The Hunter of the Other World Who Is Being Misunderstood – Chapter 51

Ch 51: National Hero （3）

I’m trapped in a dungeon.

‘The passage is destroyed.’

Moreover, all the magical beasts that were packed into this unpopular gate have mutated into boss-level monsters.

Could there be a worse situation than this?

‘Those minotaurs… or whatever those bulls are. Looking at their mana, they’re roughly low-B-rank species.’

But there is hope.

Kim Giryeo glanced at the young man standing beside him with a relaxed expression.

‘I don’t know why this accident happened, but anyway, I survived. Hahaha! An S-rank is stuck here with me!’

For an S-rank hunter, this level of situation shouldn’t even be a crisis.

Giryeo asked a question with a much relieved voice.

“Where should I take shelter?”

Because he is a powerless F-rank.

Giryeo thought that Haseong would protect him, just like when they met before.

“If you designate a place, I’ll stay there quietly…”

However, the answer that came back was cold.

“What are you talking about since a while ago?”

Jeong Haseong slowly changed his expression.

An emotion of displeasure or disgust flashed across the S-rank hunter’s face.

“I have no intention of protecting you.”

“Huh?”

“Whether it’s minotaurs or the flames of my skills, deal with it yourself. Can’t a hunter do even that much on their own?”

It was a bewildering statement.

‘No, so you’re telling an F-rank to survive this mess on their own?’

Why did this man’s attitude change so much?

Giryeo fell into deep thought, and after a while, one conclusion came to mind.

Come to think of it, there’s still a knot between him and me that hasn’t been untied.

The false testimony about the fainting incident!

‘I had forgotten about it since it had been quiet for a while. Come to think of it, I didn’t properly clear up the misunderstanding in that call back then.’

So, Jeong Haseong still thinks of me as the perpetrator.

Giryeo quickly turned his eyes.

But everywhere he looked, huge monsters were looming.

There’s no place to set foot because of these monsters, and if Jeong Haseong himself is going to act so coldly…

‘D*mn it, there’s no safe zone?’

There’s no way I can survive in the center of a battle where S-rank flames are raging.

However, if I move far away to avoid the flames, I’ll face the monsters directly.

I’m in a dilemma.

‘No, I can’t. I’ll die without this guy’s help!’

Giryeo, in his desperation, belatedly revealed the truth.

“Are you acting like this because of what happened last time?”

Regardless of Kang Changho’s threats, I need to survive first.

“The time you fainted in the EX-rank gate. I’m sorry I couldn’t tell you beforehand, but actually…!”

However, at the moment Giryeo was about to reveal the truth about the fainting incident.

“Are you going to say that Kang Changho was the culprit? I know. I expected it.”

“Ah, you know?”

“So what about it?”

Jeong Haseong continued with a dry face.

“I don’t care about such past things.”

“Then why are you acting like this towards me now…”

“Because your attitude is pathetic.”

Swoosh.

A sharpened blade reveals itself.

Jeong Haseong firmly gripped the sword he had drawn and warned Giryeo.

“You reported yourself as an F-rank to the Association, but you freely go in and out of B-rank gates. Why do people like you live like that? You don’t want to take on even a little bit of responsibility?”

“No, I…”

“The restrictions by rank are just about being mobilized for the occasional dungeon break.”

“Haseong-ssi, so…”

“I am disgusted when I see a shameless hunter like you. Do you even know how many people die every second while you are only looking out for your own interests…?”

“No, you X-head! Stop interrupting me!”

Giryeo, unable to endure it any longer, shouted loudly.

“I don’t know why you’re misunderstanding, but I’m really an F-rank! Can’t you see my awakening stats?”

But even with his desperate cry, the other person’s posture did not change.

“I understand. Kim Giryeo, F-rank hunter. Then, at the very least, why don’t you use that analysis skill of yours that you awakened and get through this?”

Jeong Haseong did not believe Giryeo.

Moreover, what he hated more than anything else in this world were hunters who were passive in clearing gates.

