Episode 9 [ The Cherry Blossom Garden ]

Somewhere in North.

A mysterious is girl running…

Panting

Run

Panting

Run

She seems like running away from

something.

When she reach the cave, she takes a deep breath…

All of a sudden, a mysterious man with a metal halo on its back appear on the entrance…

'you can run as fast as you can….but… you can't escape from me'

The girl shouted for help but no one heard her.

'Shush'

the man says, and his poker face lips turned into a curved smile while looking at the girl.

The girl was brutally killed and the man vanishes from the smoke.

Back to the present.

The raid on the wake island is a successful one but casualties can't be avoided.

The Chinese team looses some hunters and the other teams are injured.

They are now at the plane heading back to the Philippines.

The next morning, each foreign team ride their respective planes back to their country…

Lee shin young is looking at the window…

They have arrived at korea. There are ambulance waiting to those ho are injured but, shin young say his regards to the teams and head away,

The other korean say thanks to him.

Once he arrived at his home, he fell into his bed and slept.

When he woke up, it is already in the morning. He showered, and eat breakfast with the old man.

And head out to wonder around the town.

When he is wandering, he stop at a shop that sell items for hunters.

He tries to look at some items.

The attendant greeted him.

He saw armors, swords, daggers, and accessories.

On the corner of the shop, he a white cloak with red pattern on its back.

"what is this?"

'errr… that's a magical cloak imbued with partial healing magic'

"huh?...partial healing?"

'yes sir! Though it is not great as the healing casted by a real mage, it can still heal off some bruises.'

"aahhh. Is that so? I'll take it"

'right away sir.'

When he go to the guild, he saw seo jun and the arch party.

'shin young!!!'

Run

Run

'Ohh seo jun. it seems like you're going for a raid.'

"Ahhmm yeah, and you?"

"Yeah me too"

'ok see you later'

Shin young ask the agent if there's a available dungeon to raid.

'yes Mr. shin young! There's a C rank dungeon on the street of Itaewon for you to raid.'

"ok, ill take it."

'right away sir! Ill register you to the website portal.'

*they need to register the person or party to determine that the dungeon is already reserved.

When lee shin young arrived, he immediately enter the dungeon.

He wear his newly buy white cloak.

When he enter it was a desert type of dungeon.

After a while the monsters started to swarm, Sand Desert Sharks.

A high tier monsters, a B rank to be exact.

When the monsters jump off the sand and try to bite him – lee jeershin young flew into the sky.

He casted thunder spells that electrocuted the sharks, when he finished off some sharks the boss appeared, a giant 2 headed sand desert shark.

When the boss saw him, the monster tried to attack him but shin young punch the boss, and it flew in a distance.

The boss show some resistance, the boss attack with its ability to control sand, and make a sand storm.

"ohhh, nice!"

But lee shin young swayed his arm and counter the storm with his sub magic.

Whirlwind strike.

The storm of sand stop but the boss show up at the back of shin young.

"so that storm was a diversion? You're more formidable than I thought."

Lee shin young dodge the attack and flew so high into the sky. He uses the gravity of the earth as a fuel to accelerate him. With that magnitude of attack the sand is shaking plus, he imbued his hand with fire magic.

Shake!~

Shake!~

he landed a blow to the head of the boss and shouted his attack.

Nuclear Bust!!

Boom!!!

The magnitude of the attack make a gigantic hole from the sand.

When he finishes the boss a shiny thing appeared on its body.

Sand Ring

*with this ring you can freely manipulate the sand.

Lee shin young is sitting on the carcasses of the death boss. Looking at the sunset…

'sigh'

The next morning, he receive a text from the guild that there is a, A rank dungeon appeared in Seoul.

When he arrived at the guild, he saw the Arch party, Tiger party, Skull Party, and him each team has an S rank hunter

Arch party has Seo jun and min young, S rank

In tiger Party has Woo bin S rank dealer, swords man and his team of 3 A rank 2 healer and 3 B rank supporter.

In skull party has Park hyun jae S rank Spear bearer and his team of 2 A rank swordsman 4 supporter and A rank healer.

And lee shin young as solo hunter.

The other solo hunters did not participate in the raid.

When all the party is complete, they head out immediately. Once they arrived, they saw a giant portal appear in the middle of the city.

It causes major traffics.

Honk.

Honk.

The agent permits them to enter the dungeon.

As usual to shin young, he do not wear any armor just a hoodie jacket and a pants.

Once they entered the portal, they pink flower garden, at the middle of the dungeon they saw a giant cherry blossom tree…

The whole raid team talk and agreed to part ways

Seo jun ask shin young to join with them but he rejected the offer.

"I'll go alone"

'too bad… if that's what you want… see yah later!"

The teams go to the different ways.

When all of them are going into a different ways the monsters are starting to appear.

Large Piercing butterflies.

A-rank monsters.

The tiger team are fighting the monsters.

The S rank Woo bin takes the lead.

The other swordsman tries to attack as well. They defeated one monsters.

And then, the others shows up.

Woo bin started to use his magic.

Iron magic: Razor sharp sword

With his magic, he easy cut through the monsters.

Meanwhile, on the group of skull party, S rank park hye jae single handedly eliminate the 3 monsters with his magic.

Water magic: water needles

the attack went through the bodies of the monsters.

On the Arch party one monster appeared in front of the, Min young takes care of it with her air slash.

All parties going towards the giant cherry blossom tree. They all seems to think that the boss resides there.

The monsters are swarming at a fast rate but the parties are defeating them.

Meanwhile, lee shin young enjoying the view while resting at the top of tall flower. Several monsters saw him, 9 monsters shows up in front of him.

