Chapter 219 – – The King of Monsters –
Weather getting hotter.
Exposure season was approaching.
The hellish heat and the shitty dampness that fuels it make people mad.
Shining in sunlight at the same time. It must be the season when people’s white and black skin is fascinating.
It was a story that had nothing to do with hunters who had to wrap their bodies tightly when fighting in the heat.
At least the recently released armor for hunters included a temperature control function (called simply an air conditioner among hunters), a function full of the grace of mana, but even that had limitations.
I don’t know if it’s just a normal march, but when you enter a full-scale battle with a monster, it’s because the structure that doesn’t directly help the battle is blocked for efficiency.
If you put a lot of money on the armor, there are products that can be maintained for 24 hours in any situation and only require a simple magic battery exchange… Unfortunately, it was impossible for a person just starting out as a hunter to save.
Also the price of the product. And so is the maintenance cost.
“Ah…”
Park Ho-young kicked the dirty ground and cursed.
Summer is the peak season for the hunter industry.
He had just awakened his special ability as a C-class hunter and had a dream of catching monsters in earnest and grabbing his share, so he didn’t really like the current situation.
The reason was the hunting restrictions issued by the association.
How long has it been since his restrictions were already issued…
No!
In a liberal country, private economic activities of individuals… It is not a crime, but rather, the act of protecting national security is forcibly blocked. If you say that, the origin goes back to the past… When the first S-class monster raid occurred.
Even the veterans who have rolled and rolled in the hunter industry in their own way, there are few people who have experienced it in person…
In order to know the information at the time, you had to search through books or networks separately.
Or that he diligently took classes during his Hunter Academy days and had a good memory…
Anyway.
If the incident of the first S-class monster raid was that old… It wasn’t.
Nevertheless, the meaning of the story that few people have experienced is very simple if you think about it.
It’s all dead
Hunters who were active in those days and remember those days… Most of them.
The concept of raids, the disaster of the appearance of S-class monsters, knowledge and manuals… A time when I was still lacking in anything.
The appearance of S-class monsters came with ample signs, but people did not know that it was a sign… A warning to humans.
At that time, the death rate of hunters during hunting was much higher than now, so as summer approached, the increased mortality rate of hunters and environmental changes were mistaken for a phenomenon unique to summer.
Even now, at that time, the job of a hunter was a job that was really risking one’s life.
The hunters of those days continued hunting with the thought of just being a little more careful even after seeing the warnings that were terrifying when you think about it now…
When the mythical giant that even burns the sky finally appears.
Those who had no preparation were burned in the flames with their bare bodies and turned into a handful of firewood and ashes.
It didn’t even leave ashes.
A giant who first appeared in the realm of higher level monsters.
Of course, the top hunters who went hunting to catch the top monsters melted first.
The lower hunters were eaten by a wave of monsters whose eyes were turned upside down in fear that suddenly poured in due to the appearance of a giant…
The army is also in the middle of the day.
In an instant, a huge vacuum was created in the national power.
In the end, the government, which had to figure out the situation and establish countermeasures, fell into a huge panic in a sudden situation, and the result was a disaster of the death of two out of three S-class hunters that existed at the time.
After that, it could be seen that the front line against monsters was a struggle for survival for a good 10 years.
“Seriously, S-class monsters appear…?”
Hunter Park Ho-young muttered while fiddling with the smooth surface of the armor he had recently pulled out.
S-class monster raid… He made a fuss about an incident that he had only seen in history books happening again, so he naturally found out about it through the network, but maybe it’s just reading information in writing?
No matter how dangerous it was, it didn’t feel real.
After all, one thousand words is not enough, so this is it…
Above all, the level of hunters, equipment, and systems have advanced so much that now can’t be compared to then, so it’s easier to handle than I thought…
Why is there such a thing
100 million 20 years ago and 100 million now cannot be the same value.
It is as if the cutting-edge technology of 10 years ago is now obsolete.
And… To be honest, what can I do with a C-rank monster raid?
“I heard that it starts in the area of A-class people anyway… It’s so dangerous to catch a few monsters in the right place… Ha ha…”
To Park Ho-young, it was more frightening that the interest on the money he borrowed to buy equipment was increasing regardless of the circumstances, even when he played for a minute without doing anything like this, rather than talking about a national crisis or the summoning of S-classes.
“I’d rather show up sooner and finish it sooner, bastard…”
Anyway, a C-class hunter like yourself would at best stop miscellaneous monsters with soldiers.
S-rank monsters and whatnot were the work of A-rank or great S-rankers on top of that.
It’s because I’m getting so many preferential treatment to work rashly for a time like this.
Thinking so, Park Ho-young once again wiped his weapon, the sword, with a cloth soaked in oil.
