A S-Class Hunter With Great Agility - Chapter 58

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Chapter 58: Kang Hyun-cheol (5)

 

My decision was made.

I immediately kicked off from the training ground and rushed out.

 

“Hey, it’s dangerous if you move now!”

 

Choi Geon urgently tried to stop me, but there was a difference in our agility stats. I quickly ran out.

 

‘What kind of problem occurred.’

 

Whatever the problem was, the fact that Kang Hyun-cheol had awakened was certain.

 

“Mountain Lord.”

| …It’s that bastard from earlier. |

“As expected, right.”

 

I had to get to the scene before missing him. I increased my speed.

 

“No, wait!”

 

Choi Geon’s shouting voice could be heard distantly.

 

* * *

 

Lee Cheong-ryu headed to the building’s basement with a staff member.

 

“The basement, you mean those things?”

“Yes. The ones the Guild Leader caught for training purposes. The ones in the special training room.”

“Weren’t they being managed well with restraint devices?”

 

Blue Dragon’s training monsters.

Hunters are originally those who fight monsters, and Lee Cheong-ryu had personally captured these, saying that sparring would be useless without preparing for real combat.

How much effort had been put into safety until now.

 

“Yes, they were, but… they’re all suddenly going wild as a group. As if they’ve caught some kind of madness.”

“…Madness?”

 

Lee Cheong-ryu’s expression hardened.

 

“…Damn. They’re reaching their hands everywhere these days. How annoying.”

 

At his inexplicably cold expression, the staff member’s shoulders trembled.

 

Kwaaaaang!

 

Suddenly the surroundings shook. Lee Cheong-ryu, standing right in front of the special training room door, raised his head.

 

“Open it.”

 

Creak.

 

“Grab that one! Quickly!”

“Ugh, kuhuk. I can’t use my hands!”

“We can’t let these things get out!”

 

When the door opened, a chaotic training ground came into view. All kinds of monsters were mixed together and going wild.

The Blue Dragon Hunters were doing their utmost to stop the monsters. However, it wasn’t enough.

Monsters with bright red eyes were destroying everything around them.

 

Kwagwang, bang! Thwack, kagagagak!

 

“….”

 

Lee Cheong-ryu extended his hand with sunken eyes. A silver sword appeared from the blue gate.

 

“Blue Dragon—!”

 

At the same time, Lee Cheong-ryu’s voice filled the training ground.

 

“Guild Leader…!”

“He’s here!”

“Huff, huff… We’re saved…”

 

Here and there, people were letting out sighs of relief. Lee Cheong-ryu walked steadily among them.

 

“What happened.”

 

His face was hardened, unlike usual. One hunter ran out. The others had to face the monsters again as soon as they felt relief at Lee Cheong-ryu’s appearance.

 

Kieek, kiiiiek!

 

Monsters with restraint devices around their necks were going wild.

 

“They’ve been like this as a group for about 10 minutes. We definitely locked them in iron cages…, but they all broke out and are acting like this.”

“Are the restraint devices broken?”

“That doesn’t seem to be the case.”

“Ha.”

 

Obvious.

Lee Cheong-ryu gripped his sword tighter with a cold expression.

 

“Everyone get out.”

“What? But…!”

“I won’t say it twice.”

 

However, the Blue Dragon Hunter hesitated. Then he glanced at the rampaging monsters and the colleagues fighting against them.

There were too many. Since it was training season, there were far more than usual. Among them, several A-rank monsters were mixed in.

 

“Why, are you worried?”

“…No.”

 

This was sincere. Who among Blue Dragon would worry about Lee Cheong-ryu? ‘That’ Lee Cheong-ryu.

 

“Even if it seems like I’ll die, I still charge forward.”

“….”

“You all protected well. That’s enough now. Everyone get out.”

 

Lee Cheong-ryu smiled as usual. Then he knelt down. After that, he placed his palm on the ground.

 

Swoosh.

 

“…!”

 

A blue gate appeared beneath the Hunter’s feet. He instantly fell downward.

That wasn’t all. All the other Blue Dragon Hunters who had been facing the monsters.

They disappeared one after another through the gates Lee Cheong-ryu had created.

 

“I don’t want to say it three times.”

 

He smiled brightly and stretched his back with a grunt.

 

The bright red eyes of the monsters who had lost their opponents turned toward Lee Cheong-ryu.

 

* * *

 

“Huu….”

 

I ran straight to the interrogation room. An ominous premonition flowed through my entire body. I couldn’t hide my tension.

I caught my breath while fidgeting with the handle of the Spirit General Sword.

 

| …Must you really open it? |

 

The roaring sound had disappeared. But the Mountain Lord stopped me as I was about to open the door.

I nodded my head.

 

“Yes.”

 

This is the best timing to meet Kang Hyun-cheol alone. I still have plenty of mana too.

 

Click.

I stepped inside.

 

“…!”

 

The smell of blood.

A fishy smell brushed past my nose.

And at the scene that came into view, I opened my eyes wide.

 

Whooooosh—

 

One wall had been completely blown away. Wind entered through the wall. The darkened outside was fully visible.

 

“What the….”

 

Clatter. Concrete chunks got caught under my feet. That roaring sound from earlier seemed to have been the sound of the building’s exterior wall breaking. Moreover….

 

Splash.

 

Red blood was stepped on under my feet.

 

“….”

 

The glass wall was shattered, and Blue Dragon staff members were collapsed. Terrible. It’s a terrible scene.

I bent down to check their condition. Are they still breathing…. Please.

 

‘Could it be because of me?’

 

With unnecessary, unnecessary thoughts…. For unnecessarily asking them to bring Kang Hyun-cheol here.

