BRH 17
by Emerlyn“Of course. There’s nothing Ren can’t do. Master, have you already forgotten? When you were a Challenger, Ren connected all the rooms in the Yakum Dungeon into one. Ahem!”
That’s right. I remember that one thing clearly. Because I suffered a lot because of it. Thanks to that, I had to break through all 5,990 dungeons to reach the Boss Room. Having lost everything, all alone.
“But Ren couldn’t help it back then. ‘Ghoulta’ threatened Ren to prevent you from reaching the Boss Room. Oh, Ren was so scared back then that it hid. You understand my situation, right?”
“…Of course, I understand. You have to do what the higher-ups tell you to do. I know that very well. Those higher-ups, I tell you!”
“Master’s eyes couldn’t understand?”
Mut giggled beside him, telling him to look at his eyes. Ren had already retreated and taken refuge in the corner. The first gatekeeper, ‘Vampire’ Ren.
He was called a black magician, or a genius Archmage who had reached the truth of the world.
Ha Do-heon couldn’t freely travel through the dungeon without Ren. If he didn’t create a ‘Gate’, it meant he had to break through the dungeon from the first floor to the Boss Room himself.
Of course, Ha Do-heon could probably break through and reach the 10th floor in less than 10 minutes… but there was no need to waste energy.
He had heard from Ren that the Boss’s orders were absolute to the gatekeepers, like an unwritten rule they couldn’t disobey.
The Boss of the Yakum Dungeon that Ha Do-heon killed was a rotten monster with dozens of limbs called ‘Ghoulta’.
At the time, Ha Do-heon was breaking through the dungeon with terrifying momentum, so Ghoulta in the Boss Castle was anxious, according to them. So, Ghoulta gave Ren an order that should not have been given.
It was to connect all 5,990 dungeons in the dungeon into one like a snake’s den.
The Yakum Dungeon had over 3,000 dungeons on the first floor alone. As you went up the floors, the dungeons were halved, but Challengers could move on to the next floor by clearing only one dungeon on each floor.
This was why Ha Do-heon wandered around the dungeon. He only needed to break through a total of 10 floors to reach the Boss Castle… but the number of dungeons Ha Do-heon experienced was not like that.
“So, what’s the conclusion? Are you telling us to go around breaking dungeons? Then this place will be empty?”
Anyway, Korea hasn’t conquered the Yakum Dungeon yet. Only up to the 4th floor. They just entered the 5th floor, so reaching the Boss Room overnight is absolutely impossible.
So, let’s keep it simple.
Ha Do-heon said with a brazen face.
“I don’t know why the Hunter Management Bureau is looking for me, but let’s divert their attention. If you guys go around breaking dungeons outside in the shortest amount of time, they’ll have some reaction, right?”
“You need bait to divert their attention? You’re saying we should show them someone more suspicious and psycho than you stirring things up, like an Unregistered Being. Then they’ll quickly lose interest in the B-rank Ha Do-heon Hunter. Then it’s like killing two birds with one stone!”
“……”
What do these guys think of me usually? B-rank? Psycho…?
“Master, I think you’re forgetting something. When we leave here, we can only use 20% of our original power, right? What are you going to do about that?”
“It looks like 20% is enough. The dungeons that have appeared so far are only Rank 3, so you can fight casually.”
“Yay, it’s an outing after a long time! Ren likes it. Let’s stretch our bodies after a long time!”
“Damn it, they’re the only ones excited!”
While they were clearing the dungeons, Ha Do-heon could go around the Rank 2 dungeons as planned, mining and selling Magic Stones. Create an alibi and confuse the watchers with a feint. Good, it’s a perfect plan.
Throb! Throb!
“Oh, Lime, let’s hang out with me for a while.”
If Ren and Mut go around breaking dungeons, the Hunter Management Bureau will be fully mobilized to dig up information on the conquerors due to the unprecedented situation. They’ll fail every time because there’s no information, but internally, the system will be messed up.
Ha Do-heon can take advantage of that time. He was thinking of catching one of the followers and extracting information, even if he had to disguise himself with a cloth over his head.
‘Anyway, I need to know what their intention is in watching me.’
It was around this time that Hunters infected with Weird Cells started appearing. But unlike what Ha Do-heon remembered, there might already be Hunters struggling with symptoms, secretly living their lives.
Maybe… the government was already conducting experiments on Weird Cells.
Ha Do-heon clenched his fist tightly without anyone knowing. The remaining disasters were the 2nd and 3rd, and the 4th disaster starting from the Yakum Dungeon he entered.
He doesn’t know why he became the Boss of the Yakum Dungeon and regressed. However, there must be something absolutely necessary for this world, or a meaning equivalent to it.
Whatever it is, he was going to prevent the tragedy of the past generation. Otherwise….
