S-Class Hunter Heals with Monsters - Chapter 182



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182. Sky Island Dia City

Cheon Do-un sat down on a rock nearby.

Even that insignificant action made the hunters nervous. In the quiet atmosphere, Cheon Do-woon opened his mouth.

“You are kneeling there now as punishment for touching this vine.”

The hunters were speechless.

What’s so sinful about attacking a monster? That thought occurred to me, but I didn’t have the courage to refute it.

“Now it’s your turn to answer my question. The client promised me a way to escape from here. Tell me what it is.”

“That’s… I received this.”

The hunters hesitated and opened the bag. It contained hundreds of return stones.

“What? The way to escape was the return stone?”

“yes.”

“A barrage of materials? We’ll break the return stone until the gate opens, something like that?”

“Yes, that’s right.”

The hunters nodded.

It was a crude method, but it was a surefire way to escape if you had enough return stones.

In the cave area, waves are emitted that interfere with the operation of the return stone.

Because of this, the gate doesn’t open well, but it doesn’t literally ‘open’ ‘well’. It’s not that it doesn’t open at all.

According to the Hunter’s Association’s research, the gate opened once every 120 return stones were broken.

If you think about it, it wasn’t an impossible escape.

“One return stone costs about 500,000 won. You’re burning tens of millions of won just for the return fee.”

If they provided that level of support, the client must be someone with considerable wealth.

What interest would a rich man have in a cave area?

“What is the client’s name?”

“This is Goh Jeong-hyeok.”

“Go Jeong-hyeok? Where have I heard that before… Ah. That’s him. The guy that Chairman Lee Woon-soo said was like a son.”

A person who tried to attract attention with a live clam from the Demon World at the year-end auction.

Cheon Do-woon’s face turned delicate at the unexpected name.

“He didn’t seem like the type of person who would spend his own money to investigate the environment of the demon world.”

“You’re good at reading people. He’s just a middle manager who does what he’s told.”

“There’s another person behind it?”

“Yes. Rumor has it that the residents of Dia City are the real clients.”

Dia City. A city in the shape of an island floating in the sky. A fantasy island where the upper class lives.

When an unexpected culprit was mentioned, Cheon Do-woon looked interesting.

“That’s interesting. What else?”

“We, we don’t know anything more than this.”

“Oh? Well then, that’s fine. Now let’s decide what to do with you.”

The hunters were taken aback by his words.

“Disposition? I told you everything I knew.”

“so?”

“So that’s why… Of course you should let us go… .”

“I never said I’d let you go if you told me.”

The hunters paused. Now that they thought about it, that was it. They were just revealing what they knew.

“Ha, but… no one is hurt. Can you just take a look?”

The hunters went out in the most humble manner possible. Pride doesn’t save lives.

Cheon Do-woon looked at those hunters and asked.

“If I were weak, what would you have done to me?”

“That, that is….”

“Was it 80x gravity? You were pretty serious when you attacked me. You were like, ‘I don’t care if I die.’”

It certainly was. They wanted to gain fame by defeating Cheon Do-un.

The plan did not include Cheon Do-un’s life or death.

As the hunters’ expressions darkened, Cheon Do-woon smiled.

“Don’t make that face. I don’t have a hobby of bullying the weak. I’ll let that go if you attacked me.”

Suddenly, the A-class hunters became weaklings. It was the first time in their lives that they had been treated like that, but they laughed instead.

“Instead, let the thornbush take care of itself. Since Dodak is angry, you should also take the wrath in return.”

“That’s… oh, I understand.”

If you mess with an S-class hunter and it ends here, it’s quite a generous gesture. The hunters nodded with bright faces.

“Vine, what do you want to do with them?”

Cheon Do-woon asked the vine. As if it had been waiting, the vine picked up a piece of iron net that had fallen to the ground.

– I hate those people. They tried to shock me with electricity. So I want to do the same to them.

The vine’s voice was not heard by Cheon Do-woon. However, the piece of iron net that was quietly extended conveyed the meaning.

“So you want to repay what was done to you.”

-That’s right. That’s it!

