3rd POV
In a big mansion-sized pent house inside cube, in the bedroom, Hajin and Rachel could be seen sleeping while Evandel was in between them. Both of them had their hands on top of Evandel as if to protect her while she was sleeping. They looked cute from the outside, but only some know that they were the strongest existences in the universe, and part of the strongest family in existence.
Suddenly, the alarm clock rang and weakend their state of sleep, slowly waking them up.
Hajin slowly opened his eyes, sat up, his vision still hazy as he looked around him and saw Rachel and Evandel sleeping soundly, although, Rachel's eyes were twitching, she was also slowly waking up.
He just observed this scene for some time and layed on the bed again as he cuddled with Evandel and Rachel.
After a few minutes, Rachel also opened her eyes and looked around, stopping at Hajin. Her vision was still hazy, but she could still tell that the one in front of her was Hajin.
"Good morning, Rachel~" He said as he moved his head forward and lightly kissed her on the lips.
"... !" She finally regained her consciosness as she felt something soft on her lips. After their lips departed, she blushed and aburtly turned her head to the side to hide her embarrassed face.
"G-good morning... "
Hajin lightly chuckled.
"Maybe I should do this everyday..." He said while holding his chin, acting like he was thinking something very important, to which Rachel's blush turned deeper.
"Haha, just kidding~" He said and laughed lightly at the end.
"... I don't mind..." She said in a really low voice, but Hajin heard her remark loud and clear due to his super senses.
"..." Now even he was taken off guard. Still, he didn't turn his face and kept staring at Rachel.
"I'm gonna go prepare breakfast... !"
In the end, Rachel gave up as she stood up from the bed and ran to the kitchen.
Hajin just stared at her back as she left and than turned his gaze to Evandel, who was now moving her arm in her sleep as if trying to find someone, probably Rachel, turned sides for a few times and than hugged Hajin.
He smiled and patted her head. He waited for a moment so she could fall asleep again, than slowly got up and placed a body pillow in his place as he took slow steps and left the room, but left the door open so Evandel won't feel scared if she suddenly woke up.
He went to the washroom, washed his face and brushed his teeth and than went to the kitchen where he saw Rachel cooking something on the stove.
He slowly came from behind with gentle steps and hugged her.
"Sorry..."
"..."
"Sorry!" He apologized again seeing that Rachel was silent.
"..." She still remained silent.
"... Are you mad?" He asked hesitantly.
"... N-no, I-I was just taken by surprise. It's just... embarrassing..." She finaly spoke
"Does that mean I shouldn't do it again... ?" He asked.
"I don't particularly mind... just... don't do it so suddenly."
"Okay!" He said as the smile returned to his face and his hug became stronger, though, that didn't annoy Rachel in the slightest. In fact, she was rather happy that he was being so open, otherwise it would have been awkward between them, at least that's what she thought so.
Hajin remained in that position for some time as Rachel continued cooking. After a while, he backed away and began helping her in any way he could, like cutting some vegetables or setting utensils on the table while she continued to cook.
They began hearing small footsteps as Evandel came to the kitchen upon hearing the various sounds produced by the setting up of utensils or something being washed under the tap.
"Good morning... " She sleepily said while rubbing her eyes, which indicated that she had just woken up.
"Good morning~" Rachel said while smiling at the little angel and than continued what she was doing.
"Good moring, sweetheart~" Hajin replied.
"Go wash your face and brush your teeth, breakfast would be ready in a five minutes." Rachel said.
"Okey..." Evandel slowly made her way to the washroom.
After that, they had breakfast as they chatted with smiles on their faces. Evandel was the first to finish her breakfast as she went to the living room and turned the TV on. Hajin finished his part soon as well.
He stood up and emptied the table of the utensils and put them in their places. They were also magically infused, so they could be cleaned up just by passing mana through them. Whatever remained in the plate was turned into mana particles, even the bacteria was not spared. The plates were now shining as if they were just newly bought.
