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For days, five camcorders had captured countless people without rest. Thanks to the hunters who filmed constantly, not a single word, a bite of food, or even a moment of sleep could be done carelessly.
It was all a design for ‘fame’.
And now, Ju Uiryeong was moving to the next location, clutching to his chest something the size of his own body that twitched and squirmed, wrapped meticulously in cloth.
It was the spoils from slaying the first witch. Just recalling how he had pleaded with Geon Ita for days, his heart racing, made his hands and feet tremble even now.
“Geon Ita-ssi, thank you so much for listening to me. I’ll make sure you never get harmed because of this.”
“Harm?”
Geon Ita, walking ahead, let out a snicker. Yet he didn’t even look back. His solid shoulders trembled slightly for a moment, then settled without a stir.
“Do what you want to satisfy yourself. What do I know? Do as you please. I’ll do as I please too.”
“Why do you always talk like that? You know I didn’t mean it that way. Just… all you have to do is stay still and do nothing.”
Ju Uiryeong’s gaze shifted to Geon Ita’s side. The back view of a soldier in medieval armor walking with clanking steps sent a chill down his spine.
It was completely clad in silver armor from head to toe, moving beside Geon Ita like a lifeless doll. Seeing it in person, the icy aura made it hard to breathe.
That was the ‘Dullahan’, the ‘Power of Wrath’.
A monster that became the incarnation of wrath after its head was cut off, and the trusted guard of the ‘First’ Witch.
It was Geon Ita’s reward for killing the witch. For now, it wore a helmet, but the moment the Dullahan removed its helmet, the words of a spirit risen from hell would ride him and race across heaven and earth, spreading the scent of death along with wrath.
“You really don’t need to do anything.”
This was the truth. No, it had to be.
Geon Ita let out a hollow laugh, then closed his mouth coldly. Looking at his broad back, Ju Uiryeong bit his lip.
‘This place should have been his own novel, The World of Supporting Characters, not the Circus of Supporting Characters. If so, even if Geon Ita was cold, he wouldn’t have rejected him or kept his distance like this. He would have actively helped instead.’
‘Why did Uhm-ssi make Geon Ita have such a personality…’
Perhaps because he had fretted so much over Geon Ita’s coldness, now he felt more annoyance than hurt at that sight. But it was okay. Geon Ita built walls equally for everyone and kept a proper distance.
Drip. Drop. Water droplets from the ceiling fell onto a puddle somewhere. This was a cave that stretched long and thick like a snake’s body.
The 40 hunters walked endlessly through the dark, murky cave. Their faces were tense, and their complexions, exposed to fatigue, cold, and hunger, were all dark and haggard.
How cold it was. Others looked at him as if he was making a fuss for being A-rank, but to get here, he had to nearly die several times in the night. Minus 80 degrees Celsius was not a cold humans could endure.
If his ‘Skill’ hadn’t manifested mid-way, even walking like this would have been impossible. The manifested
And as a result, the cold inside the snow mountain was less severe than outside. Just escaping the blizzard made him think, ‘Ah, I’m alive.’
This place was an underground space where three snow mountains connected. The three sisters moved through here, checking and targeting each other, enduring this extreme cold together.
Passing a place swarming with bats, soon a blood-red door revealed its form.
Someone started running towards it, but Ju Uiryeong quickly stopped them.
“That’s not it. That’s probably where the second boss is, and the Sahyeon Guild might still be dealing with it. Wouldn’t it be better for us to go straight to the third room?”
Though quite anxious, Ju Uiryeong spoke with his usual composure. Now, it was more important to hurry than to worry about the Sahyeon Guild. They needed to rush if possible.
Judging Ju Uiryeong’s words reasonable, a hunter immediately turned and headed towards the end of the long cave.
The fact that the second room hadn’t opened yet meant the Sahyeon Guild was in the middle of defeating the boss.
Ju Uiryeong, who had overheard the Sahyeon Guild’s situation from a hunter broadcasting before coming here, recalled the scene of them about to challenge the boss and quickened his pace.
“Something feels off. Everyone, please move faster. Geon Ita-ssi, that’s okay, right?”
Seeing Geon Ita not even acknowledging him, Ju Uiryeong bit his lip and walked faster. The piercing cold gradually stabbed into his skin.
