There was a minor(?) incident for a moment.
After that, the aftermath was dealt with at a rapid pace.
The Association Hunters realized that Suho was not a demon, and immediately followed Suho’s guidance to the factory.
“… … But where are all the demons?”
When I actually arrived at the factory, there were only traces of battle there, and not a single demon was to be seen.
As the hunters’ curious gazes turned to him, Suho made an awkward expression.
“Haha. That’s right. Did they all run away in the meantime?”
[Remember.]
Although Berga was blatantly trimming next to him, no one seemed to suspect anything.
I just thought the summoner was the size of a stuffed animal.
“Hmm. I guess they noticed we were coming and kicked us all out?”
“Well, we did come too quickly. We went out right after hearing the report.”
[Remember.]
Although Berga was openly picking his teeth next to him, no one seemed to suspect anything.
Her belly was sticking out, but I thought she was naturally chubby.
“Still, it’s fortunate that we secured the scene.”
In fact, this alone was a huge feat.
We first discovered a factory that manufactured stardust.
Above all, it revealed the shocking fact that people’s lives were sacrificed during the manufacturing process.
“thank you.”
After a while, the Association Hunters came out of the field and called all the Hunters who were there, including Suho and Assistant Lim, and expressed their gratitude.
“Thanks to your reports, we have been able to prevent many crimes from happening in the future. From now on, our association and police hunters will do their best to investigate.”
And he added one more thing.
“And you will be paid compensation for this incident.”
As it turned out, there was a small reward for reporting crimes.
‘That’s good. I’ll use this money to buy meat for those who are short on food.’
Suho nodded, thinking of the alien races he had dropped into the Shadow Dungeon.
Whether they were the last descendants of the Fang Clan or the sole surviving demon noble, to Suho they were nothing more than hungry refugees.
* * *
… … When I opened my eyes, I saw an unfamiliar ceiling.
“Okay.”
“Team leader, come to your senses?”
Team leader Han Jae-hyeok got up from bed with his body still heavy.
White walls and the smell of disinfectant.
It was a hospital.
Team leader Han Jae-hyeok looked at his subordinate with a bewildered expression.
“Why am I here?”
“Don’t you remember? The team leader fainted.”
“fainting?”
“Yes. One punch.”
“ah.”
It was only then that a memory flashed through my mind.
‘That crow mask!’
Team leader Han Jae-hyeok got up from his seat in a hurry and shouted.
“That devil! What happened to the devil?!”
“Isn’t that guy a devil?”
“Huh? Oh, no?”
“Yes. That was the hunter we went to find.”
“… … ?”
Looking at the bewildered Team Leader Han Jae-hyeok, the subordinate sighed deeply and said.
“So you’re saying it was all a misunderstanding on our part?”
His subordinates told him everything that happened while he was unconscious.
Then suddenly, Team Leader Han Jae-hyeok’s expression hardened.
“… … What? What did you just say?”
“What is it?”
“A summoner? Who is a summoner?”
“Who is it? Of course, it’s the hunter who knocked out the team leader in one blow.”
“what?”
I guess I didn’t mishear.
A look of bewilderment appeared on Team Leader Han Jae-hyeok’s face.
“I was hit by a summoner and passed out? Me, Han Jae-hyuk?”
“Yes. So from now on, please don’t let your guard down and use the click-click-click skill first before rushing in.”
“I wrote it, but I wrote it?”
“Yes? What?”
“I used my skill!”
At this point, the subordinate’s expression became more bewildered.
“But why did you faint? Team Leader, you’re a C-class tank.”
“My words!”
“So, Team Leader, you actually used your skill and still passed out in one hit? Does that make sense? Wasn’t that person an E-rank hunter?”
“E-class? Are you kidding me?”
Team leader Han Jae-hyeok glared at his subordinate with a fierce expression.
But the subordinate just shrugged his shoulders calmly.
“Why would I joke around after eating expensive food? I checked his hunter ID, and he really was an E-rank. What was his name, Seong Su-ho?”
“Seongsuho?”
When he heard that name, a face suddenly flashed through Team Leader Han Jae-hyeok’s mind.
Coincidentally, the name of the rookie E-rank hunter whose magic power he had measured himself a while ago was also Seong Su-ho.
‘Surely that can’t be true.’
“That’s right. That guy.”
“… … !”
“I’m not using mind reading. I was with you at that time. Sung Su-ho, the E-class hero of the Korean University dungeon whose magical power we measured directly, is the one who knocked you out.”
“Really? You were that college student back then? How on earth?”
Team leader Han Jae-hyeok looked incredulous.
But the subordinate responded indifferently.
“It must have been a measurement error. Otherwise, he grabbed the team leader who had used his skills with his bare fists, but how could such a hunter be an E-rank? I would expect at least a C-rank.”
“No, even if you say it, it’s definitely not going to burst… … .”
“Anyway, I apologized on your behalf. I told you to definitely come back to the association later and get re-measured. Okay, that concludes the briefing while you were unconscious.”
“… … .”
“Then I will leave work.”
“… … .”
Once the prestige was lost, it never came back.
Team leader Han Jae-hyeok, who had been passing all the work to his subordinates and just sleeping soundly, muttered in despair as he looked at the back of the head of his subordinate who was leaving work right after finishing his work.
“Anyway, these days… … .”
Then, suddenly, he recalled the moment when he fainted.
‘E-class was a measurement error?’
Well, this is okay.
It’s not common, but it does happen sometimes.
But one question still remained.
‘He was clearly a summoner… … .’
He was definitely a summoner, as there was a large hyena-like summoner right next to him.
