episode_0040

As the alpha male rose to level 2, the stat increase was changed to apply at least half of the time when dealing with male or masculine enemies.

Due to the effect of making Shin Ji-yeon a familiar, the alpha male ability can be applied to humans as well.

Thanks to this, I am now receiving a stat increase effect from Kang Si-kyung, whom I recognized as my enemy.

It is possible to have a stiffening effect.

The stats were only at the highest level among E ranks, not even D rank.

Awakened to C rank.

The stats are only half that of Kang Si-kyung, whose average stats exceed 100.

But it stiffens the body and makes it rigid.

Atrophy slightly reduces the average ability score above 100.

‘what? Why isn’t my body moving…’

Kang Si-kyung was taken aback for a moment, but he couldn’t believe that it was Park Ji-hoon’s ability.

Add to that the fact that he is an F-rank hunter, and of course he is careless, thinking that he will not be able to shake off or attack him.

Wow!

“…Ugh?!”

Park Ji-hoon suddenly slapped his leg.

Kang Si-kyung could not react.

And from a blow that was much stronger than expected, his balance collapsed.

One leg was lifted into the air.

In that state, if you reversely grab the hand holding your wrist and pull it hard.

“Uh…?”

His body falls forward.

Kang Si-kyung looked at Park Ji-hoon as if he couldn’t believe it.

And Park Ji-hoon looked at Kang Si-kyung’s face.

Laughing.

Gogkuraji went forward and drove a knee kick into his face.

Although there were still some unnecessary elements, the movements were still smooth enough that it would be difficult for someone who does not know martial arts to react and avoid them.

This was thanks to the increased agility stat and the effect of fighting skills.

Byak-!!

It’s not a joke, I really heard the sound of something breaking.

Kang Si-kyung’s face fell backwards.

Tuk─

Kang Si-kyung is in a prone position on the floor.

He felt a dizzying pain radiating from his nose.

“Keuuuu…”

I unconsciously touch my nose with my hand.

I felt a sticky liquid.

“Uh, huh?”

When I looked at my hands, they were covered in red liquid.

Blood was flowing out of his broken nose.

‘what? Why am I bleeding? Why does it hurt? Why am I kneeling in front of this bastard…?’

What happened to you now?

I didn’t understand it at all.

“Oh, let it go when you say that. Is this just self-defense? Because I was attacked first by a hunter stronger than me.”

Park Ji-hoon’s annoying tone.

The moment I heard those words.

Only then did Kang Si-kyung realize that Park Ji-hoon had attacked him and caused his nose to bleed.

“이, 이이… 개새끼가아아…!!”

The fact that he was defeated by an F-rank hunter who was much weaker than him.

Questions such as how an F rank could injure his own body with C rank durability, etc.

It didn’t cross his mind.

I just wanted to somehow deal with this shame and anger.

He jumped up and tried to extend his fist to Park Ji-hoon.

That moment.

‘uh…?’

Kang Si-kyung realized that his body was strange.

Slower than usual.

And in the middle, it felt like my body was stiffening little by little.

Plus a broken nose and flowing blood.

Due to the extreme pain of a broken bone that I had never felt in my life.

His posture completely collapsed.

“……”

Even though it was only for one day, I was trained by B-rank Hunter Shin Ji-yeon.

There was no way Park Ji-hoon, who had fighting skills, would miss that opportunity.

Tup!

A punch from an amateur with no skills.

Even if the move comes from a high stat.

After easily dodging punches that made me lose my balance.

Park Ji-hoon grabbed his arm and bent him backwards.

“What?!”

As the arm spun and bent, Kang Si-kyung’s body followed suit and turned backwards.

Park Ji-hoon clung to Kang Si-kyung’s back while holding his arm.

“Ah, ah… ahhh!”

The pain in my arm being bent and the pain in my nose as my body was shaking.

Kang Si-kyung was out of his mind.

He just screamed in pain.

If you give a little more strength here, you will have a C-rank body and all.

As the joints were bent, I was able to get a bad arm.

‘… These thoughtless bastards need to be nipped in the bud from the beginning so they never climb again.’

I didn’t particularly feel reluctant about breaking Kang Si-kyung’s bones.

