Chapter 76 – Department Store Dungeon (2)
On the 10th floor restaurant area, you have defeated four B-class monsters, including Weapon Knoll.
Fortunately, only two minor injuries came out as they ran immediately whenever they heard a scream.
The two minor casualties were not wounds from the monster, but only abrasions from falling while running away.
“It may be a little bitter, but this amount of ointment is enough.”
“Thank you, Healer. Thank you Hunters too.”
A lightly wounded man with bleeding knees bowed his head toward us.
In fact, I was a little embarrassed because I hadn’t done anything yet.
Since only one monster popped out, Katrin killed them all without even needing to [Sensit 3000x].
When your familiar does well, you should praise them.
Even if the reward is given later.
“Nice work, Catherine. Please continue like this.”
“Yes, master!”
I stroked her hair, and she raised the corners of her mouth and felt her hand.
Ahn Hye-bin stared at us like that.
As if she noticed my gaze, she looked at her body and said as if making excuses.
“It reminds me of a dog I had in the past. I crossed the rainbow bridge before I turned 20… Oh, I’m not saying Catherine is like a dog… !”
“I know, I know.”
Like putting on a dog collar and praising a pet dog, well done, well done.
In the first place, there is a side of me that treats Katrin with a bit of that mindset.
She wants it too
In terms of being cute like a pet dog, it didn’t mean ignoring it.
“Let’s go down to the ninth floor now, Hyebin.”
“Yes.”
The restaurant area on the 10th floor was almost finished.
We introduced ourselves as academy students and told people that it was safest to stay still here.
Of course, there were people who didn’t believe our words and ran out, but even those people were not my business.
I walked down the dead escalator in the middle of the department store.
The ninth floor was a store selling home appliances and furniture.
However, various appliances and furniture were broken, torn, and smashed.
I looked around the ninth floor and talked to Ahn Hye-bin.
“There are no people.”
“Iknow, right…”
Have you already killed all the monsters?
While dealing with the 10th floor, there was a sufficient possibility.
As expected of the largest department store in Gangnam, the floor area was quite wide.
I just wanted to go down to the 8th floor.
Subjugating monsters is important, but the top priority is, of course, saving lives.
Kang Shin-ye in the underground parking lot is still bothering me.
But think about that for a while.
“Kki-reuk, kki-reuk.”
I heard a seagull cry.
It’s not even the beach, but seagulls.
“Master, it’s up!”
Hearing Katrin’s words, Ahn Hye-bin and I immediately raised our heads.
It wasn’t just one or two seagulls.
Five flew over our heads alone.
The seagull and the eye met.
It was bloody eyes that made me feel frightened for a moment.
It was completely different from the red eyes that some hunters had.
Even though the color itself is similar, the monster’s unique life style has been passed down.
“Catherine.”
“Huh!”
Even in a fight with a monster, of course, the first bread is very effective.
What we learn at the academy.
It’s not a sure win, but it’s the truth of all times and places that attacking first is advantageous.
Catherine also flew to the same altitude as the seagull.
Even with the same wing, it slaughtered the seagull’s body at a rapid pace as if it were of a different rank.
“Burning with fire is the fastest, but can I use it, Master?”
“No, there are too many rides here.”
“I get it!”
There is no answer when sparks fly on wooden furniture and cause a fire throughout the building.
Due to the nature of other world dungeons where electronic devices do not work at all, firefighting facilities that run on electricity will not work well.
Even though one effective means of attack was sealed, Katrin is still Katrin.
As if there was no problem, he killed and killed the seagull monsters.
Ahn Hye-bin muttered as she turned her head left and right.
“There is no end… ?”
Certainly, as she said, there were only seagull carcasses piling up on the floor, and there was no sign of the end.
One of them,
“Kki-reuk-!”
And flew to me
Since there were so many of them, it was an object that Catherine had placed.
I walked 3,000 times the pain while looking into the seagull’s red eyes.
The seagull that was approaching me with its beak open and pecked at me suddenly fell to the ground.
