The Returned Hunter Has Awakened to a Hidden Class - Chapter 77

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Chapter 77

Dungeon of Lust (2)

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 The cork of the status ailment immunity potion that Adelaine had crafted opened.

 When Kim Jun brought the bottle opening close to his nose, a pungent smell stung his nostrils.

Glug glug-

 He downed it in one gulp.

“Ugh…”

 His brow furrowed.

“Hmm. It doesn’t taste good. Disgustingly so.”

 Perhaps it was because it contained witch’s fingers, demon’s blood, and all sorts of other things he didn’t even want to know the names of.

 The taste was literally the worst, and as soon as he drank it, nausea rose all the way to the end of his esophagus.

“Ugh…”

 Kim Jun covered his mouth and endured it.

 If he vomited, he’d have to drink it again.

“Phew…”

 Only after taking a deep breath did he calm down.

“Shall we go?”

 Kim Jun looked at the dungeon entrance.

 A system window appeared in front of the dark cave entrance.

[Basement 7th Floor ‘Dungeon of Lust’ Strategy]

[Objective: Avoid the Succubus’s temptation and advance to the next floor]

[Warning: If you fall to the Succubus’s temptation, you will be bound here forever.]

‘This is a place I’ve experienced once before. Let’s stay calm.’

 Kim Jun thought.

 Before regression, when he came to this place, he didn’t even have a status ailment immunity potion, and he just entered with his bare body and passed through without any preparation.

 Of course.

‘…Back then.’

 After Han Su-in’s death.

 Kim Jun at that time had dried up emotions, and though he was filled with anger and despair, he was simultaneously empty.

 He felt no joy, no sadness, no desire, no human emotions whatsoever.

 He only thought about moving forward, climbing the Tower, becoming stronger, and getting revenge.

 He didn’t know it at the time, but looking back now, he was already losing his humanity then.

 His eyes had lost focus, his emotions were dead, and he merely moved like a machine, or rather like a monster obsessed with revenge.

 That’s why he passed through this place, the Dungeon of Lust, without any trouble.

 The Succubi’s temptations, the system-level charms, none of it had any effect on Kim Jun whose emotions had died.

 And Kim Jun knew the difference between then and now.

 That’s why he had struggled so hard to obtain the status ailment immunity potion.

 Right after regression, he had opened his eyes in the Red Gate called ‘Lost Relic’.

 He saw the comrades who had died in his place too.

 But Kim Jun’s gaze lingered longest on her alone.

 When he met her again.

 When he realized he could change things again.

Thump-

 His heart that had grown cold and sunken.

 His stopped heart began to beat again.

 His frozen emotions began to thaw.

 His lost humanity returned.

 And Kim Jun knew that those returned emotions could become a fatal weakness here in the ‘Dungeon of Lust’.

 But there was nothing to worry about.

 He had prepared thoroughly.

 …Probably.

“Let’s chant prayers. Let’s chant prayers. Phew.”

Creak-

[Remaining time: 1 hour 59 minutes]

 When he opened the door, darkness poured out, and the only thing illuminating the interior was the flickering light created by candles hanging on the walls.

Squelch-

“…;;;”

 He had merely stepped inside.

 But already the sounds were ominous.

 This place, the ‘Dungeon of Lust’, was really strangely shaped.

 It was clearly a cave, but everything from the floor to the walls was slippery.

Squish-

 It was moistly wet, and every time he touched it, he felt a strange elasticity.

“Ugh.”

 And how narrow the passage was.

 Kim Jun turned his body sideways and barely squeezed in.

 With his body pressed against both walls, he barely passed through the narrow space.

Haah!

“…!?”

 …It was like a sound that came from biting one’s lips.

“Namu Amitabul Gwanseum Bosal.”

 Kim Jun moved forward again.

 One step.

 Two steps.

 The passage grew narrower and narrower.

 He had to twist his body more.

 The walls enveloped his entire body.

 His chest.

 His stomach.

 His back.

 His thighs.

Haah-haah-

 That sound again.

 This time closer.

 More clearly.

“…Namu Amitabul.”

 Kim Jun continued forward while chanting prayers.

 The passage became even narrower, and now it was tight even when he turned his body completely sideways.

 He had to push forward.

Uuugh-

 The wall resisted.

 Elastically.

 As if trying to push Kim Jun away.

 No.

 As if reluctantly trying to accept him.

“Ugh…”

 Kim Jun pushed forward with force.

 The wall enveloped his body.

 It squeezed his entire body.

 A warm and soft pressure.

Haaa-

 With each step Kim Jun took forward.

 The cave trembled with strange sounds.

“Namu Amitabul Gwanseum Bosal…”

 Kim Jun continued forward with his eyes closed, chanting prayers.

 How much time had passed like that.

 As if everything until now had been mere child’s play.

“Oppa…?”

‘Damn it. It’s come out.’

 A sweet voice was heard.

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 The eyes looking at Kim Jun with her head slightly raised were dark like the deep night sky.

“Why are you looking at me like that?”

 The smile on her lips was both innocent and dangerous.

 The slender neckline and delicate collarbone revealed between her silver hair, and even her wrists and ankles.

 Fragile as if she might break like a porcelain doll.

 Along with the sweet fragrance spreading through the air, that face Kim Jun could never forget in his lifetime was right before his eyes.

‘Ah. I shouldn’t have opened my eyes.’

