I Became a Hunter with the Heavenly Slaughter Star Trait. - Chapter 71

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Episode 71

Episode 71

“Hyung, did you see the event that appeared?”

Ujeongmin, excited since morning, asks me as soon as he sees me.

“What event?”

“This, this!”

Ujeongmin suddenly shoves his phone at me.

Some YouTube channel was displayed on the screen.

[Babel Tower Event Occurred! If You Don’t Enter, You’re Definitely a Sucker?!]

“Stop watching YouTube.”

Tsk tsk, I clicked my tongue and sat down at the table.

“No, hyung. Just look once.”

“That’s fake news.”

I answered like a middle-aged man and gulped down barley tea.

Then, Ujeongmin moved right next to me and showed me the video.

“It’s an event that gives random items just for entering!”

“What is the Tower, a charity? Would it just give random items?”

“It’s real! In-seok hyung went and came back too!”

“Hmm.”

“Even the news said it’s a special event where you can’t get achievement points but you can get items!”

Ujeongmin appeals at the top of his voice.

Hmm.

An ‘event’ at Babel Tower?

I’ve never heard of such a thing.

“Ask Kang Min-a about it once.”

“Ah, but it’s real…”

“Just eat your food.”

-Slurp.

I took a spoonful of the dried pollack soup Do Sang-jin prepared and fiddled with my phone.

As Ujeongmin said, everywhere was buzzing with talk about the event.

-Babel Tower Special Event Occurs… Risk Level? “Zero”

-Event Started at Midnight, Babel Tower “Bustling” with Crowds

-What Items Can You Get?… “All Kinds”

-Not the First Time?! Early Awakener Park Man-sik’s Recollection “Back Then It Was Like That…”

Articles were pouring out at an incredible rate.

Not just in South Korea, but events were ongoing at Babel Towers worldwide,

and it seemed you could get random items by entering without much danger and just completing certain missions.

“Hmm…”

Since no monsters appear, it doesn’t seem dangerous either.

If it’s really just getting ‘random items’, it doesn’t look bad.

I’ll ask Kang Min-a, and if it’s real, maybe entering would be…

-Slurp.

After quickly finishing the hot dried pollack soup,

I called Kang Min-a.

-Hunter Lee! I was just about to contact you!

“Because of the event?”

-Ah! You already know about it?

“Yes. Everyone’s talking about it everywhere.”

-Ahaha, that’s true. It’s almost like a festival atmosphere?

“Free items from Babel Tower, it’s hard to believe.”

-I feel the same way! But there have been consistent interviews from hunters who conquered Babel Tower since midnight.

“Hmm.”

-We cross-checked with other countries too, and it’s the same situation.

“It’s really just a normal event?”

-It seems to be. There are records of such events during the early days of Babel Tower’s appearance.

“There are absolutely no cases of people mysteriously disappearing, dying, or anything like that?”

-No. Everyone just came out with random items.

“I see…”

-If you don’t want to participate in the event, you can enter the Tower in three days!

“Three days?”

-Yes. They say you can see a countdown when you enter Babel Tower.

“A countdown?”

-Right now there are about 49 hours left.

“…”

-It wouldn’t be bad to try participating in the event once. It’s a one-time thing, so once you enter, you can never enter again.

“Oh, so after that you can enter the original Babel Tower?”

Did I ask too excitedly?

I heard Kang Min-a clearing her throat.

-Yes, yes… That’s right.

“I understand. Then it would be better to get it over with quickly.”

I hung up the phone and grinned at Ujeongmin, who was looking at me with an anxious face.

“Alright, let’s go.”

“Yes!!!”

“They say the regular floors open after clearing the event once.”

“…What?”

“You’re weak against Blood Bears. You’ll have to run the 45th Floor four or five more times.”

Ujeongmin’s face gradually turned pale.

Regardless, I stood up humming a tune.

Quickly die…

No, that’s not right.

“Let’s go quickly, Ju-min!”

* * *

Giant letters visible as soon as we entered Babel Tower.

‘Feast of the Gods’ was shining in brilliant gold,

and a countdown was proceeding below it.

“This is also a first.”

At my words, the team members nodded.

“There really are no monsters…”

Cha Ye-rin looked around in amazement.

The map was vast and peaceful.

Befitting the name ‘Feast of the Gods’,

green grasslands,

Golden wheat ripening in the fields,

grapes hanging plump and full on every branch.

The sun is warm and the breeze is cool.

It feels almost like we’ve come on a picnic.

-Ding!

With a cheerful notification sound,

a shining silver coin drops in front of each of us.

“We can trade this for items!”

Ujeongmin shouts excitedly while gripping his coin.

“Really?”

The coin was about twice the size of a 500 won coin, with some thickness to it.

The front had a tower intricately engraved on it,

and the back had an infinity symbol,

similar to the number 8.

“Keep it safe.”

I warned Ujeongmin, who was excitedly fiddling with his coin,

and I too carefully stored my coin in my inventory.

It would be troublesome to lose it after coming this far.

We chatted about various things as we walked toward the flag fluttering in the distance.

A flag with the same infinity symbol engraved on it as the coin.

When we reached beneath it, we could see a quietly flowing river.

Unlike the rivers we knew,

this river sparkled as if starlight was flowing through it.

