For some reason, Seo-yul's childhood friend and neighbor, Yun-hee, was getting beaten up in the street by some people from her school.
The handsome bully sneered that she should have left when he told her to, and that this had happened because she didn't listen to him.
A little smoker girl chimed in that, as a classmate, it truly broke her tiny heart. She commented that dear Yun-hee would end up this way just for being a busybody, and asked whether she really wanted to help her friend that badly.
Even so, Yun-hee had slapped Jin-tae across the face, telling him that wasn't a nice thing to do.
Jin-tae himself scoffed that it was a pity, because now she had no friends left to help her. Her friend had jumped off the building of her own free will and was currently hospitalized.
So he asked what she was going to do about it.
Yun-hee only glared back with a furious expression, which was just another excuse for him to strike her again.
But suddenly, someone serving Jin-tae — a rank B hunter, who addressed him as young master — approached them.
Jin-tae stated that he was leaving right then, and ordered them to take care of the girl there so she wouldn't run away, telling the rank B to come along with him too.
The hunter asked where they were heading.
He replied that it was obviously to an empty place, where they could play until their hearts were content.
Oblivious to all this, Lee Jung-hae was telling Seo-yul that it must be awesome, since he had become the disciple of a rank S hunter, and the master had even let him choose a weapon for free.
Seo-yul had done exactly that, and picked up the Loga, the spear of evolution. It had a measly 50 durability, but its unique effect was that it could evolve into a form aligned with the user's will.
Lee Jung-hae mentioned that they had had so many bizarre events that day, and commented that it was already past her clock-out time as well.
Seo-yul asked what she meant by work, questioning whether that was what she actually called what she did inside the department.
However, right outside, there was someone frantically looking for Seo-yul. She was being blocked by security, but he appeared himself and asked whether something was wrong.
The woman replied that yes, it was. She was Yun-hee's mother, and she blurted out that her daughter had been dragged off to the yellow zone.
He immediately demanded to know who did it.
Meanwhile, inside a dungeon that resembled a forest, Jin-tae's friends asked whether it was really okay for them to go in there.
He replied that it was fine, asserting that he hadn't brought a rank B hunter with them for nothing.
What he really wanted to see was the little girl fighting against a monster, and he asked whether Yun-hee was scared. He told her they were just weakling monsters, and that if she fought with the same conviction she had used when she hit him, she would win super easily.
At that moment she broke free and tried to bolt, but Jin-tae just ordered the hunter to catch her.
Yun-hee knew that he would absolutely force her to fight, because the guy was insane. Jin-tae was a total psychopath. It made sense why he had caused trouble with her friend in the first place.
But her escape was abruptly cut short by the rank B, who simply stuck his foot out to make her crash to the ground.
She screamed for help, but there was absolutely no one else around.
The first creatures closed in, and the B-rank hunter got into position. Even so, the monster's projectiles hit the little smoker girl, and she died right then and there — a stinger pierced straight through her heart.
The B-rank hunter told his young master that they needed to head back immediately.
Jin-tae asked what the hell those things were, and the hunter replied that they were stinghawks: giant insects that operated just like massive killer wasps.
Seo-yul was already inside as well, and he thanked his friend for accepting the request. He had heard that it was this friend who had reported where Yun-hee had been taken.
Jung-min, from the combat department, replied that he was just doing his job — filing a report on a personal mission. He also warned Seo-yul to be careful, and the hunter fired back that he had nothing to worry about.
But either way, the place looked terrible.
The yellow tape marked an isolated zone where the area had spiraled completely out of control after a dungeon break. The monsters in that zone weren't all that strong, but they were incredibly smart. They had adapted to the horrific environment of the place, and they were using it to their advantage.
Seo-yul had already slaughtered several monstrous insects, but they just kept on coming. Even so, they seemed way weaker than the red goblins. However, if a person wasn't an awakened, surviving there would be a nightmare.
So he rushed forward to save Yun-hee. But midway there, even more insect hordes showed up.
So he finally retaliated using his portal, revealing exactly what the goblins were doing to the insects inside, and taunted the monster horde, telling them they could call as many of their little friends as they wanted.
The stinghawk horde did exactly that, and summoned a massive swarm of friends. They all lunged straight at Seo-yul, who initially thought about making a run for it, since things were starting to look a little dicey.
For now, the dungeon monsters were beginning to thin out significantly. If he pushed any more insects in there, the dungeon would definitely collapse. But on the outside, there were still too many enemies to handle.
His absolute last resort was this. Seo-yul summoned the portal, sucking the insects right inside, and then plunged the portal underwater. That ended up drowning every single insect trapped within.
The water turned completely filthy and disgusting. Staring at that whole mess of insect remains, blood, and water, Seo-yul admitted that it was going to be a hell of a job to repair the dungeon all over again. But hey — the method worked, and the place became significantly quieter.
That was on his side, of course. Because the folks from that complicated little school were still running for their lives from the stinghawks.