I Became a Hunter with the Heavenly Slaughter Star Trait. - Chapter 9

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Episode 9

Episode 9

“Haaa….”

“Huuu….”

The Talent Management Team was filled with deep sighs.

This tutorial had 2 safe returnees.

Just having two people return at once was enough to make them faint.

But there was something even more surprising than that.

Lee Tae-pyeong.

Not only had he annihilated the ratmen in the tutorial.

That Lee Tae-pyeong who had even torn apart and killed lizardmen and vampires.

Lee Tae-pyeong hadn’t decided to climb the Tower because he wanted to become a Hunter.

A victim of rental fraud.

The type who became a Tower climber with the mindset of just dying if things went wrong.

In cases like this, the government doesn’t place high expectations either.

Even if they’re lucky enough to survive the tutorial.

Rather than climbing the Tower and accumulating public merit for South Korea.

Once a year.

They just climb low-level sections then laze around.

The so-called freeloaders.

The type who finish the tutorial then spend a year lounging in provided dormitories.

In these cases, they neglect training and their skills deteriorate, sometimes dying absurdly in low-level sections.

What if Lee Tae-pyeong ends up like that too?

Even with the trait called [Thousand Kills].

Just as a neglected blade rusts.

Neglected skills rust as well.

No matter how good a trait is.

It’s meaningless if you don’t use it.

There are many rookies.

There are just few rookies who ‘survive’.

So what about Lee Tae-pyeong?

“Really, is it okay to send him solo?”

Kang Min-a muttered to herself while re-examining Lee Tae-pyeong’s solo application.

Actually, when the application came in.

The Talent Management Team was already in chaos.

How long has it been since he returned from the tutorial.

And he’s already submitting an application?

A solo application at that?

At that moment, the worry about Lee Tae-pyeong being a freeloader evaporated.

Because an even bigger worry had struck the Talent Management Team.

What if Lee Tae-pyeong enters solo and ‘dies’?

No matter how much he annihilated ratmen and killed lizardmen and vampires.

Lee Tae-pyeong was still just a rookie who had barely returned from the tutorial.

Even with the terrifying trait called [Thousand Kills],

He was still a rookie who hadn’t even reached level 5 yet.

Initially, the standard approach is to go through low-level sections with government-matched parties.

To safely reach level 5.

Because once you reach level 5, you can obtain a second skill.

Two skills, plus items obtained while going through low-level sections.

Once you have those things, you can smoothly reach level 10.

From then on, you can challenge solo instead of parties depending on your purpose.

However.

Lee Tae-pyeong ignored this ‘standard approach’.

And chose solo from his very first climb.

“Shouldn’t we stop him after all?”

Someone cautiously brought it up.

“Should we go stop him even now?”

Kang Min-a jumped up from her seat as if she’d been waiting for this.

But.

“….”

The Talent Management Team Leader remained silent.

He closed his eyes, took a deep breath, then.

“No.”

He spoke with a firm voice.

“Don’t do that, let’s just watch.”

“What? But….”

“He must have some grand purpose.”

“…!”

“He’s no ordinary person, so let’s let him do as he wishes.”

* * *

“Entering Babel Tower.”

With that still unfamiliar feeling, the surroundings changed all at once.

When I opened my eyes again, what I saw was a system window.

Hide and seek?

It?

Survival?

Ah.

It’s a survival-type map.

I was wondering what they meant by hide and seek.

‘It’ must refer to the boss.

I learned about this during training too.

The ‘it’, meaning the boss, is an absolute existence that cannot be killed.

So you run around trying not to get caught by the boss as much as possible.

Surviving without dying.

It’s a bit different from the tutorial.

Back then I had to survive against various monsters.

This time I just need to survive against the ‘it’.

‘Though there’s a possibility of other species being present….’

I got a survival type in the tutorial too.

And now it’s survival type again in the official entry.

Honestly, survival types don’t seem to suit me well.