As soon as his words got through, the vine shook its leaves up and down.

“Okay. The vine’s disposal is electric shock. What do you want to do, Dodak?”

Cheon Do-woon also asked Dodak-i.

When their eyes met, Dodak shouted with a solemn face.

-Whew!

“Really? You want to sentence me to hard labor?”

-Huh, huh!

“Fifty years? Oh my. How merciless.”

At Cheon Do-un’s words, Dodak jumped up. He took out his cane and raised it in a flash.

-Whew!

“You want me to tattoo a 50-year-long movement restriction spell on your body? Have Manager Kim do it? Fine. I’ll follow your advice.”

Cheon Do-woon smiled brightly. The hunters’ mouths dropped open at his vitamin-like smile.

The vines were just holding a piece of iron and the roots were rustling. Why is that a 50-year labor sentence for an electrician?

It is a forced labor type where they even tattoo spells on their bodies.

‘Did you really say that?’

No matter how I looked at it, it seemed like a scam, but there was no way to prove it.

The hunters were in a state of death, but the siblings watching from the side were just having fun.

‘What is that? It’s just the same as usual.’

Moreover, 50 years of labor is clearly Cheon Do-woon’s will no matter how you look at it. At that level, I had to see it as him just playing around with the hunters.

“I will now make the final decision. In the case of labor, there are two options.”

“Seo, what’s your choice?”

“Yeah. The first one is to go to the Space Organization and clean up the slums for 50 years. The second one is to go to my house and clean up for 50 years. Which one do you like?”

A delicate choice was made. The hunters looked at each other and whispered.

“This is definitely the latter. I’ve heard rumors about the slums. I heard there’s a cleaning organization that’s been formed recently. The labor intensity there must be incredible.”

“I heard that too. It’s a place made up of Awakened people, right?”

“That’s right. They say that the higher the rank, the more you get used to it. If we, who are A-rank, go, we’ll be used a lot.”

They exchanged glances. It would be better to clean the house of an S-class hunter than to join a strange organization and become a slum cleaner.

“I’ll clean the house!”

“Oh, like that.”

“hmm.”

“Why of all people.”

The siblings and Seok Woo-hyuk sighed at the same time. The hunters flinched at the strange reaction.

Something feels unsettling. I feel like I made a wrong choice.

One quick-witted hunter raised his hand.

“I’m with the space organization…!”

“Dismissed. No reversal.”

As Cheon Do-un spoke, blue electricity burst from the hunters’ bodies.

They passed out, steam rising from their bodies.

The siblings, who had been watching the situation with a smile, were startled by the sudden electricity explosion.

“What did you do?”

“Electric shock.”

Cheon Do-woon raised his hand. Blue electricity crackled from his hand.

“You had that ability too?”

“Oh. It’s not my favorite ability, so I don’t use it much. It’s just not a good fit for me.”

The siblings laughed in vain at Cheon Do-woon’s words.

Whether it was compatibility or something else, at this point it seemed like it would be quicker to find an ability that Cheon Do-woon didn’t have.

‘That’s right. It’s a guy with hundreds of monster cells transplanted into him. If they’re all fused, then that’s natural.’

The siblings were convinced. Meanwhile, the vines swayed around the hunter who had become accustomed to electricity.

-The electricity was tingling.

The vines poked the blackened hunter with their stems. The leaves trembled at the lack of response.

-These guys were tingling. It was exciting!

The three-month-old vine laughed and cried.

It was a reaction that could come out because of purity.

* * *

Cheon Do-un came out of the cave area with the vine.

Blue, who had been watching from afar, landed in front of Cheon Do-un when he saw him.

“Okay. Then shall we go home now?”

Cheon Do-woon loaded the hunters’ bags onto Blue’s back. He tied the unconscious hunters together like oysters and hung them on Blue’s legs.

Five A-class cleaners and a return stone worth tens of millions of won.

I came to pick up some thorn vines and ended up doing some unexpected farming.

‘It’s a pretty good harvest. I like it.’

Cheon Do-woon looked at the vines with a satisfied smile.

“Now the question is how do we get this guy?”

