Chapter 17: Aftershock (2)

[I’m in Incheon right now, and there’s a B-rank gate backflow, we’re f*cked…wow]

(Photo of monsters flowing out of the gate)
(Photo of citizens evacuating to a shelter)

It’s supposed to be a B-rank gate backflow, but five Ogres came out.

The Flame of Upheaval party members are assisting with the evacuation, and it’s really f*cking scary.

I think I’ve encountered Orcs, Trolls, and Goblins at least once.

I happened to see Yeom Haneul, and she was fighting three Ogres alone.

• Wasn’t Incheon a gate clean zone?
  ㄴ Yeah. The house prices are ridiculously expensive, but I came here because it’s safe, but a B-rank gate, not even a C-rank gate, opened;;

• What’s with the Ogres? Aren’t they A-rank monsters?
  ㄴ I don’t know either. I need to know what’s going on;; But it’s certain that Ogres have appeared.

• Wow, did you really see Yeom Haneul and Flame of Upheaval? I’m so fcking jealous.
  ㄴ Fck, it was really awesome. Even though I’m a woman, I felt my womb tremble because I was being protected.
  ㄴ Yeom Haneul is really fcking cool. She was fighting Ogres in a black suit, and there wasn’t a speck of dust on her.
  ㄴ Wow! As expected, praise the best and most dignified alpha female in Korea, Yeom Haneul!
  ㄴ These btches are really shilling for Yeom Haneul lol
  ㄴ What are you? Are you a low-ranking B-rank trash hunter who’s jealous of Yeom Haneul?
  ㄴ You’re a bit harsh, you b*tch. Where do you live?
  ㄴ Huh…? Was it real? Lol..

• Hey, but are you okay? Are you in a situation where you can write?
  ㄴ Yes. I’m at the shelter now. The Flame of Upheaval people seem to have finished evacuating the citizens and went back to the gate. Now I’m a little s
  ㄴ a little s what. You stopped writing. Are you really okay?

An anonymous user’s post set the Hunter Gallery on fire once again.

After that, similar posts began to appear one after another.

A sudden gate backflow incident in a gate clean zone.

Even Ogres, A-rank monsters that shouldn’t appear in B-rank gates, appeared.

The sudden appearance of higher-ranking monsters than the measured rank of the gate.

An event that happens once or twice every six months happened to overlap with a backflow.

The gallery was burning even hotter than usual with such stimulating bait that it couldn’t help but burn.

But some people questioned the whereabouts of the writer who suddenly stopped writing.

[Fcked fcked f*cked the shelter was breached]

Almost all the hunters guarding the shelter died, and a few ran away.

The Ogre hit the door three times and it just broke through.

Everyone is running away.

I just gave up and sat down.

It’s obvious that I’ll die if I run away.

It’s not just any monster, it’s an Ogre, so can I die painlessly in one hit?

I have no family, and I lost all my assets in crypto, so I have nothing, so I’m rather at peace.

• Lol, Stop lying.

• What are you doing, not running away; Hurry up and run away;;

• Why isn’t this b*tch replying? Is it real?

Several posts that seemed like last words were uploaded.

The posts that had been uploaded until now still had various emotions.

Confusion, bewilderment, anger, fear, sadness, relief, etc.

Emotions that a person can feel because they are alive remained in the writing.

But the posts that were uploaded afterwards were full of only resignation.

They were reactions as if they had seen something indescribable.

The people who were half-jokingly and excitedly setting the gallery on fire felt the atmosphere turn cold.

Various indicators, including other communities, news, and real-time search terms, showed that this situation was an emergency.

Most people living in modern times feel threatened by gates that may appear anytime, anywhere, but very few have actually encountered monsters in front of their eyes.

This was because hunters always closed the gate before a backflow occurred.

Even if a backflow occurred, the response was very quick.

But this incident was different.

A gate clean zone, a place where gates have not appeared for decades, suddenly had a gate appear and backflow.

Because they had always thought it was a safe place, the response was delayed.

And many people evacuated to shelters, feeling the threat of monsters firsthand.

The shelter they finally reached.

Now it’s safe. I’m alive. The moment they thought that, an Ogre appeared, breaking through the shelter.

If the hunters who they thought would protect them were dead by the Ogre’s hand, or ran away abandoning them…

Imagining such a scene, many users felt an unknown fear.

The post regeneration of the Hunter Gallery, the number one popular gallery, stopped for several minutes.

It was an eerie silence.

And a post uploaded a little while later broke the silence.

People clicked on the post as if possessed by something.

[I’m at the shelter right now, what is this?]

