A S-Class Hunter With Great Agility - Chapter 16

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Chapter 16: Hunter Registration (4)

I activated my Spiritual Sight.

His status window overlapped with Jung Su-hyuk’s face.

Glittering golden letters conveyed various information.

Surely the first thing that should catch my eye was his high agility stat.

But what caught my attention first was the Four Pillars section.

‘Death Star?’

Oh my. No wonder.

I had a feeling he’d get himself into big trouble someday, but it was actually his fate all along.

I read through the letters in the status window one by one.

‘Hmm, nothing particularly special about the skill window.’

Jung Su-hyuk seemed to notice that my concentration had wavered. His already arrogant expression became even more furrowed.

Kwang—!

Jung Su-hyuk’s skill deployed directly toward the translucent dome.

Crack.

A pale purple aura created fissures in the dome.

“You’re distracted, aren’t you?”

“….”

‘Sorry, I was sneaking a peek at your status window.’

I didn’t particularly answer.

| Is your purpose to defeat that man? |

“Yes, that’s right.”

He keeps scratching at me, and it’s getting on my nerves….

| Then is that man an enemy? |

“Hmm… That’s not quite it.”

Since we’re both hunters, he’s not really an enemy when you think about it. But I do want to give him a good beating. So couldn’t you say he’s temporarily an enemy?

However, the Divine Spirit seemed displeased.

| I am not inclined. The true path of martial arts is to establish oneself by annihilating evil enemies. |

A resolute tone. Firm conviction.

I opened my transformed status window.

General Choi Young. A military commander of Goryeo.

A general who was elevated to divine status after being executed by beheading at the age of seventy-three.

In shamanic beliefs, it was common for generals who had existed in reality to be revered as gods. This was especially true if they met a death filled with deep resentment and had excellent character in life.

General Choi Young was a representative example of this. He was now one of the gods most commonly served by shamans.

‘The scale is as grand as always.’

Still, it was an appropriate choice.

Jung Su-hyuk’s stats showed exceptionally high agility. He was employing a combat style that made good use of cunning tactics.

Rather than countering those tactics with the same approach, it was important to accept a Divine Spirit who symbolized righteousness and not give him any room for clever schemes.

“Who do you keep talking to?”

Jung Su-hyuk made an incredulous expression and thrust his sword forward.

Swoosh—!

His rapidly shooting posture was still peculiar. I twisted my body to avoid that thrust, but it was close. It was because our agility stats were similar to each other.

He had grounds to be arrogant. Even if not the original deity, to have speed comparable to a god.

Boom, kwang—!

“Whoa….”

There definitely was something. The power of his skill was considerable too.

The aura from Jung Su-hyuk’s sword thrust shattered the wall in a circular pattern. It looked like the trace of a combat hunter’s punch.

‘A thrusting-style attack, shooting out shock waves with the aura contained in that thrust….’

I quietly watched him while maintaining distance from Jung Su-hyuk.

| This is the first time I’ve seen such a method. |

“Yes. For me too.”

| Hmm… It’s also not righteous to stand still when an opponent is attacking. |

“I suppose that’s true?”

I raised the corners of my mouth, welcoming that statement.

“Thousand Years Mount Tai.”

I activated the skill. It was an ability perfectly suited to overturn Jung Su-hyuk’s combat style.

A thousand autumns eternal, like Mount Tai standing firm

A line from ‘Jegok Choi Sijung-hyeong,’ written by the civil official Byeon Gye-ryang in honor of General Choi Young.

For a thousand years, it shall stand firm like Mount Tai.

General Choi Young, who lived steadfastly as a military official of Goryeo, fittingly possessed such a skill due to the character that led him to be revered as a divine spirit.

I felt virtual armor wrapping around my body. The heavy iron armor appeared in the air with a translucent form, protecting my body.

It looked like nothing could frighten me, no matter what struck it.

I immediately charged my armor-clad torso straight into Jung Su-hyuk.

Thud—

“Kugh!”

As expected. Jung Su-hyuk couldn’t apply the agility he’d built up around his sword to his body.

Naturally, he couldn’t avoid my surprise attack and had no choice but to take it head-on.

“Urgh…”

Jung Su-hyuk tumbled toward the floor.

When I glanced up, I could see Jung Su-jin covering her mouth.

‘Hmm, though I didn’t really plan to just beat him down like this… or did I?’

I stood in front of Jung Su-hyuk, and he looked up at me with resentful eyes.

“I’ve never seen anything like this before!”

“Huh? What do you mean?”

I played dumb.

“There’s a limit to how much you can enhance stats with skills!”

His spirit was impressive as he glared at me like he wanted to kill me and said that.

I just calmly pretended not to know what he was talking about.

“What kind of skill do you even have?”

“A good-looking one, I guess.”

