Ch.202202. Revealing Abilities to Commemorate 20 Million

Team Leader Kim Jin-hyeop had been extremely busy lately.

Though he was the head of Hunter Management, he had practically set aside his leadership position to work as Kim Su-hyeon’s personal secretary.

It couldn’t be helped.

An extraordinary hunter had emerged who needed to be managed by the state—someone had to take responsibility to prevent an SSS+ rank hunter from defecting overseas.

In that regard, Team Leader Kim Jin-hyeop was quite a responsible person.

I have to do this.

While he didn’t possess any remarkable patriotism, the unchangeable fact remained that if his country prospered, he would live well too.

Someone had to do it.

And the Hunter Association was surprisingly generous with compensation for this kind of work.

“…”

Anyway, the reason for his busyness lately was Kim Su-hyeon. After the recent entry of a Dark Site agent whose whereabouts remained unknown, there were rumors that another Dark Site agent might enter the country. As a result, a special protection team had been formed to guard Kim Su-hyeon’s family.

At this point, it was practically a personal security detail.

If anything were to happen to Kim Su-hyeon’s family, the situation would genuinely go to hell, so they had to exercise extreme caution.

“Team Leader, is this really right? If I wanted to do this, I would’ve worked as a private bodyguard. We’re just doing security in three shifts all day.”

“If you don’t like it, go become a private bodyguard…”

“I can’t do that. It’s better to slack off while getting a fat paycheck than to risk my life stopping dungeon backflows for a high salary.”

“Slack off after your shift, but do your job properly while on duty. This isn’t just for show. Whether it’s Dark Site or whatever, something is definitely targeting this place.”

“…I guess so? Wow… but it’s amazing to think someone could possess two SSS+ rank abilities.”

Kim Jin-hyeop couldn’t respond to his team member’s comments as they patrolled near Kim Su-hyeon’s house.

When he first confirmed the SSS+ rank ability, he thought it alone was world-changing and made tremendous efforts to maintain confidentiality.

But not long after, Kim Su-hyeon displayed a completely new Holy Magic ability—not his close-combat weapon skill—which was also SSS+ rank. Since this ability wasn’t registered, officially he was still a hunter with just one SSS+ ability.

Kim Jin-hyeop hadn’t specifically asked whether he would register the ability.

Even if a hunter had multiple abilities, registering them with the Hunter Association was entirely voluntary.

Of course, if one wanted to work using that ability, it would need to be on their hunter license, but there was no reason to recommend registration if the person didn’t want to.

And he was somewhat afraid.

What if Kim Su-hyeon’s ability…

What would happen if it turned out to be another SSS+ rank?

The presence of a hunter with two SSS+ abilities versus one with a single SSS+ ability was incomparable.

Even the United States, currently approaching cautiously, might react unpredictably in such a case.

So he rather hoped the ability wouldn’t be registered.

But last night.

Kim Su-hyeon contacted him separately and told Team Leader Kim Jin-hyeop some shocking news.

“I’m going to film a YouTube Q&A and reveal my ability.”

“…Pardon?”

“So I need to certify another ability.”

“…Are you serious?”

“Yes.”

Kim Jin-hyeop wanted to say that didn’t seem right.

That he wouldn’t recommend it.

But when he tried to speak, he wondered if that was the correct response, so he said nothing.

SSS+ rank was truly beyond the heavens.

The sky above the sky.

With such power, one could literally overthrow an entire country.

Of course, since no one had ever demonstrated such power, there were still doubts about whether such strength really existed.

Anyway, just because he was somewhat close to Kim Su-hyeon didn’t mean Team Leader Kim Jin-hyeop could tell him what to do.

So he simply came to work late and helped him.

[Close Combat Weapon SSS+]

[Holy Magic SSS+]

This is what appeared when mana was infused into Kim Su-hyeon’s hunter license.

Although he had seen Kim Su-hyeon’s abilities several times already, he couldn’t help but marvel.

Team Leader Kim Jin-hyeop, himself an S- rank hunter, felt proud when he opened his status window, but seeing SSS+ made his S- rank seem extremely insignificant.

The conversation that followed still stuck in his memory.

“Thank you.”

Team Leader Kim Jin-hyeop, in an absurd situation, tried to make a joke.