(Video)

I took this video, what’s up with that person…?

From the content of the post alone, it was impossible to know what the writer was trying to say.

To understand the content of the post, it seemed necessary to watch the video, so people pressed the play button of the video.

“Crazy, crazy, crazy…”

As soon as the video played, the writer’s muttering and the chaotic sound of the shelter were heard.

The phone’s camera was pointing at one place.

The guy came into the screen, which was shaking because of fear.

A huge body over 2 meters tall, rugged green muscles.

A deformed monster wearing a necklace made of several skulls and the heads of the dead.

An Ogre.

And an unknown man with a rapier facing such a monster.

That was all the information that could be confirmed.

The writer’s hand was shaking so much that he couldn’t fully capture his appearance.

“Grrrrrrrrrr!”

The Ogre charged at the man with a loud roar.

The image of the man being blown apart by the Ogre’s fist vividly came to mind.

People closed their eyes tightly, anticipating the scene that would follow.

Thump!

But contrary to people’s expectations, the man dodged the Ogre’s fist by a hair’s breadth.

No, not only did he dodge it.

Stab!

He stabbed the rapier into the Ogre’s heart in return.

The Ogre struggled to kill the man, moving around, but the man played with the Ogre as if it were a toy.

The Ogre lost its heart once again.

The moment the Ogre had one life left, the man was caught off guard and was hit by the Ogre.

Due to the limitations of the camera, the following content could not be fully captured.

The moment the camera turned to the charging Ogre belatedly.

Boom!

The Ogre’s body exploded with a sound like a bomb exploding.

A red-haired woman in a black suit was in the place where the Ogre was.

And the video ended like that.

People were stunned for a moment after watching the video.

Because their heads couldn’t understand the video they just saw.

Press the play button again and watch.

Again.

Again.

And.

• Wh-What is this, really? Girls, my head is ringing.

• No, but who the hell is that man? Was there a male hunter in Korea who could 1v1 an Ogre?
  ㄴ Wouldn’t the alpha male dogs be able to do that?
  ㄴ Those fckers are all talk. It’s a frame made by the Memi guys. I happened to see it during a gate raid last time, and it’s really, oh, just thinking about it makes me angry.
  ㄴ But wouldn’t Kim Dohyeon be able to?
  ㄴ Kim Dohyeon would be able to, but Kim Dohyeon is a mage, not a swordsman, you stupid btch.

• Isn’t this not a 1v1 standoff level? Before he was careless? he was completely toying with it.

• In the first place, was there a hunter in Korea who used a rapier among A-rank hunters?
  ㄴ There are two. But both are women, and the person in the video is too different from them.

• But isn’t that weapon also artifact-level? It cuts Ogre skin like butter, not even Goblin.
  ㄴ If there’s a workshop that makes such weapons, I’d run there right away.
  ㄴ It could be a skill that enhances the cutting power of a weapon.
  ㄴ Then that movement doesn’t make sense.

• Hey, but isn’t that the design of the weapon provided by the association for free? It’s too fast to see clearly, but it looks similar?
  ㄴ Have you never used an association weapon?
  ㄴ Huh? Of course I’ve used it.
  ㄴ But how can you say that? You compare that dull weapon that barely cuts Goblins to that?
  ㄴ Come to think of it, that’s right LOL;

• Hey, writer bstard, why are you shaking your hands so much! The focus is completely off, so I can’t even see the man’s face clearly.
  ㄴ You try holding a camera in front of an Ogre. I thought I was going to pee myself, fck
  ㄴ Ah, right. I admit it if it’s in front of an Ogre LOL

• Isn’t that red-haired woman at the end Yeom Haneul?
  ㄴ Yes, that seems to be Yeom Haneul. There’s no other woman in Korea with red hair who can one-shot an Ogre.
  ㄴ Wow, even as a woman, she’s really fcking cool. My fluids are dripping LOL
  ㄴ This btch is also corrupted by Yeom Haneul LOL
  ㄴ Lesbian yuri maker Yeom Haneul LOL

An explosive reaction erupted.

The mysterious man who fought equally with the Ogre for a moment.

Only an A-rank hunter can compete equally with an A-rank monster.

But currently, there were no male hunters in Korea who used rapiers.

Then who the hell is that man?

Everyone was curious about the identity of the mysterious man who suddenly appeared.

But even after searching the list of high-ranking awakened registered with the association, they could not identify the man.

This was because there was no male hunter who met the intersection of the man’s impression vaguely captured on camera and the fact that he used a considerable level of rapier swordsmanship.

