49 – Hunters Who Became Hosts

The pale yellow monster had a long, streamlined body like a snail, and its back was packed with round eggs, and it glided to the ground. As soon as it arrived, it spewed all the eggs on its back into the sky.

The round object that flew like a single dandelion seed exploded over the heads of the hunters who couldn’t even walk properly due to the sonic attack.

When the hunters stopped unknowingly at the sight of white powder falling down like snow, someone shouted.

“Do, it’s poison!! Avoid!!”

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At that moment, the hunters gathered in the area burst into magic all at once and began to struggle to get out of their seats.

Of course, I couldn’t say that I suddenly became free from sonic attacks by trying hard, but when I realize that people are in real crisis, I get strength that I didn’t have.

Though the hunters who were far from the gate, the people who responded quickly to the poison call, and the hunters who were not fighting the goblins were able to escape the poison attack.

However, the other hunters ended up inhaling the poison that exploded in the air and spread like fog, or inadvertently inhaled it or touched their skin.

Some hunters were able to quickly wear ent masks to prevent direct inhalation of the poison, but exposure to the skin eventually forced them to escape.

Hunters who did not have a mask and inhaled it or whose skin came into contact with the poison slowed their movements noticeably, but as time passed, they had no choice but to cover their ears and cower.

Such hunters were very good prey for goblins, kobolds, and slimes.

Puck puck puck!!

Haaa!!

Or being baptized with clubs by goblins.

Bubbly-

Rumbling

The number of hunters whose heads were covered in slime and suffocated began to increase.

‘Damn it!! There is no antidote!!’

Helen puts on a mask, much to her dismay at the absence of an antidote.

In fact, D and E class hunters did not have to carry extra antidotes. It was because in low-level dungeons, it was only possible to use the ent forest at most, and the ent forest was not even considered a must-go dungeon.

As the period of being poisoned became longer, other unholy effects other than paralysis began to appear on the bodies of the hunters.

Something bubbled up from the back of a man who inhaled a lot of poison because he didn’t have a mask. And there were dozens of worm-like things wriggling inside, and their appearance resembled the monster that spread the poison.

It hurts, it hurts…!

Later on, this monster was first discovered in Korea, so it was called ‘Spore Snail’. The offspring of the spore snails that are born on the back quickly grow into adults, taking advantage of the hunters’ mana. It takes about 6 hours to grow into an adult.

After 6 hours, the hunter, who was the host, not only has magic power, but also eats away little by little from the back, and it is said that he may be dying due to the paralysis effect of the spore snail.

On the other hand, there were about 100 hunters who quickly got out of the range of the sonic attack.

Over 400 hunters were still fighting a tough fight near the gate. The 100 people who escaped quickly requested rescue, but it was a concern.

‘No matter how you can resist poison, the sound is the problem.’

Noh Ha-yoon, a D-class hunter who was recognized for his skills in one of the three major guilds, the Vision Guild, was one of them.

However, she had a different sense of justice, so her worries didn’t last long, and after she reported it, she put her usual earphones in her ears and went inside again.

‘You don’t have to push yourself too hard. Let’s get rid of it step by step, starting from the outer periphery.’

Hayoon Noh was in a state of calm judgment.

Other hunters who were confused by the sudden situation were soon released from abnormal conditions, and about 30 hunters followed after seeing Noh Ha-yoon courageously re-entering.

And 5 minutes later, 10 C-class hunters and a number of D-class hunters were additionally reinforced.

– Huiyu~ What kind of fuss is this?

– It’s a monster that doesn’t exist in the records… You should be nervous?

– Let’s start by checking if the antidote works properly.

The C-class hunters arrived and first checked the situation, and checked whether the information they had heard about the spore snail was correct.

Monsters that usually use poison have many things that you don’t need to be afraid of if you can get rid of the poison.

However, it was the first time they had experienced a sonic attack, so they had no choice but to enter. Of course, it was natural to bring ear plugs.

The secondary reinforcements, centered on C-class hunters, entered the space full of solitary smoke, and Lee Yeon-hee arrived 10 minutes later. There was a sudden uproar in the city center, so even though I took a taxi, I arrived a little late.

“Look there, Sun Moon. Something very hazy… The range must be over 100m, right?”

“Tickktoktaktak!!”

‘I’ve already reached my peak.’

I held Yeon-hee and clung to the 3-story high exterior wall of a building where spores couldn’t reach, and I looked at the hunters in the poisonous smoke spread by the spore snails with my sensory abilities.

‘There are more than 20 people who have reached the end of the D-class out of 10 C-class. With a composition like that, I would never be pushed by the monsters inside, so why?’

