Chapter 112 – Abbey, Almighty Priest
Shin Na-yeon was at the forefront of the approaching imperial guild.
Looking back at the wetlands that were burning everywhere, the black and red smoke that came from it, and the boss monster, Hydrama, who had defeated us, he made an expression of incomprehension.
You’ll feel like you’ve been cheated outright.
Although there are only 3 of us, the field has been cleared, and the Imperial Guild is late even with more members.
It was a situation that was difficult to comprehend.
“Did the three of you clear Hydra Field? Without any help?”
Shin Na-yeon seemed to be looking to see if there was an outside help she was unaware of.
A reed forest where a nine-headed hydra has fallen.
There was no one but us.
Only the people from Team B of the Empire Guild who had just joined were walking around.
“Yes, we caught the boss monster and cleared the Hydra Field.”
I answered her question.
Lee Yoo-I, excitedly watching Yeon, put her hands on her waist and raised her nose, as if proud of her, while Hong Wol-yeong looked back at her field with a leisurely smile.
“Ah, Mr. Cheonwoon. Uh, how did you clear Hydra Field with only three people? I can’t believe it even when I see it…”
Excited Na-yeon keeps looking at her left and right with her mouth open blankly.
In her opinion, an A+ grade field was not a place where we could break through in one day.
Hong Wol-young, ranked 87th, me, an ordinary S-class with no ranking, and Lee Yu-na, who is currently registered as an A-class hunter.
Even surviving in this field deserves praise, but on the contrary, I caught the boss and cleared it.
Even before the arrival of the Imperial Guild.
I saw it myself, so I have to believe it, but I couldn’t understand it, so this was the reaction.
“It’s because you haven’t seen Chun-Woon fight. How much help is Cheonwoon’s qigong treatment?”
Lee Yu-na said, sticking close to me.
Gently sticking her tongue out between her lips Excited to Yeon You don’t know? He had a look on his face.
Shin Na-yeon, who only saw Lee Yoo-na’s button popping scene as my qigong treatment.
Even as she frowned at Lee Yu-na’s provocation, she looked at me with her doubts.
“I’m going to put out the lights for now.”
“?”
“If we continue like this, the fire will spread to the wetlands. I will turn off the lights to protect the environment, will the Imperial Guild help?”
“Ah…”
Shin Na-yeon was surprised by the bird, and the flames that Hong Wol-yeong had scattered on the field were moving on nearby trees.
Basically, there would be no big fire because of the moisture, but if I did a little firefighting, the damage would be much less.
Shin Na-yeon was dumbfounded, unable to answer my words.
The accident seemed to have stopped for a moment, thinking that all the Imperial Guild had done here was to put out the fire that Hong Wol-yeong had set in the wetland.
I used the water cannon and undine to put out the fire just like I did in other fields.
Protected trees in dense wetlands.
“Did Hong Wol-yeong set all this fire?”
“I heard that you fell to 87th place in the rankings, and you say you have this kind of firepower?”
Changwang and Kwonwang, who don’t help much with the firefighting work while looking at the burning forest.
Her eyes twinkle as Hong Wol-young seems to be stronger than she thought.
“Hunter Association Battle Team Leader 2, would you like to fight with us when the time is right? I want to fight a flame mage.”
“That’s Okay.”
“Sheesh.”
Hong Wol-yeong rejected Changwang’s proposal without even looking into his eyes.
She was far from a mad fighter.
“If you’re free, help put out the fire. And will you find the magic stone? We came not only to clear the field, but also to gather magic stones.”
Hong Wol-yeong said to the people of the Imperial Guild.
The reason she had to clear the Hydra Field was to collect and investigate the Magic Stones here.
After defeating the boss monster and making the field safe, it was time to find the magic stone.
She took her magic detector and wandered around in search of magic stones with other imperial guild investigators.
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“How did you do it?”
“Yeah?”
“No matter how hard the battle team leader is, Team A’s attack speed is ridiculous… Then, did Chun-Woon do something?”
While Lee Yu-na was away from her seat to be next to Hong Wol-yeong for a while, excitedly Yeon came up to me and asked her.
“Didn’t Lee Yu-na explain it earlier? She says qigong treatment helps.”
“How about alternative qigong treatment…”
Nayeon licked her lips.
She had seen a qigong treatment demonstration at the Hunter School, but she still didn’t know.
Because she was an ignorant when it came to qigong.
She only remembered the sight of Lee Yu-na absurdly popping her buttons.
A memory she doesn’t want to recall.
She tilted her head and wondered if there was an important scene missed in it.
I’m not sure, so I wrap my head around her and get frustrated.
Not interested in what she was doing, I raised her head and looked at the sky.
The attack on the Hydra Field was over, but the air here still felt like it was weighing down my shoulders.
Magical power spread thickly around him like fog.
She thought her nose was stuffy from the smoke from a forest fire, but it wasn’t.
Even after turning off the lights, the gloomy feeling continued.
“I found a super-large magic stone here!”
One of the Imperial Guild investigators shouted.
We, who were looking for magic stones everywhere, heard the sound and gathered in one place.
As the investigator said, there was a magic stone the size of a rock that was different from before.
Could that be the cause of this stuffy air?
After the field attack was over, it was normal for the concentrated mana to escape to all directions and cool down, but that wasn’t the case at all.
As if all the presenters felt the same way, they huddled together in front of Maseok as soon as the investigator finished his words.
A magic circle with a different picture engraved on it than other magic stones.
