Newbie Life of a Former Ranker

After sending Shisala, Dojin stopped by the adventurer’s guild to receive a reward for subjugating kobolds.

All the loot obtained was handed over to the adventurer’s guild.

If you entrust the sale to the adventurer’s guild in this way, about 20% of it will be evaporated as a fee, but at least it is the spoils obtained from kobold hunting.

Rather than wasting time for a meager amount, it was better to pass it on like this and get paid quickly.

As much as it brings benefits to the adventurer’s guild, there are side benefits that accumulate as an adventurer.

“Here, 57 gold as a reward for killing designated F-class kobolds and 62 gold for the items consigned to be sold.”

“thank you.”

It was a small amount of money, a little over 100 gold in total, but considering that it was the money earned by a beginner who had just started playing LOST for the second day, it was an excessive amount of money.

The level also grew significantly and rose to level 17.

Originally, it was thanks to the fact that he monopolized the reward while rampaging alone in a place where he should have hunted with a party of 3 to 5 people.

‘Even if this is close enough, I can buy everything I need.’

Do-jin, who had so much money and experience, roamed around downtown Jeron.

I bought a magician’s weapon from the magic shop and supplemented my magician’s tobacco.

I spent about 30 gold here.

Next, I bought 2 bottles of emergency mana potion and 5 bottles of healing potion from the potion shop.

Even though they were both F-class, the mana potion was 10 gold, and the healing potion was 5 gold because they were conscientious.

‘It’s not because people say that a class that uses mana will wither and die in the beginning.’

In LOST, potions are quite rare and expensive.

That’s why it’s treated as an emergency, and few people hunt while drinking potions like drinking water.

Anyway, because of the potion poisoning, the effect doesn’t come out properly.

Anyway, after spending 75 gold on weapons, tobacco, and potions, the remaining money was less than 30 gold.

It might be food to appease hunger, but it was a small amount of money to buy something that would directly help in battle.

Even more so, it was an absurd amount of money to buy the necessary preparations for this hidden dungeon attack, which Dojin was thinking about.

I didn’t have any worries.

‘If you don’t have teeth, you just need to find someone who will do the implants for you.’

Do-jin bought 150 glass bottles, which he spent half of his remaining money on to make reagents.

And I filled all the glass bottles with water from the fountain in the square.

‘Now I just need to find a suitable hukou.’

After that, Dojin sat in the square and looked at the people passing by with sharp eyes.

Do-jin’s eyes shone as he carefully looked at the passing users, like a pseudo-specialist looking for a suitable prey to spread the Tao.

‘That’s it.’

It was because he found a very nice-looking priest user who trudged along as if he had just finished hunting.

I was looking for a healer class, but among them, a priest with the most appropriate use.

Also, considering that he was wearing a cane with a limited level of 41 sold at the store, the level was appropriate.

Dojin immediately got up from his seat and ran to the priest user.

“Priest!”

The short priestess, slightly startled by the sudden call, shook her shoulders a little and turned her head.

“yes?”

Then, when he saw Dojin, he turned his body completely.

The corner of his mouth twitched slightly, and his eyes became a slight smile.

It was a natural reaction when faced with a look that appealed to one’s standards.

To elicit more such a reaction, Dojin smiled sadly.

“Are you very busy right now?”

To this, the priestess should have responded like this.

“I’m f*cking busy,” he said.

Even if that wasn’t the case, at least the conversation shouldn’t have been long.

If I hadn’t made that mistake, I wouldn’t have become a holy water machine that turns 150 bottles of water into holy water over an hour for only 10 gold.

* * *

Do-jin, who finished preparing for the attack with 150 bottles of holy water made by squeezing the blood of a good priest on the road, joined Sisala and started moving right away.

To get to the place where the ＜Magic Workshop Encroached by Evil＞ was located, I had to pass 5 small and large villages, but it was a distance that I could not reach even if I traveled for two full days on foot.

So, Dojin and Sisala moved on the magic train.

Boasting high speed and ride comfort, it took an hour for a large box with a capacity of 50 people to float 1 meter off the ground and move.

[The next station is Tanumine Valley Station, Tanumine Valley Station. When getting off, please check that there are no items left behind before getting off.]

The two arrived at their destination station.

The only people whose destination was Tanumine Valley, which is famous for its barrenness, were Dojin and Sisala.

There was no one to get down to the land that was nothing but a wasteland.

“It is desolate.”

As the train left, Sisala adjusted the hem of her robe that was fluttering in the wind.

“That’s why it’s a perfect place for a wizard to hide for research he wants to hide from others.”

“Well, is the study of demons really something that needs to be hidden that much? It’s not welcome, but it’s not particularly forbidden.”

Dojin laughed at Sisala’s innocent voice.

“Certainly, the study of demons per se is not taboo.”

After that, Dojin looked around without saying anything and checked the terrain.

“I think it must be this way.”

Then, as soon as he found a familiar rock, he moved.

“Go, let’s go together!”

Sisala hurriedly followed behind Dojin.

“How long do I have to go?”

“It won’t take long.”

Dojin went deep into the valley with quick steps.

It was a time when we had been walking without speaking for a while.

“uh? There is a cave over there.”

Sisala pointed to one place and tapped Dojin on the shoulder.

“We are not going that way.”

However, Dojin did not even look at the cave.

Instead, the other side of the cave.

I approached a wall that seemed to contain nothing.

Then, he brought the ‘Mysterious Bronze Sculpture Imbued with Magical Magic’ to the valley wall and started walking.

It was a long time ago that I didn’t want to hear the sound that I did not want to hear.

Then at some point

Ugh.

At one point there was a different sound.

As a bonus, a regular mana wave that was hard to miss for a wizard also occurred.

