When I Returned to Farming, National-level Big Juniors Flock - Chapter 151



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151. A piece of the puzzle

A hunter vs. hunter fight is not a place to show off each other’s specs.

Strength and speed are just one of many factors that determine victory or defeat.

Rich experience, sophisticated skills, and unwavering mentality.

Even the information they each held, the compatibility between their abilities, and even the terrain were taken into consideration, leading to countless fights.

In the past, mixed martial arts fighters who had not yet been awakened prepared setups according to various situations and competed.

If you thought that the fight between Hunters with far superior physical abilities and powers would continue without a fight, you would be very mistaken.

But if you go from a one-on-one fight to a fight with multiple people, the situation becomes more complicated.

A fight where all kinds of abilities and special constitutions are intertwined.

Especially in the case of many-to-one, one person has to respond to all the variables that multiple enemies have.

No matter how strong a hunter is, he cannot help but be reluctant.

It goes without saying that the opponent is not a bunch of scum, but a hunter of national strength.

‘If I fight all those hunters in a place like this… it’s obvious that my body will be torn to pieces in a matter of seconds.’

Oh Hyeon-seong, holding four knives, poured magical power into them.

Light appeared on the blade of the knife with a whooshing sound.

He felt someone approaching from behind and sat up, and at that moment, the pillar behind him cracked.

Kookookookook!

The pillar collapsed as he swung his greatsword, sending up a cloud of dust.

But the man holding the greatsword stood there dumbfounded.

Oh Hyeon-seong’s appearance had completely disappeared.

“under…?”

In the dust that had risen, the ground behind the pillar was wide open.

The man, who thought they had run away when he saw they were outnumbered, tried to throw himself straight into the hole to pursue them.

But Shin Yu-hee stopped him.

“No need to jump in. I’ll call from over there.”

“…?”

Although he was a man who stopped without knowing English, she knew that Oh Hyeon-seong would never run away.

Soon, a large crack appeared in the floor along with a crunching sound.

Shin Yu-hee ended up letting out a wry laugh.

“Honestly… I told you I would never fight where I was at a disadvantage.”

Kookookookookung!

The entire banquet hall sank along with the sunken ground.

With everyone who stood on it.

*

An old underground space in Gosung.

A masked man walked through the narrow passageway, his sword hanging from his chest.

Even though the banquet hall had completely collapsed, no one was seriously hurt, and they began searching the basement to find the missing Oh Hyeonseong.

The man who had been looking around entered the wine cellar.

Inside the cool space, well-maintained oak barrels and wine bottles were piled up here and there.

The man, slightly raising his sword, carefully stretched out his feet and began to look inside the storage room.

And then, just as I was about to go out, not finding anything.

Oh Hyeon-seong suddenly appeared behind him.

Kaaaaang!

A surprise attack that would have left even the most skilled hunter unable to react.

However, the masked man easily parried his attacks and counterattacked in an instant.

As Oh Hyeon-seong twisted his upper body, the sword strike that barely passed him cut down the entire shelf behind him.

Before we could even get back to each other’s positions.

In an instant, a dagger was grasped in the man’s other hand and stabbed into Oh Hyeon-seong’s vital spot.

Phew!

Oh Hyun-seong kicked the man.

Although I couldn’t inflict any significant damage because my opponent was defending, I was pushed back against the wall due to the recoil.

That was it.

“…!”

Kwajijijik!

A sudden cold blast from behind engulfed the man.

It was not the normal cold, but that of the higher spirit of water, Albern, and it was impossible to resist.

The man was swallowed by ice without any time to respond and could no longer move.

“Whew, it works well.”

He approached, shaking his hands lightly, melted some of the sharp ice that had formed, and then approached the wall.

grasp.

I pulled out the knife that was stuck in the wall.

The blue pattern engraved on the dagger’s blade, which was shaking with a groan, lost its light.

It is a trace of the ‘magic imprint’ effect that his dagger had.

The typical relic weapon was like a vessel that was already full in itself.

The user’s magic power was only a material to bring out the effects of the relic, and could not grant anything additional.

That is also why Oh Hyeonseong insisted on using regular weapons rather than relics in the past.

This is because fighting while directly granting the power of the spirit to the weapon is better than using weapons of national treasure level.

But the dagger he was holding now could receive magical powers corresponding to all attributes.

In addition, its function as a relic is that it can ‘store recipes’.

As a 2nd-grade relic, it has simple and plain functions, but depending on the user, it can be much more powerful than higher-grade relics that have clear effects.

