84 – Early Encounter

Asuran-sama was a fair being who paid for what he did, he firmly believed in it because it was a well-known fact.

What reward awaits? Just thinking about it made Kwon Baek salivate.

“Khehehehe, kihehehehe—”

“Hey Kwon Baek. Stop laughing, and get on with your work quickly! I have to go eat chicken!!”

Kwon Baek politely bowed his head to the red-haired man and answered, even though the young blue-haired man was rudely annoyed at him.

“Is it possible or not? It’s a day I’ve been waiting for a long time, so please be patient. Today is a great day to take the first step.”

“Ah, okay, quickly, quickly-“

As if the red-haired man was frustrated, he forcibly seated the branch manager on the leyline connected to the barrier.

Kwon Baek smiled at the rough touch of the man and without a word started the ceremony to open the transfer door.

* * *

We arrived at a terrible scene where hundreds of hunters were dying from thorns.

More precisely, 203 people. Even for a dungeon with thousands of people entering it a day, the number was by no means small.

Even some hunters stuck in thorns had only wrinkled skin on their bones, like old dried persimmons.

“Wow-wee-wee-“

A man at Noh Ha-yoon’s party saw the sight and eventually vomited his stomach.

‘Crazy bastards…’

Even I, who was always evaluated as having a dry personality in everything in my life, this was a little hard to see.

“Oops-“

The combination of Yeonhee and Helen also seemed difficult to endure the rising feeling of vomiting. The smell of poetry floating in the air must have been very disgusting.

“Is this the blue-eyed ritual you’ve only heard about? Oh my God… Those who did such a thing won’t die even if they die and will suffer forever!”

“Has the ceremony gone this far already?! This fast? Aren’t we in a bit of a hurry? I don’t think we could have stopped it in the first place?”

“I don’t know who it is, but it looks like it has a very impatient temper. Damn it!”

Our party said so, but acted cautiously.

Of course. Since they were the ones who prevented us from coming, it was highly likely that they would have taken care of them when they arrived.

However, as soon as I arrived, I spread the waves and figured out that there was no threat prepared in this area. Rather, he focused his attention on the vaguely shimmering square border surrounding the area where the thorns were stuck.

‘It’s a barrier… This must be difficult to solve without a barrier magician.’

– It’s a barrier! You have to break the barrier to get into that square!

– sh*t, what kind of barrier is there in an E-class dungeon?

– Can it be broken using magic?

When Lee Ji-woo announced the existence of the barrier, the 30 or so hunters who arrived after us reacted with absurdity.

That’s right, the barrier magician is a rare class, and it usually appears very rarely as a secondary awakening.

It is said that barriers are like very complex and delicate puzzles. It was necessary to have a delicate touch that could calmly unravel the intricately tangled threads of innumerable magical power circuits, and that is what a boundary magician does.

So, unless you are really lucky and there is a barrier magician here, there is no way to get the people inside the barrier right away.

‘A barrier of this size in an E-class dungeon… These guys are truly insane.’

The ominous sense of déjà vu made me more nervous than ever.

– My God… What is this…

– Dear God…

– Can anyone explain what happened!!

The hunters who arrived later ran to us who arrived first and asked about the situation, and we also just arrived and said we didn’t know anything.

Then, the next action was decided.

Navigation.

‘There must be those who are maintaining barriers around them.’

I have no choice but to kill the guys who are spreading the barrier and forcibly release it.

Of course, in the process of being forcibly released, those still alive inside the barrier will suffer unpredictable damage, but that’s better than just sitting there and suffering.

Hmm…

If the place they hide is not the sky, it must be where we are stepping after all. He also has a history of doing tricks underground.

Whoo······

I calmly closed my eyes and focused the waves of my senses underground.

Colorless waves broke through the ground and quickly burrowed beneath the ground.

‘It’s not here… Here, is this it?…’

However, I searched here and there for a while, but contrary to expectations, I couldn’t find any trace of them.

‘Huh? No? Doesn’t that make sense?’

HuntersIt is a barrier that has hundreds of hunters put in. Obviously, there must be a significant number of people attached to maintaining this.

– Kkeuhiiik…

People imprisoned inside the barrier must have suffered terrible pain, to the point where they couldn’t even groan properly.

– I don’t think so?

– It can’t be!!

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Other Hunters seemed to have similar thoughts to mine, and each of them used their abilities to dig through the ground, but it was useless.

‘It’s definitely around here. If it’s not underground, what can I think about…’

I reaped the wavelengths of my senses and sat down on the ground.

“Wow…”

The admiration of Noh Ha-yoon, who looked only at me, stimulated me, but it soon disappeared cleanly in my heart.

