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Kim Yu-na and I collected the relics and returned to the confluence point with joy, but we heard shocking information from Han Seok-jin.

“You discovered an alien core?”

“Yes. I was lucky. But there is one problem.”

The problem was a group of C- and D-class practitioners who were estimated to be monsters.

Although it is surprising that there is a C-level monster in a level 5 gate, the larger the original gate, the greater the error in measuring such psychic reactions.

Moreover, since there was an alien core nearby, it was not entirely impossible.

Anyway, with this level of power, Han Seok-jin and Jeong Soo-ah should have called us instead of handling it alone.

The enemy was too burdensome for the two of us to deal with the alien core with ease.

“Really? It worked really well. Let’s wake up tomorrow, report it to the association, and go take care of it right away.”

Kim Yuna said.

Originally, with exceptions such as extremely small ones, reporting was required upon discovery of extraterrestrial cores.

This is because the size of the gate may become so large that it may not be possible to return to Earth.

It may seem like a joke, but if you get to the level of the large gate, it will take several days just to get through.

If the alien core was intentionally destroyed and the report was delayed, the Aurora would be scattered and exposed to space, and the hunters who were attacking it could be massacred, so failing to report the discovery could be treated as a serious crime.

After morning, Yuna Kim reported that an alien core had been discovered using the gate radio.

Fortunately, no gold mines or extraterrestrial minerals were found within this gate, and permission for destruction was granted.

We had a quick breakfast and then set off to destroy the alien core.

We had to hurry because it was not impossible for someone else to come through the connected side road and secretly destroy the alien core and act like a fool.

As I jogged for 30 minutes toward my destination, a strange sensation arose in my paranormal spirit.

“Is this a reaction with an alien nucleus?”

Hunters with paranormal minds were able to detect alien cores from a certain distance.

This was one of the important reasons why hunters were sent to the gate.

An alien core detector that maintains the gate.

If there are no hunters, you have to search carefully with manpower, but then the attack period becomes too long.

“Oh? Are you sure you can feel it in this street? There are still 10 minutes left to go!”

I asked other hunters who had more experience than me, and Jeong Su-ah responded in surprise.

“Are you sure you have already recognized the paranormal spirit?”

“Yes. I was lucky and it happened like that.”

A bit of jealousy was evident in the eyes of Han Seok-jin and Jeong Su-ah.

Yuna Kim, who was subordinate to me, had sparkling eyes.

Han Seok-jin explained that you had to run for 5 more minutes to feel this response.

Han Seok-jin, who was talkative, Jeong Soo-ah, who was complaining about being jealous, and Kim Yu-na, who was openly praising me, also started to become more serious when they felt Lee Gye-haek’s response as they reached 5 minutes away.

“Since the opponent is a practitioner, it would be better for me and Han Seok-jin to separate from the beginning and aim for the alien core.”

“Would I deal with the leader of a group of ascetics? Since I’m a C-level person, I think I’ll be better as an experienced telekinetic.”

“Then, let’s organize the rest of the practitioners together with me.”

“There are only 7 remaining practitioners, so it will be easy to organize them. It’s even better with Lim Yu-han helping Su-ah Jeong from time to time.”

We came up with a strategy in an instant and walked towards the depths of the crevice where the ceiling was covered with rocks.

The practitioners sat in a circle around the alien core and showed different appearances, such as individually training or sleeping, or even lying down and looking into space. When they saw us, they immediately got ready for battle and started flying towards us.

It seems like it’s rushing towards us like a monster, but it was actually to protect the alien core. If it fights near the alien core, the alien core will inevitably be destroyed or become hostage, so it was to intercept us from afar.

If you look at it this way, it seems like you can communicate rationally, but the other person is a monster.

We instinctively exclude life on Earth.

Anyway, there was no need for us to think about their situation, and Han Seok-jin and Kim Yu-na split off to both sides and ran to surround the alien core.

Seeing our actions, the practitioners were also divided into three groups.

Originally, when a practitioner used telekinesis to levitate his or her body high in the air, there was no answer for those with body enhancement abilities, but by targeting the alien core, the practitioner had no choice but to approach them.

Jeong Soo-ah and I could have split up and attacked, but since the telekinetic person was a water body minus the telekinetic power, it was better to support each other.

The monks coming toward the center were the leader and the remaining two monks. First, I took the lead and shot a dagger using my telekinesis at the monks coming toward us.

The target practitioner tried to block the dagger by swinging his telekinetic power towards him, but the dagger instantly cut through the chunk of telekinetic power and even pierced the telekinetic power that protected the practitioner.

“Geuaaagh!”

This is the reason why the telekinetic person uses a weapon. The reason why the practitioner’s telekinetic power was instantly split by my dagger was due to the difference in output, but also the difference in the weapon.

Because the power of telekinesis itself can be easily concentrated into one point, a practitioner without a weapon and with less superpowers than me could not block even a single attack from me.

