The Hunter System
Chapter 99 - Dungeon Break In Downtown S
Crashh…
Cyntia brushed off the ice blades with both hands. He also jumped back a few steps when the 10 people he thought were hunters had come forward to attack.
"Is there a monster within the Dungeon that can use hypnosis?" muttered Cyntia, while looking into the eyes of how clearly the attacker looked without any emotion. He was increasingly convinced that these attackers were hunters who were exposed to hyonotic magic.
Although they attacked in groups as well with a very neat attacking formation, they were still not Cyntia's opponent. He could hit dozens of hunters easily, using only his bare hands.
But, over time, Cyntia began to be overwhelmed by the hunters because they had to fight without killing them. They did not even faint after he tried to hit hard.
Cyntia, who doesn't know they're actually lich, is reluctant to kill when she feels they're under hypnotic influence.
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It was only when Brooklyn came to ask for help that Cyntia finally knew that they were actually Dungeon monsters.
“They're lich?”
“Ya, miss Tia. Vernon and Sarah accidentally kill one of them when they want to attack the party at the town hall. They then turned into undead. They lich.”
“So.”
After Cyntia found out about it, she finally had another reticence to use her skill and immediately finished off all the lich.
Although the monsters were a bit troublesome since he had to kill them twice, but Cyntia was able to finish them off in just less than 10 minutes after he fought in earnest.
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“Nona Tia, let's go back to the town hall, they asked me to look for you to help."
"You're going to town hall?"
"Yes. There's a bunker to hide in. The mayor suggested we go there to hide Mr. Arthur and members of the Cruz family."
Cyntia nodded, but she still hesitated to leave the gate in front of them.
“We go in first and destroy the magic pillar,” Cyntia said.
“Let me destroy it. You help Mr. Arthur, miss.”
Cyntia looked at the gate once more. He also stared at the lich corpses that did not seem to rise again. That meant, he guessed, his necromancer was dead and was among the corpses of those monsters.
After Cyntia turned away, Brooklyn also turned to go to the gate. However, Cyntia suddenly withdrew her hand.
“Ya, miss Tia?”
“Cute me. Later take care of the gate.”
“Ya?”
Cyntia looked at the gate again. He actually had an uncomfortable feeling at the gate.
“If the monsters inside there were up, there would be no problem if the gate was left first. But if there are still monsters waiting in line to come out, isn't that dangerous?”
Glup…
Brooklyn suddenly got nervous. If there were still monsters inside, he would definitely die because one monster alone was of the same rank as him.
“Let's save our people first,” take Cyntia.
'I'm also not sure the necromancer will die that easily. Maybe they are still in the Dungeon.'
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Norman Lewis began to rile when the Association's public relations team came to him back and forth to his study.
Telephone calls from residents in downtown S continued to arrive as those besieged by the lich troops did not get help.
Norman's anger grew even more so when he learned that the great Destroyer could not be reached.
"Did he just leave right away after completing his task?" norman asks Duncan, who is still trying to contact The Destroyer's men.
"I don't know dad, the phone's connected but they don't want to take it."
"Did he fail?"
Duncan shook his head, "No way. All the missions he has been on have always worked. He's the number one killer hunter in our guild."
"Tsk... Then why hasn't he told you the results of his mission yet?"
Duncan, who also did not know why, could only remain silent as he continued to try to contact The Destroyer.
Just then, the head of the gate monitoring team came over.
"What's that?"
The head of the monitoring team approached Norman Lewis, then handed him the tablet.
"We've already got satellite imagery. The Maxwells were fighting in the town hall against foreign hunters" the man said, staring at the screen.
Norman watched the live satellite video. He then looked at Duncan, "Are these people The Destroyer's men?"
Duncan approached and watched the screen. He then shook his head, "Looks like it wasn't, dad. They usually wear masks."
"Who are they then? And where's The Destroyer?"
Norman then shifted the screen, moved the camera shots to the location of the Royal Hotel and he was shocked to see the hotel was now reduced to rubble.
While they were still confused, the head of the security team came to report.
"Master, there's important news" said the head of the team, glancing at the tablet screen.
He then asked for permission to approach, then spoke back while pointing at the screen.
"This.., they're lich, sir. They're monsters from the Dungeon."
"What?!"
After getting the reports from the two section heads in his Association, Norman finally learned of the situation that was happening.
Upon their arrival, the head of the public relations team again came and said that the news station wanted to buy the broadcast rights.
Knowing that Maxwell's surname would soar if local television broadcast how the family was trying to fight Dungeon Break, Norman was forced to reject the request, even though he knew that he had just rejected a very large amount of money from the purchase of broadcasting rights.
"Dad, isn't this a good opportunity? After they were exhausted after fighting against those monsters, how about we ambush that Maxwell family?"
Norman sniffed.
"Then, what's the point of us paying your guild mate?!"
Duncan fell silent.
"But, sir. I also got reports that hunters from the Superkraft guild are on standby outside the Dungeon Break area" said the head of the public relations team.
"Then, what's the problem?" asked Norman with a frown.
"Look, but this is just my assumption, sir..."
The head of the public relations team finally gave an assumption that was somehow exactly the same as Mark Friedl's idea.
Norman instantly exploded upon hearing the gaze from the head of the public relations team.
"So he's gonna drop me?!"
"That's just my thinking, sir."
Norman remained silent for a while.
"You have a point. Let's form a team to ambush them after they ambush the Maxwell family" Norman said, grinning widely.
In the end, the main hunter team that the Association had, went to be on standby outside the Dungeon Break gate region, on the opposite side to the hunter-hunters of the Supercraft guild.
With the advantage of being able to figure out the situation at the center of the Dungeon Break from the satellite broadcast, Norman felt that they would be able to subdue the Maxwell family and the Superkraft guild at once.
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In one of the areas near the gate of Dungeon Break, in the town hall, Cyntia was the only hunter that became the civil defense of the invasion of monsters.
Having previously toured around the area of one of the gates to finish off the monsters patrolling in search of whoever the humans are to kill, Cyntia and Brooklyn finally go to the town hall to save their family.
He was initially able to fight without difficulty to kill all the lichs that were piled up in the underground area of the city hall.
However, when the Mage lich and her two escorts come and fight, Cyntia finally starts to struggle while having to fight while protecting all the civilians trapped there to hide.
Especially when the Mage lich resurrected his dead army and the lich troops from other gates also began to arrive. Cyntia was finally completely overwhelmed.
There are 4 SS-rated lich and two SSS-ranked lich who now gang up on him, while he also has to focus on protecting a door to the bunker hallway where all the Maxwells and Cruz families are hiding, also dozens of civilians are on his left-right.
Cyntia who was already so exhausted after fighting it all out to prevent all the lichs, had finally almost reached her limit.
He had almost run out of Mana energy after using a lot of magic, but the Mage lich who had always turned on the army had completely overwhelmed him.
He had also tried to kill two Mage lichs, but his attacks had always been deflected by telekinesis magic.
"Gosh, am I going to die here?" cyntia murmured with a stupefied breath and a vision that had started to blur.