Dungeon Hunter - Chapter 10

Chapter 10: Episode 3. Attack Unit (2)

It was in the middle of the day.
I was sitting on a park bench, watching people. For me, it was interesting to watch little kids running around and their mothers chasing them.
‘This is peaceful.’ I cleaned up my sunglasses.
They now knew there were dungeons and monsters, but they were living their lives peacefully as if nothing ever happened. This peace would last longer than people expected if I don’t do anything special. In my former life, I started to kill people mercilessly, so their peace couldn’t last long. Places around my dungeon became ruins. There were no living creatures around it.
Now, I had decided to become a hero, so it would be different. I had no plan to attack them as I did in my former life. Unless they attacked me, I wouldn’t be their enemy.
For now, anyway.
‘This isn’t a bad feeling,’ I reflected. Is it because I was killed once?
This was really peaceful. I felt like I’d become a better devil. Sitting among humans and peacefully watching them was never on my agenda in my former life. It was an unimaginable act.
Now, I was stronger than ever in my former life. Moreover, I had a greater potential to become even stronger. So, nothing really mattered. It was the peace of the strong.
I had decided to become a hero among them, and sitting here doing nothing was part of my plan to do that. I knew nothing about modern human life or culture. I wasn’t able to read any of their cultural or behavior codes. That was natural. In my life before, I’d had no interest in knowing any of them.
I’ve seen and fought against humans who were pushing the edge, but now it was different. A lot different. Until now, humans were living their peaceful lives. Especially here, in Korea, it was different because they’d lived against a threat, North Korea, for a while. A dungeon wasn’t their biggest problem ever.
Now, it was my job to see what they were into so I could understand and mingle perfectly. That was the reason I was spending so much time and effort to look around and navigate among them.
‘Kim Yongwoo made everything easier. I was able to save a lot of time.’ I remembered when I’d walked out of my dungeon. There were a few people hired by Kim Yongwoo who’d followed me. They had been waiting for me for more than two weeks. I appreciated their patience because all they had about me was a piece of paper with a brief sketch of my face and appearance.
That made my life easier for sure. When I met Kim Yongwoo again at his guild house, he volunteered to become my servant. He treated me like a god. He came to me on his hands and knees and kissed my feet. It was a bit ridiculous because all I did was save his life once. I guess that explains how shocking that was to him.
I took it because there was nothing to lose for me. It seemed like Kim Yongwoo was influential among the heroes, so I decided to take him as my servant. If I stood behind him and controlled him, that was the perfect position for me. I didn’t want to get any attention for now.
‘Now I have my ID…am I a citizen here now?’ I picked up my ID from my wallet and laughed. Kim Yongwoo created my ID as well. He kept my name, but he made me a second-generation Korean from the United States. The story was I left Korea when I was nine and graduated with an MBA from Harvard University, then came back. Kim Yongwoo had just decided that Harvard is the best in the US and made this set up without asking me.
He’d only graduated middle school, so he was quite a simple character, but that didn’t really matter. All I wanted was my ID to work on my plan.
“Is this seat empty?” A girl who kept looking at me from a bit ago came and asked me.
I didn’t even look at her. Although I didn’t answer her, she took the seat next to me as if she knew that I wouldn’t respond. She was tailing me since this morning when I came out from the Guild of Heaven’s Will. I didn’t like it too much.
I glanced at her and realized that I knew that person from my former life. She looked a bit different from then, but she was the guild master of the guild Danbi. I opened the status window to make sure. 1
Name: Arin
Occupation: Warrior (Archer)
Title: N/A
Abilities:
Power 25, Intelligence 34, Speed 47, Strength 23, Mana 30
Potential(169/401)
Others: the guild master of ‘Danbi’
Skills: Aiming(N), Running Fire(N)
‘I knew it.’
It was quite clear.
Her sharp eyes, pretty nose, and thin but pretty lips made her an outstanding beauty. In my former life, half her face was deformed by fire. She was chasing me with a miserable deformed face.
It was not difficult to imagine why she was chasing me so desperately, though. I’d given her that miserable face.
That was…right before my dungeon was completely destroyed. When my dungeon Core was threatened, I spent all my points and got a fire monster of the highest level, and that monster burnt her face. Thanks to that scar, she treated me like her archenemy and chased me with her guild. During a handful of fights, she almost killed me. I was the winner at the end, but not without damage. It took a whole year of recovering from the damage I’d gotten from her and her guild.
‘So, the circle of life, is that it?’ The guy I met the other day, and now this is the guild master of guild Danbi. It wasn’t even a problem to make her go away, but I didn’t. My instinct told me even if I did so, this kind of thing would happen over and over again.
Maybe I would have in my former life, but now everything had reset; it was a waste of time and energy to talk about what happened in my former life. I could kill her or do anything if she turned out to be an enemy.
When I looked down, I was able to see her eyes. She was looking at me quite intensely.
I answered coldly. “What do you want?”
Her icy face became slightly warmer. I guess she was waiting for me to talk to her. Arin picked up a business card from her bag and handed it to me with a smile.
“Call me.”
“…?”
I didn’t really react, but she was still smiling.
She touched my shoulder when she stood up. “I will wait for your call.” Then, she walked away without any hesitation.
I was left alone feeling a bit confused.
‘That human female… what does she want?’ It was hard to understand what her intention was. Did she follow me for a while only to hand me a business card? Does she understand anything about efficiency? Why would she touch my shoulder? If her touch had had any hostility, I’m sure I would have reacted accordingly, but it didn’t. That made me even more confused.
‘Is that seduction?’ I didn’t know women. I was on the battlefield before I became a man, and I’d had to work hard to become stronger for over 300 years. On the battlefield, beauty is something that you have to be aware of. I’d seen so many people who were taken by beautiful girls only to be found dead the next day.
The four archdukes and nobles under them would never do that, but they were not the only ones in Devildom. There were some devils who enjoyed killing for pleasure and succubi who wanted to suck up some energy from men. That was the reason I never wanted to get involved with women. The pleasure I got from the power was greater than the pleasure that I could get from sexual intercourse. Anyways, that’s what I thought. 3
I had my sexual needs and had some experiences from my needs. Once I lost my mind and looked for sexual pleasure for a period of time, but those were simply physical acts without any connection. I knew nothing about the connection department.
‘Well, she came to a wrong person I suppose.’ I didn’t care about why Arin gave me her business card. I was not curious enough to call her to ask her, so I threw her business card away on the ground and left the bench. 2
If she had something important to tell me, she would come and find me. If not, that didn’t really matter, because I didn’t care.
Of course, her potential was high among humans. I guessed that she was the best among the people I’d met. I wanted to have her. She had such high potential. and I wanted to have her if possible. I’d met her in my former life, and she was a character who wouldn’t follow me easily. She was also a guild master who would limit her decisions.
What I needed was an attack unit that would follow me blindly…a small number of people who were highly trained.
‘Now it’s time for me to experience a raid of humans.’ I put away the thoughts about Arin and headed toward the parking lot.