Evolution Theory of the Hunter - Chapter 120

Chapter 120

After killing the Black Tiger, I found my team members gathered around behind me .

Did they already kill the Giant White Tiger? It was a level 7 though?

Han Joon-suk nodded as if he was reading my mind .

“Your expression seems to be asking how we were able to kill a level 7 monster . ”

“Are you learning mind reading?”

“It’s written all over party leader’s face . Anyway, to answer your question we killed it more easily than expected . Manager Kim worked really hard . ”

“Manager Kim?”

“Haha . It collapsed after three casts of Sleep . ”

Manager Kim was smiling to the point where the ends of his mouth was touching his ears . The guy that pursued safety more than I did shot the Needle Gun at the Black Tiger before as well, there seems to be something different about him .

Listening to their story I could picture the situation . The Sleep skill that Manager Kim had right now was a level 5 wide area skill .

On top of the Amplification Staff raising its potency by 30%, using the Floodplain Staff to decrease the target area the ability was further strengthened .

It wouldn’t be enough to make a level 7 monster fall asleep with one cast, but using it three times as soon as the cooldown was over made it unable to endure .

Since level 5 weapons could do some damage to level 7 monsters it probably was enough to be able to kill it .

Cho Young-gu inspected the dead Black Tiger and let out an exclamation .

“Either way, this thing really is huge . May I take some pictures?”

“Well, as much as you want . You will have to take it quickly before it returns to the void . ”

“Let’s take a group commemorative photo while we’re at it then . It’s a commemorative level 10 monster after all . ”

The people started crowding together at Cho Young-gu’s words . The photo was to be taken by Edward and I also stood in front of the Black Tiger .

I usually didn’t like things like this but just for this monster I wanted to leave some proper evidence . That it was ridiculously hard to kill .

We waited for them to return to the void while keeping the eagles in the sky .

It was the same for the level 7 Giant White Tiger but I was incredibly curious as to what would drop from the level 10 Black Tiger . I opened my mouth to talk to Edward .

“Why are you so quiet?”

“What do you mean?”

“We killed a level 7, level 10 monster so why are you so quiet . I thought you’d ask for blood . ”

“At my level I wouldn’t be able to endure such a level of monster’s blood though . ”

“Is that so . Seems complicated . ”

“Isn’t that the same for humans? It’s the same thing as getting a stomach ache after eating too much . ”

“I don’t know in what way it’s the same but…… well, I get what you’re trying to say . ”

He probably means that it’s better to draw a moderate line .

The level 7 Giant White Tiger finished returning to the void first . It was a helmet that let out blinding luster .

Archimedes’ Helmet (7) : A helmet with gold and silver mixed in . Will eternally give off light .

“We will let Cho Young-gu have this . ”

“Re, really?”

“You’re the main tanker after all . You should have priority to defense equipment . ”

I held the helmet and passed it to him . To be honest, it was an item I needed as my original armor was completely destroyed .

But I didn’t have the courage to wear that shining thing . It was an item that was good for being a target at night .

The rest of my party members seemed to agree . More than it being my words having power, it was because there was a reason they could all accept .

Even if it was a country if they did something outrageous then backlash would appear .

“Thank you . ”

Cho Young-gu grabbed my hand with an expression that seemed to be on the verge of crying . Well, since they all killed it with equal difficulty it didn’t really matter whomever took it .

That was especially more so for Cho Young-gu . The party member’s lives were dependant on how long he could endure .

Then, finally, the Black Tiger that we were waiting to return to the void finally ended .

What dropped was a book .

“Wow . A skill book . ”

Soo-ah shouted . I was also surprised . How long had it been since a skill book dropped?

As I quickly went to pick up the book that dropped on the ground, the skill book’s information appeared through the manual .

Aura Blade (10) : Clads a single sword with aura . A skill that is bound to the person that obtains it .

“A Binding skill?”

I was expecting a level 10 item to come out of the level 10 monster . But a Binding skill you say .

While I was wondering what it was the book in my hand suddenly disappeared .

“Huh?”

“Why?”

“The book disappeared . ”

“Didn’t you put it in the manual?”

“No . It disappeared while I was just holding it . ”

“Damn . There’s such a thing?”

“I’m also thinking about what might have happened . ”

I was considerably flustered . A level 10 skill book . The name was ‘Aura Blade’ and could be clad on a weapon .

Even if I didn’t know exactly it was obvious that it would be a powerful skill . However, I lost it the moment I had it in my hands .

“What happened?”

Han Joon-suk approached me after seeing my expression of stupefaction . They all had eyes curious as to what the level 10 skill book is . What did I have to say to them?

No, lets calm down for now . There’s no way it would have just disappeared like that .

I opened the manual for now . It definitely said it was a Binding skill person . I didn’t know exactly what that meant but it at least didn’t seem to mean it would just disappear .

Skill Name: Effort (0), Immortality (4), Aura Sword (10)

It was there . The Aura Sword skill .

I let out a sigh of relief unintentionally . I was really glad .

Soo-ah held my arm and shook it .

“What is it? Why are you sighing?”

