Chapter 76
76 – End of Exploration
Strange.
This is a very strange situation.
Sierra couldn’t erase the feeling of falling into a mysterious fairy tale. Ironically, what gave her that feeling was a man dressed in a costume that would never appear in her fairy tale.
Wearing a swimming cap and goggles in a dungeon where magma is burning.
The grotesqueness of Sense goes beyond feeling bad and reaches absurdity. Besides, what are the wings of an angel that even a woman would be cursed at if they weren’t quite cute, and what were the purple panties and black boots that barely matched the assortment underneath?
That man dressed as a maniac who would be hard to find even walking around SM bars was facing them without the slightest bit of shame. Here it is already clear that the author’s state of mind is not normal.
If it was just this far, it should be passed as an example emphasizing the diversity of personality. However, there were two factors that could not be overlooked in that man.
The first is his ruthless power.
“That sword attack just now. It was definitely a mana slash. He only cut through the sky with D-class skills?”
Lil, who was chasing the air with a bewildered expression, reminded the party of the extreme sense of emergency they had just witnessed.
Lire’s expression was not an exaggeration. The collapse of the ceiling in the boss room was not enough to describe it physically or emotionally as ‘the sky has fallen’. The man who cut the ceiling in two with one blow was well qualified to call himself a swordsman who cut through the sky.
It is not a miracle made with an S-class skill that a noble family longs for. People say that S-class skills have the power to manifest miracles.
If I had used my S-class skills to recreate what happened just a moment ago, I wouldn’t have been confused about whether or not the phenomenon that happened in front of me was true or not, even though I would have stood up for applause and cheered loudly.
That man accomplished such a feat with only D-class skills. A human swordsman didn’t even need S-class power to cut through the sky.
How strong does he have to be to do such an absurd thing?
What kind of training do you have to go through to get that strength?
Instinctive curiosity rises in the middle of my heart. Sierra wasn’t the only one who had that idea. Eli, Rirdo, and Cain all had the same idea. However, the reason I didn’t ask about it was because I had an intuition that the answer wouldn’t come back even if I asked anyway.
The ‘strangeness’ that Sierra felt for the man was not simply his tremendous power.
That man is strangely familiar.
It’s a very strange word, but I can see John’s shadow in that man.
Sierra looked at the man in front of her several times. Clearly, he is not John. From his physique to his smell, he is completely different from John. Sierra, a yohanium addict, cannot tell the difference, even if the world splits in half.
In the first place, Yohan doesn’t have purple panties. There are a total of 14 panties John has, and the color and design were in Sierra’s mind. Same with those black boots.
However, that man’s trivial actions remind me of John. Those elements that no one can distinguish, but Sierra can distinguish.
For example, it was John’s habit to tap the ground twice with his left foot and rub the ground lightly when standing still like that. Could a completely different person have such a habit?
‘I don’t know.’
I don’t know. No matter how much I think about it, I don’t know.
Ninety-nine clues say that the man in front of you is not John. However, one other clue says he is John. What is the truth?
“I am Reut. I don’t have the mindless hobby of making a pseudonym.”
“…As expected, the world is wide and there are many masters. I never thought I would meet such a master here.”
The man who identifies himself as Reut turns his back. He didn’t even glance at the giant magma golem he had defeated.
The purpose of exploring dungeons is mostly to make practical gains. The rewards received from clearing dungeons and monster by-products are such benefits.
The core of that giant magma golem must be expensive. Originally, magma golem cores sold for high prices on auction houses due to their rarity. If this is the case with normal golem hacks, there is no need to talk about boss monster hacks.
“Why don’t you take the golem core?”
Cain shouted at the back of Reut, who was walking leisurely. Right before class ended, she was like a student saying, ‘Professor, I have an assignment!’ But Cain knew very well that if she didn’t clear up the settlement problem in the dungeon, she would be in big trouble someday.
Because he had seen too many foolish mercenaries who were blinded by the gold coins of the moment and made future enemies, Cain asked Reut’s intentions instead of remaining silent.
At that, Reut raised his hand in silence.
Take it yourself.
It means
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It’s a great pose that makes you pee. Unless it’s a grotesque outfit.
“Uh…. Did it end well?”
One word from Ellie summed up their bewilderment nicely.
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“John!”
Sierra came out of the exit and found Yohan lying outside the dungeon.
“Aww…. Sierra… ?”
John opened his eyes in a raspy voice. There were bruises all over the body, but the wounds were not large.
“This is…. Isn’t that a dungeon? What the hell….”
