Chapter 7 · 12 min

Chapter 7

Escape

Searching through a dead person's belongings isn't pleasant, but it can't be helped.

Swish.

I unlocked Team Leader Kim Namguk's phone.

Then I also unlocked the legal team employee's phone.

Since not much time had passed since death, facial recognition worked well.

Tadak, tadak.

I grasped the text and chat history with Mana Thread.

Fortunately, the situation wasn't complicated.

There was a reason it came down suddenly.

‘The opposition of Vice Chairman Choi Hansung was looking for me.’

Representative Kang Mincheol.

I vaguely remember.

The uncle who followed my dad even before the business grew big.

He must be quite old now.

They judged that Kang Mincheol had smelled something about me.

So after neatly organizing my side.

They tried to quickly swallow the company.

Once the situation was grasped, a plan came to mind.

I had to move.

‘...First, I need to secure money.’

I searched the dead people's wallets.

Quite a lot of cash came out.

About 500,000 won from the legal team employee and Team Leader Kim Namguk.

Adding Lee Heeja's money that I had prepared in advance, 3 million won was gathered.

‘This much is enough for now.’

I wrapped my body with Mana Thread and went outside.

I burned Park Gwangsu's corpse in the yard.

Black smoke soared for a while.

The guy's dirty body disappeared from the world without a trace.

I left the legal team employee in the yard where there was nothing to burn.

It felt a bit wrong to burn the corpse of an innocent person.

Then I burned the entire house.

Fwoooosh!

The appearance of the prison that had confined me for 8 years burning.

The stuffy chest seems to become a bit refreshed.

I sent a text to Wu Munryong with Team Leader Kim Namguk's phone.

[They found out]

I immediately boarded Lee Heeja's car.

Unlike the vulgar personality that only poured curses at a disabled person, the car was excellent.

I started the engine.

Noisy engine sound.

I tried to turn the wiper because I couldn't see ahead, but the blinker turned on.

Ah, it was the right side.

Since it's my first time driving, I'm worried.

I gripped the steering wheel with Mana Thread.

I also placed Mana Thread over the accelerator and brake.

It could be confusing, but there's no other way.

I have no choice but to concentrate.

I drove off as is.

Drrrrrr!

Behind the rearview mirror, the house blazes brightly, and the scenery outside the window changes moment by moment.

A strange sense of liberation was felt.

Even though there's no sensation in the whole body, and I might become a fugitive.

It seemed like I had become a free person in my own way.

At least.

Only at this moment.

Driving was easy.

Thinking about it, it couldn't have been difficult from the start.

The place where the detached house was located was the outskirts of Chuncheon City, and of course the roads were empty.

I used the vehicle only up to near Chuncheon Station.

I stopped the car in a suitable empty lot and burned it with Fireball.

With tremendous firepower, a single car disappeared without a trace in just a few minutes.

Then I stopped in front of a medical supply store with a shabby exterior.

I entered the store with an unnatural gait.

With a staggering gait and awkward hand movements, I pointed at a cane.

The old boss clicking his tongue.

“Tsk tsk, a young fellow ending up like this···.”

When I took out cash, his complexion immediately improved.

“Thank you.”

The station wasn't far.

I walked to the station leaning on the cane.

I bought a ticket and not long after boarded the train.

···The first train I've ever ridden in my life.

The feeling was new.

-The consensus is that there will be a limit to Hunter Lee Heeseon's tower climbing. As expected, since Korea's support lags a lot behind other countries···.

Hunter-related broadcast leaks from the earphones of the woman sitting by the window in the next seat.

I sat pulled as close as possible to the aisle side.

I didn't want to get into trouble with Mana Thread touching the woman's body.

Fortunately, there's no problem with excretion.

Various ingredients discovered in the dungeon.

Among them, there were quite a few components with high absorption rate in the body and almost no byproducts remaining.

It was quite good news for severe disabled people like me.

Especially in a moving situation like now.

Click.

I opened the plastic container with fingers wrapped in Mana Thread.

I took out a pill the size of a thumb and swallowed it down the throat.

The woman who glanced sideways slightly furrowed her brow.

It's understandable.

A pill famous for tasting bad.

But compared to the same volume, it has many essential nutrients and is well digested.

It was a product that was secretly popular enough that quite a few ordinary people look for it unexpectedly.

Of course, there was no better food than this for me.

Time flowed quickly.

Not long after transferring to the subway at Sangbong Station, I arrived at my destination, Daerim Station.

An area where public safety is not good compared to other zones.

But in the aspect of a place where all sorts of human types are mixed, it wasn't a bad choice for me who had to hide my identity.

···The room price is also cheap.

“Accommodation or hourly?”

