Hunter of the Perished World

It took Leona a long time to crawl up out of the anthill. Leona not only extracted the Queen Ant chips, but also the corpses she encountered on the way up, so it was natural for her to take longer.

Tugu

"Phew... I thought you were gonna die."

Leona's body, covered in the fluid of ants as well as soil, smelled like rot.

"This sucks."

"And you thought you'd come out clean?"

Leona shoots Gin, who speaks in disgust. Leona breathes and exhales several times, as if it had been a very long time since she had tasted fresh air.

"You keep the spell until you wash yourself clean."

"Got it."

In case you haven't noticed, Gene decides to leave the spellbinding to Leona and hands over his weapons and equipment. The mud hardened his face once as he looked at the soil, and his face stiffened once more as he looked at the clean magazine.

"... Did you use a flare gun?"

"Yes, the queen was alive."

"……."

Even though the shotgun that was cleaned up in Juul became a mess, I was not disappointed because I was prepared at the moment I left it. Leona takes the chipbox out of her arms and hands it to Gin.

"A total of 928 chips. The queen threw up about 400 ants."

The chips Leona brought were substantial because she extracted them from the queen as well as other ants. As Gin stares at the chipset box, Leona pushes the box to Gin.

"Think of it as a tuition until I'm a real hunter. No soup later."

While this is a long shot, Leona has been collecting chips for Gin, not because she wants them. Gene puts a box of chips in his chest, and Leona goes up on a rattled hammock and falls asleep without a clue.

I thought it was a simple objection, but Leona actually went down to the anthill and extracted the queen's chip. Even if there were no practical threats, it's not that simple. Even if Gene had been able to roam around the anthill like Leona, he would have thought a lot about going down.

Just because it's not dangerous, it's not something anyone can do, walking around a dark anthill like black.

Gene was not satisfied with this immortal income. Gene fills the hole out of Leona again with a shovel. I didn't mean for the epidemic to spread upward and get even more horrific.

"Now that I think about it, we won some of the chips that Ju-Seong's people dug up?"

The next day, Leona stepped out of the way again.

"Sort of. But there's still a lot of termites left, so they won't get wet anyway."

Gene wondered whether people would dig up the land in the first place. Even though Nodaj was buried, he was looking for needles in the desert because he didn't know where.

Of course, Leona and Jean, who knew the location, were reluctant to wait any longer, so they had to leave near Ju-Seong.

"And since you've confirmed that the termite colony was actually destroyed, you won't have to worry."

"Yes, it is."

In fact, the spell worked, and the effect was the effect of drying out the seeds throughout the colony of termites. This area is now safe from termites.

"Then we should be safe here."

"Well, if one group of predators disappears, another group of predators will emerge, so you can't be sure."

"Is that so?"

Ecology is unpredictable, and an ecology containing monsters is even more unpredictable. Eliminating a group of dangerous monsters doesn't necessarily make it safe. The termites were not the top predators, but the stealing of prey provided conditions that made it difficult for monsters in the area to live.

Now that the evil condition is gone, there is no way of knowing which predator will come for the free communities.

While Leona tilts her head, Gene has a completely wrong idea.

'Then the South of the Korean Peninsula...'

With nearly all the monsters consumed by the prototype in the SMCP Fortress raid, the southern monsters must have dried up.

The White Witch may not have intended it, but as a result, the South Central Peninsula is likely to become a monster free clean slate.

The monsters that existed in the first place are the same, but the Korean Peninsula is more likely to live.

Of course, it is likely that the human species dried up because monsters would have committed such massacres.

'The South Korean Peninsula will be a natural state for a while.'

The South will remain intact until new refugees settle down without monsters or humans. An unintended paradise awaits someone to come. When he thought about it, Gene looked at Leona.

"By any chance..."

"Why?"

No place is more perfect for Leona than the South Korean Peninsula, who hates both humans and monsters. Then how about living down south now? It won't be dangerous. Empty cities are everywhere. But Gene stops speaking after seeing Leona's face.

"What are you trying to say?"

"No, it's nothing."

But Gene had no idea that Leona was going to go down easy. Rather, I'm glad you won't keep your promise to make me a hunter.

"Let's go. We have a long way to go."

"Is it fresh?"

Leona walks ahead with her shoulders shrugged, and Gene walks behind her.