It was not the pure mana distributed in nature, but the wave of the power of magic.

“Here.”

“yes.”

“That is the key.”

Dojin nodded.

And low alert.

“It is likely to be quite risky. It is a workshop that has been neglected after the owner died.”

“Yes, I was prepared for that, so don’t worry.”

Sisala answered by raising a mage dagger, and Dojin blew mana into the bronze sculpture.

Complex lines and patterns rise on the surface of the bronze sculpture, emitting specific mana patterns.

That’s right.

In response, the ground cracked about 30 meters away from where you were standing, and a staircase leading to the basement appeared.

Presuming that the wall would open, Sisala stared at the wall, but looked at the stairs that appeared in the distance with devastated eyes.

“… I thought this would open, but the entrance was somewhere else.”

“I separated the door from the lock that requires the use of a key. Even if you doubt or find the entrance, the magical device is difficult to find. Even if a relatively easy-to-find physical entrance is found, if you try to force it out, if you make sure that the workshop collapses or is completely incinerated, at least it won’t be robbed.”

Sisala, who had been confined to the mage tower and only studied, nodded in admiration.

But the admiration ended there.

“Ugh.”

As she approached the stairs, she stepped back in surprise at the thick stench she felt.

‘Is this too harsh?’

Do-jin also covered his nose with his sleeve, startled by the smell that was much worse than the one he had experienced in his previous life.

‘As expected, hidden dungeons are different.’

Actually, when I came here in my previous life, it was after the first raid had already been completed and it had become a normal instanced dungeon.

In a way, it was natural for the stench and strength to differ.

“As expected, it seems that something went wrong while it was being neglected. In a normal workshop, there’s no way this stench would come out… Because the stench doesn’t seem to be the only problem.”

“Certainly yes. This stench, it’s not just a stench. It smells like the surrounding mana itself is polluted and corrupted.”

As a yellow rank mage in El Tomagia, Sisala quickly grasped the phenomenon.

Of course, Do-jin did not have to rack his brains to find clues to figure out this phenomenon.

Because I already know everything, and I have come prepared.

“Sissala.”

Do-jin threw a bottle of holy water.

“oh?”

Upon accepting it, Sisala was surprised.

It was because of the holy energy felt in the bottle.

“This… It’s holy water, right?”

To Sisala’s question, Do-jin swallowed his share of holy water and answered with a wink.

Next, he took out a cigarette, lit it, and started doping for battle.

“drink. It will be of some help.”

“… You prepared very thoroughly. I only brought things related to magic. Holy water… I didn’t even think about it.”

“That’s the most common mistake wizards make. Approaching everything only with magical thinking, trying to solve everything with magic only.”

“Well… I can’t deny it. Everything I’ve taken care of is related to magic. Wouldn’t this be helpful though?”

Saying that, Sisala carefully took out a handful of magic stones and showed them.

‘That one?’

Seeing this, Dojin was surprised.

It was because what was placed on her palm was not a simple magic stone, but a magic stone bomb processed to cause an explosion by artificial overload.

It was a very expensive item, 100 gold each, no matter how cheap it was, even if you tried to buy a defective product that sounded like a failure.

In short, no matter how cheap it is, if you throw a magic stone bomb, at least 100,000 won in cash will explode in the air.

“Did you buy all of them?”

When asked in surprise, Sisala waved her hand.

“Please. this is just… It’s a magic stone that comes out every month to be used for personal research, and I made it myself. Even though I made a lot of failures, I saved up this much after a few months.”

Sisala was talking about making homemade cookies, but magic stone bombs were items that could only be crafted by at least a 5-star wizard.

This is because it is a fairly difficult process to simultaneously secure enough ‘instability’ to explode instantly upon impact and sufficient ‘stability’ to never explode without impact.

[Grade Magic Stone Bomb]

Even when I picked it up and checked it, the magic stone bomb Sisala made wasn’t even a failure.

It is an item that is properly attached with a grade.

‘Should I call it Shisala Omen?’

Still, if you think of it as Sisala Omen, not someone else, you can understand it.

She is a person with great talent when it comes to crafting magic-related items.

‘As expected, Omen Coin was a coin that had to be ridden unconditionally.’

To be able to build a connection with the god of magical item production in advance.

After all, regression is a god, and networking is invincible.

To express his gratitude, Do-jin took out 30 bottles of holy water and gave them to Sisala.

“Is this a lot?”

“Because you never know how long it will take once you get inside. It might have other uses besides drinking. And just in case, I’ll be holding half of the magic stone bombs.”

Of course, I didn’t forget to pack half of the magic stone bombs that were much, very, very expensive than holy water.

Because we are allies

Because sharing good things is natural.

“Ah yes.”

Do-jin said after confirming that Sisala put 30 bottles of holy water inside the El Tomagia uniform robe enchanted with subspace magic.

“Let me enter from the back.”

The vanguard was, of course, Sisala.

Bubbly.

I went down the stairs for a long time where something like a black mist scattered and regrouped with every step I took.

then at some point.

[I found the hidden dungeon ＜The Magic Workshop Encroached by Evil＞.]

[Intelligence increased by 5 as a reward for first discovery and first entry.]

The air settled down with the message.

Took.

At about the same time, something caught at the feet of Sisala, who was walking ahead.

“Hee!”

Looking at it, it was the corpse of a young child who had been dead for a long time and was dried up like a mummy.

Seeing this, Sisala was startled and backed away.

pug.

As soon as Dojin found it, he sent the body down the stairs with 「Yeomdong」.

It was because he saw the corners of his dry mouth twist slightly.

＜The Magic Workshop Encroached by Evil＞.

This place was the home of the ghosts of the victims of a wizard’s experiment and the newly born evil spirits led by the ghosts.