Solo Leveling: Ragnarok – 23



Episode 23

“Captain!”

At that time there was a voice urgently calling for the attack leader in front.

“We found a human body!”

“A corpse?”

The attack leader who was talking with Suho hurried back to the hunters.

And when he found the body his eyes widened.

“It’s a real corpse right?”

“But this… I don’t think it’s an ordinary corpse.”

The hunters’ expressions became serious.

The condition of the body was definitely strange.

A body completely charred like pitch black charcoal.

It was bound to be an unnatural corpse here at Seoul Station Field not anywhere else.

“I’ve never heard of a demon that uses fire in Seoul Station…”

“That’s right.”

Just then Su-ho came along with the collectors to see the condition of the body.

‘huh?’

Lee Chae appeared in Suho’s eyes.

The condition of the corpse was very familiar.

Then suddenly I turned my head to the side and looked at Assistant Professor Lim and he looked serious as if he had the same thought.

“Suho this body can’t be….”

“yes. “It appears to be mist burn.”

Suho nods his head with confidence.

As if they heard those words the raid hunters simultaneously turned their attention to Suho.

“Mist burn?”

“That blue burning demon beast?”

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“Are you sure?”

Unless it was a large guild hunters did not know all types of magical beasts.

“I’m sure.”

After experiencing the incident at Hankook University Suho looked up information about Mist Burn on the Internet.

And I learned one surprising thing.

Mist Burn… was not an ordinary witch.

No it wasn’t even a magical beast in the first place.

Suho calmly muttered the information he had read at that time.

“Mist Burn. “A phenomenon in which the body ignites on its own when a non-awakened person inhales a certain amount of blue fog.”

“What?!”

“Mist Burn was originally a person?”

Among hunters with short careers there were some who were unaware of this fact.

This is because the Hunter Association has only recently discovered the truth about Mist Burn.

It was a well-known fact that the Mist Burn attacked humans and increased their schizonts.

However there was no way to determine how the first mist burn was formed.

At that time one of the hunters suddenly realized something and muttered.

“for a moment. “If Mist Burn really happens that way what happened to the rumor that you can awaken by drinking blue mist?”

“Of course it’s nonsense. Or the information about Mist Burn was misrepresented.”

-You can awaken by drinking the blue fog.

It’s already been over a year since this rumor started floating around the Internet like an urban legend.

However no one has yet revealed the truth of the rumor.

‘…all the people who tried it as an experiment would have burned to death.’

Anyway that wasn’t important right now.

“Then this body… how on earth did it get down here?”

This is exactly what the hunters were curious about.

This place was now the 4th basement floor of Seoul Station.

It made no sense for a non-awakened person to come down here alone through the lizards.

Still it was strange that I walked all the way down here on my own after becoming mist-burned on the first floor.

If he had gone out of the station to burn the living people there was no way he would have come down to this place which was only infested with demonic beasts.

“Captain! “It’s here too!”

At that time a new body was discovered a short distance away.

The state of the body was the same as before. It was the charred remains of a mist burn.

“It’s over here too!”

After that hunters were able to find several more bodies.

The more this happened the more serious the attack leader’s expression became.

‘…Something is strange.’

As a person responsible for the safety of hunters it was difficult to just ignore this strange phenomenon.

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However the matter was too personal to stop hunting just because of something like this. At best we only found a few corpses.

Moreover with this many people gathered together even if dozens of Mist Buns appeared they could easily resolve the issue.

“For now… let’s keep hunting.”

And so the hunting resumed.

“Suho.”

Assistant Professor Lim approached Suho with an anxious expression.

“I’ll tell you in advance this time.”

“What?”

“If I think it’s dangerous will I jump first?”

“…?”

[Huh what is this fair-minded coward?]

Suho and Ver looked at Assistant Professor Lim with puzzled expressions.

But Assistant Professor Lim was really sincere.

“You know I have running skills right? If something happens use your summons and run away. “I will run away on my own.”

Even as he spoke Assistant Professor Lim continued to look around to see if anything was unsettling.

Suho asked looking at his face.

“Instructor… you are sure that something will happen.”

“no. Of course it’s good if nothing happens. but….”

At Suho’s words Assistant Professor Lim finally let out a deep sigh and confessed his feelings.

“Actually… my mother died from the Mist Burn.”

“….”

“And he also became Mist Burn and tried to kill me.”

“….”

“That’s why I’m so scared of Mist Burn. “I feel like my mother is trying to kill me again.”

Suho could not say anything to his complaints.

* * *

Around that time.

“Kwaaaaaak-!”

An even more cruel scream was coming out from deep inside Seoul Station.

“Hot hot…!”

“Ahhhh! Argh! Argh!”

Grumble!

A group of people chained and writhing in agony.

Their bodies were covered in blue naturalization.

“Please help me! Please save me! I’ll say I didn’t see anything! “Nothing really…!”

Behind them people who had not yet been burned were sobbing and begging for their lives.

Pure horror.

A frantic struggle.

I couldn’t understand it at all.

Why on earth are they?