That held the magical power of the air.
Was this a problem too?
The large magic stone emitting black light looked very suspicious.
“Could this magic stone be the cause of the hydra field?”
One of the Imperial Guild investigators said.
Magic circles and magic stones that make mana impossible to escape.
It was a magic stone that had been installed where the Hydra field used to be, so of course I guessed that.
“Didn’t you say the guys who installed this were also villains?”
Changwang frowned.
It was a magic stone installed by bad guys.
I don’t know what the intention was, but it didn’t seem like a good role.
“…”
I took out a map and unfolded it.
I marked the location of this magic stone on the map and gathered the surrounding arrows inward.
If you do this, will you see the villains’ goals?
The Imperial Guild deactivated the magic circle and collected the magic stones.
You put a large magic stone into someone’s inventory.
With this, the magic stone collection is almost complete.
There must have still been a little magic stone left that Team C was looking for, but considering the size and role of this magic stone, the rest of the magic stone was not an important part.
“If you do this, there won’t be any more fields here.”
When the situation was over, the king shrugged his shoulders.
Apparently, these suspicious gems seemed to be the cause of the fields in South Hamgyong Province.
Magic stones that interfered with the movement of magical powers floating in the air.
When even the super-large manastone was removed, the mana that had been stuffy all over the place was scattered and the air became clear.
I changed the direction of the arrows that had been gathered inward on the map to outward.
Now it seems to be seeing the bigger picture.
The directions of the magical energy that had been marked on the map were arranged with meaning.
Not in the opposite direction that the magic stone reversed, but in a natural forward direction.
They were gathering along the terrain.
“… ?”
Huddle?
Are you saying that energy is gathering?
I grabbed the map with a strange feeling.
It rides through mountain valleys, rides the wind, and flows according to the difference in air pressure.
The magic power was pouring in without escaping the terrain.
Right around here.
The magic that escaped from the Hydra field, the magic of the field that had been cleared so far, and the magic that flowed from the outside along the terrain met.
It gathered like a dark cloud.
At a size and density I’ve never seen before.
Were the magic stones blocking this?
When Majiman released even the super-large manastone, the mana that was freed from restraints united and gradually tore the space apart.
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“Wait, is that?”
We looked at it all at once.
The other side where the sun is setting.
The magic power was densely condensed to form a black shadow.
Whoops, whoops.
The magic powers were tightly packed together, creating a friction sound.
There was a cracking sound as the rocks collided with each other, as if the surface layer were cracking.
Damn, damn!
Space was breaking apart.
A rapidly spreading magic field.
Without anyone saying anything, we looked back at each other and raised our weapons.
The speed of creation of the rift was faster than the speed at which we ran away.
In the vicinity, a gigantic rift erupted that tore everything around, and it engulfed the entire terrain, including us.
I’ve never been sucked in by being next to a rift.
It feels like this.
It could not be dealt with like a natural disaster.
I was absorbed in a rift across the line somewhere in the magic field.
Why did you look back at the end?
All of a sudden, she was getting sucked into a twist that was different from mine.
Didn’t get on the same line.
Damn it.
While I was regretting it, my eyes widened.
My sense of balance faded, and everything changed in the blink of an eye, as if I had just woken up from sleep.
When I regained consciousness, all I could see was a dark light.
A candlestick hanging on a stone wall.
Candles flickered and illuminated the dark space.
[You have entered the rift!]
[This is an S-class dungeon!]
[The name of the dungeon is ‘Baclas Mark Abbey’]
[It consists of a total of 3 floors!]
[Clear condition: Defeat the 3rd floor boss ‘Archbishop Dralph Defer Resmric’]
A system alert sounded, providing information about the crack.
For a moment, I thought I had heard it wrong.
S-class dungeon?
The Hydra Field you cleared earlier was A+ grade, but the grade has gone up a notch.
If the scale of the rift reaches S-class, it is dangerous enough to destroy an entire country.
In order to clear these cracks in Korea, four teams from the Central Command Headquarters of the Warriors Party or Hunter Association must be put in.
Even if you are dragged in, you will find yourself in an incredibly dangerous dungeon…
When I was put into this place, I remembered the information that the Rift Safety Headquarters warned me about.
It was said that the concentration of magical power was close to S-class.
I thought that if I cleared an A+ grade rift, my magic would be scattered, but instead it came together more strongly and became an S grade rift.
The role of the magic stone was to hinder the creation of cracks.
Absurd reversal.
Was Kim Dong-young and Park Seong-joon doing something like this?
Prevent S-class cracks from appearing?
I decided to think about the exact reason later.
Whatever their purpose, now was the time to focus on the immediate situation and my survival.
If the difficulty of the rift is S-class, it is an environment where even named hunters cannot survive.
I had to find Lee Yu-na and Hong Wol-yeong first.
They were sucked into a different position from me.
You have to join quickly and reorganize the milking party to ensure everyone’s survival.
And you have to clear the dungeon by catching the boss of the rift.
It was not only us who were forced to enter the rift, but also the members of the Imperial Guild.
I don’t know where everyone scattered, but the cracks had to be broken so that the monsters could lose their power and the hunters who came here could live.
Alright, let’s go find my party members.
I picked up my sword and moved along the corridor in front of me.
I didn’t feel Lee Yu-nana or Hong Wol-young’s magic.
In this case, we had to move quickly.
It would be nice if we could meet again on the first floor if possible.
The sooner you join, the better.
