The First Hunter

Chapter 29. A+, Part III

Translator: Khan

Editor: RED

7.

Running through the mountainside, Kim Tae-hoon showed no hesitation. He completely avoided all the obstacles blocking his way, sometimes using them as stepping stones to run, and narrowed the distance to the Albino Goblin at once.

Keu-ung!

The Albino Goblin didn’t mind Kim’s approach. It was willing to welcome his approach with a shriek. Each minute the distance between the two quickly narrowed, and when the distance was about ten meters, Kim leaped.

Paat! Kim’s right arm was black as he jumped, and at the end spot of his movement was the huge head of the four-meter tall Albino Goblin.

It was blatant. So blatant that everyone watching the scene knew that Kim’s aim was not anywhere else but the head of the Albino Goblin.

The Albino Goblin, who was directly involved in the battle, was also aware of the fact.

Keu-ung! Of course, Albino Goblin counterattacked. It also punched at Kim. The fist of the Albino Goblin flew toward where Kim would be with all its might.

Boom! But it punched only the air.

Keu-ung? What caught the eyes of Albino Goblin emitting the questioning sound was the image of Kim, who had stopped still in the air. It was a temporary pause caused by Telekinesis!

Kim’s body, which stopped just like that, moved again after Albino Goblin swept its all-powerful punch through the air. His body flew once again to the head of Albino Goblin like a baseball hit by a bat.

Whack! The black fist stuck into Albino Goblin’s face. Kim’s fist was enough to shatter the sharp horn-like nose of the Albino Goblin, such that its face was completely crushed. Its nose was driven back into its face.

It was hard to believe, but it was a natural result for Kim. He had more than 500 stat points in Strength. Even if there were other Awakeners in the world who had higher stat points in Strength than Kim, the number would not exceed five.

In addition, his Energy rank was B+! No matter how much energy he had consumed in the Anger Soaring, the basic output was different. If talking about cars, the basic horsepower was different.

Added to this, was the Herculean Strength of Twin-head Ogre, the achieved power, which he had acquired after eating the monster stone of the Twin-head Ogre.

It was a great thing that its face was just crushed.

Koo-oong! Albino Goblin stumbled backward after such a powerful attack.

Krrr! But Albino Goblin, instead of a scream of terrified prey, threw out a cry full of anger. With that cry, it regained its balance, which had been about to collapse, after only a few backward steps.

Kh-uh-uh-uh! The Albino Goblin was back upright and threw out a shriek. It was the appearance of a real monster.

Kim ran towards the screaming Albino Goblin.

The Albino Goblin confirmed he was approaching, and first narrowed its distance to Kim, who was running on the ground this time. It was going to attack rather than wait!

Bang bang! The huge Albino Goblin’s right fist struck like a lightning bolt toward Kim on the ground.

Boom! The ground cried out after the Albino Goblin’s fist hit. However, that was all.

Kim was safe. No, he was not just safe. He stood next to Albino Goblin’s fist and stretched his left hand out toward the face of the Albino Goblin. This time it wasn’t a punch. He sprayed instead of punching it, and the spray was pouring out black, sticky stuff, covering its crushed face in the black liquid.

Chi-i-ik! A natural shriek came from the mouth of the Albino Goblin.

Boom! Boom! Bang, bang! At the same time, Albino Goblin was going mad. It swung its arms around unceasingly and slammed its feet on the ground. Its pain-filled indiscriminate struggle began. Along with the struggle, the stones and trees around the Albino Goblin were fluttering. It was evident that its Telekinesis was being freely exercised in its anger.

It was a typhoon-like struggle, and Kim increased the distance from the typhoon. Thud, Thud! As he increased the distance, he threw two grenades on the ground.

Ping, Ping! The fallen grenades stopped for a moment on the ground and then threw out their pins themselves. The grenades with the safety pins pulled up like fleas and settled on both shoulders of the Albino Goblin.

A moment later, the roar of the grenades shook the mountain.

‘It’s over.’ At the moment he heard the sound, Kim no longer thought of fighting hard against the Albino Goblin. It was because there was no more reason to fight hard.

‘It can’t use its Telekinesis anymore.’ The Albino Goblin would not be able to use its Telekinesis from now on.

That was his goal from the start: making the Albino Goblin’s Telekinesis useless!

‘For Telekinesis, the five senses and concentration of the user are more important than anything else. In other words, Telekinesis cannot use its power in situations where the five senses cannot do their job and concentration cannot be exercised.’

