The Hunter of the Other World Who Is Being Misunderstood – Chapter 50

Ch 50: National Hero （2）

Not long ago, the Rank 1 assault incident occurred.

“Yes, I rechecked it with the latest analyzer, and there were no abnormalities. That person is F-rank.”

Jeong Haseong recalled the suspect in the incident.

He thought that Kang Changho was the most likely to do such a thing. However, he couldn’t forget the dry look in Kim Giryeo’s eyes as he coldly stared at him when he collapsed.

‘Was the test wrong?’

Jeong Haseong was startled and requested the related documents.

But now that he looked, the person in charge of the re-examination was none other than Seon Uyeon.

‘Then, the possibility of her taking a bribe and manipulating it is low…’

Since the famous principle-oriented person from the institution had been present, the examination couldn’t have been sloppy.

“Hmm.”

Though it was unsettling, Jeong Haseong decided to bury this matter in his heart.

Well, it would be better to clear another dungeon in this time. How long would he keep focusing on this?

“The list of gates where a dungeon break is imminent. Please print it out.”

Having arrived in Seoul, Jeong Haseong scheduled his next task without a break.

Today’s destination was a nearby unpopular gate.

Meanwhile.

At that unpopular gate that Jeong Haseong was heading to, this person was also on a business trip.

‘There are so many crazy Earthlings, now I’m scared every time I go out.’

The reason he came to this gate was simple.

‘But I can’t help it for research.’

Giryeo was currently in need of monster corpses to use for magic.

It had been revealed that he could control ordinary animals on Earth, like mice and birds.

Now, it was time to test the next stage.

‘If I can control monster corpses, that would be a jackpot.’

However.

It was the custom for hunters to dismantle and take away monsters, rummaging through parts that could be sold for money, like their hides.

So, obtaining a clean specimen was quite a difficult task.

‘Hehehehe…’

So, Giryeo used a trick.

If it was a monster that didn’t drop magic stones and whose bones and flesh were worthless, everyone would throw away the corpse.

Therefore, he had purposely come to a place famous for being a trash dungeon.

“Since the monsters here are small, it’s perfect for stealing…!”

Huh?

When he actually entered the gate, the front was empty.

“Huh.”

This was a blue gate where no boss existed.

Type II dungeon.

Due to the characteristic of constantly respawning regular monsters, he thought there would be remnants of the previous team’s hunt.

“There’s nothing to pick up?”

Not even a corpse, let alone traces of battle!

“It’s different from what I thought…”

They say that gates explode if left alone, and this one has been around for quite a while, shouldn’t someone come?

Giryeo squatted in a corner of the gate, avoiding the monsters’ eyes.

But even after waiting for a long time, there was no sign of anyone coming.

“Aish, no wonder there wasn’t a staff member guarding the gate. I didn’t know it was this unpopular.”

Would it have been better if he had brought An Yunseung?

Giryeo pondered for a moment, then shook his head.

‘That won’t do.’

Corpse manipulation is an important formula that is also connected to reincarnation magic.

Besides, after a quick search, it seemed that there were no awakened ones on Earth who knew how to control monsters.

It would be a disaster if An Yunseung were to become suspicious of his actions one day.

‘It’s not good to rely too much on Earthlings.’

Giryeo thought that he should gradually reduce his dependence on An Yunseung.

He had to do what he could on his own.

Besides, he had increased the number of magical tools to protect himself during the last shopping trip.

“I guess there’s no choice. Should I give up on B-rank specimens and lower my sights to C-rank?”

Alright.

He got up from his spot. He judged that there was nothing to gain from staying here.

“Hmm?”

But at that moment.

“……!”

Jeong Haseong, who was entering the dungeon.

Kim Giryeo, who was about to leave.

The two figures faced each other head-on, with one gate in the center.

“Uh… so…”

Black hair with a lot of gray mixed in for someone so young.

And a man with a neat impression, like an announcer on TV.

Giryeo soon remembered the young man’s name.

“Hunter Jeong Haseong?”

