Chapter 437 – Return After Long Absence
“Then let’s go.”
At Yu Jun-kyung’s words, the party starts to move into the dungeon, regardless of who does it first.
“Um? A city…?”
Lee Ah-hyun inadvertently checks the inner scene and talks to herself. As she said, the interior of the dungeon was in the form of an ordinary city.
“…Interesting.”
Lee Ah-hyun muttered while looking inside without realizing it. There weren’t as many tall buildings as in Seoul, but the inside of the dungeon, which had 3-5 story buildings, was the city itself.
“Ah, is this your first time entering a level 7 dungeon?”
“Yeah… I learned it in school, but seeing it in person is amazing. How old are you?”
“Me? Second.”
“…What, you talked about clearing it often?”
“You’ve never done that before?”
“…”
A conversation between two men and women. Yoon Tae-hee, who had been quietly listening to the story, intervenes in their conversation with a slightly puzzled expression.
“…You guys are double-skilled. No matter how C-class hunters you are, you’re still incomparable in your class, but you weren’t put into a 7th-grade dungeon?”
“Yeah. They didn’t let me in? There was a rule that new students could only enter up to level 8 dungeons, regardless of whether they had the ability or not.”
“…Wait, freshman?! I… It’s been less than a year since I took formal classes?!”
“Ah, Ahyeon and I are rather talented.”
Seong-il responds with a slightly condescending tone to Yoon Tae-hee, who is surprised. Then then Strange noises begin to emanate from a building near them.
“Guyueek…!! Bake…”
“…?!”
The party woke up from their thoughts at the bizarre noise. The interior of the dungeon is structured like a normal city, so they lose their minds for a moment, but they hear the noise and realize again that this is a dangerous dungeon.
“Kuweeeee!!!”
“…Zombie?”
A man with a half-decomposed body, wearing a suit with brown eyes appeared. The appearance of an enemy in the form of a typical zombie makes the party nervous at once.
“Fuck… Zombies… Is the clearing target the annihilation type? It’s the most difficult type…”
Park Dong-woo, who has quite a lot of experience in clearing dungeons, naturally infers the clearing goal as soon as he sees the type of enemy.
Weeing!
“…?”
Upon hearing Park Dong-woo’s words, his smartphone vibrated lightly. Seongil naturally examines the message through augmented reality created using nanomachines inside his body.
『Game Master: A dungeon that clears when the target is removed.』
‘Oh, is that so?’
Seong-il, who heard his useful information, informs Park Dong-woo, who is irritated, with the information.
“This, to me, looks like a target removal type dungeon.”
“Hmm? How do you know that? You’ve only been to a level 7 dungeon once.”
Park Dong-woo speaks in a slightly absurd tone. At his words, Seong-il calmly starts answering lies.
“…It’s very similar to the type I visited last time. Even though I didn’t get rid of all the zombies at that time, the core appeared when I removed the target in the center.”
“Ah, is that so? What… Then there’s nothing to say.”
Surprisingly, Park Dong-woo agrees with Seong-il’s words. While the two were chatting, the zombie wriggled and slowly approached the party.
Roaring!!
Looking at such a zombie, Yoon Tae-hee silently creates flames in her hands. Then she reaches out and fires a flame cannon at her zombie.
“Kwueeeeek!!!!”
When the body catches fire, the zombie screams in horror. When he is attacked, unlike before, he starts charging at Yoon Tae-hee with a very fast movement.
“Chit!”
Yoon Tae-hee, who is not taken aback by such a guy’s outbursts, increases the intensity of the flame and strengthens the attack. Soon after, the zombie, with most of her body burned, collapses on the spot, dying.
“To Kuwe…”
“Kkeuk!!”
However, as a signal, zombies start popping out of the building one by one. It was only for a short while, but countless zombies popped out of the building near the dungeon entrance and started to fill the streets.
“Fuck… It’s been a mess since the beginning.”
Park Dong-woo shakes his neck with a combat gauntlet on his hand as if he is disgusted. He naturally blocks the way of the two women, who are in the long range dealer position, and takes a defensive stance to block the zombies.
Tadat!!
