Evolution Theory of the Hunter - Chapter 144

Chapter 144

Our party settled down on top of a hill where the base could be seen .

The reason we were standing by here was simple . We were planning on interfering once the government team and Chungho Group begin battling .

I called my party members together and gave a run down of our plan .

The content was simple .

“Once the battle begins and some time passes, the government team will begin to lose . Once the situation seems to become a bit bad, we will attack with the monster army .

“You think the government team will be pushed back?”

Soo-ah asked . I nodded my head .

“Their individual abilities are outstanding . However, the Chungho Group has made plenty of preparations while the government team didn’t . On top of that, looking at how Joo Sae-yoon is trying to do a meritorious deed no matter what, there is a high possibility they will be done in while being rash . ”

“The Chungho Group might do a small scale battle instead of an all out frontal battle . If it becomes like that then it will difficult for us to interfere . ”

“What do you think the Chungho Group’s number one priority is?”

“Not sure . That is . To take the forest region right?”

“To do so annihilating the government team is counterproductive . They are trying to get as many captives as possible to negotiate . And the greatest negotiation target is none other than An Gyu-bum . ”

I was able to tell by talking with An Gyu-bum . An Gyu-bum was the highest priority protection target of the alternative service team .

If he got caught then the government had no choice but to ask for a negotiation by biting the bullet .

That’s why they had rashly run away in the last battle .

It wasn’t hard to infer the reason he was still participating in the battle . The seat known as the GE Group’s heir wasn’t that easy to look down upon after all .

That large company had dozens of potential heirs and the one with the most noticeable achievements would take the seat .

An Gyu-bum was in a tight spot where he had to slowly step up towards the course as a heir and this battle could become the touchstone to that .

I continued .

“That’s why the Chungho Group will do a head on collision to catch the government team as captives . To do that there is a high chance they will pick this place, the government team’s base as the battlefield . ”

After completing my words I looked up at the far sky . There were dozens of eagles flying in the sky .

If the Chungho Group’s movements are found then they will immediately inform me .

The next day .

As expected, the Chungho Group started moving .

The enemy’s location could clearly be seen to us who were hiding on top of the hill .

Yeon-gyeong had eyes full of surprise as she opened her mouth .

“How many in the world are there?”

“Not sure…… there seems to be more than I estimated . ”

My estimated Chungho Group members was about 6,000 to 7,000 .

But the number of enemies that we could see from here seemed to be much more than that . Jong Sa-won who usually didn’t speak much looked around a bit and slowly opened his mouth .

“It seems to be about 10,000 . ”

10,000 .

It was a number that was more than 3 times higher than the original estimate of 3,000 . On top of that, if the ones that died were added, then they were originally around 12,000 .

I started thinking that we looked down on the Chungho Group too much .

Han Joon-suk’s expression was not good .

“This won’t be as doable as we thought . ”

“Certainly . I was thinking that we might be able to win with relative ease if you appropriately hit them from behind . ”

I was thinking about fighting in the same method as before . We were able to divert the enemies to win back then after all . However, with this many it was not an easy thing to do .

I started thinking that it would be impossible to win while saving items .

Han Joon-suk opened his mouth .

“How many monsters do you currently have?”

“About 400 . ”

I had already lost a fair number of them in the last battle . There was no doubt that they would melt down in front of a huge army like that .

“There’s too little I see . ”

“If I used all the items I have right now then up to 2,400 should be possible . ”

“You have an entire 2,000 items?”

Soo-ah looked at me in surprise .

“However, it’s not enough with just that . ”

2,400 monsters was a massive force . Even so, it was difficult to compare to the Chungho Group .

It was because most of the monsters were below level 3 . It would be possible to shake the tide of the battle for a while with the element of surprise but victory could not be assured .

“How about we just run away?”

Manager Kim said . Han Joon-suk shook his head .

