202. US Monster Extermination Request (6)
202. US Monster Extermination Request (6)
Shin Se-hee switched on Utopia's live broadcast.
—Finally here! My porn!!!
—Sobbbbb T_T
—The frozen world has started moving again......!
—I waited! I waited! I waited! I waited! I waited! I waited! Why now! Why now! Why now! Why now! Why now! Why now!
The chat window was reminiscent of an overheated festival.
Messages were flying by so fast the chat was lagging.
Every kind of emoticon and excited comment mixed together in chaos.
It was only natural.
The Utopia Channel hadn't uploaded any content at all since the Blue Crab Wave.
When the supply of feed was cut off in an instant like that,
people rewatched and triple-rewatched the old videos, boiled every last drop of marrow from the bones, even licked the empty bowls clean,
and swarmed like locusts over other hunters' videos too, devouring them through gritted teeth,
but there was a thirst there that could not be quenched.
BANG—!
A sonic boom burst in the air.
Jin Yu-ha stepped on shadows and moved over a sapiens's head in an instant.
—!?
The sharp-sensed bastard immediately raised its axe-wielding arm upward,
but Jin Yu-ha, eyes coldly composed, dodged its attack by merely tilting his head.
"Hup!"
THUNK!
The blade, held in a reverse grip, pierced through the bastard's skull and burst out through its jaw.
The sapiens's eyes spun round.
Its eyes rolled back instantly and it died on the spot.
Of course. No matter how tenaciously durable monsters are, if their brain is pierced, they die instantly.
"......51."
Jin Yu-ha verified that its life was completely extinguished, then murmured in a low voice.
—Whoa, listen to that voice....... Wrecking me for real.
— holy....
—Oppa, I'm dying.......
—Whoa crazy. Fucking insane lmaoooo
—What the hell is this? Why's he flying? Has he decided to just become an actual angel now?
—No, but isn't this like omni-directional mobility gear for killing giants lmaoooo
└ Unni, are you from another generation? Bringing up hundred-year-old anime is a bit much, don't you think?
└ Ma'am, the fact that you even know that already.......
Yes. This was it!
That sense of fulfillment you couldn't feel from any of the supposedly decent hunters out there!
A male hunter who's good at fighting? They exist.
A male hunter who's a Damage Dealer? Almost nonexistent, but they exist.
A hunter who satisfies both at the same time?
Extremely, extremely, extremely rare, but not completely absent from this world.
But once you add the element of visuals to that.
Honestly,
there wasn't a single one.
Except for Jin Yu-ha alone.
The sight of Jin Yu-ha gliding through the air, stepping on shadows and swinging his sword, was enough to rob viewers of their senses.
—Oppaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!
—This is it! This is what I'm talking about! This is what it's about!!!
—Ha, my eyes are cleansed, my eye candy! I've been waiting just for you!
—Every day I watched those other male hunters who suck ass. Looking at this guy, the class really is different....... With those other ones, it seriously looks like they're playing house.
—And they're ugly as shit too.
└ Isn't that, uh, a bit of an unfair comparison......? To compete with Jin Yu-ha, you'd have to bring in an actor or an idol.
└ 2222222222222222 But, I saw a comparison shot they put up with an idol before. Jin Yu-ha crushed it even then.......
Shin Se-hee watched the state of the chat room and smiled with satisfaction.
'As expected, Jin Yu-ha looks like a painting no matter what angle the camera captures.......'
As expected, he was a man worthy of wielding her.
This shining specialness had now revealed itself to the world,
and had become a gem that people craved first, everyone and their mother reaching out for it.
And yet, only a few of the people he himself had chosen were qualified to remain by his side.
'Hoho, that is precisely what Utopia is.'
Even if her mind wandered for just a moment, she felt like she would start gushing nonsense like the people in the chat room.
'......But this time, Jin Yu-ha's image isn't the only thing that matters.'
Shin Se-hee pulled herself together and thought.
Of course, Utopia's name was now known, at least by word of mouth, in other countries by now.
But this was the first time they were standing on a truly global stage like this.
For just making their name known, perhaps Jin Yu-ha's impact alone would have been enough.
But the place Shin Se-hee was looking at was higher than that.
'The genuine power players and authority figures somewhere out there who are watching this, who will see this.......'
She had to show them and prove it.
Not just that they were a heavily concept-driven party with one skilled male Damage Dealer,
but that in terms of both completeness and potential, they carried sufficient value.
And Shin Se-hee was confident.
Over the past week.
If this was the face of Utopia that had been confirmed through Instructor Baek Seol-hee's test,
they too would have no choice but to acknowledge it.
'Then, it's time to show the other party members, not just Jin Yu-ha.'
Shin Se-hee manipulated the drones.
Smoothly switching the screen.
—Huhhh? Wh-where is it going!
—Show us the dick!!!
└ [You have been banned from chatting for 10 minutes.]
—Se-heeSe-hee...... I'm turning dark, you see? Turning dark? For real? While I'm still asking nicely, turn the screen back, okay?
—Cheonhwa's lost her touch....... Completely lost it.......
As the screen that had been focused on Jin Yu-ha moved, complaints from furious viewers poured in, but Shin Se-hee silently switched the screen.
