Chapter 13

Chapter 13

“Hm?”

Kang Hanul who was having his equipment checked while preparing for the Yeongdeungpo grade 4 dungeon confirmed the text that had arrived in the busy interval.

“Ooh!”

It was the contact he had been waiting for so much.

“What’s wrong, team leader?”

Han Somi the youngest of the 2nd team tilted her head and asked.

“Contact came from a younger brother I know. Haha!”

“A younger brother you know? Is that something to be that happy about?”

“Of course! It’s something to be happy about!”

Having confirmed Gyuseong’s text that he was going to meet Choi Yeongseong at a cafe near Obongsan just then Kang Hanul immediately prepared to go out.

“Team leader? The operation briefing?”

“Cancel for now! Let’s see in the evening later!”

“In the evening we also have each our schedules...”

“Then let’s do it tomorrow morning!”

“To, tomorrow is briefing with the 1st team...”

Thump!

Toward the team member who kept nitpicking the vice team leader Lee Haesol casually raised his arm and placed it on the shoulder. Then the team member flinched and looked at Lee Haesol.

“It’s fine. Don’t worry too much. You trust our team leader right?”

“A, of, of course I trust team leader Kang Hanul.”

“Then that’s enough.”

When Lee Haesol of a refreshing impression smiled and said the team member nodded and stepped back.

It was clearly a refreshing and gentle impression but with narrow eyes whose inner thoughts were unknown and a strange charisma he was grasping the surrounding atmosphere.

2nd team’s vice team leader, Shadow Lee Haesol.

One of the hidden talents of Ara Hongryeon not known to the world.

“Uahaha! As expected Haesong!”

“It’s Haesol.”

“Aeseong?”

“Haesol.”

Kang Hanul who filmed one skit grinned and said to everyone.

“Since it’s become like this today’s briefing is left to Haesong! No one has complaints right?”

“S, suddenly?!”

When the youngest shouted in surprise Kang Hanul roughly messed up her hair and left without a word.

“Eeh...”

“Since it’s become like that I’ll take this operation briefing. I don’t know anything either but since materials were left I’ll somehow do it.”

“...”

Lee Haesol smiled softly and said.

But even such his head was turning fiercely to grasp the hidden meaning in this situation.

‘...Is the intention to gradually hand over the 2nd team.’

Kang Hanul was forty-three this year.

Because he was a combat awakener physical ability degeneration, that is aging hadn’t come but anyway since it was dangerous work gradually thinking of the future wasn’t incomprehensible.

And Lee Haesol was the vice team leader Kang Hanul personally picked. The person who directly brought Lee Haesol who was wandering small parties without particularly belonging to a guild was also him.

When he sat him as the 2nd team’s vice team leader right after bringing him the ripple was tremendous.

‘I won’t disappoint.’

The intense gaze hidden in the narrow eyes followed Kang Hanul’s back.

Of course all this was only Lee Haesol’s thought.

Kang Hanul with no thoughts at all suddenly felt his ear itch and picked his ear. Then humming a tune he shouted.

“Good that Haesol took the annoying work! Uahaha!”

* * *

“My ability is ‘Liquid Synthesis.’”

Went straight to the main point.

Anyway it wasn’t a special ability and rather it was that I couldn’t say because I was embarrassed, it wasn’t an ability particularly worth hiding.

Of course I would hide the dual awakening fact.

“Liquid Synthesis?”

“Yes. Simply combining liquids.”

But as much as it was an awakening ability it wasn’t simply mixing liquids. Of course hyung Yeongseong also purchased and sold my potions until now so he would roughly know.

“I tried synthesizing the juice of carrots and tomatoes last time. To speak the truth that itself was the quest.”

“Ah, so...”

It seemed he noticed why I was cultivating something like tomatoes.

“But the result that came out like that...”

I took out the notebook I memoed last time and showed hyung the efficacy of the fruit and vegetable juice.

[Ambiguous fruit and vegetable juice imbued with mana LV.1]

Materials: tomato, carrot

Because there aren’t many materials it shows ambiguous completeness.

Upon intake, for 3 seconds some information of monsters that entered the field of vision can be confirmed according to the amount of mana possessed.

