(Chapter 72)

"... Sir, I think that person is that second light sphere..."

Another one random agent pointed to the television that showing the live broadcast from one of the Japanese stations while focusing the camera on the expressionless person beside Sung Jin-Woo.

"Did anyone found the identity of that person?"

Matsumoto asked hurriedly and thinking about something again.

"Sir! I did! Here's the file, sir."

Matsumoto received the single paper and read out loud the first things of the findings that were written down on the paper.

"... Shyrveen Yñiguez, 28 years old, male, Filipino citizen, the Dragon's Summoner, S-Rank Hunter... Cursed by the Luck?..."

He was confused after saying the familiar word and was helped by the agent that gave him the paper.

"Sir, did you forget the consecutive Seven Dungeon Breaks of the Luzon, Philippines, and the latest one was the second S-Rank Gate after the S-Rank Gate in America?"

"!!! You mean he is that 'person'!?"

He was shocked.

'How did I forgot such a thing!? He was the person that I admired and cursed at the same time! The person that I admired for who was the reason for ten years of the Philippines' destruction! But I cursed and prayed not to take a single step in this country too!...'

"Yes, sir. But for ten years after the great disaster struck, he was still a normal person, then around two months ago that he took the test in the South Korean's Hunter's Association and assessed as an E-Rank Hunter..."

Another shock punched his gut and raised his palm to stop the agent.

"... Wait, wait, wait... You said around two months, right?"

"Y-Yes, sir..."

The agent, everyone in the room sweats profusely after realizing what their Chairman is thinking about.

'Two months!? From E-Rank to S-Rank status!? Are you serious!? That's the same league of Sung Jin-Woo!'

His legs are shaking for cursing the heavens for why such Hunters wasn't born in Japan.

But only to contemplate as he remembers the infamous title of Shyrveen, and shook his head.

'The country will be long gone if he was born in Japan... The lone survivor of the seven consecutive Dungeon Breaks?... You shitting me!? But... He is now an S-Rank Hunter, maybe...'

"Do you think we can invite him to our country?..."

That stunned the people in the room and became nervous, the agent beside him courageously tried his best to say his opinions about this.

'Sir, you want to erase our country!?'

"S-Sir, with all due respect but he is closed to Hunter Sung Jin-Woo..."

All the people's hearts are beating so fast for a full minute while praying before releasing their relieves after hearing their Chairman changed topic.

"... What about the two?..."

Matsumoto pointed at the two individuals in the television that fighting side to side with the two 'monsters' that fighting the giant monster.

"Err... Sir, there are no such records of their identities... Even China's Hunter's Association is like disturbed rats that trying to find the identities of the two since their facial features are inclined to a Chinese one..."

He gave up.

"... Just prepare everything that can accommodate the Ahjin Guild... Haa..."

That's the last thing that he said as he slumped back to his chair and watch the battle of three 'giants' till the giant monster fell on the ground lifelessly.

And that's the reason why he is smiling bitterly now.

But became confused after seeing the human-sized egg and the two individuals that meditating in crossed legs position, that their identities are in question as he looked over at the shoulder of Sung Jin-Woo.

"Err... Sung Jin-Woo Hunter-nim?"

Sung Jin-Woo felt this chairman's most curiosity is over the egg and waved his hand in front of his face.

"Make some restriction to this place. We won't be responsible for the lives of the people that will trespass and will be killed by those two."

Matsumoto was troubled, while racing his mind how to get and study that egg.

"But-!"

But he was interrupted by Sung Jin-Woo's magical presence that focused and coming down on his whole body.

"Chairman Matsumoto, I'm not telling you this as an order but a fact, because those two won't value the lives of the people that have some malicious things to do with that egg..."

He pointed casually to Han Sen and Yang Manli, that they can hear what's happening but decided not to join and focus at breaking through.

"... That... Alright. I will do that as well, and as the Chairman of Hunter's Association of whole Japan, I'm thanking you and your guilds effort to close the Gate."

Association Chairman Matsumoto gave up and nodded obediently and bowed sincerely that was followed by the Japanese people behind him.

"..."

Sung Jin-Woo decided not to say anymore and just accepted their thanks.

The news of the Giants all being hunted down quickly spread to the rest of the world.

From the closest neighbor of Japan, South Korea, all the way to Brazil in South America, on the other side of the globe.

