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Episode 99. Rumors (4)
Then, I guess I’ve convinced Ahn Yoon-seung too, so there’s no need to hesitate any longer.
‘Now that we’re on the subject, let’s get started.’
I picked up my phone and called the person at the top of my contacts.
Because I have something to ask Seon Woo-yeon.
***
Today is November 10th.
It is the second day since the beginning of winter.
While others were already excited about feeling the cold winter wind, I didn’t even have time to enjoy this weather.
It’s not the wind that’s the problem right now, it’s the bloody festival that’s coming up.
“Hello? Seonwooyeon, are you available to talk now?”
It’s been three months since the mysterious disappearance of the boss.
Now that it’s a time when it’s not strange for an incident to break out at any time, I decided to immediately try out the snake tracking method that came to mind.
This time we will approach it from a more logical perspective.
“Mr. Seonwooyeon, do the association staff have access to the gate bid records?”
-Of course. Gate transactions are always public, so if you search, you can see it too.
“Is that so? But I’m out right now, so I’m sorry, but could you please search for me instead?”
-Now?
“Yes. Now.”
Now that I think about it.
The temple guardian deity must have carefully chosen a place to hide the snake in advance.
Even they wouldn’t have put a rare entity like a growing boss anywhere.
But even if there is a gate you want, it is difficult to occupy it at will depending on its location… … .
Ultimately, they may have chosen this method to securely own a particular gate.
‘Formal transfer of ownership through the association.’
So what were the conditions of the gate they were looking for?
I would list the following four items as those items:
◆ Transactions before August
First of all, the disappearance of the snake was a terrorist attack around August, so the location would have had to be prepared before then.
◆ Individual auction items
All corporate transactions are excluded. There is no benefit to be gained by using a business name to secure a gate for use in terrorism.
◆ Water-friendly environment
Of course, this condition cannot be left out when considering the type of monster to be raised.
◆ Large enough to hide the boss
I don’t think I need to explain this one.
“hmm.”
Anyway, I inferred the thoughts of the temple guardians in my own way and chose the gate they would have bought.
-There are 13 search results.
Then, a total of 13 gates that met all conditions were created.
But here again, except for the place where the entrance is still open… .
-The results have been narrowed down considerably. There are five types.
Yeah. 5 kinds.
Among the five gates that were sold to individuals and reported to the association as having already been cleared, there may be a ‘closed gate’ from the Nachal Temple mixed in.
It is just a probability.
“… .”
But here I’ve narrowed it down once more.
If I were Su Ye-hwi.
Dungeon Shock is a divine punishment.
If you are a person who believes that humanity deserves to die to monsters and atone for their sins.
This may have been the last criterion considered when choosing the cradle for the Imoogi.
◆Densely populated areas
The most populous city in the country is Seoul.
[1 search result]
And, among the gates suitable for raising Imoogi, the location of its occurrence was only one in Seoul.
[Damp Cave]
[Rating: E]
[Description: A poisonous frog that uses venom appears as a boss.]
Of course, my guess could very well be wrong from the start, so I can’t say for sure that there’s an Imoogi here… … .
“I’ll just hang up the phone for now.”
If you’re confused, just check it out yourself.
After finishing my call with Seonwooyeon, I started walking straight away.
***
The Nachalsa Temple may think that they know the gates best in this world.
But that kind of thinking is dangerous.
Because all aliens have already figured out the rules.
‘The dungeon will try to expel any remaining Earthlings inside.’
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The creators of the Gate did not want the Hunters to be isolated and meaningless within that alien world.
So, when you kill the boss, an exit always appears.
He even showed kindness by shining a bright light and telling the Hunter to return to Earth.
“hmm.”
However, the ‘exit created when you kill the boss’ that appears here had different characteristics from the normal passages.
Destruction immunity.
Because it was designed to remain open no matter what happened until all the survivors inside returned.
‘How kind of you to be.’
Perhaps the dungeon leader is still alive inside the closed gates of the cult.
It had to be that way.
If we apply this special characteristic, the moment the boss dies, an irreparable hole is created in the hidden space of the cult, and a passage connecting to Earth is created, so no matter how much they do, they cannot completely avoid the police’s pursuit.
“If we follow the coordinates that Seonwooyeon gave us, it’s around here… … .”
Okay, now that the inference is done, let’s start verifying it.
“Ah! Here it is.”
I am standing in an alley in Seoul.
This was the place where a gate called [Damp Cave] appeared.
But now, instead of the glowing blue gate, all you can see is bare asphalt.
The dungeon was reportedly conquered last September.
‘Hmm.’
Of course, we still don’t know whether the owner’s report is true or not.
So I decided to go and see for myself whether the dank cave had been tampered with by the Nachal Temple.
To be precise, by using the characteristics of the gate that I just mentioned.
‘The boss here is… an E-class monster called Poison Frog, I think?’
Again, the most important key to the dungeon exit is the boss monster.
Each boss is linked to a specific coordinate on Earth, allowing you to create an exit at any time.
Even in a situation where the entrance is destroyed and the space is cut off, that specific coordinate is never let go.
‘In other words, a living boss always has traces connected to its coordinates.’
And based on my experience so far, most dungeons tend to have their exits located very close to where the gates appear… … .
It’s reverse thinking.
I had guessed where the exit of the [Damp Cave] should be, and planned to detect the traces of Poison Frog’s magic connected to these coordinates in reverse.
