03. Another Dungeon.
03. Another Dungeon.
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"How dare you... hang up on me?"
The furious beauty put on her [Refined Maid Mai] with a cold expression.
"Wait... no, Lawyer-nim, where are you going??"
"I'm going to go see my daughter for a moment."
"Huh? But we're at work?"
At her husband's words, she glared at him as if he were pathetic.
"What's more important, work or your daughter?"
"N-no, that's not what I meant..."
"I'll go by myself, so you handle the work. If anyone calls, keep it on hold. Oh, and that... what was it? Anyway, go ahead and accept that job too. Just in case."
"Ah... yes... have a safe trip."
After finishing her words like a storm, she headed straight to the parking lot.
When she pressed the key button in her hand, her foreign car, which had started itself, beeped and approached her.
Ziiing.
Automatic driving, automatic door opening. It was the latest model she had purchased just three months ago.
After a quick glance at the car's interior, which boasted as much luxury as its exterior, she settled her small body into the seat.
Beep. Beep beep.
She launched the app she had secretly installed on her daughter's phone and placed her hands on the steering wheel.
Then, the distance between the steering wheel and the seat adjusted itself, and the hidden pedals slid out with a deureureuk sound.
"Guide me to where my daughter is."
[I will guide you to the last location received by Lee Yuna-nim.]
The navigation turned on the smartphone screen, and a dark arrow appeared from her current location.
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Peogeok - !
"Critical Shot~!"
With the swung blade, the skull of the scary-looking skeleton shattered helplessly, and all the bones that had been standing scattered across the floor.
"Eek! Get away!!"
Pagak!
Behind me, a terrified Eun-ju kicked the skeleton's pelvis (it's level 1), and the skeleton's pelvis flew several meters and rolled across the floor. Naturally, the rest of the bones collapsed, and Eun-ju was stomping on those bones hard.
"<<Sword Dance: Heaven-Breaking Sword>>"
Yuna-ssi, who uses a 'Sword', smashed the skeletons with her sword technique.
"Hap~! Strike~~!"
Sora-nuna, our team's 'Healer', was swinging her staff like a baseball bat and smashing skulls.
Hmm...
As expected, this dungeon is too easy for us.
The first group of skeletons we encountered after entering the dungeon was six, and we were able to defeat them easily without even using my crowd-control skill, <<It is My Presence>>. Even Eun-ju, whom I was slightly worried about, was able to kick them to pieces, so...
"Wow! I leveled up!"
"There are no items. Let's loot."
Sora-nuna and Yuna-ssi started picking up the scattered bones.
Come to think of it, it's convenient since they're bones, right? You just have to pick them up. Even if they look a bit gruesome.
"Ah. You only need to bring the shinbones. The rest aren't worth much."
"Eh- is that so?"
"Yes. You can get about 6 dollars per 1kg of shinbone. Usually, one side weighs about 1.5~2kg. You can make powder from the other bones too, but shinbones are the best."
I see.
Then I just need to take the thickest and biggest ones, right?
We collected the shinbones and shoved them all into a robot bag called an 'Inventory'.
"But at this rate, we could make a fortune just by living here, right? 6 dollars per 1kg... that means 4,800 dollars when this is full. Even if we split it among four people, that's 1,200 dollars each."
And I'll take whatever Eun-ju gets, hehe.
"That's right. Usually, skeletons are quite tricky monsters because they have scary appearances and high attack power... but this is too easy."
"At this rate, shouldn't we be able to go to Manhattan?"
"Phew... but that place is..."
Yuna-ssi hesitated for a moment.
"It's not just the monsters; it's a neighborhood where people are the scariest thing."
"Hey. What do we have to be scared of? Our attack and defense power won't even be comparable."
"...Still, top-tier adventurers can have stats near 20,000. If they attack together... we don't know what might happen to us."
"Hmm... then..."
I hugged the waists of Yuna-ssi and Sora-nuna, who were worrying.
"Eek! What are you doing...!"
"Oh my."
"We can just go in 3 months."
"What do you mean...?"
In 3 months, the cooldown for the <<Emperor Game>> will end.
Perhaps she realized it late, as Yuna-ssi's face turned red. Hehe. Cute. Should I ask to do it today?
"By then, our attack and defense power will be over 100,000. Honestly, no matter how much they attack together or land a critical hit... with that kind of difference, wouldn't the damage just be 0?"
"W-well, that's true, but..."
"So don't worry. Besides, stats..."
I whispered in her ear.
"You can raise them by having sex with me too."
Whoosh!
Her neck to her ears turned bright red.
"Sh-shut up!"
Yuna-ssi wriggled cutely and escaped my embrace. Hehe. She's been so cute lately.
I like her cold expression, but I like those reactions too. Maybe it's because of the affection level.
"Hmm~ It goes up even if we have sex?"
Sora-nuna leaned in slightly.
"Yes. The Sex Appeal stat... rises with a certain probability every time we share a relationship. Hehe."
I stroked Sora-nuna's butt.
