The Returned Hunter Has Awakened to a Hidden Class - Chapter 30
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Chapter 30
Tower Defense (2)
[1st Wave: 1,000 F-Rank Goblins]
Gurururu-!
Goblins poured out from the blue portal.
Wielding spears and rushing toward the maze entrance, they looked like a swarm of bees.
But Kim Jun’s party was.
“Haaaam.”
Kim Jun, sitting in his chair, let out a big yawn.
With his legs crossed and chin resting on the armrest, he looked as relaxed as a spectator in a stadium.
Gigigi-
Ping! Ping! Ping!
A rain of arrows from the archer towers pierced straight through the goblins.
One arrow, one goblin.
Boom!
Guaaaaaaak!
When the cannon tower spat fire, dozens of them were blown away at once.
[Monster Defeated: Goblin × 503]
[Coins Acquired: 5,030]
Not a single goblin made it past the maze entrance.
“…Is it over?”
“It feels like we just started.”
The newly joined hunters gaped in bewilderment.
The ‘life-or-death battle’ they had imagined was nowhere to be found.
With just a few ‘click-clicks’, the monsters died.
Meanwhile, other strongholds were already in chaos.
“Hey! The stone wall tower is broken!”
“Then you build it! I already spent all my coins on potions!”
“Damn it, this is only the 1st wave!”
Pandemonium broke out across the desert, forest, and frozen tundra.
Some places already had holes punched through them, trying to save coins and failing to build proper stone walls.
‘Same as before.’
Kim Jun lightly closed his eyes.
It was exactly the same before his regression.
Everyone thought they could handle the early waves, then collapsed one after another from the 10th wave onward.
The problem was that it hadn’t even really started yet.
And before long.
[5th Wave: 1,000 D-Rank Orcs]
The 5th wave had begun.
*
Flutter-
A flag bearing a blue dragon emblem fluttered in the cold mountain wind.
“Towers? Why would we need those?”
Han Seo-jin scoffed.
The Blue Dragon Guild boasted the largest scale in South Korea.
With 2 S-Rank Hunters and 28 A-Rank Hunters, this level of firepower made monsters no problem at all.
Moreover, positioned on rugged mountainous terrain, it was like a natural tower.
“Ryu A-ran, look at the map.”
“Yes, Guild Master.”
Where Han Seo-jin pointed, three strongholds were arranged in a triangular formation.
They were all Blue Dragon Guild command fortresses.
“If we position them this close together, monsters will come in triple the numbers…”
“That’s the point, you idiot.”
Greed flashed in Han Seo-jin’s eyes.
“Triple monsters means triple coins. We’ll sweep them all up at once.”
Ryu A-ran looked anxious.
“But wouldn’t that be too dangerous?”
“Dangerous? Who do you think we are.”
Han Seo-jin smiled confidently.
“And don’t buy towers or anything like that. Save all the coins we earn on this floor. Oh, tell the other two locations too.”
“Why?”
“The 「Attribute Enhancement Scroll」 at the Tebe Marketplace. The 200,000 coin one.”
Han Seo-jin’s plan was simple.
Don’t invest in towers, endure with terrain and pure combat power, then use the acquired coins to buy high-grade items.
“I’m going to create a definitive gap this time.”
His gaze turned toward the massive fortress on the distant flatlands.
It was Kim Jun’s fortress.
“Unlike those idiots wasting money like that.”
“But…”
Vice Guild Master Ryu A-ran was anxious.
No matter how good a position they had secured, she had an intuition that the Tower’s trial wouldn’t be so easy.
The functions the Tower provided surely had their reasons.
“At least we should install minimal defense towers…”
Han Seo-jin’s gaze turned cold.
“What? Are you saying my judgment is wrong?”
“N-no… that’s not what I meant…”
Ryu A-ran shrank back.
Han Seo-jin stepped closer. His eyes held a warning.
“Don’t think you can challenge my decisions just because we’re family. This isn’t a family gathering, it’s a guild.”
“…Yes.”
Ryu A-ran bowed her head.
It was always like this.
When she offered reasonable opinions, he called it ‘rebellion’, and if she showed even slightly different thoughts, he took it as a ‘challenge’.
A strange relationship where they were family yet not family.
“What should we do with the leftover money? Hehehe.”
Ignoring Ryu A-ran’s concerns, Han Seo-jin was scheming how to spend the coins that would pour in from the three parties.
*
Crash-!
The thunderous clash of spears and shields echoed across the mountain slope.
“Uoooo!”
“Push them back!”
The Blue Dragon Guild’s A-Rank Hunters charged in unison.
Tankers with shields formed a wall.
From behind, mages alternately fired flames and ice, sweeping away the orcs.
[Monster Defeated: D-Rank Orc × 423]
[Coin Acquired: 84,600]
“Good! That’s our Azure Dragon for you!”
“Just like the guild leader said, no problem at all!”
The initial atmosphere was perfect.
When Vice Guild Leader Ryu A-ran swung her blue spear, lightning burst forth and swept through the orc horde. Dozens fell, turned to ash.
“At this rate, this wave will be over in no time.”
Han Seo-jin smiled leisurely.
However, the problem started right after that.
Before the 5th wave even ended, the 6th wave followed, then the 7th, 8th…
[7th Wave: D-Rank Orc × 1200 + Goblin Archer × 500]
Thud thud thud thud-!
A new horde of monsters came rushing down, filling the mountain slope.
“From above! Watch out for arrows!”
“Deploy shields!”
Arrows poured down onto the tankers’ shields. It was a barrage of arrows that made the shields tremble violently.
