The Returned Hunter Has Awakened to a Hidden Class - Chapter 126

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Chapter 126

Family Tree

“Hey! Master! These bastards are speaking informally!”

“So noisy… so bothersome…”

“I am the Azure Dragon, one of the Four Divine Beasts.”

In front of Kim Jun.

Madness.

Sloth.

And one dragon.

A combination too twisted to be called normal.

However, summoned creatures with overwhelming combat power were gathered in one place.

Andras was dragging his greatsword while glaring alternately at Belphegor and Nyong Nyong.

Nyong Nyong held its neck high, casting a look as if ‘the dignity of this place has completely fallen.’

And between those two.

Belphegor sprawled on the ground like a sunken sofa.

“Ahh… talking is bothersome… listening is bothersome…”

True to being a demon of sloth, he let his arms hang limply as if even lifting his head was troublesome.

‘Why did he become fat again?’

The reason was incomprehensible.

Anyway.

This place was the 36th Floor of the Surface.

The name of the Staircase was [Cheopcheopsan-jung].

There wasn’t just one mountain.

Mountain upon mountain, and yet another mountain behind.

Cross a ridge and another peak reveals itself.

Turn your head and even the mountains already passed stand with different faces.

Among them all.

There was a direction Kim Jun’s gaze naturally turned toward.

Among the countless mountains.

One peak uniquely shrouded in white energy.

While other mountains displayed green and dark gray hues.

Only that mountain had snow falling as if defying the season.

[Seolbaekhoryeong ].

The mountain where Baihu resided.

They were climbing toward that mountain.

Kwaaaaang-!

A tiger-shaped monster leaped out from below the ridge.

Muscular body, gleaming golden eyes.

Chwaak-!

As Andras’s 「Sea of Corpses and Blood」 swung once.

The tiger’s body split in half and disappeared.

“This is what a senior is!”

Andras shouted while shaking off his sword.

“I was summoned first! So I’m the senior! You both have to call me senior!”

“So noisy…”

Belphegor waved his hand without even opening his eyes.

“Senior or whatever… get… lost…”

“What, what?! Get, get lost?!”

Andras’s eyes flashed.

“Telling a senior to get lost! Call me senior! Show respect!”

“Haah…”

Belphegor rolled over and turned his back.

“Even listening is bothersome… just… get… lost…”

The problem didn’t end there.

“Shut up a bit.”

A low, composed voice.

Nyong Nyong said while looking down at the situation.

“I am one of the Four Guardian Deities.”

He lifted his chin slightly.

“The very demand to show respect to mere demons is an insult.”

In that moment.

“Master!”

Andras immediately turned his head.

“Nyong Nyong isn’t using honorifics! This is totally worse than dogs!”

“Why would I show respect to demons?”

“Annoying… here we go again…”

At Andras’s continued noise.

Belphegor buried his face completely in the ground.

Kim Jun watched that scene for a moment.

“Huu…”

He let out a deep sigh.

He had conquered Hell.

Defeated Grand Demons.

Even made the Four Guardian Deities into summoned creatures.

But the situation right before his eyes.

“I said I’m your senior! You must show respect!”

“Annoying…”

“How dare you to this body!”

Was a complete chaos.

‘Their combat power is the strongest… but their relationships are the worst.’

Even during this, the mountain continued to grow higher.

Kuwaaang-!

True to Baihu’s domain.

Tiger monsters endlessly revealed themselves.

Kim Jun and the three summoned creatures silently cut them down while climbing the mountain.

And gradually.

The snowfall began to grow heavier.

Snow that wasn’t on other mountains.

The further they went, the colder the air became.

It was the boundary of Seolbaekhoryeong.

Kim Jun exhaled white breath and looked back at the following summoned creatures once more.

“Respect! Respect! Show respect! All discipline has fallen apart!”

“Get… lost… noisy…”

“What wretched and barbaric fellows.”

He pressed his temples again.

‘Next time I should summon them one by one.’

Not peaceful.

However.

Swish, swish…

───!

Rustle, rustle…

Shrieeeeeek-!

Kuguuuuuu…

Paaaaaaaaaa───!

It was a strangely powerful party.

*

Kim Jun’s ultimate goal was simple.

To become stronger.

And, preparing.

100th Floor.

To face that bastard called Almighty.

And before that.

To pass through the 99th Floor’s [Battlefield] without great sacrifice.

That place wasn’t a simple staircase.

Even before regression, the reason it took years on that staircase was clear.

The 99th Floor was both individual Hunter combat and all-out war.

Individual strength alone wasn’t enough.

No matter how much you pushed the front lines, if the rear collapsed, the battlefield couldn’t be maintained.

He needed to raise his companions’ level one step higher.

And those companions needed forces they could rely on.

That could endure the battlefield.

‘Troops’ with the numbers and roles.

So Kim Jun’s answer came in three parts.

First, completing reliable companions as Hidden Classes.

Personnel who would become the axis of battle.

Park Min-soo, Han Su-in, Ryu Ji-a, Lee Seo-yeon.

Second, raising Kim Jun’s summons to a unit capable of handling an entire battlefield.

To the point where they could be operated as troops, not individuals.

And third.

‘Selected Hunters.’

Neither companions nor summons.

Personnel who could be directly deployed in war.

Several faces were already floating in Kim Jun’s mind.

Including Choi Do-heon, those with talent but rotting away because they didn’t know the path.

They were struggling around the 20th Floor now.

