The Hunter System
Chapter 42 - Retaliation on Joey and Edmund
"Alvin! Please get him out of there!" jack exclaimed, while trying to resist the attack of the giant golem that had been banging Edmund with his big fist.
Hearing that, Alvin finally ignores Edmund's angry gaze at him and pulls Edmund's armor collar to take him away from the place.
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"Hey instead of you dragging me, why don't you do the healing first?!" edmund yelled as he felt an ache all over his broken bones as Alvin dragged him violently.
"I'm not sure you'll recover because I'm an F-rank healer. Did you forget?"
Edmund was silent when he realized what Alvin was saying was true. At least need a C rank healer to be able to recover the condition of his severe fractures.
"Basic useless!" edmund finally.
"You alone brought this useless hunter here, right?" sahut Alvin while looking at Edmund who he was dragging by just grasping the collar of the man's armor with his left hand.
As he reached his destination, Alvin lifted Edmund's body by holding it at the nape and back of his knees.
"You...! H-hey what are you doing...!"
Not paying any heed to Edmund's growl, Alvin threw the man's body into the thickets before him.
The thicket bush that is very much found in a Dungeon, is the safest hiding place that is recommended by all world-class hunters when they want to hide from the pursuit of monsters. That knowledge was also taught in Hunter Academy.
But, Alvin didn't throw Edmund into the usual undergrowth. He knew there was a gap behind the bush.
["It turns out you're very vindictive"] said System inside his head.
"When I plan to ask you to poison him like you did Brondy."
["..."]
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"Hey, why did you throw him there?!" Joey's jolt just arrived near Alvin.
Joey had wanted to pick up a badly wounded Edmund to take to a C-rank Healer who was inside the Tank hunter-gatherer protection formation. However, he was late because Alvin had already thrown Edmund into the abyss behind the bush.
"I'm just following the lead I learned at the Academy before."
"Do you pretend not to know? There's a ravine back there!"
Alvin did not respond to Joey's snaps.
At that moment, he could feel one of the two remaining golems running towards them from behind him and he immediately stepped away from the spot.
Joey who stood facing towards the golem, certainly saw the golem's arrival. He then turned around to escape, but both of his legs got stuck on something until he finally fell down.
Naas for Joey. The golem finally arrived nearby and raised one of its legs to step on Joey's fallen body face down.
Wusshhhhhc...
"Tidddaafunkk...!"
Ohhmm!!!
Fortunately, Joey's leg was suddenly pulled by a silk rope that managed to prevent him from stepping on the golem which might make him immediately killed if hit by his stomp.
"W-what... Who's that..." Joey was still confused when he saw the rope like a giant spider web wrapped around his ankles.
He then traced the direction of the rope and found Alvin at the end of the rope grinning at him.
"He might be lonely if he lived alone down there" said Alvin who then threw Joey also to the same place where he threw Edmund.
["You're evil too?"] say the system while laughing. He knew that Alvin had made Joey fall and then pulled him with a spider web when Joey almost crushed the golem.
"I'm just giving back a little. They brought me here to scare me" said Alvin as he ran towards Jack who was trying to get up after the golem who wanted to step on Joey had hurt him first.
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Alvin immediately did the healing on Jack who suffered a fracture all over his body.
"Jack, please take everyone away from this place. This monster is dangerous." Alvin said, staring at the giant golem who was running towards them.
"What about you?"
"I'll get in the way of this one."
"W-what?! But he's the boss of the Dungeon."
"Just go!"
Right after Alvin shouted, the golem had already arrived near them and directly aimed its fists at Alvin.
Wusshhhhhhhhh... Sratt... Sratt... Sratt...
Alvin held the golem's hand by dragging the spider web in his hand and then fired his net again all over the golem's body, until the golem had difficulty moving.
Alvin fired the net again at the two legs of the golem, then pulled it until the golem finally fell to the ground.
Bmmmm...!
Seeing what Alvin had just done, Jack did not ask anything more. He then ran towards the hunters who were sheltering behind the tanker defense formation to invite them to leave the location.
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The spider web that looked fragile was apparently quite difficult for the golem to break. The creature seemed busy freeing itself from the tangles of the net on its body.
"Tsk... This motherfucker,." Alvin muttered with anger when he remembered that he had been crushed by a creature of his kind.
He then turned to look at the hunters from the Flames guild already brought Jack away from the Dungeon boss's area.
Alvin could tell right away that those hunters were no match for the Dungeon boss when their formation was chaotic.
At the beginning of their entry into the Dungeon earlier, Alvin was amazed at them because he knew that the hunters were actually only in the range of D and C rank.
He also knew that their strength was actually not comparable to Dungeon magic, from looking at the status of Dungeons on his map.
In fact, this Dungeon was more deserving of being entered by hunters who were at least B-ranked like Edmund and Joey, not for other hunters in the raid team who averaged below that.
His admiration was formed only because he saw that the hunters could work well in overcoming monsters by relying on attacks carried out together and it was very powerful in Alvin's eyes. They are very professional because they can maximize their minimal strength with excellent cooperation.
But, as the previous System had said, that cooperation would be destroyed the moment their formation was successfully broken through.
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"What happened to her?" ivory asked as soon as she arrived near Alvin. What he meant was the Dungeon boss who was currently roaring furiously while trying to release the snares of the spider web containing magic energy, from his entire body.
Alvin did not answer that question. He turned his head towards the pile of stones, which was previously the body of the golem, as he sensed the Mana core absorbing into his body. The golem just destroyed Ivory with its fire magic.
While waiting for Alvin's answer, Ivory also turned his head towards his comrades who had already gone away with Jack as their guide.
"I ensnare him" said Alvin later, staring at Ivory again with a look of admiration. He admired how Ivory could defeat the B-ranked giant creature alone.
Ivory returned Alvin's gaze without commenting on what he had just said. He then looked towards the golem who was still fighting with something similar to silk threads on his body.
"Are you actually hiding power, Mr Rufino?" ivory asked without turning her face away from the golem.
The woman then aimed both of her palms at the body of the golem and fired fire magic at the creature.
Swooooss...
The flames coming out from both Ivory's hands shot towards the Dungeon's boss' body and burned it for a while.
However, the fire actually helped the golem get rid of the nets from his body.
As all the nets on his body disappeared, the Dungeon boss who was completely unaffected by the flames burning his body instantly rose to his feet and charged at the two hunters.
"My magic has no effect on her?" muttered Ivory with a look of disbelief at the Dungeon boss.