The Time-Limited Leader Makes the Raid a Success - Chapter 76



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Episode 77

77. Even a real ogre wouldn’t be able to withstand it.

Yoo Jung-geol, who was hit by a car and fell into the lake, heard an explosion just as he came out of the water.

“What? What happened?”

Only after he hurriedly climbed up the dirt road could he figure out what the explosion was.

“… … .”

I couldn’t bring myself to say anything.

One of them was rolling on the floor with one eye crippled, and another had a hole in his chest.

‘Did some B-rank hunter come?’

As he looked around, he soon understood the reason for this disaster.

A revolver and trigger lying on the floor.

Even if I don’t know the details of the process, it was clear that those two things were the ones who had just sent me this. Otherwise, no matter how low their ranks were, there was no way an ordinary person could have made two hunters like that.

“You little brat. Just because you’re a little higher in rank, you act all showy. Are you going to get beat up by someone who’s not even a hunter? There’s a limit to letting your guard down. Inma, stop joking around and get up. Your lost eye can be treated with regenerative medicine. Or get a prosthetic eye. The brat is making a fuss over a little eye pain. Tsk! Hey, even if it’s messed up, you have to finish the job.”

“This fucking… isn’t my eye.”

Yoo Joong-geol grabbed the hunter’s face with both hands and kicked him while he was lying on the ground, then approached Kang Mu-hyeok.

“I thought it would be easy. But even so, he’s quite rebellious, even though he’s the captain. Don’t blame him too much. Isn’t that how it is in this world?”

Yoo Joong-geol grabbed the collar of the fallen Kang Mu-hyeok, raised it to an appropriate height, and raised his fist high. He intended to crush his head and finish him off with one blow. At least he didn’t want to cause him any pain.

“Is that you, Kang Mu-hyeok?”

The moment he was about to strike, Yoo Joong-geol was startled by the sudden sound of a girl’s voice next to him.

When I looked around, I saw a petite woman squatting and talking to Kang Mu-hyeok.

She was wearing a baggy cloak that didn’t match her small body, and her hair was tied up with a hairpin, which didn’t match her cute expression.

“You, what are you?”

The woman did not answer Yoo Joong-geol’s question, but instead picked up her smartphone and held it up to Kang Moo-hyuk’s face. A picture of Kang Moo-hyuk was displayed on the smartphone screen.

“That’s right. I searched for a long time. What kind of guild is this, in a mountain village where not even a single antenna is visible? I thought I was going to die because the phone wasn’t working and it was so frustrating. There’s not a single person in the resort building either. Huh? It looks like you’ve broken a few bones. Oh man, that must hurt. Why does it look like it’s hard for you to answer?”

The woman kept chattering, then checked on Kang Mu-hyeok’s condition and tried to support him.

Only then did Kang Mu-hyeok turn his head with difficulty.

“You! Who are you?!”

Yoo Joong-geol, who felt a bit uneasy at the sight of the woman who was so calm, shouted in a fit of rage. He turned his fist that was aimed at Kang Moo-hyeok and aimed it at the woman’s head.

Thud!

‘shield?’

I felt a sharp pain in my fist that bounced off the rebound.

“Can you put this away?”

The woman’s finger pointed at Yoo Joong-geol. Kang Moo-hyuk nodded.

The woman stood up. She was just tall enough to reach Yoo Joong-geol’s chest. She seemed to be about 160 cm tall. However, for some reason, Yoo Joong-geol felt that the woman was much taller. He had the illusion that she was looking down on him.

“I’m glad I’m not late. If my uncle had died, my grandfather would have taken my allowance this month. My brothers have a concert next month, and I almost couldn’t get a ticket.”

The woman shook her head from side to side. There was a cracking, cracking sound of her bones.

“uh?”

Yoo Joong-geol thought that his gaze had turned strangely. Otherwise, there was no way the woman would have appeared to be lying on her side.

As my consciousness gradually faded away, I was able to realize one thing.

‘The sound of bones coming from my throat?’

