Chapter 208
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Translator: 8uhl
Chapter: 208
Chapter Title: ???
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A dungeon with no name displayed.
The dungeon was a vast, empty plain.
Barren land without a single blade of grass.
Nothing here?
No monsters at all.
To prepare for any possible monster ambush, Ha-jin and Deok-gu heightened their senses to the max.
Its fine, I told you.
Jeong Hoon strode forward confidently.
An endless plain stretched out.
Even after walking for nearly an hour, the scenery hadnt changed at all.
It felt like they were walking in circles forever.
What is this?
Feels like were looping the same spot. Am I the only one?
What kind of honey pot is even here?
This makes no sense?
The viewers were starting to voice their boredom too.
Well, staring at the same thing for an hour would bore anyone.
Still, the viewer count was rising.
Theyd seen enough already to not give up on the hype so easily.
Were here.
Jeong Hoon finally stopped.
Here?
Theres nothing here?
Ha-jin and Deok-gu tilted their heads.
This is it. Right in the center of the dungeon.
If he maxed out his senses, he could detect mana flowing from the dungeons center.
It was so faint, though, you wouldnt notice without focusing.
Whats here?
Finally!
Lol, nothing would be hilarious
No way it was nothing.
Jeong Hoon raised his pickaxe high and slammed it into the ground.
Crack.
Cracks began spiderwebbing across the dry earth, spreading rapidly.
Rumble.
The ground shook like an earthquake.
Wha what?!
What the hell!
Ha-jin and Deok-gu panicked.
Crack. Rumble.
A massive sinkhole opened right under where Jeong Hoon, Ha-jin, and Deok-gu stood, swallowing them whole.
Aaah!
Gaaah!
Ha-jin and Deok-gu turned pale and screamed.
.
Jeong Hoons face remained perfectly calm.
Thanks to the stream settings, their faces were blurred anyway, so viewers couldnt see their expressions.
Gasp!
WTF
Sinkhole?! What?!
The sinkholes depth defied imagination.
It took almost five seconds of falling before they hit bottom.
Everyone okay?
Jeong Hoon checked on Ha-jin and Deok-gu after landing.
The two had landed awkwardly and were clutching their arms and legs, groaning.
Ow whys it so deep?
Ugh if we had normal bodies, wed be dead already.
Jeong Hoon handed them potions and scanned the surroundings.
Ahead was the entrance to a mine.
Found the mine.
Comments exploded at his words.
Whoa a mine here?
Insane thought it was totally empty.
Honey pot incoming lol
Ha-jin and Deok-gu gawked at the mine entrance.
Whoa! Its real?!
If theres an entry restriction even without monsters, something huge must be hidden, right?
Maybe because of the stream.
They were extra hyped.
Jeong Hoon grinned and nodded.
Probably.
Deok-gu was spot on.
A ghost dungeon with entry restrictions.
Unfamiliar now, but soon players would go crazy hunting for these.
No monsters meant almost zero risk of death, and hidden honey pots meant big rewards were possible.
Hobbyists who never played New World had stumbled into ghost dungeons by chance, skyrocketed to second job change, and snagged legendary items.
This isnt one of those, but its keyitll reveal that grades above legendary exist.
Jeong Hoon gripped his pickaxe and entered the mine.
The interior was bright because the embedded ores emitted their own energy.
You might mistake it for radioactive material, but it was pure mana.
Mana 1.
Mana 1.
Just entering raised his mana stat.
Mana from the air seeped in with every breath, circulating rapidly through his lungs and accumulating in his body.
Whoa manas going up!
This is insane.
Ha-jin and Deok-gu were floored.
Comments went wild too.
XylitolFan donated 100,000 won.
-Tell us the location? Ill donate another million!
BlueSkyDonor donated 200,000 won.
-Please tell us Im a newbie dying to boost mana.
Donations first.
Ugh, live streams never reveal spots, so frustrating;;
For real. Just drop the coords.
Whoa;; Dizzy.
Thats high blood pressure lol
Even comments were in chaos.
But Jeong Hoon wasnt spilling here.
Ill reveal the location when the video uploads.
He ignored the exploding comments after that.
We mine these ores?
Ha-jin raised his pickaxe toward a glowing mineral.
Jeong Hoon shook his head.
Dont mine those carelessly.
Dont?
Ha-jin blinked.
They looked extraordinary.
So he figured mining them was the goal.
Theres a mining limit. Waste it blindly, and youll regret it.
A limit?
Yeah.
The honey pot Jeong Hoon was unpacking was designed for multiple people.
Each player gets exactly five chances.
Mining attempts.
Success gets you the ore, but failure deducts a chance anyway.
Hit zero, and youre ejectedno re-entry.
