Evolution Theory of the Hunter - Chapter 126

Chapter 126

[We are currently getting ready for battle . I am not sure about the location but I have heard that about 1 thousand or so hunters that seem to be the Chungho Group are nearby . That is why we are in the process of cutting down trees to prevent ambushes . ]

It was faster than I thought . Up until the morning they said that the battles were sporadic but it seems they are starting to clash with the Chungho Group for real in that time .

Comments flooded the chatting screen .

– Have you fought with the Chungho Group yet?

[I haven’t fought yet but the people that tried fighting them said that it was uninteresting . It’s said that they have level 3 hunters as well but their skills are not good . It’s said that it feels like they just picked up items and came here . ]

– Then it should be easy to win . Pacheongeom, aren’t you profitting too much? Don’t you not battle since you’re just a crowd control user .

[I picked crowd controlling specifically to broadcast . I am 3rd grade in Taekwondo and 3rd grade in Kendo . ]

– Bluffing is real hahaha

– Pacheongeom actually seemed to fight well though? It’s said that he was the boss during high school .

– How’s that related to this? How scary do you think the front liner hunters are . It’s not possible to compare to some delinquent from high school .

– It’s possible as long as you have money so what bullshit are you saying . A person I know is the son of an upstart rich family and he was just wearing around level 4 equipment .

– Don’t you need at least 5b to have a full set of level 5 equipment? And they gave that to a kid?

– Moron . Isn’t not one or two days that people have been using items to avoid taxes .

[I will ban you if you swear . Please refrain from swearing . Ah . It seems we are fighting now?]

The broadcasting camera turned and bustling noises could be heard from the forest .

Soon, the sound of weapons clashing and shouting could be heard . It seems a fight has broken out .

However, it was weird that a mere 1,000 Chungho group members would pick a fight with the 5,000 government team .

Unless they weren’t idiots, there was no way they wouldn’t know about this sides’s movements . In addition to that, this information was all over the internet right now .

BJ Pacheongeom’s streaming continued . The guy used a wide area slowing skill and turned the camera towards himself .

[Did you see them run away? Kuku . ]

– Can’t see cause the quality sucks .

– What happened yo?

[They acted up and all ran away . We are planning on pursuing them after seperating into three teams . It seems team 1 that was in the middle will be going first . ]

– It seems like a trap to destroy one part at a time though? Aren’t they picking a fight and running away on purpose?

– It seems like that to me too? It feels like they’re trying to decrease the troops and then surround them .

– You idiots saw too much History of the Three Kingdoms . Who would move like that during a battle between hunters? These guys aren’t even military so do you really think that would go that smoothly? The Chungho Group is a bunch of delinquents anyway . They just acted up and ran away after getting beaten badly .

– Certainly, not like some chinks would be able to use such tactics . (Kyle: Koreans don’t exactly like China not that all Koreans think like this or dislike them this severely . )

– No, even so, it’s weird .

– They lack the skills in the first place . It seems they lack the brains as well .

There were all kinds of predictions and swears pouring out on the chatting screen .

BJ Pacheongeom was cheering with an overly excited voice that they won . Either way, it was an obvious response since some form of reward would be given .

“How is it going?”

Han Joon-suk said after approaching . I lightly frowned .

I didn’t have a good feeling about this .

“1,000 Chungho Group members started a fight and then retreated before even 10 minutes passed . ”

“That is…… . ”

“It’s weird right?”

The Chungho Group that we fought before weren’t such a disorderly mob . Of course, it could be said that their individual skills were lacking .

However, they were a group that had the level of leadership that allowed tactical movement .

Such a group got beaten to the point that they had to retreat in a mere 10 minutes?

They were people that blindly sacrificed their lives while fighting us . There was no way those guys would run away after 10 minutes .

It seemed Han Joon-suk thought the same thing as me as he nodded his head .

“No matter how you look at it, there’s a high chance that it’s a trap . ”

I was wondering what to do when suddenly, a wise man time came .

If I wanted to help then I should have joined the government team in the first place; it would be hilarious if I were to step up now and order them to do this and that .

In reality, it didn’t really matter whether the forest region went to China or our country .

It wasn’t like I had been attacked in a dungeon because that was in China . In the first place, the bunch known as hunters were people that could instantly change into robbers if there was no one watching them .

If the Chungho Group won in this battle, then the only thing that changes is that the hunters I fight in the forest region is the Chinese .

It might be ease my mind more that way too .

Let’s not think about useless things and strengthen items .

I gestured to call Soo-ah .

“Did you call?”

“Take this . ”

I tossed her an earring . It was an item that would solve her snoring problems .

Mute Earring (1) : Erases the sound in a certain radius . Able to prevent the use of various magic and technique usage .

I had 900 EP and all so it wasn’t like it was going to be a burden .

But her response was strange .

A teardrop travelled down Soo-ah’s cheek .

Wrong . This girl finally lost it . Ah damn . The amount of items and skills invested in her was mind boggling . I did think that this was going to happen some time but it was too fast .

“Seonbae oppa, so you did know . ”

I knew what?

What bullshit is this, I was going to ask but I got a chill so I closed my mouth .

“As expected, seonbae oppa is a more careful man than I thought . ”

“Hm…… well, yeah . ”

Just in case, I tried asking .

“What about the others?”

“It doesn’t seem like anyone knew . How am I? I’m pretty right?”

She wore the earring and turned her head so that I could see it well .

The silver earring that was made into the shape of lips matched Soo-ah’s face type quite well .

“Ah . Yeah . It looks good . But, about today…… . ”

“Today? Did you prepare a birthday party?”

