Chapter 169 – King’s Qualification (4)
Manchester, a city located in England, United Kingdom.
“Sah, save me! help me!!”
“Quaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!”
People were running out of breath as if something was being chased.
Countless people pouring through the roads clogged with cars.
A huge shadow was cast over them.
A monster that looks like a mixture of a pterosaur and a dragon.
It was none other than a Wyvern.
The Wyvern flapped its wings and spun around above the heads of the people fleeing.
It looked like an eagle contemplating which prey to eat.
“Damn it!”
And at the sight of such a wyvern, Oliver unknowingly spat out curses.
In order to save the people, he had to catch that wyvern.
But Oliver had neither the conditions nor the skills to do so.
“Shit! Shit!”
Oliver just kept swearing at the helplessness.
In fact, objectively speaking, Oliver’s skills were not inferior.
Oliver is a professional hunter from England, and only his rank was S rank.
However, along with Drake, Wyvern was a monster classified as a degraded version of Dragon.
Its rating, like Drake’s, was a whopping 11 stars.
The monster’s grade is divided into a total of 15 levels.
And generally, from 9 stars, it is considered the domain of S-class hunters.
It wasn’t that an A-class Hunter couldn’t catch it, but it was a level that could only be caught by forming a formal raid team.
From 10 stars, the realm of a complete S-class hunter.
And 11 stars was uncharted territory
Because 11 Stars were monsters that had never appeared since the Cataclysm.
“Keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee-!
At that moment, a horrifying roar erupted from the wyvern.
At the same time, the wyvern fell vertically from the sky toward the people fleeing.
Oliver threw himself at the wyvern without hesitation.
Kwa-ang!
A small explosion exploded and the falling Wyvern flew away.
Fortunately, people could be saved, but it was not without cost.
“Cool!”
Oliver’s intestines were twisting, and blood gushed out.
‘They say it’s a monster from the Cataclysm era…!’
11-star monster, Wyvern.
The strength of the monsters in that unknown territory was higher than Oliver expected.
“Keeeeek! Kik!”
The wyvern, which had been slammed into the ground, let out a furious roar in all directions.
Although he was wounded, his movements were unstoppable as if they were not fatal.
Oliver had no choice but to admit the appearance of such a wyvern.
‘We can’t afford it at our level.’
Of course, at least one wyvern could do something about it.
Maybe 2 or 3 would be possible.
However, there were dozens of wyverns flying in the sky over Manchester.
Oliver and other professional hunters around him couldn’t afford it.
There is only one existence that can solve this situation.
Cataclysm hero.
But Oliver knew better than anyone that that was impossible.
Contrary to popular perception, Britain was a federal state made up of four countries.
Britain’s two leading cataclysmic heroes were not from England.
There was absolutely nothing wrong with that fact.
However, problems began to arise when the two represented each region and denied the current queen.
At first it seemed to be asking for independence.
However, for some reason, he quickly changed his attitude and started aiming for the throne.
the queen refused
From then on, the heroes began to ignore the Distortion happening across England.
Even if people were sacrificed, they never stepped forward.
It was a completely different action from the Cataclysm hero he had known.
I don’t know why he changed his attitude.
Because the heroes were silent.
It’s just as if the reason you guys die is because of an incompetent queen.
They watched closely what was going on in England.
As the situation progressed, not only the people of England,
Even professional hunters from England are starting to turn their backs on the Queen.
Unlike the heroes of Cataclysm,
Because the current queen had no power.
Still, Oliver stayed.
There was no other reason.
when was it
It was because he saw the queen trying to protect her child by standing in front of the monster.
Oliver still can’t forget that slender body that trembled after being blocked with curiosity.
Oliver also admits that the current queen has no power.
However, the king Oliver thinks is not determined by the logic of power.
At least, the king Oliver wants to serve is not that kind of king.
It is not about taking people’s lives hostage for profit.
Although he is weak, he is able to protect people by giving himself up.
I just wanted to be that kind of king.
“Keeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!”
The wyvern, who found Oliver before he knew it, let out a horrifying scream.
Then it began to fly with furious momentum.
