Piercing Sword (Solo Leveling)

Seo-yeon sat on the chair beside where Jinwoo was fast asleep on the bed with a book in her hand, reading peacefully with her glasses on the bridge of her nose.

The breezy, warm wind from the open window letting fresh air inside. Soohyun let out long sighs as she leaned back to the chair. She relaxed her shoulder before her eyes darted towards Jinwoo's sleeping figure.

The door slides open, revealing Sung Jin-ah. Jin-ah let out a surprise yelp before covering her mouth in embarrassment with a slight pink blush on her cheeks.

Seo-yeon stood up, "Please, I apologise for the inconvenience of my appearance. I should take my leave now that the family member has arrived. Excuse me."

Seo-yeon walks out of the room. Jin-ah, finally snapping out of her amazement, squealed.

"Omg! I just met Yoon Seo-yeon in real life!"

Seo-yeon turns on her bike engine before putting on her helmet. She rode off and headed back to her office.

'Two days had passed, and you still haven't woke up.....what un the world happened to you, Sung Jinwoo?'

𝑻𝒘𝒐 𝒅𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒂𝒈𝒐, 𝒓𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕 𝒂𝒇𝒕𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒎𝒆𝒓𝒈𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒚 𝒄𝒂𝒍𝒍......

Seo-yeon, Baek Yoonho, and other White Tiger guild rushed their way inside the dungeon in a hurry.

"What's the situation?" Seo-yeon asked Yoonho in a firm manner.

"The surviving members of the team were completely shaken. There's only five out of fifteen hunters who manage to make it out alive. They said it was a massacre," Yoonho explained.

"You said it was a double dungeon, correct? Did the measurement get it wrong?"

Yoonho shook his head, "No, ma'am. The measurement machine had accurately measured its frequency, and it was a level D rank gate."

'That's odd......could it be a hidden red gate.'

Seo-yeon's thoughts were halted when she saw a figure laying down by the end of the dungeon, her breath hitched at the unconscious form of Sung Jinwoo and sped up.

"Jinwoo!" She shouted worriedly.

She checks his pulse from his wrist while laying her head on his chest. She let out a sigh of relief, hearing his heart beating normally. She stood up, picking the male up in bridal style before turning her attention back to the others.

"Search the area quickly before this gate collapses. Make sure to investigate every inch of this place," Soohyun orders.

The others quickly do as they say.

By the end of the day, the said room that the survivors had described was not found.

Three out of the five were completely traumatic by the event and were taken to the hospital for further inspection. Their healer passed out as soon as she got into the ambulance. Their raid leader, Song Chi-yul, gave a detailed description of what happened during their raid, including the passing of their teammates.

Gruesome is an understatement.

Both of the S rank hunters are almost finding the information almost unbelievable. But seeing how much that it had impacted the survivors and the small number of hunters that made it out was enough to convince them.

Seo-yeon stood in silence, trying to absorb all of the information.

'A room filled with Giant statues with an inscription that tells each clue for the next actions for hunters to follow and survive. Yet, only five manage to make alive......alive?'

Seo-yeon looks over to the stretcher where Jinwoo is going to be taken by the ambulance.

'....he was supposed to be dead. How is he here?'

𝑷𝒓𝒆𝒔𝒆𝒏𝒕.....

Seo-yeon undressed herself and headed inside the shower. She turns on the shower head with cold water. Her steel eyes closed, feeling relaxed at the coldness hit her skin. Her wet hair clinging on her wet skin as the water drips down her body. She sighs before turning off the shower and steps out.

She wraps her body in a towel robe and dries off her hair.

*DING*

A notification appeared on her computer screen, catching her attention.

She sighs exasperatedly for a thousand times.

'Ughhh....more work.'

𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑵𝒆𝒙𝒕 𝑫𝒂𝒚......

Jinwoo gasps as he jolts from his slumber with cold sweat drenched his hospital gown. His breathing ragged as he tried to breathe air. He clutched his chest with desperation, and eyes widened.

He slowly breathes in and out, finally catching his own breath. His grey-blue pupils analyse his surroundings with curiosity at the change of scenery that turns out to be a hospital room. He looks outside of the window only to see golden sunset.

The door slides open, almost startling his poor heart.

He saw three men with suits walk into his room with a silver briefcase.

"Have you regained consciousness?" One of the men with brown, slick hair and sunglasses said.

"Who are you?"

The slick back hair gentleman hands over a business card to Jinwoo, "I apologise if we startled you."

"The Hunter's Association Surveillance Team.....why does the surveillance team want to talk to me..?" Jinwoo reads the card, still feeling confused.

"I've been asleep for three whole days?!" Jinwoo shouted in shock.

"What happened to Joohee and Mr. Song? Are they safe?"

"They're both safe, but....Mr. Song Chi-yul lost an arm, so he'll have a lot of difficulty fighting as a hunter. He might choose to retire. As for Ms. Lee Joohee, she seems to have been heavily traumatised, so she is currently receiving therapy. We're not sure if they will continue to work as hunters," the slick back hair, Woo Jinchul said.

"Also, Mr. Kim Sang-shik and the other hunters are-"

"No, it's okay. I've heard enough," Jinwoo cuts off.

His mind darted off to the scene where Sang-shik and others left him to die.

"Only six people survived the double dungeon, including you. Hunters are aware that their job entails danger, but disasters such as this rarely happen. After receiving reports from the survivors, we sent the White Tiger guild and hunter Seo-yeon , who are luckily in your area, to the dungeon. But by the time they got there....you were found laying on the ground unscathed and unconscious. Everything that the survivors had described has gone," Jinchul explained.

Jinwoo eyes widened in disbelief, "That's impossible!"

"We're all in disbelief as well. Hunter Seo-yeon had already ordered the team to make sure that we don't miss anything. But, nothing was found. We would've considered other possibilities if we'd found even the slightest discrepancy I the survivors accounts or if we hadn't discovered body parts of the deceased hunters at the scene," Jinchul paused before staring straight into Jinwoo's eyes.

"This is just a guess, but we think you may have undergone a second awakening."