Chapter 139- Trauma (9)
Chapter 139- Trauma (9)
“Here. Get on.”
“I hope it ends as soon as possible.”
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I’m worried, but I can’t just sit in front of a pot all day. After work, as promised yesterday, I met Dongchun Kim again and got into his car.
Really entering the dungeon again. I thought it was nothing special, but when it came to reality, I got nervous and my heart was pounding.
“I told you yesterday, but it really won’t be a big deal.”
“I know. I just have to go home and do something.”
As if he had guessed what I was thinking, he glanced at me as to why he had planned this in the first place.
So I had to reassure him in reverse. I decided not to run away from the trauma of the past anymore, and I decided to attribute the strange anxiety that remained in my heart to the flowerpot that had not yet finished fighting the parasitic bees.
“We are almost there.”
In the end, the vehicle, which rolled its wheels hard and escaped from the outskirts of the city, started heading toward a deserted mountain area. An ordinary place with only factories and restaurants that have closed after work on both sides of the road.
But there is a dungeon here. If necessary, monsters will pop out, so it’s a place where you have to attack and destroy the core as soon as possible.
“Chief!”
“Everyone get ready. Let’s go right in.”
After that, a few minutes after getting off the vehicle and climbing the mountain, people were already camped out and waiting for us at what was presumed to be the entrance to the dungeon.
The hunter team who will enter the dungeon and proceed with the attack. And it is part of the police force guarding the area.
“As you know, it is a D-class dungeon that belongs to the lower class. The company decided to entrust this job to the newly recruited and nurturing rookies. They are promising enough to compete with other companies and have skills, but as you can see… They are all young.”
“The world has become so much better.”
I laughed out loud at Kim Dongchun’s whisper.
Due to the nature of the dungeon, which is safe until it exceeds a certain number anyway, the police forces guarding this place were only two people, a middle-aged man and a young man armed with a handgun, so it is okay to skip it, but new hunters who want to enter the dungeon and fight monsters are strongly discouraged. He was young like me.
Since the academy system, which is actually part of the conscription system, and the current hunter system have settled down, newcomers usually mean hunters who have just come of age after finishing the academy.
From their innocent eyes looking at us, it doesn’t tell us what they are willing to fight with those terrible monsters for, but I, who was forced to fight in the past, couldn’t understand their actions.
“Chief, who is this?”
“Say hello lightly. This is team leader Baek Seung-chan, and this is a friend who will look after you with me today.”
Among the rookie hunters who were watching us, someone came forward as a representative and started talking to us. Kim Dong-chun introduced him as Baek Seung-chan, the leader, and skipped the introduction about me.
I think Kim Dongchun’s response was great. We enter the dungeon together, but we won’t be fighting together anyway, so there’s no need to know each other in detail.
“Is this the person?”
But whether it was because of his youthful energy or his original personality, Baek Seung-chan looked at me with doubtful eyes. I don’t know if it’s based on confidence or simple arrogance, but it seems that he has a lot of confidence in his skills.
He’s about the same height as me and has a slim face. Well, it’s worth admitting that I’m full of confidence.
“Are you unreliable because you look young? Actually, I’m only a few years older than you. But he was my comrade who fought alongside me, and his skills are certain. Don’t worry about it and think about raising your performance by fighting properly.”
“T, you said you fought together with the team leader?”
He scratched his head and laughed awkwardly when Kim Dongchun stepped forward and scolded him. Seeing that he lowered his tail right away, it seemed that Kim Dong-chun, who looked tough and tough, had strong control over the team.
“Don’t worry too much. Aren’t they all like that at that age? Besides, he’s a promising kid. Awakening a special power that was different from others, and growing up receiving attention from the academy since childhood. I also cover the media, and then there’s nothing strange about hearing a lot of nonsense.”
“I didn’t.”
“You, your circumstances are different.”
Kim Dong-choon, who saw Baek Seung-chan go back to his teammates and laugh and talk, sighed lightly and covered his actions as if to make an excuse to me.
I cleared my throat in embarrassment when I snorted, but in fact I really didn’t think anything of it. All I wanted was to finish it quickly, go home, hear from Serenian about the people who were there today, and observe the flower pots.
