Chick 327
by Cristae327
HunterNet Anonymous Board
[Title: Smiling Parent’s Day Orchestra Update]
(Photo of Fakeclaw wearing a carnation headband, a ribbon, and riding a bicycle)
(Photo of Gidan wearing a carnation headband, swinging a sword)
(Photo of Sergey wearing a carnation headband, desperately trying to hide his face)
Turned into filial piety villains for Parent’s Day
They’re surprisingly good at hunting like that
[Comments]
– The Orchestra folks at it again?
– Is it for real that there’s one person in there actually feeling embarrassed?
– Why is it always Fake-Gi-Se whenever stuff like this pops up
– Fakeclaw really joined the right guild, considering his craziness
– Even S-grade hunters do ridiculous performances, so the rest of you ought to be filial too
Mom, why did you give birth to me as a D-gradeㅠ If I were S-grade, I’d be in Orchestra doing filial piety too
Is that really filial piety?
Just from sorting the loot from that run, you could probably buy a foreign luxury car. Best piety is cash, let’s be honest
Uh-oh~ It’s a mutated dungeon, no mana stones~
– You ran into the same dungeon, huh? Did you see Fakeclaw digging with a hoe by chance?
? Digging with a hoe?
[Title: Fakeclaw Hoe-Digging]
(Photo of Fakeclaw in a carnation headband, digging with a hoe)
He dug at a Failed Monster and got a high-grade mana stone
[Comments]
– No way, you’re making this up
I saw it myself
– With all these Failed Monsters popping out, I thought hunting was pointless, but you got a high-grade out of it? Crazy
– Is it the power of the hoe?
Sounds plausible?
He’s gonna rake it in selling those hoes again
LOL please sell me one ffs
Are we moving into an era where every hunter digs with a hoe?
Fakeclaw could probably strike mana stones just by digging anywhere
– On Joorim: smiles
[Title: The Happiest Person Right Now]
Parent On Joorim
Guildmate: Fakeclaw
Daughter: Groo
[Comments]
– I wish I’d given birth to Groo…
– Buying Groo’s massage coupon and kiss coupon
– Groo vs. Fakeclaw
Definitely Groo
Balance-breaker, hands down
Am I the only gold-digger here? Fakeclaw already has so many patents
Cute, adorable kindergartener vs. a rich, hairy thirty-something trying-too-hard uncle
Can’t argue, I was mistaken
(On Joorim, who has both Groo & Fakeclaw): smiles
Give me just one, ffs LOL
I can’t stand it LOL
That moment.
On the first-floor café terrace of the Orchestra headquarters.
A woman with her red hair tied up made no attempt to hide the long scar running over her left eye.
As she sipped coffee, gazing at the peaceful street, she suddenly turned her eyes to Han Rowoon.
The instant their eyes met, Han Rowoon smiled.
[“Teodora, are you sure this is enough?”]
From Han Rowoon’s hand, the artificial dungeon core floated up.
Round and small—it looked no more than a marble a child might play with, yet this would be the main key in the construction of this great dungeon.
Teodora accepted the core.
[“It’s enough. I’ve been preparing on my end, too. Whether it’d work or not was always a gamble.”]
She idly turned the shining core between her polished fingertips and continued.
[“I figured Gnosis would come up with a method.”]
Her face brightened.
[“A dungeon that grows by devouring other dungeons… Gnosis always makes such interesting things.”]
[“Dozens of small dungeons can form a single massive one.”]
[“That’s the kind of creative thinking I admire. Their implementation is just as impressive.”]
With genuine wonder, she rolled the small core around in her hand.
Countless dungeons are created and disappear from the world.
With this core, the power from those vanishing dungeons could be harvested to construct a great dungeon.
[“Things got a little easier after the Kreteito Reactor appeared, really.”]
Han Rowoon spoke modestly, and Teodora agreed.
[“What was his name again? Fakeclaw? He’s quite the outstanding figure.”]
[“He’s been a big help to our plan.”]
[“Something about Korean soil—so many excellent test subjects. I’d like to try some experiments there myself one day.”]
While Teodora hummed to herself, caught up in happy fantasy, Han Rowoon sipped his coffee and asked,
[“Will you begin right away?”]
