Chapter 138 – 138. Hunting

“Then let’s check it out.”

Having said that, I started going back the way I came with my party. As he moved, the inside of the garrison, which had been fine, turned into a mayhem. It must have been because the monsters that went berserk by the aggro potion ran like crazy.

Not too far away from the garrison, traces of intense battles along with the corpses of numerous monsters could be found.

Judging from the open wounds with fingernail and teeth marks, it seemed that they were engaged in a slaughter battle among themselves.

The reason must be because of that orc.

From the monsters point of view, they would have been like mosquitoes buzzing in a dark room.

‘…They attacked the surroundings at random.’

Just like we whip his arm around to drive away buzzing mosquitoes.

“That aggro potion has one effect for sure.”

“Iknow, right. I never thought they would fight each other.”

When I agreed with Park Do-gi’s words, he nodded his head and continued.

“But not even half died. Even most of the dead monsters are D-class. Those who survived… Ran to somewhere.”

His gaze went beyond the corpse to the countless footprints. Following the footprints, when we arrived at the hill where we hid, we saw SSLK trainees struggling against a horde of monsters.

‘Eunhwa’s prediction was correct.’

The guys whose aggro was released belatedly attacked the SSLK trainees who were following us.

SSLK, a group of talented people from all over the country, was holding up well, but they were outnumbered. If left as it is, it will not be able to withstand the supply offensive and will collapse soon.

I had to move before that.
It was because if I lost the SSLK trainees here, I would have no face looking at my aunt or Chairman Yang.

“Do you all have the potions I gave you?”

At my words, the lovers and Park Do-gi nodded as if it were natural.

“Drink right before you arrive.”

After saying that, I kicked the ground.

* * *

Shin Ji-young, who was an SSLK trainee, was not in a good mood. It was because he thought they were behind. It was for the SSLK classmates who betrayed the guild, not anyone else.

‘…What are those humans?’

Until she entered the hidden gate, she thought that the three other classmates, namely Kang Dae-woong and his party, were arrogant.

This was a battlefield.
The war has happened, and it is a place where it will happen.

The number of monsters was different from normal gates. Also, what is the strategy for attacking the garrison? It took dozens of people poking around the area to find the entrance to the randomly generated underground passage in the vast grassland.

That’s why other hunters, including themselves, formed a group. As I said earlier, the more numbers there were, the more advantageous this battlefield was. To survive or to win.

But they were only five.
It wasn’t even an alliance with another guild or party. Literally, only five people challenged this ‘battlefield’.

Shin Ji-young predicted that they would not be able to pass the first battle called the welcome ceremony, but that expectation was spectacularly missed.

The scene I saw then is still vivid in my mind.
Whenever the gloomy wizard classmate, who was always alone during training, fired a black magic bullet, a powerful explosion occurred and wiped out the monsters, and when the bully-looking classmate swung his fist, the bodies of the monsters exploded.

Is that all? When the woman in her kendo uniform swung a knife that was as tall as her, monsters bounced off as if she had been hit by a vehicle, and her reddened middle-aged man slaughtered the monsters like a blood demon.

And in front of them was Kang Dae-woong, who was beating the monsters so leisurely.

‘…No matter how much I think about it, it’s not at the level of C-class.’

Blowing monsters away like baseballs or bursting their bodies with fists wasn’t a feat that a C-class could do.

I mean yes.

‘… Grade B. After being promoted to Class C, it went up to Class B in a matter of months?’

Jiyoung Shin let out a laugh.
No matter how much I thought about it, it was absurd, but other than that, there was no explanation for the scene I had just seen.

“…”

Swoop.

As she bit her lip, a large wolf walking beside her rubbed her cheek. It was to find out how she was getting confused and try to comfort her.

“…Arangi, there is only you.”

The moment Jiyoung Shin, who was able to smile at her thanks to her, was about to pet her pet.

“Arang?”

Kreureung!!

The wolf, whose eyes suddenly changed, growled in front. It was a signal that the enemy had been detected. There she was, startled, as she quickly turned her gaze to her.

‘Werewolf!’

A bloody werewolf stood on the hill.

‘Are you a scout? But why the blood…’

No! There was no time to think now.
If we don’t catch him, our approach to the garrison will be discovered. Before that, you must get rid of it.

