When I Returned to Farming, National-level Big Juniors Flock - Chapter 90



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90. Eliminate the saboteurs

Kookookookook!

The upper part of the building collapsed.

It was due to the walls and pillars being cleanly cut off, and the entire building began to collapse as it could not support the weight of the collapsing upper floors.

Oh Hyeon-seong, who was inside, ran hurriedly, broke the glass window, and ran outside.

Even if an Awakened person has a strong body, their legs will break if they fall from this height.

“Mults!”

At the same time as his shout, the ground that had been falling rose up.

He slid down onto the raised ground and continued sliding downwards, kicking his feet when he was close enough.

Oh Hyun-seong landed with a heavy sound.

However, although he landed safely, he was still unable to escape the collapse zone, and large pieces of debris rained down on him.

Kwakwakwakwang!

The building collapsed, sending up a cloud of dust and a gust of wind.

A scene where you can’t even move your bones once you’re involved.

But Oh Hyun-seong opened his eyes in the pitch-black darkness.

When he raised his gaze, he saw a large golem, Multz, protecting him with its upper body.

Thanks to that, he was able to remain healthy without any shock.

“thank you.”

Woohoo!

Melts nodded, his eyes widening innocently.

Then, slowly lifting his upper body, he began to lift all the debris piled up behind him.

If he had just lifted it with brute force, the situation could have gotten worse, but Melts was able to control even that and create a passage.

A ray of light shining down from above.

Oh Hyun-seong went towards the path that Melts had opened up and was able to stand on the rubble of the collapsed building.

Fortunately, there were no casualties as it was not a city inhabited by humans, but it was a gruesome sight.

“… The guy who was supposed to be dead came back.”

Oh Hyun-seong’s frowning gaze quickly turned around.

The named monster that I killed with my own hands has returned.

This is not an illusion.

Although he only saw it from a distance, he could tell who it was the moment he saw it.

Above all, there weren’t many things that could blow up a building so cleanly from that distance.

Woof woof woof!

At that moment, beast monsters began to appear around him.

The guys who started to appear one by one from between the rubble gradually increased in number and filled the area.

You might think that the collapsing building was the thing that attracted attention, but Oh Hyun-seong knew that wasn’t the case.

‘That guy started moving the monsters.’

Chattergil.

This bipedal, mermaid-type boss monster had the ability to command beast-type monsters.

This guy gave a huge shock to the hunter community at a time when there was no related concept.

That’s because there had never been a commanding type that controlled monsters of a different species before that guy showed up.

Although it was a clear limitation compared to the later appearance of the Queen’s special species, which caused a huge stir by commanding and controlling monsters without even distinguishing between species, the shock felt by the hunters at the time was great.

In fact, it was the first time I had ever faced a monster that had gathered a large number of species and moved as a single army.

This delayed proper response, causing the damage to spread and prolonging the fighting in the city.

‘I can’t let you play however you want.’

Oh Hyeon-seong, with a stern expression, picked up a dagger.

The moment the monsters surrounding him rushed in all at once, he kicked his feet and stepped forward.

Then he swung his dagger and cut down the monsters.

However, this was only used to clear a path, and did not focus on defeating many monsters.

‘The first priority is to escape the encirclement.’

Oh Hyun-seong made his way through in one breath, sprinting across several buildings and shaking off the hordes of monsters.

He climbed up to the rooftop and looked in the direction where Chatter had appeared.

But, as expected, the guy had disappeared somewhere.

“The method hasn’t changed at all, then or now.”

Oh Hyun-seong checked his wrist.

There wasn’t much time given.

If we don’t find a way out quickly, things will get very complicated.

‘I don’t know how the dead guy came back… but I can’t tolerate the guy I caught coming back and running wild.’

It was a disgrace for a professional not to be able to properly conclude a mission.

I didn’t think my past self would finish it so sloppily, but I couldn’t stand by and watch a named monster with my name on it suddenly start causing trouble.

‘I guess he went there again this time.’

Oh Hyun-seong immediately started moving by kicking his legs.

The place he is headed to is the very center of the city.

This is the epicenter of the cracks that suddenly appeared in the ground, and the place where the guy who appeared at the gate in the past settled down.

It can’t be a coincidence that this phenomenon occurred in exactly the same location.

Oh Hyeon-seong, who arrived at the epicenter of the crack, was able to discover a huge pit.

As expected, the passage was filled with a terrible stench.

It looked exactly like the one he had seen in the past.

It seemed that what had collapsed and been buried at the time had been revealed again, and Oh Hyeon-seong threw himself into it without hesitation.

It would be suicide to fall from that height without a plan, but I went down by stepping on the protruding sides of the pit, following the route I had seen in the past.

The basement we arrived at like that.

Oh Hyeon-seong, who was walking through the passage, encountered a person, not a monster.

“Huh? Master?”

“Why are you here?”

He said to Joo Ji-hye whom he met.

She appeared unexpectedly, looking disheveled and covered in dirt and dust.

“You must have had a hard time.”

“Yes. The ground collapsed and monsters poured down from all directions like a tsunami.”

“Still, I was lucky I didn’t run into the boss.”

