The Hunter of the Other World Who Is Being Misunderstood Chapter 205

Episode 205. Beast (3)

Do pets dream too?

There is a lot of evidence in the world that mammals other than humans also sleep and dream.

A dog that is waddling its feet back and forth may actually be experiencing a dream of running.

Most animals dream. But the person I’m going to talk about now is neither a dog nor a sheep, but a human, so it’s only natural that he or she would fall into frequent REM sleep.

… this is the beast’s dream.

Beast would feel somewhat depressed whenever his past appeared in his dreams.

No matter how happy the scenes were, the ending of this story was always tragic.

10 years ago from now.

At that time, the Beast was living in a dirty life, hiding in deep mountain valleys, cutting down trees and chopping wood.

One day.

An unseen animal got caught in a spring trap that was set to catch a rabbit.

It was a young man.

He was also a person with a very refreshing voice and a beautiful smile.

A hiker who was left wandering with a sense of loss after becoming an orphan in an unfortunate airline accident.

A chance encounter with a beast in the forest.

What happened next was the typical relationship development you see in romance genre.

Two people.

No, to be exact, there should be three of them.

Because we met each other through a trivial incident and fell in love at first sight.

The Beast liked the deer-like appearance of the trapped man.

The wounded stranger felt a strange attraction and a sense of kinship with the loneliness of the other person living alone in the mountains, and this is how love began.

And in this process, Beast was brainwashed by the pure affection he received from another person for the first time. Beast was originally a rough and eccentric being who could not live a normal human social life… … .

As the stranger who came to him was patient and continued to provide kindness and education, his wildness miraculously gradually became tame.

“Honey, this is dental floss. From now on, let’s make sure to use this before going to bed.”

“Can’t I just brush my teeth?”

“If you keep doing that, you’ll get cavities between your teeth. I made an appointment. Come see me tomorrow.”

After that, Beast did what the other person told him to do and didn’t do what he was told not to do.

But even so, Beast was happy every day.

Because I felt some satisfaction in living a cowardly life at the mercy of a stranger.

Originally, happy moments tend to pass quickly.

So Beast had a great time with his first love in his cabin, and after a few years, he was able to receive a proposal from the beautiful stranger.

***

A few days later.

[Today, there will be a lot of rain nationwide. If you are going out, be sure to bring an umbrella.]

On TV, a weatherman wearing a raincoat says it’s going to rain all day.

But they say the season for reading is fall.

The alien here was struggling for a long time while reading a long text before summer even came.

“Ugh… … .”

In fact, this alien encountered a problem while making a dummy to fool Kang Chang-ho.

Some kind of magic he knew of was not working properly on Earth.

So, after immersing himself in his research, he realized that this problem was caused by the difference in planetary environments between Earth and Alpha Uri, and he was currently diligently searching for a solution, such as going to the dungeon himself to collect materials to adjust the variables.

“No, damn it. The only difference is whether it’s air pressure or water pressure. Why does it keep turning off on its own?”

Things are taking a bit of a rough turn for some reason.

Concepts like carbon and nitrogen had properties set for each element, so even an alien like him could easily learn new names.

Units of measurement, such as length or air pressure, were used in completely different systems on the two planets, making calculations a headache.

In particular, the aliens of Alpha Uri were very angry when they discovered the yard-pound and metric systems here.

It’s to the point where I think that if I ever conquer the Earth in the future, I’ll have to unify the units by exterminating all those who use either meters or yards.

“Hmm.”

But despite having such a grim mind, the problem I faced was surprisingly easily solved.

The alien here was a brilliant scholar who had devoted most of his life to magic.

Because of this single-minded nature, he has little ordinary experience and often appears sloppy in his daily life, but on the other hand, in the field of magic, he possesses knowledge that is second to none.

“Okay. That should work.”

A clue to the solution came to mind shortly after.

As a result, the research proceeded without any major difficulties.

But even if you successfully complete the dummy, it would be meaningless if you get stuck at ‘that stage’…

‘Damn, but how am I supposed to get a new body?’

This body can now utilize 100% of its F-class magical power.

Therefore, it became possible to cast the exchange spell to transfer the soul again.

It’s all good news for him.

But as I had worried all along, the process of rescuing that bastard’s body ended up being a problem.

Korea is a country with a well-organized resident registration system, so if someone dies somewhere, it’s almost certain that they will find the family and contact them.

Even if an unidentified, unclaimed corpse occurs, the city will collect it and hold a funeral for it.

There, the bodies of the Awakened are of high research value, so there have actually been several incidents of theft, and security at places like the Hunter-only cemetery has become tighter.

The convenient solution that the body was carelessly dumped on the street is not easily achieved.

So how do we get new vessels?

And if you need to rescue a corpse that is at least Class E or higher, not an ordinary person.

‘Hmm, paying the bereaved family a ransom and handing over the body… … This won’t work. Our Kiryeo’s brain has been sending me warnings all this time, saying that if I get caught, I’ll be arrested for human trafficking.’

At a time when worries were piling up day by day.

As it has been so far, the outside world, where spring rain is falling, is suddenly experiencing new changes.

***

Perhaps the dungeon’s gradual increase in size up until now was all a rehearsal for this day.

earth.

Because a new type of dungeon has finally appeared in this world that fits the description of being huge.

“what.”

“Is this a new gate?”

