Hoarding In Hell [EN]: Chapter 113

113. Assassination (5)

Kwakwakwakwak!

The moment the light swept through, a massive scar, hundreds of meters high, was carved into one side of the valley.

The scraped-away cliff face collapsed with a fierce roar. The hunters and even the werewolves were horrified by the deafening sound.

Hyun-woo was speechless.

‘No way. Is *that* what an ultimate skill is like?’

Saying Endo had the power to kill him wasn’t a lie.

Hyun-woo had only seen him use skills to push him away or burn him with fire, but suddenly he unleashed an ultimate skill that could destroy a building in one go?

There was a reason why they said 4-star hunters and 3-star hunters couldn’t overcome the wall between them.

“Haa… haa… Damn it, to waste my ultimate skill on a monster…”

Endo looked pale and exhausted. As befitting its destructive power, the mana consumption seemed extreme, showing clear signs of depletion. As Endo had said, Yerdan was nowhere to be seen.

“Indeed, impressive.”

“Do you… realize that now? Heh heh… Good. Do as you please.”

“But… no matter how strong a technique is, it seems useless if your eyes and hands can’t keep up.”

“What?”

The moment Endo tried to turn his head, Yerdan bit down on his head with a crunch.

Yerdan, with Endo’s head in his mouth, shook it wildly before throwing the body into the air.

The headless body fluttered like a doll before collapsing on the ground like a broken toy. Hyun-woo remained speechless.

“I was going to give you time to leave a will.”

“Woof.”

Yerdan brought Endo’s head and placed it in front of Hyun-woo.

The tip of Yerdan’s tail was slightly cut off.

The moment Endo used his ultimate skill, Yerdan had run in the opposite direction with all his might, following his line of sight and arm movements.

The movement was so fast that Endo thought Yerdan had simply been hit by the ultimate skill.

“Well, whatever. You can grill it or fry it as you please. What’s left is over there…”

Hyun-woo’s gaze turned to the remaining hunters and werewolves. The hunters, whose backs were completely exposed while fighting the werewolves, began to beg.

“K, Kang Hyun-woo! Please save us!”

“I’m Kang Sung-gyu! Kang Sung-gyu! That guy tricked us!”

The hunters eagerly confessed without being asked, desperately begging for their lives. Their desperate emotions were palpable.

The werewolves were faithfully following the orders of the Lycanthrope, Yerdan. Whether to save or kill the hunters was entirely up to Hyun-woo.

“Hmm… Okay. Yerdan, I’ll leave it to you.”

Yerdan panted and walked past Hyun-woo towards the hunters. The hunters screamed in horror, but Hyun-woo was already leaving the valley.

***

“Did you find the hunters?”

“Yeah. They’re all dead.”

When Hyun-woo arrived at the return stone [a magical stone that allows users to teleport out of a dungeon], Kang Hyun-woo’s team members had already arrived.

Although the flood had occurred, most of the monsters were gathered in the valley area under the command of the Lycanthrope, Yerdan.

Thanks to that, the team didn’t encounter as many monsters as they thought.

Seo Ji-hoo, seeing the burning pattern of the return stone, said with a sigh.

“It seems like a flood always happens whenever I come with Branch Manager Kang Hyun-woo. Are you a man who brings floods with him?”

“Are you joking right now?”

“Is that not allowed?”

“I told you to be careful because I might accidentally kill you if you joke with me, right? Your jokes cloud my judgment. Is it some kind of skill?”

“Other hunters liked it though…”

“That’s because they’re your subordinates.”

Seo Ji-hoo was speechless at Hyun-woo’s words.

“Well, anyway, it’s a shame. They all have children and families… to die in a dungeon like this.”

“Hmm…”

Hyun-woo fell silent for a moment. He didn’t expect Seo Ji-hoo to say something so human.

‘I thought he was an emotionless psychopath.’

Meanwhile, Seo Ji-hoo was surprised that Hyun-woo seemed to be moved by his words.

‘I thought he was an emotionless psychopath.’

Whether Seo Ji-hoo was more emotional than he thought or not, if he thought that way, there was a high probability that other hunters would think so too.

If they found out that Hyun-woo could have saved them but didn’t, they might be disappointed.

Of course, Hyun-woo wasn’t the type to care much about whether others were disappointed or not, but there was something bothering him.

“Yeah. I think you’re right. I’ll be back in a bit.”

He was about to ask where he was going when they were about to clear the dungeon and leave, but Hyun-woo was already running back in the direction he came from.

***

“Aaaah! S, save me!”

“You idiots, stick together!”

The situation in the valley was chaotic. The valley, which had been set up to trap Hyun-woo when he arrived, was now becoming their grave.

“Krrr…”

Yerdan did nothing. He simply stood behind the hunters and watched.

However, the terrified hunters opened the way themselves as the Lycanthrope approached.

The hunter group, naturally divided into two, was surrounded by werewolves and continued their sporadic battle. Naturally, their numbers quickly dwindled.

Most of them were already dead or injured and losing hope.

Kim Min-do, an executive of the Omnipotence Alliance and one of them, was desperately trying to survive.

He was a hunter belonging to Kang Sung-gyu’s direct line. He was skilled enough to have been with Taesung at one point, but Taesung didn’t suit him because he was greedy and liked to protect himself.

