Desire To Level UP

work as a porter

The mysterious apparent gates that suddenly appeared for the first time all over the world ten years ago when those mysterious gates opened, terrifying monsters emerged from them that swept the entire world and began to destroy buildings and burn everything in front of them and kill people everywhere. Humanity tried to respond to this new and mysterious threat using all types of weapons available at the time, light and heavy, but no weapon succeeded in killing them, no matter what type of weapon or the amount of damage it caused. It could not cause any damage or scratches on the skins of those terrifying monsters. Humanity did not know at the time why weapons did not affect those terrifying monsters, and these terrifying monsters continued to destroy everything in front of them and kill people everywhere without stopping. When no type of weapons succeeded in killing these terrifying monsters around the world, all of humanity entered a state of despair and believed that their entire race would be eliminated if these terrifying monsters continued in Killing them like this, but suddenly and in their moments of despair, some humans awakened a mysterious magical energy, superior abilities and various skills to fight those terrifying monsters. Using this mysterious energy, these humans began to fight against those terrifying monsters and were able to fight equally against them and even outperform them and kill them all, but unfortunately for them, this mysterious phenomenon did not end at that time. After a period of time had passed since that time, those gates appeared continuously again in various places and at different times, but this time it needed time before they opened. Since that time, the mission of these awakened humans who possessed the mysterious magical energy, superior abilities and various skills became to enter those gates, which they called the dungeon, and kill those terrifying creatures inside them, which they called the magical beasts, before they exited again to this world and began to destroy it again. Because of that, they were called hunters by ordinary humans.

**-**

Inside a cave in an E-rank dungeon, there was a twenty-three-year-old young man with a slim appearance, above-average facial features, dark brown hair, large dark brown eyes, and average height. He was wearing a simple T-shirt, jacket, pants, and shoes. He was carrying a large bag on his back. At first glance, he looked like a normal college student, except for the large bag on his back. The young man's name was Kim Ji-hoon. He worked as a porter with the hunters. He was standing, holding the large bag on his back, looking forward into the cave and staring at some party members from the hunters who were hunting magical beasts in the cave. The hunters were fighting against the amazing magical beasts, and they were taking care of them with ease. When he looked at these hunters, his large brown eyes began to sparkle with excitement, and a slight smile appeared on his lips as he thought to himself, "Is it possible for me to do something called hunting for two days?" When he thought to himself, he couldn't. Sui nodded quietly and sighed at the thought of such a thing. It wasn't completely impossible if only he was awake, but unfortunately for him it wasn't. For a normal human like him, it seemed impossible. While he was thinking to himself, he was called by a tall man in a cave on the right side of the cave. "Porter, come here." Because he was lost in his thoughts, Ji-hoon was a little surprised when he was called by the tall man before turning around and replying.

"Huh, yes sir."

Then Ji-hoon ran to the cave that was on the right side of the cave and entered it and approached the tall man who was twenty-eight years old and his name was Mr.-Jo: Hunter of the (E) rank of the fighter class and behind him in the cave were two other hunters of the same rank as well. When Mr.-Joali looked at the young porter who entered the cave as he approached them, he turned his body slightly and then twisted the long sword that was stained with the blood of the magical beasts in the cave away and then put it in his pocket and looked at the porter.

"Give me a bottle of water, porter."

"Yes, sir."

Ji-hoon replied in a low voice.

The porters' job was to carry equipment and food for the hunters inside the dungeons.

Ji-hoon lowered the large bag on his back to the ground and opened it and searched in it for a bottle of water quickly and took it out and gave it to Mr.-Jo.

"Why are you so late...?"

After Mr. Jo got the bottle of water, he complained to the porter for taking too long to give him the bottle of water.

"I'm sorry, sir."

Ji-hoon apologized to Mr. Jo for being late, then went and gave the water to the other two hunters in the cave and moved away from them a little.

