chapter 9
9 – Copies of Magic Stones
It was much smaller than the medium-sized puppies we saw in the dungeon, so So-ok’s appearance was hidden in her arms.
‘Is that a cute kid next to that cute kid?’
It was clear that it was a picture that cleansed the eyes, so I just stared blankly at the two.
“Ilwol-ah, would you like to touch it? Aung- I don’t know how soft the fur is.”
After taking a few steps, I inadvertently took a step at her question.
‘Huh? Are your feet moving?’
Could it be because of what she just said? Anyway, I moved my step and put my hand gently on the body of the cotton candy-looking guy.
Wow – King!
‘He’s going to name him Wang Wang.’
Judging from her naming sense, there was a high probability.
‘As expected, I don’t feel anything when I touch it.’
Eventually, when I focused my senses on my hand and stroked the puppy, I felt a very faint sense of being a human being. Unexpectedly, he liked it so intensely that he drools as soon as I touched it.
After stroking her like that a few times, I see her looking at her hair with a serious expression again.
‘This feeling of déjà vu…’
“Do you think his name is Wangwangi?”
‘Hoo- As expected… You had an unknown charm in your previous life, but you were a very predictable child when you were young.’
King-! King-!
Well, the puppy didn’t seem to dislike it, so in the end, the name was decided to be Wang Wangi. Probably by now, the dog’s status window will remind you of the king of puppies. Thinking so made his shoulder blades quiver slightly with a pleasant feeling.
“Ahhhhh, it’s definitely different from the sun and moon. I can feel the mana being consumed. It must be a bit difficult to sleep while holding it, but ughhhhh”
She pouted her lips and stroked Wang Wangi as if she was genuinely sorry.
“By the way, does Wang Wang have any skills? Huh?”
Yeonhee closed her eyes quietly while holding Wang Wangi and started rolling her eyes from side to side.
‘I’m curious too… I’m sure I have a digging skill.’
No, that must be a trait. It will depend on the passive castle in the first place.
“Ahh… Our King has a whopping one skill? Hee hee I love it!”
…Yes, now I think Wang Wangi will say that it is okay to paper the wall after pooping.
“I understand the digging feature, but a beginner conversion? Isn’t the skill that produces magic stones really unique?”
··· What? Copies of magic stones?
Now there is a skill to copy magic stone, which is a widely used energy source in real life? I obviously heard her say production, but my head understood it to be copied.
“Hmm… It is said that he especially likes monster bones. If he eats a certain amount of bones, he will spit them out as magic stones? Why?”
Well- rather than questioning the mechanism, shouldn’t we think about the intention of Wang Wangi who has been drooling at me since earlier?
“Huh, I think I really like Ilwol. It seems like he’s always looking at you. Come on – let’s play together!”
‘Of course I can’t help but be excited because there are savory bones right in front of me…’
King! King! hehehehe-!
The guy who got out of Yeonhee’s hand jumped at me and licked my finger bones.
And after a while.
Misread- Misread-
“Ahh! No way, king! If the sun and the moon eat it, I will support you!”
‘Support’ is a bit of an expression, but thank you.’
Wow…
The sullen guy took her back into her arms and gently wiggled her thick tail.
“Hmm- But it’s going to be a bit difficult for a weak Wang Wangi to go around in a dungeon… Once I get monster bones, I’ll save them and try them! As I raise my level, I don’t know if hidden skills will come out, huh-“
‘I’m wondering if that nerdy guy will have any additional skills, but it’s a theory. There is a wide range of stats going up every 5 levels, and sometimes new skills or characteristics are created.’
“Wah-wang-ah, I’m going in today ~ Mom will call you again when she gets the bones, okay? hehehe.”
King! King!
Wang Wangi whirled around and panted as if he was happy.
“Kyaa! So cute!”
Anyway, the more I saw her smiling, the better I felt, so I was also satisfied.
“I haven’t counted exactly, but I think the number of goblins I caught is roughly 700 to 800. Now that I have Sun-Woli, if I can go in and kill at least 20 goblins. Ten days will be enough to complete the achievement, right?”
“Tick-click-!”
“Let’s make sure that Ilwol doesn’t die tomorrow and comes out alive!”