Jung Su-hyuk let out a breath of disbelief at my attitude of not giving him a proper answer.

He took a deep breath and finally managed to get his legs under him.

Clang—!

He immediately charged at me again without any thought of giving up. His stepping pattern was indeed close to that of fencing.

I used to watch it often with Grandfather during Olympic seasons.

| Ho. He never gives up. |

“Huh?”

| Quite a likeable fellow. |

No, what am I supposed to do if you start liking him?

Divine Descent Ritual is a skill that’s significantly affected by the divine spirit’s psychological state. The General’s positive reaction began flowing toward Jung Su-hyuk.

I couldn’t guarantee there wouldn’t be problems with my skill’s power going forward.

Ugh.

“Well, I guess this is enough.”

I changed my mind as I watched Jung Su-hyuk repeatedly thrusting at me.

He’s still an annoying bastard though.

Tap.

I moved outside Jung Su-hyuk’s blade range. I jumped backward, creating distance between us.

At the same time, I threw the sword I was holding.

Clang—

The sword clattered across the measurement room floor.

“…?”

Jung Su-hyuk raised one eyebrow as if he didn’t understand. There’s no need to be so hasty.

I have a plan.

“Thousand Years Mount Tai.”

This hitting sensation feels better.

I put strength into my right arm. Weight settled into my fist.

“Grit your teeth.”

I charged at Jung Su-hyuk with my eyes glowing fiercely blue.

Crash—!

A heavy blow landed without a moment’s hesitation.

His fainting was a predictable result.

* * *

A few minutes later.

The measurement room had such a long waiting line that it needed to be cleared quickly.

Jung Su-jin flipped through a document file in the Awakener Consultation Office.

“…This is truly remarkable. Honestly, it was bewildering.”

Her pupils trembled. Today was the first time I learned that human eyes could shake to that extent.

“Normally, we would calculate the amount of mana detected by the internal dome measuring device and the grade of the virtual monsters defeated to reach a conclusion, but…”

Jung Su-jin trailed off.

“Given the special nature of your basic stat measurement results, and considering your opponent as well, it would be difficult to give you the grade results immediately. I apologize.”

“Ah, I see. That’s fine. I’ll wait until it comes out.”

Perhaps it was only natural. I answered readily while dipping a barley tea bag into my paper cup.

| What is this thing? |

‘It’s a tea bag. When you soak it in water, tea steeps out.’

| Ho. There are many fascinating things. This is truly a different world. |

Being a god who was originally human, General Choi Young showed curiosity about everything around him.

I answered him sincerely and took a sip of barley tea.

Having conversations in my head meant I didn’t receive strange looks, but it felt odd with my skull resonating.

“Then I’ll just ask a few simple questions and we’ll finish up.”

Jung Su-jin composed her expression and spoke to me. I nodded and put down my cup.

“Have you experienced any abnormal physical reactions since awakening? Such as discoloration?”

“No. As you can see, I was originally this color. Jet black.”

“Ah. I understand.”

Discoloration refers to how body color often changes as an aftermath of awakening.

Like Jung Su-jin’s light purple hair color, or Choi Yu-il’s platinum hair and green eyes.

I belonged to the side that didn’t change much.

“And… well. This might be a sensitive question, but do you know that hunters’ skills usually don’t vary greatly from one attribute?”

“…Ah, yes. Roughly.”

Even I, who only knew the very basics about hunters, had the common knowledge that most hunters’ abilities don’t deviate greatly from one framework.

Combat meant combat, healing meant healing. Fire meant fire, water meant water. It was like that.

‘All the hunters I’ve seen so far had one attribute each.’

Jung Su-jin hesitantly continued her sentence.

“According to our investigation, Eun Hae-dam, you apparently handle both ice attribute and fire attribute. You’re a rare dual-attribute ability user.”

“….”

“However, the skill you just used was a different attribute from those two types.”

‘Hmm…’

Technically it was one attribute though. My ability was just using the power of divine spirits.

But on average, this seemed to be a very unusual case.

When I hesitated, Jung Su-jin shook her head.

“If it’s difficult to explain, you don’t have to tell us. There’s no greater risk for hunters than fully disclosing their skills. We just need to check the degree of power.”

“Ah, I see. Thank you for understanding.”

That was fortunate. It would be difficult to explain in detail here.

Jung Su-jin closed the document file and wrapped up the conversation.

“You’ll receive a text when your license is ready. Since there’s a risk of loss, you’ll need to come pick it up in person…”

“Cough, cough!”

That wasn’t me, but the coughing sound of the man sprawled on the sofa in one corner of the office.

“What? What, what happened?”

How does someone faint from taking just one hit like that?

Jung Su-hyuk, whom I had carried and placed there, finally opened his eyes. Then he shakily raised his upper body.

“Did you sleep well?”

I waved my hand in greeting.

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