‘What is this. I made up my mind and broke my promise with Kang Changho! Why does he still see me as…’

Jeong Haseong didn’t say another word and disappeared into the forest alone.

The F-rank, who was suddenly left alone, cursed at him while sweating profusely.

‘Hey, you bad bastard! I’m going to dislike every article about you from now on!’

Thump. Thump. Thump.

Threatening footsteps echoed from all directions.

Until just now, the S-rank hunter’s presence had acted as a kind of barrier, but now that Jeong Haseong had disappeared, the monsters no longer hesitated to advance.

“D*mn it. I should have just stuck with An Yunseung.”

Giryeo’s mouth went dry with tension.

This looks like it’s going to be a tough game of tag.

━Kaaaaaaak!

━Thump!

━Crack!

“Hiiiik!”

In the end, Kim Giryeo ended up running away on his own in a panic.

Surely, even now, somewhere, the S-rank hunter is steadily reducing the number of monsters.

This is an unpopular gate, so the accumulated number of monsters is high.

‘If I get grazed, I’ll die. If I get grazed, I’ll die. If I get grazed, I’ll die. If I get grazed, I’ll die.’

Thanks to that, the poor F-rank was experiencing a situation like a fish on a cutting board.

“Huff, huff, huff.”

Thanks to his innate mana detection ability, he was somehow managing to avoid the enemies’ attacks.

As a result of unconsciously chasing after places with low monster density.

He had also reached the center of where Jeong Haseong was fighting.

“Oh, now that it’s come to this, wouldn’t it be easier to avoid the fire?”

For a moment, he even had a positive thought.

However, the closer he got to the place where the S-rank hunter was, the more extraordinary heat he felt.

“Take back what I just said.”

He froze in place after seeing what Jeong Haseong had done.

Clearly, this area was a dense forest.

But in the short time he had taken his eyes off it, all those trees had turned into ashes and were scattering…

“Cough, cough!”

It’s an unbelievable amount of firepower.

Even the remaining embers around were so hot that they made him cough.

‘If I stay in an intermediate place, I’ll get swept up as a bonus.’

Giryeo pondered for a moment.

Either way, if he continued like this, he would die crushed by a monster due to the limits of his stamina.

So, it’s certain that being near Jeong Haseong would have a higher chance of survival.

‘Looking back, that primitive sorcerer… he definitely only set fire to the places within his line of sight.’

Kim Giryeo remembered the flaw in the S-rank’s magic.

It’s only a small blind spot, but it’s better than having no hole to dig into.

‘Okay, let’s stick right behind Jeong Haseong! He told me to avoid his skills on my own, but he didn’t say he’d kill me if I got close, right?’

He eventually decided to approach the S-rank.

After all, his shell is an Earthling, so surely he wouldn’t burn a compatriot without hesitation.

‘If I beg him again crying, maybe his heart will soften!’

Thump. Thump.

Monsters began to rush in, chasing the faint mana of the F-rank.

Giryeo quickly turned his steps to avoid becoming their prey.

His destination was behind Jeong Haseong.

‘D*mn it, I should have practiced crying expressions for times like this…!’

He predicted the direction of the monsters’ attacks and dodged them skillfully, steadily closing the distance.

Soon, Jeong Haseong’s figure came into view.

‘There he is!’

Whoosh.

In front of him, a powerful pillar of fire can be seen rising.

Jeong Haseong was still relentlessly dealing with the minotaurs at this moment.

Seeing that the exit hadn’t appeared even though he had already killed many bosses. It seems that in order to escape this gate, all the monsters must be killed.

‘At times like this, it follows the basic conditions of a Type Ⅱ gate.’

Giryeo held his breath and chose a timing to intervene.

‘Let’s see, once that fire calms down, I’ll go close and talk to him…’

But at that moment.

Kim Giryeo quickly turned his head at the eerie energy he felt from behind.

“Hmm?”

There, a minotaur with a pentagram drawn on its chest was raising its arms.