Upon intake, for 3 seconds detoxification can be done according to the amount of mana possessed.

Intuitive effects.

Among them hyung Yeongseong who confirmed the part related to detoxification opened both eyes wide and stood up from the spot.

“Hup!”

“For now it’s not certain whether I can treat sister-in-law. Still I’m thinking it’s worth trying.”

“No, in my view there’s possibility!”

Hyung Yeongseong who confirmed my memo with trembling eyes soon grasped my hand.

“Can you make it?”

“Of course! I just told you. That I’ll help.”

The problem was that I couldn’t make it right away.

Because cooldown remained I asked if we could meet again tomorrow.

“Um, then sleep one day around here and meet again tomorrow.”

“Yes, that would be good.”

“And this...”

Hyung Yeongseong suddenly tapped the phone then soon a notification came to my phone.

Ding!

[20,000,000 won has been deposited.]

“No, hyung? What’s this suddenly?”

“Tomato price, for now.”

“No of course I’ll receive money but this is too much. I said it’s only 2kg?”

“Then let’s say it included the price of using liquid synthesis too.”

“Even so this... I’ll receive it gratefully.”

Immediately changed attitude and received thankfully.

As it was I had no money because the pocket money saved until now was all scraped to buy Polygonum multiflorum imbued with mana.

Still there was a feeling of receiving excessively but conversely thinking about it it was a matter of treating sister-in-law who couldn’t be treated for several years so to hyung Yeongseong 20 million won would be mere.

‘Gyuseong, I have to treat no matter what right?’

Really no matter what happens I’ll treat.

If even with crops it fails? Then even with a healing ability slime that will come out someday through infinite slime draw synthesis I’ll treat.

...Of course this is nonsense delusion.

Like that the conversation ended and standing up from the spot about to each return a car approached quickly from afar.

“...Kang Hanul?”

“Ah, earlier I also contacted Mr. Hanul that we were here. I forgot because of sister-in-law’s problem.”

“Tsk.”

Hyung Yeongseong who lightly clicked his tongue waited a moment. Then Kang Hanul parked and came out.

“Wow! You don’t know how glad I am! Uahaha!”

“What after seeing yesterday.”

Even the refreshing hyung Yeongseong becomes chic only when meeting Kang Hanul. Having actually experienced Kang Hanul it was understandable to some extent.

“By the way why are you out? Ah! You were waiting for me to come?!”

“We came out after finishing the talk.”

“What? Me?”

Then I casually intervened.

“Mr. Kang Hanul. By any chance can you wait a bit?”

“Wait? For what?”

“Because there’s no item to give right away. But tomorrow it seems possible?”

“Tomorrow? Tomorrow...”

Watching Kang Hanul worrying hyung Yeongseong sighed once.

“Hey, Kang Hanul.”

“Uung?”

“Gyuseong gave me some tomatoes so let’s divide half each. Originally I reserved first so no need to give to you, but I’m giving because I don’t want to make Gyuseong difficult.”

“Oh!”

Actually hyung Yeongseong didn’t reserve first but because of the relationship and sister-in-law’s problem anyway I had no choice but to care first.

“Instead 10 million.”

“What? Why so expensive? How much is the amount?”

“Dividing half 1kg. I also paid 2,000.”

Watching hyung Yeongseong who didn’t say that other things were also included in that 2,000 I was frozen unable to even open my mouth awkwardly.

“Yeah? Okay. Anyway I have no place to spend money so it doesn’t matter! But with the party concerned in front like this is reselling okay, Choi Yeongseong?”

“Is it okay?”

“Yes, it’s okay.”

While I nodded hyung Yeongseong divided the cherry tomatoes half and gave to Kang Hanul. He as soon as he received took one out and immediately put it in his mouth and the expression was worth seeing.

“This is it! Exactly this! Uahahaha! Even if 10 million I’ll give!”

Because he looked so satisfied I also felt proud.

In the meantime his gaze headed toward me.

“By any chance no carrots?”

“Carrots, probably around tomorrow it seems possible but...”

“Hmm. I need carrots.”

Toward Kang Hanul muttering while stroking his chin hyung Yeongseong asked.

