Chapter 116 – Chapter 02: The Gold Half Is a Warrior, the Other Half Is XXX
He then immediately looked at Eugene as if he were asking what he should do now with just his gaze, and Eugene moved.
“As you can see, the core of slime is magic stone. In order to hunt easily, it is best to cut down the magic stones like this, so it is difficult to obtain spiritual magic stones.”
He explains while retrieving the core of a slime that is rolling on the floor and is still maintaining its shape by splitting into two halves.
“If it breaks into two pieces like this, you can still get the full price, but if it breaks into pieces like this, well, you have no choice but to give up.”
And although it is possible to cut with a cannon blade, Eugene slyly said that it is not a good idea for him to cause an explosion at the same time as he cuts.
“If it’s just subjugation, there’s no problem, but there are a lot of things that need to be taken care of in order to extract magic stones.”
While saying so, Eugene stores the magic stones that Genos hunted and the magic stones of the slimes he hunted in separate space expansion pouches.
Genos, who understood from his actions that he was really planning to give the Enemy Magic Stone he had hunted to himself, was looking at Eugene with the meaning of not knowing even more.
“Come on, let’s move forward right away. “I guess I’ll have to sleep inside this dungeon tonight, so I’ll have to work hard to get to a safe place to sleep.”
However, Eugene, who did not notice Genos’ gaze, continued along the path, muttering that he realized that he had fallen into the Orbital World as he was conquering the dungeon like this.
And Genos, who follows Eugene’s orders and advances into the dungeon with him.
It is said that Eugene, not paying any attention to how Genos was looking at him, just thought that it was a little fun because it felt like conquering a dungeon in a game again, and moved on by defeating Enemy.
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… Eugene, who accompanied Genos, entered the superhuman dungeon and about 15 hours passed again.
Eugene knew the way inside the dungeon well, so he never got lost.
In fact, even though it was a closed dungeon where you couldn’t leave until you cleared it, Eugene wasn’t too nervous and progressed through the dungeon leisurely.
Even as he assured, the two people who had found a safe place inside the dungeon and slept for a few hours were literally attacking the dungeon at their best.
The mid-boss level Enemy encountered along the way was also easily overcome by Eugene taking advantage of the surrounding environment and defeating it without fighting properly.
At the time, Eugene said that the mid-boss in question was a troublesome type to deal with, so if you could get past it without fighting, it seemed like the right thing to do would be to skip it.
And even after breaking through the mid-boss level Enemy, Eugene and Genos, who continued to subdue the minor Enemies without stopping, were finally able to face the boss of the dungeon. And…
Bang! Bang! Quaaaaa! Kwachang! Sweep! Cougar River!
“Whoa… ! This is quite chewy… !”
‘Why…’
Against a giant slime that had reached the advanced level of a superhuman, Eugene showed that he was not pushed back an inch and was steadily advancing by evaporating the liquid that made up the giant slime’s body fluids.
And while watching the scene from a considerable distance away, Genos could not help but express even greater doubts.
‘That’s the Strahl I knew… ?’
There, with a ferocious smile on his face, the boy narrowly avoids the tentacles that the slime has built using his own bodily fluids, and causes an explosion with an unidentified weapon, evaporating the slime’s bodily fluids.
It was because that boy and the Stral Zenon he knew did not match.
They clearly looked the same on the outside, but everything else was different. Not only her actions, but also the combat ability she is currently showing is what creates the biggest gap between her and the Stral she knows.
‘I’ve thought about it before, but what on earth is that weapon?’
The Stral he knew was not a man who knew how to fight like that. Yeong-sik, a nobleman, entered the Department of Public Administration because he had no talent for any other skill.
A man who, like most nobles, was like a flower grown in a greenhouse.
However, the man was engaging in close combat with a sword just as much as most women.
Even Genos, who has experience meeting all kinds of powerful people as a warrior, fights to the death with slashes and explosions using weapons he has never seen before, which truly shows what the boy crush that Orbital World is talking about is.
“Fuck… ! “Don’t you know the manners of reloading?!”
Slam! Quaaaaang!
In addition, he rolls on the floor to avoid the slime’s tentacles that momentarily attack him in time.
And at the same time, he loaded a new bullet into the cylinder, rolled over, got up, and at the same time ran towards the giant slime again, firing energy bullets from the tip of his sword towards the slime.
If those who knew Strahl were to witness him now, it would be a sight that would make anyone, like Genos, wonder if it was the Strahl they knew.
Phew!
“Ha… ! We’ve finally reached it… ! Let’s see if we can stop this… !”
Even after the battle with the giant slime began, Eugene suffered various small and large injuries, but eventually arrived next to the giant slime and blocked the cannon blade…
To be honest, it had the power to make Genos think, ‘It’s cool!’ Without realizing it.
Even in a world where men and women are reversed, tastes are not reversed, so the sight of Eugene, who has the body of a pretty boy named Strahl, stabbing his enemy with a sword while covered in blood, is a sight that can be enough to appeal to the opposite sex.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang… !!
He didn’t stop there, but after stabbing the giant slime’s body with his sword, he didn’t care that the slime’s tentacles began to attack him, and repeatedly pulled the trigger on the cannon blade, causing an explosion inside the slime.
