Chapter 60: To the Snowfield (5)
The raid members gathered around the Snow Black Eagle’s corpse.
The cross-section was cut as if it had been roughly ground down.
Since the Snow Wolf that Sa-hyeok killed also had this kind of scar, it was certain that Sa-hyeok had killed this one as well.
At that moment.
Swoosh-
Thud!
Another Snow Black Eagle’s corpse fell in the distance.
“Could it be that Hunter Min also killed that one……?”
“There’s no other imaginable option.”
They had already seen three Snow Black Eagle corpses.
At this point, people started to feel something strange.
Something that a person with common sense would naturally feel.
“Then right now, Hunter Min…… is hunting the Black Eagles alone up in the sky?!”
“Probably……?”
“How on earth…… No, how is that even possible? He’s having an aerial battle right now at the top of the sky?”
An aerial battle against monsters that fly in the sky.
They hadn’t even considered the possibility of such a thing in the first place.
……And that was normal.
“So what do we do now? Should we wait until Hunter Min-nim comes down?”
The raid members’ eyes turned to the raid leader, Ui-jun.
After a brief moment of contemplation, Ui-jun spoke.
“Hunter Min-nim told us to retreat from him earlier, and then he told us to head towards the destination. And so far, Hunter Min-nim’s judgment has never been wrong.”
“Then……”
“Let’s do as Hunter Min-nim said. We will continue to the target location.”
The raid party started moving again.
Towards the mysterious point where the wolf’s location information suddenly disappeared.
And……
[Where did you go, leaving me behind, brother…… This damn thing.]
Bang-ul-i in Sa-hyeok’s bag started moving with the raid members on the snowmobile.
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Meanwhile, in the sky.
Altitude 220 meters.
A dizzying height where the rocks on the ground looked like dots.
Moreover, it was a frigid zone where volatile strong winds constantly scratched and passed by.
In such a place, Sa-hyeok had already killed four out of eight.
He was riding on the corpse of one of them.
The method of killing itself was simple.
Approach the target, wrap a metallic bandage around its neck, climb on top of it, and stab it to death with Mubuchamdo.
In that way, he had turned them into corpses one by one and dropped them to the ground.
Of course, there was a simpler method of just sniping them with Mubuchamdo.
However, he couldn’t carelessly use such a method in the sky where endless strong winds and all sorts of variables were rampant.
Because if by any chance Mubuchamdo was bounced off by a gust of wind, it would be lost forever.
‘Now there are four left.’
He had no intention of coming down from this sky until he killed all the remaining ones.
Whoosh-
Sa-hyeok was still gliding through the air, manipulating the Snow Black Eagle’s corpse.
The remaining four were circling around Sa-hyeok.
A tense atmosphere was hanging between them.
Four of their comrades had been instantly killed by a human who had no wings, let alone the ability to fly.
They finally started to change their tactics.
A tactic that they couldn’t use when there were many of them because their movements got tangled.
They started to engage in cooperative attacks.
Swish!
Whoosh!
Two out of the four rushed towards Sa-hyeok simultaneously.
‘Cooperative attacks now……’
The moment the two approached Sa-hyeok almost simultaneously.
Clatter!
Clack!
Sa-hyeok tied them up with the metallic bandages on his arms.
It looked as if Sa-hyeok’s arms were each hooked onto the two.
His left arm on the one at 10 o’clock, and his right arm on the one at 2 o’clock.
The two hurriedly tried to change direction and scatter, but Sa-hyeok didn’t let go.
Because he was planning to kill them right here.
Flash!
The Lightning Ring on his left hand and the Flame Ring on his right hand.
Sa-hyeok activated the two artifacts simultaneously.
Crackle!!
Whoosh!!
Since there were no people around, Sa-hyeok just unleashed electricity and flames to the fullest.
“Kieeek!”
“Kyaaaak!!”
Sa-hyeok continued to spew electricity and flames until the two were completely dead.
Only after turning the two into electric grilled and direct-fire grilled did Sa-hyeok stop activating the artifacts.
“Now there are two left.”
Sa-hyeok detected the remaining ones with his telekinesis.
However, their movements changed.
“Are they running away……?”
