Weapon seller in the world of magic

Named after a Hunter who sacrificed to save thousands of people during a 9.4 magnitude earthquake, which eventually created a massive tsunami, the Captain Atomic Aircraft carrier is the third largest aircraft carrier in the world, with over 432 meters in length, a displacement of 170k tons, but still could move at a top speed of 58 knots (107km/hr).

It took 14 long years to build this nuclear-powered aircraft carrier for the country of Ospana, but it was leased to the Alsacian Federation so that all the remaining 17 fellow countries in the federation could use it for their missions.

Sungjun was completely impressed by the sheer size of the aircraft carrier, thousands of crew, dozens of aircraft on the outside, and the things inside, like a gym, a bank, an indoor sports area, grocery stores, a cafeteria, dining facilities,an excellent air-conditioning system, and sleeping cabins…

And the thing that shocked him the most was the bar. Isn’t it quite dangerous to have liquor in this place? What if everyone just gets drunk and a war erupts outside? He couldn’t help but wonder when he saw it.

With the number of villains rising, the world was never peaceful for a day. So, Sungjun was quite worried about this facility.

As for his teammates, it wasn’t the first time for them to board this warship. Without bothering to admire their surroundings, the team of eleven proceeded to their respective sleeping cabins to rest until the lunch hours.

As soon as he entered the room, he locked the door and switched off the air conditioning, not wanting to fall asleep. Instead, he sat on the bed in a lotus position and closed his eyes, going into a state of meditation.

Soon, his deep bluish aura formed a layer over his body while the tremendous amount of natural energy from the sea started to rush toward him.

Compared to the desert and air, the waters of oceans and seas were very rich in natural energy, giving life to billions of aquatic living things. Adding on top of that, Sungjun was already near to the breakthrough to the next tier of this Mana Condensation he invented.

Hence, the absorption and spontaneous refining were quite faster and smoother.

Roughly after three hours, the door was knocked on, a few times, disturbing his concentration. He opened the door to find Sun Xiao standing outside.

”What is it?” Sungjun asked with a frown on his face. He wasn’t displeased because it was Sun Xiao who wanted to talk to him, but it was because he was almost at the doorstep of his next breakthrough.

Mana condensation is a technique that constantly improves the body’s capacity to hold the Mana particles. For example, if the capacity of the body is a bucket, then the water is the Mana particles.

Upon every breakthrough, the bucket becomes bigger, and then, human cells will interact with the existing Mana particles attached to them in creating more Mana particles, thereby increasing the reserves of a superhuman.

For almost every superhuman, whatever profession they are in, their capacity will reach its peak when their growth also stops.

Based on their potential, they develop techniques.

While having higher Mana particles doesn’t mean the user is stronger than peers with lower reserves, it is believed that the former type of people usually have higher potential compared to the latter type.

And Sungjun managed to break those shackles with a modified otherworldly technique.

Through hard work, he actually managed to improve his reserves to 972554 MP.

Sungjun aims to cross 100k before they confront the werewolf lord. Usually, it would have been impossible at that underground facility, but as Sungjun felt the richness of natural energy in the sea, he was confident about making the breakthrough with ease.

But now, this girl is disturbing his progress. So, how could he not be displeased?

On the other hand, Sun Xiao has no idea what’s going on with Sungjun. So, she misunderstood that this young man didn’t want to see her. Unfortunately, it is important. She had to meet him in person or else, she felt like she would regret it.

Taking a deep breath, she handed him a letter. ”This is serious.” She gave a warning and ran away.

”Eh? A letter?” Sungjun looked back at the letter.

For a moment, it felt like a scene from Sungjun’s memories from middle school, where a girl handed him a love letter before running away in shyness.

Locking the door once again, he opened the letter in curiosity. ”Whoa.” He exclaimed as he read the contents of the letter. It was a simple but powerful warning.

”You might be abandoned or worse, sacrificed at the temple before we reach the heart of the dungeon. Trust no one but Cyro.”

The meaning was quite clear. Sungjun could also guess the identity of the one who will be digging his grave.

However, Sungjun has no plans of depending on someone’s mercy from the start, anyway. So, it didn’t bother him at all.

He continued with his training for a couple of hours more before stepping out for lunch.

Instead of going to the cafeteria for a full meal, he just went to the grocery store and bought instant cup noodles. The kettles are obviously available there. So, he managed to fill his stomach as quickly as possible and returned to his room before proceeding with the training.

The evening arrived, and Sungjun continued eating the same thing during dinner, skipping the meals with the teammates.

Jaden Wong was happy that the rookie wasn’t there.

Xing Lin felt pity for the rookie and wondered whether she should have a talk with him to show that she is friendly.

Sun Xiao misunderstood that her ex-roommate was ignoring everyone due to her letter. She felt proud of her act.

While Cyro was of the opinion that it wasn’t good for Sungjun to eat instant noodles all through the day, the others assumed that Sungjun was probably nervous because of the mission.

None of them knew that Sungjun’s agenda was something else. Without taking any rest for the whole night, he continuously absorbed the natural energy and spontaneously refined it into Mana particles inside his meridians.

The time was around 3:40 in the morning. More than half of the crew was sleeping while the other half was on night duty. The aircraft carrier continued to sail in the sea.

Inside Sungjun’s sleeping cabin, the bluish aura around him was deep blue. It has been getting deeper and deeper for the past few hours, and finally, the aura shed its bluish color and turned green.

Feeling a surge of energy in his body, Sungjun let out a smile and opened his eyes, ”22k Mana particles improvement in a mere one day here. Now, that’s a record. However, it isn’t that much change from yesterday. At most, I can use big moves like Absolute Reality a couple of times. If I put it aside and just focus on minor illusions combined with minor hypnosis, I might hold my ground. Anyway, there’s still time. Why waste it…”

He closed his eyes once again and continued to practice the Mana Condensation technique to increase his Mana particles limit as much as possible.

**City of Napzu, Vashia;**

Four days ago, as the news of the dungeon break became public and reached the World Hunter Council (WHC), they posted an announcement on all of their social media accounts and also gave an official press conference about hiring Hunters from all over the world.

Of course, the Hunters associated with government agencies were kept away because they are considered the assets of their respective nation.

Only the ones that belonged to private Hunter agencies and freelancers were hired at a price that was suitable for their rank.

And there’s another requirement posted by WHC. It is that only B and above Rank Hunters could apply for this task, not just because of the risk factor but also due to the number factor.

There are over 60 million official active Hunters in this world, spread over 84 countries, of which 55 million of them are actually below C-rank, and 4.9 million of them are under B-rank.

Why such a huge number?

It’s because a Hunter license doesn’t have any expiry date. It can only be canceled when one Hunter gets convicted, dies, or voluntarily retires.

Hence, the majority of those Hunters, who either don’t have much talent or are not interested to risk their lives, use the license for their resume in applying for jobs, or in a grocery store for a special 10% Hunter discount, or getting a special tax cut from the government, or getting a loan from the bank in case of a bad credit score.