S-Class Hunter Heals with Monsters - Chapter 117



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Episode 117: Small candidates who can become world trees

Cheon Do-un arrived at the yard of the house through the gate.

The first thing I saw was a snowy landscape, a simple table, and a parasol installed on the table.

‘When did you get that again?’

A white parasol that gives off a camp atmosphere. It was decorated with small fairy lights.

As the days passed, the baggage that Nam Ki-seok brought one by one was increasing.

“uh? older brother! You came at the right time. Come and sit down. “The new coffee that came out this time was really delicious, so I brought some.”

Ki-seok Nam said as he poured water into each teacup.

Before we knew it, the gathered group was sitting around the table.

“Let’s drink cocoa instead of coffee, Nari Kim.”

“nose… cocoa? It has a similar name to our coconut family.”

“That’s right, it’s similar. Do you like it?”

“Like it!”

“You will like it more when you try it. Warm and steamy… braided! “Colonel Cocoa.”

Nam Ki-seok placed a mug in front of Kim Nari. He handed out coffee cups to the rest of the group.

“Try it. Even though it’s stick coffee, the scent is amazing. “It’s also very soft on the neck.”

Ki-seok Nam, who served coffee, took out a biscuit from his bag.

“And this is… ! Special biscuits that go well with coffee! “This is something that cannot be missed during coffee time.”

“Are you famous?”

“yes. This biscuit is only sold at Gold City, and it’s delicious dipped in coffee. One bite of coffee, one bite of this. “It’s delicious even if you eat it that way.”

Nam Ki-seok put biscuits on each plate. He distributed the food according to the number of people and then sat down himself.

Tea time in the snowy winter yard.

A cold winter wind blew, but no one here was affected by it.

‘No one would believe me if I told them there was a place like this inside the gate.’

Nam Ki-seok laughed at a sudden thought.

“Can I take a picture?”

“Do it that way.”

When permission was given, Ki-Seok Nam took his cell phone and went to the corner of the yard.

‘If you’re going to film it, that Demon King Castle… No, I have to film my brother’s house too.’

Extra large ribbed dome. A fluorescent house that looks like an alien would pop out. A two-story house made of bones and a shiny fence.

Installed in the front yard is a cute parasol.

It was a fairy tale-style parasol chosen with young Kim Nari in mind.

‘Hey… Confused, confused.’

Nam Ki-seok laughed when he saw the picture taken on his phone.

Moreover, since Yubeom had the appearance of a bird’s head, a truly bizarre photo was taken.

“older brother. I took several pictures, but here’s a picture where the faces aren’t shown because of the backlight. “Can I post this on the internet?”

“On the Internet? why?”

“I’m curious about people’s reactions. Of course, we will keep the location and the fact that it is inside the gate a secret. just… Well, the Coconut Family’s secret base. “I’m thinking of posting it in a playful way, is that okay?”

Cheon Do-un laughed at Nam Ki-seok’s words.

“Do whatever you want.”

Since it didn’t matter if it was revealed where this place was, the answer came easily.

There was no way to find him if he didn’t reveal his location anyway.

“Then when I get back, I’ll post it on the internet. “I will capture people’s reactions and bring them back.”

While Ki-Seok Nam was selecting the photos, Beom Yoo asked Do-Woon Cheon.

“Did you find the researcher?”

“I found it. However, due to circumstances, I couldn’t bring him right away. “Even if I brought you here anyway, you wouldn’t have been interested.”

“Why are you not interested?”

“I was a mandragora lover.”

At Cheon Do-un’s words, the siblings searched their memories.

“Oh, what is it? Was it him?”

Yubeom immediately remembered the other person. In contrast, Yoo Ji-ah only tilted her head.

“Do you remember who that is?”

“I remember. Maybe you don’t know. “He was a person who only studied plant monsters, but he didn’t pay any attention to test subjects.”

Yubeom looked at Cheon Do-un.

