Chapter 162

Chapter 162

Level 2 Player

Mother and Son

“Child education?”

Cheon Mu-seong tilted his head.

“Raised indulgently?”

Shin Su-a’s eyes shook roughly.

“B-by any chance, are the two of you mother and son?”

Shin Su-a asked in a trembling voice.

“Yes, so. Does Hapael not resemble me a lot?”

At Carolina’s calm words, Shin Su-a only then compared the outer appearances of the two people.

‘They do resemble a lot. Until now, I thought they just look similar because the same race.’

It was not.

They resembled because they were mother and son connected by blood.

“Although resembling, looking like peers, I could not even imagine.”

“I also so.”

At Shin Su-a and Cheon Mu-seong’s answers, Hapael’s face crumpled, and a bright smile spread on Carolina’s cold face.

“Wow, really hard to believe.”

“The elf race really has a long lifespan.”

Shin Su-a and Cheon Mu-seong opened their mouths wide with surprised expressions. On the other hand, Jin-su’s expression was too calm.

Actually, Jin-su had no need to be surprised.

Why? Because it was already known information.

‘The fact that Carolina and Hapael are mother and son was a famous fact known to all before regression.’

It was not particularly a secret either. It is only that now Carolina and Hapael themselves are close to unknown and there are no players who formed acquaintance, so it was not known.

“But why do you call mom by name?”

Shin Su-a asked Hapael as if curious.

“I became an adult. Why do I have to call Carolina mom like a kid?”

At this, Hapael asked conversely.

“Huh? Is this a cultural difference?”

Shin Su-a was not a little flustered.

“Our clan, once becoming an adult over 40 years old, calls each other by name or position. It is acknowledging each other as one equal mature individual. If calling me mom even after becoming an adult, that is Hapael himself acknowledging that he is still an immature existence subordinated to me. Conversely, if I use the title of son instead of name, that is regarding Hapael as an immature existence that still needs my protection without acknowledging as a mature individual.”

“If doing it Korean style, it is similar to calling mom itself looking like a mama’s boy.”

Shin Su-a roughly understood.

“Um, then did your husband not come together? Ah, sorry. It is good that he did not come though. Since forcibly separated, you must miss him a lot.”

Shin Su-a asked Carolina why the husband is not here and then was startled and quickly turned the words. However, that was the worst choice.

“Since he cannot come anyway. There is no need to be sorry. He went out to the battlefield when Hapael was a nursing baby and died in battle. It is too old a matter, so these days I do not particularly miss him or anything.”

“Huh?!”

Carolina said calmly without change of expression. But Shin Su-a who heard those words instantly turned into an ice lump.

“You were a widow. It must have been hard. Did you not remarry?”

At that time, Cheon Mu-seong opened his mouth instead of the frozen Shin Su-a.

“The household was on the wealthy side, so it was not particularly economically hard. Remarriage, I did not because there was no man that catches the eye particularly.”

“So. Still, raising a child alone without a husband is not an ordinary matter. Amazing.”

“Well, Hapael was so mischievous that it was a bit hard.”

While Cheon Mu-seong and Carolina calmly exchanged conversation, Hapael’s face gradually distorted.

“What mischief did I cause!”

Then he eventually could not endure anger and shouted with a bak.

“Shall I tell everything starting from until how old you wet the bed to the story of smashing the palace wall the day before becoming an adult, will the memory come?”

“No, do not. Memory came. So please do not say it.”

However, it was instantly suppressed by Carolina’s one word.

‘Looking at the actions, still like a kid.’

Shin Su-a who watched such appearances of Carolina and Hapael muttered inwardly.

‘Yet, Jin-su is not surprised.’

It is an incident that can be quite shocking in its own way, but Jin-su showed a calm attitude as if knowing in advance.

‘Perhaps he really knew.’

Shin Su-a was the person who spent the longest time together with Jin-su in the Tower. That is why she was also the person who approached Jin-su’s secret the most.

‘Does he possess something like a future precognition skill or information viewing skill?’

Although skills of a degree where even existence is questionable, somehow if Jin-su, it seemed not strange even if possessing them.

‘Since he also knew information about me and Sujeong.’

There were many curious things, but Shin Su-a had no thought of directly asking Jin-su.

‘He will tell someday.’

If only Shin Su-a herself becomes a really trustworthy precious person to Jin-su...

She believed that Jin-su will answer on his own even without necessarily asking.

‘Because many things have changed from when first meeting Jin-su to now.’

Like Carolina and Hapael, Jin-su and Shin Su-a were also a relationship formed by contract. However, now she wanted to be by Jin-su’s side regardless of the contract. She did not even want to imagine a life not together with Jin-su.

Only, she could not be certain whether Jin-su also has the same thought as Shin Su-a herself.

‘It is fine if making it so.’

After meeting Jin-su, Shin Su-a continuously grew. Although Jin-su’s help was large, that was a clear fact. Shin Su-a wanted to become an existence essential to Jin-su.

‘Someday it will be achieved.’

The longer the time together becomes, the bond between Jin-su and Shin Su-a strengthens. Belief also grew. And that will be the same from now on as well.

***

The next morning, Jin-su headed not to the place Demirich or the Orc Shaman reported that a dungeon was found, but to the place the death knights and liches reported that a dungeon was found.

“It’s an open dungeon!”

As Hapael’s words, there was an open dungeon at the place first arrived.

‘This is the place the death knight riding a ghost horse reported?’

