Chapter 30

Chapter 30

Level 2 Player

Eight Mad Dogs

Jin-su who was the second strongest player in history throughout the entire Tower.

Considering the reality that the current location is the lower floors, he lowered his eyes a lot...

Even considering that, items of a level that fill Jin-su’s eyes were bound to be extremely rare.

On the other hand, from the perspective of Shin Su-a who was always despised by party members and received only bad items as if alms, each one of the items coming out of the hidden dungeons was bound to be an ultra-expensive item that makes the eyes widen.

‘It’s all thanks to Jin-su.’

Shin Su-a’s faith and trust in Jin-su deepened more and more.

Because even items of a level that Jin-su gives temporarily to use were enormous treasures from Shin Su-a’s perspective.

Giving elixirs was the same.

From Jin-su’s perspective, they are elixirs that even if eaten, the stats don’t rise so they have no use except selling at the auction house. So he could use them without great burden as bribes to build friendship with the Holy Saintess Shin Su-a and the Dark Saintess Shin Su-jeong he will meet later.

On the other hand, from Shin Su-a’s perspective, since he keeps yielding the precious elixirs that can raise stats without eating even one himself, the reliability and intimacy toward Jin-su had no choice but to rise automatically.

‘This time, something usable should come out.’

Jin-su moved to a place where a hidden dungeon was likely and dreamed of a jackpot. Monster hunting was being done by the Dragon Tooth Soldiers, and Jin-su was leisurely moving together with Shin Su-a while riding the Stone Golem.

Currently, the Dragon Tooth Soldiers Jin-su was using were 12 units made from the White Drake’s teeth and 810 units made from Lizardman teeth.

‘The Dragon Tooth Soldiers made from Lizardman teeth are also subtly usable.’

The reason was cost-performance. When first making Dragon Tooth Soldiers on a large scale with Lizardman teeth, the mana consumption was large. But as time passed, the situation changed. Because Jin-su’s mana recovery speed was faster than the speed at which the Dragon Tooth Soldiers made from Lizardman teeth were destroyed.

As a result, Jin-su could leisurely maintain 810 Dragon Tooth Soldiers in a state where mana was full.

‘I didn’t know there was a limit to the number of Dragon Tooth Soldiers.’

Jin-su had met mage players who possessed the Dragon Tooth Soldier skill before the regression. They only used true dragon teeth, and the number of Dragon Tooth Soldiers they operated also didn’t exceed 100 at most.

‘At that time, I wondered why, but it was because there was a restriction on T.O.’

Dragon Tooth Soldiers sometimes eat more T.O. depending on strength, and sometimes consume less T.O.

The reason Jin-su didn’t know that fact was because among the party comrades, there wasn’t even one mage who possessed the Dragon Tooth Soldier skill.

‘Most mages who possess the Dragon Tooth Soldier skill also choose the summoner type when changing class to a higher class.’

There was no connection with Jin-su at all.

‘If I obtain the teeth of an upper dragon race monster, I’ll also have to compete with quality rather than quantity.’

But the Dragon Tooth Soldiers were only a skill usable for now. As one climbs to the upper floors of the Tower, selection and concentration become important. Because there are many cases of not catching even one rabbit while trying to catch two rabbits.

‘Although I am an exception.’

Because Jin-su has the blessings, there is no need to concentrate on raising a few core stats. There is also no need to concentrate investment on a few skill levels.

Even now, Jin-su possessed the extreme and extreme classes of holy-type mage class and dark-type warrior class.

‘Still, it can’t be helped. Because I have no intention of changing class to summoner.’

The masterpiece class needed for Jin-su’s plan was the holy-type mage class that possesses powerful attack skills and defense skills and has the harmony of offense and defense, not the summoner class.

‘Although the Dragon Tooth Soldier skill is a bit regrettable.’

As long as he is thinking of choosing mage, later the utility will drop, and even if used, it will be hard to receive great help.

‘Well, let’s be satisfied with the degree that a usable card arose for now.’

When Jin-su was diligently moving while using the Dragon Tooth Soldiers.

“Uak! What are these monsters?”

“The number is enormous!”