Those were his last thoughts.

“Is he a bad guy too?”

Before Kang Mu-hyeok could answer, the girl reached into the air and snapped the neck of the hunter who had become cross-eyed.

“I came to hunt orcs, but I only caught poor villains. And they were just small fry. Eight, worthless things. I just lost my appetite.”

The woman, who had been feeling as if her mouth was dry, looked down at Kang Mu-hyeok’s pale face and hit her forehead with her palm.

“Oh my, I’m going to die like this. Just stay asleep. This is an expensive potion, isn’t it? Even Grandpa won’t let you use it properly, but mine is… What’s wrong? Why won’t you drink it? The person who gave it to you is being sincere. Ah, try it. Open your mouth. Then I’ll feed you.”

“If I drink it… As it is now, I’ll die.”

“Oh my, don’t worry about it. I know that potions are hard on the body of a normal person, right? But it’s not enough to kill you. Just take a small amount as emergency treatment.”

“I have a chronic illness. Without medicine, I can’t eat anything with mana in it.”

“You can’t drink potions? Wow~ You have such a strange chronic disease? You can’t drink such good stuff.”

The woman drank the potion in one gulp, as if she were drinking a vitamin drink, even though she wasn’t hurt. It was a completely different attitude from what she had said earlier, that it was too expensive to use carelessly.

Kang Moo-hyuk wondered who she was. The only thing he knew for sure was that she had helped him. Was she an ally? Or was she an enemy, and did she help him for a purpose?

I still can’t relax because I’m not sure.

‘That’s a pretty high rank. That wasn’t a shield before. It wasn’t any other magic either. But the attack was blocked in the air… … .’

I don’t know her identity, but I think I know her characteristics.

“Are you a telekinesist?”

“bingo.”

“So that was you flying through the air earlier. It wasn’t a mistake. Are you an A-rank hunter?”

“Uh. A-. I heard it from my grandfather. This guy is really a savage. He didn’t even use much force, but he recognized me right away.”

“grandfather?”

“Oh. The old man said that? Don’t be so rude. I’m the only one who got tired because of that. Oh, did you skip school because of that? You came in such a hurry that you only wore a piece of cloak and didn’t even change your clothes.”

Only then did Kang Moo-hyuk realize that the clothes visible through the woman’s cloak were not uniforms but school uniforms. He realized that the innocent way she answered every question was also the innocence of a child of his age.

‘No, it’s not that he’s naive. No matter how much the other person did to kill him, seeing him kill someone so easily. He must be confident enough in his skills to not care about me. That’s why he probably doesn’t have any awareness of security. He can kill anyone if he makes a mistake.’

Kang Moo-hyuk read the violence hidden in her seemingly reckless behavior.

For a moment, he searched through the directory of names he knew in his head.

‘A-Rank. Female. Minor. Hunter with telekinetic abilities. At least, as far as I know, she’s a completely unknown hunter. The fact that a skilled person of this special category has not been known until now makes it highly likely that she was intentionally hidden. I don’t know why, but I know who sent her.’

He couldn’t help but ask to confirm.

“That old man. Is he the president of the association, Han Byeong-gu?”

“As expected, it’s the tongs. Yeah. My maternal grandfather.”

Kang Moo-hyuk got to know the girl through a few questions.

The girl’s name is Goeulji.

She was the granddaughter of the Hunter Association President Han Byeong-gu, and was an A-rank hunter with the telekinesis trait.

Since the hunters who use telekinesis are usually ranked at the top of the class, it was easy to guess how great the destructive power she possessed would be.

‘A well-trained telekinesis is no less powerful than a high-ranking wizard. Huh? Wait! A-Telekinesis? Maybe it’s possible?’

In an instant, a new plan came to Kang Mu-hyeok’s mind. He forgot the pain and grabbed Go Eul-ji’s shoulders and asked.

“What is the range and destructive power of telekinesis?”

“What, all of a sudden?”

“There’s an emergency right now! All the guild members are going to be wiped out!”

