chapter 551
551 – Unintentional Fascination
‘What kind of bug is it?’
If you eat blue manatide without proper processing, it has the terrible side effect of losing your sense of taste for several weeks.
It is known that only special hunters born with the characteristics of a ‘chef’ can cleanly treat the area that causes such side effects.
I heard that the blue manatid has a toxin tube that only they can see, but this was something I couldn’t even sense with my senses.
‘But isn’t this the toxin?’
A dependable manatid that is just twice the size of the Daebanggeo.
There were exactly six bugs wriggling around on the guy’s body.
‘The toxin tube refers to these parasites. But why does this suddenly appear?’
Paralarak-
‘They are running away to survive somehow.’
This is a truly amazing creature, a parasite that cannot be detected by my senses, and I thought that the fact that it was only now visible to me was due to the influence of becoming a small incarnation of Irmana.
‘If I just remove this, I can just eat it. Wow – this is really delicious as a snack with soju. aaah! Why can’t I feel the sense of taste? I wonder!!’
[Coldness]
‘Hmm…’
– This is ‘Blue Manatid’, in which the fatal toxin has not been removed.
This message will appear for fish that have not yet been poisoned, so you can test it later to see if it will change if you remove it.
‘I need to watch Yeonhui eat or something. ‘Would you like to eat fibrin too?’
– Puha! Alpha, shall we move right away?
Nod-
While I was lost in random thoughts, the hunters who had completed maintenance began to stand up one by one.
– Okay, me too~
– Resting here won’t be enough, so let’s move on to the next point.
Perhaps because they are hunters who say they can fly for a long time, they seemed to have gained a lot of confidence after leaving the first difficult hunting ground.
– Anyway, I was very impressed by the skills you showed at the beginning of the battle. Teacher Alpha.
‘I’m not old enough to listen to the teacher…’
– I thought I had a lot of experience, but this is my first time seeing such large-scale binding ability. Really! Wow! As it unfolded, it unfolded and said, “Pababak!!” While doing this, the net is tight!!
‘Don’t put strange chuims in it.’
– Thanks to you, I was able to successfully complete my first underwater battle. To be honest, I still can’t get used to it…
– Actually, rather than a battle, it felt like a one-sided Tooka fan. Because the monsters’ bodies exploded from the start and they were injured. Right?
– That’s right. ‘Gun’ told me to grow up and come back, but I think it would be a bit difficult if I go too comfortably.
– Haha, because accomplishing the mission comes first. Please be kind to me. Alpha.
‘······.’
Rather, after the first battle, the beastmen seemed to have greater trust in me.
– But the skill you used for the first time… May I ask how long the cooldown is…?
‘Huh? Cool time…? The message didn’t appear.’
It was my first time using the skill, so I couldn’t say I didn’t know. When I quietly closed my eyes and observed the flow of magic power, I had an intuition that I could use it right away.
Still, there was a risk that the information about me would be overly exaggerated when using such a large-scale skill and there was no cooldown, so I held out one finger.
‘Wouldn’t it take about ten minutes?’
However, a rabbit named Arang, who has a similar face and name to Arin, seems to accept one finger differently.
– Huh?! Only an hour?!
– Huh? Really? You can use that crazy skill 24 times a day? Are you kidding?
– That doesn’t make sense…
‘No… It’s possible to use it, but it’s hard to maintain it… Ugh, it’s frustrating. Should I just use mimicry?’
However, if you turn into a humanoid, breathing and other things become troublesome.
How comfortable is the skeleton’s body?
I shrugged my shoulders at the prisoners who were making a fuss and made a gesture that it was no big deal.
– Wow, you’re so cool.
– Swag- something like that?
-Shh! Be quiet!
‘··· I don’t know, anyway, as long as I don’t get my identity discovered. By the way, isn’t that person staring too intently?’
For some reason, I was concerned about the tiger beastman looking at me with meaningful eyes.
‘Tiger Beast… I had no relationship with you, so why are you acting like that?’
If you had participated in the battle to subdue the Devouring Creeper and watched me fight, you might have gotten some hints, but in my memory, there was no one like that in the battle to subdue the great monster.
‘Especially, there was no such incompetent type.’
It makes you wonder if a tiger beastman, who is said to have both the agility of a rabbit beastman and the strength of a bear beastman, could do that.
We set out straight away.
Perhaps because the scale of the first battle was large, everyone slowed down their movement speed a little to ensure stable recovery of magical power.
Bugle- Bugle-
– Oh, surprise!
– Stop flinching in front of me!
– No, because air bubbles suddenly rise. I thought it was a ‘Krylochian’.
‘Krylochian… He’s a pain in the ass too.’
A stealth type that hides itself between rocks.
When a target approaches, they attract the suction cups on their long, elongated front feet, pull them into their hiding place, and then suck out body fluids alive.
Since a lot of air bubbles rise from where they are hiding, they say it is not that difficult to find them, but that was nonsense.
‘These guys are so good at hiding that even my senses can faintly detect them. This is why you have to experience it in real life.’
Naturally, the information circulating in the hunter community is less reliable as it relates to higher-level dungeons.
The rising bubbles must have been a warning sign, and soon a krillochian was found.
‘It’s big… It’s not at the level of sucking out bodily fluids, it’s just swallowing it up.’