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Breakfast was finished. The family was in the living room sitting on the couch. Evandel was watching TV while Hajin and Rachel were simply talking about different things.
"Oh, that reminds me, Ev" He called out to Evandel, who turned her face towards him when she heard him call her name.
"I'll be going monster hunting in a few minutes, do you want to come?" He asked.
"... Monsters?"
"Oh, right, you don't know. They're evil creatures who harm others and cause chaos. So, we, the good guys, hunt them so them so they won't cause trouble." Hajin briefly explained what monsters were in children's terms.
"Than I wanna go too!" She said. Hajin than looked at Rachel, who also noded in agreement.
"I don't mind going too." She said.
"Okay than, we'll be going after Ev finishes her TV show. Why don't you get ready by than?
"Hmm, But I don't understand why we need to prepare for something... It's not like we're going shopping, so is there a special need?" She asked while tilting her head.
Monsters were supposed to be hunted, but there was nothing really fancy in it. You would just be slaying monsters, and their blood would spit on your clothes. So wearing some fancy clothes was just a waste of money.
"You're right. But we can go shopping later if you want. Anyways, just get ready, I aready have something to fix that problem. I'm sure you'll like it."
"Okay." She said as she left the living room and got ready. After a few minutes, she returned.
She was wearing a white dress that had blue outlines, and white-blue ribbons and laces in different places. She looked absolutely beautiful.
"..." He was staring at Rachel as soon as she entered, to which Rachel blushed and asked.
"Do I look good... ?" She asked, a little anxious, waiting for Hajin's response.
"Very." He replied instantly without any hesitation as he approached Rachel and hugged her, to which she was taken aback at first but accepted it hapily, returning the embrace.
After a few seconds, Hajin let her go and asked, "Now, let's get your battle suit."
"... ?" She tilted her head. What did Hajin meant by that?
"Just come with me." He said as he grabbed her hand and exited the living room.
They went to a room besides the garage. Upon entering, Rachel was mesmerized by the sight in front of her.
She walked and looked around at the many battle suits clothed on mannequens. There were various types of suits from light suits that focused on agility to entire high-tech battle suits. But all the battle suits were inside glass boxes that were see-through, however, there was a ring, bracelet or some other form of accessory placed on a platform attached to each box.
"These are all suits for us when we go hunting monsters or to a battle if it happens. This is only the low-level area so the battle sets here are only for fighting monsters that belong to this planet." He explained.
Hajin had created this room when he was refurbishing the mansion when they just arrived. However, in truth, most of it was done by [The Creator] .
She went towards one of suits with slow steps, it was as if she was attracted towards it by an unknown force. She didn't knew why she was walking towards it.
"Oh, do you want that one?" He asked. However, he was a little surprised at something.
"Yes." She replied with a short answer, her eyes still on the suit.
"... I guess HE was right, it really was made specially for you to support your battle style and personality. Okay than."
He walked towards her and took the ring that was placed on the glass platform.
"Give me your hand." He said, to which Rachel extended her hand as he took it in his hands.He fitted the ring on her left hand's ring, to which she blushed a little but stayed silent.
"Okay. Now, whenever you want to equip the suit, just think of it while focusing your mana on this ring, it will insta-change you into the selected suit. It covers the suit that one is already wearing by the battle suit, so you don't need to worry about doing it in public either.
"Oh, okay."
After that, they returned to the living room and took Evandel, after which they exited the house and got into the car. Evandel didn't need to get ready as she could form a dress or suit out of her spirit power or mana.
As before, they used a portal to get out of cube directly on the road and drove to a specific place. During the ride, Evandel was enjoying herself fully with the various types of cars and vehicles outside on the road, but it was obvious that their car stood out the most. People thought that some rich person was coming, so they would turn their cars to the side to give space, so Hajin didn't really had to slow down while he was driving.
