NOVEL WEB Chapter 26
[Genre Hunter Gallery]
– This is a gallery that covers everything related to hunters without regard to genre.
[This Month’s A-grade Hunter List] (114)
[C-grade hunter. A solo shot verification with Yeonseo Grandma.] (231)
[Stop the Wrath] (49)
[He just got caught lying again, haha.] (85)
[I’m really pissed, please share some lewd pics.] (73)
[(Breaking News) Yeonseo’s granddaughter Yeonhwa officially granted A-grade hunter title.] (124)
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It has been over 60 years since the first Great Rift occurred, but the sentiment in the community remains unchanged.
Perhaps it’s because humanity’s civilization was pushed to the brink of destruction and then revived? In 2088, the community was still dominated by that nostalgic feeling. Today, here too, a hideous frog and a character wielding real power were shouting “Kuwikuwi” as they sorted out the wretches.
And then, a post from a notable user appeared in the Genre Hunter Gallery.
..[Is Mamataong Real?] (239)
As soon as the provocative term “Mamataong” was used, the view count quickly rose, but it was the content that was even more shocking.
The moment you click the post, what grabs your attention is the chest.
Chest. Chest.
A really big chest.
The first photo had a massive chest obscuring the angle, and below it was a high-definition GIF that looked like it was clipped from somewhere else.
The GIF showed a woman with glimmering silver hair climbing a cliff that looked like a dungeon in the Kurtala Mountains, with tentacles lifting her up from behind as she ascended the cliff.
And whenever her body even slightly swayed, the enormous maternal pouch on her chest made viewers’ hearts swell.
[Found this while deep-sea diving in some low-tier stream. Damn, can you see that maternal pouch? Her chest is breathtaking huge.]
ㄴ[Wow, that’s massive.]
ㄴ[What the heck, what is that? If it’s that size, it’s definitely plastic surgery, right?]
ㄴ[You ignorant fool, can’t you see it’s wobbling?]
ㄴ[For real, if it was surgery, you’d see the Botox immediately, haha.]
ㄴ[Who’s the hunter?]
ㄴ[If she’s not a hunter, I’ll report her for indecency.]
ㄴ[She’s a hunter for sure. The stream title isn’t set, and her account was named ‘Hunter Isia.’]
ㄴ[Oh wow, this is so tempting.]
ㄴ[Sizzling.]
ㄴ[A big-breasted noona and tentacles, heck yes…]
ㄴ[The combo is seriously lewd, haha.]
[She’s obviously just a girl trying to lure hapless fools in because she can’t make money from being a hunter.]
ㄴ[For real, haha.]
ㄴ[There’s definitely more than one like her.]
ㄴ[But looking at that maternal pouch, she’d probably make a fortune just with body-cam shows.]
ㄴ[Real hunters don’t just do body-cam stuff upfront.]
ㄴ[Some are too proud for body-cams but end up accidentally exposing themselves during dungeons and rake in the cash, haha.]
ㄴ[But outdoor streams are way better, lol.]
[Is that the Kurtala Mountains in Gyeryongsan? It looks just like the spot my sister took a selfie at.]
ㄴ[Stop talking nonsense.]
ㄴ[Look at how subtly trying to hype up his sister being an A-grade hunter, haha.]
ㄴ[Oh come on, just laugh it off.]
[But what’s with the tentacles behind her, haha?]
ㄴ[Isn’t she a shapeshifter Awakener?]
ㄴ[Seems likely.]
ㄴ[Aren’t shapeshifters supposed to be rare?]
ㄴ[No idea.]
[I’m a guy, but that’s definitely a chest that men would hate.]
ㄴ[Hahaha.]
ㄴ[You must be joking, haha.]
ㄴ[Ugh, gross.]
ㄴ[Hey, keep going!]
ㄴ[Hahaha, what are you even saying?]
Clearly, with looks and body like that, even without skills, she could quickly rise and rake in money from fools. However, the post featuring ‘Hunter Isia’s’ photos and GIFs quickly went beyond mere posts and began to garner a remarkable level of upvotes across the community.
Though the person in question surely had no idea about it.
Thus, the historic post “Hunter Isia” was eventually dubbed as a holy site, promised to hold numerous pilgrimages from the wretched in the future.
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The 13 members of the Deep-Sea Exploration Team were initially drawn in by Isia’s large maternal pouch.
If someone were to ignore such an overwhelming presence, they couldn’t be called men… no, they might as well not be human.
