Chapter 405 – #406 Hunt on the Hunt (1)
#406 Hunt on Hunt (1)
Thud-! Thud-! Thud-!
“Hmm?”
They were on their way to the Monster Hunter Village smoothly. A thumping roar echoed from far away, and it was getting closer and closer to me.
Did a large monster appear?
Sitting on top of the camper, I got up in case of an emergency. At the same time, he moved the siren in the direction of the roar.
“… Ah.”
I let out an exclamation after confirming the owner of the roar in the sky. The beings approaching me are first of all monsters. But it was not approaching to attack me.
“Brother! What are you talking about?”
At that time, Gina, who had become a ghost using her psychic powers, appeared through the roof of the camper. It seemed that she too heard the vibration and roar of the ground.
“It’s a monster. A monster is coming this way.”
“A monster?”
At the word monster, Gina’s face suddenly became serious. If it could resonate this much, the size of the monster would inevitably be enormous.
And a large monster with a large body had enough power to call it a natural disaster.
Gina looked at the source of the sound with a serious face.
“Kwuk-kuk.”
It made me laugh because it was so cute. Then Gina looked at me.
“Why are you laughing?”
“Because you’re cute.”
“What? What kind of compliment is this all of a sudden? I know it too?”
Jina brazenly replied that she knew she was cute too. She was really brazen, but I look at her because she’s really cute.
“But that’s not important right now. I don’t know what kind of monster it is, but even if it’s an older brother… Huh?”
Gina was talking to her, then realized something was wrong with her and looked back at the source of the sound. It was because there was no roar like a bomb exploding.
“No way…”
Kwajik-!
After destroying the tree, a monster appeared. The thick wood was pushed by the giant and shattered like a toothpick.
“Hick?!”
The monster suddenly appeared and Gina opened her eyes.
It was a large monster with thick and long thorns embedded in its back and sides, a round tail like a mace that could crush anything, and four curved fangs protruding from the lips of a wild boar.
“…”
The gigantic size, and the appearance that evoked primal fear made it harden as it was.
‘Ku-k-k-k-k.’
Laughing inwardly at that sight, I stretched out my hand toward the monster running towards us. And shouted
“Stop!”
Khi-yi-yi-!
At my cry, the monster stopped drawing a long line on the floor. The stopped monster waved its mace-like tail with a serious (?) Face. Like it’s nice to see you.
“… Uh?”
Gina’s eyes, which had been frightened by her resemblance to a puppy, widened to the size of a fire. A shocked Gina looked back at me.
“Oh, brother, this…”
“Did you see it? This is your brother. Isn’t it fucking sexy?”
When the monster stopped, I jumped out of the camper that stopped together.
“… If I hadn’t said that, it would have been really sexy.”
I heard a muttering passing behind her, but I ignored it and went to the monster. And she stretched out her hand towards the monster.
Swish – Swish – Swish –
Then, to my surprise, the monster placed its head on my palm and moved cautiously.
“How are you, Highwug?”
[Long time no see, Master.]
The monster that shocked Jina was my second subordinate monster, [Armored.Look.Highwarg].
*****
“And…”
“It’s amazing. It looks a bit like a wild boar.”
“You’re very quiet.”
My girls got out of the camper and looked at Highwug curiously. The Flame Witch and the Succubus even pet Highwug’s fur.
Kreung-!
“Kyaa! I snorted!”
“Eugh! I even got a runny nose!”
Brilliantly beautiful women were stroking him, but Highwug snorted hard and showed an uncomfortable expression. Well, since humans and monsters are of different species, it was natural for them to have different views on beauty.
At least they were my girls, so even though they didn’t like HighWug, they were enduring it. Otherwise, the monster’s ferocious voice would have exploded.
‘By the way, is everything going well in the village?’
I talked to Highwog in my heart. Should I call it telepathy? I was able to have a conversation with the monsters subordinated to me in my heart or just in my thoughts.
[I still have something to tell you.]
‘Huh? What?’
[The beast is moving.]
‘The beast is moving? Could it be Zero?’
[I don’t even know the name. It’s a guy that smells like a big cat.]
‘A big cat? Oh, you mean the tiger? Then it’s zero.’
It said big cat, so I almost got confused, but I soon realized that it meant zero.
By the way, Zero moved… Why all of a sudden?
‘… Not all of a sudden.’
While Zero was staying in Dark City with the main beastmen, I went around the villages of Raonjena and Nom and wiped out the beast monster hunters.
It would have been absurd for Zero, who returned to his base to avoid me. The base was robbed while I was away for a while.
Due to the personality of the idiot Zero, there was no way he could stay still. His subordinates must have been roaming around the dead village and doing all sorts of things.
[He’s breaking everything in sight. They are slaughtering all the visible humans and monsters.]
Highwag reported to me about what was currently happening in the land of monsters.
‘Where is that bastard now?’
It doesn’t matter if the monster dies. No, to be precise, it doesn’t matter if the monsters I’ve encountered die. Even if you kill them, you can’t get experience points, and above all, they don’t give you a right to increase your superpower level.
But the death of a monster I’ve never encountered is never good news. It means that my strength to become stronger in the future is weakening.
The same goes for people dying. They are talented people who will help me conquer the land of monsters in the future. It is my loss that they die.
So, I had to kill Zero, who was trembling, as soon as possible.
