I tamed the First Rank Chapter 95

HoshiMiya
7 days ago
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It wasn't a forest fire. I felt the distortion of mana. There were signs of monsters, including the boss monster.

'Did the dungeon break go off?

Hyeon Gyu-ha looked at the flames without much interest. The guilds and public servants based in Paju were hunting the monsters by putting out the flames, but they were woefully inadequate in number.

The monsters were concentrated on the pension. The scene became even more chaotic with the cries of those who had barely escaped from the pension and those who had rushed in after hearing the sad news that their families had not been able to escape.

Hyeon Gyu-ha, who was about to walk back to Seoul after a brief glance, suddenly stopped walking because of a sense of discomfort that tickled his heart. Gamaksan Mountain. Gate. Flames.

《When was the reset timing for the Gamaksan Gate?》

《They just leave it there to rupture the brakes, so no one knows?》

It was clear that the Seokho Guild and the lab had been experimenting with something and had failed. Just like they had been experimenting on me.

<......Fuck.>

For the first time in his life, a harsh curse was chewed between his teeth. His body, still recovering from the aftermath of nearly destroying a guild, was swollen with fatigue, and his wounds had barely stopped bleeding. However, the moment his consciousness returned to the word 'experiment', he reflexively raised his power and blasted the monsters in front of him.

Hyeon Gyu-ha flew over the heads of the hunters who were surprised by the sudden appearance of reinforcements. In order to clear the monster wave, I had to deal with the boss monster first.

The boss monsters, which were made up of a group, were rather suffering from the flames they had lit, screaming and begging in dozens of layers. Hyeon Gyu-ha frowned as he avoided the hot flames. He was a man, but no matter how you looked at him, he looked like he was wearing a woman's outfit. Were they burned at the stake because they were cross-dressing perverts?

Wherever the boss monster's flames flew, large and small monsters formed and raised their bodies. The flames had already spread widely. On top of that, my own injuries were not light. I have to finish them off quickly.

<Yes, it exists, but it's D-class.......>

Hyeon Gyu-ha, who had given up on the hunters, calculated the distance to the valley. It seemed like I could go there and back quickly. However, I can not trust these hunters who could not even think of catching the boss monster and were barely holding the defensive line.

He was also very tired, but instead he had a lot of weapons he had collected from the hunters he had fought with in the safe house.

He was also very tired, but instead, there were plenty of weapons recovered from the hunters who fought at the safe house. Hyeon Gyu-ha took out his weapons from the subspace and fired them all at once at the boss monster. The weapons that rained down from the sky struck all at once.

<Kkiaaaa……!>

A single scream and a harsh crash simultaneously tore through the flames. Spears pierced flesh and sank into the ground, axes cut off legs, blades pierced backs, and scythes cut off necks.

The boss monster, pierced by weapons deeply embedded in the ground, could not move and could only scream. The screams were even more terrifying because they were accompanied by dozens of voices.

In the meantime, Hyeon Gyu-ha carried large tents that were not on fire and filled them with water from the valley. When he poured water over them one after another from the air, the fire on the boss monster's body finally died down. The group covered in water twisted their bodies in even more pain.

If he could get close, taking the core would be a matter of time. Hyeon Gyu-ha used psychokinesis to swing the two Yongdu swords (King Taejo Yi Seong-gye's swords) that the S-class hunter he killed earlier had in his hand in the air. Dozens of swings struck as fast as light. The boss monster’s breath finally died as it was cut off by a pair of fiercely swinging blades.

But the flames that had once spread were still burning, and the monsters were still alive. Could there still be anyone alive inside?

<I'll throw it to you when I find someone, so catch it well.>

<......Ah, I understand!>

The hunters who had stopped fighting the demon and were blankly watching his fight belatedly came to their senses.

Hyeon Gyu-ha passed through the blazing flames.

<Ji-won-ah!>

Someone's desperate cry echoed behind him.

Beyond the flames was a hellish wasteland. Those who still survived were being chased and eaten by demons everywhere, screaming. It seemed that the hunters and the awakened ones could not reach the flames. Except for one person.

<Ah, the hunter who saved us earlier...! Go back inside! I-I told him not to go, but he has a family.........>

People hiding inside the collapsed wall, shivering, made desperate pleas.

