Summary :
In Chapter 16, Sung Jin-Woo continues his journey as a hunter and faces a new challenge. He receives information about a high-level gate that has appeared in the city. Along with other hunters, he enters the gate to confront the monsters inside.
Inside the gate, Sung Jin-Woo encounters a group of powerful demons. With his enhanced abilities and strategic thinking, he is able to defeat them one by one. However, as he dives deeper into the gate, the strength and number of monsters increases significantly.
Sung Jin-Woo’s determination and fighting skills are put to the test as he fights against overwhelming odds. He uses his shadows and various techniques to outmaneuver and defeat monsters. Along the way, he gains experience points and levels, further increasing his power.
As the chapter progresses, Sung Jin-Woo discovers a hidden room in the gate. Inside, he finds a mysterious artifact that radiates immense energy. Intrigued by its power, he decides to investigate it further.
The chapter ends with Sung Jin-Woo obtaining the artifact and feeling a rush of power coursing through his body. He prepares for the challenges ahead, knowing that even greater trials await him in the future.
“yes, i am one, however….”
“Ahh, please forgive me. This way, please. let me manual you there.”
“Ah…. certain.”
Sensing that his troubles would possibly get extra complex if he stated “There’s been a false impression right here”, Seong Jin-Woo decided to quietly observe the soldier’s steering for now.
Jin-Woo then swept his gaze round his place.
‘Now that I see, it’s….’
the encompassing surroundings felt alternatively suspicious.
The streets had been totally abandoned. The simplest people he ought to see have been the soldiers and the contributors of the police.
also, corpses belonging to monsters, destroyed cars, and buildings with cracks strolling up their partitions….
Jin-Woo realised what had befell here.
‘A Gate ought to’ve unfolded close by.’
something like that almost by no means occurred nowadays with the well-mounted Hunter system in area, but from time to time, a Gate would seem in a faraway location, and it’d go neglected for some time. As a result, nobody would come around to shut it in time.
when such an occasion spread out, infantrymen from the close by bases were dispatched in order to buy a while till Hunters could arrive at the scene.
Of direction, the guns of infantrymen didn’t work towards the monsters. but, if you want to facilitate the evacuation of civilians, a person had to be presented up as sacrifices. In other words, they have been to turn out to be cannon fodder.
A function a person had no choice but to carry out have been saddled on the shoulders of this nation’s youths.
“thank you.”
The soldier taking walks up ahead thanked Jin-Woo all of a sudden.
“Pardon me?”
“properly, due to the fact Hunters together with your self fight tough, we are capable of go domestic at the quit of the day, you notice.”
“Oh, uh…..”
He stated ‘thanks’.
That became something Jin-Woo wanted to mention to the soldier, rather.
soldiers to the Hunters, and Hunters to squaddies.
As befitting the ones preventing to protect a person, or even something, they were expressing their gratitude against every other.
Beep.
The soldier’s expression brightened after he acquired the radio transmission.
“I’ve obtained a phrase that the monsters inside the location had been handled, and best the largest one remains.”
Jin-Woo nodded his head.
He didn’t need to pay attention the soldier’s clarification to realize.
He should absolutely experience the presence of a effective ‘lifeform’ nearby. And he should even experience several auras of Hunters surrounding it, too. the improved notion Stat become transmitting crucial records in the form of sensations and emotions.
And that’s how Jin-Woo got to discern it out almost without delay.
‘That component is the boss.’
quickly sufficient, the creature may be visible inside the distance. inside the empty, open space no longer too a ways from him, a dozen or so Hunters were surrounding a large made out of rock. It become as tall as a telephone pole.
It was a Golem-type monster.
“Heok….”
The soldier spat out a pant of worry as he took a step backwards.
perhaps it become his first time seeing one, because the second he saw it, his entire frame had stiffened surprisingly. but alternatively, most people could react in a similar fashion. The difference among seeing a monster for real and seeing it on a television or a pc display become like heaven and earth, in spite of everything.
not like him, Jin-Woo remained calm and located the unfolding situation.
“Healers! pay attention your recuperation on the Tanker!”
“We’re also doing our fine!!”
“Why isn’t it demise already?!”
“What are the harm sellers doing!! It’s now not even remotely close sufficient to loss of life, is it?!”
“The monster’s defences are too sturdy! And we simply don’t have sufficient magic-type Hunters in our institution!”
due to the fact they had been summoned out right here in haste, none of them regarded to be high ranked Hunters. both their defences and attacks didn’t appearance that effective at all.
because of that, Hunters couldn’t keep away from being embroiled inside the protracted war of attrition.
boom!!
while the Golem slammed its massive stone fist downward, the Hunter performing because the Tanker had no preference but to kneel down only for a quick second.
“Keo-heok!!”
The Tanker vomited out a mouthful of blood.
“N-no!!”
“The Tanker would possibly die at this fee!!”
