Chapter 304 – Side Story Part 2. Naked Newbie Life (16)
‘Timing is important…’
In order to inflict a powerful blow to an enemy using space manipulation, one condition is required.
“Dick! Guide him to use his flame breath!”
“What?”
“Do it quickly!”
“Oh, okay.”
What an idiot.
What on earth were you thinking, bringing us to such a dangerous place?
They said they wouldn’t be able to maintain a single aggro.
I cursed under my breath and ran hard to direct the aggro of the rampaging tiger back towards Dick.
It was the same for not only me, but also Zion, Rebecca, and Lien.
Speed much faster than that of a real tiger, flexible yet unpredictable motor skills reminiscent of a cat.
However, it is bigger than a giant elephant.
Dick worked diligently to return the monster’s gaze to himself.
He ran, rolled, and jumped while swinging his sword vigorously, and the tip of the sword eventually grazed the tiger’s leg.
Thud! Quang! Bang!
‘It’s done.’
The enraged monster swung his front paws at Dick alternately, slamming both of his feet together into the ground.
Continuous attacks that follow like a pattern.
The last one, as expected, was the courtesy flame breath.
‘Now!’
The monster stopped glowing.
The face spitting out flames was fixed exactly in one place.
Only then did I move in earnest.
I increased my concentration with the intention of pouring out all my mental power, and filled the hand holding the dagger with strength.
Then he immediately activated space manipulation.
At that moment, the air right in front of me became strangely distorted, and the two terrifying eyes of a tiger breathing fire were projected into the empty space.
I strongly swung the dagger I was holding towards that place.
The dagger, drawn horizontally, cut straight through the two eyeballs, and at that moment, a long roar like the scream of a monster tiger rang out inside the cave.
The scorching flames soon dissipated, and the tiger rolled on the ground and brought his two front paws to his eyes.
However, the dark red blood could not be stopped from flowing down, and he was eventually banished from a world full of light to a pitch-black world forever.
“What are you doing? Instead of attacking!”
“Uh… Huh? That’s right. Attack! Everyone attack! Now’s your chance!”
The rain of arrows and the tip of the spear cut into the guy’s skin.
The sword’s trajectory split the guy’s skin, and my dagger dug into the guy’s vital spot.
However, it didn’t feel like hitting a defenseless scarecrow.
The monster struggled violently even when it lost its sight, and even just grazing its legs as it swung like that was fatal to us.
I had to take my time slowly.
I had to approach from a distance, look for an opening, attack, then widen the distance again and wait for the glow to stop.
So we had to deal with him for dozens of minutes, and were able to achieve victory in the end.
[Your level has increased.]
[Your level has increased.]
If you were a Red Goblin, you would have to hunt close to 200 to raise the level, but the level rose by a whopping 2 levels at once.
That’s how powerful he was.
I was almost wondering why this guy wasn’t a boss monster.
Relaxed, Li Yan collapsed on the floor and gasped for breath. Dick put his sword and shield down on the floor and took out his handkerchief to wipe away his sweat.
Shion and Rebecca, who had been shooting arrows from a distance, approached the guy and handed him a bucket of water. I also took out a cloth and wiped the blood from my hands and body, and opened my mouth in a somewhat angry mood towards Dick.
“Sorry to take a break, Dick. How did this come about? I think I need an explanation.”
“…”
The eyes of the three people slowly turn towards me.
“You know, right? If it weren’t for me, one of us would be dead by now.”
That guy was too powerful.
So much that we don’t dare to deal with it.
However, Dick was surprisingly quiet, and the first to speak was the red-haired Rebecca.
“What’s wrong, team leader? Anyway, the hunt was successful. We all went up in level together.”
“The results are good, so let’s just move on? Do you think that will work? I almost died!”
“Huh… Okay, okay. I’m sorry. I’ll apologize.”
Only then did Dick, who had been silent, open his mouth.
“I’m asking for that apology now…”
“After all, you are both ordinary people. You were hiding the power you had.”
“Do you think that and these are the same?”
“It’s different. So I’m sorry. But I didn’t know that he was this strong. I just heard rumors about the skill stone he gave me.”
“…”
I didn’t ease my grimly distorted expression at all.
Honestly, I was annoyed.
Now I am a newbie among newbies, and it is time to level up and grow as safely and efficiently as possible.
In that situation, I made the mistake of going to a party with some crazy guy and ended up in hell.
This was a situation that had to be questioned.
Otherwise, it was time to disband and end this party.
However, Dick tried to overcome the situation with his signature laugh.
“Look at this rather than that! We got a lot of loot, right? You know that, right? I promised to give you everything except the skill stones. Team leader, stop making faces and come here and look at these.”
“…”
The loot list was like this.
[Tiger bear x 10], [Fire tiger skin x 7], [Tiger meat x 4], [Tiger molar x 2]
The quantity was quite large.
