Damn Hunter Life 72

Damn Hunter Life Chapter 72

Yang Pyo, with revitalized eyes, rationally observes dozens of mermaid swarms.

Even within one attribute, each successor had their own unique characteristics.

In Yang Pyo’s case, as can be seen right before our eyes—

THUMP! As Yang Pyo charged forward as if ramming with his body, the overlapping Sheep Familiar also pushed away the mermaids at once.

Invincible body.

The Sheep Successor moving as one with the Sheep Familiar can’t even get a scratch from ordinary attacks.

He’s so suitable for taking the lead that he’d be more than worthy of being called a more orthodox tanker than Jin Seol-woon.

On the other hand, having to fight with such characteristics made him inevitably vulnerable to monster phobia.

“Since they’re gathered, let’s catch them all!”

Woo Sae-geon’s twin swords, which moved before Yang Pyo’s shout, began crushing monsters from the east.

I also shot arrows here and there. Having experienced it once, I was now familiar with the supporting role from behind.

‘I’m a bit anxious without Jin Seol-woon. Though the probability of monsters coming to me is low due to the taunt skill.’

At that moment, with a swoosh of fabric friction, something like a wall touched my back.

Ja Hyeong-woo had stood with his back against mine.

“It’s convenient to stay close to maintain your heal.”

…I couldn’t even curse through chat. Because I knew that right now my heart was running fine thanks to Ja Hyeong-woo’s blue light.

Instead, while pretending to draw my bowstring, I strongly struck Ja Hyeong-woo’s side with my elbow. Whatever the community says later.

“I’m going too~.”

A voice with no sense of weight whatsoever.

Sa Ye-ho moves. I secretly watched between shots.

Sa Ye-ho, who had been following Woo Sae-geon with his eyes as he dove in first with a joyful expression, disappeared the next moment.

At a speed hard to follow with the naked eye, his fluttering clothes appeared to flicker and cut off intermittently.

While Woo Sae-geon was charging forward, slicing through everything in front with his twin swords, Sa Ye-ho was more flexible and smooth, swooshing between the monsters.

Kieek…? Sa Ye-ho moved to a position where the mermaids’ surprised sounds couldn’t reach, behind them, and leisurely stopped with a raised corner of his mouth.

Sa Ye-ho hadn’t made any attacks yet. He had no weapons either.

If he was going to attack, it would be from now.

Several iron needles appeared between Sa Ye-ho’s fingers.

Whooo… Sa Ye-ho blew breath along the sharp needle tips with his lips as if licking them. Then smoke faintly rose from the needle tips.

As he swung his arm in a circle, the hidden weapons THWACK! lodged into the mermaids’ necks.

The opponents are monsters, but can they die from such thin weapons? That’s a question a first-time viewer might have.

However, Sa Ye-ho doesn’t need to worry about such things, nor does he need to throw with enough force to pierce through necks.

<Breath That Brings Fire Demons (Fire Attribute)>

Once they hit, from that moment on, the monsters’ deaths are decided.

KYAAK! KRUAAK! The mermaids’ screams tore through the air. It was the sound of temperatures hotter than flames traveling along the needle tips, burning the throats of monsters born from water.

Water extinguishes fire, but fire that’s too strong conversely devours water. It’s a story that appears in the Five Elements theory too.

Woo Sae-geon deployed him because he judged Sa Ye-ho to be fire that conquers water.

‘A guy who has both genius and attention-seeking…’

He really has no sense of propriety, but I can’t say that. He’s skilled while acting like this.

Monster pieces scattered in all directions, and a nauseating smell rose from the blue bodily fluids sprayed on the floor.

The time it took to clear all the surrounding monsters wasn’t very long.

Sa Ye-ho, who had defeated the last mermaid, suddenly collapsed to his knees.

“What, when did you get hurt?”

Seeing him holding his left arm, it seemed a mermaid’s claw had grazed his arm. Did Ja Hyeong-woo miss it?

“It hurts…”

Sa Ye-ho rolled up his sleeve with a sad expression. A red scratch could be seen on his solid arm.

But Ja Hyeong-woo was a cold healer.