Besides the overwhelming size and beautiful chest, no one still knew what the streamer was trying to broadcast.
Each time they moved, the maternal pouch wobbled, causing the 13 viewers to feel dizzy as they watched the broadcast almost in a trance.
– Wow, what’s with the jiggle every time she walks, lol?
– Whoa, I need to clip this!
– I can’t resist for real.
– But where the heck is that? Is it a dungeon?
– She’s a hunter, so it looks like a dungeon.
At first, the viewers didn’t take “Isia” the streamer too seriously.
Of course, her chest was enormous.
And her face was pretty enough to rival celebrities.
With looks like that, being a hunter could easily grab the attention of viewers, and the 13 kept watching Shia’s stream without going anywhere.
– But what dungeon is that?
– No idea.
– You figure it out.
– A dungeon with mountains or forests isn’t that rare, is it?
– Freaking grammar Nazi, lol.
However, mere pretty looks weren’t enough to make a stream thrive.
After all, the streamer couldn’t even properly set up her stream title. She didn’t seem aware that she was streaming at all, without even saying hello or a single word; it would be odd for anyone to think highly of her.
Among hunter streamers, about 90% cannot capture the audience’s elevated expectations and thus never escape being low-tier streamers.
Hunter broadcasts are mainly made by hunters from F to C grade who are desperate for money. To genuinely dazzle viewers with flashy actions and combat, one required to be at least an A-grade hunter.
Pretty hunter?
If her skills are at F or D level, viewers will eventually leave.
So-called “big corporations” in the hunter streaming world are all A-grade hunters, and if not, only those with unique concepts can survive.
This harsh market for hunter streamers required real skills and talent to survive.
These 13 viewers were presently offering Isia a grace period.
Big chest.
Very big chest.
Really big chest.
With a nice face being a positive factor for a good first impression.
Yet soon, the viewers awaited to judge ‘Hunter Isia’s’ skills, determining whether they would become loyal fans or drift away back to being simply deep-sea divers.
– But with that appearance, wouldn’t she skyrocket if she just becomes B-grade?
– Look at the Mamataong, it’s frickin’ huge, lol.
– Is that the Mamataong? Or a maternal pouch?
– Aren’t all the guys here drawn in by her maternal pouch?
– Oh, you’ve been found out, haha!
Since the streamer was not communicating with them, the viewers started chatting amongst themselves.
And the atmosphere of the viewers began to change when a black shadow caught by the drone camera began soaring in the sky.
Kiiaak!
– ??
– Hey, what’s that?
– Is it a wyvern?
– Quit talking nonsense; how many wyvern appearances are there in our country? Haha
– Isn’t there an A-grade dungeon in Gyeryongsan?
– I’ve been looking at the hunter list recently, and there are no female hunters among the new A-grades.
– We do have a hunter freak here, haha.
– So, is the streamer B-grade, then?
– A B-grade would go to Gyeryongsan? That’s essentially a suicide mission, lol.
– Not a wyvern, probably an obsidian eagle.
As the viewers had mentioned, a B-grade hunter visiting Kurtala Mountains would need permission from the Hunter Association.
Wyverns are rated from B-grade to A+ grade, and thousands of them congregate in the breeding grounds of the Kurtala Mountains.
Even an A-grade hunter wouldn’t guarantee their life surrounded by so many wyverns; hence going to the Kurtala Mountains as a B-grade was, in essence, an act of suicide.
“I need to step up my pace.”
Chiiik!
Then, as the streamer suddenly took off running, the 13 viewers showed signs of surprise.
The speed of the streamer surpassed even the sound of air breaking, momentarily making the drone camera unable to keep up with her movement.
– What’s with that speed?
– What? Is she not B-grade, but a true A-grade?
– Nah, that’s just an act.
– But if the camera loses track of her speed, that means she’s actually fast, right?
S-grade hunters are not only scarce in our country but are well-known enough that the entire nation knows their faces.
Often performing like superheroes and guarding the citizens and the nation, viewers naturally began to speculate about the streamer’s status as an A-grade hunter.
– Hey, isn’t the streamer a Returnee?
– I heard a Returnee just arrived a few days ago.
– If she were a Returnee, it’d make sense that she’s not on the A-grade promotion list, haha.
– But isn’t it rare for a Returnee to get A-grade immediately?
– But if she’s a Returnee, who cares, haha? She’s below Yeonseo.
