085. Dimensional Invasion (4)
Originally, I planned to take care of Namgoonghyeok with the help of the Korean Hunter Association.
After hearing Lee Ha-yeon’s words, there was no need to borrow the help of the Korean Hunter Association.
Kim Seung-hun and Oh Chun-seok are of different ranks among the challengers in Korea.
‘If I fight together with those two, I think I’ll be able to catch Namgung-hyeok in my own way.’
It was speculated why he went to Japan in advance in response to the request for support from the Japanese Hunter Association.
Those two are styles that clearly weigh gains and losses, so they don’t move without compensation.
Even now, the Korean Hunter Association seemed to be quite free about selecting challengers despite the request for support from the Japanese Hunter Association.
No matter how low a challenger is, it is also okay to leave it as it is because they say they will not go with troops that can be sufficiently recruited.
In many ways, it seems that the Japanese Hunter Association has no intention of consuming manpower called a challenger.
Nonetheless, the fact that the two moved quickly to Japan was that they thought they could get a decent pay in Japan.
Where do people like me who don’t become stronger by absorbing spirits get the kind of reward that goes straight to Japan at the risk of it?
It is a fact that you can know without seeing it.
‘The Japanese Hunter Association must have said they would pay for it.’
That would be a reward worth moving both of them.
So even overseas, some challengers might have moved to deal with this situation themselves.
In addition, it was clear that the existing S-class hunters would also step out to prevent the situation in Japan.
They must have thought that there was no way they would not be able to kill Namgung-hyeok if they all gathered together and attacked all at once like I did.
I was about to ask Lee Ha-yeon if there were any more hunters who had fallen to the Japanese side.
clap.
The door to the conference room opened and a man who seemed to be an employee of the Hunter Association entered with a strong presence.
Only then did the contestants, who had been sitting in their seats, focus on him.
“Hello challengers.”
Soon after, I looked around the conference room and laughed at him as he calmly continued his conversation.
‘Somehow, it seems like I’ve seen this face once somewhere…’
I never imagined that we would meet here like this.
“My name is Lee Seong-jin, the leader of the Korea Hunter Association’s challenger management team.”
The leader of the Hunter Association’s challenger management team was a person I knew.
I remembered right away because he was a challenger who had personally introduced himself as an A-class hunter at the tower and had guided me to the common area.
We are dealing with information later, so we often asked to use it and parted ways, but I never thought we would meet again here.
‘If you look at it like this, the hunter industry is narrow.’
As soon as I was laughing in my heart feeling dumbfounded, Seongjin Lee started talking.
“Thank you to the challengers who gathered here in response to the call-up order.”
He kept a serious expression and glanced around at the challenger.
As if trying to figure out the level of the challenger in this conference room.
“Everyone knows the rough story of the current situation. An emergency call-up order was issued because of a challenger from the other world who appeared in Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo.”
At that, the challengers inside the conference room frowned in displeasure instead of responding.
It was the attitude that they did not know why they had to gather here because of that incident.
However, Seongjin Lee steadfastly continued to speak like flowing water.
“As everyone knows, the challenger from the other world who appeared after moving from dimension to dimension without the penalty of entering the hierarchy is stirring the city center of Shinjuku Ward.”
“…”
“Therefore, the Japan Hunter Association decided that it was impossible to subdue the challenger from the other world with Japan’s power, and requested support.”
“….”
“Of course there are Koreans among them.”
After that, the middle-aged challenger sitting in the corner of the conference room gave out annoyance in a gruff voice.
“So what do you mean? You mean to go over to Japan and kill the crazy bastard who kills six A-rank hunters in a matter of seconds?”
“The Japanese side claimed that. Since the challenger from the other world mentioned the name of the Korean challenger, the Korean challenger also has responsibility.”
“Damn it. How do you know if that’s true? Are you driving people to death with facts you don’t even know are lies or real?”
Some people frowned at the outspoken middle-aged man’s words and actions, but on the whole he was not wrong.
The level of the challengers here is low enough to subdue the challengers from the other world that have appeared in Shinjuku City.
Even if they ranked high in the final rankings, their pure skills were a bit higher than that of A-rank hunters.
Because he knew all about it, the resistance was strong, and Lee Seong-jin nodded as if he knew it.
“The Hunter Association knows that too. What you have gathered here is not to unilaterally announce that you will be sent to Shinjuku City.”
“…?”
“The Hunter Association even issued an emergency call-up order and gathered all of the challengers on the hard difficulty level for just two reasons.”
“….”
Lee Seong-jin slowly lowered the screen in the conference room and continued.
“First, it is to show the battle footage secured while fighting an S-class hunter from China who went to Shinjuku to assist.”
At the same time as he said that, a video came up on the lowered screen, and the conference room became noisy.
“Secondly, it is to raise awareness among all of you by watching the video of the challenger from the other world fighting in Shinjuku City.”
Seongjin Lee didn’t care about that and immediately played the video, and soon the conference room became quiet.
It was worth it.
“…”
This is because in the video that appeared on the screen, a drone flying in the sky began to illuminate a young man sitting in the middle of the street.
The Chinese-style pretty young man, whose slightly sunken dark circles accentuate his decadent beauty, sat cross-legged quietly.
‘Is that Namgoonghyuk?’
It took a while to feel a little surprise at the unexpectedly normal outfit.
―…I don’t know why the guy who asks me to come doesn’t come and only attracts insects one after another.
Namgoong-hyeok, who had been sitting still, muttered that and looked up at the sky.
To be precise, he looked up at the sky above the drone and frowned as if he was displeased.
Watching Namgung-hyeok get up from his seat, I expected the drone to be destroyed.
