The Returned Hunter Has Awakened to a Hidden Class - Chapter 100
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Chapter 100
Hostility (7)
The first thing Kim Jun saw was the young boy he had cherished and tried to nurture.
Choi Do-heon.
His entire body was battered and broken. He was covered in blood, covered in wounds, and was nearly dying.
“Hng, hnngh…”
Choi Do-heon groaned. It was a sound of agony.
Kim Jun looked at him.
‘He’s grown a lot.’
He had definitely become stronger since they first met on the Tower Defense Staircase.
Though it was only briefly, Kim Jun had given Choi Do-heon advice and shown him direction.
But that alone wouldn’t have been enough.
What Kim Jun had given him was just the beginning, and the rest had to be filled in by Choi Do-heon himself.
And now, seeing him, he could tell for certain.
Even with the naked eye, at a single glance, he had become stronger.
The aura emanating from his body was different. It had become solid, sharp, and above all, his eyes held determination.
‘You worked hard.’
How much had he trained? How much had he fought? How much had he endured?
Martial Artist. A profession the Tower had abandoned. A profession with no class change rewards, no basic skills, and no help from the system.
It must have been several times harder than other Hunters. Several times more painful.
Yet he had made it this far. The 18th Floor. All the way to the Dark Soul Staircase.
‘Amazing.’
Kim Jun acknowledged it.
17 years old. At such a young age, with an irregular profession, he had climbed this far.
How many times had he fallen? How many times had he despaired? Yet he had gotten back up and continued forward.
Also, how many beings could endure such pain at such a young age?
That pain of having his limbs torn apart.
“Good job, Do-heon.”
“Hyung…”
Despite the situation, his first thought was that Choi Do-heon was admirable.
Because he hadn’t given up, had tried to protect his companions, and had endured until the end.
That appearance somehow resembled himself.
And so, even more.
Whoosh—
Uncontainable rage surged forth.
To do this to a child who had worked so hard. To a child so admirable. To make him like this.
[「Berserk B」 activated.]
[Current Rage Level: 15/20 stages.]
[Current Effect: Attack Power +150%/Agility +150%]
[Warning: Loss of self-control possible upon reaching rage threshold.]
It wasn’t a skill Kim Jun had consciously activated.
Purely Kim Jun’s emotions, his feelings, his rage had automatically triggered the skill.
The bastard who had done this to Choi Do-heon.
Kim Jun looked at him. Han Seo-jin. The former guild master of the Blue Dragon Guild.
‘I’ll have to kill him.’
Kim Jun’s eyes grew coldly calm.
When he had wiped out the Assassin Guild ‘Eum’.
He had made a resolution then. Never again would he hesitate weakly. When he saw evil, he would cut it down without hesitation.
And now.
Kim Jun once again didn’t hesitate for even a second.
“Fine. Try resurrecting.”
Kim Jun spoke coldly and took a step forward.
“Don’t get cocky…”
Han Seo-jin tried to speak, but at that moment Kim Jun appeared in front of him as if teleporting.
Han Seo-jin couldn’t even react. It was too fast, leaving no afterimage.
Grab—!
“Ugh!”
Kim Jun’s hand seized Han Seo-jin’s entire face.
“Let’s change the battlefield a bit.”
Kim Jun whispered as he spread his wings and took flight while gripping Han Seo-jin’s face.
Whoooosh—!
“Kugh…! Let, let go…!”
Han Seo-jin struggled and tried to grab Kim Jun’s arm, but Kim Jun’s hand was solid as iron and didn’t budge.
Swoooosh—!
Kim Jun flew at tremendous speed, moving away from where people were and heading toward the distant, empty wasteland.
Land with nothing but rocks and stones, devoid of life, came into view.
“This should do.”
Kim Jun muttered as he turned downward.
And then.
Screeeeeeech—!
He dove straight down toward the ground while gripping Han Seo-jin’s face.
Speed began to build. Faster and faster, riding gravity, adding the power of his wings.
“You, you crazy bastard…!”
Han Seo-jin screamed, but the ground was already right before their eyes.
And then.
CRASH—!!
They collided.
BOOOOOOOOM—!!
A shockwave exploded.
The ground caved in like a crater and collapsed, with massive cracks spreading in all directions, splitting the earth.
Yet Kim Jun still hadn’t stopped.
