The Hunter System
Chapter 96 - Hidden Strength Hunter Equipment
Wush...
Only a few meters left before his dagger penetrates the heart of The Destroyer, who can not move due to the restrained airbender that Alvin used with vengeance, Alvin instead lost the target.
A black magic gate that suddenly appears between Alvin and The Destroyer, causing Alvin to fall into it until he arrives in another world.
.........
“Sial! Why should it appear now?!” oceh Alvin while hurriedly turning around to jump out the gate again.
However, the gate, which was usually in the form of a lump of non-solid smoke gas, had strangely solidified and hardened, until now in the form of an oval-shaped slab of magic crystals.
Brakk...!
Alvin hit the crystal hard and took a few steps back.
“Why is the gate petrified?"
[“The gate lock magic turned around. Humans can enter but will not be able to get out unless it destroys its magic pillar first."]
"Ah..., is this one of the four gates of his Break Dungeon?"
["Yes."]
Alvin recalled the information he had learned while training at Hunter Academy first.
If a Dungeon were to experience a Break, things would turn upside down.
Earthmen who were originally able to freely go in and out whenever they wanted, would not be able to do it again. Humans could still enter, but would not be able to exit unless they destroyed the magic pillars within the Dungeon first.
Unlike the Dungeon monster who can now freely go in and out of the gate.
.........
Alvin opens the Dungeon map to find the boss's location because that's where the magic pillar should be.
But, when he saw the kind of Dungeon-dwelling monsters that were in a huddle approaching, he canceled the intention that he originally wanted to directly destroy the magic pillar and then mine the magic crystal while waiting for the gate to open, to kill all his monsters first.
"They're the same lich as the other day, right?" alvin asked Mina while staring at the dozens of human-shaped monsters that came closer.
["You're right. Tskc... From City T they are now to City S apparently. If I knew this.."].
"..."
["..."]
"Yes? Know what?"
["It's okay if you want to finish them all off first. You'll get a lot of experience points here. That black face may have been killed by your woman. He was almost out of Mana energy."]
Alvin turned his head towards the gate and did not see Cyntia enter. Just like Mina, she also thought Cyntia must be fighting again with The Destroyer out there.
He was not worried that Cyntia would lose because it had already replenished the Mana Cyntia's energy.
When the human-shaped lich-lich was already a dozen meters away from him, Alvin changed jobs to the Mage and fired spider webs at dozens of lich that were actually on their way to the gate, to get out of the Dungeon.
His net instantly formed an enormous mesh and locked away the nearly 50 lichs that were running towards him.
“The net is big and a lot!”
[“Because you activated your costume form.”]
"Could that? Why didn't you tell him a long time ago?"
As usual, if Alvin forms a net with a mesh form, it means he wants to crush all the creatures that have fallen into the trap.
Alvin mustered his Mana energy more to give strength to his net because he knew crushing S-ranked lich-lich would certainly require more effort than an A-ranked creature.
But as he did so, Alvin saw a different result than usual.
The opponents who only intended to be crushed were not crushed, they even exploded instantly.
Alvin looked at his hands and was astonished that he knew something was different.
Alvin knew that he was now much stronger because he had just added the item set in Hunter Equipment. However, he felt, if this strength far exceeded the status he had.
He hurriedly looked at his status again. He tried to calculate all of his status and he was sure that there were other forces beyond all of his status.
“Mina, this is weird. Why am I this strong?”
[“Because of your costume,"] said Mina in a lazy voice.
“Because of costumes? But it shouldn't be this strong, right?"
[“Your power increases many times over if you display its form.”]
“…”
[“Keren, right?”]
“But, I don't see any such explanation.”
[“Consider hidden status.”]
“Why didn't you tell me first?”
"W-what?! Just because of that?"
Glup…
Alvin suddenly felt nervous when he heard Mina's uncharacteristic angry voice. He was really afraid that Mina would poison him from the inside.
“M-sorry, Mina.”
[“Tsk.. Next time be careful with what you say and correct the swear word. You're**k!"]
“...T-certain…,"
"Then... Would I actually be able to defeat that masked jerk if I activated the costume?"
["The odds are 50:50."]
"You're this... Then why don't you tell me to just activate it? He's torturing me!"
["That's a bit of punishment. I finally told you, didn't I?"]
["It just so happens, it was a good opportunity for you to complete a level 91 quest, when you were just getting used to seeing quick attacks. I meant well. Remember. I'm your teacher."]
"...Aren't you a system?"
Alvin and Mina had a big fight after that. If anyone saw Alvin screaming himself like that, people would definitely think him crazy.
The two had just stopped fighting after dozens of new lichs had arrived.
...…...
When Alvin wants to use the net to finish off all the lich so he can quickly go destroy the magic pillar, Mina forbids him. Mina asks him to call his own army to kill the lich-lich.
"I'm actually very sorry if they die, I only have 3 chances to resurrect them, right? That's why I only use them to fight against monsters that have the same strength as them."
["So you're actually insect-loving?"]
"..."
["Call them."]
After restraining the lich horde with his net from getting close, Alvin summoned his army of troops.
["Rimi, remove that useless voodoo skill."]
"..."
["You want to protest?!"]
"I didn't talk anything."
["Tsk... Rimi, put all the Hunter Equipment sets into the one remaining imitator slot then put them into his insect conqueror."]
Wush...
After Rimi had done all the things that Mina had ordered, the golden costume just like the one that Alvin was wearing appeared on the bodies of all insects.
Alvin stared at all his insects with his mouth wide open, amazed by the luxury.
"Wow!"
["Well, they will have a quarter of the strength of all your Hunter Equipment statuses."]
"It's really cool!"
["But remember, the status of your Hunter Equipment will be reduced by 25% due to having switched to them. If you want your status back to normal, you'll just keep them."]
Alvin nodded. But he finally took a deep breath after that. He now knew that Mina could sulk too. Otherwise, he would have known this a long time ago.
["Must have 4 sets of Hunter Equipment to do this. If you had it a long time ago, I would have done it a long time ago, "] said Mina, after she heard what Alvin was thinking.
"That's so..."
["Here you go, let's get your troops to finish them off."]
"Yes." Yeah."
Alvin reopened the nets of all lichs and ordered his costumed army of bugs to begin attacking.
At first, he thought that the insects all rated A would be overwhelmed with lich all of which call S.
But that army of insects could fight so well, it could even kill all the lich even after the lich got back up.
"Would they be that strong just because of 25% of Hunter Equipment's status?"
["It's not just because of that. They also have all your basic status."]
"What?!" Alvin surprised. He looked at the insect army with horror. "What if they defect and gang up on me?"
["That's not going to happen. They'll never attack his queen."]
"..."
While Alvin was conversing with Mina, the insect army had already started attacking the newly arrived lich troops again and finished them off in just under 20 minutes.
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