Episode 017 Attack of the Lizardmen

Wow!

On the way home from meeting Hyuk, I heard a woman’s scream.

Turning around the alley and going out to the main street, a monster came out of the gate and was threatening the citizens.

Crowalala!

The monster that threatened the citizens was a bipedal lizard.

The guy with a size of about 2 meters threatened people by swinging his long front paws.

Sharp teeth flashed as he howled.

It seemed that there were no other Hunters around.

“It’s the police! Lizard monster here!”

Citizens were running away and reporting on the phone.

[What do you want to do?]

‘What can I do? I have to deal with it.’

Just as I was raising mana, a female college student who was running away fell over.

“Sah, save me!”

I immediately ran and used the earth element to catch the lizard’s ankle as it approached the female college student.

big?

Approaching the man who had doubts about the ground holding his feet, I raised the spear of flame, put the element of wind on the tip of the spear, and stabbed it with all my might.

Hwareuk!

Aww!

Without even time to counterattack, the guy who fell under my attack burned with a strange sound.

“are you okay?”

When I lifted the fallen college girl up, she nodded with a tearful expression.

“thank you. thank you!”

The female college student, who bowed several times to express her gratitude, immediately left her seat and went to the citizens gathered to one side.

Citizens were watching from a distance.

Clara!

While retrieving the spear from the burnt one, another sound was heard from the front.

Wasn’t it just one guy?

[A lot came out.]

‘I think there’s a gate nearby?’

Looking ahead, the 12 Lizardmen filling the alley were all looking at me.

It wasn’t the first monster I’d seen.

They didn’t have intelligence like they appeared in the novel, but they were definitely Lizardmen.

A group of reptiles specialized in hunting.

Among the dinosaurs, it was announced that they had similar characteristics to raptors.

‘A bunch of lizardmen. There hadn’t been an attack like this before the return?’

[Seojun, from the moment we returned with our memories, the wind of change began to blow.]

‘Does that mean the events I remember can be different?’

is that serious?

[There will be various changes. Since you’ve already acted differently from the last time, there will be events that end with small changes, while there will also be events that flow completely differently.]

‘Is this one of those things?’

[okay. I thought there were certain rules for gate creation, but I was killed by you guys when I got close.]

‘Wait, what?’

You said you had lingering feelings, was that because of that?

Whoosh whoosh!

However, there was no time to listen to the story.

All of a sudden, the guys who were on guard started to move.

The guy in the front must have been the boss, and when he made a sound with his tongue flicking, they started to come forward.

‘Tell me in detail when the situation is over.’

[I get it.]

I opened the card locker and linked Adelina.

Soon one of her skills entered the secondary skill.

└ Adelina’s spearmanship (24 hours)

When I activated the skill, it seemed like I became the master of the skill as always.

kyaaak!

The advancing guys gradually increased their speed and rushed at them in groups.

*

“Who is it? Where do you think I saw it?”

Citizens gathered to avoid the monster’s attack tilted their heads as they saw a person holding a spear in front of them and confronting the monster.

The face is familiar, but I can’t remember it well.

Then, someone shouted.

“Ah, I remembered. Elementalist Seojun Yoo!”

“uh?! That’s right! Hongdae hero!”

The female college student who was rescued by Yu Seo-jun and took refuge among the crowd looked at him with surprised eyes.

‘what? Was that the elementalist?’

The female college student recalled an Internet article she had seen just a few weeks ago.

[Elementalist Yoo Seo-joon closes the gate for the first time in Korea.]

In the photo attached to the article, Yoo Seo-joon was blowing a hand heart.

I remembered making a fuss with my friends while watching it.

‘and… … . It’s so cool.’

‘Look at Heejin? It’s completely gone, it’s gone.’

‘Hey, aren’t you cool? You’re so cool. I don’t care about interviews or trash talkers. I’m done with my work, so let’s go. Don’t you feel that cool?’

‘what.’