‘… … .’
Well, anyway, that’s the theory…
‘If I explain this concept to Seonwooyeon, an Earthling, will he understand?’
I rolled my eyes and quickly gave up the thought.
There’s no need to tell him about this whole process anyway.
To be honest, this tracking method has a very low chance of success.
In a way, it’s like trying to find a drop of ink mixed in a lake.
‘The traces are too faint… … .’
A situation where we need to detect a faint magical power that is unimaginable with Earth’s technology.
But still, I decided to give this method a try.
-Bam.
Failure is the mother of success… … .
Of course, not for such sound reasons.
Sensing mana is a talent of the soul.
But I am, then and now, the soul most favored by the manas of this world.
‘There’s no way I can’t do something like this.’
Innate blessings were enough to make a person arrogant.
***
24 hours later.
I’m sitting in the Hunter Association’s consulting room.
And he looked so unsightly, holding a blood-soaked tissue to his nose.
“Kim Ki-ryeo, the hunter.”
“yes.”
“Are you… hurt?”
“no.”
To explain how things came to this, I had to go back a day.
Because I stayed up for a full 24 hours to make the plan a success.
“I just got a nosebleed from overwork.”
First, let me tell you the conclusion.
After tracking down [The Damp Cave], I found out that its boss, Poison Frog, was still alive.
That gate was the secret cradle occupied by the Nachal Temple.
“Are you, are you overworked?”
But if I tell the Earthlings about this advanced tracking method, my abilities will be too obvious.
Now, I am in the process of reporting to the police and the association based on the evidence I have collected so far, stating that ‘there is a very high possibility that the damp cave is dangerous’…
“By the way, this is a bit shocking. Isn’t the association saying that they won’t do anything in the end?”
“Rather than saying I don’t do it, it’s closer to saying I can’t do it… … .”
“Huh, I went around to the police and the association, but all they did was install one CCTV in that place.”
Well, as you can see, the results are as follows.
It seems like the higher-ups here will have to be bitten by an Imoogi to come to their senses.
No matter how much new information I brought in, nothing changed.
‘Arai.’
No, it’s obvious that those cultists are terrorists, and it’s also true that the bosses disappeared, so why don’t you believe me when I say that Imoogi will appear?
If you’re going to feed me this much information, shouldn’t you just grab all the Nachalsa Temple members from the get-go?
But these guys keep saying that since no incident has occurred yet, there’s nothing they can do about it.
“Mr. Kiryeo?”
Okay.
After all, I didn’t trust inferior mammals.
I clicked my tongue and got up from my seat. At the same time, I opened the airline’s website on my phone.
I was thinking of booking a flight to Jeju Island right away.
‘Let’s see, the fastest plane is… … .’
I instantly decided to spend this winter on an island.
But then.
Suddenly, there was a loud bang from far away.
“hmm?”
A huge noise, as if a factory were exploding.
Seonwooyeon and I raised our heads at the same time.
“Is that a sound coming from outside?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
And when I went out into the hallway to check the situation, I saw other people looking around with surprised faces.
“what?”
“Did something happen?”
“Isn’t this Dungeon Break?”
“Hey! There’s smoke over there!”
After a while, a man pointed to the window.
At those words, the pedestrians all started to turn their gazes, and as soon as I looked in the direction he was pointing, I felt my blood run cold.
Well, that place is… .
Because that’s the place where I spent the whole day.
“this.”
“no way…….”
Seonwooyeon probably had the same thoughts as me at this moment.
Yeah, we figured out where the dungeon break was going to happen, but we still didn’t know the most important piece of information.
“Not now?”
The exact time when the terrorist attack will occur!
When you realize that, one assumption cannot help but come to mind, even if you don’t like it.
‘shit!’
I immediately checked the hallway window.
“omg!”
Then, in the distance, an unbelievable sight appeared on a tall building.
A very large, black, long creature is wrapping itself around a 70-story building and getting closer to the sky.
‘Eww!’
It’s embarrassing.
The A-class boss, Imoogi, was originally a swift monster about 12 meters long, but that’s not meters, it’s almost kilometers!
“Hey, turn on the analyzer!”
“What kind of monster is that big?”
For a moment, I thought that maybe that wasn’t that snake.
And this judgment was similar to PIXY’s analysis instrument. Soon, Earth’s machine described the creature like this.
[ ? ? ? ]
[Rating: ?]
[Description: There are no registered descriptions.]
The people in the hallway began to get scared by the unknown being.
Ignorance is something that always brings fear to intelligent beings.
But here’s where the analyzer’s hidden power comes into play.
If people get their fear from the unknown, then conversely, just categorizing the existence of something can relieve some of that fear.
The International Hunters’ Federation, which is responsible for uploading information from the analyzer, has created a system to prepare for the simultaneous appearance of new monsters with similar appearances.
That’s right, giving temporary names to new monsters.
And this system randomly combines words for quick classification… … .
[Mi□□□□□□]
Drrrrrr.
The monster name column is finally starting to be confirmed one by one.
[Inevitable□□□]
Those spaces soon became specific words that named the monster.
[unavoidable evil]
okay.
This was the new name for the Black Calamity.
[unavoidable evil]
[Rating: S]
[Description: (*Real-time update information) The estimated grade of the magic power detection result is outside the A-class range.]
“Gyaaaah!”
“What is that!”
Korea’s first S-class dungeon break has begun.