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Episode 43. Crush
Arrived at the scene.
As soon as I got out of the car, the culprit of the disaster alert came into view.
“It’s quite large, isn’t it?”
“Wow, the whole road looks red.”
Two gates standing in mirror-like positions across a road.
It was painted a bright red, unlike any gate I had ever seen before.
Commonly known as ‘Red Gate’.
A passage that pours out monsters within a few minutes of appearing, and then suddenly disappears.
“I wonder if the citizens evacuated safely.”
Unlike the Blue Gate, which would cause an accident if left unattended, the Red Gate was a huge headache as it triggered a stampede 100% of the time.
“Oh my, I wish there wasn’t so much red in this city.”
But that’s only when there’s a shortage of response personnel.
Thud. Thud. Thud.
When the sound of a heavy beast’s footsteps echoes beyond the gate.
Esther laughed and told those standing behind her.
“From now on, it’s time for the guild leader to get to work, so you guys stay in the corner!”
Then, the staff at Korea Tower quickly distanced themselves from Esther.
Kim Ki-ryeo, who was dragged away together without any hesitation, thinks blankly.
‘Isn’t this too far? If this continues, no one will be able to support Esther.’
Until this point, he had been underestimating Earth’s S-class.
Even in Kang Chang-ho’s time and in Jeong Ha-seong’s time.
They couldn’t fully exert their power because they were in a narrow, confined space with an F-class hunter like themselves.
-Grrrrrrr… … .
-Shaaaaah!
-Ururuk, creak.
“Hunter Kim Ki-ryeo, from now on, do not come near our CEO at all. Do you understand?”
But today, he has confirmed his status as an S-class hunter without any restrictions.
-Thump, thump… … .
A large number of monsters began to appear from the gates on both sides.
A headless giant holding a log.
A little devil who laughs loudly.
Esther walked leisurely, scanning the horde of monsters advancing in black waves.
“I have to start from the left. I’m left-handed.”
But every time she took a step forward, something strange happened.
“Kick, kick? Kick!”
The monsters that were approaching with a murderous look on their faces suddenly turn over and fall over.
Knock, knock.
Like a rat that has eaten poison.
As Esther got closer to the gate, the number of screaming monsters increased.
-Kaaaak! Kaaaak!
-Krrrrr… … .
A formless horror hangs over the streets.
But there was one person in the room who could understand exactly what the other person was doing.
‘This is crazy, this was a real mess.’
A curse is a kind of strong suggestion.
Making a healthy person sick in an instant.
Stabbing a dummy with a knife to cause pain.
Because all of these phenomena cannot occur without the brain’s illusions.
‘That’s why curse magic especially requires concentration.’
Esther felt the energy swirling around her and dozed off.
When she cast her magic, she was like a giant typhoon.
He does not forgive any living thing that enters his sphere of influence and curses them to death.
‘That’s why the employees ran away here. They wouldn’t have been in good shape if they even brushed against the spell’s range.’
Rough and rugged magic.
Yet there is no hesitation in wielding power.
“Everyone who blocks my path will boil to death!”
As the words flowed from Esther’s mouth.
puck.
The heads of the little demons that had been filling the area exploded all at once.
Bubbling.
It was no different from what the giant monster with the club said.
Esther’s curse skill instantly swept away the army of monsters.
The sight of black blood, like mud, flying like firecrackers and soon wetting the road appears unrealistic.
-Wow!
“Oh, is it the boss?”
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And then.
A mournful cry was heard from beyond both gates.
After all the thugs are dead.
Esther finally confirmed the identity of the monster that appeared and burst into laughter.
“Poohahaha! That’s why you couldn’t come out quickly!”
The boss of this Red Gate is none other than a bipedal beast.
The problem is that their bodies are usually not very large.
“Isn’t that something that gets stuck in the gate?”
Esther smirked as she looked at the gigantic beast, which was probably ten stories tall.
The monster looked even duller and more stupid, perhaps because of its square-shaped silhouette.
‘Huh?’
however…….
Unlike the easygoing Esther, Kim Ki-ryeo had a slight sense of crisis.
Well, this monster popped out from the right red gate.
OMG… … .
The second boss to appear was none other than a giant lump of scrap metal.
A mechanical demon that looks like the twin of the boss on the left.
‘It’s not a living thing?’
Of course, you can’t put a curse on something like this.
‘Hey, did you come here just to look around? That’s the weakness of cursed wizards.’
But this was a needless worry.
“Ah~ The other side is a robot?”
Esther, after saying this, immediately kicked the ground and ran out.
Because I quickly closed the distance and hit the machine with my fist.
-bang!!
A dull thud echoes through the streets.
Esther’s blow dented the machine’s iron snout.
Yes. If magic doesn’t work, you can defeat them with superior S-class hardware.
“… … .”
He quietly covered his ears as he watched Esther hunt.
Kang! Kwakwang!
If I close my eyes, it sounds like a building being demolished.
“As expected, since the representative came forward, the two A-class reds were quickly resolved.”
“Isn’t it true that when Esther Hunter is at headquarters, I feel relieved for no reason?”
The guild members also seemed to think that the matter was settled by now, so they laughed and chatted.
“for a moment!”
But the next moment.
“Why are you like that?”
“Over there, over there!”
The staff at the top suddenly started pointing somewhere and shouting.
Wherever my gaze was directed, there was a middle-aged woman standing there.
A person looking around with car keys in hand… … .
“citizen?”
As soon as this is discovered, the surrounding atmosphere changes in an instant.
“Hey hey hey!”
“Crazy! The road was obviously blocked, so how come they’re sneaking in?”
The C-class hunter on the rooftop runs away in terror.