-- SH Agency -- Main Branch Building --
A very flashy car drove by the enterance door and stopped in front of the guards. One of them came near the window and stood there to take the person's indentity, but as soon as the window opened, he was taken aback and instantly bowed his head and greeted the man.
"Kim Hajin-nim!!" When the other guard heard that, he hurriedly opened the enterance door and the car drove inside while both of them said from behind, "We hope you have a good visit!"
The car stopped at what looked like a parking lot, a lot of cars were parked, but most of them were battle-vehicles or alike. They probably belonged to the hunters and heroes that worked here. Of course, these were not all of them as most of the vehicles were parked inside the building's garage.
The three of them got out and walked towards the inner enternace. They entered the building and were greeted by a sight of customers and new hunters talking to the employees on different topics, some were talking about their registrations while some were talking about other things.
They were all focused on their own things, so surprisingly, no one noticed them entering except the guards.
Hajin and Rachel, with Evandel in their hands, walked to the employee lady, the same one that was present when Hajin came to visit yesterday.
It seemed that she was not fired, but she was acting a lot more strict and active. Probably her salary was reduced as a punishment.
Employee Lady's POV
Everything is going well since I joined this agency, or at least, it was going well till yesterday, but it all happened when a seemingly normal looking man came. He was in a hurry, and asked if he could be arranged a meeting with the boss.
Obviously, I declined. He asked again if the head manager was even here, but I didn't answer his question and asked him to leave, but that was the worst decision of my life!
Turns out, he was a big-shot in the agency, or well, the "biggest-shot", the person with the most investments to the agency. He was supposedly close with the manager, or so that was what it seemed from the way the head manager was acting.
I even got my salary halved because of that! Ugh! Why did it had to happen when everything was going well?!
Now, I was sitting on the counter, answering the requests of various customers. The door opened and someone came in, probably another normal customer. I shot a glance at who entered through the corner of my eyes and turned back, but instantly turned my face again.
'What is he doing here now?!?!' The same man before was here. According to the boss, his name was Kim Hajin and he was... a cube cadet...
'But how can a cadet that I haven't heard of before have so much money that he's the biggest investor?! Boss even told us about his recent invesment yesterday... 2 billion won! How can a cadet have that much money?!'
He seemed to notice me staring at him, and started walking towards me. It was then that I noticed the people besides him...
'Blone hair, blue eyes and that face... there's no doubt! She's the reknown princess of England!'
'Does that mean Hajin is getting the support of England? Or more preferably, the English Royal Court? That could explain the high amount of money he invested... but I don't understand... The English Royal Court already has invested in us directly, if they wanted, they could just invest the rest of the money directly as well, so why through a cadet... ? Unless... unless that money was his own?!'
'Wait... is that...' My gaze shifted to the child that was holding Kim Hajin and the princess' hands.
She had blone hair and blue saphire blue eyes, she looked exactly like the princess...
'She looks to be around 4 or 5, but the princess doesn't have any siblings... and it's not possible to hide a royalty in this age of the internet...'
'Does that mean... No... that's not possible. The princess would have had to to give birth at the age of 13, but that would be impossible since she remained either at the Military Training School or her home, and Kim Hajin was a nobody that no one knew at that time, so the girl can't be a biological child either...'
'But they look so much alike... ! sigh! This is confusing! Let's just forget about it...'
I thought that the best possible option for now would be to ignore it as there's no benifit for me to look into that.
They approached the counter and Kim Hajin asked me exactly what I had thought he would.
POV End
3rd POV
Two people approached the counter. Both looked to be around 18, they also had a child with them that seemed to be around 5.
The boy was wearing a laced-jacket, beneath which was a white shirt, and black pants. The boy could be said to be handsome, not the most handsome out there, but still average. But the clothes looked quite expensive. On first glance, he looked to be an experienced and famous hero, but no one knew who he was.