So pick the best ones.
Chances are fair, but ores arent.
High-value ones are rarefirst come, first served.
Mining here would be a total loss.
They were just at the entrance.
Couldnt burn chances yet.
Needed to go deep, pick the priciest carefully.
Lets go.
Jeong Hoon led the way.
Three hours in the mine.
Jeong Hoon hadnt mined a single orejust kept walking.
Ha-jin and Deok-gu had to keep chattering nonstop.
Haha, so yesterday, this happened.
Whoa! That mustve been hilarious?!
Because of the viewers.
Fuck, you honey clowns, we dont care about that crap?
Told you to open the honey pot, you open a shit pot instead.
At least tell fun stories lol this is pure trash;;
Reactions were ice cold.
So boring, even Honey 2 and 3 were told to leave.
What do we do?
Bro help us.
They finally SOSd Jeong Hoon up ahead.
Okay! Right here.
As if on cue, Jeong Hoon stopped.
A wall blocked the path.
Theyd reached the end.
Bro? Nothing here.
The problem: no ores in sight.
Thats why I brought this pickaxe.
Jeong Hoon raised it high and smashed the wall.
Crunch.
The wall crumbled bit by bit.
Lets dig too.
Ha-jin mimicked him, pickaxing away.
Yeah.
Deok-gu joined in, gasping in awe.
No effort at all.
Top-grade pickaxe auto-corrected, naturally.
Crunch.
They kept digging, and ores slowly emerged.
This is?!
Ha-jins eyes bulged.
It was a reinforcement stone.
Celestial Reinforcement Stone
-Reinforces Celestial-grade equipment.
-Drop: Low chance from bosses Lv.500.
-Success rate: 2 (all enhancements applied)
-50 chance equipment destroys on failure.
A Celestial-grade reinforcement stone.
Huh? Celestial?
Whats that??
Wait! Thats a new grade?!
New grade?
Jeong Hoon grinned.
Dont mine that.
Dont?
Yeah. No equipment to reinforce anyway. No need.
It was surfacingmission accomplished.
Viewers now knew grades above legendary existed.
Time to drop upgrade info.
Jeong Hoon sped up his digging.
More ores appeared.
Top-grade Energy Condensate Stone
Unique Reinforcement Stone
Legendary Engraving Stone
Variety galore.
But Jeong Hoon skipped them, digging empty wall.
After ages, a pure white glowing ore emerged.
There it is.
Jeong Hoon stopped, murmuring blankly.
Celestial Engraving Stone
-Engraved with heavenly power.
-Upgrades equipment below Legendary (fully enhanced) with these rates:
-Legendary: 50 (1 required)
-Unique: 0.005 (5 required)
-Epic: 0.000001 (20 required)
-Rare: 0 (impossible)
-Normal: 0 (impossible)
-99 chance equipment destroys on failure.
-Equipment must be fully enhanced.
Celestial Engraving Stone.
Upgrades Legendary gear to Celestial.
Jeong Hoon started mining it.
Even his Unique-grade pickaxe struggled.
It was lodged tight.
Knew it.
Celestial Engraving Stone.
Requires Unique-grade mining gear minimum.
Using Forced Mining.
Needed a skill to extract.
Celestial Engraving Stone acquired.
Skill deployed, success.
Got it.
The mines sole Celestial Engraving Stone was his.
After mining it, Jeong Hoon ended the stream.
Enough honey potted.
He mined extra Celestial Reinforcement Stones after.
Unneeded for Ha-jin, but essential for him.
Then they all dug Top-grade Energy Condensate Stones together.
Mana up 16 just getting here.
All low-to-mid condensates.
But these boosted all stats.
Only 30 totalmust-haves.
Mom can come after we leave.
Wanted her with, but Hoyoung duties split them.
Hoon, got 3 Energy Condensates and 2 Legendary Engraving Stones.
Me too!
Legendary Engraving Stones: only about 8 total, rare as hell.
Good job. Time to head out.
Mining done on his order.
Just tell Min-ji and Mom back at base.
But 14 users waited at the exit.
What?
Jeong Hoon blinked.
Killing intent rolled off them.
Aimed straight at him.
Didnt seem like stream followers.
Ah, Shinwa.
Hed memorized their faces fighting Sa Jae-hyeok in the siegesix mixed in.
You bastard. Knew you killed our guild master.
Time to pay.
They recognized him too.
Tense standoff.
Contracted with a Transcendent, huh.
Knowing he killed Sa Jae-hyeok meant theyd inked a deal.
They were Incarnations.
Jeong Hoon drew Anima.
If you can.
Couldnt let Incarnations slide.
He nocked an arrow, aiming at the frontliner.