Ch.132132. An Even Crazier Bastard Above a Crazy Bastard

They quickly found an A+ dungeon as requested, and contacted me the very next day.

It was located in quite a remote area.

“Oh! Hello there! What an honor to meet such a distinguished person. I’m Kang Sungjun.”

“Yes.”

Kang Sungjun’s party of about seven people came well-prepared with rather flashy equipment.

A strong determination to conquer an A+ dungeon properly.

In contrast, there were only two of us—me and Kim Sujeong.

“…Oppa. Can’t you just go alone? This is my first time entering an A+ dungeon.”

“Who’s going to film?”

“You could take this and…”

“If you die, I’ll file for workers’ compensation, so just follow me.”

“MOM!!!!”

There was a bit of noise, but she followed anyway, and Kang Sungjun sneered with an expression that seemed to say “just as expected.”

Perhaps that’s why.

Even when I responded with a prickly attitude, he didn’t get particularly angry.

Rather, he smiled and responded as if telling me to enjoy my last supper.

“Wow. You look much younger than me, but an SSS+ hunter? I’m jealous. Haha. I heard you made a ton of money recently? How much did you get?”

“How are we going to film this?”

“Straight to business, I like it. We’ll enter together and start hunting in different directions. The number of monsters each of us kills will be recorded on video, and whoever kills more monsters until the dungeon is cleared—that’s the core element of this competition. Clean and simple, right?”

“Yes. But… how do we determine who killed what if our paths cross?”

“Good question. I’ve experienced this situation a few times. Since this isn’t a game, there’s no way to know who killed what, so unless there’s a significant difference, we’ll exclude those from the count. If the outcome is determined by those numbers, we’ll review the footage as much as possible to analyze who killed what, and also let the viewers judge. How about that? Clean, right?”

“Yes.”

After saying that, Kang Sungjun turned to his companions and said:

“Alright, everyone. You heard that? I’ve explained the rules clearly, and now we’ll go in.”

The way he looked at me with a sneer suggested he thought I didn’t know something.

He could smile and talk to me like that because he had his livestream on and was broadcasting how curtly I was treating him.

He must have contacted me because he was thoroughly irritated.

He probably thinks he’s gotten one over on me.

I maintained silence, pretending to be flustered.

So he approached me with the camera, saying it was fine.

“By the way, Farmer Hunter, do you have some kind of grudge against me? Many viewers have commented that you seem to have a lot of complaints about me from our first meeting.”

“…”

“Is that why you uploaded that video targeting me?”

To the taunting Kang Sungjun, I pretended to hesitate before answering.

“It’s…”

“Yes?”

“I have PTSD. That exact face. That tattooed thug face that only picks on those weaker than him and licks the asses of those he can’t beat while wagging his tail like a dog—PTSD from faces like that… Do you know what I wanted to do first when I became a hunter?”

“Huh? What?”

“To tear apart the limbs of bastards like that and kill them all.”

“…”

When I smiled with a crazed expression, Kang Sungjun flinched.

I stopped right there and relaxed my expression.

“Just kidding. I was just acting prickly to create some dramatic tension since the camera was on. How was it? Did it work well? Why would I have any ill feelings toward the great Kang Spung?”

“…”

– LOL for real

– 1.1M followers VS 7M subscribers in just a few days… holy shit it’s 7.3M now while I’m typing

– Looks? Farmer Hunter wins by a landslide. Age? Farmer Hunter wins by a landslide. Women? Collab with Seo Hyoju VS pretending to have something with some random woman LOL. Money? Farmer Hunter wins by a landslide.

– Aren’t you being too delusional, Spung? LOL

The chat was filled with people eager to mock Kang Spung.

Kang Sungjun’s mask seemed to slip as things weren’t going his way.

“Fucking anonymous bitches acting up again. What are you doing, manager assholes? Not working?”

Shouting loudly as if wanting me to hear, Kang Sungjun looked at me with cold eyes and said:

“Let’s go.”

Kang Sungjun and his party led the way into the dungeon.

I followed behind them.

“Come back safely… oppa… AHHH!”

I grabbed Kim Sujeong by the scruff of her neck as she was saying her farewell from one step behind, and entered the dungeon.

———————–

Contrary to Kim Sujeong’s exaggerated worries, I had made quite a lot of preparations for her.

With the money I recently earned, I went to the Hunter Department Store and got her a custom A-grade armor set for mages, along with accessories all with defensive options of B-grade or higher.

