Chapter 86
Chapter 86
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Translator: Vine
Chapter: 86
Chapter Title: Sun vs Moon (3)
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Hunter Forum.
Korea's largest community where the vast majority of hunters shared all sorts of information.
One day, a live broadcast suddenly popped up there.
「Passion Han Live!」
「Skeletons that somehow don't seem like skeletons at all in battle.」
「Live right now. You'll regret being late.」
「Viewers: 124」
Only those officially certified as reporters by the Korean Hunter Association could post on this broadcast board.
That made it easy for it to appear at the top in the early stages.
In the upper left corner of the broadcast screen.
A red dot blinked, indicating it was live.
“Hoo! Hoo! Hello!”
A reporter with his face caked in dirt filmed himself.
“For your right to know, this is Passion Han from HBS, working even on weekends! Heh, hek!”
The prefix “Passion” attached to Reporter Han in front of him was the keyword he’d been pushing lately.
He preferred running around on foot and broadcasting directly himself.
Rather than editing secondhand info into articles and uploading them.
└ Oh, what brings you here on the weekend?
└ Heeeey~ Reporter Han! Got another scoop today?
└ But why do you look so beat? What’s with all the dirt on your face?
These days, reporters’ live broadcasts.
Interacted with viewers like this.
Especially since Reporter Han was a pretty well-known one.
Viewers poured in the moment he went live.
“Heh heh, come on in quick! You won’t be disappointed today. I’m really risking my life here. Hear that ground shaking?”
Rumble……
Boom! Boom!
Explosions like dynamite going off.
The camera even shook intermittently.
└ Crazy, is there a war going on or what?
└ Check the title. What does “skeletons that don’t seem like skeletons” even mean?
└ Quit stalling and show us already! I’m dying of curiosity!
└ Not another ranker fight, right?
└ Kim~ Soo-han-mu~ Turtle and crane~ Three thousand armor Dongbang Sak~
From viewers reacting to Reporter Han’s dire state.
To those spouting random nonsense.
Reporter Han waited patiently anyway.
The best scenes always hit hardest all at once.
「Viewers: 532」
….
「Viewers: 1,052」
….
「Viewers: 1,335」
Viewers easily broke 1,000.
A testament to the massive floating population on the Hunter Forum!
Reporter Han swallowed hard.
‘Sometimes I wonder if I’m a reporter or a streamer….’
Well, what could he do.
Reporters had to adapt to the changing times too.
‘Besides.’
Those things.
The two entities tearing up the clearing ahead.
How could he keep a fantastical battle like that to himself?
That’s why he loved this job.
He could deliver these rare sights in HD to viewers holed up at home.
“Alright, here we go. Truth be told, I’m a bit scared myself. If I die filming this, you’ll come to my funeral, right?”
└ Huh?
└ That serious?
└ Lol just show us! We’ll judge after.
└ If it’s nothing special, I’m done with HBS.
└ Haha, Reporter Han. Always working hard~ Great info as always. Fingers crossed.
He glanced at the accelerating chat, then steadied himself.
Good thing the clearing was in a low-lying area.
It gave the perfect angle from the ridgeline.
Thud! Thud!
He drove the tripod deep into the ground again, then swung the camera around.
“Take a look, everyone!”
And there.
The source of the explosions appeared starkly on screen.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
A spear-wielding skeleton thrusting endlessly, sunlight flashing off it.
And.
Swish! Swish!
A skeleton archer dodging every attack, firing arrows in between.
Boom! Booooom!
Everywhere they passed turned to wreckage.
Massive trees shredded by the dozens, rocks pulverized to sand-level firepower.
“Do they really look like skeletons to you?”
└ ???
└ What the?
└ What is that?
└ ??
The chat flooded with question marks in an instant.
The firepower was shocking, sure.
But the real bombshell was that they were all skeletons.
What kind of monsters were skeletons!
They ranked at the absolute bottom of E-grade.
└ CG? What skeletons move like that? Each one’s like an A- or S-rank hunter.
└ That make any sense?
└ The skeletons I know from necromancers were total trash mobs.
└ Whoa, insane. If this is real, isn’t Reporter Han in real danger?
└ I’m shivering just watching.
Each flash from the spear unleashed energy like lightning, gouging the earth.
Arrows infused with moonlight carpet-bombed with sonic booms on impact.
“I was shocked too. Never imagined a battle like this on some deserted mountain path…”
Reporter Han kept the camera moving nonstop, staring blankly at the fight.
The skeletons were insanely fast—miss a beat, and he’d lose the money shots.
“Hek, hek! Reporter Han. Come on, let’s go together… What the…!”
Reporter Kim, following behind, panted but went quiet.
He’d seen the battle too.
The timid one crouched low, staring at Reporter Han with trembling eyes.
“Wha, what the hell is that?”
