chapter 215
215 – Great Sword Quest. Start.
After all the hunters signed a pledge, the atmosphere became friendly for a moment.
Anyway, it was because we were now in the same boat, and in fact, what the other hunters were most worried about was that our party, a powerful force, would have bad feelings. Because that worry has disappeared.
“Thank you…!”
There was a hunter who even bowed deeply to us and expressed his gratitude. As we found out, he was a groom-to-be who was about to get married.
‘No, don’t come to a place like this right before your wedding.’
Of course, you have your own circumstances to make a living, but in these unstable times, you have to get married and do something.
‘…’
On the other hand, I was jealous.
Marriage… Has now become a word from a completely different world from me.
It would be more realistic to say that God would appear and send me to another world.
I swallowed a bitter smile and delivered the message I had in mind to Yeonhee.
“We… I think we can take a break for a while. Ilwol says he will stand guard with his summons and give a signal if anything happens.”
“Oh, is that okay?”
Yeonhee conveyed my intention to Yeom Tae-seok, and the rest of the hunters who heard the story were greatly pleased.
After spending all afternoon in Nargul’s dungeon, they were chased by a group of monsters led by a giant skull and fought for a long time.
Before I could finish the battle, I was chased by thousands of monsters again due to the closure of the dungeon, and ended up in a place I didn’t even know about, where I had to fight to the death with a bunch of dirty bats.
So you can’t help but feel tired.
No matter how much a hunter surpasses human limits, there is a limit to his physical strength.
Even the veteran Yeom Tae-seok could see his knees shaking, so it goes without saying that others would.
That’s why I made the suggestion first.
If you show yourself as a leader who cares for others, it will be easier for your party to gain an advantage when something unexpected happens.
“Everyone except the Orc and Lizard units go in and rest.”
Yeonhee summoned only a little less than 30 summons to maintain her magical power
Once she summons them, they will remain there unless her magic power runs out while she sleeps.
So she too can rest in peace.
“I’m sorry…”
Yeonhee seemed uncomfortable with me having my guard up and her taking a break.
I suggested it first and it would only last about two hours. Another useless worry…
“Tick, tick, tick!!”
I patted her head a few times and then started making her a bed.
In a reasonably wide open space, I took out the 10-person tent that I had previously received from Baek A-rin and placed in my inventory and set it up with my summons.
On the cold floor, where a chill could be seen rising, the big bore leather that had been compacted was spread out, and sleeping pads were placed one by one on top of it.
Thanks to Yeonhee’s overspending on her, which she wondered if there would be anything to spend it on, she couldn’t feel like she had enough to make a bed.
The tent was lightly covered with big bore leather spread as thinly as possible, completely blocking it from the outside.
‘This tent is really good. The support is also strong.’
One by one, I breathed a mixture of magic and sense into the leather covering the tent.
‘Wow… It’s hard…’
Consuming both magic power and senses at the same time was still tiring, but if you stay inside, you will be safe enough to take off your mask.
Right outside the tent where our party slept, the strongest summoned soldiers, Lizard No. 1, Deotto No. 1, No. 2, and Chehwa, were assigned to guard the tent.
The guys must have realized that they were entrusted with the important task of protecting Yeonhee, so they rolled their eyes and snarled at anyone who came even a little closer.
I nodded in satisfaction and took my place in the center of the summons placed at regular intervals.
“Wow, that’s almost a hotel?”
“Is that Big Bore leather covered on top of the tent…? It would be less cold if it was covered like that.”
“No… You always carry that amount with you? Is that possible? Where did you keep it?”
“It looks like summoned creatures can also use the inventory… I think I saw it taken out earlier.”
“Crazy…? The summoner is a real fraud, isn’t he?”
Since all the hunters were close together forming a circle around the tent, I could clearly hear what was being said.
Having a proper place to sleep in a cave like this is truly luxurious, and some hunters even asked if it was possible to sleep together in a tent.
‘Will it work?’
It was absolutely impossible.
When I shook my head strongly and summoned my magic, they returned to their seats and crumbled into their sleeping bags as if they had never done so before.
The ones currently standing guard are all Yeonhee’s summons.
The other hunters just looked at them in wonder and didn’t say anything more, and soon went to rest one by one.
“Wow… Thanks to Yeonhee, I’m able to do all these great things in the dungeon.”
“No… The tent belongs to Arin, and I didn’t do anything.”
“They didn’t do anything. They’re only able to stand guard because Yeonhee is there.”
“Well, that’s true, but… Actually, Ilwol is everything… “
Yeonhee scratched her cheek and glanced at me, as if she was very embarrassed to be praised, but she was actually right. We are nothing without Yeonhee.
“Hehe, this is… Such an embarrassingly undeserved treatment.”
After entering the nest that my summons and I created in an instant, our party members scratched the backs of their heads and then turned around and said to me.
“Ilwol, thank you!”
“Thank you~!”
“Thank you, Ilwol-gun.”
“Crack, crack, crack!”
They stood and hesitated for a moment and then slowly laid down. Perhaps because they were tired, they soon fell into a deep sleep.
