Chapter 52 – 52. Cobwebs

The cause of the unpleasant flapping of wings are those called metal needle mosquitoes. Like a monster, the body alone was the size of a small dog, and it was bigger than that with the snout and wings combined.

Of course, if you get bitten, it doesn’t end with itching.
According to the experience posted on the Hunter app, does it feel like an arrow is stuck?

Be wary of your surroundings and look out for Jeong Ha-ryun.
His face is white and frozen, which is more serious than he thought. I shouted at her in a panic.

“Jeong Ha-ryun, wake up!”

“Eh?”

“Prepare the magic!”

Fortunately, I can hear my voice.
Shaking hands raise the magic wand. However, the magic casting time is longer than usual, as if she had not completely recovered from the shock.

Well, that’s pretty much what I expected.

“Sister.”

So Dajin Seol and I have to buy time.
I lower my stance next to Jeong Ha-ryun, who is trying to cast magic somehow.

“Come.”

A swarm of mosquitoes pounced on us, starting with a ferociously charging mosquito. Dajin Seol and I swung our swords and fists nonstop.

Every time the sword is swung, the hideous-looking guys split into two, and the body bursts with a cracking sound whenever the fist is swung.

Durability is terrible for a D-class monster.
Its attacks are also straightforward, so it’s easy to predict, and if you listen carefully to the sound of its wings, you won’t be surprised.

In addition, this D-level gate, ‘The Mosquito Slayer’s Jungle’, was a gate that was famous for not having a boss. No, it should be said that there is no need to fight. Anyway, in terms of difficulty, it is the lowest among D-class gates.

However, the reason why it became an avoidance gate is probably because the monsters you have to deal with are disgusting mosquitoes, and because of the climate where the discomfort index soars endlessly even if you stand still.

By the time the first battle came to an end.

Bang!

Finally, Jeong Ha-ryun fired a magic bullet.
A hard shot. Although it didn’t kill the needlestick mosquito, it’s okay. Because it was important to attack once.

Having painfully killed the last one on behalf of everyone who suffered during the summer, I approached Jeong Ha-ryun, who was sitting down.

Sweating profusely, she was looking up at me with a tear-stained face.

“It’s okay?”

“Brother…I’m sorry..”

“Well, it could be. You just have to get used to it gradually. That’s why I brought you here.”

As I patted her, who seemed like she would burst into tears if I touched her, Dajin Seol approached me with a clear expression.

“Haryeon-ah, can you do it?”

“Sister… Yes… I can…”

“Yeah, I’m glad. I would have been a bit disappointed if I hadn’t. Hey, but it sure has high stats, so it tastes like beating dickheads.”

I looked at Seol Da-jin, who raised Jeong Ha-ryun up. Does it taste like hitting?

“Isn’t it like a rhythm game when you hit the timing of the rushing bastards and they explode? All the stress that has accumulated over the years is relieved, hey.”

Um… Uh, yes.

“I’m glad you’re having fun.”

Even if they are different, they take two very different people and take a delayed step. On the way to the destination, swarms of iron needle mosquitoes came in several times, but it was only Jeong Ha-ryun’s experience.

She started to show improvement from her second battle, and after she fought her third and fourth battles, she began to prepare her magic just by hearing the sound of her wings.

By the time I feel proud of her growing figure.
Cobwebs covering the green in white began to appear.

“You are lucky. It hasn’t rained a drop since we got here.”

“There should be days like this.”

“Kick, you are right. There should be days like this.”

As soon as we entered the spider web area, the mosquitoes that bothered us so much disappeared. If you move towards the end with a comfortable step.

“There it is. Our boss monster.”

I saw an extra-large dragonfly struggling pathetically in a giant spider’s web.

“Eh…?”

“It’s okay. That’s on our side.”

“Me, that one?”

Seol Da-jin giggled as if Jeong Ha-ryun’s reaction was amusing. With a wry smile, I cut off the spider webs one by one and released the super-sized dragonfly.

Freed, it flew like a dart in the direction we had come from, and after a while it dropped the needles it caught in front of us and disappeared.

Is it boeun?

‘It’s the boss monster’s return.’

It was the information I already knew through the Hunter app and Seoldajin, but when I actually experienced it, I felt strange and futile. Is it because I didn’t fight the boss monster?

‘Let’s just think comfortably.’

Gate is also aware of the white sea futility of the fuckers. Thinking so, the gate deactivated after a while.

Back at the cobweb, we watched the soldiers walking around spraying air fresheners and the fucking Hunter Association employees selling a bottle of water for 10,000 won while we dried our sweaty bodies.

