I Became a Mythical Hunter After Killing the Golden Goblin - Chapter 27

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Chapter 27. Settling Old Debts (2)
“How may I help you?”
The moment the automatic doors slid open, a member of the organization greeted me with a kind smile that clashed entirely with his menacing face. When I hardened my expression at his repulsive grin, he didn’t seem bothered in the slightest. He let out a hearty laugh and continued to treat me with courtesy.
“Haha! My face is a bit intimidating, isn’t it? But don’t worry. This isn’t the kind of illegal operation you might be thinking of! Besides, what illegal company would have this kind of scale? Just trust us, and tell me comfortably what brings you here, what troubles led you to seek us out, and I’ll be happy to assist you.”
The way he steered the conversation with such practiced ease made it clear this wasn’t his first time.
‘I fell for that bastard’s innocent smile and slick tongue just because he claimed to be my old classmate, and I signed the contract without hesitation.’
Remembering that moment, irritation surged through me again, and anger flared hot.
‘No more holding back.’
I’d come here to cause chaos anyway, and I’d made up my mind to return every ounce of pain, anxiety, and fear I’d endured. I hurled my bomb at the grinning thug.
“You need to close this place down today.”
“…Pardon? What do you mean by that, sir?”
“I’m going to make sure this place closes today. So stop shoving that ugly mug in my face and get lost.”
Whoosh!
With those words, I drove my foot into the dim-witted thug’s abdomen and sent him flying. As if this were routine, another gangster guarding the lobby immediately radioed for backup.
“You crazy bastard, causing a scene in someone else’s business? You’re done for when the bosses arrive.”
“Pfft! You said this wasn’t that kind of company, so what’s with the ‘bosses’? You’re basically advertising yourselves as gangsters. And why are you backing away? Come here.”
“Eeek!”
I snatched the fleeing thug by the scruff of his neck and dragged him back.
“P-please! Mercy!?”
“I’m not going to kill you. I’m not a murderer. Just consider yourself unlucky and spend a few months in the Hospital.”
Crack!
I twisted both his arms behind his back.
“Kyaaaah!!”
“W-what’s happening?”
“Security! Security! What are you doing?”
Seeing the two large men overwhelmingly overpowered, the customers began screaming in terror.
I glanced at them briefly, then unleashed The Sun’s power toward the sky.
Boom!!!
“Kyaaaah!”
“Aaaaah!”
A deafening roar echoed through the space, followed by screams, and then silence fell.
“Everyone, this establishment has engaged in far too many illegal activities. The Inspection Bureau will soon arrive with evidence. I strongly recommend you leave immediately. Unless you’d like to be caught up in this and dragged away by the Inspection Bureau agents. Consider this your warning.”
“Eek! Understood!”
The customers were terrified by my display of power, and the mention of the Inspection Bureau drained the color from their faces. They hastily gathered their belongings and rushed out of the building.
Everyone understood the weight that name carried. The Inspection Bureau existed above the modern police who dealt only with ordinary citizens. It was the department that investigated Awakened criminals and crimes involving supernatural abilities—a unit with conditional authority over life and death for Awakened criminals alone, truly a division of terror and judgment.
They only moved when they had absolutely solid evidence, and if they were coming to this company, it meant one thing.
‘There’s no way this company survives.’
The customers were fleeing hastily because they could be caught up in the investigation and questioned alongside the company if they weren’t careful.
Just then, the gangsters who’d received the backup request came rushing down the stairs. They spotted the fleeing customers and immediately turned their attention to me, the source of all this chaos.
“You bastard! Causing a scene in someone else’s sacred business?”
“Boss, doesn’t this bastard look familiar to you? His face seems awfully recognizable.”
“How should I know? He probably can’t pay his debts again, so he’s come to cause trouble. That’s what newly awakened punks usually do, right? They think they’re strong!”
Watching about ten gangsters approach me with menacing energy and cruel expressions, I let out a dry chuckle.
How could they be so confident? Don’t they see the two thugs lying defeated beneath me? Could there be some hidden master among them that I’m unaware of?
Dismissing such idle thoughts, I pushed off the ground and charged toward them.
“That crazy bastard! Hey! Get him!”
“The Boss commands it! Destroy him! Break his limbs—just don’t kill him!”
Watching them all draw vicious weapons from their waistbands, I halted mid-charge.
“Weapons aren’t fair play?”
“Shut up. You ambushed us and now you’re whining about rules!”
“Fine, I get it.”
If weapons hit me, even a Hunter like myself would feel pain.
“Then we fight from a distance.”
“What nonsense! Get him!”
As they charged toward me while I stood still, my eyes began to glow crimson.
“The Sun.”
A tiny sun—less than half the size of my palm—rose above my hand, growing far more potent under the influence of the Divine Artifact, and shot toward them.
“What…?!”
The gangsters gasped at the incomprehensible phenomenon. In that split second, they couldn’t decide whether to flee or continue attacking—and that was the last decision they would ever make.
I hurled the miniature sun like a grenade into their midst, then whistled and covered my ears.
Boom!!
The entire building shook as the explosion erupted, and when I opened my eyes, all that remained before me were naked, well-charred figures.
“Good control. They’re still alive, not dead.”
I’d worried about making mistakes on my first attempt, but my concerns proved unfounded. They crawled across the floor with severe burns covering their entire bodies—very much alive, but utterly consumed by agony.
“How disgusting.”
My clothes and hair had burned away completely, so I averted my gaze from the charred figures and headed toward the elevator.
Ding!
As the elevator that had been moving continuously came to a stop, more gangsters emerged from inside. One blast turned them into well-done meat as well.
Screeeech!!!
With each use of The Sun, a surging vitality and sense of omnipotence flooded through me. I turned my head to gaze briefly at the Divine Artifact hovering nearby.
