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Shin Ji-yeon was hit on the head by a wooden sword.

Park Ji-hoon stumbled from the dizzying pain that radiated to his head and the dizziness that made his eyes spin.

“Ugh…”

Of course, this was also a very weak hit.

No matter how rigid and atrophying the effect was.

Shin Ji-yeon is a B-rank hunter whose position involves close combat on the front lines.

If she had seriously hit the wooden sword, either the wooden sword or Park Ji-hoon’s head would have been broken in two.

But now it is also training.

In the first place, you can’t cut the head of the man you love in two.

Shin Ji-yeon controlled her strength.

“Ugh… cowardly. I can’t believe you’re using a magic trick.”

“Oh my, senior. What do you mean? ”

Park Ji-hoon frowned and stroked his head as if he was aggrieved.

Seeing him like that, Shin Ji-yeon giggled as if it was fun.

“Are you giving up already?”

“It can’t be.”

At Shin Ji-yeon’s provocation, Park Ji-hoon suddenly stood up.

After attacking and dodging like that for a while.

“Whoa, you definitely have fighting skills, so your movements are good.”

Shin Ji-yeon said, wiping away some sweat.

“Heo-eok, heo-eok… Then what should I do… I couldn’t win…”

On the other hand, Park Ji-hoon was lying on the floor completely covered in sweat.

Even though the stats increased by 2.1 times, it was still not enough for B rank.

“But even without magic power, it was a really good fight. Because of the atrophy effect, my body became very sluggish… It’s not for nothing that the stats and skills are bad.”

Even based on her stats, Shin Ji-yeon is ranked two levels lower than herself.

He shrugged his shoulders, recalling the attacks he had allowed against Park Ji-hoon, who was also a beginner in swordsmanship.

‘Magic power… That’s right. I also need to learn how to use magical power…’

After listening to Shin Ji-yeon, Ji-hoon Park realized that there was another field that he had not yet explored.

Horsepower.

If you don’t know how to use it, you’ll never be able to use it.

If you can use it, you can strengthen your body with magic power, or put magic power into your weapon to make powerful attacks.

This is a very useful ability.

However, for Park Ji-hoon, it is just a stat that exists in numbers.

There are special monsters whose attacks do not work at all without magical power.

Because there are monsters like iron golems that have very high physical resistance.

It is an ability that must be learned in order to advance to the upper gate.

“Difficult, difficult.”

Park Ji-hoon sighed at the fact that there were still a mountain of things to learn besides martial arts.

“Then should today’s training end here?”

“Ugh…”

And the fact that I couldn’t beat Shin Ji-yeon in the end.

He sighed even louder.

Shin Ji-yeon, who saw Park Ji-hoon like that, slowly approached him and whispered in his ear.

“You know that there is a gate schedule today after training, right?”

Come to think of it, I had set up an E-rank gate to show a real swordsmanship demonstration at the gate, something that couldn’t be shown through training.

‘Isn’t the schedule too tight?’

I wondered if it was a gate for three days in a row.

Anyway, Park Ji-hoon doesn’t have that much stamina.

Rather, I was looking forward to seeing what kind of pretty person I would meet this time.

I wasn’t really worried.

‘No, but when I think about it, they go to the gate like that and fuck like that. ‘It’s strange that I have so much stamina left.’

Could this also be the effect of being an alpha male?

, Park Ji-hoon thought.

That’s what I’m thinking.

Shin Ji-yeon whispered something again in my ear.

“Seeing what you do at the gate, maybe I can let you do it…?”

The moment I met her half-moon shaped eye smile while muttering that and smiling mischievously.

Jump up!

Something in Park Jihoon suddenly stood up.

#

“Chen Mei enters the black society?”

Lee Jeong-hyeon frowned slightly at the news his secretary delivered.

‘I thought it would move, but… I never thought Chen Mei would come in person.’

Park Ji-hoon, the world’s first and only ministry hunter.

I went to the United States, China, or any other country to meet him somehow.

There must be movement, he thought.

‘I had my eye on it, but I can’t take it.’

With that in mind, I was looking at the movements of guilds and foreign governments at home and abroad.

China’s black society was the first to move.

But it couldn’t have been this fast.

And that A-rank hunter Chen Mei, one of the key members of China’s No. 1 guild, Black Society, would come.

He wasn’t expecting it either.

“Are you going to meet Park Jihoon as expected?”

In response to his question, the secretary shook her head.

“No. I’m keeping an eye on them, but they say there hasn’t been any movement since entering the Utopia Hotel.”

“…Really?”

It was strange.

Chen Mei is a person who places great importance on efficiency even among black society.

They try their best to avoid creating troublesome problems and are famous for getting things done efficiently.

The Black Society probably also sent her in order to take Park Ji-hoon to China without causing as much international trouble as possible.

‘But as soon as you arrive, don’t turn to Park Ji-hoon and stay still.’

While I was thinking something was strange.

Suddenly, I remembered information about a domestic guild I had heard about earlier.

‘…Yongmun Guild. You said Gu Man-sik suddenly moved, right?’

Yongmun Guild, the problem child of Korean guilds.

Gu Man-sik, the guild leader of that guild.

Clearly, he was not interested in Park Ji-hoon.

Before, when I sent out messages to some powerful guilds.

Gu Man-sik chewed up the text message as if he was not interested at all and did not even offer to recruit Park Ji-hoon.