Because the flapping of wings was painful, he could no longer use his strength, flight.
“As expected, he is the master! You are stronger than me!!”
In terms of attack power, to be honest, Katrin is much higher.
Still, I didn’t feel bad about receiving the compliment.
I bet all the seagulls flying over the ceiling of the department store 3,000 times the pain.
Then, the humpback gulls poured down to the floor.
Ahn Hye-bin opened her eyes wide and asked me.
“Is this the Gong Dae-seung’s skill?”
“Yes, that’s right.”
“You are amazing… So, she must have been active in Gangnam-daero.”
“You’re over-complimenting.”
Well, compliments feel good too.
She thought that she should praise Katrin harder in the future.
That way she’ll feel better too.
Katrin also folded her wings and came down.
Then he killed the seagulls that had fallen to the ground by bursting them with his feet as if he were doing a tap dance.
“Come to think of it, does the owner like girl group dances?”
“I don’t particularly like or dislike it.”
“Is it? If you like it, I tried to practice it and show it to you.”
“Show me later.”
“I get it!”
Because it feels completely different when an idol I don’t know well dances and when my girl dances.
… By the way, was Katrin really killing seagulls like she was dancing?
There will be no one as relaxed as her when it comes to subduing her monsters.
But still, gulls were replenished somewhere.
Even after I cast a skill on the seagulls to drop them to the ground and Katrin burst and killed them, they continued to appear in swarms.
Resurrection anywhere.
“Oh, wait a minute.”
“Do you have any guesses, Master?”
Last week, while preparing for a lecture, I remembered seeing all the strange monsters.
An endless flock of seagulls, as if resurrected.
However, if the appearance was different, that was not the case.
They look alike, like twins.
“It’s like a rapid hatching seagirl.”
Ahn Hye-bin said, “Ah… !” She nodded.
Even she thought the conclusion I had reached was correct.
All the seagulls we’ve killed are newborn babies.
Even now, a pair of male and female will continue to lay eggs somewhere.
Each time the male and female mate, one egg comes out, and the young hatch and grow.
It’s over in just one minute.
“As far as I remember, a pair of males and females makes 20,000.”
“Are you going to kill them all, Master?”
“No, we should just find the seagull couple right away and kill them.”
I watched carefully the direction the new seagulls were flying.
As expected, seagulls flew in only certain directions.
Then we just have to follow that path in reverse.
I followed it all the way to the women’s bathroom.
… Even though it was an emergency, the man was afraid to enter the women’s bathroom.
“There it is… !!”
Ahn Hye-bin stretched out her arm and pointed at the pair of gulls laying her eggs as they eagerly copulated up and down her on her sink.
It was a very inconvenient outdoor play.
Right away, I bet 3000 times the pain and 3000 times the fear.
The two male and female gulls immediately stopped mating and fell to their sides.
“Kki-ki-reuk…”
The Rapid Hatching Seagirl is a B-rank or lower level monster.
The attack power of each individual is not very high and it is not difficult to kill.
However, because of the overwhelming amount of 20,000 birds and the difficulty of finding these male and female gulls, it was described in the textbook that they were recognized as lower class B.
Catherine cut the necks of the male and female gulls in two with the blade of her hand.
With this, there is no need to worry about more seagull monsters appearing.
Kill all the chicks that have hatched so far and you’re done.
Perhaps the ninth floor was all about rapid hatching seagulls.
Ahn Hye-bin asked carefully.
“Where did all the people on the 9th floor go…”
“Maybe they all went down to the 8th floor.”
“Ah, it could be. I didn’t even see any human corpses.”
First of all, just in case, I went around the ninth floor to every corner of the baby seagulls.
I can’t ignore the possibility that someone is hiding somewhere.
Anyway, in order for the people on the 10th floor to come down later, they have to subdue all the monsters on the 9th floor.
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“I think everything is over, Master!”
It took up quite a bit of time.
The 9th floor was full of corpses of seagull monsters.
… She had no choice but to step on the corpses with her feet.
