The Hunter of the Other World Who Is Being Misunderstood – Chapter 95

Ch 95: Tch, a barrier, is it? （2）

‘Dust or a small bug?’

It’s a strange thing.

Clearly, it’s chilly today, but why do my tear ducts feel like they’re about to sweat?

But there’s no time to be feeling down like this.

This is, after all, the epicenter of the incident.

“Huk!”

“How did you get in there…!”

“Appraiser-nim, are you okay?”

I gave a heads-up to the hunters outside, who were filled with shock.

“I’m fine. Everyone, calm down.”

Since getting in was easy anyway, I should be able to get out whenever I want.

There was no reason for me to be impatient.

No, rather, this is a good opportunity.

It’s easier to find weaknesses in a barrier when you’re looking at it from the inside.

“Hmm.”

I rolled my eyes and glanced at the monster in the center of the flower garden.

And then I carefully asked the staff member outside the barrier.

“Seon Uyeon Hunter?”

“Yes?”

“By the way, that monster. Does it ever do any physical attacks?”

Seon Uyeon shook her head at the question.

“No. According to the registered information, the Flower Baron only deals mental damage…”

Then the result is out.

I pointed my thumb behind me and said.

“Then, since I’m in, I’ll take a quick look around and come out.”

“Yes?”

“It’s easier to work that way. Maybe the barrier itself has a flimsy structure inside.”

At this, Seon Uyeon was startled and made a shrill sound.

“No, but still, that’s…”

Just by looking at her eyes, I could roughly guess what she was going to say, but thankfully, the overall backlash wasn’t big.

“Oh! Would you really do that?”

“Well, if we can break through the barrier…”

“Wouldn’t it be okay?”

“That’s right. You’re blocking the brainwashing well even now!”

The other hunters seemed to generally agree with my statement.

The Flower Baron is a simple boss that only shoots mental attacks. And this situation has already been going on for 3 hours.

‘Everyone must want to finish this quickly.’

Just 5 minutes.

I left a promise that I would be back in 5 minutes and immediately set out to investigate the barrier without delay.

‘There are so many flowers, but there’s no scent at all.’

Rustle, rustle.

The lush plants that bloomed on the ground touch the soles of my shoes.

But I ignored all of these sensations and focused on the barrier.

‘Let’s see, this structure is roughly… Wow, is that monster directly supporting such a large barrier?’

Seriously. No, but thinking about it again, I’m getting angry.

How could they compare a genius like me to dust?

I may be trapped in this trashy body right now due to circumstances, but back in my prime, I was really…

“Hmm?”

That’s when it was.

I momentarily turned my gaze toward the unfamiliar mana that I felt nearby.

A substance with a large amount of mana compared to its small volume.

This is clearly the pattern of a magic stone commonly found in gates.

‘A magic stone in a flower garden?’

I bent down and examined the ground.

And what I saw was a blue gem shyly peeking out from between some flower buds.

‘Oh.’

Upon closer inspection, it was a rare, high-quality magic stone.

Moreover, it had unique metal claws like the prongs of a ring around it, and this kind of rarity is usually considered a good factor in the market.

‘It’s obviously a valuable item.’

I don’t know why this precious thing is just lying around, but anyway, there’s no dangerous reaction…

Glance.

Because of the distance, others wouldn’t be able to see what I was doing.

‘Hehe. What a stroke of luck.’

Without thinking too much, I picked up the magic stone.

I pried open the flower bud and took the contents inside.

“────!!”

“Aaaagh!”

“My ears!”

But I never imagined that this small action would lead to such a result.

“Ugh!”

Suddenly, a loud, high-pitched sound burst out from somewhere.

And the source of the sound was none other than the ruler of this flower garden.

“────!”

The Flower Baron is trembling and wailing.

It was screaming and yelling into the air as if it was about to burst.

‘I’m sorry. Baron-nim!’

I tensed up, thinking that this was a bad sign, but what followed was an even more absurd sight.

Bang!

What on earth is going on?

The Flower Baron just disappeared into dust in an instant.