There was one hunter who vaguely belonged to the lower ranks of B-rank, but the difference in appearance and skill was insurmountable.

[But isn’t that man the same male hunter from Park Hyena’s video?]

Evidence 1. Description. Ordinary men don’t usually wear such plain clothes.

But in both videos, the man’s description is exactly the same. Top, pants, shoes, everything.

Evidence 2. Weapon. Both use rapiers, and the design and blade length are the same. That association-provided weapon ㅇㅇ.

Evidence 3. Movement. There was a lot of talk that the man in Park Hyena’s video also had F-rank movement that was unbelievable.

And the way the man in the Ogre video and the man in Park Hyena’s video handle the rapier is quite similar.

Evidence 4. Both videos don’t show the face properly, but the atmosphere is somewhat similar. Just looking from afar, there’s a handsome feeling.

• You’re talking nonsense LOL Are Goblins and Ogres the same?
  ㄴ Right, the movements in the two videos are completely different LOL
  ㄴ No, if he has the strength to fight 1v1 with an Ogre for a while, isn’t it natural to think that he held back his strength in the Goblin Gate?
  ㄴ Have you seen Yeom Haneul seriously attack Goblins? She can kill them with a flick, so she doesn’t go all out in Goblin Gates. That man is probably similar.
  ㄴ Um… Thinking about it like that, it seems to make sense?

• But the man in Park Hyena’s video is a non-Awakened. He’s not even registered with the association.
  ㄴ The man in the Ogre video isn’t registered either. Isn’t there a chance he awakened on the same day?
  ㄴ Do you think that’s a likely probability?
  ㄴ He filmed the video, and a little later, he awakened and awakened a skill powerful enough to overwhelm an Ogre?
  ㄴ Even if he awakened a skill, skills require a training period, so it’s even more unbelievable that he would use it so skillfully right away.

• But when you put it together, it really seems like the same person? How can there be so many similar points?

• F*ck, I don’t know anymore~

In between, posts were uploaded saying that the man in the iTuber Park Hyena’s video was the same man who fought the Ogre.

But the more that happened, the more the man’s identity fell into a labyrinth.

Everyone was eager to reveal the man’s identity, and then.

[Hey hey hey, the Ogre video is up on iTube in high definition!!!]

(iTube link)

Just shut up and go in and watch.

I don’t know if it was filmed with a drone or what, but anyway, it’s crazy.

I’ll say it twice.

Just shut up and go in and watch.

A video that you couldn’t help but click appeared.

People focused all their senses on the vivid sense of realism they felt as soon as they clicked on the video.

Compared to the video filmed by the previous writer with a cell phone, no.

Compared to the many videos uploaded to iTube, it was a different level of overwhelming realism.

It felt like playing virtual reality, that video was special.

The monitor disappeared from their view, and the camera angle and their gaze became one.

They felt like they were in the middle of a noisy shelter.

At the end of their gaze was a man with a unique beauty that could only be described as a god-sculpted appearance.

The man stroked a child’s head, told the child and parents to run away, and smiled kindly.

Seeing that smile, they recalled a childhood innocence they had not felt in their worn-out lives.

Like a scene from a fairy tale they read when they were young.

Seeing a smile like a hero who always appears in a moment of crisis, defeats evil, and protects people.

They felt their hearts pounding without realizing it.

Slowly turning around and glaring at the Ogre, the man held a rapier with a faint blue light.

The overall battle aspect was the same as the video seen before.

However.

Stab!

“Grrrrrrrrrr!”

Although they were clearly watching a recorded video, they felt a vivid sensation as if they were watching a battle unfolding before their eyes.

The view begins to move gradually.

In fact, it was the camera angle that moved, not their view, but they didn’t even notice it and were completely immersed in the video.

When the man was kicked by the Ogre, they held their breath without realizing it.

When someone appeared and caught the man, they sighed in relief.

They cheered at the powerful appearance of Yeom Haneul.

The view suddenly went dark.

The video ended and a black screen appeared.

For a moment, they were immersed in the afterglow of watching a movie.

The Hunter Gallery was on fire again.

Admiration for the man’s overwhelming beauty and skill, and the appearance of a hero like in a fairy tale.

Praise for the video that gives an incredible sense of immersion that has never been seen before.

As expected, recognition of Yeom Haneul.

But even in the midst of that.

[So who is that f*cking sexy and awesome man!!!!!!]

Who is it!!!!!!!! Park Hyena, you b*tch, come out!!! Explain!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

• I don’t know?

• I don’t know?

• I don’t know?

Their desired identity of the man was not revealed.