 Why on earth did he open his eyes?

 He had resolved never to open his eyes.

 The more he passed through this place, the hazier his mind became.

 His thoughts scattered as if wandering through fog, and why he had entered here, why he needed to keep his eyes closed, all became dim.

 He realized again only after opening his eyes, but it was already too late. 

 She was standing right before his eyes.

“Look at me.”

 Kim Jun, who came to his senses belatedly. 

“Oppa?”

 He tried to ignore the pitiful voice coming from behind and walked forward, but. 

“You can’t go like this…”

 The succubus in her form kept talking to him. 

“Won’t you look at me?”

 When Kim Jun didn’t turn around despite her continued advances.

Saraak-

 Soon, those with identical appearances. 

 No, to be precise, with only identical faces.

 Multiple versions of her in different forms blocked Kim Jun’s path.

 The one in jeans and a white t-shirt tied her hair up high and raised her arms.

 The subtle lines of her abs were revealed beneath her collar.

 The one with long straight hair, wearing a black turtleneck and beige long coat.

 Her shy smile with slightly raised corners of her mouth and lowered head strangely made his heart thump.

 The one in a white blouse and black skirt tucked her hair behind one ear with a pouty expression.

 The collarbone visible between the unbuttoned gaps made Kim Jun feel precarious.

 The one wearing a hoodie much too big for her frame like a college freshman.

 She was bouncing around with her hands hidden in the sleeves, puffing out one cheek.

 The one in blue shorts and a baggy white shirt that looked stolen from Kim Jun was smiling innocently.

“Hmm? Why are you looking at me like that?”

 That appearance was so… that. 

 A smile formed on Kim Jun’s face without him knowing.

“…”

 Gulp-

 Kim Jun swallowed.

 And lastly.

 The line was so precarious.

 The one wearing only a black bikini was looking at Kim Jun with flushed cheeks.

“Huuuuuuuu.”

 Kim Jun’s body began trembling like an aspen tree.

 Multiple versions of her simultaneously grabbed Kim Jun and desperately blocked his way.

 On his left arm, on his right arm.

 And groping all over his body.

“Oppa, don’t go…”

“Stay here…”

“Don’t leave me behind…”

 The voices overlapped.

 Pitiful, desperate, yearning.

‘Let me get my head straight.’

 Kim Jun steeled his resolve again.

 This wasn’t the time to be caught by such illusions.

 Even at this moment, time was flowing, and there were mountains of things to do.

“Oppa… why?”

“What did I do wrong?”

 The voices sobbed.

“Don’t go!”

 The hands pulled him back more forcefully.

 Kim Jun’s body was dragged backward, but he gritted his teeth and pushed forward with all his might, continuing to hold onto his sanity.

 And this time he didn’t close his eyes either.

 Instead, he opened them wide.

 He looked straight at the ‘hers’ in her form.

 At first, it was too difficult.

 His heart raced, his breathing became labored, and he wanted to look away.

 Watching them seduce him with her beautiful face, her sweet voice, her enchanting appearance.

 Enduring that was too difficult.

 However.

‘You’re not her.’

 The more he looked, the clearer it became.

‘You all are absolutely not her.’

 The look in their eyes is different.

 Their way of speaking is different.

 Their atmosphere is different.

 They could imitate her similarly, but they could never be exactly the same.

 Fakes are just fakes.

 And seeing these fakes paradoxically made him miss the real one more.

 The real her.

 The real her voice.

 The real her laughter.

 He wanted to feel the real her warmth.

 Of course, he had never seen her smile so brightly before. 

‘Right.’

 Kim Jun’s eyes changed.

 The wavering disappeared.

 He became resolute.

 He couldn’t stop here.

 He had to become even stronger so that no one could touch them.

 He had to kill that arrogant bastard who called himself the ‘Almighty’ on the 100th Floor along with his companions.

 He had to bring down this damn Tower so that all the people on Earth could live safely.

 And when that peaceful day came in the distant future.

 Then he wanted to live with her, laughing together with all his companions.

 He dreamed of such a future.

 He wanted to create such a future.

 That was the reason Kim Jun lived again, the reason Kim Jun had a beating heart again, and the reason Kim Jun regained his humanity.

 To Kim Jun who had steeled such resolve.

“Look at me…”

 Now this level of temptation was.

“Please… look back at me…”

 Nothing at all.

 One step.

 Kim Jun moved forward.

 ‘They’ clung to him, but Kim Jun didn’t waver.

 Another step.

“No!”

 ‘They’ desperately pulled at him, but Kim Jun’s steps didn’t stop.

 Another step.

 Another step.

 He continued moving only forward.

“Kim Jun!”

 A scream-like cry.

 But Kim Jun didn’t look back.

 He didn’t look behind.

 He only looked ahead.

 Toward the exit.

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 The illusions’ hands released one by one.

Their strength drained away.

 Before Kim Jun’s firm will, temptation no longer worked.

 One step.

 Another step.

 Ten steps.

 Twenty steps.

 And then.

Kwaaaaang-!

 Brilliant light poured out.

 Intense light that could be felt even with eyes closed.

 Warm light.

 It was the exit.

 Kim Jun walked into that light.

 The voices completely disappeared.

 Instead, a system notification rang out.

[Basement 7th Floor ‘Dungeon of Lust’ cleared successfully!]

“Phewwww. Almost got screwed.”

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