that burst out faded.
If I went on like this, it was almost certain that I would hear only their complaints, explaining the situation to no avail.

“Isn’t there a representative?”

A stout man approached from among the crowd.
I could feel the mana from him and his overall well-trained body.

“Hello. My name is Kim Baek-hyun, an E+-class hunter.”

“Yes, I need to hear what happened. Is it okay for a moment?”

“Of course, but before that… This sky…”

“… Nothing has been clarified, but it will be resolved soon. Do not worry.”

Still others were looking up at the sky, their eyes trembling with fear.
I replied in an appropriate way, as it would have been annoying if I panicked them for no reason.

“… Okay. All right.”

He nodded his head as if he understood my intention.

“Did you say you wanted an explanation… To be honest, I don’t think I can give you a proper explanation.”

“What do you mean?”

“It is literally. Those guys who appeared 4 days ago suddenly arrested the people in Chuja-myeon and locked them in the basement. At first I tried to resist them… But all my attacks were blocked by the strange power they used…”

In other words, does it mean that you don’t know what happened after being tied up and imprisoned by them?

“Even the smallest things are fine. It’s okay to look at their behavior patterns or their eyes.”

“Hmm…”

At my words, he furrowed his eyebrows as if he was starting to remember.

“Come to think of it… They gave us food twice a day.”

“… And what do you have?”

“Ummm… Oh, is it okay if we talk separately for a while?”

Then, as if thinking of something, he glanced at the people standing behind him and spoke to me.

“Of course it is fine. Yuri, watch the people for a moment.”

“Okay.”

After hearing Yuri’s answer, I went back into the building with him.
Other people were looking at us with puzzled eyes.

“So what do you mean?”

“They locked us in an underground storage room and overheard what was said outside the door. And they called us sacrifices.”

He murmured with a serious expression.

“A sacrifice…?”

“Yes, I could not hear all of them, even though I listened through my senses, but I did hear some words. One of them was a sacrifice.”

“Then…”

“Yes, among the words they often said were Advent and Him.”

Offering, Advent, and finally Him.

“Thank you. Please leave me alone for a while.”

“…? All right.”

After arranging the words he said, I decided that I shouldn’t procrastinate here any longer.
After confirming that he had left the building, I immediately took a conch shell from my dimensional pouch and injected mana into it.

“Ah…?”

But there was no answer coming back.
I decided to wait a while.

He might not be in a position to answer right now.
Did it last like 5 minutes?
Something noisy came from the conch shell.

I could hear the engine of the yacht and the sound of water crashing against something.

-I couldn’t answer because I was on the run! Hurry back to the association!

A man’s urgent voice came from the conch shell.

“Is there a problem!”

I shouted into the conch shell, but there was no answer.

I immediately got out of the building.
I couldn’t even imagine what my expression would be like now.

He immediately approached people using his acting skills.

“Hunters, please move the residents to Jeju Island.”

“Yes? The students…”

“I will go back first.”

They are also undisputed C-class hunters.
It would not be difficult to travel back and forth between Chuja-myeon and Jeju Island, where there is no threat.

[Do you want to create a teleport (Lv1)? Cost: Regular 15000]
[YES/NO]

As expected, it ate up the spirit disgustingly, but it was enough energy to consume.
I immediately chose YES, grabbed Yuri’s wrist, entered the building, and used the buff skill to teleport.

“Ugh…!”

Even though he only used a buff skill, he suffered tremendous dizziness and collapsed on the spot.
The distance from Chuja-myeon to Jeju Island is 56 km.
Of course, it is not a distance that can be moved with a level 1 teleport.

He took out a mana potion from his dimensional pouch and inhaled it.
After drinking a total of two high and medium mana potions, it was felt that all mana had been restored.

After using the buff again, I took the mana potion.
4 times to do that.

Finally, after raising the teleport level to level 10, I was able to recover all mana.

‘As expected, it’s amazing…’

Originally, teleport is a skill that can be learned when the mana stat is at least 130.
Of course, magic at a level far beyond what I can use now.

But regularity made it possible.

“Are you okay…?”

Yuri looked at me with worried eyes and asked.

“Whoa… It’s okay.”

Mana was restored again, so there was no problem.
The current teleport is level 10.
At least, it was a sufficient level to move from Chuja-myeon to the Jeju Island Hunter Association.
Increased mana stat with remaining BP.

Immediately after that, I used teleport.

“This…!”

Yuri looked at me in amazement and a white light enveloped us.

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.
.

The pure white light disappeared and the vision changed.
And the faces I saw a few hours ago came into my eyes.
They were looking at us with surprised expressions.

“The thing I just… Teleported…?”

“I guess that’s right…?”

He seemed surprised to see that he used the teleport, but that wasn’t the problem now.

“Awesome…!”

A moan came out of my mouth automatically.

‘Is it a teleport after all…’

Mana consumption was no joke.
If he had consumed just a little more mana, his whole body was overcome with intense pain that might have put his life in danger.

As if my brain cells were exploding one by one, it seemed as if the muscles throughout my body were repeatedly contracting and expanding along with a tremendous headache.

“Here is the mana potion.”

And Yuri took out her mana and her potion from her own dimension pouch and handed it to me.
But did I realize that I am not in a state where I can move my body myself?
She opened the bottle of mana potion and put it in her mouth.
A slightly sweet yet bitter taste spread throughout the mouth.

“Whoa… Thank you.”

“With something like this. If you’re thankful, together…”

“Everyone, I have something to tell you.”

Ignoring Yuri who was trying to play a joke again, I got up from my seat and opened my mouth while looking at the Hunters.
For a moment, a look of uneasiness appeared on their faces.

“Now the branch manager says he is on the run. It seemed like a pretty emergency situation.”

“What…”

“The branch manager… Went to Udo-myeon, right?”

“I am thinking of going to support. Does anyone want to stay here?”

In preparation for an emergency, the place to meet when fleeing had already been decided.

They looked at each other for a moment, then looked back at me.
It was a look of determination.

“All right. Then I will leave right away, so please follow me.”

But I quickly realized that it was not necessary.

– Can you hear me!

The voice of the branch manager from Sogo-dong resonated throughout the association.