Chapter 9

Chapter 9

Mithril

“Thank you so much.”

The woman bowed repeatedly.

The brown hair tightly tied swayed.

“I···I'm, my name is Yu Seo-ha.”

A rigid person.

Even while blood was dripping from her left arm, she was putting gratitude before treatment.

Watching her like that, I was honestly flustered.

My mind went blank.

What should I say?

Words don't come to mind.

Conversations from TV and Lee Heeja's curses circled in my head.

All I heard for 8 years were only things like that.

When was the last time I had a conversation?

I don't even remember.

“...Let's treat it first.”

In the end, the words I brought out were about this much.

Once I said it, it didn't seem that bad in its own way.

At my words, only then did Yu Seo-ha examine her wound.

“...Umm.”

Yu Seo-ha pulled her shoulder to examine the wound.

Even with a light movement, blood gushed out.

Looking closely, blood was flowing not from the arm, but from the torso.

Yu Seo-ha's face hardened.

“I'll help you.”

The wound wasn't clean.

It's not cut.

The skin was torn as if it had been sawed.

I received the potion from Yu Seo-ha and boldly poured it over the deepest part of the wound.

Bubble bubble bubble!!

It was exactly as I saw on TV.

The potion that met the wound and spewed bubbles like boiling water.

“Kkeuk···!!”

Yu Seo-ha tightly closed her eyes and clenched her teeth.

They said the pain is enormous as much as the treatment effect of the potion is good, and it seemed true.

Fortunately, the deep part of the wound was treated to some extent.

But the wound on the arm was still the same, and the potion was insufficient.

“I prepared carelessly thinking only about goblins. It seems I'll have to go back and get treatment.”

Yu Seo-ha took out a business card from her bosom.

A name neatly engraved in black regular script on a white background.

[Yu Ji-seong Office]

A simple business card with only the name, phone number, and address written.

But I was inwardly very surprised.

If that's the office I'm thinking of, the weight is by no means light.

“It's an office my older brother runs. I work together with my brother.”

Yu Seo-ha handed over the business card and smiled weakly.

“I definitely want to repay you for saving my life today. If you contact this side, whatever you want, I'll definitely grant it.”

Wondering what to answer, I just lightly nodded.

Yu Seo-ha looks at me with somewhat strange eyes.

Then she politely bowed her head.

“Please contact me without fail.”

#

The world constantly changes.

I lived lying on the bed, but because I was forced to watch TV all day, I knew the basic flow well.

After the black tower revealed itself.

In the early days, the state's influence was quite strong.

They used the safety of the citizens as the justification for control.

But control couldn't be sustained.

‘It was an absurd act from the start.’

Climbing the tower and exploring the labyrinth is risking one's life.

A matter of a different dimension from controlling ordinary office workers.

Naturally, hunters rejected control.

It was a kind of right to survival.

When some countries like China and Russia insisted on control, hunters chose exodus.

Dozens of high-ranking hunters crossed the border in a single day.

It was impossible to stop those who had already surpassed physical limits, and the point supply rate began to fall below expectations.

Only then did everyone realize.

That hunters are beings that need management, not control.

And that.

Very loose management.

“Yu Ji-seong Office···.”

In the end, most countries gave up control.

They loosened the reins they had tightened and gave freedom.

Dealing only with the minimum criminals, and managing the points to prevent the country's destruction.

That became the main duty of the state.

And.

The places that dug into the loosened parts were companies and offices.

Companies lured hunters with money.

On the other hand, offices had the loose organizational network itself as a strength.

Receive requests from clients.

Deliver requests to hunters.

No coercion is done in the process.

Hunters very much liked that free system itself.

“I might really have to contact them once.”

Muttering like that, I stared at the board.

The disappeared gray dot and red dot.

But the brown dot was still remaining.

I turned my head.

A small rock about 2m high was embedded.

It looked like an ordinary rock, but actually it wasn't.

-It's mithril. It's also my first time actually seeing it, but they say it's originally stuck in the ground like this.

It was words Yu Seo-ha brought out before leaving.

Unintentionally, I also received a pickaxe.

It was a fellow that looked quite good in quality.

Clang! Clang!

Whether thanks to becoming level 60, the pickaxe work was surprisingly refreshing.

After swinging a few times, a subtle silver light leaked out.

I removed all the rock.

Mithril enough to barely embrace with both arms came out.

The exact market price is unknown.

I only vaguely remember the fact that I heard it's a quite expensive mineral.

Swish.

I put the mithril in the inventory and continued moving.

I recalled the purpose of coming to the labyrinth.

One is to get used to the Flame Burst skill.

The other is to earn money.

First, the Flame Burst side was very smooth.

At LV1, the time to concentrate fire energy into the fireball took long.

On the other hand, now that it's become LV20, it was different.

Fwoooosh!

The fireball that soared above the palm was already holding a lot of fire energy.

Equipped with terrifying destructive power simultaneously with summoning.

Mana drained that much, but it doesn't matter.

Since the maximum level Meditation skill immediately filled the mana.

Kwaaaaaaaaaang!!!!

Every time Flame Burst fell, a huge explosion occurred.