In a word, it means that it greatly depends on the user’s capabilities.

This means that it is the optimal weapon for Oh Hyeon-seong, who has contracts with spirits of various attributes and possesses magical powers on a level that is inhuman.

Woohoo!

The spirit of the earth, Meltz, suddenly appeared from beneath his feet and spoke to him.

The hunters who had been searching underground began to move all at once.

“… I guess so.”

The dead controlled by Shin Yu-hee were all connected to each other’s consciousness.

.

The moment one is destroyed here, Oh Hyeon-seong’s location is immediately discovered.

He received information about those approaching closest through Melts, and threw the three knives he was holding into different locations.

‘You’re here.’

Kwaaaaang!

The walls on all sides collapsed, sending a loud shockwave through the storage room.

A power that would have caused a complete shake-up if one had been completely swept away.

However, Oh Hyun-seong, who had been lowering his body to avoid being hit, immediately kicked his feet and attacked.

The abilities that flew in from both sides aimed at him, but Albert and Blea appeared at the same time and neutralized the attacks.

A deafening roar rang out, but his eyes remained fixed straight ahead.

Three hunters rushed in at the same time.

The one with the highest threat ranking was at the front.

Oh my god!

Oh Hyun-seong clashed with Janer, who was wielding a machete.

*

Phew!

A knife that pierces deep into the heart.

The man fell to the ground, bleeding profusely.

“… Really.”

Oh Hyun-seong let out a slightly rapid breath.

I defeated all three hunters who ran in first.

But that’s not the end.

These were just the closest ones, but there were still many more hunters who had discovered his location and were coming towards him.

‘There’s no end to this.’

It was good that we brought them underground.

As expected of an old and unmaintained facility, it had a cramped and complex structure compared to the spacious castle.

In particular, unlike a banquet hall with open spaces on all sides, it is a terrain where if a lot of people gather together without any plan, they could easily be wiped out.

That is why Shin Yu-hee did not hesitate to scatter the dead people she controlled.

‘You’re only four and you’re already hurt… This is difficult.’

Oh Hyun-seong looked down at his arm, which had a long scar.

Although blood drips from the torn skin, the amount of bleeding itself is not enough to interfere with fighting.

But the problem was this black energy writhing over the wound.

Tsk tsk tsk!

‘As expected… even the puppets were cursed.’

A strange black aura that seemed to move as if it were alive,

It was a curse that was also Shin Yu-hee’s specialty, preventing bleeding and gradually worsening it by digging into the wound.

Even if he was Oh Hyeon-seong, he wouldn’t be able to last long wearing this.

In the end, in order to decide the outcome of this fight, I had to find the sorcerer’s side.

There was no time to deal with all these national power level hunters one by one.

Whether it’s physical strength or the time given.

The problem is that the other side may not know that they are targeting the main body.

Having worked together on numerous operations in the past, they knew each other’s methods very well.

What’s needed at times like this is a little bit of surprise.

It was not possible to create variables with the patterns that we already had.

Phaaaat!

In a dark basement.

Suddenly, a bright light burst out and a girl appeared next to him.

“Hmm…? Why did you come out when I didn’t call you?”

Spirit of Light, Alyssa.

I have never engaged in a full-scale battle with higher spirits like Blea or Albert.

Of course, I had no intention of calling him in this fight.

Kwak!

At that moment, Alyssa lifted her hooves and stretched out her arms.

She picked up a handful of the writhing curse and put it in her mouth.

“Okay, wait a minute…!”

Turup!

Alyssa quickly put the writhing curse into her mouth.

She filled both cheeks with her lips and moved them around.

“You… ate a curse…?”

Oh Hyun-seong was surprised and looked blankly at Alyssa.

When I looked down at my injured arm again, the terrible curse that had clung to me had completely disappeared.

A sight that makes you doubt your eyes.

“…”

The boy blushed in embarrassment, then clung to her side and buried his face in hers.

“her…”

Shin Yu-hee discovered something incredibly unexpected.

*

“Welcome, Captain.”

The central hall located in the basement of the castle.

In the basement, Shin Yu-hee was standing in the most spacious space.

As if they knew that Oh Hyeon-seong would eventually come looking for them, the many puppets who had been waiting surrounded him.

“I didn’t know you would be so blatant. What are you thinking?”

A situation where you are surrounded by national-level hunters without any cover.

No matter how much Oh Hyeon-seong he was, there was no hope in a head-on fight.

He went in alone, without even bringing out the higher spirits.

“hmm?”

