Chapter 1192 – 1192. Testing
I stopped walking and took a look around.
Solid ground, tall trees, and a sky full of white clouds. Didn’t see anything special.
Nothing special. I wondered why Seunghee Ha chose this place. I watched her quietly.
Ha Seung-hee lowered the bag she was carrying on her back to the floor. It is said to be an expensive artifact. The capacity of the bag is much larger than it appears, and it is said to reduce the weight of the contents. At first glance, the price is over 100 billion won.
Ha Seung-hee’s bag was not at all enviable. Because I have a more convenient inventory than Ha Seung-hee’s bag.
She rummaged through her bag and pulled out a vial of green liquid. HB-1. It is a clone of Hevil’s Accelerator. The appearance was no different from the original.
“Are you testing here? Nothing? Are you thinking of writing on a tree?”
“You don’t know what. There’s Belafurik over there.”
“Bella… What?”
She rummaged through her bushes. She finds a piece of glue and grins. She began digging for grass, carefully scratching the ground.
“Bella Furic. It is one of the most common herbs in dungeons. The antipyretic effect is excellent. In particular, the roots are one of the ingredients for potions.”
“…… The ingredients for the potion must be quite expensive.”
“Yes. It usually trades for 120,000 won.”
Having collected Belapurik, she shredded her roots and scattered them all over her. Then, a bottle of HB-1 is poured onto the ground.
The shredded root pieces wriggle and regenerate. The roots went down to the ground, and the upper part became a stem and began to grow. Ha Seung-hee and I stepped back and watched the situation. It took less than a minute for the herb called bellapurik to grow.
It didn’t end there. Bellapurik’s fruit falls to the ground, and the fruit that falls to the ground grows and reproduces.
After three minutes, the surrounding area was filled with Bela Furik.
“This is probably about 300 or so. I am satisfied.”
“If 120,000 won is 300….”
“36 million won.”
“How much are you planning to sell the HB-1 for?”
“I plan to sell them for 50 million won each.”
“Is that expensive?”
“It’s cheap. Think about it. If you find only the seeds of medicinal herbs that cost more than 500,000 won each, you can get many times greater benefits. Well, the price of herbs will go down even more.”
“What about you monopolizing HB-1 and growing and selling herbs? Then you can make more money.”
“Monopolies are problematic. The biggest problem is that it makes useless enemies. I want to make more allies than enemies.”
Swoop.
There was a creepy noise.
Ha Seung-hee and I looked around and opened our eyes wide. Plants, trees and bushes, except for Belafurik, began to wither.
“The side effects are strong. Was it like this on Earth?”
“… No. It wasn’t like this. Bela Furic… You’re all right. I need to find out if this only happens in dungeons, or if the herb called Belapurik is special.”
She took out a wooden box and kept Belafurik in it. Mana is felt in the box. It seems to be a box with a special effect.
“You want to take it? It’s not worth throwing it away.”
“I have to study this too. It looks fine, but… I don’t know what’s going on inside.”
We moved again Found another herb. As before, I used the HB-1 to quickly grow herbs. The result was the same as with Bela Furick. The surrounding plants withered at once.
“… I’ll have to test the same in other dungeons. Will you help?”
“Okay. It’s not difficult.”
I looked straight ahead.
There was a calm lake. It is a lake that seems to be 1 km in diameter. A pink lotus flower floated on the surface of the water.
It was a mysterious and peaceful sight. However, Ha Seung-hee and I did not go close to the lake. It’s because the D-class monster, Pognake, is hiding under this beautiful lake surface.
Fognake is a snake with the head and legs of a frog. They attack with their long tongues. The tip of the tongue is sharp like an awl and has poison.
“Senior. Do you know what happens when you spray HB-1 into water?”
“I don’t know because I’ve never sprayed it with water.”
“It is less effective when diluted with water. If there is too much water, the effect will be lost.”
“Spraying HB-1 here won’t have any effect.”
“I don’t know that yet. This is a dungeon.”
Seunghee Ha took out three bottles of HB-1 from her bag. She poured three bottles of HB-1 into the lake at once. The green liquid seemed to dilute and was absorbed by a nearby lotus flower. Change has begun. The lotus petals fall and spit lotus seeds out of the lotus base. Mr. Yeon sank to the bottom of the lake and grew rapidly.
“It has the same reaction as other herbs.”
A problem occurred. The other lotuses around it dried up and died. Not only that, but the water is polluted and turbid. Only the lotuses affected by HB-1 showed off their lofty appearance.
Ha Seung-hee stretches out her hand to collect a lotus flower. I tugged at her back. A fognake jumped out of her water and stuck her tongue out in the air where Ha Seung-hee’s head had been. The length of the tongue was over 1m.
“Fognake?! I didn’t even enter the lake, but why suddenly… ?!”
“You must be pissed that the water is polluted.”
As she stepped forward, she drew a hwaryun blade from her waist and swung it. She cut off Porgnake’s tongue and struck her in the head. Killed easily. Fognake can be dealt with easily by avoiding surprise attacks.
‘It’s a problem because it’s hard to avoid that surprise attack.’
I was vigilant without sheathing the Hwaryeonbido. There was no law saying that only one would attack.
“Senior Eugene. Please collect some lotus flowers.”
