Chapter 5 Part2 (2/2)
[Gureureureureu]
At that moment, an opponent appeared from the darkness, one whose ident.i.ty was difficult to ascertain. It attacked him, accompanied by the sound of a strange cry that made it even more difficult to figure out what it was.However, because it was so slow, befitting a level 1 monster, Lee s.h.i.+n Woo struck with his Bone of Thunder Lasting and slashed the monster's body without much difficulty. At that moment, he felt a strange sensation, like he was cutting apart a warm and tough jelly, making him s.h.i.+ver.
[You have hunted a Lv1 Sewer Slime.]
”Wow, it's truly...?”
The slime monster that had been split into two pieces emitted a bubbling sound and instantly evaporated. Lee s.h.i.+n Woo, who had been watching that, looked really awful. Indeed, if it's fantasy, there have to be slimes, and if there are slimes, it has to be fantasy. Lee s.h.i.+n Woo had expected them to show up at some point. However, he didn't want to meet them. That's because slimes didn't have any bones.
”It's not even worth my time to kill them... Huh?”
[You have acquired a deteriorated Skeleton Soldier's arm bone.][You have acquired 12 Perium.]
So it was worthwhile after all. He didn't know why, but a Skeleton Soldier's arm bone had popped out where the slime had died!Lee s.h.i.+n Woo was momentarily puzzled but he soon figured out the reason. In exchange for the slimes not having any bones, it seemed like they would spit out any bones that they had ingested before!
”Yeah, isn't this really profitable...?”
He felt somewhat uneasy that the bones were deteriorated, but it couldn't be helped. Lee s.h.i.+n Woo was about to put it into his inventory, but it felt awkward so he just decided to use it to reinforce his bones.Though he may die and die again a hundred times[1], he had gathered more than enough bones to restore himself.
[You have reinforced your arm bone. Absorbing the Skeleton Soldier's memories and experiences.][Gugeugaaaaahk, I'm melting, I'm melting! My C3 cervical vertebrae...! - Nameless soldier]
”...”
He didn't think he'd gain the memories of a skeleton's last moments dying to a slime. Isn't this memory going in a new direction?!Lee s.h.i.+n Woo was seriously seized by an uncomfortable feeling. However, since he had gotten plenty of Skeleton Soldier's memories, he thought that it didn't matter whatever happened.
”Good, now shall we explore in earnest... Ah, before that.”
He needed to choose a concept if he wanted to receive a karma token from this dungeon. Last time, when he had run away from the Giant Zombie, he had safely acquired the Avenger's token. After that, whenever he went into a dungeon, he would wring his (nonexistent) brain and would go through the dungeon with a completely different concept. Amongst those, the successful ones were the NINJA concept (the a.s.sa.s.sin's token), where he moved covertly and killed his opponents one by one, and Lelouch Lamperouge's concept (Mastermind's Token), where he used his Shriek of the Dead to make his enemies kill each other. Right now, he had the Slaughterer, Trickster, Fighter, Avenger, a.s.sa.s.sin, and Mastermind tokens, a total of six karma tokens.
'...However.'
He only needed to get four more tokens from now on! Well, there was a time when he thought so positively. However, that great situation was nothing more than a delusion. Getting those four tokens was extremely hard.
”The s.h.i.+eld warrior concept... no, I failed at this last time. Then how about the berserker concept... I failed at that too.”
He had tried the Lee Bong Ju[2] concept, where he ran through the dungeon fighting as few monsters as possible, and the Gandhi concept, where he similarly went through the dungeon as peacefully as possible without fighting, but they had failed. He realized after that they both weren't concepts that should be used in the dungeon. Since it's come to this, it might be better to try the Emperor concept. It was demanding 100 bones of the same race from his enemies in exchange for their lives. He had promised that he would use that later when he found monsters that he could actually talk to.
'Hoo, then I have no choice... Since my magic has increased, let's go with the Sniper concept.'
Lee s.h.i.+n Woo didn't have any alternatives, so he went with the concept that he had held back, the Sniper concept. Due to the mana he used to regenerate his fingers whenever he used Catapult up until now, he hadn't been able to focus entirely on the Sniper concept, but since Magic Affinity had become a low rank skill, it felt like it might be possible now.
'I really hope that a usable skill comes out here.'
Lee s.h.i.+n Woo made up his mind and after putting his sword into his inventory, pointed his finger and slowly walked into the dungeon. Up until now, no hero had dared enter a sewer dungeon (it was way too dirty); the moment the first explorer had appeared…
[1] T/N: Famous Korean saying from the Goryeo dynasty. It describes something that remains unchanging. In this case, it's the fact that he'll have enough stockpiled bones, regardless of how many times he needs to use them to heal himself.
[2] T/N: Lee Bong Ju is a South Korean marathoner.
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