Chapter 104
Elisabeth crossed her arms, seemingly asking for his reasoning.
“You were making a fuss before. Why are you trying to reconcile now?”
“... Now that I thought about it, Choi Yeonseung told me not to fight with you.”
“......”
“......”
His reason was so unexpected it rendered the hunters speechless. He wasn’t a kid getting scolded by his parents...
Elisabeth’s anger lowered. Now that he had come out like this, her anger disappeared. “I understand. I won’t say anything else, so let’s move.”
“Are you just going to let that slide?”
“Schneider. You were worse than that.”
Antony grew furious. “When was I ever worse than that guy?!”
“Um. Antony was indeed worse.”
Smallwood nodded, convinced. Odaigon?was annoying, but he was quite good-natured compared to Antony.
“That isn’t important right now! Follow me. We have to move!”
“Why do we have to follow you?”
“That’s right, friend. Why should we believe you?”
“It would be different if you were Hunter Choi Yeonseung, but I can’t trust you.”
“......”
Odaigon?was speechless.
What in the world was wrong with these human beings?
‘Master, how did you get these people to follow you?’
***
Bam!
“You are the two-headed chaos dog.”
Choi Yeonseung heard a growl, then a distinct sound. He didn’t even need to look up to know the monster’s identity. The more he trained in his martial arts, the more sensitive his senses became. If a magician had detection magic, then a martial artist had intuition.
However, it was a phenomenon that was surprising to Arenas. There was nothing around them, but he claimed that a monster had appeared! No hunter in the clan had ever performed such a feat.
‘Is this martial?arts?’
Considering Choi Yeonseung’s performance so far, martial arts seemed strangely good. In fact, wasn’t martial arts undervalued?
‘No. Even the clan’s other hunters said martial arts isn’t good.’
Arenas grabbed onto a string of reason. The current situation was just an illusion! Just because Choi Yeonseung used it well didn’t mean that martial arts were necessarily good.
“Behind.”
“Huh?”
“Behind you.” Choi Yeonseung grabbed Arenas by the collar, pulled him forward, and threw him. Arenas was a tanker that specialized in close combat. Right now, he had imbued himself with defense magic and weight-increase magic! Nevertheless, Choi Yeonseung easily flung him away.
“!!!”
Thrown forward, Arenas around. However, he had no time to be angry. He was far too shocked.
A two-headed hound had suddenly appeared where he had just been. It was the two-headed chaos dog. It approached him using short-distance teleportation!
‘It’s around level 150, huh?’
Choi Yeonseung used his constellation abilities to grasp the monster’s level.
Level 150 was around C-grade. Arenas could kill it, but its skill, which allowed it to teleport?backward, was extremely tricky. His opponent’s unpredictability and the fact that it was his first time encountering it left him no other choice but to suffer! However, after fighting it once, it would no longer be as difficult to face.
Choi Yeonseung snapped his fingers, and the Origin of the Celestial Finger shot out. It was a lower-level attack than when using concentrated energy, but it was enough.
Bam! Bam!
-■■■■!
The two-headed chaos dog received the attack in its torso and screamed, rolling around. He struck precisely. Once its movement was stopped, Choi Yeonseung’s sword flashed. He quickly approached and cut off both heads.
Arenas’ jaw dropped open. “You... You weren’t joking... !”
This person didn’t even use powerful magic, yet he killed a monster with a few moves of his hand and a few strikes of his sword. He shockingly so easily killed a monster that made Arenas suffer.
“It isn’t that difficult once you know their tricks. If you detect it first, avoid the attack from behind, and counterattack, it won’t be able to fight properly because of its weak defenses.”
“How do I detect it first?”
“... Hmm. On second thought, it is a bit of a difficult monster for a magician.”
“......”
Choi Yeonseung’s ridiculous words rendered Arenas speechless. In the meantime, Choi Yeonseung approached the two-headed chaos dog and took out its shiny core, which exuded magic power. He then put it in his bag. That was only normal.
“? ? ?”
However, Choi Yeonseung then dismantled the two-headed chaos dog and took its meat!
“Wh... What are you doing?”
“Haven’t you lost all your food?”
Choi Yeonseung had also lost the food he brought with him since?Odaigon was carrying it all for him. He was a constellation, so it didn’t matter how much he starved, but others were different.
‘It would be a waste to take out the meat from my space necklace, though.’
The monster meat in his storage was special A-grade meat that couldn’t be obtained on Earth. In the Abyss, the speed of refilling the meat was much faster than eating it, so he used it all the time...
He also ate much more when he came to Earth. He would normally use the bad-quality meats first, but now he felt that he had to save them.
‘I shouldn’t take them out unless I have to.’
He had become sick of monsters during his days of roaming around the Abyss. He never thought he wouldn’t see them again once he had returned to Earth.
“You want to eat that?”
“It isn’t poisonous, so we can eat it.”
“N—No. That’s a monster. Are monsters edible?”
“Yes.”
Really?
Arenas couldn’t help but be convinced. The Icarus clan likely tested it!