It was her birthday as expected . Should I say that I was really lucky . There was the thing I received before too so it would have been troublesome if it passed just like that .

“Ah . I got to know it a bit late so I couldn’t prepare that . Sorry . ”

“Hehe . It’s okay . I got a present after all . I also have something to give you . ”

“What is it . ”

“Close your eyes . ”

This progression was dangerous . I desperately shook my head and opened my mouth .

No, I will keep my eyes open so just give it to me . I feel like I will be surprised no matter what you give me . ”

“Ah . Just do as I say just for today . Do you think that I will kiss you or something?”

“…… Okay . ”

She was an impressive person . She had completely blocked all escape routes with a single phrase .

I lightly closed my eyes . If this girl showed even the slightest weird behavior then I was planning on quickly opening my eye…… .

*Kiss*

Huh?

I got flustered and opened my eyes wide . However, Soo-ah’s figure was already gone . I unconsciously brought my hand to my lips . The feeling left behind was too vivid .

I’m going to go crazy, this .

I was able to make two low level items become level 7 items with the Strengthening Stones I had . After contemplating I decided on the two items .

One was the Bloody Sword .

I did had the Aura Blade skill so it was possible to use the thing itself as a weapon but as a low level item the blood sucking ability was useless .

It wasn’t able to do as much damage as I thought to the Black Tiger too .

However, the blood sucking ability of the Bloody Sword itself was a good option to the point that it was cheating .

I determined that changing this to level 7 would be more efficient than any other item .

The second was Soo-ah’s Arachne Armor . I will say this ahead of time but it’s definitely not like it’s because I have ulterior motives or something .

It’s a decision I made due to how useful the Arachne Armor’s supporting ability is .

The spider webs were good for both offense and defense . Besides that, it had functions like trapping a prey or protecting allies and it could also be used as an alternative to rope if we didn’t have any, making it useful in various ways .

Also, I was planning on upgrading the items of the rest of my allies to level 6 .

“Everyone besides me and Soo-ah, please select about one level 6 item and two level 5 items . I will upgrade all the ones that you have chosen . Also, if you can’t choose then please tell me . We can just strengthen the one with a good option . ”

Upgrading the item a person originally had had the advantage of being a item the person was used to .

However, in the case of someone like Cho Young-gu who’s main equipment was a no name, then it was better to buy a level 1 item from the Delta Store and upgrade that instead .

“I can’t get a level 5 right?”

Soo-ah raised her hand . She asked with a really oblivious face . Was she unaffected by what she did just now I wonder .

“Yes, because you’re getting a level 7 . Instead, you can made a level 4 . Tell me if you want to upgrade something . ”

“Yes sir . ”

Like that, they decided among themselves what they wanted to upgrade .

I started upgrading them on spot if they brought the items they wanted to upgrade .

There were plenty of Strengthening Stones and ores so the upgrading itself went on smoothly .

From the side, Delta Team 2’s Jang Moon-bok was looking at that sight as if it was amazing .

“What does strengthening mean?”

“It’s making the level of an item higher . ”

Soo-ah said .

“Is such a thing possible?”

“Because it’s seonbae oppa . He’s able to do anything you see . ”

“That’s envious . ”

“Wouldn’t you guys be able to do so if you work hard?”

As Soo-ah gave off a positive nuance, fire was lit in Jang Moon-bok’s eyes .

“I will work harder!”

“Of course it’s not definite . Even if it looks like that, incredibly expensive ingredients go in after all . ”

A laugh came out unintentionally looking at Soo-ah giving empty promises .

Those guys had no choice but to cling to her since she tossed them some hope after disciplining them .

It was almost visible to the naked eye that she was exquisitely burrowing into a person’s heart but the person herself probably didn’t know .

Certainly, it wasn’t something I should be saying . Since it seems I’ve been suffering since some time ago .

We upgraded the items overall . I was a bit out of it due to doing too many things at once but the greatest change was that my teammates’ weapons were all changed to level 6 .

Besides that, I upgraded the low level items they were wearing for their passive effects to level 5 and level 4 .

There were also things besides the ones that we originally had that were newly bought and upgraded .

Infinite Quiver (5) : Arrows are provided infinitely . The supply rate is fast . Can fire two arrows at once .

Phoenix Armor (5) : A summoning type armor . Defense increases by 100% . In case it gets destroyed, it gets despawned and can be respawned immediately .

Leather Boots of Charging (5) : Etherizes a person and allows movement through obstacles . While in ether state the physical damage received is decreased by 70% . Receives extra 30% magic damage .

In order, Yeon-gyeong’s Infinite Quiver, Cho Young-gu’s Phoenix Armor, and Park Han-bum’s Leather Boots of Charging .

They are using these that were originally level 1 items bought and immediately upgraded to level 5 .

As they were originally new items, they got new options on top of the original options so they got good abilities .

After finishing the strengthening like that, the large amount of Strengthening Stones disappeared in moments .

It was feeling like suddenly becoming poor after being rich but it was a fact that it looked meager compared to what I got .

Even if all of that was combined it couldn’t be compared to the Delta Store use currency 900 EP and the Aura Blade skill .

Thinking about it, I got a level 7 upgrade too .

I did ponder for a bit whether I was being too greedy but my party members were all satisfied just checking that the performance of their items increased .

“I can finally use the Stalker again . ”

Han Joon-suk raised the bow with a content expression .

The level 5 Dragon Killer that he was using until now was good as well, but the one that he truly like was the sniping use bow Stalker as expected .

It seems he was pretty happy about being able to use it by upgrading it after not being able to due to it being too weak as a level 2 bow .