Chapter 41 – Chapter 41
I lit a cigarette after listening to the equipment company employee.
Currently, new gates are being discovered every year and every month around the globe.
Sometimes there are news reports that several new gates have been discovered for several days in a row, or even a single day.
Sometimes it appears while people are watching, and sometimes it appears in places such as forests or deep caves.
And the first to enter that unknown gate are the highest level Awakeners.
There is absolutely no rookie awakening like our F team.
If you do such a thing out of curiosity or a sense of justice, you are likely to die.
Because no one knows how powerful the monsters in the dungeon beyond that gate will be.
“Whoa…”
The difficulty level of the dungeon is only determined after the first Awakeners have subdued the boss monster.
In other words, people like us cannot enter the dungeon until the boss is subdued.
Well, I don’t know if I could sneak in if I didn’t waste my life.
Recently, the government started to control it right away, so now that’s not even possible?
What I want to say is that this dungeon and all the dungeons we will enter in the future are dungeons where the boss subjugation has already been completed.
Of course, there are cases where bosses reappear over time, and there are cases where they reappear according to specific conditions.
However, there is no such thing as a fixed number of times. In the case of the previous Honggwi Cave or this wolf forest dungeon, bosses have not appeared in recent years.
That’s the content of the material I read in advance.
“Fufu…”
I don’t trust that information unconditionally, but I haven’t had any reason to be suspicious so far.
But now things have changed.
While going through the last Suwon Hwaseong Gate incident, I fully felt it and experienced it myself.
For humans, these gates and dungeons are still unknown territory.
But even so, we have no choice but to rely on the data to some extent.
Just because you heard a wolf cry, you can’t be 100% sure that a boss monster will appear, as the data says.
However, there are ample grounds for doubt.
Even if the data I read before I left for the expedition were wrong or only a small part of the information, we were people risking our lives to go to the dungeon.
Acting assuming the worst possible number is the basic of the basics.
That way, you can be a little calmer in the event of an emergency.
I stepped on the cigarette I was burning and extinguished it, and approached the place where the guys on my team were standing.
And I put it firmly.
“Anyway, I’ll have to be more nervous today.”
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“Chief. What’s going on with those people?”
“It looks like a boss monster has appeared. I’m not sure.”
“Boss?”
At the word “Boss monster,” Their eyes began to focus on me.
I asked Jang Yong with a non-trivial expression.
“Did you say you came here after studying? Did you familiarize yourself with the information about the boss of this dungeon?”
“That’s not… I’m sorry. I heard the boss doesn’t appear anymore.”
“It’s okay. That’s what I knew too. But when it comes to dungeons, you shouldn’t use the word “Absolute” Carelessly. It’s still an unknown space, and only a small fraction is known. The Mars Gate incident is in a similar context.”
When I brought up the story of Mars Gate, everyone’s eyes changed.
Feeling the air around you being pulled tight.
Just because you’re an Awakener, risking your life in and out of dungeons, doesn’t mean you’re not afraid of death.
However, he only said it to make me nervous, but I didn’t mean to scare him like that.
In particular, Kim I-Sol was worried that he might have become conceited due to the battles of the past two days, so he said it in the sense of not overdoing it.
It is my role to lead the tension that has arisen among them in a positive direction.
So you can focus on the battle.
“Our team will hunt him down.”
“What? Are you crazy?”
“Yes? You mean the boss?”
As soon as I said it, everyone was shocked.
But I don’t think it’s possible in the slightest.
I was familiar with the information about Lycans, and I even roughly remembered the patterns.
Video analysis was my specialty and one of the strongest specs I ever had to join the company.
“From now on, I will explain everything I know about the Lycan, the boss monster of this dungeon. I’ll do it only once, so pay attention and listen.”
I explained the lycan’s attack patterns and things to be careful of to them step by step.
Finally, I finished my explanation by adding that the information I said may be different from the actual one, so you need to be flexible.
It didn’t take very long to get here.
Lee Dong-geul looked up with bright eyes and grabbed my arm.
Did you understand everything I said?
“The team leader is amazing. He’s like an academy teacher.”
“No compliments needed. My explanation will be for nothing if you can’t defeat him. No, maybe he’ll get killed or injured.”
“Heh. Don’t worry. I’ll take care of him.”
“If you’re so conceited, you’ll hurt your nose really badly.”
“Have you ever been arrogant?”
“Ah, yes.”
Our current location is right near the gate.
As I was doing this without leaving the hunt, one of the Awakeners from another company approached me.
He was a man with a sturdy build, but from the first impression, his expression with only one corner of his mouth raised made it very obvious that he looked down on us.
Looking at his actions, it seems clear that he is an Awakener.
“What are you doing?”
When I speak up, this time he openly snorts.
I barely restrained myself from laughing at the typical Awoken behavior I’ve been through so far.
“The common people have fallen behind, who is the boss? Where is the company?”
To know at once that I am a normal person.
Oh, is it because of my gym bag?
No matter what, he’s an unapologetic Awakener.
I ignored him talking to my teammates and answered directly.
“We are a company called Cool Support, located in Seoul. But what are you doing?”
“What? Are all the Awoken here dumb? Why are you answering?”
It looks like a pain in the ass
I was so pissed off, but Kim Isol couldn’t stay still.
As expected of her, she is the one who hits back at him.
“What is this muscle pig?”
“What?”
Hey, chill out
However, it soon became a pain in the ass.
I intervened between the two and rebuked Kim Isol.