Was there such a creature?

Just as he was about to have that thought.

Giryeo realized the identity of the magic that the monster was casting and widened his eyes.

‘A wide-area skill?’

Earth attribute lower skill 『Stone Spike』.

Soon, the monster’s magic would overturn the land in this area.

And of course, he had no ability to avoid the attack.

‘Oh, I’m going to die?’

Giryeo, sensing the enormous range of the magic, immediately took action.

Now that it has come to this. There is only one way.

“Jeong Haseong Hunter-nim!”

He closed his eyes tightly and rushed towards the S-rank.

It’s all or nothing. If I make him get caught in the magic too, he’ll try to solve it somehow!

“There’s a guy using a wide-area skill! Block it!”

“Ugh! You…?”

At the same time, the monster’s magic manifested.

Thudududududu.

Thorns made of earth shot up towards them.

Jeong Haseong, startled by the attacks that were popping out of the ground, hurriedly launched a skill.

Whoosh… Bang!

Soon, the sorcerer-type monster was turned to ashes by Haseong’s skill.

“Ugh!”

However, a small accident occurred in this process.

“…!”

Jeong Haseong, thinking he had to cancel the enemy’s attack, hastily used his skill.

Each of his awakened skills had great power.

Especially in this kind of sudden situation, there was no time to control his power.

“You, what is this all of a sudden…”

The S-rank hunter’s explosive firepower did not stop at killing the monster, but also caused secondary damage.

“Kim Giryeo Hunter!”

Kim Giryeo was caught in his flames.

Even though he had run as fast as he could to put distance between himself and the minotaur, anticipating this situation.

‘If it hurts too much… I can’t even scream.’

Kim Giryeo suffered severe burns on his right arm and leg. His beloved clothes were charred black and had long since stuck to his wounds.

He swallowed his breath at the intense pain he was experiencing for the first time in his life.

‘It hurts!’

But at this moment.

It wasn’t just one person whose face turned pale.

“My arm…”

Jeong Haseong froze in place, looking at the other person’s burns.

He seemed to be at a loss for words, unable to string together a proper sentence for a while.

◈◈◈

There’s a smell of burning flesh.

“Kim Giryeo Hunter!”

Someone else, again, was caught in my skill.

“My arm…”

Jeong Haseong couldn’t say a word.

Why did he suddenly pop out?

Didn’t I warn him to avoid me on his own?

He should be able to say such a reproach, but his mind was blank and he couldn’t think of anything.

“I’m, I’m sorry. I’m sorry.”

He just felt a fierce sense of unease.

“Hurry, a recovery potion…”

This was a trauma that Jeong Haseong had carried for a long time.

He was always worried that his excessive power might hurt someone.

“Kim Giryeo-ssi, are you conscious?”

Haseong hurriedly approached the fallen man.

But he flinched at the following reaction.

‘Huh?’

The awakened one who raised his head had a rather inorganic expression.

How can this be?

‘He’s not even blinking an eye after getting burned…?’

While Jeong Haseong was flustered by the other person’s calm appearance.

The awakened one with that cold gaze slowly opened his mouth.

“It’s nothing. I’m fine.”

Jeong Haseong seemed even more bewildered by those words, but Giryeo’s attitude did not change.

Here, the characteristics of an Alpha Uri native appeared.

It seems that since he was a great magician in his past life. This alien was also somewhat steeped in the belief of magic omnipotence.

‘My shell is burned. But if I just suck on an amplification agent, I’ll fix it in a day.’

Alpha Uri magicians basically don’t care much about injuries.

The body is a kind of carrier for the soul.

As long as they’re alive, they can repair it perfectly with magic at any time, so what’s the problem with being a little torn or burned?

‘Besides, this is my own fault. I jumped in to get Haseong involved.’

Giryeo glanced at his own terrible burns for a moment.

“I’m the one who should be sorry. I suddenly rushed in.”

And he brushed it off as if it were nothing.