The monsters tries to attack him, but shin young evade the attack.

Float….

Sigh

"now, let's have a warm up."

Meanwhile, the skull party reach the cherry blossom tree.

The team tries to climb the tree.

After the skull party, the tiger party follow them to climb.

The last party was the arch party.

All of one the top parties in the guild successfully climbed the cherry blossom tree.

Once they reached the top of the tree monsters are starting to rampage to them 2 different identified monsters the Piercing butterfly at a Hard armor beetle.

All the S rank takes the lead and charge them. Using the swords Min young, and woo bin uses their sword and fight while seo jun and hye joon uses their spear magic to support the charge.

The other rankers from the other parties also joined the fight, the power of the hunters overwhelmed the monsters

Once they finished the last monster, a sudden vibration from the air was felt…

And a storm appear.

*when a thunder storm happen inside the dungeon it means the boss is extremely powerful.

Crumble

Crrrr..cr…

Vibration...~

It was the dungeon boss.

A giant horned beetle insect with colorful wings appeared to them.

"Humans…"

Whoosh~~

"…how dare you to infiltrate my place…"

"…and kill my children!!!"

The boss roar so loud.

Rrrrrwwwrr~

"everyone prepare for combat!!"

The enraged boss started to attack the

hunters, using its long horns.

The hunters dodge the attack, but most of them are falling from the tree, but luckily the landed on a soft part of the flowers.

The S rank fly and, tries to attack the

beetle.

Water magic: tidal wave

Iron magic: Long sword

Ice magic: Spear of mezulla.

Wind magic: tornado fang.

All of these attack was taken but the boss and create a large explosion…

The boss take so serious damage.

The high rankers tries to attack as well but the boss flew up to high to the sky.

Using its long horns, the boss uses its weight and the place gravity to propel at a high speed.

The boss landed on the ground and create big explosion…luckily the hunters dodge it…

The healers heals those who are wounded.

The boss continues to charge.

Iron magic: Iron wall

The magic was able to stop the attack.

But the boss still continues to attack.

The other rankers couldn't even join the fight because of how overwhelming the battle is.

The boss uses its large wings to produce tornados.

Wind magic: Whirl shock

The magic of min young intercepted the attack of the boss…

But the tornados are just a diversion...

They didn't even seen it coming, the boss are rushing to them at attack using its horns.

Water magic: wave storm

The water of hye joon push the hunters so that they an evade it…

But the boss still continues to rampage to them…

'I am the strongest entuty in this place…"

'…you humans can't defeat me…'

'…because… I am strong!'

The boss charge the attack.

'its too late!'

'Wha-whaaa.'

But… all of sudden… the attack stops.

The boss look at the sky.

'what? Why is it looking at the sky??'

And suddenly…

A tremendously strong magical pressure was felt.

The hunters can't move…

'what is this??'

'its like, I'm being pressed down by a tremendously powerful magical energy!!!'

'the whole dungeon world is shaking!!'

" well! Well! I was wondering… what's taking them so long…"

The pressure is still getting stronger.

"it seems like a pretty insect is playing around."

A person with a glowing red demonic red eyes, is at the sky decelerating from above.

Looking down at the boss.

Whoosh

Float…~~

"well…still…"

Pressure~~~!

Crumbling and vibration were felt.

"…an insect is still…"

The pressure keeps the boss being press down and couldn't even resist.

"…an insect."

A tremendous power was coming from Lee shin young.

The other hunters are looking at him…

'who is that?'

The hunters are looking at him and seo jun notice the man.

'Lee shin young'

The other S rank were shocked…

' what?... that's him…'

'…how could a single person have this tremendous power…'

"So, you said you're strong, Huh?" -lee shin young.

Crumble…

Crumble..

Crrrrr…crrrr

'you! Die human!!!!'

The boss attack lee shin young…

But, shin young rush at him head on.

The large hons of the boss and the punch of shin young…met.

The other hunters were shocked…

'wwwhhaat?'

The boss was crashed to the ground…

"hunter Seo jun…"

'what is it?'

"I'll handle this thing from now…"

"…move to a safe distance..."

S rank Woo bin spoke

'what?...are you nuts?...'

'…you can't defeat that thing…'

The boss stand up….and attack again…

But lee shin young dodge.

The boss groan…..

Rrroooaaarrr…~~

The hunters move to a safe distance…

The other A rank hunters can't believe about the battle….

'it is so overwhelming'

The boss reduced its size…

"ohhh… you can do nice tricks too?..."

The boss speed change…

…but, lee shin young speed up as well.

Using his fingers… he swayed his arms and make the boss crashed again

"now let's end this…"

Using the sand ring he get from the previous dungeon. He try to test its power.

"I'll make you my guinea pig.!"

With those sadistic glow of red eyes…and cold-blooded face.

The boss shivered with fear…

The ring glows…

…and the sand appear and create countless needles and pierce the boss…

The boss was atrociously killed.

The dungeon is cleared.

Lee shin young rejoins the party.

Float…

The team thank him for saving them.

The dungeon exit appeared.

The hunters go on to their different ways.

The agent reported that the dungeon is cleared.

30 minutes later. A mysterious floating man in the sky was looking at lee shin young at the street.

A second later…

"who are you?..."

"why are you following me??"

'you're sharper that I thought, Mr. Shin young…'

'even though I use my stealth…you still found me..'

"identify yourself!"

' ahhmm.. My is Octovia, I am also one of the solo hunters in korea.'

[ Octivia, 30 yrs old…male S rank Dealer… solo hunter. ]

'shall we talk somewhere else?'