Chapter 589 – Farm Story: Vespin Town
Seong-il begins to gather followers to share his actions.
“…So the followers will only go up to the 100th floor together.”
“Huh!”
‘…Did I just explain it in pain?’
No matter what they say, the Pocket Girls followers keep repeating “Yeah!” With an innocent look on their faces.
“Take this!”
“Hmm…?”
At that time, Seong-il was slightly skeptical. Yuna brings several large boxes full of things and hands them to Seong-il.
“What’s this?”
Items such as pickaxes, shovels, and folding carts that can be seen when opened. Not only that, but the other box also contained many kinds of potions and wands.
“Ah! These are enchanted magical engineering products. The pickaxe and shovel look simple, but they are enchanted with powerful strengthening magic, so they can crush hard rocks like sand! You can give it to your alter ego!!”
“Oh… Really? But why so many?”
As you can see, pickaxes and shovels are packed in each box with more than 100 each.
“Ah. These are consumable items… Although the effect is strong due to strong magic, the durability is no different from that of a normal pickaxe.”
“Ohh… That’s right…”
“The gray potion next to it is a potion that softens the ground… Green has the opposite effect. The wand is enchanted with telekinesis…”
Erica and Yuna seem to have researched and prepared mining equipment based on the information Seong-il attacked the mine last week.
“Oh! Thank you!! I’ll write well!!”
Seong-il is grateful for their thoughtful preparation and summons his alter ego.
“Children! Get your stuff and let’s go!!”
Seong-il heads to the mine again with a truckload of consumables.
***
“It’s easy.”
Seong-il was digging the ground ten times faster than before, probably because he had accumulated enough experience and his followers gave him customized equipment.
‘In addition, realizing that I can use empathy at times like this would be a harvest if it’s a harvest.’
First of all, after Edward investigates the ground using the Ethereal Stone of the substance and identifies several suspicious places where there may be an entrance to the next floor, Seongil projects a response to the suspicious place to figure out where the entrance is. So, the party was quickly clearing the floor.
“Let’s see… Is it on the 30th floor now…? Kids!! Look for Mithril!! Rake the whole floor!!”
“Huh!!”
Seeing how fast the progress is, Seongil decides to divert from his plan to reach his destination by quickly picking and searching for the entrance, and also take care of the returning minerals hidden on a specific floor in the middle.
‘It’s a item that appears with a 50% chance, but will it be there this time…?’
Perhaps due to bad luck, Seong-il had only obtained mithril once, and had not obtained mithril at all after that.
‘Fuck!! Saying it’s 50%, how can you only get one for a week!’
The time when I grumbled and waited for the work of my alter ego. An alter ego calls out to Seong-il with an urgent expression.
“Seongil!! I found it!!”
“Oh!”
This time, luckily, when the alter ego seems to have found the mithril, Seong-il smiles brightly and takes the mithril from him.
‘I gave the canned girl to Yuna the other day and she really liked it. I’ll have to give it to you again.’
Since her major is her major, Yuna has a lot of interest in mysterious metals.
In order to give such a gift to Yuna, Seong-il thinks it would be nice if adamantium appeared again, and she starts digging her land again.
‘…I know that Selenium appears with a 10% chance on the 80th floor. I want you to come out.’
In anticipation of additional income, Seong-il moves to the entrance leading to the next floor.
“Even though I dug it so fast, it took me 12 hours…”
Except for the 30th, 50th, and 80th floors where special minerals appear, Seong-il did his best to find the entrance to the next floor.
Despite using a lot of artifacts, psychic powers, magic, and cutting-edge engineering products, Seong-il looks startled when it takes half a day to reach the 99th floor.
“Fuck… How did the main character dig into this? A monster bastard…”
While grumbling like that, Seong-il turned his back and spoke to Red and the others who were seated behind him.
“Red!
“Yes…”
Although he had been briefed on the situation by Seong-il in advance, Red looked sad when he said he was going down alone.
“It’s okay, I’ll be back soon.”
Seong-il comforts her by lightly stroking her hair like her dog, Red, then goes downstairs to her.
“…Is this it?”
A cursed meteorite that was only encountered in the game with clunky 2D graphics. The meteorite, which appeared in a fairly large size on the cute game play screen, appears in front of his eyes in a much larger size than Seongil thought.
‘If the residue is this much… I can’t imagine how much damage it would have done when it fell.’
A meteorite of considerable size just by looking at the roughly exposed part.
‘I’ll have to check the exact size with a response, but… The size of the meteorite might be excessively larger than I thought…? Can I carry that big one?’
Since the quest is complete only when the meteorite is brought to the goddess, Seong-il projects his emotions toward the huge meteorite with a confused expression.
“!!!”
Surprisingly, the meteorite blocks Seongil’s response from approaching. Seong-il’s expression hardens at the appearance of a phenomenon he has never experienced before.
‘What?! I’ve never experienced anything like this before…’
Embarrassed, Seong-il tries to project his emotions toward the meteorite by projecting more force.
“Ah…”
Let’s project a little stronger, Seong-il is perplexed to realize why this phenomenon has occurred.
‘… Starting from the cursed meteorite, bizarre energy is spreading in high density? It’s just invisible, but the density of that power is so thick that the response can’t penetrate it.’
Interesting phenomenon. Seong-il picks up a stone with a curious expression and throws it in the direction of the meteorite.
Bang.
A stone that flies into the body of a meteorite without any resistance.
‘…It blocks magic power strongly, but it doesn’t block physical power, right? I can get closer.’