Is it because they have already battled humanoid monsters?

Or is it because they perceived Kang Si-kyung as a beast or a monster rather than a human being?

Anyway, Park Ji-hoon gave me strength as is.

He broke Kang Si-kyung’s right arm.

Pop!

As he was a C-rank hunter, his body had high durability and strength, so he was not easily defeated.

However, as I continued to apply strength, my arm began to bend in an impossible direction.

The joint was completely gone.

“Quaaa!!”

Kang Si-kyung screamed in immense pain.

The eyes of few people were focused on them.

“What, what is it? Was there a fight?”

But if they give attention for no reason, will they also be harmed?

No one came close or spoke to me.

There weren’t many people around, so they thought it could be dangerous if aggro was directed at them.

Of course, as a citizen, I didn’t forget to report it to the police.

“Well, there was a fight in the middle of the street… Yeah yeah, here we go… ”

Anyway, try to stop them right away.

Because no one seemed to recognize Park Ji-hoon.

He was able to put the finishing touches on Kang Si-kyung’s broken arm with peace of mind.

Crack!

“Kkeeoeook…”

If I break my already broken arm one more time.

The unimaginable pain I felt in my right arm.

Kang Si-kyung couldn’t even scream properly.

The pain was so great that a normal person would faint from shock.

However, C-rank hunters were stronger not only physically but also mentally than ordinary people.

Even if I wanted to faint, I couldn’t and had to feel all the pain.

“If you come out again, I will break your legs.”

To Kang Si-kyung, who is shaking and shedding tears of pain.

Park Ji-hoon never forgets even the last warning.

“Hee, hee hee…”

Kang Si-kyung’s heart completely broke due to the pain.

Where did the shouting about F-rank and all that go?

I could only shake my head and nod at Park Ji-hoon’s warning.

“Phew.”

Only then did Park Jihoon let go of his arm.

With the power of medicine and the hunter’s resilience, the arm would be better.

The fear engraved in your mind can never be healed.

And anyway, by the time the injury heals, Park Ji-hoon will be stronger than he is now.

At that time, even though Kang Si-kyung gritted his teeth and thoroughly prepared to fight, he was confident that he would win head-on.

No matter how much I know and prepare, unless Kang Si-kyung becomes a golem-type monster with no gender distinction.

Because it was impossible to avoid the effects of rigidity and atrophy.

“Hey, there!”

At that time, the police arrived at the scene after receiving reports from citizens with good timing.

“……”

The moment you see the police.

Park Ji-hoon thought about running away.

When he is taken away by the police, people and the association will know that he broke the arm of a C-rank hunter.

Then, there is a high probability that things will go in a bad direction for Park Ji-hoon, who is trying to hide his abilities.

The association is trying to re-measure the rankings, or something like that.

‘Uh, wait a minute.’

At that time, a good idea occurred to Park Ji-hoon’s mind.

‘If you work with the association and hide it… Isn’t it really true that no one knows?’

Hunter’s rank measurement and announcement.

All of that is accomplished through the association.

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“Yes. Yes… I understand.”

After hanging up the phone, Lee Hyeon-dong, head of the Bupyeong branch of the Hunter Association, had a serious expression on his face.

‘Hunter Park Ji-hoon…’

The person I just spoke to was Hunter Park Jihoon.

He called to say he was at the police station.

But this isn’t a lawyer’s office, so why did you call and say you went to the police station?

Hunter Jihoon Park explained it all.

I got into a fight with Hunter Kang Si-kyung, who was in the same class as me.

It is said that they attacked first and responded.

‘It’s a major incident.’

It was a major incident that shook Korea just because it was Park Ji-hoon who was involved in a dispute.

If you think about the attention that was focused on a person named Park Ji-hoon.

The hunter named Kang Si-kyung, who attacked first, could have been completely buried socially.

Fortunately, it seems like no one recognized him as Park Ji-hoon.

If this spreads, it will be the end of Kang Si-kyung.

Even from the association’s standpoint, public opinion cannot be ignored.

In that case, Kang Si-kyung would of course have his hunter qualifications revoked, and if he was really unlucky, he could have been imprisoned.

You might be wondering how to arrest Hunter.

Hunter is different from other criminals.