Moreover, the flowers that were blooming so profusely withered in an instant, and even the barrier collapsed at the end.

“What?”

All of this happened in a single moment.

“Huh?”

And at the same time that I picked up the magic stone.

◈◈◈

At this point, I can’t help but realize it.

That magic stone was none other than the monster’s power source.

And since some F-rank suddenly removed the power source, the Baron would have experienced a sudden energy shortage…

━Let’s see, this structure is roughly… Wow, is that monster directly supporting such a large barrier?

But as I said earlier, that monster was maintaining the barrier ‘directly’ with the mana in its body.

In other words, a tremendous amount of mana was being consumed from its body on a per-second basis.

‘Ah…’

So what…

To summarize, that’s it.

The Flower Baron died from its mana being sucked away by the barrier it created.

It was a tragic death by self-destruction.

‘What is this guy?’

If this were Alpha Uri, wouldn’t this probably be counted as one of the three most foolish deaths?

『Magic Stone -> Flower Baron -> Barrier』

No, it’s obvious that an accident would happen if you connected it like this.

『Magic Stone -> Barrier』

If it had supplied the energy directly like this, it wouldn’t have died. Even this way is simpler to deploy.

In other words, this is an accident that a Great Magician would never understand…

‘What the heck is it?’

Let’s say the use of the magic stone is inefficient.

Then why was such an important item just lying around in the flower garden?

‘Does it not have a survival instinct?’

Kim Giryeo was greatly puzzled by the opponent’s sloppy actions, but this was actually his misconception.

The Flower Baron had also made some preparations.

━Flower garden?

First of all, in order to protect its power source, the monster had bloomed over ten thousand flowers inside the barrier.

It meant that it had wrapped the stone with mana-blocking petals and moved its location frequently.

━Hehe. What a stroke of luck.

But some clueless and skilled Great Magician immediately saw through this.

“────!”

Moreover, even the last attack that the Flower Baron made right before dying was futilely blocked.

Even when it squeezed out the last of its strength, its attack method was ultimately mental magic.

“────!”

Even the powerful brainwashing that could make an A-rank foam at the mouth didn’t work on this hunter.

‘Ugh, it’s noisy!’

A B-rank monster could never interfere with Kim Giryeo’s mind from the start.

Because that man’s brain is controlled by a larger, unknown entity.

━Bang!

And so, the Flower Baron met a powerless death, feeling its brainwashing being repelled.

That was all.

“Huu.”

But how could we know that complicated situation?

Kim Giryeo just thought of this as simple luck. He didn’t think much of it.

“Anyway, it worked out…”

But at that moment.

“Huh?”

The awakened ones outside the barrier rushed over, as if they were possessed by something.

“Hunter-nim! What did you just do?”

“You, you took down the Flower Baron in an instant…”

“That’s a guy that we couldn’t take down at that speed even if we all rushed in!”

What followed were parrot-like questions.

How did you kill the boss? Why did the barrier disappear? What did you do just now?

Giryeo blinked at the flood of sentences.

“It just died on its own?”

“Yes?”

“It died without me doing anything special. I only picked up a magic stone…”

But Giryeo felt a strange gaze while talking and quickly stopped speaking.

━Click.

That sharp shutter sound.

I didn’t know what that meant at all right after reincarnation, but now I have a rough idea.

‘A camera!’

Someone is taking pictures nearby.

“Hmm?”

And it wasn’t too difficult to find the photographer.

Because when I turned my head slightly, I saw an Earthling with a cannon-sized camera running over in a hurry from afar.

“It’s a reporter!”

“Wow, it’s like a hyena. How did they know the boss died and come here so quickly?”

“Is control already lost outside?”

Giryeo’s face hardened as soon as he heard the word reporter.

‘I can’t let them kidnap me again…’

I’ve already learned enough that there’s no good in an F-rank becoming famous.

Of course, I was prepared to have my face somewhat exposed since I was at the reported incident site, but I don’t have the courage to talk to a reporter.

“Huk, huk! Hello, Hunter-nims! Can I have a brief interview?”