A shabby motel.

I paused for a moment at the owner's question.

What does hourly mean.

Fortunately, I knew something.

"No, are your ears blocked. Is it accommodation..."

Accommodation, I quickly nodded at the timing.

The owner man narrowed his eyes.

"Accommodation?"

I nodded.

The owner clicked his tongue.

"Can't you speak?"

Nod.

The owner clicked his tongue.

When asked how many days to stay, I spread two fingers.

I handed 80,000 won to the owner and received the key.

I took the elevator up and walked the hallway filled with a musty smell.

The unpleasant texture of the cheap carpet laid on the floor comes up through Mana Thread.

Room 403.

I opened the door, entered, and locked the door.

As is, I collapsed face down on the bed.

If I sleep face down, there's a risk of suffocation.

I flipped my body and looked at the yellowish ceiling before closing my eyes.

I'm tired.

I should sleep soundly.

Ttiriririri-

I opened my eyes to the phone sound.

The interphone is ringing.

I dragged the receiver with Mana Thread and put it to my ear.

The owner's voice came.

-Are you extending?

I checked the time.

9 AM.

Wondering why the call came, I checked the date and flinched in surprise.

Not one day, but two days had passed.

"If extending, press once, if checking out, press three times."

Tok.

"How many days?"

Tok tok.

"I'll extend two days. Pay an additional 80,000 won when leaving."

As befitting a cheap motel, the accommodation fee is only 40,000 won.

No big burden.

I ate the pill as a meal substitute and fell into thought for a moment.

What do I need?

First, I needed money.

I brought as many pills as possible, but the amount isn't sufficient.

Since it's made from components from the labyrinth, the price is naturally expensive.

‘A way to earn money in the tower.’

I searched the community.

Various methods came out, and one caught my eye.

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[Verified][Information][Only for Detection series specialized awakeners to refer]

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The Detection I learned is a common skill.

But some hunters obtain the trait itself as Detection series.

Naturally, since they are not combat series awakeners, they couldn't earn money in the usual way.

Then how do they earn money?

I continued checking the post.

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First, let's start by congratulating.

I congratulate you vigorously.

You guys are blessed bastards.

The way you earn money is very simple and straightforward.

1. Go to the labyrinth.

2. Say you're a Detection series awakener, and say you'll give half the profit if they give you a ride on the bus.

3. Find delicious food and share with the bus driver (give a lot to the driver. That way they'll give a ride next time too).

4. Sell my share to the lobby merchant.

5. Expand inventory with the obtained points.

6. Fill the inventory with items sellable in reality.

7. Make one store near the association a regular, and sell items at a low fee.

8. Repeat 1~7.

Up to here was the core.

Now you've learned everything necessary.

Additional information 1.

Basic inventory is 2×2.

To earn money, you basically need to expand to 5×5.

Even the same item is stored in a different inventory if the grade is different.

Meaning the more inventory, the better.

(There's no newbie who doesn't know you have to find an alchemist to expand inventory, right?)

Additional information 2.

Don't even look at metals, minerals, that kind of thing.

You know that when China took out a mineral called Athenium, a 1km radius was radioactively contaminated, right?

Minerals can't be controlled at all unless it's at the national level.

Can't you just sell to the lobby merchant?

That's only good for tower-climbing hunters.

Because they give points if you sell.

Ah, of course, until expanding inventory, acknowledged.

But you came to earn money, right?

What can be sold in reality is only food ingredients or medicinal materials.

So put mostly plants in the inventory, then come out and sell to stores near the association.

This secretly makes money.

Even without tower climbing, it's at a level that chews up most office workers.

Ah.

If you accumulate points, learn skills, and tower climb, can't you get better materials?

Yeah, then it's neck slice.

Even hunters thickly plastered with all sorts of combat skills die in the tower.

Would you be able to?

End.

The end.

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As expected, a verified information post.

The content organization is clean.

I recalled the memories from the labyrinth.

Plants were displayed as green dots, minerals as brown dots.

At the time, I was satisfied with that much.

It seemed necessary to pour more interest into resources.

Now that I became able to prolong my life through Mana Thread.

The most necessary thing was money.

To live like a human, I had to purchase elixirs.

Moreover.

Paduduk!

“...”

Even to get accommodation without cockroaches flying next to the bed right away.

Money was absolutely necessary.

On the 2nd floor of the tower, three types of goblins appear.

Goblin swordsman.

Goblin shieldbearer.

Goblin archer.

The so-called goblin scouting party.

The 3rd floor of the tower was a bit different.

[You have entered the 3rd floor of the tower]

[Annihilate the Goblin village]

The area where the scouting party stays has already been passed.