Ah. It feels good no matter when I touch it.
"Want to do it today?"
"...Should I go?"
Just as Sora-nuna was exuding Sex Appeal, Yuna-ssi came over, separated us, and walked away with long strides, leaving behind a command to follow quickly.
Could it be...
"Jealousy?"
"No way."
Sora-nuna doesn't believe it.
If the affection level is over 70, isn't it plausible?
"Well... let's go. It's just a taste, but we should fill up our pockets today too, right?"
"Yes."
And so, the great hunt began.
Pagak!
Peogeok!
Puck!
Ppeong!
Pjujik!
Kwang!
Kwagwang!
Ppeoeok!
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"Phew..."
Sora-nuna wiped the sweat from her forehead and gave a refreshing smile.
"It feels like I've exercised~"
"...Have some."
"Ah, thank... you."
When Eun-ju handed her a drink, she spoke politely, still feeling awkward.
"It's already full."
The hunting time was about 6 hours.
Perhaps because it's not a very popular hunting ground, skeletons were scattered everywhere we went, and we were able to collect this many byproducts in a short time.
"That place earlier was the jackpot. I was surprised that 50 of them were swarming there."
"If you go to a C-class dungeon, there are places where hundreds of slimes swarm. Even top-tier guilds can't touch those places. There are one or two such places in every dungeon."
Oh? If so?
"Hey! We should hunt there! We don't have to walk around; we can just rest, wait for them to respawn, catch them, and repeat."
"Hmm... that's true, but..."
If that were possible, we wouldn't need to walk around so diligently. And... we wouldn't need to carry only one Inventory. They pile up so much, these bones.
"And that thing about grinding the bones to make Mana Powder, how much does that sell for? Can it be processed inside the dungeon?"
"There's something called a portable grinder. But it only works if you manually inject mana into it, and you have to keep holding it, and it drains your energy, so it's inconvenient in many ways. And it's expensive."
"Oh... so how much is Mana Powder?"
"...If you grind 1kg of shinbone, it separates into regular bone powder and Mana Powder, and you get about 1g of Mana Powder. That's 10 dollars."
"Wow... so... if you can grind shinbones while continuously injecting mana, you can get more anyway, right? You can just throw away the regular bone powder."
I stared blankly at Eun-ju.
She turned her head away as if afraid for a moment, but soon volunteered(?) to do it herself.
"...."
It's called volunteering, but since it's practically my threat, unpleasant glares are stuck to the back of my head.
But it doesn't matter, right? She has sins she committed too.
"How long does it take?"
"It takes quite a while to do it in bulk. It's manual, after all..."
"The price is..."
"10,000 dollars."
"Whoa..."
"But it's semi-permanent, so if you do it properly, you can break even."
"Then shall we buy that and process it?"
"Phew... you..."
Yuna-ssi tried to say something but shook her head from side to side.
"Well, okay. Let's get out for today. Since the Inventory is full."
What was she trying to say?
"Hey. Did you level up a lot?"
On the way out, Sora-nuna asked in a friendly manner.
Come to think of it, if I ran around this much in a D-class dungeon, I must have leveled up quite a bit, right?
<Status Window>
Name: Yu-eun
Job: Crown Prince of the Glans
Alignment: Neutral~Evil
Level 28
Health 124,491
Mana 103,611
[Stats]
Strength 77
Agility 97
Intelligence 30
Luck 67
Sexual Desire 12,383
Virility 10,332
Charm 66
Sex Appeal Increase Rate 83%
Elegance Increase Rate 149%
Bunjo Increase Rate 5%
Critical Chance 145%
Critical Damage 1160%
Attack Speed 5%
Attack Power 51,658
Defense Power 61,915
Oh, I'm level 28! But the attack power didn't go up as much as I thought. No, it must have gone up a lot, but is the <<Emperor Game>> impact too strong?
"I'm level 28."
"Oh. I'm level 34~."
"Wow. At this rate, our names will be known soon, right?"
"Yeah. Maybe we'll even appear on TV later? You know, among celebrities, there are those kinds of people. People who debuted as high-level adventurers and then went down that career path entirely."
"Ah. Surely the person named 'Lara' is also a former adventurer, right?"
"Yes."
"She was really pretty."
It's not a lie; they say that actor is truly beautiful. They say that if you see her in person, it feels like everything else besides her is just deleted. I want to see her once. And if I can...
Tap.
"Thinking lewd thoughts?"
"Ack..."
"It's written all over your face. You pervert."
Nuna grabbed my nose and shook it.
By the time we arrived at the dungeon entrance, we faced an enormous situation.
"Lee Yuna."
I can swear. She is the prettiest and most fatal woman I have ever seen in person in my life.
Such a woman was glaring at us with a terrifyingly cold expression... and I got hard... just from her gaze, I got hard...
"...M-mom...!"
Yuna-ssi was flustered.
The woman, presumed to be Yuna-ssi's mother, took off her sunglasses with style and said.
"How dare you hang up the phone? How rude."