Chapter 64
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 64
Chapter Title: Kang Hana's Exploits
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📜 NEW QUEST 📜
Quest 4-1. Ability-Skill Pregnancy Package
'Lee Soo-ah's successful SSS-grade ability birth is complete. More important than the pregnancy and birth itself is nurturing the ability to stably acquire it. On top of that, let's impregnate skills into 'Lee Soo-ah,' who has the ability but no skills yet, and build a perfect skill family born from SSS-grade sperm.
📍 Objective: Impregnate with skills within 30 days
🎁 Reward: 20P, Sperm Enhancement Item (S) x3
Having awakened to full SSS-grade ability, it felt a bit of a waste to bail now.
Since we're raising her anyway, why not impregnate skills at the same time and grow them together? Then her ability and skills could develop simultaneously, right?
⚙ Tip 14 ⚙
If both ability and skills are growing, SSS-grade semen will randomly distribute nutrients evenly to skills and abilities. However, with the 'Sperm Targeting' ability, you can precisely allocate nutrients to the desired ability. Additionally, 'Sperm Targeting' greatly increases the odds of hitting the desired ability or skill type during pregnancy and birth.
The answer was right there in the tip.
Sperm Targeting—that must be the ability from Quest 6, the one I'd get after knocking up Kang Hana.
Plus, this ability didn't just decide where to shoot nutrients; even without aiming for a specific grade during impregnation, it let you tweak the odds for desired ability types. Sounded pretty damn good.
If I'd had this for Lee Soo-ah, could I have picked her ability even more reliably?
Not that it didn't turn out exactly as I wanted anyway.
"Hmm. She'll show up soon enough. When she does, time for a little chat."
Either way, Lee Soo-ah and I were in symbiosis, but I held the upper hand.
She'd come to me begging to awaken fully, spilling everything, while I hadn't exactly advertised the perks I got from impregnating her.
Sell the magic stones for points, complete quests for abilities.
By nurturing her abilities and skills, I could reproduce them too—a true win-win symbiosis. But if I didn't spell it out, it looked like I was just volunteering talent donations for pay.
So, the plan was to sweet-talk her into getting what we both wanted, while making her grateful to me.
If there was a 4-1 quest, there had to be 4-2 and 4-3 too.
Above all, I loved Lee Soo-ah's ability.
Flame Sorcerer? Already picturing meteors crashing down, flames blanketing the world—pure romance.
Hunters were all about offense, after all.
So I waited, but Lee Soo-ah—who I'd figured would rush over any second—didn't show.
I wasn't worried or impatient, though.
"Guess her schedule's packed."
Even back when she was just ability-pregnant, I'd wondered if we'd run into each other in dungeons, but seeing her pop in and out so often, I'd thought, Top star, my ass?
Makes sense she'd take a breather now that she'd caught her breath.
For the first time in ages, I had some downtime with nothing going on.
"Oppa, I'm heading out."
"Be careful."
"Yeah... I'm backline support anyway, so it'll be fine."
Im Hyeji was joining Kang Hana for the massive push into the Namyang High area too.
I'd toyed with sneaking out for some magic stone farming, but with four S-grade monsters and over ten A-grades, it was a total non-starter.
Even slipping in post-battle would've been dicey—the scale was so huge, backlash could've hit way after.
Watching the hunters mobilize en masse, I just crashed for a nap.
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SSS-grade Hunter Hong Si-jun took point.
Wielding a massive greatsword.
Behind him came close-range SS-grade hunters and the rest.
Rear guarded by sturdy ranged hunters.
SSS-grade summoner Gyeo Yeon-su stood with her colossal summons and the mages.
The first and second lines, formations scouting ahead, weren't ideal against assassins.
Turn your back, and it all crumbled in an instant.
But today, Hong Si-jun chose this setup.
Simple reason.
It was fast.
Charge straight at one target, no need to watch all sides—superior area control.
And no worries about the rear.
"No flankers detected. Two S-grades approaching from front. One more... not visible. Estimated black mantis. Left flank, Party 3—hit non-target strike 10m ahead."
Live intel poured through the earpiece.
Today's battle leader wasn't Hong Si-jun.
It was the voice in their ears.
Kang Hana.
B-grade hunter.
But no one dismissed her as B-grade or disobeyed.
Hunter battles were as rigid and brutal as any army's.
One wrong order, and death danced on a knife's edge. In the heat, you might wonder, Is this right? But in these fights, you trusted and followed orders.
Even if it killed you.
Of course, they had an even bigger reason to trust without doubt.
Even if a bad call got them killed, they believed in that absurd skill: Resurrection.
No guarantee it'd be used on them, but if the order was wrong, she'd take responsibility and revive them. That blind faith.
Boom!
Unaligned strikes rained on the mark, as ordered.
Suddenly, from empty ground, a 2-meter walking mantis appeared.
"Black mantis!!"
"Haaah!"
Hong Si-jun charged and struck.
Others supported around him, ensuring it couldn't camouflage again.
"Two S-grades joining. Break formation and engage separately. Rear ranged, restrict incoming A-grade and below. Melee, sectionalize zones."
The voice in their ears commanded steadily, without a tremor.
Clear. Precise.
Hunters followed, and the battle swung in their favor.
Insanely dangerous fight.
Four S-grades, over ten A-grades, and four hundred-plus B-and-below trash mobs infesting the park.
But boxing out variables like this? Never a real threat to hunters.
With two SSS-grades and multiple SS-grades, their specs dominated. Heals landed perfectly.
Injured rotated out, fresh hunters filled in.
To keep the SSS-grades' stamina topped, hunters around Hong Si-jun aggroed black mantises without mercy.
S-grade fights without SSS backup got equal SS investment—clearance stayed brisk.
"All clear. Four A-grades left in radius, one S-grade hiding in park center. Advance."
Just cleanup now.
Tougher and higher-level than urban sweeps, yet hunters felt it was several times easier and safer.
No major casualties to the end. Post-clear, no surprise attacks from overlooked monsters—a risk often deadlier than the fight itself—thanks to Kang Hana's skill. Zero undetected mobs.
"Good work, everyone."
Took forever, though.
From Namyang High entrance to Namyang Sports Park's end.
Nearly a kilometer, sweeping monsters all the way.
Morning raid wrapped at dusk with withdrawal.
Roooar!
Cheers erupted.
Results-wise, not a fight to cheer over—just time-consuming. Many felt that way.
But they knew better. Seasoned survivors from brutal dungeons, low-rank vets—they grasped how grueling yet effortless today was.
"Hana's ability is this good?"
"Right? Wasn't she just advance scout? Real-time radius scan like that?"
"Insane. Too easy."
Timeless hunter truth.
'If a battle looks easy, the one who fought it did it masterfully.'
All agreed: today's MVP was Kang Hana, issuing orders in their ears.
And among those with mic access—Kang Hana and one other—Hong Si-jun finally keyed his after battle start.
"Good work. Perfect orders made it a safe clear. Prime talent—we'd love you in our party. Semi Guild's gain."
Praise upon praise.
Heading back, Hong Si-jun spoke to Kang Hana privately once more.
"For the rest of Hwaseong reclamation, could you handle main battle commands?"
The ultimate honor. The highest praise.