– You idiot, call her Miss Yeonseo.
– Yeonseo might just come to find you, haha!
Thus, the viewers slowly began to find more interest in the stream.
While their attention was caught by her chest, they started to realize there might be real talent behind the streamer.
– Wow, this really is the Kurtala Mountains.
– Look at the sheer number of wyverns.
– Isn’t each of those over B-grade?
– Yeah, there might even be A+ ones.
As numerous wyverns and their nests began to appear in the camera, the atmosphere shifted dramatically.
90% of hunter streamers were B-grade or lower.
Only two among S-grade hunters were streaming.
Thus, among the few so-called corporate hunter streamers were actual A-grade hunters with real skills.
If the streamer ‘Hunter Isia’ were genuinely an A-grade, the 13 viewers in this stream would technically become founding contributors.
– Hey, where’d the streamer go??
– What?
– She’s making a run for it, haha.
– I mean, there are like hundreds of wyverns, who would dare go in there?
– That’s true, haha.
But suddenly, the streamer weaved through the gathering of wyverns and began creeping into a certain area to avoid detection.
She even used her tentacles to silence her footsteps in moving her body up the tree.
And in that place…
– What? Are the wyverns hurt?
– They’re bleeding.
– Seems like the streamer didn’t even set the injury settings, haha.
– But that doesn’t matter right now since the monetization settings aren’t on anyway.
– Those aren’t just hurt, it looks like they’re in the middle of spawning?
And the viewers beheld it.
The moment they saw the injured wyverns, the streamer who maintained a blank expression suddenly smiled gleefully.
“Slurp… Haa, they look delicious…”
That smile sent chills through the viewers, and the chatting window fell silent.
What was the streamer going to do?
Was she going to kill the wyverns?
The viewers waited with bated breath for the next action of the streamer, and as the wyvern screeched in agony, her tentacles slowly moved to the back of the wyvern.
“Whoa, whoa… Okay, calm down… If I kill her just like this, I could break the eggs. Hold on, hold on…”
Kiiaaaaak! Hyaaaak!
Thwump!
Then just before the egg dropped to the ground, her tentacle snatched the egg mid-air and began making a getaway.
[Miracle – Purification]
“Hehe!”
– No freaking way, hahaha!!!
– What the hell is happening???
– Look at her expression, haha!
– She’s rocking that childlike look, haha!
– Is she really stealing the eggs while running away???
– Hahaha! Hahaha!
“Hahaha!”
As the streamer wielded her mysterious power, the blood and impurities covered on the wyvern egg were instantly cleansed.
Regardless of what that skill did, viewers couldn’t help but chuckle as they watched the streamer’s sudden antics.
– Hahaha! Hahaha!
– If she’s using tentacles to steal wyvern eggs on stream, I’d watch it too, haha!
– This is so funny, for real, haha!
– The hunter stream isn’t just a hunting stream; it turned into a heist stream!
– Hahaha! Hahaha!
Before they knew it, the viewers had risen to 59.
What started with just 13 viewers was now climbing as if word had gotten out, and those who just entered the stream were able to witness the streamer stealing the wyvern’s egg in full.
Then, the streamer, wearing a bright smile, began taking out camping gear and preparing to cook.
– Hahaha! Hahaha!
– I get what this stream is!
– The streamer must’ve wanted to cook in the dungeon!
– What a wild girl, haha!
– Who hunts with a 30,000 dollar wyvern egg for cooking instead?
– That wyvern egg’s worth a fortune, haha!
Hahaha!
Soy sauce, cooking wine, plum extract, garlic, onion, water, sugar.
For an A-grade dungeon in the Kurtala Mountains, bringing mere cooking ingredients rather than emergency supplies or dungeon gear meant she was totally committed to this.
Feeling a little anxious but still determined, the streamer began cooking with an awkward touch, genuinely.
She started boiling the wyvern egg, which was the size of her head — no, actually larger than her head — and while that was cooking, she began making a dressing that looked mysterious with soy sauce.
“Let’s not be too nervous. Calm down, calm… ah, ah… slurp…”
“The wyvern egg… it’s the size of my head… the soy sauce is… gulp… oh, what do I do?”
“Sniff…”
“Next up is sugar, I need to add sugar… kyah!? It just burst in the bag!”
– Hahaha!
– Bad bag, haha!
– I can’t stop laughing, haha!
– Is this streamer pretending not to know what she’s doing?
