Chapter 676 – The Ark
“I had a hard time today.”
“Whoa… Are you really a monster?”
Seong-il’s team succeeded in removing all contaminants and destroying the core in just 4 hours after entering the C-class dungeon.
Yoon Tae-hee, who is carrying the pieces of the destroyed core, puts on a tired expression as she recalls Dan Seong-il’s performance in crushing enemies with her overwhelming physical ability.
“It was an ordinary dungeon with nothing difficult.”
“…What did you say? I think the number of crazy machines there is a thousand.”
“Okay. Let’s go back. Human hunters might come because of the core destruction wave.”
“…”
Seong-il had no intention of arguing with the other team members about clearing the dungeon, which has now become a daily routine, so he cut Yoon Tae-hee’s words like a knife.
『Seongil! Did you come out? I’ve done what you asked me to do! Did I do well?』
‘OK.’
Seong-il, who responded with thoughts to the doll of the creator who seemed to be waiting for his return, listened briefly to his report and reverse-summoned the doll back to the inventory.
“Then see you again!”
Seong-il returns to the ark and visits the Under Hunter Association to finish the mission report. Then he bids farewell to his temporary colleagues.
“Ahyeon-ah, you go in first. I’ll go back after seeing the team from Yoo Jun-gyeong.”
“Okay.”
Seong-il makes an excuse to send Ah-hyeon to the dorm first, then puts his hand in her clothes and secretly opens the inventory.
‘Where… Should I check the spatial coordinates…?’
Seong-il starts walking around the ark pretending to take a walk with the branch of Weedgrassil he took out from his inventory.
Then, he uses invisibility to hide himself in a proud and safe place he found through empathy.
‘Let’s see… Shall we find the spatial coordinates…?’
Seong-il tries to inject power into the branch of Widgrassil using the sensor and augmented reality.
‘Oh… I can feel it…!’
Then, Seong-il could feel the response of the Weedgrass branch she was holding and the branch she hid in the basement of Seoul.
“…!!”
However, after a while, she felt an unpleasant sensation through the sensitivity. She instinctively realizes that the power of Widgrasil she used touched the Ark’s dimensional defense system.
‘Let’s bounce…!!’
She quickly stuffed the branches of her Weed Grassil into her inventory while Seong-il quickly hid her body using an inner plane.
‘Whoa… It’s dangerous?’
Since it is under serious threat from an alien invasion, the ark seemed to have a strong guard against invading outer space.
‘The Inner Plane is a skill that goes inside me, not the outside, so it didn’t really catch me, but since the branches of Weedgrassil exert their influence in the form of projecting power from the outside, it seems to be causing problems.’
Seong-il feels that in the worst case, he will be able to break into or escape the ark at least once, but it will be difficult twice.
‘In addition, it would be easy to get out of here, but it would be several times harder to penetrate.’
Seong-il knew that the ark continuously changed spatial coordinates in real time to prevent outside invasion.
Because of this, not only does it take more time for the branch of Widgrassil to penetrate space and create a portal, but it is also thought that the branch may be discovered and destroyed in the process.
‘Infiltration is risky, so if possible, I’ll use the power of the branch of Widgrassil to escape in case of emergency.’
‘In case you didn’t know, I’ve placed the dolls of the Creator nearby, so there won’t be any problems with the alibi, right?’
Seong-il, who has perfectly secured his safety, spends time taking a break while meditating for a while on the inner plane.
***
‘Should I go?’
Seongil spent about two hours on the Inner Plain. When he seems to have had enough time, he strikes the fortune teller’s gold coin to see if his return is safe.
‘It’s the front. Shall we go?’
When the gold coin points to the positive, Seong-il returns to the ark with the transparent force field of Chrono Shield activated.
‘Fate change…!!’
When Seong-il arrives at the ark, he sees that hunters have arrived and are investigating the area where he used the branch of Weed Grassil.
‘For now, change your appearance to a transparent state and jump out! Then come near me! I’ll reverse summon you!’
“Huh!”
At Seong-il’s command, the doll of the Creator changes its appearance to Giovanni, the boss of the Hyper group that he met in the Pocket Girls world, and quickly tries to leave the place by flashing the magic mark.
“Hmm?! There’s someone…!!”
Despite the state of using invisibility, among the hunters who came out to investigate, a man with sensory-type abilities looked in the direction of the doll of the Creator and shouted in a sharp voice.
‘Messenger! Help the alter ego!’
In order to prevent the capture of the doll of the Creator as much as possible, Seong-il orders the messenger of destruction to help him.
‘First of all, I run away to a place as far as possible from the lodging where I’m staying…!!’