The girl was wearing a white dress with blue laces. At first glance, one would think of her as a celebrity or a person of high ranking. She was also very beautiful
The child that was walking while holding their hands looked almost exactly liked the girl. She looked like a child model, and was getting a lot of curious glances towards her.
[A/N : Images are not mine]
She was also wearing a white dress but with red and blue designs on top.
Some had recognized the boy as Kim Hajin, cube's first ranking cadet. But the amount of people who did were low. On the other hand, almost everyone recognized the girl as the Princess of England, Rachel Elizabeth Louise, and also the second ranking cadet in cube.
However, no one could recognize the child. There were some talks and gossips about her, but they were shut down by a single glance from Hajin.
The three of them made their way towards the counter, ignoring the waiting line, however, no one dared to stop them. This was not because of their identities, but because of the powerful aura they had around themselves.
Even the child had a fearsome aura that was covering her whole body!
"I'd like to meet Soohyuk-ssi, please arange a meeting for us." Hajin said to the counter lady.
Everyone expected the lady to decline them seeing that she did the same with everyone else that demanded special treatment, but to their surprise, the lady submissively followed and called someone through the phone.
A few seconds later, a man dressed in black came and accompanied the trio further inside the building.
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Hajin, Rachel and Evandel stood in front of the meeting room's door. The guard had asked them to wait here as he went inside, probably to arrange somethings.
After a few seconds, the door was opened by the guard, "Please come in." He said.
They entered the room and were greeted by a big vertical table. At one vertical end, Soohyuk was sitting, his attention towards them as they entered the room and sat on the chairs.
"Good to see you doing well, Hajin-ssi."
"Mm." He noded and sat on one of the chairs at the other vertical side, opposite and in front of Soohyuk.
"And you must be..." He said while looking at Rachel and Evandel. Probably, he had already guessed who Rachel was but still asked out of respect and manners of a meeting.
"Rachel." She said as she walked towards the other chair besides Hajin and sat on it.
"My name is Evandel!" Evandel told him, as always, her voice was filled with the enthusiasm of a child. She sat on Hajin's laps as there was no other chair besides him.
"Nice to meet you than, Rachel-ssi and Evandel." He greeted them both, but didn't add "ssi" at the end of Evandel's name, probably because the age gap was too much. And they didn't know each other, so no nicknames either.
The reason Hajin didn't try to disguise Evandel's appearance was simply, they had both decided to reveal Evandel to the world during the ceremoney at England, which was actually the day after tomorrow. So, it didn't matter if rumors spread as everything would be revealed in 2 days anyway.
"So, Hajin-ssi, I assume you came here today for our usual monster hunt?" He asked. Today was sunday, and although they didn't do it the last two sundays because of Hajin's shedule, the fact that they went hunting on sunday didn't change.
"Indeed." He noded his head in affirmation.
"Than... I assume that these young ladies would be accompanying us as well?"
"Yes." Rachel affirmed.
"Yes!" Evandel said as well.
"Very well than, let's go straight into the hunting fields. I'm sure you would have other things to do as well. Oh, and since the young miss is accompanying us, would Hajin-ssi like to deploy extra guards for her safety? Or maybe a protective gear?" He asked while pointing at Evandel.
"No, we're already prepared. And we don't need any gear or armour either, let's just go straight ahead."
"Very well." Soohyuk said as he stood up from his seat and went towards the door. Hajin and Rachel followed as well along with Evandel.
As the exited the room, the guard closed the door and followed them from behind, ensuring that no one approached them as they exited the building. Meanwhile Soohyuk went towards the garage saying that they should wait outside for some time.
After the existed the building, they waited for a few seconds before an SUV stopped in front of them as they herd Soohyuk's voice, "Get in!" He yelled.
They followed and got inside the SUV. After that, the SUV exited the outside enterance and drove towards the hunting grounds as a few more SUVs followed them from behind. They probably had hunters that would come with them to ensure that nothing went wrong, and maybe hunt some monsters here and there as well if they got the change.
