Chapter 338
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“What the fuck is Geumtae Divine Art?”
Geumtaeyang had already moved with a bizarre step, instantly targeting the cyclops’s severed Achilles tendon.
SMASH.
Geumtaeyang’s Geumtae Divine Art accurately struck the cyclops’s wound.
So he could attack like that too.
An aura in the shape of a fist actually burst out from his punch and struck the cyclops’s Achilles tendon.
It was a fist-shaped aura. So it was a kind of sword aura.
The sword aura flowed out exactly in the shape of a fist and struck the wound.
At first glance, you could say it looked really childish.
But this was a bit subtle.
“Oh, that’s Jotgan.”
It was a little cool.
Honestly, wasn’t that its own kind of romance? The fist-shaped aura burst out so explosively that it made me think that.
Even so, this wouldn’t be the end.
If that massive body could be taken down just by having its Achilles tendon torn, wouldn’t it have been wiped out ages ago?
“Uryaaaah! I’ll add Body reinforcement and smash it!”
“Guaaaaaaah!”
Seizing this opportunity, Geumtaeyang continued his attacks.
He kept up his attacks as if he wouldn’t miss this opening.
Oh, shouldn’t I slowly back out here? No, then I won’t get paid. That’s a bit problematic.
Encouraged by this, our Kim Beubmi also went on the offensive.
“Beubmi Power! Rolling Thunder!”
“Gguk. Gguhaaaaaaaah!”
“Katon Volcano!!”
Katon Volcano?
Suddenly, a pillar of flame surged up and struck the cyclops’s jaw.
The cyclops seemed unable to come to its senses from the continuous attacks.
“I see. So this trio’s combination, even without a One strike, is enough to confuse this cyclops?”
Then it was perfect.
Riding on this combination, I just needed to strike once too.
Right. My attack dealt enough damage earlier.
And that was with my bare body, without even using Body reinforcement. So what if I used Body reinforcement?
Wasn’t it worth trying at least once?
Then I would do it.
I erased my presence again with the Reclusive Hermit Ability Skill and carefully approached the cyclops.
“Kuaaaaaaah!”
Of course, even if it screamed like that, it couldn’t come over here.
Because that cyclops’s gaze was solely directed at those three.
It was a good thing. At that rate, it was just getting beaten up without even noticing this side at all. Honestly, it felt like my damage would go in well even if I deactivated the Reclusive Hermit Ability.
Slowly, I approached the cyclops.
From what I heard, that guy’s eye was its weakness.
However, it was in an ambiguous position to touch directly, and it actually had magic defense cast on it, making it weak to long-range magic attacks, but for other long-range attacks, the eye itself was so hard that to strike the eyeball, you had to stab it with a sword when it lowered its head.
That was why it was good to try it now.
“Kiyaaaaaaaah!”
Exactly as planned, I quickly approached the guy with my reinforced body and climbed onto it.
And in an instant, I climbed up to its head and stabbed straight down toward its eyeball.
I stabbed the knife down very forcefully, refreshingly, without hesitation.
Pussshaaaak!
Even though it was just a basic knife I got from somewhere, it dug into the guy’s eyeball quite forcefully.
Because the knife was short, I had to put a little more strength into it.
I put my weight into it and sliced straight down.
Kkujijijijijik - along with the sound of the eyeball tearing, its eyeball was split almost in half.
“Gotcha!”
“Guaaaaaaaah!”
Starting to scream, the guy grabbed his eye and began to roll around.
“We can’t stop here-yang!”
“Let’s keep pushing.”
Rumble. CRASH.
That one-eyed giant, whose eyeball was already injured, collapsed just like that.
After a long moment of dazed surprise, we quickly realized we had won and let out a deep sigh.
Anyway, we had won somehow.
Wouldn’t it be right to see this as a true human victory?
“Phew. We managed to finish it somehow.”
Wondering if I should double-tap something like this, I tapped the cyclops with my foot a few times, but there was no reaction at all. It was definitely dead.
To think such a monster actually existed. Of course, I had to take into account that this was the world inside a novel, but seeing it like this was truly surprising.
I killed something like this?
Wasn’t it natural to have such a thought right away?
More than that. That skill called Adaptability seemed really good. Frankly speaking, Kim Beubmi and Mariko here were active-duty, and seeing as Geumtaeyang had a contract lined up, he already had quite a bit of experience.
But I didn’t, did I?
Rather, this era itself was a bizarre world to me, and with the sensibilities of a modern person, this place was no different from a battlefield.
To think I adapted to this so quickly.
“Hoee. We really caught this thing-ieo!”
“Well, that’s that.”
First of all, there was a question that suddenly came to mind while doing this crap.
“Hey, Beubmi-chan.”
“Hoee, why are you calling me-yayo?”
Beubmi looked at me with a still-confused expression.
“Do you really have to say “Beubmi Power Rolling Thunder” out loud while using magic?”
This part really bothered me.
Setting everything else aside, saying the skill name out loud like that ate up all the time.
This was reality, not a comic or a game. Did she really have to go that far to use magic? Even with a concept like that?
Hmm, if it was her own intention, it couldn’t be helped. But respecting that taste was a bit much.
“Hawawa. Doing that makes my magic stronger. That’s my ability-yayo.”
What, so she had to do that to act as a Hunter?
Uh, it was a bit hard to imagine, but if she was going to act as a Hunter in this era, she’d eventually have to do it for decades. If she was still going 'hawawa' when she got a bit older and had a few wrinkles…
That was a bit hard to imagine.
