Chapter 211 – – Sisters Hunting –
After Sung Ye-han, Park Yi-rae, and Ha Yeon-woo entered the realm of Class A monsters in earnest.
Contrary to Ha Yeon-woo’s expectations, the frequency of battles with monsters has rather decreased.
Before properly entering the area of A-class monsters, there were many collisions as if the monsters had built a wall on purpose… But when they broke through the wall, it seemed to be really empty.
The stronger the monster, the more sensitive it is to its territory, but the only monster she had been able to meet for half a day was the stone golem right in front of her right now.
Golem.
A monster with its own history and tradition. Usually in novels and games, monsters were artificially created by wizards out of stones or metals, but those golems were, so to speak, natural.
Mana flowing in nature gathers or collects in one place for some reason, and little by little it accumulates in a specific object… That is, the ‘core’ of the golem, and one day, when it crosses the threshold, various materials coagulate like a magnet along with the mana spreading from the core. Become a golem
In the hunter industry, unlike Goldenback, who was a jackpot, he was a beggar handler among beggars… It was such an open-and-close level monster that you could say that hunting for the day was over.
Basically, the whole body is hard like stone or metal with plenty of mana, so the attack didn’t stick well. Most of all, if you don’t touch the core, you won’t collapse well.
It means that the effort required to catch one is much greater than that of other monsters.
Is there any special loot for defeating such a subject? If you do, that’s not it either.
First of all, do you have a leathery side income like Goldenback? If you do, of course not.
Anyone in the world… Someone with an unusual taste could spend money on a piece of stone golem or something, but at least most people had normal taste… A piece of stone from a golem was just a block of stone.
And the biggest problem of all.
The most basic reason hunters hunt monsters.
Hearthstone.
To catch the golem, you have to break the golem’s core, and this core was the golem’s magic stone.
In other words.
Even if it was hard and hard to catch it, even the basic manastone could not be dug out properly, so from the hunters’ point of view, it was like stepping on shit.
Perhaps, if Ha Yeon-woo’s purpose was normal hunting rather than anomaly investigation… Ha Yeon-woo would also feel angry and frown at the counter-resilience transmitted every time he attacked the golem, but it was different.
Whoops!
Deflect the heavy stone fist of the golem with your shield.
Ha Yeon-woo accepted the heavy weight as it is.
The golden curtain around her shield rippled for an instant, and small fragments of light spread out.
Fighting!
The golem’s arm bounces abnormally…
It was the effect of Ha Yeon-woo’s special ability.
Unlike Ha Yeon-ah, who has a high degree of freedom and variety, including healing and purification, Ha Yeon-woo’s ability is more concentrated in one form.
That is ‘Suho’.
Suho’s blessing, which she can bestow on herself as well as on others if she can afford her magical power, is the direct reason why Ha Yeon-woo is called a paladin… That is, a paladin.
Also, it wasn’t just a defensive advantage.
Her ability isn’t just a shield, it’s the ability to return the impact to the opponent… Put simply, it also has reflected damage…
Just as hitting a person with a hard steel shield breaks the person’s head.
Giggiggig-
The golem itself twisted from the unintentional impact, and a roar came out as the boulders that formed it interlocked and scraped together.
Thinking that annoying sound was like a golem’s scream, Ha Yeon-wu pushed his body as it was.
Tuong!
A bash that pushes forward with plenty of power and magic in the shield.
It was a skill without anything special, but the golem’s legs shook greatly because of the combination of Ha Yeon-woo’s strength and ability’s resilience.
Cooong!
A shockwave that spreads along with the illusion of shaking space.
A golem staggering and sitting down.
As if they were waiting for such a golem, the attacks of the other two people except for Ha Yeon-woo started pounding the golem’s upper body here and there.
Quagga Gagagak!
As the two spears filled with magical energy stabbed mercilessly, the golem’s extremely hard body began to shatter quickly.
Tuong!
Geuggeuggeuk!
Still, like a monster that knows at least one level of strength, the golem tried to stand up while being attacked by two people.
Ha Yeon-woo pushed his shield towards the golem once again.
This time, not only did he apply strong force and impact, but he hit the golem’s center of gravity accurately, causing the massive stone body to fall completely to the ground.
If his posture collapsed like that, then it’s just like a one-sided punching bag.
Sung Ye-han intensively beats the golem’s torso, Park Yi-rae’s arms, and Ha Yeon-woo’s legs to find the golem’s core.