This wasn’t just for filming this video—even though she’d only be living in the level 0 biome of the Rift Dimension, dangerous situations occasionally occur on the farm outside the cabin, so it was a decision made for employee safety and welfare.

So even if monsters in the A+ dungeon attacked Kim Sujeong…

Even if those Kang Spung bastards went crazy and directly attacked her, she wouldn’t die easily.

But was there any need to make her take even that small risk?

I judged that Kim Sujeong needed to be exposed to danger at times like this, when I could protect her.

The Rift Dimension…

The Farming World is a place where danger can strike anytime, anywhere.

Just because you’ve cleaned up a level 0 biome doesn’t mean it’s a “safe zone.” That’s what I mean.

If that were the case, I wouldn’t have put so much effort into using loopholes to treat the entire base area around the farm as a cabin, wrapping it up tightly to create a perfect safe zone.

I could have just cleared all the monsters and farmed widely with open visibility.

Sometimes monsters from other biomes invade, and the monsters of the Farming World are species that value their territories, so they sometimes launch large-scale expeditions to claim empty territories.

Occasionally, events like “Monster Wave” occur.

If I’m away somewhere else when that happens, ultimately the people at the farm—Kim Sujeong or Lee Jihyun—will have to solve the problem, but they can’t just hide in the cabin forever, abandoning the farm and then recovering the losses after the danger passes.

Well, if they can survive that way, it’s a wise choice, but this is about gaining experience to calmly handle such situations if they occur at the farm.

“Ugh. I’m nervous. My first A+ dungeon and I’m just a camera operator. Ugh. Oppa, you have to save me right away if I’m in danger, okay?”

“Be quiet. Do you want me to upload just your whining to YouTube?”

“Oh, right.”

Besides, Kim Sujeong isn’t such a coward.

She whines, but she does her job when it’s time to work.

If she were the type to whine and do nothing, she wouldn’t have offered to follow me to the farm in the first place.

As she closed her mouth and followed me while filming, I went on my way.

“Oppa. Where are we going?”

“It’s a competition. We’re going to compete.”

Kim Sujeong hesitated when she saw me following Kang Spung’s party, who seemed to be advancing along a predetermined route.

“We’re going there?”

“Why go separately? In a competition, you just need to prevent the opponent from killing monsters, right?”

As I spoke, Kang Spung’s party prepared for battle.

The tank moved forward, and the melee dealers pulled aggro to gather monsters.

The moment about 10 monsters gathered…

Kang Spung took out several small bombs and was about to use a skill.

Whoosh—

As the bombs flew toward the monsters.

Pop-pop-pop!

I pulled out my Sewer Sword and used [Leaping Slash] to cut those bombs in mid-air.

Boom-boom-boom!

The bombs exploding belatedly in mid-air naturally failed to properly damage the monsters.

Even if some were nearby and within the blast radius, this is an A+ dungeon.

The monsters here wouldn’t die in one hit even with a direct hit, let alone from fragment damage.

“What the…!”

But the monsters die.

While they were confused by the sudden bomb explosions…

I used [Leaping Slash] once more to slice all their necks.

“Wow. It’s really convenient when you gather them for me.”

Anyone could see that I killed them.

Faced with this clean outcome, Kang Spung stood momentarily dumbfounded.

“What is this…”

“What? Is this against the rules? I watched Kang Spung’s channel, and you do this kind of thing a lot, don’t you?”

“…”

It must be an irrefutable statement.

The malicious actions of Kang Spung that Kim Sujeong had mentioned.

Pretending it was a mistake.

Publicly causing damage by including hunters in the blast radius while pretending to hunt monsters—he did it so proudly that it was even captured in videos.

Of course, he edited out the scenes of people getting hurt to avoid leaving evidence, and brushed it off as a mistake with a couldn’t-care-less attitude.

I’m just returning the favor.

So what could he say?

And perhaps that was what Kang Spung wanted.

He laughed and said to me:

“You started it first?”

Inside the dungeon.

I smiled as he revealed his true colors.

“Follow me if you can.”

As I ran, Kang Sungjun was the first to follow.

“Hey, Sungjun! Let’s go together!”

“Hyung, don’t take the bait! We need to go at our own pace! We can’t keep up with him anyway!”

He probably can’t hear them.

Because before I left, I mouthed a word where only Kang Sungjun could see:

‘Idiot.’