Chapter 332
As the hunters of the Bloody White clan were scheming in a hidden place in the mountains, Choi Yeonseung was dealing with some other hunters.
“Are you blind?! I hit it first! Here, the side! Look at the side! Don’t you see the burn marks?”
“U-uh... This bastard is going to trick people! Does a monster die just from being hit with fire? It was my attack that hit it in the head! I’m the one who saved your life, so be grateful!”
‘Ugh, isn’t this embarrassing for our country...?’The source of this material is novelbin★
Choi Yeonseung was amazed by the civilized way in which these Korean hunters were arguing with each other.
Of course, the overseas hunters behind him didn’t raise their eyebrows at all.
“They’re fighting fiercely for their rights.”
“Ah, I’m so jealous! If I’d come a bit earlier, I could’ve hit one of the monsters and asked for a share.”
“Woah, so they’re not trying to shoot each other? It’s amazing! Don’t people usually shoot someone when fighting like this?”
“In South Korea, they don’t shoot each other. Instead, they call the public officials and make an agreement with each other.”
“What?!”
‘Why aren’t these bastards helping?’
The official from the Hunter Bureau was furious at these hunters and cursed at them in his mind. There were many people present, but none of them tried to help.
“Well, in principle, the one who hit the monster first has claim over the rewards. If you look at the video, it seems that the fire attack hit the monster first...”
“WHAT?! A civil servant is plotting against me! I can’t take this anymore!”
“...”
Of course, the hunters didn’t agree even when the official presented them with video evidence.
Choi Yeonseung, who was watching this circus from the side, finally intervened, “I think this person hit it first.”
“What? You bribed other hunters...?!”
Before he could finish speaking, Han Seha brought her sword to the belligerent hunter’s throat. The hunter was just about to shout when he saw Choi Yeonseung. He then looked back at Han Seha and finally realized the situation he was in.
“Yeah, on second thoughts, I think he hit it first!”
“Thank you for your understanding!”
“No need!”
Choi Yeonseung and Han Seha swiftly ended the conflict, which moved the official to tears.
“Thank you!
Normally, it would’ve taken several hours to settle a dispute like this, and even then, the hunters would still come back later to demand the truth, or what they believed to be the truth. Thus, the fact that Choi Yeonseung and Han Seha had calmed them down so fast was nothing short of a miracle.
Only A-grade hunters could do such wonders!
“Let’s go somewhere else,” said Choi Yeonseung.
“Huh?! Are you going to do it again?”
“That’s what I’m here for, right?”
“...Uh, d-do you have any intention of becoming a member of the National Assembly...?”
“???”
Choi Yeonseung looked at the official as if wondering what nonsense he was saying.
The official whispered so that no one else could hear it, “If you run for it, I will tell everyone around me to vote for you.”
“No, there’s no need...”
***
The golden pig had a transformation skill, but it wasn’t anything spectacular. If it transformed, a golden pig could fool people from a distance, but if someone looked at it for some time or they got closer, they could tell that it was actually a golden pig.
These types of monsters gradually became easier to deal with as people accumulated more information about them. In fact, several golden pigs had already appeared, and the hunters had easily dealt with them.
Instead, something else happened that distressed the hunters.
“Don’t come this way!”
“You can’t come this way!”
The moment some hunters saw Han Seha, they were frightened and tried to stop her from coming closer.
Seeing this, Han Seha nodded kindly and drew her weapon...
However, Choi Yeonseung stopped her and spoke to the hunters, “Why are you doing this? Of course, I know that it’s first come, first served, but to completely deny any kind of access to the monsters...?”
“Uhm... It’s because Hunter Han Seha is a member of Hanseong Group,” a hunter said hesitantly. He normally wouldn’t have explained himself, but he was scared. Han Seha was giving him a murder stare from the side...
“Why does it matter if she belongs to Hanseong Group?”
“Hanseong Group has also put a bounty on this golden pig, and... we were commissioned by Namhyeong Group...”
‘Ah. I see.’ Choi Yeonseung understood what the hunter meant.
Usually, companies issued quite a lot of requests to catch certain monsters. Whether they were researching that monster or just making soup out of it, companies were concerned with making profit from new inventions.
