Chapter 126: Panhandlers  

“Come on, faster! There are only seven monsters left. I didn’t think we would be able to get at least 20 today.”

“Youngjae, stop complaining.”

After counting and adding up the possible profits of all of the monsters that they’ve caught, the leader looked around at all of them proudly.

“Jeonyeong, help me out here?”

“Sure.” One of the raid team members replied as they went to help the leader.

“How’s our progress so far?”

“Ten percent,” The team member replied.

“There were fewer monsters than I thought, all of the data from last year is completely wrong.”

“Really? Is it that bad?”

“It’s terrible. We couldn’t even catch at least ten monsters last year and it told us that we would be able to at least get 20.” One of them said and a raid member then noticed their leader’s torn power suit.

“I’ll prepare ten power packs to help.”

“Thanks.” He went to get the power packs as the leader waited.

“We need to succeed in this raid…”

He didn’t wish that a crowd of monsters would suddenly pop up, but they were still having a pretty hard time.

“It looks like just one was able to get the most of them.” The team member said as he came back.

“Huh?”

“Over there.” He pointed his finger towards the nearby forest that had a lot of noticeable footprints.

“Whoever they are, they seem to really know what they’re doing. They already caught 20 monsters so far…”

“Wow. But, is it that really necessary?” The leader said.

Capturing all those monsters in such a short amount of time didn’t sound safe. They needed to catch monsters but they didn’t want to risk the lives of their hunters to such an extent.

“It’s unbelievable isn’t it.”

Their safety was more important to him rather than the money they could get. Nevertheless, he just erased all of his thoughts about anything going wrong and just focused on their schedule. If they continued on as they were, he knew that they would eventually tire themselves out.

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The sound of Jaehwangs arrowed could be heard from even miles away.

Pang pang pang…

They could hear the explosions and feel the ground vibrate as he launched his attacks, they could also see the smoke going up into the sky from deep within the forest.

Boom…

They immediately heard the sound of a few giant monsters falling down into the ground.

Swoosh… Pong!

He shot more arrows at the monsters.

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As dozens of monsters started to gather, the other raid team members began to run towards them and help.

“Get ready!”

“…”

“Hurry!”

“Yes, sir!” Jaehwang replied with a bit of an annoyed tone. Seongbin was still with him and they were standing on top of a not so high cliff.

‘This is going to be hard.’

Things only got more tiring as time went on. Seongbin was exhausted but they still worked through it as they were still doing very good. However, things started to get a little more difficult the moment they ran out of energy.

“I need a hand!”

“Got it!” Seongbin joined in and helped him by throwing some spears at the monsters while Jaehwang continued to shoot them down.

Swooshhh

Pong!!

Soon, they were finally able to neutralize the dozens of monsters on their radar. They were running towards them but they got shot down even before they got close.

Swoosh!

Pong! pong! Pong!

Arrows had rained down the cliff as if it was rain.

“Wow…” Seongbin said as she watched him. They were doing a great job as a team.

Whoosh…

“Check the meter”

“We’re up to 440.”

“Alright, let’s take a 30-minute break.”

“Okay.”

Seongbin said in reply to Jaehwang as she sat down onto the ground. Jaehwang needed a rest for a few minutes to give his energy some time to refill. He glanced over towards Seongbin who looked very frightened.

‘How many monsters have we found so far…’

There were so many that he stopped counting a while ago. He looked down at the edge of the cliff as a few drones flew over to keep track of them and the others. He couldn’t see its bottom, it turned out to be higher than he thought.

There was no way that they could stay there for so long because of all the chaos that they’ve caused. They’ve already caught way more than the amount that they were assigned to. They’ve caught about 500 monsters so far but even so, Jaehwang still wanted more to boost their profits.

‘Couldn’t all this be enough?…’ Jaehwang thought to himself exhaustedly. He was trying to get as much possible to help Seongbin with her expenses back home.

“We’ll need to hunt like this for two more days… I don’t think I can do it. Sorry, Jaehwang,” Seongbin apologized. They were completely worn out and they couldn’t go on for much longer.

‘We can’t give up.’ While they were hunting, his experience has seemed to be increasing slowly.

Seongbin sat still with her eyes closed as she was lost in thought and Jaehwang then asked the spirit,

—Do you think that the other hunters are coming?

—Should we guard the area?

—No one seems to be coming yet.

—How far away do they seem to be?

—About four kilometers southeast… It seems that they’ll be here soon.

—Alright.

Jaehwang replied. They still had some time left to do more hunting but they didn’t want to run into the other hunters. He thought of shooting arrows more carefully and quietly but that could greatly impact the effectiveness of their attacks.

“How many have we caught?” Seongbin asked.

“I think we have enough, we can stop here,” Jaehwang replied, figuring out that they could just make do with what they have now.

Jaehwang stood up from the ground where he was resting and Seongbin then looked at him with a nervous expression.

“I’m sorry. I just…”

“Huh?” Jaehwang seemed confused when Soeongbin apologized out of nowhere.

“Why are you sorry?”

“Uh, well… I know you wanted to hunt more…”

“Don’t worry, we can start again another time,” Jaehwang replied and Seongbin then took a deep breath of relief.

Panhandlers, The end.