Then, Haseong frowned.

“You…”

A look of disgust flashed across his face.

Even if Kim Giryeo had entered the gate without permission, that was secondary, wasn’t this a B-rank gate?

“What were you doing here?”

The suspicion he had been trying to suppress ignited.

Haseong thought. Wasn’t the other party trying to secretly hunt a B-rank monster now?

“Ah, that’s…”

“No, how the h*ll is the Association doing its job? There’s an awakened one who clearly manipulated their rank walking around.”

As Jeong Haseong muttered irritably, Giryeo said in a fluster.

“It, it was a mistake. I didn’t do anything inside, and I was just about to leave.”

“You’re saying you just entered by mistake?”

“Yes.”

“I was preparing for 10 minutes in front of the gate before entering?”

Kim Giryeo’s mouth snapped shut.

‘D*mn it.’

No matter how much he made excuses here. The fact that he illegally entered the gate wouldn’t change.

“I, I’m sorry. Actually, I was just looking around inside out of curiosity.”

In this kind of situation, it was better to be honest than to make unnecessary lies.

“Did you come here to hunt? Then I’ll leave right away so I don’t get in your way…”

“Where do you think you’re going?”

“Ah, should I stop? Okay, I understand. So, please put down your sword first.”

Giryeo kept swallowing hard, trying to appease the S-rank.

But the problem didn’t end there.

Following that, another new figure was added to this unpopular gate.

‘Those crazy pseudo-religious bastards. They’re trying to kill people over this kind of thing.’

It was Pyo Nagil, the boss of a criminal organization, who had intervened.

Why did this unregistered one come to such a secluded gate?

It was because of the previous request.

━Then, find another S-rank or something, and hurry up and solve it.

Pyo Nagil had received a large advance payment from some religious people for a certain price.

However, with the appearance of a variable named Kim Giryeo, he had effectively given up on the assassination of Esther.

He was now in a position where he had to return the advance payment he had swallowed, and his future transactions were cut off.

‘D*mn it.’

The conflict with the Nacha Temple and its affiliated organizations was a threat to Pyo Nagil beyond imagination.

Unregistered ones who lived in hiding had a limit to the amount of money they could earn, no matter how many illegal acts they committed.

Recently, the police had caught his tail, and even the existence of his organization was in danger. Now, even the businesses he was lacking were being shut down.

Of course, the income that his organization had earned so far was by no means small in the eyes of ordinary people, but human desires were endless.

‘I can’t help it.’

Pyo Nagil couldn’t give up the wealth that the Nacha Temple was providing.

Greed.

He decided to protect his source of income, even if it meant continuing a dangerous request.

‘If I just close my eyes and succeed in the surprise attack, it’ll be fine. There’s nothing to be worried about.’

But even though he said that, he was actually starting to sweat from the tension.

Today’s target was Jeong Haseong.

He had come to assassinate another S-rank as requested by his sponsoring organization.

Do you know why he had been carrying out the major task of assassinating top-tier hunters alone?

It was because in front of an S-rank, any ordinary person was useless.

Even considering his weakness of often acting alone, Jeong Haseong was a monster to be feared.

With just one gesture, any mid-level awakened one would be reduced to ashes.

‘It’s okay. Even in the rehearsal, I wasn’t detected by that guy when I was invisible, so it’ll be fine…’

If things got bad, he would flee in stealth.

Then, Pyo Nagil steeled his heart and cautiously entered the gate.

‘Huh?’

But what was this?

Unlike what he had just thought, he ended up fleeing from the gate in just two seconds.

‘What! I clearly saw him going in alone?’

Because Jeong Haseong was currently talking to another hunter.

And if he wasn’t mistaken, the blonde awakened one inside the gate was definitely.

‘Kim Giryeo!’

Cold sweat formed on his temples.

‘Did he read my actions? No, that can’t be… But how is he always sticking to the hunters we’re targeting!’

As long as that F-rank was nearby, it was impossible to assassinate Jeong Haseong.

His invisibility wouldn’t work at all.

‘D*mn it!’

