Chapter 17 Part3 (1/2)
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If he had just one more permit to G.o.d's secret shop, he would've used it without any hesitation.
However, Lee s.h.i.+n Woo only had one permit right now, and he didn't know how much he could sell this wine for, so he couldn't take the risk so easily. Lee s.h.i.+n Woo clicked his tongue and muttered.
”Senior Seira is a prophet. A prophet.”
”You seem to be getting along with our seniors.”
”If you're jealous, then why don't you enter the channel too?”
”D-Don't want to.”
Whenever he told Jin, who was jealous of his relations.h.i.+p with other people, to do something about it and go into the chatting channel, he would always say that he didn't want to; Lee s.h.i.+n Woo just laughed.
He could roughly understand how he felt. Normally, the less self-confidence one has, the more pa.s.sive they become in terms of maintaining relations.h.i.+ps with other people. Needless to say, since Jin was a Skeleton Horse, it was obvious how low his self-esteem was.
”For starters, let's pack all of the wine into our inventories. Since we don't need to pack food in our inventories.”
”It might've been a waste of s.p.a.ce if we hadn't leveled up to 5.”
As the two rose to level 5, their inventories suddenly doubled in size. They, who didn't really have any necessities in their inventories, possessed inventories that were uselessly large; they managed to fill at least half of their inventories with the wine barrels in the ripening room.
”This one's 25 liters, and this one's 47 liters... It wasn't a problem with the ripening magic, but there was a difference in the fermented wine's condition at the beginning of the ripening process. Because of that, they all taste different, despite being produced in the same year and being the same age. This might be some sort of craftsmans.h.i.+p as well.”
”So how many liters in total?”
”1,965 liters.”
”Wow.”
Though they weren't bottled, it was a truly large amount of wine. If his seniors saw this, they would've fainted. Since they would cheer whenever they found a single wine bottle intact in a dungeon or a city.
This was all due to Lee s.h.i.+n Woo, who miraculously found this dungeon, and him nonchalantly releasing the seal, which was a highest rank lock that could only be released by those of the Kerr Century Winery. Of course, Lee s.h.i.+n Woo trusted that this was something that all of his seniors could do as well.
[Steelworker, we've found other areas as well.]
”Oh? Wow...”
He had expected them to be here somewhere, and one of the Iron Golems scattered around, looking out for any potential danger, had found a location that stored bottled wine.
Though they weren't stored as perfectly as in the ripening room and there were several that couldn't be used, Lee s.h.i.+n Woo and Jin marveled at the fact that they could recover 30 bottles of luxurious wine. He'd only suffered ever since being dropped into the Empire, yet only now did he feel like he was actually performing the task of a hero. Isn't it a hero's duty to clear out an empty home?
”I wonder if there's more stuff here.”
”Probably not. We checked all the facilities outside of the winery.”
”Yeah, you're right. We checked all the fermentation facilities. But...”
The businessmen had set such tight security on the entrance, so how would the grapes have gotten in? Lee s.h.i.+n Woo briefly thought about it, and his goblin fire swayed unconfidently.
”The inventory?”
”The inventory isn't part of this world; it only belongs to the heroes.”
”Did they use a.s.sa.s.sins?”
”The businessmen raised a.s.sa.s.sins to protect the wine?”
”...Then a secret pa.s.sageway?”
”Yeah.”
It was highly likely that they brought the grapes in through a secret pa.s.sageway, as the security at the entrance was so tight. And hypothetically speaking, if the secret pa.s.sageway was a direct link to the orchard...
”The orchard might be a dungeon too. Though it shouldn't be as impenetrable as this place.”
”...How do you even grow grapes underground?”
”This entire empire is underground. Why couldn't they if they had the skills?”
”Ah, that's right.”
Lee s.h.i.+n Woo led Jin and the golems, searched the winery, and ultimately succeeded. He released a few more hidden locks and examined the clearing's wall; he broke through the wall, and though it wasn't the size of golem's railway, it was a quite bright and clean underground railway.
”It really did exist!?”
”Definitely.”
Though there was only a single wall dividing the underground pa.s.sage and the winery, the air was quite different. There were several layers of magic applied to the winery to act as a smokescreen so that it couldn't be found, but the railroad, which was outside of the spells' range, wasn't largely protected.
”What do we do if there are monsters or people aiming for the wine?”
”Take a look around.”
”Alright... Huh?”
Jin looked back and was shocked. The winery they had just left had disappeared, and the railway just kept going on and on. Jin trembled and Lee s.h.i.+n Woo explained firmly.
”This railroad probably goes through other facilities. They went so far as to make a smokescreen, so normally, you wouldn't be able to tell it was a winery. Rather than impenetrable security, they chose to just to hide it naturally.”
”You saw through that? What the h.e.l.l were you before all this?”
”Just a normal salaryman. Let's go. You guys, get smaller and follow behind me quickly.”
[I understand.]
[Reducing body size.]
Lee s.h.i.+n Woo ordered, and the golems compressed their bodies. Though they were a lot smaller than when they had first entered the dungeons, but now they were shorter than two meters tall: a small-size mode!
Through this special mode, which sacrificed their bulk and weight to reduce the size of their tough bodies, their destructive power that came from their weight would be reduced, but their speed would overwhelmingly increase, and was better when they needed to move quickly, like right now.
Of course, this wasn't originally a command from the Limited Order Bone Core, but Lee s.h.i.+n Woo possessed a senior administrative authority and was able to unlock the command.
”There are a lot of forked roads.”
”This way.”
They went as far as to so seamlessly hide the location of the winery, so it wasn't surprising that there was an absurd amount of forked roads; however, whenever they came across one of them, Lee s.h.i.+n Woo would boldly choose a path. Jin couldn't help but be curious as he followed behind him.
”How are you making a decision so quickly?”
”There are periodically some traces of where humans and vehicles went. Actually, to be exact, there are traces of mana being used to erase those tracks.”
”...”
The traces were erased by magic to conceal the tracks, but what did it even mean to grasp the traces of that very mana being used to erase those tracks? It felt as though the businessmen several dozens of years ago were playing in the palm of his hand.
'Compared to finding the traces of Anti-Skull, this is nothing.'
Ten minutes of running and following Lee s.h.i.+n Woo's perfect navigation through the railroad, Lee s.h.i.+n Woo suddenly stretched his palm towards the sky.