“Run Oliver!!”
Seeing such a wyvern, a fellow professional hunter shouted.
Oliver felt a deep hesitation.
“But people!”
“People are the problem now! You’re about to die!”
That was right.
There was nothing he could do anyway.
It’s just a waste of time.
The only thing that can solve the current situation is the hero of Cataclysm.
England needs a cataclysmic hero.
But the hero of the cataclysm does not come.
‘A miracle like that doesn’t happen.’
Oliver knows that better than anyone.
Still, what is the reason why it does not fall easily?
“No Oliver!!!”
The despairing voice of a fellow professional hunter bursts out.
And right.
It was then.
Whee-ae-ae-aeae!!
A piercing crackle sounded from somewhere.
at the same time.
Kwa–jik!
A single flash of light hit Oliver and the wyvern that was flying towards Oliver was crushed.
“what···?”
Oliver’s eyes widened at the sudden situation.
A group of wyverns flying in the sky in the turmoil discovered the death of their own people.
“Keeeeek!”
“Kik! Kihehe!”
The Wyverns, enraged at the death of their own kind, let out a terrifying roar.
Before long, it began to fall toward Oliver, as if seeking revenge.
Wedge!
Wedge liquid!
Dozens of Wyverns poured down all at once, and a great sense of pressure burst out.
It was a pressure that made even the S-rank Hunter stiffen.
And again.
tadak.
widely.
As if to break through the pressure, four people rushed in front of Oliver.
“an Asian···?”
Oliver felt dazed at the sudden appearance of Asians, the Dream Team.
Not just Oliver, but everyone else here.
people who ran away.
The professional hunters who stopped the wyverns.
They all just stared at the scene in front of them with blank expressions.
A group of Wyverns pouring down from the sky all at once.
And the members of the dream team rushing to stop it.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!
The terrifying collision of forces shook the space.
and.
“Eh eh eh ──!”
With the collision, the Wyvern herd was swept away.
“Three, my God!!”
“This, what nonsense…!!”
Astonishment erupted among the people at the overwhelming sight.
An incredible sight.
Was it because he felt such an overwhelming difference in power?
“Kki, Kieh!!”
The wyverns that survived the crash began to fly into the sky in a hurry.
It was a situation that could not be easily dealt with because it flew high in the sky flapping its wings.
Right then.
Kirik! Kirik!
A spear started chasing the wyverns.
Then, as if they were alive, they began to weave between the Wyvern herd.
It didn’t take long for dozens of Wyverns to be slaughtered.
“How can you get 11-star wyverns so easily…”
Oliver couldn’t believe the sight at all.
It was because he knew how absurd this was because he had personally experienced the strength of the wyvern.
The spear that had annihilated the group of wyverns was sucked back as if returning to its owner.
Oliver’s head naturally headed there.
People’s eyes also turned there.
good.
“Whoa…!”
There, I saw an Asian man exhaling a long breath and retrieving a spear.
A man with an atmosphere as if a screw was missing somewhere.
It was none other than Seojun.
Seojun put the retrieved Gungnir into the kibisis.
Then he shouted at the teammates who were standing far away, far away.
“What are you doing standing around? When you’re done, move quickly!”
Then the team members broke down and shouted.
“Wow! This is exploitation!”
“Give us a break too!”
“Give me a break!”
“different! different!”
Why is it that the atmosphere is like a union strike?
Seo-joon raised his eyebrows slightly and said.
“What about rest? Think of making money and paying it back while you rest!”
Then, the team members flinched and shut their mouths.
Seojun nodded his head in satisfaction at the appearance of such team members.
‘It’s worthwhile to eat the outside.’
It took 30 hours to boil the dragon heart.
A premium lecture that costs 10 billion won per hour.
In a word, it meant that 300 billion was needed.
Right now, Seo-joon’s only way to earn money was to sell monster corpses.
However, it was not easy to collect 300 billion won alone.
In response, Seo-joon devised a plan to use the outside team to pamper the team members.
Fortunately, the dragon turtle and drake’s outer shells were made in no time.
‘Even that cost 30 billion, but…’
To be precise, it meant that it took three hours, but… anyway.