Kim knew that fact better than anyone else. So, he attacked Albino Goblin’s five senses in turn. He sprayed its eyes and nose, and the grenades made its hearing useless.

For the Albino Goblin, who could not see, could not smell, and could not hear, its Telekinesis was no longer a weapon. Of course, it might be possible if the Albino Goblin concentrated.

In the old days, Kim had moved the Sword of the Imperator using his Telekinesis inside the body of the Black Snake, when all five senses had been blocked.

However, the problem was that Kim did not intend to give Albino Goblin time to concentrate.

Whizz! The Arrow of Sun-sin showed up from its sheath.

Swish! At the same time, the Sword of the Imperator, which had not yet been seen, also appeared.

Not a fierce battle, but a one-sided killing began.

8.

The battle between the Albino Goblin and Kim was not short.

It took about 15 minutes. It was a battle that did not suit Kim’s character. He was not a person who played a game, and he did not welcome or enjoy the long battle. Nevertheless, the reason why the battle was longer was that he wanted to measure his own abilities.

Until now, Kim had no chance to check his abilities. His battle had been one of the two: like nothing, or intense.

Monsters under the orange grade were as nothing to Kim, while other monsters demanded the intensity of risking his life. And it was likely to be the same in the future.

In such a situation, the green-grade monster, the Albino Goblin, who lacked physical ability compared to the Twin-head Ogre, was a good subject to check his abilities.

Of course, there were other intentions. Kim wanted to show his abilities to the people who saw him. He tried to show his power, not a hunting dog that could be tamed with the little ability they had, and what kind of determination and preparation should be made if they wanted to make him an enemy.

When it was all over, Kim earned the price of his hunting success. With the Sword of the Imperator, he broke open the body of the Albino Goblin stained with blood and took the monster stone from its heart.

==[The Crystal of the Albino Goblin]

– Proficiency in Telekinesis is greatly increased.

– You can acquire the power of the Albino Goblin [The Telekinesis of a Mutant].==

‘I think this is the first time I’ve got a monster stone related to Telekinesis.’

Soon after, Kim put the monster stone from the Albino Goblin in his mouth. Gulp! Then, he carefully checked the back of his right hand after taking off his glove. At that moment, his eyes became bigger for the first time.

‘My rank of Telekinesis became A+.’

9.

Kieee! Kieee!

Cheonggye Mountain, a paradise for Goblins, was now a hell of Goblins.

The death of the king of Goblins, the Albino Goblin, who had made a heaven for the Goblins so far, had caused confusion. Mt. Cheonggye was in turmoil. It was an irresistible throb, which the power of an individual had nothing to do with.

Of course, everyone in Cheonggye Mountain moved to get out of there.

“Goddamn it, he is the crazy monster!”

The same was true of the twin brothers who visited Cheonggye Mountain. “No matter how many times I think about it, it’s a suicidal act if we deliver the letter to him right now.”

Ahn Joo-hyung, who was a member of the Ottuki Unit, also wanted to leave Cheonggye Mountain as soon as possible. “What are you going to do, man? Can you go after him now and deliver it? Or do you want to return to the Unit? Hey, Ahn Jae-hyung!”

The same was true of his younger brother, Ahn Jae-hyung. “Shut up! I’m thinking about it myself.”

They originally had a mission to deliver Lim Hyun-joon’s letter to Kim Tae-hoon, the leader of the Mac Guild!

“You don’t need to think about it, the moment that crazy monster has a grudge against us, we’re dead!”

It was a very important task. The evidence was that none other than Ahn Joo-hyung and Ahn Jae-hyung brothers were put onto this mission.

“But we have to do our duty.”

“Is the mission important? Life is important!”

“You know the circumstances of our Unit! I don’t have time.”

“That’s right. What, then? Let’s play rock-paper-scissors and let the loser deliver it alone.”

“Stop talking about playing rock-paper-scissors. We need to move together.”

But at this moment, they were not able to easily carry out their duties, as a man was in front of them now.

“Stop what you’re doing.”

“Huck!”

“Huck!”

The two brothers were horrified at the appearance of Kim. Being startled with their eyes opening wide, their surprised expressions clearly showed that the two were twin brothers. The expression of the two was identical

Kim stared at them. In fact, he had already felt the existence of the two. There was no way he could not feel it. Cheonggye Mountain was a world of the Goblin’s own, and the voices of people in that world were very different.

