Chapter 10 - Bounty Hunt (3) (1/2)
2 weeks later (2)
Two weeks is a pretty long time.
Even ordinary Awakeners who has just been awakened, will noticeably grow after two weeks of systematic training.
Even a beginner who couldn’t use weapons properly could handle the monsters quite well.
However, prospects with high-ranking instincts or physically superior specifications from the beginning—or known as buds, were different.
As pushed by their companies and countries, they complete twelve times the growth of others within a period.
In about two weeks, it was possible to immediately put them into action on the D-rank gate site.
That’s why it’s said that the world of awakening was more in the talent play than any other field.
A few people could overcome the difference, but they were also different from the rest—they do predation.
During the two-week period, Il-hyun ate dozens of Ether cores.
He kept pulling Ether from dead bodies inside the house.
Pulling a core without an extractor from a monster with his own bare hands has become a casual routine for him.
Il-hyun took the core and looked back.
“Don’t worry. The country will compensate you for the smashed building. That human, well, he’s awakened, so it would be safe if he had it.”
He said, pointing at the yellow head still leaning on the wall.
“Thank you. Thank you,” they muttered.
The woman had her head between her knees. The man sitting on the wheel chair enclosed her in an embrace.
Il-hyun’s face suddenly changed in the middle, and when he saw the same two faces, he felt awkward, but he didn’t show it as much as he’d like to.
“This bastard… Did you turn into my face? Ah…!”
The yellow hair who leaned on the front door, made a painful sound when saw his one-sided figure, his eyes widening.
He heard that Scavenger had a disguise ability, but it was a completely different story than being surprised by his ability.
“Oh, right. I forgot about one thing.”
“Ah…! Don’t come!”
As Il-hyun approached, the frightened yellow-haired held up his sword.
“Aw…!”
Il-hyun broke his hand with his light sword. He looked through the yellow hair’s arms and took out his cell phone.
Kwajik!
The cell phone became a thinly chopped ratpo as Il-hyun continuously stepped on it.
“S…shit!”
“I guess I’m going now? Don’t come out until the police says so. Don’t start bleeding quickly before the monster weakens,” Il-hyun told the young couple before he opened their veranda door, and jumped straight down.
The woman who watched what he did shouted in amazement.
“Wait, we’re in the 13th floor…!”
Thud!
Il-hyun, who landed on the floor with both feet, frowned.
The strong impact of his landing broke the parking lot floor. Debris were everywhere.
Il-hyun’s legs were a little erratic, but it was only for a while. Unlike the cracked concrete floor, his legs were fine.
Il-hyun looked around before wiping off the dust on his clothes.
No one has seen him.
Il-hyun whistled for a long time, and the mice that had been released in the field began to gather one by one.
“Did you find someone?” one out of the twenty mice he gathered, nodded.
There were more people who couldn’t escape even after the efforts of the police.
Il-hyun bounced his finger.
Then all but the one mouse that nodded, turned into sand and scattered on the floor. The mice are made of sand so as not to leave any trail behind.
“Come on. Lead the way.”
The mouse ran ahead, and he followed.
Il-hyun ran and threw three pieces of his sword into the sky.
After a piece of knife got trapped in the air, he grabbed it in one hand.
The body was hit in the middle, but after gently separating the neck, it kept its pace.
“Seongtae! Is it over?” A one awakened person said from afar.
He must have thought it was his partner, the yellow head, but it was Il-hyun that copied and changed his face.
As an one of the awakened, he clearly heard his voice, but he pretended not to hear it.
Even if he could change his face, it was impossible to change my voice.
As Il-hyun kept running, the man he was talking to angrily smashed the monster. He was surprised when he entered the underground parking lot with his mouse.
Moving corpses were filling the basement.
He hid on the wall and began to grasp the situation.
“What are they? There’s too many of them…”
At least a hundred, at most.
The number of monsters in the underground parking lot was too many that they couldn’t see the bodies coming down from the upper gate.
“A double gate?” Il-hyun raised his eyebrows.
Unlike other gates that usually appear one at a time, several gates appeared this time.
In this case, the gate wasn’t exactly easy to detect because it was created with the same coordinates, the same kind, but with slightly different heights.
Besides, it was located in the basement, so it seemed to have not yet been found.
The awakened people who went to the scene usually caught the monster trying to escape.
Places like underground parking lots—they couldn’t escape it. Therefore, the clean up toward the final stages began.
“Is there anyone still alive?” he lowered his voice and asked the mouse that’d led him to this place.
The mouse nodded and pointed in one direction.
He saw a warehouse door that’s tightly closed on one wall. The mouse seemed to say that someone was hiding in it.
“I thought you developed a sense of smell… Are you only responding to the smell of blood?” He thought that when he climbed the apartment that his sense of smell developed.
However, when he couldn’t find anything across the door. He seemed to rely mainly on sight and hearing except for the smell of blood.
“First, from the CCTV…”
Il-hyun looked at the surveillance cameras all over the underground parking lot.
Then, he raised his hand to use his ability.
All cameras in the basement got crumpled like crushed tin cans that fell on the floor.