But with just one stroke of luck and choice, they could be raised to combat strength.

The reason they were stuck was simple.

Not because there was no path, but because they didn’t know the method.

But Kim Jun knew.

Where to hunt what.

What choices to make to advance to the next stage.

And what conditions to meet for the door to become stronger to open.

Before regression, it was a path he had walked himself.

So he could be certain.

His companions wouldn’t be a problem.

He just needed to give them the right choices at the right moments.

Only two remained.

Lee Seo-yeon and Ryu Ji-a.

Lee Seo-yeon would open when the time came.

Ryu Ji-a had to prove herself to Adelaine.

And.

Summons.

This side needed no further explanation.

As long as they were with Kim Jun.

These creatures would be completed not as combat power but as military strength.

To the point where each could be assigned a battlefield.

It was when Kim Jun’s thoughts reached that far.

“I told you to come down! Come down right now! Come down, you demon bastard!”

Nyong Nyong’s displeased tone.

Above its head, Andras burst into laughter.

“Hahaha! The position is good, so why should I come down!”

Swoooosh-!

The long sword “Sisanhyeolhae” was swung widely.

A red trajectory tore through the air of the snowy mountain, and the snow-covered rocks and trees, along with several tiger monsters that had leaped out from between them, were simultaneously split apart.

“….”

Nyong Nyong said nothing more.

It simply shook its head once greatly and chose to advance forward.

Since it couldn’t make him come down anyway, it judged that finishing quickly would be better.

That was the moment.

“…Huh?”

Kim Jun felt a subtle sense of unease.

Certainly until just a moment ago.

There had been only Andras on top of Nyong Nyong.

When had it started?

Behind Nyong Nyong’s neck.

In the gaps where scale met scale.

Belphegor was there.

As if lying on a sofa.

Completely naturally.

“Here…less windy…”

A lazy voice.

Belphegor was still in a half-lying position.

So nonchalant that it was impossible to tell when he had even climbed up.

Nyong Nyong’s body stiffened for a moment.

“….”

But again, no words came out.

Instead of turning its head to check.

It let out a big sigh.

And simply spread its wings once more, even wider.

*

The middle slope of Seolbaekhoryeong was true to its name.

The entire mountain was covered in snow, and whenever the wind blew, snow powder flew into the air.

In between, tiger monsters covered in white fur were swarming.

They weren’t simple beasts.

They ran sliding over the snow and leaped between rocks.

As if the mountain itself was alive and moving.

As if trying to push out outsiders.

Tiger monsters poured out from all over the slopes of Seolbaekhoryeong.

Kicking off snow-covered rocks and leaping up.

From the front, from the sides, and from behind.

As if trying to prevent them from reaching Baihu.

They persistently blocked the path.

Nyong Nyong spread its wings wide at the front.

Kuguuuuu-!

The air of the snowy mountain vibrated.

A breath mixed with nature and water, fire and lightning.

Kwaaaaaa-!

Shot out long along the ridge, sweeping away the entire path ahead.

The snow evaporated, the rocks cracked, and the trees shattered while frozen solid.

Following behind.

Swish-!

Andras swung the “Corpse Mountain Blood Sea.”

The cutting motion was rough, but the trajectory was clear.

A red sword path was carved into the snowy mountain.

The tigers charging from the front were cut in half without even a scream.

The problem was.

The sides and back.

Nyong Nyong’s blind spot.

Outside Andras’s field of vision.

Sliding through the snow

Tigers aiming for openings.

Kim Jun saw it.

And.

The next moment.

Nothing happened at all.

No screams.

No collisions.

Not even the sound of blood splattering.

Just.

The tigers that had clearly been charging just moments before.

Were now lying collapsed on the snow.

Their necks weren’t severed.

Their bodies weren’t split.

As if they had been lying dead there from the beginning.

Kim Jun’s gaze naturally turned backward.

“…So bothersome…”

Belphegor didn’t even lift his head.

He just casually flicked the blood off his dagger by rubbing it against the snow.

When he had moved.

Where he had cut.

Only Kim Jun had seen it.

‘Their coordination is still a mess…’

Still.

‘I can leave the battlefield to them.’

There was bickering.

But in combat, they didn’t invade each other’s territory.

Speed was Belphegor’s.

Destruction was Andras’s.

Suppression and cleanup was Nyong Nyong’s.

As they pushed up Seolbaekhoryeong like this.

At some point.

Whooooooo-!

The snowfall became fiercer.

The texture of the wind changed.

The density of the air became different.

Kim Jun stopped walking.

The summit of the mountain.

Covered entirely in white.

A space completely separated from the other mountains.

The peak of Seolbaekhoryeong.

It was the place where Baihu resided.

Kim Jun muttered quietly.

“…We’ve arrived.”

No more useless chatter could be heard from behind.

The summoned creatures were also naturally entering combat stance.

Now only one thing remained.

The master of this mountain.

Baihu .

“Nyong Nyong! Time to meet your friend!” “Shut that mouth!”

Both Nyong Nyong and Baihu.

They’re both Four Divine Beasts, but who would be stronger?

Amid this perfectly natural curiosity.

“Is Nyong Nyong scared!?”

“Tell your senior if you need help!”

Nyong Nyong, provoked by Andras’s taunts.

“I’ll go alone.”

The place where Baihu was.

The center of Seolbaekhoryeong.

Onto that ground.

Thud-

Stepped down with a heavy vibration.

He stepped down with a heavy vibration.

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