122 Chapter 15: Hunters, Red Gate (2/2)
And just like that they quickly left only taking the life of the one-party member.
After a few minutes, the party leader the A-ranked Cheol Kin spoke in a condescending manner, that nobody dared to complain to. ”I'm sure some of you noticed, but this is a red gate now. That means until we are all dead or a dungeon break occurs no one is coming back for us.
Many of the hunters groaned n defeat. Some of the ignorant ones had hoped for a rescue and the fact that no one would help crushed their spirits
Cheol continued ”If we stay here, we will freeze to death or get ambushed. I will go clear this dungeon so we can leave. Who's with me?”. Cheol looked somewhat dependable in the first place so may hunters stood before him.
”I'll go.”
”Me too please.”
”let's leave here alive.”
”I'll help as well.”
However, Cheol shoved one of the hunters who approached him. Despite holding he ended up hurting the unfortunate man who was a drunk hunter holding his chest in pain.
”Not you,” Cheol said ”Nor you, you, you and you” he pointed at the other hunters including Tae and Susu he pointed at five hunters in total.
”Unfortunately, we cannot take you with us.”
”What?” One hunter said.
”A day in here is an hour in the outside world. Worst case scenario, it'll take months before either we take down the boss or a dungeon break occurs. With that in mind, we can't babysit.
”What do you mean by babysitting?”
The three hunters that would be excluded tried to protest, but in the end, they were silenced by Cheol's fierce glare.
”Don't feel bad. All you have to do is survive until we take down the boss” Cheol said with false kindness.
”Still…”
The hunters excluded looked leadingly, but no one of them stepped forward. They instead looked away, except one.
Tae glance at Susu who was even paler since the group was being split up.
”Don't worry so much” he patted the young girls head trying to get her to calm down.
”Excuse me” the female B-ranker raised her hand after watching Tae.
”we can go from here to there, right?”
”…If you want.”
Without any hesitation, she walked over to Tae's side making Cheol look back and forth between them before he finally snorted ”well, looks like we have one slot opened we'll take one more from your end.”
”m-me!” the man who was shoved earlier quickly ran over to Cheol's side.
'that women are weird' Cheol thought as the women kept glancing at Tae. Tae in return gave the women a suspicious gaze.
”That man Cheol Kin didn't see the arrow coming, but you did. That didn't seem ordinary for and E-rank” she commented quietly
Peony watches the red gate intensely in a chair that was pulled out for her by the guild members.
”In the end, its just a theory isn't it,” Baekho said after Long gave in a brief explanation of Tae and his wife. Peony was listening to them, but she was more interested in the fluctuations of the gate.
”Yes, Sir” Long said dejectedly
”Then the person we have to place our hopes on is the A-ranked Cheol Ki.n”
Long was somewhat frustrated at how he couldn't correctly explain in words that his boss could understand. The husband and Wife team where not ordinary.
”There should be no problem with that,t” said a new voice. He was Joo Hyun and Long's rival who recruited Cheol first. The made gave Long a mocking look. ”Cheol's test scores were top notch and didn't lack compared to our main raiding parties.
Long expression hardened but his rival insulting looking didn't make him mad enough to argue with him. As they all turned their heads to the gate.