A Side Character's Mission ↠ Solo Leveling

Chapter 13: An Unexpected Incident

Inside an A-rank Dungeon, the rank of the different types of monsters varies, as for the specific one that Seung-Eun just entered, the lowest was a B-rank monster.

Giant bird with long beak was flying above him in circular motion. Its yellow beady eyes spied on the prey below on the ground.

Near him was a peculiar rabbit as the size was twice as larger than normal one. Instead of having bunny teeth, it had sharp fangs to chew smaller snakes slithering around on the green grasses.

When the rabbit stayed on its spot, the bird swoop down and snapped its body with its beak.

A chunk of bloody meat landed on his white lab suit and dropped on the ground.

Seung-Eun, "..."

Ignoring the blood, he continued striding further into the forest. The sooner, the better this inspection ended since he still needed to get a shut-eye before attending school tomorrow.

Rustles. The green bushes on his right moved, as if something was about to come out. However, contrast to normal people's expectations, the 'bushes' grew two arms and legs. It was a monster that used camouflage to hide.

The monster were always undetectable amongst the green unless someone paid intent attention to it. But, only small number of low level Hunters got their limbs chomped by it since Dungeons were usually cave-like. Any Hunters with common sense wouldn't touch anything abnormal carelessly inside a Dungeon.

After another several minutes of walking, he finally found the boss monsters. Unlike in usual low level Dungeons, the size was only twice of normal men.

They had the body of a gorilla and one of the most horrifying face of a monster. The fangs were longer than their chin, yellow drools dripped on the ground, they were hard enough to tear thick metal. It was a canine type magic beast that hunted birds and mammals.

Currently, they were sitting in a group, feasting an unlucky magic beasts birds and deers.

Even with the strongest team of Hunters in South Korea, it wasn't easy to beat these monsters since they were usually walking around in groups. Due to their aggressive nature and insensitive to pain, they wouldn't stop attacking until their limbs were chopped off. On top of that, their agility and strength resembled a B-rank Hunter.

Seung-Eun sat on a nearby log them and opened the floating window to lower the numbers of the boss monsters from twelve to ten, the two instantly disappeared. Afterwards, he observed and followed them as they went to hunt other beasts for a while, seeing with own eyes were better than watching the monsters from the window.

After confirming that all of the monsters inside the Dungeon were beneficial to the 'player', he skipped happily to the Gate. He removed the suit and suddenly felt something grazed his head and rolled down to his right shoulder.

Seung-Eun hesitated to touch the wet texture and brought it in front of his eyes to see.

Above him was the bird from before, eating the other lower half of the rabbit. Its beak was stained with the same red blood as on his skin.

The reason he was wearing a lab suit was to prevent himself from getting dirty. When he went back home, he could go straight to sleep.

His blood boiled and he threw the suit towards it. "How dare you..." As if taunting him, the bird ran away with a mocking chaw chaw. "Oi, come back here!"

The bird was quick to disappear from his sight.

Seung-Eun passed a hand through his hair and inhaled deeply.

"That's right. I need my beauty sleep first..." He put the suit back into the storage in the system. Since the stain was on his black denim jacket, he took it off and tied it around his waist.

Frowning, he left the Dungeon and abruptly halted his footsteps, suddenly seeing that he wasn't alone.

Vehicles, workers of mining and collecting team and around twenty high level Hunters were outside the Gate. They also noticed the person that just came out of the Gate. The two parties stared at each other in silence.

"..."

"..."

"Who are you? And who gave you the permission to enter the Gate?" It was a man dressed in pink striped business suits that interrogated the youth.

Seung-Eun didn't live under a rock, so he knew the man in front of him, the Guild Master of the Hunter Guild and an S-rank magician, Choi Jong-In. Behind him were B and A-rankers.

'Han Seung-Eun, a D-ranker. And I don't need anyone's permission since this is the Dungeon I created-'

As if he's going to say that!

Before Jong-In could walk any closer to get a closer look of his facial appearance, he was quick to drape the jacket to cover his face and opened a portal under his feet. Like a magician, he disappeared within few seconds.

Everyone were baffled by the scene in front of them.

"What was that!?"

"Where did he go?"

Jong-In approached the previous spot the person was standing and examined it silently; footprints and soils.

"Guild Master Choi! What did just happen? Where did he disappear to?" His subordinates rushed towards him.

Jong-In placed a hand on his chin, deep in thoughts. If it was an ability of stealth, he could've sense it but there was no trace of his presence here. "Teleportation."

"Teleportation?! How is that possible? That's a rare ability for a Hunter."

Jong-In sensed that the person was only a D-ranker, if it was higher, it would've been extremely useful. How did he not know that he existed?

While the others were still discussing about the mysterious person, the Gate suddenly closed, causing another commotion.

"Did the Gate get clear!?"

"Which Guild dares to!?-"

The magical energy sensor detected that the Gate was one of the most dangerous A-rank, so the Hunters that came today were Hunter Guild's attack force A and few were taken from attack force B for this raid.

The people that report the appearance of the Gate saw that no one else entered beside the mysterious person. Doesn't that mean he was an S-rank Hunter? Since he could even use a portal, he might as well had an ability to hide his magical energy to resemble a D-ranker. If there was another logical theory, the other unknown Hunters entered and left using the teleportation while they were inside the Gate.

"Tsk." Jong-In clicked his tongue, there were still other assumptions, but with no leads, how could they find the people behind this?

Meanwhile, as soon as Seung-eun landed on his bedroom floor, he closed the A-rank Gate using the system. He had a contemplated gaze as he used 'Eye' and examined the Hunters.

It seemed like he forgot to make the Gate invisible to passerby. Like the other private one in Hapjung Station, it should only be accessible using a specific key he created.

Seung-eun sneaked into the bathroom with a change of clothes and put all of his bloodied outfit into the storage in the system. He washed the blood on his hair and skin, trying to make as little noise as possible and changed into a pyjama before he went back into the bedroom.

After that, he went to sleep, oblivious that the other person was hearing all of his movements.