– This isn’t an act; I’ve been paying attention from the start, she’s genuine, haha!
– If this were an act, this streamer would be a broadcasting genius!
– No joke!
“Sugar was supposed to be added based on preference… hmm… well, maybe too much is fine?”
– What the heck is she doing?
– Hey, can you pour that much sugar on it?
– No idea!
– Why are you saying you don’t know? Find out yourself!
– Come on, have you ever cooked with a wyvern egg before?
– Hahaha! Hahaha!
“Oh, oh! It smells good!”
– Amidst all this, she says it smells good? Haha!
– Her soy sauce ratio seems all off…
“Now that the wyvern egg is fully boiled… slurp…”*
– But it looks okay?
– Why does it actually look appetizing?
– Haha, I bet she’ll throw up after eating that, while drinking spring water!
– Did she just make wyvern egg stewed in soy sauce?
– The size is gigantic for real, haha!
“Haa, haa… hurry…”
The viewers, witnessing the streamer’s shenanigans, became completely engrossed in this mysterious broadcast.
It wasn’t just a simple concept; the streamer was genuinely drooling over the dish, and there was even a hint of madness visible in her slightly bloodshot eyes.
“Slurp… oh, let’s taste that sauce first.”
At that moment, the streamer dipped a spoon into the boiling soy sauce and took a taste.
But the instant her expression turned ambiguous, the chat window started scrolling quickly again.
– Hahaha!
– Hahaha!
– Look at her face, haha!
“Something feels… lacking…”
Kiiiaaaa!!!
And the next moment, the viewers had to cover their ears or toss their headphones off due to the ear-splitting screech.
– Oh, my ears!
– My ear drum is dead!
– Mom, my eardrum!
– Ohhhhhhh!
Then, when the viewers regained their senses and looked at the screen, they had no choice but to be horrified.
The hunter drone camera would turn toward currently appearing hostile entities whenever new adversaries appeared so that viewers could identify them.
There weren’t just one or two hostile entities shown on the screen!
The sky was filled with a black mass of wyverns swarming toward them.
“Uh……..?”
– Oh no, streamer, you’re in deep trouble!
– Isn’t this a serious problem?
– Run!
It wasn’t just one or two wyverns.
At least hundreds.
All the wyverns inhabiting the third peak of the Kurtala Mountains had come pouring in.
Even though the members of the Deep-Sea Exploration Team were bad news, they couldn’t help but take the viewer’s lives seriously, so the chat that had been spouting nonsense instantly filled with messages urging the streamer to run.
– Run! Run!
– Run, streamer!
– Losing her maternal pouch would be a national loss!
– Run!
And after showing the hordes of wyverns for a while, the drone camera shifted back to the streamer’s face, and when the viewers saw her again, they had trouble believing their eyes.
“Hehehe… Slurp…”
“What the heck? Is she crazy? Did she lose it?”
Seeing the streamer smiling brightly as if she had discovered something good caused viewers to experience cognitive dissonance.
“Meat.”
What?
– No way, is she insane? You should run for your life!
– It’s not like she reads our chats anyway, lol!
– Hey, aren’t we supposed to report this?
– Even reporting now is too late!
“Ah, I was wondering if something was lacking…”
Snick, snick, snick!
They heard a sound akin to teeth clicking from somewhere.
Behind the streamer, her tentacles spread wide like flowers, with drooling teeth eagerly tasting the air.
“Kyaaahaha!!”
Kaboom!!!
In that instant, a noise far louder than when the streamer started running burst forth, and then her figure disappeared from the camera.
The drone camera quickly tracked her position in the air, and when the streamer reappeared on screen, she was crushing a nearby wyvern’s skull with her bare hands.
– ?
– ??
– What is she doing?!
– What the heck?
Taking off like a missile from the ground and smashing down the head of a wyvern in mid-air?
Even an A-grade hunter couldn’t pull off such an act.
And the streamer remained relentless.
With no wings and without the ability to manipulate space like Yeonseo, Shia was naturally affected by gravity and began to plummet after smashing the wyvern’s head.
However, she spun in mid-air and used the body of the wyvern she had just killed as a launchpad to propel herself upwards once more.
BANG!
BAM!!!?
Only then did the wyverns seem to sense the abnormality in the atmosphere and began screeching in alarm.
But before their cries could reach each other, Shia’s body crashed into another wyvern.
This time, she executed a headbutt, smashing one side of the wyvern’s body as if they were pressed in a vice.