“Shh, quiet. We’re live.”
“Crazy… bastard.”
Ignoring Reporter Kim, Reporter Han glanced at the viewer count.
「Viewers: 24,377」
‘Jackpot.’
This was jackpot of jackpots.
Enough for a bonus and paid leave from HBS.
The chat firepower matched the surging viewers.
└ Whoa, they don’t even move like skeletons. Look—feels like they’ve got real muscles.
└ Forget that, what’s with the arrows? How’s it firing without nocking?
└ Fires before your eyes register it. Clip it later and slow-mo.
└ Insane, that possible? Goosebumps.
From those dissecting every move.
└ Guys, I’m an A-rank hunter specced in spear arts… That skeleton’s legit nuts.
└ Why?
└ Comprehension’s off the charts.
└ Comprehension?
└ Spears are long, so thrusting’s your only real edge usually? Footwork gets messy. But look. Two-hand, overhand, underhand. Switching mastery’s insane. Footwork fluid, even blocks arrows with guard.
└ What’s that mean…? Explain simply.
└ Put simply: S-rank hunter. Or Spear King level at least.
└ Too far, man. Spear King’s world rank 10, you nut. You’re the crazy one, not the skeleton.
└ For real though…;; Obviously power-wise he’d lose to Spear King, but pure comprehension.
Even spear experts singing praises.
There was good reason people were hooked.
Battles like this were incredibly rare.
Rankers usually hated their fight footage leaking.
Plus, with their vested interests, they rarely fought each other.
That’s why the recent Berserker terror incident drew so much attention.
“Everyone. The fight’s one thing, but check that out too!”
That’s when Reporter Han briefly panned the camera.
A woman munching popcorn and cola.
A man watching the battle with a serious expression.
└ ???
└ What?
└ Popcorn there? Does she have ten hearts or what?
Especially.
Crunch crunch.
Kim Jin-ah popping popcorn in focus looked downright eerie.
└ Oh?
With so many viewers.
Someone naturally recognized her.
└ I know her!
└ ???
└ Who?
└ Her…! Oh yeah…! That’s her! The star from [Weird Workshops of Go-to-Mall]! Demir Workshop, right?
└ Oh? Yeah! The one who builds houses and weapons with skeletons?
└ Shit, wasn’t he the guy who made an S-rank weapon recently!?
└ Crazy, isn’t he a producer?
Chats exploded one after another.
Everyone was stunned.
No one knew the summons of the production-only Demir Workshop packed this much punch.
“Ah….”
Reporter Han’s jaw dropped.
He’d heard of it before, but in the chaos, it hadn’t clicked.
“H-Hey, Reporter Han.”
Reporter Kim spoke up from beside him.
“Yeah?”
“Looks like the fight’s almost over?”
“What?”
Reporter Han whipped the camera back to the battle.
Ranged couldn’t withstand close quarters in the end.
Both battered to bone shards in a brutal clash.
But was there no such thing as a draw?
Thud!
“Good fight, Eldrin.”
With a heavy bass voice.
The sun spear finally pierced Eldrin’s neck.
“…….”
Eldrin dropped his bow with a regretful air.
Losers stayed silent.
Clatter! Bones spilled to the ground.
A razor-thin win for the spear.
└ Nice.
└ Insane, felt like a whole movie in that short time.
└ Already clipped it.
└ Scary good skills both.
└ Fr real, first time seeing a bow like that, spear was nuts too.
└ I’m a fan now. He’s the necromancer, right? Got a title? Gotta be S-rank hunter at least?
The chat went wild.
Nonstop [Amazing!] spam, chat flying.
As Reporter Han beamed at the scene.
“Hey.”
A man’s voice slammed into his ear.
Appeared behind him without a sound.
“……?”
What the—? He turned.
Reporter Kim was already frozen stiff.
Sweating bullets like he’d seen a ghost too ugly to behold.
‘What the hell?’
That moment, Reporter Han’s heart sank too.
Chills ran up his spine.
Filming high-rankers’ training or fights was taboo.
Screw up, and you’d vanish without a trace—this was the hunter world!
And he’d.
Gone beyond filming—straight to live broadcast.
‘I just… saw two skeletons fighting and thought I’d record it….’
Ah.
Should he have cut the stream when he spotted the Demir Workshop owner?
Fine, he admitted it.
Couldn’t bring himself to stop with the viewer greed.
Lost to desire.
“Hah, still people out there brazenly filming without permission?”
“S-Sorry…….”
Reporter Han jumped up, turned, and tried to apologize.
But he froze like Reporter Kim.
“Gu, Gu…….”
A man covered head to toe in muscle.
The mad dog who’d grind up people, companies, or rankers if they displeased him.
“Berserker……?”
The one behind him.
World rank 20.
Berserker Jang Dae-woong.