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Episode 69. The Queen Bee’s Flight (2)
“Use your skills until you can’t breathe… …?”
Judging from the fact that such long sentences are flowing out so easily, it doesn’t seem like there’s a lack of oxygen.
‘Oh.’
Fortunately, there was no need to worry too much.
Then, Seon Woo-yeon started to do as he was told.
hook.
She activated her skill.
The waves of wind gathered in the air gradually grew in strength, and soon formed a huge whirlpool.
And the tornado shot horizontally, shattering one side of the hive.
bang!
-Kyaaaaah!
The queen bee’s final words were heard with that loud noise as a signal.
I moved quickly, watching the queen bee’s outer shell being torn off like a cookie crust.
“Hunter Seonwooyeon.”
Now that the dungeon boss is dead, it’s time for the minor side effect I was predicting to happen.
“Bow your heads!”
Wheeeeeeeeing.
The killer bees, having lost their leader, suddenly stopped attacking and began to swarm the surrounding area.
Their flight paths overlap and they collide and fall down, and they can’t tell the difference between the two and sting each other.
It’s a truly chaotic situation.
“This is the original monster. It’s completely different from the bees that live on Earth.”
I explained it to him before he could even say anything.
“Only the boss is a proper entity, and the rest are just clones of the queen bee. So if you lose the queen bee that acts as the brain, then… … .”
But I couldn’t finish the explanation.
“uh?”
dump.
Because Seonwooyeon suddenly sat down.
I ran towards him in surprise.
“Hunter Seonwooyeon?”
The original intention was to immediately get the opponent up and get him out of the gate.
“… … !”
Immediately after this, my eyes met Seon Woo-yeon’s.
The B-class Awakened one was looking at me fiercely with bloodshot, red eyes.
‘Please, save me.’
I don’t know the details, but somehow our precious B-class seems to be upset about something…
Was leaving the hunting to someone else the problem?
If this continues, will I also be torn to pieces like the queen bee?
I spoke urgently, feeling a chill.
“Hunter Seonwooyeon, do you know that?”
“… … .”
“In real combat, if you use up your mana to its limit, that feeling lasts a long time. In other words, the depletion of mana helps to train your skill activation to some extent.”
Ta-da.
I tried to convey my message brightly, with the intention of making people happy.
“That’s great. Your body will now have fully mastered the awakening ability.”
“… … .”
“You were always worried that you’d forget how to use your skills, weren’t you?”
You’ll never forget your magic again, so think positively.
I tried hard to find the good in the current situation, but my efforts were in vain.
‘Oh my~ The alien is dying.’
The association staff frowned even more as soon as they heard what I said.
***
10 minutes ago from now.
Seonwooyeon felt like the sky was falling down.
At first, when I saw Gi-ryeo’s face, I thought I was finally alive.
But the reality was different from what he had hoped for. He declared with a cold-blooded attitude that he would not help with the conquest.
-Why do you want others to interfere with something you can do yourself?
Seon Woo-yeon was resentful of Kiryeo who mercilessly drew the line.
So, she closed the distance between herself and the other person to ask for help again, and the swarm of bees that had been attacking her naturally followed behind her.
Since he had somehow lured Kiria to commit murder, he felt a little embarrassed for a moment.
But if you think about it, it’s not a bad situation.
‘If a swarm of bees comes, I’ll catch a few of them even if it’s annoying.’
However, Seon Woo-yeon was shocked when he saw the strange phenomenon that occurred next.
-Boooooooo.
The bees were not attacked.
No, it’s not just attacks.
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It was truly a spectacular sight to see so many killer bees avoiding just one person.
They are like demons who know where to look and avoid dangerous places, as if they were handling dangerous materials that should not be touched.
‘The monster can’t even approach.’
This is scary!
The bees felt fear because they recognized the difference in skill between them and the hunter.
So, I guess they won’t attack rashly.
But the other party just remains silent as if it were natural, even though they have created such a great situation…
Coolness. Composure.
