S-Class Hunter Heals with Monsters - Chapter 181



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181. The thorn vine that believed in the promise

The thornbush saw the toad.

It is a creature much smaller than me. Yet it is brimming with spirit.

When I looked into those solemn eyes, I felt like I would naturally bow my head.

-Wow. This is the first time I’ve seen such a wonderful plant.

I want to be like that too. Can I? The thornbush couldn’t take its eyes off Dodak.

In the meantime, the moss was plucked out and struck the ground.

Podak. The hunters flinched at that majestic sound.

‘Why are you scared of that?’

Seok Woo-hyuk, who was watching from the side, was just puzzled.

Conversely, the siblings noticed why the hunters were reacting that way.

‘Because something happened in Gold City. I guess it’s that wave.’

In addition, I even saw the brute force with which they were able to tear off iron nets.

Of course, Cheon Do-woon helped a little, but the hunters had no way of knowing that.

-Whew!

Dodaki charged at the hunters. His movements were quick as he had shared Cheon Do-un’s stamina.

‘If this continues, we’ll really see blood.’

If the hunters attack Dodak, Cheondoun will move. The hunters’ bodies may be torn to pieces in the blink of an eye.

Seok Woo-hyuk, who knew that, quickly lifted the bucket.

-Ouch, oh yeah!

Let go, you impudent thing. Dodaki struck Seok Woo-hyuk’s hand with his fist.

Podak, podak, podadak. My fingers were burning from the continuous attacks of the small roots.

There is only one way to calm down the excited Dodak. Seok Woo-hyuk, who is quick-witted, hands Dodak to Cheon Do-woon.

“Master. Please do something about this vicious root.”

A ferocious root beetle. Cheon Do-woon received a ferocious root beetle.

As soon as the hand holding him changed, Dodak’s root attacks stopped.

“Are you nice?”

Cheon Do-woon laid Dodak on his palm to calm him down. He then patted his stomach.

-Whew!

“Okay, I understand you’re upset. But before you deal with someone, you need to hear their excuses.”

-Huh, huh?

“That’s the least you can do for others.”

What on earth is that guy talking about to the grassroots? The hunters backed away with pale faces.

Cheon Do-woon, who had calmed Dodak, saw those hunters.

“You answer the questions I ask. Depending on your answers, your punishment will vary. You’d better answer carefully.”

“What, disposal? What are you talking about all of a sudden?”

“I have a question. Why did you attack this vine?”

“That vine caught us….”

“Did you attack?”

The hunters paused. Now that they thought about it, the vines had never attacked them before.

“No, that’s not it. It was stuck to the ceiling to attack us.”

“That’s right. If we had passed by without knowing, we would have been the ones who were taken by surprise.”

“okay?”

Cheon Do-woon looked back at the vines.

“Was it so?”

-No. I won’t attack!

The vine cried out. Even without Joseph’s medicine, the vine’s stem swayed horizontally, indicating its meaning.

“No. Then why was it stuck to the ceiling?”

-I was scared of those people. That’s why I hid.

The vine said, crouching down.

Although we still couldn’t communicate verbally, this time I could guess the meaning from the gestures.

Cheon Do-woon saw a thorn vine. This thorn vine is an adult plant that is three months old.

An age where, even though you’re an adult, everything in the world is still new and scary.

The thornbush didn’t have the courage to attack the hunters.

In the first place, it was not a carnivore, so there was no reason for it to attack humans.

Cheon Do-woon, who had grasped the situation, looked at the hunters.

“That’s what they say.”

“yes?”

“You are guilty.”

“What’s that all of a sudden…?”

“Just a moment. We don’t understand what’s going on here.”

The hunters shouted. They were surprised by Cheon Do-woon, who seemed to be talking to a plant monster, but they were shocked when he immediately showed hostility by saying he was guilty.

“We were just attacking monsters to survive. You suddenly appeared and destroyed our net. Even for an S-class hunter, isn’t that too much?”

One of the hunters stepped forward and shouted. Emboldened by his momentum, the other hunters also grabbed their weapons.

Hunters are originally rough by nature. To be exact, those with such a nature had a high survival rate. As the atmosphere became serious, everyone prepared for battle.

“Don’t be scared, everyone. We’re A-class hunters too! If we have five A-class people, we can compete with S-class ones!”

“I don’t think so.”