<C-can you p-p-please save him?>

Hyeon Gyu-ha silently threw them across the fire. He adjusted them so that they would fall onto the trees on the forest path like the people he had saved so far. They might get a few bruises on their buttocks or break some bones, but it would be better than dying.

The Hunter the survivors had mentioned was found within a few minutes. A woman covered in blood and demonic fluids beyond recognition lay dying among the corpses of demons. With her only remaining hand, she held tightly to what appeared to be a fire axe.

In the heat of the flames, Hyeon Gyu-ha silently looked down at the woman. She wasn't dead, but there was no point in rescuing her. She wouldn't be able to endure even the few seconds it took to get her out, and she would die.

The woman, who seemed unconscious, moved her lips.

<P-please........>

<Family.......in........>

The woman struggled to move her broken jaw and damaged vocal cords, producing a raspy voice.

family.

What kind of thing is that, Hyeon Gyu-ha sneered, biting his lip. The family that this woman risked her life to save must have already run away. Whether she came to save them or not, they betrayed and abandoned them.

<Son........ Husband........ Ki-im, Jeong-hoon........)

The woman muttered. It seemed as if her hearing had been compromised. Had her eardrum burst? Hyeon Gyu-ha looked down at the woman’s blood-covered ear, stared at her cloudy pupils that were not properly focused, and then answered.

<Okay, it'll be a waste of effort anyway, but if it's my last wish, then I’ll do it.>

He nodded his head because he thought the woman wouldn’t hear. It seemed like he saw that look somehow. As soon as he confirmed the answer, the light in the woman’s eyes quickly disappeared. As if she was desperately holding on to her life for that one request.

I don't know. I don't know how to express it, but it felt really gross. It felt like shit, it was annoying, it made me sick.

“…….”

Hyeon Gyu-ha closed the woman's wide-open eyes and entered the building, floating the corpse next to him so that it would not be further damaged by the monsters.

He saw the fire slowly dying down with the pressure of the air, and he went in hunting, hunting, hunting, hunting, hunting.

A father who protected his child until his last breath, and a child who was safely protected in his arms without a single hair being harmed.

What I wanted but couldn't have.

But something that clearly exists in the world.

The foggy, damp film had clouded his vision, but he could vaguely see someone in front of him. Yoo-shin cried and grabbed his father's shoulder.

<…….>

There was no answer from the boy.

<Can't Hyung-ah help me to go with my Dad?>

The boy who had been standing there frozen for a long time approached slowly. He carefully laid his father, who was covering Yoo-shin, down in the air and bent down. The boy’s hand groped over Yoo-shin’s face and slowly stroked his head. It was a very awkward and clumsy gesture.

The boy's hands were burning hot because of the stifling heat of the air. However, he did not feel uncomfortable.

The boy wiped away Yoo-shin's tears that were welling up in his eyes and lifted her up into his arms as carefully and thoughtfully as if he was handling a breakable glass bottle.

<Let's go outside. There are a lot of scary things, so keep your eyes closed.>

<…….unn >

Then that's fine. If you close your eyes, you'll be able to meet your father again. Just as he had clung to his father, Yoo-shin clung to the boy's neck with his bare hands.

It was a wide chest that seemed to embrace the small body. The irregular heartbeats echoed as their bodies touched. The boy's heart was beating even more violently than Yoo-shin's.

He closed his eyes tightly. The air passed quickly, the temperature dropped slightly. The sound of the monster's cries. There was no blackout.

At the end of his consciousness, which was sinking deep down, Yoo-shin repeated to himself. It's okay. We'll meet soon. When I meet Mom and Dad, I'll tell them about Hyung-ah, who helped me wake up from my dream while patting me on the back.

In Yoo-shin woke up from his dream.

".....Shin-ssi! Yoo-shin-ssi!"

The image of the boy, who had remained as a dull and dull impression, became a clear image and was captured on the retina. The passage of time was imbued in his young face, and his height, which he had thought was very tall even then, had grown even further, and his shoulders had broadened and his body had become more robust, but his expression, which seemed about to burst into tears, remained unchanged.

In the midst of the torrent of desperate emotions, In Yoo-shin slowly blinked his eyes. It was you. Even then, it was you.

A single cruel word that cannot be spit out tears the heart apart.

You shouldn't have saved me then.

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