Chapter 19 You Want to Hunt With Me!? (1) (1/2)
You Want to Hunt With Me!? (1)
As he was already wearing armor, there was nothing else he needed to prepare. Just that he did some maintenance on his steel spear while he was borrowing the anvil and the hammer. Although he didn’t show it, he was worried that the spear may have been damaged during the fight with the Brown Big Bear yesterday.
Erta also didn’t say anything about it. Wouldn’t it turn into a huge incident if his spear broke in the middle of combat? Warriors should always take good care of their weapons. Although Yu IlHan didn’t really know about that, as he wasn’t a warrior, he didn’t want to go through the trouble of making another spear.
Because he had the Eternal Flame and max level blacksmithing, he was able to finish repairing the weapon in just a few minutes. The result that popped up was this:
[Fatally Sharp Steel Spear]
[Rank – Unique]
[Attack Power – 1,100]
[Durabiliity – 715/715]
[Option – 20% increase of critical hit chance]
[A miracle made by human with solely the use of technique and effort and without the help of mana. Thanks to being maintained by top class tools, its stats improved.]
“……”
What? The attack power increased by 300 just by reparing it!? Moreover, it was only blacksmithing, but there were both alpha and beta options. As he was the one to strike the steel, Yu IlHan knew more than anyone how amazing this feat was.
Although he knew that this wasn’t the time for this, Yu IlHan looked at the anvil and hammer alternatively before quietly making a request to Erta.
“Gimme this.”
[No.]
Thanks to spending a few days time with Yu IlHan, Erta’s retorts towards Yu IlHan became quite considerable. At her clear cut words, Yu IlHan gave up getting new tools and had to leave the workshop with Erta, who became palm-sized and nestled on top of his head.
“What did you become human sized for?”
[I was doing other work as a human. Now, I’m back to being your support again.]
“You differentiate so meticulously, eh……”
After lightly waving his hand towards the Eternal Flame, which flickered as if seeing him off, he went outside, where the noise become louder by a level. He could even hear a building collapsing with a boom!
There was no need for him to put any effort into searching it. He just needed to run towards where the dust cloud could be seen. As he neared, the sounds of guns, helicopters, explosions, and collapses resounded louder as if they were trying to make him deaf.
[KuuuOOhhhoohhhh!]
At that place was a huge lepoard. A leopard bigger than the brown bear that he had defeated the day before!
The moment Yu IlHan arrived at the scene, it was swinging its front paw to strike a helicopter from the top of a high-rise building down. It was as if watching a monster movie, but this was reality.
And even at this time, the soldiers, who were confronting this crisis were desperately fighting.
“RPG, even the RPG isn’t working!”
“F*ck, those with advanced jobs go and stab with a knife or something!”
“This is a highly populated area, we know! However, this needs a missile, or else at this rate, the Blue House will be penetrated, the Blue House!” (T/N: Blue House is the Korean equivalent of the White House)
Yu IlHan didn’t have that much trust in the strong friends until now, but he couldn’t not be surprised after seeing that even field-grade officers were at the front lines. Although, it may just be that the situation was more serious than he thought it was.
“It’s coming, it’s coming this way!”
“Escape! Scatter!”
It wasn’t only the soldiers who were there. A few armed ability users, and some people who had advanced to their 1st jobs were attacking the leopard with their weapons.
Even though they could pile up experience and record in other worlds, they had clearly given that up and were remaining on Earth, fighting against a monster which had a strength above that of 2nd class. Yu IlHan couldn’t just laugh at them for being foolish.
Yes, they were in the right. No matter how strong they could become in other worlds, if Earth, if the country they lived in, turned into ruins, then wouldn’t it all be meaningless?
They knew that, so they put their lives on the line. Despite the fact that they didn’t have the confidence to defeat that monster. Despite the fact that they could die in a single attack of its paw.
He somehow felt pathetic for sharpening his spear in order to defeat the monster for sure.
Although his self-guilt disappeared as he knew that he might be in danger if the steel spear broke in the fight due to not maintaining it, in its place, feelings of wanting to help them as soon as possible welled up inside his heart.
Although I don’t have any thoughts on putting my life on the line for others, if others can live if I just work a little harder, then I’ll gladly put in that effort. – This was Yu IlHan’s motto.
“Heh!”
With a strange shout, Yu IlHan started running. He ran on the collapsing concrete with each step, pushing the gear inside his heart up by one.
The leather armor covering his body didn’t hinder him. Instead, it was as if it was pushing him forward by helping the wind.
The surrounding objects, the commanders who were urgently calling somewhere, the soldiers who were flicked away by the leopard, they were all passed by.
Nobody noticed him.
He had no intention to have anyone notice him.
‘I want to use mana quickly.’
After he had surpassed the limits of humans with training in the one thousand years of his life, he was never disappointed in his own body while moving. However, now that he was taking several seconds to approach that monster even at his full speed, he felt unsatisfied.
If I had learned mana, I could enhance my physical abilities. If I had magic, then I would be able to call wind to fly in the sky. – He thought.
The leopard started dashing. After swiping two armored vehicles and swatting a bomb onto the ground to make it explode, it smashed against a high-rise building again. Some ability users attacked it and were in turn also attacked.
It was fortunate that the ability users attacking with long-ranged magic were alright. However, the people who were trying to wound it in close combat were all tattered. There might even be those who had died.
[It’s clearly stronger than the Brown Big Bear. Such a pity, Yu IlHan.]
“……”
Erta lightly mentioned the joke Yu IlHan had said a few minutes ago, but right now, Yu IlHan, who never forgot to make jokes, ignored her and kept running while squeezing out all the strength of his muscles to produce a speed that surpassed the limits of stats.
The moment he neared the leopard, he kicked off the ground and jumped high while confirming its position. He kicked off the wall of a nearby building to jump high, and kicked off the wall of the opposite building to jump even higher. After repeating that several times, he was several tens of meters in the air. Even so, nobody noticed him.
He was never so thankfulthat his presence was weak until now. Yu IlHan muttered while holding the spear with both of his hands.
He changed his trajectory by kicking off the wall of a high-rise building nearing him. This was the last. While quickly moving through the air, the figure of the leopard became larger and larger.
Was it unsatisfied even after destroying so many buildings? It was holding up a military vehicle with soldiers inside, with its front paw.
The soldiers had resolved themselves for death as they threw grenades into its wide open mouth, but even that didn’t give it a fatal wound. Well, even Yu IlHan had the confidence to not get wounded by grenades, so it would be strange if the leopard got injured from that.
While falling towards his target in midair, Yu IlHan pulled back the spear with all his strength.
The leopard’s huge face was getting nearer and nearer, opening its mouth to swallow the vehicle whole. At that moment, the figure of Yu IlHan was rellected in its two yellow eyes.
Yu IlHan struck the spear into left eye with all his strength.
[Critical Hit!]
[KraAHHaRRAAAaa!]