Chapter 33

Chapter 33

It was a quest window seeing after a long time.

Thinking of the times I lived staking my life on quests I realized I had really changed a lot.

“The dungeon’s name is gluttony as expected.”

I paid attention to the name of this place more than the content of the quest. I expected it but it was a system-certified Gluttony’s dungeon.

But confirming the quest’s content once more it didn’t look unexpectedly high difficulty.

No, if another person they would have been startled saying what kind of bizarre quest is this but to me it was a quest the same as a bonus.

“Anyway I was going to try farming here too so while farming I’ll clear the quest too.”

Thinking about it this wasn’t the first hidden quest.

I examined the quest list with the heart of confirming after a long time.

[Awakening Quest: Hunt monsters]

Hunt monsters using slimes.

Goblin: 0/10

[Awakening Quest: Offer a Tribute]

Collect and submit the presented items.

Self-harvested dungeon fruit: 10/10

Self-harvested crops imbued with mana LV.2: 0/50

[Hidden Quest: Develop a new crop]

Discover or develop a new crop.

New crop: 1/3

Quests that others clear only one no less than 3, no since receiving one more just now no less than 4 piled up appearance.

Still thinking of the time I received the quests it wasn’t that long.

‘...There was a time I wandered unable to clear one quest for 3 years.’

Now the value of life isn’t in the quest so I didn’t care greatly but still there was nothing bad about clearing.

Still first shall I grasp this surroundings.

Just in time the slimes who came together were amazed at the environment seeing for the first time and bouncing around.

“Shall we go around once fully.”

“Going around!”

Just in time a huge tree was visible in front.

Compared to the tree that can return to the original place it was enormously big but because the size was so huge the distance was ambiguous.

Looking outside it seemed I could arrive if walking a bit but actually it might be much farther.

“Shall we go to that tree?”

“Sparkle sparkle tree! Going!”

“That tree’s name is sparkle sparkle tree?”

“I gave it!”

There wasn’t a particularly shining feeling to the tree but why named it sparkle sparkle tree.

Excluding the unrealistically huge it was a tree with lush green leaves with no particular features visible.

“Why sparkle sparkle tree?”

“It shines sparkle sparkle! If it shines it becomes pretty!”

“Ooh? It seems to shine light too?”

“Right!”

That would be worth seeing?

To think such a huge tree shines light maybe something special?

“Kids, let’s go quickly.”

“Departing!”

I called the slimes bouncing for a long time and headed to the sparkle sparkle tree.

* * *

“Do, done!”

Choi Yeongseong who was confirming the computer suddenly stood up and shouted.

At the sudden noise Kim Siyoung in the opposite room stealthily revealed her appearance.

“Honey? What’s wrong?”

She whose state had improved to the extent it was okay even standing up from the spot called her husband with a face full of curiosity.

“Ah! Finally certain data came out!”

“Data? My poison?”

“Yeah! Simulation result 99.99% complete cure!”

“I thought what. Already becoming this fine isn’t it natural?”

“Still just in case I derived data for several days. Even if improving right now complete cure might not be possible.”

Choi Yeongseong showed the computer screen to Kim Siyoung who approached with a brightly bloomed face.

“Look look. See this? Complete cure probability. Just see it as confirmed. Now detoxification is the end!”

“Really you too. While results are being proven with my body like this being happier looking at the computer screen is funny.”

Kim Siyoung shook her head while the smile at the corner of her mouth couldn’t be hidden. Then suddenly as if recalling something she shook Choi Yeongseong’s shoulder.

“Honey.”

“Umm?”

“There are poisoned people besides me. Most already regrettably passed away but...”

“Ah!”

Choi Yeongseong who only cared about Kim Siyoung and couldn’t even think of other people burst into exclamation.

“Can that kid also be treated?”

“Of course! If only there is fruit and vegetable juice...”

Choi Yeongseong’s voice speaking became smaller.

The poisoning can be resolved. But that ability wasn’t Choi Yeongseong’s.

Only Lee Gyuseong, only he could do it.

“It’s a bit hard to ask carelessly. Gyuseong isn’t that cold-hearted a guy but us intervening is...”

“It’s not a request. If making it a good deal for each other it’s fine.”

Kim Siyoung who saw Choi Yeongseong’s dark face grinned. That smile was an appearance similar to the time she went around smashing dungeons and was called ‘Empress of Brain Electricity’.

“Don’t tell me I’d have thoughts that are rude to the benefactor? And in our country the awakener suffering from poison besides me only one remains. You know who too right?”

“Of course.”

“While repaying the favor to Mr. Gyuseong shall I try contacting old colleagues. First confirm Mr. Gyuseong’s intention.”

The awakeners who were poisoned together with her at the time were once prominent figures who made names.

Even if the assets or influence possessed might not reach that time they still sufficiently remained. Moreover if the poison is treated with Gyuseong’s fruit and vegetable juice recovering the original place was a matter of time.

“Just in time data also came out so if only sending that material they won’t even doubt. If needed I can go directly too.”

“Honey, the body isn’t fully better yet...”

“That child would still be struggling in hopeless pain.”

Kim Siyoung’s eyes slightly gazed at a distant place.

Her eyes who once felt the same despair as them were recalling the hard past days.

“I want to let them know even a bit faster that there is hope. That they don’t have to suffer anymore.”

“...Yeah. Then first I’ll try contacting Gyuseong. And find out how awakener Baek Seunghyeon is doing too.”

Grade 7 awakener Baek Seunghyeon.

An awakener called the Republic of Korea’s best supporter. Though only a grade 7 awakener one stage lower than Kim Siyoung because the ability possessed was amazing he was a person who participated in the stinginess dungeon subjugation too.

