CH 10

Hunter Seo Do-jun, wearing his trademark hunter coat, seemed to be looking for something urgently. The person in charge rushed to him.

“Hunter Seo Do-jun!”

“Lee Guk-jin, team leader.”

“Are you here to help?”

In fact, Seo Do-jun only came to find Haeun. However, seeing that the shadow attached to her was cut off, Haeun seemed to be caught up in the gate as well.

Seo Do-jun’s brow furrowed slightly. After all, the dungeon appeared at a time like this.

“I will participate in the rescue of victims.”

Since the government’s permission was required to enter the original dungeon, Seo Do-jun quickly decided to cooperate with them.

Team leader Lee Guk-jin’s face brightened at Seo Do-jun’s intention to participate. It was a D-class dungeon, but considering the civilian victims, it had to be attacked quickly. But to say that the No. 1 ranking came out to help, it was like winning thousands and thousands of horses.

It was then.

“Hey! Seo Do-jun!”

A flashing light hit, and this time ranked second in the rankings, Hunter Jung Eun-woo appeared. He ran as soon as he heard that an irregular gate had occurred near his house.

Jung Eun-woo grabbed Seo Do-jun’s neck and growled.

“You bastard, I told you to keep your eyes open and do it right!”

An electric current flowed from Jung Eun-woo, who was angry with his teeth exposed. Seo Do-jun’s face hardened at the same time.

Those who did not know the deal between Seo Do-jun and the Jung family watched, not knowing what to do with the sudden fight between the two high rankers.

Seo Do-jun lowered his head, even as his mouth twitched.

“Sorry.”

“You’re sorry, is that all?”

“Isn’t this not the time to wrestle like this?”

“Ha, damn it.”

He tried not to get caught up in the dungeon alone again twice.

Jung Eun-woo kicked the ground roughly. The concrete floor dented from the force. Jung Eun-woo looked at Seo Do-jun.

“I’ll deal with you later. Damn it, what are you doing! Aren’t you moving? You’re not going in?!”

“Yes, yes!”

The hunters who gathered around moved quickly at Jung Eun-woo’s shout.

Although the department was different, Jung Eun-woo was a high-ranking civil servant hunter under the government and was their superior.

The hunters, who had become accustomed to the fierce shouting that would even make the devil cry, were ready to enter the dungeon soon.

Looking at them, people felt hope that the victims would be rescued soon, and at the same time thought of a question.

Who the hell is involved in the dungeon, where those two are involved?

~*~

6 years ago from now.

Half of the concrete building three stories above the ground that used to be visible behind the darkened background of the setting sun, had completely disappeared.

The gigantic steel structure that was bent like a thorn and protruded out of nowhere was horrendous.

A reporter spoke to the camera in front of him.

“Around 11 am today, a crack broke out less than 50 meters from the gym here. In the aftermath of the incident, half of the gyms in Korea were swept away, and about 30 of the students who participated in the national youth gymnastics competition went missing.”

The dungeon, which was identified as E-class at the time of its occurrence, has soared to A-class. In front of the gate, the personnel gathered for additional input were conducting a brief briefing. Read only at pm tl.

The long-haired woman with the healer armband on her forearm was Lee Yoon-kyung, also known as the S-class healer, and the young man standing crookedly next to her was Jung Eun-woo, an S-class attack hunter.

A shout rang out as the camera captured them.

“What do you mean the danger level is already looking at 110! So that dungeon is evolving to an S-class? Don’t just say irresponsible things when the cause is unknown, answer it properly!”

It was Lee Yoon-kyung, a healer who had been trusted by the public for her image as calm and dependable.

However, such Lee Yoon-kyung lost her reason and was yelling at her general manager.

She had no choice but to.

Today, her middle school daughter, Jung Haeun, participated in a gymnastics competition held here.

And she was caught up in a dungeon.

~*~

In the dark space, Haeun blinked her eyes.

She felt a strange sensation. Her own body didn’t seem like hers. She was clearly standing with her feet on the ground, but she felt as if she were floating like a ghost.

She soon realized that she was dreaming of herself. Thinking it was a lucid dream put her mind at ease.

Haeun looked around, but she soon bit her lower lip knowing that she was standing in the dungeon, and that the space was so familiar.

Alone in the vicinity of her, there was the sound of whispers. Even though Haeun didn’t want to, she turned towards the sounds.