The siblings muttered. It was a mutter that the hunters, whose morale had been raised, could not hear.

The hunters’ eyes were already sparkling with twisted desire.

‘If we defeat an S-class hunter, our value will go up.’

It’s about taking down someone who is praised as a hero by all.

They may be criticized by the citizens, but their value will increase among the upper-class clients who place orders with them.

‘That’ll do!’

The hunters quickly formed a line. They surrounded Cheon Do-woon from their respective positions with just their eyes, as if to let him know that they were old teammates.

‘That’s right. Come to think of it, this is a cave area. A place where the power of the Awakened disappears.’

Except for one person, their abilities were blocked the moment they entered here.

‘That guy probably ended up like that too. There’s still one person on our side who can use his ability…’

‘If it’s pure hand-to-hand combat, we have the upper hand!’

Confidence grew in their eyes.

Among the hunters, those who can use abilities have activated their powers.

“I will apply 80 times the force of gravity. It’s my maximum strength… If you can endure it, try to endure it!”

The ground around Cheon Do-un caved in with a creaking sound.

The physical ability of an S-class hunter should be able to withstand that much.

But if we all attack together when our bodies are dulled, we can easily win. That was the hunters’ calculation.

“It seems like they don’t even care about us.”

Seok Woo-hyuk muttered. The siblings laughed at that.

“The impact of the tripod and the tow truck was so strong. We’ll just look like porters.”

I had no intention of stopping this fun spectacle.

While they were chatting, the hunters rushed at Cheon Do-woon.

Tadadak, thud, thud. The sound of impact rang out at regular intervals.

At first glance, it’s a well-executed kick. To someone who knows Cheon Do-un, it’s a kick that looks like a bothersome swatting away of a fly.

The hunters’ bodies rose into the air.

-Huh! Huh!

Good job! Good job! Dodak’s cheering shouts also rang out.

‘What, what… I didn’t see anything moving.’

‘You sent all five of us flying at the same time?’

‘That’s ridiculous. I’m experiencing 80 times the force of gravity!’

In the split second that they were kicked into the air, all sorts of thoughts ran through the hunters’ heads.

Ah, I made fun of the S-rank Hunter. There’s a reason why they say there’s a huge wall of difference between each rank.

Just because they couldn’t use that ability doesn’t mean they were someone they could do anything about.

“It’ll be annoying if you keep attacking me. Should I just take one leg each?”

No. Don’t take it. The legs aren’t even a gift, so what are you expecting to take? The hunters were shocked.

Hunters of the old days would be righteous people. Those hunters who had this kind of thinking at their core realized that they were very mistaken.

‘Now that I think about it, the old-time hunters are… the ones who survived those dark times.’

It’s true that he devoted himself to the people. At the same time, he was also someone who survived that hellish time without dying.

Could a gentle and kind person really survive in that hell? I realized that fact too late, but it was too late.

Cheon Do-woon pulled out a thread from his fingertips. It wrapped around each of the hunters’ legs.

“Eek…!”

The hunters were terrified. They imagined their own legs being cut off and rolling around on the ground.

“Master, I think cutting off the leg is a bit too much.”

Seok Woo-hyuk, who had been watching, stepped forward. The hunters looked at him as a savior.

“Right. There’s no need to cut it up since it’s not something you’re going to eat. Even if you cut it up, there’s no use for it.”

The siblings also got involved. The reason they didn’t cut it was scary, but the hunters saw the siblings as saviors as well.

-Ouch, oh yeah!

Cut it, helper. Only Dodak shook his leaves up and down to cheer Cheon Do-woon on.

Cheon Do-woon looked at the hunters despite the group’s dissuasion. He also saw the strings hanging from their legs.

At that, the hunters immediately fell into a flat lying position.

“Please, save me.”

“We were wrong. I guess something was wrong with our heads.”

“Oh, it seems like an energy that clouds people’s judgment is emanating from the cave area.”

“That’s right. That’s right. It wasn’t our intention.”

I just made up a story and stuck it in. Since I had one leg to lose, I had to throw away my pride.

Cheon Do-woon made a subtle expression as he looked at the hunters who had become humble.

‘That’s weird. I was just trying to break it.’

Why did everyone think I was going to cut off my leg?

Even if the hunters didn’t know themselves, it was surprising that Seok Woo-hyuk and his siblings, who knew themselves well, thought that way.

