I Became a Goblin Ancestor

The Punishment Team.

Among the people living in the defense city, there wouldn’t be anyone who doesn’t know this name unless they’ve lost their mind.

The Punishment Team was one of the five forces controlling the defense city, vying for the second-in-command position.

All matters related to gate management and handling of criminals were under the Punishment Team’s authority, and the only faction that could interfere with them was the unrivaled General Management Team.

Hunter, a profession revered as one for those with innate talents.

And to enter the gates, which could be called their workplace, even the highly coveted profession of hunters needed permission from this Punishment Team.

Therefore, the prestige of the Punishment Team was at a level that couldn’t be ignored within the defense city, and for ordinary citizens, the opportunity to join the Punishment Team was truly like a star in the night sky.

If there was someone climbing up to the Punishment Team, wouldn’t that be an event worthy of being splashed across the front page of the city’s top newspaper?

‘This is crazy…’

Because of this, Sung-jun, a newspaper reporter from Dong-hyun Newspaper who came to cover the Defense City’s 12th District Gate today, couldn’t close his gaping mouth.

‘I’ve got a big scoop reserved.’

A girl of unparalleled beauty flying through the sky and trespassing into the gate area, and her brazen trampling of the Punishment Team’s face.

At the scene that would be criticized even if it were fiction.

It seemed there was no need to look further for this week’s front-page news.

“It’s so hot I could die…”

The crowd of spectators under the blazing sun of midsummer.

The reason Sung-jun had been waiting for 2 hours with a camera in the front row of this crowd of hundreds was simple.

It was just to capture for the newspaper the Punishment Team’s hunter party that was conducting a regular inspection of the 12th District gate today.

The only difference from the people gathered around was that while they had come to see the members of the hunter party of about a dozen people, he had come to see another being accompanying the Punishment Team’s party.

“They announced that exceptionally, the Punishment Team’s ancestor would be accompanying them this time…”

Usually, the five factions of the defense city undoubtedly had rare and powerful gene-bearing ancestors, but they were busy keeping their existence veiled and hidden.

After all, they couldn’t let anything happen to their ancestors if their information was revealed.

There were rumors that only the team leaders of each faction knew about each other’s ancestors, but the important thing was that ordinary people like Sung-jun knew nothing about the ancestors of the five factions.

However, surprisingly, in this regular gate inspection, the ancestor was said to be directly revealing themselves outside, so how could he not come?

“I must come.”

For this reason, Sung-jun had uncomfortably positioned himself in the front row of the crowd to try to catch even a small piece of information, and among the crowd, a few other reporters like Sung-jun could be seen here and there.

“Everyone seems to have rushed here thinking it’s a scoop.”

Seeing some familiar faces from his life as a reporter, it seemed they had all rushed here from various places.

Moreover, unmanned drones from other newspapers and broadcasting stations, including his own newspaper, were floating in the air, showing how fierce the competition for coverage was.

So Sung-jun himself couldn’t afford to lose or give up this position.

Therefore, Sung-jun endured, bearing with the 2 full hours and an unknown additional time, and after a few more minutes had passed.

“Kyaaaaa!!!”
“Ms. In-ah!!!”
“Here! Please look here just once!!!”

“Looks like they’ve finally come out.”

At the cheers bursting out around him to the point of losing their voices, Sung-jun grabbed his numb ears and raised his camera.

Then, true to its name as the latest “Bird Tribe Gene-loaded Camera,” the camera showed a clear image while sharing Sung-jun’s view.

Through it, Sung-jun slowly filmed the Punishment Team’s hunter party coming out of the gate, and when ten hunters came out, he grinned as he saw the huge carriage being carried out by four hunters in the rear.

“So this wasn’t a lie after all? There might really be something worth catching.”

Indeed, it wasn’t a lie, as a carriage that felt like someone was riding in it came out carried by the hunters’ hands.

And without needing explanation, Sung-jun could tell that the being riding in that carriage was the Punishment Team’s ancestor.

Of course, while the possibility that it wasn’t the ancestor but some random person couldn’t be completely denied, there was no reason for the Punishment Team to make a false announcement to the general public, and if it was said that the ancestor would accompany them, it must have been the ancestor’s own insistence, so the possibility of it being someone else was infinitely close to zero.

Therefore, Sung-jun, whose expectations were starting to rise, focused on capturing the ancestor intensively, and fixed his gaze with the heart of a fisherman hoping to catch even just one thing.

“Someone’s flying over there!!”

If it weren’t for that sudden shout, it would have been so.

‘What nonsense is this?’

That one sentence that seemed like gibberish.

In the defense city, it’s a criminal offense for non-hunters to arbitrarily use the power of implanted genes, and even hunters are immediately arrested if they use abilities within 300m of a gate.

And to fly in the sky at the 12th District gate where the Punishment Team, which has the right to summary judgment on illegal acts, is conducting a regular inspection?