Cool-
After confirming that everyone was completely asleep, I went outside and walked around the tent, focusing on the waves of sensation.
Although the door to the maze leading to the boss of this dungeon has not yet been opened, the beginning of a complex path divided into dozens or hundreds of branches can be clearly sensed beyond the closed wall.
If you defeat the bats, it will be unlocked at some point, but I’m not sure if it’s a condition of killing a certain number of people or if it just requires a certain amount of time to pass.
I was doing a round of reconnaissance, practicing converting the bone spikes on my left hand into different forms.
It was easy to stretch it long, but it just sprouted out in the form of thorns, and making it into a shape with edges on both sides like a sword was quite difficult. It seems like it takes up a lot of mental power.
What can I say… It’s easy to draw a circle, but it’s difficult to draw a perfect sphere. It was roughly like that.
‘It’s not that I’m lacking because I’m creating something that didn’t exist.’
In fact, proficiency was increasing rapidly.
By the time we completed the reconnaissance, the handle of the sword was realized in the palm of the hand, not the back of the hand.
Although it was a shape that was connected to the palm and the body as one body, I was satisfied with how it was implemented in a believable way.
Achievement achieved in just 10 minutes.
The message that control over thorns increased significantly after defeating the Giant Skull was not a lie.
A little over an hour passed like that.
At a time when I should have raised the tension by watching the bats starting to slowly flap their wings, I was suppressing laughter that was bursting out. I couldn’t actually laugh, but that’s how I felt.
‘If this is the case, the system can’t say anything, right?’
The nearly 1 meter long sword body held in my left hand, or rather, almost assimilated into my left hand, was clearly in the shape of a great sword. Although it looked extremely clunky…
The reason I was able to refine the shape much faster than I expected was mainly because I changed my thinking to a simple level.
Thinking about flattening the spine-shaped bone by pressing it up and down, the body of a sturdy double-edged sword was naturally created.
The tip and side blades of the sword were thick, so it was closer to a slashing weapon than a cutting one, but its shape was like a great sword.
‘… I’ll have to compare the difference in strength with the one I left to the blacksmith…’
It won’t be too late to try it out and decide what you will mainly use.
“Aaah! I slept well…”
Arin and Jooah were up first and warming up before they even woke up.
Although he still looked tired, it was truly amazing that he could sleep for more than an hour in this environment.
What makes that possible is, of course, thanks to the summons that are still glaring at the bats.
– Wow… What is that?…
– Damn… Even the sword is so bloody…
– Isn’t it a report that you’re carrying a great sword like that?
– It’s not a normal great sword… It looks like the hand has been deformed? Look carefully, it’s sticky.
Although it had a crooked shape as if the blade had gone out, most hunters still evaluated it as a great sword.
If my common sense is correct, I know that the system reflects such evaluation.
‘Good. I think it will work?’
“Ugh~ Ugh…”
I was the last to wake up and lightly caress Yeonhee’s cheek as she came out.
Yeonhee was still half asleep, so she rested her cheek against my touch as usual and looked up at me with blurry focus.
‘It’s cute.’
I kept stroking Yeonhee’s head without thinking.
I could feel Noh Hayun and Bae Jooah looking at us with envious eyes.
So, I pretended to stretch by leaning my arms back.
‘Soon, let’s go.’
After making Yeonhee sit next to Chehwa, I ran forward as if it were bouncing like a bullet leaving the barrel of a gun.
– Uh huh? Why is that kid like that?!
– Crazy? Are you really planning on fighting alone?
– Hwiyu~ Let’s take a look. I’ve been watching it from the canyon, but it moves quite a bit.
– Ugh… It seems like he’s much stronger than you, but that’s not quite right, is it? Why do you talk like a person above you?
– Hmm – I said that because if you look at your posture, you still look clumsy. That’s right…
The sound of the audience adding one word to another was gradually pushed to the back and could no longer be heard.
The bats on the ceiling held their babies back and flapped their wings, preparing to descend to meet me.
‘Come.’
– Defeat 10,000 enemies in one blow with a great sword. (0/10,000)
A quest that I couldn’t raise even a single level. I’m going to start now.
Para la la la rock──!
Thousands of hooked bats are once again aiming for my neck. They form one single creature, and they come crashing down on me like waves. That gigantic flow had an absurd mass and contained persistent and sticky malice, so my heart sank colder than ever.
‘Whoo─’
I firmly supported the handle of the greatsword that was sticking out of my left hand with my right hand and swung it with all my might at the guys flying in to devour me.
Then the sword swung sideways and the bat colony clashed hotly.
Kkujijijijijijit─!
The posture was an act of cutting, but the sound was heard closer to the act of simply crushing and exploding the bats.
Puff puff puff puff—!
The power of the great sword alone was not enough to deal with them, so in the end, magic had to be used as well.
But.
– Defeat 10,000 enemies in one blow with a great sword. (17/10,000)
‘… That’s it, that’s it! It went up! Haha – it’s done!’
It is now possible to proceed with the quest with a greatsword made of real bone. That was the only thing that mattered to me now.