Chapter 8: Hunters Association (1)

In an era where gates open anytime, anywhere.

This meant that disaster could open anytime, anywhere.

Gate backflow.

The phenomenon of monsters overflowing from the gate to the outside when the inside of the gate is full of monsters is called gate backflow.

The time it takes from the generation of a gate to backflow is usually about a week.

Therefore, it was important to quickly discover the gate and take follow-up measures such as dealing with the monsters inside the gate.

If you don’t respond properly, it will turn out like that.

“What the hell.”

Yeom Haneul looked at the gate on the rooftop of a 10-story building where monsters were pouring out like crazy.

A monster army consisting of five A-rank monsters, Ogres, as the center, B-rank monsters, Trolls, C-rank monsters, Orcs, and hundreds of F-rank Goblins, was coming over from the gate to reality.

Yeom Haneul asked her party member and healer, Go So-hye.

“So-hye. What rank was that gate?”

“Um… The Association measured it as a B-rank gate that backflowed.”

“But why the f*ck are there five A-rank monsters, Ogres, visible there?”

“The Association doesn’t know that either…”

“Sigh. Those Association b*stards. I’ve never seen them do their job properly. Besides, there were no gates in the Incheon area.”

“That, they said it was a gate that even the Association’s technology could not detect.”

“Hooo…”

Yeom Haneul sighed deeply.

At that, her party members flinched.

Yeom Haneul. Who is she?

She became an A-rank hunter in the shortest period of time, two years after awakening, and is now a self-proclaimed genius aiming for S-rank.

A battle maniac who doesn’t indulge in drinking, gambling, men, or other pleasures, and only thinks about battle.

The person closest to being recognized as the fourth S-rank hunter by all three S-rank hunters in Korea.

But she is not affiliated with a guild or the Association because of her peculiar crazy… no, my-pace personality and her foul mouth, and she created her own party saying she would do as she pleases.

People laughed at her for kicking away the easier path, but that didn’t last long.

Because the party Yeom Haneul created, Flame of Upheaval, rose to the 10th place in the domestic guild ranking in just three years.

A party of only five people was comparable to guilds with dozens or hundreds of hunters.

Not only that, but it exerted an influence that was not inferior to that of a large guild.

People now began to praise Yeom Haneul.

A woman who is frighteningly ruthless and violent.

But a woman who showed overwhelming talent, ability, and performance.

A woman who is looked up to and admired even more as a fellow woman.

That was the woman called Yeom Haneul.

…Although she had been a little strange since yesterday.

“Let’s work. Work.”

Yeom Haneul muttered to herself and tapped her flushed cheeks.

It’s the face of a woman who seems to be lost in something, like… a woman in love.

But her party members immediately dismissed that thought.

That battle maniac Yeom Haneul in love?

A passing goblin would laugh until it died naturally.

The flushing of her cheeks must be due to excitement about the upcoming battle.

As expected, Yeom Haneul, who instantly returned to her original sharp expression, equipped her gauntlets and greaves.

And looked back.

There were four women who had fallen in love with Yeom Haneul’s romance and left their guilds to join her party.

Each and every one of them was a strong hunter who could be called the ace of a large guild, and they were idiots.

Yeom Haneul smiled as she looked at them.

“Hey, you b*tches!”

“Yes!!!”

“We are going to die now! We are going to that battlefield to die! Are you afraid?!”

“No!!!”

“Yeah! The ones who should be afraid are those monsters! We are hunters! We are the ones who hunt!! We are hunters who hunt monsters!”

“Yes!!!”

“I’ll kill any idiot who gets hunted by the prey!!! Got it!!!”

“We will be with you until the end! Sister!!!!”

Yeom Haneul, who received a satisfactory answer, turned around and jumped down from the building.

Her red hair fluttered in the wind.

I took the subway and arrived at the Hunter Association building.

‘It’s magnificent.’

The pressure that the building gave was indeed worthy of being called the backbone of Korea’s defense.

It seemed that the higher the floor of the building, the higher the rank of the hunter it served.

I headed to the 2nd floor, the counter exclusively for F-rank hunters.

As expected of F-rank, which anyone can do, there were a lot of people.

“I’m serious! I really awakened a skill! It’s just that I can’t show it right now! Why can’t you believe me!”

“Do you think you can be safe after doing this? You’ll be in big trouble later when I awaken! Be prepared!”

“Sob! Look! My strength is this strong! Isn’t this enough to be considered a skill?!”

Some wise man said that if five people gather, one of them is bound to be an idiot.

From my experience, when five people gather and only one is an idiot, you should thank God.

Isn’t it common for four out of five people to be idiots?

Like a group project.

The F-rank hunter-only counter was an idiot gathering place to the extent that such words came out.

From people who deny the reality that they have not awakened, to people who threaten to wait and see when they awaken later, to people who make ridiculous demands.

‘Only the civil servants in charge are pitiful.’