For some reason, he felt as if the pulsating thing in his arms was squirming. Perhaps that’s why anxiety flared up like a fire.
Suppressing a dry heave, he passed endlessly along a dirty path covered with cobwebs and moss, when suddenly, a chill struck.
‘Why is it this cold? Could it be… someone opened the door first?’
Ju Uiryeong raised his eyes and confirmed the presence of a door at the end of the path. At the end of the cave was a door opened wide like the maw of a snake.
The inside of the wide-open door was pitch black. A blast of extreme cold wind surged from that door. Ju Uiryeong’s lips twitched.
Clearly, there was no sign of the Sahyeon Guild opening and coming out of this door. Then who opened it? Did someone split from the team…
Ju Uiryeong’s question was answered when a hunter who had been filming with an indifferent attitude from behind opened his mouth. He was not from the Uhwa Guild but an outside hunter from the provinces.
“Sahyeon Guild just broadcasted that they defeated the boss? But they said the boss rank was normal S-rank, not the expected SS-rank. Ours was also S-rank, right? This is a bit strange… Then the third boss might be around C-rank?”
“Uh, wait a moment.”
Someone stepped out from among the hunters. A man looking down at his phone with a strange expression tilted his head occasionally and frowned, and scattered sounds rang out as if he was watching a video.
“Well, uh… I checked the channels, and it turns out there’s another channel operated by a different team besides the Sahyeon Guild. It started not long ago… 5 people…? No, but there’s a child… Including the child and the broadcasting hunter, it’s a team of about 7 people.”
“R-really?”
Ju Uiryeong swallowed dryly and asked, forcing a calm expression. The hunter, slightly frowning again, continued without taking his eyes off the video.
“It seems those 7 people are now taking on the third room boss. But, ah… they seem to be struggling.”
Ju Uiryeong’s face turned pale in an instant. A child. In this gate, the only one who could be called a ‘child’ was that guy.
Here, the ‘chimera’ that ‘Uhm-ssi’, the author of ‘The Circus of Supporting Characters’ who wears the mask of a hunter named ‘Han Dokyeom’, brings along.
‘I knew this would happen. No matter how I make the first move, always…!’
How could they keep trying to cut in every time? He shuddered. ‘Uhm-ssi’ was trying to snatch something again. Despite having their hands full already, they were greedy enough to try to take this one too.
“We need to hurry! What if they get hurt!”
Ju Uiryeong darted out from the group and sprinted towards the door where the icy wind was swirling. But mid-way, his feet, which seemed to slow down, suddenly stopped.
The hunters following behind also abruptly slowed and stopped. As they all stared at his back, Ju Uiryeong turned around with a determined face.
“Everyone remembers the favor I asked earlier, right?”
The hunters holding camcorders and phones stiffened abruptly. They looked at each other awkwardly, sighed, and reluctantly nodded.
“Yes… we remember.”
“Please do me this favor. I want you to broadcast only our guild’s and the Sahyeon Guild’s strategies cleanly, and cut it off here. From now on, the boss rank is lower, so it’s not that important anyway.”
Before coming here, Ju Uiryeong had called the broadcasting hunters and asked them to ‘stop filming any further’. It was practically a coercion.
As a result, the hunters lost the subscribers and viewers that had been growing well, and they had to grit their teeth under the Uhwa Guild’s pressure. With no place to vent their anger, they just swallowed curses.
“Turn off all cameras right now. Once we enter the room, the rest of you wait near the entrance. Don’t move until I send a signal. I need to rescue the child first.”
First, he needed to separate that chimera from Han Dokyeom. Yes, let’s disperse their strength.
“…Sigh, but please let us broadcast the final process of suppressing the boss. We also have to make a living.”
“Yes, of course. I don’t mind if you stop filming only until just before the boss dies. There’s a child there, and if they got hurt, it wouldn’t be good to broadcast it.”
By then, everything will already be over.
Ju Uiryeong carefully watched the hunters disconnect the jacks from their camcorders and phones, and only turned back around when they had stuffed the equipment into their pockets.
And holding tightly the ‘something’ in his arms that began to twitch convulsively, he started walking again, almost running.
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