But how?
‘How did you have such great strength? Could that strength also be some variation of the summoning skill?’
hmm.
Team Leader Han Jae-hyeok stroked his chin and recalled the appearance of Sung Su-ho that he had seen at the hospital.
A fairly ordinary college student with decent looks.
A tall physique with moderate muscle tone.
But that was it.
At first glance, he didn’t look like a hunter with incredible strength.
‘… … Well, I guess I’ll find out someday.’
Rather, a memory suddenly came to mind.
The day I measured Seongsuho’s magic power, the greeting I gave him as a courtesy when I parted ways with him.
-Then, Mr. Seong Su-ho, I look forward to your continued good work.
At that very moment, a warm smile appeared on Team Leader Han Jae-hyeok’s lips.
“… … I’m really looking forward to this.”
I am looking forward to seeing what kind of hunter he will become in the future.
* * *
And the Death Guild.
Vice President Lee Min-seong was furious to the core.
“What?! Why did the factory that was running just fine suddenly disappear?”
“That, that… … The association reported it based on reports from the hunters… … .”
Phew!
“Ugh!”
Lee Min-seong kicked the stomach of a man who was struggling and making excuses in front of him.
And then he screamed and stomped on his body that had been thrown against the wall.
“So what? What about the association! What kind of sucker do these kids think I am! If you took the money, you should have brought the goods back properly no matter what!”
“Oh my! Vice President! We are also victims! Did the demons at the factory really disappear overnight without a trace?”
The kick of the A-class hunter, who was furious to the core, was too terrible to be considered a simple venting of anger.
If it weren’t for the Hunter, the man who was being trampled under those feet would have had his heart stop at the first blow.
After venting his anger like that for a while, when he finally passed out, Lee Min-seong slapped him on the cheek to wake him up and grabbed him by the collar to help him up.
“Ha. So what happened to all the demons?”
“Coolook. That, that… … .”
The man hurriedly vomited out everything he knew.
Lee Min-seong’s eyebrows furrowed after hearing all the information.
“The location of the factory was discovered by hunters passing by?”
“Yes. I heard they fought the demons and rescued the survivors.”
“Do you think that makes sense?”
“That, that… … .”
“Oh my.”
Lee Min-seong’s anger began to boil again as he grabbed the man by the collar.
“Not even a large guild, and a raid party with a C-rank healer as the leader got hit by 10 demons? And only the leader was a C-rank, the other nine were D-rank, and the low-ranking hunters were made up of E-rank scavengers?”
“Me, me too… … .”
“Me too.”
“I also think it makes no sense!”
The man shut his eyes tightly and shouted at the sight of Lee Min-seong’s murder.
Only then did Lee Min-seong let go of his collar.
Then, as if asking when he had ever been angry, she gently straightened his collar and asked in a soft voice.
“Then what do you think? This time, you’ll have to come up with a more useful opinion. If you want to live.”
“… … I think it might have been a prank by the association.”
“hmm?”
“As you know, Vice President, the Association guys have been chasing the source of the stardust. But this time, they somehow found out the location of the factory.”
“so?”
“But if we openly investigate star dust, which is not even illegal yet, we will be subject to checks from guilds that deal in star dust like ours. So… … .”
“So you put up some incompetent guys as scarecrows and pretended to move after receiving a tip?”
“Yes! That’s it!”
“Yeah, that makes sense.”
Lee Min-seong nodded as if he understood.
“Yes. I saw those demons myself. They were absolutely unbeatable by low-level hunters.”
“Yes, that’s right.”
“so?”
“yes?”
“Of course there will be a solution, right?”
Again, a terrible murderous aura spread from Lee Min-seong and strangled the man.
“Oh, of course! There is more than one factory. The Seoul Station field was convenient for delivery because of the subway line, but if you look, you’ll see that there are devils hiding here and there, setting up stardust factories.”
“Here and there? Anyway, Hell Joseon is really like that. Why are there so many devils?”
Only then did Lee Min-seong smile with satisfaction.
But the eyes looking at the man were not smiling at all.
“I’ll tell you again, you know the only reason I took you in was for the stardust, right?”
“Of course… … We are always grateful to the Vice President.”
“Then do what you have to do. If someone saved a dog from drowning, you should repay the favor, right?”
“Crrrrrrr!”
As soon as he answered, hair began to grow on the man’s face, transforming him into a werewolf.
The man’s true identity was none other than the remnants of the Hyena Guild that was being chased by the Association.
But now that he has nowhere to go, he has become the loyal dog of Vice President Lee Min-seong, with whom he has been dealing.
But it was only on the outside that it looked that way, the inside was different.
‘Damn, I’m in big trouble. In a few days, the power of blood will completely disappear.’
The ability of Hyena Guild members to turn into werewolves by drinking the blood of the Fang Clan only lasted for ten days.
If you don’t feed it blood periodically once every ten days, it will return to being an ordinary human, not to mention losing its beast-like skills.
It was clear that if Vice President Lee Min-seong found out about this, he would mercilessly kick them out.
‘Before that, we have to do something. Either find the wolf cub that disappeared from Gwanaksan, or… … find traces of another monarch similar to him.’
Different dreams.
The head of immigration and the werewolf, facing each other, were racking their brains with their own goals.
* * *
At that time, Suho… … .
He came into the butcher shop with the compensation he had received.
“Yes, welcome~”
The butcher, who was just preparing the meat, asked Suho with a friendly smile.
“What kind of meat would you like?”
“A whole pig… … Do you sell it whole?”
“… … ?!”
“No. Two.”
“… … !”
