"Huh?!" Chong-Yol growled, doubting Raith's words with his demeaning look.
Yeon-Woo with his sleepy eyes looked at Raith, "He is right."
"Uhh? Really?" Chong-Yol stammered averting his gaze from Raith who looked at him with less effort– his eyelids as if they were almost closing.
"Hunter Raven said it, but if Yeon-Woo is confirming that means it is very much true. Hunter Raven, what do you suggest that we do in this case?" Mok Jae-Hwa spoke politely turning to Raith.
The rest of them also turned to him.
Raith was dumbfounded, when did people start looking up to him? He forgot that these people here do not know him before now and had no idea how messed up he is– from his outlook alone he looked so very responsible and right now he is the strongest hunter in the group and has proved it by how he was able to tell that they were walking in circles just with a glance, faster than their best scout.
Their eyes were judiciously begging him to speak some few words of knowledge and spat out instruction here and there as a catastrophe rank hunter would.
But Raith was not used to being a leader, at least not to humans.
"Uhm...what do you mean by that?" He just had to ask because he didn't even know what they were beckoning him for.
"There must be some kind of illusion right if we are walking in circles..." Mok Jae-Hwa suggested, hoping that Raith would intellectually pick it up from there. But Raith didn't have a wisdom stat– not that any of them knew.
He looked down and looked up, the way all their eyes were on him was really bugging him and truly just felt like summoning Fenrir and getting the fuck away from their sight.
'...should I just summon him' The escape plan was tempting. Even without being called, darkness was looming beneath Raith's leg and the Fenrir's red eyes were dancing around like a baby's, it was evident that the dark beast was waiting for Raith's summon.
Raith looked up, the others too looked up with him... his silence was already becoming a bother.
"Damnit... Fenrir"
Whoosh!
The darkness surged out of the ground, scattering around‐ causing all of them to jump back in defense of their lives, with widened eyes and shaking eyeballs they saw the dark smokey thing materialize before their eyes into a gigantic wolf with Raith standing on it.
"Burst out of here... I'm doing this alone." He commanded.
The next thing that followed was Fenrir's thundering steps that splattered the soil on the ground–
crash!!
The Fenrir smashed forward into the scenery before them and everything broke down like glass, from the peaceful scenery that they saw when they entered the gate to the land the dwelling place of evil itself, the landscape became barren and dark, and the rocks were black and instead of the clear blue sky what was towered over the vast landscape was a dark sky with crimson clouds.
The grasses had completely disappeared, the trees were even more barren as the serene scene from before had painted them to be and magma ran through the cracks of the ground as if each crack was a channel of magma, moving them to a particular place.
"Cheehyukk cheey cha chu(they escape the illusion of the shaman)" Hidden behind a rock were two red orcs, their body was filled with runic tattoos and their hair was plaited in different style, what stood out was their barbaric dress that somehow matched their look.
Even though they were hidden, nothing could be hidden from Raith whose perception stat was over 100.
"There– Yeon-Woo was about to point to the place but stop as he saw that Raith was already behind the rock with his hands in his pocket, he had been there for some minutes, and not he or the orcs noticed until Raith talked.
"Hello."
The red orcs, startled jumped as far back as they could separating from each other.
'How did he even get there, I thought he went out already' Yeon-Woo frowned as he tried to imagine the magnitude of Raith's senses, it was truly intimidating.
From their viewpoint, Raith decided to respond to them by showing them how to actually get out of the situation and what to do. Their respect for him grew, except for Chong-Yol who was just fuming with malice.
Raith stretched forth his hand, "Come." He said, folding his hand into a fist.
"Don't tell me, he is going to face them with his fist?" Hunter Ga-Yun inquired in a low tone, unfortunately for her the person next to her was Shin-Hye so she got no response. Even Shin-Hye was lost in the thought of what Raith was trying to do.
Red Orcs have never been encountered in any gate before but with by their looks they could tell that these were monsters of the same race as ordinary orcs which everyone was familiar with.
Even Raith knew very well that much– but it would be a mistake to underestimate these monsters because they seem to be on the same with rank C orcs. They were never to forget that they are in a rank S gate.
"They are fairly strong... but I can take care of them," Raith muttered. His words weren't coming from the cocky attitude of someone who knew he would have several chances to win as long as he kept losing. Raith had weighed his decision, it wasn't even something he was stressing to do, as he stood in that place and perceived their visuals using [Metavision] and [Ultra Instinct] He already had by instinct definite and concise speculation of how this fight would turn out even if he was to use his fist.
Besides, he had this.
[Do you want to use Auto Battle]
Raith looked down and grinned.
The other hunters looked at him from where they stood, even though every bit of Mok Jae-Hwa felt like warning him not to underestimate the orcs, their red skin and strange runic tattoos were proofs of their distinct difference to rank C orc monsters.
"Yes..." Raith muttered his reply to the black holographic tab in front of him.
[Activating Auto Battle]
