The Shaman was furious.
When it first opened its eyes in this place, only one order was filling up its mind.
– Hunt down humans!
However, what was the meaning of this pathetic display?
Wasn’t a lone human easily hunting down every single member of its tribe? This wasn’t supposed to happen. No, such a thing must not happen at all.
The Shaman’s eyes reddened even further as it witnessed the massacre of its subordinates.
‘You insect-like bastard! I’ll step on you!!’
If hexes didn’t work against the enemy, then all it had to do was to bless itself and fight!
“The song of rage! The song of strengthening! The song of the giants! The song of the fire dragon!”
With the completion of the various spells, the Shaman’s body suddenly ballooned up to nearly ten metres tall. Its strength, agility, stamina, and even its confidence increased greatly as well, power filling up every square inch of its frame.
Right away, the Shaman used its gigantic arm to swat away the Shadow Soldiers, and then took a deep breath.
And then…
“Fuuuu-hoook!!”
When the Shaman spat out its breath, reddish black flames erupted out of its mouth.
Rumble!!
The soldiers immediately dissipated and scattered away when they were struck dead-on by the flames. Even those grazed by it were no exception. Parts of their bodies were blown away and they were rendered unable to carry on fighting.
The flames didn’t end with one attack; the second wave of flames spat out of the Shaman’s mouth in a row.
The Shaman was able to greatly reduce the number of the Shadow Soldiers with its continuous attacks. Having received a boost to its confidence, it roared out at the top of its lungs.
“Do you still find this great Karugalgan funny now?!”
The reply came from above its head.
“Yup.”
The Shaman flinched and raised its head, all the while hurriedly trying to chant a defensive spell, but…
But, Jin Woo was one step quicker.
CRACK!!
The Shaman’s head smashed down into the ground. The floor shattered and spiderweb-like cracks rapidly spread out.
Jin Woo had already experienced blowing away Vulcan with his bare fist. And that demon was much, much larger than this arrogant Shaman, too.
[You have killed the owner of the dungeon.]
When he lightly landed on the ground, feel-good messages began popping up in his view one after the other.
[Level up!]
“There you go!”
Jin Woo pumped his fist.
Back when he was fighting using ‘Stealth’, he levelled up once. When he was killing these Orcs, another level up. And, after killing the boss just now, another level up. Clearing this A-rank dungeon netted him three level ups, in other words.
This was a result well above his expectation. He even felt very grateful towards Foreman Bae for suggesting yesterday that they should work together again.
‘This is very good.’
With an elated mind, Jin Woo walked closer to the boss. The once-buffed up Shaman’s body had reverted back to its original size already.
He saw an egg-sized magic crystal embedded in the dead boss’s necklace, but he decided to not to get too greedy.
‘Earning experience points is good enough.’
This was the Hunters Guild’s dungeon, at the end of the day.
If he wanted to get his hands on a magic crystal from a rank A dungeon, he didn’t need to enter someone else’s dungeon – he’d just buy himself a permit for a dungeon of his own, instead.
No, what Jin Woo was aiming for was something else. And that would be the black smoke beginning to rise up from the boss’s corpse.
Gulp.
Jin Woo licked his lips in anticipation.
He couldn’t help but remember the corpse of Baruka, the one that slipped through his fingers back in the Red Gate.
‘But, my situation is a lot different compared to then.’
Compared to now, his Stats weren’t that high back then.
Also, killing that bastard took a lot out of him. Only after receiving the aid of two knight-grade soldiers, Igris and Iron, did he manage to beat that boss down.
However, he was able to kill this Shaman comparatively easily today.
A week spent inside the Demon’s Castle – this was the definite proof that the events of those short seven days weren’t in vain.
Jin Woo issued a new order at the rising, wavering black steam-like smoke.
“Arise.”
At the same time, an ominous wind brushed past his two cheeks. He instinctively realised it right away.
‘It worked!’
A radiant smile bloomed on Jin Woo’s face.
Kuwaaaahhh!!
As the soul-tearing scream resounded out, a mage covered in black robe rose up from the shadow of the dead Shaman.
…Huh?
Jin Woo sensed something was different about this guy, and so he checked the information window.
[?? Lv.1]
Elite Knight grade
‘An Elite Knight?’
Previously, Jin Woo was able to confirm that there were three grades to the Shadow Soldiers.
Regular grade.
Elite grade.
And then, the Knight grade.
But now, for the first time ever, the ‘Elite Knight’ grade appeared.
He began to think that, seeing the word ‘elite’ tacked on to the already-existing grade ‘Knight’, this new guy had to be a realm higher than either Igris or Iron in terms of combat prowess.
‘For sure, I can sense that its magic energy is far greater than that of my two knights.’
As expected of turning the boss of a rank A dungeon into his Shadow Soldier.
[Please set the soldier’s name.]
And also as expected, he got another System message telling to name the new guy, now that another Knight-grade Shadow Soldier had appeared.
‘A name, is it….’
Well, its face was hidden under the hood of the robe now, but still, High Orcs and lengthy fangs went hand in hand, no?
‘Right, let’s name it: Tusk.’
He didn’t need to issue a separate order; just thinking about it meant the new guy’s name would be set.
[Tusk Lv.1]
Elite Knight grade.
Instead of question marks, the new name appeared in the information window.
If the Shaman who remained utterly arrogant right till the moment it died heard this name, the poor guy might have fainted on the spot. But well, who cares? It was already dead, anyway.
With a satisfied grin on his face, Jin Woo recalled his Shadow Soldiers.
He could now store almost 130 of them. Although it was a bit regrettable, he had to return the rest back to the void.
‘This much is more than enough, though.’
He stepped off from the altar with a big smile on his face, but then, several people rushed over to him. They were – Hunters from the raid team, Park Jongryeo with a group of men wearing matching black business suits.
Jin Woo recognised one of the faces among the black suits.
‘Since when did Chief Woo Jinchul show up?’
Seeing the expression on Woo Jinchul, he probably had witnessed the Shadow Soldiers in action in full.
“Mister Sung Jin Woo.”
“Sung Jin Woo Hunter-nim.”
“Mister Porter?!”
Everyone called out to him at the same time, then they took glances at each other.
Well, it was all fine and dandy that he got to fight to his heart’s content since he no longer had any reason to hide his powers, but…..
‘….How am I supposed to get out of this now?’
Jin Woo looked at all these people surrounding him and scratched the back of his head.
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