Chapter 159

ETH 159

The first thing that came into view was the word ‘Copy’ . It was attached to all things from name to skill and items . Considering how the manual isn’t ever wrong, it meant that this guy was a copy from top to bottom .

If that was possible wasn’t important right now . There was evidence in front of my eyes after all .

The van got to the top of the hill . Baek Gyeong’s eyes headed in that direction .

Damn it .

“Avoid it!”

I said so as I flung my body to the side .

At that moment, a tremendous amount of energy came out without any preparation . It look like a mere haze but had an amount of power that would be difficult to measure .

The van that got hit directly by it blew up with a massive sound . It wasn’t an explosion that caused a fire . It felt more like the power itself blew up and ripped space apart .

The only thing that was left was a hill that was half gone . The van was gone without a trace as well .

Edward had died .

I grinded my teeth and glared at the guy .

He was a guy that didn’t want to come here in the first place . His death was my fault . That’s why, the revenge had to be done by me as well .

I held the Bloody Sword and made the Dancing Sword fly . The destructive sword with Aura Blade flew towards Baek Gyeong .

A tremendous amount of power came from him once more .

It collided with the Dancing Sword with Aura Blade on it causing energy to flash and scatter .

The blazing energy scattered while creating spectrums . It was like a rainbow was fuming out .

Even during this the Dancing Sword penetrated the mass of energy and flew towards Baek Gyeong .

The moment the sword was about to penetrate his body .

He caught the blade with his hand .

“What kind of……!”

No matter how dull of a blade it was, it was in a state where Aura Blade was on it .

Catching that with bare hands was not possible even for a powerful hunter .

It was impossible .

I was thinking that when I could see the situation again . The Dancing Sword in his hand didn’t have Aura Blade on it . The Aura Blade had all been used up in the collision with the Hadron Cannon .

After confirming that I held the Bloody Sword and kicked off the ground running . If the Aura Blade wasn’t the problem I just had to do damage by melee attacks .

The distance between us decreased instantly .

A change happened for the first time on Baek Gyeong’s gloomy expression . I was going to swing the sword at the guy that was a fingertip away .

The ground below me collapsed . The guy had stomped down hard .

For the icy ground to collapse with just that .

How much power did he have?

“Kuk!”

I called the Dancing Sword by reflex to prevent myself from falling below .

Then I realized that the Dancing Sword was still in the guy’s hand .

“Kuk . ”

At the thought that I would fall in at this rate I hurriedly stabbed the Bloody Sword into the cliff .

However, probably because of the cutting power of the Bloody Sword only the speed decreased a bit and my body continued to fall .

Damn .

As desperate as I was, I took out a level 1 longsword and stabbed it in .

My falling body finally stopped . It felt pretty long but the amount of time it took to get here was several seconds . Thankfully, I only fell dozens of meters . For now, since I stopped there wouldn’t be a problem going up riding the wall .

“Phew . Damn . ”

It was pretty dark but thanks to the Optics Ruby Ring it wasn’t that difficult to see the surroundings .

I tried looking down to check how deep the ground was and found out that it was just a few meters below .

If I was only a bit later I would have fell on that ground .

What would have happened then?

Since I get almost no physical damage while wearing the armor I would have been fine .

For now, I took out the word and jumped down . The ground was hard dirt . With this it could be confirmed that New Alaska wasn’t a land made of ice .

At the same time, I realized that there might be more survivors from team Die Hard than I thought . Most hunters would be able to survive this kind of height after all .

There would be no point even if I went up if I couldn’t take care of that Baek Gyeong guy .

It wasn’t like I didn’t think about waiting here and leaving once he goes away .

But he had my Dancing Sword .

I couldn’t stay still while that is being taken .

I kicked off the ground with great strength . After jumping about 10 meters with a single jump I continuously kicked off the wall of ice on both sides and quickly got to the top of the crevice .

As I got up Baek Gyeong showed his back .

He turned his head to look at me .

A tremendous amount of power gathered in front of the guy again .

It was a Hadron Cannon .

However, I have already confirmed that it could be cancelled out with the Dancing Sword .

I pointed the Bloody Sword forward and ran towards him in a straight line .

Boom!

Stab!

The Bloody Sword that cancelled out the Hadron Cannon got stuck in the guy’s chest .

Then, as he looked at his chest that had been stabbed with his blank expression, he slowly opened his mouth .

“Data collection complete . Transferring . ”

“What……?”

It was a human voice but I got goosebumps from the feeling that was like listening to a machine .

Something was weird about this guy .

He was a human but he couldn’t be called a human .

In the first place, the fact that he was a copy meant that there was something that was the original . In that case did that mean that this guy was a clone of some level 10 hunter?