Female college student Kim Hee-jin distracted herself from the past and looked at Yoo Seo-jun, who was dealing with monsters.

Looking at his reliable back, emotions naturally flowed out of his mouth.

“Oh, what a dog.”

“huh? Student, what did you just say?”

“yes? Oh, didn’t you say anything?”

Surprised by the words that came out of her mouth without her knowledge, Heejin smiled at the gaze of the people around her and left the group.

It was to leave a video of Yoo Seo-jun’s performance in a place slightly away from the crowd.

‘Such a precious video. totally caught up If you get an interview, it’s even better. Wouldn’t it be impossible?’

It was already widespread in the industry that Yoo Seo-joon hated interviewing reporters.

In the Department of Media Information, which she entered because she wanted to become a reporter, Kim Hee-jin was already gathering information about Yoo Seo-joon through her seniors who were already working as reporters.

‘Ugh, but I need to be able to get some information.’

However, there was no proper information, and it was all cadara.

It is also because Yoo Seo-joon did not respond to the interview.

‘So if this succeeds, it’ll be great.’

In the phone video she was filming, monsters started to attack Yoo Seo-joon all at once.

Hwareuk!

Every time Yoo Seo-joon swung the spear, flames rose from the spear. Heejin couldn’t keep her mouth shut while filming the scene.

*

‘Hey, heck.’

[It’s still a long way.]

‘Huh, but isn’t this much better?’

The training definitely had an effect.

I was out of breath, but that was because I used elemental magic and spearmanship constantly, and after using melee skills, my muscle pain was definitely reduced.

[Well, I’ll praise you.]

Kraa… … Keck!

The guy lying next to me opened his mouth and tried to bite my ankle, so I hit my head with a spear.

‘I’m grateful for that compliment.’

There were 12 Lizardmen lying in front of us.

The tail attack was the hardest.

If you block it with a spear, it will bounce back, and if you cut off its tail with a spear, it will grow again.

So I had to aim for the heart or head at once.

‘Soo-yeon will covet some leather.’

Among Soo-yeon’s characteristic skills, there was a skill to produce leather items as well as slaughter.

So there was a tendency to collect monster skins and practice. He said that if he could make decent items, he could start a business.

[Lizardman leather is strong, so it is sold at a high price.]

‘Is the Gate impossible to do alone?’

I looked at the gate they supposedly came from.

Organized and moving like an army, it was unlikely that this number would end inside the gate.

[Arthur. You guys are fraudulent. Imperial elite soldiers also win when two Lizardmen cling to each other.]

‘Is that enough?’

Well, they were nimble for their size.

Beep! Why! Beep!

I was licking my lips at the wide open gate, when police cars and ambulances roared and appeared.

“Are you all right!”

Officers moved quickly and set up a police line around them. The paramedics looked at the gathered citizens and one of them approached me.

“I am fine. Look at the citizens.”

“Ah, you are a Hunter. I’ll take a look though.”

As he said that, he looked around me once and said with a surprised face.

“what. You really don’t have any wounds. He usually gets at least abrasions.”

“If so, please give me a bandage.”

Then, as he held out his palm, the rescuer quickly took out a bandage from his bag and began wrapping it.

My palms, still not blistered, were battered by holding the spear and swinging it.

[Doesn’t it show signs of pain?]

Gilliant looked at my palm and said in surprise.

‘So you’re going to whine? You can’t help it. I’m a person who used to wallow in martial arts.’

You should have never held a weapon in your hand.

At least, I’m getting used to it by swinging it like I’ve been training these days, but it’s still a long way off.

“Post-treatment is important for these wounds. Even if you manage well to avoid infection, you will be less injured once the calluses are established.”

“thank you.”

The paramedic bandaged my hand and kindly explained.

“I’ll also give you an ointment. Be sure to apply it twice a day.”

“Oh, you don’t have to go this far.”

“It is because I am grateful. Thanks to the Hunters, it became easier for us.”