***
The two-headed chaos dogs continued to aim for Choi Yeonseung and Arenas. However, their surprise attacks never succeeded. Setting up ambushes by hiding underground or behind leaves and falling from trees…
Arenas now felt sorry for the two-headed chaos dogs. It didn’t make sense no matter how he thought about it! Dungeons were the monsters’ home ground, yet despite being inside it, their surprise attacks against humans kept failing.
‘No. Don’t I have to show my abilities... ’
Arenas slowly became anxious. Choi Yeonseung showed grace when he healed him. At the very least, he wanted to return the favor by tanking upfront for Choi Yeonseung whenever a monster came out. It wasn’t because Arenas was a sincere and kind person.
...He just wanted to do something because Choi Yeonseung treated him like an insect! However, he never got the chance. Choi Yeonseung had found other hunters.
“There are hunters over there.”
“Nobody’s there, though... ”
“I can hear them. Let’s go.”
“? ?”
Arenas cocked his head as he watched Choi Yeonseung run through the trees without hesitation. It didn’t take long before they actually found hunters—five of them—in a glade.
“!!”
A glance was enough to determine that the hunters were from different clans, considering how they had grouped into twos or threes. They had clearly gotten scattered, wandered, and eventually gathered here.
“Izidor!”
“Arenas?”
Surprisingly, some were from the New York Fires clan. Arenas happily called out when he discovered the B-grade hunter, Izidor.
“You were alive! I was worried.”
“Sob... Thank you!”
“What happened?”
Izidor looked at Arenas with surprise. It sounded cold, but Izidor half thought Arenas was dead. They got scattered in the dungeon. Anyone who couldn’t regroup with the others after a few days had little chance of being alive. After all, dungeons weren’t such a safe place. Even so, Arenas looked fine, albeit a bit pale. He was walking unscathed.
“This hunter saved and healed me. His name is Choi Yeonseung.”
“What... ”
“You were saved and healed?”
“? ?”
The words made not only Izidor but even the other clans’ hunters turn to look. He was saved and healed?
“Aha. You two fought monsters together, then?”
“No... I was injured and had collapsed, but he saved me.”
“... Ah. So you two know each other, then? You two are probably close.”
“No... Today is our first time meeting each other.”
“... Why did he save you, then?”
“I... I don’t know?”
Arenas couldn’t help but wonder himself. Why did this person help him?
“Are you complaining that I helped you?” Choi Yeonseung asked indifferently.
The American hunters here were too shocked and freaked out that he saved someone. Of course, Choi Yeonseung was doing good to be worshiped and raise his power of existence, but...
Couldn’t they just say ‘thank you?’
“Ah... No. Thank you. I thank you in the name of the New York Fires, Choi Yeonseung.” Izidor spoke with sincerity. Hunters were all selfish. They wouldn’t even help their clanmates most of the time. However, hunters who showed good intentions deserved to be thanked. Izidor wasn’t crooked enough not to do so.
“Where are you from?”
“Icarus.”
“Icarus?! Is the Icarus clan here?”
Izidor was surprised in many ways. It was already surprising that Choi Yeonseung belonged to Icarus, yet he even generously helped Arenas despite the Icarus clan being scattered. Wasn’t he more like a saint than a hunter?
‘Ah. Choi Yeonseung...’
Izidor came to a realization upon remembering the video he had seen that was taken in Las Vegas. Choi Yeonseung was a 1st-generation hunter and an Abyss returnee!
‘Is that why?’
He could hear other clan hunters whispering next to him.
“Treatment? That man probably just killed a monster and helped the New York Fires hunter up. He’s exaggerating.”
“Who would heal a hunter from a different clan?”
Arenas was furious grew furious upon hearing that. He thought Choi Yeonseung was trying to rob him at first, but that didn’t mean he could stand others saying that.
“Don’t talk nonsense when you have no idea what happened! Hunter Choi Yeonseung even used healing magic to help me!”
“H—Healing magic?”
“That’s nonsense...!”
The other hunters were stunned once more. All of this…
It really didn’t make sense!
Arenas stomped around. As he started explaining, spit came flying out.
-I was on the verge of dying when a hunter named Choi Yeonseung showed up and said, ‘You’re not dying on me! I will definitely save you!’ After he said that...
… Arenas’ version of the story was so severely dramatized that anyone who heard it would think, Is that hunter a saint?’
‘This guy is so shameless. Even I can’t bring myself to believe him,’ Choi Yeonseung thought.
Arenas probably did it because of his conscience, but wasn’t he lying too much?
“Stop talking nonsense. Everybody finds it strange.”
“What... So he’s lying?”
The hunters were relieved. They had hoped this was the case.
Having been labeled a liar, Arenas replied in resentment, “Nonsense? You used healing magic!”
“I did.”
“You also killed the monster and saved me!”
“I saved you, but it wasn’t out of such good intentions. I just happened to see the monster...”
“? ? ”
The hunters around them cocked their heads. So he did use healing magic and save this person...
If so, then Arenas uttered no lies.
[Being worshiped has increased the power of your existence!]
“...... ”
Why did it increase?
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