“Haha…… it looks like I obtained the skill . ”

“Huh? Wait a minute . Senior brother doesn’t have a skill slot left . Don’t tell me you threw away the immortality skill and put it in there? Holy crap! You just took it because you were afraid that we would take it! I was thinking that senior brother was giving out too much . It was about time for you to become greedy . However, I liked it better when you were a pushover…… no, I’m not saying that senior brother is such a person and anyway wasn’t such a person but since you became a new person after clearing your mind it’s better…… no, either way I approve of your decision . ”

“Hey you . So do you like it or not . ”

Manager Kim said as if suffocating . Wow . How did the atmosphere suddenly become like this .

“Who? Me? Who do I like?”

Soo-ah looked at me with a red face . What do you want me to do if you glance at me like that .

Why is this girl that is even more shameless than a politician like this suddenly . I still don’t understand what kind of character this girl is .

Either way, I had to explain what I had to explain .

“This seems to be a Binding skill . ”

“What’s a Binding skill?”

Han Joon-suk said .

“To explain it simply, should I say that the person that picks it up is the…… owner?”

“I see . However, is it learned even without a skill slot?”

As expected, he’s a fast at understanding .

“Yes . It seems to be learned even without a remaining skill slot due to being a forceful acquiring . I think I will have to check if it actually works properly though . ”

This kind of thing wasn’t something that existed in the old system . There is no mistake that this was something made by the Delta system .

Either way, considering how a single skill slot is 100b, this binding type is sure to have quite an impact on the original raid system . Seeing how it didn’t exist before it seems to be something that only applies to level 10 skills but…… it’s an understatement to call it a catastrophe .

I took out the Dancing Sword .

For now, the skill explanation was simple . Cladding a single weapon in aura . If it’s a weapon then it should apply to a weapon that flies around in the sky as well . There was nothing about having to hold it in my hands after all .

I focused on the Dancing Sword and imagined it being clad in aura .

I was groaning like that for a while when Soo-ah opened her mouth .

“What are you doing? Like a dog that needs to poop . ”

“…… I don’t get how to use this . ”

“Isn’t there a chant or something? Shouldn’t something happen if you shout out the skill name?”

“Ah . Right . ”

Since I only used passive skills I forgot the simple matter of shouting the skill name .

In the case of active skills, you normally had to at least shout it in a quiet voice to activate it . Of course, there were many that weren’t so as well .

However, even if it wasn’t like that you either had to make a special contract or act in a certain way to activate it .

“Aura Blade!”

I shouted loudly at the Dancing Sword .

However, as expected there was no response . Wow . I really shouted with great confidence . I was started becoming embarrassed .

Han Joon-suk opened his mouth .

“How about you use it after holding it?”

“Ah . Like this?”

I held the Dancing Sword in my hand and shouted the skill name . Then, a milky light 1 meter long came shooting out of the entire blade .

Jesus christ . What is this . The light was something as well but the feeling I got from the blade was overwhelming . If it was with this then I felt like I would have been able to slice the Black Tiger in a moment .

“Wow . It’s beautiful . ”

Yeon-gyeong looked at the Dancing Sword as if entranced by it . As she said, it wasn’t enough to say that the light from the blade was mystical .

It wasn’t overly bright nor dim, neither murky nor clear . It had an exquisite sense of beauty exuding out of it .

Also, as the light was not just spreading out but was unwinding like a skein it further added to the mystical feeling .

Soo-ah’s eyes shone as she shouted .

“Try using it once!”

“I was going to do so . ”

I looked around and found a large boulder by the lake . It was a quite large boulder of 3 meters both horizontally and vertically .

The sword went in cleanly . There was the unique feeling of slicing through a boulder but it wasn’t something like resistance .

This time, I lightly cut the surface like slicing meat .

A thin slab of the boulder actually got sliced off . However, it was impossible to tell the actual might of the Aura Blade . This much could be done with the level 3 Rubicon Sword I had before .

What was known for now was that it had good cutting force .

“Is there nothing more? Something really sturdy would be nice . ”

“Hm . Isn’t there that? The broken armor . ”

“Ah . Right . ”

At Soo-ah’s words, I took out my broken armor . It was the level 6 Black Plate Armor that got broken with a single front paw swing of the Black Tiger .

Ah . Tears are suddenly coming out . I couldn’t think of it during the battle because it was hectic but this was worth 10b . That had disappeared into thin air .

Destroyed armor couldn’t even be repaired . If it was crumpled up or had a crack then it might have been possible but the chest part was completely shattered and gone . I either had to sell this as a lump of metal or roughly put it together to be displayed in the Hunter Market .

As I was staring blankly at the armor, Soo-ah came and hugged me from behind .

“The armor will be glad that senior brother used it . ”

“Yeah . That I can understand but why are you hugging me . ”

“To comfort you of course . ”

“…… Well . Okay . ”

It wasn’t like she was like this for a day or two . I didn’t have the spirit to tackle her about it each and every time .

I got Soo-ah off by force as she tried her best to cling on and put the Black Plate Armor on the ground .

If this got cut then the Aura Blade skill could be called the strongest skill I possessed .

“Hah!”

It passed by the armor with barely any feeling transmitted to my hand .

I tried touching the armor a bit thinking that I might have cut wrong but the only thing that could be seen was the armor being cut right in half .