My trait is [Thousand Kills] after all.

Wouldn’t annihilation battles be much more advantageous?

Still, what can I do.

What choice do I have.

Since I’m already caught up in this, I have to give it a try.

“Hmm….”

I took a quick look around my surroundings.

The place I got caught in during the tutorial was an underground dungeon.

Now the atmosphere is completely different.

It’s like I’ve stepped into a sci-fi movie.

An incredibly advanced future era?

That kind of feeling.

Compared to that, I am….

‘At the level of a primitive man.’

Since I haven’t obtained any items yet, I’m practically bare-handed.

Even during the tutorial, I couldn’t get any weapons.

I had to steal and use the ratman’s sword and the lizardman’s sword.

Do I have no choice but to do the same this time?

But 30 days, really.

That’s way longer than I expected?

Of course, time in reality and the tower are different.

One month in the tower equals one day in reality.

So anyway, when I return, exactly one day will have passed.

This is also something I already heard during training.

However, I didn’t expect to fall into a long-term battle this quickly.

If I have to survive here for a whole 30 days….

‘First I’ll need drinking water, food, and even a space to sleep.’

This is tougher than I thought.

It’s also a map I’ve never seen before.

Actually, I only studied for three months during the tutorial preparation period.

It could be a map I never learned about?

Or it could be a new map.

Even if it looks like something I know, it could be a completely different type.

Heh.

There’s a good reason why they say single maps have low survival rates?

But.

Whether it’s a map I never learned.

Or a new map.

Or a map that’s neither this nor that.

What does it matter.

I don’t care either way.

I’ll manage somehow!

“Ha, tsk….”

No matter how I think about it, my personality seems to have changed a bit.

Because of [Heavenly Killer].

But it doesn’t seem bad either.

It’s also nice that I’ve become strangely optimistic?

Before, I had so many worries that I even decided to commit suicide.

Now, even when I want to worry, it doesn’t come easily.

What’s there that won’t work out?

That kind of mindset has become the default, you could say.

‘Let me start by exploring the surroundings.’

The place I’m in felt exactly like a factory.

Anyway, it seems like a facility for making something.

I’m not sure exactly what they used to make here.

It feels like an abandoned factory.

Beyond the unbreakable transparent walls.

There are strange traces.

Broken debris and dried black slime.

I walked down the corridor while observing beyond the glass walls.

There are information signs, but.

They’re all in unreadable characters, so they’re useless.

How long had I walked like that.

“A room?”

A door appeared.

The door still had unreadable characters written on it.

This could be a trap, right?

-Creak.

I opened the door while tense.

Fortunately, it’s not a trap.

“It’s a bathroom.”

Just an ordinary bathroom.

I was already thirsty anyway.

-Splash splash splash.

Clean water flowed well from the sink.

Sniff sniff. The smell passes too.

I cupped the water in both hands and drank.

-Gulp. Gulp. Gulp.

“Phew.”

The taste is fine too.

Not bad.

So I’ve secured drinking water for now?

I should remember this place well.

Drinking water is the most important thing for survival!

I continued exploring.

I found places like bathrooms a couple more times.

But those places had no running water.

I was lucky to find the first bathroom.

If necessary, I should make that place my base.

For sleeping, well, I could sleep in the cleaning closet.

By the way.

-….

-….

It’s quite quiet.

Except for the occasional humming machine sounds.

There were no signs of life at all.

Is it because it’s hide-and-seek?

Unlike the underground dungeon map, there are no monsters.

Maybe they’re unnecessary because there’s a seeker.

“Tsk….”

That’s a bit disappointing.

No, that’s not right.

What’s there to be disappointed about.

This is good.

With no monsters around, it’s easier to explore!

I carefully opened the door at the end of the passage.

There’s a button, but the power supply must have been cut off ages ago.

I have to force it open with strength.

-Grrrrrrk.

Ugh, I thought my strength had improved after leveling up.

This is quite difficult.

“Phew.”