Although it was quite a far distance off, he could not avoid the two brothers’ conversations. Therefore, he had waited for the right time; when the situation was settled, he would track them down. And now he was in front of them.

Looking at the two brothers, he checked their left arms with a glance. ‘Colonel Lim Hyun-joon sent them.’

The Mark of the 8th Mechanized Infantry Division in khaki, the so-called Ottuki Unit Mark, came into his eyes. As soon as Kim saw the mark, he did not have to make the situation difficult or complicated.

“Take out what you have prepared for.”

There was no reason why the soldiers of the Ottuki Unit that had settled in Gangwon Province and the northern part of Gyeonggi Province would come over the Han River. They came to contact Kim.

It was not strange that they appeared, since Lieutenant Colonel Yoo had contacted Colonel Lim Hyun-joon earlier.

“This, this is a letter.” At the answer of Ahn Joo-hyung, Kim Tae-hoon reached out. Ahn Jae-hyung and Ahn Joo-hyung immediately put their hands into their arms, and after taking out the same letter, they put them in Kim’s hand at the same time. The same letter was doubled, and a natural measure to prepare for the loss that might happen.

“Uhhh!”

“Uhhh!”

Of course, this was not a natural sight for the two brothers who handed over the letter. They looked at each other in surprise. The two of them, with the same expression and the same face, looked at each other as if they were looking in a mirror.

Kim Tae-hoon laughed at the funny sight. It was a scene easy to laugh at. But that did not ease his tension.

‘They are able men, as they got here without a single injury.’

Unless Colonel Lim Hyun-joon was a fool, he would not have sent a person of little ability to contact Kim. Moreover, a person with little ability could never survive in the world. No matter how good a soldier was, if he was not an Awakener, he could not guarantee his life as soon as he encountered an orange-grade monster.

The contact with Kim was important. They should have confidence as well as ability. There was no reason to relax with them in front of him. Receiving two letters like that, he read the letter after opening one of the envelopes.

“Well… if you could just give me an answer…” Ahn Joo-hyung carefully said to Kim, who started reading the letter.

While reading the letter, Kim’s eyes turned to Ahn Joo-hyung.

“It was the Colonel’s request to hear the answer on the spot…” Ahn Joo-hyung spoke his words even under Kim’s gaze.

He carried out the mission which had been ordered to in front of the monstrous man, Kim Tae-hoon. He looked like an exemplar of a soldier.

“Tell Colonel Lim Hyun-joon, ‘If you don’t want to die, come to me.'” Kim was willing to answer the question. After the answer, he tore the letter in his hand apart, put the paper on his palm and blew it.

The letter paper was blown into ashes by the flame from Kim’s mouth.

10.

“Okay.” Jang Sung-hoon said to himself and he circled on the map of Korea. It was Daesan Town, Seosan City, South Chungcheong Province.

‘We have secured Songdo LNG base and Seosan oil stockpile base, so we will not have to worry about energy for the time being.’

It was one of the oil reserves in Korea. A little while ago, he received the news that the Mac Guild had secured the oil stockpile.

So the gaze of Jang headed to the area of Chungcheong Province below it.

‘We don’t have to worry about rice for a while.’ In addition, they searched the area of Chungcheong Province and found several warehouses that stored rice.

There was also a lot of good news.

‘We have secured a lot of proper farmland, so we can start farming in earnest.’

They secured farmland, and they were securing a labor force by collecting new survivors.

‘I only need to deal with the remains of the Messiah of Chungcheong Province.’

There was, of course, a problem. The Messiah handled by Kim, the remnants of the Messiah, had employed brutal force throughout the region of Chungcheong Province, and due to them, the entry and activities of the Mac Guild to Chungcheong Province were delayed.

However, Jang did not worry much about that part. “The boss, more like a monster than a monster, will take care of it. He is a terrific catcher of the Messiah.” The presence of Kim became a lamp that lightened Jang’s troubles.

‘Now I have a good-looking picture.’

And now Kim was becoming everyone’s hope.

Jang could see the steps rising to hope gradually, not the stairs falling into despair in the damn world where there was no end and no bottom. So, Jang was happy about this moment. “Well…”

‘At this point, the boss should have finished cleaning Cheonggye Mountain. Let’s check it out.’

With that joy, Jang opened his bag to take out Daedongyeojido. But his expression crumpled at that moment.

“Shit, at this time, you certainly throw ashes.”

Jang, a bitter taste in his mouth, saw the Golden Glass of Napoleon filled with red liquid!