I tamed the First Rank Chapter 84
- HoshiMiya
- Oct 10
- 7 min read
“Squeak!”
The first thing that greeted him as soon as he opened his eyes was 8-se. 8-se, who had been fidgeting on his chest as if he was very worried, threw his whole body at In Yoo-shin as soon as he opened his eyes.
"Are you okay? Are you hurt?"
“Cry!”
The sound of his crying was also strong. Just the presence of that unchanging guy seemed to calm him down, so In Yoo-shin took a deep breath and pressed his forehead.
'The boss monster from that accident that happened a long time ago……. Could it be that it was the same background? I couldn't even guess because my memories from back then weren't clear.'
If not, it could be that the memory was distorted due to the intense experience of the boss monster that also spewed flames. In Yoo-shin blinked and looked up at the ceiling. What came into view was a roof with wooden planks. Where could it be?
'I was clearly engulfed in the hidden boss's flames earlier.’
As he was thinking about it, a deep voice called out to him, turning him around.
“Are you awake?”
There was another person. In Yoo-shin was startled and jumped up. There, sitting comfortably, was the 'King Who Respects Every Blade of Grass', holding a large axe on his knee.
"Uh, uuh..……………..”
Should I run away since he's the hidden boss? Can I run away even if I run away? Should I bow deeply since he's the king? Is the etiquette for greeting the king different in Africa? Was it Thailand where you have to kneel flat on the floor? All sorts of thoughts were quickly piling up and clouding his mind. He was completely out of his mind.
The 'King Who Respects Every Blade of Grass' nodded lightly.
“Don’t worry, I won’t kill you. I won’t kill unnecessarily.”
It also means that he does not hesitate to kill when necessary……. If he had intended to kill, I would not have been alive by then. He carefully knelt down.
“Your legs are going to go numb.”
“I-it’s okay.”
Anyway, he was the king and not a living human. My heart was sinking from the tension, so I couldn't just sit there comfortably.
“Um, this is……………….”
“This is my territory. You are the only living thing that breathes.”
“Surely not all the other people………………?”
He quickly looked at his wrist. The tattoos were still there. One bat and two hamsters.
“Instead of bringing you back, I let all the other humans go.”
"thank god."
Hyeon Gyu-ha is safe and the others are alive. I don't know if the 'King Who Respects Even a Blade of Grass' has any value to him, but if they were saved at the cost of that one thing, then I should be happy about it.
The eyebrows of the 'King Who Respects Every Blade of Grass' twitched.
“It’s strange that you seem sincere. Normally, in this situation, you would be afraid or feel wronged.”
“To be honest, I have my doubts. I don’t think that the lives of so many people are worth the same as that one insignificant life.”
The 'King Who Respects Every Blade of Grass' answered, looking at him with black eyes that could not read his emotions.
“I only accepted it because it was obvious that you were the weak point of the most powerful opponent in my domain. As expected, you fell so easily that it was ridiculous.”
A bitter pain scratched at the inside of his heart. In the end, it became his weakness. Will he be okay, having been forcibly separated from me? In Yoo-shin clenched his hands on his knees tightly, trying not to let his expression blur.
“…….”
“I could see a similar fate in him as I did.”
“What are you talking about?”
“Isn’t he the king’s son?”
"What?"
When he blinked his eyebrows because he didn't understand easily, the 'King Who Respects Every Blade of Grass' looked puzzled.
“It literally means that one or both of your parents are kings. Didn’t you know that? Even though the royal bloodline he had was what brought me back to the real world?”
"Ah, that's………………. I heard a joke before that his father was a king……………….”
“Unlike me, who was a human child, his parents seemed to be truly anointed kings of the world. But now that I'm dead, it doesn't matter to me."
The 'King Who Respects Every Blade of Grass' finished muttering and stood up from his seat.
“You may move freely within my territory.”
“Squeak.”
Crystals, especially Hidden Boss’s crystals, were an irreplaceable energy source in and of themselves, so there were few countries that did not use them in their industrial complexes. They quickly imposed a press blackout, but it was impossible to silence everyone, and it was only a matter of time before intelligence was relayed to each country. In the United States, the Speaker of the House had already contacted them. The incident that occurred in the middle of Seoul would draw the attention of not only Korea but the entire world.
"Fuck! This is driving me crazy."
Director A of the Gate Management Office let out a nervous, harsh remark that he never made, but no one found it strange. Just an hour ago, the location of the Gangnam Center of A Auction had been obscured.