Of course, Park Dong-woo tried to fight with Seong-il in the form of protecting the dealers Ah-hyeon and Tae-hee. However, Seong-il ignores him and starts charging at the zombies.
“What are you doing…!!”
The others are puzzled by Seongil’s sudden behavior. However, Seong-il ignores them and carefully begins to put his inner strength in his hands.
‘If you wear it too much, strong energy will occur, so just lightly…’
Seong-il, whose hands were very thinly wrapped around his inner energy. He then proceeds to sow the herbivore of the bankrupt priesthood without hesitation towards the zombies in his vicinity.
“Puff!!”
The sound of smashing a ripe watermelon. Seong-il quickly and accurately hits the zombie’s head, and the zombie’s head is smashed on the spot.
‘Next left…!!’
Seong-il was aware of the locations and attacks of all the zombies around him. He doesn’t even look around, he rushes into the middle of the zombie horde and starts smashing their heads one by one.
“Pump-suck!! Puff-suck!!!”
Seong-il starts slaughtering the surrounding zombies one by one, as if smashing a watermelon. The hordes of zombies went into a frenzy at the sight and attacked Seongil quickly and furiously, unlike before, but he didn’t look at them with his eyes and casually evaded the attack and started beating the zombies to death one by one.
“And…”
And the colleagues who stare blankly at the scene with an expression of admiration. Even Lee Ah-hyun, who thinks he knows Seong-il well, looks at his battle scene blankly with shocked eyes.
‘That… Martial arts… And bankruptcy priesthood!!’
Seong-il’s gestures made her hold her hands tightly. Thanks to this, Ah-hyun’s heart for self-love starts to burn little by little.
“Whoa…”
In less than five minutes, Seong-il beats half of the zombies gathered on the roadside to death. Relaxed by the slight weakening of the offensive, he yells at his teammates.
“Are you guys playing? Will you stay like that?”
“!!!”
Colleagues who came to their senses on the holy day. They immediately activate their respective abilities and begin assisting in battle.
Kugoong!!!
Lee Ah-hyun, who uses a gravitational field to fight the group of zombies. Thanks to this, the zombies stop rushing forward and begin to struggle, half crushed by the powerful gravitational field.
Kwak!!
Yoon Tae-hee throws a fireball into the gravitational field without hesitation, probably because she has a lot of combat experience. When the fireball, which is densely packed with powerful flames, enters the gravitational field, it starts to burn the zombies inside with an explosion in an instant.
“Kuk…!! I’m going too…!!”
Park Dong-woo, perhaps inspired by the performance of his colleagues, takes a posture to rush forward following Seong-il.
“Do not come!!”
“…?”
Park Dong-woo looks at him with a puzzled expression when he suddenly tries to stop him while rushing forward to help Seong-il.
“It’s enough for me to be a physical dealer in the front! You protect Lee Ah-hyun and Yoon Tae-hee from the back!”
“…I get it.”
Surprisingly, Park Dong-woo followed Seong-il’s orders without saying anything. Originally, he would have hurt his pride and argued harshly at the orders of Seong-il, a man of his age, but perhaps because he was overwhelmed by the skills Seong-il showed today, Park Dong-woo calmly settled in the rear as Seong-il said and approached the dealers. Just keep the zombies in check.
“Whoa… I think I’ve got almost all of them?”
The party shared roles like that and beat up the zombies inside. Despite the fact that the average rating of the team members is low and the number of members is one less, thanks to Seong-il building a strong front line, the group surprisingly succeeds in clearing out the zombies quickly and easily.
“…Great job.”
Lee Ah-hyun approaches Seong-il, who has beaten nearly a hundred zombies to death alone, and expresses his gratitude for his hard work. To her words, Seong-il shrugs her shoulders and replies.
“What~ with this or that.”
***
Following Seongil’s instructions, the party slowly massacred the zombies and moved to the center of the city.
“Fuck… The more you go, the more zombies there are.”
Park Dong-woo makes an expression that he is tired of the zombies that keep popping up no matter how many times he kills them.
“…And, it seems that a lot of zombies are popping out from the rear now?”
Yoon Tae-hee, who focused on the front and spewed flames, was startled by zombies that suddenly rushed at her and sometimes screamed. Fortunately, thanks to Park Dong-woo, who faithfully followed the instructions of her holy day, she was not exposed to danger, but it was true that the frequency of unexpected situations gradually increased.
