The Loner - the same tragedy

Mr. Smith and Mr. John came back after paying a visit to Den(the patient),

Mr. John: No wonder, Hunter Association becomes to decline these days, even a normal peasant, barely escaped from the death door is being recruited, Tsk... Tsk.... Tsk.....

Mr. Smith: Well, in that case, yours is the same as mine as well, right? Mr. John-nim from the awakener organization? I heard these days, the members form your organization are mostly the ones with criminal backgrounds, right?

Mr. John: Well, well, nice talk, wouldn't we? huh? I am really looking forward to crush your stupid association, the dog of the government with penny salary. Unlike you, I have a lot of things to do, you know. I have to kill a lot monsters as well. I can't waste my precious time on a little maggot who barely survive from Magi Sickness and with low status.

Mr. John walked away, but as soon as he stepped outside of the hospital, a lot of people surrounded him, wondering if they could take a picture of him, girls and teenagers both of them were busy with trying to take picture together with him and some posted it on K-Tube as well as on every social media.

The crowd: "Martial Kicker-Nim", I want to take a pic with you? Can you take me home? I love you. (chatter) (chatter)

Unlike Mr. John, although Mr. Smith was higher in rank, he had to work under covered most of the time and only a handful of people in the association had "Nick Names" as hunters. So, even though he saved much more people, no one recognized him at all. Mr. Smith, in black suit, walked slowly away from the crowd and called someone.... (beep) (beep) (beep).

Mr. Smith: Hello, this is sword saint. I would like to report about a person, discovered in ruin factory. Something is fishy, I felt he was hiding something.

The Association: All our reports said, he was disappeared 6 years ago and reappeared 2 years ago and it said here that he was normal person with unawaken status. Did you find anything strange in him?

Mr. Smith: No, I found nothing strange. But I think something was wrong when we checked him. I emitted my killing intent (100%) at him, and he didn't even flick from that as if he had been dead before.

The Association: We will note that but there is also a possibility that he damaged his head before so he can't feel yours or he is too ordinary to feel the killing intents. It doesn't matter. Now, we need a hand in Area B, we found abnormal dimensional waves there. It might be a false alarm or the cracks but we need you to go check that to confirm.

Mr. Smith: I am on my way.

Name - Ali Smith/ Age - 32/ Gender - Male

Title - (Sword Saint)(rare)/ Contractor - (Sword Manic)

Statues - (Player), Level - 45

Brain - 32

Agility - 60+(9)

Detoxification - 27+(3)

Strength - 54+(5)

Psychic - 49

Luck - 20

Skill(passive) - concentration(Level 6), Sword Instinct(level 5), Basic Sword Skills(level 7)

Skill(active) - Cut(level 10), Break through(level 8), Sword Barrier(level 6), Sword Aura(level 5), Mental Barrier(level 4).

As soon as Den heard about his sister being one of the rare, strong awakener, Rank (A) hunter, Den was speechless. Den couldn't speak for a sec.

The doctor: Unfortunately, she replied that "She doesn't have a brother and reminded us that we are looking for a wrong person".

Den: What? I am her brother, not sibling, we are blood related.

The doctor: I m afraid, all your data from the last 6 years ago are extremely hard to get. So, we can't prove your relationship with "Hell Fire Princess".

Den: What you do mean, there is no proof? I'm telling you, she is my sister. Oh, yeah, My mother and father can confirm that I am their legitimate son.

The doctor: I am sorry, there is no record about you for the past. The father, that you said yours, Mr. Lu Den had been missing since his last business trip to Hong Kong, 6 years ago. Furthermore, Ms. Shin Den, who you deemed to be your mother, had been hospitalized because of "Magi Sickness" after a few years her husband disappeared. But unlike you, her case is more serious and even with "Dream Elixir", she couldn't recover. The only reason, she had been in care till today is because she is the mother of the famous hunter "Hell Fire Princess".

Den: What?

Den lost his hope again. He had been wanting to see his family again that's why he didn't give up every times he faced death, that's why he didn't waver his will while he was about to die countless times. Now, people are telling him that, his hope was a fake hope. All his efforts will be wasted and he didn't have much choices to do. Den became angry, extremely angry, his eyes which was originally brown became crimson red. His body became to emit large amounts of black energy but only monsters could feel that energy. (the cursed energy) No human, no... Even player and character couldn't feel that energy.

System message - Poker Face(passive) achieved. "Poker Face" activated, (Condition-when the host suffered extreme emotions, poker face will be activated). But because of his anger, "Poker Face" evolved to "Emotionless". Because of his skill, even though he was very angry as well as sad at the same time but his face looked like nothing, showing no emotion at all.

Den realized he was acting odd in front of the doctor, and because of his newly achieved skill "Emotionless", his head felt more calm and decisive in other terms he became more cold blooded and dangerous.

"So, when I was teleported to Queen's Domain, 6 years ago, my father also disappeared? Was he teleported to somewhere? And about my mother? Is there any way to save her? Is she also like me? How am I suppose to look for them when my record are gone? Wait, How can I find my mother? The doctor said something like Den Den becoming "Hell Fire Princess", if I could meet with her, I could know about my mother and what exactly happened to our father? For now, let cool down my head, and stay low not to get in the radar of the entities."

