Chapter 439 – Return After Long Absence
‘However, despite being hit by such a poison, if I show a quick recovery, or if I show no abnormality, the hunters of the ark will suspect that there is something special in my body.’
While thinking so, a wave of strange energy surrounds Seongil’s body.
‘Oh… This is the space distortion shield!’
A strange shield of distorted space created from a distance of about one fist from the body.
‘Good. If I put my psychokinesis inside this, I’ll be able to completely block the venom.’
Thinking so, Seong-il begins to thinly coat his body with telekinesis like a shield.
‘I lied that I would use a shadow for Lee Ah-hyun, but this or that… Well…’
Seong-il is certain that Lee Ah-hyun will not use telekinesis. As he prepares his best posture, he throws himself at the flesh in front of his eyes.
“Kwuweek?!”
While diligently spraying the contaminated liquid in all directions, when a presence appeared nearby that seemed to threaten him, a mass of flesh looked in the direction of Seongil with a bizarre scream.
“…Did you have eyes?”
The appearance of a bizarre eye that appeared with a huge piece of flesh near the torso. Seong-il stopped rushing involuntarily and looked at the guy with a frown for a moment.
“You’re such a disgusting bastard. Eat this as a greeting!!”
As he shouted, Seong-il mercilessly swung his fists, drawing on the strength of his flesh.
Awesome!!!!
“Kuweeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”
A piece of flesh that was hit directly in the eye by such an attack on a holy day. It screams in agony as it spews venom from its mouth.
“Ugh… Exhale…!!”
Pus from the flesh that pours out of your mouth after you scream. Feeling threatened, he begins to mercilessly spray Seong-il with thicker and more disgusting pus than before.
Ugh!!!
As if to protect such a holy day, the protective film distorts the space with an intense noise, and the pus that falls on his body bounces off in different directions.
‘Ohh… Rather than a barrier that physically blocks it directly, is it a defense that causes the venom to flow in a different direction by distorting the space?’
Ahyeon’s shield, a very unique method. Seongil gives very generous marks for its originality.
‘I like space distortion?’
A space distortion shield that has a very strong visual effect. Seong-il, who was able to thoroughly camouflage the use of psychokinesis thanks to this, is very satisfied and unleashes merciless attacks on the flesh’s eyes.
“Keep it up!!!”
Zombies pouring into the center of the city, probably driven by its terrible screams. Although he may be intimidated by the waves of enemies, Seong-il ignores the zombie horde without blinking an eye and launches a merciless focused attack on the flesh.
‘Here…!!’
Seong-il, who gives flesh a taste of mad fist baptism, focusing on the weakness that emotion tells. The flesh, suffering from the attack, sprays pus even more viciously at Seong-il and calls in the surrounding zombies to try to stop him, but Seong-il perfectly evades the attack and attacks without rest.
“Kwueeeeek…”
After all, it’s been about ten minutes since I tasted the waves. The huge mass of flesh eventually can’t stand the attack and its eyes begin to roll over.
Booooo…!!!
“!!”
A mass of flesh that begins to swell with a strange noise.
‘Fuck…!! It has to come out quickly…!!’
At first glance, the action of a piece of flesh that looks like a last-ditch effort. Because of this, Seong-il quickly runs away from him and hides inside a nearby building.
Aaaaa!!!!
Disgusting bodies of pus and flesh spread in all directions with the sound of huge skins bursting. The party, who had been watching it from afar, frowned and hid themselves in the building behind them.
“Oops…”
After seeing that disgusting scene, Lee Ah-hyeon couldn’t stand it and began to vomit, probably because of her lack of experience.
“Oh… Core!!”
A bizarre passageway that appeared in the place where the flesh burst and an alien architecture visible from the inside.
And soon after, the virtual world created by the dungeon core collapses, and the hidden core begins to emerge.
“Whoa… It’s been a while here.”
It’s been almost half a year since I cleared a level 7 dungeon solo. Because of this, Seong-il, feeling refreshed, murmurs while looking at the dungeon core.
“…Wasn’t it cleared a few days ago?”
