Chapter 3 – Hunting the Big One
I turned the crooked goblin over and retrieved the knife stuck in its forehead and the bolt stuck in its shoulder.
Bolts could be recycled if they didn’t spoil.
Then he took out the hatchet from his backpack.
-Puck!
With a dull sound, the goblin’s chest split.
I had to find a magic stone that might be there.
A magic stone came out of the goblin’s heart.
But still it wasn’t.
If you catch 10 F-rank monsters, you’re lucky if even one comes out.
Expected but not expected.
I moved and split the chest of the first goblin I caught.
“Bingo.”
I found a brilliant magic stone the size of a finger.
‘Is it a good day?’
I feel better.
Goblin Gacha was a success.
With two goblins and one magic stone, it was a surplus business.
I looked at the corpses the goblins were eating.
There were two human corpses whose torso had already disappeared.
There were two men.
A mixture of pain and fear appeared on his still young face.
‘How young.’
If you do this job, you’ll get tired of looking at the corpse.
This time, too, it was nothing special.
I looked at the scattered equipment.
The equipment didn’t look very good.
He seemed to be a beginner, non-awakening hunter who had just gotten her license.
Innocent hunter license is obtained when you have been recognized for more than 2 years of military or support experience, or when you have completed the hunter academy.
The monster detector was not visible.
Unless she was a gold drinker, it was not something that beginner hunters could easily obtain.
So, she usually joins a guild or party and lives the youngest life.
If you’re lucky, you might have succeeded in farming once or twice.
However, even a veteran could not cope with the surprise attack of the goblins that came out right in front of her nose.
It’s not like carrying around a monster detector for nothing.
I found the backpacks of the victims rolling around some distance away.
It contained a fist-sized blue fruit and vivid green leaves.
Rocca is a fruit and Nog is a medicinal herb.
These are the main sources of income for Songdo Gate Mugakseong Hunters.
I took them out and put them in my backpack.
I saw an Ilsung company tablet with the Ilsung logo, but I ignored it.
It’s not that the tablet is not worth the money, but it was right to give it up because there is a possibility that troublesome things will happen.
Other than that, I couldn’t see anything that could be money.
Next is the goblin claw.
It’s not expensive, but it’s not bulky, and it’s at the level of making pocket money.
It was time to head towards the goblin corpse to cut off the nails.
[Monster detected.]
[45 meters at 11 o’clock, Class F monster.]
[One biological reaction.]
“What?”
It wasn’t a good sign to encounter monsters in succession like this, not from the front, but from the back.
I was worried that there might have been a dimensional rift around me.
[The monster is approaching.]
[30 meters.]
In an instant, the gap closed.
A monster was rapidly approaching its current location.
Have there ever been F-class monsters that fast?
The red dot marked on the map was approaching this way with great speed.
It seemed to arrive in a few seconds.
Sensing a sense of wariness from a long-time hunter, he quickly hid himself in the bushes.
– Kreureung….
At the same time, a monster immediately appeared.
It looks like a goblin.
However, the height of 2 meters and the greatly bulked up upper body were incomparable in terms of coercion.
It was the first giant goblin I had ever seen.
I’ve been on this floor for a long time, but I’ve never heard or seen that goblins have such a mutation.
The giant goblin roamed around and, apparently hungry, began to gnaw on the corpses of the goblins I had killed.
– Wooddeuk.
The sound of bones crunching against hard teeth could be heard.
I was worried.
Will it fall like this?
Are you going to hunt
If it is missing, it should not be noticed.
I don’t know how long that monster’s recognition range was, but if it fell in and was caught, I had to engage in close combat.
Close combat is the last resort for a non-awakening hunter.
Even though he possessed combat abilities that transcended ordinary people with his excellent senses, he was reluctant to engage in close combat because of his size.
A regular goblin could be beaten with two fists, but even just looking at it, the monster’s physical abilities seemed unusual.
There could be a situation where you couldn’t just fight.
Looking at that body, I couldn’t believe that I could get away with running away.
Rather, I could have encountered a more dangerous situation.
If they hunted, they could have the right to attack first and continue an advantageous battle.
“Are you sure it’s F-class?”
Just in case, I asked Suni.
[Yes. It is an F-class monster.]
“Are there any other monsters around?”
[It cannot be detected within a radius of 50 meters.]
