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Solo Leveling Chapter 148

“Serangan itu pasti sudah dimulai sekarang.”

Presiden Asosiasi Goh Gun-Hui melihat jam tangannya dan tersenyum lembut pada dirinya sendiri. Serangan yang dimaksud adalah, tentu saja, milik Hunter Seong Jin-Woo.

Jika itu mungkin, dia ingin melihat sendiri, tapi …. karena sifat pekerjaannya, itu sama sekali tidak layak, sehingga yang bisa dia lakukan hanyalah mengirim seorang karyawan Asosiasi yang sangat dia percayai sebagai wakil.

Dia sudah mulai kesal, memikirkan apa yang akan dilaporkan oleh Kepala Seksi Woo Jin-Cheol.

“Ah, benar. Aku seharusnya tidak melakukan ini sekarang. ‘

Goh Gun-Hui menggelengkan kepalanya ringan untuk menyingkirkan pikiran yang mengganggu. Ada tumpukan dokumen yang duduk di atas mejanya sekarang. Mereka praktis membentuk menara dokumen pada titik ini.

Sejak istirahat penjara di dalam sekolah menengah terjadi, tumpukan dokumen ini tidak ingin berkurang tidak peduli seberapa keras dia bekerja setiap hari. Tidak, mereka malah menjadi lebih tinggi. Itulah betapa sibuknya dia, namun minatnya pada Hunter Seong Jin-Woo tidak berkurang sedikit pun.

Jika saja tubuhnya sehat – tidakkah dia akan membersihkan beberapa ruang bawah tanah bersama dengan Hunter Seong juga?

‘Huh, aku juga putus asa, bukan?’

Goh Gun-Hui menggelengkan kepalanya sekali lagi dan kembali ke pekerjaannya dengan senyum di wajahnya.

Jadi, berapa lama dia berkonsentrasi pada dokumen?

Ketuk, ketuk.

Dia mengangkat kepalanya setelah mendengar ketukan di pintu, dan menyadari bahwa tiga jam telah berlalu.

“Ini Woo Jin-Cheol, Tuan.”

Berita yang ditunggunya akhirnya tiba. Tanpa sedikit pun kelelahan terlihat di wajahnya, Goh Gun-Hui menyambut Woo Jin-Cheol ke kantor.

“Silakan masuk.”

Berderak.

Mata Goh Gun-Hui hampir keluar dari rongganya setelah dia melihat wajah Woo Jin-Cheol ketika yang terakhir dengan hati-hati memasuki kantor.

‘Apa ini?’

Dia berharap tidak akan ada masalah, namun Wool Jin-Cheol tampak seolah-olah dia diseret melalui pemeras, sebagai gantinya.

‘Bukan sembarang orang selain Hunter Seong Jin-Woo yang sedang kita bicarakan di sini, jadi bagaimana mungkin Chief Woo terlihat seperti itu …. ??’

Namun kebingungannya hanya berlangsung sebentar.

“Bolehkah saya duduk sebentar, Tuan?”

Woo Jin-Cheol terdengar putus asa, jadi Goh Gun-Hui dengan cepat menunjuk ke sofa.

“Tentu saja, tidak apa-apa. Silakan duduk. ”

Dia kemudian bangkit dari kursi Presiden di belakang meja untuk duduk di sisi yang berlawanan dengan Woo Jin-Cheol.

Celepuk.

Woo Jin-Cheol tak berdaya tenggelam jauh ke sofa. Dia menggosok wajahnya dengan tangannya, menunjukkan betapa lelahnya dia.

Apa yang terjadi di dalam ruang bawah tanah?

Bahkan sebelum Woo Jin-Cheol bisa mulai menjelaskan dirinya sendiri, Goh Gun-Hui tidak bisa menang melawan rasa penasarannya dan mulai lebih dulu.

“Apa yang terjadi denganmu? Kenapa wajahmu terlihat seperti …? ”

“Maaf? Apakah ada sesuatu di wajah saya, tuan? “

“Kamu terlihat sangat lelah sekarang. Seolah kau tidak bisa tidur dalam beberapa hari terakhir. ”

“Ah…..”