She clenched her fists tightly and confirmed her resolve. And she didn’t unsummon me this time she went to bed.
“I don’t have the confidence to sleep with Ilwol in the room yet, so I’m hanging out in the living room, okay?”
Nod-
‘Well, even I wouldn’t want to sleep in the same room as a skull with deep darkness in its eyes.’
I quickly agreed and stood in the living room to check my abilities.
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Protection
– Shares half of the damage received by summoners.
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‘Attribute [Protection]… This is also a really good trait.’
In order to maximize the effect of this attribute, either the number of summons to share damage with increases, or my stamina must be increased.
‘You shouldn’t neglect your physical strength.’
Although it is 98 lives, in fact, if Yeon-hee dies, there is a high possibility that I will also disappear. The first priority was, of course, Yeonhee’s safety.
I spent time observing her movement by spreading out the waves of my senses and moving her creaking body around. There were times when a part of my heart ached at the sound of her sobbing, but there was nothing I could do.
The morning is bright, and before heading to the dungeon, she sent me back to the subspace and said,
“See you later~”
‘Even if it turned out to be a summoner, it wouldn’t be right to take someone like me outside.’
After being transported to a dark space that I was slowly getting used to, the door opened again.
“Ahh!”
···?
“Pufuhuh- Sunwol was surprised? Huh? Are you surprised?”
Did he even imitate a tiger with his arms wide open? Facing Yeon-hee’s cute face, I resisted the urge to touch her cheek and looked around.
‘Hmm – It’s a different place from the last point.’
Apparently, the hunter management bureau staff are camped at the entrance of the dungeon, so it seems like they called me to a place far away from the entrance last time.
This time, the distance was a bit far, but the gate, the entrance and exit of the dungeon, was vaguely visible.
Like the Goblin Dungeon, single-story dungeons have the same entrance and exit, so it is relatively easy to encounter people near the entrance.
Basrak-
‘Three…’
Just like now.
– Oh?! He is the summoner…
– Hmm? How do you know you’re wearing a robe?
– Don’t you see a skeleton next to you?
– They say she’s very pretty, but she’s covering it up…
– Shall we go and talk to you?
– Don’t talk nonsense, just move.
Fortunately, the party consisting of three men whom they met within a few steps did not meddle with Yeon-hee.
But this was also near the entrance, so it’s a shame, I don’t know if they would have come out differently if they had met in a deeper place.
“Phew… I’m always nervous meeting people…”
As I got her a safe distance, she took a deep breath and squeezed my hand. She wondered if the grip of her cold bones could give her any sense of security, but she nodded as she saw her face gradually returning to her complexion.
‘I managed to survive by myself…’
In her previous life, she once said in an interview with a newspaper that the thing she was most afraid of as a beginner hunter was not the monsters, but the other hunters she encountered from time to time. When I saw it, there was no mistake.
Sabak- Sabak-
About 40 minutes after walking on the grassy road.
“It’s a cave. I don’t think it’s big… Sunwol, can you figure it out?”
A 2m high miniature cave with a small clearing in front.
Approaching the space where ordinary bats and various living creatures, even if they are not monsters, are alive, I spread a net of senses from the entrance to the inside.
The colorless net stretched out to a point slightly over 10m, and it detected several creatures with mana.
‘Five slimes…’
I gestured toward her, drawing her round shape in the air with her hands.
“Is that slime?! Can you guess how many there are?”
In response to her question, she spread her five fingers.
“Five birds… Are they all together?”
“Tick-!”
“It’s not like they’re all together… Okay. It’s hard to meet monsters today, so let’s grab these and go.”
She took out two torches from her inventory, handed one to me, and entered the cave together.
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Enchanted Torch
– This torch, the most successful work of alchemist ‘Jinhyeon’, burns for a long time even with a small amount of magic power, and is chosen by many novice hunters.
—–
‘It’s been a while.’
It was a torch I hadn’t used since entering the White Knight Guild, but it was a new feeling.
Since it was such a small cave, after walking a few steps, I saw slimes climbing up the round wall as if sliding, eagerly climbing up to the ceiling. A few bat-like things were strewn about the ground, rotting.
‘Looks like we interrupted the meal.’