A S-Class Hunter With Great Agility - Chapter 107
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Chapter 107: Illegal Auction House (7)
‘What the hell kind of religion is this?’
I can’t understand anything. Their identity, how such things are even possible—the method behind it all.
‘Last time they doubled my strength stat. Now they’ve completely…!’
【Graaaah!】
Cerberus opened its massive mouth. Then it charged wildly like a beast trying to devour the prey before its eyes.
Crunch.
Its teeth bit into the audience seats. The chairs that had turned into chunks of iron rolled across the floor.
“Haha! Hahaha!”
I barely dodged the attack and landed. As I frowned and looked at the auctioneer, our eyes met.
“…!”
“Nothing is impossible on stage. It’s a place where any story can be realized and take flight!”
I swallowed.
‘Those eyes…’
As expected. Bright red pupils flickered and gleamed amidst the chaos.
“What will you gain by just running away? A flying creature would suit your role well.”
The auctioneer spoke with a triumphant expression. Even as he said those words, he didn’t move from his position on stage.
“…Like hell.”
I gripped the iron bars tighter. Then I moved my lips.
“My role is the hunter.”
Thousand Years Mount Tai.
Whoosh—!
I leaped up using my enhanced leg strength. Where I landed was on top of Cerberus’s body.
【Grrrowl! Woof! Woof!】
Cerberus twisted its body wildly.
“Battle of Hongshan.”
I swung the iron bars imbued with blue energy once and drove them into its neck with a crack!
【Grrowl, grrk!】
Spurt.
Blood spurted from between its neck.
“Damn it…!”
The auctioneer was shocked at the sight.
‘Good. Just for a moment, but its movement stopped.’
I couldn’t just leave a rampaging dog in an enclosed indoor space. First, I needed to restrain its movement.
“Black Chain, Trap.”
Taking advantage of that opening, Hong I-jo let iron chains flow across the theater floor. The chains crawled like snakes and bound the feet of the other monsters.
Woof! Woof!
Screeeech.
Grrrowl.
The monsters that had been about to attack the audience in the corners were all restrained at once.
It was fast and precise handling befitting a professional Hunter and S-rank Awakened.
Clank.
Hong I-jo didn’t rest on his laurels and created more chains to attack the monsters like a whip.
‘But if it goes like this, I won’t have the capacity to worry about here too.’
Protecting the panicked civilians while simultaneously facing dozens of monsters and an A-rank Boss Monster was too much even for him.
This underground theater was unsuitable for Hong I-jo to spread his wings.
‘I need to take on at least one.’
Hong I-jo’s chains were perfect for subduing multiple monsters at once.
Conversely, General Choi Young’s ability was suitable for beating down just one. In that case.
‘I’ll focus only on catching the boss.’
“If it has four heads, will the reward be four times as much…”
I’ll find out from now on.
Thud.
I drove the iron spears deeper.
【Grrrrrk!】
Blood spurted out. The owner of that blood writhed in agony.
Soon, one of the four heads drooped limply.
‘Only three left.’
If I continue like this slowly, until Hong I-jo captures all the other monsters…
Then the auctioneer screamed out as if in anguish.
“This is truly unbelievable. Our show’s precious leading actor…! How can you be so cruel?!”
He looked extremely indignant as he snapped his fingers once more.
“Magical Beast Breeding Method, Chapter 2…”
“Cruel, you say?”
Sizzle.
I tore through Cerberus’s hide with the iron spears and violently pulled them out.
Thud.
Disgusting blood splattered on my face.
“Your role is also a hunter, isn’t it? Then you should know.”
“…”
“That what you’ve been doing is far more cruel than this.”
Taking monsters outside dungeons. That alone is dangerous, but selling them to ordinary people who aren’t hunters?
‘It’s no different from turning the entire world into a minefield.’
It was a terrorist-level crime.
The auctioneer hung his head low.
“…My…”
Then he quietly muttered.
“Does my role look like a hunter to you?”
“…?”
“Oh my, unfortunately you’re completely wrong! You have no talent for quiz shows.”
Haha.
The auctioneer raised his face with a twisted smile.
“The role I was given is regrettably not that kind of thing!”
Snap.
As his fingers collided.
“Magical Beast Breeding Method, Chapter 2.”
Keening—
The Quadra Cerberus’s eyes turned red.
“Reason Assimilation!”
* * *
He was a being who couldn’t help but be captivated.
— We must overcome this crisis! If we fall here, the outside of the dungeon will be devastated!
A sparkling story on stage. The chronicle of a 1st Generation Hunter I saw when I was around five years old.
Ah, seeing that.
I too once dared to dream.
Consecutive rejections. No guild or party would accept me.