Mr. Jo started drinking the bottle of water he took from the porter. After drinking a lot of it, he threw the rest of it on the ground near the porter and started shouting and cursing.

"Damn it... porter, why isn't it cold...?"

Mr. Jo glared at the porter angrily and started shouting at him again.

"You i***t porter, why are you giving me a bottle of hot water?" When Mr. Joo glared at him with an angry look on his face, Ji-hoon lowered his head and couldn't look into Mr. Joo's angry eyes as he thought to himself. He was sure that all the water bottles in the bag were supposed to be cold but he didn't know why Mr. Joo would say otherwise. Ji-hoon sighed after not knowing the reason and then apologized to Mr. Joo.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Joo, I'll bring another one."

Ji-hoon lowered his head to Mr. Joo and apologized to him again in a low voice. Then he turned and went back to the big bag and put his hand in again.

Here, Mr. Joo, take out another bottle of water for Mr. Joo, but this time after making sure it was cold. Then he gave it to Mr. Joo.

"Here, Mr. Joo, here's a bottle of cold water."

Mr. Joo took the bottle of cold water from him and opened it and started drinking. But when he put the water in his mouth, he immediately spat the cold water on the porter's face and started cursing and shouting angrily at the young man again.

"Damn you stupid porter, do you want to break my teeth or something…?"

"Why are you giving me a bottle of very cold water like that…?"

"....."

When the cold water was spat on his face by Mr. -Jo who started cursing him again, Ji-Hoon raised his head and looked at him with a slightly sharp look and got angry, then he sighed and lowered his head and apologized again, then he wiped the cold water off his face and remained silent and did not respond to Mr. -Jo's words.

Mr. -Jo who saw this porter lowering his head again and apologizing to him again was happy with that at first, but he felt angry and uncomfortable from the eyes that dug into him with a strange force after that stupid porter looked at him with that angry and slightly sharp look in his eyes.

Mr. -Jo who saw that mocked him and said to him.

"Why are you looking at me like that, porter...?"

"....."

Ji-Hoon remained silent and did not respond to Mr. -Jo's words.

When Mr. Jo saw that this porter was silent again and did not respond to his words, he felt even more angry, so he quickly approached him and grabbed him tightly by his T-shirt and lifted him up lightly.

"Huh...?"

Ji-hoon was surprised and frightened, as Mr. Jo grabbed him and lifted him by his T-shirt and pulled him close to his face and his glowing eyes that were staring at him with an angry look and a sarcastic smile drawn on his lips, then he said.

"Porter...!"

"When someone older than you talks to you and you did something wrong, you should apologize to him not only by bowing but also with words..."

"And looking at me with those eyes of yours like that again..."

-Boom-

After saying that, Mr. Gu clenched his fists a little tightly and hit the young man hard, sending him far away to the cave wall.

"Do you understand that, you useless porter?"

After hitting the porter, Mr. Gu turned around and went to the other two hunters behind him in the cave.

When the two hunters looked at Mr. Gu bullying the porter from afar like that, he then hit him and sent him to the wall with laughter at the porter who was being hit by Mr. Gu who was approaching them.

"Haha... Oh, Mr. Gu, why do you hate this porter so much...?"

"Haha... Yes, he was doing his job."

Mr. Gu who had reached them stopped and spoke to them.

"As you know, my teeth are a bit sensitive to water..."

"And that stupid porter dared to give me a bottle of hot water and then a very cold one..."

"He wanted to break my sensitive teeth badly, didn't he...?"

After approaching them and hearing Mr. Gu complaining about the young porter to them, the two fishermen looked at each other and then started laughing

at Mr. Gu who was just making excuses.

"Hahaha... Really since when did hot and very cold water find fishermen like us..."

"Oh Mr. Gu stop lying and making excuses"

The last fisherman spoke after the first one finished with Mr. Gu's ridiculous complaint.

"Hahaha... Yeah... Yeah just say it Mr. Gu clearly you really like bullying that little porter don't you...?"