But at that moment, an exotic girl peeked her head out from behind Oh Hyeon-seong.

As Shin Yu-hee was looking at the child’s sudden appearance with a puzzled look in her eyes, a pure white light burst out from her, filling the entire space.

Phaaaat!

“What… what is this…?”

Surprisingly, the consciousness of the dead people exposed to the pure white light suddenly disappeared and they froze in place.

Shin Yu-hee, flustered, tried to use her hands, but even with her strength she could not control them.

‘What the heck is this…’

It is not a normal light attribute ability.

While the light-attribute abilities that hunters usually use are bright and destructive, the light that this little girl emitted was soft and warm.

To begin with, even the ‘saint’s’ ability was unable to neutralize the curse like this.

Even though they have the same light attribute, their nature itself is completely different.

“While you were gone, we gained a new family member.”

“… You made a new contract with a spirit of light attribute?”

She let out a laugh without realizing it.

The Oh Hyeonseong he knew did not even have an affinity for light.

Just as a hunter’s special constitution cannot be changed once it has been decided, the affinity for the attributes that can be handled cannot be changed either.

But a spirit with a new attribute.

It was something that completely destroyed conventional wisdom.

“Five attributes in one body… You really have no conscience.”

“That’s not something you should be saying, dragging around the bodies of high-ranking hunters.”

In the end, only Oh Hyun-seong and Shin Yu-hee were left standing.

But this did not mean that the fight was completely over.

Of all the undead she controlled, the most powerful force was her own.

But Oh Hyun-seong walked towards her empty-handed.

“What, what are you doing?”

Shin Yu-hee, who had raised her sword, flinched and took a step back.

He was walking towards me in a way that made it seem like he was too defenseless to be trying to fight.

“Hey… stop it!”

“What are you hesitating for? Just cut it down.”

Oh Hyun-seong said while looking at Shin Yu-hee who was hesitating.

For some reason, she can’t swing her sword.

“Is it impossible to stab with that sword?”

“…!”

The black blade she holds is no ordinary blade.

It was a relic weapon with a powerful curse that was beyond the normal range, and was not in an area where power control was possible.

It means that if you get stabbed, you really die.

Oh Hyun-seong noticed this while fighting up to this point.

That she had no intention of taking her own life.

“I don’t really want to kill the captain. I just wanted to break his limbs to keep him from getting in the way.”

“…How kind.”

Oh Hyun-seong said, rubbing his arm lightly.

“But if you act that way, revenge will go nowhere.”

“Oh, don’t come!”

Shin Yu-hee, furious, raised her sword even higher.

But Oh Hyun-seong approached without paying attention.

She backed away and hit the wall behind her, and hesitated even as Oh Hyun-seong, who had come right up to her, raised his fist.

“…”

Shin Yu-hee, who cannot bring herself to kill Oh Hyeon-seong.

A vicious terrorist who massacred people for no reason.

A traitor who kills his colleagues without hesitation.

Whichever way she was, there was no reason for her not to come and stab herself now.

Bam.

Oh Hyun-seong’s fist landed gently on her head.

“If you do that revenge thing, you’ll really have nowhere to go.”

“…Where do you want me to go back to? Should I go back to Korea? Even if I do that, I’ll just be chased away for the rest of my life.”

“No, there’s a place you can stay. It’s a quiet neighborhood filled with good people who don’t care about the outside world and don’t interfere too much.”

Even the most skilled hunter cannot cope with all variables.

That is why hunters who go on missions always go into the field prepared to die.

But based on past experience, no one truly desired death even if they were prepared for it.

That future will come someday, but I hope it won’t be today.

Everyone hopes to return safely from their mission and enjoy at least one more day of peaceful daily life.

“I… I…”

Shin Yu-hee’s voice trembled.

She hesitated for a while, wondering if she could really believe what he said. Then she lowered her weapon.

But at that moment.

“That kind of warm ending is difficult.”

Phew!

A blade pierced through her abdomen,

Dark red blood flowed out of her mouth, where her back had been pierced.

“Ugh…?”

Shin Yu-hee’s pierced body trembled.

A puddle of blood poured out in gushing motions, pooling excitedly on the floor.

Oh Hyeon-seong reflexively pulled out his sword, but something appeared from behind the wall without any noise, giving him no time to swing it.

“Why… why are you here?”

Oh Hyun-seong’s eyes widened.

A face he can never forget.

A man wearing black clothing and with a long scar on the corner of his mouth opened his mouth.

“It’s been a while, Hyunseong junior.”