Chapter 139 – SSS-Rank Hunter (14)
“Moooo?”
“Kraang?”
Fsssh…
All the ranged attacks fired from the monsters’ maws or horns did no damage to me.
On the other hand,
“Here we go again!”
The Super Grand Galaxy General Infinity Blade I swung easily sliced them apart.
One-sided attacks.
In other words, one-sided hunting!
Some monsters charged at me for close combat, but the Infinity Blade didn’t kindly allow that either.
Slash!
“Kyaaaa~?!”
Thud!
Imagine a muscular human with a melee weapon charging at a shotgun.
Would that work?
Even a protagonist with a buff to dodge all bullets couldn’t avoid it.
“Easy?”
Higher-rank monsters required the hassle of individually slicing them, but they couldn’t threaten me all the same.
“……”
“……”
A domino effect occurred where one monster’s death scream stimulated others, but I was only grateful for saving me the effort of seeking them out.
No tiring retreats or truces.
“If it gets tough, say so.”
Blink, blink~
The eyeball embedded in the center of the Infinity Blade looked purely joyful.
No visible limit to its power!
Befitting the monster that elevated the F-rank protagonist of the hunter novel <I’m the Only SSS-Rank Hunter> to SSS-rank in one leap?
Overwhelming.
(If you were that novel’s protagonist, it would’ve ended in one volume.)
Is that so?
(As you guessed, the Super Grand Galaxy General Infinity Blade has no limit to its power. Only restrictions.)
What restrictions?
(The protagonist.)
Hm?
(There’s a setting that the protagonist must endure the SSS-rank monster’s power. That’s why in the story, he always collapsed right after defeating an SSS-rank monster.)
Aha!
(The heavy one-shot the protagonist risked his life for—you’re wielding casually, and even more freely.)
“Kyaaaa~?!”
“Kaaack~?!”
Thud! Plop! Collapse!
The shackles the novel author placed to prevent the protagonist from becoming too strong are useless on me.
I can fully utilize the “infinite” setting of the Super Grand Galaxy General Infinity Blade.
This is the result.
“……”
“……”
I massacred all the monsters without much effort.
“…Already over.”
Crisis? Variables? Challenge?
To me—who nullifies their unique abilities completely—the monsters were just oversized chunks of meat.
“Amolang-nim?”
Natalia—who had been watching the mountain of corpses in disbelief—finally looked at me.
“It’s done.”
“That… ‘incredible’ doesn’t even begin to cover it.”
“It’s thanks to this guy being impressive.”
Blink, blink~
The SSS-rank monster, transformed back into an eyeball tentacle, wriggled like it was dancing.
“If the Super Grand Galaxy General Infinity Blade had rampaged like today, humanity would’ve gone extinct long ago.”
“Well…”
I won’t deny it.
“Amolang-nim. Shall we move right away? Or rest…”
“I’m not tired, so let’s go immediately.”
“Normally, using abilities accumulates fatigue, but Amolang-nim maintains nullification constantly and shows no signs of tiring.”
“Hmm. Only the me before losing my memories would know that.”
Amnesia for any difficult question!
No one can question plausibility, and I don’t need to prove anything—a truly convenient excuse.
“Please wait a moment. They’re taking photos from Rudolph. I’ll report to headquarters in the meantime.”
“Yes. Take your time.”
“…Ah! Natalia.”
“Yes.”
“Among the monsters I killed, was there an SSS-rank?”
I need to fight an SSS-rank monster to get a proper gauge!
“Hmm… We’d need to examine the severed corpses closely to be sure, but as far as I know, there were no SSS-ranks in this area.”
“I see.”
It was the expected answer. The monsters I sliced with the Infinity Blade were too weak to include an SSS-rank among them.
‘Just wait until I get a proper estimate. You damn elephant…!’
Ancient Black Elephant.
My revenge match—after being turned into a bloody mess by one tail swipe—wasn’t far off.
