Chapter 427 The
Hunter Association has various secretariats. Of course, more precisely, he belonged to a ministerial level councilor rather than to the president of the association, and was handling various hunter-related tasks such as gate management difficulty measurement and mana distribution chart.
Everyone was in charge of important work, but collectively known as the [Measurement Bureau].
As for the full name, the duties of the difficulty measurement bureau for conversion dungeons and urban gates were different.
“Don’t you know how important difficulty classification is? Hunters’ lives depend on our investigation and judgment! But make this mistake!”
A giant man with a beard thumps the stained table! When I hit it, the shape of a fist remained, showing how strong it was.
Thanks to that, the bureaucracy official, tired of the intimidation, trembled and spilled his words.
“That’s it… It’s true that the level 5 boss appeared, so the difficulty level was raised, but even if you measure it again, the measurement result is level 3. Mana distribution remains unchanged. It is at a very low level.”
Let’s show the data by a hologram as if a public official in the secretariat is unfair. Dorion, the head of the bureau, muttered as he ran his hand through his beard.
“…The mana distribution doesn’t change? I know that 2 level 6 hunters have been dispatched, but are their mana being measured?”
“yes! are being measured. The problem is after the 5th floor. The mana distribution from the 5th floor to the rooftop is being detected very low.”
“But the hunters in the field must have seen the Banshee Queen?”
“They didn’t submit precise data, but judging from the situation that the 3rd and 4th grade hunters failed to capture, we tentatively… Yes!”
“Hmm.”
Director Dorion continued to shave his beard. Dorion must have remembered seeing a similar case somewhere.
“…A gate where only the mana of 3rd-class banshees is detected. Even so, the high-ranking hunter is missing and the boss’s mana is not detected? This is definitely a repertoire I saw somewhere.”
Dorion, who was slowly retrieving his memory, suddenly struck the table as if shouting Eureka.
“Surely something similar happened in Finland! Even though it was 11 years ago.”
“Finland 11 years ago?”
“I don’t know since you were before you came to the Bureau of Measurement. It was treated as a secret.”
Dorion said that the time had come for the director, and accessed the document number S7-3, which was one of the secrets, by hologram.
[Record No.: S7-3]
[Item – Finnish Fairy Forest Incident]
The confidential data shown by Dorion showed a dense forest. Finland itself is a country famous for its dense forests, so it was difficult to infer where it was just from the image.
However, in the image, there were special creatures gathered around a huge tree.
“The spirit beast. It usually refers to spirits in the form of animals. It was classified as level 3.”
“They’re guys I’ve never seen before while working at the measurement station.”
“It is so rare. But there’s another problem. Do you remember the record number I told you earlier?
“It was number S7-3.”
“In the Finnish office, when measuring difficulty, instead of assigning grades like we do, ‘stars’ are engraved. Now then, you also know what S7 means, right?”
“…the third level 7 boss’s gate in Finnish history that was hidden as a secret.”
Director Dorion sighed and smiled at the official’s face. Hearing the name of the 7th level gate, he wasn’t frightened, but rather interested in his expression, he was from a decent bureau.
“You may not believe it, but the difficulty level of the first measurement in this forest was level 3. Of course, not long after, the 7th-level boss [The Beginning Island] appeared… Well, you know the result without talking, right?”
The director showed his subordinate a tortoise taller than a mountain, claiming that this was a picture of [The Beginning Island].
“Even though he looks funny, he was called Gaia in another dimension and was revered as a god. If it wasn’t for the legendary hunters, the number of victims would have been enormous.”
It’s great that such a case was handled confidentially. But why is Director Dorion saying that now?
“But that has nothing to do with the current case, doesn’t it?”
An official from the Secretariat tried to link the current banshee commotion with the Finnish giant tortoise incident as much as possible.
But his head didn’t spin as fast as the director’s. The director was guessing the reason for this incident through past experiences.
“Let’s imagine that you are a giant tortoise, and that guy would sleep for over 100 years once he finished his meal. If so, how on earth should I do so that my sleep is not disturbed by humans?”
“…I think I’ll have to hide.”
“yes.”
Director Barion put his back on his back. Then, he got up from his seat and displayed the data of the recently appeared subspecies of nyeolyongs on a huge screen.
“In the hunter world, certain subspecies are treated as mutants.”
As the number of eel monsters increased in the pond of the Yeowryong, which was vulnerable to electric attacks, they became resistant to electricity, and when the undead appeared in the forest graveyard, spirit beasts emitted holy attribute light from their horns.
“But academically! From a biological point of view, it’s definitely evolution! Just like giant turtles coat their shells with mana reflectors to sleep!”
“That’s an evolution that was possible because it was a 7th-level monster. The probability that the Banshee Queen will have such an ability is…”
“There could be a Banshee Queen in Delta Tower. But what if it’s not just the Banshee Queen?”
As the director said, he changed his mind, and the official at the secretariat burst into a sigh.
“The Banshee Queen…may not be all that’s in Delta Tower right now. Are you saying that?”