Lee Ah-hyun, who escaped the collapse and came to the core. She asks with a puzzled look at her holy day’s self-talk.
“Huh? Well… A week is a long time.”
Of course, Seong-il couldn’t talk about the game world. He wants to hide her secret, so he replies to Lee Ah-hyun in a slightly frivolous tone as if joking.
“…”
Ah-hyeon, as well as her other two colleagues, look at Seong-il with a puzzled expression.
“Whoa… That’s it. Let’s finish it.”
At Seong-il’s words, Yoon Tae-hee naturally steps forward and fires flame energy at the core that is spraying her strange energy in all directions.
“…But, wasn’t the core destroyed only by supernatural powers? How did you, a person with physical abilities, break the core? Since it was soloing, you would have destroyed the core.”
“…”
Park Dong-woo’s sharp question that pierces the core.
“Uh… Um… I just projected my other ability ‘Emotion’ onto the core, so I felt a weakness, and when I punched that part, it broke?”
“What!? That works?”
“Eh. Shall I show you?”
Seong-il was worried that he would be engulfed in useless rumors in the future. He quickly puts on his subtle inner skills and starts swinging his fists at the core of the dungeon without hesitation.
Kwaaaaang!!!!
And the dungeon core that cracked little by little when it was hit directly by the powerful fist.
Quaang!!! Quaang!!!
“!!!!”
When the core, which is said to be able to be broken only with psychic powers, is shattered by Seong-il’s fist, the party members as well as Yoo Jun-kyung, who is watching from afar, are amazed.
“Ho… Could you have broken the core with such physical force? Interesting…?”
***
‘It’s been a while since I felt this way.’
The dungeon core is broken and a strange flow of energy emanates from it. As always, Seong-il’s phone begins to absorb the strange energy destroyed in its core.
‘…It’s not a strange energy. That’s probably the ‘causality rate’, right?’
Seong-il gazes at the scene in the slowed-down time and space. In order to feel the identity of the power identified as ‘causality’, he scans the energy by projecting a response, unlike in the past, when he only watched blankly.
‘!!!!’
And the powerful ‘possibilities’ felt in that energy. Although there are limitations, I feel that if I use this power well, I can do a lot.
Swaaaaa!!!!!
And smartphones that absorb energy faster and more furiously than ever before. Of course, the expression was intense, but the time for the phone to absorb the energy was only a moment.
『Charge rate 20% until the next Game Master upgrade』
‘Hmm… The number of cores required for upgrade has increased by almost five times compared to last time.’
Considering that the first upgrade was actually completed after clearing a 10th grade dungeon and a 7th grade dungeon, the required amount of dungeon cores increased by almost five times.
‘Well… There’s nothing particularly difficult about clearing it five times. Isn’t that reasonable? At my current level, soloing is easy too.’
Just when he thought so, Seong-il feels that the stopped time gradually normalizes.
“Did you bring your bag?”
“Ah, here.”
Seong-il, who is now quite used to picking up the broken core and putting it into a special backpack. In the meantime, Yoo Jun-kyung, an instructor, comes down from the air and approaches them.
“Did you have a good look?”
“Yeah. Great.”
“How do you think the evaluation will be?”
“…No matter how high you set your standards, you’ll get at least a B- grade. The rest of the team will have a C to C+ grade.”
“Heh… I see.”
Knowing that when a student who graduates from university with excellent grades becomes a first-time hunter, he usually gets a grade of B-, so Seong-il happily accepts Yoo Jun-kyung’s evaluation.
‘I’ve only been rolling for about a year and a half in the world in the game, but the evaluation is similar to an honor student who trained hard for four years… Even I didn’t use half of my abilities, such as psychokinesis and shadow magic this time, right? Is it very encouraging?’
“What are you doing? Let’s leave quickly.”
“Hmm? Ah… I see.”
While lost in thought for a while, Lee Ah-hyun calls Seong-il. The dungeon was collapsing due to the broken core, so she urged him with a slightly urgent tone.
***
“…For that reason, Hunter Min Ye-jin’s report that Han Seong-il soloed a level 7 dungeon seems to be true.”