After hearing their response and his very sarcastic words to him, Mr. Gu looked at the fishermen with him and did not respond to them again.

*****

"Ughhhh"

After being hit by Mr. Jo and sent to the cave wall with the force of Ji-hoon's collision, he fell to the ground heavily and sighed a little.

He lowered his head in sadness and anger as he silently suffered from Mr. Joo's punch in the face.

Many people hated this job, but what he hated most was the behavior of some very annoying hunters who loved to bully others severely

For no real reason, just for their own pleasure. He had worked with the hunters for two whole years, but even after all this time, he still

He wasn't used to such bullying by some hunters. He just thought it was annoying and he could never get used to it.

But he knew that he couldn't do anything but remain silent and lower his head if he wanted to continue working with them.

After Mr. Joo left, Ji-hoon who was sitting on the ground leaning against the cave wall behind him sighed again. He then wiped the blood that appeared in his mouth with his hand as he thought to himself a little and wished he was awake. Sometimes when some normal humans like him enter the gates and their bodies interact with the magical energy inside them, if the person is lucky, he might wake up as an awakened one and then become a Hunter. But unfortunately for him, even after working with the Hunters for two whole years, he did not get an awakening like the rest of the lucky humans. After a while, Ji-hoon raised his head and looked at Mr. Gu from behind with a little envy. Mr. Gu might look like any man in his late twenties, but he was awake. A real hunter, even if he was only an E-rank hunter, which is the lowest rank among all the ranks and classifications of hunters in the whole world. He could still use his magical energy to outperform any human like him, even if they were professional wrestlers who had been working for years. The reason for this was his magical energy. When Mr. Gu or any other hunter used it, with just one punch from his hands, he could break through a large rock wall. His physical endurance also increased to the point that it allowed him, even if a speeding truck on the road hit him and pushed him away, he could, after a while, get up from the ground and walk again as if he had never been. In addition to all of this, we should not forget his fantastic healing ability, which allowed him, even if a magical beast bit him or injured him, he could heal and regenerate his body in less than three days, compared to ordinary humans. Mr. Gu and the rest of the hunters were like him. He tried The world is not much different in their view than the magical beasts they fight.

The reason for this was that ordinary humans could not fight against magical beasts and win against them no matter how hard they tried and used any kind of light or heavy weapon, the result would ultimately be the same, they could not cause any damage to the bodies of those terrifying magical beasts no matter what happened. The reason for all this is due to the magical energy that surrounds their bodies, which makes their bodies and skin become extremely hard and strong so that no type of weapon that is not imbued with the magical energy of their skin can be used. When the gates first appeared ten years ago, humanity used all kinds of weapons, but the result in the end was the same, useless. However, after the appearance of awakened humans who possess magical energy in their bodies, using that magical energy and implanting it in ordinary weapons, it allows them to penetrate the extremely hard and powerful skin of those magical beasts. It really seems like the old proverb that says "iron is not cut by iron." Because of these awakened humans, who are called by ordinary humans as hunters, humanity was able to regain hope and security once again. For a moment, you might think why would a middle-aged man like Ji-hoon work in this dangerous job that might accidentally encounter a terrifying magical beast in front of him, and even if he had a weapon in his hand, it would not work or cause any harm against the terrifying magical beasts.

The answer for another middle-aged young man might be dangerous and scary too, but for the poor and orphaned young man Kim Ji-hoon, whose parents died in a cell-breaking incident near the capital that killed many people at the time, when he was only thirteen years old on that tragic day and at that young age, he saw both of his parents die in front of him and felt as if the world had ended in front of him. Since that gloomy day, the only family members he had left were his little sister, who was three years younger than him. Since that day, they were forced to live without parents. After a long time had passed since that tragic event, one day, his little sister was afflicted with a serious illness that was limiting her life. After taking her to the doctor, he revealed to him that she had contracted a terminal illness that could not be treated, but could be controlled and saved from death by using life-support devices that work with enamel stones. However, due to the high cost of treatment and the fact that he was at the time, he went out An ordinary and poor high school student who had no choice but to abandon the idea of joining university and look for work in order to pay for her treatment. Because he had not completed his education at the time, he could not find any job that would bring him a lot of money other than working as a porter with the fishermen and entering the dangerous and terrifying dungeons in order to pay his little sister's treatment bills, which amounted to millions of won every month.