Moreover the guild he belonged to was also ‘Iron Blood Guild’ competing for the top of the Republic of Korea so of course at the time returned poisoned and until now they were struggling to save Baek Seunghyeon.

‘Moreover awakener Baek Seunghyeon is the son of the Iron Blood Guild’s guild master. He absolutely won’t give up his son’s life.’

If knowing there is a method that can treat he would probably try to save Baek Seunghyeon no matter what means.

“Come to think of it the people poisoned at that time are many overseas too. Since the subjugation team was a multinational guild alliance.”

“Right. As much as the first time trying a grade 9 dungeon all awakeners around the world who made names at the time had interest.”

“If doing this well...”

Choi Yeongseong fell into thought.

Probably the people still alive would be few, but what was clear was that the poison could be fixed even now.

If the poisoned prominent overseas awakeners are treated with Gyuseong’s ability that ripple would be tremendous.

‘I should talk about this to Gyuseong too.’

Choi Yeongseong and Kim Siyoung each worried how to help Gyuseong at the same time and make things go well.

* * *

Around that time among domestic guilds the atmosphere was boiling due to one rumor.

“What? Food is an item?”

“Are you talking about potions? Well, potions are this and that many. Of course you have to do some box farming in dungeons but.”

“That’s not it? Just ordinary food is an item and even abilities are attached?”

And most awakeners who encountered the rumor shouted in unison.

“Impossible!!”

But the rumor only grew bigger as time passed.

In the end some visited the Bare Fist Guild who first brought out information about this to grasp the truth of the rumor.

And Kim Donggil of the Bare Fist Guild who was careful saying he was investigating secretly consistently pretended not to know saying there was no such thing.

“Suspicious?”

But such actions rather fueled suspicion.

Already people who would know knew the fact that Kim Donggil personally inquired information so they gradually started seriously believing the rumor.

Then one day, a decisive incident burst.

“Um, as expected it won’t do.”

Kang Hanul who attended the gourmet meeting as usual clasped both hands on the dining table and leaned his forehead as if immersed in worry.

“I’ve become a body that won’t do unless that guy’s food now. This is a curse.”

“H, hyung Hanul?”

At Kang Hanul’s unusual reaction Kim Donggil who was seated together called him with an uneasy face.

But Kang Hanul didn’t answer Kim Donggil’s call and continued monologue.

“Is it more delicious because it’s an item?”

“Huk!”

Kim Donggil was startled and inhaled then soon pretended nothing and stiffened his expression.

Actually most gourmet meeting participants tried not to show much reaction to the eccentric Kang Hanul’s words but at the unusual reaction of Kim Donggil they had been eyeing recently they sparkled both eyes.

“Was it really true?”

“Really food is an item?”

“It seems there’s taste too? Last meeting too Mr. Hanul’s reaction was strange.”

Kim Donggil became tearful.

It was a feeling of having the food he tried to preempt by hiding information as much as possible exposed.

As it was a precious thing that even that Kang Hanul couldn’t obtain much because the amount wasn’t much and the appearance of even increasing competitors.

“Hmm, come to think of it a while ago he seemed to have said he was thinking of opening a restaurant too...”

Kang Hanul’s monologue continued.

Until before the participants who didn’t care about his monologue now concentrated on his mouth quietly to the extent ant crawling sounds could be heard.

That was the same for Kim Donggil but at the suddenly appeared word restaurant he felt saliva gathering without knowing.

‘Opening a restaurant! J, jackpot!’

But unlike Kim Donggil who actually ate the food other gourmet meeting participants were concentrating more on the item’s effect.

If as Kang Hanul said a restaurant is created, and if that is really items with various stats attached as the rumor then it would become an essential course that must be visited before entering a dungeon in the future.

Of course this was a judgment only rational of those who hadn’t tasted Lee Gyuseong’s crops.

“Th... hyung. Is opening a restaurant really?”

Kim Donggil ultimately decided to just ask openly without hiding. Since already revealed as revealed asking if the information is true was the priority.

To that extent that day’s sweet potato mattang had given Kim Donggil an emotion he could feel as a turning point of life.

‘Wait! Opening a restaurant means the kind of food isn’t only sweet potato mattang!’

Because attention was only focused on sweet potato mattang the field of vision had narrowed. But thinking well a restaurant is with only one menu...

‘...Even with one menu it seems it would hit jackpot?’

Toward Kim Donggil who was spreading the wings of imagination alone like that Kang Hanul smirked and said.

“It’s a joke. Uahaha!”

“...”

“Since you guy are spreading rumors here and there I played a prank a bit. Uahaha!”

Kim Donggil had something pricking at Kang Hanul’s words so he couldn’t even question being teased and became speechless.

But Kang Hanul also couldn’t know in time.

That Lee Gyuseong was actually thinking of opening a restaurant. And that his younger brother Lee Jaeseong was researching cooking with Gyuseong’s crops.

“By the way the rumor seems true so can’t you tell us a bit too?”

“I also want to try eating that rumor’s food.”

Gourmet meeting participants one by one opened their mouths and expressed curiosity. Then Kang Hanul crossed his arms and fell into worry.

“Umm, I’ll try asking once.”

Suddenly is the matter becoming too big?

Kang Hanul who slightly worried about Gyuseong soon thought calmly.

If problems arise due to this matter he would take the lead and protect and resolve for him.

No at this opportunity if he just becomes the sponsor it’s done! In the Republic of Korea who on earth could touch a person Kang Hanul sponsors!

“Uahahaha!”

The laughter sound of Kang Hanul who was spreading the wings of imagination alone continued endlessly.

* * *

“Ears are itchy. Is someone talking about me?”

Lee Gyuseong who was examining Gluttony’s dungeon picked his ear.

Lee Gyuseong who was only a mere grade 1 awakener.

He was becoming a mysterious person scattering influence all around before he knew it.