He had expectations for the lich in his own way. But he did not have large expectations for the death knight. Yet, although not a hidden dungeon, an open dungeon was found.

‘Good.’

Jin-su quickly conquered the open dungeon together with the party members and then headed to the next destination. This time, it was the place the walking death knight without a ghost horse reported.

“There is only a large rock.”

Hapael muttered as if disappointed.

‘Miss.’

Jin-su moved his steps again.

“It’s a hidden dungeon!”

This time, a hidden dungeon was found. The one who reported the location of this place was the death knight riding a ghost horse. Jin-su conquered the hidden dungeon together with the party members and then moved again. In that way, a day’s time was spent, and the result came out.

Fortunately, the liches all found open dungeons and hidden dungeons regardless of combat power. However, the death knights were different.

‘The death knight riding a ghost horse was 100%, and the walking death knight was 0%. What on earth is the difference?’

Although the same death knight, there was a difference in exploration performance. Should the intelligence of Army Summons made based on death knights or players not be similar normally?

Yet, the rest were all misses, and only the death knight riding a ghost horse had particularly good exploration performance.

‘Was it a special existence in life?’

Or there was also the probability that it was an individual with particularly high intelligence in life.

‘The population is too small, so comparison is hard. I need to properly test.’

Only, right now it was impossible. Because there was no remaining Army Summon T.O. for Jin-su.

‘It is also regrettable to erase the guys currently there.’

If unnecessarily annihilating existing Army Summons and making monsters estimated to have high intelligence like mages or shamans into Army Summons and a miss comes out, it was an enormous loss.

‘Let’s test then when T.O. increases.’

Although at an enormously slow speed, the Blessing is steadily growing.

‘Still not fixed all stats to 1,822.’

However, if continuing to grow the Blessing, one could make all stats to 1822 and move to the next stage.

‘Then the skill level fix will also grow from 1322 to 1422.’

Even so, it is only that the Army Summon T.O. increases by only one.

‘Still, it will be sufficiently usable for testing.’

Also, like the saying gathering dust makes a mountain, if continuing to grow the Blessing, the Army Summon T.O. will also continuously increase.

***

While the Jin-su party was spending an ordinary daily life of releasing summons to find and clear open dungeons and hidden dungeons.

The summons Jin-su released for hunting were causing quite large waves on Floor 200.

Bone Dragon, demons, Basilisk, sand worm, Dragon Tooth Soldiers, undead monsters led by death knights and liches...

Since each individual was an existence far surpassing boss monsters, there could be no disturbance. The reason there was no direct combat at least was because the place Jin-su released the summons was a place with few people.

Players who coincidentally encountered Jin-su’s summons usually chose to flee rather than fight.

The summons also did not attack players according to Jin-su’s command, so the thing that spread into direct force collision on Floor 200 was none other than the Carolina and Hapael party.

However, rumors about Jin-su’s summons continuously spread through the mouths of players. And parties with a certain confidence in their own force or players affiliated with large guilds began to move looking for Jin-su’s summons conversely to obtain achievements and items.

***

The Jin-su party entered inside the city for rest.

“Now outdoor sleeping is over!”

Hapael spat a shout full of joy.

“I can properly wash for the first time in a while.”

“I want to wash with warm water and sleep soundly in a fluffy bed.”

Carolina and Shin Su-a also welcomed the fact that they can escape the tiresome outdoor sleeping, wash with warm water in the lodging located inside the city, and comfortably rest in a fluffy bed.

“Hehehe, I will live a civilized life for the first time in a while.”

Cheon Mu-seong also stroked his beard and bore a smile full on his face.

‘Did I work them too hard until now?’

Jin-su briefly looked back at his own actions at such reactions of the party members.

‘I think I moved quite loosely in my own way.’

Meals were also done abundantly, and sleep was also done comfortably inside the Sanctuary. The hygiene part was also washed quite cleanly and thoroughly utilizing mage skills.

‘Well, still, fatigue would have piled.’

Jin-su also did not like outdoor sleeping. It is only that since this outing was so short by Jin-su’s standard, the reactions of the party members were incomprehensible.

‘From now on, longer and tighter hunting schedules will have to be digested. Will they be able to endure well?’

Although such a thought briefly arose, there was no need to worry greatly. Humans are animals of adaptation.

‘If continuously working and working, all will adapt.’

Jin-su’s party members are strong people who surpassed the Floor 200 level. Levels are also high, and health stats and mental power stats are also high. Also, this time, they properly nourished the body by eating Sun Moon Spirit Pills, Spirit Demon Pills, and Spirit Inner Pills.

‘If only putting the mind to it, outdoor sleeping life can be easily endured not for months but for years.’

So the schedule Jin-su is weaving from now on was absolutely not a forced march.

The Jin-su party moved to secure lodging. Yet, a problem arose.

“Currently, rooms are full.”

“Sorry. There are no empty rooms.”

A situation of no empty rooms occurring at every lodging they went to.

“What? Why are there so many players here?”

Hapael frowned and said while looking at the players densely gathered in the 1st floor restaurant.

“Yeah, strange.”

Carolina also tilted her head as if puzzled.

This city was a place Carolina and Hapael used as a base and were active, so they knew it quite well.

“Usually, players were not even half of half of now.”

“Most are faces seeing for the first time.”

Jin-su who heard Hapael and Carolina’s words recognized that an anomaly occurred.

‘Did players gather from upper cities.’

If not that, there is no reason for the population number of players in the city to suddenly increase. And if players who were hunting in upper cities gathered to lower cities, the reason was only one.