“Okay. Can I have one?”
“5 outlines. I need it for research. Please pull out the roots.”
Approaching the lake, she stretches out her left hand. Pulled the lotus flower Pulling out the roots has failed. Because the stem is broken.
“I am satisfied with this.”
“… What about the roots?”
I had to go directly into the lake to pull out the roots, and I didn’t want to.
“Did you do it yourself?”
“…… If you decide to help, will you help me properly?”
“I hate going into the water.”
“Okay? The hotel I booked today is rumored to have a great bathtub… I don’t think you’ll ever get into the bathtub.”
“…… Is it a bathtub play? Not bad.”
I put my feet into the lake. A few pognakes swim up to ambush you. I swung my knife into the water. Along with the water, the corpses of the Fognakes surged upward.
‘It’s annoying.’
Paper weave.
A thunderbolt flashes in his grasp.
“Don’t use lightning. Because it can affect the lotus flower.”
It made sense.
“Okay.”
Carefully dig up the lotus from the root.
‘Such chores are only for slaves….’
It was annoying, but I couldn’t help it. Ha Seung-hee will serve you tonight as much as you worked hard.
‘Because you pampered me like this… Tonight, I’ll be happy to see Ha Seung-hee’s horn dance.’
Beep beep.
As she was harvesting her fourth lotus flower, a harsh sound rang in her ears.
It sounded like a flute. The sound of a flute blowing hard without any play.
Beep Beep!!!
Check the origin of the sound. In the forest about 300m from here.
‘There are no monsters in this dungeon that make sounds like that. Was the preliminary investigation wrong? Otherwise….’
It was the work of someone who secretly entered the dungeon.
The moment I thought about it, I threw away the lotus flower in my hand and went out of the lake to stand next to Ha Seung-hee.
“Senior?”
“… Come.”
I pushed Ha Seung-hee behind my back and reached out his hand toward the front. Dozens of Fognakes jumped out from the front and attacked.
Wave support.
I discharged the thunderbolt that had accumulated in my palm. Dozens of thunderbolts sweep Fognake. The electrocuted Fognake fell helplessly to the floor.
Beep beep, beep beep!
Another flute sounded.
Dozens of Fognakes jump out of the lake. With the body of a snake and the legs of a frog, they can move on land. What’s worse is that it doesn’t crawl like a snake, it jumps like a frog.
“… Every time the flute sounds, Fognake appears. Are you being manipulated by the sound of the flute?”
Hunter’s abilities are varied. It wouldn’t be strange if he had the ability to control monsters with the sound of his flute. And you might think differently. Like a flute that controls monsters.
“It looks like they entered the dungeon without our knowledge.”
“… The entrance to the dungeon was guarded by association staff.”
“I must have entered through the gap. The level of the association staff guarding the entrance is all over there, well.”
Gripping support.
Fight against dozens of Fognakes who rush at you while spraying thunderbolts. Fortunately, they are D-class monsters with no resistance to electricity. Just spraying thunderbolts can kill dozens of them.
‘Until my mana runs out.’
Beep! Beep!
Splash, splash, splash.
Fognake pops out of the lake. They are precisely targeting Ha Seung-hee and me. I ran to the place where I heard the sound of the flute with Ha Seung-hee.
“… Senior. The flute player must be killed here.”
Ha Seung-hee said with a cold face. She waved her hand at Porgnake, who was chasing us. She uses her ability, invisible claws, to slice Porgnake into 5 equal parts.
“Is this Ha Junsu?”
“No. That’s probably not it. Older brother already blew his chance. You can’t physically harm me. If you do, you will lose your position as the permanent successor.”
“It’s fine if the president doesn’t notice.”
“There’s no way my grandfather wouldn’t have kept an eye on my eldest brother. Anyway, he has to be killed here. HB-1 shouldn’t be known to the world yet!”
“Do you have any guesses about his identity?”
“… It’s too much to wear. The most suspicious places are competitors…. There are more than five companies that can do this. Including guilds and foreign companies… My head hurts. I’d rather catch him and interrogate him.”
“I can catch you and interrogate you as you say. What is difficult about that.”
“Senior!!”
Seunghee Ha shouted. We had no choice but to stop. Because I was besieged by hundreds of Pognakes before I knew it.
“It is nonsense to surround us like this. Fognake’s intelligence is… It is at the level of an ordinary beast.”
“The piper must have controlled it.”
After answering meekly, I held the Hwaryeonbido in both hands. Grip support. Red thunderbolts flow along the blade of Hwaryeonbido.
DUeeeee!
Porgnake shrieks, opening his mouth in unison and sticking out his tongue. It looked like hundreds of tentacles aiming at us.
Knock!
I stuck the Hwaryeonbido into the ground.
Red thunderbolts seeped into the ground and soon soared into the sky, spreading in all directions. Hundreds of fognakes were electrocuted, and trees and bushes set on fire.
“Let’s go.”
“Don’t you take the magic stone? Even if it’s the lowest D-class magic stone… With that amount, the jackpot has been hit.”
“I’m not interested in pennies.”
Found the guy
He was sitting on a rock with his cloak on. His black hair, which fell to his shoulders, was curly, and his eyes were sunken. He looked at us and lowered the wooden flute he was holding in his mouth.
