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“Kwoaaar!”

He has a huge body of about 2 meters and has dull blue-green skin.

The face is viciously distorted, with the lower fangs sticking out.

Forest Oak.

There are now monsters that should be in places like D-rank gates and orc villages.

He was running wild in a department store, swinging a huge wooden club.

“Aaaagh!”

“Sa, save me!!”

People who discover them get scared and run away.

In response to fleeing movements and startled screams.

The forest orc started running towards the people.

“Ugh!”

“Aaaagh!”

People started running desperately to avoid dying.

Employees, customers, everyone.

But then.

“Get out of the way!”

Tuk─

“Aaaah?!”

One of the people running away pushed the female employee of the department store next to him.

She fell sideways.

“Kaaaa!”

In front of a female department store employee who fell.

The Forest Oak stopped.

“Khaaagh!”

He cried loudly, as if he was happy to catch his prey.

He lifted up the wooden club.

“Ah, ah…”

The female employee fell into despair because she thought she could no longer survive.

The moment the forest orc’s club falls towards her.

Kwaaaang!!

It’s not the sound of your head being crushed like tofu by a heavy club.

The sound that occurs when something hard collides with another was heard in the female employee’s ears.

“…huh?”

She felt strange because she felt no pain, and slowly opened her eyes.

Tuk─

Then a white cap with a striking black cap fell in front of her.

“…?”

The female employee raises her head to see what that is.

in front of her.

“Crumbling…!!”

There stood a woman with a white tail that stood upright as if showing strength, and pointy wolf ears that trembled.

Blocking the giant orc’s club with my bare body.

“Uh, uhh…”

And after that, I wrapped the whip around my arm to reduce the impact even a little.

There was also a small, green-skinned woman pulling the orc’s arm back.

There was also a moment of doubt as to who they were.

She began to feel a deep sense of relief that she had somehow survived, and a deep sense of gratitude towards the person in front of her who had saved her.

“Thank you…”

As I was about to say hello, I felt someone grab me from behind.

“Go away immediately!”

A man’s voice.

When I looked back, I saw that he was carrying his familiars with him earlier.

Hunter Park Ji-hoon, also known as ‘Trainer’, was pulling the back of his clothes.

‘ah…’

Only then did the female employee realize that the beings who saved her were the goblins and beastman monsters he had been accompanying.

“You will be safe if you come here. Evacuate quickly.”

Park Ji-hoon tells me to go quickly with a serious face.

And he takes steps to return to the scene.

“Thank you.”

The female employee expressed her gratitude.

First, say thank you to the owner.

Because I thought he gave orders to the prisoner and saved him.

But Park Ji-hoon shook his head as if he was wrong.

“Please say hello to Kar and Brianna, not me. Because he ran out and stopped me before I found him.”

“Ah…”

It was not an order, but it moved on its own.

In other words, the monster saved people through its own will.

‘No, not a monster… but a familiar.’

Now they are no longer ‘monsters’ that pose a threat to humanity.

A hunter-like being who saves them.

In the female employee’s mind, little by little, her perception of them began to change.

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“Senior! Please go to the 5th floor first. I’ll go downstairs from here. Please check to see if there are other hunters.”

Shin Ji-yeon realizes that the monster that invaded the department store is an orc, a D-rank monster.

I immediately gave instructions to Jihoon Park.

“Isn’t it better to just fight?”

Park Ji-hoon said that, but Shin Ji-yeon shook her head.

“No. Saving lives comes first. And the senior is registered as F rank. It’s right to leave it to the high-ranking hunters and go into lifesaving. Because there are a lot of seniors who can move.”

Usually when monsters come out due to a gate overflow.

Hunters with the same or higher rank as the gate rush out, clear out the monsters that pop out, and enter the gate causing the gate to close it.

And hunters with lower ranks than the monsters that came out of the gate usually band together and prioritize rescuing people, and even if a monster appears, they respond as a group.

Or, it is common for high-ranked hunters who are assigned separately as a lifesaving team to fight and become assistants.

In other words, Park Ji-hoon is F rank.

No matter how high your stats are, you still get D rank.

In addition, there are three people, including myself, who are most important for saving lives and can be hired right away.

For now, it is better for Shin Ji-yeon to prioritize front-line combat, and for Park Ji-hoon and his familiars to prioritize saving lives.

Of course, as it is a department store, there are many eyes, so it was also a measure to avoid being discovered that Park Ji-hoon’s rank was F rank or higher.

“Down… There is a high probability that the gate is hidden underground. So I’ll go down.”

The reason Park Ji-hoon is sent upstairs is to encourage the evacuation of those who have not yet escaped.