Thanks to that, hunting was extremely easy and simple.

Grasp the enemy with the Detection skill and launch the skill, and that's it.

The efficiency of hunting also got better and better.

For a small number of goblins, Fireball.

For 4 or more goblins, launch Flame Burst, and it's over.

The hunting speed gradually got faster.

“Hmm.”

But not everything was good in results.

Perhaps because it's the early part of the labyrinth, resources weren't plentiful.

Some miscellaneous minerals including magic iron.

Small grasses including spirit grass.

That was all.

Even so, since they all made money, I cherished them.

I put minerals in the inventory, and put grasses in the pocket.

Moving like that, the exit appeared.

Wooong!!

At some point, the darkness had become much thicker.

The reason it feels that way is only one.

Because I approached the central part of the labyrinth.

A situation where the level 60 physical ability can't handle the darkness of the labyrinth.

Vision narrowed and shoulders hunched.

But I was curious.

Is it an opponent that can't be dealt with by LV20 Flame Burst.

I shook my head.

“Only up to here.”

I recalled Yu Seo-ha who was bleeding.

A place where one mistake leads to death.

The tower and labyrinth were not a world in a game.

Moreover, I'm at a level of having just awakened.

It's by no means a stage to be greedy.

Thinking that, I headed to the exit.

“Good work, Awakener Transcendence.”

The person managing the entrance had changed at some point.

Short-haired woman, staff member Lee Heeyeon.

Blue light flashed in the pupils, and a mechanical sound was heard.

[170 points are deducted]

“Hmm, ahem.”

Lee Heeyeon who lightly coughed bowed her head.

“It's processed.”

#

Arrived at the lobby.

I immediately headed to the blacksmith.

Clang! Clang!

A place quite far from the general shop area.

Along with the sound of the hammer, a hot heat pushes in.

The so-called smithy.

The owner of this place was not a human, but a dwarf.

Can't enter the smithy.

Outside the building.

Some hunters are waiting with bored expressions.

As I approached the building, a small hairy dwarf blocked my front.

“What's the matter?”

“Trying to sell some items.”

Thinking it's not a person, speaking was rather comfortable.

The fellow approached me while boasting.

“Just looking, it doesn't seem like much. Magic iron or something can be sold to me.”

“There's magic iron too, and other things too.”

I took out the magic iron from the inventory and put it down.

Since I found it with the Detection ability, the amount was quite a bit.

As I kept taking out magic iron, the fellow brought a cart with a flustered expression.

“What, it's quite a bit unlike how it looks?”

Muttering as if unexpected, the fellow loaded the magic iron onto the cart.

Only after filling one large cart completely did the inventory empty.

“Is this the end?”

“There's one more.”

I held the mithril with both hands and took it out.

Magic iron was broken into small pieces with the pickaxe, but mithril didn't take the pickaxe blade at all so I put it in whole.

A large silver mineral dropped to the floor with a thud.

“...Huh?”

The dwarf blankly opened his mouth.

Saliva that flowed down in a stream bubbled on the beard.

The dwarf turned his head to me with a hardened face.

He extended a thick hand.

“Hans, my name is Hans.”

“...”

“Nice to meet you.”

···So what.

A reaction I've never seen on TV or in the community.

While I was frozen in fluster, Hans overturned the cart.

Crash!

Magic iron poured a lot onto the ground.

Hans who spread both arms widely lifted the mithril and onto the cart...

“Kkeu···!!”

...Couldn't lift it at all.

The arms were too short due to the body structure.

When I picked up the mithril and loaded it onto the cart, Hans grabbed the handle and said.

“Wait a bit.”

Then he pulled the cart and ran into the building.

Some hunters admired.

“Hey, newbie. You really hit the jackpot?”

“Where the hell did you dig mithril?”

“Strange. Just looking, it seems at the level of circling the goblin zone, how did you find mithril? And such a big one.”

“You really hit the jackpot?”

In the meantime, Hans went back and forth several times.

Only after finally emptying even the magic iron did he approach me.

Panting, he met eyes with me.

A message floated up.

[Appraisal completed]

[Existing held points: 1870]

[Magic iron disposal points: 242]

[Mithril disposal points: 117,960]

···Hmm?

Something strange was visible at the end.

Disposal points 110,000···?

Hans grinned.

“Mithril can be disposed of, or equipment can be crafted. Just...once sold, repurchase is impossible, and if you buy the finished product, the price will be enormous. Think carefully and choose.”

···Flustering.

I earned 1700 points by hunting until my head was dizzy in the labyrinth.

110,000 points from one mineral.

The community verified post was true.

Detection skill.

This was a gold mine for earning points.

“What do you recommend?”

“Obviously crafting.”

Hans raised the corners of his mouth.

At the same time, a message floated before my eyes.

[Equipment craftable with held mithril]

[Weapons: 172 types]

[Armor: 322 types]

[Accessories: 81 types]

“Normally I wouldn't make this kind of proposal. But if desired, I can deduct part of the mithril price and embed magic stones or jewels to create the desired performance.”

Hans quietly approached.

While glancing at the hunters in the back, he quietly whispered.

“Is there something you want?”

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