Concerned that he might be caught, Seong-il quickly tries to run away from the dorm.
In such a situation, the alter ego of the Creator, who shares the spirit of Seong-il, moderately avoids the pursuit and follows Seong-il.
“Damn…!! Doesn’t he constantly space-jump while invisible?! What the hell is that bastard?!”
“He’s a guy who uses shadows to space-jump! Turn on the light and remove the shadows!!”
Like seasoned hunters, they quickly read the behavior patterns of their Maker clone and try to capture him.
“Kukkeuk…!! Just me with that?”
After laughing at the hunters, the alter ego in the form of Giovanni quickly escapes the encirclement as if mocking the hunters by using magic imprint flashing.
『Seongil! I came within 1km of your neighborhood! What should I do now?』
‘Messenger! Shadow jump with my shadow!’
Seong-il sends a messenger to the cry of the alter ego of the Creator, and quickly moves him to his shadow.
‘Reverse Summon…!’
At the same time, he reverse summons the Creator’s doll, hides it in his inventory, and calmly enters the Under Hunter Association.
Whoa… I’ve been outcast.’
Seong-il breathes a sigh of relief after confirming that he managed to evade the Under Hunter’s pursuit by bouncing the fortune teller’s gold coin.
‘Unless it’s a really dangerous situation, I’d rather not use space-type secret techniques.’
Through today’s experience, Seong-il realizes that escaping with the power of Widgrasil is an act that should not be done unless it is the worst case.
‘…I guess I’ll only use it if the ark won’t release me. If you let me be nice, I’ll do it to leave room for a one-time break-in in case you don’t know.’
Seong-il, who has succeeded in getting insurance in case anything goes wrong, quietly moves to his lodging, wiping off his cold sweat.
***
“Hey!! Supernova!!”
“…What is it? That old man’s expression?”
“I’m an old man right?”
“…”
A few weeks later, Seong-il, who cleared the C-level dungeon to obtain cores for the game master as always, returned to the ark and met Yoo Jun-kyung and Min Ye-jin, who were waiting for him.
“Do you really hate aliens? If only a C or lower dungeon mission appears, they apply for it and destroy it like crazy?”
“Well, there are things like that.”
“Hmm~ Is there another reason?”
Min Ye-jin listens to Seong-il’s answer and asks him a question with a mysterious expression.
“Yes. In order to leave the ark, you have to achieve at least A grade. You have to meet the conditions to grow quickly and leave.”
“…You really want to leave?”
Min Ye-jin’s expression darkens slightly as her holy day seems to seriously set the goal of leaving the ark.
“Well, that’s what it means. After achieving rank A, the true purpose of the ark is shared, and if you like the plan, you may not leave.”
“Hmm…”
Although Seong-il leaves room for room, Ye-jin Min and Jun-kyung Yoo slightly turn their heads and look at each other as they strongly feel that they still do not trust them.
“Well… It’s good that there’s room. Anyway! What do you think of the cooperation with the experiment I told you about the other day?”
“Never.”
The people of the Under Hunter Association, including Yu Jun-kyung, were keeping an eye on Seong-il, who was growing terrifyingly recently.
They wanted to observe the power of Seong-il, who even possessed the ability to destroy psionic life for the first time as a body-enhancing ability, and had already sought cooperation from Seong-il for experiments several times.
“No…Don’t do that! You said you’d give me a generous reward?”
Yoo Jun-gyeong holds on to Seong-il, who refuses with a single knife, and tries to persuade him somehow. However, Seong-il, who, of course, had no intention of cooperating with the experiment that might reveal his secret, coldly cuts off his words.
“Why am I cooperating with an organization that doesn’t even know what its purpose is?”
“Th… But we saved you.”
“Yes. So in return, you’re frantically solving the missions given to you by the ark, right? If you don’t like that, would you send me outside?”
“Hmm…”
“Did I ask you to bring me to the ark? Or did I ask you to rescue me? To be honest, I have no regrets about life here. I could leave right now if you give me permission.”
“…”
Yoo Jun-kyung and Min Ye-jin look at Seong-il with puzzled expressions at Seong-il’s answer.
“Don’t do that…!! Please consider it from the point of view of victory~”
Two people trying to persuade Seong-il somehow. However, Seong-il repeatedly cuts like a knife, saying that he does not want to entrust his body to an organization whose purpose is unknown.
“Sheesh! What are you trying to coax a kid like that into? You can just subdue him and experiment.”
As if he didn’t like the two cringing Hunters and Seongil’s attitude, one A-rank Hunter who followed them sarcastically said in a sharp tone.
“What is this bastard?”
And Seong-il, who heard the unknown hunter’s sarcasm, glared at the hunter with a lethal breath.