I obediently took a number ticket and looked for a place to sit, but there were so many people that I had to stand in a corner.

About 5 minutes passed?

“Um, excuse me…”

Two women spoke to me.

One had a nervous expression, and the other had a bright red face.

The red-faced woman held out her cell phone to me.

“Ah, I’ve been looking at you for a while, and you’re so handsome… Could you give me your number…?”

Oh my god. I’m being hit on.

I’ve experienced many things in my life, but this is the first time I’ve been asked for my number by a woman.

I’ve heard a lot that I look like I’m good at swinging a sword, but this is also the first time I’ve been told I’m handsome.

‘Is this the gender-reversed world…? Is this the life of a handsome man…?’

In a gender-reversed world, a handsome man is invincible.

The goddess who returned me to this world is a ‘god’.

‘Ah, that b*tch is really a god.’

“I’m sorry.”

But I made up an excuse and refused.

Because I wasn’t particularly attracted to them.

When I sent them away, I immediately heard whispering from behind.

“Does it make sense to say that he can’t remember his number…?”

“Yeah. He should have just said he didn’t want to give it… Still, it’s good to feast my eyes.”

“Yeah. Did you see his forearms? They were really amazing, weren’t they? It’s the first time I’ve seen such a man in real life.”

“I was so distracted by his face that I didn’t notice anything else. F*ck. I loved you for a moment…!”

That’s the woman of a gender-reversed world. It certainly seems like a conversation that a man in the original world would have, seeing it like this.

In the original world, it would be like saying that they were distracted by a woman’s body and face.

It’s a little off-putting when women with decent appearances have such conversations.

Rather than whispering behind my back, it would be more likely for me to give them my number if they acted like the grandmasters in martial arts novels and said, ‘Hey, you’re so f*cking hot that I can’t calm down. Can’t you see I’m wet here? Give it to me.’

That day, I was hit on by six people during the hour I waited for my turn.

I refused them all, but it was quite a fresh experience.

After a long wait, the number on my ticket was called, and I sat down at the counter.

In front of me was a male civil servant with a generous impression.

I felt puzzled as I looked at him.

‘He looks normal, unlike the other female civil servants.’

The one I saw in front of the gate, and the other female civil servants at the counter, all had dark circles under their eyes, but the man in front of me looked unusually normal.

‘But why isn’t he even lifting his head?’

I wondered if it was okay to do this even if it was a boring job.

The civil servant in charge didn’t even lift his head and said in a voice that sounded like he was dying of boredom.

“Submit your ID.”

“Is an F-rank hunter license okay?”

“Hunter license, ID card, driver’s license, they’re all fine.”

“Ah, yes. Here you go.”

I handed the F-rank hunter license to the civil servant in charge.

The documents I submitted to Park Hyena to prove my porter history included an F-rank hunter license.

Like any other license, it was a license that could prove my identity as a hunter, containing a photo of my face and simple qualification details.

“Huh?”

The civil servant in charge, who was casually checking the license, let out a stupid groan and raised his head.

“…Tsk.”

When I met the eyes of the civil servant in charge, who was frozen and dazed after seeing my face, he frowned.

‘What? What is this supposed to imply?’

I wondered what the hell was going on.

You’re treating someone like this on the first meeting, and a public meeting?

Did that guy receive his family education with national funding?

…Well. Still, this was a bit much.

Everyone can make mistakes.

I should be generous enough to let go of one mistake.

“So. Han Suhyeon? What brings you here?”

“I awakened a skill and came to apply for promotion to an E-rank hunter.”

“Sigh… Again? This is so annoying…”

The civil servant in charge muttered in a small voice.

But to me, who had gained excellent physical abilities and extremely developed senses by obtaining a divine body, the guy’s muttering was heard clearly.

Even though I tried to look at it in a good way, I almost split the head of the civil servant in charge because of his f*cking rude appearance, but I exerted superhuman patience and held back once more.

‘I understand.’

Waiting for an hour and watching, I could see that most people came to apply for E-rank hunter promotion.

And I could also see that not a single one of those many people had actually awakened a skill.

If hundreds of people repeat the same thing every day and cause trouble, it’s understandable to react like that.

I understand.

Of course, I understand.

I can understand it enough.

Understand.

“What skill did you awaken?”

I smiled silently and tapped the desk.

At that, the civil servant in charge tilted his head.

And at that moment, the wide desk suddenly disappeared.

“Whoa…!”

The civil servant in charge, who was leaning his arms on the desk to support his heavy body, was about to fall forward.

‘Oh, I didn’t mean to do this.’

I really didn’t mean to, not even 1%.

I really only wanted to show off my awakened skill.

I smiled in my heart and stepped on the head of the falling civil servant in charge and pushed it.

“Kuhek!”

The plump civil servant fell backward with a thud.

“As you can see, it’s this kind of ability.”

Ah! delightful!