Looking over his shoulder at the safely evacuated citizens, I could understand his words a little.

I heard that the number of civilian casualties and injuries decreased significantly as the hunters began to play an active role.

[You guys must be very frustrated because of the gate.]

‘Are you just frustrated? A lot of people go crazy.’

Certainly the world wasn’t normal right now.

Some people even claimed that the novel they wrote became a reality.

Investigations said it was just crazy bullsh*t, but some people believed that a novel written by someone had become a reality.

[Sounds funny. It can’t be.]

‘Because the existence of gates and other worlds was only in my imagination. Even after five years, there are people who still refuse to accept this reality.’

In the early days, there were pseudo-pseudos who said that the time of the end had come.

There were also people who insisted on fitting in what they prophesied.

‘Anyway, let’s deal with the gate first.’

[Are you going to call the kids?]

‘That’s right. Do you think it would be too much to do alone? While the kids are coming, finish the story you told me earlier.’

[Are you talking about the butterfly effect and the gate?]

‘uh.’

While talking to Gilliant, I took out my phone to contact Min-young, but the college girl I saved earlier shyly approached me.

“Me, over there. Seojun oppa.”

“… … ?”

“Go, thank you! thank you so much! Thank you for saving me!”

He seemed to have something to say, but the female college student who said hello ran back as if running away.

[What did you just do?]

‘I don’t know.’

After a while, Min-young and Soo-yeon arrived at the scene and frowned at the bloody floor.

Officials who came to the scene cleaned it up and covered it with a cloth, but there were still traces of the fight.

“Did you take care of everything yourself?”

“huh.”

“You’re not hurt, are you? What are hand bandages?”

Minyoung held my hand and looked at me.

“It’s torn. Because of the window.”

“Will you treat me?”

“No, it’s okay. I’m bandaged, so it’s okay.”

It was painful, but tolerable.

Enough to fight with the spear again.

“Uncle, I… Can I skin the corpse?”

“yes? Ah yes. Are you on the same team as Yoo Seo-jun Hunter?”

“Yes, what about it?”

Su-yeon was asking the battle site recovery team staff before she knew it.

The gate has opened and many new jobs have been created.

The ‘Battle Site Recovery Team’ was one of them, and they were a public company belonging to the ‘Damage Recovery Foundation’ run by the government.

“Then, I’d like you to sign the papers here. It’s nothing else, it’s an agreement.”

As for the handling of monsters, priority was given to the individual or team of hunters who caught the monster.

The battle site recovery team then profited from the cost of collecting and disposing of what was left of the scene.

The consent form he offered was probably the document that had to be filled out for that purpose.

“Tell that to Seo-jun, not me. Because he is the one who caught these guys and our team leader.”

“Ah yes. Excuse me.”

I was watching the situation from the side, so I received and read the documents the employee gave me.

As expected, it was an agreement to hand over the remaining items after processing to the company.

“The situation isn’t over yet, so I’ll do this later. Soo-yeon, aren’t you going to be skinning right now?”

“Yeah, that’s right.”

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Now I’m going inside to close the gate, but if I agree now, I have nothing to say even if I take all the leftovers in the meantime.

The employee who held out the documents to see if my judgment was correct stepped back with a sad expression on his face.

“Then, I wish you luck.”

After the staff left, we stood in front of the gate.

“Are you going to challenge me right away?”

One of the first officers to arrive came up to us.

“Is there anything wrong?”

Hunters will flock after hearing the news, but shouldn’t you get more rewards if you go in first?

profit.

As expected, cars arrived here and there and more people started to come.

Among them was a broadcasting van.

“Then, we will go in first.”

I smiled at the officer and stepped into the gate.

When I put one foot in, I was momentarily dizzy, as is usually the case when entering a gate, and then stepped on the ground.

*

“Is it a forest?”

“It’s like a swamp in the woods.”

Min-young and Su-yeon, who came in after, looked ahead and said a word.

As Su-yeon said, there was a wide swampy area in front of us.

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