The moment they are arrested, they are immediately sent to the United States.

There, it’s called the ‘Prison Guild’.

Responsible and just top hunters are selected from all over the world and sent to a place where criminal hunters are imprisoned.

How strong the power is and how strict the vigilance is.

It was a place where even an S-rank hunter could not even dream of escaping.

anyway.

It’s that big of a deal.

‘According to what Hunter Park Ji-hoon said, it seems like the Yongmun Guild and that troublesome guild are also involved.’

Yongmun Guild.

Hunters and large guilds.

Not only are they spreading bad rumors, but they are actually causing a lot of ethically problematic things behind the scenes.

This is the guild that was keeping an eye on just one case.

If the associations and large guilds that regarded them as a thorn in their side come forward using this incident as an excuse.

It was an agenda that could lead to the end of the Yongmun guild itself.

But, that wasn’t the problem now.

Even the Yongmun guild was involved, but that wasn’t even part of the major incident.

There was something else that Lee Hyun-dong thought was a truly major incident.

“won.”

It means that Park Ji-hoon defeated Kang Si-kyung.

F rank defeated C rank.

That’s as much as an ordinary elementary school student beating a professional boxer.

This is absolutely impossible according to common sense.

Of course, Hunter Jihoon Park experienced the gate twice in Another Guild.

Kang Si-kyung has never entered the gate since his practical training.

However, such a difference in experience cannot make up for the overwhelming difference between F rank and C rank.

There wasn’t even a familiar there.

It is said that there was only Another Guild master Shin Ji-yeon.

‘Did Shin Ji-yeon help you?’

Branch manager Lee Hyeon-dong thought so at first.

However, the story that Park Ji-hoon tells later is.

It was something I couldn’t even imagine.

‘…is he a growing hunter?’

Park Ji-hoon already has E-rank level stats.

He was able to defeat Kang Si-kyung using a special skill.

In other words, he is a growing hunter.

He even rose from F rank to E rank in just 3 days of awakening.

It boasted a tremendous growth rate.

In addition, even if he has grown, he has a special skill that allows an E rank to win against a C rank opponent.

With this, the value of Park Ji-hoon, who was already the only one in the world.

It jumped 10 times, no, more than 20 times.

‘Before, it was just the only thing in the world that could suck mulberry. now…’

F rank.

Because of that limitation, no matter how talented Park Ji-hoon was, he had no value beyond soup.

But what if he grows up?

What if it grows at an incredible rate and reaches D, C, B… maybe even S rank or higher?

“…Crazy.”

The world’s first and only ministry skill.

In addition, he is the fastest growing hunter of all time.

Of course, like the growth-oriented hunters that have existed so far, Park Ji-hoon may eventually reach his limits.

But honestly, even if it’s just B rank.

Its value rises more than 10 times.

If you are a B-rank hunter, you can actually deploy to gates higher than A-rank, which pose the greatest threat to humanity.

This means that you can use C-B rank monsters.

If you think about how precious and important the top-ranked hunters are.

His value was truly enormous.

Lee Hyeon-dong wanted to announce this fact right away.

But Park Ji-hoon had different thoughts.

‘The reason I reported this to the association was because the association wanted to hide the fact. And in this case… because he didn’t want people to know that he beat a C-rank hunter.’

This is to prevent any interference that might hinder growth.

Of course, if he wants to, he can testify that Hunter Jiyeon Shin, who was present, handled it.

But in the end, you’ll be caught lying, which will only attract more suspicion.

We decided to join hands with a group that can turn lies into truth.

If the association becomes friendly with Hunter, who will have a global influence.

There is nothing bad.

So when he first awakened as a ministry hunter, wasn’t he brought in right away and made convenient for him?

And when he thought he was strong enough, he announced it.

He even promised to speak well to the benefit of the association.

More than anything.

‘If I report this to the top, wouldn’t the branch manager’s position be greatly enhanced?’

This was an offer of alliance that could not be refused.

“Then, I have to live up to your expectations.”

Lee Hyeon-dong immediately conveyed this matter to his superiors without a single mistake.

After receiving permission so quickly, I thought the higher-ups could move this quickly.

I called my junior at the Hunter Crime Task Force.