After that, the second gate I entered was a place called ‘The Swamp of Corpse Flies’.

“Um…It’s fine here.”

This was what Jeong Ha-ryun said as soon as he entered the gate.
When Seol Da-jin and I looked at each other as if asking what they were talking about, she asked back in bewilderment.

“Wow, aren’t you okay?”

I don’t know what the hell it is.

“More, not too hot, not too sticky… Is it just me?”

“…Our Ha-ryun. I was shocked because of the mosquitoes.”

“It seems like that. The kid has gone crazy.”

“To? To?”

Tomorrow, instead of taking him to the training center, I should give him a good rest. I started walking through the swamp, leaving Jeong Ha-ryun behind, who was still tilting her head as if it were strange.

“Brother, wait a minute.”

“Yes?”

“There is a swamp.”

Hearing that, he stabbed the ground he was about to step on with his sword, and it entered endlessly. It’s connected to the forest, so it looked like it was just connected to the ground.

“What, how did you know?”

“To? That, I just knew.”

Judging by his expression, he doesn’t seem to be hiding anything. You couldn’t even lie to me in the first place.

Something was strange, but what if I just knew it? I said thank you and moved on. But that wasn’t the only strange thing.

“Uh…Oh, don’t come.”

Didn’t the swarm of flies that were trying to attack us at the words we spat while flying magic bullets stop and retreat?

Seol Da-jin and I, who witnessed the scene, couldn’t help but put on a dumbfounded expression.

“Hey, is this Ha-ryun’s ability?”

“No. It’s not like that.”

Among the characteristics Jeong Ha-ryun had, there was no characteristic of this ability. In the first place, she had only two characteristics, and even those were all general characteristics related to magic.

Then.

‘Is it the mysterious side after all?’

There was only one thing I was suspicious of.
Abyssal gaze, a B-class mystery. However, if I remember correctly, nowhere in the description did it say that it had this ability.

‘Does it have something to do with the existence in the abyss?’

Frustrated, I ask Jeong Ha-ryun what happened, but the answer is that I don’t know.

‘What the hell is Sybalum doing?’

The one who wonders what the existence in the abyss is.
As soon as I signed the contract, they said that they were watching me, but as soon as I was blocked from the system, Jeong Ha-ryun’s characteristics changed from being prey to watching me.

If I could, I’d like to erase the mystery itself. It was just a pity that I couldn’t.

‘It would have been nice if the attribute removal potion was a mystic removal potion.’

Tsk.

When I clicked my tongue, I felt Jeong Ha-ryun looking at me with anxious eyes. He seems to think that I’m in a bad mood because of him.

“Don’t worry, it’s not because of Ha-ryun.”

“…Really?”

“Uh.”

“…Thank god.”

His hardened face quickly loosens up and he smiles brightly. When I see that face, I feel relieved as well.

‘Yeah, it’s not something that can be solved by worrying about it now anyway.’

So let’s think about beings in the abyss later. We continued our assault on the D-level gate, ‘Swamp of Corpse Flies’.

And not long after, we were able to return to the hive.

“Wow, thanks to Ha-ryun, I ate one of the gates raw.”

“Yeah, I will.”

Aside from being uncomfortable, the ability she showed was truly amazing. Even the boss monster, the corpse king fly, couldn’t disobey her orders.

“Daewoong, what are you going to do? Do you want to go to the swamp? Or would you like to look elsewhere?”

“Well.”

To be honest, I wanted to check whether Jeong Ha-ryun’s ability was manifested in the other place right now.

‘Let’s wait.’

But I had to be patient.
You can check on other days, but the additional bounty was only available today.

“Let’s just keep going around the swamp.”

As it takes time to answer, the two anxious faces light up. What would you do if I asked you to go somewhere else?

Looking at the two of them, I laughed and applied for a raid in the swamp area. After drinking sweet honey from the swamp until late at night, he received 2.4 million won and a huge amount of points of 9,000.

‘…Should I move the hive over here?’

It wasn’t that I didn’t think of it, but I soon gave up. It is difficult to feel strange in the Hunter Association for sucking honey too openly.

“So tomorrow is the day off?”

Before leaving the cobweb and parting, I told my lovers to rest tomorrow. It was because I had a hard time today, and I was planning to visit the Geosimryu dojo tomorrow.

After breaking up with her lovers and returning to my room, I checked Jung Ha-ryun’s status window and fell asleep.

And the next day.

I went to Geosimryu Dojo as scheduled.

When I knocked on the door of an old hanok built in a secluded place away from the city center, a woman in a kendo uniform holding a broom in her hand came out to meet me.

“She came earlier than expected.”