After a few minutes of driving, they reached the hunting field. The parking lot outside was almost filled with various vehicles that belonged to hunters of other guilds and agencies. Soohyuk.
They didn't park the cars and went straight inside the field as there was no need to part them. They were already full of hunters, and only one or two SUVs couldn't find all the hunters either.
"Soohyuk-sii, let's go to this location this time." Hajin said as he showed him the location through the map in his smartwatch.
"Hm, is this perhaps on of those special places that we usually visit?" He asked. Normally, they would go to places that had a lot of monsters but were surprisingly almost empty. This was because almost no one knew of these locations, and if some did, they didn't dare to share it so that they could monopolize it for themselves, which was what SH Agency was doing with the locations Hajin provided them with. And all of them turned out to be the best of the best.
"Okay than." He said as he set the location pointer on the map in the car. After a few minutes of further driving, they reached the spot. Their SUV stopped, in response to which all the SUVs that were behind them stopped as well. Soon, hunters started coming out of them one after another.
In just a few seconds, all the hunters and mercenaries were standing outside the vehicles in a group formation. Their number equaled to a total of 69.
After that, through Soohyuk, Hajin assigned them into groups and sent them to different locations. After that was done, only 6 hunters remained, which were to follow them in their hunt for security, just in case something bad happened.
Hajin told them to follow him as the trio along with Soohyuk went towards what seemed to be a lake. After some walking, they reached a cave which from the outside, seemed to be a close cave.
"Why did we stop, Hajin-ssi?" Soohyuk asked. He couldn't understnad why they would stop in front of an ordinary cave where there weren't even low-level monsters around. The other groups would have probably already hunted a few monsters by now, but here they were, just walking to who knows where.
"This cave is a dungeoun, a high ranking one at that. But no one ever entered it since it looked like a normal closed cave from the outside. And its location was also quite well hidden.
"Oh..." He muttered something in his mouth and than turned to the hunters that were behind him.
"Listen here, this cave in front is a high-level dungeoun. We'll be the first ones to clear it. Is everyone ready?!" He asked.
"Yes!" They all said in unison.
Hajin entered the dungeoun and everyone else followed him from behind while Evandel was sitting on his shoulders for safety reasons.
On the way inside the dungeoun, most of the monsters inside were taken care of by Rachel, who oblitrated by her mana-infused sword. Of course, she wasn't using pure nihility and was only infusing a little amount of it with her mana through the guidance of the system.
Meanwhile, the flying or long-ranged type monsters were taken care of Hajin, who could just kill them in a single shot every time, which surprised the hunters a lot since it was their first time accompanying Hajin.
The low-level monsters that remained or somehow escaped were killed by the hunters, who, even though focused on Hajin and Rachel, were still handling the monsters quite well.
Of course, it was very easy as the only monsters they got were low level as the mid or high level ones were taken cared of by Hajin or Rachel.
And from time to time, even the child sitting on Hajin's shoulders, Evandel, would throw balls of mana towards the monsters. Although, every time she did that, it caused mass destruction as the balls of mana were infused with nothingness. But since it was only lower level nothingness, the cave had survived from being destroyed. The rocks that fell to the ground because of the explosions caused by Evandel would be handled by Hajin, who would simply delete them by looking at them while infusing his eyes with mana.
Yes, even his gaze could erase something or someone if he wanted!
'The entire family is made of absolute monsters!' The hunters thought in their minds. To them, all three of these people were monsters. Heck, even the child was a monster in human disguise!
Even thought the hunters fought the remaining monsters, they never got a chance to show their skills as the stronger monsters would be taken cared of by either Hajin or Rachel, all they were left with were low-level ones.
Althought, even the low-level ones were only low-levelled according to this dungeoun's standard, otherwise, they were mid to high level like hobgoblin warriors, elemental monsters etc.
Hajin took care of the monsters far away, which included high-leveled elemental kings, Hobgoblin magicians, Liches etc.