The entire world heard of Ahjin Guild's feats, but everyone is curious about the expressionless-faced Shyrveen.

– A single Guild rescues an entire nation, consists of four attack members!!!

– Unbelievable count of Hunter Sung Jin-Woo's shadow army!

– Is there a second coming of the like of Shadow King, S-Rank Hunter Sung Jin-Woo!?

– Who's this Dragon's Summoner!?

– Another new rising star, S-Rank Hunter Shyrveen Yñiguez!

– What are the identities of two unknown A-Rank Hunters!?

The state of Maryland, in the eastern half of the United States of America.

A short while later, Thomas Andre walked into the restaurant of the hotel while whistling to himself before discovering a familiar face there and stopped his leisurely stroll.

It was the manager in charge of managing the top Hunters of the Scavenger Guild, Laura.

When she approached him, Thomas Andre showed off his new tie to her and asked.

"So, what do you think about my new tie?"

"It looks expensive, but it does not suit your Hawaiian shirt, sir."

"You think so?"

Thomas Andre undid the tie around his neck and chucked it inside a trash can nearby while replying nonchalantly to her.

"Yup, I thought as much."

Laura had seen how Thomas Andre operated from a close vantage point for a very long time now.

So, she didn't display much of a reaction and simply stated the reason why she was here.

"We have a problem."

"A problem?"

Thomas Andre raised his head away from the trash can.

His experience told him that this problem couldn't have been a minor one since Laura didn't use the phone, but rather showed up here personally to inform him like this.

"What kind of a problem are we talking about here?"

Laura spoke with a worried voice.

"The list of Guilds invited by the Hunter Bureau for this year's International Guild Conference has been published. However, it includes South Korea's, Ahjin Guild."

"Ahjin... Guild?"

Suddenly, Thomas Andre was overcome with an ominous feeling, his voice sounded heavier as a result.

Laura nodded her head.

"It's as you suspect. It's Hunter Sung Jin-Woo's Guild."

'As I thought, why did all the ill omens I sensed never miss their marks?'

Thomas Andre frowned deeply and spoke.

"So, I guess he's coming to America, then..."

At a certain village located in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan.

"It's over here."

The employee that was tasked to guide Sung Jin-Woo, pointed to the corpse, and stepped aside.

Sung Jin-Woo walked closer and confirmed the status of the monster's remains.

The corpse was filled with clear signs of the bitter, harsh battle it went through with.

And there were a countless number of bite marks which resulted in various wounds indicative of the monster having been eaten.

'Your boys... Did they chow down on this thing?'

Sung Jin-Woo looked back at Beru as his glare became a level sharper.

The former ant king had bent his waist well, before Sung Jin-Woo even started looking back at him, Beru's gaze firmly fixed to the ground.

Yoo Jin-Hoo and Yoo Soo-Hyun can picture this as a section chief stuck in his job seemingly forever kowtowing and currying favors with his department head when looking at the relationship between their Hyung-nim and the ant shadow soldier.

Now that all living Giants within Japan had been eliminated, Sung Jin-Woo was going around to find those remains of the monsters killed off by his soldiers so he could perform 'Shadow Extraction' on them.

But they didn't know that one giant escaped out of the country's boundary.

As he immersed himself in this new task, he could easily tell which division had engaged which creature simply from the conditions of the monster corpses.

Pretty much all the monsters unlucky enough to run into the ant army couldn't avoid ending up in this pathetic sight.

"Huu..."

Sung Jin-Woo stared at the monster that probably had died while getting devoured by hundreds of ants and let a sigh leak out of his mouth. He then rolled his sleeves up.

He pointed towards the corpse.

A dignified voice soon left Sung Jin-Woo's lips.

"Arise."

At the same time in South Korea's Hunter's Association Chairman's office.

"Association Chairman, sir."

With good timing, Section Chief Woo Jin-Cheol knocked on the door and stepped into the chairman's office.

He was a man who, by achieving back-to-back results early in his career, got to wear the title of the youngest-ever Section Chief.

He performed a light nod of his head as a greeting and made a report on the current situation.

"The monster has changed its course towards China, sir."

"Is that so?"

'Now that was an unexpected change in the situation...'

As Sung Jin-Woo and others were busied themselves with killing the Giants in Japan, one of them escaped out into the sea.

The creature had been heading into the Pacific, but the news of it completely changing course towards China was a bit of fresh shock to the Association Chairman.