I could circle the globe with Rudolph massacring monsters, but my goal isn’t peace in this world.
Patient Park Hyo-man.
I need to rescue him from inside the SSS-rank monster elephant’s stomach and persuade him to return to reality.
But first,
“Vampire Lord. An SSS-rank monster that leads a horde. Humans bitten by it turn into Vampire Nobles.”
“Always?”
“No. The condition is young and beautiful women. A very few men are chosen too, but only if they’re S-rank or higher hunters.”
“Hmm.”
A vampire king with refined tastes.
“South America is under the Vampire Lord’s dominion. The native South Americans are livestock bred to produce beauties who can become Vampire Nobles and talented ability users. Over generations, people accept it as natural, solidifying the rule…”
“In summary, it’s extremely bleak.”
“Yes.”
Even so, the Vampire Lord is rated the weakest among SSS-rank monsters.
Partly because other SSS-rank monsters are that strong, but mainly because the Vampire Lord has more ruler tendencies than hunter ones.
If you can separate it from its guarding legion of Vampire Nobles, it’s said to be merely a slightly stronger SS-rank monster…
“Is that reliable?”
“…If the records sent just before the last human nation in South America fell are accurate.”
“Then let’s trust it.”
I wanted to challenge a massive SSS-rank monster like the Ancient Black Elephant.
But a human rights organization—while only exercising their mouths and filling bellies with donations—begged me to spare a moment.
They appealed to my conscience, asking if I felt nothing seeing the horrific reality of South American natives.
‘Those trash.’
Once this is over, I’ll make them pay for using me.
“Amolang-nim?”
“…Ah! I was thinking about the human rights organization for a moment.”
“Ah… them.”
Natalia looked extremely apologetic for not stopping them in advance.
“Confiscate the human rights organization’s donations, then bring every one of those bastards who treated me like a hunting dog. If not, I won’t lift a finger even if cities are destroyed and nations fall.”
“That’s…!”
“This is my human right.”
“…I’ll relay it.”
Like when I took revenge on the thief in the world of the historical drama <Palace Maid Deok-chun>, I have no intention of playing the pushover in a dream and waking up.
‘If I’m going to be a pushover,’
I’ll shatter order and peace. If the dream world collapses, reality will look relatively better to the patient too.
Two birds with one stone.
“Amolang-nim. We’ve arrived. The Vampire Lord’s castle is below.”
“…Move 215 meters to the right.”
“Huh?”
“The current position is wrong. We need to move 215 meters right to be directly above the center of the Vampire Lord’s castle.”
“You can see below the clouds?”
“I can feel it.”
“……”
Natalia and the green fairies in the sled stared at me like I was a monster.
After confirming Rudolph moved 215 meters right, I unfastened my seatbelt and stood.
“I’ll contact you when it’s over.”
“You’re not… planning to jump from this height, right?”
“I am jumping.”
“Parachute…”
“No need. This guy will handle it.”
Blink, blink!
The eyeball tentacle transformed into a sword.
“Then we’ll wait here so we don’t interfere.”
“See you later.”
Whoosh~
Without a shred of fear, I leaped into the void.
***
“Let’s go quickly.”
If this were a novel, pages would be filled with dialogue between the intelligent Vampire Lord and the protagonist.
‘I’m an SSS-rank hunter!’
‘I’m the Vampire Lord!’
‘SSS-rank monster! Release the people!’
‘Don’t order me, mere SSS-rank hunter!’
‘If you don’t release them, I’ll kill you!’
‘I’ll turn you into a Vampire Noble too!’
…Something like that.
When there’s no room for negotiation, why talk?
Unless they stop offering young beautiful women and talented hunters as annual sacrifices for the Vampire Lord.
No dialogue needed.
Woooong—
The language we need is overwhelming violence! Surprise attack, giving no time to prepare, and slice everything.
“I’ll clean it all up.”
Human slaves? Prisoners? Human rights? Backstories?
None are more precious than my real life, consumed in real time.
