SSS-Class Summoner - Chapter 8

They appeared in the dark faster than he thought.

Kagagak!

Balak scratched his long tail on the floor and swung vigorously.

Caen! The sword and tail bumped.

Il-hyun flew backward with a heavy sound, rolled a few wheels, and stood up.

“Okay!”

Il-hyun frowned and shook his hand.

Even though it was obliquely blocked with a sword, a sharp shock was still delivered to his arm.

The faces of ugly monsters appeared.

The two Ballacks approached slowly.

Il-hyun corrected the sword again.

If there was a defensive coat, it would have been like having a little insurance, but he didn’t.

One mistake could end his life.

However, some strategies were devised in their way based on the information about Ballack that they had already searched.

When he hunted the Forn, he shook it up, focusing on not being noticed by people, but he realized that it was reckless.

After a brief confrontation, it was Il-hyun who moved first.

It’s the tails that they mostly used to attack.

It was the most intimidating variable and narrowed the distance to block.

They had poor control over their tails, so they could get out of danger as the distance got closer.

Il-hyun avoided it by lowering his posture the two sharp forked tails were flying off and then Il-hyun ran to feed Balak’s head with a kick.

Then, as the red blood burst, the monster shook, and Il-hyun knocked down the sword to finish.

Caen!

But Ballack, who was hit, responded immediately to the short gap, lifting both foreheads to bounce the sword.

Then the other monster’s tail flew from the side.

Il-hyun barely avoided the tail that had blown him away by force, nearly breaking his head, and the monster’s tail passed over his forehead.

The frightened Il-hyun quickly stepped back, but the two monsters did not wait.

He narrowed the distance straight away and put pressure on him to attack anytime.

It was a difficult situation.

The speed was fast, and the strength and power were good.

In addition, two breaths fit well with the monster theme.

Even the E-class felt much stronger than the previous Forn.

If he couldn’t absorb the second ether core yesterday and encountered these guys, he’s sure he couldn’t fight properly and would die.

Of course, the story is different now.

Il-hyun, who was getting hot, rolled his feet in place.

The area around Kugu-gu rang, and the ceiling above the monster sculpted like a square.

A clump of concrete poured over the head with a popping sound.

Ballacks noticed this, trying to avoid the body, but could not move.

This is because a vine made by transforming the bottom of the string caught the ankles of the monsters.

It was a control of the intellect that was much more delicate than before.

Thud!

A pile of concrete crushed them, and dust began to bloom.

Soon, however, the piles flickered, and both Ballacks popped out.

He was shocked and was bleeding all over his body, but he wasn’t fatally wounded.

Il-hyun, who had already expected that much, ran straight with a sword.

In response to this, the moment Ballack tried to get in position, he heard the floor where the monster stood.

“Chat?”

Suddenly, his body turned upside down, and when he floated, his bald feet struggled.

Il-hyun’s transforming ability pushed the floor under the feet of the guys strong and bounced in the direction he was.

Thanks to that, the two Ballaks flew in a completely disorganized position.

In the meantime, Il-hyun avoided the tail that flew and struck one Ballak that was unprotected.

Even after striking the neck, the remaining torso struggled for a long time to find Il-hyun.

One monster left now.

The remaining Balak realized that the situation has become unfavorable and retreated.

The monster had a stronger instinct to survive than ordinary monsters. It chose to escape rather than attack the human in front of him.

The moment Ballack turned around and tried to run away.

The wall blocked it.

“Where are you going?”

Il-hyun glanced at Ballack with his shiny eyes, like a predator with its prey in front.

* * *

Pooh!

Il-hyun’s sword penetrated Ballack’s chest.

The monster collapsed on the floor and stopped moving.

“Hugh.”

Il-hyun grabbed his knee and held his breath.

Now it’s only the second fight, and he felt incredibly skilled.

Every time he fought, his body heats up, and the excitement of the battle rises.

The predatory instinct was affecting his body as well as his mind.

But he couldn’t afford to think in that direction right now.

There was still something important.

Il-hyun walked toward Ballack, who had died, and found the dead body.

Then he brought the two cores out of them, placed them on the floor, and looked at them warmly.

Il-hyun wanted to absorb the core right there at the moment but he had to exercise patience.

If he dared absorbed it there, crystal fragments would litter on all directions, and the government-side squad who came to clean up could find something strange.

Until now, it was not known that it was possible for the ether core to break by physical force.

There was no way other than to extract all the energy contained in it and make it disappear on its own.

He must never leave any trace that will get the government asking too many questions.

Il-hyun put the two cores in the bag and rearranged the scene where they were distorted.

The raised floor was put in place again, and the walls and ceiling were restored.

When it was roughly finished, he looked at the crushed and curved swords all over the place used in fighting Ballack.

It was a mess due to the corrosion of the monster’s toxicity.

Even if he tried to clean it, it seemed to him that it was too much to write.

Il-hyun threw the sword on the floor.

He didn’t forget to break it down finely so that no one would suspect anything odd.

“What should I do now?”

After finishing the cleanup, Il-hyun sat on the floor for a moment and thought.

It was a problem with the bounty on the monster killed here.

He was a little hesitant to contact the special guard that the thief was acting on him and get the compensation.

“Yes, if you just go, it’s bigger.”

He kicked the monster’s body with his feet.