Rachel meanwhile took care of monsters like high-level goblin warriors, salamangers, goblin generals etc.
It seemed like this dungeoun was not focused on a specific type of monsters, as the monsters that they encountered so far were all-rounded and of many types.
In just a few minutes, they reached the mid-boss area. Still, they waited outside to confirm that everyone was there and ready.
The mid boss was a max-leveled goblin lord. There were all sorts of weapons on his back, from sword, axe, hammer to even weapons like bows and wips. It looked like the mid-boss was an all-rounder.
"I think we should stop here." One of the hunters suggested.
"Yeah, even if there are 8 of us excluding Soohyuk-nim, only this amount against such a strong monster is difficult. Even if you guys are strong, everyone has their limits." Another hunted backed up. He meant the last words of Hajin and Rachel.
The hunters thought that even if they were strong, they were still cadets. They probably had a strong set of skills, but that alone won't be enough as the skills would most likely have cooldown times. And there was a limit to what a cadet could face, or so they thought.
"Hm, you guys can stop here. We don't have any problem continuing." He said as he looked at Rachel, who noded in affirmation, indicating that she had no problem.
In fact, she actually wanted to know her current limit. Even if she had endless energy or an overpowered gift, there was a mental limit to how much someone could keep fighting. She wanted to know what that limit was for her, so that in more crucial battles later, she could proceed with the best options.
"Hey! Even if you're powerful, you're still a cadet. Don't push yourselft too hard or try to flex your powers, hunting monsters is dangerous!" Another hunter said, the others just looked at him. 2 others agreed with him, actually, all did, but most of them didn't have the courage to speak that aloud.
"Yeah! don't think you're some po--" Another one wanted to say something, but was interupted by Hajin.
"Soohyuk-ssi." He called out to Soohyuk, who was silently observing their interaction.
As someone who had already accompanyed Hajin before, he knew how powerful he was. But this time, even he thought that this was too much. Even if powerful, as a cadet, he was theorized to be equal to an intermediate level hunter, but the boss's level was higher than that. Thus, even he couldn't help but be worried.
"..." He stared at Hajin for some seconds, who in response also kept silence, his eyes on Soohyuk, waiting for his response.
"*sigh* fine. But promise me you'll come back safe and sound. Retreat if you think it's dangerous. Even though your powerful, there's still a limit. And I'm worried about that limit." Soohyuk said.
"Don't worry about that, this will be over before you know it. Just get your bags ready for the drops~" Hajin said as he made his way towards the area enternace.
Rachel followed him, but was stopped by Hajin who stopped her with a sign from his hand.
"Wait here, I want to rest something. Oh, and take Evandel with you." He said as he took Evandel from his shoulders and placed her on the ground, who looked at him grumpily with a pouting face.
"I also wanna fight that monsher!!" She yelled.
"No, it's dangerous. Even if you're powerful, you're still a child."
"No! I wanna go!" She said as she rolled on the floor, throwing a tantrum.
"... than how about this? I'll take you to a dungeoun next sunday, you can fight all the monsters there to your heart's content. Is that enough for you?" He asked.
"... FINE!" She exclaimed as she turned with a pout on her face and went to Rachel, who could only pat her head in return. She understood that even if the monster can't do anything to Evandel, it could still take her off-guard. She may not be harmed, but the monster's face was still scary for a child. She may get a trauma or fear or something like that.
"It'll be over within a minute." He said and walked to the room. As he entered, a magic wall formed at the enterance, preventing the outsiders from interfering.
The mid-boss was sitting on what looked like a throne with his eyes closed and head down. But as soon as Hajin entered, his face stood up straight and his eyes glowed as if he had been brought back to life.
"KKKKKKKKKKKRRRRRRRRR!" His voice was very shrill, even painful, for the ears. Of course, Hajin wasn't affected by it in the slightest.