“Now we enter.”
Fortunately, everything was ready in less than 5 minutes. In the perfect evening, where even the green of the early evening had passed, we pushed our bodies into the cracks in the space with our mouths wide open.
‘I really came in.’
A tingling chill that can be felt when passing through a crack in space. A useless thought flashed through my head, wondering if the residents of Eden, who pass through the pots through the portal, feel this feeling every time.
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“It’s a small dungeon, at most a few hundred meters and dozens. Let’s all go.”
“So far, there is no problem in the front.”
As soon as the hunters entered the dungeon, they began their work diligently like a special unit assigned a mission. In a state where they still do not know the identity of the enemy that appears inside the dungeon, everyone raises their vigilance to the maximum and makes full use of the bright flashlight to illuminate the dark cave like broad daylight while keeping an eye on all directions, while the operator operating the drone launches the drone in advance. Send it out and see what’s in front of you.
“Motion detection. What is it, Cavemen?”
“I expected it, but they are pathetic.”
The enemies detected by the drones were monsters called cave mouths that looked like hairless monkeys with pale skin and skinny bodies.
It is a low-level monster that is vulnerable to bullets because it runs in groups, is cunning, and is vicious, but its only weapons are sharp claws and teeth, and it doesn’t have a hard carapace or leather.
Hunters reacted that steam was leaking against an easy opponent. From what Kim Dong-chun said, you have to achieve certain performance in a team made up of newcomers, but you will be taken to a higher team and the treatment will be that much better, so it is not impossible to dare to regret it…
“No big deal.”
Even Dongchun Kim, who was next to him, thought it was no big deal.
I couldn’t understand why he was careless while fighting monsters, but he’s been on the field the last time I left, so I’m getting used to it.
“Coming. Shoot them!”
“Save your bullets. Get some practice.”
In the ensuing head-on collision, the hunters overwhelmed the cavemen by adding the power of the firearms they brought. The dozens of monsters screaming and rushing at them were disgusting, but the difference in strength was so great that the hunters deliberately lowered their guns and dealt with them with their own abilities, saying that it was practice.
Because even Cave Maw Alpha, the leader of the Cave Maws, was cut down with a single sword by Baek Seung-chan, who pulled out his sword.
“I cared about recruiting and teaching them, but of course. Did i say You won’t sweat a drop.”
“…”
Kim Dong-chun, whose nose has risen before he knew it, seems proud of them. Well, it’s like the students he picked and taught himself, so it’s not strange that he’s proud when they show an overwhelming figure.
“Now there is nothing ahead. But I can’t see the core? Glowstone is everything.”
“I killed them all anyway, so I just have to go and find them myself.”
After the battle, the operator continued to report while exploring the room ahead with a drone. There will be no more enemies, Baek Seung-chan, the team leader, gave the order to move forward and explore the remaining space without much hesitation.
“This is strange. It really has no core.”
“It’s pretty big for its size.”
The hunters have entered the main camp of the cavemen. This empty place is a huge cavity with only a few faintly glowing glowstones embedded in it. However, there was no dungeon core that was supposed to emit the brightest light as if it were emitting radioactivity.
“Are all the by-products glowstone? No matter how low-level this is, it’s a joke. The gun rental fee alone will do everything quickly..”
Kim Dongchun is also looking around while muttering to himself. He says he works for a hunter company, and he’s already calculating profit and loss.
“Huh? What is this?”
It was then that one of the hunters found something.
In an instant, I headed to that place where everyone’s eyes were on me. It’s like a gap in the wall. Even though it is clearly shining a powerful lantern light, the dark darkness seems to suck even that light.
‘Gateway.’
I intuitively recognized its identity. I didn’t know how I knew it at the moment, but I realized it sooner or later. ‘Cause I’ve heard of that
“Be careful. There is something!”
“What the hell is that?”
At the same time, intricate patterns in dark purple began to emerge around the portal, probably in response to the power of the nearby hunter.
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“Damage!”
What suddenly appeared inside was a grinning monster with its teeth exposed, and a huge ax wielded by the monster.
The Hunter, who had been hesitant, could not avoid the ax and just stood there blankly as if his body stiffened despite the urgent cry.