An Invitation from Geumseong

“How are you feeling? Are you feeling any better now?”

“Ah, yes⋯ It's hardly painful at all—almost strangely so.”

Hunter Jang Mi-hyeon muttered blankly as she looked down at the bandages wrapped around her side.

The Life Resource Administration group fled the moment the barrier broke.

It was quite a fast retreat for people who had been shouting about an Emergency Male Resource Preservation Zone and all that.

Maybe it was because the tension finally let up.

Hunter Jang Mi-hyeon, who had been blocking the way in front of me until the very end, staggered and dropped to one knee.

She had suffered no life-threatening injuries.

But there were puncture wounds and lacerations all over her body from the red tentacles and the Life Resource Administration employees' attacks.

The wound in her side, in particular, was bleeding fairly heavily...