So, Giryeo took the opportunity of the reporter talking with the A-rank hunters to quietly finish his preparations.

“So, how did you take down the Baron?”

“Ah, that wasn’t us, it was that appraiser-nim over there… Huh?”

In short, he ran away.

◈◈◈

That evening.

The 6 o’clock news on YTV reported the defeat of the Flower Baron.

『The subjugation of the Flower Baron, which began in the morning, has finally ended.』

But the reaction on the internet was lukewarm.

Thanks to the efforts of the hunters who were dispatched today, the incident was resolved safely.

People weren’t particularly interested in such bland content.

『Comments 0』

『Happy: 2』 『Sad: 0』 『Angry: 0』

In the end, the follow-up report on the Hanshin Incident was buried in a corner of the sea of information with low views.

But…

『Comments 88』

This post here, in contrast to the news article, caused an explosive reaction.

Flower Baron hunting results.

Although they are clearly dealing with the same topic, why are people so interested in this?

The reason was in the main text.

This SNS post, to be exact, was correcting the media’s false report.

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

Wow, YTV news;;

I watched it for the first time in a while because I heard I was going to be on it.

They just say, ‘The hunters who were dispatched took down the boss’

and call it a day, lol.

They just roughly edit my interview and send it out.

If they do this, people will think that I took down the boss~~

It wasn’t us who killed the Baron!

━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━

The name of this account, Gukpulne, was a nickname used by a certain A-rank hunter in Korea.

As he was an awakened one belonging to a famous hunter team, it was only natural that the post he wrote would attract the attention of netizens.

『Hukㅠㅠㅠ I thought it was Oppa’s team who took down the boss?』

『Then who got the kill?』

The number of comments on the post started to increase steadily.

『Some appraiser came and killed it in 3 seconds.』

『Hyung, are you drunk?』

『It’s true;』

『?ㅋㅋ』

『No, seriously, some appraiser killed the boss in 3 seconds and just walked away? I’m still dumbfounded when I think about it lol.』

The A-rank hunter wrote the post, slowly recalling what he had experienced in the morning.

『In the afternoon, me and the B-ranks were all gathered and putting on a show to break through the barrier, and then suddenly the Association staff brought someone. And when I heard the story, that person was an appraiser. They came to use their analysis skill.

So I thought, ‘Okay,’ and was just watching for a bit…』

『Yeah.』

『And then, that appraiser suddenly breaks through the barrier;』

It was really shocking at that time.

It was because some unidentified man had passed through the iron fortress that even the A-ranks couldn’t do anything about as if he was breathing.

‘What kind of skill did he use?’

In the early stages of the situation.

They had evacuated the civilians too well, so they couldn’t figure out the conditions to pass through the barrier.

The more unbalanced the information became, the more misunderstandings would grow.

『Moreover, I was already surprised by that, but then the appraiser did something inside the barrier, and the boss just died, you know??』

『Wow.』

『What the heck did they do; But in the end, I couldn’t hear the strategy. They suddenly left…』

He tapped on the keyboard in dismay.

『Anyway, that person did everything this time.』

『So who is that appraiser?』

The A-rank hunter couldn’t answer that question clearly. For this reason.

『I was also curious about that, so I watched the news, but there was nowhere that properly mentioned itㅠㅠㅠ It seems like they refused the interview.』

Even though they were so skilled that they could take down a boss monster that the hunters were struggling with in an instant, they didn’t expose their identity to the media at all.

『Do you remember what they looked like?』

『Yes, but it seems like they don’t want their face to be known, so I’ll keep this a secret. I just wanted to make it clear that it wasn’t us who took down the Flower Baron.』

People showed interest in the mysterious awakened one.

『I know who that person is.』

『Hul, who is it?』

『Ah, I don’t know their name, but I just saw them from afar. They had blonde hair??』

『A blonde beauty appraiser, wow, everyone but me has everything. For real.』

『Are you crazy?』

Now, the speculation had begun to spread in a more public place, not just on the anonymous bulletin boards on the outskirts.