Kill the Hero

1.

January 1, 2020.

[Start the game.]

In a word, the world became a game.

The dungeon appeared like a game and became a world of monsters jumping out of it.

The world could immediately experience such a change with its body.

“What is it?”

“What's that black hole over there? ”

“Huh? What's coming out? ”

The Dungeon Gate, which appeared all over the world, and monsters that had been beyond it began to leap out of the gate.

“Monster, monster! ”

“D, run! ”

Monsters like that turned the world into a battlefield in a flash.

Of course, the monsters that appeared were not strong enough to threaten the species.

Humanity was brimming with merciless weapons of destruction, and those weapons threatened monsters as well.

At least there was no problem in dealing with the early low-level monsters.

“I dealt with the monster ogre in Seoul. ”

The armies of each country wiped out the monsters.

However, there was no one who did not know that it would never be a solution.

“Another Ogre appeared in Incheon. ”

“Ogres have appeared in Busan! ”

No one knew it was the beginning of a nightmare.

“It also appeared in Daegu. ”

“You mean the ogre? ”

“Well, that's a dragon. ”

The bigger nightmare was that there was no way to end the nightmare that started that way.

Despite risking the downtown devastation and hunting monsters, monsters have resurfaced beyond the gate after a certain amount of time.

“Gate, how the fuck are we supposed to get rid of that thing? ”

Gate, as long as you don't break the dungeon beyond it, you're just repeating a war of wounds.

Fortunately, there was an answer.

Players have arrived.

“This dungeon is now extinct. ”

Players who went beyond the gate to the dungeon returned with hope from beyond.

The game-changing world began to reform around players.

And by 2023, survivors had adapted to the world.

[Monster Alert in Paju cook town!]

[Alarm Grade 1!]

People have now accepted monsters as part of their lives. When the monsters appeared, they evacuated without panic.

And they move to hunt monsters.

Of course, it was rare for an army to move.

“Monsters seem to appear more frequently these days. The number of players is growing. ”

“What if there are more players? All they do is wander around a ground floor dungeon or a second floor dungeon to protect themselves. ”

“Then you make a billion units of money. It's a world of celebrities on a billion dollar salary who catch monsters the same way, who are treated like filthy hounds. ”

It was contractors with the government, mercenaries hired by the government.

It was a reasonable way.

It was much cheaper to outsource than to invest taxes in the army to deal with monsters in the military.

It was easy to clean up after him.

When a soldier died, the state had to step up and give him pensions and compensation, but the mercenaries didn't have to.

Of course, a common-sense person doesn't do mercenaries who don't know when they'll die.

In other words, mercenaries had one reason why they could not live a common life.

“If I didn't have a record, I would have done a convenience store part time. ”

Those who are loading onto military trucks to deal with the monsters in Paju now.

“Your face doesn't persuade me. ”

“What? What happened to my face? ”

“Do I really have to say it? ”

“Son of a bitch! And your face? ”

“Better than you. ”

You have a criminal record, or you're in a hurry to sell your life, or you're in debt.

There was no other way to fight monsters than to risk their lives for those who could not live as normal as everyone else.

“Kim Woo-jin, you're better off in this situation. I'm dying of intoxication. ”

The same was true of Kim Woo-jin, who fell asleep with his arms folded in a truck.

“You look like a normal college student, but if he just opened his eyes, even a rabid dog has no such rabid dog. ”

Kim Woo-jin appeared to be an ordinary young man.

Not just the average, but a young man whose existence is so faint.

“It's better now. ”

“Better? ”

However, Kim Woo-jin's history was completely different from his appearance.

“Before the monsters showed up, I was hunting monster-like children, not monsters. ”

“Violence?”

“Yes, he was robbing the gangsters. I even went on a bounty hunt. ”

Kim Woo-jin, he was a criminal hunter.

“You're an apostle of justice. ”

“It's not like that. ”

Of course, it was never about hunting criminals for justice.

“I didn't catch gangsters or criminals for some sort of justice. They were okay to kill, so they caught them. ”

“What?"

“Right? Did you see the gangsters go to the police and report the robbery? ”

Whatever you do to criminals, there's not much of a tail.

“He has more than ten broken tissues in his hands. ”

That's why Kim Woo-jin became a criminal hunter, and now a monster hunter.

“Anyway, you're a jerk. Evidence that doing mercenaries in the first place is crazy, but he's not one of us. ”

It was then.

“Crazy?”

Kim Woo-jin opened his lips.

“Huff!”

Everyone who put Kim Woo-jin in front of it swallowed their breath in shock.

Soon, Kim Woo-jin opened his eyes and looked around.

The man who was telling Kim Woo-jin's behind-the-scenes story cried out in surprise.

“Woo Jin-ah, I just... ”

Kim Woo-jin looked at the man and frowned.

The ordinary look, but the look that I saw when I opened my eyes, was not a person's.

It was like a bloody beast.

“I mean · · · · · · · · · · · ·. ”

Even the excuse I tried to spit out would be swallowed up without me knowing.

“I mean · · · · · · · · · · · ·. ”

Kim Woo-jin, who was staring at the man with frowned eyes, suddenly said in a surprised look.

“Yangjaeho?”

