Chapter 59 – Spec Up (2)
10. Spec up (2)
Waguwagoo- Hurulup jjjjjjjjeop-
… It didn’t sound the same. Not long after the meal was brought to the room, Kaya woke up, and there was a commotion about her naked body for a while, but soon she was dressed in light clothes and quietly eating two servings each. The speed of eating was fast, befitting the word “Gentle”, But what can I say about the way they eat compared to me, who eats relatively messily… Okay. There was dignity.
“Captain, it’s not even a baby, is it that you keep spilling it?”
Then suddenly Shay put her hand to my mouth and put a small piece of meat on the tip of her index finger into her mouth. Wasn’t this what lovers do? Not too long ago, I felt my face, which had nothing to do with a person, let alone dating, get hot.
“Shay!”
“It didn’t even fall to the ground, did it? Lol.”
‘No, not that.’
Can’t you see Kaya is looking at you?
It’s not as creepy as in the dungeon, but what is it anyway? Anyway, it’s not an ordinary look!
Shay knew it or not, but this time she scooped up her ingredients from her own portion and held them out to Kaya. Kaya’s eyes widened at the sudden outpouring of her spoon.
“Sister. Oh~”
“Shay.”
“Oh~”
Shay smiled and stretched her arms further, and Kaya looked genuinely troubled with her. It’s not that she doesn’t like her, but Shay’s attitude of being so kind to herself, who had been glaring at her just now, felt awkward and difficult?
If Shay was aiming for it, she was truly great, and if she wasn’t aiming, she was great in its own right. Because she overturned the atmosphere that could have been awkward with a single stroke of a spoon.
“Sister. That arm hurts.”
When Shay feigned pain in her arms, Kaya couldn’t help but swallow her spoon. Then, just like she did with me, she grabbed Kaya’s lips with her index finger and then she sucked them right in!
“What what what… !”
Looking at Kaya, who was stunned, and me, who was just as surprised, Shay smiled brightly, as if asking what was wrong.
“It is delicious.”
Shay, scary woman!
**
We finished our meal, cleaned up, and went back to bed. It was for proper cleaning.
I laid out all the things I got from going to the dungeon this time on the bed. Countless gold coins and 3 artifacts were dazzling. If even I, who sees them again, feel the same way, how terrifying are they when I see them for the first time? Kaya and Shay’s mouths were gaping blankly.
“Even if you only count gold coins, it’s a bit over 200 gold coins. And these three are artifacts. Do you know what an artifact is?”
The two nodded. They seemed to have forgotten reality in a pile of gold coins that glittered more than artifacts.
“After investigating the artifact, if our warriors can use it, we will use it, otherwise we will sell it. Anyone with an objection?”
The two shook their heads blankly. Haha, this is true.
‘The rewards for District 1 are like this, but what about the rewards for District 2?’
That’s why they should be seen as pure. There are no negative characteristics related to kleptomaniac or greed, and there is a setting that they lived in a monastery for a long time, so they would have left the class and basically lived a life far from wealth and luxury.
Maybe it’s a sight that you won’t be able to see now, so let’s remember the expression of now.
“There are two important things.”
“Yes. I will listen.”
“I will listen!”
Drenched in a pile of gold coins, as soon as I said something important, they straightened up and focused on me. Something suffocated in my heart.
“Nothing else, the first important thing. It means that our level has risen significantly.”
“Are you talking about our level?”
“Uh. All three of us were 1. Right?”
“Yes!”
Nod-
Three level 1 warriors broke through the first area with Nodes in 2 rounds? It was not an easy task even by the standards of the warriors, which were not the highest difficulty like ours and whose midway return was not impossible. In the first place, the vast majority of warriors, excluding us, entered the dungeon for material rewards rather than a sense of mission to get rid of fear. My body is precious, so I hit it moderately and fall out. If you want to see a profit by calculating your profit and loss, you immediately drop out. After going back and forth like that, it wasn’t until the time when I had a greater desire to go deeper into it.
It won’t be officially recorded, but I’m thinking that the dungeon attack speed of our warriors will not just enter the top 10.
“If you renew this time, you will definitely be surprised. The staff at the training center will probably be surprised. So don’t panic, don’t talk nonsense, just figure out your level and return to the inn right away. No, let’s just have our own time and come in before dinner. How is it?”
“Yes! Captain. I agree.”
“Aren’t you going with the captain?”
“I have something to find out.”
I could have told you what effect the artifact had, but in order to ensure smooth and accurate understanding of the artifacts, I decided to receive an appraisal at a costly fee. It seems like they trust my words, but should I say it’s my correction as a gamer, or should I say it’s my ability. Anyway, revealing this was another thing.
‘Besides, if you want to go to District 2, you need to recruit a 4th member. If you’re going to reveal it, you have to tell everyone. If you recruit only two people, there will inevitably be a gap in information, and that will be the beginning of friction between colleagues.’
So until it was revealed, I thought it was right to act according to Salem common sense.
“Ruler! This is kaya This is a shaker.”
I split about half of the pile of gold coins, then divided the rest into thirds and gave each one one. It was about 33-35 gold coins.
“Captain, this is it.”
“Let’s use half of that for the common warriors’ corps fund, and let’s spend the rest for each individual’s pocket money. Buy something you want to buy, buy something you want to eat. Oh, don’t use that money to repair weapons or something? It’s going to be handled by public funds.”
“And…”
“Too many, chief. Can I accept this?”
