Mount Olympus, above the empire state building, Floor 600, New York
The Summer Solstice Council Meeting Started Off Well.
But like other council meetings that consist of Zeus, Greek god of lighting and King of the gods; Poseidon, Greek god of seas: and Hades, Greek god of the Underworld,it usually turn into a screaming match extremely quickly.
¨Poseidon,I know that when the mortal appears,my son story would be better than yours!¨
¨Oh shut up already!Stop having a long pole in your ass!¨
¨This is just sad.¨
¨SHUT UP!¨
And of course,this turned the others to enter their screaming matches.
¨Those boys of Hermes needs to eat more cereal!¨
¨MOM!Enough with the cereal already!¨
¨OW!That really hurt arty!¨
¨Don´t call me arty!¨
However,this time,something else happened.A bright flash emanated from the centre of the conversation stopped after the light died down and revealed ten teenagers and two adults,six boys and six teenagers expect for one wore jeans and a orange T-shirt with the exception of the girl wearing black ´Death to the barbies´and a silver adults wore two similar caps and wore black and white T-shirts.
The first girl was tall with bright blonde hair and a knife strapped to her back.
The second girl was tall with dark brown hair.
The third girl had brown hair that have been cut in an awkward position and had eyes that changed colour.
The fourth girl had jet black eyes and electric blue wore a sliver circlet around her head and had a quiver of arrows strapped to her back.
The firth girl has similar dark tone skin to the second wore a purple cloak.
-After appearing-
¨Shit,not again!¨
¨This man,is just touching my soft behind me.I will find a way out of this dungeon.¨
¨Wait,who´re you?¨
¨You don´t know me,I am Hunter Seong Jin-Woo?¨
¨That´s means that you guys are the ´others´ reading with us!¨
¨Say what now.¨
¨Shows us your true identifies!¨
¨What the f***!Why are there so many shadows behind you!¨
¨I am Hunter Seong Jin-woo also known as the shadow monarch,this is my wife Cha Hae-In.¨
¨AH!Glad that you guys introduced yourselves!¨
¨Who are you?¨
¨I am just a author.I brought you all here to read a story about Naruto.¨
¨Him again?Then who is his parent this time now?¨
¨ ..This happens in their world,my name is Jaserplaz,or Jaser in name is Re-awaking of the speed is a monarch like you,Seong Jin-Woo.¨
¨Monarch of what to be exact?¨
¨Speed and time,who wants to read first!¨
¨Me first!Me first!¨
¨Ah wise girl,way to excitied for this,huh?¨
¨Chapter 1:Prologue.¨
[Daily quest is available]
A voice of a young female called out
Oh hell,this is not a game and it is not a dream, either.
I could see the screen in front of me.
¨Say what now!?He also has the system?¨
¨Yup!¨
¨Even today?Oh my Kami, you have to be kidding me.¨
[Daily quest:The path to become strong]
Push ups,100 times:Incomplete(0/100)
Sit ups,100 times:Incomplete(0/100)
Squats,100 times:Incomplete(0/100)
Running,20 KM,Incomplete(0/20)
*Warning,if not completed Daily quests will result of punishment.*
¨You have to be f****** kidding me.¨
¨What is this training?¨
¨Is this a game?¨
¨No,this is a system.¨
¨Hey!mister Asahi, over here!¨
¨Oh,hi mister Raito!¨
¨I never saw you for 2 weeks!Hows the wife,man?¨
¨Not bad, she just gave birth to twins last week!¨
¨Damn,congrats what are you doing here?¨
¨Need money,so came here to get money.¨
¨Hey take care of yourself,Naruto kun and Jin-Woo kun !¨
¨Try to kill some monsters for us!¨
¨You guys also have monsters.¨
¨What do you mean also?¨
¨Hey,who are the both of them?¨
¨You don´t know him?Naruto and Jin-Woo is well known here.¨
¨They both are one of the strongest hunters around,then why is they here?Then, they is supposed to be at a high ranking Gate.¨
¨No,you got it all wrong,they is known as the weakest E-rank hunters.¨
¨You guys are really weak!¨
¨Why?¨