“What do you want me to do?! My magic power reserve is absolutely empty, you understand!!”
“Hasn’t the support from high-ranked Hunters arrive but?!”
these Hunters looked like that they had reached their restrict.
Jin-Woo’s gaze, as he took all of these in, gleamed quite sharply.
‘If it’s simplest that a whole lot…. i’m able to do this.’
Jin-Woo slowly took numerous steps again. This Golem-type boss might possess the high defence, but its rank was in all likelihood decrease than its horrifying outer look might recommend.
just from the air of mystery it emitted, it become in reality weaker than the boss of the instant dungeon, the Poison-Fanged Blue some thing.
‘So, if I may want to just render its high defences to not anything….’
What’s needed proper now turned into a powerful strike that could penetrate past that dumb rock giant’s defences.
Jin-Woo got to sufficient distance away and took a function of throwing some thing.
The muscle groups in the arm preserving the damaged sword commenced swelling up pretty violently out of the blue. Thick, pulsing veins even popped up at the returned of his hand, too.
All of his physical electricity become concentrated in his right arm.
A short whilst after that, the arm pulled returned taut like the string of a bow turned into shot forward at the velocity of sound.
“move!”
***
The view of the rank D Hunter, Lee Hahn-Soo, changed into turning dark.
He couldn’t keep on anymore. His prized guard had begun developing cracks as nicely. as if their magic power were depleted, the amount of restoration magic hitting him from the Healers had decreased quite pretty.
At this rate, each single one in every of them could die for sure.
Lee Hahn-Soo had to make a selection, now.
The best feasible plan here become for him to buy enough time so the other Hunters may want to appropriately escape from right here. And at a later time, Hunters with better ranks display up to kill this Golem.
‘Or, we all die together right here.’
bloodless sweat drops shaped on Lee Hahn-Soo’s brow.
He eventually firmed up his solve. Lee Hahn-Soo shouted out while searching back.
“depart this to me and you all gotta…!”
It turned into at this moment that Lee Hahn-Soo saw it.
some thing flew closer to right here because it gleamed coldly in the night time air.
genuinely, he could handiest ‘sense’ that he had seen something, but his eyes couldn’t in reality pick out up on some thing tangible.
It turned into that fast.
KWAHANG!!
That ‘something’ slammed into the Golem’s head and it grandly exploded.
“W-what the hell?!”
Lee-Hahn-Soo’s eyes opened up great-wide.
The headless Golem started out tottering dangerously. The Hunters started roaring out in elation most effective then. They centered their assaults over again.
“It’s working!! Our attacks are running!!”
“It’s falling!!”
“a touch bit greater!! simply a bit greater and we’ll win!!”
It seemed that none of them had observed the object flying in from someplace, because they have been too focused on attacking the monster. With the only exception of Lee Hahn-Soo standing right in front of the Golem, that become!
Roooaaaarrr…..
in the long run, the Golem toppled over.
Thud!
The heavy frame fell down to the ground and kicked up a strong dirt storm.
Waaahhh!!
Hunters all cried out in elation and celebrated their victory.
“We did it!!”
“We killed it!”
only Lee Hahn-Soo had seen the whole thing unfold, and he slowly shook his head.
‘No, our assaults didn’t even work on this guy.’
Lee Hahn-Soo hurriedly searched around the place of the fallen Golem.
“just what did ruin the head of this rock giant?”
Lee Hahn-Soo idea out aloud and searched around. subsequently, he located the remnants of a damaged sword. even though there had been some strains of magic electricity inside it, it was basically a cheap, undeniable steel sword.
‘What? a person threw something this worthless and destroyed a chairman degree Golem capable of disregarding the combined attacks of ten plus Hunters?’
suddenly, he forgot what he desired to mention. Lee Hahn-Soo silently alternated his gaze among the corpse of the Golem and the broken sword, before he ran past the cheering Hunters and in the route the sword flew in from.
“Excuse me!!”
He observed a dazed soldier standing there.
“Pardon? You speaking to me?”
“That’s right, you!”
whilst a Hunter with a hulking body hurriedly rushed towards him, the soldier couldn’t assist but swallow nervously with a stiff face. That become how notable the stress a Hunter gave off to normal humans.
Lee Hahn-Soo displayed the damaged sword and requested.
“Did you throw this?”
“Oh, that. It’s genuinely….”
The soldier looked behind him, most effective for his eyes to move spherical in wonder.
“Huh? Uh? but, there has been a Hunter standing right at the back of me, even though?”
Of path, there has been no person there now.
even as the flustered soldier was looking around the region, Lee Hahn-Soo scratched the returned of his neck and stared on the broken sword.
‘That power, that damaging power…. should it were a excessive rank Hunter?’
He’d in no way know, because the protagonist had disappeared already.
