## Chapter 518 – 518. New Skill
518. New Skill
“Wind Boost.”
The wind from Mireyeong’s spell enveloped my body. I felt lighter, and my reaction speed temporarily increased.
I dashed through the field of yellow flowers. My feet mercilessly trampled the pretty blossoms, and the crushed flowers released a yellow poisonous gas.
“Purifying Boundary.”
Mireyeong used another spell.
The poisonous gas clinging to my body was purified and vanished, and other poisonous gases couldn’t penetrate my body.
Now safe, I reveled in my lightened body and flew towards the large yellow flower in the center of the field. It was a monster called ‘Flower Gas Muri.’ Its calyx tilted and faced me.
The center of the flower was filled with grotesque, sharp teeth and yellow mucus.
Click! Click, click, click!
It smacked its teeth as if smacking its lips.
‘Thunder.’
To kill it more surely, I infused my sword with red lightning and swung it.
Its body tore apart. That alone was a fatal wound. But I didn’t stop attacking. Plant-type monsters, which don’t feel pain, can move calmly until they’re on the verge of death, even with fatal injuries.
‘I took this one down easily too.’
I collected the mana stone and petals on the ground and approached Mireyeong.
“Mireyeong, your support was the best.”
“Support? What are you suddenly talking nonsense about?”
Mireyeong glared at me.
Her spell assistance was outstanding. Plant-type monsters have different characteristics, so you need various preparations to hunt them safely. But with Mireyeong’s spells, I could skip that process and charge at the enemy without a second thought.
Her support using her spells was truly admirable.
“Where’s the next monster?”
“South. About a 5-minute walk.”
She stated the monster’s location calmly. She said she had set up a barrier around here. It was a barrier that identified the situation within a certain range. She called it a simple barrier, but to me, it was an incredible one.
“Let’s go right away. My hands are itching.”
Usually, in an open dungeon, after finishing one battle, it takes an average of 30 minutes to find another monster. 30 minutes was enough time for the excitement of battle to fade. But now, the thrill of battle was still going strong.
“……”
Mireyeong stopped walking. She frowned as if something displeased her.
“What is it?”
“Those guys are moving.”
My excited body cooled down as if cold water had been poured over it.
“…You mean those guys called Cool Raiders or whatever? How are they moving?”
“It seems they had other companions here. Ten in total. They’ve split into pairs and are looking for us.”
“Which way are they?”
“Are you going to run away?”
I hesitated for a moment. If I ran away at full speed and returned to reality, they wouldn’t be able to find us. If I swallowed my pride, I could avoid the fight.
“No.”
But to be scared and run away from those guys? My pride wouldn’t allow it. And they were the ones who had tried to kill me. They could do this again later.
“They seem to think this dungeon is their own backyard. I need to teach them that this could be their grave.”
“Heh.”
Mireyeong’s eyes curved. Her pink lips formed a smile.
“I would have been disappointed if you said you were going to run away. I have a plan. Do you want to hear it?”
“A fox’s scheme, huh? I’m looking forward to it.”
Mireyeong’s plan was simple.
To set a trap and pick them off one by one.
***
Mireyeong and I deliberately left traces.
The guys who found those traces were gleeful as they chased after us. They were fish that had taken the bait.
We left them alone for now. They weren’t hooked yet.
We secretly observed their actions with hidden cameras and bugs.
“Found them. Footprints of a man and a woman.”
One of the two men spoke into a walkie-talkie.
-Are you sure it’s that damn footprint?
“Do you think there’s another couple leisurely dating in this dungeon?”
-That’s not likely. Where are they? I’m heading there.
“Southwest from where we gathered earlier. About 600 meters away. Hurry up, Kim Ji-oh. They might notice we’re tracking them and run away.”
-I’ll be there in 5 minutes. Hehehe. I’ll kill that guy who thinks he’s so great just because everyone praises him, and I’ll take the woman. Damn. I’m already getting excited.