Mengangguk, mengangguk.

Woo Jin-Cheol tanpa kata menganggukkan kepalanya beberapa kali seolah-olah dia bisa mengerti semuanya sekarang.

“Itu mungkin karena aku terlalu kaget, itu saja. Tuan.”

“Terkejut….? Tolong, ceritakan lebih detail. Teman saya, bukankah Anda menemani Hunter Seong Jin-Woo untuk mengamati penggerebekannya? ”

Woo Jin-Cheol menurunkan pandangannya dan perlahan menggelengkan kepalanya.

“Itu, Tuan, itu bukan serangan. Dulu…..”

“….Dulu?”

Woo Jin-Cheol mengangkat kepalanya, kaget dan takut masih terlihat besar di matanya yang bergetar.

“Tuan, itu adalah tempat terjadinya pembantaian.”

Pemimpin karismatik dari Divisi Pemantauan, Woo Jin-Cheol, sering dianggap memiliki hati baja bawaan, berbicara dengan suara yang bergetar sangat pelan.

“Pembantaian, kan …?”

Goh Gun-Hui menelan ludahnya.

Woo Jin-Cheol menjawab tanpa ragu-ragu, jelas bahkan tidak berpikir untuk mengubah atau menyangkal deskripsinya.

“Ya pak.”

Was there any other description that fit what happened in there? It was as the word suggested, a total massacre. Woo Jin-Cheol didn’t hold back on anything and confessed to everything he saw at the behest of the Association President.

“The dungeon was a nest of Nagas, sir.”

Goh Gun-Hui narrowed his eyes as he combed through his knowledge of various monsters.

‘If it’s a Naga….’

Creatures that resembled a hybrid of a human and a sea snake, preferred to live in damp areas, and experts of both melee and magic attacks, capable of giving many experienced Hunters a hard time – those points were the Nagas in a nutshell.

They were also known as really tough opponents to contend with as they moved around in large groups, even though they were high-ranked monsters.

However….

‘But, someone of Hunter Seong Jin-Woo’s level shouldn’t be having a hard time against a handful of Nagas going around in groups?’

As if he had read Goh Gun-Hui’s inner thoughts, Woo Jin-Cheol clarified himself.

“….I even felt sorry for the Nagas at some point, sir.”

“…..!!”

Woo Jin-Cheol recalled the scenes back then. When a group of 30-strong Nagas suddenly made their appearance, he even momentarily forgot who was next to him and tensed up greatly. Nagas were dangerous enough existences to warrant such a reaction from him.

But then….

“….The surrounding areas suddenly became ‘dark’, sir.”

Or, more specifically, he should have said that a massive black shadow suddenly extended out from beneath Hunter Seong Jin-Woo’s feet.

All the hair on Woo Jin-Cheol’s body stood up after he realised that something big was about to happen. And precisely at that moment, soldiers emerged above ground one by one from the extended shadow.

And the battle – no, a massacre, commenced.

– Kiiiaahk!

– Kiihhaaak!

– Kiiaaahhh-!!

Hunter Seong Jin-Woo’s summoned creatures pounced forward and proceeded to mercilessly rip the Nagas apart into many bloody pieces.

“At least, those summons wearing black armours, like the humanoid types and the High Orcs types, were a bit more humane. But then…..”

The summons resembling bears and ants were far too feral even for his tolerance level.

“Some of the ants even began eating the corpse of the monsters. Hunter Seong Jin-Woo became so incensed that he even physically kicked them.”

Woo Jin-Cheol began shuddering after remembering this one ant that tried to sneak a dead Naga’s head into its mouth, only to get discovered by irate Hunter Seong. It got splendidly buried deep into a wall from a powerful kick.

Although, he still couldn’t tell whether he was shuddering from the horrifying summons, or from Jin-Woo who could unhesitatingly kick a summon like that into a wall.

Seeing the tense look on Woo Jin-Cheol’s eyes, even Goh Gun-Hui became extra tense as well, dry saliva gliding down his throat.

“Were his summons strong?”

“They were really strong, sir.”

There was no need to even mention it. Soldiers resembling humans, Orc-type soldiers, bears and ant type soldiers; not one of them could be called weak by any stretch of the imagination. But, the biggest highlight of them all was….