Eugene shows a tougher side than most women and continues to explode, blowing away the body fluids of the giant slime in an instant, exposing its huge core.
“Huh… !”
And the moment the core was revealed, he immediately struck down the slime’s tentacles that were attacking him with a sword strike so fast that even Genos could not follow it with his eyes and an explosion that erupted from the sword strike.
He blocked all the attacks that attacked him and quickly grabbed the cannon blade with both hands. And…
Slam! Slam! Slam! Slam!!
In an instant, he fires all the bullets that he had finished reloading, and through his will, condenses the uniruts that were about to explode through the sword’s body into one point.
Then, he wraps the condensed Unirut into a sharp shape and wraps it around the sword body, and this time, instead of exploding, he sublimates it into a ‘foreign energy’ and cuts down the defenseless core of the slime that is revealed before his eyes!
SGENG! … Quaaaaa!!
It is said that as soon as it was cut and the moment it unraveled the cohesion of the Unirats that had been forcibly tied together in the form of an antiquity, several dozen Unirats burst out from the sword body and exploded the core of the giant slime.
Widely! Doo doo doo! Percussion… !
Eugene was also caught up in the aftermath of the explosion and rolled around on the ground for a few turns before quickly settling down covered in dust.
After rolling several times on the floor due to the force of the explosion, he planted the cannon blade on the floor, took a stance to resist the force of the bounce, and muttered.
“It’s worth it… !”
The level of the giant slime that Eugene was dealing with was at the level of a superhuman, just looking at the amount of essence that was strengthening the slime’s body fluids.
The Auror who was surrounded by swinging tentacles also had that much power, so in terms of level alone, he was two levels higher than Eugene.
However, Eugene made up for the difference through his experience of reaching the level of absolute power, and although he received minor injuries here and there, he soon succeeded in subduing the giant slime without difficulty.
‘… ‘What on earth happened?’
And Genos couldn’t help but feel confident as he watched Eugene, who had defeated the giant slime from afar, convinced that he would die if he were to face him like that.
He was convinced that the Stral he was currently the owner of was not the Stral he knew.
And that’s why I couldn’t help but feel puzzled. What exactly happened to Stral after he was expelled from the Academy that led to such a cataclysmic change?
‘… No, this story has nothing to do with me anymore.’
However, it is said that soon Genos was able to completely let go of the questions that had arisen in his mind.
Because of the thought that just because Strahl has become a completely different person, he has little to do with himself.
Even if her current master was him, it was a story that had nothing to do with her as she was already in despair.
Whether Stral is the owner, Eugene is the owner, or even the Demon Lord’s army is the owner, thinking about it now, it doesn’t really matter to Genos.
Now she was no longer a warrior, much less a felon who could not even become Genos, who loved Lore, but was merely someone’s slave.
So, as Yeonhwa said, wouldn’t it be okay for whoever is the owner to use it as he wants and eventually die from exhaustion?
After much despair, Genos finally reached a desperate conclusion.
It is said that after defeating the giant slime, she looked at Eugene, who was lamenting as he looked at Boss Enemy’s magic stone that he had shattered, and eventually put aside the questions that had arisen in her head.
“… “See what kind of relationship I have with the slime-type Enemy from now on.”
“…”
Of course, no matter how despairing she was, she was still human and could not completely let go of her curiosity.
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Eugene, who accompanied Genos, succeeded in conquering two hidden dungeons in Laina Forest in less than 30 hours after leaving home.
Of course, one of them could be said to have been conquered by Genos, but the important thing is that there is only one superhuman-level dungeon left.
This dungeon was also a dungeon that contained hidden elements that Eugene called ‘Hidden Pieces’, and it was a dungeon that must be conquered before leaving Laina Forest.
With only the long-awaited Hidden Piece Dungeon left, Eugene was currently resting with Genos in the reward room of the superhuman level dungeon he had conquered.
‘It’s awkward…’
Of course, even if he is resting, he is resting with a slave who remains silent even when he talks to him, so unless Eugene talks alone, there is only silence.
Therefore, Eugene felt awkward about the silence and decided to do what was necessary for Genos’s growth while he rested.
“Genos, take this.”
“… .”
As she was a slave, it was strange for her to use polite language, so she called her name informally and handed Eugene some ‘purified magic stones’ that she owned.
Genos, who caught the magic stones thrown by Eugene according to her command, looked at Eugene with his dead eyes like a machine waiting for her command.
“It’s like an elixir, so drink it. “If you cannot attain enlightenment, ignorantly accumulating essence inside your body is one of the means to reach the level of superhuman.”
Above all, I don’t know what it would be like in reality, but in the original work, the main character and his group were able to increase their level, that is, by simply accumulating experience points.
As such, wouldn’t it be possible for your level to rise automatically if you feed yourself the magic gem? Eugene has this expectation.
Of course, as the game has become a reality, it may not be applicable in reality as it is a game-related allowance made to highlight the talents of the protagonist and his group.
However, even so, there was no harm in increasing the amount of essence that Genos stored in his body.
