The Magical Hunter Girl Decorates the Dungeon! - Chapter 111

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The Magical Hunter Girl Decorates a Dungeon! Chapter 111
After entering, Si-heon realized something was wrong with the dungeon without even needing the Detection Device.
In a landscape resembling a mine in the Volcanic Region.
The reptilian monsters that normally attacked people the moment you entered were too busy swallowing their own tails, and unstable green Magical Power flickered around the C-rank Mana Stone Vein.
The core Detection Device spinning in all directions proved almost useless.
In the end, finding the core required help from a GEG Group team-lead employee who’d entered with him.
“Hunter, without me you would’ve been in serious trouble, wouldn’t you? Hehe…….”
“Whether we check the core’s status or not, the conclusion seems the same. They were mining Magic Stones here until yesterday? Did everyone have three lives or something?”
The employee didn’t answer.
Even as they spoke, sounds of monsters elsewhere exploding after swallowing their own tails echoed through the space.
Of course, creatures like that probably hadn’t been this way originally.
Through falling rocks and a few rampaging monsters, they reached the core chamber. The structural stability was exactly as bad as he’d expected.
“We’re cutting it close. Starting the operation right now.”
He was about to send a message to the Hunters waiting outside to brace for impact as he began demolition when—
The employee grabbed Si-heon by the pant leg and clung to him.
“Couldn’t you say things are still fine?”
“Sorry?”
“A month! Or even two weeks—just give us some leeway. I’m telling you, we need time to monitor this properly!”
“That’s some impressively specific bullshit. You quitting tomorrow? Leaving me to get burned alone?”
“No! It’s just that—when a dungeon disappears, it’s catastrophic for the company. We’re already in continuous stock decline, and if this problem breaks, our entire Dungeon Operations Team gets wiped out!”
“And field employees dying is better?”
“Surely there won’t be problems within two weeks?”
“It’s already happening today.”
“What?”
“If it’s not, I’ll make it happen myself.”
Si-heon had no hobby for making conversation with others, and even less ability to be persuaded.
He changed the message meant to say the dungeon was scheduled for demolition to “Smash” before sending it, and simultaneously wrapped his right hand in Magical Power.
Since there was a witness, he’d planned to handle it with his body and avoid using Skills if possible.
First break the protective wall. Then destroy the ground. By eye, one or two more strikes should expose the core…….
But an unforeseen obstruction intervened.
“You can’t……!”
The employee clung to Si-heon’s right arm.
The Magical Power flew in an unexpected direction. Hearing the Mana Stone Vein crumble, Si-heon turned around.
The employee, thrown back by the recoil of the power, lay sprawled on the ground, groaning.
Unreasonable action. Unreasonable behavior.
Bewilderment arrived before anger.
“What the hell—why’d you do that?”
“I’m responsible for……. I have to…….”
He didn’t hear the rest. Immense Magical Power shattered the Magic Stones, and from them rose a grotesque green heat—
The Dungeon Break alarm triggered.
He’d cleared plenty of C-rank Dungeons. He’d faced Dungeon Break alarms several times before.
Until then, Si-heon believed he could escape. He’d drag this idiot along and interrogate him outside.
But the dungeon’s resistance was far more vicious than imagined. Monsters rushed at Si-heon in waves, attacking him, while Mana Stone Veins erupted from all around.
Handling it barehanded was impossible. He needed to use some Skill.
First, though, Si-heon grabbed the only witness by the collar and hauled him up.
“Hey, sleep for a bit.”
“Ugh—wh—what?”
“I’ll get you out, so just pass out, alright? Later, clear some time to chat with me outside?”
“……!”
Then the man’s bloodshot eyes wavered past Si-heon’s shoulder.
Si-heon wondered if some monster was approaching. Or maybe the employee was just feigning desperation to escape his grip.
He was confident he could handle either.
First, suppress the man’s carotid artery to knock him unconscious, then immediately cast a Defense Skill—
“…….”
The moment he rendered the middle-aged man unconscious. Before even 0.1 seconds had passed, the proposition “failed” hammered into Si-heon’s mind.
It wasn’t an opinion he could argue with—it was a “fact” that had befallen him.
Si-heon found himself collapsed, unable to move a single finger.
Only belatedly did Si-heon resist the notion.
“Why?”
He had at least five Skills he could use. He’d had more than enough time to respond.
So why couldn’t he move? Why was the Dungeon Break alarm flowing faster than a lantern show, reaching 00:00:00 in an instant?
The dungeon was finished. Before his vision, which had begun fracturing into dozens of pieces.
Si-heon struggled to recall what exactly had crushed him so suddenly.
His body’s senses testified instead of his cerebral cortex.
The last things he’d experienced were—
Overwhelming heat, a sound tearing through the air, the taste of metal, a smell like meat charred with burning petroleum.
And a mass of pure white light, the size of a man, that filled his entire field of vision…….

