Chapter 415 – Settlement in the Dungeon (1)
Class Q, which is made up of people with quest skills, provides quite a bit of freedom for students who grow explosively when they clear quests.
But should we say that they are released too freely? I’m not sure if I’m living at an academy or in a dormitory with many students.
After being thrown into a dungeon filled with ogres for the midterm exam, three students from Class Q, excluding me, left to complete the quest.
I showed up alone and was bored when I left after being told to do it on my own.
“Hmm. Master, wouldn’t it be better to take a break since you can live on someone else’s boat?”
Shahemos, who heard that he was bored, said to me.
I summoned him as a companion, but he keeps buying snacks and forgetting my pocket money.
“I want to have more fun because I can relax by being possessed.”
Should I say that this time as Yusian is the most precious time? Considering the passage of time, it felt that way.
“It would be nice if winter vacation came soon. Then I could hang out with Seoyeon.”
“Even if you meet so many women, does she like that one?”
“That’s right. Even if there’s a good woman next to me, my heart still goes out.”
I gently stroked the head of Shahemos, who was eating a snack.
Seeing his flowing gray hair shaking under my touch, I stood up and Shahemos followed suit.
“Let’s go apply for a dungeon.”
“Good. Good job, master!”
With those words, Shahemos was summoned back.
I can’t even carry out my assigned mission properly and just forget my snack and disappear like this.
(I plan to test your strength in that dungeon. Is it okay if I choose it however I want?)
(It’s okay. My master won’t put me in a dungeon where I will be killed.)
What… Wouldn’t Shahemos be able to handle B-level dungeons on its own? With that in mind, I headed to the dungeon management office.
During summer vacation, I stamped my attendance every day, but after I became stronger and the number of visits to the Dungeon Management Center decreased, there was no need to use Class Q’s privileges.
Since it was the middle of the semester and everyone was taking classes, it was empty, and I was able to go straight to counselor Lee Da-young.
“Xian student, it’s been a while.”
“Yes. How are you, Dayoung?”
“Managing dungeons during the semester is easy. But I already don’t know what will happen from next year. Now that we have a competitor called Olympus, I’m not sure if we can bring people with quest skills to Utopia.”
“The talented people of Olympus are leaving a big impression on the public not long after they intervened. Unless you are someone like me who is trying to seal away the abilities, wouldn’t you be more attracted to that?”
I feel like I have to either seal my abilities or go to Olympus.
“Is that so? Hehe… I’m sorry for suddenly saying something strange. Student Xian came to check out the dungeon, right?”
“Yes. I can do Grade A on my own, but I would like to ask for a higher grade from Grade B.”
“Class A has already been explored, so it was judged to be okay for Academy students to go there, so we manage it here, but if you go alone, you can’t cause an accident. What kind of monsters do you plan on dealing with? I don’t think there are any quests?”
Counselor Lee Da-young can check quest progress through abilities.
Now I have received 13 quests and cleared them all, so I am on standby.
“Various combinations are okay, but I’d like guys who don’t use magic.”
“Shall we look for an orc dungeon of the highest level B difficulty?”
“Yes. I think that’s okay.”
Counselor Lee Da-young typed and searched for empty dungeons for tomorrow, and gave me the one with the highest level of difficulty.
When I handed out my smartphone and finished registering for the dungeon, counselor Lee Da-young said to me.
“Xian student, if you are interested in dungeon exploration, would you like to register?”
“Can students go on dungeon exploration?”
“Xian students need an exploration license to use outside dungeons because there are not enough dungeons provided by the school.”
“Really? Can you send me the relevant information?”
I said while shaking my smartphone slightly.
“I’ll send it to you right away. Have a nice trip.”
“Yes.”
After leaving the dungeon management center, I decided to look up information about Olympus for a moment before Seoyeon’s class ended.
I know that he entered the celebrity industry, but the medical field was also strong.
There was talk about the collapse of the existing medical system when a treatment that produced extraordinary results even using mana without any surgery was introduced at a low price, and there was also an article criticizing the utopia that monopolized and did not provide such skills.
I have experienced to some extent in Lee Sian’s class the kind of confusion that will arise when capable and non-competent people start to mix.
However, since that class was a world that was on the verge of destruction due to the Lord of Plague, my power was able to save and protect other people and become a focal point.
The world I live in is a little different.
I know that people with powers exist, but the only way to hide and hone that power was to cut off all other ties and go to Utopia. But is there another way?