“The only thing that person showed interest in was Cheon Do-un. “Maybe that’s why he often came to our room.”

Thanks to this, Yubeom, who was his roommate, had many opportunities to see the old man.

“Because he is a person who does not come out of his personal laboratory except when he comes to visit Cheon Do-un. “Yujia, you’ve probably never encountered one before.”

“okay?”

Yoo Ji-ah became the face of Kim Sae-yeon.

Even if you were from a research institute, if you had never met someone before, you couldn’t help but feel psychologically depressed.

Cheon Do-un nodded as if he understood.

“It’s true that I also felt a bit steamy. “But I heard something interesting there.”

“Funny thing to say?”

“They said there was a world tree among my ancestors.”

The siblings looked surprised at Cheon Do-un’s words.

Those who lived in the Gate had also heard of the World Tree.

Nam Ki-seok, who was selecting photos, was surprised and dropped his phone.

“Tongue, you are a descendant of the World Tree?”

“They say so. I don’t know if it’s real though. But why are you so surprised?”

“You can’t help but be amazed! The World Tree is very famous among hunters! “I heard there was an uproar about the sighting of the World Tree about 60 years ago.”

Ki-seok Nam said, searching through his memories.

“That’s all I saw in the video, but the tree was so big that it seemed like it was going to break through the sky. But what was even more surprising was that the big tree walked with its roots.”

At the mention of walking, the siblings’ eyes turned to the garden.

If there was a plant that walked on its roots, there was one here in the yard.

“Walking along the roots, the size suddenly jumps… ! They say it shrank and disappeared in an instant. I heard that the video itself was taken from afar so no one knows what happened. Why did it suddenly become smaller?”

Nam Ki-seok continued, recalling a video he saw when he was young.

“Oh, my new brother, you’ve never seen that video, right? I’ll find the video later and bring it back. You will be really surprised when you see it. The fruits were growing in clusters, and they glowed like fireflies. As for how long-winded it was… .”

“it’s okay. Because we saw it too.”

“You saw it?”

“uh. I saw it while flying. “The tree was so big that it could be seen from far away.”

Upon hearing that he had seen it in person, Nam Ki-seok looked envious.

A tree of shining fruit and massive size. If you see it in person, you will be mesmerized by its grandeur.

“But it’s fascinating. Why was it only seen once? “If it’s that big, it’s hard not to notice.”

“Scholars’ hypothesis is that it is because they inhabit an unidentified area.”

An unidentified area where people cannot enter.

The inside of the gate is wide. The currently revealed area alone is about eight times the size of Earth.

There was a hypothesis that the unknown area that no one had ever visited would be twice that much.

If the World Tree’s habitat was such a place, it was natural for it to go unnoticed.

“Then why did you leave the place you lived 60 years ago?”

“well… Ah, but one thing is certain. “After the World Tree got smaller and disappeared, the gate started opening like crazy.”

Cheon Do-un nodded at Nam Ki-seok’s words.

“I remember. 60 years ago… Gate rush period. Gates opened simultaneously all over the world.”

Cheon Do-un was around 19 years old.

It was the worst time when a city that was being rebuilt collapsed again.

“It was the era of the Gate upheaval.”

This time, humanity will be destroyed. It was a time of such despair for everyone.

It was also the time when Cheon Do-un was most active as a chimera hunter.

“Does it have something to do with the World Tree becoming smaller?”

“There is also a hypothesis that says so. Anyway, if it’s true that your ancestors have a world tree like that, it’s incredible.”

Nam Ki-seok said with an excited face. In comparison, the person himself, Cheon Do-un, was calm.

“Isn’t it possible that trees are the ancestors of humans?”

“It doesn’t make sense. “But you are my brother.”

It’s the luck of heaven. As for Cheon Do-un, I was confident that I would not be surprised if the grandfather of the World Tree, not the World Tree, was his ancestor.

“Perhaps the size of the world tree decreased, it changed into a human shape and went out of the gate. “I fell in love with a human and started a family.”