“I saw it earlier but deliberately didn’t treat it. It’s not serious.”

That’s right. If you’re going to save skills.

The drama king toddled over to Woo Sae-geon and held out his injured arm.

“Blow on it~.”

Instead of blowing, a cold gaze fell. Sa Ye-ho was grinning, then subtly avoided eye contact.

“Ah, I applied cold compress so it doesn’t hurt anymore.”

The stage wasn’t over yet. The boss monster remained as the final homework.

“One more taunt skill…?”

Yang Pyo, who had been looking at the deep sea, carefully looked at Woo Sae-geon.

“There’s distance, so it won’t reach.”

If the taunt skill worked from here, the boss monster would have come up earlier.

“Then what do we do? Can ranged weapons reach down there? I can’t, at least.”

“Why are you looking at me? Do you think my arrows will work? Have you heard of refraction?”

While Sa Ye-ho and I were chattering, Woo Sae-geon silently removed his gat and set it down.

Then he untied the ornamental strings of his dopo and pulled the tied goreum. Leaving only his white jeoksam, he left us with one brief instruction.

“Stay alert.”

He jumped into the water holding one sword.

“Hyung, should we prepare life tubes?”

While saying that, Sa Ye-ho used his snake eyes skill once more to watch whether the diving Woo Sae-geon was okay.

Soon the calm water surface began to ripple. Woo Sae-geon showed no signs of coming up yet, but the water spray gradually grew larger, shaking even the ground bit by bit.

“I can’t tell if this is the leader’s taunt skill vibration or the boss coming up…”

“It’s the boss.”

Before Yang Pyo finished speaking, I, who had been watching the water surface, answered.

As shadows approached from underwater, Woo Sae-geon first surfaced and exhaled barely disturbed breath. He put his sword in inventory and climbed the cliff without difficulty, taking Sa Ye-ho’s offered hand and setting foot on land.

There wasn’t time for Woo Sae-geon to put his dopo back on. He could be seen preparing for battle while still wet.

‘The boss’s size?’

A huge shadow appeared on the water surface as if some submarine was rising—

The monster mermaid’s head burst out of the water.

This boss was also tremendously large. The scary thing was that this boss monster used both arms like a human.

“…!”

Its outstretched grip aimed at me in the center. The sunlight was completely blocked and the surroundings darkened for a moment.

“Hyung!”

My eyes widened at the palm filling the sky above my head.

Since Yang Pyo’s voice was fast, Yang Pyo would probably deflect it first. If not, Woo Sae-geon would cut off the arm. Sa Ye-ho wouldn’t just stand still either. I hope Ja Hyeong-woo doesn’t step forward. It’s fortunate I kept him at a distance earlier.

Even though I was with skilled people enough to be optimistic, I chose to respond directly.

Judging from the ‘Grave of the Dead’ skill, my specialty is making the ground sink or rise.

‘Actually, looking at just my characteristics, I’m suited for tanking too.’

With the thought of winning by myself, I straightened my gaze.

The notification voice in my head read the name of my second skill as Earth Successor that I had recently obtained.

[Activating <Lonely Gravedigger (Earth Attribute)>.]

This seemed to be a tanker skill.

The role of pushing back enemies at the front with strong body and courage to protect comrades.

The role of charging at enemies to break their movements and buying time and leisure for comrades.

GRUMBLE— The ground under my feet rumbled lightly. Following my will, a mountain made of earth shot up as if to pierce the sky.

The moment the mermaid’s hand BANG! collided with the earth wall—

“Kugh!”

The shock shook my body. BEEP—! Tinnitus struck my head hard. As much as the mermaid’s hand bounced off the wall, it affected me too.

“Hey, your new skill!”

“Hyung!”

Shouts rang out from all directions. I tried to endure, but my knees had already buckled. Honestly, it’s a miracle I didn’t lose consciousness immediately.

“I’m also earth… a tanker.”

“All tankers are frozen to death, you bastard!”

I tasted metallic blood in my mouth. Does tanking once make your insides turn upside down…

Ja Hyeong-woo’s face entered my blurry vision.