¨Even at a E-rank Gate,they still can get damaged seriously.¨
¨Gate?¨
¨Gates are what monsters come from.¨
¨Wow, then they really weak.¨
¨You know that we can heard you guys right?¨
¨Ah,gomen.¨
´I need to kill some monsters for their magic core and get more money soon for the three weeks pay rent and for imouto´s school fee.´
¨So this timeline,Naruto also has a sister.¨
¨Hey!Naruto,you think we can get a few monster cores today?¨
¨I hope so,besides how´s your sister?¨
¨Good,how´s your older sister condition?¨
¨Same as your mother.¨
¨Then that means..She is in eternal slumber!¨
¨Eternal slumber?¨
¨It happens when a person can´t handle magic power.¨
¨Then your mother is useless.¨
¨You f****** bitch!¨
[Skill Dominator's Authority has been used]
-50 mana
¨ENOUGH!I brought you all here to read and not to fight!¨
¨Why do you persist on being a Hunter, Mister Seong Jin-Woo and you too,Mister Naruto?¨
¨I'm sorry.¨
¨Me too.¨
Jin-Woo lowered his head and apologised.
As Naruto did the same.
The young, beautiful girl using healing magic in front of Jin-Woo and Naruto, Yi Ju-Hui showed how unhappy she was with a pouting expression.
¨Who is she?¨
¨A good friend of mine.¨
¨I'm not trying to get you two to apologise, you know? I'm only worried about the both of you. If you continue fighting this way, sooner or later you'll be faced with a truly dangerous situation.¨
Jin-Woo glanced past Yi Ju-Hui's shoulders and took a look at Naruto,whom look away towards the Gate.
When one entered through the Gate, one would arrive at a place called 'dungeon'. The rank of this particular dungeon should be around D.
A dozen-plus Hunters were taking care of the monsters inside this dungeon without so much as breaking a sweat.
Unfortunately, for two rank E, such a feat was nearly impossible.
Normally, the job of healing the injured Hunters from the back fell on the Healers. Since he always got injured during raids, Jin-Woo and Naruto was rather well-known among the Healers.
Yi Ju-Hui cautiously asked the both of them.
¨Perchance, is there a reason why you can't give up being a Hunter?¨
Jin-Woo and Naruto resolutely shook their heads.
He didn't want to reveal anything personal to other people besides Naruto.
¨I'm only doing this as a hobby. If I don't do this, I'll probably die of boredom, actually.¨
Yi Ju-Hui pouted even more.
¨If you continue on with this hobby of yours, soon you'd be raiding a dungeon in the netherworld, you know?¨
Jin-Woo was taken off-guard from her remark and ended up chuckling out loudly.
Thanks to that, Yi Ju-Hui's nagging intensified.
¨Ah, ahh! Don't laugh! Don't! Your injuries might get worse!¨
Jin-Woo giggled before asking her.
What do you mean, where? It's from Mister Jin way over there.¨
¨Aigoo, that ahjussi really went and did it, didn't he….¨
As they chatted and laughed, his treatment was almost over.
Then,she move towards Naruto to heal him as well.
It was already too late by then, though. It seemed that the raid was pretty much over now.
Jin-Woo's expression hardened.
'I only killed a single monster today.'
¨Hey,it´s ´s do our best here too!¨
¨Thanks,Naruto.¨
A rank E creature, no less. But still Seong Jin-Woo began fidgeting with the rank E magic crystal in his hand.
The lowest grade magic crystal from a rank E monster fetched less than hundred thousand won. For something he bet his life to earn, it was a pathetically small amount.
'A magic crystal from a rank C monster can sell for over ten million won, though..'
Too bad, a rank E Hunter such as himself couldn't even attempt to kill a monster with a rank as high as C.
Out of the blue, someone shouted out.
"Uh? Hey, there's another entrance over here."
The nearby Hunters rushed over there.
"Huh, it's true."
"There really is another path?"
Just as that Hunter said, there was an entrance hidden within the dungeon itself.