Seo-joon distributed the outsiders casually, and the team members were happy to eat them.
Thanks to that, they were able to avoid being pushed against the 11-star monsters, but each of them was in debt to Seo-jun.
“It’s a loan shark!”
“You are in debt!”
“The debtor is you, not me. Did you know that each owed one trillion won?”
flinch.
The team members eventually trudged and began to move the body of the Wyvern.
“By the way, wouldn’t Seo-joon oppa get stronger if he ate money?”
“Um… if you’ve seen Seojun, it makes sense.”
“Then the captain chews money?”
“No way, the money bug was a real money bug…”
“I can hear everything.”
The team members are mouth-watering! Closed.
Seojun shook his head with a sigh.
“I think we’ll be able to gather together if we do a little more…”
And right at that moment.
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
Suddenly, cheers broke out among the people.
“Eh?”
“Eh?”
Seo-joon and the team members’ expressions went dumbfounded at the sudden shout.
“What, what is it? Suddenly this atmosphere.”
“I don’t know. Just wave your hand.”
“Nice to meet you guys!”
Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
An incessant roar of shouts.
Similar incidents occurred one after another across England.
#
“Kim Seo-joon?”
Alice tilted her head at the sudden name.
Ellis, a hero of cataclysm representing Britain along with Lebanon.
“That’s right. An Asian hunter named Kim Seo-jun is currently handling Distortion dungeons across England.”
There were several people standing in front of Alice.
They were none other than professional hunters from Scotland who followed the Dragon Slayer and Lebanon.
And the reason they came to see Alice was simple.
“Besides, I haven’t been able to contact Lebanon since he went to the palace.”
“Since things are going like this, more and more people are turning to the Queen again.”
“Are you going to just watch it like this?”
Ellis rested her chin for a moment and was lost in thought.
“Huh… that’s pretty annoying.”
Observe the Distortion Dungeon in England.
By doing so, she reveals the queen’s incompetence and induces dissent from the public.
This was the original plan.
And it’s been fitting so far.
It was the moment when a little more like this would complete the puzzle.
But now.
Suddenly, a not-so-cool Asian overturned the plate itself.
In addition, Lebanon, who went to plant the dragon heart in the palace, is not even contacted.
Alice’s annoyance surged for a moment at the twisted plan.
More than anything.
“Why are you fucking with me?”
Kwa-jik!
He didn’t like the way Scottish idiots came and talked to him.
An eerie destructive sound was heard, and the body of one of the professional hunters collapsed.
And that was the beginning.
Kwajik!
Awesome!
The pro hunters couldn’t even resist and fell down one by one.
The massacre stopped only when there was only one professional hunter left.
“Annoying.”
Alice slowly rose from her seat.
Then, he trudged toward the surviving professional hunter.
“Sa-sa-save me!”
One surviving professional hunter fell flat on the floor.
“don’t worry. Because I was thinking of saving one person.”
Elise bent down and whispered in her ear.
“You go and tell the Scottish idiots. The time has come, everyone gather in London.”
“Hee, hee…!”
“What are you doing? Why don’t you go?”
The professional hunter hesitated for a moment and immediately started running away.
but.
“ah!”
Alice smiled and said.
“But now that I think about it, there’s no need to go there alive, right?”
Kwa-jik!
The professional hunter who had been running away collapsed as it was.
Alice calmly stretched out her hand.
Then, black magic began to sway in Elise’s hand.
“You will not be able to escape from death.”
Along with Alice’s chant, black magic began to seep into the dead corpse.
So little time passed.
Squeak.
Dead bodies began to rise one by one.
Dullahan, Revenant.
The dead professional hunters were each reborn as different undead.
Elise spoke to the last undead.
“You tell the Scottish idiots what I said earlier.”
Iron gruck.
The undead immediately came out of the old castle.
Elise looked at the undead and slowly turned her head.
“Kim Seo-joon… I’m sure there’s a nanny? It’s not like they’re watching you for nothing.”
A space engulfed in darkness on all sides.
Between them, someone wearing a deep hood appeared.
【Let’s move separately at this point.】
“huh? What are you trying to do?”