As if he wasn’t satisfied.
Thud thud thud thud thud thud thud—
He kept pushing Han Seo-jin’s head into the ground, continuing downward, breaking through stone and crushing rock as he burrowed deep underground.
10 meters.
“Uggggggggh!!”
20 meters.
“Kuaaaaaaah!”
50 meters.
“How long will…!”
100 meters.
BOOOOOOM—
When Kim Jun finally stopped, they were deep underground, having created a massive cave.
“Kugh…”
Han Seo-jin wasn’t moving.
His head was shattered, his face was crushed, and his entire body was twisted.
However.
Twitch—
He began to revive again.
“Right. It won’t end like this.”
Souls poured out from Han Seo-jin’s body, wrapping around his shattered head and beginning to rebuild it.
Flesh attached, bones connected, and skin regenerated.
And Han Seo-jin stood up.
“Kehehehe…that hurt…”
Han Seo-jin turned his neck and laughed. All the eyeballs covering his body glared at Kim Jun.
“I won’t die. Not until I kill you.”
As he raised his hand, cold air exploded even though they were deep underground.
Kwaaa-!
The area around Han Seo-jin instantly froze. The ground, stones, and rocks all turned to ice.
And something began to emerge from that ice.
Crack-!
Crack crack-!
The sound of ice breaking echoed from all directions.
It wasn’t just one place. Dozens, hundreds of places simultaneously.
Human forms crawled through the ice.
No, things that had been human revealed themselves from within the ice.
They were the devoured ones. The forms of Hunters that Han Seo-jin had consumed were recreated in ice and moving.
Thud-! Thud-! Thud-!
They stepped on the ground and stood up. One, two, ten, twenty.
There was no end. They kept appearing, continuously.
It wasn’t dozens. It was hundreds.
Even though they were deep underground, the space filled up.
With Hunters who had become wraiths, become ice.
Front, back, and sides.
“This is…”
Kim Jun narrowed his eyes. He looked around.
They were all Hunters. Wearing armor, holding weapons, but all made of ice.
Their eyes were empty. There was no life. They were just frozen corpses.
But they moved. By Han Seo-jin’s will.
“500 people.”
Han Seo-jin raised all his fingers to show. All the eyeballs on his body glared at Kim Jun in unison.
“They’re small fry, but there are A-ranks among them.”
Han Seo-jin laughed and waved his hand.
At that moment, the Ice Hunters moved in unison.
A Shield Hunter stepped forward.
A Tank holding a massive shield and wearing heavy armor. One who had been an A-rank Guardian.
A Dagger Hunter disappeared into shadows.
An Assassin. B-rank, but fast.
A Staff Hunter began chanting spells.
A Mage. Several began chanting simultaneously.
Sword Hunters charged in. Dozens swung their swords at once.
Spear Hunters began thrusting. From multiple directions simultaneously.
Bow Hunters shot arrows. Hundreds of arrows filled the air.
Screech-
Ping-!
All attacks poured down simultaneously. 500 Hunters, with their respective weapons, their respective skills, toward Kim Jun.
It was overwhelming. Enough to fill the space. Leaving no room to breathe.
“Kahahaha!”
Han Seo-jin laughed. It was a mad laugh.
“How will you block it?! 500 people! All these attacks! Even you can’t block all these attacks…”
“Easily.”
Kim Jun blocked it.
Very easily.
No, there was no need to block.
From Kim Jun’s armor, the 「Dragon Skin」, flames began erupting between each scale.
Before all the attacks could even reach Kim Jun.
Crackle-!
They turned to ash and crashed to the ground.
Arrows, swords, spears, magic, all attacks burned away in the 「Black Flame」 before they could touch Kim Jun.
Han Seo-jin was shocked, but before he could even finish being shocked.
“Now it’s time for you to go too.”
Kim Jun activated 「Yeonje」.
Instantly.
Kwaaaaaa-!!
The atmosphere ignited.
Tremendous heat explosively burst from Kim Jun’s body, and flames spread in all directions like the sun, devouring everything.
The temperature rose rapidly. Even deep underground, the air boiled, and rocks glowed red before melting.
“Krrrr!”
Han Seo-jin screamed.
Just being near Kim Jun in 「Yeonje」 state was unbearable.
His skin burned away, souls screamed and evaporated, and all the eyeballs on his body melted.