“Then don’t tell me this Geumtaeyang too?”
Could Geumtaeyang be like that too?
Ah, that would be a bit shocking.
Of course, if that Geumtaeyang thing was a concept, it wasn’t something to just brush off.
It was just a bit uncomfortable. If something like that was a concept, I also thought it was somewhat pitiful.
No.
“Oh, Older Sister (Honorific), what’s wrong?”
“Fuck, I really don’t like you.”
“Suddenly?”
Suddenly or not, he had tanned skin and blond hair. I didn’t like it. How could he exist with exactly that setting?
Maybe he was actually a really innocent guy.
“Anyway, is it cleared with this?”
“Mhm. That’s righty-o.”
Since we caught the boss, it was natural that it would be Cleared. Still, Beubmi was the experienced one in this area. It felt like she would know more.
Then what was left was this core.
Right now, the cores that came out from catching this cyclops were quite substantial.
“Well anyway, this bastard has a lot of cores, doesn’t it? There are five B-rank cores.”
“Hmm, then how should we distribute them?”
“Hoee. Mariko and this Beubmi-chan helped, but the white-haired unnie dealt the critical hit-yayo. The white-haired unnie can take two, and we can distribute the remaining three, one for each of us-yeyo.”
I originally thought that was a given. But it seemed this side had its own rules. For now, I decided to take what I was given.
But how much was this core worth?
I felt like I needed to make that part clear too.
“The price of a B-rank core?”
“If we sell them to my older brothers, they sell for a fixed price of 500,000 won.”
Wasn’t 500,000 won quite a large amount? It might not be a lot of money in Hunter Society, but it still seemed like a pretty incredible amount for a minor.
Then didn’t I make quite a lot of money in just one day?
Rather than making money while getting traumatized from wiping corpses, this side seemed much more thrilling and decent.
“Should we sell them to them right away?”
“Hawawa. Let’s get out of here first and think about it-ieo.”
Right. We had to get out of here first.
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Coming out of the Dungeon, there had never been a time I missed the sky like this.
Seeing the blue sky after only looking at a gloomy sky made it feel real again that we had Cleared the Dungeon.
Honestly, if I were told to go into this Dungeon right now, I might want to go in one more time even if it was annoying.
However, since it was such a squelchy place, I had to take that into account.
Phew, it felt like smoking a cigarette would be amazing right about now.
Ah, right, I had the textbook definition of a delinquent next to me.
“Geumtaeyang. Give me a cigarette.”
“Uh, here you go, Older Sister (Honorific).”
Geumtaeyang took out a cigarette with practiced movements and placed it in my mouth.
And he even lit it for me on his own. Ah, right, this was the taste.
As expected, smoking after finishing a difficult task like this or after sex truly has the happiness of polluting the brain with nicotine.
“Haa, this is the taste. My body finally feels a bit relaxed.”
This cheap taste of nicotine being absorbed into my brain!
Ah, I felt like my chest was completely cleared out.
Right. This was exactly the sensation you smoked for. Ah. Anyway, in this era, there is no need to suffer from smoking’s ill effects.
“Oh, Older Sister (Honorific). Oh my, making that kind of expression while smoking. But Older Sister (Honorific), what was that ability from earlier?”
Geumtaeyang suddenly asked that question.
“Why?”
“Your speed was no joke. You kept disappearing and reappearing, like you were controlling time or something.”
Hmm, I could never say it was the Reclusive Hermit Ability.
If I said that, I felt like I would just elicit pity in many ways.
There was no reason to go out of my way to tell others. I didn’t even know if they would believe it in the first place.
“It could be. It’s my ability.”
Indeed, I couldn’t expose a woman’s weakness to the likes of Geumtaeyang.
Anyway, Yu Eunha was the very definition of a beauty.
“Hoee. You two have a good atmosphere going-yayo!”
“Please be quiet.”
Where did this Beubmi-chan get off trying to pair me up with Geumtaeyang? Anger flared up, and I pulled on Beubmi-chan’s cheeks, stretching them out.
It also made me angry that a fully grown adult was acting all 'Beubmi'.
Perhaps because I had some leeway after Clearing it, Beubmi also looked somewhat adorable.
“Hawawa, hawawa, Beubmi-chan’s cheeks are stretching-ieo!”
“So chewy.”
This woman named Beubmi had quite a decent appearance anyway, and her skin was like mochi rice cake.
Could it be a reward for the Beubmi concept?
Now that we had escaped the Dungeon, the problem of how to dispose of the rewards remained.
Well, there was nothing difficult about it. I had no intention of making weapons or artifacts right now. I decided to just sell the cores.
Because life was ultimately about cash.
“Wow, Sister Beubmi was part of a large Guild? That’s amazing.”
The Guild Beubmi-chan belonged to was Reform, one of the massive guilds in Korea.
To be exact, it was a Guild famous for its business side rather than its combat side. I heard it served as the lifeline of the Korean Hunter Society in its own way.
Beubmi was affiliated there, and these older brothers were said to be executive-level in that Guild.
Then I guess it was trustworthy.
“That’s right. Thanks to Lady Beubmi, we’ve got a good sale lined up.”
“Our Beubmi is a bit like that.”
Geumtaeyang and Mariko also continued the praise.
“Hawawa. Praise is forbidden-yayo! My face is turning bright red-ieo!”