I couldn’t even fully open the door, just created a small gap and squeezed through sideways.

Upon entering, a massive space opens up.

Countless tables and chairs.

A crackling screen hangs from the ceiling.

Again, indecipherable text.

But I can roughly guess what it is.

“A dining hall…?”

Looking around, I can tell.

There are things that look like menu boards too.

However, there was nothing that looked like food.

Is this place already ruined too?

Still, I might discover something.

Let me search around for now.

I passed through the tables and headed toward what looked like a kitchen.

Fortunately, the kitchen door opens easily.

The moment I opened the door and entered.

“…!”

-Swish!!!!

Something swiftly grazes just below my jaw.

If I hadn’t dodged, my head would have been completely severed.

However,

‘What was that?’

The moment I grabbed the door handle, I could feel it.

Dense killing intent that felt like a foul stench.

Thanks to instinctively sensing it, I was able to dodge easily.

“Kekeke…”

And then comes the sound of laughter.

‘An orc?’

Another different species.

So this is why there were no other monsters around.

“Kahaha! A human, was it?”

The orc who confirmed my face bursts into loud laughter.

It’s a similar situation to the lizardman encounter.

“What a weakling!”

“…”

“Kekek, die!!!”

The orc chatters by itself then suddenly swings its sword.

I dodged the sword strike with just a slight twist of my body.

‘Too slow.’

It’s actually easier than the lizardman.

Maybe because its strength is just brutishly strong.

Its movements are unnecessarily large.

That makes it even slower.

-Swish!

-Swish swish!

After easily dodging several sword strikes.

The orc’s eyes also change.

“Y-you bastard!!!”

As if it’s going to fight seriously from now on.

The moment the orc readjusted its grip on the sword.

-Thwack!

I grabbed a heavy cutting board that was placed on the kitchen counter.

A knife would have been better.

Unfortunately, there’s no knife.

Well, I can just take the orc’s weapon after killing it anyway.

-Whaaaam!!!!!

I swung the cutting board as is.

Whether it hit or not, the cutting board struck directly at its miserable face.

Its already flat nose was now crushed beyond recognition.

Before it could even realize it had been severely beaten.

-Thwaaack!!!!

I frantically brought the cutting board down on its head.

Thunk.

Whack.

Whack.

Whack.

Crack.

Until I heard something breaking.

Of course, this won’t kill it.

Orcs have such large bodies that it’s not easy to kill them by breaking their necks like ratmen.

In the end, I need a knife.

Seriously.

You’d think a dining hall would have at least a kitchen knife or something.

Why is everything so clean?

-Thud!!!

The orc, unable to withstand the impact, falls backward.

It felt like the floor was shaking.

Wait, it collapsed just from getting hit in the head a few times?

Orcs aren’t much either.

I heard they were terrifyingly strong.

Ah, is being alive after getting beaten like this proof of its strength?

Anyway.

“Oh, here it is.”

I began searching through the fallen orc’s body.

There are several weapons around its waist, but most are clubs.

The most usable one is.

“This?”

Whether it’s stained with blood or rusted.

It’s a sword with a reddish color.

It looks exactly like a Chinese cleaver.

As soon as I gripped the knife, chills ran down my spine.

Probably getting excited again because of the Thousand Killing Nature.

“Huu, calm down. Let’s calm down. Stay composed.”

I took a deep breath and gripped the Chinese cleaver tightly.

The orc was looking up at me with disbelieving eyes.

“It’s okay. It’s okay. It’s okay.”

It’s completely the look you’d give a madman.

“I don’t get excited. Don’t get excited. Don’t get…”

Muttering to myself, I raised the Chinese cleaver high.

“I don’t!”

-Swish!

“Get excited!”

-Thwack!

“At all!”

-Thwack! Thwack! Thwack! Thwack! Thwack!!

The orc’s head splits in half.

My face reflected in the blood-soaked Chinese cleaver.

Was wearing a smile.

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