"Don't go ahead without knowing where you're going."

"This is the right way."

"That's true, but..."

"Then follow me."

"I'd better not say."

The mouth-breathing kid was walking hard to make sure he wasn't tired.

Gene and Leona walked for days on end.

The distance to Saturn is still long, and the exact location was in the city of Yichun, Heilongjiang, China, where Gin and Leona had to walk for quite a long time.

Gene travels around the world on foot, being under a mission to hunt demons, is not too lazy, but maintains a slow pace of march, not too fast.

It wasn't just about Leona, it wasn't about moving in a hurry.

"Somewhere alive. It would be a shame if you died on your own, but that's not a bad thing."

It was Jean's answer to Leona's question that she seemed quite relaxed.

It's only natural that the Devil would still be alive somewhere, and that one day he would be exposed. After preparing to hunt demons, Gene will travel the world waiting for a decade or twenty years for demons to appear in the world.

Actually, nothing has changed. Under extremely limited circumstances, Gene can only hope to find a place where the Devil has appeared while wandering.

"I'm supposed to meet you in life anyway."

There's a limit to what you can actively look for, so you don't have to rush. Then you get tired of the sheaves. Jean has lived as a hunter for far too long, and she knew that this kind of hunting must be accomplished.

Gene was sure the White Witch wouldn't be hidden for long anyway, so he knew he had to put all his strength into preparing for the hunt.

"Where are we?"

"Hmm…. The Korean Peninsula is almost out. As soon as we cross the river, it's a continent from there."

"Continent?"

In the beginning, Leona didn't even know the concept of the Korean Peninsula, so she didn't know what Jean's words meant. Gene paused for a moment and painted a map of the Asian continent on the dirt floor with his quite elaborate hands, drawing the Korean Peninsula on the corner.

"We came all the way up here, and this is where we are now."

"Is that all you got?"

Leona sighed a little bit as opposed to a relatively large Asian and Korean peninsula. Leona's expression deteriorated even more as she marked the location of the destination. Having to walk the same distance again was a terrible thing to face.

"The world is really big...."

Even though Leona drew only the Asian continent, Leona held out her tongue as if the size of Sazam District was surprising.

"It's actually bigger. There's Europe, there's Africa, there's other continents."

"Another continent? There's one more thing like this?"

Leona couldn't keep her mouth shut because she was surprised and surprised that the world she lived in was so big.

"How do I get to another continent?"

"Well, you won't be able to go."

"Why?"

"There's no ship that can get there."

Leona kept asking me if it was fun just knowing new facts, and she kept chatting on the way back.

"Have you ever been to another continent?"

"A long time ago."

"Fantastic. I want to go, too."

At that, Jean smiled. It was really funny when a kid who had not seen all of Asia talked about wanting to go to America.

"It's not so different from here."

"Still, I want to go."

"It's not like there's no way to get there."

"How?"

"All you have to do is steal a Wargrave Battleship. There's a Wargrave fleet in Vladivostok, at least close to here. We just need to get one good shot out of there. Of course, you'll have to run the bridge yourself."

"Is that what they say you can't do?"

Jean grins as Leona speaks bluntly. In fact, Wargrave had at least a fleet of ships. Of course, it was a shameful thing to call stealing even though it was less fortunate. Leona asked as if she suddenly remembered.

"People live there, too?"

"I don't know about now.... Once upon a time."

That's what Gene said, and Leona nods. After a long walk, Gene and Leona soon reached the Twenty Thousand River.

When you cross this river, which is like a branch line, the Korean Peninsula actually escapes. On the hillside, Gene and Leona are able to see the downward bending river and the other side of the plain. Leona stares at the sight with her mouth wide open, her eyes wide.

And Gene, too, looked around to see the surroundings without admiration, and soon Gene and Leona were able to sense the ideals here.

"…… It's a little bumpy."

"It's not enough to explain the awkwardness."

Across the river, a lot of armored cars and chariots were rolling around in rubble. There were trains, armored vehicles, and corpses that appeared to have been destroyed relatively recently.

Of course, their identity was Wargrave. Leona finds something and points to it with her hand.

"There's something there."

"Let's hide ourselves."

Gin and Leona hide between the woods and the trees in Hilltop. Where Leona pointed, a group of troops were searching the chariot's ruins. It looked small because it was across the river, but it was obvious what they were doing.

