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Its black legs, glistening in the soft moonlight, become sharp spear points and fly in.

A sudden attack.

But it doesn’t feel dangerous at all.

Because the movement of the thing rushing towards this direction seemed like slow motion.

“Tsk.”

As he stepped back by applying force to his legs, his massive body fell back to its original position, making a loud noise.

Quang!

The rising dust.

Kiiik!

Inside, the guy cries out in anger and straightens his legs.

A light breeze blew away the dust.

The appearance of the guy I finally met.

“Wow, it’s gotten bigger.”

The enlarged body comes into view, as if it hasn’t been idle for 10 years.

The exoskeleton that covers the entire body is also shining in the moonlight, as if it has become even stronger.

“In the past, when I looked at it, it was C grade… .”

It’s difficult to measure accurately because I don’t have a measuring instrument, but based on my extensive experience, I think it’s probably at the level of a B-level pull-up.

“It’s pretty scary.”

Top class C and B pull-ups.

At first glance, it feels like you can barely climb one flight of stairs, but the reality is different.

For a monster, going from Class C to Class B means that it has gone through one evolution.

In other words, you should think of it as not just barely climbing one flight of stairs, but climbing one floor at once.

In numerical terms, it would have become at least 1.3 to 1.5 times stronger.

Push it!

It spews out spider webs from its ovaries.

Make large movements to avoid the spider web that spreads widely in the air and flies like a net.

slam!

The spider web that has lost its aim and falls down sticks to the ground.

Just by looking at it, it looks sticky as if you won’t let go easily if you step on it.

If you let him keep spinning webs, it’s going to be just as annoying.

“Then we should finish it quickly.”

Monsters such as spiders and scorpions surround their bodies with a hard exoskeleton.

Thanks to this, it has high defense power and is not easy to break through.

So what is the most effective way to hunt these guys?

As already shown in the ant cave I went to with my teammates, attacking the nodes is most effective.

He immediately gathers magical power and creates a blade of wind filled with anticipation.

「Wind Cutter.」

The blade is aimed precisely at the thin joints exposed between the exoskeleton and the exoskeleton.

Unlike the ants that were helpless against this attack, it swung its legs one after another and destroyed all the blades that came in targeting its weak points.

The guard is stronger than I thought.

Kikikiki!

Laughing so energetically makes me feel like I’ve been stabbed once after being hurt… .

“ah.”

Is it because of me?

When I first met him, I was investigating to check the condition of a flower, and he was so annoying that I blew out a bundle of black energy and cut off all the joints on his legs.

“… “You’re going to end up like this, you bastard.”

I don’t know if I’m the same person from back then, but I guess I was preparing for it anyway.

Push! Push shush!

Once again, a bundle of spider webs rains down.

After narrowing the distance between him and avoiding the spider web, I gather magical energy into both hands.

If an attack fired from a distance doesn’t work, the only way is to hit it directly into the joint.

The icy blue magic creates a pure white dagger in each hand.

「Ice Dagger.」

A magic that is a modification of the ice needle, which pulls out ice like a sharp awl and shoots it.

Kiaaak!

The durability of the dagger was created by gathering a considerable amount of magical energy in an instant and weaving it stitch by stitch from the handle to the tip of the sword.

Kaang!

Even though it’s made of ice, it doesn’t have a single scratch even after blocking the guy’s front paws.

Immediately try to engage in close combat with him.

I’ve only had a handful of experiences holding blades with this body, so it feels a bit unfamiliar, but it’s no problem.

Swinging it a few times was enough to reacquaint myself with the weapon I had wielded my entire life.

Except for the four legs that support the massive body, the remaining four legs pour down like rain.

It’s fast and sharp, so each shot feels like a huge caliber bullet.

If hit, it will be a dangerously fatal wound no matter how much the hunter’s body is… .

That’s only when it’s true.

Although it is fast, it is a simple attack that cannot deviate from a straight line.

It is not easy to hit an attack that is so simple that you know where it will be fired from the moment you lift your leg, unless you force your body to stop.

“Sigh!”

In an instant, using the added acceleration, he rotates his body to get out of the guy’s attack range, and at the same time, plunges the dagger in his hand between the joints of the leg in front of him.

Kwasik!

Quack!

A dagger digging deep into each leg, one at a time.

Kihi profit!

The guy’s scream follows.

For us, it’s like having a dagger stuck deep in the knee between the thigh and shin, but there’s no way it wouldn’t hurt.

The movement doesn’t stop there.

He struggles to avoid the attacks of the guy flying after him and repeats the same task over and over again.

Make a dagger and insert it between the joints.

When you complete one full circle starting from the guy’s huge body.

Coo!

A huge body landed on the ground.

It was nearly impossible to support that huge body with weak legs.

“Let’s finish now.”

I aim my palm at the neck of the guy who is struggling.

The magic power repeatedly gathers and divides around the guy’s neck.

Eventually, eight spears of pure white ice were created.

「Ice Spear.」

An intermediate level magic of the ice attribute that pierces the opponent sharply and at the same time freezes them so that not a single drop of blood can escape.