“What is it. “Is this a children’s fairy tale?”

Yu-beom laughed next to him, but Ki-seok Nam did not give in.

“The child born in that way grows up and starts a family, and this repeats itself, leading to the generation of the world tree. And then my brother was born… uh?”

Ki-seok Nam, who was talking excitedly, stopped mid-sentence.

“Something doesn’t match the time zone. “60 years ago, you were already working as a chimera hunter, right?”

“yes. “It was when I was about 19 years old.”

“this… Then, the world tree captured in the video may not be our ancestor.”

Ki-seok Nam smiled with a shy face.

“Well, I don’t know if it’s an ancestor or something, but the blood of the World Tree is on me… .”

Cheon Do-un paused for a moment. Since it’s a plant, wouldn’t it have blood?

‘Then the juice of the World Tree… ?’

It’s a subtle feeling, but since it’s a plant, it feels right.

“Whether it is blood or juice, is there any good in it if I really am a descendant of the World Tree?”

“uh… well.”

“Do you know what the World Tree ability is?”

“Because so little has been revealed… ah! “I heard that it absorbs the surrounding mana, purifies it, and then releases it.”

“Purify it and spit it out?”

Nam Ki-seok nodded.

“yes. That’s what it said in the eyewitness’s account. “It absorbed all the mana in the area, changed it into refreshing mana, and spit it out again.”

“okay? “So the World Tree’s ability is to purify impure mana?”

It’s a useless ability. If that were the case, I could have done as much as I am now.

Cheon Do-un, who had been thinking that far, stopped.

“If you absorb mana and emit it… “It looks like something.”

Cheon Do-woon took out Dodaki from his bag.

As he looked around at Dodaki, he saw something like a vegetable garden.

The roots of the garden were rising above the soil and enjoying a sunbath.

Perhaps thanks to the greenhouse being built, the dried roots were lying flat without being exposed to the cold.

“The World Tree and Mandragora. Doesn’t it resemble something?”

The point is that you walk with your roots.

This is a feature often seen in plant-based monsters, so I was able to overlook it.

However, mana absorption was not an ability that was easily seen.

“Even if it’s a Mandragorah, it will absorb mana and purify it.”

The difference was that the World Tree spewed out purified mana.

In contrast, Mandragora purified the mana, chewed the cud, and then swallowed it.

“You said the fruit of the World Tree was bright, right?”

“yes.”

“That part is different, too.”

Yoo Ji-ah, who had been listening to Cheon Do-un’s words, opened her mouth.

“If you meet the conditions for something, wouldn’t the fruit shine?”

Yoo Ji-ah looked at Dodak.

“If that’s the case, I wonder if Mandragora will grow up to become the world tree.”

“You want to grow up to be the world tree?”

“I just thought so. Mandragora is actually a seed sown by the World Tree. No, rather than seeds… A species derived from the World Tree? “Something like that.”

What was strange was that the amount of mana absorbed by that small root was abnormally large.

Among those grown with plenty of mana, perhaps a special individual with potential is qualified to grow into a world tree.

“Individuals that do not become world trees continue to live as Mandragoras.”

Cheon Do-un laughed at Yoo Ji-ah’s hypothesis.

At least, as Nam Ki-seok said, ‘People and trees get married and have children…’ It sounded more plausible than the hypothesis ‘.’

“If that hypothesis is true, then my descendants also have the possibility of becoming a world tree. The blood of the world tree is for me too… No, because the juice will be mixed.”

Yoo Ji-ah kept her mouth shut at Cheon Do-un’s words.

It has not been revealed how the World Tree of the Demon World works.

However, the image given by the word ‘world tree’ was bright and clean. It was pure. It was a word full of refreshing feeling.

Words that do not fit with Cheondo-un.

‘If you become the world tree… .’

Shouldn’t it be called the Demon Tree rather than the World Tree?

Nam Ki-seok, who was listening from the side, broke into a cold sweat as he thought about it.

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