Of course, practitioners had much stronger vitality than humans, so they did not die when there was a hole in their stomachs, but the output of their telekinesis was severely reduced.

And the moment I tried to retrieve the dagger that had been fired, there was a force that snatched my dagger as if it had been waiting for me.

As the leader of the ascetics, he must have been quite cunning, and even though he was able to block the attack on his subordinates, he blocked them starting with the dagger.

“Ha, there are still a lot of daggers.”

With such a difference in distance, the telekinetic power of the nearby leader with the dagger was stronger, so I boldly gave up the dagger and shot the dagger at the other practitioner.

At this time, Jeong Soo-ah also moved along and marked the boss herself. To be honest, wielding three swords with telekinesis looked much cooler than my dagger.

The other practitioner must have learned a lesson from the previous practitioner, and when my dagger approached, he moved his body telekinetically to avoid it and moved a nearby rock to block the dagger.

In addition, the attendant whose stomach was pierced by me also joined in to help with the defense, so it was definitely a little more difficult than the previous fights.

But that was only for a moment, and as I started firing more daggers, the fleeing practitioner quickly turned into a corpse.

“Oooot!”

Meanwhile, the monk with a hole in his stomach threw a rock at me, but I caught the rock and returned it, crushing the monk’s chest as well.

After sorting out the two practitioners in an instant, I watched the fight between Jeong Su-ah and the leader. Except for a small cut on his left hand, the leader was moving fine and was fighting with Jeong Su-ah with a dagger and a nearby rock.

The sword was weaker against the rock than expected, but since it was a factory-made, mass-produced sword, even if it was wrapped with telekinesis, it could not split the rock with a single sword.

After seeing that and gaining confidence with my dagger, I shot the dagger at the leader.

The leader was quickly outnumbered by the joint attack between me and Jeong Su-ah, and even when I blocked a dagger or a rock with telekinesis, he was defenseless and was cut to pieces by Jeong Su-ah’s sword.

“Gaaaa!!”

In the end, he tried to escape from this place, but his heart was stabbed by Jeong Su-ah’s knife and his life was short-lived.

Looking around, Han Seok-jin and Kim Yu-na were also finishing cleaning up the remaining monsters.

It was very impressive that the practitioner’s head was missing or was cut in half.

After roughly disposing of the corpses of the monsters, we gathered around the alien core and everyone was excited.

“This is an alien core….”

Containing enormous psychic energy, it was a smooth sphere with white dots on a black background, and it looked very mysterious as it was unusually floating in the air on its own.

This is also the reason why hunters risk their lives to enter the gate and search, because the destruction of the alien core helps stimulate and grow superpowers.

The destruction of the alien core was still carried out by leader Yuna Kim.

When Yuna Kim destroyed the alien core by hitting it with her fist, powerful mental waves and enormous psychic energy erupted from the alien core around her.

“Oh…”

“Ah…”

“This…”

Everyone, including Kim Yuna, looked impressed.

I also concentrated for a moment to check, and I felt that the mental waves were stimulating the paranormal spirit and that some of the psychic energy spreading around was being absorbed into me.

As I looked into Yuna Kim’s perspective through Babel, I found that she too was stimulated by the paranormal spirit and was gaining a sense of it.

‘It’s helpful, but… if I want to control the paranormal spirit, I guess I’ll have to destroy one or two of them. Or destroy an alien core of a larger scale or higher class.’

Still, I felt like I was at a loss as to how to move my paranormal spirit.

We stood still for a while, reflecting on the sensations from before, then came to our senses and started picking up fragments of the alien core.

Fragments of extraterrestrial cores are one of the important sources of income for hunters and are used as materials for equipment exclusively for psychics, psychic stimulants, special medicines that help the growth of extraterrestrial powers, and various state-of-the-art equipment, so even the alien cores of these level 5 gates were priced at over 10 million won. .

We then came out of the gate, received the by-product settlement through the Hunter Association, and exchanged our numbers.

The price of the alien core alone was 18 million won, which made my wallet thicker.

‘This is what it means for a hunter to make money.’

The subject matter of the monster was actually just a bonus.

The real ones are special items like alien cores and relics.

Anyway, after settling the bill, we parted ways with smiles on our faces.

“Let’s meet again next time.”

“Let’s have a drink later.”

Of course, Kim Yuna and I were together.

Kim Yuna lived in a 25 pyeong apartment, but I lived in a 34 pyeong private house, so I invited Kim Yuna to my house.

I couldn’t do it because I was anxious about staying far away.

She’s also afraid that she might run into someone with mind-reading or telepathy abilities and find out that she was brainwashed.

Also, after my parents passed away, the house was too large for me to live alone and it was a hassle to maintain.

‘I guess I can just ask Yuna Kim to do all the housework.’

Moreover, since I am now planning to explore the world of martial arts again using a dimensional mirror, I need someone to respond if someone comes to my house.