It wasn’t class D.
If it was D-class, I would have had to run away without looking back, but if it was F-class, it was doable.
It looked stronger than a goblin, but it’s still an F-class monster.
And it’s one
A situation where a preemptive strike by one F-class is possible.
It is an impossible situation.
But seeing that size, I couldn’t be careless.
Prepared for battle carefully.
Silently, I loaded the crossbow, took out the assembly type spear from my backpack, and quickly assembled it.
Because it was prefabricated, its durability was not good, so it was only a spear for throwing.
Silently aimed the crossbow at the giant goblin who was still eating the corpse.
The red dot in the scope aimed at the top of the giant goblin.
– Tung.
– Peruk.
It was stuck in the head of a giant goblin without fail.
In an instant, the monster that was happily eating stopped.
‘A normal F-rank would end with this one shot.’
Still, I didn’t let my guard down.
I quickly reloaded the crossbow while examining its condition.
– Kreureung.
With a low animal cry, the giant goblin’s head lifted.
And the eyes of the spinning monster met.
I wondered if I had missed it because of how well it looked, but seeing the dangling bolt that got stuck in the top of my head at an angle, that wasn’t the case either.
My vigilance increased and I could feel my muscles tense.
I quickly aimed and pulled the loaded crossbow.
– Peruk.
With a dull sound, this time it got stuck in my eyes.
As if in shock, the large goblin bent its head backwards and stumbled, then kicked the ground as if it were bouncing in an instant.
-Kuong!!
I expected it to be fast by looking at the speed when approaching, but it showed more speed than that.
It wasn’t the speed of an F-class monster.
The sense of crisis expands.
The accident accelerated.
‘Late.’
The attacking monster looked like slow motion.
But I was slower.
I should have reacted faster.
He said he was wary, but the monster’s speed was way beyond his expectations.
A huge nail has been cut.
In the slowed down time, I twisted my body as much as I could to keep my nails from touching.
The tips of the claws of the giant goblin passed dangerously through the bent body.
“Shit!”
It felt like it would take my arm.
I was aware of it, but my body couldn’t keep up.
-Chik!
There was a scratching sound from the shield of the battle suit.
At the same time, I felt a burning pain in my right arm.
When I was hit by an attack that I would have avoided in the past, I could feel my body becoming dull.
I barely escaped the monster’s charge and rolled.
[The right arm of the suit is damaged.]
[Right arm magic shield lost.]
[Suit energy remaining 33%.]
Sunni’s warning sound was heard.
The arm of the suit was torn, and a peek revealed that it was red and bruised.
‘Sibul…. It didn’t get scratched, it flew away.’
The injuries were not great.
But without the combat suit, the arm would have been blown off.
The remaining magic power of the battle suit was pointing at 33%.
30% of the suit’s energy was leaking out in chunks.
‘This much in one shot?’
‘It’s F grade?’
The combat suit is protected by a shield using magical power.
The attack power of F-rank monsters cannot pierce the battle suit’s shield until the magic power of the battle suit runs out.
In the first place, it was the attack power of F-class monsters that could not reduce even 10% of the shield.
In that respect, the attack power of this giant goblin that pierced the shield and tore the suit was not normal.
It was at least D-class or higher in attack power.
But looking at the bolts of the crossbow, it was an F-class hit.
If it was Class D, the bolt wouldn’t have stuck in the first place.
The attack power of the giant goblins was murderous.
‘If I get hit by one more, I’ll go to the goal.’
The reaction rate had to be increased.
I raised my concentration to the limit and accelerated my thinking.
I felt a familiar headache that I hadn’t felt in a long time.
I saw a monster attacking me.
Sharp nails cut.
Predicted the route in advance and increased the reaction speed to evade.
That alone makes my muscles scream.
I narrowly dodged it and stabbed his jungle sword into his side.
Dark red blood splattered.
At the same time, he quickly rolled over to the window and picked it up.
The giant goblin seemed very angry at me for not being able to catch it.
He grabbed the handle end of the spear in his hand and threw it with all his might.
-Hwiwoong!
It got stuck in the monster’s stomach with the sound of cutting the wind.
– Keek!
The force on the spear caused the monster to hit its butt.
He also drew a dagger and threw it.
-Puck.
The dagger was lodged in his left chest.
Even so, the giant goblin staggered to its feet.