The guy that got his chest stabbed retreated step by step and then suddenly started releasing black aura from all over his body .

His body swayed this way and that way as if he was a balloon that started losing air and soon evaporated .

Is this what it meant by disintegration……?

After the guy had disappeared in moments a sense of futility filled my heart .

The sword and armor he was holding had cleanly disappeared as well . With nothing gained there was only things lost .

This kind of battle was the first .

I let out a sigh and held the Dancing Sword that he dropped as he disintegrated .

[Collected data of Baek Gyeong (Copy) . ]

“Hm?”

It was a message that came up in the manual . I hurriedly opened the tutorial column of the manual . There were all kind of things I didn’t know about in there after all .

I found out that there was a new information category called ‘Baek Gyeong (Copy)’ created there .

[Baek Gyeong (Copy)]

A copy of the powerful hunter Baek Gyeong .

It was created by the system’s error so the evidence of its existence is miniscule .

As something created in an experiment Area 88 of the Chinese government it can currently be maintained for about 1 month . Its main source of power is ‘Exotic Energy’ created by grinding items .

There are currently 99 units created and another 1,000 units are planned for creation .

1,000 .

A forced laughter came out at the words that 1,000 as strong as this guy were planned to be created .

I had to risk my life to catch one Baek Gyeong . The level 8 raid team Die Hard couldn’t avoid their fate of being annihilated .

It would be stunning to even have 10 of those and yet 1,000 it says .

It was to the point that I wanted to question what the hell the Chinese government was planning on doing . I also wondered what Area 88 was in the first place . Of course, there were many things I didn’t know about in the world . There would be things that are more secretive and dangerous in the hunter world piled up in the last 50 years .

However, 1,000 units of level 10 hunters you say . Even if I was uneasy, that power itself was real .

“Kuuk . ”

At that moment a thick hand came up from the cracked ice land .

As I turned around in surprise John McLain was looking at me while waving his hand .

“What happened to that guy?”

“I killed him for now . ”

“I see . Hey you guys! He’s dead! Come up!”

John who shouted down into the crevice jumped up to the top of the crevice .

“Phew . As you said I thought I was going to die . I should have listened . ”

“How many casualties do you have?”

As I said so John’s expression turned dark .

“About 20 . The number injured are over 50 . ”

“I’m not sure if it will work as consolation but it’s good that the damage ended with that much . ”

John sighed at my words .

“Yeah . To be honest, if it wasn’t for you we might have been annihilated . It didn’t seem like that guy was going to stop there you see . ”

“That’s for certain . ”

Baek Gyeong annihilated all the hunters he came across . There was no way he would leave them just because they fell into the crevice . He would have tried to kill each and every one of them no matter what .

“Are you okay?”

“I am okay . ”

“Well, that guy seems to be okay as well . ”

John said that as he pointed up .

As I turned my head I could see Edward coming down from above .

I never thought I would be so happy to see him .

“You didn’t die . ”

“Did you wish for me to die?”

“No, that’s not it . I’m glad . Either way . ”

I really thought he died . Baek Gyeong’s Hadron Cannon was that powerful after all . It had destructive power that could destroy the van that could endure a fair bit of attacks .

It wasn’t even physical damage so I thought he wouldn’t be able to endure even if he Etherized .

“I survived thanks to this item . ”

He landed on the ground and pointed at the Necklace of Confinement .

At his story of escaping before getting hit by the Hadron Cannon I nodded my head .

Edward opened his mouth .

“Either way, what in the world was that guy?”

“I’m assuming that he’s a copy hunter made in China . ”

“Copy?”

“Ah . I would have to gather more information but it shouldn’t be wrong . ”

The manual’s information was never wrong until now .

John cut in .

“Do you have some kind of evidence?”

“I don’t . For now anyway . ”

“So how were you able to arrive at that conclusion?”

“I could hear him talking in Chinese before he died . ”

This was the truth . What he said was without a doubt traditional Chinese language .

John had slightly doubting eyes but it seems he’s at least believing that Baek Gyeong was of Chinese origin .

He’s probably thinking that I have no reason to lie for now .

On top of that the circumstantial evidence had quite a bit of persuasive power .

“For now, I should report this to the government . Can you come with me by any chance?”

“Me?”

“Yeah . If I say that you’re the Great Summoner it adds credibility to my words after all . ”

America you say .

However, I had no particular reason to go right now . It would be a good thing if I didn’t get treated like a monkey in a zoo . It was obvious that I would suffer being called the Great Summoner and all, not to mention that it was possible that I would be taken in to for investigation to find out the secret .

The ability to summon a monster army was a powerful ability that others couldn’t have after all .

More than anything, I had something to do right now .