Ch.9898. Kim Soo-hyun of Seongnam

“Wow…”

Kim Soo-jung, holding the camera, exclaimed in amazement.

She had already seen her brother’s healing at the farm.

The sight of Black Monkeys being healed all at once.

While she had thought it was incredible at the time, honestly, it hadn’t really hit her.

Back then, it hadn’t felt real, perhaps?

It was because she knew too clearly that it was an experiment.

Even though from the Black Monkeys’ perspective, they were in critical condition with their heads about to crack and their life force hanging by a thread, to Kim Soo-jung, it was just an experimental scene where they got tapped on the head with a practice wooden sword and were healed.

But now it was different.

The scene being captured from the sky with a drone camera prepared for the YouTube filming would probably look even more impressive.

The sight of twenty beams of light seeping into the hunters and instantly healing them was truly like a miracle of Moses.

Hunters who had been bleeding, collapsed, and screaming in pain suddenly recovered, touching their bodies with bewildered expressions.

While this didn’t make the monsters fall, the transition from near-death despair to a perfectly healthy body was enough to boost morale.

Of course, the tide of battle hadn’t changed.

The passing hunters were just buying time for citizens to escape despite being outmatched.

Unless hunters capable of tackling a B+ rank dungeon arrived, this overflow couldn’t be contained no matter how hard they tried.

Then Kim Soo-hyun appeared on camera.

Walking with a greatsword resting on his shoulder held in one hand, that casual demeanor gave off the impression of a seasoned veteran, which looked even cooler from the filming perspective.

Kim Soo-hyun’s figure disappeared momentarily as he observed the monsters.

On the other side of the camera.

The greatsword that had been resting on his shoulder was now lowered to the ground.

He was holding the greatsword like a one-handed sword, and by the time one couldn’t tell whether the red flowing down the broad blade was blood or the original color of the weapon…

KRAAAGH!

KYAAAA!

The monsters screamed as they collapsed, their bodies split in half, and the red blood dripping from the tip of the greatsword confirmed that it was indeed blood.

“Wow…”

“Gasp!”

Kim Soo-jung was amazed, and Lee Ji-hyun held her breath as she watched the situation.

To give an honest review, it was brutal.

This was something you’d only see in animation.

It shouldn’t be physically possible for a body to be split in half like that.

With bones, internal organs, and tough muscles in the way, how much strength would it take to cut a monster’s body in half like cutting tofu?

How much speed would it take for someone’s body to be split in half without any resistance, only realizing too late with a final scream as their last words?

Twelve monsters fell at once.

Kim Soo-hyun looked this way and then moved slowly enough to be captured on camera.

“So fast…”

Was “slowly” the right expression?

He moved so quickly between monsters that the camera could barely capture it, and the monsters fell one by one, split in half.

The difference from before was that while earlier it felt like compressed footage taken in one take and finished in a single cut, now it seemed like he was trying to stretch those moments out to show them.

“Is he doing this for YouTube content?”

Kim Soo-jung thought that even if she had said it herself, she couldn’t imagine being able to think about YouTube in front of such violent monsters.

But Kim Soo-hyun was doing just that.

That was probably the case.

What was funny to Kim Soo-jung was that she could see the editing points in the footage even in the midst of all this.

First scene.

Twelve monsters coolly sliced down.

Then moving between monsters, taking them out one by one.

“Waaah!”

“Kill them all!”

“You bastards!!”

The recovered hunters regained their fighting spirit and charged in.

“Uh oh. That’s not good…”

From a distance, it honestly looked like they were pushing it.

These were hunters who couldn’t handle a B+ rank dungeon overflow in the first place.

Even if they had recovered.

Even if the number of monsters had decreased a bit.

The monsters coming from the dungeon had slightly reduced momentum but were still emerging endlessly, and unless Kim Soo-hyun could handle all the monsters, the situation hadn’t really changed for them.

Only one thing had changed.

Their life force had been restored and their morale had risen slightly.

The important thing was that Kim Soo-hyun, who had contributed most to raising that morale, was strong—not that they were strong.

Their courage was admirable.

“KYAAK!”

And their efforts were enough to help draw attention so that other monsters couldn’t escape outside.

“Sigh. Please be more careful.”

With Kim Soo-hyun’s admonishment, light once again burst from his hand.

Another round of healing.

The hunters now faced reality and did their best in their positions.

About ten minutes passed.

“Over there!”

“First, stop the monsters from escaping!”

“Maintain formation!”

Hunters from about three guilds arrived.

At an intersection like this, it was important not only to stop the dungeon overflow but also to prevent even a single monster from escaping.