And the first thing she focused on was.
Ichika.
Blue hair and an expressionless face.
While the other combatants stepped on shadows to move around, her relaxed figure floated gently along, riding the shadows alone,
so otherworldly you could momentarily forget this was a combat situation.
Adding to that was the fact that she was a new figure never before seen in Utopia.
—Who's this???
—......What's she do?
—A new Utopia?
—Everyone else is playing a one-coin-clear RPG and she's over here playing a healing game......?
At that moment.
"Kieeeeeek!!!!!!!"
"Keeek!!"
A mob of sapiens, each brandishing its own weapon, charged toward Ichika.
But Ichika remained utterly still, just staring blankly ahead.
—Huh?
—Huh?
—Hey?
—She's in danger......!?
—Hey hey! Look in front of you! In front!!!
The chat window seemed flustered, warning of the danger in a single voice, but as if she could possibly hear.
SWOOSH!
The instant a long spear shaft shot toward her,
Ichika, as if she'd known all along, raised one hand smoothly without a change in her expression.
In response, the shadow that had been supporting her underfoot differentiated, shoving the sapiens away.
And the shadows and the sapiens began a bloody melee amongst themselves.
FWUMP!
The attack power and defense of each individual shadow didn't look especially strong.
Because whenever a sapiens exerted its monstrous strength and knocked them away, they scattered instantly.
But those shadows rose up endlessly, as if infinite.
CRUNCH!
CRACK!
CRUUUNCH!
They swarmed like a pack of dogs, clinging to the sapiens' bodies, biting and tearing all over and hanging on to break their joints.
"Kreeeek!"
"Keeeek!"
"Kreeaaak!"
The bastards soon died gruesome deaths amidst wretched screams.
But even in that situation, Ichika didn't even glance at those monsters.
—?
—??
—Whoa, sh.......
—Crazy. Utopia brought in another monster.......
—Nothing surprising. It's just Utopia doing Utopia things.
—No, where the hell do they keep picking these kids up one by one, it's fucking fascinating.
And people were soon able to notice.
That the shadows she manipulated were the same black objects Jin Yu-ha had been stepping on just moments ago.
Following that, the drone showed Kang Do-hee, Sofia, and Im Ga-eul in order, and finally Lee Yu-ri.
Right after all the members of Utopia had been shown one by one like that,
a post went up on the internet.
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《I'll neatly sum up the newbie who joined Utopia this time for you.》
First off, I'm a 10-year veteran, mid-tier, active-duty hunter in the Tank role.
If you don't believe me, I've posted verification,
so go check it.
Now, the main point.
A new figure suddenly joined Utopia.
Blue-haired woman.
Presumed to be a Special.
(Shin Se-hee, who was originally assumed to be the Special role, now seems permanently fixed as Strategist, the brains?)
She looked a bit blank and dopey, so I was seriously worried at first. <= But she's an absolute GOAT ability user.
She manipulates shadows.
And these have physical force, so the entire Utopia Party is stepping on them and flying through the air.
In other words, Utopia gained mobility.
Honestly? The widely known, if quietly talked-about, weakness of Utopia until now was large-scale group battles.
No one's gonna not know that Kang Do-hee and Jin Yu-ha hit hard.
And I know Sofia and Im Ga-eul have insane abilities, but the point is, they often end up in tough situations when there are multiple mob enemies.
So even when everyone was praising them for stopping the Blue Crab Wave at Haeundae,
frankly, it's established doctrine in the hunter world that if they'd had just one proper Special, the fight would've ended much more easily.
But, with that shadow appearing and wings sprouting on Utopia's feet, their attack range has expanded insanely, insanely, insanely much.
On top of that, the weak attack power commonly known as a Special's weakness?
That's not even a weakness for her.
You ask why?
Because it's not that blue-haired girl's attack power,
they're fighting with Jin Yu-ha and Kang Do-hee's attack power.
So, in other words. The Special they scouted this time, just think of her as a missile launcher that fires Jin Yu-ha and Kang Do-hee as the shells.
......Ah, and one last thing I want to say.
It's a bit awkward to brag with my own mouth, but I'm a chick who's pretty damn good in the Tank role, you see?
So honestly, I was seeing Lee Yu-ri slowly struggling in that position, and I'd been eyeing the spot, timing my chance.
......But, fuck. What the hell did that bitch even eat? A person just changed in a single moment.
Ha....... That new Special is one thing, sure.
But from my perspective, Lee Yu-ri is the one who's truly crazy.
If there are any aspiring Tanks reading this,
make sure you watch the Lee Yu-ri video trending right now.
Watch it twice.
Because that one is a goddamn insane bitch.
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—Good summary. Upvoted.
—Upvoted.
—Upvoted.
—Upvote for the effort.
—Whoa but seriously, that girl is crazy. She just auto-hunts with shadows and a totally spaced-out face, and I'm a Damage Dealer, it gives me relative deprivation.
—I'm an aspiring Tank aiming for Velvet Academy, do I really have to watch the Lee Yu-ri video......? Honestly, apart from the Taunt, she's too ordinary.......
└ OP) Just watch it if I tell you to watch it, you dipshit.