Raised the concentration to the limit and expanded the range from the nearest part centered on the barrier.

The efficiency of the senses has risen to the maximum due to the extremely narrowed wavelength.

‘Where are you… It’s definitely around here…’

All people’s actions in the range covered by the wavelength, each and every piece of information flowed into me.

If you think that acquiring information is power, then the ruler of this area will undoubtedly be me.

‘I found it…’

These cunning guys were hiding behind a huge rock some distance away from the barrier with perception-damping magic.

It is common knowledge that the farther away you are from the barrier, the more difficult it is to maintain.

It wouldn’t even make sense to say that the guys who are currently using barriers are D-class. So it must have been too late to find it.

Seeing how hard it was for me to detect, it must have been a large quantity of perception-damping items of much higher quality than those used by the murderer Lee Yeong-cheol.

(Ran, ran!!)

(Even if you speak softly, he understands you, Ilwol-I guy. Why is that?)

I told Ran, who kept riding on my shoulder, where they were hiding, and the quick-witted Ran immediately flew to Yeon-hee and told her about it.

Ran is talkative and always nags, but he definitely takes care of what he has to do.

Hearing the fluffy white cat’s chatter, Yeon-hee nodded her head broadly, and soon conveyed the contents to Helen.

Helen quickly approached the other hunters around her and relayed the same message again.

Less than a minute had passed, before we knew it, we surrounded the space where they were hiding and pressurized them in.

Woo woo woo-

It was as if the perception-impairment shimmered, as if those inside noticed us approaching and were preparing to come out.

Sasasac―

As I approached cautiously and was about to see the hidden ones, the waiting hunters rushed at once and fired their skills.

Storage Bombs: 41/62

I also captured the waves of my senses and threw several skull bombs where they were hiding.

Kwa-kwa-kwa-kwa-!!

Along with the massive explosion, the figures of the guys hiding inside were clearly revealed.

Dozens of believers were devastated by the concentrated attack of the hunters, and there were quite a few who were not dead.

And those who survived hurriedly hid themselves behind heavy-built monsters, and since they were monsters that any hunter could recognize, everyone could not help but be astonished.

“Damn it… Why are those bastards…”

“Something… Is very wrong. This is…”

The scene revealed when the cognitive suppression technique was destroyed far exceeded our expectations, and it was enough to make even the hunters, who were attacking like crazy, freeze.

“Churiakum Chiik!”

Those who showed off their presence with their unique vocalization.

Seueueu ― Kwoaaa!!

Unleashes a loud roar on the battlefield.

The people who saw it flinched to respond quickly under their own judgment.

“Orc… That physique is of the warrior class…”

“Nonsense…”

“Do, run away… I have to run away.”

Among countless monsters, Orcs are said to be the dominant species. Somehow, they came over here. Orc warrior rank that can be reached even after evolving a pair of teeth.

Each one was of a similar rank to the leader of the Blue Eyes organization who died after pursuing our party.

More than 50 of them had already escaped, and they continued to come through the gate.

‘I’m going crazy. Suddenly something like that comes over? If you’re going to do an event, turn on the blinking keys and come in, bastards.’

It was very similar to the Orc Corps commander’s invasion, which I don’t even want to think about.

It was sudden without the slightest chance, there was no way to know how it was possible, and the invaders’ force was very strong.

The only difference is that the size of the gate is very small.

‘I have to detonate the bomb now and camp in front of the gate… But I can’t because of that monster. Shall I spread this?’

[Tainted Breath]

It’s an open space, so it won’t have a big effect, but I thought I should do something to put my mind at ease.

The most ideal thing is to hit all the bombs at once to inflict great damage, then push them away with a pincer attack, and then kill all the Orcs coming over from the gate.

However, everyone in the area, including me, could no longer attack because of just one person. No, it would be more accurate to say that I couldn’t even move.

A long-haired man with red hair and tall features.

“Wow…”

A face with an unrealistic proportion to the extent that Jinkyung inadvertently admired it.

He was tall enough to exceed 190 cm, and his body shape was slim as if he were going to be very nimble.

He was staring at us with a very annoyed face. He looked a bit tired, but apart from that, he was ridiculously strong. A monster on a level that should never be here.

To the extent that they were briefly exposed to the energy that seeped out of his body very lightly, the bodies of the hunters were vibrating like aspen trees trembled.

It was as if his legs were frozen, clinging to the ground and unable to move at all.

Known to be more cunning than an Orc, have a cool-headed mind like a wizard, and excel at innate talents than any other race.

‘Elf…’

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