‘I really wish I could appraise it.’
Appraisal is a rare ability. Rarer even than Healers—that’s how scarce appraisal truly is. Because of this, there isn’t a single appraiser in this entire country capable of identifying Mythic-grade items. In fact, expand the search worldwide and you’ll find none.
Even Seo Ye-rin, our nation’s greatest appraiser and mage—the Incantation Sorceress herself—can barely identify items of Legendary grade. You can imagine how difficult this truly is.
“I’ll just have to learn through direct experience.”
So far, I know of two effects: all stats +20, and dramatically increased recovery speed for stamina and mana.
Even these effects alone are extraordinary, yet something felt incomplete for a Mythic-grade artifact. Suspecting that the surging vitality I felt was the next ability, I stepped over the charred bodies and boarded the elevator.
“Let’s take down the leader and the strongest ones first.”
I immediately pressed the button for the top floor and began taking slow, deliberate breaths as tension settled in.
My opponent is an E-rank Hunter. Though he hasn’t awakened his mana to advance to D-rank, he’s undoubtedly a formidable opponent with physical abilities surpassing my own.
And then there are the dozen or so Hunters protecting him that I’ll have to face.
Ding!
As the elevator arrived, I drew upon The Sun’s mana.
“Die!!”
“Drop dead!!”
The moment the doors slid open, as if they’d been waiting, I saw the familiar pair thrusting blades toward me. Without hesitation, I transformed my gauntlets into their sword form, imbued them with The Sun’s mana, and thrust forward.
Crash! Crash!
My outstretched fists melted their blades clean through and drove deep into their sternums.
Sizzle!!
The twins shrieked as their flesh burned from the impact, crumpling to the ground in agony.
“Gahhhhh!”
“It hurts! It hurts! It hurts!”
As the saying goes, burning pain is humanity’s greatest torment. The twins thrashed about on the floor in their death throes, but I left them behind and pressed forward.
Rumble!
Those blocking my path were the Boss’s most prized Hunters—a team of F-rank dregs, most of whom had only Awakened and entered the Tutorial once or twice. In a world where they extorted money and forced contracts from ordinary people, they’d always been the strong ones. The powerful ones.
Perhaps that’s why, even seeing the twins collapse behind me, they felt no real fear.
Instead, they cursed the fallen pair and even spat. Garbage that couldn’t even gauge the gap between themselves and their opponent.
“Well, well. Shin Ju-ha.”
Yuk Gwang-sik, the one leading the charge and the Boss’s self-proclaimed left hand, glared at me with menacing eyes. If Kang Chul-woo—the one who’d tried to kill me in the Hidden Stage—was the Boss’s most treasured pawn and his official right hand, then this trash was merely someone desperately clawing for the Boss’s attention.
And he was also the bastard who, alongside Kang Chul-woo, had tormented me most to earn the Boss’s trust.
Yuk Gwang-sik opened his mouth with an air of leisure, looking down on me.
“I heard rumors you Awakened and fled. So why have you come back here? And what’s the meaning of this mess? You’re really trying to push past all of us and reach the Boss? No matter how strong you’ve become, that’s—”
“Ah, you bastard. You’re still as talkative as ever. Shut up and just come at me. Actually, never mind—I’ll come to you.”
No matter what he said with that revolting mouth, feigning composure, there was no sincerity in it whatsoever.
I transformed my gauntlets into the form of a sword. As The Sun’s flames erupted along the blade in my hand, I kicked off the ground and charged toward them.
“I won’t kill you. But I will collect payment for targeting my life.”
“M-mana? And attribute mana at that? Damn it! B-block it!”
Too late. That characteristic arrogance and leisure of yours has strangled your own throat. You worthless bastard.
Slash! Slash! Slash!
Feeling the enemy’s attacks that Mugeuk revealed and my body moving as I willed, I severed the limbs of over ten Hunters.
Some lost arms. Some lost legs. Some lost ears. Some lost… important places.
“Don’t bother reattaching them—I burned them thoroughly so you’ll stay crippled for life. Well, if you’ve got enough money, buy a Healer to restore them. Though you’d need at least a billion won for that.”
“Ugh… you bastard! Shin Ju-ha!!!”
Leaving Yuk Gwang-sik behind, foaming at the mouth in agony over his severed manhood, I kicked open the door to the Boss’s Office, where the Boss awaited me in the deepest recesses of this place.
“…I’m speechless. A pathetic wretch who couldn’t even squeeze out a hundred million won is actually destroying my company.”
“We haven’t even fought yet. Are you already admitting defeat?”
“Even if I were to defeat you, I already know I have no future. These damn pig bastards wagged their tails when I fed them money, but now that this has happened, not a single one answers my calls!”
“That’s my doing. Or more precisely, it’s the Seo Hwa Group Princess—the one who nearly died at the hands of Kang Chul-woo, whom you sent—using her influence.”
“Seo Hwa… the Seo Hwa Group. I sent that bastard Kang Chul-woo to capture you, and he created a mess I can’t handle. So that’s how the Inspection Bureau got involved?”
“How did you know? It’s only been about an hour since I arrived here. They should show up in roughly thirty minutes.”
The Boss rose from his chair with a deep sigh, his massive frame straightening.
“Then I’ll just kill you within thirty minutes and make my escape.”
“What? You’ve already packed everything?”
“Yes, and it’s all because of you. You’ve destroyed everything in my life!!!”
The Boss thrust his hand behind his back, then drew it forward, his knuckles gleaming as he charged straight at me.
“Fine. Let’s end this. Today.”
Today was the day I would finally put an end to this bitter, tangled feud. With that resolve, I moved into action.
Crash!!!
The Boss’s fist collided with my blade, and a deafening roar erupted throughout the Boss’s Office.

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