Not far away, an unfamiliar place was visible.

A crudely made wooden barricade.

2 watchtowers about 5m high.

Around the barricade, scouting parties are patrolling.

A somewhat loose atmosphere.

But the moment detected by the goblin on the watchtower, the situation completely changes.

‘I need to deal with the goblin on the watchtower first.’

The standard strategy for the 3rd floor of the tower is to use luring tactics.

Lure the goblins at the edges into the forest and repeat dealing with them.

The safest method.

But it takes too much time.

Even so, an ordinary magic series awakener had to follow the strategy.

Because time is needed to fill mana.

They also said to bring a lot of food and stubbornly fill mana to deal with goblins.

But I didn't need to do that.

Mana fills endlessly.

And through the Detection skill, I can read every single movement of the enemies.

“Let's deal with them calmly.”

A flame series skill focused on destructive power.

The attack is strong, but defense is weak.

Simple attacks could be responded to through the Detection skill and Mana Thread.

But there's no need to take excessive risks at all.

I summoned 3 Fireballs.

Immediately shot them.

The scouting group patrolling outside the barricade turned to powder and disappeared in one go.

The Fireball was unsummoned as soon as they were dealt with.

Not even a little trace remained.

Tadat!

I pressed my body against the barricade.

I liked the movement.

A speed of a different dimension from staggering with Mana Thread.

I carefully circled along the barricade and launched a Fireball at the watchtower.

Whoosh!

The goblin on the watchtower disappeared without a trace.

There wasn't a single goblin that noticed.

I immediately circled largely along the barricade.

Waited for a moment at the corner.

Waited for another scouting group to approach, then summoned and launched a Fireball.

Fssss!

Three Fireballs accurately pierced the hearts of the goblins.

Fireballs that flew in from such close range.

The guys couldn't even scream and disappeared without even a trace.

Then dealt with the goblin on the watchtower in the same way.

Dealt with the last scouting group too.

Now all the goblins outside the barricade have disappeared.

Only the inside needs to be dealt with.

I checked the inside through the loose wooden fence gap.

6 shabby tents made of animal hides.

I checked the inside of the tents through the many holes.

Large male goblins are full.

The females seem to be doing odd jobs and are busily moving here and there.

‘I need to surely deal with the dangerous ones first.’

Tadat!

I lightly climbed over the wooden fence.

The body was so light that I was a bit flustered.

Thinking about it, it's natural.

Level 40 on the 3rd floor of the tower.

The physical itself was absurdly good compared to the floor difficulty.

Thinking that way, some confidence arose.

But I didn't let my guard down.

I carefully moved to a place where five tents were visible at the same time.

Immediately summoned five Fireballs.

Whoosh!

Five Fireballs spewing flames in the air.

A size that would easily be three times the skill's basic setting value.

Without hesitation, I launched the Fireballs at the tents.

Fwooooooosh!!!!

The fire demon that covered the tents in an instant.

Before a reaction came out, the flames swallowed the tents.

“Kuaaaaaak!”

“Kie, keeeeeek!!!!”

Male goblins that jumped out from the tents.

They shook their bodies here and there and rolled on the floor.

But the flames that became even more fierce instead of going out.

When the flustered females approached, the flames transferred to their bodies too.

"Kiaaaaaaak!!!!"

Truly a chaotic situation.

The goblins were flustered by the sudden ambush and wandered around.

The only calm person was me.

The Fireballs that soared in the air simultaneously covered the intact goblins.

Whoosh!

Even while doing so, I didn't forget.

The lighter that dropped to the floor with a thud.

Director Park Gwangsu who pushed in the iron door.

At that time, I felt it to the bone.

How much of a variable one small carelessness can become.

Swaaaek!

Is that why.

The Detection ability perfectly caught the arrow that flew from beyond the tent.

The Mana Thread extended from the left hand blocked the arrow.

The Mana Thread of the right hand roughly tore the tent.

A Fireball flashed into that empty space.

“Keek?”

The goblin saw the Fireball but couldn't dodge.

The Fireball was too fast as well.

The guy couldn't feel beyond the tent like me.

From the guy's position, the tent just fluttered, but the Fireball was already stuck in the heart.

Fssss!

Like that, I dealt with the last goblin.

Standing in the center of the blazing goblin village, I checked the message that floated before my eyes.

[You have annihilated the Goblin tribe]

[[Transcendence (EX) ability manifests]

[Experience points gained increase by 1,000,000 times]

[Level up]

···

[You have achieved Level 60]

[You have cleared the 3rd floor of the tower]

The Transcendence ability activated.

60 level, leveled up to the limit in one go.

And the given points.

[1084 points have been given]

It was time to learn the next flame magic.