Plus, leeway based on ability.
Perhaps that is the very epitome of an ideal hunter.
Seon Woo-yeon, who saw this, came to his senses belatedly.
What the hell am I doing?
‘It’s embarrassing that I can’t even solve a single C-class gate by myself in front of such a person.’
But the reality is not easy. Because I haven’t been controlling my strength for a while, I’ve already run out of mana.
“Ugh!”
There wasn’t much a wizard who had lost his fuel could do.
She was helplessly pushed back by the onslaught of bees.
Is that why?
“Mr. Seonwooyeon!”
Kim Ki-ryeo, who couldn’t stand to watch anymore, finally offered some advice. He told them the location of the leader who was hiding somewhere in the dungeon.
“Pierce through there with your skill. Poke the boss through its nest.”
However, Seon Woo-yeon’s eyes widened when he heard the following gate strategy.
“The whole nest?”
The nest he pointed to was very thick at first glance.
I’m not sure if this alone would be enough to destroy it, let alone target the boss inside at once.
“I used up all my mana just now!”
Seonwooyeon suddenly shouted.
I’m out of breath.
My head felt dizzy sometimes.
The symptoms of magic drain have already appeared a long time ago, so what more can I do?
But then.
The blond man, who had been watching the reaction from this side, slowly opened his mouth.
“There’s still a lot of mana left.”
As his cold voice reached her ears, Seon Woo-yeon felt an eerie sensation for a moment.
“The proof is in your own speaking and breathing, so keep writing until you can’t breathe.”
Using skills until you stop breathing? Normally that would be crazy.
But Kim Ki-ryeo wasn’t joking at all.
“Because awakened people like us don’t die from such things… … .”
Does this sentence mean that people don’t die as easily as you think, so stop whining and just squeeze out your mana?
He looked down quietly with his pitch-black eyes.
I’m scared.
Even though he was the one who taught me so kindly yesterday.
‘Ugh… … .’
Seon Woo-yeon followed his orders with a slight sense of tension.
bang!
-Kyaaaaah!
But this is the sound you hear as soon as you grit your teeth and kill the queen bee.
“Ugh, gasp.”
dump.
When the boss dies and the exit gate is created.
Sunwooyeon, exhausted, sat down helplessly, and then Kim Ki-ryeo came over and said something strange.
“Hunter Seonwooyeon, do you know that?”
“… … .”
“In real combat, if you use up your mana to its limit, that feeling lasts a long time. In other words, the depletion of mana helps to train your skill activation to some extent.”
Seon Woo-yeon suddenly thought when he heard those words.
Could it be that this person has deliberately left the whole situation unattended?
“That’s great. Your body will now have fully mastered the awakening ability.”
If you think about it, it was a good thing that they insisted on using the killer wasp’s nest as a training ground.
It’s unlikely that a skilled hunter who can fight an A-class golem with his bare hands would have failed to do even one proper pre-gate investigation.
If so, it is highly likely that the saturation level of this gate was known.
This means that he may have planned and used all the variables.
‘You’re not planning on training me to the limit!’
Seon Woo-yeon was shocked and his face turned pale.
Throwing people into a monster den with the intention of making sure they never experience the same situation where their skills don’t come out again.
‘Aren’t you a psycho?’
Seon Woo-yeon withdrew her assessment of Kim Ki-ryeo as a good person.
How can you drive someone into a corner without even changing your expression?
Well, that guy showed similar talent when he was trapped in a B-class dungeon before.
Kim Ki-ryeo tended to be unbiased in the means and methods he used when it came to developing the abilities of others.
‘This is too Spartan… … .’
Seon Woo-yeon felt sad for a moment.
But if you think about it calmly, it must have been because of this fierce whipping that the wish came true.
Seon Woo-yeon barely manages to suppress her anger when the other person says that she will never forget the manifestation of her awakening ability again.
It was that kind of moment.
“Shall I hold it for you?”
When I looked up, I saw Kim Ki-ryeo holding out his right hand.