-Whew!

Cut, cut. Only Dodak’s enthusiastic cheers echoed inside the cave.

* * *

The hunters knelt in a row.

Before them lay weapons and armor that they had trained for years in pieces.

“Everyone is telling me not to, so I won’t accept the bridge.”

It was only a few minutes ago that the weapons worn by the hunters fell to pieces along with those words.

It is the weapon of A-class hunters. Naturally, its durability and defense power are sky-high. The hunters were shocked at how such a thing could be torn to pieces like a piece of paper.

‘What the heck is this… How can you cut specially processed objects so easily?’

‘I couldn’t even see what was done or how.’

‘Oh my goodness. He can use his powers even in cave areas.’

They were frogs in a well.

‘S-class hunters tear armor.’

The hunters shuddered at the new knowledge they had learned.

“Okay. Have you reflected on it?”

“Oh, reflection?”

“You attacked the vines. Reflect on that.”

-Reflect! You must reflect!

The vines hiding behind Cheon Do-un cried out. The hunters who saw that felt like they were going to die.

It seemed strange that Cheon Do-un took the monster’s side, but the thorn vines that followed Cheon Do-un also seemed strange.

‘A monster following a person. Does that make sense? Am I dreaming?’

I’ve never heard of anything like this. It’s bizarre.

Of course, that doesn’t mean I was going to discuss that now.

“Well, I reflected on it!”

Here, you absolutely must apologize for your mistake. The hunters shouted in unison.

“Okay. You’ve reflected on it. Now tell me. This place is considered a place to be avoided. Why did you come here?”

“That’s… I was asked to investigate the center of the cave area.”

“center?”

Cheon Do-woon had a puzzled expression on his face.

The cave area is so wide that you can’t see the end even if you ride the blue.

It was so wide that even Cheon Do-un got bored and stopped going to the city center.

It was strange that we wanted to go to such a place with only five people.

“This place is known to be impossible to escape from once you enter. You came here to ask for such a ridiculous request?”

“The escape method was guaranteed by the client.”

“I guaranteed it. How?”

The hunters looked at each other. Among them, the leader of the team opened his mouth.

“Before that, we also want to ask one thing. Why are you doing this to us?”

“You attacked this vine.”

Cheon Do-woon said. The vines that had been hiding behind him poked out their stems and peeked at the hunters.

-They attacked me. They’re bad.

“You see? This vine is the one that will come into my yard.”

-That’s right. I’m the vine that goes into the yard.

“I promised to take you when the snow melted.”

-Yes. You promised. I’m so glad you kept your promise.

The excited vine shook its leaves up and down. The hunters who saw it shook their eyes.

‘What the… What is that in the yard? Are you going to raise it? A monster?’

‘That’s ridiculous. What kind of nonsense is that… .’

I’d like to dismiss it as nonsense, but the vines were actually following the path of heaven.

How could that be possible? They were speechless at the unbelievable sight.

-Ugh.

At that moment, Dodak, who was sitting on Cheon Do-un’s shoulder, roared. The hunters’ eyes shook again at that.

Vines on the left. Roots on the right.

‘Oh, do you have the ability to tame plant monsters?’

It’s possible. There’s no other explanation.

‘Wait a minute. Then what was that thing that cut our weapons with earlier?’

Cheon Do-woon has already demonstrated his wire abilities.

It doesn’t stop there, it also has the power to make plants follow it. It even appears to be able to communicate.

Well then, there is only one thing I can think of.

‘A person with multiple abilities…!’

A person with more than one ability. An S-class hunter from the old days is even a rare multi-ability user.

The hunters’ mouths opened wide at the new information they had learned.

‘You can tame monsters? I’ve never heard of such an ability.’

If you use that ability, you could rule the world, let alone an individual whose power is S-rank.

‘Hey, isn’t this dangerous?’

They are the ones who tried to cut off their own legs with a calm face.

I felt firsthand that Cheon Do-woon was not a kind savior like rumors say.

‘How can someone like that have that kind of power?’

Could it be that they are facing a demon lord who will rule the world? The hunters were sweating coldly with tension.

‘I think they’re mistaken about something.’

The siblings noticed it but didn’t say anything.

The funny thing is that you have to watch quietly. As always, the siblings kept their silence with mischievous faces.