Gliding, capturing, slashing, electrocuting, and burning.
The terrifying performances that Sa-hyeok had shown so far.
Because of that, they started to recognize Sa-hyeok as a higher predator.
Screech!
The remaining two started to flee with all their might.
However, Sa-hyeok had no intention of letting them go.
“Where are you going, you bastards.”
Sa-hyeok corrected his flying posture and started to chase them.
The tables had turned.
From a dogfight to a chase.
The two fled in the same direction, and Sa-hyeok chased after them.
First, Sa-hyeok aimed the Lightning Ring at the closest one.
Crackle!
The electricity scorched the tail feathers of the creature.
The damage from the electricity itself wasn’t significant, but it was enough to momentarily intimidate it.
The moment the creature’s flight slowed down momentarily.
Sa-hyeok didn’t miss that moment and started hunting.
Leap, restrain, and kill.
Thud!
He climbed onto the creature’s back and stabbed it to death in an instant.
Now only one remained.
However, because of the recent hunt, the distance between him and the remaining one had widened.
Moreover, the creature was accelerating with all its might to escape.
Sa-hyeok had to accelerate even more.
‘Calm down.’
He calmly organized the situation.
‘That creature doesn’t have any additional means of acceleration.’
As a bird, it only flies with the wind.
Sa-hyeok was also flying with the wind.
They were in the same situation.
In the end-
‘The key is who can ride the wind more efficiently.’
Sa-hyeok increased the density of his telekinetic waves.
He detected the flow of the surrounding air more densely, more meticulously.
‘Read the flow……!’
Find a path in this ever-changing wind flow.
The sharp wind that scratched his cheeks, the heavy tailwind that supported him under his wings, and the enormous flow that encompassed all of this.
There must be a path within it.
The wind is essentially an invisible realm.
However, Sa-hyeok’s telekinesis began to slowly step into that invisible world.
Into the world of flow, the world of fluids.
‘Here it is!’
Sa-hyeok’s eyes flashed open.
Sa-hyeok slightly escaped from the current he was riding on and climbed onto a faster wind flow.
Screech!
The distance between Sa-hyeok and the Snow Black Eagle rapidly narrowed.
At that moment, the creature suddenly nosedived.
Sa-hyeok also folded his wings, lowered his nose, and immediately caught up.
The ground approached at a tremendous speed.
However, the direction the creature was heading towards……
‘The forest?’
The creature started to fly towards the outskirts of the forest.
‘Is it going to its nest……!’
Tree branches that grew so densely that the ground couldn’t be seen.
The creature skillfully passed through the gaps and disappeared into the forest.
However, there wasn’t enough time for Sa-hyeok to pass through the gaps.
‘I’ll break through.’
Whoosh-
Sa-hyeok jumped off the Snow Black Eagle’s corpse he was riding on.
Then he floated all four Mubuchamdos around him.
Sa-hyeok recalled.
The memory of trimming the branches of trees with Mubuchamdo at Master Ma Gwan-ho’s residence.
Sa-hyeok started to cut down the numerous twigs that blocked his way with Mubuchamdo.
Slash, slash, slash, slash!
Once a sufficient entry path was created, Sa-hyeok quickly retrieved Mubuchamdo.
Now there was no risk of getting scratched by branches during the fall.
And now it was time to land.
Sa-hyeok pulled the surrounding trees with his telekinesis and simultaneously pushed off the ground with his telekinesis.
Recoil and deceleration.
Whoosh-
In that way, Sa-hyeok landed on a branch of a certain giant tree.
It was called a branch, but it was on a massive scale, almost the size of a building corridor.
Anyway, since he had landed perfectly, there was only one task left.
To track down and eliminate the escaped Snow Black Eagle.
“Where are you, you bastard.”
Sa-hyeok’s eyes gleamed fiercely.
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“Screech, screech……”
The last surviving Black Eagle returned to the nest, gasping for breath.
The nest was located halfway up a huge tree.
A large nest made by hollowing out the trunk of the tree like a cave.
And inside it……
“Beep-”
“Beeeep!”
“Beak!”
The chicks of the Snow Black Eagle were filling it.