And floating on it was a single ferry.

On the ferry stood a skeletal ferryman.

-Kekekek…

The ferryman, noticing us, extends his bony hand.

“I guess he wants the coin.”

At Baek Ha-rim’s words, everyone rummages through their inventories.

“Huh?”

That’s when it happened.

Ujeongmin’s face turned pale as he started sweating profusely.

“What’s wrong?”

“The, the coin is gone.”

“What?”

Ujeongmin’s coin had disappeared.

No matter how many times he searched his inventory, the blessed coin wouldn’t appear.

“…”

Ujeongmin hung his head with a tearful expression.

“I definitely put it away safely…”

This is strange.

I definitely saw him put it in his inventory.

Ujeongmin let out a heavy sigh and slumped his shoulders.

“It can’t be helped… I’ll return.”

Oh no.

He looks disappointed.

I pulled out a blessed coin from my inventory without hesitation.

“Take this.”

“Hyung, that’s your coin!”

Ujeongmin adamantly refused, saying he absolutely couldn’t accept it.

I forcibly pressed the coin into Ujeongmin’s hand.

“If it weren’t for you, I wouldn’t have even come here.”

“But…”

“I wasn’t interested in random items anyway.”

“Still!”

“I’m serious. Even if it’s free, there aren’t any special items.”

It was true.

The items that come out are mainly ordinary items that would only help beginners.

Usually items that come from bronze boxes.

At most, items that come from silver boxes?

So there was no way I’d be desperate for them.

Strictly speaking, this was just an ‘event’ after all.

It even seemed like a beginner event.

“Go open the box and come back.”

“Really?”

“Yeah. And we’re going straight to the 45th Floor after?”

“…Yes!!”

Ujeongmin beams brightly.

As expected, maybe because he’s still young, he likes this kind of thing.

“Taepyeong, would you like to go with my coin?”

Cha Ye-rin offers me her coin.

I shook my head.

“I’m really fine.”

Honestly, opening random boxes and such is more bothersome.

I only came in because I wanted to quickly tackle the regular floors.

“Go ahead.”

When I nodded with a smile,

the team members each offered their coins to the skeletal ferryman.

-Clang.

-Clang.

-Clang.

Three coins drop into the bony hand.

As if satisfied with receiving proper payment, he nods,

then the skeletal ferryman gestures.

“I’ll be back, hyung!”

“Alright, man. Don’t lose the items!”

“Yes!!”

What a resounding reply.

As the three people board the boat,

the skeletal ferryman begins to row.

The boat slowly moves away across the river.

Even though it wasn’t moving at a fast speed, the boat had disappeared in the blink of an eye.

What the.

Does it actually have a motor attached?

‘I guess I just wait here…’

I lay down on the soft grass.

Since it’s come to this, maybe I’ll take a nap.

“Haaaaam…”

Am I doing this to grow taller?

I’m sleepy all the time, you know.

“Hmm nya…”

The moment I lay down in the perfect position and closed my eyes.

-Swoooosh…

-Swoooosh…

I hear a sound like something cutting through the water.

The boat should have definitely left, right?

-Peek.

I eventually opened my eyes.

As I got up from my spot,

“…Huh?”

From the opposite side, a ferry was coming, cutting through the water.

At first glance it looked similar to the one that carried the three people,

but looking closely, it was a much more worn-out boat.

Like it would sink at any moment.

What was standing on the boat wasn’t a skeleton ferryman either.

An old man with a white, bushy beard.

‘What’s this about now…?’

As I stared in bewilderment,

the old man who had already docked his boat reached out his hand toward me.

“I don’t have any blessed coins though…”

I showed him my empty hands, but the old man still kept his hand extended.

As if,

he knew what I was carrying.

‘Could it be…?’

With a slight hope, I opened my inventory,

and the [Tower’s Coin] popped out as if it had been waiting.

Unlike the silver [Blessed Coin], this was a coin that sparkled with brilliant gold.

When did I get this again…?

Anyway.

If you flip it before a raid and it lands heads, rewards are doubled.

If it lands tails, all loot disappears – it’s a gambling item.

Since I always get good quality reward boxes,

it would be troublesome if all loot disappeared, so I never used it and just kept it stored like a souvenir.

‘This is also a coin if we’re talking about coins…’

I fell into thought for a moment.

‘I did think it was too much of a gamble to use anyway.’

If I’m betting the Tower’s Coin to get a random item, that might not be bad?

I handed the Tower’s Coin to the old man.

-Clink.

Then, the old man gestured for me to board the boat.

I boarded the boat without hesitation.

‘If I knew this would happen, I should have just gone with my teammates earlier…’

Tsk.

What a shame.

-Swoooosh…

The worn-out boat that looked like it would sink at any moment moved forward cutting through the water faster than expected.

However, unlike my teammates’ boat that disappeared quickly…

Even after going for a long time, a very long time, I couldn’t see the other side.

Geez.

Is it because the boat is old(?)

-Swoooosh…

Moreover.

At some point, fog had thickened around us.

It was definitely perfect weather for a picnic.

‘Something’s not right…?’

Just as I was starting to feel something was strange and tried to look around.

-Grrrrrrr…

A sound that shouldn’t be heard on a reward event floor echoed.

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