Jason grabbed Jin-Woo and helped him stabilize himself.

  When Jin-Woo opened his eyes, he saw a wintery forest, pletely covered in white snow.

  "What is this pce?!"

  "This doesn't look like the interior of a dungeon, does it?!"

  "Hey, look! The Gate's disappeared, too!"

  Other Hunters were looking around in fusion, uo hide their panic as well.

  While they were getting more and more flustered, Jin-Woo calmed himself down and turo Jason who slowly nodded his head.

  They both then turoward their surroundings and sed around for any possible danger.

  Han Song-Yi approached them and began tugging at Jin-Woo's coat in the meantime.

  "Uhm, excuse me… something bad happened just nht?"

  She looked really scared. Her previous self-fidence was o be found.

  But then…

  Jin-Woo's hand suddenly shot out toward Han Song-Yi's face.

  '...?!'

  Han Song-Yi's eyes opened super wide.

  *Grab!*

  The arrow caught in Jin-Woo's hand trembled tinuously.

  "Ahh?! Ah…!"

  Finally realizing what just happened, her face paled in an instant. However, the expected scream came from somewhere else.

  "Kyaaaahhk!!"

  "Uwa, uwaaahk!!"

  *Plop!*

  A male Hunter fell to the snowy ground with blood bubbling out of his mouth, an arrow lodged deep in his temple.

  The snowy ground was soon dyed in his blood.

  "Euh, euh…."

  Almost all the hunters began gasping in shock.

  "Over there!"

  "It's those bastards!!"

  One of the rank B Hunters poiowards the top of a tree located far away.

  But, even before he had begun pointing his finger, both the gazes of Jin-Woo and Kim Chul were fixed there.

  They could see two lifeforms standing over there, on the snow-covered branches.

  But nobody realized that Jaso was already staring at them even before the arrows were shot.

  'So, they appeared, huh? The Ice Syers or Ice Elves! No there is a better han that... Hyakkis!'

  '….They are ughing at us, huh.'

  The two archers had lowered their bows and disgusting smiles were clearly visible on their faces. It was as if they were staring at a table full of delicacies and couldn't decide whie to start eating.

  The cheap tactic of the White Phantoms certainly ma out JinWoo's ire. He raised the caught arrow so the creatures could see, and broke it in half.

  *Crack!*

  Perhaps taking that as a challehe White Phantom who shot that arrow poi Jin-Woo and drew a line under his .

  Seeing that, Jin-Woo simply smirked. However, his eyes were definitely not ughing.

  '….I'll kill you with my own hands.'

  Receiving the trivial provocation of the monster, Jin-Woo simply gred coldly at his reply.

  Soon, the pair of White Phantoms disappeared below the tree.

  "Looks like this is their way of weling us."

  Finally, Kim Chul opened his mouth.The lone rank A of the group opened his mouth, prompting everyoo focus their gazes on him as if they had agreed before ing here.

  Actually, he was the leader of this raid team, so that might have been it, though.

  "I'm sure some of you have realized it by now. This is ihe Red Gate."

  While he was expining about the red gate, Jin-Woo, and Jason were chatting.

  "Hyun-nim, it seems our pn failed."

  "No, it's eveer now. This pce is very good for you to level up a bunch."

  "Huh?" Jin-Woo was taken aback but soon realized the meaning of his words.

  As they fiheir chatter, they heard Kim Chul's cold voice.

  "Excluding you."

  "Excuse me?"

  "And also, you, you, you, and you."

  Kim Cheol poio a few more others, including Jin-Woo, Han Song-Yi, and Jason.

  Even if Kim Chul had asked Jason, he wasn't going to join him anyway.

  "Excuse me."

  A rank B female Hunter from Kim Chul's group raised her hand. Kim Chul turo look at her, and she poi Jin-Woo.

  "It's fio go over there from here, right?"

  "….Do what you want."

  She didn't even look bad walked straight to Jin-Woo's side.

  Kim Chul alternated his gaze between the woman and Jin-Woo, and smirked derisively, before deg out loudly.

  "We've got an opening this side, so I'll accept one more person!"

  "Me, me!!"

  One of the ks quickly joins his team, fearing that the lone rank A in the group, and the leader, might ge his mind.

  Jin-Woo stared at the woman now standio him with a puzzled expression on his face. Her gaze met with Jin-Woo's, and she whispered in a low voice so no one else could hear.

  "That man Kim Chul? Well, he couldn't see the arrow flying in, you see."

  "So, what are you saying?"

  Then, the woman smiled refreshingly.

  "I'm guessing you're not a rank E. Am I right?"...

  Jason heard the versation and smiled. He then saw Kim Chul approag their group.

  "We will…."

  Kim Chul's voice was harsh and low. Didn't matter what he was trying to vey here, he souhreatening and menag.

  "….Be using the road."

  He didn't saunter over here just to decre which path they would be using, though. No, Kim Cheol's eyes were asking what their group would do. Along with the hidden threat of 'Don't you dare follow us'.

  Before Jin-Woo could answer, Jason poioward the forest and said.

  "We will be going through the forest."

  "…I'll wish you luck."

  "Yeah, you too."

  With that Jason took the lead aered the forest, quickly followed by Jin-Woo and others.Jin-Woo and Jason walked to the front of the group.

  But before long, Park Hee-Jin stood in front of them.

  "What is it?"

  "Have you lost your mind?"

  Jin-Woo crossed his arms and dispyed how unhappy he was to hear that.

  Meaning, she'd have to be careful with her follow-up. Jason only looked at her with a smile.

  Perhaps she uood Jin-Woo's warning, Park Hee-Jin's voice had softened somewhat.

  "I'm sorry. But I o say this."

  Park Hee-Jin's finger poioward one of the surrounding trees.

  " you see that?"

  There was a huge cw mark oree's bark.

  "Over there, too! And there!"

  Almost every siree had its barks greatly damaged and it was hard to find ohat was still intact.

  "This entire pce is full of the bear's territorial markings, you know?! This entire forest is the bear-type monster's habitat!"

  Of course, Park Hee-Jin would get angry.

  "We o go back right now! Before the monsters show up!"

  "Tsk, tsk."

  Jin-Woo clicked his tongue.

  Park Hee-Jin's face reddened up from anger.

  "W-what is it?"

  Her voice rose up again.

  Jin-Woo spat out a long sigh and opened his mouth.

  "It's difficult to find a tree without the territorial markings, which means that there are more than one or two Ice Bears here, yes?"

  "T-that is why we much go ba….."

  "That is precisely why we're moving through the forest."

  "Eh?"

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