SSS-Class Hunter Goes On Vacation (4 Chapters Left to Complete) - Chapter 4

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It’s not like I’m some oversized dog that doesn’t consider its own bulk and just throws itself onto a human for affection. Even she felt her shoulders stiffen when a creature the size of a massive building leaned in with expectation.

‘Back then, when I caught a giant like this, I handed it over to Saint to sell as a taming beast.’

Thinking about it, there was no way such a colossal creature would just wander around randomly—it was certainly one captured from the Tower.

Then again, it was common sense that a monster already tamed by a Tamer wouldn’t show goodwill toward another human, so perhaps it was expressing gratitude for sparing its life back then.

Delving deeply into whether monsters possess intelligence was quite exhausting.

After all, they were invaders—opponents with whom one had to fight for survival.

Su Ji stopped indulging Gaori’s affection (?) any further and snatched the receipt attached to its tail.

The receipt bore a pseudonym. As long as payment was clearly made, using a false name or real name made no difference—it wasn’t difficult to buy things.

Hunters of the post-Wave generation were managed under the Gate Stability Department of the government’s Crisis Management Support Division. Su Ji even had her own dedicated administrator who handled all her affairs like a personal secretary.

Having never purchased such items herself before, she asked her assigned administrator to procure them all on her behalf.

Her sharp, efficient administrator—familiar with Daphne’s preferences—delivered everything here in under two hours without prying into the details.

She was certainly pleased with how smoothly things were handled.

As soon as Su Ji signed the document, the beast lowered its head regretfully and rose once more into the sky.

She no longer spared it even a glance, turning instead toward the delivered package before her.

Three enormous mattresses, a desk, a roll-up wall-mounted monitor, various game consoles, comic books, a bookshelf, audio equipment, a large and spacious sofa, and decorative items suitable for both indoors and outdoors…

So many goods rolled across the floor, each sealed within bubble-like vacuum spheres that it was hard to count them individually.

Even at a cursory glance, everything was high-end and minimalist in design, exactly to her taste.

‘Now I need to move all this into my living space.’

Though pleased with the items, she suddenly realized she was short on help.

Her desired residence—an area quiet and inaccessible to others—lay deep within the Abyssal Zone, a region frequently patrolled by S-rank monsters, making it impossible to ask anyone else to carry things for her.

‘Maybe I should’ve taken the Tamer trait after all.’

If she could command beasts, it would’ve been useful.

She’d never raised tamed monsters before because they typically lost their will to fight upon encountering stronger beasts, but they might have been quite helpful in daily life.

It was an unfamiliar thought, but recalling Gaori’s just-displayed affection made her consider trying it at least once.

Su Ji shook her head to clear the notion. She would need to make several trips to move all the items piled before her.

It was better to start moving quickly than to keep thinking.

She first stuffed as many items as possible into her inventory’s remaining slots and stepped into the Abyssal Zone—known as the “Land of Death.” But…

“What is this?”

Unlike the dream she’d carried with her upon arriving, the state of her residence was far from pleasant.

‘I’m sure when I first decided to buy this place, the view was incredibly beautiful.’

Although called the “Abyssal” Zone, it wasn’t actually underwater—it earned its name because all sorts of abyssal monsters roamed its vast, fertile lands and beautiful sandy beaches.

It was truly dreadful to see creatures resembling bipedal anglerfish or even more grotesque than gulper eels floating idly through the air.

Massive beings—grotesquely evolved versions of Earth’s nautilus—walked on tentacles, and numerous leech-like monsters with suction cups, clearly designed to drain blood on contact, were everywhere one looked.

Though resembling Earth’s deep-sea creatures, their appearance was hellish, and their stats were equally nightmarish.

The Gate had looked quite beautiful when she purchased it—likely because she’d eradicated all the monsters back then.

Now, with hunters rarely visiting, the area had become overrun with monsters and weeds, making its scenery anything but beautiful.

“…Do you have any idea how much money I spent on this residence? How dare you ruin the view like this?”

Su Ji gritted her teeth and drew her sword.

The rapier she’d obtained as a first-clear reward on Floor 78 of the Tower, 〈Yoke of the Fallen〉, emerged with a burst of dark radiance.