What poured down wasn’t the attention of mass media, but only disgusted looks.
What I had wasn’t reliable comrades, but the harsh weight of reality where I had to earn daily bread day by day.
— Oh my, it must be very difficult, right? I can see it. The dark and aching pain.
When I was growing distant from my dreams and vaguely realizing that the stage that seemed to shine wasn’t mine.
They were the only ones who spoke to me.
I took their hand as if enchanted. It was irresistible.
When everyone abandoned me, they willingly extended their hand. Who could refuse to take it?
That was the beginning of all the shows.
* * *
“Aren’t you truly grateful? A human who had only watched Hunters from below the stage his entire life, receiving just one blessing and…”
“….”
“Being able to put on such a magnificent performance!”
Cough.
I coughed briefly. I had sustained some bruises due to my carelessness, but it wasn’t serious.
“I’m really curious where you received that blessing from… It’s so pathetic like this.”
Before I knew it, I had fallen from Cerberus’s back.
“Even if I performed a ritual, it would be much better than this.”
“Hmm?”
The auctioneer lightly raised his right arm.
【Grrrr.】
In response, Cerberus also raised its right front paw.
Swoosh!
It swung its front paw as if clawing at its opponent.
Clang clang clang.
Cerberus’s sharp claws clashed with the flimsy iron spears.
| A general doesn’t choose his weapons, but… this is quite burdensome. Where did the sword go? |
“…Mm. I’ve temporarily entrusted it somewhere.”
| Oh my. Didn’t they say the body and sword are received from one’s parents? |
“Pardon?”
It was really the first time I’d heard such words. I made a bewildered expression while gritting my teeth.
The iron spears trembled as if they would break at any moment.
‘As expected. With this…’
The most important thing in combat is having proper weapons.
Without an A-grade weapon in my hands—one I had even planned to enhance soon with Yeti’s Gluttony—I couldn’t have felt more wronged.
‘It’ll break soon. I won’t be able to use it for long.’
I put strength into the arm holding the iron spears.
General Choi Young’s strength began to slowly push back the monster’s claws.
Clang!
Soon, its front paw and the auctioneer’s arm were knocked backward.
“Kuk!”
I got up and opened my mouth.
“…Let me ask you just one thing.”
This was an instinctive question. Something I had often done as a shaman. A doubt that escaped my lips unconsciously without going through my brain.
“Did you go to Busan?”
The auctioneer’s lips curved into an arc.
“…That’s a question that breaks the flow of the play!”
“Tell me.”
“Hmm, mm. Ad-lib…”
He pondered for a moment, then opened his mouth and bared his fangs.
“Sorry. I don’t have talent for that! Let’s just finish the action we were doing.”
Chomp.
The auctioneer’s teeth bit at the air.
Crunch.
At the same time, Cerberus’s teeth bit the iron spears I was holding.
“—Tsk!”
I twisted my arm to pull out the weapon, but my opponent was persistent. Screech. I could hear the sound of metal being crushed.
Cerberus even began pulling me, who was holding the iron spears, while still biting them.
‘At this rate, I’ll be thrown along with it.’
I made a quick decision.
Thud.
I lightly let go of the iron spears.
“Thousand Years Mount Tai.”
I wrapped my entire right side in armor. What followed happened in an instant.
Thwack!
I raised my fist and struck my opponent. One of Cerberus’s heads exploded.
“Huh.”
“…!”
“It doesn’t give achievement points per head… It’s just one monster, I guess.”
I lightly dusted off my hands. This confirmed everything I needed to know.
“Why do you have that expression?”
Whoosh.
My armored right side spun in the air once again.
Thwack!
My right foot struck Cerberus’s third head. I felt blood spurting as everything inside burst out.
“…Such, such brutality…!”
The auctioneer clutched his head in shock. He looked quite disturbed.
“The reason I kept listening to your ridiculous stage talk wasn’t because I couldn’t kill this thing immediately.”
The fighting dog with one head remaining drooled.
【Grrrowl….】
The hunting dog’s red pupils, having lost its reason, repeatedly dilated and contracted.
“I needed some time.”
I took this opportunity to glance back.
There was Hong I-jo extending his iron chains to neatly gather and stack the monsters. I could also see the audience under his protection.
‘Roughly cleaned up.’
I had planned to draw the auctioneer’s attention until Hong I-jo’s side finished their cleanup.
If the boss monster died too quickly, the auctioneer would surely start interfering with them.
“Now then….”
“….”
“Answer me. Have you been to Busan?”
A red-eyed monster.
Identical to the ones that appeared at the Azure Dragon Busan Branch Training Ground.
“Haha….”
The auctioneer stepped back with Cerberus, his face flustered.
The composed announcer’s demeanor had long since disappeared.
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