“Captain!” There was an urgent call for the captain from the front. “We’ve found a body!”
“A body?”
The raid captain, who was talking with Sooho, hurriedly returned to the Hunters. And when he found the body, his eyes widened.
“Is it a real body?”
“But this…doesn’t seem like an ordinary body.”
The Hunters’ expressions became serious.
The condition of the body was definitely strange. It had burned black like charcoal all over. It was bound to be an unnatural corpse here at Seoul Station.
“I’ve never heard of a monster that uses fire in Seoul Station…”
“That’s what I‘m saying.”
Just then, Sooho and the collectors came to see the body’s condition.
‘Hmm?’
A suspicion came to Sooho’s mind. The state of the body was very familiar to him. Then, he turned his head to look at Assistant Professor Im, and Assistant Professor Im also had the same thought and a serious expression.
“Sooho, this body… Could it be?”
“Yes. It seems to be Mistburn.” Sooho nodded confidently.
As if his words were heard, the Hunters turned their gaze to Sooho at the same time.
“Mistburn?”
“That blue fiery magic beast?”
“Are you sure?”
Not all Hunters knew the types of monsters unless they were a large guild.
“I’m sure.”
After experiencing the Korea University incident, Sooho had looked up information on Mistburn on the Internet. And he had discovered one surprising fact.
Mistburn…was not a typical magic beast. No, it wasn’t even a magic beast, to begin with.
Sooho calmly recited the information he had read then, “Mistburn. A phenomenon in which the body self-ignites when a non-awakened person inhales a certain amount of blue mist.”
“Wh-what!?”
“Mistburn was originally human?”
Among the inexperienced Hunters, some didn’t know that fact. This was because even the Hunter Association had only recently revealed the truth about Mistburn.
It was well known that Mistburn attacked humans to increase their clones, but there was no way to confirm how the first Mistburn was created.
Suddenly, one Hunter realized something and muttered, “Wait a minute. If Mistburn really comes into existence like that, how did the rumor that you can awaken by drinking the blue mist come about?”
“It’s obviously a false rumor. Or the information about Mistburn was distorted.”
– You can awaken by inhaling the blue mist.
This rumor had been circulating on the internet like an urban legend for over a year, but no one had yet come forward to uncover the truth behind that rumor.
‘… Everyone who inhaled it as an experiment would have burned to death.’
Anyway, that wasn’t the important thing right now.
“What about this corpse… How did it get down here in the first place?”
That was what the Hunters were curious about.
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Fantasy‼️ Disclaimer ‼️ This is not my story. Credits to the original author and translator. This story is for offline purposes. Year of publishing: 2023 Authors: Daul Translator: Readhive, Infamous-Scans Publishers: KakaopageWuxiaworld Synopsis: Sung Su-H...