But…
―I never thought that you would welcome Confucius, who had seen you so violently?
Contrary to my expectations, the situation where the drone was not broken did not occur.
Instead of destroying the drone, Namgoong-hyeok turned his eyes to the middle of the streets of Shinjuku.
A black-haired man with conspicuously trained muscles was walking there.
“The person walking over there is Paeng Ziwen, who was recognized as an S-class hunter in China about a month ago.”
In a word, it means that he is no different from the main character of this battle video.
“….”
But I noticed that Seongjin Lee had bad intentions in showing this video.
I was able to predict what would happen to the hunter named Paengjamun who appeared in the video.
However, all the challengers in the conference room looked at the scene with nervousness, as if they hadn’t predicted it like me.
―@#%&[email protected]##…
Soon after, they frowned at the sight of Paeng Ja-mun laughing and muttering.
It was not a tower challenger, but an ordinary foreign hunter, so the language was not interpreted.
When they were in the tower, everyone could understand the language, but since they weren’t challengers, they couldn’t understand each other’s language.
However, Namgung-hyeok nodded as if he understood what he was saying.
-understood. You don’t seem to be the type to listen to Confucius.
Does it even have the ability to interpret language individually?
I don’t know what Paengjamun was talking about, but he seems to have noticed that he was hostile to him.
He immediately stood up from his seat and put his hand on the handle of the curved sword at his waist with a fishy smile.
―Anyway, I didn’t think that Confucius would be able to achieve his goal right away.
Namgung-hyeok drew his sword at the same time he finished speaking, and in that moment an unbelievable situation occurred.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaa!
The buildings around him began to slash and collapse all at once, without any warning
.
– It’s insignificant. Consider it a shame that you challenged this Confucius with only such skill.
After that, Paeng Ja-moon let out an evil sound and rushed at Namgung-hyeok.
After that, a battle that can only be called truly transcendent began to take place.
Paeng Ja-mun threw his fists with all his might and clashed with Namgung-hyeok, but the result was not good.
Even though it was a battle where the ground cracked and the air exploded every time they competed, Paengjamun was the one who got hurt.
On the contrary, Namgung-hyeok let go of all of Paeng Ja-mun’s attacks and at the same time hacked his entire body to accumulate damage.
In just a few minutes, it was the difference between winning and losing.
―Despite not being able to handle martial arts, it was quite a sight to see, so you should die with satisfaction.
Wow!
The moment Paengjamun’s body splits in half and pours out blood and intestines.
As if not interested at all, Namgoong-hyeok put his weapon back in the scabbard with his back to the collapsing Paengjamun.
complete defeat.
It was a moment when the challengers in the conference room were astonished at the result that could only be said that way.
―If you make it waste more time, this city will see a more terrible situation.
Namgung-hyeok looked at the drone floating in the air and muttered coldly, then drew his sword again.
Chijik-!
Since then, the drone has displayed a crackling black screen without containing anything.
“…”
Strong.
‘It’s not just a high physical ability or something like that.’
Paeng Ja-moon, who immediately fought Namgung-hyeok, is not such a weak hunter.
If I say I’m fighting Paengjamun, I won’t lose, but I can’t guarantee that I will win unconditionally.
‘I killed such a talented person in less than a few minutes.’
While I was laughing at the powerlessness that could be called a monster among monsters.
“Have you seen the challenger from the other world, who does not have the penalty for entering a floor?”
Seongjin Lee, who was looking at the video on the screen, looked around the meeting room and opened his mouth.
“This is reality. The Tower of Trials is by no means a place for competition.”
Seongjin Lee narrowed his eyes and continued to speak calmly.
“We need to disclose all the information we are hiding and prepare to make sure this doesn’t happen again.”
Only then did the challenger inside the conference room frown as if he understood Seongjin Lee’s intentions.
It means to disclose all information that you know to a top-tier challenger who is reluctant to disclose information.
It wasn’t just the challengers who ranked high in the final rankings.
As the atmosphere inside the conference room calmed down, Lee Seong-jin opened his mouth again.
“Currently, requests for support from the Japan Hunter Association will be sent only to those who say they will go on their own.”
At those words, the faces of the challengers in the meeting room brightened noticeably.
I thought that even S-class hunters would be driven to death without help, but it was decided by their own choice?
There will be no other good news for them now.
“However, if you do not want to respond to the request for support, please disclose the information at least.”
Of course, as if that choice wasn’t free at all, Seongjin Lee definitely nailed it.
If you want to ignore the support of the Japan Hunter Association, you have to put out information separately.
Most of the challengers, however, seemed unwilling to object to that fact any longer.
Perhaps the same is true for Lee Ha-yeon, she smiled and pushed her face toward me, then whispered a small whisper in my ear.
“The situation is better than I thought. This may not be enough.”
She seemed to be quite anxious because she was also selected as a high-ranking contender, but…
Unlike Lee Ha-yeon’s thoughts, I was rather dissatisfied.
Even though Namgung-hyeok is strong, Kim Seung-hun and Oh Chun-seok went to Japan.
Even in this situation, the two did not judge that there was no chance of winning, and neither did I.
Although it was slim, there was a chance of victory, and at least a fatal wound seemed possible.
‘I didn’t want to stand out, but I can’t help it.’
In the end, I had no choice but to raise my hand in the subdued atmosphere, determined to be noticed.
“I will go to Shinjuku Ward in Tokyo at the request of the Japan Hunter Association.”
Not only the challenger who was sitting in the conference room, but also Lee Seong-jin stared at me as if it were ridiculous.
All the eyes directed at me seemed to say this in unison.
I didn’t know that there would be a crazy bastard who really walks to death on his own.
