Chapter 15
Chapter 15
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Translator: penny
Chapter: 15
Chapter Title: Enlightenment, Manual Labor is Not Easy
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“Pure bliss… This is pure bliss.”
I, Han Sa-byeok, had achieved a truly monumental enlightenment.
A bed is not furniture.
A bed is…
Squish!
A slime.
“No way, for real.”
If someone asked me what the best bed in the world is,
I’d answer without a moment’s hesitation: a Giant Pudding Slime.
Squish!
Its soft surface perfectly cradled my weight.
This must be what the ultimate memory foam mattress feels like.
My entire body felt soaked in fluffiness.
And as a bonus, perfect temperature control.
It was total addiction. Pure drugs.
If a weak-willed person lay down here, they might never get up.
They’d slowly sink into the slime’s embrace…
And meet the end in utter happiness.
But who am I?
The guy who’s undergone marrow cleansing and shed his mortal body twice—something even most martial world experts only manage once.
Quitting something like this is easier than eating cake.
“Okay. That’s enough.”
Snap.
I hopped right off the Giant Slime.
Thud thud!
Fortunately, it seemed satisfied with our intimate contact, sending up a subtle rumble in response.
“Hey now! No following. Stay here quietly.”
Thud…! Thud…!
It protested, but there was nothing to be done.
Honestly, I wanted to use it as a bed too, but we had to face reality.
‘It’s too damn big.’
Even getting it into my rooftop room was questionable.
Thud!
As if reading my mind, its eyes sparkled.
“So… because it’s a slime, it could squeeze through tight spaces using its elasticity?”
The liquid cat theory does make slimes seem capable of that.
Thud!
“Still no.”
Even if it could get in… that’s when the real problems would start.
How would my tiny rooftop room accommodate this thing?
If it started jumping out of habit, oh my god.
My rooftop room would instantly become a pile of rubble, total devastation, utter annihilation… and so on.
“Stay put. I’ll bring food later.”
I patted the Giant Slime’s cheek to soothe it, then picked up the basket.
The heavy basket was filled with fragments it had just produced. By eye, the output felt higher than before fusion.
Does that mean fusion is the right long-term direction?
‘But it’s so huge, the warehouse could probably only hold two at most.’
Creak.
I’d think about expanding the barracks later. Blind expansion would just lead to another four-drone disaster.
For now, quality mattered. Quality.
No point in ramping up production if the quality sucked.
“Hmm.”
I pulled out one fragment and prayed silently.
Please, let me never have to disassemble it back into ten again.
Prayer done, I grabbed the elite test agent dedicated to Molrangtori.
Whiiiir!
An electric drill.
A brand-new one I’d just bought, with output I absolutely loved.
“Let’s see how tough you really are.”
Squish…!
Molrang and Molcang, who’d been sleeping, jolted awake at my shout and fled somewhere.
But I didn’t stop.
Whiiiir!
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[EMERGENCY EMERGENCY EMMMMERGEENNNCCCY!!!][Posted by: DragonRaiserWannabe]
Guys, we’re in deep shit.
I seriously made something insane, what do I do???;;
This is legit code red.
-Lmao, thought you’d gone quiet for a week
-Fuck, makes me wanna curse
└Let’s spam him
└What if we get blacklisted tho
└Sucks but yeah
└Son of a bitch
-Yeah it’s OP af so just one inventory pls
-Stop spamming and crank out more stock
[DragonRaiserWannabe boutta get MURDERED LMAO][Posted by: WhatIsThisShit]
DragonRaiser, you’re right here. Just grab the assholes who liked this and beat ‘em.
-What a psycho
-Yeah right, like that’ll get you inventory~
-Likes are piling up fine, but 77 dislikes?? Wtf
└Obvious, the ones who got inventory are disliking
└Fuck that pisses me off
└You’d do it too if you got one
└Lmao true
Lately, I’ve been feeling it.
Maybe I’ve gotten too famous in the hunter community.
Every time I post, the beggar comments flood in, turning into bait for a avalanche of reply threads.
Which naturally lets me know.
The time is approaching.
When I’ll leave this main gallery behind and fully migrate to my own.
I’ll make a free tab or something later and play there from then on.
‘But until then, I’ll keep grinding here.’
Of course, right now I had no time to browse the community.
Because I’d done something huge.
That’s why I posted there too.