“I’m not sure there is, but I can’t be sure there isn’t either. I think the odds are half. And… the scale must be at least level 6 and at worst level 7.”
At Director Dorion’s words, the civil servant swallowed dryly. Putting all the stories together, what I thought was just a glitch or an anomaly could be interpreted in a completely different way.
“Who is the strongest Hunter near Delta Tower right now?”
“There is a 7th level hunter who can call, but that’s…”
Director Dorion frowned. The one on the list of callable hunters was none other than Roger.
“Didn’t Roger say that his body was damaged by Rebellion?”
“They say it takes at least half a year to a year to rehabilitate.”
“What about grade 6?”
“There is a common name [Swordsman].”
The director shook his head, saying that even 6th grade is not cool. In order to prepare for the emergency that the director thought, at least a 7th-level hunter had to come out.
“It can’t be easy to call a 7th level hunter right away. I guess I have no choice but to contact him.”
As for the civil servants, among the 7th level hunters, who is the opponent that Director Dorion uses the extremely honorific title? However, no matter how much I thought about it, I couldn’t narrow down the candidates.
However, the moment I changed the candidate from 7th grade to 8th grade, a person’s face came to mind.
‘No way…’
Sure enough, his prediction was correct this time.
“Yes, President. Director Dorion of the Bureau of Measurements.”
-oh! What are you?
Director Dorion contacted Kang Yoo-chan, a colleague of the legendary Hunter King Kwon and the head of the Hunter Association.
* * *
– Communication failure state.
– Currently, radio waves do not reach.
– If you want AS, please visit the nearest hunter goods shop.
From the moment Yooseong Shin arrived on the 4th floor, the pocket caused radio interference and stopped working.
“Upstairs already doesn’t feel good. Mana is not being read.”
I checked my pocket with a worried face to see if that was the case with Yura as well.
Even if it was Shin Yooseong, all I could hear was the occasional tearing scream. However, like a veteran hunter, this isn’t the first time this situation has happened, so Yura had a countermeasure.
“Okay, take it.”
Yura threw a black walkie-talkie to Shin Yoo-seong. In a world where the miracle of the tower and pockets, a product of science, exist, radios are too analog products.
“It’s a one-button thing, so it’s easy to use.”
“By the way, senior.”
However, Shin Yoo-seong was not thinking of that as a problem right now.
“Why are you so far away?”
Why is Yura far away from her side when she is not a martial artist? It was more efficient to stay close to Shin Yoo-seong to keep Yura safe.
However, Yura blushed and drew a line with a barrier to prevent Shin Yoo-seong from approaching.
“Because you’re more dangerous than the banshee…”
He wasn’t wrong. To Yura, who was enchanted, Shin Yuseong’s existence was more dangerous than Banshee. If he got closer to save himself, he could have stiffened from tension.
So Shin Yoo-seong and Yura slowly searched the 4th floor with a clear line drawn.
“It is strangely quiet. The 3rd floor was full of screams…”
“The 4th floor is rather quiet.”
On the 4th floor, there were no paintings that sealed the survivors. Banshee was nowhere to be seen. The store with the lights off and the mannequins stripped of their clothes just felt gloomy.
“Are you going to go crazy here?”
Yura, who was about to go back the way he came, found an unusual pattern on a hidden wall. The pattern stained with red blood did not match the Delta Tower, which was a department store.
“No wait. stop it.”
Yura released the barrier and called Shin Yuseong to her side. Where Yura pointed, there was an unusual pattern drawn with red blood.
“Is it a marriage ceremony? …No, this isn’t even mana, it’s just a pattern drawn with real blood.”
“It goes all the way to the back.”
Shin Yoo-seong, who has good eyesight, found out that the blood was coming around the corner and leading to the back.
[――¿¸˛¨─ζΨ──]
Inscribed at the end of the road that ran through thin blood were unidentified hieroglyphs.
unidentified text.
unreadable language.
At the gate, this meant only one thing. The picture in front of me was a language of another dimension.
“If the pocket was fine, I would have interpreted it…”
At least Sumire, who was good at writing, could understand the meaning of this character.
However, Yoosung Shin was not an expert in this field. To read gore from another dimension without a pocket translator, you had to be a professor.
“don’t worry. I can read it.”
However, Yura walked out confidently. He lit a spark of mana on his index finger to make it look like a light and read the text of another dimension.
“Congratulations on your pregnancy. mother of death Aren’t you the mother of the dead?”
Of course, it wasn’t a 100% perfect translation, but even this was an expert level.
“Look back at the Queen’s descent, the festival of eternal night… Ride and cross the promised river of no return.”
The terms Yura was reading now were absolutely not sentences to worship the Banshee Queen. Queen. eternal night. river of promise.
“Ah….”
Despair appeared on Yura’s face as she read the back of the sentence. Yura looked at Shin Yuseong and weakly chanted with unfocused eyes.
“…the one here in Delta Tower is not the Banshee Queen.”