The nurse then came in and said

"Mr. Den, we currently considered you as a patient without guardians or families member (missing case). That's why, you need to pay for your fees over the past 24 months in this hospital on your own. You remembered the two gentlemen who visited to you today right? One of them, Mr. Smith gave you his number, to make a call if you want to ask a question or recall anything from the past 6 years ago with in return he will give you any support in his authority both financially and in connections. And don't forget to attend one of our class this evening, we will explain to you everything that had happened in the past in detail, and we will help you became familiar with life style today, Ok?"

Den: Thank you. Ms.......

The nurse: You can call me "Anna", all my friends call me like that.

Den: Then, Ms. Anna, thank you for helping me this time. I will definitely pay you back.

Anna: You are welcome and I wish the best for your recovery.

Later that day, Den was taught many things about what happened after the earthquakes, about how the cracks appeared, how monsters came out of them? And how the hunter became popular?

"After the earthquakes, in short, half of the world population suffered the same fate, especially in the East Asia, the countries suffered a lot damages, after the appearing of cracks, monsters came out and most of the weapons were useless against them. When human were about to lose, the first generation of hunters appeared, they can use supernatural abilities depending on their contractors and because of their sacrifices, human became to hold their ground and able to defend themselves against the monster waves.

Cracks were divided into three catalogs,

Dungeons : When the Luna System can manage and the mobs or monsters in the dungeons are respawned after a certain time, and when they are killed, their corpse disappeared while leaving a magic crystals or items. They appeared with limitation in numbers of in going individuals. The completed condition is that players simply need to find some quest items or some needs to kill certain dungeon boss. In short, by killing the dungeon's boss, we can raid the dungeon. They are classified as E, D, C, B, A and S. But over the past 6 years, we had encountered only one S ranked dungeon in world scale. Basically, there are also temporary and permanent dungeons, which disappeared after being raid and which didn't. The material like magic crystal, cool iron, magic iron, drop items and other various material are very useful for our world.

Gates : They are just simply gates to the other dimensions, monsters became more fierce and high leveled as well, meaning they are dangerous and deadly to even high ranked hunters. They also appeared in certain places and the monsters aren't disappeared when being killed instead they left corpses. Artifacts can only be found in gates, what should I say, Opportunities come with risks right? In gates, we have to bring the monster corpses for dismantling and the duration of the quest are longer than dungeon, some takes even years to raid. And they are very rare and in Asia, only 3 gates appeared out of all existing 12 gates in the world.

Cracks: They are small size gates to the places and they were swarmed with low ranked monsters like goblins, slimes and nests of other weak monsters below ranked C. But they are pretty annoying and dangerous because they can appear anywhere even inside barrier. That's why we now have hunter above Rank C, in the public areas or crowded ones in order to take action as quickly as possible. When they appear, the monsters come out in groups and they destroy everything in their sight, but the cracks disappear as soon as the monsters come out so if our hunters eliminate the monsters as soon as they come out, well, there is no problem.

Any question?

Other listeners: Here, Uhmmm. Can a normal human raid a dungeon?

The guide: Well, it would be pretty risky for a normal human to raid a dungeon, I wouldn't say it is not but even a awakener who is at Rank E or F, going into a E ranked dungeon alone means suicide. For example, for the Rank E dungeon, in order to raid that, it needs at least one D rank hunter. And I advised you, if you are a normal human or awakener under rank C, it is better not to go into gates or above ranked dungeon than you, if you treasure your life that is.

Any others?

Other listeners: I heard that "materials from the dungeon or world from the other side of the gates are very precious", why?

The guide: Ah, that is right. Every materials that we can get from the dungeon or the gate are precious because simply there are new resources that our world needs right now. Wait a sec, I will show you an example, Here. This is called Heal Potion - It can cure mild sickness like cold and fever and it is very effective than taking medicine directly and it is made from a rare slime from a dungeon. And this is called Strength Potion - It increases our strength a little without any side effect and there are also beauty potion, health potion, and this aphrodisiac is made from the saliva of goblins or maybe some rare plants from the dungeons. Well, everything from the dungeons or gates are precious raw material to us. Rich people really want that kind of things, so they pay a lot for these kinds of potions and materials.

Well, any more?

Den: I want to know everything about hunters?

The guide: That is a very wide question. Do you wake up from the "Magi Sickness" as well?

Den: Yes.

The guide: Well, congrats. To answer your question, hunters are basically, awakeners who made a contract with an entity and one person only allowed to make one contract for their life time. We call that "Soul Bound Contract" and your hunter rank depends on the entity that you make a contract with. The more the entity powerful, the higher your potential and skill ranks will be. If the skill ranks increases, you will be a high ranked hunter. Do you guys know about "Hell Fire Princess", she already had a skill called "Hell Fire(A)" cuz her contractor is "Primitive Fire". Therefore, she was strong already as soon as she was awaken."

While they were discussing, the small cracks opened inside the underground parking space of the hospital, but the small cracks was forced to widened by the pair of hands. The goblins came out but they were not your low-ranked goblins, they were middle ranked ones, "Homo-goblins(C+)""Goblin Shaman(B)" and the one who widened the cracks appeared behind them, it was very big and had a huge iron sword in one hand with a black shield in others. It looked somehow different that other goblins, "Goblin King(A+)(parasitism)(XENO)".

XENO Goblin King(A+): I felt the presence of the Queen and other unknown presence. I must find her as her guardian, I must protect my queen. Kill every human here, don't let anyone escape. (goblin language).

LET'S THE HUNT BEGINS.