Anyway, he showed several people the road to this place.

After killing the monsters, removing the ether, and not receiving the reward, it was rather okay to buy more attention.

He hasn’t left any traces at the previous site, and at least he hasn’t noticed what has happened so far.

It was enough to just go out without worries.

Il-hyun decided.

“Where are you? Let’s go now.”

When Il-hyun found it, the hidden mouse stuck out its face.

As soon as the battle began, the guy who ran away from Burinake quickly entered the court’s inner pocket.

He dragged the bodies of two monsters and walked out of the sewer.

It was heavy and tiring, but the step back was light.

Less!

Someone opened the closed manhole cover, and Il-hyun escaped into the street.

Suddenly, when someone jumped out of the ground, the eyes of citizens who didn’t know English were all over.

Soon after, he threw the corpse of the monster with one hand on the ground.

The people who saw it screamed and fled, and then the surrounding streets were quickly swept away.

Il-hyun, who was watching the image, remained silent.

“It’s a waste. If some middle schoolers had been hitting shit before, it would have been great.

Whether or not people looked at him, he contacted the police and brought another corpse from the ladder.

“Ugh pole!”

As he came out of the manhole, he looked disgusted and shook the body.

The smell vibrated even in a small flesh, not to mention in the body.

It is fortunate that the rot has not progressed yet, but after an hour or so, it will, and the stench smell will be numbing.

“Oh, it smells like it’s all over my body.”

Il-hyun murmured and robbed the blood of the monster off his clothes.

Then he heard a clicking sound.

He reflexively covered his face with one hand and looked back.

People who watched him a little apart were pulling out their cell phones.

Citizens did not come even though they knew that the monster on the floor was a dead one.

In addition to the fear of being a monster, it was natural that it was disgusting.

However, most of them still couldn’t take their eyes off, stopping on the way, and taking pictures.

“Wow, I see a monster for the first time.”

“It looks really disgusting.”

“Have the gate been opened around?”

People have heard the noise of the navy.

As he became an Awakener, all the words that weren’t mouthed were clearly heard in his ears.

“Why does the monster come over there?”

“Oh, I see. They’re monsters that appeared in Ilyeon this time.”

“Then the monsters that have disappeared are here? It was really dangerous. Goose-goose!”

When the gaze of everyone staring became uncomfortable.

Whee profit! One of them cupped his hands in his mouth and whistled.

People cheered and applauded.

“Wow!”

“cool!”

The drivers of the cars passing the noisy area also looked up to see what was going on.

“What… what.”

Il-hyun stared vacantly around in an unfamiliar sight.

It was his first experience.

In his life, he had never been acclaimed at by so many, even strangers.

No, perhaps most other ordinary people.

“haha…”

Il-hyun laughed at the sound of cheers that continued to be heard.

Ether and compensation.

He simply acted according to his greed, but the citizens of the streets were applauding all over.

He was standing silently in the seat, feeling the inside crying for some reason.

Amid the confusion, a police car arrived to save him.

“You are the right person to report?”

“Yeah. Yes. Here you are.”

When two police officers from the special police force got out of the car and asked, Il-hyun pointed to the body with one hand.

The faces of police officers who saw the crookedly stacked bodies brightened up.

“I checked two Ballack bodies.”

A police officer struck immediately.

Another police sighed with a sigh of relief, bowed his head, and expressed gratitude.

“Hugh, thank you. I just got it all. The other was hiding in the water tank in the apartment, and I never thought the guy in Ilyeon-dong would be here.”

The last four missed both seemed to be caught.

However, Il-hyun, who is still raising one hand, only wanted to get out of here quickly.

“uh… Let’s move from the seat first.”

* * *

Il-hyun checked his account at the ATM.

He confirmed that 8 million won had been deposited directly as compensation.

“If you add some money here, you can get a coat.”

The price of the defensive coat was beyond imagination, and most of the items were starting at 10 million won.

He needed it because of the value of his performance.

“The face… It doesn’t seem to sell.”

Il-hyun, who came out of the building, searched SNS with his cell phone.

The news of a monster that escaped Ilyeon-dong and was later caught wasn’t a big topic, but it still came up quite a bit.

He checked 3 hours ago, but fortunately, there was no picture of his face.

If the face was shown properly, it would have been a major obstacle for the activities to be done.

“by the way…”

Il-hyun sighed and sat down on a bench in the street.

And he remembered what he had been doing.

After the first accidental absorption of ether to awaken his instincts, his nerves were all over the core.

When it comes to cores, he rushed back and forth to the point where it would seem irrational.

He did his second dangerous job, and even indirectly stole and did nothing wrong.

It’s as if he was possessed by something, even though he was proud that he had lived sincerely.

“Sometimes, there are people who are awakened and taste good.”

Il-hyun shook his head as if it were absurd.

No strange feeling was felt.

He thought again of the meaning of the awakened people who had suddenly been forgotten by the citizens.

Monster hunter? A golden spoon with long life?

He looked down at his right hand, which had already absorbed four ethers.

“Can I use this power like this?”

To be honest, the current feeling was neither guilt nor sorry for the stolen awakened people.

It wasn’t the reason he had and the great responsibility for humankind.

Just when he was in the midst of his dream of becoming an awakener, he recalled what he wanted to be.