Do I have to go through something like this here?

…But there was no one who could answer that question.

It was natural.

Because there was no reason in the first place.

They were just extremely unlucky.

They were being burned alive for just that reason.

“Is it that hot?”

There were people who watched their screams calmly in front of them.

“Hmm. It should be hotter in the first place. “Young’s firepower isn’t very good.”

A group of masks wearing pitch black robes.

They were covering their faces with crow masks that looked like something out of a medieval movie.

“Hey how can we not increase the firepower?”

“We are low on fuel.”

“Tsk. Anyway that damn fuel is always the problem. “How can you not get it?”

“This time all the hyenas were caught….”

“Whew. “Why doesn’t something like this happen?”

Crow masks chattering carefree.

Meanwhile the screaming that seemed to go on forever suddenly stopped.

And what is tied up in that place is…

[Kaaaa!]

Mist Burn.

A blue smoke monster burning with a pitch-black corpse as its wick was roaring with vicious force.

[Kyaaa!]

“Oh yeah. “Are you happy too?”

The crow masks waved their hands indifferently and skillfully put on thick gloves on both hands.

“Okay then let’s start working. “Before the firewood goes out.”

“What should I do with everything I’ve used up?”

At that time the crow mask in the corner raised its hand and said.

Next to it the remains of the Mist Burn where the fire had cooled down were piled up.

“Oh there was that. “We’ll be doing the work among ourselves so just throw it away.”

“yes. All right.”

“You know you shouldn’t throw it away anywhere right?”

“of course. Zero car.”

Crow Mask loaded the remains of the Mist Burn onto a cart one by one.

Then he grumbled as he went outside with the cart.

“Ugh. bothered. Where should I throw it away again this time? “In my mind I just want to pile it all up near the factory.”

“Oh so you’re telling me that your location here is discovered? “Throw it away as far away as possible!”

“I understand.”

The Crow Mask shrugged its shoulders and disappeared into the darkness pulling a creaking cart.

The other crow masks that were watching him clicked their tongues as if they were displeased.

“Anyway you keep doing tricks.”

“He may talk like that but he’s good at his work. “Now let’s get started.”

“yep. “The 13th Stardust project will begin.”

At that moment the crow masks’ eyes became even more cautious.

And the eyes of the people chained behind them were full of desperation.

‘Please save me.’

‘Someone please… us…’

They prayed and prayed.

But their voices did not reach the sky.

* * *

[Kkiek?]

At that moment Ber twitched his antennae.

Then I turned my head and stared into the dark subway tunnel.

[Solord.]

“I felt it too.”

Suho was also looking in Ver’s direction with narrowed eyes.

‘Is it because my senses stats have increased?’

[information]

Senses: This stat increases the five senses. Crisis detection ability increases.

In the darkness of a long subway track.

A gloomy energy was felt somewhere in that deep tunnel.

‘That’s creepy.’

I could tell without looking.

There was clearly something powerful lurking at the end.

The first thing that came to mind was the existence of the boss.

However Seoul Station Field was an old dungeon that had been around for a year.

This means that other hunters have already wiped out the profitable magic beasts such as boss mobs.

As a result the only demonic beasts left here were lizards which were numerous and highly prolific.

‘If it’s not the boss what is this energy?’

Suho looked at the raid hunters who were hunting lizards.

‘Is it possible that no one noticed but me? Such blatant malice?’

And that malice was glaring at me from the darkness.

Like… an eagle watching its prey from a distant sky.

And the hunter’s target was the raid hunters who were making noise in the area.

and.

“The fuel has arrived on its own.”

Suddenly a voice muttered in the dark.

Woe!

“…!”

At that moment Suho and Ber opened their eyes and shouted at the same time.

“damage!”

[It is the enemy!]

Kwaang-!

“…!”

At that moment an explosion occurred.

And then something wearing a black robe appeared there.

An unidentified man wearing a crow mask.

But no one thought of him as a person.

The monster’s abnormally swollen forearm was sticking out of the black robe.

“It’s a humanoid demon beast!”

At the attack leader’s shout the hunters immediately organized their battle lines.

“oh. Avoid this?”

Raven Mask slowly stood up and pulled out his fist from the tunnel floor.

“It’s pretty good.”

Wow.

A piece of cement crumbled from his truly bizarre-looking hand.

and.

Swish.

In an instant his figure disappeared from everyone’s sight.

“…!”

The surprised hunters’ eyes became busy trying to find him.

But it was already too late.

‘Starting with the troublesome healer.’

Wedge-!

Suddenly the guy appeared from behind and his massive fist flew towards the attack leader’s defenseless back.

The attack leader’s eyes widened as he realized this fact a little too late.

and.

Flash!

“…!”

At that moment the eyes of the crow mask widened.

Suddenly someone jumped in front of him and blocked the attack.

Push!

Black blood gushes out like a fountain.

“her.”

Suho who had blocked his fist with ‘Volkan’s horn’ was glaring at him from under the blood fountain.

“Look at this?”

The corner of the crow mask’s mouth was viciously torn.