【Should I tell you one by one?】
Elise shrugged once.
Seeing the sight of her disappearing again before long, Alice opened her mouth with a curious expression.
“Are you really thinking of liberating yourself?”
But nothing was heard.
“Anyway. Whether it was before or now, I can’t figure out what’s inside.”
Alice laughed and murmured.
“Well, it doesn’t matter.”
Alice moved slowly and left the castle.
The scenery outside the castle.
There was an undead legion that was crowded all the way to the horizon.
The jet-black witch called the one-man army, Ellis.
A necromancer who can overthrow a nation alone.
“Then shall we go now?”
off and on
Cheolguk!
Her undead legions began heading towards London in unison.
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Seo-joon was able to collect 300 billion won in the end.
In the process, there was exploitation, not exploitation, of the team members… but, what should I do?
I still have a lot of money left to pay off.
And although it’s debt, honestly, it wasn’t a bad thing from the point of view of the team members.
Hwa-ta’s oedan is truly a rare elixir.
The thing that could not be obtained even with money was Hwa-ta’s outer ensemble.
After taking the oedan, I could tell just by looking at how the level of the team members rose in an instant.
‘I’ll have to make it again by the time I pay off the debt.’
Or maybe it wouldn’t be bad to have a debt of about 100 trillion.
‘Was that a bit too much?’
anyway.
Seojun, who collected 300 billion won, immediately applied for Hwata’s premium lecture.
And over 30 hours, all 300 billion evaporated.
‘······’
Because of that, despondency raged, but…
Still, it wasn’t without a harvest.
First of all, the progress of Hwa-ta’s lecture has risen noticeably.
30 hours of brewing dragon hearts.
It was because during that time, Hwa-ta gave a crazy lecture on the alchemy technique.
<Hwata Lecture Progress 68.9% (+34.2%)>
Thanks to this, the progress rate of the lecture went up by 34%.
It was a good situation that I couldn’t help but be happy about.
However, after listening to lectures for 30 hours, I was on the verge of going crazy.
‘I can’t cover it even with immobility…’
Now, I confess, there were countless times when I wanted to hit him in the middle.
Nevertheless, there was only one reason why Seo-joon was able to endure in the end.
[Now, it’s complete.]
It was an outer sheath made of dragon hearts.
Seo-joon accepted Hwa-ta’s offer.
“Isn’t it half different from the first time?”
First of all, there was no difference from the first appearance.
If you hadn’t watched the process from the side, you could believe it was raw, which hadn’t gone through any refining process.
[The dragon’s heart is perfect on its own. It is important not to harm the appearance in order to maximize its efficacy.]
“okay···.”
That moment.
belt ring.
<Hwata Lecture Progress 69.5% (+0.6%)>
A message popped up saying that the progress of the lecture had increased.
Seojun didn’t know what to say, so he just shook his head.
“Can I just eat it?”
[Yes. More than that, I’m also curious. An outer shell made from a dragon’s heart. If you watch the absorption process, you will also learn…]
Suddenly, Hwa-ta’s words were not heard.
When I turned my head to the sudden situation, I couldn’t see Hwa-ta for some reason.
I looked around, but I couldn’t see the figure of Hwata.
“what···? ah.”
Seo-joon quickly found the reason.
“The money is all gone.”
Hwata’s premium lectures costing 10 billion won per hour.
It seemed that the balance had gone back to 0 won.
“It was really close, this.”
If this happened during purification…
Seo-joon trembled and called his body for no reason.
And let’s hear the last words of Hwa-ta,
Hwata also seemed to want to see the process of eating the dragon heart.
But the problem was that I didn’t have the money to call it again even if I wanted to call it again.
However, it is not possible to collect 10 billion won and come back.
“Won’t you say something later?”
Seo-joon put the dragon heart in his mouth with a feeling of not knowing.
It was too big to fit in one bite, so I had to repeat the process a few times.
After a while, the dragon heart disappeared into Seo-jun’s mouth.
And just then.
“town!”
Rurrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
The Circle of Jungdanjeon (中丹田) started to heat up like crazy.