The goblin lord rushed at Hajin. He grabbed a sword from his back and tried to spit Hajin in half from above. To this, Hajin just teleported to a different location and stood there. He still had that monetone look on his face, no emotion of fear showing.
The monster grabbed various weapons from his back and throwed them at Hajin. Each one of them was a high grade weapon which seemed to be forged from the materials of various strong monsters.
Hajin took out one of his gun and pointed it towards the coming weapons. He shot a few shots, each hit a weapon that was coming towards him and disintergrated them completely.
Seeing that the attack didn't work, the monster changed his pattern and grabbed something that looked like a magic staff.
If physical attacks didn't work, just attack with Magic. Or at least that's what the monster thought. He truly seemd to be an all-rounded mid-boss, the most difficult of its kind.
But nothing changed, the magic attacks that came towards Hajin were again erased by bullets from the same gun.
"Krr.... Krrrr rrrr {That thing is dangerous! My intincts tell me to run... but where can I go?!}" The monster muttered in his own language.
"Enough. I don't have time for this, we still have a lot to do." He said as he infused Nihility into the gun, to which the gun transformed its shape into something else.
A blade appeared in the place of the gun's front body. The holding part also changed into something else.
A small purple sphere manisfested at the peak of the high-tech blade, which enlarged a little more and stopped, it's size that of a tiny marble.
"Judgement Bullet" He said. Instantly, a thin ray of purple energy pierced the monster's chest.
The monster stopped at its tract, completely frozen. Hajin detransformed his gun into its original form and put it in the holder fixed at his waist.
A few seconds past, nothing happened. Suddenly, the monster who was standing still started disappearing into dust. Leaving all the hunters and Soohyuk socked at the display of power.
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'That's dangerous!' All of them thought at the same time.
'I was trying to stop something like that... ?' The one who tried to stop Hajin from going further thougth himself.
'Monster... ! He's grown into a monster even bigger than before !!" Soohyuk thought.
Soon, the enternace wall disappeared. The open area began contracting and space started reducing. The once huge arena-sized room was now only a large-sized room. Of course, nothing happened to the monster drops that appeared after the monster was killed.
The hunters silently started collecting the drops. The atmosphere was awkward, but it seemed that that only applied to the hunters.
"So cool! Daddy! I wanna do that as well!!." Evandel rushed to Hajin and jumped, to which Hajin grabbed and held her in his arms.
"Sure, I'll teach you once we get back~" Hajin told her, to which her smile only widened. She looked like a child that had found something new to play. Well, technically, she was a child...
'Please NO!' The hunters shouted in their heads, but none dared to say it out aloud.
After some talking, they proceeded to the final room, the boss room.
The enterance door was huge, it was so big that even a giant could go through it with no problem.
Hajin went closer and held his hand above what looked like a trigger to open the door. He than looked at Rachel, who noded. Returning the nod, he pressed the trigger and the door opened with a loud creak, no, the sound was not a creak, it was a way louder voice, probably because the doors were made of stone instead of wood or metal.
They entered the room, which lit up from inside as soon as the first step took place. The entire room, or now what looked like an arena, lighted up.
The others could do nothing but follow. They had already seen the resut with the mid-boss, so, they could only follow silenty.
"Let's finish this in a single shot, I want to go somewhere else." Hajin said while stretching his arms.
"Yeah." Rachel agreed.
"..." The others decided to stay silent. Meanwhile Evandel, who was holding Rachel's hand, was looking around silently, amazed at the architect and designs engraved in the walls and the floor.
Once everyone entered, the doors closed. No magic wall appeared, but that was probably because the closed huge stone doors would be enough.
As soon as the doors closed completely, the entire landscape changed. The place where they were standing turned into a ship, and the huge area turned into a sea, out of which two huge sea serpents came out.
Both were huge, nothing like ever seen before. Both eminated a powerful aura, which caused the hunters to freez in fear. The only ones unaffected by it were Hajin, Rachel and Evandel.