“Tomatoes are sufficiently delicious why so greedy?”

“No, it’s not that. Actually I decided to conquer the Yeongdeungpo grade 4 dungeon again in two days. Because carrots raise vision I thought maybe it would help.”

“Just because vision rises a bit will the information of an unidentified monster that wasn’t visible appear... uh?”

Hyung Yeongseong who was muttering according to the flow of consciousness suddenly turned his head and looked at me.

“The fruit and vegetable juice ability you showed earlier!”

“Ah, right. That only 3 seconds but it lets you see monster information so...”

“What!?”

Kang Hanul flew with tiger-like momentum and grabbed both my shoulders.

“What do you mean, younger brother!”

“A, that...”

While wondering how to explain this in the end I roughly told my ability. Saying again it wasn’t that I couldn’t inform because it was top secret but because it was too embarrassing for an ability that I had hidden until now.

“Oh? Such an amazing ability?”

“The potions I occasionally supplied to Ara Hongryeon were all made by Gyuseong.”

“Uahaha! So it was! I owed a lot to those potions again!”

Wow.

To think the giant guild called Ara Hongryeon used the potions I synthesized. I didn’t know that either.

To begin with if I tried to sell personally they wouldn’t even look but because hyung Yeongseong sold it was possible.

“By any chance that potion that can confirm monster information, no did you say fruit and vegetable juice? Anyway can you sell that to me?”

“That...”

I looked at hyung Yeongseong.

Since there was already a prior appointment with hyung Yeongseong it was a bit ambiguous.

“The subjugation is right in two days?”

“Yeah.”

“Gyuseong, by any chance how many fruit and vegetable juices can you make?”

The volume that can see the item’s effect could literally only make one per ability use.

If I made 500ml of fruit and vegetable juice through one ability use it meant at least 450ml had to be drunk to see the effect. Even drinking the remaining 50ml separately there was no effect.

‘There would be taste though.’

Anyway since such a trick didn’t work the fruit and vegetable juice I could fully make was limited to 2 a day. Even that I had to make giving up slime synthesis so...

‘It’s not like I’m doing business for a day or two and not being able to synthesize slime for a day won’t matter.’

So I said honestly.

“2 a day. Not today and from tomorrow 2.”

“Oh, then I’ll buy both!”

“What are you saying! I already made a prior appointment!”

“What? Choi Yeongseong, why do you need the potion that sees monster information?”

“Because the effect isn’t only that!”

In the end I stepped forward.

“For now since you said there’s subjugation right in two days I’ll sell one to Mr. Hanul. And hyung Yeongseong take all as they are made except that one for now.”

“Hmm, with one it’s ambiguous.”

I also know with one it’s ambiguous. Even if saying it’s used for testing purpose at least 2 would be needed.

But now that I knew sister-in-law’s story I couldn’t compare with whether a mere grade 4 dungeon is cleared or not.

To begin with unless Ara Hongryeon Guild is foolish even if there’s an unidentified monster they won’t fail a grade 4 dungeon twice.

In one word a story that they can succeed even without my fruit and vegetable juice.

“Just use carefully. Honestly if Mr. Kang Hanul steps forward directly this time it seems fine even without my fruit and vegetable juice.”

“Um, what! Since I stepped forward subjugation will unconditionally succeed! Uahaha!”

“Then let’s wrap up like that and see again tomorrow.”

“Yeah! Let’s see again tomorrow younger brother!”

Kang Hanul returned to the car while taking out and eating tomatoes again. Hyung Yeongseong also waved to me then went to book lodging nearby completely.

“...Crops are insufficient.”

Even excluding what to feed the slimes just those two were this lacking and I wanted to feed the family too.

Setting the resolve that I have to exploit the slimes more diligently, no work I returned to the dungeon.

Pop!

“Everyone listen! From today the crop factory opens! We need more crop harvests!”

...As soon as I said that Puu came up from below. Then wriggled as if greeting me and ate tomatoes.

“Can’t stop eating.”

Then the new recruit approached me and poked.

“What, new recruit?”

Wriggle!

“Hm? Harvest time has come? Don’t tell me!”

If the new recruit said there was something to harvest here there was only one.

Leila’s harvest time had arrived.