And the reason Shin Ji-yeon went down was because she was a high-rank hunter, so she could find the gate and close it as quickly as possible.

“The association will come soon. Don’t push yourself too hard.”

“Jiyeon, you too.”

The two looked at each other for a moment as if they were worried, then immediately headed in opposite directions.

Park Ji-hoon, who went upstairs, also joined several hunters who were shopping elsewhere.

A total of 4 hunters joined Park Ji-hoon.

There was one D rank, two E ranks, and one F rank.

If you add Kar and Brianna, there are a total of 7 people.

“Huh?! Seo, is Park Ji-hoon a hunter?”

“Really…?”

Although the hunters who recognized Park Ji-hoon and his familiar were surprised.

Because they knew it was an urgent situation.

We put off being surprised and started discussing the current situation.

First of all, I don’t know how many orcs there will be on any floor.

They decide to divide into teams and guide people’s evacuation from each floor, starting from the top, and rescue people.

“From the 4th floor, there is a B-rank hunter who came with Hunter Park Ji-hoon, and a C-rank hunter who came with me is making his way down. And I just received a call saying that the association has opened an emergency evacuation route from the first floor and sent someone to do so. We just need to get him down from here.”

Among the people gathered, a D-rank hunter checks his cell phone and informs him of the current situation.

The lower floors, which are expected to have the most monsters, are the upper level hunters.

And hunters called by the association are stepping in and breaking through.

In addition, the evacuation route to the first floor has already been secured.

All they have to do is find the people who couldn’t evacuate, protect them from the orcs who came up here, and send them down.

Two E-rank members and one F-rank member formed a group.

One D-rank member performs individual activities.

Jihoon Park was divided into teams by going with two familiars.

They will be in charge of the 5th, 6th, and 7th floors respectively.

Since we were in a rush at 1 o’clock, we didn’t have time to talk about the group formation or anything.

Everyone followed the instructions of the D-rank hunter, who was the highest rank here.

Park Ji-hoon went to the 7th floor that way and led several people who were in the bathroom to the emergency evacuation route.

He also rescued one female employee who had fallen behind.

But in the process, I ran into an orc.

“Car! Are you okay?”

“Krrr…”

Karr struggles to answer Park Ji-hoon’s question.

But the voice that sounded like teeth grinding together told me that it was not okay at all.

After all, it was a D-rank monster, and it took the brunt of the attack from Forest Orc, which had the highest strength among D-rank monsters.

No matter how much Brianna pulled the whip to reduce the impact, there was no way she was okay.

“Ki, kihiik…”

“Kkeaeng…”

Plus, he’s still pressing down on the stick with all his strength.

Both Carr and Brianna looked distressed.

“Get away, you pig…!”

Meanwhile, Jihoon Park intervenes and kicks Orc.

Wow!!

Because the orc was a male, its stats were relatively low.

Still, it was a kick with strength that was almost D-rank.

“Kwaaak!”

The orc’s back suddenly bucked and he retreated to the other side.

Because everyone around us had evacuated, it seemed like there was no problem using all our power.

It’s about to hit you right away.

“Kaaak!”

The orc got angry and tried to swing his club at Park Ji-hoon.

[The enemy temporarily stiffens and shrinks. ]

flinch!

He becomes rigid due to the alpha male effect.

I completely missed the timing of the attack.

Whoops!

This time, Park Ji-hoon’s kick hit the solar plexus precisely.

“Kuheook?!”

The orc fell to the floor, letting out a gasping moan.

“Carr, Brianna. Finish it.”

“Cry!”

“Keaaagh!”

And then he asks them to finish it.

After learning that hunting monsters also increases the stats of your familiars.

Park Ji-hoon decided to give up the finishing touches to women unless they were female monsters.

That way, the growth of the familiars will increase.

“Keuuuh…”

As soon as Park Ji-hoon gave the finishing order, he put a whip around the neck of the orc lying on the floor.

Kar grabbed the guy’s head with his arms.

and.

Quack!

The two of them applied their strength together and broke the guy’s neck.

The thick and strong neck of the oak was suddenly bent, and the head and cervical vertebrae were separated.

Tuk─

[ A D-rank low-level magic stone has been acquired. ]

He dropped the magic stone and died instantly.

“Kaaak!”

The orc’s cries could be heard from downstairs as well.

It seemed like other hunters were probably fighting.

‘There isn’t much power. ‘I have to go to support.’

A team with one D rank, two E ranks and one F rank.

If more than two orcs appear, it becomes difficult to respond.

Coincidentally, the evacuation of this area has also ended.

There was only one on the 7th floor, but there could have been more below.

Park Ji-hoon and his familiars hurried down the stairs.