Chapter 134 – Chapter 134 – Modern Day (3)

Chapter 134 – Modern (3)

Soyoung Han said.

“Jang Ye-hwa wants to see you tonight? What chaebol is this easy?”

It’s because he’s a conglomerate and his girlfriend. In fact, it felt like we hadn’t seen each other in such a long time.

“Where do you see it?”

Han So-young, who was looking at her monitor, narrowed her eyes.

“See you at the restaurant in Gangnam Hotel..?”
“Okay.”

I got a feeling somewhere. It was the same hotel where Zhang Yehua and her first intermingled.

“Ehh..”

Han So-yeong sighed deeply, perhaps noticing something. She glared at me slightly and then turned on her TV.

Her familiar face was giving a press conference.

[I am Gangjin Guild Master Kang Ji-hyeok.]

Click click.

He, who was frowning at the reporters’ flash baptism, continued his words.

[Regarding the crack break situation in Gapyeong-gun, which is managed by our Gangjin Guild, whether it is true or not…]

For some reason, I remembered who it was from the unlucky face.

‘He’s the guy who hired Speedman.’

Kang Ji-hyeok after Si-woo broke his sword in an open sparring. He was the president of an arms company whose brand image suffered a fatal blow.

I heard that Gangjin Steel is on the verge of bankruptcy. But before he knew it, he was running the Gangjin Guild.

The guy cleared his throat and spoke in the tone of reading a Korean book.

[… It wasn’t my intention, but it happened like this. I apologize again.]

Click click.

Then he looked at the camera and screamed.

[But! The results aren’t bad. As you know, mines have been discovered. The results of our guild members’ investigation! We were able to confirm that a small amount of true silver was found in the mine!]

Jineun!

Reporters widened their eyes. If it was true silver, she was one of the most precious magical metals.

In other words, mithril.

[Awesome, everyone! It’s true silver that I can’t sell because I don’t have it. Now, our Republic of Korea is no different from an oil-producing country!]

He raised his voice to the point where the blood stood in his throat.

[However! Should I end it here? Right Now! We need to burst the rift before another hour passes. How much would it be if one more mine came out of there!?]

I frowned at the man who was screaming loudly.

“Crazy guy…”

I felt like I was going crazy with greed. But the atmosphere was on the other side.

The share price of Kangjin Group, which occupied the Mithril mine, was soaring.

The word “Oil-producing country” Clouded people’s rationality.

[We must burst the rift now before it’s too late! That way, there is a high probability that the same environment will be dimensional eroded!]

It is not that this Earth is unaware of the danger of dimensional erosion. Rather, I was more vigilant and did my best to block it.

But everyone was blind to Jin-eun.

Mithril was a rare mineral even in the academy district where dimensional erosion occurred dozens or hundreds of times.

“My clanmates, don’t go near there.”
“Huh. I warned you in the morning to keep a safe distance.”

I was getting ready to meet Zhang Ye-hwa, but I stopped.

“How many kilometers was the safe distance?”
“Five kilos.”

When the rift bursts, dimensional erosion occurs. The outside of that unaffected range was called the safety distance.

In the academy district, the safety distance is set at least 15km. That was the extent to which it had to be compromised.

“Who is the closest kid in Gapyeong?”
“Huh..? Wait for a sec.”

Han So-young, who was looking at her monitor, narrowed her eyes.

“Gayoon? He went through the cracks again alone. How many times a day do you go… It’s about 10km away from Gapyeong. Isn’t this enough?”

Normally, it was a safe distance. Dimensional erosion usually occurs in a radius of 3 to 4 km on this Earth.

But it was very embarrassing.

“Just come back soon.”
“Ummm.. Ok.”

After tapping her smartphone for a while, she frowned.

“I see you haven’t come out of the rift yet? I can’t reach you.”
“Whoa… Is that so?”

***

Class B veteran hunter Han Dong-ho.

He smiled broadly as he hunted monsters in the rift.

“Amazing, Great!”

The facial expressions of the party members next to him were the same. According to today, the income of magic stones was exceptionally large.

“Do you think this will double?”
“So!”

I had good luck today. A magic stone that catches monsters has popped out.

‘It’s not long now.’

He had only one purpose. Working for one more year and then retiring.

He’s been a B-class Hunter for over 10 years and has amassed quite a fortune, but it’s still not enough.

“Uh?”

While calculating today’s income, he hesitated. Goosebumps ran down his back.

An unusual air flowed. The sky shattered as if a rift was about to collapse.

“Uh.. Stand, can’t it be..?”

Gugung!

The crack he was in was a forest terrain. But in the blink of an eye, the surrounding landscape changed.

Swampland. It was a terrain that was evaluated as the worst by Hunters.

Modern and swampy mingled. A tilted building or car was half buried in the ground.

Besides, the party members had disappeared somewhere.

“Fuck… Dimensional erosion?”

It was even a chain crack break. Even the rift he was in burst.

Some fools left the rift unattended until dimensional erosion occurred.

I had to get out of here as soon as possible.

As I immediately looked around, the rock next to me wriggled.

Shhh!

“Ah!”