“Phew…”
Today marked five days since facing the Giant Pudding Slime.
Right as reports started trickling in from the 100 testers.
That’s when I discovered it.
Slide.
I picked up a fragment with my left hand. From the Giant Pudding Slime, obviously.
Same with my right hand.
Up until now, the fragments were completely independent entities. No merging or splitting possible, ever.
“…”
I swallowed dryly and slowly brought my hands together.
The two fragments touched.
Squish!
They resisted fiercely, pushing against each other—
Pop!
Then accepted it all, smoothly fusing.
“Whoa…”
It became one entity, about 20% bigger than original size.
The crazy part? Using it like this doubled the capacity exactly.
It handled 100kg without issue.
I’d tested it by feeding it tons of junk from my rooftop room.
Room’s a total wasteland now… but results are results, so okay.
And it didn’t stop there.
Squish!
Triple and quadruple merges worked fine too, and disassembly restored singles perfectly.
“…”
Knowing all that, I had no choice but to post on the community.
Major upgrade success before official sales even started.
If this isn’t OP, what is?
Ding!
SoloPlayerLover: Dude. You sure nothing’s up?
Right on cue, contact from my reliable assistant… the test agent rivaling the electric drill in performance.
SoloPlayerLover.
Solid worker. Lives up to the nick perfectly.
The type who does the whole group project solo?
Professors love ‘em for a reason.
·DragonRaiserWannabe: Yeah, something’s up.
·SoloPlayerLover: ?????????
·SoloPlayerLover: For real?
·DragonRaiserWannabe: Made something insane again lol
·DragonRaiserWannabe: Sending manual, can you test?
·SoloPlayerLover: Fuuuuck lmao hell yeah.
·DragonRaiserWannabe: Sweet lol
Love the attitude.
Gonna give him a bonus at the next review.
A Pudding Slime pillow would be perfect.
Absolutely not a test unit. Anyway.
Squeeeak!
Packed ten fragments into a box.
Wonder if combining all ten hits 500kg?
The detailed answer would come from SoloPlayerLover’s report—always thesis-level stuff.
“Phew… okay, that’s done…”
Short break, but no time to rest.
Next up: prepping for official sales.
Two days ago, I nailed the HC Mark issuance clean.
Passed 49 out of 50 criteria perfectly!
The one fail? Risk if the user ingests the tool…
Do we really need to test that?
Who sane eats Molrangtori?
‘No way they actually tested eating it, right?’
Anyway, HC Mark needs 45 passes, so no issue.
Current Molrangtori: completely harmless to users.
Slap slap!
Started sticking the printed HC Marks (strong sticker type) on the official sales Molrangtori one by one.
“Ugly as sin.”
Just looking at the mark pisses me off.
Feels like I’m defiling my pure Molrangtori with my own hands. Hurts my heart.
Slap slap!
Norm is to put HC Mark on packaging, like a separate box…
Slap slap!
But this is best for me.
Fancy packaging? Nah, just bubble wrap, into shipping box, done.
“Hold on just a bit longer, guys. I’ll make bank soon and get you fancy packaging…”
Slap slap!
Still, things are going smooth for a business.
Normally, business registration, reporting, legal hassles galore.
But hunter community handled it all.
Like an agency.
Worth the 7 mil investment.
Skipped the tedium, registered address to them—no doxxing risk.
‘Talk about a sweet deal.’
No wonder big guilds use it too.
Though they do skim a % of sales, feels inevitable.
“Phew… finally done.”
Forty minutes later, slapped HC Marks on all 100 first-batch Molrangtori.
Now just pack ‘em in boxes and tape up.
A hundred empty boxes sat gaping, waiting.
“Ugh, hate this shit.”
Pure grunt work, zero fun.
I’ll tough out 100, but what about later?
Can’t sell millions and pack ‘em myself.
‘Hire some part-timers?’
But hiring randos has risks.
Molrangtori’s super special, y’know.
Plus my looks—hire someone, and my identity leaks worldwide instantly, I bet.
‘But using trusted ones like SoloPlayerLover or MasterEngraver…’
They’re already in high-value gigs: hunter and engraver.
Using them for grunt work? Insane waste.
They’d probably say no anyway.
Squish!
“You guys? But you don’t have hands… seems tough?”
Squish……
I petted the droopy duo while pondering.
Any good ideas?
A reliable, massive source of labor.
Ah.
Got it.