Hunter Academy’s Battle God

Chapter 36

Sumire had rescued the hostage.

Lin Xiao, now free, stood up from his spot on the ground and checked his body.

“Good, all of the bindings are gone.”

“Instructor Lin Xiao! P-please follow me!”

The desperate situation she was in caused her to quicken her speech, but Lin Xiao shook his head.

“No! I wish I could comply with the hunter who saved me, but a fracture happened in my right leg when the villains kidnapped me. I can’t move at the moment,” he replied firmly.

“Wh-what!? B-but…Instructor-nim’s leg is…”

Sumire, in tears, pointed a finger towards Lin Xiao’s perfectly fine leg. He ignored her and continued to give her the scenario.

“So! you must take the appropriate action by using a splint and triangular bandages on my leg. Only then can I leave this location!”

“G-got it!”

Following his explanation of the situation, Sumire searched around the room for any available tools she could use. As it turned out, she found a splint and triangular bandages that Lin Xiao had prepared beforehand.

Tap tap!

Sumire walked over, grabbed the two items, and went back to the instructor to begin his first aid.

“Where does it hurt?! Is it over here?”

“Let’s say it’s my knee that’s been fractured. One hour has passed. There’s just a crack in the bone.”

Lin Xiao gave her a very difficult assignment, as expected of someone who was infamous for treating practice situations as if they were real. But Sumire was actually a very accomplished student and excelled in taking notes.

“I understand!”

Due to it, this level of first-aid was not a problem for her. In fact, she finished the task in record time.

“I-it’s done! I used the bandages to secure the splint. Let’s see how the wound develops… if your fracture isn’t serious, then later we can…”

Lin Xiao smiled proudly as she gave an honor-student level explanation and stopped her with an outstretched palm.

“Stop! Enough, that was perfect.”

“Thank you very much! but I don’t think I did anything worth being praised about…”

Sumire’s voice grew smaller due to her embarrassment. Lin Xiao, satisfied, ripped off the splint and bandages.

“Yes! The first aid was a success! Now, I will follow you wherever!”

“Then…we have to return to the base, so let’s head down to the first floor…”

“Sounds good! Let’s go, quick!”

The instructor gave a boisterous laugh and left through the steel door. Sumire began to assure herself.

‘Now victory really is within arm’s reach…’

All she had to do was lead the rescued hostage back to the base, then Sumire would become the lead actor of the intramural test.

‘Sh-Shin YuSung-ssi… will be happy with me, right?’

While descending the stairs, Sumire began subconsciously thinking about a scene where Shin YuSung was happy: a Shin YuSung who was generous with his praise. Sumire's lips were trembling as if she couldn’t wait for it to happen.

‘W-with everything that I’ve done, he’ll…’

[You did well, Sumire.]

In her fantasies, Shin YuSung was saying this and softly patting her head.

“Hee, heehee…”

Sumire suddenly began to emit a creepy sound from her mouth. Surprised, Lin Xiao turned to face her, expression puzzled.

“Wh-what’s wrong? Is there a problem?”

“Nope! None at all!”

She slammed her mouth shut, caught in the act, and frantically shook her head in denial. Lin Xiao narrowed his eyes at his student, who was covered in a cold sweat.

‘What a strange girl.’

This was the conclusion that anyone who met her came to, but Sumire did not mind how he looked at her. Her head was currently filled with the thought of what praise Shin YuSung would give her.

* * * *

Following Park HaWon’s commands, the top 10 strongest students of D Class created an assault squad. Their only goal was to occupy the F Class’s base.

“Shin YuSung isn’t in the rest stop right now! Everyone’s ready, right?”

“There’s nothing to ‘get ready’ for, fighting them is gonna be easy since they’re weak as hell, even if there’s more of them overall.”

“True, true. All of their student rankings are outside of the top 100.”

The assault squad’s morale was through the roof. Without the Seven, Shin YuSung, standing in their way, they thought that it would be child’s play to take over the opponent’s base.

But F Class still had a strategy that Shin YuSung had left with them.

The moment of truth.

Lee SiWoo, who was left in charge of commanding his classmates as per Shin YuSUng’s orders, smirked.

“Hey, D Class is here! Renia!”

“Uh, I-I’m really gonna do it?!”

“What did I say! Do it now! Immediately!”

Renia set fire to the barricade. Thanks to the park fire getting rid of the stealth unit, they could set up a barricade around the rest area. At that moment, that plan was coming to fruition.

Blaze! Crackle!

The powerful flames crawled up the encircling barricade and turned it into a giant curtain of fire that protected the building. D Class made their move to try and put out the fire in order to attack the base, but F Class did not stand back and let them do it.

“Everyone! Go all out!”

At Lee SiWoo’s signal, his classmates began pelting the assault squad with their long-range attacks.

“Destroy D Class!”

“We’re also capable of winning!”

“As long as we hold out, YuSung will win for us!”

Woosh! Crack!

Lee SiWoo’s arrow shattered the barrier belonging to one of the assault squad members. This was all due to the opening that Shin YuSung’s strategy, the fire wall, had created.