“Ah…”

A cool and pleasant sensation hit me. A moan naturally flowed out. Ja Hyeong-woo properly supported me again and skillfully operated his skill.

It was so comfortable I forgot where I was. It felt like immersing my body in perfectly cool temperature water.

‘But did Ja Hyeong-woo’s heal always envelop the whole body like this?’

I opened my eyes. First, Ja Hyeong-woo’s pale expression, then the blue glowing water stream surrounding my body in a circle.

One of the advanced skills Ja Hyeong-woo would have. Having seen the description in the original work, I could immediately identify what skill it was by seeing the form of the energy.

<Prayer That Draws Up Purifying Water (Water Attribute)>

However.

It was a skill that wasn’t listed in the current report.

‘Did it just develop? After seeing me collapse just now…’

The difference between having one advanced skill or not was really huge. With this one skill, the current Ja Hyeong-woo instantly surpassed the original Ja Hyeong-woo’s abilities.

My plan was successful, but somehow the aftertaste is bitter.

Ja Hyeong-woo’s gaze pouring over my face was terribly emotional. Full of worry, but on one hand it seemed like relief at my recovery.

It was uncomfortable. I got up while avoiding Ja Hyeong-woo’s gaze.

The other three I’d left behind were enthusiastically beating up the boss monster.

With Woo Sae-geon’s skills, chatting during combat should be fine. I secretly sent a private chat.

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Me>Ox Successor: We agreed I’d experiment with my skill on the boss monster

Me>Ox Successor: I’ll do it now. Which attribute should I bring?

==

Blue blood spurted to both sides of Woo Sae-geon. SLASH, SLASH! He hacked the monster’s arms until blood splattered.

At the same time, a reply flew over. Is Woo Sae-geon actually two people? I knew this when I sent it, but it was newly amazing that chatting was possible in the middle of that.

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Ox Successor>Me: Stop it. Don’t do it now.

==

I blinked at the unexpected opposition.

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Ox Successor>Me: I don’t trust that you’re properly assessing your own body’s condition.

==

Perceptive human… I pretended not to know and sent more chats.

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Me>Ox Successor: This is the only chance to try it on a monster

Me>Ox Successor: If I’m not going to experiment with new attack methods, there’s no reason I came here, right? I was just trolling today

==

I wished it was reluctant permission, but Woo Sae-geon wasn’t easy either. He never withdrew his opposition.

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Ox Successor>Me: Don’t be insolent. Either way, I’m the one who put you on the deployment roster. I decide your usefulness.

==

While saying that, he stabbed two swords into the mermaid and brazenly killed it right before my eyes.

…It was a good opportunity to push Ja Hyeong-woo further to develop his healing.

Still, since Ja Hyeong-woo gained an advanced skill, today was enough with this. Comforting myself with that regret, I returned to the corridor with the people who had conquered the stage.

It was when we entered an area without cameras.

{Did you think I wouldn’t know? What thoughts are in your head.}

The Mouse Familiar spoke into my mind.

Before I could fully understand the meaning, my mind reeled. The moment I intuited something was wrong.

{This is why I can’t help but hate you. Really…}

The Mouse Familiar wasn’t talking to me, but to someone near me.

That was possible because…

The other party was the Mouse Familiar’s original owner.

{Master. This guy got hurt on purpose.}

Ja Hyeong-woo stopped abruptly.

The familiar’s voice was only heard by us two. The other three didn’t know and walked a few more steps, then turned to look at us who had stopped belatedly.

{Not knowing his weak body is precious, volunteering for stages under the pretext of developing the master’s abilities and using tanker skills. If I hadn’t caught him, how much more of the same would he have done?}

I’m screwed.

I only thought I needed to hurry and get away from this place. I had no time to lie and say it wasn’t true.

“Stop there.”

My eyes squeezed shut.

I was genuinely afraid to look to the side, but my head slowly moved. As if Ja Hyeong-woo had forcibly turned me around.

The moment I saw Ja Hyeong-woo’s eyes, strength entered from my fingertips to my toes.

“You, deliberately… You purposely inflicted internal injuries on your body? So that when I became desperate… my healing abilities would improve?”

Author: Hyacinthus B

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