Yoo Jun-kyung briefs new recruits while showing the video he took at what appears to be a conference table.
“Ha… That’s only half the ability of a combat hunter? It’s really amazing.”
Thanks to the experience of rolling and rolling in the Under City, Park Dong-woo and Yoon Tae-hee have well-rounded angles that do not suit their young age.
Lee Ah-hyun, a double-talented person who possesses the rare ability of physical enhancement and spatial distortion at the age of only 20, and so on.
A strange situation in which characters who would normally have received favorable reviews and attention from many people became cold thanks to the appearance of only one person.
“It’s not only that. Han Seong-il over there is also an irregular that breaks the conventional wisdom that psionic monsters and dungeon cores can only be destroyed with pure psionic attacks.”
“Yes.”
“Even though the body strengthening ability plays a very helpful tank role in the team, the reason why the recruitment rate drops as you go up to higher tier dungeons is because there is no way to attack psionic monsters… Han Seong-il It breaks lightly.”
A female executive staring at the battle scene on Seongil with a look of amazement.
“…It hasn’t been confirmed yet whether you can subdue psionic monsters. Destroying the dungeon core is certainly great, but being able to catch psionic monsters is a completely different case.”
“Well… That’s true, but the existence of the core itself is an object that materializes unknown psionic energy into antimatter, so it should work for psionic monsters anyway?”
“Ah… That’s something you have to do to know.”
“So… You mean he’s not good enough?”
“It can’t be! It’s undeniable that Han Seong-il is a super rookie who has appeared for the first time in a while! I’ll have to evaluate it again when I go to level 4-6 dungeons in the future… But, looking at the information I’ve shown so far, I can’t help but look forward to his future. That’s true.”
The figure of a middle-aged man shrugging his shoulders and evaluating his sexuality.
“…So. Pass the school class as he requested, and go straight to the Under Hunter?”
When the executives respond positively, Min Ye-jin, who is sitting by Yu Jun-kyung’s side, asks her executive back what she had reported beforehand.
“Hmm? What’s going on?”
When she asks a middle-aged executive about something, the female executive next to her asks the details with a puzzled expression.
“Ah, it seems that before her friend Han Seong-il awakened her combat abilities, she had received ‘stimulus’ training.”
“Ah, I see what you mean.”
A context that can be understood just by listening to the preceding words.
“Just let him do what he wants, right? You know very well that forcibly educating a traumatized friend will only lead to resentment.”
“Well… That’s true… But if you keep making exceptions like that, it will interfere with the school’s plan to train elite hunters…”
“That’s it. There’s a reason for that, so I’m applying it. Excluding the trauma. That friend has B-class abilities, right?”
“Hmm…”
The image of executives starting to worry while resting their chin on the woman’s words.
“Doesn’t it seem like it would be a problem to apply an exception? Instead, we can set up an unspoken guideline that says, ‘You have to have that level of ability to get out of school education.'”
“But…”
The man, who had a negative attitude towards the female executive’s well-thought-out words, nodded in agreement with her.
“Then let’s do that. Only Han Seong-il, a ‘double’ with special skills, will be exempted from completing the training. In that sense, Lee Ah-hyun is also lacking in skills, but let’s register as a B-.”
“Umm… You have to be at least ‘double’ to be able to refuse to complete the training?”
“That’s right. There are probably 1 to 200 people with low-level double abilities throughout Korea, but how many cases like this will happen in the future?”
“…That’s true, but a rare double-talented person was sent to the field without proper training. Wouldn’t it be a big loss if he died in an accident?”
Min Ye-jin heard the female executive’s words of concern. She interrupts their conversation and answers the executive.
“Oh, in that case, wouldn’t there be a problem if the hunter’s mission was only held up to the 7th grade dungeon, or the mission was carried out in the form of attaching it to a veteran team?”
“Um…”
“If you encounter such veterans in the field, the rejects will naturally feel their ‘shortcomings’, and the rejects will naturally try to enter school to make up for their shortcomings?”
“That’s a good idea. Let’s do it that way.”
So Seong-il doesn’t even know it, and things start to go the way he intended.
