chapter 11
11 – Chance, Misjudgment
Perhaps the girl behind me has her head turned and her eyes tightly closed. I don’t know how long she’ll be like that, but if it was limited to her puppies, she didn’t have to stop.
In fact, the number of white knight guild lectures didn’t bother her, but no one could tell her that her heart was weak.
Diring-!
I focused on the message that came to my mind with a little expectation from the notification sound that was more pleasant than that.
– Attribute [Kleptomaniac] Is activated.
– Randomly steals the skill of the Tundra.
– Acquired the skill [Beginner Conversion]!
‘hahahaha…’
To be honest, I laughed out loud because I couldn’t handle the ever-increasing skills.
—–
Beginner Conversion Lv.1
– It consumes the bones of monsters, processes and condenses them inside the body, and transforms them into magic stones.
—–
‘Really, this is…’
I’ve already studied many characteristics and skills that have been recorded for decades, but there was no ability as mysterious as this one.
‘That’s why there was a tomboy in whichever dungeon I went to.’
As it turned out, he was a guy who was in charge of cleaning at the lowest level of the dungeon ecosystem.
“You got a skill again, Sunwol? But… What can you eat?”
‘Yes, the problem is that I can’t eat…’
Anyway, I decided to think about that later, and I had one last thing to grab before the goblins swarmed after smelling the blood.
‘The leg bones would be nice.’
Before my bones are chewed again, I intend to cut the bones for Wang Wangi. Now that I have the same skill, I was curious about how it was going.
I held out my hand to Yeon-hee, and she tilted her head for a moment before holding out her dagger.
‘Isn’t it a situation that shows off being too human?’
But her hands were already accustomed to slicing through the goblin’s thighs, slicing through her inner flesh in a straight line.
Damn it-
It is difficult to keep by-products in good quality, but it wasn’t too difficult if it was simply to remove the bones.
Goblins are one of the least difficult monsters to dismantle, so I took one of her leg bones at once, wiped her blood with miscellaneous grass that grew loosely on the floor, and put it in her inventory.
It took only 2-3 minutes for that series of processes to take place. Yeon-hee, who watched my work with her mouth wide open, holding her hands together politely, continued chattering to me until she left her seat and was about to find another prey.
“How on earth is this possible? The dissolution theory in my head may be reflected in the summoned beast. Then! If I put as much information into my head as possible!······”
Most of what she guessed was far from the truth, but summoned beasts might have such a mechanism, so she just walked quietly.
Anyway, it was a question that could only be resolved by seeing the summoned beasts that would come after Wang Wang, so I listened roughly to her words and focused on the net of my senses.
‘It’s rare today, really…’
Compared to last time, the number of monsters caught in the net was reduced by almost half.
‘I want to grow up and meet you…’
Among the jokes in the dungeon, there is a saying called the law of preservation of monsters. If there are fewer monsters than usual, it’s like a kind of jinx that increases the chance of encountering powerful monsters.
There were many theoretically supported parts, so many Hunters withdrew early on days like this. Soon after, Yeon-hee seemed to notice the awkward atmosphere and started talking to her in a whisper.
“Maybe… Will I meet the goblin centurion today?”
Because that was something that even the sky didn’t know, I just looked around diligently.
“I think it’s still a bit difficult… Isn’t it?”
Nod-
Of course, as long as you catch it, it’s a good thing. Because in this dungeon, only the goblin centurion drops the lower runes. The drop rate is over 70%.
The goblin centurion is a centurion, and he’s just playing and eating as the chief of a small tribe, but what you have to be careful about is that only those with abilities above a certain level can rise to such a position.
In short, it means that he is a guy with good physical abilities. Besides, since he was always accompanied by about 10 goblins, it must have been a tough one for the two of us to deal with.
‘I’ll have to avoid it for now.’
I moved while thinking about whether I should advance the time to invest in sensory values, and eventually found the location of the goblin colony. Then the centurion was also a short distance away.