There was no such nonsense, so Sung-jun burst into a hollow laugh, but he couldn’t stop his head from reflexively lifting.

After all, he was curious about what they saw to say such a stupid thing.

‘Did they say such nonsense after seeing a drone…’

And the moment he reflexively raised his head.

Flutter—

“What?!”

Sung-jun could only let out a short exclamation with his eyes wide open at the figure of a person that entered his view.

After all, when he raised his head at those words he thought were nonsense, he really saw the figure of someone flying through the air.

Sung-jun rubbed his eyes to see if he was really seeing correctly, but as if to say this was no lie, soon the figure flying through the sky with a fluttering black and white jumper landed in front of the gate, ignoring even the Punishment Team’s hunter party that had been standing right in front of him.

And immediately after, Sung-jun lost his words again when he accurately grasped the gender of the figure that landed on the ground and saw ‘her’ face.

“Even her appearance… is insane.”

The one who flew through the sky and landed in front of the gate was none other than a girl.

And she was a beautiful girl with looks that could be called unrivaled beauty without exaggeration.

Therefore, not only Sung-jun but everyone standing here stared blankly at the girl’s face for a moment, but only for a moment, as the people who had been in a daze had to regain their senses.

After all, they had to.

‘Using abilities near the gate, and ignoring the Punishment Team, trespassing into the gate area in front of the Punishment Team…?’

The series of events that occurred in the process of the girl flying through the sky and landing in front of the gate were all so incredible that they made it impossible to focus on the girl’s appearance.

And of course, it wasn’t something that could be dismissed as an illusion, as it came as reality through one of the Punishment Team’s hunter party members who regained their senses a beat late like Sung-jun.

“Hey you!! What illegal act are you committing!!!”

The man’s voice resonated so loudly that it seemed to vibrate the air.

As if to say he wasn’t just a member of the Punishment Team’s hunter party for nothing, his voice was infused with a power, a strong magical force that couldn’t be resisted without being intimidated.

“Huh?”

However, as if to say she wasn’t affected by such things at all, the girl nonchalantly turned her head to look this way.

And the events that unfolded immediately after were all so absurd that each one was worthy of being recorded.

“How dare you commit such an absurd act where our Punishment Team’s ancestor is present! Are you ready to be dragged to the punishment room?”
“What do you mean… Ah, was this a place I shouldn’t have entered arbitrarily?”

The hunter, who seemed a bit flustered when she didn’t cower at his voice, soon hardened his expression again and raised his voice.

But the girl, as if she really didn’t understand such words, openly insulted the Punishment Team and showed a puzzled expression, and then, as if she had just realized, her eyes widened roundly.

What followed was a brief apology from the girl.

The words that followed after that didn’t properly reach Sung-jun’s ears.

After all, Sung-jun simply couldn’t understand what was happening in front of his eyes right now.

Fortunately, even in this situation, Sung-jun should consider it heavenly luck that the entire series of conversations was captured by the camera that hadn’t been lowered to the ground.

However, for Sung-jun, who didn’t know this, what was important now was understanding the situation in front of him.

The current situation that probably had never existed even once since the establishment of the five factions in the defense city.

But the current situation, flowing like rapids, didn’t give Sung-jun enough time to understand it.

“Then I’ll be going now. I’m really sorry.”

The girl, finally showing the end of her insult towards the Punishment Team, declared that she would leave normally in the status of a criminal.

And of course, at the girl’s behavior, the Punishment Team… no, to be precise, the woman who could be called the Punishment Team’s sword, could no longer endure.

Bang—!!!

“How incredibly rude. Do you dare to think of disgracing our Punishment Team in front of our ancestor.”

An enormously huge red greatsword flew through the air and thrust down in front of the girl.

Then, pushing aside the hunters around, the owner of the sword, a woman, slowly walked out.

People call her the Punishment Team’s sword, or by her rank, the captain.

Literally, she is the captain in charge of leading the Punishment Team’s hunter party, and it could be said that she possesses top-tier combat power even on a global scale.

She approached the girl with a frown, her eyes overflowing with killing intent.

Thud– Thud–

“Those statements alone are reason enough. I’ll execute you right here.”

The woman who approached the girl, Seo-jin, pulled out her greatsword that had been thrown in front of the girl and raised it above her head.

Then, the judgment of summary execution falling from her lips.

Having suffered such an insult in front of the ancestor, even a girl with such an appearance couldn’t avoid summary judgment.

“Repent for your sins even in hell.”

Whoosh—!!!

And immediately after, before anyone had time to even close their eyes, Seo-jin’s greatsword cut through the air and struck down towards the girl’s crown.

Then, a fierce emotional fluctuation arose from the girl.

But Seo-jin’s greatsword, swung in an instant that could be called a flash, touched the girl’s clothes before she could move.

The next moment.

“Kuhaak!!!”

Pueoeoeong—!!!!

In an invisible wind, Seo-jin’s body flew through the sky.