Seong-il feels reluctant to approach the meteorite because he knows the setting that the curse is over.
‘…Still, I have to go fuck.’
However, Seong-il frowns and cautiously steps towards the meteorite, as he can use the sensitivity and grasp the exact specs of the meteorite only when he approaches it.
‘…It’ll be fine because there’s an elixir.’
Consoling his anxious mind, Seong-il takes a step towards the meteorite.
“…Hmm?!”
When he enters the place where the evil power that blocked his response is located, Seong-il feels a terrible force attacking him.
Sssss
Then, an ominous black light emanates from the ring on Seongil’s finger, and he begins to vehemently reject that power.
‘…The incomprehensible ring gave me strong magic resistance, right? I think that triggered it…’
Seeing the ring’s reaction, Seong-il denies the reaction and is convinced that the power that is trying to attack him is magical.
“Nice…”
As it approaches the meteorite, the curse breaks through the magic resistance of the Incomprehensible Ring and begins to affect Seongil’s body.
‘Inner air and vitality at the same time…’
The ominous power absorbs Seongil’s internal energy and vitality at the same time, inflicting deep pain on him.
‘My energy has increased so much since reaching 11 stars of Heaven, Earth, Yin and Yang Mating Techniques, so it’s not a problem to lose this much… But my vitality is a bit…’
‘Oh yeah… At least in a situation where the body is strengthened by martial arts, thanks to the help of the incomprehensible ring and nanomachines, the body is enduring the curse… But if it continues like this…’
A situation where the blow is worse than the recovery. Seong-il senses that if things continue like this, something really big could happen.
‘Somehow…’
Seong-il gritted his teeth and pondered over a solution to the current situation. He feels an idea go through his head.
‘Because I can withstand the consumption of my energy… I raised the output of my energy…’
Seong-il gritted his teeth and explosively circulated the energy inside his body and began spraying it to every corner of his body.
‘With the output maximized… If I wrap my body in the way Professor Aaron taught me…’
Seong-il tries to use the method of mana management that Professor Aron of Mythology Academy taught him in the past.
‘Oh… I’m fine!!’
By forcibly projecting his inner energy to the outside and covering his body with a curtain, Seong-il was able to defend himself from being drained of his vitality by the power of the curse.
‘…The consumption of inner energy has gotten worse several times, but it’s still worth it.’
If the previous Seongil’s internal energy was close to the river, after achieving 11 stars of Heaven, Earth, Yin and Yang, his internal energy is close to the sea.
Seong-il once again approaches the meteorite, thanking Yin-Yang and the investigation of Yin-Yang for giving him such an opportunity.
“Okay…”
The curse became more powerful as it approached the meteorite. Seong-il frowns and tries to project a response.
‘Malignant intention…?’
Seong-il feels a terrible malice towards life in the meteorite. He feels his head go numb at the ferocious will to curse all living things.
‘What kind of evil thoughts are there on the subject of a boulder…?’
Seong-il feels absurd and tries to project a strong response by expressing his inner strength more strongly.
“…!!!”
Then you can realize the terrifying truth.
‘The identity of this meteorite… Is a living being… Was it an ‘egg’ to be precise!?’
Surprisingly, Seong-il realizes that the meteorite in front of him is not just a boulder, but an ‘egg’ of something that contains an evil will.
‘I was wondering why it absorbs the magic and vitality of the surroundings… It was for self-growth!!’
Seong-il, who realized why the meteorite was trying to absorb the life force around him by spreading such evil powers, looked at the information that the reaction gave with more concentration with a surprised expression.
“Fuck…”
The true size of the meteorite so learned. Seong-il realizes that the rock protruding the size of a car is actually just a very small part, and the size of the ‘body’ buried in the ground is almost the size of a three-story building.
‘No fuck… How am I supposed to carry this?! In the first place, the entrance to each floor of the mine is at a level that adults can barely pass through…’
Seong-il secretly resents the reaction of not letting him know the irrationality of this mission.
‘What can I do? Do you just break apart the crumbs and carry them away? If you insist on doing something with it…’
The time when Seong-il was trying to clear this ‘impossible’ mission somehow.
The emotion that penetrated deep into the meteorite tells him one more shocking fact.
‘This… Was a shell!?’
Surprisingly, the sensitivity tells us that most of the cursed meteorites are just a kind of ‘shell’, and the true ‘nucleus’ is nestled deep in the meteorite.
‘Is there a nucleus in the center of the meteorite? That’s actually the main body… Is it about the size of an adult male’s head…?’
Seong-il, who grasps the truth, smiles of repentance and picks up the pickaxe that Yuna has provided for him.
‘If you destroy this and take only the core, the mission is cleared!!’
Thinking so, Seong-il puts energy into the pickaxe and swings it hard to hit the meteorite.
Kaang!!!!
Surprisingly, the meteorite seems to withstand the pickaxe of such a holy day.
‘Eh?! Can you endure this!?’
Seong-il is frightened when the meteorite doesn’t break even after blowing ‘Sunyang Ganggi’ into the magic pickaxe and swinging it.
“Absorb strong energy…?!”
Seong-il is very embarrassed when the evil Meteorite absorbs the Sunyang River, which shows excellent effect in suppressing the wicked, not other powers.
‘Fuck… What?! Take a rest for now!?’
At some point, half of that energy was consumed. Seong-il, embarrassed, was thinking about whether he should get away from the meteorite for a while. A familiar will in his head begins to whisper.
“Ah!! There was that!?”
Seong-il realizes that he has a weapon that can help him overcome this difficulty and hurriedly begins to open his inventory.