"A dual dungeon, is it… So, such a thing actually exists for real…."
¨Now normally, we're supposed to relay this information back to the Association and wait for their decision , if we do that, we might end up handing over the task of killing the boss to other Hunters, and our takings for today's raid would decrease by a lot.¨
¨Then this sucks!¨
¨That's why I'd prefer if we took care of the boss before leaving this dungeon… So, what do you all think?Since we have seventeen people here, let's put this to a vote, shall we? Once the decision has been made, no one complains. So? How about it?¨
Others nodded their heads after hearing Song's suggestion. No one was disagreeing with him.
"I vote for going ahead."
Raito raised his hand.
And then, other Hunters began raising their hands one by one.
"Me too."
"Count me in as well."
Raito was the first to raise his hand, followed shortly after by Asahi and a few other Hunters.
Of course, those disagreeing were plentiful, too.
"Let's go back."
"I feel that it'd be better to wait for the Association's decision."
The two opposing camps were neck and neck and eventually, the final votes came down to Jin-Woo ,Yi Ju-Hui and Naruto.
"I'm sorry…."
Yi Ju-Hui bowed to Jin tae and added her vote to 'retreat' camp.
And so, the vote count for 'go ahead' and 'retreat' was at 9:8.
A winning vote for.
Song asked the hesitant Seong Jin-Woo and Naruto next.
"And you two, mister Seong and mister Naruto?"
Everything now depended on Seong Jin-Woo's and Naruto´s decision.
Jin-Woo's fingers grasped tight the rank E magic crystal in his hand as he took a glance next to him and then Naruto.
Yi Ju-Hui was shaking her head at him. It looked like she was deeply worried.
Naruto was just smiling at him.
Actually, Jin-Woo was worried inwardly as well. Now normally, he would never try to take on any unnecessary risk. Not only did he lack the abilities to do so, but he was also not brave enough, too.
However, Jin-Woo had a younger sister who was about to become a university student in the coming months.
'I've no money saved up….'
Currently, Jin-Woo was twenty-four years old.
He was at an age where he should be concentrating on his academic pursuits, but he gave up on that dream because, well, he had no money. He sure as hell didn't want his little sister to go through the same sacrifice, the same pain as he did.
Right now, every cent was precious to him.
It wasn't only Mister Park who needed a big score today.
Jin-Woo raised his hand up high.
"I vote for going ahead."
¨If Jin-Woo is going,then so am i!¨
It was then, he heard a soft sigh of resignation coming from his side.
¨With you here mister Jin tae, a B-rank hunter, nothing will go wrong!¨
´What is this sense of dread coming over me?´
¨Prediction?¨
¨Gut feeling.¨
¨Woah!The gate is way larger than I thought it would be.¨
¨Mister Jin tae,is something wrong?¨
¨Ah, nothing wrong.¨
¨Hey!I see a large door in front!¨
´The hell is the giant door here for,as far as i know this a F-rank Gate and monsters staying inside a G-rank Gate are 3 feet tall only.´
¨Help me open the door!¨
*SFX of pushing the door open*
*CREEAAKK!*
¨What the!?There no monsters appearing?But there are statues in here!¨
¨Oi!Is there something wrong with the gate, mister Jin tae?¨
¨Are these runes?Hey you,come over here!We need you to translate the words for us!¨
The Rune 'alphabet'.
Words that could not be found anywhere on Earth, and found only within dungeons,only the Hunters who had 'awakened' the magic-related professions could decipher them.
¨Rise my brothers,heed my i am the demon king!¨
¨The hell is the word demon king doing here?¨
¨Demon king?We did not have that in the double dungeon.¨
¨That´s one of the diffenrences that the timelines have.¨
¨There´s a script here!¨
"The laws of the Karutenon temple."
Song read the very first verse.
With a deeply nervous face, Jin-Woo listened to the contents of the slate, as read out by Mister Song.
However, someone suddenly tugged at his arm.
When he looked back, he spotted Ju-Hui and her deathly-pale complexion.