Poop!!!
“Hmm…”
Seong-il, who turned her back and looked back at the group, accurately smashed the head of the zombie running behind her with her fist without even looking. He casually kills the zombies around him and worries.
“I can’t do it. You guys will only be on the side and rear from now on.”
“…There are a lot of zombies popping out from the front?”
Lee Ah-hyun answers Seong-il’s command with a tone of amazement.
“It’s okay. I’ll clean up the front by myself. You guys, just focus on not getting hurt.”
“Are you okay…?”
Lee Ah-hyun asked with a slightly worried tone at Seong-il’s words.
“Enough. And I already told you. I’ve already cleared dungeons similar to this one solo. Just take care of your body and you’ll be fine.”
“…In that case.”
The team members couldn’t refute because it was the words of Seong-il, who cleared the 7th grade dungeon solo, not other people. Seong-il looks at Dong-woo Park among them and tells him.
“Dong-woo, you are the one in the back, risking your life to protect Tae-hee and Ah-hyun. At least Lee Ah-hyun has the ability to strengthen her body, so she should have no problem holding on, but as you know from Yoon Tae-hee, problems can arise if she is exposed to a surprise attack.”
“I get it.”
Park Dong-woo meekly accepts Seong-il’s words. As his teammates accepted his request without much resistance, Seong-il puts on his gauntlet and rushes into battle.
“Hmm…”
And the figure of Yu Jun-kyung watching her with interest from the air. Using his skill, magnetic control, he was sitting on one of his iron plates and looking down at Seong-il and his party from the air three stories high.
“Certainly, it’s good to have the ability to avenge… Even though the non-combat ability, empathy, was just added, such combat power…
Even though he is a top-notch A, Yoo Jun-kyung has not yet awakened his revenge ability. However, recently, he felt that he too was developing new abilities little by little, so he was filled with anticipation after seeing his holy day.
Awesome!! Poop!!
The more you enter the center, the more colorful zombies pour out like crazy. The zombies seen at the beginning of the dungeon were still half-human, but the more they entered the center, the more monstrous they were.
‘It feels like we’ve almost arrived?’
Seong-il slaughters the zombies in front of him by pouring punches with speed close to Mach. He recalls the time half a year ago when he was clearing a level 7 dungeon alone.
‘Certainly… I’ve gotten stronger compared to back then.’
Seong-il wanders around the world and feels that he has become much stronger thanks to the abilities he has acquired. In particular, he could feel that the ultimate nanomachines and strengthening procedures obtained from Pocket Girls gave him tremendous benefits.
‘…The dungeons the vampires used to set up in the past would have been of this level of difficulty, but at that time, despite the similar situation, I eventually got tired and had to use the cursed sword and silver moon’s help.’
Incredibly strong stamina. To be precise, the nanomachines in the body quickly normalize the consumed stamina, but in the end, Seongil is satisfied with the performance of the machine and swings his fist without hesitation.
“…Aren’t you a complete madman? To be honest, I didn’t believe that you soloed a level 7 dungeon with only your physical enhancement abilities…”
Yoon Tae-hee muttered with a tired expression. She seemed to be greatly shocked to see such a bloody majesty of a body-strengthening person who was ridiculed as being only half of those with combat abilities.
“Not only that. Take a good look at that guy’s body.”
“…?”
Park Dong-woo knocks on the zombies around him and talks to Yoon Tae-hee. However, Yoon Tae-hee, who has a normal body, doesn’t have the overwhelming dynamic vision like Park Dong-woo, her physical enhancement ability, so she can’t grasp Seong-il’s fast-moving body movements, so she can’t understand his words.
“…That guy doesn’t have a scratch on his body.”
“What?!”
Seong-il’s body is stained with blood from the zombies, and Yoon Tae-hee couldn’t pinpoint his condition. However, after hearing Park Dong-woo’s words, Yoon Tae-hee examines Seong-il’s body with her astonished expression.
“How the hell?!”
“I don’t know. One thing’s for sure, he fights like a madman, but he’s never allowed a single effective hit.”
“…Oh my god.”
