The Returned Hunter Has Awakened to a Hidden Class - Chapter 29
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Chapter 29
Tower Defense (1)
[Quest Generated]
[16th Floor Strategy]
[Objective: Defeat 50 Monster Waves]
[Guide: You can use coins to purchase fortifications, offensive/defensive support towers, traps, etc.]
[Time remaining until 1st Wave starts: 30 minutes]
[Please select a stronghold within the time limit]
The 16th Floor was a massive battlefield.
The scenery viewed from the entrance looked as if several worlds had merged into one.
To the left stretched an endless Desert, to the right was a dense Primeval Forest, and beyond that was a Frozen Tundra.
Each region had completely different climates and terrain.
“Where should we go? Look over there!”
Several teams gathered in front of a massive map installed at the entrance.
“The Desert would be good! The sand will slow down the monsters!”
“No, the Forest is the best! If we set traps between the trees, we can have perfect defense!”
“What about the ice zone? It’s slippery so the monsters will fall on their own!”
Each team was engaged in heated discussions.
[Teams currently entered: 11 teams]
“More came than I expected.”
This was when the Large Guilds had begun earnestly tackling the Tower.
“Hyung-nim, where should we go?”
Park Min-soo asked with an expectant voice.
Kim Jun examined the map carefully.
‘The Desert’s advantages are clear.’
Sandy terrain greatly restricts the movement speed of melee monsters.
Especially larger monsters sink deeper and can barely move at all.
You can survive waves even with minimal investment in defensive towers.
But there was a fatal weakness.
‘Helpless against ranged attacks.’
The Desert has flat terrain with no cover to block projectile attacks from Goblin Archers or Orc Spearmen.
Once past wave 20, the ranged monsters that appear would overwhelm you one-sidedly.
‘The Frozen Tundra is the same.’
The frozen ground is a natural trap where monsters slip and fall.
But enduring extreme cold during battles lasting over 6 hours isn’t easy.
Moreover, the ice restricts your own team’s mobility as well.
Not just Kim Jun, but all the surrounding Hunters were reaching similar conclusions.
The 5 newly joined members didn’t say it out loud either, but their gazes kept turning toward the Hills and mountainous areas.
However.
“Let’s go to the plains.”
“What? Hyung-nim?”
“Oppa, I don’t think that’s right…”
“Guild leader, isn’t the plains too dangerous?”
His teammates were flustered. The plains were clearly the worst choice by anyone’s standards.
“Just trust me.”
At Kim Jun’s confident voice, the original 4 members didn’t object further. His choices had never been wrong.
The 5 newly joined members also exchanged glances before quietly following along.
Kim Jun’s reason for choosing the plains was simple.
‘Because I can turn the plains into a fortress.’
Once all teams had taken their positions, a system window appeared.
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[Tower Defense Shop Open!]
[Attack Towers]
– Archer Tower Lv.1
└Attack Power: 50
└Range: Medium Range
└Cost: 50 coins
└Upgrade: Lv.2 (100)
– Cannon Tower Lv.1
└Attack Power: 150
└Range: Long Range Area Damage
└Cost: 100 coins
└Upgrade: Lv.2 (200)
– Magic Tower Lv.1
└Attack Power: 100
└Range: Medium Range Piercing Attack
└Cost: 150 coins
└Upgrade: Lv.2 (300)
[Defense Towers]
– Stone Wall Tower
└Durability: 500
└Cost: 10 coins
– Iron Wall Tower
└Durability: 1500
└Cost: 30 coins
– Lunarium Tower
└Durability: ∞
└Cost: 500 coins
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There were various items in the shop, but Kim Jun focused on just one thing.
‘Lunarium Tower.’
The 16th Floor was called ‘Gold Rush’ because the gold dropped by monsters was substantial.
It drops tremendously more gold than any other floor.
But there’s one reason it drops so much.
Because you need to purchase that many towers to succeed in defense.
However, many Hunters get blinded by immediate profits and can’t invest aggressively in towers.
After all the trouble of earning that gold.
But Kim Jun is different.
He had gained 1 million coins as a reward for Eldorado’s 100th Floor, and above all, he wasn’t particularly greedy for coins.
Coins are money meant to be spent on Tower strategy.
So Kim Jun decided to invest boldly.
Other defensive facilities have durability and break over time, but Lunarium Towers are expensive but never get destroyed.
Kim Jun planned to build a massive fortress with this.
To the extent of completely changing the terrain itself.
“First, 1,000 Lunarium Towers.”
“What?”
“A th-thousand?”
“Oppa, that’s 500,000 coins… isn’t that too excessive?”
Everyone was flustered, but Kim Jun had already completed the purchase.
[Lunarium Tower × 1,000 purchase complete]
[Coins consumed: 500,000]
At that moment, a massive 3D placement screen unfolded in Kim Jun’s vision.
‘Let’s begin.’
Kim Jun began moving his fingers.
First, he checked the ‘Command Fortress’ located at the center of the team.
The core facility that would eliminate the entire team if destroyed.
He placed it at the center where monsters couldn’t reach it at all.
“Around the fortress… like this.”
As Kim Jun gestured, Lunarium Towers began rising from the plains one by one.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
Boom boom boom boom-!
“Waaaah!”
“The ground is shaking!”
With massive vibrations, the plains began transforming instantly.
Kim Jun’s design was simple.
Create a giant spiral maze centered around the Command Fortress.