‘Is it farther from the center than I thought? Hmm-‘
We settled down on a hill and looked out at the goblin colony that stretched across the fairly wide plains of the lower terrain below.
“There are a lot… I need to call someone for this.”
Yeonhee, who has always been careful in her judgment, came to a quick conclusion.
Of course, the two of us couldn’t even think of it, and it was so large that we had to collect more than 50 F-class hunters who entered this time to subdue them without much damage.
More than 100 goblins were making their own home inside the wooden railing that was clumsily woven with trunks.
Sometimes, there was a group that saw the guys living in a community and defined the hunters as invaders. If you don’t kill them now anyway, they will quickly grow and cause a dungeon break.
If you didn’t want to see those bastards loose in the city after that brutally tearing ordinary people to pieces, you had no mercy in your hands.
‘But we are the ones who need mercy now.’
The reason why it was difficult to meet the guys who wandered around defenselessly was probably because they had their own rules because they had a strong leader.
(Sunwol, let’s move slowly…)
The reason she paused for a moment while whispering very quietly was probably because of a goblin she saw.
‘He’s big. Of course he’s bigger than the other goblins. It’s a goblin, though.’
Even from a distance, I could see a guy that was one head taller than the other goblins.
The guy was stretching out in the center of the village, and he looked at it for a moment and guessed it.
‘If you approach with stealth and make a full bet with a hard hit after attacking first with an acid solution… That won’t work though. It seems like it’s not enough.’
First of all, I had to invest in my magic power level to increase my stealth time, and also increase my strength level so that I could approach and kill other goblins before they got in the way.
Ultimately, the conclusion is that we must retreat. Yeon-hee also took off her stopped steps and started moving again. When I walked away from the village for about 10 minutes, I was lucky to find a group of goblins.
We proceeded with the work according to the set routine without saying anything. There were 3 in total.
Kieek! Keukeuk-kihoheuk-!
It was an instant to get rid of it.
“Wow… I feel like the real world has been turned upside down.”
When she went hunting alone, she complained about how toil she managed to get 3 kills.
Repeat shooting and running away, shooting again and widening the distance.
But now she had to adapt to the completely changed fighting style. Among hunters, the avant-garde position is not precious for nothing.
It’s a very tough position where you have to do dangerous, dirty, and nasty work, and the summons are devoted to doing it. Yeon-hee puts her own comfort behind her, and all she has to do is lead.
‘It would be right for me to catch Yeon-hee when she doesn’t know anything right now, even if it’s early. I still don’t know why he stabbed him in the back, though.’
I had some guesses, but it’s meaningless to draw conclusions based on my personal opinion.
“Don’t dismantle this time, let’s move right away.”
‘Of course it should.’
Since the distance from the large-scale settlement is still not that far, it was necessary to keep a little more distance. After moving another 10 minutes like that, I found about 20 hunters gathered at the trunk of a huge tree.
We eavesdropped on the conversation, sneaking up within earshot, and they were exchanging some pretty interesting stories.
– No, you can just go in, right? It’s not often that you find a large colony in a location like this.
– I think it will be worthwhile if we hire more people.
– Let’s unite and break through at once Then.
– Hey, why are you like an amateur? Our guild will catch the centurion, so the rest of us will go in a different direction…
A few people seemed to be gathering and discussing, but surprisingly few people made normal judgments.
(What are you doing… You’re not trying to attack that village?)
Yeonhee also looked at them from behind the bushes with uneasy eyes.
‘I’m sure they’re not that stupid. It doesn’t seem like a pre-formed team, and it seems like they naturally gathered in the empty lot because they had a strange feeling… Wouldn’t that break? It would be difficult to gather opinions.’
But my expectations were spectacularly wrong.
When about 10 more joined from the other side of the forest, they argued for a while and then seemed to have decided to attack.
And after a few minutes of personal maintenance, we started moving towards the village we saw.
“No, what should I do…”