I Am The Anti-Mage

Chapter 93: First Time

Ji-woo looked disdainfully at Joon-yong and his gang, while Dong-hyun felt worried about the situation.

He turned his face toward Dong-hyun. He sighed and threw the Dungeon Bead at Joon-yong.

‘I’m sorry.’

Ji-woo felt a little regretful and apologized to Dong-hyun. What he did was probably too far from what he was supposed to teach later on. But, he believed it was necessary.

Dong-hyun got shocked. And so were Joon-yong and the others. They didn’t think it would end so effortlessly.

Especially Dong-hyun, he was a little familiar with Ji-woo’s strength and temperament. If it was that easy to make Ji-woo submit, something must be wrong.

Seon-ho and Joon-yong looked at each other as if they understood what they wanted to do from now on.

“Good. At this rate, it won’t be a problem to let you two live. Now, the two of you get tasked with finding valuable items from the ruins of the underground maze.”

Dong-hyun gritted his teeth and showed his unwillingness to get ordered around. He had been holding back his anger since he got beaten before. He knew he was guilty of causing the other hunters to die on the wooden bridge. But, the treatment of Joon-yong and the others had gone too far. They were hunters, which meant death and life in the dungeon should be commonplace.

“Isn’t this too much!?”

“Don’t act like you’re the victim. Remember what you did to us earlier in the tomb.” Seon-ho replied.

Dong-hyun bit his lip. It left him speechless. At the same time, he was also annoyed with himself for his guilt and caused him to become indecisive. All because he was still unaware that he had got used as a trap tester by the Raid Party the entire time.

In the end, Ji-woo and Dong-hyun searched the ruins of the underground maze as commanded by the Raid Party hunters.

Joon-yong, Seon-ho, and the five other hunters just searched by looking around and watching the two do the work.

They got three Magic Crystals and one Magic Stone. Ji-woo and Dong-hyun got also found the spear and the bow from the tomb. And all of that, they gave it to the Raid Party hunters.

“This is enough, isn’t it!?”

Dong-hyun’s anger and guilt made him focus only on getting out of the dungeon without thinking about anything else.

Seon-ho smiled. “Haha. Yes. Yes. But sadly, this wasn’t enough. It really annoys me every time I think about what you did that caused all this to happen. If you hadn’t messed things up, we could have gotten all of this without losing any party members.”

Joon-yong chimed in. “That’s why you two have to die here to assuage our anger.”

“Are you guys crazy? Why should you kill us!?”

However, the Raid Party hunters ignored Dong-hyun’s words and instead attacked the two of them, who were on opposite sides.

Joon-yong and Seon-ho only stand by and let the other five hunters attack the two low-ranking hunters. Three B-rank hunters and two C-rank hunters were more than enough to deal with two E-rank hunters.

Dong-hyun widened his eyes and tried to take a few steps back. He didn’t have any weapons, and only a new armor set got purchased because the Red Crimson armor set still got held by the Demigod guild. He didn’t have enough money to buy a weapon. So, he had no choice but to try to dodge and fend off the hunters’ attacks that wield swords and axes with his bare hands, although it was not direct blocks.

Meanwhile, Ji-woo did not immediately act aggressively by attacking the three hunters who were after him. He just dodged the hunters’ attacks casually without much hassle at all. And sometimes, he parried with his daggers. He even glanced at Dong-hyun and Joon-yong from time to time.

All of those events had been in Ji-woo’s calculations and plans from the moment he threw the Dungeon Bead at Joon-yong. He wanted to know what Dong-hyun did when it came to humans. Would his determination be the same as he faced the golden dragon previously? Or did he not even feel any threat from the humans in front of him?

Ji-woo wanted to teach Dong-hyun that the threat of Portal Gate creatures and hunters was the same. They were equally dangerous.

He knew that was crossing the line when considering their relationship. In fact, he should only have taught Dong-hyun to use his Mana better, nothing else.

Ji-woo didn’t know why he did it. That might be because he felt a connection to Dong-hyun, making him want to point out that sometimes humans could get more dangerous than those monsters from the Portal Gate.