Perhaps due to their communal parenting habits, all eight Snow Black Eagle chicks were mixed together here.
The mother approached her chicks to check on them.
At that moment.
Thud.
The mother felt a sharp pain in her back.
One Mubuchamdo was embedded in her back.
“Beeeek!!”
“Beeeeaak!!”
As their mother collapsed in front of them, the chicks started to cry even more intensely.
At that moment.
Whoosh!
The mother turned towards Sa-hyeok and spread her wings wide.
Even though it must have been painful, it was an act to protect her chicks from Sa-hyeok.
“Kyaaaak!”
The creature roared and threatened Sa-hyeok.
The last resistance of a mother with her children behind her.
Sa-hyeok didn’t care in the slightest.
Thud, thud, thud!
The remaining Mubuchamdos also flew towards the creature.
The knives slashed the creature’s body mercilessly.
Blood-stained feathers scattered in all directions.
Whirr-
Without the reward of resistance, the mother died and fell to the bottom of the tree.
Sa-hyeok slowly walked towards the nest.
Towards the place filled with Snow Black Eagles.
The nest was full of what could only be described as giant chicks, still covered in down feathers.
Sa-hyeok spoke.
“How does it feel to lose your mother right in front of your eyes?”
Sa-hyeok looked at them with a lonely gaze.
He remembered the time he lost his mother in District 3 three years ago.
He looked at them again.
Round black eyes, sharp beaks, and fluffy down feathers.
Except for the fact that they were nearly 1 meter tall, they looked no different from ordinary baby birds.
“It’s sad, isn’t it? Losing someone precious.”
Shing-
Sa-hyeok sheathed all the Mubuchamdos.
“I felt the same way.”
Flash.
The Flame Ring flashed, and flames engulfed the chicks.
Whoosh!!
“Beeeeek!”
“Kieeek!!”
Shrill screams and flames filled the nest.
Since the nest was made by digging into the tree trunk, there was no escape route.
The chicks had no choice but to burn to death inside the enclosed nest.
The smell of burning flesh and down feathers mixed with screams and rose up.
Sa-hyeok didn’t turn away from the sight.
Rather, he stared with even clearer eyes, witnessing them turning to ashes.
Because the only good monster is a dead monster.
Fwoosh-
Only after the screams stopped did Sa-hyeok withdraw the flames.
With this, the Snow Black Eagles in this forest were completely eradicated.
“With this, I won’t have to worry about anything above my head.”
Sa-hyeok rummaged through the ashes with his telekinesis and pulled out magic stones.
Magic stones smaller than pebbles.
They weren’t that big, probably because they were chicks.
After that, Sa-hyeok went down the tree.
At the bottom of the tree lay the corpse of the Snow Black Eagle he had just killed.
Sa-hyeok used a scalpel to cut open the creature’s belly and extracted the magic stone.
A magic stone shaped like a cone-shaped spring.
“The magic stone has a peculiar shape.”
It was better to keep this in a separate storage box.
So he looked for the magic stone storage box, but……
“Oh right, I left my bag behind.”
Right before being snatched up by the Snow Black Eagle, he had deliberately taken off his backpack.
It was partly to make the battle easier, and more importantly, so that he could return to the raid party.
Because Bang-ul-i was inside that bag.
Sa-hyeok took out his phone from his potion hip sack.
An app was installed on the phone.
A control app for XT-9, the drone Bang-ul-i always rode.
Thanks to Bang-ul-i’s hacking, several functions had been added to it.
One of them was the communication function.
Sa-hyeok immediately connected the communication.
“Hey.”
[Brother! You’re alive!]
“I don’t die. The ones who confront me die. But where are you?”
[I’m moving with the raid members. But your location…… Oh, it’s quite far.]
“How far is it?”
[About 14km away.]
They’ve come a long way.
“Then can you mark the direction of where you are on my phone now?”
[Yes, I’ll display it for you.]
Ding.
An arrow appeared on the phone screen.
An arrow that pointed in one direction no matter which way he turned the phone, like a compass.
If he followed that arrow, he would reach where Bang-ul-i was.
“Thanks. See you soo……”
At that moment.
[Bang!!]
Suddenly, a loud noise came from the other side of the phone.
