Chapter 201 – Kang Seong-Ki, the Strongest Player in Korea (22)

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“What is this like?”

Baek Seong-hun came to the hospital room and asked Dong-kwon Kang who was lying on the bed.

Kang Dong-kwon was lying in a single room at Hunter Hospital.

The best therapists at the best hospital in Korea clung to one Kang Dong-kwon and treated him for over five hours.
The symptoms were poisoning.
However, they were unable to find out what the poison was and how the poison had changed Dong-Kwon Kang’s appearance in this way.

All I could find was that he wouldn’t die from it.
He said that if he was well taken care of for a month or so, he would “Probably” Not lose his life.

Kang Dong-kwon became haggard in just half a day.
For an S-class Hunter, this was impossible.

He made a bitter expression when he saw Baek Sung-hoon looking down at him.

Perhaps it was Han Cheol-gwan who contacted him.
Even though Kwan Cheol Han was told that there was nothing wrong with the therapist, he voluntarily occupied the hospital room and lay down.

He saw that Kang Dong-gwon was overpowered by Kang Seong-ki so easily, and he knew that it was from his hand.
It was very unpleasant that his hand touched her body, even though it was over his clothes.

He had voluntarily been hospitalized, saying that the possibility of the poison entering the body by digging into the fibers could not be ruled out at all.

Kang Dong-kwon couldn’t help but laugh at it.

Strong growth.

He was much stronger than he expected.
He thought he only had a knack for bewitching women, but it turned out he could handle poison as well.

And, as expected, his ability probably wasn’t all that.

Because when he held his wrist, he felt an unusual force.
It was simply not a level that could be said to be strong.
The quality of mana itself is different.

He saw a monster on a different level, thought Kang Dong-kwon.
Whether it’s an illusion caused by poison-induced confusion, anyway.
As for himself, he no longer had the confidence to step out in front of him.

There was another reason why Kang Dong-kwon felt uncomfortable when he saw Baek Seong-hoon who came to the hospital room.

Because on the day the S-class hunters gathered and voted,
And on the day everyone was surprised by the shocking result, he betrayed Baek Sung-hoon and went to Kang Seong-gi.

For him, privatization of dungeons was a privilege he could never give up.

The trend has already turned.
It was clear to anyone who could see it.
Perhaps there was a foreign hunter organization behind Baek Sung-hoon, but it was not easy for hunters to interfere with other countries’ affairs.

Hunters valued their interests like their lives.

If hunters from other countries recklessly crossed the border and coveted their interests, it was literally like starting a war.
I have no choice but to fight for my life.

Of course, there is not just one way.
There might be a way to compromise and share it-like the relationship between most hunter advanced countries and non-hunter countries-but only when the superiority and inferiority of power is clear.
Even if Korea is not a hunter powerhouse enough to be counted on the hand, it was not weak enough to easily give interest to hunters from other countries.

If Baek Sung-hoon couldn’t get his background to work the way he wanted, he was bound to have an edge over Kang Seong-gi, who won the vote.
In addition, the attack on the S-class dungeon is coming up in a few days.
Kang Dong-kwon had enough reasons to betray Baek Sung-hoon and approach Kang Seong-gi.

Baek Sung-hoon laughed at Kang Dong-kwon while wearing a hood.

“Have you met Kang Seong-gi?”
“Turn it off…”

Kang Dong-kwon groaned and turned his body to the side.

It was clearly an act of refusal to speak.
Baek Seong-hoon, who had a strong sense of self-esteem, would go back on his own when he reacted to this level.
At least, that was the case until now.

However, Kang Dong-kwon did not know.

How is Baek Sung-hoon feeling right now?
When he said that he was finally able to unfold his ambition, which had been blocked because of his Jo Dong-geun, a kid popped out and blocked his path again.
It was Baek Sung-hoon’s feeling that he wanted to crush and break anything that was in his way.

Baek Sung-hoon took out his hand from his pocket.
Then he saw something strange in his hand.

Kang Dong-kwon secretly thought it might be a weapon, but after all, Baek Seong-hoon wasn’t the type of hunter who used weapons.
No matter how much he was lying in a hospital bed, it was natural for him to attack in the most confident way if he was dealing with himself as an S-class.

So he was off guard.
Until a tiny needle digs into your lower back.

“Yes?”

Kang Dong-kwon, whose poison was injected by Kang Seong-gi, spread all over his body, and his senses were different from before.
Even in the blunted senses, he could tell that Baek Sung-hoon had stabbed himself with something.