“If we left the government team like this then they will be annihilated . ”

“They’re not even related to us . If they lose here then the government won’t stay still right . They will bring level 10 hunters or something to take care of them . If they are trying to capture them as team leader said then they won’t kill them all either . Even if the forest region goes over to them it’s not that important to us . ”

“Didn’t you get enraged when I said so last time? Saying that the back is uneasy . ”

Soo-ah said .

“At that time . There was a chance that we could win . This time, retreating is the only answer . ”

“What will you do?”

Han Joon-suk asked me . This was deeply troubling . Thinking about it logically, retreating from here was the answer as Manager Kim said .

It might be a better idea to retreat and explore ruins .

There was no need for me to risk my life to expand the Korean borders a bit more .

“We will move as planned . ”

However, I decided to charge in as it is .

There were several reasons . Largely, the fact that the swamp region is put into risk of being taken over as well if the forest region is given; the minor reason being that Son Aram and Park Chan-hyeong’s younger brother was in the government team .

Of course, this was just an excuse .

The greatest reason was still the fact that the Chungho Group looked like a treasure chest in my eyes . If I could pulverize them then the number of items I can get will be several times more than now .

“Urg…… I really think this isn’t right . ”

“Manager Kim . So are you not going to?”

“I don’t know . I’m only going to use Sleep from the van . ”

The original party members already knew how to move as I wanted .

I headed to team 2 . Including Park Chan-hyeong who left government team 1 to follow me, team 2 had a total of 12 people .

Jang Moon-bok opened his mouth with a trembling voice .

“Are we fighting with those guys?”

“Yeah . Can you do it?”

Gulp .

It was to the point that I could see the cold sweat flowing down . The number 10,000 was intimidating to that degree, surpassing all imagination . It’s to the point that I’m thinking whether I can win against them or not after all .

“I will do it . ”

However, Jang Moon-bok nobly nodded his head . To be honest, I was a bit surprised . It was a situation where it wasn’t weird for him to run away .

“Good . Then right now, take off all your items . ”

“Yes?”

“You have to fight while risking your life so you can’t fight in that . ”

Team 2’s items were all upgraded to level 4 . It was only went up by one level but it can be said that it was much stronger than before .

I had invested quite a bit . I couldn’t let the ones that follow me die in vain after all .

“Thank you . ”

Park Chan-hyeong’s eyes glistened with tears . This guy had a younger brother in the government team so he would have fought to the death either way .

Also, the rest of the items were used to summon monsters .

Now the number of monsters on me numbered 2,400 .

It could now truly be called an army of monster . However, I still thought that it wasn’t enough with just this number .

However, I did not have any more items .

If I excluded items I was using that is .

– Will you sacrifice the level 8 Hunter Greatsword to summon a monster .

A green message appeared in front of my eyes .

I pressed accept and chose Black Tiger as the monster type .

A 4 meter long giant Black Tiger appeared in front of me .

Everybody got surprised as they hurriedly got back .

“A, a Black Tiger? How?”

The one that was most surprised was Soo-ah . She had personally fought it with her sword she knew best how terrifying it was .

“I summoned it . It’s a level 8 . ”

“Wow…… You had a level 8 equipment?”

“Yeah . My weapon . ”

“The Hunter Greatsword? You used that? My god . That 25b worth…… . ”

“I didn’t even use it much anyway . ”

My main weapons were the Dancing Sword and the Bloody Sword .

I had determined that since the weapons performed as well as a level 10 with Aura Blade there was no need for the Hunter Greatsword in particular .

Also, thinking about efficiency, a level 8 monster was better than a level 8 equipment . A powerful monster would definitely have greater presence in a large scale battle like this than a single weapon .

Uohhh!

The Chungho Group that surrounded the base shouted loudly . We felt coercion that made even us who were on the hill tremble .

“The base has been completely surrounded . It seems like they’re not letting a single one escape . ”

“Can’t they just stall for time like this? They probably don’t have much supplies left anyway . ”

Soo-ah said .

“If it became like that then there is a high chance support troops would come . Even if our country doesn’t have many hunters, they can’t afford to lose the entire government team after all . They might go all out and deploy a large raid team . A Mercenary level raid team would be able to wipe out that number in an instant you see . ”

“Are Mercenary that strong?”