“Huh? There’s nothing to see that the young bastard is doing well these days, right?”
When the kid, who at best is only a B-class hunter, swears at himself, the A-rank hunter looks at Seong-il and projects silent power along with swear words.
“Fishik… Do you want to die?”
Seong-il recognizes that the force is a gravitational field through response, and uses his internal energy to resist the force.
“This bastard…”
Despite restraining his body by projecting a gravitational field on Seongil, as he casually ignores the gravitational field and approaches him, the A-class hunter continues to speak harsh words with a distorted expression.
“The cheeky snout is more teased. It’s a foolish cub.
“Kuh…!!”
Seong-il, who spat out vicious words, quickly approached the A-rank hunter using the steps of the Cheong-Ik-shin method he learned from Cheong Myung-jin not long ago, then reached out and violently grabbed his neck.
“Han Seong-il!!”
“What. What to do. Didn’t you see this bastard teasing his snout?”
Seong-il does not let go of his eyes despite Yu Jun-kyung’s disapproval and squeezes the neck of the unknown hunter even more strongly.
“Kek… Kek!!”
“Are you a fucking bastard who just believes in the gravitational field? Use more strength, bastard.”
In fact, the A-class hunter tries to project a strong gravitational field on him in order to somehow escape from Seong-il. As a result, the ground around Seongil’s feet begins to dent or break due to the tyrannical gravity.
“You want to try more? Fuck you? If you don’t use more strength, you’ll break your neck?”
However, Seong-il, who has strengthened his body like a monster with internal energy, casually receives the tremendous power and begins to apply more power to his grip.
“Stop!! Are you going to enmity with the Ark? If you hurt him, we can’t protect you either!!”
Min Ye-jin, seeing Seong-il’s runaway, dissuades Seong-il with a puzzled expression.
“If you run into me outside, know how to turn around.”
At Min Ye-jin’s words, Seong-il threatens the A-rank hunter with a murderous voice and then calmly releases his collar.
“Khehe… Khehe…!!”
“Jang Iljun!! Are you okay?”
“Khehe… Does it look okay? What are you doing!! Not subduing that bastard.”
Damn!!!
Rather than reflecting, Hunter’s cry of Jang Il-jun, who came out with a red flag, eventually caused Min Ye-jin to explode, so she swung her hand and slashed his cheek.
“이 좆만한 개새끼야. 눈에 뵈는 게 없지? 내 손에 뒈져볼래?”
“…”
When Hunter, who had been promoted to S rank a while ago, spit out curses at himself and slapped his cheek, Jang Il-joon, who was beaten by Seong-il and was filled with anger, feels a flash of consciousness.
“…”
“Behave right, kid. If you leave the person in charge and tease your tongue more arrogantly, I’ll cut off your tongue with my own hands.”
‘Oh. My sister’s personality is brutal.’
When Min Ye-jin, who treats her partner in a cheerful way, threatens Jang Il-joon with her uncharacteristically harsh tone, Seong-il looks at her with an interesting expression.
Jang Il-joon quietly shuts his mouth and is silent, as if he is despondent at the sight of Min Ye-jin, who wants to live with him.
“Yeah~ Calm down. I’ll educate you well, so be patient.”
“Whoa… I understand, so shut your mouth. Hey. Iljun Jang! Get out of my sight. Before I kill you.”
“…”
Perhaps Jang Il-joon felt threatened by Min Ye-jin’s bloody appearance, which he could not normally see, and he obediently turned his back and moved to the association.
“…Sorry.”
“No. It’s okay. The one who was slaughtered is that bastard anyway.”
“Haa… Anyway, I want you to think seriously about cooperation. As you know, a lot can change if a body-enhancing power can subdue a psionic monster.”
“Become a Class A Hunter. I’ll consider it when I hear of the Ark’s true plan. But, not now.”
“Haa… I see.”
Seeing Seong-il’s determined tone, Ye-jin Min gives up her persuasion as if she can’t help it.
“Then see you next time!”
“Yes~!”
As Seong-il leaves, Min Ye-jin reaches out to her and rubs her forehead, speaking to Yoo Jun-kyung in an annoyed tone.
“If it wasn’t for the sudden behavior of the fuckin’ bastard Il-Jun Jang, I would have been able to stick to him more firmly and persuade him…”
“…I’ll educate you well, just be patient.”
“Yeah. I’d better do it right. Otherwise, I’ll really kill you with my own hands.”
“…”
Seeing Min Ye-jin getting angry for the first time in a long time, Yoo Jun-kyung looks embarrassed and quietly turns her back and goes to her Hunter Association.