“There was this one summon with a red mane attached to its black helmet.”

Woo Jin-Cheol raised his dipped head again and stared straight into Goh Gun-Hui’s eyes.

“Would you believe me when I told you that particular summon could shoot lightning out of its sword every time it took a swing, sir?”

“Oh my god…..”

Goh Gun-Hui was feeling completely astonished now. The lightning magic contained the destructive power of fire-based magic as well as the speedy nature of the light-based magic.

Because of that, only a handful of very high-class Mage-type Hunters could cast such magic spells. Even then, firing them consecutively was out of the question.

But then, a summon could shoot such magic all the time by swinging its sword around?

Goh Gun-Hui could only shake his head in helplessness. He definitely wouldn’t have believed it if it weren’t coming from the subordinate he deeply believed in. But then, the unbelievable story continued on even further.

“In my opinion, that particular summon should be above rank A in terms of power, sir.”

“Are you serious??”

Goh Gun-Hui’s voice rose up higher.

How could a single summon possess powers almost at the level of a rank S?!

Unfortunately, Woo Jin-Cheol guaranteed it. And he was right at the peak of rank A Hunters too, ability-wise, so he knew what he was talking about.

“If I were to fight that summon one on one…. Honestly, I’m not confident of winning, sir.”

Indeed, if such an evaluation came out from Woo Jin-Cheol’s mouth, someone with strong self-confidence, then it would be no problem to evaluate that summon as a rank S.

“Huh-uh…”

Goh Gun-Hui leaned against the couch’s back.

He already had a good idea how capable Hunter Seong Jin-Woo was, but to think, each and every one of his summons would possess such a high level of power, too.

What a regretful thing it was, not being there to personally confirm it with his own two eyes.

Goh Gun-Hui was getting shocked just from hearing it second-hand, so how would Woo Jin-Cheol have felt as he was actually there? Suddenly, it became rather easier to understand the worn-down appearance of Woo Jin-Cheol. He must’ve been slapped in the face constantly with one surprise after another.

“However, sir, there was an even more shocking spectacle, sir.”

Woo Jin-Cheol carried on as if that was not even the end of the tale.

“The ants…. they began ‘working’, sir.”

Woo Jin-Cheol’s eyes trembled again as he recalled those scenes.

Ants received pickaxes from the bag carried by Ah-Jin Guild’s Vice-Master. And then, they proceeded to mine out the Mana Stones from the dungeon walls.

Ants were also in charge of carrying away the mined Mana Stones as well as the remains of the dead monsters. Woo Jin-Cheol simply couldn’t tear his eyes away from the perfectly-organised ants and their unbelievably fast working speed. They were basically the incarnations of efficient ‘operation’.

Woo Jin-Cheol was deeply astonished back then, and he was feeling admiration now.

“What I saw, sir, it wasn’t something as simple as a one-man raid team. Not at all.”

No, this one man was capable of clearing a dungeon, retrieving the remains, and also mining out the minerals, too.

Woo Jin-Cheol was definitely sure of it. And that would be – calling Hunter Seong a one-man raid team was actually insulting the man.

“No, sir. That man, he’s actually an entire Guild rolled into one.”

He was not a one-man raid team, but a one-man Guild, instead. Technically speaking, there was that not-that-helpful Vice Master too, but nothing would’ve changed even if he wasn’t present, so Woo Jin-Cheol’s assertion wasn’t wrong at all.

Goh Gun-Hui slapped his knee.

‘I knew it. My eyes weren’t wrong!’

A broad smile didn’t want to leave his face now.

Like how he had been anticipating it since the beginning, Hunter Seong Jin-Woo would definitely go on to become the brand-new ballast that keeps the balance neutral in the Korean Hunter community. But now, he began to think that the youth might even go on to change the map of the Hunters worldwide, too.

“And then…. we finally arrived at the boss chamber, sir.”

The story hadn’t ended yet??

Goh Gun-Hui dengan cepat memfokuskan kembali pada kisah itu sekali lagi. Woo Jin-Cheol melanjutkan.