The sharp tip of a spear forged with cold would be enough to pierce its carapace and cut off its breath.

“bye.”

With a small hand gesture, eight spears floating in the air simultaneously pierced the guy’s head.

Phew! Phew! Flutter!

Life drains from the eight eyes on the guy’s head.

A black fog of magic rising like regret in life.

“It’s a shame.”

If there was magic absorption, it would have absorbed all of that too.

With a feeling of regret, I quench my appetite and turn my back.

Before his body disappears, I grab a few things I need and then head towards my real goal.

A beautiful flower growing in the same spot for 99 years and 360 days.

This is why that flower made the dungeon hidden.

I don’t know how it works, but it uses only the moonlight as a nutrient, and it takes 100 years to fully bloom and maximize its effectiveness.

At the time, I couldn’t find a way to replace that magic power, so I had no choice but to make that choice, but now it’s different.

The talent this body possesses allows it to become anything as long as it is magical power.

Create a trowel using earth magic and gradually dig up the soil starting from the surrounding area.

Be careful not to damage even a root… .

“Okay… all!”

Thanks to delicate work, we succeeded in digging up the flower with every root intact.

Just like making a trowel, use earth magic to make a small flower pot.

Spread the previously dug soil finely and carefully place the flowers in the middle.

Then, cover it again with soil.

“Whew!”

Now only the final step remains.

Magical power permeated by the moonlight shining endlessly on one side of the cavity.

I take that shape and arrangement and plant it in my magic.

If you pull this out and shine it on the flowers and soil… .

“oh… !”

The petals that have not yet unfolded lightly shake their bodies as if they are in a good mood.

It seems like it was a real success.

“Hehe, then I took care of it well… .”

Finally, five days later, I left a note telling our guild members not to be alarmed… .

“done.”

Now it’s time to go home.

* * *

Early morning.

A black sedan came out of a high-rise building in Gangnam.

A total of three people are on board, including the driver.

They succeeded in getting out of Seoul before the roads got clogged on their way to work, and their destination was Taebaeksan Mountain.

The three men got out of the car and walked in silence.

In a heavy atmosphere, a man opened his mouth.

“Hey, hey! “I think your wife will like it today!”

Another man received those words.

“hmm… , I’m sure even your wife would have a hard time getting something like this easily… .”

As the two people worked hard to brighten the mood, a small smile appeared on the lips of the man who was walking quietly.

“… “I hope so.”

There was a glimmer of hope.

A small hope that perhaps, starting today, I will be able to unclog my frustrating relationship.

His steps also became faster.

The body reached its peak and was able to run up a high mountain as if walking on flat ground.

“master! “It’s not that one.”

“ah… .”

Was I too excited?

He tried to hide his annoyed expression and followed the two people who turned to the other side.

I think I walked like that for about 30 minutes.

They arrived safely under the tree where they had left their mark.

“Let’s begin.”

“Yes, just leave it to me!”

The young man rolled up his sleeves and swung his fist at the ground.

Kwaang-!

Dust rose up, and a huge hole appeared in the flat ground.

It was so powerful that even the rock beneath it was shattered.

Suddenly, the man covered in dust covered his mouth and nose with a handkerchief and glared at the young man.

“… “Control your strength.”

“haha… , sorry.”

A young man humbly offering an apology.

After time passed and the dust slowly settled, the three people went down to the bottom of the pit.

A small cave in front of you.

The young man took the lead and made his way through the surroundings.

The remaining two people followed him slowly along the path he had widened.

Three people put their hands on the crack that soon appeared.

Unsurprised by the sudden change in atmosphere, they walked along the road in silence.

“You said the boss is alive, right?”

“okay. “It’s Class C, so there won’t be any danger.”

“haha! “Then it’ll be over in one shot.”

The young man smiled brightly and clenched his fists.

“Then we’ll go in right away!”

A young man walks forward with a bold step and opens the door to the boss room.

He quickly seeped inside and soon looked puzzled and then looked back.

“… “I don’t have any?”

The faces of the two men who were leisurely following behind had a look of urgency on their faces.

The fact that there is no boss monster means that someone has already completed the strategy.

It was a shocking sight for the two people to cross the huge cavity and reach the end.

There is a small hollow space bathed in soft moonlight.

“Oh, no… !”

“… … .”

There was a small, folded note on top of a hollow pile of dirt.

The middle-aged man bent down and picked it up and unfolded it.

[I ate well.]

Giggling!

The moment he read the words written on the note, he listened to the auditory hallucination coming from somewhere.

A laugh that seems to be laughing at oneself.

The middle-aged man frowned and crumpled the paper at the same time without saying a word.

The man, who had a shocked expression and didn’t know what to do, asked him vaguely.

“What should I do? Track it now… .”

“… it’s okay.”

He shook his head.

I roughly figured out who the culprit was.

but… , there were many obstacles to interrogating him.

Strictly speaking, the flower eventually found its owner.

just.

“Life is bitter… .”

I could only shake my head at the bitter taste that filled my mouth from my hard life.