 

| Stop that ridiculous self-blame. |

“But still.”

| Is it a habit? That damn self-blame of yours. |

“….”

 

Is it a habit? It seemed like that too.

 

| The cause lies elsewhere. Don’t you know? |

 

Right, where’s Kang Hyun-cheol?

I quickly came to my senses and looked around. The broken wall, moonlight pouring in. The smell of red blood and the collapsed Blue Dragon staff members.

Me standing in the center of it all.

 

‘An empty chair….’

 

Did he already escape?

 

“…No.”

 

Shing.

Screech—

 

I quickly drew my sword. And rotated my body. It all happened in less than a second.

 

Thunk.

The tip of the blade pointed toward the ceiling.

 

“Hiding like a rat.”

 

Crack.

Kang Hyun-cheol’s hand dug into the concrete.

He was gripping the ceiling and looking down below.

His red eyes flashed. It was truly a chilling color.

 

 

‘…Status abnormality?’

 

Strange characters appeared where the Four Pillars reading should have been. I frowned. A fanatic…

 

“Yesterday… that bastard… was it you?”

 

Kang Hyun-cheol spoke. It sounded like scratching his throat. Not worth answering.

 

“Did you do this?”

 

I simply asked back. Kang Hyun-cheol didn’t answer either. But it was certainly his doing.

 

I raised my sword. The sharp blade caught the moonlight.

 

‘B-grade…’

 

However, I couldn’t attack recklessly. His stat condition wasn’t normal.

 

 

| You can win easily enough. Don’t think unnecessary thoughts. |

“Yes.”

 

I answered briefly.

And at that moment.

Kang Hyun-cheol released his grip on the ceiling.

 

“…!”

 

Kagagang!

 

Kang Hyun-cheol extended his claws and clawed through the air like a monster. I blocked him with the flat of my sword blade.

 

Kagagagak!

 

Kang Hyun-cheol’s claws scraped across the Spirit General Sword.

 

“Kuk…!”

 

Heavy. It was no different from Choi Geon’s strength.

But he wasn’t fast.

 

‘I can see everything.’

 

Kang Hyun-cheol swung his arm again. This time it was an attack aimed at my neck.

 

Kagak.

 

I immediately deflected it. Kang Hyun-cheol’s arm twisted in a strange direction.

 

Kudangtangtang.

 

Kang Hyun-cheol crashed back-first into the wall.

 

“Gruk…”

 

However, he stood up quickly as if he felt no pain. Only his eyes glowed bright red.

 

“Severe Cold.”

 

Extend my senses…

As if even skills were my hands and feet.

 

The pale freezing aura gradually took shape. And it condensed on the sword blade.

 

Saaaaaak—

 

I felt my whole body growing cold.

Like this, I should thrust the sword and cut him down…

 

‘…Cut?’

 

Who?

 

‘A person?’

 

Hesitation.

Just before the Spirit General Sword could slash Kang Hyun-cheol’s chest.

My movement stopped completely.

 

| What are you doing? |

“…He’s a person.”

 

Hunters are beings who fight monsters.

And this is outside a dungeon, the opponent is human.

 

“This, if I cut like this, he’ll die.”

 

The moment I cut, he’ll be split. In half.

An instinctive feeling came. The hand holding the sword trembled.

 

| Do you see that as human? |

 

I suddenly snapped back to my senses. The Mountain Lord’s voice awakened my fading consciousness.

I looked ahead.

 

“Grrrr…”

 

Kang Hyun-cheol was baring his teeth. He hunched his upper body forward, taking a stance like a monster about to attack.

Then immediately—whoosh—Kang Hyun-cheol lunged toward me.

 

“—!”

 

Is he even human?

Just as that thought crossed my mind.

 

“Whew, that’s enough for today.”

 

Someone appeared.

And grabbed Kang Hyun-cheol by the nape of his neck.

 

Silver hair fluttered in the air.

I stared ahead with dazed eyes.

 

“Who…”

 

Silver hair and gray eyes. A man with long hair reaching down to his waist.

He was smiling at me while holding Kang Hyun-cheol, a somehow chilling smile.

 

‘…He’s not an ally.’

 

I could sense it instinctively. I didn’t loosen my grip on the Spirit General Sword.

 

“Oh ho. So it’s you?”

 

He knows me?

 

“Interesting.”

 

Heh heh.

 

“…!”

 

I hastily pointed my sword at him. A prickling sensation rising up the back of my neck warned me.

Dangerous.

Perhaps more dangerous than any opponent I’d faced so far.

 

“…Mountain Lord?”

 

I tried to activate my skill. But the Mountain Lord didn’t respond. The voice that had been echoing in my head was no longer audible.

 

“Ugh…”

 

What’s happening all of a sudden.

Buzz—my head spun. A sudden headache blurred my vision. It felt like the Freezing Aura filling my body was draining away in an instant.

 

| Spirit Descent Ritual Release. |

 

What did you say?

 

Immediately, pure white energy swirled before my eyes. And shortly after—

A massive tiger filled the space.

 

Growl, grrrowl…

 

“Aha… hahahaha!”

 

The Mountain Lord bared his teeth at the silver-haired man. The man was laughing with a delighted expression.

 

“Why is the master of Ten Thousand Mountains so angry?”

| Shut up! |

 

It was fierce killing intent.

The Mountain Lord’s aura began raging wildly. The temperature around us gradually dropped. As if it would freeze everything in all directions.

 

“Mountain Lord, wait!”

 

I shouted urgently.

 

However.

 

Hissss—

 

Due to the Mountain Lord’s skill, my extremities began freezing bit by bit.

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