“Boss… If it’s a nest, wasn’t it already conquered? I heard that the boss was also defeated.”

“There’s a real one left besides you. The named monster is here.”

“Yes… Nameddrani.”

Joo Ji-hye froze in surprise.

That was the extent of the weight given by the named monsters.

Although she was a top-tier hunter who had reached rank 11, she had never directly encountered a named monster.

“It’s a guy who died by my hands more than 10 years ago, but I didn’t know it would suddenly pop up at this point.”

“A dead monster has reappeared?”

“Yeah, I don’t know exactly what happened, but I’m sure it was him.”

“Oh, come to think of it, I ran into a strange guy too.”

Joo Ji-hye told a story about an unidentified man.

Even Oh Hyeon-seong had never heard of a case where a human being’s head exploded and his whole body twisted but still lived and moved normally.

“Am I mistaken? It wasn’t some kind of camouflaged monster?”

“No, it was definitely a person.”

It is a little-known fact to the outside world, but there are special species of monsters that can speak.

But apart from that, Ju Ji-hye was certain that the other person was human from the presence she felt.

As far as Oh Hyeon-seong knew, Chattergil itself had no direct connection to the Queen.

It was just a separate named monster, not the Queen’s child.

It was not a special species with human-like intelligence.

“… I feel uneasy.”

Oh Hyun-seong said, smacking his lips.

An unidentified entity is on this board.

It couldn’t have been a simple coincidence, and I couldn’t shake the feeling that I was stepping into the game he had set up.

But for now, there was no time to slowly assess the situation.

“We don’t have much time. If we don’t take him down early, things will get much worse. If we don’t want a repeat of what happened before, we have to deal with him before he gets properly established.”

The chatter had not yet fully settled in.

But if the guy gets fully established and starts to operate in earnest, we will have to repeat the battle to retake the city that happened in the past.

The difficulty of the strategy increases rapidly.

Of course, it is by no means true that it can be easily conquered now.

Because Chattergil’s inherent power was the same whether he settled down or not.

“Right now, it’s hard for me to completely kill the guy by myself. He’s not usually a difficult guy, so it’s hard to conquer him by just pressing down on him.”

“Well, then…”

“You showed up at just the right time. I guess I need you to help me out.”

“Oh, of course! Of course!”

Joo Ji-hye nodded her head repeatedly.

As her expression showed, she felt proud of what Oh Hyun-seong had just said.

Asking for help gave me a strange sense of accomplishment and great reward, because it meant that I was needed and that I was acknowledged.

Because it wasn’t about being taken care of, it was about being able to stand together on the battlefield.

It was almost on par with the moment I finally rose to rank 11 as a hunter a while ago.

But while she clenched her fists with enthusiasm, Oh Hyun-seong slumped down in his seat.

“Huh…? What are you doing?”

“You have to eat well. Let’s start by opening a lunch box.”

“Didn’t you say you didn’t have time?”

“That’s true, but wouldn’t it be better to do some doping before you go? More importantly, you seem to have used up a lot of your magical power from rolling around here.”

Joo Ji-hye flinched as she was hit on the nail on the head.

Not only did he hunt quite a bit here, but towards the end, he suddenly fell underground and had to fight off a huge group of monsters alone.

No matter how much magical power she had as a high-level supernatural hunter, she was in a situation where she had no choice but to expend it greatly.

But aside from that, I was wondering what that had to do with eating out of the blue.

Turup.

But the moment I took a bite of the lunch box that Oh Hyun-seong had packed.

Such doubts disappeared like melting snow.

“Ma…Magic power…?”

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After finishing their meal, Oh Hyun-seong and Joo Ji-hye entered the center of the nest where Chattergil had settled down.

I plan to attack quickly and without giving them time.

The named monster and the two hunters faced each other like that.

“…”

But there was someone who continued to watch them.

On top of a building in an abandoned city.

A neat and handsome man wearing a pure white priest’s robe looks at them expressionlessly.

Even though I was watching from high above ground, I could still clearly see what was happening underground in the city.

“Things are going well.”

A faint smile appeared on his lips.

Oh Hyun-sung, who suffered a serious injury and has been out of action for a long time, will not be able to beat Chattergil.

Even if I won, it didn’t matter.

“After all, the big picture cannot be reversed, and it is just words playing on a woven board.”

He looked down and turned his back.

If it was the result, there was no need to see it with my own eyes, and now it could just disappear from this place without a trace.

Now, you just need to step away from the commotion and take care of what you need to take care of.

But at that moment.

Kwaaaaang!

A violent explosion of flames erupted.

The man who had slipped and fell frowned and looked down at his arm.

It looked completely burnt black and twisted.

There certainly wouldn’t be anyone with this level of skill left in the city.

When I turned my gaze, there was not a person, but a small fox.

“… Spirit?”

Woohoo!

Behind the man.

A giant golem appeared out of nowhere and swung its arms down, and the man was thrown down the lower floor as the roof was destroyed.

“Did you think you could watch from behind?”

Suddenly, Blea, who had appeared in her original form with long red hair, looked down at the man.

“Stick your neck out and go. Or else you’ll end up in ashes.”

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