The Returned Hunter Has Awakened to a Hidden Class - Chapter 113
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113
113
Fallen Lands (1)
Why was he able to read the writing on the stone wall?
Had the「Translation」skill activated?
“Wahahahaha! I’m flying, I’m flying!”
While carrying Park Min-soo up, Kim Jun was lost in thought.
Clearly ■■ and ▲▲ were still hidden.
‘It’ll probably change when I meet them.’
Just like how he could read the writing on the stone wall, he would probably understand when he faced them directly.
While ascending with these various thoughts.
“Kim Juuuuuuun!!!”
A loud voice was heard.
“Uh, huh?”
Kim Jun raised his head.
There.
Ryu Ji-a was standing.
Ryu Ji-a, who had never spoken informally, or more precisely, had always maintained semi-formal speech.
She was angry with a flushed face.
With her cheeks puffed out.
“Why me?”
Kim Jun asked with an expression of complete ignorance.
“Kim Jun! Kim Jun! Do you really want to die, oppa?”
“It was really freaking hard! What were you doing! Where were you! What were you up to! You went to have fun, went to rest!!”
Ryu Ji-a’s voice grew louder.
And Lee Seo-yeon and Han Su-in, who were standing behind her, also came into view.
Their condition was terrible.
Lee Seo-yeon’s face was pale.
The kind of appearance from having exhausted all her mana.
Her body was trembling.
Han Su-in was the same.
Her clothes were torn in various places, and fatigue was written all over her face.
And Ryu Ji-a.
Dark circles hung heavily under her eyes.
As if she had stayed up for several days. No, perhaps it was even worse than that.
“Because of Jujak, like this… this time was a bit difficult. Haha…”
Lee Seo-yeon spoke with a gentle smile.
But there was definitely resentment in those eyes.
Han Su-in didn’t say anything as always.
“…”
Instead, her gaze said everything.
That this time was quite difficult.
And at that look.
‘Gasp!’
Kim Jun’s heart sank.
Even Han Su-in, who usually doesn’t express herself well, had that kind of look.
‘At their current level, it should have been perfectly manageable, right?’
Wait.
Jujak was definitely A-rank, and though it had a lot of health.
At that level, it was an opponent these three could definitely handle.
But why.
But why.
Why was he so exhausted?
“That should be enough.”
Wasn’t it good that things worked out well?
Anyway, it had been a success…
“Wh-what!?”
“Whoa… Guild Leader…”
“…”
…Of course, the three’s reaction was cold.
“…;;;”
Of course, Kim Jun didn’t know that due to ‘someone’s’ interference, the difficulty had risen once again.
“Sh-shall we go up? Haha…”
He suggested going up once more.
“In this state, you want to go up again? Oppa, do you really want to die?”
“Shouldn’t we rest a little… haha…”
“…”
Ryu Ji-a was direct.
Lee Seo-yeon was indirect.
Han Su-in also had a very intense look, different from usual.
They were firmly opposed.
“Hmm…”
Based on his memories from before regression and his companions’ abilities, Jujak shouldn’t have been such a difficult opponent.
Kim Jun, who couldn’t know the circumstances, could only be puzzled.
Moreover, Kim Jun was also feeling considerable pain and fatigue.
The aftermath of simultaneously activating 「Yeonje」 and 「Amje」.
After reaching SS-rank, there wasn’t the body-tearing pain like when he was S-rank, but pain was still circulating throughout his body.
‘I’m in pain too.’
He was also enduring pain.
Can’t they endure even this much?
Such thoughts occurred to him.
But.
“Hiss, hisssss! Hisssssss!”
“…”
“Hissssssssss!!!”
“…;;;”
Since they disliked it that much.
“Then.”
He decided to make an alternative proposal.
“I’ll clear the next floor for you. With Min-soo.”
“…We really won’t have to step in, right?”
“Mm… that’s right.”
“Really?”
“Really; And I’ll give you a few days off too.”
Of course, his condition wasn’t great.
But with a meat shield to throw around, and having reached SS-rank, for the current Kim Jun.
“It’ll be a piece of cake.”
It definitely would be.
“Haha… stop glaring at me… Please;”
There was a reason Kim Jun was pushing to proceed to the next floor even while receiving such looks from the guild members.
The 34th Floor.
A place called the [Fallen Lands].
Hyeonmu, who guards the north among the Four Guardian Deities.
Every time that giant turtle’s shell moved, the earth would crack.
And crumble into pieces.
A place that repeatedly rose up sharply, collapsed, and rose again.
In that vast domain of Hyeonmu.
There was a place where Park Min-soo could change to a hidden class.
A place that only those who could accept Hyeonmu’s solidity with their entire body could reach.
Of course, ultimately.
‘That’s for you to decide though.’
After calming his companions, Kim Jun began walking toward the portal that had formed behind the fallen Jujak.
“Come on, let’s go~”
Wooooong-!
*
Rumble rumble…
CRASH-!!
“That startled me!”
“Hmm! How fierce!”
As soon as they entered the 34th Floor, what greeted the party was a massive earthquake.
And it wasn’t just once.
Rumble rumble…
Another tremor.
Rhythmically.
Like a giant heart beating.
Within that rhythm.
The party looked around their surroundings.
There was no wind.
The air was eerily still.
But the ground beneath their feet trembled constantly.