Kwak! Kwak! Caang!
How much did you beat like that?
The time itself was not long, but the golem’s body itself was so hard that by the time moist beads of sweat formed on the foreheads of Irae Park and Yeonwoo Ha.
“Found!”
With a cry of joy, he found the core on Golam’s left arm.
A jewel-like core and magic stone that shines bright blue.
Park Yi-rae swung her spear and stabbed the golem’s core without hesitation, as if that beautiful color was no part of her job.
Perseok-
Unlike the boulders that make up the body, the blade of a spear easily penetrates.
The golem’s core quickly lost its unique glow and crumbled.
Along with it, the aggregate of rocks that still exudes a heavy presence loses its fish-like power and returns to its original natural state.
“Ha-“
It wasn’t that difficult, and the battle time was objectively not long, but… It consumed quite a bit of stamina.
Ha Yeon-woo decided to take a break while looking at his body condition and Lee Lae-rae’s disturbed breathing.
“Let’s rest here for a while.”
“Then I will be on guard, so come on, Yeonwoo-san, get some rest.”
“Thank you.”
Ha Yeon-woo gave a short thank you to Seong Ye-han, who came forward as if it was natural.
Even after going through a battle, there is still no disturbance in Seong Ye-han’s breathing or movements.
No matter how S-class he is, he fought while suppressing his mana throughout this hunt… He seemed much better than before as he fought while using his mana properly.
After all, this is S-class.
Sung Ye-han, who was in charge of the most massive body part when breaking through the territory of A-class monsters and when dealing with golems right away.
If you only think about the consumption of his stamina, of course he would have cut a lot more than he did.
‘Ah really… I’m also very sick of men…’
Clearly, Seong Ye-han was objectively a man with the best conditions, but he was his brother’s lover no matter what.
‘I want to make a boyfriend after this job…’
In the meantime, I didn’t even think of a boyfriend because I was worried about my younger sister, but… Now that I have someone I can entrust my younger sister with, I wonder if I can find my own happiness a little bit.
With that thought in mind, Ha Yeon-woo takes a break using the flat stone fragment of the golem that has collapsed to just the right height as a chair.
She didn’t know
That her eyes, thinking that way, subtly follows someone’s wide back.
And the presence of a close brother who looked at him strangely… Ha Yeon-woo did not realize it.
***
After the break.
Investigation started again…
In fact, there was nothing special about the investigation.
Right now, there were only 3 people, so there was a limit to the area itself that could be looked at.
Since I started with a vague intuition that something was wrong, it wasn’t clear what to investigate… To put it simply, it was like the basics were wrong.
If so, if Ha Yeon-woo, Seong Ye-han, and Park I-rae’s efforts were in vain, it was not.
“This…?”
A forest that was charred as if it had been burned.
Crushed and bent thick wooden beams, withered bushes, and even black dead soil.
Sung Ye-han was at a loss for words at the scenery that seemed to show what the land of death was like.
“This is… A Hell Walker.”
Blackened area. Ha Yeon-woo said while looking at something in the form of a human being lying black and carbonized like a completely burned corpse.
“Hell Walker?”
“Yes.”
Like Goldenback, Hell Walkers are monsters that form a large group and look like lava itself.
Because it causes powerful flames and explosions that come out every time it is attacked, it was literally like rat poison to melee hunters.
In addition, they had an unexpected tenacity, which was that they would never die until the heat in their bodies completely faded.
If left unattended, it sucks in the surrounding mana and continues to burn, so it must be consumed faster than its regenerative power… With a powerful attack… It was a type of monster that forced an earth battle.
The monster that had to be beaten to death while enduring a firestorm that exploded every time it was hit was the ‘Hell Walker’.
At least, its manastone is a highly sought-after resource in power plants because of its unique large store of mana and automatically converting that mana into fire attribute, so the income itself from catching him is quite good.
Ha Yeon-woo hardened her face as she saw all the Hell Walkers getting lost.
“It’s strange.”
When I directly touch their corpses, all I can feel is the feeling of a block of cold granite.
Obviously, these guys must have died after receiving damage that the flames inside their bodies could not sustain.
However…
“There are no… No wounds.”
What the hell.
The reason why A-class monsters, famous for their tenacity, die even though they have no wounds…
“Ha-“
Ha Yeon-woo grabbed his head in growing distress.