‘Talented people will pour in.’
If you see extraordinary power, you may become jealous, or you may realize the specialness of the ability you have sealed, so you may illegally remove the ability sealing procedure and use your power at will.
Since you have quest skills like me, you won’t be unable to grow because you don’t meet the conditions, so you will grow as much as you use it, so how confusing will it be?
‘If such a problem arises, I will criticize Utopia again, not Olympus.’
Outside activities were important as few people knew before the semester started that I was called the weakest member of the Global Academy.
“So, isn’t dungeon exploration a competition anymore?”
Now that the days of Utopia’s monopoly have passed, I have the feeling that a big change will begin in dungeon exploration.
*
“Our seniors are preparing for that.”
When she talked to Naen, who was accompanying Seoyeon, about exploring the dungeon, she heard that they were preparing.
I was debating whether to go in with Uppers and Seoyeon, but when the Olympus incident occurred, I couldn’t pay attention to club activities, and the two of us didn’t have a club.
“Uppers is a club that gathers together to go to difficult dungeons, right? And the most difficult dungeons in the world are the ones no one has ever been to.”
“Of course. Even if you can figure out the total amount of mana that the dungeon has, it’s different when you first step in.”
As soon as you enter the dungeon, you start underwater and may not be able to breathe.
You can go to a place where lava is boiling, or you can combine all your mana into a boss and create an incredibly powerful guy.
So, the first dungeon opened is challenged by those who can be called strong in Utopia.
‘Wouldn’t it be stronger than the professors?’
“But Sian, you are a first year, can you go on a dungeon expedition?”
Seoyeon told me in a voice that she was a little worried.
“I’m in class Q, right? I think I’m ahead of the first year class.”
Although I started about a semester late, I can jump through time through possession, so it’s as if time has already been restored.
“I can’t deny that. I think I won the first time we fought, but now I have no idea how to fight.”
I remember having a hard time with Naen’s sword and shield, but now I can press and hold them with my strength.
‘The more I grow in strength, the more I become like Master Yeomwang.’
If you have overwhelming power and speed, you can do anything to whatever your enemy is.
Thinking that that was true, we went to the restaurant.
At lunchtime, the chefs were very busy cooking and students were lining up, but although it wasn’t at the level of a dungeon management center, it felt empty.
I was able to use this opportunity to order a lot of the dishes I wanted to eat, but since the family of the recently possessed Cyan Raven lives a frugal life, I wanted to eat extravagantly.
After receiving a lot of steak and sitting down where Seoyeon and Naen were sitting, Seoyeon said.
“I don’t know much because I’m concentrating in class, but when I enter the restaurant, I feel like there are a lot of people.”
“Really? I came to see the professor alone today.”
“What? Is it private tutoring? So what did you two do?”
“He just told me to take care of it and left.”
“Ahaha.”
Seoyeon heard me and laughed out loud.
Well, rather than using time to clear quests like other Class Q students, they often do it in a possessed state, so they just clear quests much faster than others.
And I think that’s the great thing about Summer Possession, which is my basic skill.
“But you’re not calling that kid?”
“Ah.”
When Naen mentioned looking for Shahemos, Seoyeon suddenly stiffened.
Seo-yeon said that she didn’t have enough time to forget the night since the three of them hung out together, so was it a natural reaction for her?
“Earlier, when I was alone, I called you and fed you something delicious and sent you away.”
“Really? It was cute how you stiffened up a little when you saw me. Take me out next time.”
“You can still call me now, but I’ll see you next time.”
Me and Shahe Moss are fine, but I don’t think Seoyeon can eat her food
After hearing what I said, Seoyeon sighed a little and calmed down.
And when she saw that Seoyeon didn’t react to things like this even though she had mental stability skills, she felt like she needed to help her improve her skills.
*
‘Is it roughly this much?’
After lunch, I had time to test my skills alone.
Creating a new attack skill by balancing shadow and heat was not that difficult because most of the skill links took care of tuning it.
“I need to learn the open version of Dominate Shadow.”
Through the skill link, you can connect Flame Shingo (連炎神功) and Dominate Shadow to handle flames, but to do more than that, you had to use Unlimited.
However, Unlimited had a much higher mana consumption compared to Boost, making it difficult to use as a basic skill.
‘I have to develop the Yeonyeom Shingung in my direction.’
It was worth targeting before being possessed by Han Xian.
