episode_0039

“Wow! A million… up…”

He blocks Goliath’s mouth, which was screaming loudly, with telekinesis.

Since I had a C-level physical enhancement and a gigantic characteristic, it was not easy to completely block his movements with my B-level telekinesis.

I looked around, confirmed that there were no other hunters watching this place, and approached the guy.

Seasonal techniques – Absorbing energy and great method

Its life force was pulled out and absorbed into me, and I frowned at the smaller amount of life force than I expected.

‘Physical abilities are beyond the standard even for C class, and the amount of vitality is less than half that of a knight.’

The superpower’s ability to strengthen the body did not seem to have much to do with vitality.

Still, since its vitality was not small, the amount of blood magic energy increased to the point where it could be felt.

While I was absorbing Goliath’s life force, Yuna Kim smashed Goliath’s mummy-like dried head with her fist, completing the confirmed kill and destruction of evidence.

Yuna Kim physically avoids the bouncing brain and skull pieces. Thanks to this, my body was clean except for my fists.

I spoke as I looked at Goliath’s body shrinking as its gigantic trait was released.

“This level 7 is quite difficult.”

Since it was level 7, it wasn’t a problem to have a level C monster wandering around, but Goliath was too strong for level C subjects.

Just as there is a significant difference between simple superpowers and gigantic powers, there are also superiority and inferiority between superpowers.

Of course, it would be much easier to kill him if he used magic rather than telekinesis, but he couldn’t use it where other hunters could see him.

I looked around to see what the other hunters were up to.

Due to the curvature of the Earth, the viewing distance at eye level of 2m is around 5km regardless of how good your eyesight is. The outer world was not much different, and the terrain here was constant without any elevation, so there were no errors.

Maybe that’s why out of the hundreds of hunters, there were only about 20 that can be seen here.

One hunter who appeared to be B-level was still crushed to death due to the difference in level, but it was visible that the C-level hunter was struggling even with at least 3 and up to 8 people gathered together.

“Some people might die at this gate.”

But it was none of my business.

The level 7 gate had a higher level of risk compared to level 5 and 6 gates.

If you are a C-level hunter who has come this far, you have applied with your own hands out of a desire to further develop your superpowers.

I didn’t care about them and headed further into the alien world, where there were no hunters.

Fortunately, Goliath was not the only one at this gate.

As I was walking in the field, I reflexively swung my telekinesis at the feeling that my head was becoming dizzy.

bang!

Something dead that couldn’t even make a sound.

It was only when I got closer that I could see something.

“It was muddy.”

Yuna Kim said after seeing that.

His nickname is Squishy, and his real name is Mud Slime.

It has mud-like skin, sticks to the ground, hides itself by covering itself with dirt, and uses its hallucinogenic supernatural powers to hunt its prey.

To an ordinary person, the hallucination was impossible to counter, but it was not at a level that could affect hunters who could enter and exit the gate.

Of course, if this ability reaches Class A level, it can be considered a nightmare.

A city in China became a capital city thanks to this ability.

Besides that, along the way we encountered familiar creatures such as tentacle parasites and stone spheres.

A gate with a high psychic response level did not necessarily mean that only strong monsters would inhabit it.

After all, this is also an ecosystem.

As we moved forward, killing two more Goliaths and several other miscellaneous monsters, we could hear screams from afar.

“Hmm?”

“This is…”

Yuna Kim also reacted as if she heard the same thing.

I can’t see anything in the direction from which the sound is heard,

The ears were able to perceive greater distances than the eyes.

“Has a B-class monster appeared, Yuhan?”

Although there is a slim chance that a Grade B monster may appear at a Grade 7 gate.

That’s why the C-class hunters formed a group and hunted.

First, I lifted my body high using telekinesis to secure my view.

A mass of telekinetic power erupted from my feet and lifted me up, using the ground as support.

The reason why I had to climb into the air in this way was because of the shortcomings of telekinetic power, the starting point of the power had to start from me, rather than rising from empty space.

Anyway, as I rose to a height of 50m above the ground, my visibility increased to 27km, which allowed me to see what was happening in the distance.

“Tentacles?”

Not a tentacle tree growing in the field, but a colony of tentacle parasites.

The swarming crowd was devouring one hunter.

Even at this distance, if it was that size, there would have been hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of people gathered together.

I quickly got down to the ground and spoke to Yuna Kim.

“It’s a colony of tentacle parasites.”

“What? Isn’t that the collective mind of telepathy?”

Collective spirit.

It is a psychic phenomenon created by the gathering of many telepathic abilities.

It is a mutant telepathy that is formed by overlapping and merging each other’s paranormal minds.

He had an instinct to grow himself by forcibly contacting and assimilating the minds of other psychics, and because of this, the amount of psychic energy was ridiculously high.