If I burn it like this, Blue will get pricked by the thorns. He thought about it for a moment, then pulled the thread out from the tip of his finger.

Let’s make a net and take it away.

As it was a method used to move stones, making a net was quick.

When the net was finished, the brother and sister lifted it up on either side.

“We will carry the vines and fly away.”

“You guys?”

“Oh. We already have Hunters on the Blue Bridge. It’ll be better if we go in without any hesitation.”

The brother and sister flew up after burning the vines on the net.

In an instant, the view became clearer. A whole area was visible beyond the net.

The vine was excited by the sight it was seeing for the first time in its life.

-I’m flying. I’m flying!

The thornbush cried out in excitement.

From caverns in full bloom to remote areas where the snow has not yet fully melted, the vines have captured it all.

-Wow… So this is what the outside of the cave looks like. I didn’t know.

I will never forget this view. I will never forget what happened today.

Vines looked at the black coat in her arms. It was the coat that Cheon Do-woon had given her as a token of promise.

-He really came to pick me up.

Now, I will follow Cheon Do-un and live in a place called Madang.

-i love it.

It was a simple sentiment. That is why it was a sincere sentiment.

The vine smiled brightly. The flower petals swayed pleasantly as if to convey its feelings.

* * *

Cheon Do-woon, who was riding on top of Blue, looked back.

With each flap of Blue’s wings, the cave area moved further away.

‘Why would the residents of Dia City be interested in a place like that?’

I wonder what the rich people who live without needing anything were curious about.

“Master, what are you thinking about?”

“I wonder who investigated the cave area.”

“Isn’t it just the curiosity of a rich person?”

“Well, what do you think?”

Cheon Do-un looked at the cave area and smiled.

“In the first place, I doubt that there really is such a thing as Dia City. It’s a bit strange that no one has ever seen that city…”

Cheon Do-woon stopped talking. He searched his memory and asked.

“Is Dia City a flying island?”

“That’s what they say. It’s also called Sky Island. Why?”

“I wonder if this is a place I went to when I was young.”

Everyone’s attention was drawn to the unexpected words. The siblings flying nearby also approached with interested expressions.

“What are you talking about? When are you going there?”

“When I was a teenager. Of course, I’m not sure. The sky island I went to wasn’t a city. It was a den full of monsters.”

A nest of monsters floating in the sky.

The Cheongong Island that Cheon Do-un went to was such a place.

It was so different from the luxurious Diamond City that I couldn’t even think of it until now.

“When I was about 16, an entire land of the Demon World came over from a natural gate.”

“The land has come over?”

“Oh. It was a huge land that felt like an island. As soon as we passed through the gate, it soared into the sky. Because of that, very few people actually saw it. It probably wasn’t even recorded.”

The siblings were puzzled by Cheon Do-woon’s words.

“How would you know if it wasn’t recorded?”

“After that island came over, bug monsters started pouring down from the sky. Periodically, like a shower. That’s why I went out to investigate and subdue them.”

As I searched for the source of the insect infestation, I arrived at an island floating in the sky.

“Do you think that is Diamond City, Master?”

“Well, what do you think? As I said, when I went there, it wasn’t a city or anything. It was a monster’s nest with all sorts of bugs swarming around.”

Either someone pushed it over and built a city there in the past few decades, or there’s a separate sky island called Dia City.

“Which way?”

Cheon Do-woon smiled as he recalled memories from his childhood.

“I’ll tell you the rest when I get home. I need to teach Ivy about life in the yard first.”

The group nodded at his words. Since they lived together, they could hear Cheon Do-un’s stories at any time.

There was nothing to regret, but it wasn’t the five hunters who were dragged away.

‘Wait a minute… what if I cut you off there?’

‘Tell me more. What is this Sky Island? Could it be Diamond City?’

Five hunters entangled like oysters on Blue’s legs.

They looked up with puzzled faces.

It was painful enough to wake up hanging upside down, but the pain was doubled when Cheon Do-woon cut me off mid-sentence.

‘So what’s that island!’

The hunters shouted inwardly. They waited for Cheon Do-woon to speak next, but they never heard what they wanted to hear.