“The measurements came back and the mana wave is identical to the gate that broke.”
"You can tell when you see that! What do the advisory professors say? A hidden boss who seems like he can communicate?"
The boss monsters of the dungeons are either in the form of grotesque monsters or, if not, are not easy. They simply display blind hostility towards all living, breathing creatures of the earth.
But the Hidden Boss was different. They had a clear mind unless they were driven mad from the beginning, and sometimes they had a far superior way of thinking than humans. If they were reluctant to fight or had a moderate disposition, they could end things peacefully. It was an extremely slim chance.
There was information from the raid team that when he was a 'heart-chewing, blood-sucking sadist', he was literally like a demon, so conversation was not possible. However, his name had now changed, and he appeared in the form of a human, not a bloody demon. There was a possibility that communication would be possible.
Without going too far, wasn't the artifact belonging to Lee Hye-yeon, a hunter of the Supernatural Department, also obtained through a moderate battle?
Director A tried to bury the survivors' testimonies about the boss monster running wild as if it was being burned, but he received no positive answers.
“I was referring to the vision of the 'Scholar Who Chews Hearts and Swallows Blood', which was a previous nickname. If there was a black woman, a king, traditional attire, and a maid sitting on his back like a chair, it would probably be Nzinga Mbande."
“Who is that?”
“She is currently the king of Angola.”
“No, shit. How on earth did the dungeon of that distant African king open in Korea! If you were going to screw them over, it should have opened in Europe! Our country was once a colony too!”
Dungeons open randomly in territories unrelated to the setting, so strictly speaking her irritation was unreasonable.
“Yeah, anyway………………. That King Nzinga was a peace-loving, kind, gentle, warm, etc., right? Was the first nickname just scary? When she came out this time, she was a king loved by everyone.”
"It was a time when she was busy conquering colonies in Europe... She spent half her life on the battlefield. She was a capable general herself, and she says she was trained as a warrior like a man from a young age."
“It is said that the Europeans who failed to overthrow King Nzinga while she was alive initially gave her the nickname of ‘the sadist who chews hearts and swallows blood’ because they had a malicious image of massacring and cannibalizing hundreds of people……………. In reality, it is said that she was cruel to his enemies, although not to that extent. She also allied with marauders who performed a ritual of sacrificing children. It is not impossible that she performed the ritual himself.......”
“……”
“It is also true that there is a record of her being praised hundreds of years after her death, saying, ‘Not only Angolans, but also animals and plants remember her.’”
“………………Fuck. Anyway, nothing is going well because of the British bastards, who are the root of all evil! Whenever something bad happens, it’s all the British’s original sin!”
“At that time, it was not Britain but Portugal that was trying to colonize the kingdom.”
“Anyway! They’re the ones at fault!”
Director A, who had been expressing his anger at the imperialist bastards, let out a gloomy sigh as he looked at the gate in front of him. No matter how much he thought about it, he was not a hidden boss who could be persuaded with words.
“If I politely ask him to move to Portugal………………. wouldn’t that work?”
“That won’t work……………….”
“My father was naturalized from Ethiopia. I am half black and my ancestors are from Africa, so if we had met in the past, we might have been close like siblings. Why not try to persuade him with that?”
“I know that at that time, there was no sense of community or nationalism among black people. If the director had met me, I think I would have been sold into slavery.......”
“These fucking Portuguese bastards!”
The fact that a hidden boss had appeared in the dungeon meant that there was a possibility that a wave of monsters would pour in at any moment. In addition, the presence of a hidden boss that was incomparably more threatening than the hordes of demons.
If a monster wave starts in the middle of Seoul.
Just imagining it was terrifying.
Another subordinate reported to her, trembling with fear.
“Director! I tried flying the drone again, but it’s still not possible to enter the gate.”
“You must be preparing something so big that you are taking so long. Ah……………….”
In this situation, the only way was to quickly clear the dungeon with all your might as soon as the gate opened. The only problem was that there was one civilian being taken hostage.
Director Ah was not an idealist.
The life of an ordinary civilian, not even a person in a high-ranking position, is insignificant compared to the security of the entire city of Seoul. In other times, the order would have been given to prioritize the attack on the hidden boss while considering the safety of the hostages.
If the person taken hostage wasn't the only one who was like a safety pin on a nuclear bomb that no one could touch.
“Hyeon Gyu-ha………………. How is Hyeon Hunter doing now?”
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