Go Gun-Hee quickly asked.

"How are the Chinese responding to this situation?"

"We heard that Liu Zhigang will personally step up, sir."

Go Gun-Hee leaned his back against the couch.

"In that case, there should be no problems, then."

The Giant-type monster should be ripped to shreds even before setting a foot on the Chinese mainland now that Liu Zhigang, one of the five most powerful Hunters in the world, had decided to get involved.

Back to Japan.

"Ehem."

Yoo Jin-Ho was standing around with a bit of a swollen ego for some reason while seeing Sung Jin-Woo extracting his twenty-seventh shadow soldier, while Yoo Soo-Hyun is standing beside him.

But then, an employee from the Japanese Association searching for the three Koreans approached closer and engaged Yoo Jin-Ho in a conversation.

"By any chance, are you Hunter-nim?"

"Ah, if you're looking for Hyung-nim, he's over..."

When Yoo Jin-Ho heard the word 'Hunter', he immediately pointed to Sung Jin-Woo over yonder, but the employee quickly shook his head and pointed to the younger Korean man, instead.

"No, no. You."

Yoo Jin-Ho blinked his eyes several times, that made Yoo Soo-Hyun looked to them with curiosity.

"Me?"

"Yes."

Yoo Jin-Ho utilized his meager English skills to reconfirm that it was indeed him the Japanese wanted, and quickly received a smartphone from the latter.

And then his expression gradually hardened as he listened to the call.

Making Yoo Soo-Hyun worried while seeing the expression of her cousin.

Until the call came to an end, Yoo Jin-Ho simply repeated 'Yes, yes' over and over again.

Sung Jin-Woo finished up with storing the giant soldier in his shadow and left the damaged storage facility.

The two Yoos quickly approached him as if waiting for this moment and Yoo Jin-Ho lowered his head.

"I'm sorry, Hyung-nim. It looks like I'll have to go back to Korea right away."

"And I'm going with him too, Hyung-nim. I can't stop worrying about him while seeing his expression."

Seconded by Yoo Soo-Hyun as she bows too.

Seeing how serious Yoo Jin-Ho's expression was and Yoo Soo-Hyun's worried expression, Sung Jin-Woo couldn't help but ask.

"What happened?"

"I'm not too sure myself. It's just that, I've been told there's been an emergency at home and I need to go back immediately."

"..."

Sung Jin-Woo shut his mouth, he could think of a reason already.

'Chairman Yoo's illness...'

If his suspicion proved to be correct, then it was understandable why the caller was unable to provide much clarification over the phone to Yoo Jin-Ho.

'How could anyone say to a son in another country that his father had fallen into a comatose state over a phone call?'

So, Sung Jin-Woo didn't inquire any further.

"Okay, got it. You both worked hard until now."

"No, not at all, Hyung-nim. I'm sorry about not sticking around until the end of this thing."

The two Yoos respectfully apologized one more time before climbing aboard the car that the Japanese Association had provided.

The driver turned the car around and set off towards the airport.

'...'

Sung Jin-Woo wordlessly stared at the back of the departing car.

In the central area of Tokyo, where an egg and two individuals that meditating beside it can be seen in the place.

Few bags of dust beside their legs can be seen too, it can be recognized once, if they saw the 'few' handful of big Magic Crystals beside them.

After three days of cultivating the pure Mana from Magic Crystals because they can't touch the Mana of Magical Cores of the giants since its Mana is Metal Element one.

They stop after feeling their bodies are too heavy and bloated, and they looked at each other before nodding.

"This should be the time of our awakening now..."

Han Sen looked as his palms and clenched it harder while feeling excited about this.

"Yes. Now, go to that side while I'll be there."

Even Yang Manli is excited too and pointed not that much far to their current location before pointing to the opposite side.

Shyrveen already warned them about awakening that based on the light novels that he read, that their awakening might be different from the people of this Earth.

And much more phenomenal since they have Genes too that making their bodies' potentials to be higher than the other average people.

"What about brother Shyr?"

Han Sen was worried that they might affect Shyrveen and thinking that they should wait first for Shyrveen to wake up before they continue.

But Yang Manli shakes her head and told him.

"Eggie told me that this eggshell is covered by Space and Time Elements and so everything nor everyone will have a hard time touching even it's only surface."

"Alright."

Then they proceed after making sure that they are far enough to each other before continuing their cultivation...