“Kim Ji-oh, the woman needs to be killed too.”
-That woman is too good to kill here.
“…What if she reports us?”
-We can just take her somewhere, lock her up, and raise her so she can’t report us. You won’t be able to say you want to kill her once you see her.
“…Is she that good?”
-She’s the first woman I’ve seen like that in my life. I’ve seen beauties like her a few times… but she’s special. I have to catch her.
“…Okay. Hurry up.”
After ending the call, he and his companion stood guard, looking around.
I looked at Mireyeong next to me.
“Why?”
“Did you do something to that Kim Ji-oh guy? He’s showing an abnormal obsession.”
“I just made eye contact with him for a moment. He was just charmed by me. He’s a pathetic one.”
“……”
Come to think of it, the Hoin tribe not only had the ability to steal people’s life force but also the ability to charm them.
“Don’t tell me I’m charmed too?”
“It’s like a passive skill usually. If you make eye contact with me, you’ll automatically be charmed. I’ve never intentionally used it on you.”
I stared intently into Mireyeong’s eyes. They were pretty eyes. But that was it. I didn’t feel like I was falling for her.
Five minutes passed.
All ten of them had gathered.
“Shall we start?”
Mireyeong asked, shaking a twig.
“Start.”
Mireyeong poked the twig into a spot on the ground. That activated the magic circle she had been preparing in this area for 20 minutes.
‘I used all the mana stones I’ve obtained so far to set up this magic circle. Since I’ve spent all of today’s earnings, I’ll kill all of them here.’
The Great Eight Wheel Formation. It was a formation that twisted the space between the outside and inside, making enemies who entered the formation wander endlessly. It was a formation, but also a kind of barrier.
“The Great Eight Wheel Formation only lasts for an hour. There aren’t enough materials to maintain it longer.”
She said, sighing, covered in sweat. She was exhausted from setting up the formation in a hurry.
“An hour is enough.”
I stood up with my sword. My gaze was fixed on the tablet. The moment the formation activated, they were separated from each other and became individuals.
‘Should I kill this bastard first?’
***
I approached Kim Ji-oh, who was tense, his fur bristling like a cat in a strange place.
Kim Ji-oh was shocked when he saw me and pointed his sword at me.
“Sung Yu-jin! It was you… Damn it. What’s with that look?!”
“My look?”
I lowered my head to check my condition.
My whole body was covered in blood.
I deliberately left Kim Ji-oh for last. That meant that all nine of his companions had died by my sword.
‘They were easier to deal with than I thought.’
Even if they were the same C-rank hunters, I was much more advantageous in a one-on-one fight. The skills and experience I had honed so far were superior to theirs.
“Why are you staring so disgustingly? This is all the blood of your friends. You should be happy that your blood will be mixed in here too, right?”
I said that, but I felt very uncomfortable. I wanted to kill Kim Ji-oh right away and take a shower.
“You crazy bastard.”
Kim Ji-oh cursed at me, sweating profusely. The tip of his sword was shaking. The fact that his companions had died seemed to be quite shocking.
“You’re exhausted now. Do you think you can beat me in that state? It’s not my blood that will be mixed in that blood, it’s yours! You son of a bitch!”
Kim Ji-oh attacked first.
Surprisingly, he had learned martial arts. He stepped forward and swung his sword, quickly closing the distance.
“…You didn’t just learn it haphazardly, you learned it professionally. Why are you doing bandit-like things with that skill?”
I raised my sword and blocked Kim Ji-oh’s attack.
I was saying it casually, but I was exhausted as he said. My body felt heavy. My legs felt like iron, and my arms were too heavy to move.
So, without realizing it, I moved as little as possible.
‘It doesn’t matter if I die. I can use full recovery.’
Still, I didn’t want to just die.
‘…What is this?’
I couldn’t understand myself.
