The Returned Hunter Has Awakened to a Hidden Class - Chapter 98

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Chapter 98

Hostility (5)

 No one could have predicted it.

 That the guild master of the Blue Dragon Guild, once South Korea’s greatest guild, would become a criminal hunting fellow humans.

 And this much. 

Kwagagagagagaga-!

 That he would be this strong.

 The sound of air being torn apart echoed. The red moon in the sky rotated, sucking everything in.

“Ugh…!”

 A tank from the Buyeo Guild gripped a rock and held on, but his fingers slipped as his skin peeled and blood flowed.

“I can’t… anymore…!”

 Another guild member screamed and trembled all over, his legs beginning to lift into the air.

“Just hold on a little longer! The guild master will do something!”

 Someone shouted, but their voice trembled without conviction.

‘What in the world is this situation.’

 Humanity’s worldview had expanded with the appearance of Gates and Hunters.

 The realm of imagination became reality, magic and monsters existed, and those with superhuman abilities appeared.

 Third-generation Hunters had already seen much.

 Hunters who flew through the sky, Hunters who destroyed mountains in one blow, Hunters who reversed death.

 They had adapted to superhuman power, their threshold for amazement had risen.

 Because they themselves used such power.

 Nevertheless.

 The scene before their eyes now, even they could dare to say.

‘It transcends imagination.’

 「Moon of Predation」.

 Han Seo-jin’s ultimate skill, activated by offering 100 devoured souls as sacrifice. 

Kwagagagaga-!

 It was catastrophe itself.

 The moon’s size had grown twice as large as initially, and continued to grow.

 It neither dimmed nor weakened.

 Having paid the price with life force, unless the caster stopped it, that blood-red moon would never cease.

 Rather, it kept getting stronger and stronger.

“Kyaaaah!”

 With a scream, someone floated into the air.

 A comrade reached out but couldn’t reach them.

 Even those trying to help kept rising high into the sky, being sucked into the red moon.

“Save meee!”

 With a final scream, they disappeared into the moon.

 Silence flowed, and no one could speak.

 A comrade had died, devoured by that moon.

 And at that moment.

Kwaaaaa-!

 The moon shone brighter, grew larger, and its suction became stronger.

‘When it eats people… it gets stronger!’

 What kind of power was this? 

 What kind of mechanism did this power operate on?

 Yu Gi-ha was horrified.

 Even if a Hunter’s power was superhuman, Hunters shared their own physical laws. 

 But that moon.

‘I can’t understand it at all.’

 The moon’s area of influence had long since exceeded this place.

 Far away, very far away.

 It was affecting other regions beyond the [Shadow Land].

“What’s this wind?”

“It feels like something’s being sucked away?”

“Is it a typhoon? No, this is strange. It’s getting stronger!”

 The voices of other Hunters could be heard from afar. Terrified, they too were being sucked toward the red moon one by one.

“「Hard as Steel」!”

 Yu Gi-ha desperately activated his buff.

 A skill that increased guild members’ weight and made them take root in the ground.

 However.

“Let’s see how long you can hold out. Kuhahahaha!”

 Han Seo-jin laughed madly.

 He was relaxed.

 With his arms crossed, as if watching a show.

“Kyaaaah!”

 Someone screamed.

“Please… I don’t want to die like this…”

 She wailed. She flailed her hands in the air. She tried to grab anything. But nothing was within reach.

 The Hunter beside her squeezed his eyes shut. 

 He tried not to watch his comrade dying.

“Please save me!”

 He wanted to cover his ears. He didn’t want to hear the screams.

 Please, anyone but me. Anyone but me.

 With such desperate hope, he clung to the rock.

“Uaaaah!”

Kwagagagagagaga-!!

 The moon brightened once more, even more intensely.

 Brilliantly, very brilliantly. It illuminated the surroundings like daylight.

 There were many people here.

 Excluding the dead…

 Yu Gi-ha and 10 Buyeo Guild members. Choi Do-heon and his 3 companions. And dozens of Hunters from other guilds who had been hunting nearby.

 All together, there were over 50 people.

 They were all desperately holding on.

 Gripping rocks, clutching trees, holding each other’s hands, lying flat on the ground.

 Some prayed. Some cried. Some simply kept their eyes closed.

 And there was only one reason they were still alive.

 Yu Gi-ha.

 Buyeo Guild master Yu Gi-ha’s group buff was sustaining all these people.

 He increased their weight with 「Hard as Steel」. He fixed them to the ground with 「Roots of Earth」. He strengthened their mental fortitude with 「Shout of Will」.

 Three buffs simultaneously. On over 50 people. 

“Nearly at your limit?”

 Han Seo-jin looked at Yu Gi-ha with a smile on his lips. He was relaxed. Not rushed at all.

“Just let go. Die peacefully.”

“Cough-!”

 Yu Gi-ha coughed up blood. Red blood dripped onto the ground.

 His body was breaking down from excessive buff usage.

‘How much… time has passed?’

 Yu Gi-ha thought in his hazy consciousness.

 12 hours.

 A full 12 hours.

 More than half a day had already passed.

 It had been over 12 hours since Han Seo-jin activated the “Devouring Moon.”

 At first, there were over 100 people. But now only about 50 remained.

 Half had died.

 During this time, Yu Gi-ha hadn’t rested for even a single moment, maintaining his buffs.