“Do you have any other abilities you’d like to register?”

He said it because it seemed ridiculous how Kim Su-hyeon was registering abilities one by one as if peeling an onion, but Kim Su-hyeon’s response was strange.

“Hmm. I’ll just register these two for now. If I reveal everything, Dark Site or the Americans might become troublesome.”

“…Is it my misunderstanding that you’re implying you have more?”

“It might be a misunderstanding. Or it might not.”

Then he left after asking him to protect his family well.

“What on earth…”

What kind of person was he?

At the last moment, as he was debating whether to ask out of curiosity, Kim Su-hyeon looked at him with a smile and said:

“Many of your questions will be answered in the Q&A, so make sure to watch it when it’s uploaded.”

He had already subscribed to “SSS+ Rank Farmer Hunter” long ago.

He had watched and analyzed the uploaded videos multiple times, so he was definitely planning to watch the Q&A video too.

Team Leader Kim Jin-hyeop was determined to watch it as soon as it was uploaded, even setting up notifications.

———–

[Close Combat Weapon SSS+]

[Holy Magic SSS+]

“These are my abilities. Unfortunately, the SSS+ rank in my channel name was true, being a hunter was true, and the farmer part might have been a bit of a lie. Originally, this farm was my ability, and the core of my power was growing by farming, but these days my manager and younger sister are doing the farming.”

The Q&A proceeded smoothly.

While there weren’t many impactful moments like Seo Hyo-ju’s spontaneous comment, the reveal of his hunter license near the end in response to the question “Are you really an SSS+ rank hunter?” would likely satisfy many people’s curiosity.

The filming took quite a while, and while not the entire rift dimension, the farm’s cabin and surrounding fields were somewhat captured.

However, he didn’t reveal core members like Lee Ji-hyun or Lulu who were in the cabin.

After all, keeping the people around him hidden would help eliminate variables no matter what happened.

After finishing the Q&A, the atmosphere with Seo Hyo-ju didn’t become awkward.

“Unnie, that’s amazing. Thank you. This will definitely attract attention! Are you okay with that?”

“What does it matter? The first comment already set this concept. Even my subscribers aren’t reacting badly. Su-hyeon oppa does have qualities worth pursuing.”

“…As frustrating as it is, that’s true. Somehow I’ve ended up with the concept of being the most annoying guy who’s not interested but attracts pretty women.”

“Maybe the women who are attracted to you are, like me, half-interested in something else?”

At night, they fried chicken, drank beer, and chatted about various things. Seo Hyo-ju slept in the prepared guest room.

The next day, he gave her a real tour of the rift dimension.

“Wow… are these the natives? They’re really beautiful. The village is so sophisticated.”

“The design was done by a separate designer. The village was built like this.”

“Wow… amazing.”

Starting from the Naru tribe village, they also explored the southern swamplands.

“Wow… a dungeon like this would be really difficult to hunt in. But where are the monsters?”

“Huh? Um… where did they all go…”

He couldn’t bring himself to say that most had been butchered for blood eel meat and stored in warehouses.

Or that all the alligators had been skinned and sent to Lee Su-mi.

Then they toured the eastern tropical forest… which had now become an orchard biome.

Finally, they visited the NPC village.

“This is truly an amazing place. So the people living here are Farming Company employees?”

“Well, I guess so?”

“…That’s a shame.”

“Hm?”

“It seems like it would be fun.”

People tend to yearn for what they haven’t experienced.

He didn’t ask “Do you want to join too?”

The rift dimension wasn’t a resort for people.

It was his private farm, and only those essential to the farm could gather here—only those who would fight alongside him until the vast rift dimension was fully developed.

Well, if someday Seo Hyo-ju’s heart became truly set on this place…

If she was prepared to abandon everything she had achieved and fully commit to a new adventure, her abilities weren’t bad enough for him to consider it.

But there was no need to respond to her casual desire to visit like it was a vacation home.

No need to make the offer first.

And so he paid his debt for using Seo Hyo-ju as a cosmetics model over those three days.

“It was wonderful.”

In a way, Seo Hyo-ju was the first outsider to properly experience the farm, and the first traveler’s review was a perfect 10 out of 10.