The earth was already completely collapsed.
Sharp rocky peaks filled every direction.
Like giant fingers piercing through the ground.
Between them.
Massive forms moved.
Giant turtles covered in black shells.
Those massive shells, several meters across, pushed through between the rocks.
And.
Slither-!
Snakes.
Giant serpents roamed between the rocky peaks.
They moved like sliding, coiling their elongated bodies.
As if this place was their domain.
The masters of the Fallen Lands.
Hyeonmu’s doppelgangers.
They were guarding this place.
“Ugh, the visuals are fierce.”
“They’re easy, so you can let your guard down.”
“Oh? That weak? This is the first time you’ve said something like that, hyung?”
That’s right.
That weak.
The mobs here were incredibly weak.
The turtles only had high health and defense, but their attacks were pathetic.
Slow, weak, and predictable.
They probably couldn’t deal effective damage even to a C-rank level 10… no, even an F-rank level 1 Hunter.
“Those guys too?”
“Yep.”
The snakes were the same.
The serpents with slightly reddish-tinged skin were quite agile, unlike the turtles.
Their attacks were fast and had decent power too.
By ordinary Hunter standards, they would have been fairly threatening opponents.
However.
The current Park Min-soo is actually a tremendous being. Contrary to his image.
A Tank who has surpassed level 50 and even completed his second job advancement.
The snake’s attacks could barely even scratch him.
Fast movements, strong attack power—everything was meaningless before Park Min-soo’s defense.
As for Kim Jun… well, he was beyond discussion.
“Then what about the boss?”
“…Don’t you?”
Then what about the boss?
Hyeonmu.
Even that giant divine beast didn’t have any particularly dangerous attacks.
It just had tremendous HP and defense.
Of course, it had the trait of reflecting damage to nearby enemies when hurt.
‘But I have life steal, so…’
The reflected damage couldn’t penetrate Park Min-soo’s defense.
And it wasn’t higher than Kim Jun’s damage absorption either.
The conclusion was.
This place was simple.
It would just take some time.
…Quite a lot of time.
“Shall we go?”
Kim Jun and Park Min-soo took the lead.
And Ryu Ji-a, Lee Seo-yeon, and Han Su-in followed behind.
*
Rumble…
With every step they took, the earth trembled along with them.
It was almost like the illusion that their footsteps were causing earthquakes.
The earthquakes continued every few seconds to that extent.
“Wow, in a way, this is quite a spectacle too.”
“Why, why are you like that, hyung?”
Massive stone mountains rose up between the gaps and then collapsed again.
With each moment, those solid and massive things changed as if they were breathing in.
“There go the turtles!”
Park Min-soo shouted.
A herd of giant turtles appeared.
But when Kim Jun took a single step.
Kwa-!
The turtles turned to dust and scattered.
Even in the midst of that.
Rumble…
Another earthquake rippled through.
Kuguung!
This time, massive stone mountains rose up on both sides of the path.
As if creating a gorge.
The snakes slithered through the newly formed gaps.
Tak-
.
.
.
Swish-
Han Su-in’s sword passed through coldly.
The snakes were severed and fell.
The snakes are severed and fall.
“You don’t have to step in…”
Kim Jun muttered.
Han Su-in keeps trying to handle things.
As if trying to protect her own share.
“…”
But her expression was unreadable.
She just moved her sword.
What did that look in her eyes mean right now?
Sometimes, because of the years they’d spent together, he could understand most things even without words.
‘Right now I have no idea.’
Sometimes he couldn’t grasp what she was thinking at all.
*
The journey continued.
After exiting the Gorge, a new terrain unfolded.
A terrain where massive stone mountains were scattered irregularly.
They had to make their way through them.
Rumble…
The earthquake rippled again.
The stone mountains moved little by little.
As if they were alive.
Sometimes rising up, sometimes sinking down. The heights were irregular.
Suddenly pits would appear while walking, then Hills rising up would await them.
And before they could even get used to the new terrain.
Rumble-!
Another earthquake occurred and the terrain changed again.
Ever-changing.
This place was definitely perfect to describe with those words.
“How long will this earthquake continue?”
Park Min-soo asked.
“It’ll continue until we defeat the boss.”
“As expected, hyung knows everything! Hahaha!”
“…;”
Had he been carelessly revealing too much information lately?
They were relationships he could trust completely.
But would there be any benefit to revealing that he was a regressor?
There wasn’t.
‘I can’t tell them.’
The reason for regression meant that he had failed.
And failure meant that everyone had died.
*
Slash-
Killing a turtle.
Slice-
Killing a snake.
It had been about 3 hours since they started moving through the stone mountains and changing terrain.
“That place over there feels like something’s there?”
Park Min-soo said.
“What do you mean feels like? It’s obviously telling us something’s there.”
The closer they approached the location Park Min-soo was pointing to.
Rumble-!
The intensity of the earthquake gradually grew stronger.
And unlike other places here that were filled with sharp rocky mountains.
“It’s wide. And it’s huge.”
How much had it split the earth.
The only flat, tremendously vast land could be seen.
Such solid ground that had no more land to compress and would no longer change.
And at the center of that land.
Rumble rumble rumble…
“Damn! So the earthquakes happened every time that bastard moved!”
Causing earthquakes throughout this entire Staircase.
Hyeonmu was there.
Kuguugugugugung-!!
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