Tentacles suddenly protruded from the rocks and pierced his stomach.

If I hadn’t instinctively avoided it, my spine might have been shattered. A sharp pain pierced the hole the size of a walnut in his side.

“Turn it off..!”

He drew his dagger and slammed the tentacles down. It slipped and didn’t cut. It was disgustingly boring

Tentacles wriggled in defiance. His eyes went white from the intense pain. I was able to cut it off only after using the sword.

“Heo-euk… Heo-euk…”

I glared at the rock from which the tentacle had been shot. The severed tentacles regenerated in seconds.

Kirik..

The rock wriggled with a grotesque sound. What I thought was a rock was a shell.

I could see something lingering between the carapaces.

It was a shell snail reputed to be nasty among B-class monsters.

A monster with a skin that cannot be cut even by swords. It was to the point where it was said that it should be upgraded to A-class.

‘It’s fucked up.’

I said I was lucky today, but it wasn’t. I didn’t know if I did something wrong, I might die.

Kirik. Kirik.

The carapaces collided with each other, making a bizarre sound. Something spilled out of the punctured side, making it difficult to concentrate.

I forced my eyes open.

Chow!

Tentacles shot out from between the carapaces.

I managed to avoid it by rolling around in the muddy swamp that was up to my knees before I knew it.

Kicked off the ground and got up. He pulled out the giant hammer he was wearing on his back.

It ran towards the carapace snail that had released its tentacles.

“Kuaaaaa!!”

I forced my mind, clouded by her excruciating pain, to strike her hammer.

Did her best abilities have been activated.

‘Weight increase!’

Kwajik!

The rapidly increased weight shattered the asphalt beneath the swamp.

The battle hammer broke through the ton unit in an instant. It hit the shell snail’s head.

Jjoong!

“Aagh!!”

Pang. The force of the reaction shattered the arm bones. The cost of failing to break the carapace came back intact.

With a splash.

The hammer sank into the turbid swamp. My bones were shattered and I couldn’t hold it.

“Sickness..”

The snail, which shook her head slightly, glared at her.

An enemy peculiar to monsters. The squishy tentacles wriggled.

I was standing in a daze with half-giving up, but something penetrated my body.

“Calm down!”

It was a warm energy. An aura that I have felt many times during my long life as a hunter.

‘Healer?’

Yes.

The fat in the stomach, which had already been numb, filled up and strength surged throughout the body.

‘Until the buff! Yes, he lived!’

I have hope.

I rolled across the ground to avoid the tentacles. I picked up the hammer from the floor.

Whoop whoop!

My body was full of strength. Spinning the hammer as if handling a wooden stick, he jumped into the sky.

It was an ignorant attack, but I believed in the healer and threw myself away.

Ignoring the abdomen that had been pierced again by the flying tentacle, I clenched my teeth.

Ugh!

I put magic power into the hammer. The hammer with all its might met the snail’s head.

Kwaaang!

Dark red eyes were crushed with a hammer.

“Huh.. Haha..”

I felt exhausted and satisfied at the same time.

Seeing the snail’s head covered in blood made me feel a sense of joy.

“Nice..”

For a while too.

Kirik Kirik Kirik Kirik.

“Ah..?”

All around was filled with unpleasant sounds. I took a quick look around.

I almost dropped the hammer in an instant. There was nowhere to run. Everywhere I looked, there were snails.

A snail that was hard-pressed. Dozens or hundreds of them were creeping and crawling.

I was standing in a daze with a feeling of desolation when I heard a refreshing voice.

“Gather here! Hold on as long as you can!”
“What..?”

The woman who healed and buffed him earlier. Her five or six hunters gathered around her and held on.

Despite the mud on her face, her beauty was not obscured.

I watched her blankly, then brought her to her senses.

“Let’s run away quickly! Everyone will die if they stay here!”
“No! Most of them will die if they break through!”

He knew too. But what do you mean?

It was the same even if I endured here. Sooner or later they will surely all die.

“It can’t be helped! Let’s leave it to chance who lives and run!”

The woman shook her head vigorously.

“No! Hold on here! Reinforcements are coming soon!”
“Stupid..!”

I looked everywhere to see if I could run away alone, but I couldn’t find a way out.

“Fuck..”

Kirik Kirik.

I gulped down my saliva as I watched death slowly tightening on all sides.

Her trembling hand gripped the battle hammer tightly. The time when I gritted it.

Someone fell from the sky.

“Ah..! Master!”

Is the reinforcement the woman was talking about that guy? However, he felt a sense of collapse at the moment as to what he was going to do by himself.

Until the man who smiled at Healer grabbed the sword she was wearing around her waist.

Sureureung.

The man slowly drew his sword. The clear sound of metal was clearly audible in my ears.

‘Ah..’

He opened his mouth, but no sound came out. The normal-looking man looked so big.

He swung his sword into the air.

Ordinary crosscutting.

I couldn’t take my eyes off the simple action.

“Ah..”

The voice that came out of my mouth was exceptionally loud.

‘Can you hear this…?’

I suddenly realized. The noisy swamp area had suddenly become quiet.

I couldn’t hear a single fucking sound.