The terrified Hunters no longer had the guts to fight any longer. They didn’t throw away their expensive weapons, but they started to leave their positions one by one.
[Hey, don’t run away. Hold your position!]
[Shut up! Then you die instead!]
[I only have ten percent of my mana left. How am I supposed to fight against those monsters in this state?]
It was true. Most of the Hunters were feeling the side effects of draining their mana even when they could've saved it in order to kill the monsters as quickly as possible.
Thud, thud!
[Those idiots!]
[Trashy bastards!]
The Master-Rank Hunters clicked their tongues as they looked at the fleeing ordinary Hunters. No matter how much they tried to see them in a good way, it was impossible.
However, Urgan and his group had their own problems.
Gulp.
[D-Do you think we can beat them?]
[I-It looks like they’re the main body of the monster army...]
As the other Master-Rank Hunters made negative comments, Urgan slammed his axe into the ground to get them to return to their senses.
Kwang!
[Wake up! If they get past here, it's a straight path to Hanoi. Even if we can’t protect eight million innocent citizens, we have to protect our families, right?]
[You’re right!]
[Let’s fight with all we’ve got!]
[Ha, we doubted ourselves even before we started fighting.]
[Hehehe, we do that all the time.]
[Hahaha]
At Urgan’s joke, the Master-Rank Hunters were in a good mood again.
Whoosh!
[Alright, come at me!]
Urgan and his companions released their mana and prepared to fight the new army of monsters.
But at that moment, an unknown wave of mana suddenly appeared around them.
Oong, oong, oong!
[W-What is that?]
[T-This mana is?]
Black fog filled with an ominous aura enveloped them, spreading gloomy mana far and wide.
Then, for a moment, the world seemed to stop.
Shake!
[Huh?]
Suddenly, the entire jungle, including the area surrounding the Master-Rank Hunters, started to tremble. It wasn’t the ground that was trembling, but it was the bodies of the Hunters spread throughout the jungle.
When one of the Vietnamese Master-Rank Hunters saw this, his face turned deadly pale.
[W-Wait a minute. I heard that the real power of the monster army is to resurrect dead Hunters and turn them into monsters...]
[W-What?]
The other Master-Rank Hunters around him turned equally as pale.
If that was the case, wouldn’t it mean that all this time they had risked their lives to stop the monsters was for nothing?
[Damn it!]
Even Urgan, the definition of ignorant and someone who only knew how to fight, felt hopeless about the whole situation, but that wasn’t all.
[D-Does that mean there’s a chance that even Lei and Lai turned into monsters?]
[No way!]
That was right.
Unfortunately, the bodies of Lei and Lai, who sacrificed themselves to ensure that the rest could retreat safely from the first and second lines of defense, were never recovered.
As a country that followed Confucianism, Vietnam placed great importance on funeral rites, so recovering bodies was always prioritized.
However, it was impossible to run into the monster infestation and retrieve Lai and Lei’s bodies.
[W-Which means?]
[T-There’s a monster made from the corpse of a Master-Rank Hunter?]
Before they could finish talking, two frighteningly powerful monsters quickly charged out.
A bunch of lightning struck down from the sky, obliterating the front of the monster army. In an instant, hundreds of monsters were burned to ashes.
[W-What the hell?]
[T-There’s no way this is a natural phenomenon, you idiot!]
Slap!
The lord slapped the dark mage slave who had told him that the lightning strike was a natural phenomenon.
[Agh, I-I apologize!]
It was humiliating, but hierarchy in the world of dark mages was more strict than any other organization, so even if the lord took the slave’s life, there was nothing he could do about it. All he could do was kneel on the ground and apologize.
The feudal lord was incredibly angry.
[Just what the hell is going on?]
At the same time, a gust of wind blew from nowhere.
Whoosh!
“Phew, I saved at least ten years of my life.”
[Haha.]
[We had so much fun.]
[Yeah. This was the first time in our lives that we used our powers with someone else and not purely on our own!]
[We’re having a blast!]
“Where did you learn to talk like that?”
[TV.]
[Computer!]
[Radio!]
[Ocean!]
[Navy!]
[H-H-Hey, using a killer alphabet is cheating!]
[Hehe, suck it!]
[Stop right there!]
Whoosh!
While the monster army was helplessly panicking from the sudden lightning attack, Han-Yeol and the Spirits of Time and Space appeared out of thin air.
Everything was good and all, but the two highly energetic spirits quickly dove into their own little world. They played the word chain game, and then they played tag, showing off their creativity.
“Ha, you guys...”
Han-Yeol could only shake his head at the sight of those two spirits.
Han-Yeol had been in Beijing just a minute ago. How could he suddenly appear in the defense line protecting Tuyen Quang in Vietnam?
It was due to his first practical use of the Spirit of Space’s ranged spatial movement skill. The power of the spirits was determined by the bond between the contractor and the spirits.
He had traveled short distances for fun before, but this was his first time traveling such a long distance on a national scale.
The bolts of lightning that struck the front of the monster army was just a result of the spatial movement skill, not an intentional attack from Han-Yeol or the Spirit of Space.
It was just a coincidence that there were a lot of lightning clouds forming in the sky above Tuyen Quang, which synergized with the powerful mana waves from the spatial movement skill. That coincidence just happened to be extremely powerful.
[Lord, look over there!]
[Huh, what is that?]
[It seems like there’s another Master-Rank Hunter in Vietnam that we didn’t know about.]
[Huh!]
The feudal lord dark mage scoffed at the mention of a new Master-Rank Hunter.
He was actually a Vietnamese Hunter who had made his way to China. He was in charge of the Vietnam expedition, so he knew more about the strength of Vietnam’s Hunters better than anyone else.
[He’ll merely be at the level of a Vietnamese Hunter at best. Just because the weak Southeast Asian Hunters sent out their secret weapon doesn’t mean the situation will change. Send out the Big Mosses and reduce them to ashes at once.]
[Yes, lord!]
Whoosh!
As soon as the feudal lord gave out the order, thirty Big Mosses flew up at the same time and rushed toward Han-Yeol.
[Han-Yeol-nim, they’re coming.]
‘Huh?’
Han-Yeol cocked his head at the behavior of the monsters, or rather, the dark mages at the back of the army controlling the monsters.
‘They’re not running away?’
[I know, right?]
He thought that if he showed up, they'd run away as fast as they could. So he had thought a lot about how to chase and hunt them down, but to his surprise, as soon as the monsters saw Han-Yeol, they rushed to attack him without a second thought.
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