Pyo Nagil bit his lip from beyond the gate.

In fact, the safest choice in this situation was to step back and wait for the next opportunity.

‘Annoying.’

Pyo Nagil was bothered by the hunter named Kim Giryeo.

The memory of turning his back and running away from the F-rank he had looked down on.

That humiliation kept flashing in his mind.

‘Right. Now that I think about it, among the things those pseudo-religious guys gave me…’

Pyo Nagil took something out of his bag.

『Collapse Particle-α』

『Description: When attached, destroys one type of tool.』

This item was a small bomb that could literally remove annoying objects.

It was usually used to destroy a competitor’s equipment.

‘They told me to use this if I met an S-rank inside a gate.’

But one day, the group called the Nacha Temple discovered a new way to use this item.

‘Since it’s from those guys, I’ve never used it because it felt weird…’

Whoosh.

With a half-believing heart, Pyo Nagil threw the item towards the gate.

Then, the red orb floated into the gate’s wave, sprouting small roots.

‘Huh?’

The surprise was brief.

A few seconds later.

━Clang!

The passage that had been emitting a blue light was instantly destroyed and disappeared.

‘What, a dungeon break?’

A phenomenon that was clearly different from a normal gate close. In a way, it was similar to a dungeon break as he had said.

‘Wasn’t this item only supposed to destroy equipment? The gate was also applicable?’

This was the discovery of a group of terrorists disguised as a religious organization.

Dungeon passages can be artificially removed.

Moreover, the effect didn’t just end with the disappearance of the entrance.

━Clang!

“Hmm?”

“Huh?”

At the same time. Inside the dungeon.

The two people who were arguing turned their heads at the same time at the strange sound.

“The exit…?”

Jeong Haseong was the first to speak, but Giryeo also chimed in soon after.

“Ah, d*mn it.”

A frank curse flowed.

Again, the place they were in was a blue gate.

Among them, it was a Type II hunting ground where there was no boss and only minions respawned.

But if you tried to forcibly remove the entrance of this Type II hunting ground, a strange phenomenon occurred.

“Why did the gate suddenly close? Did you do this?”

“Would I do that? I was being grabbed by the collar by Haseong-ssi.”

When you defeat the boss, the gate disappears.

This was the basic premise of a Type I dungeon.

However, a Type II dungeon that suddenly lost its passage caused a serious error based on this premise.

━The gate has been destroyed.

━For a gate to be destroyed, the number of monsters must exceed a certain amount, or the boss must die.

━Has the current number of monsters exceeded the allowable range?

━NO

━Processing as gate destruction due to boss elimination.

━But there is no boss here?

It was a domino of errors.

━Setting a new boss to resolve the contradiction.

Giryeo couldn’t see through all of this system, but he could at least tell that something big had happened.

“Jeong Haseong-ssi, you can report me as much as you want after we get out of this gate. No, I’ll just turn myself in. For illegally entering.”

Oooooo…

The blonde man followed the sound of a cry coming from beyond the dense swamp.

“So, could you please just let me live until then?”

What was this shameless rank impersonator saying now?

For a moment, Jeong Haseong didn’t understand what the other person was saying.

But soon, reality unfolded before them.

“Grrrrrrrrr…”

“Moooooo~”

What was going on?

Originally, this gate was a nest where simple, white bird-type monsters appeared.

But now, there were giant horns sprouting everywhere he turned his head.

The S-rank hunter held out his watch towards the red, giant bulls that had started to rampage through the dungeon.

Beep.

『Minotaur』

“It’s a monster I’ve seen somewhere before.”

The boss of the Labyrinthos Dungeon.

Minotaurs had appeared.

And not just one or two.

“Haseong-ssi, I haven’t heard your answer yet.”

…An unfortunate event occurred where all the regular monsters in this gate were replaced by ‘random boss-level magical beasts’.

“I’m telling you in advance, I’m really bad at fighting.”

Kim Giryeo quietly stepped back.

Even at this moment, the Minotaur’s army was getting closer to them.