Naga normal akan sekitar dua, tiga kali lebih besar dari manusia biasa. Tetapi, dia mengatakan bahwa bos Naga yang ditemukan di dalam ruang bos dengan mudah empat kali lebih besar, dan tekanan yang dikeluarkannya juga luar biasa.

“Apakah Seong Hunter menggunakan panggilannya untuk dengan cepat menghabisi monster tingkat bos?”

Woo Jin-Cheol perlahan menggelengkan kepalanya.

“Tidak pak. Dia benar-benar membatalkan pemanggilan sama sekali, kecuali untuk semut-semut yang sibuk dengan operasi pengambilan dan penambangan. ”

“Apa? Tapi, kenapa dia ?? ”

Goh Gun-Hui tersentak kaget, dan Woo Jin-Cheol hanya bisa menjawab dengan wajah kaku.

“Saya juga ingin tahu mengapa, jadi saya bertanya kepadanya. Saya menanyainya mengapa dia membatalkan pemanggilan ketika dia akan melawan bos. ”

Goh Gun-Hui begitu tertarik pada kisah itu, tanpa sepengetahuannya, dia mulai condong ke depan.

“Dan apa yang dia katakan?”

“Seong Jin-Woo Hunter-nim memberitahuku ini ….”

Woo Jin-Cheol mengambil waktu sedikit seolah-olah untuk menarik keluar ingatannya yang tidak mau ke permukaan, dan dengan hati-hati membuka mulutnya.

“Jika dia terlalu mengandalkan panggilannya, maka panggilannya …”

***

“… Instingku akan menjadi lebih lembut, kau tahu.”

Jin-Woo berbicara dan mengambil langkah ke depan ketika sepasang ‘Demon King’s Shortsword’ digenggam di tangannya.

Dia bahkan tidak perlu memanggil tentaranya. Bagaimanapun, hanya ada satu monster tingkat bos dan empat lainnya yang menjaga makhluk bos itu.

Jin-Woo menendang tanah dan berlari ke depan.

‘Air raksa!’

Bahkan sebelum monster penjaga bisa bereaksi, dia menyelinap melewati mereka dan menutup jarak dengan Naga raksasa di belakang.

‘Tebasan Kekerasan !!’

Lusinan cahaya perak berkerlip berkedip dan turun ke tubuh bagian bawah monster bos.

Slice-slice-slice-slice !!

“Keuhaaaakk !!”

Bos menggeliat dan menjerit, dan sementara itu, penjaga mencoba menerkam Jin-Woo. Tapi dia hanya menggunakan kepala salah satu penjaga untuk melompat lurus ke atas.

Taht!

Dan ketika matanya mengarah ke atas dengan posisi bos di atas di udara, dia mengayunkan kata pendeknya ke samping.

DESIR-!!

“Kiiiahk !!”

Kepala bos dipotong bersih dan terbang. Pada saat yang sama, pesan Sistem baru muncul di pandangannya.

Tti-ring.

[Kamu telah membunuh pemilik penjara bawah tanah ini.]

[Naik tingkat!]

Ekspresi Jin-Woo langsung cerah dari pesan indah itu.

‘Ohh !!’

Dia mendarat dengan lembut di tanah dan berputar sekali. Itu menyebabkan semua monster penjaga yang mencoba untuk berlari ke arahnya jatuh ke tanah pada saat yang sama.

Anehnya, pesan Sistem tidak berakhir di situ.

Tti-ring, tti-ring, tti-ring …. !!

Tiba-tiba, dia dibanjiri dengan rentetan bip mekanis yang konstan.

‘Apa ini?!’

Kesulitannya hanya bisa bertahan untuk sementara waktu.

[Anda telah mencapai level 101.]

[Tingkat semua keterampilan khusus Kelas Anda telah meningkat.]

[Skill: ‘Shadow Extraction’ telah naik level.]

[Skill: ‘Shadow Storage’ telah naik level.]

[Skill: ‘Sovereign’s Territory’ telah naik level.]

[Skill: ‘Shadow Exchange’ telah naik level.]

Mata Jin-Woo hampir menonjol keluar dari rongganya di dinding pesan yang menjulang.

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