Flash—!
The strongest monster/weapon in the worldview of the hunter novel <I’m the Only SSS-Rank Hunter>.
Super Grand Galaxy General Infinity Blade!
In the original novel, the “infinite power” setting—unusable because the protagonist was too weak—erupted at the Vampire Lord’s home.
“Oh!”
It was swept clean, smooth as wood sanded with sandpaper.
Not a blade of grass left!
The grand architecture rivaling the imperial palace I saw in the world of the romance fantasy novel <I Became the Youngest Daughter of a Count’s Family> vanished without a trace.
Blink?
“Good job.”
Blink!
But it wasn’t over yet.
‘Is it down there?’
Human kings and emperors generally prefer high places, but vampires seem to be the opposite.
Deep underground.
Intense life signs were felt from beneath the earth, buried under the collapsed castle. Not one, but many.
Ruuuumble—
The ground shook.
Numerous living beings were pushing aside the castle ruins and rising to the surface.
“That won’t do.”
Stab!
I plunged the Infinity Blade’s blade into the ground.
The Vampire Lord and his minions seemed eager to surface and introduce themselves to me, but sorry—I didn’t have them in my perception.
The human rights organization!
I need to hurry back and deal with those trash who treated me like a hunting dog.
“…Huh?”
I dealt with most, but including the Vampire Lord, five survived the Infinity Blade’s blades.
Boom!
They emerged on the surface like corpses crawling from graves.
“Which bastard…!”
A pale-skinned man in tattered black clothes glared at me with murderous intent.
Blood-red eyes, long pointed ears, awl-like nails…
Vampire Lord.
His appearance matched the info Natalia gave me.
“You, you…!”
“Gasp! You bastard…!”
“Eek?!”
The four Vampire Nobles who surfaced a beat later turned pale the moment they saw me.
I hadn’t planned to waste time on pointless dialogue with them…
But I couldn’t avoid it.
“You’re alive.”
“No. We died and were reborn. To take revenge on you!”
“Pretty lame excuse.”
Natalia had explained it to me.
The Vampire Lord turns young beautiful women and S-rank or higher hunters into Vampire Nobles.
I didn’t know it worked on corpses too?
SSS-rank hunters.
Young and beautiful women.
Humans satisfying both conditions—the Vampire Lord wouldn’t miss them.
“This time will be different!”
“We are Vampire Nobles!”
“You’d better prepare yourself!”
Do I look easy because I turned their home into this mess? Can’t they see the SSS-rank monster in my right hand?
Former SSS-rank hunters still lacking real-world sense.
“Well…”
I could only let out a hollow laugh.
Whoosh~
While talking, I lightly swung the power gathered on the Infinity Blade’s blade.
“Huh?”
“What?”
Fsssh…
This time, I cleanly erased even the corpses so nothing could be recycled.
“Now, it’s just us— Hm?”
“Please spare me.”
The Vampire Lord—who had been male moments ago—turned female.
Beautiful body.
Nightingale-like voice.
Pitiable expression.
Unlike the SSS-rank hunters, the Vampire Lord judged it could never beat me—its strategy and choice weren’t bad.
However,
“Not my type.”
“I-If you tell me, I’ll change—”
Fsssh…
I cleanly dealt with the pleading Vampire Lord too.
(Your tastes are quite firm.)
“Of course.”
Having handled the annoying vampire, now it’s time to protect my human rights… Hm?
(Missiles.)
“Hmm… Quite a few.”
They mobilized every remaining missile to definitely kill me.
(The human rights organization was probably a test.)
“I somewhat understand Park Hyo-man-ssi’s feelings now.”
Betrayal by humanity.
They seem to judge me—uncontrollable—as more dangerous than an SSS-rank monster.
Modern weapons to kill me, against whom abilities don’t work.
Knowing they’d die if it fails, they poured missiles without restraint.
“A dream full of lessons.”
Humanity in this world will have to bear the responsibility for their choice too.