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Published at 31st of January 2024 12:09:12 PM


Chapter 280.: Side Story - Change Pt. 5

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Chapter 280. Side Story - Change Pt. 5

The training ground where the exams for Hunter registrations were held was unusually noisy today.

“What?!”

“Is something going on?”

Seeing the crowd of people, more and more people flocked to the area.

It had been a long time since the Hunter Registry had been this busy. Hunter registration was a process that could happen at any time as long as the Association was open. Moreover, since new Hunters usually were nothing big to look at, most Hunters didn’t pay any attention to them. The only people present were scouts from each guild who were watching quietly for talent.

However, something strange was happening today.

“That manager is Kim Su-Yeong!!”

“I heard that Kim Su-Yeong had become that person’s manager before he even registered!”

A would-be Hunter had come to register with Kim Su-Yeong.

“They said that he knocked out the examiner with a single hit!”

“What??!”

“Don’t you have to be at least B rank to be an examiner?”

It was said that during his registration test, the man next to Kim Su-Yeong had defeated the examiner with a single attack. A rumor spread quickly, and to everyone’s horror, Hunters were still gathering en masse.

BOOOMMM!

Then, all of a sudden, it sounded like the building was collapsing.

“What’s going on?!”

“Are we being attacked?!”

There was no way that a well-known Hunter was attacking the Association. Nevertheless, the sudden change was more than enough to confuse the Hunters. Then, at that moment, the dust fell, and everyone could see what had happened.

“W...what the fu...!”

***

“Ha...haha...hahaha...” Lee Jun-Kyeong smiled awkwardly.

Crack!!!

Even as he smiled, the walls continued to crack.

The walls of the training center had been created through intense research and technological development. Despite that, a crack was riding up the side of the wall.

“Th...there’s no way!!” shouted a Hunter at the registry office in astonishment.

“The training center was made with A-Grade Monsters in mind!”

As he said, the walls of the training ground were so hard that most Hunters couldn’t even scratch them. Although they were said to have been created to block the attacks of A-Grade monsters, in reality, the walls were sturdy enough to block even the attacks of S-Grade monsters to some extent.

The Hunters beyond the glass wall shouted as they looked at the walls meant to contain the strongest of monsters. The primary upload of this chapter happened on Nôv3l--B1n.

“It’s been destroyed just by wind pressure??!”

“Um...ha...hahaha.... Well...”

Lee Jun-Kyeong smiled awkwardly again and scratched his head. He hadn’t done this because he had wanted to.

An examiner had shown up asking to test his spear skills. Thus, all Lee Jun-Kyeong had done was raise the spear to settle into a stance. However, the wind pressure emitted from the movement of the spear flung the examiner and broke the wall.

“...”

Kim Su-Yeong glared at Lee Jun-Kyeong as if he was embarrassed.

–Didn’t you say that you liked just being quiet?

More than a month has already passed since Lee Jun-Kyeong had returned, and during that time, he had done nothing.

‘It looks like you want to just live quietly.’

Thus, his companions and those who knew him had thought that Lee Jun-Kyeong, who had obtained unfathomable strength, had just wanted a quiet life. Therefore, they had thought that he would only show moderate strength during the registration process.

–This...is a little excessive.

Even Kim Su-Yeong shook his head as he sent a voice transmission.

“That’s not it...” Lee Jun-Kyeong felt as though he was being unfairly characterized in his own way. “I really... I was really just trying to make a stance...”

Although it just sounded like he was making an excuse, Kim Su-Yeong quickly blocked his voice from spreading with a wall of mana. The one under the most stress right now was Lee Jun-Kyeong.

Tremble.

As he slowly looked over the devastation, his hands were shaking. Only then did Lee Jun-Kyeong understand why this situation had happened.

‘There are two reasons.’

The first was that it had been a long time since he had released his power. He hadn’t considered his own growing strength, which was growing even at this very moment. That was why he had completely failed to control it.

The second reason was a little more nefarious.

‘Are you seriously going to be like this, Surtr?’

"Brothers...?”

“Since he is my brother, it is natural for him to be strong. He is someone I acknowledge even more than I do myself...!”