Yeonhee jumped in quickly and shuddered as if she wanted to help, but I had one doubt and it was hard to move my feet.

Surely, in the memory of the previous life, I know that many of the C-class hunters who were dispatched died.

But looking at the current situation, it didn’t seem like they would be pushed back by the monsters.

‘It’s impossible without more variables… What is it? What?’

I raised a finger to Yeonhee.

“Huh? One minute? No way, Sunwolah!! Everyone might die!!”

I waited one minute and signed to enter, but Yeon-hee firmly refused.

‘Hmm… I can’t help it. Then let’s start a little on the outskirts.’

In the end, I jumped down with Yeon-hee in my arms towards the place where there were the fewest monsters when viewed from above. And while jumping, I threw 5 skull bombs I had made all night last night at several places where the hunters were far enough away and the monsters were gathered.

[Dagger Throw]

[Skull Bomb]

In storage: 45/50

Wheeiing ㅡ

The skull bomb, shaped like a crumpled newspaper roughly rolled into a ball, flew in a parabola and landed almost simultaneously on its target.

Boom! Quaang! Bang! Kwak!! Kwak ㅡ!!

As soon as it touched, it caused a huge explosion with an explosion. I was worried that it might react with poison smoke while flying, but that didn’t happen.

– Whoaaa!! What else!!

– f*ck?! Are there other monsters?!

– How is our team?! Anybody hurt?

– It looks like an attack aimed only at monsters!!

– Are you an ally?! Did a high-ranking hunter come?

Each of the skull bombs caused an explosion within a radius of 3m, each annihilating 5-6 monsters at once, and the hunters who felt the tremendous shock fell into confusion for a moment.

“hahahaha… Crazy…”

Even as Yeon-hee fell to the ground, she managed to recognize the power of the skull bomb, and the moment she landed on the ground, her eyes looking at me were sparkling differently than usual.

‘Heh… Having excellent abilities is really tiring.’

I really don’t know why Yeonhee is so happy like a child whenever she looks at me like that.

Anyway, it was a skill that threw a large amount of bombs that destroyed at least 5 goblins with one shot, so it was an attack power that even a decent C-class hunter could fold.

I was very satisfied, so I nodded my head.

‘Gee… Not a good place to educate a child.’

But it’s been awhile since I was drunk with skill pong.

At the place where I got off, there was a terrible sight that even I, who had accumulated a lot of experience in my own way, could hardly see.

Haaah!! Yes, save me-

Puff!!

Just as I was jumping, I saw a man whose head was crushed by a goblin’s club. It was a bonus to see the goblins sticking their noses in the dripping brain water and consuming it hastily.

And a few people who fell on the floor were covered with spore snail offspring, and were slowly losing their mana and dying.

“Profit!!”

Yeon-hee hurriedly memorized a summoning spell, and soon all the summons appeared, starting with the Lizardman.

‘The summoning speed is getting faster…’

(Yohohohoho! Master! Long time no see…

Ran, who made a loud appearance, read the unusual atmosphere and quietly settled on Yeon-hee’s shoulder, immediately demonstrating her ability.

– Agility +5

[Acceleration]

Tadadak!!

After getting off, I didn’t need to say anything. Just hit and kill seemingly random monsters.

Fu-wook!

Kwadeuk!!

‘As expected, the spore snail is not here.’

It’s not completely outskirts, but it’s a bit far from the center, so all I could see were shabby guys.

“Hey, here! Take the antidote!!”

Leave the attack on us, Yeon-hee started passing the antidote to the fallen hunters while walking around.

Surprisingly, the antidote also seemed to work on the hunters who had become hosts for the offspring of the spore snails.

One hunter who was covered in bubbles drank the antidote, and after a while the bubbles swelled up and burst, leaving the young wriggling on the floor.

I glared at the hunters who received and ate the antidote, and sent a look in my eyes telling me that I must reward them favorably.

Ouch!

Of course, no one really understood the look in my eyes, and all of them were terrified. There are even people who get tired of their pants.

‘I still forget that I’m a skeleton…’

Thanks to the lizardmen running rampant like fish in water, I didn’t have to be very diligent, so I took out the bones of the fallen goblins to make the skull bomb I had consumed.

Hey!!

Of course, there were hunters who saw me like that and ran away without looking back, but that was understandable.

‘The flesh must be peeled off to make a bomb. It’s troublesome at a strange point!!’

I worked diligently while grumbling, and I was able to get back 2 skull bombs out of 5 that I had consumed just as Yeon-hee was cleaning up the area.

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