He encountered other players.

‘They’ll flee on their own anyway.’

Jin-su ignored them.

Cases of meeting player parties while climbing the Tower together with Shin Su-a often occurred. Player parties that met the large army of Dragon Tooth Soldiers fled in fright without a single exception.

Jin-su had given the instruction to the Dragon Tooth Soldiers to ignore if they encounter players. So the Dragon Tooth Soldiers neither attacked the players nor pursued them. So there was no problem with the players’ escape.

“It’s an experience point lump!”

“Let’s catch them all!”

But this time, the situation was a bit different.

Kwajik! Pueong!

“They’re enormously weaklings!”

“The reaction speed is also slow!”

“But why don’t they counterattack?”

“Don’t know.”

“Just catch them. It’s enormously convenient to hunt, enormously good!”

The players, far from fleeing upon seeing the large army of Dragon Tooth Soldiers, ran in excitedly saying they would hunt.

‘What, these crazy guys?’

Jin-su who was sitting on the Stone Golem’s shoulders turned his gaze. Then familiar faces entered his eyes.

‘It’s the Eight Mad Dogs party.’

They are guys all called the Eight Mad Dogs party because they are a party composed of 8 mad dogs.

Each also had their own nicknames. Mad Dog, Deviant Dog, Fierce Dog, Demon Dog, Old Dog, Iron Dog, Swift Dog, Waste Dog.

Jin-su first withdrew the Dragon Tooth Soldiers.

“Huh? These guys are fleeing!”

“Catch them!”

“Absolutely don’t miss them!”

“Kill them all!”

The Eight Mad Dogs charged madly. Jin-su put in the Dragon Tooth Soldiers made from the White Drake’s teeth and then stood up.

“These guys’ appearance is different?”

“They’ll give a lot of experience points!”

Kwaaang!

“Ugh! Not only the appearance is different! Enormously strong!”

“Cowardly ganging up!”

“Block! Kill!”

Pagang! Pueok!

Pueeeeong!

The Eight Mad Dogs engaged in a fierce battle with the 12 Dragon Tooth Soldiers.

‘Somewhat usable.’

They haven’t reached Floor 100 yet, but they were enormously strong. The most impressive was the organic cooperation of the Eight Mad Dogs. Even without speaking, they read each other’s hearts with just gazes or small movements and moved like one body while fighting the Dragon Tooth Soldiers.

‘Well, that’s why they survived until exceeding Floor 2,000.’

Although called Eight Mad Dogs and received numerous despisals from players, the skill alone was certain.

‘Moreover, the people who can openly call them Eight Mad Dogs in front of those guys were few enough to count on one hand.’

Why? Because if you do such a thing, you are beaten until just before death.

‘They were guys who knew the line to some extent.’

Although called mad dogs, they didn’t commit murder carelessly and didn’t rob the belongings of the innocent. Instead, they did quite a lot of crazy acts.

‘Guys quite lacking in common sense and concept.’

Jin-su arrived at the place where the 12 Dragon Tooth Soldiers and the Eight Mad Dogs were engaging in a fierce close fight.

Jin-su withdrew the 12 Dragon Tooth Soldiers.

“Where are you fleeing!”

“Kill them!”

The Eight Mad Dogs pursued the Dragon Tooth Soldiers and poured attacks.

“Stop now.”

At Jin-su’s words, the gazes of the Eight Mad Dogs all turned at once.

“Huh? What is that guy?”

“When did he appear?”

“Mage?”

Jin-su opened his mouth with a calm expression.

“What you guys attacked are not monsters. They are my summons.”

“Summons? There’s such a thing?”

“Seems so.”

“Well, there’s nothing that doesn’t exist in the Tower.”

“But why do they look like monsters?”

“Yeah.”

“Hey? Why do you go around with summons that look like monsters and confuse people?”

The Eight Mad Dogs who stopped the attack on the Dragon Tooth Soldiers spat out words like a machine gun.

‘Still the same.’

Jin-su felt the appearance of such Eight Mad Dogs as welcome rather than annoying or angry.

“What are you grinning at?”

“Crazy guy?”

