“What if I’m here?”
In Yoo-shin was puzzled.
“I don’t have any search or exploration skills, then how can I help?”
"It's a baseless hunch, so you don't have to do anything."
"Aha."
I guess he just wanted to hear it. Convinced, In Yoo-shin nodded.
“Have you ever attacked a dungeon?”
“No. The first time I went inside the gate was the one I went with Gyu-ha the other day.”
It was the first time he attacked a dungeon, but it wasn't scary.
‘It was not an unknown dungeon, but a dungeon that Hyeon Gyu-ha had already explored and owned. Besides, the first rank will protect you right next to you, so you'll be safe as long as the dungeon break doesn't go off unluckily.’
‘It would have to be as long as you don't give buffs in the dungeon. I even gave you a buff by mistake...……….’ In Yoo-shin shook his head and quickly brushed off his thoughts.
“What about the environment in the dungeon?”
“I didn’t purposely find it and study it, but I heard a little about it because a friend who is in the master’s and doctoral courses majored in gate studies.”
Hyeon Gyu-ha raised one arm to his side. He looked at him, wondering what to do, and he gestured lightly.
“Come here so that you can enter the gate.”
Ah, it was the sea as soon as we entered.
In that way, In Yoo-shin flashed on Hyeon Gyu-ha's side and crossed the gate for the second time. A slight dizziness lightly ran over his body, and the same scenery of the sea as before unfolded before his eyes.
In Yoo-shin looked at the sea with his arms raised. Everywhere he looked, there was only a vast horizon that touched the sky.
[Time remaining until dungeon reset: 18 hours 41 minutes 09 seconds]
“Do the witch beasts come up from the sea? Is it a naval battle or a place with pirates?”
“The word pirate is pretty accurate. We need to go a little further to the west.”
The bodies of the two people floating in the air moved toward the western sky. Hunters, who did not have abilities similar to Hyeon Gyu-ha, would have had to bring a rubber boat and move around.
In Yoo-shin was a low-level Awakener and could not even graduate from college. He had never thought that he would be able to tour the dungeon because he was certain that there would be no chance of becoming a hunter or a gate researcher now. So the last time he came in, he wasn't ready to look around properly, but this time the situation is different.
'I should show off when I visit the temple orphanage after watching it to my heart's content.'
Soon after, In Yoo-shin realized that his two efforts to explore the unknown world were absurdly superficial. How sincere was Hyeon Gyu-ha's warning to prepare his mind?
「Sa-save me! Help me!」
「They are non-believers who can't even go to heaven anyway! Kill them all!」
Unfamiliar languages are translated into the brain instantly. A group of people, vivid enough to be a fantasy and opaque enough to be real, were divided into two and chased after each other.
Karawka Kaerebelo, sailor-clad white men poured over the land, shooting, brandishing swords, thrusting spears, unleashing beasts, and spreading plagues. The indigenous people resisted by throwing stones and clubs made of obsidian. It was a one-sided slaughter.
The white man brutally murders grinds for gold, grows attrition, and the slave self
White people brutally murdered, robbed, cut off their wrists, and took them into slavery. Women of all ages were led away crying before the bodies of their fathers, husbands, sons, and brothers.
An unfamiliar symbol resembling two short and long sticks crossed over the bodies of the indigenous people. The white people laughed gleefully, splashing blood wine, and gold on the symbol.
“Thi-this……”
He was suffocated at the scene of the brutal massacre unfolding beneath his eyes. They can come in. Although the air of slaughter may be frighteningly wafting at the tip of the nose, this is only an illusion of a disconnected world that is not real.
Although he knew it was an illusion, his voice trembled, and the inside of his throat was tight. Unknowingly, sweat broke out in the hand that held Hyeon Gyu-ha's arm. Hyeon Gyu-ha, who must have witnessed this scene many times, explained it indifferently.
“This is Christopher Columbus. At first, when I only saw the invasion of white people, I thought it was Vasco da Gama (a Portuguese explorer. He opened the sea route and massacred Muslims, etc.), but the people being killed were not Indians, but the Tynesians (the natives of the Caribbean who were massacred by Columbus arriving in the Americas).” (HM: Nice american history here. Lol. I remember studying abt this in 5th. Wwww. u can delete this after reading.)
A dungeon is a disconnected world in which only a fleeting moment in the great flow of history has been cut and fixed. The illusion resets and repeats the time recorded in the flow of history in the dungeon.
The history belongs to the earth they lived on, but it also was not.
In Yoo-shin did not know the identity of the symbol that Columbus and his sailors revered.
“What the hell is that…………? Why do you go so far as to kill people……"
“It’s a cross.”
He gave a further explanation to In Yoo-shin, who did not understand the words right away.
“It is a symbol of Christianity.”
"Ah……………. I had no idea.”
“There are only a few churches and cathedrals in downtown Seoul, so it’s natural to not know about them. Can you hear what the white people say?”
"Yes. They say they are non-believers who will go to hell if left alone...……….”
“It is religious fanaticism. They say it doesn't matter if they kill them because they are sincerely convinced that if they don't believe in Christianity, they will fall into hell after death. It's the same feeling as slaughtering an animal. In those days, that was natural.”
Hyeon Gyu-ha explained the historical background, but In Yoo-shin was even more unable to understand. It was because his religious perspective dominated his common sense.
“Just because of religion?”
Religion can be a culture and a place of support for the heart, but it cannot force life in general. That was the common sense of In Yoo-shin.