Kim Min-do left Taesung and entrusted himself to the Omnipotence Alliance. As a skilled hunter, he was active as a hunter in the Odaesung line and as Kang Sung-gyu’s henchman.

‘It was good back then…!’

It was quite good when he was embezzling subsidies from the Omnipotence Alliance meant for the hunters and helping Kang Sung-gyu manage the business by threatening or burying his competitors.

But as the difficulty increased and Kang Hyun-woo appeared, everything changed.

At least embezzling subsidies from the new recruit training camp was lucrative, but even that was stopped.

Kim Min-do believed that everything would return to normal if Hyun-woo was eliminated.

But now it didn’t matter anymore.

“Return scroll! I have to find the return scroll!”

Kim Min-do knew that his only remaining hope was the return scroll.

He desperately searched his memory and realized who had taken the return scroll.

“Endo! That bastard had it! He said he would decide when to leave!”

The hunters frantically searched for Endo’s body.

Several more hunters lost their lives trying to find Endo’s headless body, but they managed to find it.

While several hunters were holding off the werewolves, Kim Min-do rushed to the body and rummaged through it for the return scroll.

It was then.

“I, It’s Kang Hyun-woo!”

Hyun-woo reappeared in the middle of the valley.

The hunters were convinced that Hyun-woo had left and returned to punish them. The hunters immediately burst into tears and begged for mercy.

“K, Kang Hyun-woo, we were wrong!”

“We’ll follow you like dogs when we get back! Please forgive us!”

“I’ll kill that bastard Kang Sung-gyu with my own hands!”

They desperately begged Hyun-woo, offering how much money they would give and how loyal they would be.

Hyun-woo waited until the pleas subsided into despairing groans, then finally opened his mouth.

“No.”

The hunters froze again. Hyun-woo was still looking down from above and didn’t seem to be moving at all.

A hunter who knew he was serious screamed.

“No, then why did you come back? Did you come to watch us die!”

“Do I look like such a sadistic person?”

He did look like that.

But the hunters didn’t have the strength to argue anymore.

“Then… why did you come?!”

“I was worried that you might survive. If even one of you survived and told the other bereaved families that I did this, your son might resent me and try to take revenge after gaining strength.”

“W, what nonsense…”

“Killing a child after their father doesn’t sit well with me.”

It was a tone that didn’t even consider that he would be the one to suffer.

Hyun-woo loaded the automatic rifles the rogues had used. The hunters’ faces turned pale.

Hyun-woo then began to shoot the hunters one by one, hitting their legs. With the highly controlled physical abilities and eyesight of an ability user, becoming a marksman was easy.

The hunters, who had barely been holding on, screamed and collapsed in an instant.

The valley was filled with resentment and pleas directed at Hyun-woo. But that soon subsided, and only the werewolves’ ferocious snarls and groans filled the air.

Kim Min-do felt the bodies of his comrades piling up one by one on top of him. The sound of bones crunching and blood flowing over his head.

Kim Min-do continued to search Endo’s chest, tears streaming down his face.

‘If I can only find the return scroll, the return scroll!’

He would go out immediately and report this murderer. He would report to the world what this man had done inside the dungeon. And then something was finally caught in his hand.

Kim Min-do had a look of joy on his face. It was the return scroll. Kim Min-do quickly tore the return scroll before it was too late.

“Huh?”

Seeing the burst of light, Hyun-woo realized that someone had used the return scroll. It seemed that one of them had barely escaped.

But Hyun-woo didn’t care much. If one of them survived, the person to look for was obvious.

***

“Patient emergency! Patient emergency!”

As soon as Kim Min-do appeared at the dungeon entrance, the soldiers rushed over to check his condition.

Kim Min-do, who was already broken and covered in wounds, was unable to stand or speak properly.

Kim Min-do was immediately taken to the hospital in an emergency helicopter, receiving potions and blood transfusions.

“Min-do, can you hear me?”

“Kkeueu…”

Kim Min-do heard a familiar voice over the noisy helicopter propeller sound.

It was Kang Sung-gyu.

The moment Kim Min-do saw his face, he convulsed and tried to shout something, but the words wouldn’t come out properly. His broken ribs were pressing against his lungs.

“Patient, you’re safe now! Stay still!”

The doctor urgently suppressed Kim Min-do, who was trying to convulse. If he continued to receive potions like this, he would be able to live. There would be some permanent damage left, though.

Kim Min-do tried his best to calm down and glared at Kang Sung-gyu.

‘This bastard drove me to my death.’

If he could only move, he wouldn’t leave Kang Hyun-woo alone. But at that moment, Kang Hyun-woo’s eyes looking down at him from the cliff came to mind.

“Ah, patient, ah!”

The doctor was horrified and stepped back from Kim Min-do, who was suddenly urinating. But there was not much room to step back in the helicopter.

Kim Min-do didn’t have time to feel ashamed. He just thought it would be better not to face Hyun-woo again.

At that moment, Kang Sung-gyu showed a strange movement in the noisy helicopter. Kang Sung-gyu stared at Kim Min-do for a moment, then stood up and inserted something into the IV line.

Kim Min-do tried to stop him, but there was nothing he could do.

Kim Min-do’s eyes rolled over in an instant.

“K, Kang… y, you son of a b… Kkeureureureuk…”

Kim Min-do struggled to scream, foaming at the mouth.

Those were his last words.