It only stung for a moment, like a mosquito bite.
But an ominous feeling ran up his spine and sent goose bumps all over his body.

“What!”

Kang Dong-kwon jumped up and began to pat his whole body as if trying to get a flea out of his clothes.

“What have you done to me!”

Baek Seong-hun laughed coldly at Kang Dong-kwon.

“After thinking about it, I realized that I don’t need you.”
“What?”

Kang Dong-kwon was still concentrating on what he felt pricked by Baek Sung-hun.
He did something but couldn’t figure out what it was.

“I was asking for it over there. If you want their help, ask for a soul.”
“Soul? What nonsense!”
“S-class soul. Originally, I had no intention of stealing from my older brother, but you seem to be rushing your own orders.”
“What are you talking about? What did you do to me! You can’t blow fast!”

Kang Dong-kwon, who was madly shouting, immediately shouted, “Keuk!” He made a noise and rolled his eyes.

His blood vessels began to thicken in a different way from when Kang Seong-gi’s poison penetrated his body.
The side of his needle pricked his side bulging abnormally, and he slowly began to move along his upper body.
It was as if there was a thick serpent inside its body and it was moving.

“Keep it off! Turn it off!”

Kang Dong-kwon reached out and tried to ring the bell calling for a therapist.
However, Baek Sung-hun grabbed Kang Dong-gwon’s wrist and pulled it off his bell.
In terms of strength, Kang Dong-kwon was originally stronger than Baek Sung-hoon, but at least not now.

“You you…”

Kang Dong-kwon, eyes full of blood, glared at Baek Sung-hoon.

“Brother, you should have been greedy for that.”

Baek Sung-hoon looked at Kang Dong-kwon, who was becoming strange, and raised his mouth.
After seeing Kang Seong-gi, who had just appeared in the conference hall, he felt uncomfortable, and he felt that he was able to laugh a little at this moment.

‘I’ve always been unhappy with this pig.’

Dungeon privatization.

That was the means to twist Kang Dong-kwon.

However, he himself was not very interested in having a dungeon.
I was looking at a bigger place than that.

If you become the number one in Korea.

If the absolute power that wanted to become Jo Dong-geun became himself instead of him, it wouldn’t be a task to get his hands on that dungeon.

There will be no world number one.
However, it can become the number one player in Korea.

The shape of the future world he expected was a super-giant feudal nation on the scale of the earth, where hunters from each country ruled over their territory, centered on the world’s strongest.
His goal was to rule the territory of Korea.

He thought that was the highest point he could aim for.
If you can’t rule the world, ruling the country you were born in was the most successful future.
So he was the one who had actively formed relationships with foreign hunters, regardless of their goodness or evil.

‘Soul…’

He went to Argentina and met the spiritists in person.
Those creepy humans showed firsthand how to extract a soul from a Hunter.
And he entrusted the tool to himself.
While telling you the least way.

Of course, until that happened, he actively interacted with them.
The organization he came across through drug dealers had tremendous power in the underworld, and he thought it would be a great help in defeating Cho Dong-geun and becoming the number one in Korea.

‘Even though I’ve got a bloody tattoo on it.’

Baek Seong-hoon took off his hood and touched his bare head.

These tattoos were different from the usual ones.
The pain I went through while writing this was such that I will never forget it for the rest of my life.

However, thanks to that, he achieved growth that is difficult to experience as an S-class hunter.

He took out an item resembling an oxygen respirator from his inventory.
He brought it to the nose and mouth of Kang Dong-gwon, who was moaning in pain as his eyeballs turned inside out.

“Oh! Queue!”

Kang Dong-kwon only glared at him as if he were going to kill him, but he did nothing.
He is a man of great strength, but after being beaten by Kang Seong-gi, he became a paper tiger.
The drug that was just injected there took effect.

The mana that traveled under the skin like a serpent spewed out through Kang Dong-gwon’s nose and mouth.

“Koo-wuk!”

Baek Seong-hun looked at Kang Dong-kwon, who was spitting up mana with a mysterious expression.

Although the soul magicians showed it, it was the first time doing it with their own hands.
He really has the ability to bring out souls himself.

It was said that this was a skill that only hunters with very rare talent could use.

He wasn’t fully capable of being a soul mage, but his South American gang members saw through to him that he had that talent.

‘It went well.’

Baek Sung-hoon thought.
Although Jo Dong-geun went unnoticed, Kang Seong-ki, an unfamiliar guy, popped out and disturbed him.
In any case, it was reassuring to have an organization that supported you in a crisis situation.

Watching Kang Dong-gwon die as he vomits out his soul, he smiles evilly.