It was a Tier-9 weapon.

Each tier increased an item’s power by nearly 1.5 to 2 times that of the previous.

By Tier 9, such items were not only nearly impossible to obtain but also came with extremely stringent user requirements.

The mere ominous aura emanating from it instantly deflated the monsters that had been greedily eyeing the intruder.

Monsters instinctively revered those who had slain beings stronger than themselves.

Given that this was a relic of an S-rank monster from Floor 78 of the Tower, their reaction was only natural.

‘In a way, these monsters are easier to understand than humans.’

Su Ji shouted loudly.

“Anyone who wishes to die, come before me! I’ll grant you a swift, painless death!”

Her warning, amplified by her SSS-rank Hunter’s power, carried immense force—and simultaneously triggered several of her traits.

[Trait 〈Declaration of Death〉 activated.
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Applies the ‘Fear’ debuff with 20% probability to monsters below AAA-rank within a 40m radius.

Trait 〈Thunderous Voice〉 activated.

Selects one monster below S-rank within sight and applies the ‘Fear’ debuff with 12% probability.

Trait 〈Daylight Warning〉 activated.

Monsters with Darkness affinity within 82m lose combat will with 9% probability.

Trait 〈Song by the Water’s Edge〉 activated.

Monsters below AA-rank hearing the caster’s voice receive the ‘Charm’ debuff with 1% probability.]

Alongside the trait activation messages, judgment logs scrolled rapidly.

While she watched the alternating logs—Success, Failure, Success, Failure, Success, Success—the monsters unaffected by debuffs charged toward Daphne.

“If fear doesn’t work, then death will suffice.”

Su Ji raised 〈Yoke of the Fallen〉 and precisely dispatched, one by one, the grotesque creatures whose mere appearance would kill one’s appetite.

[Trait 〈Sanctum of Ten〉 activated.

If the caster slays ten AAA-rank or higher monsters within a 10m radius of the declaration point within seven minutes, all monsters below AAA-rank within 100m receive the ‘Fear’ debuff with 41% probability.]

〈Sanctum of Ten〉 was considered a low-tier trait, easily obtainable even in ordinary Gates.

Though its debuff probability and range were excellent for its tier, very few could fulfill its demanding conditions in practice.

Thus, people often dismissed 〈Sanctum of Ten〉 as a trait that sounded impressive but was useless in real combat.

Had any hunter witnessed it actually triggering, those who’d dismissed it would surely be astonished.

Following Daphne’s onslaught, the massive monsters—some floating idly, others awkwardly ambling on two strange legs—blocking the sky all succumbed to fear and began retreating one by one.

Perhaps due to their abyssal appearance, instead of vanishing into the air, they eerily walked into the sea and disappeared.

As the gloomy monsters hiding the sky simultaneously vanished, sunlight poured down all at once.

“…Wow.”

Only then did the beautiful scenery Daphne remembered return to view.

Though overrun with weeds, the vast open plain—a rarity in Korea’s mountainous terrain—and the beach at its edge evoked a strangely soothing sensation in her heart.

Two luminous orbs of differing sizes drifted across the open sky at different speeds.

Nestled precisely between them stood a white, angular two-story country house, bearing Daphne’s personal seal.

Though it might seem lonely to some, Su Ji found the solitary house perfectly fitting.

“I’m glad I came.”

Unaware, she softly smiled and murmured to herself.

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Even excluding stat adjustments from items or traits, Su Ji’s accumulated base strength was so high that tidying up the house wasn’t difficult at all.

She effortlessly lifted sofas and bookshelves with one hand.

Then she tore open every package and roughly placed game consoles, game cartridges, and audiovisual equipment in their spots.

But because she’d ordered so many items at once, she couldn’t finish everything in a single day.

Just as earning money in hardcore games wasn’t the hard part—arranging furniture piece by piece and decorating the house to her liking was—the fact that this was her first time living alone meant she had to personally hang even the curtains, leaving her with much to attend to.

“Living truly requires so many things.”

There were so many items that, had she ordered them herself, she doubted she could have managed all these details.

Su Ji quickly organized only what she needed immediately and sprawled onto the wide, plush sofa.

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