From that perspective, hunters couldn’t help flinching whenever they saw someone like Han Seha, who was a direct descendant of Hanseong Group. Besides, she was an A-grade hunter, so even if she barged in and tried to take something for herself unfairly, the other hunters couldn’t do anything to stop it.
“...Shut up. Have you been guarding the golden pig?”
“Yes.”
The hunters had already managed to capture one of the golden pigs. It was several times more difficult to capture a monster as opposed to just killing it, but it wasn’t impossible.
There were also several sleep-related and stun-related artifacts, which had made it pretty easy for the hunters to capture the golden pig.
“What? Did it wake up and transform? Hasn’t it transformed into another monster?” asked one of the hunters, looking puzzled. He looked at the golden pig in the special case, but it looked like another monster.
The golden pig could shapeshift, but it couldn’t do so when it was unconscious.
“It can transform.”
“Then it must’ve woken up... But it didn’t move, did it?”
“I guess it was quietly waiting for an opportunity to transform. Anyway, there’s no reason to worry. It’s going to jump out if you open the door.”
“That’s true, but...”
The hunter wondered if something was wrong, but his companions persuaded him to let it go.
After all, what could a captured monster do?
***
‘Is it Future Sight?’
A vision suddenly appeared before Choi Yeonseung’s eyes. He had experienced it many times before, so he was no longer surprised by it.
The goddess of balance had bestowed this power on him. It was a rare power from the Abyss that allowed its user to glimpse into the future!
“...???”
Choi Yeonseung couldn’t believe his eyes.
He tried to compose himself, but the vision was so terrible that he couldn’t do so.
-■■■■■!
Choi Yeonseung could see a golden pig in a special cage, and it suddenly transformed. At first, he thought it was just using its transformation skill, but it soon became apparent that it wasn’t the trivial skill used by every other golden pig.
With a deafening roar, the creature burst out of the cage!
Everyone at the scene, which looked like a laboratory, ran away screaming.
-You said you properly anesthetized it!
-It’s not a golden pig! It’s not a golden pig!
-Activate the alarm! Emergency! Emergency! The monster has escaped!
It wasn’t a golden pig that had transformed into another monster, but the reverse. Another monster had transformed into a golden pig!
Choi Yeonseung was shocked.
‘It’s not a normal monster!’
He couldn’t recognize it because it kept changing its appearance, but the monsters able to do something like that were usually strong in the Abyss.
It wasn’t uncommon for some monsters to be so cunning and malicious that they hid themselves by assuming another form.
‘Is the explosion constellation involved in this?’
Choi Yeonseung frowned as he quickly tried to come up with possible explanations for this. In order to prepare for this, he needed to know where this monster appeared and how.
He had to know as much as possible...
“???”
Choi Yeonseung suddenly paused.
‘I don’t think it’s in South Korea...?’
The moment the monster came out, the signs that it passed by were in Chinese, not Korean. What was going on...?
‘Did the golden pig appear in China?’
Rather, it seemed more likely that overseas hunters took the golden pig to China. The chances of a monster which hadn’t appeared in over twenty years to suddenly appear in two countries were rather slim.
The vision disappeared and Choi Yeonseung sighed.
‘No...’
He wasn’t shocked that some hunters had brought a monster to another country. After all, every country had hunters who did things like that. However, why would they take a mysterious monster disguised as a golden pig instead of an actual golden pig?
‘Ah... This...’
Choi Yeonseung clicked his tongue. No matter how he thought about it, this was a tricky situation.
“Can you go ahead and send an official notice to all the hunters who have come to South Korea?”
“Yes, of course! What message do you want the letter to contain?” the person in charge responded immediately.
Considering how much Choi Yeonseung had helped them so far, the person in charge would’ve complied even if Choi Yeonseung had asked them to steal the personal information of overseas hunters.
“The message should be that if any overseas hunters are sneaking out golden pigs, I won’t punish them if they come forward and admit it.”
“...I-I can send it, but...”
The person in charge hesitated because he couldn’t bear to tell Choi Yeonseung the truth: that those bastards would certainly disregard his warning...