03. Guild Fair (13)

After I cut the banshee in half and defeated it, the atmosphere in the hall heated up.

“Wowaaa!!”

“You really killed me! Success!”

Im Sang-woo, holding the shield, raised his right hand wide with a big smile.

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Just looking at it, it was an angle that would knock on the shoulder, so I took a step back at the right timing.

Boom! His hand crossed the air.

How do you feel? He looked at me with a smile on his face, but he just burst into laughter saying that good is good.

“hahahahaha! This cute guy! Amazing! I never thought I would really make it!”

“hahahaha….”

Even I was dubious. When I saw the banshee’s purple beam right in front of her eyes, I knew death.

But at the same time, my head was full of thoughts that I would cut myself this time.

Somehow, I managed to kill two bosses with a three-person sword. An incredible achievement for a student.

Of course I didn’t do it alone… I felt a little more confident in the weapon I made.

“It’s not over yet. Hurry up and finish the gate attack.”

“Yes. After I finish here, I have to go to apply elsewhere.”

The battle still continues. Even at this moment, there will be people whose lives are in danger.

I cut down the ghouls around me with a three-man sword. Chew! The ghoul’s steely skin cracked like butter and turned into a mere corpse.

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Gam Sang-woo opened his mouth in admiration as if he were amazing at any time.

“I have seen many strong and durable weapons while hunting, but this is the first time I have seen a sword that works well against undead. What is the name of that sword?”

“Three swords.”

“What a strange name. Do you have any plans to sell it?”

“Okay. I never thought of that!”

Suddenly! Sangwoo Sang-woo strikes me with his shield and I repeat the slashing with my sword. Because there were so many of them, even if the banshee fell, the fierce battle continued.

Kam Sang-woo protected me, and I quickly joined Sang-woo Sang-woo’s guild while shooting unmatched swords.

As he sighed and turned his stiff shoulders, Gam Sang-woo opened his mouth in a much lower voice.

“I see. Then Ijin Kim. Always be careful.”

“… Yeah?”

“Honestly, even I was greedy. How far can you climb the tower with that sword… Among the Hunters, there are a lot of bad guys. Even if you’re not a hunter, a strong weapon draws people’s attention that much.”

In addition to guilds, there are also corporate and government employees.

Everyone must have seen me catching a banshee. Because it was such an impactful scene.

“So be careful. Well, if you join my guild, I’ll protect you! So how is it? Once….”

“Ah. I appreciate the offer, but I will decline.”

“hahahahaha! … Really?”

“Yes.”

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Gam Sang-woo sighed with a regretful look on his face.

“Okay… I get it. This was a very serious proposal. If you think of it later, let me know anytime. As I said before, my name is sentimental, and we are the Shield Brotherhood guild.”

The Brotherhood of Shield… It’s very easy to understand.

Anyway, Sangwoo Sang’s words were difficult for me to overlook.

I remembered what I said to Teacher Yurim one day. There must be people like Lee Hyun-woo who want to extort weapons, and powerful people may try to deal with me as they please.

But.

I met eyes with Baek Ji-soo, who was looking this way from afar.

She was looking at me with her worried eyes. He raised her hand on one side of her as if she was okay with that.

It was meant to reassure him, but Baek Ji-soo’s forehead furrowed. She raises her hand and points to the ghoul behind me.

Are you telling me not to pay attention to this side and focus on the battle? I still thought so.

Chack! He easily decapitated the ghoul, who had already predicted his approach through analysis.

When I first made golden eggs, I tried to hide my skills because I wasn’t confident enough to handle the change.

However, many things will happen to be with Baek Ji-soo and Yoon Seo-hee in the future. You can’t always hide me every time.

You can’t worry in advance about something that hasn’t happened yet. I’ll have to do it somehow when the time comes.

Now I’m not alone.

“Okay! Back off now! Back one step! Move slowly!”

“Yes! Brother!”

Even if I caught the banshee, it was unreasonable to fight from a distance while being isolated from the camp, so I joined Sang-woo Sang-woo and the guild members in line and joined the center where Ji-soo Baek was.

There was no need to save strength anymore, and the effect of the three-person sword was so good that it was not difficult to go back.

“Jisoo!”

I approached her smiling as if she had returned safely, but Baek Ji-soo’s expression was not serious.

“… Binary.”

“Why? What’s going on?”

“Something is strange.”

Suddenly, whenever Baek Ji-soo says something like this, I get nervous.