[“The small dungeons have already started being absorbed.”]
By now, the hunters inside the dungeons would be witnessing, clueless, as their dungeons merged with others.
And soon, it all would become a monstrous, unified great dungeon.
A great dungeon of at least S-grade Frost sector was needed to bind Shea.
They’d have to nurture it until then.
[“Where do you intend to hide the central core?”]
At that, she opened her previously closed left eye.
A void of darkness, empty of iris or pupil.
[“Right here.”]
She pressed the transparent core deep into that hollow eye.
[“Wouldn’t be any fun if it were too easy to find, would it?”]
Just then, her phone vibrated.
Not just theirs, but everyone’s in the café—in fact, everyone passing by—pulled out their phones to check a message.
[“Looks like they’ve already caught on.”]
A question flickered across Han Rowoon’s face; Teodora just waved one hand carelessly.
Then, the boy who’d silently been sitting beside her, working on a parfait, raised his head.
[“Robali.”]
[“Yes, Mother.”]
SSS-grade Frost Clan. Robali Perdoc.
For an instant, Han Rowoon’s gaze fixed on Robali.
An SSS-grade monster—a being who could become the Master of the 99th Floor.
Robali, trapped in the vessel of a human child, was restrained with multiple control devices.
[“Go into the dungeon and kill anyone who gets in the way of its growth.”]
[“Yes.”]
Shhk!
Robali vanished, melting into the shadows.
As Han Rowoon watched the child’s form disappear, Teodora grinned.
[“Obedient, isn’t he? I took out the vessel’s brain myself and engraved my name on it.”]
Teodora sounded proud.
Once, that vessel must have been an ordinary child.
Hearing she had rooted through the brain of such a child to brainwash it, Han Rowoon stirred his coffee, face expressionless.
[“Is a vessel only possible with children?”]
[“If you want to fully suppress an SSS-grade monster’s strength, fragile vessels are best—ones that are weak and easily broken. That’s why we use young children like that.”]
[“And Shea?”]
[“She’ll go into that vessel.”]
Teodora flicked her red tongue over her lips.
[“Soon, I’ll have a child who listens to my every word. Who knows how long the vessel will endure, though.”]
That much was certain—Han Rowoon was skeptical as well.
[“What do you plan to do about On Joorim?”]
About an hour remained until the dungeon was completed.
Until then, the merging couldn’t be discovered, and Shea had to be extracted in time.
That was Teodora’s aim.
[“All I have to do is wait for the great dungeon to come into being. Shall we order another coffee?”]
Meanwhile.
While Gidan and Sergey hunted mutated monsters in the dungeon, Groo……
Poke! Poke!
…was diligently digging with his hoe.
Sweat beading on his brow, Groo straightened up.
He had already gathered so many high-grade mana stones?
This was good business.
A fierce flame blazed within his large eyes.
Groo’s Familiars, each gripping a perfectly sized hoe, were following his direction and mining mana stones one after another.
“You have to poke right here, got it?”
“Bii!”
“Kyuu!”
Faithful Mephisto and Lucifer nodded vigorously, while only Bailach, who’d been yawning, got a smack from Mephisto.
Just then, Sergey, who had just fired off a skill at a monster with his hoe, turned around.
“…Don’t you think this dungeon seems strange?”
“You seem a little strange yourself. Who fires off skills with a hoe?”
“Screw you! And you’re slicing monsters up with yours?”
“Of course, Dani can chop up monsters with anything~”
After subduing the monster with his hoe, Gidan nimbly hopped onto its head.
Sergey scowled at Gidan’s sly grin.
Gidan chuckled to himself, then glanced toward the sky and around the area.
Soon, he spoke, voice suddenly serious.
“It is strange, for sure.”
Even the air against his skin felt different than usual.
Narrowing his eyes, Gidan looked into the distance.
There were voices he could hear clearly that Sergey could not.
“There are more and more people gathering in the dungeon.”
“What do you mean?”
“Hmm. Just means we’d better take down the boss and get out quickly.”
Gidan smiled brightly at that moment.
Whoosh!
“…?!”
Beside the boss room entrance, doors began multiplying.
Before Sergey could even gasp, more and more doors appeared.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
“The boss room… is multiplying?”