Although Horus was beginning to talk more and more excitedly, after looking at Lee Jun-Kyeong’s and Heimdall’s gazes, he quickly shut his mouth.

“Ahem.”

‘Why has he changed like this?’

Lee Jun-Kyeong looked even more flustered. His companions had obtained their memories of their past lives a very long time ago. Of course, he understood that some of them had their personalities changed in the process.

That was especially true for Horus. Even when he had met him a month ago, Lee Jun-Kyeong had realized that Horus’ personality had changed to a surprising degree.

His bandaged appearance was the same. Despite that, it felt as though his personality had become both familiar but also lighter and more easy-going than before.

‘Still, this is a little too easy-going, isn’t it?’

Lee Jun-Kyeong shook his head.

“Brothers...?”

“Exactly! Siblings! As I said, he is the dear brother of I, the great Horus of Egypt!”

By this point, the water had already spilled, and Lee Jun-Kyeong couldn’t help but sigh. Then, he regretted leaving his house.

“Because of Mr. Lee, Korea will prosper forever.”

Even Liu Bei had to be stopped...

"Shit...” Heimdall cursed at the situation that had already occurred.

Liu Bei, China’s new General Secretary and the Association President of the entire Chinese Association, had suddenly said something like that—if any random Hunter had said something like that, it would have been dismissed as a joke or nonsense. But for him to do so...

“What on earth is this!?”

“Kim Su-Yeong is the manager, and...”

“The brother of Horus?”

“Korea will prosper forever because of him?”

These were all words uttered by the world’s top Hunters. It was so befuddling that even Odin had a puzzled look on his face. At that time, an ominous smile spread across Heimdall's lips.

He had just sighed as if he had just given up on everything, but his expression had suddenly changed. Almost like...

“NO!” Lee Jun-Kyeong shouted.

Heimdall’s expression was of someone who had given up on everything and was willing to go with the flow. A face that he would always make without fail before causing an accident. Everything around them exploded.

“This is my son!!!!!!”

Heimdall smiled with an irresponsible expression as he looked at Lee Jun-Kyeong. ‘You were already screwed anyway.’

***

“The son of Heimdall...”

The group sat at the Korean Association President’s Office. None of the people gathered there were ordinary.

Horus was said to be the king behind the scenes and ruled over all of Egypt while Liu Bei was the General Secretary of China and Association President of the Chinese Association. Furthermore, Kim Su-Yeong was someone who had suddenly left the Association and built a reputation, all just to return to work as a low-level employee.

Finally, there was even one of the few Apex Hunters in the world, Heimdall.

“Ha...haha...hahaha...”

Odin laughed as if it were absurd. Everything that had just happened had been because of that young man. Who on Earth was he?

‘No, that’s not it.’

If it was about identity, he already knew who he was. Didn’t the others say it already? The brother of Horus, the benefactor of Liu Bei, and the son of Heimdall?

"Well...yes, that's right,” Lee Jun-Kyeong answered.

Nevertheless, Odin couldn’t easily believe it, as Lee Jun-Kyeong had only just appeared all of a sudden. Heimdall's family had already been investigated. He wasn’t supposed to have any family. Moreover, neither Horus nor Liu Bei had any history of brothers or benefactors in Korea.

Just who on earth was this person?

“Whew...”

Odin sighed deeply and rested his head on his hands. Moreover, there was one more thing.

‘Just how...’

How strong was he? The young man before him had apparently caused a crack in the wall of the training center just by the wind pressure of raising a spear. If that really were true, then he would have been a Hunter who could not be underestimated.

‘But I can’t feel anything.’

Even with his S-Grade skills, he couldn’t sense the young man’s mana. The fact that the young man could hide his mana from him only meant one thing.

‘Is he supposed to be stronger than me? This young brat?’

Odin suddenly looked at the young man, who had literally appeared all of a sudden like a comet, and sighed so heavily that it seemed as though the sky was falling.

“Ha....”

Lee Jun-Kyeong slowly opened his mouth to speak to Odin. Things had already unfolded, and that meant that this wasn’t a situation that could be fixed.

“So, the hunter registration... could you complete it for me?”




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