***
across the same time, Jin-Woo became on his way home. He grew to become round to depart as quickly as the Golem commenced teetering about.
indeed, he become the one who delivered down the Golem. He changed into well aware of this fact.
Now firstly, the loot and the earnings bobbing up from a useless monster belonged solely to the Hunter who controlled to kill it. If he desired to, he should contest for the rights to the Golem.
‘but, it’d grow to be difficult whilst seeking to prove that i am capable of bringing down a Golem like that.’
Who might accept as true with the notion of a giant Golem crashing down because of an attack from a measly little rank E? He didn’t actually have a right evidence to lower back him up, too.
Jin-Woo figured that neither the broken sword or the soldier standing beside him might be of a brilliant assist in that endeavour.
And that might now not be all. greater importantly, he’d have to expose the reason how his talents had expanded by a lot that he may want to fell a Golem like that.
The harder he thought approximately it, he had greater to lose than to advantage.
the one and best ability within the whole global to stage up.
He couldn’t come up with the money for to slide up and reveal the lifestyles of this extraordinary potential just for the sake of claiming the stays of a single Golem.
‘It’s a chunk of a waste, but can’t be helped.’
nevertheless, it wasn’t as if he walked away absolutely empty-exceeded, besides.
No, as opposed to that, he earned quite big, actually.
The message he heard the instant that large Golem fell down….
[Level up!]
His level rose up by way of one because he had killed the Golem.
‘certainly, my stages will upward thrust if I hunt the monsters from the regular dungeons.’
He had discovered a few precious information. That on my own changed into well worth it.
***
An antique and decrepit rental located on the outskirts of the metropolis – Jin-Woo’s home changed into on the 8th floor of this building. (TL: i use the Commonwealth manner of counting flooring, so for all individuals who don’t, it’d be the ninth floor for you.)
He located the key and entered the premises. It turned into darkish inside.
‘Jin-Ah’s nevertheless studying hard, huh.’
It was pretty probable that his little sister was still within the library, studying.
He found a bowl of rice and a few soup on the dining desk. mom was inside the clinic for a number of years now, and these dishes were from his little sister.
The piece of paper, a memo from her, contained a gaggle of cutely written phrases.
– Don’t starve your self. I’mma take a look at later in case you ate them all.
She must’ve organized them even though she was busy as a bee, after he instructed her of his plans to depart the health facility earlier today.
Jin-Woo grinned softly and settled right down to devour. however, there was some thing he wanted to affirm first before doing that.
“reputation Window.”
name: Seong Jin-Woo
degree: 18
magnificence: None
name: Slaughterer of Wolves
HP: 2220
MP: 350
Tiredness: 2
[Stat]
energy: forty eight
Stamina: 27
Agility: 27
Intelligence: 27
notion: 27
(available points to distribute: zero)
[Skills]
Passive abilties:
– (Unknown) Lv. Max
– Tenacity Lv. 1
active talents:
– sprint Lv. 1
He thought that these days were a protracted one.
And thanks to this lengthy day, he was now degree 18.
His energy was coming near 50, and other Stats also had elevated extensively as properly. He even figured out what the Agility and notion Stats did, too.
‘On top of this, upload to the fact that i found a very beneficial dagger with appropriate alternatives and all that Gold that I don’t understand a way to use just yet, then…’
even supposing he ignored the ‘unique’ remedy he were given, his conquest of the immediate dungeon was a powerful achievement.
element 9. Geckos
a person stepping out of doors the residence inside the early hours of sunrise might necessarily be careful of their movements. properly, they could grow to be accidentally waking up their family contributors, after all.
That become why Seong Jin-Ah turned into silently remaining the front door to her home, in order that her brother wouldn’t wake up from his sleep, as she turned into approximately to depart for school.
but, then….
“You going to high school now?”
“Eh?”
She become taken via surprise whilst a voice got here from close to her, and he or she speedy grew to become round to look. and he or she noticed Jin-Woo running towards her.
He turned into kitted out in tracksuit and footwear. He had pulled the hood up high and seemed as though he’d been on an early morning jog.
Jin-Ah’s eyes unfolded real extensive in surprise.
“What the heck? Oppa, you have been up already?”
“Yup, been a while seeing that i used to be up, . hiya, have fun these days and be careful on the street.”
“Uh…. certain.”
Jin-Ah watched her brother’s returned as he entered the rental and tilted her head.
‘Now this is so extraordinary. Oppa absolutely woke up earlier than I did….’
One might by no means name Jin-Woo a lazy kind, however Jin-Ah was constantly the first one to begin the day till now honestly due to the fact she turned into unusually industrious, which was quite unfitting for her age institution.
‘Now that I reflect onconsideration on it…’
Her older brother’s again appeared broader than before, for some cause.
‘Eii, no manner that’s true.’
A human’s body wasn’t created from a few rubber band, so how may want to it make any experience for him to extend and contract in a space of some days?
‘I’ve possibly made a mistake.’