With a wink, she pointed to the gate in the direction I came from.

“The gate won’t go away. Monsters are still coming out.”

“… Uh?”

I hurriedly turned my back and looked at the gate.

I didn’t notice during the battle because I didn’t have the time to check far away, but now that I’m here, I can tell.

Zombies and ghouls were still coming out of the Necropolis Gate.

“Crazy….”

Noticing that fact, my complexion hardened.

It is common for gates to close by themselves after sending monsters to a certain extent. But even after catching the boss and catching quite a lot of other monsters, more are still coming out?

This was never a normal situation.

“What about the other gates?”

“Same. It doesn’t look like it will close.”

The power is still inferior, but even the monsters keep coming out. So you don’t have an answer?

The general method of attacking the gate cannot solve this situation.

“Did you not feel anything strange?”

“I felt it.”

“Huh? Really? What is that?”

“Even if I catch a monster, I haven’t gotten a magic stone until now. Did you see the magic stone when you caught the banshee?”

“… No.”

Even though I cut my body in half, I didn’t see any magic stones stuck in the body or falling to the floor.

I’m not a hunter, but I know that it’s a general rule to root magic stones after the battle is over. There was no time to pick up magic stones one by one while fighting monsters.

Of course, while fighting with their lives at stake, no Hunter cares about magic stones right now. However, as the battle lengthened, everyone noticed little by little.

No matter how hard it is, I can’t see the magic stone.

“Monsters without magic stones from the beginning… There is no point. Then what is it?”

“That….”

Baek Ji-soo hesitated for a moment, then stretched out his white hand to me.

“Hold your hand.”

Suddenly? I looked at her hand with her blind eyes.

“It’s faster to see for yourself. I will share my feelings.”

“Hmm. Okay.”

Baek Ji-soo grabbed her hand, and she let her shoulders tremble.

Since I have bigger hands than others, Baek Ji-soo’s hands felt small like some kind of doll.

‘It’s a bit cold.’

Cold hands and feet? This cool body temperature… I think I remember something, but I can’t remember.

“… You don’t have to hold on so tight.”

“Oh, sorry.”

I didn’t mean to. Did you ever get sick? The hand that held Baek Ji-su’s hand relaxed slightly.

It was only then that Baek Ji-su took a deep breath and raised his mana.

Ziying – The red pupils were covered with pure white magic. And somehow, I was able to see what she was seeing.

That was the flow of magical power.

“Wait. This.”

“Yes. Magical power is flowing somewhere.”

Every time a monster died, the magical power drained from its body and flowed somewhere in this venue. It wasn’t just monsters. Even the body of the Hunter who died fighting did not feel magical power.

“This was the role of this barrier. This is a barrier used for large-scale human sacrifices. Look over there.”

Baek Ji-soo pointed at a monster that had just fallen.

Half of the mana drained from the monster is scattered in four directions and goes to each gate.

The other half… Center?

“Half of it keeps the gate, half is used elsewhere. I still don’t know what it is.”

“… Then we should check what it is.”

“Yes. That’s right.”

We nodded at the same time and decided to follow the flow of magic power.

I let go of Baek Ji-soo’s hand because I only needed to see one person to follow the flow.

“… Ah.”

“Why is that?”

“No. Never mind.”

She seemed relieved somewhere, but at the same time, she had a look of regret.

I wondered, but now wasn’t the time to care about that.

The place where people gather after chasing Baek Ji-soo. Headed to the center of the exhibition hall.

At that moment, the loud flapping of wings was heard.

「Keee!」

“What… !”

A large bird swooped down from the ceiling, aiming for the blank number.

I reflexively pulled out the three-person sword, but I felt skeptical. The three-person sword works well against the undead, but it is no different from a normal sword against living monsters like that.

Can I stop that? Even though I thought so, I got ready to swing the sword at the right timing with analysis.

Baek Ji-soo pursed his lips as if to cast a spell.

Taang!! Puck!

With a gunshot that cut through the air faster than that, the bullet exploded in the monster’s head.

‘… Shot?’

I instinctively looked in the direction where the gunshots had been heard at the appearance of an unfamiliar conventional weapon rarely heard on the battlefield of Hunter.

A blonde girl wearing a flashy red dress that doesn’t look good on a battlefield like this.

She was aiming this way with a sniper rifle much bigger than her body.

As if proving that the gunshot just now wasn’t an illusion, white smoke was slowly dispersing from the elongated muzzle.