“They have 10 level 10 hunters after all . ”

From what is known to the outside, it is true . Team Mercenary’s had a total of about 5,000 people . 10 among them were level 10 . If even half of them came, the battle could be completely turned over even with a difference in numbers .

However, the problem was that level 10 hunters did not move easily .

Hunters at that level didn’t take orders from the nation . It was impossible to move them with money too . The equipment of a level 10 hunter alone amounted to several 100b at the very least .

They were humans that didn’t even listen to suggestions that didn’t give an amount at the 100b level .

Because of that, the nation level powers had no choice but to do their best not to displease them . If they did something wrong by any chance and went to another country then it would be a huge loss to the nation after all .

That’s why, they had to bow down to them even with them just staying in this country .

From their eyes, this kind of fight would only be seen as a fight at the level of kindergarteners . They wouldn’t even want to fight in such a battle personally .

The only reason they would be able to come as support is because of An Gyu-bum . He was still one of the potential heirs to the GE Group and the GE Group had a raid team called Galaxy Extreme after all .

Soo-ah nodded her head .

“That’s envious . To have so many level 10s . We only have one . ”

“One?”

I was wondering what she was talking about and noticed she was looking at me .

“I’m not a level 10 . ”

“You have Aura Blade . ”

“With just a single skill…… I can bet my life’s savings that I would lose in ten seconds against a real level 10 . ”

“Hm…… I don’t think so though . ”

“That’s because you never saw a real level 10 fight before . ”

“Seonbae oppa has seen it before?”

“Just once . ”

I have seen Lee Hui-seung’s battle once . There was a time an irregular appeared once while I was going to a shopping center holding my mother’s hand .

Very luckily, that person wa there . He killed the dozen or so monster with his bare hands like he was killing insects .

Of course, the current me would be able to recreate that scene . However, I would not be able to do so cleanly without having no one in the shopping center hurt and without a bit of damage to the shopping center’s structures .

That was almost at the realm of gods .

“Either way, the one that’s at a disadvantage as time goes on is the Chungho Group . Most likely tomorrow or even today, they will start attacking . ”

I carefully inspected the Chungho Group’s movements .

Han Joon-suk was inspecting the enemy base since some time ago . His Optical Ruby Ring was upgraded to a level 5 unlike mine .

Unless blocked by trees or other obstacles, he should be able to see like he was right to the place .

“It seems they are resting for now but looking at how they are maintaining their weapons it seems they are going to go straight into battle . ”

“Then we should prepare as well . ”

In that situation, even Joo Sae-yoon wouldn’t be able to rashly go out of the wooden barricade . This place’s wooden barricade was of course made more properly than the place he was trapped in . However, it still had a limit of how long it could last against a large scale army of hunters .

That level of wooden barricade could be knocked down by a level 3 with a sword or spear after all . Even if the defensive wall was sturdy with two three layers it would quickly be destroyed .

I called Son Aram .

– Sang-min?

“The situation doesn’t seem very good right now but how is the atmosphere inside?”

– It’s not that bad .

It was unexpected . I thought they would be scared shitless looking at the sheer numbers .

“That’s good then . ”

– I think it’s thanks to General Eum Young-hyeon . Also, our forces have been preserved better than we thought too .

I nodded my head at her words .

I have been thinking that that man was doing well but it seems he had quite some ability in maintaining morale .

If the overall general was not Joo Sae-yoon but Eum Young-hyeon then there would have been time to spare even after destroying the Chungho Group .

Also, thinking about it another way, the government team casualties only numbered 500 .

On the other hand, the Chungho Group had about 200 casualties . Of course, that was an achievement that wouldn’t have been possible without me but it was a clear fact that the basic comparison of casualty ratio was 4:1 .

It seems Eum Young-hyeon had encouraged the hunters using that .

It might be that they were thinking that they could win the enemies over two times their numbers if they relied on the wooden barricade . Of course, it didn’t look like that at all from the outside .