More precisely, when you were in the environment of the law of the jungle, your hands would inevitably get wet with the blood of others, whether it was from the strongest, the equal, or the weakest.

As Ji-woo expected, Dong-hyun dodged and sometimes hit back at the hunters without any killing intent. It would be a long battle from here on. That was because only with him and Dong-hyun dead did the Raid Party hunters stop.

Ji-woo rolled his eyes and did the same as Dong-hyun did to the hunters that lunged at him. They managed to fend off the hunters that tried to kill both of them.

Well, it looked like Ji-woo miscalculated something about Dong-hyun. No matter how well Dong-hyun learned what he taught, it wouldn’t be enough to kill the hunters in front of Dong-hyun. At most, it was only enough to make them get battered.

Ji-woo took a deep breath. ‘Did I make a mistake? Dong-hyun won’t dare to kill these hunters at this rate.’

“Are you sure your friend is an E-rank hunter? It doesn’t look like that to me. How can he defend against B-rank and C-rank hunters?”

“Err, I’m not sure about that either. He should be E-rank. Is he hiding something? Or does he have an item that can increase his strength in an instant?”

Joon-yong frowned at Seon-ho’s answer. It was good to have fun. But, if there was another unexpected event, such as at the tomb. That would make the Raid Party suffer more losses than it currently had.

“Huh. I think this will go according to my plan. However, it turned out to be far from what it should have been.”

Ji-woo’s voice broke the ongoing fight and turned all the attention to where he was standing.

Seon-ho, Joon-yong, Dong-hyun, and the other two hunters gaped after seeing what happened.

Ji-woo stabbed his two daggers into the hunter’s neck from behind. Whereas the other two hunters just stood still and couldn’t move, unable to do anything to him.

The two hunters were flustered by how fast Ji-woo moves, knowing that one of them died in his hands.

“Y-You… Who are y-you!?”

“How can y-you do t-that!?”

Two hunters who were still in fear and confusion got killed by a dagger thrown to the head where the other got stabbed by Ji-woo in the heart with the palm of his right hand pressing the tip of the dagger’s hilt in the left hand.

Ji-woo pulled out the weapon in his left hand and took the other one that stuck in the head of another hunter with his right. The blood dripping from the two daggers made him look like a serial killer.

“Why are you all making faces like that? Wanting to kill means ready to get killed, right? Is it wrong?”

Joon-yong and Seon-ho really couldn’t believe what was happening in front of their eyes. They couldn’t understand how a low-ranked hunter had the power to suppress them when not even a trace of Mana got distinguished from Ji-woo.

Neither of them knew how it happened. If Joon-yong and Seon-ho thought about it, they might not get an answer. So, they chose to intervene directly.

Meanwhile, Dong-hyun just stared at Ji-woo without knowing what to do. It was the first time he had witnessed Ji-woo kill a fellow hunter. Previously, Ji-woo’s ferocity got only seen when he slaughtered the Sabertooths long ago.

His hands didn’t stop shaking from the fear that surged into his heart. To him, killing humans and Portal Gate creatures was definitely different. He just thought simply that the evil ones were monsters, not humans. It was appropriate that the evil must get killed.

Joon-yong and Seon-ho charged with full speed. But, Ji-woo just disappeared right in front of their nose. Both of them looked around and found nothing.

Suddenly, Ji-woo appeared behind the two hunters who were fighting with Dong-hyun. He slashed the daggers and decapitated the two hunters smoothly.

The blood of the hunters splattered on Dong-hyun’s face. It frightened him and made him fall to the ground.

Joon-yong gritted his teeth and cast a magic spell hastily.

“Magic of Fire, Hellfire Dragon!”

He swayed his arms backward, and an enormous fire enclosed them. He then swung both arms back forward, and a big dragon-shaped flame shot out at Ji-woo.

However, it didn’t do anything at all.

“I’m tired of saying it. But, the magic ends here.” Ji-woo then emerged unscathed.