 For dozens of people. Not caring that his own body was breaking down.

‘…If I stop the skill.’

 More people would have died. Perhaps they all would have been sucked away within the first hour.

 But now he was at his limit.

 Blood flowed from his nose. From his ears too. From his eyes as well. 

 Blood overflowed from every opening. His clothes were soaked with blood.

 His body trembled like an aspen tree. His legs wobbled. His vision blurred.

 He felt like he would collapse at any moment.

 His strength was draining away. Gradually, faster and faster.

 The effect of his buffs was also weakening. They were 30% weaker than at the start.

 That’s why people were being sucked away more easily.

‘Not yet… not yet…’

 Yu Gi-ha gritted his teeth. The inside of his mouth tore. He tasted blood.

 But his body was honest. It screamed that it couldn’t endure any longer. Every cell cried out in pain.

 He had to protect the guild members. He had to save everyone here.

 That was the duty of the strong. That was the path he had chosen.

 Those with power must protect those without.

 That was a Hunter’s duty. That was a guild leader’s responsibility.

 But.

‘How. How can I stop that moon?’

 Yu Gi-ha cried out. In his heart.

 He couldn’t attack it. That moon high in the sky. A place he couldn’t even reach.

 He couldn’t escape either. The suction force was too strong. If he released his buffs, he would be sucked away immediately.

 He couldn’t even resist properly. All he could do was make people die slowly.

 There was no way. No matter how much he thought, no answer came. His mind went blank.

 Despair washed over him. Like fierce waves crushing his chest.

 It was gloomy. Everything around was dark.

 He couldn’t see hope. There was no light. 

 There was no exit.

‘Is this… the end…’

 Yu Gi-ha squeezed his eyes shut.

 Would he die like this, without even mounting a proper attack, just struggling and ultimately dying? Without accomplishing anything.

‘Will someone… will someone come?’

 A faint hope arose.

 But reality immediately crushed that hope.

 Even if someone came, would they be strong enough? If Heukho Guild’s twin brothers Park Cheol-min and Park Cheol-su came? Could their combined attack destroy that moon?

 Or what about Taebaek Guild’s Kang Dong-hyeok? If he came, the one called South Korea’s greatest strength, could he crush Han Seo-jin?

‘No… it won’t work.’

 Yu Gi-ha shook his head. In his mind.

 No matter who he considered, no answer emerged.

 He couldn’t think of anyone who could defeat the strengthened Han Seo-jin. That terrible “Devouring Moon.”

 Still, Yu Gi-ha kept thinking. He began chasing impossibilities.

 What if, just what if. The Heukho Guild twins came.

 If Kang Dong-hyeok came. And if he poured out all his remaining mana to give maximum buffs.

‘Somehow… wouldn’t it work?’

 It was desperate hope. A frantic prayer.

 But.

Kwagagagagaga-!

 Reality continued to mock him.

“…Tsk.”

 Yu Gi-ha clicked his tongue.

 They weren’t here. Neither Heukho Guild nor Taebaek Guild.

 He had confirmed a few days ago that they had already moved to the 19th Floor. 

 The other Large Guilds were the same. They would all be hunting on the 19th Floor, 20th Floor.

 Here, on the 18th Floor, there was no one. At least no one who could resolve this situation.

‘That person would be even less likely to be here.’

 The man Yu Gi-ha thought of was.

‘Kim Jun.’

 The guild leader of Han Guild. The man who shook South Korea’s Hunter world.

 In Yu Gi-ha’s judgment, the notifications that rang out each time announcing the first clear of a new floor were surely Kim Jun’s doing.

 He had recognized his strength long ago. 

 Hadn’t he taken on and cleared all those Red Gates that every guild, even himself, had avoided? 

 And recently, news of clearing the 30th Floor had already rung out. 

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[Hunter-wide Notice]

– First Tower 30th Floor Clear Achieved!

– Conqueror : [Identity Undisclosed]

– Clear Reward : “Everlasting Flower”

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 Like that.

‘He’s even less likely to come.’

 Kim Jun was probably climbing even higher by now, wasn’t he?

 Or somewhere else, in places ordinary Hunters don’t reach.

 Far away, in unreachable places.

‘I’m really weak, aren’t I.’

 Help wouldn’t come. There was no salvation.

 Yu Gi-ha opened his eyes again. They were filled with despair. 

“Kruuuu…”

 He was slowly reaching his limit. 

 His mana potions were depleted too. 

 With no more mana to replenish, he could no longer maintain his buffs. 

 Even the mana he had scraped together using his life force as collateral was now at its end. 

 When he could barely manage his own body, maintaining buffs for others was even more difficult. 

Seuruk-

 His strength gave out.

Thud-

 Yu Gi-ha’s knees buckled.

 He couldn’t endure any longer. The strength left his legs.

Thud-

 His knees hit the ground.

 At that moment.

“Guild Master!”

“No!”

 The buff was cut off.

“Aaaaaargh!”

 The Hunters were sucked in. Simultaneously, dozens of them.

 They floated into the air. Toward the red Moon.

“I’m… sorry…”

 Yu Gi-ha’s body also floated up. Helplessly.

 Everything was over.

 Just when he had given up on everything.

Shriiiiiiiiiiiiek-!!

 Something was coming toward this place.

 Splitting the sky in two.

 Like a meteor collision.

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