Talent System: I Instantly Master My Opponents Skills
Chapter 120: Hunting (1)

Chapter 120: Hunting (1)

... In The A-Dungeon

"Is that all?"

A teenager with light brown skin and blue eyes asked.

"Yes, that’s all you need to know, its even common knowledge."

The man he was talking to was shameless.

After getting the money and finishing his part of the deal, he had decided to finally spill that everything he had told the boy was common knowledge.

However, the boy was unfazed.

"If that is all, I’ll be taking my leave."

He stood up and made to leave the bar.

The burly man shrugged to himself before taking down another gulp of alcohol from a bottle. He slammed the bottle onto the table.

"Hey bartender, give me more!"

The brown skin boy turned back to him.

Their eyes met.

The man met unfiltered disgust aimed right at him.

The boy then left the bar.

"It’s disgusting."

The boy muttered to himself.

Seeing men and women alike drowning themselves in alcohol, like there weren’t monsters outside the town waiting for the slightest gap in the town’s defenses, and feast on them.

"I might puke."

He put a hand over his abdomen.

The man he was talking to was disgusting, he reeked not only of alcohol but also had an offensive odor on him.

Frankly speaking, most people in this town had an odor – ranging from slight to offensive – on them.

That was due to limited resources.

Water was the only resource that wasn’t in abundance, that was because inside the town there was no snow.

"I’m bored."

Everyday was boring inside here.

Even getting scammed by a middle-aged man didn’t help alleviate his boredom.

The ring on his finger glowed in a blue light, and a dagger appeared in his grasp.

He toyed with the dagger, ignoring the countless people that passed by him on the streets.

Jason suddenly stopped toying with his dagger, he noticed that someone was approaching him.

He could tell who it was.

"You smell like alcohol."

The speaker was a young girl with blue hair and blue eyes.

"I was in a bar."

He had nothing to hide.

Though he had no drank anything, the stench from the several other people in the bar seemed to have clung to him.

She didn’t seem to care about his words.

"Where is Sean?"

Jason questioned.

Now that they had met up, both of them walked side-by-side.

She had begun talking to him after the incident where she had healed him.

But Jason could tell that their relationship wasn’t that good.

"He’s in a rank 4 dungeon."

’The concept of a dungeon inside a dungeon is somewhat confusing.’

"What about Kira?"

The girl looked at him in the face.

"He’s been looking for you, so he asked me to find you while he deals with something."

"Oh, I was busy."

Jason lied.

In fact, he was very bored.

She turned away.

"You have five minutes."

Then, she was gone.

Jason internally cursed.

’How does she expect me to find Kira when she’s already gone?’

The speed at which she had moved was unreal, she had already arrived back at where he was supposed to be.

Jason jumped onto the roof of one of the buildings.

’Maybe I should start avoiding her?’

He thought as he leaped from rooftop to rooftop, his sharp eyes scanning everywhere as he tried to locate a certain blue haired boy with blue eyes.

’I can’t...’

It just wasn’t possible.

She was the one who came for him, not the other way around. He could only hope that she wouldn’t come looking for him.

’At least now, I’m no longer bored.’

Sprinting through a small town, trying to find a boy.

It was definitely fun.

And the consequences of failing made it even more fun.

Jason jumped from one roof to another, his eyes darting around.

’Found you.’

He jumped down, landing right in front of the person he was looking for.

"You’re here."

Kira said nonchalantly.

He wasn’t startled by Jason’s dramatic entrance in the least.

’I’m two minutes early.’

He mused, glancing at the girl next to Kira.

Some beads of sweat formed at his forehead after he finally stopped running.

"We’re going hunting now, normally I wouldn’t ask you to join but Sean is in the dungeon, so..."

"It’s alright, I’ll go."

’How can you not allow your brother to fall off a 20 meter tree, but allow him to challenge a dungeon by himself?’

Jason couldn’t help but question Kira’s thinking.

Dungeons that spawned near this small settlement were handled by a group of awakeners that consisted of people rank 5, 4 and 3.

Sean joined them to earn some money.

"We should head out now, we might find something before nightfall."

Jason nodded.

Both his and Kira’s body vanished, replaced by a blurry afterimage that quickly faded away.

They were now outside the barrier that protected the small settlement.

"Since we started hunting, most of the monsters left. If we keep on moving for an hour, we might see one of those bears."

’Most of the monsters...’

Jason had a feeling that the monster he was expecting wasn’t one of them.

The cold had come back.

’I shouldn’t have thrown the coat away.’

He was beginning to regret his earlier decision to throw away his torn, blood-soaked coat.

Jason could only lament as he ran after Kira.

Snow that fell endlessly from the sky covered the ground.

They kept up the pace, their feet moving in rhythm.

’How long have I been in the dungeon?’

Jason wondered.

He never really had a clear sense of time, he was never mindful of time no matter where he was.

’It should have been at least a few days, after I killed the bears, that corrupted human, traveled here and stayed in the settlement.’

He mused, lagging a little behind Kira.

He had to stay behind the one leading their hunt because he didn’t even know where he was going.

’Since its a completely different scenario from what I expected, there should be a task I need to complete before I gain access to the boss room in this place.

My best bet is that I should follow Kira and Sean, but even then I can’t be completely sure.’

"Stop here."

Jason stopped as soon as he heard Kira’s words.

His eyes glanced around as he scanned the environment for a monster, but he came up empty in his search.

"What is that?"

He murmured to himself.

He recognized it but had trouble believing that his eyes weren’t deceiving him.

"Isn’t that...?"

Jason questioned, his face showing disbelief.

"Yes..."

Even the one that answered him wasn’t sure.

"Solidified magma."

Kira finally said.

’It’s an igneous rock."

Jason muttered to himself.

Magma that solidified.

Seeing such a rock out in the open wasn’t the surprising thing.

It was seeing such a rock out in the open when snow fell from the sky. It should have been buried deep under the layers of snow that had fallen onto the ground and then the area surrounding it was also

Jason approached the rock, he brought his hand close to it, but then he quickly withdrew it once it got close enough.

"Its hot."

Jason told Kira.

He backed away from the rock.

He observed it closely, watching snowflakes fall from the sky, and vaporize before they could even come in contact with the rock.

"Magma."

Jason murmured.

"How did magma end up here?" He wondered.

And somehow, it had solidified.

"It couldn’t be a volcano."

That didn’t seem right, in a place like this, where would a volcano be situated.

And if it even happened to erupt, wouldn’t it have spurted out more than a single rock.

There was something that didn’t add up.

Kira refocused his eyes a bit farther away from the rock.

"There are footsteps here."

Jason’s eyes left the rock and he followed Kira’s gaze.

There were indeed footsteps.

However, it didn’t belong to any sort of monster.

"What did it?"

A single rock was able to garner their curiosities.

"I don’t know, but it could be a corrupted human that did this."

Kira looked up.

"But then again, it could also have been a human..."

Then, the boy added silently to himself.

",,,Though, I doubt that a human could have caused this."

The boy turned to Jason.

"Let’s go, if we hunt quickly, we might not run into whatever caused this."

The boy sprinted off without waiting for a reply from Jason.

"What the..."

Jason stopped before completing the sentence and ran after him.

’That isn’t fire magic.’

He thought as he caught up to Kira.

"But if it isn’t magic, then it obviously has to be a skill or a technique."

He murmured that to himself.

But even he wasn’t sure if that was true.

A skill or technique couldn’t be that weak, it was simply not possible.

But.

Jason wasn’t involved with that.

What he wanted to do now was to hunt a monster.

Find out the cause of that wasn’t on his agenda.