“It was just one of the reasons. Actually, the Columbus, that I and Yoo-shin-ssi know about, slaughtered and oppressed the indigenous people without any religious justification.”
Unfamiliar eyes looked at the illusion again. The use of the cross, a sacred symbol of religion, as a justification for greed and slaughter, was considered extremely disrespectful, even if it was an illusion.
“Anyway, paying attention to the cross makes good sense. I saw five places, including public dungeons, where the time Columbus trampled on the indigenous people from Hispaniola was stuffed, and three of them stood out with crosses.”
Hyeon Gyu-ha's explanation ended there.
“I need to prepare for a fight soon.”
[The dungeon has detected your presence.]
The illusion of people being slaughtered and slaughtered began to wail.
Hyeon Gyu-ha, who descended to the land, put down the In-Yoo-shin and took out a rod from the sub-space. Four translucent rods reaching up to Yoo-shin's chest were inserted into his front, left, and right sides.
"What's this?"
“A force shield smelt with only of adamantium. Made by Kwon Seong-gil."
Hyeon Gyu-ha replied and placed the bottom of his hand on one of the rods. Mana was injected, and a transparent film unfolded, wrapping In Yoo-shin around the rod.
“Can Gyu-ha use it for hunting?”
“.......”
“Could you have bought it for me?”
In the end, it meant that it was a defense gear that was prepared for In Yoo-shin. Adamantium is a rare ore that can only be mined in dungeons, but since this is a Force Shield made of 100% purity, you can't even imagine how expensive it will be.
Hyeon Gyu-ha's voice was indifferent, whether he knew what In Yoo-shin's feelings were or not.
“Since it has a concealment function, it will be safe unless I die and lose mana.”
While getting ready to protect in Yoo-shin, the illusions that were united like a slime created monsters using the mana of the dungeon as a core.
The distorted monsters, which resemble creatures on Earth but are not exactly the same, spit ferocious cries. Fluffy hairs sprouted on the skin. In Yoo-shin remembers the disgusting fishy smell from the beast's snout, yellow fangs, and sticky saliva.
And, he almost thought he should have died then.
<Why something like you! It must be because you are alive!>
Raising his head from the cries that had been tearing out of his heart and vomiting out resentful screams, he saw a wide back in front of him. The length of the back does not feel long at all. A black leather jacket with a subtle sheen. A slender, tightly stretched, muscular body.
After some time, he got used to it.
In Yoo-shin murmured softly.
“Fi-fighting.”
Hearing the awkward cheering, Hyeon Gyu-ha seemed to smile.
“I’ll show you that a well-bred pet rodent is better than a pet dog or cat.”
“I’ve never had a dog or a cat…………….”
“Don’t grow it in the future. There’s Henri Raymond Charles Francois VI's older sister, even if that's the case, I don't think I'll be able to stand it if I have younger siblings.”
‘Why does it come to mind that when a younger sibling is born, the oldest may experience separation anxiety? I can't adopt more hamsters to protect Seoul.’
The thought itself meant that In Yoo-shin was not aware of the danger. Hyeon Gyu-ha, who stood in front of the tyrannical beasts, took out his weapons from the sub-space.
In general, a hunter's weapon is a cold weapon coated or infused with mana. Firearms can also inflict damage, but witches have some degree of defense due to the crystal stone that replaces the heart. There was a limit to the ability of individual hunters to subdue with firearms alone, unless they pushed forward with overwhelming firepower like the military.
Of course, if you use the worst cost-effective skill that injects mana into a gun and coats countless bullets with mana, it is possible to hunt demons with only a gun. And Hyeon Gyu-ha's mana is EX-class that cannot be measured.
It was only for a moment that he was surprised by the absurdity of holding an assault rifle with one hand.
The Demonic Beasts, which looked as if they had been cut from a bear and a crocodile and glued them together like clay, rushed forward while leaping through several meters of space. The moment In Yoo-shin blinked, the head was pierced by a bullet from a rifle held by Hyeon Gyu-ha with his right hand, and it died instantly.
The gun in his left hand exploded the body of a huge falcon with six wings that had been slammed down from above. Then, sparks fly from his right hand. The loud rumbling sound of the assault rifle filled the air, tearing apart the roar of the beast.
In the middle of a group of demonic beasts that scattered death for the sole purpose of crushing intruders, not a single step was moved. When the bullet runs out, it is replaced with a new gun from the sub-space in an instant.
With him as the center, a space dividing life and death is formed as if a line with a radius of 2 meters was drawn. The constantly raging demonic beast screams in agony outside the line, in the space of death. The absolute proposition of strong and weak, predator and prey is overturned.
[There are 2 monsters that survived in the dungeon.]
[There is only one monster that survived in the dungeon.]
[The dungeon's demons have been annihilated.]
It only took 10 minutes for the other hunters to set up an advance base and annihilate the monsters in the dungeon they were hunting.
In Yoo-shin remembered one of his nicknames.
One Man Army.
One who counters with the monsters alone. Although he does not belong anywhere, he is a complete man who cannot be touched by anyone.
It was too unreasonable to tie him to nothing but himself by the ridiculous means of taming.
In Yoo-shin recalled a belated question.
“The trash mobs have roughly organized themselves.”
He asked Hyeon Gyu-ha, who brushed his hands off and turned around with a nonchalant expression.
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Credits:
Translator: Hoshi Miya
Editor/Proofreader: PsycheAsylum, Ghostx
PA: This chapter is really cute, Gyu-ha never missed a bit to flirt….. Anyway, One Man Army is so cool.