– Wow, holy crap!
– ?????
– Is that really A-grade?
Once again, the streamer showed no signs of stopping.
With each wyvern she killed, she would use its carcass to spring herself back into the air.
One, two, three, four, five… by now, she had killed a total of 20 wyverns.
Feeling threatened, the rest of the wyverns all turned to attack her while unleashing toxic breath from afar.
Kiiiaaaak!
Cyaaaarrr!
Although their accuracy was poor, it seemed the streamer was about to lose her freedom of aerial maneuvering where she had been relying on the carcasses of the wyverns.
Clearly in thought, she finally dove toward the nearby wyvern.
As she lands on the wyvern, it twisted its body in an effort to throw her off. But before its attempt could succeed, her hand crushed its skull.
– Is she nuts?! How does she have that kind of strength with those tiny hands?!
– Miss, I’m sorry for earlier about the Mamataong! I apologize!
– Hahaha! Hahaha!
– Hahaha!
– But seriously, that strength!
– Even a B-grade wyvern would die from a single hit?
As the head of the crushed wyvern started to fall, the tentacles attached to Shia’s waist rapidly latched onto the wyvern’s limbs, mouth, neck, and wings.
<[Miracle - Corpse Manipulation]>
– What the heck?
– What is that?!
Kiiieek!?
Then a mysterious white light enveloped the body of the beheaded wyvern, and suddenly, it started flapping its wings as if brought back to life.
– Hahaha!
– Wow!
– Can she control corpses?
– Is she a necromancer?
– Zombie wyvern, haha!
– She looks like a Seongnyeo, though?
– Tentacles + Seongnyeo? Hell yeah!
– Tentacles + necromancer? Sign me up!
Like riding a broom, the streamer rode the decapitated wyvern as it flew and began to hunt down the other wyverns.
It was a swift and smooth operation.
Quick and ruthless, with just a punch, one wyvern exploded into pieces.
BAM!
BANG!
CRUNCH!
SCREEECH!
– Whoaaa!
– Chaotic!
– What the hell is happening?
– Is this really an A-grade dungeon?
– Are those actually wyverns?
Some wyverns still spewed venomous breath in a fierce attempt to resist, while the streamer inexplicably continued to stomp through the flocks of wyverns at high speed.
Just like that, in less than 20 minutes, nearly a hundred wyverns lay dead, impaled into the ground.
Kiiiaaa!!!
Kuryaahh!
In the end, the remaining wyverns declared a retreat.
They had come to eliminate the beast that had taken their eggs and young but only encountered calamity.
Living, moving, with tentacles writhing and filled with bloodlust, they confronted the embodiment of disaster.
Against an enemy that could be repelled through teamwork, a living disaster could not be fought head-on.
Hearing the leader’s cry, the wyverns scattered and fled in all directions.
Fortunately, it seemed the streamer wasn’t inclined to chase down the fleeing ones to wipe them out.
Once the tentacles released their grasp on the corpse she had been controlling, it fell powerlessly to the ground.
As the streamer dropped from such a height, she casually leaped down as if it were nothing and landed gently on a tree branch.
“Huh, hmm… something suitable… Aha! Got it!”
The streamer picked up the healthiest of the fallen wyvern corpses from among those scattered around.
Wyverns, a lower species of dragons, weighed at least 200kg, yet the streamer lifted it effortlessly with one hand and began to walk away, joyfully humming to herself.
“Hee~”
– Holy crap, that’s terrifying!
– She’s nuts!
– Is this really an A-grade?
– Could she be S-grade?
– That’s totally terrifying indeed!
– Haha!
– I can’t believe she can stomp on wyverns in mid-air and leap again?
– Is this… the power of the Mamataong…?
– If it’s the power of a maternal pouch, then that’s understandable.
– Sorry, miss, I’ll behave better! Sorry, miss, I’ll behave! Sorry, miss, I’ll behave better! Sorry, miss…!
As the streamer reveled in her successful hunt of meat to complement her wyvern egg stew, the viewers on the other hand felt a mix of horror and awe over witnessing the slaughter.
Viewer Count: 192
And ‘Hunter Isia’s’ stream had moved far beyond the realm of mere low-tier streamers, boasting a astonishing viewership.
Though it goes without saying… The streamer, Mangja Seongnyeo Isia, remained blissfully unaware that her broadcast was still live, completely focused on creating her ultimate wyvern egg and meat stew.