The raw energy that she felt was getting stronger was as familiar to her as she had felt it a long time ago. Haeun already knew who would be at the end of this road.

Tuk-

The corpse of a monster was caught at her feet. Haeun slowly lifted her head.

It was a harsh sight. It was a mountain made of monsters that came in front of Haeun’s eyes. It wasn’t a countable number one by one. It was as if all the monsters in this dungeon were pulled out.

At the end of her gaze, someone reached out.

“Wow!”

The girl, whose cheeks were flushed red, jumped. That’s Haeun in middle school.

Young Haeun looked very excited and seemed excited. There were so many monsters around, but she was clean without any injuries.

It was inevitable. Haeun was a newly enlightened awakener. Her ability becomes stronger as she uses it, so it is no wonder that Haeun, who was drunk in that power, had become excessively violent.

And she saw countless system windows floating around.

[SYSTEM: Synchronization value increases.]

[SYSTEM: Synchronization rate has increased by 1.59%.]

[SYSTEM: Current synchronization rate rising 9.38%]

The numbers were rising in real time.

Haeun took in her breath. She wanted to get out of this fantasy. Her face turned white as she lowered her back and crouched down on her body.

At the time, Haeun did not know that when that number rises, not only does Haeun get stronger, but her environment, that is, the monsters, are also affected.

And the fact that the end of the missing civilians facing the abnormally strong monster was only terrible deaths.

She did not want to see nor remember.

She couldn’t breathe, as if someone was strangling her. Haeun grabbed her own neck and groaned.

Flash.

Haeun woke up from her dream.

The tragedy that unfolded before her eyes disappeared, and the black dungeon filled her vision. She seemed to have lost her mind for a moment as she got caught up in the dungeon break. 

Haeun took a small deep breath, pressing her temple with her index finger.

This was just a dream, Haeun. A very, very bad dream.

“How unlucky.”

[The constellation ‘Mutant of the Abyss’ is awake now, and asks why she was so unlucky.]

“You.”

[The constellation ‘Mutant of the Abyss’ pours out its injustice at Haeun’s sudden accusation.]

“Who’s there?”

Ignoring the constellation’s complaints, Haeun shouted loudly toward the empty space. Her voice echoed and echoed.

“Is there anyone here?”

There was no answer.

Haeun groaned and spread her knees. The smell of damp moss, the howling that slammed into the empty space, and even the flow of strange energy. It was an undeniable dungeon.

“I should’ve just stayed home.”

Haeun scratched her head. She wondered if she could be like this without luck. The freedom gained through fair games returned as a result of the dungeon.

[SYSTEM: The grade of the dungeon is D grade.]

Fortunately, the only consolation is that the level of the dungeon is not that high.

At that moment, the ceiling of the dungeon cave thumped. It was an angry sound, as if it had noticed that an intruder had entered.

It was a dungeon that suddenly occurred in a residential area where apartments were gathered. There weren’t many people walking around on the hot concrete floor around 3pm, when the sun was the hottest, but it was still a town with many residents, so there was a floating population.

And some of them must have been caught in the dungeon break as unlucky as Haeun.

[The constellation ‘Mutant of the Abyss’ shouts that it is time for Haeun to become a hero and debut in the world.]

“You’ve said that before.”

And the result came back to Korea’s worst gate case.

The space she saw in her dreams over and over again seems to overlap with the current dungeon.

“Ha.”

Her stomach felt nauseous.

It seemed that she had to find people and be with them. If she sees them with her own eyes that people are safe, this buzzing will stop a bit.

Haeun, who had finished worrying, moved on.

The inside of the dungeon was eerie and it looked like a monster would pop out at any moment.

However, whenever Haeun moved, the energy inside the dungeon also changed. As if the Red Sea split, all living things in the dungeon realized Haeun’s existence and seemed to run away.

Fortunately, it wasn’t long before she ran into a group of people. Haeun, who saw that there was a familiar person among them, shouted loudly.

“Madam!”

“Haeun!”

Haeun also ran. The person who called Haeun was a middle-aged woman who lived in the same building as Haeun.

“Oh my god. Haeun, are you also imprisoned?”

“Uh…”

“Where’s your brother? Are they here?”

“No. I am alone.”

A glimpse of disappointment flashed across the face of the middle-aged woman.