SL:R

Chapter 16

The Hyena Guild became widely known about a year ago.

They were initially a group of street thugs operating in the Gwacheon area, but after awakening, they began to exaggerate their past criminal records, claiming they were originally from a powerful gang.

It had been a shallow bluff, but they started committing gang-like activities after awakening.

They made lower-level hunters go into debt and threw them into dungeons to make them work without pay as a condition of nulling the interest. It would be unthinkable now, but at that time, there were no laws related to hunters to prevent their crimes since the Hunter Association had not yet been established.

However, Sooho, who was investigating them, discovered a strange fact. All of them, originally just neighborhood thugs, awakened almost simultaneously and in the same place—Gwanak Mountain.

‘Does that make sense?’

Sooho was suspicious.

One day, a year ago, when a dungeon break broke out in Gwanak Mountain, a group of gangsters who had come to bury bodies in the mountain ‘coincidentally’ all awakened.

They immediately formed a group called the Hyena Guild, seized control of the Gwanak Mountain Field, and began to mine mana stones to make money, even now, one year later.

‘It’s just too coincidental to be a coincidence.’
There were still many different opinions on the trigger or cause for ordinary people to awaken. Some said it was due to talent or genetics. Others said it was pure luck, like winning the lottery or getting struck by lightning.

All of these speculations could be nonsense, or they could all be true. For some, it may be genetics, while for others, it may be luck. Ultimately, the common belief was that there must be a trigger to someone’s awakening.

‘In the end, it’s all relative.’

In that sense, it seemed that the Hyena Guild members had probably awakened by drinking the blood of the canine clan. So, it made sense that they had all awakened at the same time.

‘Then the problem is that there must be a separate canine who provided that blood…’

Whether it was good luck or bad luck, it seemed that Sooho would soon discover the beast. Because right now, an overwhelming presence was walking out of the gate on its own, causing an eerie feeling.

[Grrrrrr…]

The breath of a terrifying beast. The vicious aura within shook the air of Gwanak Mountain, covered in blue mist.

“…!”

Sooho’s gaze, who was fighting against the werewolves, turned to the gate, which revealed obvious and blatant malice.

[Little King, it’s dangerous.]

Beru climbed onto Sooho’s shoulder and hurriedly whispered. His relaxed expression had all disappeared.

[We need to get away from here as soon as possible. We can’t handle this kind of opponent yet, Little King!]

But it wasn’t as easy as it sounded.

[‘Skill: Cruel Command’ increases the werewolves’ stats by 50%.]

[As a side effect of ‘Skill: Cruel Command’, the werewolves are cursed with madness.]

“Gyaooo!”

Suddenly, the werewolves that Sooho were facing grew in size, and their movements became incredibly fast and powerful. Their madness started to put more pressure on Sooho.