“Don’t you remember?”
“I even remember getting her head hit by fragments of a collapsing pillar, but after that….”
John scratched his head and grimaced. Sierra pushed her face toward John.
“Sierra?”
“Sniff! Sniff!”
Sierra inhales John’s body odor like a puppy.
Sierra tilted her head as the high-purity yohanium stimulated the mucous membrane of her nose.
“As expected, it’s not….”
“Si, Sierra? What are you doing?”
“Oh no! It was to make sure that John was all right.”
“Can you check it with your sense of smell?”
“It’s the Eastern medicine I learned from Professor Reina.”
Sierra sold her east with a shameless expression.
“However, this alone is not enough. If you look at John’s underwear, I think you can learn more.”
“Cow, underwear!?”
“Ah, it only takes a little while…. Back, no, I’ll look at your underwear.”
I checked my underwear. Today’s underwear coordination for Yohan was navy blue. Not purple
‘Isn’t that right… ?’
Well, everything is different, but it’s strange to treat them as the same person simply because their habits are somewhat similar. Sierra organized her thoughts like that for now.
“John-kun!!!”
Ellie and Lire came out of the dungeon at the same time. I was one step behind Sierra in separating the magma golem’s core.
“Are you okay!?”
“You didn’t get hurt too much, did you?”
Ellie and Lire approach John just as Sierra did. Sierra held John tightly in her arms as if handling her precious doll.
“I checked John’s safety. No problem.”
“Everything, you! What, are you treating John as if it were your property!?”
Lir put the brakes on Sierra’s monopoly.
“What are you talking about? I am John’s property.”
“Hey hey… ! What, what!?”
Yohan and himself are dating ‘for now’. By the way, such impurity gets in between them!
‘John! Yohan’s girlfriend is me! By the way, it’s like getting lost in the arms of another woman!’
Could it be that John has a different mind?
It’s not particularly strange. Master always said.
-Lir. All men are wolves. Like wolves in the wild, when there is a woman he likes, he puts aside reason and common sense and acts.
The fact that s*xual desire is the essence of masculinity, Lire received intensive education from Master.
-So, you should stay away from humans and love animals. This coveted tail hair! Ha, why was I born as a human?
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Anyway, Sierra is seducing John. As a man, John would be too easily seduced by that temptation.
It’s not that he truly loves Johann, but he didn’t like Lire’s temper to have something he had already put on his cheeks taken away right in front of his eyes.
“Miss Sierra! Get off! What are you doing so frivolously!?”
“Huh? Why are you like this and that? I am John’s woman…”
“Let’s go! Don’t fight Oh, Mr Cain. Is the golem core in good condition?”
Just in time, Cain came out of the dungeon with a nuke. A typical magma golem core is about the size of a fist. However, the giant magma golem’s core was so large that it had to be held in both arms.
“If you sell it on the auction house, I think it will start at at least 100 gold.”
The word bona fide is an overwhelming reward. Ellie looked at the golem core and licked her lips.
“Really, do you intend to give this to Professor Mercu? If you sell this hack, do you think we can create a small guild or society instead of a circle?”
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Passing this to make a circle is the stupidest thing in the world. It was a decision that anyone who wasn’t a daughter of the Daesangdae family could make.
However, the person in charge of planning this dungeon exploration was Yohan. It was the mysterious master who defeated the giant magma golem, but Johann had all rights to settle the reward.
“The payment I received the other day is enough for me.”
Cain was not greedy for compensation. She decided to receive 30% of the dungeon’s income as a success reward, but her own performance was too insignificant to receive that reward. She’s the final boss, isn’t she herself who couldn’t even cut a single knife in front of the magma golem?
He was satisfied with the title itself for conquering the Hidden Area of the Volcanic Zone rather than material rewards. Indeed, it was the mindset of a future mercenary king.
“John-kun risked his life, so Yohan-kun chooses.”
Lir was also not very interested in money. Money is comfortable and nice to her, but what she wanted was power rather than money. The purple metamorphosis was still in Lire’s head.
“I do as John says.”
There was nothing to say about Sierra.
“Mmm. Great. Then, as I thought at first, I give this to Professor Mercu.”
This choice, which seems like a loss right now, is not a loss at all when considering the future. The circle you create will always be your strength, and Professor Sylvie Mercu’s favorability will also play an important role in the future. Professor Sylvie, the main character of Legend Route, is also active in many ways in the second half.
“Then, let’s go back to the academy.”
With that, the party’s short exploration of the dungeon was over.