“Let’s go down to the eighth floor now.”
“Huh!” “Yes.”
I searched every nook and cranny of the ninth floor, but I didn’t see anyone peeping.
I went down the escalator like stairs and arrived at the 8th floor, a sports and outdoor store.
Again, it was full of people.
“Who, who is that?!”
A man near the escalator freaked out.
He seemed to think that no one would come down from the ninth floor full of monsters.
We revealed our identities to the people on the 8th floor and told them that we had subdued both the 10th and 9th floor monsters.
A slight blush appeared on their faces.
It’s not active duty, but anyway, it seemed to put my mind at ease that I actually killed monsters.
“Then you’re a healer?”
A woman grabbed Ahn Hye-bin’s jacket and asked.
It seems very sincere.
“I’m still in my third year, but…”
“Hey, hey, please! Please save my husband!!”
The woman knelt down and rubbed her hands together.
I heard specific circumstances from others.
These were people who were shopping or working on the ninth floor, and suddenly came down to the eighth floor when monsters appeared.
It seemed that the staff responded calmly and brought all the customers to the 8th floor without exception.
There are no monsters on the 8th floor.
However, it was not that there were no injuries on the ninth floor.
The husband of this woman clinging to Ahn Hye-bin must have been seriously injured while trying to fend off seagulls attacking her wife and her children with her bare body.
Ahn Hye-bin said in a small voice.
“I’ll look at the condition first, ma’am.”
“Ah yes! This way!!”
Katrin and I went to the location the lady guided us to.
A middle-aged man was lying on the floor.
My whole body was covered in blood, as if I had been pecked by seagulls.
It was quicker to find a place where the flesh wasn’t dented.
“… You are seriously injured.”
“I beg you, Healer! I’ll definitely reward you later, so what about my husband!!”
Healer’s serious injury means that if you don’t treat it right away, you’ll die.
However, Ahn Hye-bin was just standing there, and she did not seek treatment.
I lightly held her arm and whispered, inaudible to her aunt.
Why don’t you heal?
Then came an unexpected answer.
“If I help her husband, there won’t be any magic power left to heal Mr. Seung of the College of Engineering if he gets hurt…”
As she explains, her healing skill she has is the kind that converts her own magical powers into her healing powers.
There was no restriction on the skill itself, but it seemed that there was little mana that could be called fuel.
Most healers have varying degrees, but she doesn’t have infinite healing power.
That is, there is such a thing as priority.
In this department store, I seem to be the only Awakened person who can fight monsters, but if I get injured and can’t heal the wounds and I can’t subdue the monsters, everyone will suffer.
In other words, because of the limited magical power, I have to choose only one person between me and this man.
Considering all the interests of the people in the department store, Healer—Ahn Hye-bin decided that it was better to leave the mana to heal me in case of emergency than to save this man.
“… Sorry, I’m incompetent.”
“It is an unavoidable situation. Don’t beat yourself up too much.”
It’s the right decision as a healer, but it’s unacceptable from the point of view of an ajumma whose family is going to die right now.
She hurt her heart as well as she did.
“Hyebin, let me ask you something.”
“Yes.”
“Is the magic that Hyebin said the same as the magic the hunters say?”
“Yes, it is the same.”
If so, I have a sure way.
Even while saving this man, I can surely be healed when I am injured.
“Promise me one thing.”
“What… ?”
“From now on, Hyebin-ssi’s magic will increase. I do it with my skill, but please keep it a secret from others. Otherwise, I won’t do it again.”
“That, is that possible… ?!”
Ahn Hye-bin opened her eyes wide.
She looked at her big eyes and bet 3000 times the mana response.
As if looking at her status window, she rolled her eyes elsewhere.
And once more her eyes widened.
She recharged her mana for about 30 seconds and released her skill.
She didn’t want her body to explode if she overcharged herself.
You can charge it at any time.
“Is this enough?”
“It’s more than possible, if it’s this much magical power… !!”
She immediately dropped to her knees and used her healing powers on her uncle.