**-**

After Mr. Gu went away, he got up after a while, Ji-hoon from the ground, shook his body, moved, and took the big bag from the ground. He put it on his back again and moved a little further away from the hunters and began to watch them working from a distance. Mr. Gu, who stopped commenting on the hunters with him after a while, asked one of them to get a small dagger, which they nodded to. Then he threw the small dagger to him. After Mr. Gu took the dagger from him, he looked at the ground and stared at the dead magical beasts there. He approached one of them, sat on one of his feet, and held the dagger and the beast's body with his other hand. Then he stabbed it in the back. -Stab-

Then he moved the dagger into the beast's body to open a slightly larger wound in it in order to insert his hands. Then his back in front of him was a faint light of a small thing.

It shone inside the beast. When Mr. Gu saw that faint light, he quickly inserted his hand and took out that small shining thing.

"Magic Crystal"

The one who was standing far away from the hunters when he saw Mr. Jo extracting the small luminous magic crystal from that monster opened his mouth

And in a low voice said the name of the crystal that Mr. Jo was holding in his hand. He started thinking to himself, the price of this small luminous magic crystal from a rank E magic beast was only one unit worth about a hundred thousand won or a little more in the market.

As he thought to himself about its price, Ji-hoon shook his head slightly and sighed gently and said to himself, it is really a big sum for something as small as that luminous magic crystal.

***

Back to Mr. Joe who took out the small glowing crystal from inside the magical beast and put it in his pocket and approached another monster and stabbed it with a dagger again and opened the wound bigger and put his hand in and took out another magic crystal then approached the third monster and stabbed it and opened the wound bigger but when he put his hand in he didn't find any magic crystal in it. "Damn...there's no magic crystal" Mr. Joe clicked his tooth and cursed his bad luck this time but he knew that not all magical beasts have a magic crystal inside them.

Then he repeated the same thing over and over again with the rest of the magical beasts he fought in this cave. After finishing with them, Mr. Joe got up from the ground and approached the other hunters and asked him.

"It seems that you've finished too Mr. Joe. How many magic crystals did you find today...?" Mr. Joe looked at that man and he seemed frustrated and annoyed by the number of magic crystals he got and answered.

"Tsk… it's just an eighth of a magic crystal."

"Oh, hehehe it seems you're unlucky today Mr. Gu I stumbled upon ten."

The other one came closer and also joined the fun and laughed at Mr. Gu.

"Hahaha Mr. Gu you usually get more magic crystals than me but today I got nine magic crystals more than you."

The man who always got fewer magic crystals than Mr. Gu laughed at his bad luck today.

After the three hunters talked to each other and laughed a little and finished cleaning the bodies of all the magical beasts from the magic crystal in the cave, they had nothing else to want in that cave so they turned to leave.

"Okay, that's it, let's go now."

The other two hunters nodded to him and got ready to leave that cave but when they approached the exit in front of him they saw the young porter standing there next to him.

When Ji-hoon noticed them approaching him, he lowered his head and tried to get out of their way, but before he could do so, one of the three hunters pushed him to the ground with a little force and then shouted at him.

"Get out of the way, porter!"

-Fall-

Ji-hoon fell to the ground because of that little strong push from the hunter.

When Mr. Jo and the other hunters saw that, they started laughing loudly at him, then they left the cave.

-Sighs-

Ji-hoon, who fell to the ground because of the hunter pushing him, sighed. After a while, the hunters got up from the ground and looked behind him at the dead magical beasts in the cave, and sighed again, then he also left there.