Unlike Shay, who took a liking to her, Kaya was hesitant. It wasn’t something she couldn’t understand. Wasn’t there a time when I had to go around the dungeon in a hurry because I didn’t have a day’s worth of lodging and just a few silver? Then suddenly, I suddenly received money dozens of times that amount…
People shouldn’t forget the past at all, but it was difficult to use the past too much as a standard.
“We deserve it. That you have done a great job Rather, considering what we have done and the pain we have suffered, I think this money is small.”
“Leader…”
“Use it only for you. There’s no one to say Or, shouldn’t I at least order you to go?”
Kaya shook her head. She carefully picked up the gold coins stacked in front of her.
“Okay, I’ll write it.”
“Okay. I won’t care what you do with it.”
“Heung heung~ Heung heung~ Heung~ Heung~ Hee-yeung~”
Shay, who had taken all the gold coins before she knew it, seemed excited already. She hurried Kaya, and she then took Kaya’s hand as she stood awkwardly and disappeared, saying see you later.
‘It’s only been a few hours, but I’m alone.’
Come to think of it, the time I was alone after falling here was small. Just the first day. I spent the whole day at the inn wondering what the fuck was going on. Since then, after she recruited Kaya from the Heroes’ Support Station, she took it for granted that she was with her allies.
It was only for a while, but being alone now was a bit awkward.
‘I’m not a child, and it’s not dawn, so it’s not like I’m suddenly full of emotion.’
“Keuheum, then shall we go and look for the 4th member?”
No one was listening, but I deliberately spat it out loud. Well, the awkwardness didn’t go away.
**
In The Long Terror, there were typically two ways to recruit members, that is, additional warriors. One was to pick up a favorite hero from the warrior support center, and the other was to succeed in recruiting in an encounter event that occurred with a low probability.
‘Honestly, though it’s unlikely that I’ll find someone I like at the Heroes’ Support Center.’
The warriors who could be picked up at the Warriors Support Center were generally of low level. Probably, like me and Kaya in the past, there are an absolute majority of those who were not included in the proper warrior squad because they were sloppy, had some flaws, or had circumstances. Still, I had to look around just in case. As in Shay’s case, unless I was lucky, the only place I could rely on was the Warriors’ Support Center.
‘Do you know? Could there be another genius, another gemstone hiding?’
If that’s the case, wouldn’t it be worth taking him and raising him, even if it means slowing down the attack speed? If you go around the remaining areas of Area 1 instead of Area 2, the level may become similar. The reward we get will be very small…
“Welcome. Are you supportive?”
“No. Recruitment.”
Stop the kimchi soup. When I visited the Warriors Support Center again, the staff member who recruited Kaya greeted me with the same words and tone.
“Give me the certificate of the warriors… Hmm?”
He mechanically recited his words, stopped talking, looked at my face here and there, and suddenly clapped his hands and poured out words like a shotgun.
“Ah, you’re the one who took that gray-haired half-elf back then!”
“Ah, yes.”
That’s right, but I felt strangely bad.
“Hey, I remember having a headache because I wanted someone to take me, but I couldn’t remember because they took me back then! How is it useful?”
“What do you mean?”
I got on my nerves. What? Who do you want to take? Do you have a headache? My tone dropped considerably, but the clerk continued.
“Ah, why is that, healing is half as good, my strength is faster than men, I have no experience, but I am not knowledgeable or rich. I know that there are not one or two warriors who came to Salem recklessly, but this is the first one without an answer. That said, the warrior is perfect for a car that can’t be done according to the rules! Why don’t you take me!”
“Ah, yes. Very. Well. Do it there is.”
The strangely happy feeling disappeared in an instant, and I wanted to crush that muzzle-like snout. What kind of guy is he, disparaging Kaya like that.
What do you know
Have you ever experienced the pain of breaking your body? Have you ever felt the fear of being swallowed up?
Have you ever killed even one of the gross, repulsive-looking cultists?
Have you ever faced fear? You bastard, did you see the great step against fear?
‘Let’s relax. Relax.’
I regretted not pretending to know. That bastard employee started talking as if she had become some kind of warrior expert, saying that she had classified and met many novice warriors, and it was very loud. Even the illustrious combat nun named Kaya didn’t recognize her, and she was completely meaningless to me. She said she had met a lot of people, but it was clear that she hadn’t eaten the meal of courtesy and notice.
“So then that hero…”
“I’m sorry, but I have an appointment later, so I don’t have much time. Could you take a look at the list of volunteers?”
“Shit, ah. Yes. Please.”
Hoping that I would never see this two-much-talker eyes again, I looked at the paper he handed over with the profiles of the warriors written on it.
[Yuren]
Race/Gender: Human Male
Class: Guardian
‘Cabi…’
Human male guardian. In theory, it was almost the best tank. Guardian is the class with the highest defense among tanks, and since he is a human male, there was no particular defense or heavy armor penalty. But he didn’t have a seat.
‘I have Shay, Shay!’
He tried to soothe his bitter heart, saying that his characteristics were ordinary compared to Shay. She looked at each item meticulously, but, as expected, it was difficult to find a hero she liked. Just like the first draw, he was too ordinary to go through the highest difficulty dungeon, or if he wanted to be okay, he had flaws somewhere. If you think about what happened in District 1… There was no room for compromise.
‘Unfortunately, a small flaw that one person has can become a crevasse at any time in a dungeon. Let’s not be impatient.’
Suppressing my displeasure and responding appropriately to the staff’s greetings, I decided to stop by the equipment support center and the warrior training center.
Please, listen to the upgrade cost and hope that there will be less resentment.