And the person who was discovered was caught without mercy, and a small fight broke out during this process.
“What, what are you doing!”
“Get off the road immediately!”
“No, can an Awakened One touch a human body like this? Let go! I’ll just quickly pull out the car on the other side and come out!”
It seems that someone has appeared belatedly trying to move his property after seeing the news of the Red Gate’s appearance.
The staff at the tower looked at the citizen and all of their faces turned pale.
“You should have taken that out in advance! When did the alarm go off?”
Kyeryeo also had cold sweat running down her face.
‘Monsters aren’t the problem right now.’
Didn’t you just compare Esther to a typhoon?
The more power you are born with, the more difficult it becomes to learn subtle magic control.
So when Esther fights, she spreads a curse so widespread that it engulfs the surrounding area… … .
‘If an unawakened person is touched by S-class magic… … .’
If this continues, an ordinary person will end up dying.
The hunter on the magic tower seemed to have reached the same conclusion and immediately reached out to exclude the one who appeared.
The situation I was worried about happened before that.
“What? Why did a citizen come here?”
“Representative!”
Esther, who had defeated the machine, moved to the center of the road to catch the final boss.
The eye of the typhoon has moved.
So this left road also fell under the influence of magic in an instant.
As a result, a S-class vicious curse was on the verge of scratching civilians.
“Evacuate that person immediately!”
Esther reflexively canceled all the skills she was activating.
The magic was used to protect the citizens.
But that action sparked a huge backlash.
“Waaaaaaaaaaaa!”
The white beast raised its head and screamed.
As the curse that had been suppressing him disappeared, it seemed as if all the anger he had been holding back was released all at once.
“Whoa!”
“Ms. Esther!”
Boom, boom, boom!
The boss of the Red Gate activated his unique skill.
It struck the S-class Hunter’s head with its angular forelegs.
Esther quickly crossed her arms to protect her head, but this was no simple punch.
“What, what is this!”
Kuung.
When the beast’s hooves made a loud noise.
A drastic change in the terrain occurred on the land Esther was walking on.
The rippling ground.
A sticky, rising liquid.
Lower body being sunken.
“Ugh!”
It’s a swamp.
A purple swamp was created in the middle of the city by the monster’s magic.
‘My legs are locked!’
Esther fell into the middle of that swamp.
I became unable to move.
However, this crisis ended in vain.
“Sir! The citizens have been evacuated!”
As soon as Esther heard the news that the intruder had disappeared, she cast a curse on Boss again.
How many monsters in the world are there that can handle the maximum output of an S-class?
-Woah, wow, wow… … !
The giant beast foamed at the mouth and gasped as if it were suffering from a fatal disease, then soon stuck out its tongue and died.
thud…….
That is truly an overwhelming difference.
In the first place, the S-class could not have suffered any major crisis in this battle.
“Got it!”
The staff at the top of the tower cheered.
Wouldn’t it be a success if there were no casualties while two Class A Red Gates occurred?
“Wow, when that person came in earlier, I thought something big was going to happen!”
“You know what that lady said to me when we moved out of the restricted area? She said that the Awakened one felt like she had a broken arm!”
“Oh my~”
But, in the midst of this conversation mixed with a sense of relief, a small voice flowed in from somewhere.
“Over there… … .”
Everyone stopped talking and turned to the direction where the sound came from.
“I feel like I’m falling deeper and deeper… … .”
There was a woman there, about two-thirds submerged in the swamp. It wasn’t that bad before, was it?
“I saw on TV that it was good to lie on your back when you fall into mud, so I just tried that. But somehow I ended up sinking deeper.”
Esther looks up at the staff outside the swamp with a sad face.
“What should I do? Sir, there should be a rescue rope in the trunk… … .”
“Uh, um.”
But the employees were also in a difficult situation.
Because the swamp that Esther fell into was not a simple wetland.
Green oil flowing faintly through the bubbling purple mud.
This is a substance that was featured in various media outlets three years ago, so now there is hardly anyone who does not know about it.
‘A poisonous swamp created by a class A monster… …!’
Isn’t that a poison unique to gate creatures?
It was common knowledge to the people here that a liquid of that color was poisonous.
So the staff at the top couldn’t come out carelessly.
In the aftermath of the battle, the road is splattered with swamp poison, so what if you accidentally step into one?
Perhaps the amount that evaporates into the air alone can be dangerous.
‘I’m holding out because I’m an S-class and I’m also wearing poison-resistant equipment.’
Esther knew this too, so she couldn’t move carelessly.
With S-class physical ability, it would be enough to get out of the swamp, but there is a possibility that the poison will spread widely during the struggling process.
Esther hovered quietly, worried about the cleaners who would come later.
“… … .”
But here.
There is one Korean hunter who doesn’t know the news from three years ago.
“hmm.”
I looked back and forth between Esther, who was locked up to her waist, and the staff of the tower, who were just stamping their feet, and thought quietly.
‘These guys, how much must they hate their boss that they don’t even flinch?’
He mistakenly thought that the staff were just turning a blind eye to Esther because they had ill feelings toward her… … .
Of course, it’s not that I didn’t understand.
Because he himself often wanted to throw his hometown boss into the swamp.
But that’s that.
‘But isn’t this incident a bit pitiful?’
He sympathized with Esther’s treatment.
It wasn’t my fault that I fell into the swamp. I was trying to protect a citizen who ignored traffic control and entered the road, and that’s how I ended up like that.
‘Okay, I feel like it. Let’s give that evil boss a chance.’
He soon made up his mind.
He decided to step forward and help Esther.
“Excuse me. Uh, your staff member?”
“Oh, yes!”
“You said earlier that there was a rope in the trunk. Can I borrow it for a moment?”