The Hunter System
Chapter 70 - Zayn Cruz's Regret
Alvin finally understood the meaning of what Mina said just before he started fighting again with the Assassin.
After he fought for two days with the creature, he knew that the two of them were too lame to be called Assassins. The real Assassin was just like the last time Alvin did.
The Assassin simply waited for an opportunity, saw an opportunity and took that one chance with a definite result.
Unlike the Warrior who has been his mainstay job to fight. Warrior is a hunter type who creates an opportunity.
["You're right. Oh, my son has grown up"] said Mina, as she heard what Alvin was thinking. He was finally happy because Alvin's mind was not empty anymore like it was three-four days ago.
"I've been 25 years."
["I mean as a hunter. You're still growing up. It is far from mature, let alone mature."]
"Tsk... What the hell are you talking about?"
["In just 2 years, you'll understand what I'm saying. You'll see what the opponents of the Earth's real inhabitants look like."]
"Is it going to be that hard?"
Mina was silent for a long time before answering Alvin's question.
["Yes. You have to really mature as a hunter if you want to finish them off to save the Earth. Or they'll hunt you."]
Glup...
The information that Mina said, plus the tone of her voice as she said it, made the entire fine fur on Alvin's body bristle.
["That's it. Open the quest reward."]
"Y-yeah..."
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There are two gifts that Alvin got. The first was an extra experience point and the second was of course another set of Hunter Equipment.
When Alvin activated his first reward, he immediately got a 4 level increase at once until he was now at level 82, which meant that he also immediately obtained a quest to obtain the next Hunter Equipment item.
Alvin then took the hidden reward and immediately opened it right then and there.
...°•°•°•°•°•°•°...
...Article Name: Hunter Gloves...
...Rarity : Infinite...
...Item Level: 1/5...
...Function: Attack Booster...
...(.(.Increases physical and magical attack power by 5 times base attack)...
...•°•°•°•°•°•°•...
As after receiving the Hunter Shoes first, Alvin immediately put on the Hunter Gloves that he just got after opening them.
While looking at the golden gloves on both hands, Alvin could feel the flow of magic that permeated all the muscles and cells in his body.
Having just been unnerved by that flowing power, he got another shock upon feeling a flash of new power in his Mana core.
"W-what happened?"
["You instantly get an item level increase because you've already fused the two Hunter Equipment items in your body. Look at the level."]
Alvin opened his Hunter Equipment status and saw a level change in both items from 1/5 to 2/5. The attack and speed booster also increased from 5 times to 10 times.
"It's crazy. I might be able to race by car just by running."
["Yes. But to travel. Just get in the car."]
"..."
["..."]
"So every time I add an item to the collection, the level will go up?"
["Yes. That level increase will also get you close to the power of the examiner who will be waiting for you in the level 81 quest. If you lose just one of those shoes or gloves, you'll definitely die fighting off testers at level 81."]
Alvin nodded slowly. He knows it. He could imagine what would happen to him if while fighting with the testers in the quest level 71 was not using a speed booster. He must be dead.
"I understand."
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After being inside the gate for 4 days, Alvin finally returned to the human world.
As he reactivates his phone, there are a total of hundreds of missed calls from Vina, Raymond, who over the past two days lost contact with him, Thomas and Jack on his phone. He also got short messages that were almost as many as missed calls.
Alvin ignored the messages from everyone except Vina. While checking the location of Vina's whereabouts on the friendship map, she sends word to her brother and says he will be back tomorrow soon.
"He's at home... Means the guys from ZC group didn't bother him, did they?"
After sending a message to his brother, Alvin ordered a taxi and returned to City T to head straight for the A rank Dungeon gate.
He entered the destination on the taxi navigation to the gate in the luxurious residence of the unknown person and chose to ignore the gate that appeared in one of the factories owned by ZC group.
'There are two more days of Dungeon Break. About have they already gotten a hired hunter to deal with it?'
["Look at local television newscast Kota T."]
'I'm actually talking to myself in my heart.'
["..."]
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Meanwhile, at one of the locations of the Dungeon gates...
The best hunters in T City who had raided for 4 days finally returned after they were beaten by an army of poisonous giant spiders who were in the first location.
There are 2 B rank hunters who must die. They are Billy Cruz's best guards who control him everywhere he goes.
With a lack of experience fighting and fleeing, and choosing the wrong location to hide in an emergency situation, the two hunters end up dying as they try to protect Billy who almost died from toxic slime.
Billy himself survived. But he had to willingly lose one hand as a result of being entangled in a web of poisonous spider monsters. If he had not immediately cut off his arm, he would have already died from the poisonous spout from the spider monster. It was also helped by two of his guards who swiftly jumped to protect him.
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Zayn looked at Ivory who had just come out of the gate and had many wounds on his body.
Ivory also briefly looked at her father but soon turned her face away.
He usually does not worry too much about the ambition and violence of his father and brother because after all they are his family.
But, for this time, Ivory was really angry at both of her biological families, especially at her brother.
He can guess why Alvin didn't finish his brother after what his brother did. It must be because he came just in time. Alvin must still be counting on himself as a friend. Otherwise, Billy would have been dead.
He'll thank Billy for the forgiveness of his life later.
Things like that are common in this age. Where a powerful hunter would definitely kill anyone who irritated them. Only in City T and a few cities with strict Association oversight was such violence rare.
Ivory grunts off when Zayn approaches her. He would rather sit down to rest with some of the hunters who had fought with him in the Dungeon, than have to talk to his father.
"Iwory..."
"You've seen, haven't you? If your son hadn't misbehaved with the man who should have helped us, we wouldn't have been ruined like this" Lex said, patting his old friend's shoulder lightly. "Make this a lesson. That's if we can survive the Dungeon Break."
Zayn was speechless, staring at Lex who was limping towards the Healer-healer who was busy recovering dozens of seriously injured hunters.
Zayn then looked at Billy sitting alone leaning against one of the SUVs parked in Cruz's courtyard, before staring at his useless phone.
Times have changed. He had already contacted the Association in several cities for help, had also attempted to contact many S rank hunters personally, but he had gotten a rejection.
Unlike the past, when hunters are still patriotic and will come to help even with a makeshift fee, high-ranking hunters in this day and age already know that their strength is very valuable. 100,000,000 dollars was not enough to handle an A rank Dungeon.
Especially when they knew the gate was in the courtyard of the richest man's residence in City T. Of course, the hunters raised their service rental prices sky-high, also with difficult conditions.
They charge at least 100,000,000,000 dollars plus a minimum of 10 A rank hunters who must accompany them in the raid.
If the fee demanded by domestic hunters alone is that big, let alone overseas hunters.
Zayn finally felt despair. He stared at the Cruz family residence with teary eyes. The magnificent building full of memories that he inherited from his grandfather and father, will certainly be destroyed in the next two days.
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