“Ugh, yeah? ”

“Is it Yangjaeho? ”

“Ugh, yeah. ”

The man, Yangjae Ho, responded reflexively.

At that moment, Kim Woo-jin came straight to Yangjae Ho's front and looked around at his appearance.

It was a strange sight.

It was a sudden stop in the truck when the spectacle was spotted.

Yuck!

“Ow!”

“Ugh!”

“Oops!”

Everyone sitting in the truck is swept away in this sudden situation.

There's a monster on the road! Everybody, get your weapons!

Then, as the radio continues, everyone rushes out of the truck with their weapons, surprised faces.

As they flew away, each one of them began to pray.

“God, please let the members of the Messiah Guild be nearby. ”

“Please, if there is a Guild Member of the Messiah Guild nearby. ”

Kim Woo-jin frowned at the sound of his prayer.

At this moment, Kim Woo-jin couldn't understand his position.

I'm pretty sure I'm dead. ’

Kim Woo-jin rubs his chest wide with a blank expression. My foot, I found a wound pierced by that sword.

But there were no injuries.

Is it a dream?

Like everything was a dream.

Or am I dreaming? ’

Or what you're seeing right now is a dream.

‘No.'

However, this moment, Nguari, who was filling Kim Woo-jin's heart, clearly told me.

‘It's not a dream. ’

It was never a dream.

- Orcs! Orc hordes!

In his ears, he heard a radio, and Kim Woo-jin didn't think anymore.

‘We'll see about that. ’

2.

Humans are weak.

Even a big dog can't beat a naked human.

But humans who use tools are different.

With just one gun, you can slaughter even the most dazed monsters.

In fact, none of the monsters facing humanity posed a threat to the species.

I never thought about using nuclear weapons.

The problem was the damage.

One of the tens of thousands of vehicles that immediately drove back and forth from Seoul to India became a ruin.

What if there are monsters in Seoul that need shooting?

I can't tell you what it's like to lose lives or property.

Of course, the most important thing in dealing with the monsters that jumped out of the dungeon was to reduce the damage as much as possible.

That's why.

“Damn, what a bunch of Orcs. ”

“Trouble. If you want to catch Orc cubs, you need to spread one mag. ”

“He's not one to catch with a rifle in the first place. He needs some kind of RPG to catch him. ”

The only reason mercenaries hunt monsters is because automatic rifles are all they have.

“We're low on ammo, so we might have to axe it. ”

Moreover, I didn't have enough ammunition.

Of course it was natural.

If you allow firearms, chariots, grenades, etc. to outsource companies hired to deal with monsters that are not military and then cause a commotion with bad intentions, that's even worse.

Not enough ammunition supply, either.

“So pull the trigger only when you're sure. Don't waste ammunition. ”

That's why teamwork was so important to mercenaries.

“Okay.”

“Lazer.”

“Okay, let's just take a deep breath and start fighting. ”

The mercenaries who once again engraved the fact began to take deep breaths.

Taang!

The gunshot sounded when they all swelled my chest.

“Huh?”

“Who's there?”

Suddenly, everyone breathes out in a hurry. Then someone shouted.

“Kim Woo-jin! Kim Woo-jin charged into the Orc horde by himself! ”

Kim Woo-jin!

That name was enough.

"Damn it, you crazy son of a bitch! ’

You're in trouble! ’

Everyone was aware that there was a situation that was unfathomable to common sense, and it was.

Kim Woo-jin was doing something he could never understand.

“If you're going to die, die alone." ”

Kim Woo-jin begins to engage the Orc horde.

“What, what, what is that? ”

“I don't know. ”

You do not shoot from a distance, but pull the trigger one step at a time as you approach the orcs from a distance.

Taang!

You put bullets in the heads of the Orcs one by one.

Is that even possible? ’

You want a shot? It's not a game. '

Kim Woo-jin's marksmanship had surpassed the level of accuracy.

The expression seemed more magical.

Kim Woo-jin seems to be using some strange magic to silence the Orcs approaching him.

Taang!

When the twelfth shot sounded, there were no more Orcs standing on two legs.

Am I dreaming? ’

The mercenaries stand dumbfounded in front of him, forgetting their words.

And Kim Woo-jin was also standing after the hunt.

‘What I had was not a dream. ’

But I wasn't standing there dazed.

Kim Woo-jin coldly analyzed his situation.

‘If it was all a dream, none of this would have happened. ’

Once, Kim Woo-jin was neither dreaming nor dreaming.

If what you experienced were just a dream, you would never be able to shoot the same gun now.

In addition, the killing, bloodshed, and screaming of monsters that I felt a moment ago were never a dream.

In other words, everything Kim Woo-jin experienced was likely to be real.

Of course, I needed more evidence to be sure.

The future you have experienced is either recreated in front of you, or the basis for that.

‘I met him when I was working at Delta Company. The period during which I worked at Delta Company was from the beginning of February 2023 to March 7, and the day of March 7, during the Paju Orc Hunt, I worked as a player. ’

In the ear of Woojin Kim, I heard a system notification.

[Awaken as player.]

[Tough Fighter of Life Reaches Out to You.]

[A representative in the dark world holds out his hand to you.]

[Silent hunter reaches out to you.]

Kim Woo-jin was a solid reason to tell us that he had been betrayed and killed and returned to the past.