chapter 12
Taejeong, who returned home, felt proud inside and connected to the Hunter community.
Now that I’ve graduated, it’s time to go to a higher level dungeon.
He had no hesitation when he acquired new skills and weapons.
“Let’s see. Where would be good?”
There were three upper dungeons in the Rocky Mountains, one in the same gate and one in the field.
The underground caves of White Level and Ground Blue spread all over the country.
However, Tae-jung was thinking of skipping all of this.
This is because fields and porters have to be accompanied, which incurs costs, and in the case of underground caves, there was no big difference in earnings.
“There is also a flamethrower. It’ll be worth trying up to Blue 1.”
The place Taejeong thought of was the Great Plain of Asilius, which belongs to the lowest level of the Blue Gate.
As of right now, it’s the only place I can rub it in.
[The Great Plains of Asilius.]
[The attack power is strong, but the defense power is weak.]
[If the combination is well equipped, even E-rank (60 or more) hunters can attack.]
[only. Asilius, the great warrior of the plains, beware of D-class (90 or higher) or lower.]
[The main items are… … .]
While looking through the dungeon information, Taejeong ran the calculations in her head.
Although he was level 40 and belonged to the F grade, he played with the rocky mountains by himself, so it was safe to say that he was in the E rank in terms of combat power.
The problem is the party combination.
He already had more than one party firepower.
The problem is that there are no buffers and healers, but that’s about it.
After looking carefully at the reviews for a while, he went to bed early for tomorrow’s hunt.
the next morning.
Tae-jeong drove to Mia-dong to visit the dungeon she had seen yesterday.
Mia-dong was one of the few open hunting grounds left in Korea.
A public hunting ground is a place that is not owned by the government or guild.
Usually, blue gates have owners, but in the case of the Great Plains, there was no guild that dared to take it because the class was ambiguous.
So, this was the last hunting ground where non-affiliated hunters could freely roam.
“The car is running too fast.”
The road started to become congested shortly after leaving the house.
I thought it would be a simple traffic jam, but the car had already been tied up for more than ten minutes.
Not even thinking about moving at all, he turned on the radio out of boredom.
[Currently, the Sillim-dong area is paralyzed. A movement portal opened in the city center. This is probably the last 3 years at Yongsan Station, right? Currently, it is being cleaned up by the surrounding guilds, but it is judged that it will take some time to recover. Hansando is taking this situation… … .]
“what? Could it be that it happened again?”
There are several types of portals on Earth.
A dungeon-type portal called a gate.
An indungeon type portal called Recall.
A national war portal called World War.
Territory War portal called Guild Wars.
And the most dangerous is the moving portal that is now on the radio.
mobile portal.
It was a release type portal that was randomly formed all over the area.
This portal has the characteristic of releasing monsters to the outside as its characteristic, and even just 10 years ago, this mobile portal was actively popular in Korea.
It appeared four or five times a month and caused tremendous damage to civilians, so at the time, this was nothing short of a disaster.
of course. As a result, numerous guilds and governments prepared and prepared for countermeasures, but since the damage was done in an instant, people at the epicenter of the release had no choice but to die in droves.
However, it seems that it was not forever, and the last movement portal completely disappeared after the Seoul Station incident three years ago.
But now it has appeared again.
“There must be an uproar.”
At the time of the incident three years ago, Taejeong was nearby, so I actually saw the scene of the damage.
Countless bodies strewn about, crumbling buildings, and debris filling the roads after being smashed.
At the time, the shock left him unable to eat for a week.
The scene itself was horrific.
“It will be a big deal if this starts again.”
If all other portals are for Awoken only, this transit portal will damage everyone, Hunter civilians alike.
Because you don’t know when and where you will be attacked, civilians with no ability have no choice but to suffer.
That meant that his younger sister, So-yeong, could be in danger.
School was not a problem.
All schools in the metropolitan area are protected by the government.
The same was true of major downtown areas and building districts.
The problem was the residential area.
This area is so wide that the government could not touch it individually.
Local guilds are helping, but the reality is that they lack manpower.
Since it could lead to a catastrophe if not responded immediately, So-yeong could not guarantee safety either.
“I need to make money quickly and move to a safe place.”
About an hour passed like that, and the detour gradually began to open.
It took a long time to go back, but he turned the car on without hesitation.
This is because if the road was damaged in half, the chances of it being restored within today were slim.
Taejeong, who passed through here and there like a slug, barely got out of Sillim-dong, and arrived at Miari Hill, her destination.
A brilliant blue gate visible in the distance.
He parked his car nearby and looked at the cars parked nearby.
One car and one van.
I couldn’t tell if it was the hunter’s vehicle, but it didn’t matter if I got hit.
Considering the size of the dungeon, there would be very few encounters.
“Then, where should we go?”
* * *
Bukhansan White Gate.