But today, out of nowhere, the guild office gave an order to bring Park Ji-hoon, citing a shallow and strange reason.

Since all the guild employees there heard it, it was information that was easily obtained without any need to dig up the information.

‘I thought it was a bit strange that Goo Man-sik suddenly came forward. ‘Of course, it coincides with Chen Mei’s entry into the black society.’

Lee Jeong-hyeon laughed and shook his head as if it was fun.

I remembered one more piece of old information about Gu Man-sik.

“Gu Man-sik, you like big water, right?”

When he awakened to A rank.

I remembered looking into foreign guilds diligently, saying that men should play in big water.

“I can draw a picture.”

In Lee Jeong-hyeon’s head, the picture is somewhat complete.

The puzzle of how things are going now has been put together perfectly.

“Fucking bitches. How dare you touch what I wanted?”

Lee Jeong-hyeon said that and started calling somewhere.

Everyone in the secretary’s office was shaking in his bloody atmosphere.

#

E-rank gate, ‘Giant Bat Cave’.

The monster that appears is, as the name of the gate suggests, a giant bat.

Bats that are nearly 1m in size run in droves, and because the inside of the cave is dark, equipment such as headlights is essential.

“…This is a brief briefing about the gate.”

After finishing the briefing about the gate.

Park Ji-hoon and his three familiars.

Brianna, Carr, and Jiyeon Shin stood in front of the gate.

‘A bat. So, is the bat beastman coming out? Maybe a bit like a vampire? A vampire who absorbs bodily fluids with semen instead of blood… Oooh, oh wow.’

Of course, Park Ji-hoon was not nervous at all, and was thinking about what kind of girl of a different race would appear this time.

I was just looking forward to that.

“Woman, please sign here.”

“Yes.”

This time, the association employee in front of the gate was a woman, and she looked curiously at Kar and Brianna standing behind Park Ji-hoon.

Kar was wearing the battle dress she wore when she first appeared (she got it before she came out).

Brianna was wearing reinforced plastic armor rented from the guild and holding a whip.

The clothes and weapons they are wearing are also unique, but the same goes for Shin Ji-yeon and Park Ji-hoon.

To be honest, it was natural for a hunter.

As expected, what attracts attention are the fluffy ears and tail.

And the greenish skin seemed to be the cause.

“Well, I was fully armed just in case. You guys will hardly go out today.”

Park Ji-hoon delivered the unfortunate news to the two familiars who were standing triumphantly in full armor.

“Kihiik…”

“Grung…”

Then the two made sullen expressions and their shoulders slumped.

It was very cute, like a puppy that had been deprived of its snack, but Park Ji-hoon shook his head resolutely.

“Instead, you let them run around and play as much as they want in the training room. Today Jiyeon is demonstrating swordsmanship. I will proceed by following along as best as I can. Please come forward only when you feel it is really dangerous.”

“Kiik.”

“Kyaang.”

As Park Ji-hoon spoke firmly, the two familiars nodded as if they understood.

Perhaps because he was a well-trained familiar, he listened well.

“Sir~ I’m going in now!”

“Uh, let’s go.”

So did Park Ji-hoon and the three female familiars.

I stepped into the gate again.

“Whew… I don’t really have a busy schedule where I have to go through the gate two days in a row.”

“I have three in a row.”

“Wow, that’s right?! After this is over, I’ll go look for a house and get some rest.”

“Yes, I made a lot of money. Let’s spend some money and do some healing.”

Are you used to the gate now?

Park Ji-hoon also chats casually.

Then…

Tiring~

[Entered the E-rank gate ‘Giant Bat Cave’. ]

[ Upon clearing the gate, or 30 minutes after entry. You can exit through the entrance. ]

Past the black crack in the gate.

Even blacker… the inside of the cave appeared.

“…It’s definitely very dark.”

“That’s right. It was a good thing I brought a light.”

The inside of the cave was quite dark.

Limited vision.

It was one of the field elements that made clearing the gate even more difficult.

Still, as it is an E rank gate.

Traps, double structures, monster debuffs, etc.

There is no element that makes it more dangerous than this.

Click!

Park Ji-hoon turned on the flashlight he had brought with him.

Then a bright light came out and reflected on the cave wall, and the inside began to be visible.

“Oh… it’s spacious.”

The inside of the cave was quite spacious.

It seemed to be almost 5m wide and 10m high.

“It is said that over 1M bats are flocking around in droves. It should be this big.”

Still, it’s a good thing.

If the space was too small, it would be difficult to fight properly.

“That’s good. Moderate width, enemies coming in droves, and limited field of view. It’s the perfect environment to show off your actual sword skills.”

Shin Ji-yeon smiled and walked forward.

It was to demonstrate first.

“Crying.”

“Kiik!”

Brianna and Kar, who have sensitive senses of smell and hearing, reacted first.

One beat late.

“Keee!”

“Kyaaaagh!”

The cries of giant bats were heard.

When I shined the light in the direction from which I heard the sound, I saw 6 or 7 bats, almost the size of people, flying towards them at once with their wings spread.

It was a scene that gave me goosebumps and filled me with feelings of fear.

“Watch carefully and follow along, senior. I’ll move slowly. You sparred with me a lot earlier, and you have fighting skills, so it won’t be that difficult to follow.”

Sereung─

Shin Ji-yeon said that and aimed her sword at the flying giant bats.