‘Live… Ha Do-heon… Hunter.’
He couldn’t face Moon Tae-yi, who died saving him. The grief of the country that lost its wings after losing him was still engraved in one side of his heart. Guilt, shame. He lived with that buried for the rest of his life.
So, he had to set it right.
And when it’s all over.
Squeeze-.
Then he would have to give anything to the one who comes to him with a knife. Ha Do-heon nodded resolutely, clenching his fist tightly.
From the day after establishing the plan, Ren and Mut quickly entered and cleared any dungeon that appeared on the outskirts of Seoul in the shortest amount of time. Their actions shocked the world. They looked like ordinary Hunters, having changed their appearance with Ren’s transformation magic.
After coming out of the dungeon and making sure to show their faces on CCTV, they suddenly disappeared into the end of the alley. After that, the Hunter Management Bureau hurriedly arrived to check the conquered dungeon and wasted two weeks searching for the conquerors.
Around that time, there was definitely a reaction.
All the followers attached to Ha Do-heon had fallen off!
“This is it, this is it!”
Ha Do-heon knelt down and clasped his hands together when he didn’t feel the presence of Hunter Management Bureau employees within 1 kilometer in front of him. The normal conquest time for a Rank 3 dungeon was 7 days. But when they cleared it in 1 hour and came out, the Hunter Management Bureau was slowly taking the bait and jumping out of the water, flapping around.
Moreover, the conquerors disappeared without leaving even a trace every time, so they aggressively changed the direction of the search, their anger reaching the sky. The search range was expanded to include the search for Unregistered Beings.
Hunters belonging to the Hunter Management Bureau were stationed on the streets of Seoul, and suspected citizens were subjected to surprise investigations. In a word, they were enthusiastically poking around everywhere they could see.
What did Ha Do-heon do during that time? He leisurely went around Rank 1 and Rank 2 Gates, diligently earning his daily wage and waiting for the time to come.
And now. It seemed like that time had come.
“Then shall we start moving slowly now?”
When he got up from his seat and turned his shoulder, it cracked. Ha Do-heon, who lightly jumped in place and pulled his arm inward to loosen his body, pressed down on his hat for the last time.
“Lime, come here.”
He put Lime, who had turned into a lens, in his eye, and took out a yellow potion from the drawer in the bed and held it in his hand.
-This is the special potion that Ren made. If you drink it, your appearance will change with a swish. Ah, of course, there’s a time limit too. After 1 hour, Master will become a B-rank Ha Do-heon again!
The time limit was 1 hour. Within that time, he had to catch a Hunter belonging to the Hunter Management Bureau wandering around the streets, drag them to a secluded place, and ask for information. Before returning home, he had identified the locations of all the Hunter Management Bureau Hunters, so there was no need to waste time searching.
Click-.
Ha Do-heon only brought shoes from the entrance, opened the bathroom door. A mysterious color of the universe, as if all the colors of the world were mixed, rippled at the doorway.
“Where shall we go?”
Ha Do-heon, who even brought a mask in case of an emergency, opened the bottle cap and drank the potion in one go. As the pungent liquid flowed down his throat, his chest burned. He roughly threw the empty bottle aside and strode towards the doorway.
In the quiet living room of the old apartment, only the voice of a famous entertainer flowing from the TV lingered in the silence.
Park Woo-seok, belonging to Field Team 2 of the Hunter Management Bureau.
He was squatting in an alleyway, eating corn bread sold at a supermarket with tired eyes. Sitting pathetically and moving his jaw dutifully, he racked his brains as to why he had ended up in this situation.
If I suddenly ask people who came out to have fun for their ID… won’t I get hit?
There are so many things that the government has been doing these days, that people now glare at the Hunter Management Bureau badge. If you ask young people who came out to enjoy Friday night, ‘Are you a Hunter?’, you’ll definitely get slapped.
“I didn’t become a civil servant to do this….”
They said it was undercover… Isn’t this just a crackdown? What’s the difference between this and a drunk driving crackdown?
I’ve been dispatched for three days and nights, chasing after people and cracking down on Unregistered Beings, and then I get into arguments about what kind of crackdown this is in a free democratic country, I get grabbed by the collar, and I’m even mistaken for a pervert, why did I even come here….
“Sob…! Mother, Father, you imagined your only son fighting coolly, but the reality is that I’m just doing chores!”
I want to be drafted into a dungeon and use my skills to fight monsters, that’s what I’m saying! But what can I do? Dungeons were too dangerous to take newly appointed Hunters to, and the Hunter Management Bureau had surprisingly many civil servant Hunters.
Park Woo-seok sniffled, feeling sorry for his situation. He wiped his nose with his sleeve and was chewing on the bread again when.
“Excuse me.”