There was a group of people just entering the Rocky Mountains.
Hunters appeared with heavy armaments from head to toe.
They were a reconnaissance team belonging to the Myeongdo Hallasan Guild in Korea.
“Where did you say it was?”
At the words of Cha Min-soo, the leader of the reconnaissance team, Adjutant Park Jung-min opened the map and pointed to a place.
“It is said that it is spread all over from the entrance to this point, so I think you can see it while going up slowly.”
“great. Let’s spread out as wide as possible and climb up.”
Cha Min-su, who was climbing the mountain range with his teammates, happened to hear a story from a guild member who had been hunting at night.
It was about someone intentionally putting a raft in the dungeon.
It’s a low-level dungeon, so I tried to just listen to it and pass it on, but there was something uneasy about it.
‘There were more than a thousand carcasses with holes in their heads.’
‘The ogre’s head was blown off entirely.’
‘There were a lot of people who died more brutally than necessary.’
As soon as Cha Min-soo, who has a lot of bones in hunting, heard the story, he realized that this incident was by no means common.
That would be the case, no matter how high the level was, there weren’t many jobs that could hunt through their heads.
There are many penetration skills, but if you set them based on the size of the orc’s head, the range will be greatly reduced.
Is there a level of Wizard’s magic missile?
For the rest of the skills, it would be more accurate to say blow away rather than pierce.
It was because the scale of the magic was much bigger than the head of an orc.
However, there was no idiot who could take the magic missile, an unpopular attribute magic, to that extent.
However, if you take a magic missile with one mana to the extreme to pierce the head of an orc, you will not be able to take the other powerful skills.
That is, something was out of the ordinary.
‘I hope my guess is correct.’
Shortly after starting off, a cry was heard from a team member who was searching the front.
“manager! Here it is!”
Cha Min-soo hurriedly ran to his cry.
Then you see a grim sight.
Well over a hundred orcs were lying down with grotesque features.
“Well.”
As the guild members said, all the dead bodies of the orcs had their heads pierced.
Park Jung-min, who was watching the scene together, muttered with his chin resting.
“Is it really strange? I’ve seen lots of heads cut off, but this is the first time I’ve seen one like this.”
“It doesn’t seem like the magic missile we expected.”
“Yes? No matter how small the magic missile is, it would be impossible to pierce the eyeball like this.”
The condition of the corpse was more bizarre than heard.
Orcs whose eyes were dug into and the back of their heads pierced.
No matter how small the Magic Missile was, it wasn’t this small.
Besides, another corpse placed on the other side was telling me that it was definitely not a magic missile.
Dead orcs with hundreds of dots all over their bodies.
It was a wound that was difficult to create with a single-shot magic missile.
‘It’s the same penetrating wound. Even the guys here have been attacked at least hundreds of times. How did you do it? With normal skills, it’s impossible… Perhaps.’
Cha Min-soo, who was thinking, asked Park Jung-min.
“Have you ever heard of Tanji Shintong?”
“Can you not know? Isn’t it an unmanned class skill with only four people in the world? I hope this is… … .”
“I’ve never seen it myself. But I can’t really think of a job that can do this. It’s a technology I’ve never seen before.”
Park Jung-min, who nodded at his words, opened his mouth as if he remembered something.
“Then wouldn’t there also be an archer? If you use English poetry… … .”
“An archer? Oh, come to think of it, an archer’s clairvoyance might be able to pierce such a small hole.”
As they were making their guesses, a voice rang through the communication port.
-manager! Here’s something strange. It is 27.339 northeast.
They started moving again at the team member’s report and soon found the bodies of orcs and trolls with only bones remaining.
“This. Well.”
Cha Min-soo spat and fixed his eyes on the floor.
The blackened, burnt floor spread out in a fan shape.
It was clear that something had swept the place.
“It’s fire magic. And that’s on a fairly high level… … .”
“What is this? If it’s fire magic in this range, I think it’ll be C-class, no more?”
“It seems like blast-type magic, but I don’t understand it. Why is someone who can use this level of magic in a place like this… What do you think?”
“What do you mean?”
“I mean this situation.”
“Well. If all of this happened at the same time, it appears that at least two people moved together. One of them must be at least a C-class mage. the other one… To be honest, I’m not very good at judging. But if you’re a warrior or an archer, as you said at least once, this is a huge boon. Those two are hidden classes that do not exist in Korea yet.”
“right. And if they are recruited, our guild can rise to the top tier at once.”
“Then what should we do now?”
“It’s not certain, so I’ll mobilize only the members of the reconnaissance team and search all the gates throughout Seoul. The level doesn’t seem to be that high yet, so you should arrange them mainly in white and blue. Anyway, the number of people who go to Red Ya is limited… Let you take charge of it.”
“All right. I will do it as soon as I return.”
“I hope I’m right… … .”