It was a minimal movement in name only, but in reality, it was more like a limp. Yet, Kim Ji-oh’s sword couldn’t pierce my body. All of his attacks were narrowly missing, by a hair’s breadth.
‘Is this guy really a C-rank? Did I make a mistake, and he’s actually a D-rank?’
Kim Ji-oh’s stance opened up. His shoulder area was exposed. If I stabbed him, I would win. I was sure of it.
‘Compared to the guys who were running wild in the lawless zone, this guy is nothing. He’s pathetic.’
My sword moved smoothly. The speed wasn’t fast. It was rather slow, but Kim Ji-oh couldn’t block my sword. The sword pierced Kim Ji-oh’s shoulder.
“Kuaaaaaaack!”
“Kim Ji-oh, farewell. Thanks to you, I think I understand something.”
I looked at the sword energy swirling around my sword. The blue sword energy was sharper than before.
“You, you bastard…!”
Kim Ji-oh swung his foot at me. A blade popped out from the front of his shoe.
‘A split second.’
I swung my sword, cutting off his leg, and plunged the sword into his neck.
“You should have just carried a bomb. …Oh, you couldn’t carry a bomb because your leg would fly off?”
Kim Ji-oh collapsed to the ground.
With this, I had killed all ten of the guys who were targeting me and Mireyeong.
I first shook off the blood from my sword and took out water from my inventory to wash off the blood on my body.
“Ugh, why are you washing naked?”
Mireyeong, who was approaching, stopped.
“Because I feel uncomfortable. And if I go outside like this, the association staff will arrest me right away.”
“…What are you going to do with the bodies? Burn them? Bury them?”
“In this situation, they should be thrown to the monsters as food. That’s the fastest and safest way to dispose of them in a dungeon. Oh, you’re not going to absorb them?”
“I don’t need the life force of these pathetic things.”
If the bodies were left behind, another hunter could find them and take them outside. They could find me from the traces left on the bodies, so I had to get rid of them.
After changing into new clothes, I sighed and cleaned up. I was so tired that I lost my balance and staggered, and Mireyeong supported my back.
“Ah. Thanks. I didn’t expect you to help me like this.”
“I’m just helping because we agreed to cooperate. …And you know how great I am, right? You wouldn’t have been able to handle these guys so easily without me.”
“That’s true.”
I grinned.
The reason Mireyeong was working so hard to help me was that she wanted to prove her competence to me.
“Let’s clean up quickly and go back. Should we have some pork ribs for dinner?”
“I want to eat Korean beef.”
“Korean beef is good too.”
***
I woke up in bed and went to the living room in my underwear and t-shirt. It was past 7 PM. It was because I had been rolling around on the bed with Han Ha-rin and Han Ah-young until dawn. The black and white double is a rice bowl that I never get tired of, no matter how many times I eat it.
“…Why are there so many boxes?”
There were over 20 empty boxes stacked up. Looking at the boxes, there were shipping labels attached.
I had never ordered so many packages.
‘Did Mireyeong order them? Clothes and broadcasting cameras…? What’s gotten into her all of a sudden.’
I had given her my card to use as she pleased, and she was really using it as she pleased. I was curious, so I searched for one of the items in the packages, and they were all high-end products. The prices were at least hundreds of thousands of won. The broadcasting camera was over a million won.
‘She must be fixated on something again.’
It was good that she had attachments to reality.
‘Should I go see what she’s doing?’
I was about to knock on Mireyeong’s door but stopped. Music was leaking through the door from inside.
‘She might be playing music and actually masturbating.’
It had been two weeks since Mireyeong was summoned. I had never seen her masturbate.
I opened the door, expecting to see her startled.
The scene I was expecting wasn’t there.
Mireyeong was dancing excitedly to the upbeat music, wearing revealing clothes that showed her cleavage.
“Oh, thank you, Cheonggyecheon Warrior! Thank you for 30,000 coins! A sexy dance for my oppa!”
Her white fox tail swayed seductively.
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