When a man with a pale complexion who looked as if he was about to die suddenly started to press him with force, Go Eul-ji opened his mouth absentmindedly.

“Hmm, something like easily destroying a tall building?”

“What floor? What is the area?”

“No, how would I know that? When you eat, do you count the number of grains of rice? When you breathe, do you measure the volume of air? It’s just something like that, something like that.”

“So, there’s a concrete structure that’s about 50 meters long, 8 meters wide, and 5 meters high. Is it possible to destroy it in one go?”

When he was suddenly given a math-like problem, Go Eul-ji scratched his head as if he had a headache and then answered.

“Hey, I’m terrible at math. Just wait a minute. 50 meters, 8 meters, 5 meters? Hmm… If I break it all at once, it’ll be a bit tough. But I think I can do it somehow. I guess I’ll just have to try it to find out. Why is that?”

“You said you came to hunt orcs?”

“uh.”

“Then, let’s go hunt the orc.”

* * *

Jo Chung-hyun gritted his teeth. The two children in front of him did not collapse as if they were about to collapse. Instead, he was pushed back.

‘That supporter… was it Choi Mi-ran? I ignored her because she was always a C+, but she’s surprisingly annoying.’

If he had fought Kim Sung-hyun one-on-one, he would have already finished it off, even if they were the same rank. The difference in experience was that significant. However, he was unable to land a decisive blow because of the supporters who were interfering with him at every turn.

He was looking for an opportunity to get rid of Choi Mi-ran first.

However, Kim Sung-hyun did not accept this. Just as Choi Mi-ran supported him, he also fought while firmly protecting Choi Mi-ran. It was a movement that showed that their chemistry was not achieved overnight.

‘The captain didn’t pair these two up for nothing.’

At the recent ‘Tactical Coordination Meeting’, Kang Mu-hyeok disbanded the party comprised of hunters who were friendly with each other within the guild and reorganized it efficiently.

There were a few exceptions, and this pair of hunters was one of them.

At first, I accepted it without much thought, thinking that it was just a way to keep an eye on the remaining members of Do Kyung-hoon in the guild, but now that I think about it, I think it was purely a matter of power.

Jo Chung-hyun felt anxious.

The hunters he had ambushed would have caught Kang Mu-hyeok, but what if things go wrong and they succeed in bringing the bomb?

‘This is the worst. I have to kill Kang Mu-hyeok somehow and get rid of these two!’

The fight was reaching its climax as swords clashed chaotically.

A strange scene was captured in Jo Chung-hyun’s eyes. Choi Mi-ran’s gaze was directed in a strange direction.

“Seonghyun. That… … .”

At her signal, Kim Sung-hyun swung his sword sharply and stepped back.

Jo Chung-hyun also naturally distanced himself. He raised his head to follow Choi Mi-ran’s eyes, who were looking at the sky.

A woman was seen floating in the sky, looking down.

“Who is it?”

Choi Mi-ran, who discovered it first, muttered anxiously.

It meant that he was a hunter with overwhelming skills that could easily overwhelm his opponents just by flying in the sky, and that he was also a magician skilled in long-range attacks.

The question was whether she was an ally or an enemy.

“You two! Aren’t you Captain Kang Mu-hyeok’s subordinates?”

“Huh? Uh… But.”

“Yes, that’s right.”

“Okay. Get out of here. No, don’t move around like that. Get out of that dam.”

Jo Chung-hyun sensed danger as he watched the two hunters hesitating and backing away.

“Hey! Who are you?!”

“Well, that’s right. He looks like a bad guy. You don’t have to worry about whether he dies or not, so let’s get started.”

The water gate shook as the woman reached down.

It was definitely shaken.

“What, what the… damn it!”

Along with Jo Chung-hyun’s single scream, the concrete forming the water gate began to crack.

From the signs of collapse to the collapse, it happened in an instant. There was no time for Jo Chung-hyun to escape.

As if a giant had struck the reed house, the water gates were crushed here and there, and piles of shattered concrete exploded in all directions.