One was a deep blue color, while the other was dark purple. The blue one had different patterns engraved in it, probably runes, meanwhile the dark purple one didn't have any runes, but had huge scales that looked to be imprenetratable. Various parts of it's body were glowing.
"Alright than, Rachel, please take care of the blue one, I'll take the purple one. We have to finish this quickly, so try to destroy it in a single shot." He said.
"Oh, and don't worry about the damage. Since this is another dimension inside the dungeoun, the damage won't escape to the outside world." He added.
Hajin leaped at the direction of the purple sea serpent, meanwhile Rachel noded and jumped at the blue sea serpent. They didn't give time for the other hunters to even react.
Meanwhile, Evandel was observing her parents with stars in her eyes.
'Mommy and daddy are so cool!' She thought excitedly.
"[Auto-Battle Mode]" Hajin said. His body started transforming, so did his clothes as the aura around his started to change drastically.
His eyes began glowing blood red while his hair changed to white.
[A/N : Image is not mine, assume the red lightning around the hands as purple]
Dense purple lightning started concentrating around his hands, which manifested into a gun, the same one that Hajin used to kill the previous mid-boss.
His body was moving on his own because he was in auto-battle mode. The system was in control of his body, making the most effecient moves possible.
"Judgement Canon." A deep robotic voice resounded, and as if listening to it's command, a huge burst of energy followed.
- Meanwhile -
Rachel jumped at the blue serpent in front of her, her system engraving all the possible movements in her mind, she leaped at the monster with her rapier.
Transferring Nihlity into it, the rapier started transforming into another shape. The rapier still remained, but more details manifested. The color also changed to a duo of blue and purple.
{Searching for best technigues assigned to the held weapon in the system}
She heardher system's voice in her head.
{Successful. Would you like to perform the attack?}
'Yes.' She replied in her thought.
{Affirmative. Temporarily taking control of the host's body.}
The blone hair remained, but her eyes turned from blue to a deep shade of red. The system had taken control of her body. She was surprised at first, but remembered Hajin's explanation on [Auto-battle mode] back when he was explaining her powers to her, and calmed down.
"Bloom : World of a thousand swords."
"[One Million Strikes]"
An ethereal sound was heard. Even her voice was changed because the system took control of her body.
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3rd POV
The hunters couldn't believe what they were seeing through their eyes. They were doubting if this was just a dream of reality. But it felt too real to be a dream, yet too fascinating and horrifying at the same time to be thought of as reality.
At one side of their sight, a blone girl with red eyes was holding a glowing blue rapier that had a purple aura and runes engraved.
Rachel jumped at the monster. And without them even trying to react at her sheer speed, the huge sea serpent was cut into countless pieces.
They couldn't even understand what happened. One moment, Rachel jumped at the monster, the next moment, the monster was cut into countless and endlessly small pieces, almost dust.
Rachel landed on the ship as her eyes turned to their original blue color again, her rapier deformed into its original state. She looked at them for a second than turned her face to Hajin, who was also about to kill the monster.
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"Judgement Canon." A distorted voice was heard. At the same time, an enormous blast of energy burst forth and engulfed the monster entirely.
The blast died down after a few seconds, only to reveal nothing. A complete void, devoid of anything. The monster was nowhere to be seen, the water was evaporated and the land was gone. Only black space, or what felt like space, remained. The water aside its path seemed frozen in place, not filling the gap that was left behind.
It was not that the water was frozen, it was actually because there was nothing to fill. There was no space, the path of that blast had become a void. Utterely black and dark like a black hole.
"..." No sound was heard. Everyone could only observe in silence at the absurd display of power beyond the scope of this world.
"Wooow~" The first to break the silence was Evandel, who had literal stars shining in her eyes.
Hajin landed on the ship, his appearance converted back into its prior state and the gun in his hand vanished into thin air.
Evandel rushed to Hajin, to which he opened his arms and she hugged him.
"Let's go than." Hajin said as he looked towards Soohyuk.
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