“Damn it, where are the potions!”
“You can’t use them already!”
After several waves passed, fatigue began to subtly mix into the spirited shouts.
As the number of monsters increased and ranged attacks joined in, the front line began to shake little by little.
“This much is nothing. Hold them off!”
Han Seo-jin’s voice remained unchanged.
Indeed, Azure Dragon’s firepower was still strong, and each wave was eventually suppressed. But the problem was stamina.
By the time the 14th wave ended, the situation had changed.
“Huff…huff…”
“Potion, just one more…”
Rough breathing and groans leaked out from various places.
The initial momentum had disappeared, and anxiety began to settle in their eyes.
Even so, Han Seo-jin remained relaxed.
“See? I told you we don’t need towers. Just pick a good spot and that’s it. Tsk.”
“Y-yes, guild leader.”
The guild members forced themselves to agree, but inside they felt differently.
Thoughts like ‘We can’t hold out much longer’ and ‘If slightly stronger ones come out…’ circled in their minds.
And their concerns were gradually becoming reality.
[15th Wave: C-Rank Orc Elite Soldier × 500 + Orc Soldier × 3000 + Orc Assault Captain × 50]
Thump-! Thump-!
With footsteps that shook the mountain slope, elite soldiers wielding massive axes revealed themselves.
“Sh-shit, look at that size!”
“If we can’t stop even one, we’ll be breached.”
At that moment, Han Seo-jin stepped forward.
“「Blizzard」!”
A cold aura burst forth from Han Seo-jin’s hands.
In an instant, a white blizzard whirled and struck the elite soldiers.
Crack-! Crackle-!
Ice crystals penetrated the elite soldiers’ bodies and froze them.
The massive orcs fell one by one, turned into blocks of ice.
“See that?”
Han Seo-jin dusted off his hands and smiled with satisfaction.
His ice magic was reliable. Dozens of elite soldiers froze to death in an instant.
However, the remaining monsters rushed in to fill that gap, and the guild members’ formation wavered for a moment.
“The rear is being breached!”
“Heal! Someone heal!”
Screams erupted.
They could still fight, but the cracks were growing larger.
There were already four injured.
Then a cautious voice spoke up.
“…Guild leader.”
One A-Rank Hunter spoke while reading the mood.
“How about we build at least some towers? Since monsters keep coming…”
The air instantly froze.
“Are you doubting me right now?”
“N-no! That’s not what I meant…”
Smack!
Before he could finish speaking, Han Seo-jin’s hand flew out.
The A-Rank Hunter staggered and collapsed to the ground.
“Don’t bark like a dog. When I tell you to do something, you do it.”
No one could help him.
Everyone knew. The moment they went against Han Seo-jin, they would suffer the same fate.
Whoosh-
Only the mountain wind fluttered the blue flag.
Though no one could voice it out loud.
The same thought circled in everyone’s hearts.
‘At this rate…we’ll collapse.’
Of course, Han Seo-jin was also starting to wonder if he should install towers given the increasing power and numbers of the monsters.
But.
[Coins Held: 252,000]
Grin-
This was the result of real-time forced transfers from three parties.
252,000 coins.
This fortune completely paralyzed Han Seo-jin’s rational thinking.
‘Just hold out a little longer. If it really doesn’t work, I’ll install some later.’
“Aaaaah!”
“Give us some support on the right!”
Even as his guild members were falling, Han Seo-jin was smiling.
*
A brief lull came between waves. While guild members were catching their breath and drinking potions.
One hunter wiped his sweat, looked up, and gazed toward the distant flatlands.
“Hey, look over there…”
“Wh-what is that?”
“It’s like a complete castle.”
The guild members were looking at the distant flatlands with admiration.
The massive Lunarium Walls stretched like the Great Wall, and hundreds of towers stood densely packed on top.
“Just how much did they invest?”
“Wow, I’m really jealous. Those people can just sit comfortably and watch.”
“While we’re here running ourselves to death.”
“Damn…some people just meet the wrong…hup!”
“Watch your words. He might hear.”
The guild members’ voices grew quieter. They knew they shouldn’t say more.
But their gazes continued toward that massive fortress on the flatlands.
And in that fortress.
“Ah, I’m dying of boredom.”
Park Min-soo was yawning and sprawled out lazily.
“Hyung, can’t we just demolish a few towers?”
“Why?”
“It’s too boring? Is this really the 16th Floor?”
It was truly a situation where there was nothing to do.
Kim Jun’s maze design was perfect.
The monsters that swarmed in from the entrance turned left and were met with a barrage of arrows from the first archer tower.
Less than half of them survived, only to be swept away again in the second section.
The few survivors encountered another rain of arrows each time they turned left or right.
The fallen corpses piled up in layers, forming a natural barrier instead.
On the City Wall made of enemy corpses, the allied towers were mechanically shooting arrows like machines.
“They’ll reach here soon enough.”
Kim Jun’s eyes suddenly hardened.
So far it’s fine. So far.
But the 30th wave.
From then on, they come rushing like a tide.
B-rank monsters swarm in groups, and their numbers snowball to 5,000, 10,000, 20,000, 50,000.
And from the 40th wave onwards, A-rank monsters appear in large numbers.
Ogre Lords, Wyverns, Death Knights.
Monsters that could wipe out an ordinary team with just one of them come swarming in groups.
And finally.
The 50th wave.
At the end of it all, there’s an S-rank monster commanding all the waves.
‘Was it Leviathan.’
A boss so powerful that it eliminated even Kim Jun before his regression.
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