Please be still
She didn’t get very angry, shrugged her shoulders and lifted her up once.
Fortunately, however, it seems that he will follow my words.
“Wouldn’t it be nice to have to fight for nothing? It seems like you’re also new to it, but let’s get over it nicely. It’s just a simple matter.”
“You guys went hunting at this time yesterday too, but why are you whispering like rats here today?”
“Of course it’s noisy, so it’s not because of what’s going on.”
“Heh. I’m sure you guys aren’t planning on targeting the Lycans, are you?”
“Isn’t the team that attacked the boss monster of the dungeon first?”
“Haha, that sounds funny. Do you guys think you can catch it?”
“No, that’s what it says. And what else can’t you catch? This is an F-class dungeon.”
When I said it was nothing, his brows twitched.
And then I started looking at the sides of our team members.
“I don’t have a face I know…”
A familiar face?
Come to think of it, there is only one Awakened Academy in Korea.
Then it’s said that we are newbies and alumni… With that face?
A huge academy with over tens of thousands of students in the first place.
Faces were more likely to be unknown.
It’s not the famous elite that our kids fly and fly.
Then another person came.
It was a female Awakener who seemed to be on the same team as him.
She is also proud of her outstanding body and face.
By the way, as soon as she approached, she fired at the man.
“What are you doing? Can’t you do what I ask you to do?”
“Ah, sorry. But these guys said they would participate too?”
“What?”
The female Awakener spoke with a surprised expression.
An absurd expression asking if you guys would participate in the boss hunt too.
And it was a question.
“Yes. Is there anything that can’t be done? Oh, of course, if you find it first and subdue it, we will yield.”
“That’s natural, you guys are new faces, right?”
“That’s right. Aren’t you a rookie? This is an F-class dungeon.”
“We’re rookies too, but we’re different from you guys, so we’re elites? We originally planned to go to an E-class dungeon, you know? A recent incident. We were forced to come because of that.”
She said and pointed to the guard on her shoulder.
There was a blue dolphin mark.
I know that mark.
Blue Dolphin Company.
It is a large company based in Busan that is famous in the industry.
She seemed to have noticed that we were a small company without much information.
Well, there was no way that a decent company, let alone a large company, would commute to the dungeon.
“There are a total of five away teams here right now? Oh, six if you include them. But three of them are our company. You know what I mean? Our company is planning to catch Lycans, so don’t interfere.”
“What does that have to do with having a lot of people?
“You’re making me speechless. It’s not about power-hungry, it’s that you’re dangerous. In a company like yours, even the awakened people won’t be strong, so how are you going to catch the boss? Aren’t our lives precious? Even we have three teams. I’m thinking of dealing with everyone.”
He said that he had already talked with a team from another company.
They said they were willing to yield, and we were forcing them to do the same.
I spoke to her confidently.
“Keep the rules. Awakener of Blue Dolphin.”
“What?”
“Isn’t this dungeon owned by your company?”
“Hey, I’m worried about you guys. Do you want to be killed by a dog? I’m not a guy you can deal with if you act like a dog. Don’t be greedy for nothing!”
“No need to worry.
“Ooh, okay. I’ll give you some money. Is this what you mean? Oppa, you’re smarter than I thought. Okay, I’ll tell our manager. We need performance rather than money right now. How long will you be attending an F-class dungeon at the Academy? You have class A face, don’t you?”
Class A is the group to which the top elites of the academy belong.
A so-called talented group that produces only 100 people a year.
Perhaps Min Hyuk-ju of the Diamond Guild belonged to it, and this woman must have been said to be of the same class.
Well, since the two graduate years are different, there is a high probability that they do not know each other.
I was actually a little tempted by her suggestion.
It’s a big company, but it doesn’t seem like they’re giving you a penny or two.
Even if there is a Lycan hunting competition, there are a lot of people there, so it is natural to find and catch them.
But I don’t have mana, don’t I have pride?
I couldn’t snap her suggestion while leaving my teammates behind.
Above all, our team needed performance, and you can earn more money by going to higher dungeons.
My answer was so obvious.
“If you give me a billion, I’ll think about it.”
“What? One billion? Puhahaha. He’s good at joking. Aren’t you crazy?”
The two Awoken who laughed and went back to their teammates, and laughs burst out here and there as if they were talking about us there.
Leaving them behind, I hurried to the forest with my teammates.
Because we, the minority, have no choice but to strike first if we want to catch the lycans.
Let’s see where he looks like that even after he loses the boss to us.
“Excuse me…”
Our fledgling guys, who had been watching more quietly than we thought, finally started to open their tightly shut mouths as they moved away from the gate.
Maybe it’s because he recognizes that there are many Awakened opponents and they’re stronger than him, so even Kim I-Sol hasn’t said anything until now.
“Chief. Is it really okay? Just give in…”
“You did a really good job not saying that in front of those people.
The meek three of them looked like a mountain of worries, and only Kim I-sol was staring at me.
I threw a word of her to her for no reason.
“How are you quiet today?”
“Heh. You said what I wanted to say instead.”
What are you praising me for?
I looked at her with a little surprise.
But she wasn’t looking at my face anymore.
It was because the Werewolves gradually appeared as they got closer to the forest.
“Wait a minute.”
I hurriedly stopped Kim I-sol from pulling out the knife.
“Why?”
“Just wait. Now, Baek Hwa-yeon?”
When I called Baek Hwa-yeon, she was startled.
But it was only for a moment, and he quickly understood what I meant.
Now is the time to show it off to your colleagues.
How strong she has become.