“Why do you go around with summons that look like monsters? If it was us, it was fortunate, if it was other players, a bigger thing would have happened!”

“That’s right! If you just release such dangerous guys, what do you do!”

“Don’t you know dogs have to wear a leash and walk?”

“It’s dangerous!”

Jin-su who had been quietly listening to the Eight Mad Dogs’ words while immersed in memories opened his mouth.

“My summons don’t attack players. I ordered them so. Even when you guys attacked, they didn’t counterattack.”

“Huh? Was it so?”

“It seems it was so.”

“No. Those guys attacked us!”

“Now that I think about it, it seems they only defended.”

“Isn’t defense also a kind of attack?”

“That’s true.”

“Is it so? Then anyway, it’s true that they attacked.”

“It’s not that we are unconditionally wrong. Because that guy provided the cause.”

“That’s right. That’s right.”

“Naturally, it’s the fault of the person who released the summons without a leash.”

Although they launched the first attack, the Eight Mad Dogs concluded that they had no fault.

In fact, Jin-su also had no intention of greatly blaming them just because the players attacked the Dragon Tooth Soldiers. Because there was room for misunderstanding.

Just acknowledging each other’s mistakes and passing is enough.

But the Eight Mad Dogs were an exception.

‘I clearly knew they would come out like that.’

There was no way the Eight Mad Dogs would acknowledge their mistakes just because there was room for misunderstanding. Also, apologizing to each other and passing warmly? An impossible thing for the Eight Mad Dogs.

So Jin-su also decided to go out shamelessly.

“Because you guys attacked first, it’s true that you did wrong. So you have to compensate for my summons that you destroyed.”

The cost that went into making the destroyed Dragon Tooth Soldiers was only the low-grade material item Lizardman teeth that don’t even cost 10 points each and Jin-su’s mana. So even if called compensation, if calculated at cost, it didn’t even amount to a few hundred points all together.

If they obediently expressed the intention to pay and asked how much to pay as compensation, Jin-su was thinking of calculating the exact amount and telling them kindly.

‘Well, there’s no way these guys would do so.’

From the start, if it wasn’t these guys, he wouldn’t have even brought up the compensation story.

“Compensation? Ha! What kind of nonsense is that?”

“You’re using a trick to extract points from us right now, right?”

“Rather, you should compensate for surprising us and making us waste strength hunting summons that don’t even give experience points.”

It matched exactly as Jin-su expected.

“I’m using a trick to extract points? Then you don’t have to give points, so at least apologize politely.”

Jin-su presented a compromise.

“We should receive the apology, right?”

“That’s right. How surprised we were because of those vicious guys.”

“It seems you’re holding your head stiffly relying on those guys. If you do that, you’ll get into big trouble.”

“Apologize and go quietly. Then we’ll also just pass over.”

The Eight Mad Dogs pressured Jin-su with a confident attitude.

“If I don’t want to?”

At Jin-su’s answer, madness swirled in the eyes of the Eight Mad Dogs.

“Then we’ll have to make you grasp the subject.”

“We’ll make you regret refusing our mercy while shedding blood tears.”

“As you get beaten, manners are naturally injected.”

The Eight Mad Dogs who each spat out one word flew their bodies toward Jin-su at the same time as if promised.

They moved as if prearranged and blocked the Dragon Tooth Soldiers’ movement lines, and Iron Dog and Swift Dog charged toward Jin-su. It seemed they were thinking of capturing as hostages rather than killing.

‘A rational movement.’

Blocking the summons’ movement lines and attacking the summoner to capture as hostage. In preparation for the summoner’s counterattack, the tanker Iron Dog stands in front and the assassin Swift Dog aims at the rear.

If the target was a player of a mage-type class other than Jin-su, it was a really perfect response method.

Hwiik!

Jin-su swung the Ice Dragon Staff toward the tanker Iron Dog.

Udeudeudeuk!

First, Iron Dog’s shield was powerlessly dented.

Kaaaang!

After that, Iron Dog’s body along with the armor soared high into the sky like a baseball hit by a bat.

Tung! Tung! Tutung!

It powerlessly rolled on the floor.