Just one B+ rank monster reaching a place with civilians could cause tremendous casualties.

That was probably why they were late.

And now that they had reached the dungeon entrance, there was no need to worry about accidents from the overflow anymore.

Kim Soo-jung quickly captured the hunters’ expressions.

She could see the faces of quite well-known hunters.

If Kim Soo-jung recognized them, it meant they were from fairly large guilds.

She perfectly captured their dumbfounded expressions.

“What the…”

“Is it over?”

“Why are the monsters…”

After just over ten minutes.

There were no remaining monsters around the dungeon overflow.

There were many monsters, but only those that had once breathed.

Kim Soo-jung understood for the first time in her life where the expression “piled like mountains” came from.

The monsters, twice the size of humans, were piled so high they truly looked like mountains, and Kim Soo-hyun sat on top of them with his greatsword on his shoulder, greeting the arriving hunters.

“Welcome, everyone. Whoa, stop, stop. I’ve already cleaned up here, so don’t think about getting a piece of the action.”

“…”

The YouTube content angle seemed to have worked out better than expected.

———————–

The Dungeon Association came to mediate the distribution of rewards from the dungeon overflow.

“So, Hunter Kim Soo-hyun, you healed all the hunters here and dealt with all the monsters from the B+ rank dungeon… is that correct?”

“Yes.”

“Your name is Kim Soo-hyun? Thank you so much. I really almost died.”

“That’s right. Why did you act so recklessly when you’re so weak? Next time, just stay back and do what you can. Let’s go quickly.”

“Thank you. Thank you.”

“…May I see your hunter ID?”

Since the hunters I had healed were eagerly vouching for my contribution, there shouldn’t be any major issues regarding the distribution.

The problem was that this person from the Hunter Association was being extremely uncooperative and rude.

I used my connection.

“Please call Team Leader Kim Jin-hyeop.”

“You can talk to me.”

“Are you higher ranked than Team Leader Kim Jin-hyeop?”

“Team Leader Kim is in charge of hunter management, and I’m from the dungeon incident processing team. To proceed with the settlement, I first need to confirm that you’re a hunter…”

“Let’s talk directly.”

Frustrated that even my connection wasn’t working, I was about to make a call when Kim Soo-jung finally arrived.

“Team Leader Kim Jin-hyeop said he’s coming now, so please wait just five minutes.”

And truly, in less than five minutes, Team Leader Kim Jin-hyeop arrived and resolved the situation.

“Oh, Soo-hyun. How did you end up here… Thank you. The support was delayed more than expected, which could have led to major casualties.”

“Yes, that’s what I saw. But do I really need to show my hunter ID every time? I’d prefer if only certain people knew about me right now.”

“I apologize. Because it’s highly confidential, not many staff within the association know about it. Regarding the distribution, payment is difficult without verifying your hunter ID… I’ll handle it properly.”

“Please do.”

“Ah! By the way, about the U.S…”

“Nothing yet.”

“I see… understood.”

Team Leader Kim Jin-hyeop went to talk with the association staff, and by now, reporters were busy interviewing the hunters who had helped stop the overflow.

Since I hate troublesome things, I just hid myself and watched.

“Citizens have uploaded footage of your efforts to stop the overflow.”

“Honestly, I just did what I thought I had to do. If the Holy Woman… no, wait. Holy Man? Holy Man sounds a bit strange, but it’s more accurate than Holy Woman, right?”

“Excuse me…?”

“That sight was truly like a holy woman herself. I thought I was going to die. My arm was half torn off by a monster’s attack, and my vision was getting blurry. That’s when the Holy Man’s healing came. I’ve never seen or heard of such healing in my life. My life force was completely restored, and even my wounds disappeared as if washed away.”

“Ah, Holy Man…! Right. If there’s a Holy Woman, there should be a Holy Man too. Where is he?”

“Over there… huh? Where did he go?”

I used a leap to escape with Kim Soo-jung and Lee Ji-hyun.

“Bro, that YouTube content turned out perfect.”

“Don’t upload that.”

“Huh? Why?”

“I don’t want to be stuck with a stupid nickname like ‘Holy Man.'”

“What’s Holy Man? Like the city of Seongnam?”

“I don’t know. Let’s just go get something to eat.”

My uneasy premonition came true in less than 30 minutes.

“Pfft hahaha. ‘Anonymous Holy Man Saves Hunters.’ Have you seen this?”

And before Kim Soo-jung’s edited video could be uploaded to YouTube, footage taken by some citizen had already spread across the internet.