The Hunter System
Chapter 21 - Dungeon Survivors
Everyone, especially the hunter from the Association who was the gatekeeper, was shocked to see the figure of a hunter coming out of the gate filled with many wounds on his body.
They later recognized him as an F-rank hunter who participated in the raid with the hunters from the Association, Alvin Rufino.
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The dying-looking Alvin immediately fell down as he just stepped foot a few steps from the gate.
Robert and Erfhina Xavier who were still around the gate and were still there to wait for him, immediately ran over to Alvin and checked his body condition.
"He was hurt really bad! Quickly bring a stretcher!" robert exclaimed after catching a glimpse of the gaping wounds on Alvin's body.
Erfina, who happened to have a job healer, when she saw that there was a hunter severely injured like that, of course immediately used the healing skill to help heal him.
He knows Alvin well. The son of his boss' personal assistant who had been very often helped by his boss while still in Hunter Academy.
Erfhina of course immediately used her best ability to save Alvin. He even directly used his ultimate skill so that Alvin could recover immediately.
Sensing a warm aura from Erfhina's healing magic, Alvin closed his eyes, feeling the healing process Erfhina had done to him.
While waiting for the healing process, Alvin began to speak to the System.
'You're crazy! I really want to die because you're overdoing it!'
["Tsk... You were the one who requested that I make you have a scar like after being ganged up against a B rank Dungeon monster, right?"]
Getting that answer, Alvin recalled how he was badly injured while fighting the bees. But, those injuries were not even as severe as when the Hunter System gave him the scars he currently suffered.
He was suddenly horrified by the Hunter System. The system could injure him just by manipulating the Mana energy within his body.
'By the way, you didn't intend to kill me, did you?'
["If you use your powers wrongly, I might do it."]
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The head of the gate control team approached again while carrying several bottles of health potion after he had seen the condition of Alvin with Robert and Erfhina.
After several wounds on Alvin's body began to close, the supervisor's team leader hurriedly inserted health potions into Alvin's mouth after getting a mark from Erfhina.
"C-enough, t-thank you..," said Alvin as he had finished 3 bottles of health potion that felt very bitter stinging on his tongue.
Seeing Alvin open both his eyes again, the head of the supervisory team hurriedly asked him, "What happened? Where are the other hunters?"
"Team. pe..checking the gate s-seems to be misidentifying. I-this is the gate of Dungeon rank B." said Alvin in a soft and stammering voice.
He still felt great pain all over his body. He even felt like losing consciousness even though Erfhina and health potion had tried to cure him.
"What?!" the team leader was surprised.
While Robert and Erfhina who already knew the bad habits of the Association in identifying Dungeon rank, instantly clicked their tongues almost simultaneously.
"Then, where are the others?" ask the team leader again.
"M-they... M-merka is fighting inside."
"W-what?! Why don't they just go out and ask for help?"
"You better get help now." Cut Robert, when he saw Alvin had trouble speaking and his face turned pale again, almost as if he had just come out of the gate.
"A-you're right" said the supervisor, who also saw Alvin as dying. He immediately stood up and went to his subordinates.
The man spoke in a loud voice to them, asking them to contact the Association's office and some large guilds in order to come help immediately.
Hearing what the supervisor team leader said, the journalists who had sharp ears and intuition, immediately recorded the conversation, also took a closer picture of Alvin.
However, when the circumstances in front of the gate started to rowdy, another surprise they got.
The Dungeon Gate suddenly disappeared.
Everyone who was there fell silent, staring at the empty air where the previous gate was.
"G-erbangnya missing?" say someone.
"What about other hunters? Are they locked up in there?"
Realizing that, everyone panicked.
Alvin did deliberately not use his healing magic, so that the charade he did could run according to his plan. It was a charade that he 'borrowed' from Miranda.
"Master... Xavier, bi..have I... asked for your help?" alvin.
"certain. What'sthat?"
"Please.. find and lin.dungi Vina."
"Y-yes?"
Robert was still confused by the intent of the request. But he could not ask for any more information from Alvin, because Alvin immediately lost consciousness after finishing his sentence.
"Fhina, what's going on?" robert asked his sister with a worried face.
"His injuries are severe. I need time to heal him" said Erfhina. He knew Alvin's injuries were severe. He was also not sure he could heal the gaping wound on Alvin's right chest that penetrated all the way to his back.
"Let's take him to a special hospital first," invited Robert who then lifted and moved Alvin's body onto a stretcher that had just been provided by the gatekeeper hunters.
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News of the closing of the gate of the B rank Dungeon that had 'swallowed' 20 hunters from the Association spread so quickly in all the local media of the City S.
All the media were talking about Alvin being again a survivor of a dangerous Dungeon, while all of his teammates were confined within the Dungeon.
Because Alvin still could not be questioned about what happened in the Dungeon, the City S Hunter Association eventually became a place to vent the curiosity of the media.
Since the afternoon, they had gathered in front of the Association building to demand a sudden press conference.
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With the spread of the news, the entire citizens of S City demanded the performance of the gate magic checker team that they considered very negligent. Mistakes in identifying gates are not just one or two times they are done. This has happened dozens of times in just the past year.
The Hunter Association as an institution that should be responsible for handling such a matter is of course affected.
However, Norman Lewis, who lost his only daughter in the incident, went on a rampage when journalists alluded to the Association for being negligent in their duties.
The middle-aged man smashed the pulpit at the press conference and even nearly attacked the journalists who were there.
In a huff, Norman Lewis asked his personal assistant to immediately prepare the car as he left the actual conference room just beginning.
"Supply my car now! We're going to the hospital. I need to know what happened to my daughter!" said Norman in a loud voice.
His voice boomed along the 1st floor of the Association building, making anyone who heard and saw his anger instantly tremble in fear.
The goal is now only one. Meet Alvin and draw a description from him in as much detail as possible.
"I'll kill him right after he gives the answer!" umpat Norman, when they're on their way to Hunter's hospital.
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Alvin opened his eyes slowly as he felt the special room he was being treated in was already very quiet.
As he sat on the bed, he could immediately see Erfhina who was now asleep with a weak condition on the sofa, exhausted from trying to recover it.
The girl had been taking care of him from noon till afternoon. He exerted all his ability to close Alvin's wounds, also trying to heal his internal wounds.
Healer's lack of power in the hospital ultimately makes Alvin should be helped with modern medicine. In fact, if there was an A-rank Healer alone, Alvin would have been instantly curable right then and there.
However good Erfhina skill in treating, still she lacks Mana energy to be able to do the treatment continuously. In fact, Erfhina had already spent a lot of mana potions to do so but still Alvin had not been able to fully recover.
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Alvin looked at Erfhina who was sound asleep with a feeling of guilt, especially as he saw there were dozens of empty bottles where potions were scattering on the table.
That sight alone has proven how the hunter trust of the Maxwell family was already trying to help heal it as much as possible.
"Sorry, I'm troubling you. I had to be seen dying so they could believe my story" Alvin said slowly.
Alvin then left a note of his gratitude on the table, which he overlapped under a bottle before he left by settling out of his hospital room.
Unlike Erfhina, Alvin who had a job Healer and was now at B rank, could heal himself without worrying about running out of Mana energy.
The recovery system could continue to replenish his Mana energy which he was now using to heal all the outer wounds and internal injuries on his body as he stepped away to leave the hospital.
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