Jo Chung-hyun was swept away by the rushing water without being able to do anything.

Even a B-rank hunter would have no chance against 460,000 tons of water pressure.

A mighty stream of water surged through the narrow valley, sweeping away even the trees planted along the water’s edge.

A huge roar erupted as the lake water rushed towards the waterfall like a runaway train.

Boom!

“Whew~ They blew it up with good timing too?”

Ilsun Goeulji felt a little dizzy. She released the telekinesis she had been holding onto her body and sat down on the ground for a moment, taking a deep breath slowly.

“Whew~ I’m tired, I’m tired. Did I push myself too hard? I should’ve done it in moderation. When we first met, I made you do something hard. If only it weren’t for Grandpa… . You’re not my granddaughter, you’re a slave, a slave. Hey, since I’m here, I should relieve some stress. Then, from now on, I’ll go and get some orc soup.”

* * *

Jang Deuk-gu, who was at the forefront, was holding his ground well even though he was surrounded by orcs, but the rest of the hunters were in shambles.

There were many serious injuries, and even deaths. Without time to mourn or give orders, the hunters could only endure.

If Jang Deuk-gu hadn’t been there as a shield at the front, they might have already been swept away by the orcs’ human wave tactics.

‘Fuck, fuck. Kang Mu-hyeok! This is a different story?!’

Baek Hyeong-gyu, who was already anxious about this operation, cursed Kang Mu-hyeok inwardly. There was nothing else he could do.

At that moment, I thought maybe I should bury my bones here.

When I was really at my limit, Kang Mu-hyeok’s voice was heard.

-Blasting now. All retreat. 30 seconds countdown.

Jang Deok-gu shouted as if he had been waiting for it.

“Everyone, retreat! I’ll take the rear!”

Jang Deuk-gu, who had only 3 points of strength left, unleashed all kinds of attack skills along with his spirit. The auras that had been trained to the limit in mana control were covering the orcs.

It was a blow that could have easily broken the siege if the orc white generals had not stepped forward and taken it with their bodies.

Taking advantage of the gap, the hunters turned around and started running. The tankers threw down their shields and carried the wounded.

“tether!”

Along with Nadongpa’s shout, several ropes fell from both sides of the waterfall.

The hunters grabbed the rope and climbed up the cliff. It wasn’t very high, but it wasn’t easy because of the heavy equipment and the injured people. However, thanks to their superhuman physical abilities, the hunters were able to reach the top in no time.

“Commander!”

Jang Deok-gu, who had been timing himself, ran with just 3 seconds left.

The orcs followed closely, their eyes widening. They could not let the man who broke the sacred totem go like this.

When Jang Deuk-gu reached the bottom of the waterfall, he heard an explosion above his head.

Jang Deok-gu jumped up powerfully and grabbed the rope halfway up the cliff.

The falling rocks and the subsequent water bombs shook him wildly as he leaned on the rope. It was hard to hold on even though he wasn’t hit directly.

The aftershock of the fall sent a double assault of stone and water down upon the orcs’ heads.

The orcs were swept away by the current, letting out a strange roar that was neither scream nor shout.

Even the white-collared orcs, who were a head taller than other orcs, were no exception.

Only the Orc General held out a little longer, eventually unable to endure the punishment the lake imposed.

Jang Deok-gu climbed to the top with difficulty, being hit by the strong water stream shaking him from the side.

He sat down, exhausted. He pushed his water-soaked hair back and looked down at the mess below.

“460,000 tons… They say it’s 460,000 tons. This isn’t something that even an A-rank can withstand.”

“Even a real ogre wouldn’t be able to withstand it.”

Na Dongpa said, looking at the sight of hundreds of orcs being completely submerged, as if he was fed up.

“That doesn’t mean they’ll all fall to their deaths. But the damage will be significant.”

Jang Deok-gu took a deep breath and stood up from his seat.

“It’s not over yet. Bring the Rider Wolf. We’ll start clearing out the remaining Orcs now.”