They search the wrecked vehicles for useful weapons or parts. So, they're either scavengers or slatters. Slatters were enemies, and scavengers were dangerous in every way. Strangers in the wilderness should always be vigilant, and Gene was a man of principle.

Gene pulls out the scope and starts looking at them.

'Someone stuck a reactor here, too.'

"Hey, looks like there's nothing left but scrap metal. '

'But we have one reactor. Efficiency is no joke. All we use is a bunch of junk.'

'The sin was abolished just now.... I was hoping to find some weapons.'

What the hell are these bastards doing here? '

'I don't know.'

'Still, a lump of scrap metal is enormous, and Wargrave steel can make anything you need. Let's settle for that.'

'Too bad, though. It's a big deal in no time.'

They are scavengers from the news that Wargrave forces have been wiped out. They search every inch of the rubble for anything worth looking for. Looking at what the scavengers are doing.

Hunters think.

Wargrave must have set up a defensive line on the Twenty Thousand River, and now it's been deployed and withdrawn. '

What was the line of defense for? '

'Maybe it was to stop the witch's drum and stop Charlotte from escaping.'

'Or both.'

'There are traces of melting and physical destruction on the surface of the trolley. Apparently, some kind of plasma or laser weapon was used. Once the witch escaped on a black hawk, there's a good chance she didn't do it.'

'The defense line is likely to be installed not only in the Duman River but also in the Abrok River. But they suffered heavy damage and the defense line was broken through...'

'The signs of this fight are long before the full moon. Hard to believe the entire Wargrave chariot army was wiped out in the first half of the day. We need transportation to rip off all the parts.'

'I can see the ruins of the chariots, armored cars and weapons...' An additional explosion has occurred since the maneuver stopped. Wargrave hates tech spills, so it's quite possible... '

"If the defenses are broken and there are additional Wargrave troops to retrieve the equipment, retrieving the parts, including the reactor, would be foolish to throw them away." '

Gene is looking at the scavengers, sorting out a lot of ideas that come to mind. They try to dig through the wreckage, but there are no usable weapons available. While it is possible that Wargrave has retreated and recovered all usable parts, Gene seems to have suffered a near annihilation. We need to organize our thoughts and determine the disposition of the scavenger based on the people, circumstances, and evidence that could do this kind of destruction.

Hunters judge.

'Wargrave Central Asian forces set up defensive lines on the Duman and Abroc rivers.'

'The objective would be to kill the White Witch and Lieutenant Carl, the Undercover.'

'Charlotte toppled the defense line. Or maybe he deliberately ran around looking for defense boats in this area and smashed the chariots.'

'Soon, there will be war between Command and the Central Asian Army. It was meant to weaken the power of the Central Asian army.'

"Charlotte may have escaped safely. '

"The disposal of Wargrave equipment is not Charlotte, it is a third party, not a Wargrave additional troop. '

'Leave the scavengers alone. There might be some scavengers nearby. There's no need to alert me with a gunshot.'

In Gene's view, the scavengers weren't equipped with a deadly weapon, and he had a front row seat as well. Jean was going to wait until they passed. Gene looks at Leona and sends a beep. In anticipation of this situation, Jean had taught Leona the call sign beforehand, and her memorable call signs had already been mastered long ago.

Leona nods at the tone of waiting.

In order to deal with the situation, Gene pulled out the M700 Remington and slowly mounted the silencer on the ground. Gene moves skillfully on his face.

Of course, it wasn't as far as it needed to be, but Gene decided it was better to get used to it in advance.

Scavengers search Wargrave corpses, but there's little to use. Wargrave equipment is strangely destroyed, from personal firearms to heavy equipment, at least one intact reactor.

'Damn, nothing's fine.'

Scavengers mutter similar words from afar. Soon after, the scavengers cease to move and Gene dies even more.

Bua 'ang

From a distance, you start to hear rough engine sounds. Even as they harden briefly, the scavengers scatter and find their hiding places. Everyone here knew what that engine sounded like.

A junk wagon, slater, is approaching. The defensive line is too wide open for the scavengers to escape, and they have no choice but to hide in a broken chariot or armored car.

Soon, a group of junk wagoners rush out to the river.

"Waaaahhhh!"

A lunatic mimicking the engine sounds with his mouth was running ahead.