1:00 a.m. on the 14th, Greenwich Mean Time.

A blue gate has been discovered off the eastern coast of Argentina.

Until this point, the hunters thought it was just a normal new gate occurrence.

“Hmm? The dungeon’s magic power density is C, but why are the monsters D-class?”

“Something seems strange?”

But that wasn’t it.

The dungeon that appeared before their eyes was a great labyrinth with an internal space length of 6.1km.

Its entrances and exits have appeared in a variety of countries, including Moldova, Iceland, Lebanon, and Korea, in addition to South America.

A global dungeon sharing multiple passageways.

This was the beginning of a new world that would be called [Imitation City].

[Imitation City].

It is a gate that spreads out so vastly that it seems as if it wants to emulate the prosperity of mankind.

However, since the monsters that appear in the dungeon are only up to C-class, the raid will probably be completed quickly and easily.

Experts from each country who had let their guard down soon realized the seriousness of the situation.

This messy dungeon, with its inconsistent mix of paper monsters, surprisingly has no apparent leader.

So does that mean this was a Type II Blue Gate where there was no boss?

‘What a headache.’

If that were true, there could not have been a more jarring subspace for leaders.

The dungeon is already so large that it is difficult to find hidden monsters, but while the time to clear it is dragging on like this, many unverified hunters come and go from the entrances of other countries…

The strategy isn’t the issue right now.

Even if you kill all the monsters and open the exit, if there are survivors left inside, the dungeon won’t eventually collapse, right?

If we are not careful with this gate, it could easily become an illegal means of allowing foreigners without passports into our country.

Leaders of each country, including Argentina, quickly identified the location of the created entrance and hurriedly took action to manage it.

But their misfortunes are not over yet.

“oh my god!”

Eight hours later.

This is because a frightening report was received from an Icelandic surveyor that the dungeon was ‘growing bigger and bigger’.

Wouldn’t the copycat city be a kind of buffet restaurant from the perspective of the central body?

Hosts of different nationalities suffering in one basket.

This mock city was built with a structure that made it impossible not to try to conquer it, and some of its characteristics were as follows.

Ⓐ As time passes, the size of the space and the number of entrances increase.

Ⓑ Dungeon progress is reset every 780 minutes. This means that changed terrain, unlocked traps, etc. are restored, and the number of regular monsters also returns to its previous state.

Ⓒ The demons of this gate have a very high stealing rate. That is, they will charge unconditionally once they find a gate passage.

The expression has been somewhat refined by scholars, but to put it simply, it is a truly dirty and annoying gate.

Fortunately, the ‘initialization’ phenomenon of the copy city removes all corpses that occur within the dungeon, so the nightmare of hunting wastes piling up like a mountain every time the reset cycle occurs no longer occurs.

What if one day a labyrinth of passages suddenly opens in our yard?

What if a dangerous criminal enters our country without any immigration screening?

The citizens’ worries deepened with each passing day.

So, the World Cooperation Organization urgently came up with a response agreement to stop the greed of this great labyrinth… … .

***

Monday has arrived before we knew it.

‘Heh heh heh.’

While everyone else is worried, only a young man living in a studio apartment smiles with relief.

Illegal immigrants.

A fierce assault by a monster who loves the outside world.

Of course, those things are scary to good citizens.

But they are completely unaware of the violent crimes that are about to occur.

“I must retract my statement that the world hates me as of today. Now that I look at it, the entire universe is on my side.”

What if some level counterfeiter sneaks a corpse inside a complex dungeon… … .

A truly sensitive person would have to worry about such ridiculous cases.

As you can see from this thought, he was eagerly waiting for an opportunity to enter the [Imitation City].

When the dungeon was first created, I didn’t really think much about it. As I carefully observed the features that were revealed one by one, a plan suddenly formed in my head.

A dungeon hole that is being created at random locations on Earth at this very moment.

Nameless hunters gather from all over the world.

Moreover, the vast surface area there is simply an advantage when it comes to the corpse-harvesting act.

‘Oh my.’

According to the news, international cooperation organizations will conduct the first exploration of the dungeon starting on the 15th with the consent of each country, and based on the information obtained from that, they will establish a proper strategy plan and begin a real cleanup on the 16th.

I was planning to take a look at the exploration process that will take place on the 15th.

‘If I crouch in an unseen place in the dungeon and wait for an opportunity, won’t an Awakened One accidentally die one day?’

In the hunter world, when someone dies during a battle, most of the time they just abandon the body and escape, as doing so would put the remaining survivors at risk.

This side should just sit there quietly, and when the right number of casualties appears, they can take them and head towards the exit where the controls are loose.

‘With my current magical power, I can’t perform freezing techniques like permafrost… … But I can still freeze a corpse for a few weeks. How about burying my body in another country’s land and then going to that coordinate later to use the body swap technique? There are actually many restrictions on my actions in Korea.’

Of course, there will be many variables when this plan is actually put into practice.

For example, you came out after clearly confirming that there was no one there, but then you found out that there was a witness near the exit.

But at times like that, all you had to do was fool the world with your flexible tongue.

He had even perfectly analyzed past events through extensive web surfing.

‘If anything happens, just say that you came to rescue the victims, just like the misunderstanding that occurred at Gampo Port!’

Devising such schemes was the specialty of the Alpha Uranians.