As much as the time I couldn’t hunt monsters, when that time came, I had to work hard to make up for any losses by killing them, and for that, I had to keep my equipment at its best.
***
“Ha…”
Whether it’s an ordinary person, an E-D-class Awakener who has just awakened, a high-ranking Hunter… Or an S-class Hunter, who is the pinnacle of hunters, the temperature that has risen sharply is equal to anyone.
Of course, depending on the body specifications, it may be easier to endure.
At least, her new artist was able to use her own abilities and enjoy her own coolness without an air conditioner if she wanted to…
If I did that on a street where there are a lot of people like this, I’m sure it would be very annoying…
Took! Took!
It was a short time after all, but Shin Ye-hwa touched the sidewalk block for no reason, feeling the land of Seoul as if she had been stepping on it for the first time in a long time.
Even though it’s obviously the same block, it feels strangely different from the province? It’s just my mood, but somehow it feels different.
Summer is the season when monsters become very active.
Shin Ye-hwa had to go down to the south to protect the Honam region.
In the Yeongnam region, as always, Yeo Seon-hee is away.
If she was a rookie in the past, she would just fuck off things like provincial rotations, suck honey in Seoul, and leave the provincial guardianship to another S-rank hunter (specifically, Ha Yeon-ah)… But this time, quietly in the Honam region. Went down
It’s been a long time since I’ve seen everything I couldn’t see with Ha Yeon-a, but I was stung by my conscience to pass it on again, and there was no way I could do anything like leave it to her beloved brother.
In the meantime, when her brother went down to Honam, all the harem members, including herself, would have to wait at night sucking their fingers and swallowing loneliness… Rather than just making everyone unhappy, Shin Ye-hwa sacrificed herself a little to bring happiness to the majority.
If I were like her in her old days, I would have cast Al Pano on her other people’s happiness, but… If this was a positive change in her, it was a change.
“Brother…”
Shin Ye-Hwa thought of Sung Ye-Han in a world where everything was black with sunglasses.
After the time I met Sung Ye-han. Come to think of it, it’s been a long time since I’ve been alone with no one beside me.
She’s not even a kid herself…
I think I used to play alone in the past… Should I say it was too difficult this time?
Was she herself such a lonely person? That’s enough to worry about.
That there’s no one by your side at night…
I never thought it would be this hard not being able to feel the warmth and touch of your skin…
Of course, even when she was in Seoul, she would sometimes spend the night alone, but she had never been this sad at the time, so she was really surprised by her own strange reaction.
Also because of her brother.
He has tamed himself so much…
Shin Ye-hwa bruised her Sung-Ye-Han in her head at the longing for her surging woman.
She deeply kissed Seong Ye-Han’s face in her head, and then thought about the summoning order that made Shin Ye-Hwa return earlier than originally planned.
“It’s an S-class monster raid… Hmm.”
She must have learned at the Hunter Academy.
It was roughly an incident where the hunters died in a huge amount, maybe?
It was said that even two of the S-classes died, so it remained in my memory.
“Your brother… Will fight.”
At least Seong Ye-han, whom Shin Ye-hwa knew, was not a shameless person.
He will definitely fight against that S-class monster… In the most dangerous vanguard position.
Then he must fight himself too.
Next to him… Who else could stand if he wasn’t himself.
It is impossible for Ha Yeon-ah and Seon-hee unnie.
Not to mention other women.
Only yourself…
“This is good.”
If it had been a rookie flower in the past, it might have jumped out because my life was more precious… Or even if I fought, I might have fought as if I was taking a walk, sacrificing myself.
What does she care about how many people who don’t know her face or name run away?
Just like humans don’t care that insects get trampled to death on their way.
“But now…”
Unlike in the past, there were too many people beside Shin Ye-hwa now.
Not only Seong Ye-han, but also Ha Yeon-ah, Park Yi-rae, Yeo Seon-hee, Na Yu-ri, and Sui-yeon, who paid more attention to Lee Yoon and Han Si-won.
If even one of them died or was injured… It would probably be pretty heartbreaking.
If my brother gets hurt, he might cry out loud that very day…
And people I don’t even know their faces or names… If a lot of people died, I felt a bit uncomfortable now.
“What-because I’m strong.”
At first glance, it may sound like a very unlucky word, but it is a fact that no one can deny that Shinhwa is strong.
Sung Ye-han also… So far, his specs are great, but he’s strong, so he’s definitely not going to be like the past in the book.
I won’t let that happen.
Shin Ye-hwa made that promise.
After making that promise, there was someone approaching her waving her hand from the other side of her field of vision.
“Brother~”
Shin Ye-hwa ran.
With her wide embrace that welcomes her.