Oh my. Giving a bottle and medicine.
“ha.”
Seon Woo-yeon hesitated for a moment and then eventually accepted his help.
I thought it would end like this, with us holding hands and getting up.
“uh?”
“oh.”
Boom, boom.
As soon as he pulled the outstretched hand, the F-class hunter’s body tilted forward.
Seon Woo-yeon looks at Gi-ryeo, who has collapsed without any strength, with surprised eyes.
What is this? This fluttering movement that doesn’t feel like any force at all…
“ah.”
After a while, Seonwooyeon realized something and started laughing to himself.
“… Oh my god. What on earth does a B-class hunter look like to you, Kiryeo? Who would have thought you would let your body lose all its strength like that?”
Me too. Anyway, I’m not an elephant with a chick on its back.
“If I put even a little bit of force into it, I’m afraid I’ll explode or something.”
Seon Woo-yeon laughed in vain.
Because advanced Awakeners were unable to control their power, they often ended up harming people.
Hunter Kim Ki-ryeo must have been worried about that too and was losing strength.
‘Kindness is ingrained in you.’
But still, that consideration was genuine.
Seonwooyeon soon relaxed at the touch of Giryeo’s gentle hands.
“Mr. Kiryeo, can we exit the gate now?”
“Oh, yes. You go ahead. I’ll follow you in a few minutes.”
This is actually a farce caused by the difference in strength between Class F and Class B, but so what?
Anyway, what’s important is that they completed their training safely.
Thanks to that, I was able to leave a good impression.
***
A few hours later.
On the way back to Seoul.
‘Hoo hoo.’
This holiday was really fulfilling.
Not only did I successfully collect the honey from the killer bee, but I also received this generous gift in return from Seonwooyeon.
‘I think I can eat this much on my own for several months.’
I looked contentedly at the green tea gift set in my arms.
Knock, click!
At the same time, the sound of the car’s transmission being operated was heard from the front seat.
“Why are there so many cars on a Sunday morning?”
The long-haired hunter behind the wheel clicks his tongue at the sight of the clogged road.
As you can see here, I am currently sitting in the backseat of Seonwooyeon’s car.
As for why this woman is in the car out of the blue, it’s because…
‘When I said I used public transportation when I came to Hadong, Seonwooyeon was terrified and said he would give me a ride when I went back.’
I briefly recalled what had happened before I left, then quickly brought up a new topic.
Because I have nothing to do until I get home anyway.
“Mr. Seonwooyeon.”
As I started the conversation, the woman sitting in the driver’s seat glanced at me.
“Nothing much. I just have a question.”
“yes.”
“You said that when your skills started to not come out well, you tried to solve it on your own by receiving psychological counseling.”
“Yes, that’s right.”
“What kind of counseling did you give me exactly? Was it effective?”
I’m interested in Earth medicine, so I asked a casual question.
What followed was some petty chatter.
“Well, roughly speaking, the program I received at the hospital was… … .”
Seonwooyeon answered in a quiet voice a few words about what had happened to her.
“Yes, Mr. Kiryo.”
But just as the story about treatment was coming to an end, Seon Woo-yeon gently brought up a different topic.
“Come to think of it, I met Mr. Jeong Ha-seong at the hospital while receiving counseling.”
“Are you Jeong Ha-seong?”
“I guess these days, Jeong Ha-seong Hunter… … .”
But I couldn’t hear the end of that sentence.
Immediately afterwards, the car we were riding in suffered an unknown impact.
-Koosh!
Suddenly, something heavy fell on the car.
Judging by the faint magical power I can sense, the fallen thing seems to be a monster, but does that really matter now?
‘Eek!’
The front of the car was crumpled like a sheet of paper.
This person was able to avoid trouble thanks to being in the back seat, but if the falling object had landed just a little too close, who knows what would have happened.
I got out of the car in a hurry.
And then I immediately checked the driver’s seat.
Damn, what happened to Seon Woo-yeon?