“Cheoljun!”

At her cry, a man specializing in sniping uses a bowstring. At the same time, the moment when the wolf carrying its owner is about to sprint.

“!?”

Numerous C-class monsters appeared on both sides of the werewolf. As a rough estimate, that number is 100. If you consider the monsters behind you…

‘At least 200…’

That means that.

‘You mean Chinodon’s unit… Has come this far?’

It didn’t make sense.

From the basic explanation of the ‘battlefield’ to her experiences, she was familiar with everything. Looking at the records up to 10 years ago, there was no precedent that a Chinodon unit had come this far.

But what was in front of me was reality.
And the fact that she and her allies were in danger was also real.

“Jiyoung!”

“Kuh… Everyone ready for battle!!”

“U-Let’s fight that number!?”

“The opponent is a werewolf. We can’t all run away!”

With a summoned wolf, he or his shrewd companions could run away, but slow-footed contemporaries like wizards couldn’t.

Also, even if they ran away, there was no guarantee that they would give up the chase.

‘…All the other hunters headed to the garrison with other henchmen. Even if I ran away, there would be no one to ask for help.’

In the end, all that was left was a way to respond.
Shin Ji-young shouted at her classmates who were frightened.

“Big squeeze! You can win! You guys are SSLK trainees!”

Some comrades came to their senses and formed a formation, and soon all of SSLK took their places in formation.

‘Half. If I somehow manage to get through half of them, they’ll leave too.’

No matter how you call it an army, monsters are monsters.
If you kill half of them, they’ll get scared and back off. No, I had to back off.

Only then will we be able to live.

“Come!”

With someone’s cry, the monsters on the hill started marching. Shin Ji-young looked at them more nervously than ever before and shouted loudly.

“Magic! Launch!!”

With voices resounding in the meadow, the shot magic caused an explosion. But that alone wasn’t enough to stop their advance.

Before long, the werewolf that had been running like crazy attacked her and her classmates.

“Arang!!”

Shin Ji-young, who had come down from the wolf before she knew it, took out the whip that was tied around her waist and swung it.

Wedge liquid!!

A whip that made a loud bang hit the head of the attacker, and her pet, the wolf, was also fighting against the werewolves.

The other SSLK trainees were also struggling against the monsters. They used their weapons and special skills to slay the monsters, and thanks to that, the war seemed quite hopeful.

It’s just a story when you look at it in a fragmentary way.

“Kuk!”

“Arang!!”

The wolf at the owner’s command bit the werewolf that was trying to attack the fallen SSLK trainee. In the meantime, Shin Ji-young boosted her motivation.

“Thank you.”

“Thank you later.”

Wielding the whip, she gritted her teeth as she still saw countless monsters. The situation was not good. No, it was the worst.

The monsters were killed and the end was not visible, and the classmates were getting tired one by one. The good news is that no one has died yet.

But that would be a matter of time.

“…Damn it.”

The moment she tried to swing the whip with all her might, ignoring the frustration that had begun to rise.

“Kuk!!”

“Ouch!!”

The classmates who had endured and endured so far began to scream one by one. It was collapsing We’re the first to cut their numbers in half!

“Everybody’s crazy…”

The moment I was about to scream out of urgency.

Crack!!!!

A moan that pierced my ear.

“Arang!!?”

Involuntarily, she turned her head.
There, a she-wolf called Arang was lying there, bleeding from her side.

Puck!!

It was none other than the werewolf who had lost one arm that trampled on the wolf’s neck.

“Oh my gosh!!!”

Due to Shin Ji-young’s ability, it was impossible to re-summon a summoned beast that had lost its life once. Even more so, Arangi was his precious friend, colleague, and family, whom he listened to enough to become attached to.

“Go away!!”

The whip that was swung wide tore apart the bodies of the test subjects that stood in their way. But she didn’t make it either. The werewolf’s claws approaching through that gap left a long scar on his arm.

“Kuk!!”

The shock and pain that had been holding on so far collapsed. The moment the teeth and claws of her monsters came crashing down on her as she stumbled and fell.

Kwa Gaga Gwang!!!

Bombardment fell.