It was a structure where monsters would have to spiral inward from the outside to reach the fortress.
“Create paths like this…”
As Kim Jun traced with his finger, the Lunarium towers continued to be arranged in the shape of the letter ‘ㄹ’.
Monsters would have to start at the entrance, go down then sideways, then up again then left, continuously spiraling inward like this.
And on top of each Lunarium Tower.
“100 Archer Towers, 50 Cannon Towers, 30 Magic Towers.”
[Archer Tower × 100 purchase] – 5,000 coins
[Cannon Tower × 50 purchase] – 5,000 coins
[Magic Tower × 30 purchase] – 4,500 coins
Kim Jun placed the attack towers one by one on top of the Lunarium Walls.
“Hyung-nim…”
Park Min-soo couldn’t continue his words.
“Hyung-nim, I won’t doubt you anymore. Even if you part the sea, fly in the sky, or catch a dragon, I’ll believe it!”
“What are you talking about.”
“No, did a human really make this? Isn’t this the realm of gods!”
Park Min-soo clasped his hands together and pretended to bow to Kim Jun.
“Stop it, it’s cringeworthy.”
The completed sight was truly spectacular.
The towering Lunarium Walls formed a giant spiral maze, with hundreds of attack towers densely positioned on top.
But Kim Jun’s design wasn’t finished here.
“Final stage.”
Kim Jun began creating a massive Circular Plaza at the final point of the maze, right in front of the Command Fortress.
“50 additional Lunarium Towers.”
[Lunarium Tower × 50 purchase] – 25,000 coins
Thud thud thud-!
A perfect circular wall rose around the Command Fortress. Like an ancient Roman Colosseum.
“What is this?”
Choi Do-heon was curious.
“It’s a trap.”
Kim Jun explained.
“Monsters that pass through the zigzag maze will all gather in this Circular Plaza at once. Then the ones that were coming out one by one through narrow passages will suddenly cluster together by the hundreds in a wide space.”
“Ah…”
“Even if they manage to survive and reach this place, we can sweep them all at once.”
Now the entire structure was complete.
It was a perfect structure where monsters would receive continuous attacks while passing through the zigzag maze, and even if they barely survived to reach the final plaza, they would face concentrated bombardment in the enclosed Circular Plaza.
And that final stage would be.
“Ji-a.”
“Yeah?”
“You finish them off.”
Ryu Ji-a’s area magic would deliver the final blow.
The teammates who watched this entire spectacle from behind were literally in a state of mental breakdown.
“Wh-what is that person really?”
One of the newly joined team members muttered.
Just roughly calculating the money spent so far exceeded 700,000 coins.
This was a fortune that ordinary Hunters would struggle to accumulate in a lifetime.
Yet Kim Jun spent it casually as if tossing coins.
‘How on earth does he have so many coins…’
Even combining all the coins they had wouldn’t amount to 1/100th of what Kim Jun just spent.
Then they realized.
‘Ah, this person is that person.’
The legendary records that echoed through Hunter-wide announcements.
That Kim Jun was the protagonist of all those first clears.
There was no other way to explain the phenomenon before their eyes.
[5 minutes remaining until Monster Wave 1st stage begins]
Kim Jun leisurely took out a folding chair and sat down. Even crossing his legs.
“Now I’m done with my work.”
There really was nothing left to do.
The towers would grind up the monsters on their own, and if any survived, Ryu Ji-a’s area magic would handle them.
Even if that failed, there was Han Su-in.
“…”
Han Su-in was already placing her hand on her sword and staring straight ahead.
So Kim Jun just had to wait and ‘click’.
“Ah, everyone.”
“Yes, hyung-nim!”
“Would it be okay if I take the coins that drop from killing monsters?”
Kim Jun scratched his head and asked with a genuinely apologetic expression.
Park Min-soo’s eyes widened.
“Hyung-nim spent 700,000 coins, why are you asking such a thing! Of course it’s yours!”
“You shouldn’t be the one saying that.”
Kim Jun waved his hands dismissively and looked at the newly joined team members.
“How do the rest of you feel? I feel a bit awkward taking it all myself…”
“What? Oh, no! What did we even do.”
“Kim Jun-nim did everything, so what could we…”
“It’s really okay!”
The new team members hurriedly waved their hands.
The person who single-handedly built a 700,000 coin fortress was apologizing and asking about coin distribution.
Where could you find such a person?
Jo Min-jae was especially shocked seeing this.
‘Is this… what a leader is?’
It was the complete opposite of Han Seo-jin, whom he had served for three years.
What was Han Seo-jin like?
He coldly said “So what?” while leaving a guild member alone in Heaven.
He slapped his cousin, the vice guild master, across the face in front of others.
Everything was centered around himself. Guild members were merely tools for his goals.
That’s why Jo Min-jae was certain that other guild masters would also be different from how the media portrayed them.
But what about Kim Jun before his eyes?
After investing over 700,000 coins from his own pocket, he was apologizing and asking “Would this be okay?”
‘Han Seo-jin as a rival? How ridiculous.’
Jo Min-jae was certain.
This wasn’t an act. It was ingrained courtesy and consideration. It was his character, built over a long time, naturally showing through.
It was on a completely different level from Han Seo-jin’s fake smiles and calculated gestures in public.
‘I want to… become part of a team like this too.’
A desperate wish bloomed in Jo Min-jae’s heart.
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