Since he was a powerful guy, it was clear that he would be sold at a fairly high price.
But now was not the time to be satisfied with these things.
I declared to him in a low voice.
“From now on, I will be the leader of this party. I will also decide on the hunting ground… If you don’t like this, this party will end here.”
“Hmm… Okay. Okay.”
“Dick! What does that mean? If Dick is not the leader…”
“I am also against this.”
Dick was willing to accept my request, but the two female wizards seemed to have different ideas.
“No. Here, I will follow the team leader’s words. It was my mistake to put everyone in danger because I did not know that Smoking Tiger was this strong. So, from now on, please follow the team leader’s words.”
“But…”
“Don’t make that face. Just because I’m no longer the leader doesn’t mean I won’t like you. Huh?”
“If Dick says so…”
These bastards are pissed to death right now, so why are they suddenly filming a cheap, third-rate melodrama?
I gave an order to Li Yan, who was just blankly watching our conversation.
“Liyan, what are you doing? Quickly retrieve the loot.”
“Oh? Oh, yes. I’ll do it right away.”
To be honest, I wanted to end the party right here and now.
Since we can no longer trust them 100%, if we keep dragging it on like this, it will definitely cause problems.
‘But not now.’
Not yet.
First of all, the fact that I showed my abilities in front of them.
This is important.
Now that you have seen my abilities, the advantage is that you won’t be able to treat me carelessly in the future.
The risk of spreading rumors about my abilities to the outside world would be a disadvantage.
So, it would be better to keep them by my side for a while to block the risk of information being leaked.
Above all, since they have already seen my abilities, the fact that there is no need to hide my abilities in future battles is also an advantage.
So it’s unpleasant, but we need to keep this party going for a while.
‘More than anything…’
“Um, team leader. The tiger skin is so thick that it won’t fit in my bag.”
“Then, put it in my bag too.”
“Yes!”
All the loot found in this dungeon belongs to me.
You have to give up the skill stone,
‘Will a skill stone appear? It’s difficult and takes a long time to catch one like this.’
After a while, after seeing that Li Yan had organized all her loot into her and my bags, she spoke to the room of three.
“Why are you so dazed?”
“Huh? Ah, tell me. What is it, leader?”
“There is no need to force yourself to be a leader.”
“Ahaha… But I’ll just do it. I have to get used to not being the leader now.”
I completely ignored his remarks and continued with what I had to say.
“When your break is over, take the lead again. You didn’t come here just to catch one fish and go back, right?”
“Huh? Ha, but…”
“Are they strong? It doesn’t matter now. My level has gone up… Did you see my abilities earlier?”
“Yeah, that’s right. Haha. I’m just talking about it now, but it was crazy. That paranormal ability. How on earth did you do it?”
“It’s a secret.”
“Oh, sorry, sorry. That’s right. Hmm… Then let’s start again. As long as you have the leader’s ability, you will be able to hunt the tiger no matter how powerful it is.”
Shion and Rebecca’s gaze still showed that they did not want to acknowledge me as the leader, but they seemed to be obediently following Dick’s words as to how they had been trained by this guy.
So we moved deeper into the cave, where we found other tigers and started hunting.
Even before the battle began, I used space manipulation to cut out their eyeballs from tens of meters away, and the battle was very favorable to us from the beginning.
It was the beginning of a full-fledged tiger massacre.
* * *
That night.
I came to Drok’s purchase shop to sell the loot.
“Where on earth did you get such a precious thing?”
Drog was scared when he saw the fire tiger skin.
“How much does this cost?”
“Seo, are you really planning to sell this? Fire tiger skin is not easy to find. If it were me, I would make clothes right away…”
“Oh, don’t worry. We left enough for us, right? Lien. Tell them to bring everything that’s outside.”
“…!?”
A moment later, three people, including Dick, came inside carrying a huge bag made for adventurers filled with a large amount of fire tiger skin.
“If you buy them all at once, I’ll give you a small discount. I need money urgently.”
Drog stood silently for a while with his mouth open.
Then, when I heard the levels of Li Yan and me, I almost fainted.
They say they’ve never seen anyone raise their level as fast as us since they were born.
“So I’m going to buy it. I’m really in dire need of money.”
“I will buy it… But give me just one day. I don’t have enough money to buy this amount of leather right now. I need time to go and talk to the tailoring guild and tanners and raise money. .”
“Okay. Then by tomorrow. Please handle it as quickly as possible.”
“Of course.”
Actually, I found it today just before I left the tiger dungeon.
A terrifying being sitting deep in the cave.
‘If you want to hunt him, you must upgrade your equipment before doing so.’
It is important to not be overconfident just because you have awakened a little bit of your ability.
Because my life is more precious than anything else.