The Hunters around them were the same. They began melting. No, beyond melting speed, they evaporated.
The Shield Hunter knelt and melted away, the Sword Hunters staggered and collapsed, and someone else disappeared mid-chant.
Han Seo-jin’s zombified Hunters began collapsing simultaneously. Losing form, flowing down, evaporating.
Even the light was hard to see with the eyes. It was too bright. Brighter than looking directly at the sun.
Han Seo-jin covered his eyes but it was useless.
He turned his head back to avoid the light emanating from Kim Jun, but even then his eyes hurt.
And.
Kim Jun slowly raised his hand. His right hand.
Swoosh-
He drew a line. In the air, slowly, smoothly.
It was an invisible line, but definitely an existing line.
Flames blazed along that line, and space distorted along that line.
And at that moment.
─────!!
Everything exploded outward.
The ground split exactly in the direction Kim Jun’s hand pointed, stones exploded and shattered, and rocks decomposed and disappeared.
In a straight line, following the line Kim Jun’s hand drew, everything was destroyed.
And the Hunters on that line disappeared first.
The Hunter swinging a sword, the Hunter thrusting a spear, the Hunter shooting a bow, the Hunter chanting magic. All exploded and evaporated the moment they touched that line.
One, ten, a hundred. All Hunters in the straight line exploded simultaneously.
They couldn’t even scream. They couldn’t resist. Their existence was simply erased.
And at the end of that line.
Han Seo-jin stood.
Han Seo-jin’s neck.
‘Fast!’
Han Seo-jin’s eyes widened. He realized. That he couldn’t avoid it.
Slice-
His neck flew off.
Cleanly, in a straight line, following the path Kim Jun’s hand had drawn.
Thud-
The head fell. It rolled on the ground.
“What is this. What the hell is this. This power.”
He couldn’t understand it.
His current power had clearly surpassed the existing S-rank level.
He had gained new power from that bizarre entity he met not long ago, his level had exceeded 60, and he had even obtained the ridiculous ability to absorb people’s souls.
He devoured everything without discrimination – NPCs, Hunters, and monsters alike.
He had consumed over 700 souls, and had poured a considerable number of them into this battle.
So why did that overwhelming power belong not to him, but to that bastard who had been looking down on him?
Han Seo-jin was puzzled.
He knew Kim Jun was strong. Though he didn’t want to admit it, he was certainly a powerful being.
But no matter how strong he was, he never expected it to be to this extent.
He never imagined that Kim Jun could make him, who had unleashed 500 souls, so helpless in such a one-sided manner.
Without even being able to properly display his own power.
There wasn’t even a moment’s opportunity to use his strength.
‘Where did it all go wrong?’
Han Seo-jin fell into thought.
The original plan had been different.
He was going to 「Devour」 more, then gradually kill those around Kim Jun first to tighten the noose when Kim Jun was off guard.
But that martial artist brat, Choi Do-heon, had delayed things, and ultimately Kim Jun had arrived here too quickly.
‘No, no. That’s not the problem.’
No, how did Kim Jun even know about this place in the first place?
That was something he couldn’t figure out no matter how much he racked his brain.
‘Why does my life always get so twisted?’
Thinking about it, his life had always been like this.
Always just a little lacking, always pushed aside by someone, always unlucky.
From a very young age.
From the time he struggled desperately to gain his father’s recognition.
Han Seo-jin’s consciousness drifted to the past.
**…
“Where do you think you’re going with that sob story.”
“!?”
Unfortunately.
Kim Jun didn’t give him time to think.
Such an end was more than a villain deserved.
He wouldn’t give him the luxury of thinking or reminiscing.
“Try reviving.”
Kim Jun reached out and grabbed Han Seo-jin’s head.
“I’ll keep killing you over and over again.”
Whoosh-!
「Black Flame」 erupted explosively. It engulfed Han Seo-jin’s head, body, and all the souls.
“Keuuuugh!”
Han Seo-jin screamed.
He burned. Became ash. Died.
He revived. Burned again. Died again.
It repeated. Continuously, continuously, endlessly.
Kim Jun didn’t stop. Until all the lives Han Seo-jin possessed were exhausted.
“Keuaaaaaaak!”
Only Han Seo-jin’s screams echoed through the Deep Underground.
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