This group mind is no joke and dangerous, but if it does not collapse itself by randomly swallowing other paranormal minds and becomes stable and re-establishes itself as a single paranormal mind, it becomes a Hive Mind.

Hive Mind is a disaster that surpasses even A-class monsters with powerful mental abilities that can take over and control the minds of hundreds of thousands of people.

It has only appeared twice on Earth so far, once with a nuclear bomb, and once with an S-class ability. It was something so transcendent that it was killed.

“Fortunately, it’s a colony of tentacle parasites, so it won’t be that strong.”

The tentacle parasite is an average F-E rank monster, the weakest monster that even an ordinary person can kill with just a weapon.

Considering that this gate’s psychic response was level 7, their group spirit would be at level B level at most.

“I’m going to catch him.”

“What? You’re kidding, right? This guy is a group spirit, maybe he’s level A.”

“Kim Yuna.”

“It would be better to gather B-class hunters and bring in troops from outside to fight…”

“It’s an order.”

Yuna Kim stands tall for a moment at my words.

Soon, we move in the direction of the group spirit with the words “Okay, you can go.”.

I thought as I walked along with her.

‘Personally, I am interested in Hive Mind. It is similar to Babel, the unification of my ideology.’

In addition, a powerful A-level monster leaked a huge amount of psychic energy when it died.

As someone who had to absorb psychic energy to specialize in paranormal skills, there was no reason for me to avoid the colony of tentacled parasites.

As we rushed to the place where the colony of tentacle parasites was located, what came into view was a field covered in huge chunks of tentacles and slime.

Squeak?

When one of the guys on the clump recognized us, the others also noticed us and turned their gaze.

I used my magic eyes to keep an eye on them.

My magic eye is still in a basic form, so its main function is to see the other side, but I was able to visualize the paranormal spirit.

Their mental state was very strange. Due to their supernatural power, hundreds of mental boundaries were broken and they became one, swirling endlessly like a seething furnace.

However, as if to prove that they were in an incomplete state, some of the minds were collapsing as they repeatedly collided.

‘What happened to Spirit?’

As I watched it, energy was added to the paranormal spirit and it became one, reminding me of the essence of the spirit that I had only briefly seen.

Does that look like its essence melting into one?

Is the reason for the conflict a repulsion between the two?

While I was thinking about the guy for a moment, he started targeting me.

Awesome

Hundreds of voices were uttered at once, and human figures walked out among the bastards’ bodies.

Tentacle parasites sprouting from pores and skin all over the body.

I felt physiological disgust as it felt like parasites had sprouted from my zombie-like appearance.

“Wow, this is ridiculous.”

“Are you a hunter? Five people have already been hit.”

The parasitized hunters run trembling.

They have already been consumed by the group spirit and paranormal spirit, so there is no way to save them.

I struck down the parasitized hunters with telekinesis.

The telekinesis and wind power of the parasitized hunters coming in against him.

This is the most difficult thing about group spirit.

The person who was eaten still uses superpowers and becomes part of the group.

My telekinesis weakens as it cancels out the opponent’s telekinesis, and the three remaining parasitic hunters break through my telekinesis and run towards me.

I saw the parasite running at the fastest speed from the front.

An object that breaks through with force even if you try to block it with telekinesis.

I thought it looked familiar, but it was Kim Seong-geun who was fighting in front of the gate.

“Did a B-class hunter get hit too?”

It seemed like their group spirit was stronger than I thought.

So I decided to do my best too.

[Collapse, shock] 4 shots in succession.

A wave of collapse is formed that pushed even subspace away, directly hitting not only Kim Seong-geun but also the remaining parasites.

First, Kim Seong-geun twisted his body and spit out a tentacle parasite, and the two parasites behind him collapsed and died in real time.

The two telekinetic parasites also deployed their telekinetic powers as much as they could to defend themselves, but were broken through and disintegrated alive.

Afterwards, the wave of collapse continues to spread and hits the colony of tentacle parasites directly.

kki.eh.ki.keek.keek.keek.keek.keek

As the tentacle parasites shouted in unison, a huge storm of psychic energy arose.

It is clearly a psychic energy that cannot exert much physical force without superpowers, but it was seen blocking and pushing away the wave of collapse.

I found out the secret through the magic eye.

Psionics, the symbol of A-class psychics

It was mixed with the guy’s psychic energy.

However, it seems that it has not yet entered the full A class, and its shape and size are like thread blades.

“Did you grow further after eating Kim Seong-geun and the rest of the hunters?”

If you give it a little more time and feed Goliath, it might become a complete A grade.

But since there was no need to go through the trouble of buying it, I decided to end it here.