“Oh ho! I hit one!”

Lee SiWoo clenched his fist and gave a shout, heightening the fervor of his classmates even more.

“Ooh! We’re winning!”

“You saw that, right? We really can do it!”

The students who couldn’t perform long-range attacks with their Traits were even slinging rocks at the enemy, and all of this combined to create a fierce counterattack. D Class’s assault squad eventually had to admit defeat.

“Retreat!”

“Retreat for now! Everyone, pull back!”

The assault squad grew fainter and fainter into the distance.

Lee SiWoo lifted his chin with a proud expression on his face while thinking of Shin YuSung.

‘He really is incredible.’

Even after leaving the base, Shin YuSung’s plan had saved everyone in F Class while they were defending the base. It was all possible due to the fact that the Fist King had taught the boy how to use tactics in real-life situations on the Martial Spirits’ Mountain.

As Lee SiWoo didn’t know about this, all he could do was be in awe of Shin YuSung’s wisdom.

‘How do his plans always fall so neatly in place?’

This was a good opportunity for Lee SiWoo.

[In the case that I have to serve someone, the stronger, the better.]

It was something that he had been thinking about ever since he was little. To him, Shin YuSung was the man who suited that position the best.

* * *

* * *

Class president Park HaWon bit her lip, an expression full of despair on her face.

‘…Ten seconds! How could they not even last for ten seconds?’

Third place among the Sevens.

The person in question, Shin YuSung, was as strong as the title suggested. As proof, the three students who were protecting Park HaWon were wiped out in an instant as soon as Shin YuSung left the rest area.

That was how overwhelmingly powerful he was.

Under pressure, Park HaWon took the chance to just barely make her escape. But she couldn’t widen the distance between him and her anymore.

“Hahh… hahh!”

The building in front of her was the restaurant, near the plot of land that was neutral territory; it was where she had placed the main attacking force, the battalion.

Due to this, there was a D Class student who greeted Park HaWon outside the building. They waved their arm towards her.

“Prez! Over here! Hurry! I heard you from the radio!”

“…Hahh, I can barely breathe.”

Park HaWon stopped in place to catch her breath.

The class president was not physically fit. In fact, lack of physical strength was a shared weakness among hunters who relied solely on their Traits.

The core member of the battalion, Ju HaJin, grimaced at her sorry state.

“You really should’ve trained your body a bit more, huh?”

“Is this really the time to pick a fight with me?”

Park HaWon placed her glasses back on her face after taking them off. Ju HaJin grumbled.

“And who gave operational authority to Jin MinAh and Sung IkHyun instead of me?”

“I’m sorry. It’s my bad, okay? So think up a plan to stop that monster already.”

Park HaWon pointed in a certain direction with her finger. There, Shin YuSung was slowly walking towards the group, long hair swaying in the wind.

“I-Is he planning to take on all of us?”

“…That’s a bit much, even for a Seven.”

“Just how much is that bastard looking down on us?”

The D Class battalion began to talk amongst themselves. 

“Hey, prez, what do you think? Can we stop him?” asked Ju HaJin, whose face had adopted a sickly pallor.

“…We have to stop him, no matter what it takes.”

“That so?”

Ju Hajin took out a pill from his Pocket and put it in his pants pocket. That pill was a supplement, a kind of hunter gear.

‘This is an item that a person usually needs permission from the Hunter Association to get…’

Somehow, Ju HaJin’s Pocket contained one of those pills. He couldn’t figure out who had sent him the supplements.

However, the temptation to use it was strong.

‘If I take the supplement and fight against Shin YuSung with the battalion…’

Ju HaJin thought about doing so long and hard as he watched Shin YuSung approach the group. Nevertheless, he ended up not leaving the pill in his pants pocket.

‘…Whatever. Shit. No matter how much I want to win against him, what’s the point of fighting Shin YuSung after taking it?’

But even at a glance, one could feel the overwhelming amount of mana lying within the boy. To Ju HaJin, Shin YuSung was an opponent that so thoroughly transcended him that any number of supplements wouldn’t be enough to guarantee his victory against him.

‘If he’s going to wipe the floor with me, I may as well do it fair and square…’

Making his decision, Ju HaJIn smirked and readied his stance. Park HaWon gave orders to the entire battalion.

“It’s really grinding my gears that our enemy is just one person, but… Let’s give it our all.”

Step step. Tup.

Shin YuSung stopped his march towards the D Class battalion. With an expressionless gaze, he surveyed the area, then touched his Pocket.

Woosh!

Shin YuSung’s school uniform split into countless fragments and scattered into the wind. At the same time, the elegantly antiquated Black Dragon’s Hide replaced it.

Shin YuSung was thinking of trying out his newly-acquired artifact during the test.

Unlike the grim resolution held by the D Class students, he was rather relaxed. Shin YuSung had finally figured out how strong he was. Even alone, Shin YuSung was the predator, and even when there were many, D Class was the prey. His strength was simply on a different level.

Tap!

The smiling Shin YuSung kicked his foot against the ground. In the same instant, his form disappeared from sight.

The hunt had begun.