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“After that, my senses were shattered, trapped like that. Lee Ji got me out.”
“You’ve been through hell.”
“After I got my Mobile Phone back, I looked into what happened at GEG Develop around that time, but all I found was curses.”
The sequence before the incident was painfully ordinary.
The conglomerate GEG Group parachuted one of the chairman’s grandsons into GEG Develop.
They might have believed appointing him to executive level showed some restraint, but from outside, it looked like the beginning of a succession plan devoid of conscience.
Compounded by the ongoing operating losses, shareholder sentiment was smoothly plummeting toward collapse.
“Apparently GEG Develop had entered into a Magic Stone export contract and was trying to pacify investors with overseas expansion prospects. Just as they were doing that, the dungeon started to break. The person responsible must’ve been under enormous pressure from the company.”
“…….”
“Anyway, the dungeon burst. And the company pulled off a spectacular self-sabotage in the process.”
When the stock price plummeted catastrophically after the Dungeon Break.
The company swiftly transferred stock shares to the third generation. They didn’t miss the chance to minimize inheritance tax by a single penny.
“They could’ve just fumbled the ball intentionally, or done some stock manipulation to secure holding company stakes for the successor, I suppose. But even so, I hate those aristocratic bastards!”
Si-heon smiled slightly. That expression made Geum-hui even more disgusted.
“To be honest, while I was trapped in that Crystal, I only thought about killing that team lead. Even if he were already dead, I wanted to find his corpse and wring his neck.”
“…….”
“But…… after I escaped. Slowly, my thoughts changed. It seems the team lead met a dog’s death with no obituary. The decision-makers who pushed him into the dungeon—they’re what bothers me more.”
“……So you’re thinking of revenge against GEG Group? At least GEG Develop?”
Si-heon’s mouth opened slightly.
Because his eyes held a hint of Madness and some expectation, Geum-hui couldn’t predict what he’d answer.
But he shook his head.
“No.”
Geum-hui, about to say—with that expression, you’re definitely lying; be honest; I could even help you—suddenly understood why he’d answered that way.
Lee Ji had approached them unnoticed.
With a slightly sad expression.
“Uncle…… you were trapped in the dungeon because of a bad company.”
“I’m not sure if it’s all bad or good. It’s complicated.”
“You won’t take revenge?”
“No.”
……No. If it were this young man, he would.
Only after his connection with Lee Ji had been settled.
Geum-hui understood the situation and added a word.
“Revenge is better left undone. Easy to say, but actually pulling it off is no simple matter. And it’s not like wealth will remain afterward anyway.”
“You’re right, Elder. Rather than expending energy on hatred, cultivating my own life is more productive. Revenge just returns as revenge anyway! Haha!”
“That’s right. There’s a reason people say forgiveness is the truest revenge!”
Lee Ji should believe in these constructive statements……!
Before the adults’ desperate efforts, Lee Ji nodded with a moved expression.
“Uncle, that’s wonderful……! So the reason you’re bidding on that F-rank Dungeon isn’t revenge—you’re doing it for people!”
Si-heon thought to himself.
No. I just want to watch those bastards fail at their bullshit.
“……Yeah.”
Momentum carried his dopamine forward another step.
“Let’s rescue that island from becoming a battlefield and cultivate it into an even more beautiful garden.”
“Yes! That’s why we decided on a Guild Name!”
“……Ah.”
Only belatedly did Si-heon recall his own alias.
‘She’s the one who named me the Black King Rabbit.’
If Si-heon’s first Guild Name in his life turned out to be something like “Magical Moon Princess Garden”—
‘I’m changing my name the moment I get my body back.’

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