[It’s so new and rare that it’s hard to pinpoint the location.]
‘Damn. Is the town you’re guarding safe?’
The other day, I had ordered Highwug to guard the Monster Hunter Village. It was because he liked the little boy who lived in that village.
The prisoners who died at my hands were bad guys who ruled and plundered the village by force. However, it was difficult to say that it was a harmful existence.
Because they exist, the village is guaranteed safety in the land of monsters. Each of the beasts is a powerful warrior of a hundred.
Of course, the power of the village where all the prisoners died was bound to weaken. Even if only one medium-sized monster appears, the village will be ruined.
That’s why I left Highwog in that village. In other towns, I didn’t find anyone I particularly liked, so I neglected it.
[Yes. The big cat hasn’t come to the village the owner entrusted to me yet.]
‘It’s fortunate.’
I let out a sigh of relief at Highwogg’s answer.
It is true that High Warg is a strong monster, but he was not strong enough to deal with Zero while defending the village. Above all else, Zero has the [Monster Hunter] Superpower.
He could not be Zero’s opponent unless he was truly a monster at the top.
‘I’ll have to go to the village soon.’
“Let’s look around later and everyone get in the car. I need to go to the village quickly.”
We loaded the women, who were still observing Highwug with curious eyes, into the camper and headed to the village.
*****
“Oh my god…”
“Oooh!”
The women who followed me into the village were impressed by the horrors of the village. In the case of Elise, who is not immune to this, she hurriedly covered her mouth as if she felt the vomit.
“Ugh…”
“Ahh… It hurts…”
“Heh, hee hee… The mountain god, the mountain god was angry… Hee hee… The mountain god is sorry. The mountain god is sorry. The mountain god is sorry. The mountain god is sorry. The mountain god is sorry…”
From injured people to people without a single body part like an arm or leg, people sitting on their backs and repeating strange words as if they’ve gone crazy, and even the townspeople busily running around to treat them.
It looked like a battlefield.
“Uh?”
Then, a little boy who spotted us pointed at me.
“Mister! That’s the man at that time, right?!”
“Huh? Ah, it’s you. Long time no see?”
Who dared to call me Mister? It was the little boy I liked. The little boy’s waist was stuffed with the Sanctuary Armor I had given him before.
“Agon. Who’s here… Huh?”
“That person…”
“That’s right. He’s the one who killed those beasts.”
At the cry of the little boy, the villagers looked at me and whispered. A little boy came running to me.
“It’s just fine!”
“Huh? What’s going on?”
“Help us, man!”
“What?”
I snorted a snort at the kid’s words asking for help.
Does this bastard ask for help as soon as he sees that he has entrusted me with help? Do I look like such an easy-going guy who helps right away when you ask for help, you bratty kid?!
“Lead ahead!”
“Yes?”
“Take the lead!”
“Ah yes!”
I immediately followed the little boy and approached the people lying in the hospital bed. He was in such bad condition that he would die if he wasn’t taken to the hospital quickly.
“Hmm.”
‘Zero, that’s right.’
After checking the wounds on the people’s bodies, I realized that it was the work of the tiger beastmen, including Zero. Most of them were scratches and bites.
‘Damn. Then I’m going to clean up all the bastards.’
I didn’t touch the village where there were tiger beastmen like Zero. They dealt with only Slater’s officers and their subordinates, and did not go to villages without officers.
The choice at that time became a boomerang and came back like this. They had nothing to do with me, but when I saw the people who were injured by the prisoners, I regretted that I should have spent a little more time.
“Sujeong!”
“Yes!”
It’s regrettable, and I need to save people first. I took medicines from my inventory and piled them on the floor.
“If I treat you, Sujeong will take care of the clean up for you, okay?”
“Yes.”
Sujeongi didn’t suffer like Alice because she saw many seriously injured patients while working at the hospital. Sujeongi, who nodded with a firm face, was very reassuring.
“Multiple heals.”
He immediately used multiple healing skills on the patients.
Healing skills and multi-healing skills had the same effect. However, because it heals more people at once, multi-healing skills consume more HP (Heal Points).
Still, the multi-healing skill was much more effective when there were a lot of patients in a state where they wouldn’t be surprised if they died at any time, like now.
“Uuuuu…”
“Haaa…”
As the green light from my hand penetrated, the breathing of the people who were gasping for breath as if they were going to die at any moment returned to normal.
“Ohhh…”
“Oh my God, this is…”
“Oh God…”
The villagers who watched the sight could not hide their surprise. Some held hands and sent hot eyes toward me.
Those who were so injured recovered quickly.
*****
As I expected, those many patients were all victims of the zero daily wage. I was able to hear what had happened to them who had regained their strength.
“Zero you fucking bastard…”
Realizing Zero’s wickedness, I shuddered.
Most of the people in other villages were killed on the spot by the Zero gang. But Zero didn’t kill them all. I deliberately let him run away.
And the beastmen’s hunt for humans began. They played with people running away. He wounded the captured human body and released it. And then I chased after the people who ran away again.
Didn’t I say that cats play with mice before they eat them?
That’s exactly what Zero did.
“I can’t.”
Got up from the seat Even now, the beastmen, led by Zero, must be hunting humans. Justice, no malice, stirred within me.
“You guys dare to do bad things I couldn’t do? I can’t stand that.”