As I pretended not to notice and approached where it was, I could clearly sense the unique shape of the monster, which seemed to be a combination of the lower body of a cockroach and the head of an octopus.
Sussssseu-
It raised its front paws, curled up its suction cups like a praying mantis, and then shot its flexible paws in my direction.
‘The elasticity is incredible. Still, it’s about this much!’
Up-!
– Squeak?!
‘Come here!!’
As soon as I grabbed his leg, I snatched it upward and lifted it up.
The power of Strength 805 was so great that it was able to pull out a ‘Krylochian’ as big as a huge rock in one go.
– Sting!!
Surprisingly, he used the force of being pulled out by me and rushed at me.
– Be careful!!
Krylochian completely surrounds my body at the same time as someone shouts.
Without hesitation, he thrust dozens of legs into my body, and at that moment, I could see that he was started.
‘You didn’t know there were only bones, right?’
– What?!!
[Abyss Stance]
Pupupupupupup!!
– ?!!
Activating the newly acquired skill, dozens of blades were released and the creature’s body was torn apart.
‘It’s so tough! I can’t eat it.’
[Thunderhorn]
It’s a joke!!
When the bone spear was stabbed with electric compresses for almost 3 minutes, Krylochian lost strength and collapsed to the floor.
‘Haha, normal attacks take a while. I’ll just go with this.’
[Frosted enamel]
Seogeogeokkeuk──!!
Ice formed in the direction the great sword passed and flowers bloomed.
– Killed ‘Krylochian’ for the first time!
– The attribute [Kleptomania] Is activated!
– The skill [Sea Bug Vampire] Has been acquired! It has been fused with the skill [Living Blood Dramatization]!
– The blood absorption speed of the skill [Living Blood Polarization] Increases, and the increase due to blood absorption increases.
– Acquired the trait [Deep Sea Raider].
– The achievement [Pioneer] Is activated.
– All abilities increase by 2 each!
– The attribute [Deep Sea Raider] Is fused with [Stealth]!
– The attribute [Stealth] Becomes a little more stealthy!
‘Hoo… They’re both fused together. Well, not bad. I like the improved stealth the most. Now we can secretly approach the Blue Manatid, right?’
Rather than continuing to acquire new abilities, merging them with existing abilities often led to better results.
Hehe… A monster that brings about the right amount of tension. I like places where this kind of tension is maintained.’
– Hey, are you okay?!
She lightly raised her hand to Arang, who asked about my well-being with a worried face.
– Phew… Shall we stand at the forefront together?
I’m saying this out of consideration for myself, but it’s a specification. It’s cumbersome.
I gave a hand signal and instructions to move again.
‘Ah, I have to take care of the body.’
Inedible by-products are usually not stored because they only take up space.
The other prisoners tilted their heads as they watched me taking care of the trash.
‘I’m going to grow a sanctuary and next time I’ll definitely lock it inside.’
With that promise, I moved forward vigorously.
*
When Ilwol catches ‘Krylochian’ and starts moving again.
Nam Ho-yeol, the tiger beast, was lost in thought as he quietly watched him from behind.
‘It feels very similar to the summoned beast that Minjeong mentioned…’
Yoo Min-jeong, who played a decisive role in capturing the first Escaron in the Great Monster Devouring Creeper subjugation battle.
Nam Ho-yeol, the tiger beast, belonged to the same guild as Yu Min-jeong, and he had seen him since he was young, so he heard many stories about the subjugation war.
‘You said you showed continuous growth during the battle. It handles a lot of attribute skills… In particular, binding with a huge chain made of flames is almost similar to the water binding we saw earlier.’
Moreover, he is a tall man wearing full body armor, and the material of the armor is something we have never seen before.
‘And it is crucial that he is not a pure human…’
Nam Ho-yeol, who has a special ability to identify non-human beings, was able to know.
So, as I thought about various conditions, my thoughts kept going in that direction.
‘Whew – I don’t believe it, but if it’s clear that summoned animals can roam around alone… Hunter Lee Yeonhee could become a really dangerous being.’
If there is a being that can individually move and activate hundreds or thousands of summons, it should already be viewed as an army-level hunter rather than a single individual.
‘The woman with such a monster under her command is she a B-class hunter? ‘
She’s not even funny.
I don’t know why she is hiding her power, but there is a great need to pay attention to Lee Yeon-hee.
‘Father always said that beings with excessive power should be restrained. But since it’s not an area I can do right now, I’ll just have to provide information. The priority is to get out of here safely.’
The party members, including him, had to complete the mission given by the transcendent ‘Sangun’ within the deadline.
It is said that if you succeed in this, you can join the journey to the first home where beastmen thrived.
‘I was giving up halfway because the mission conditions were too extreme… But we are really lucky.’
The condition was to party with beings that were not purely human.
What he meant was to form a party made up of only beastmen, but with a different interpretation of that, he ended up bringing in that weirdo who uses the pseudonym ‘Alpha’.
‘We have to somehow reach the third hunting ground and catch that guy. For that to happen, I absolutely need the help of that being wearing full body armor. Let’s not get caught observing.’
Nam Ho-yeol has no idea that he has already been caught.
-Mr. Hoyeol! What are you thinking! Catch up quickly!
– Ah, yes!! Sorry!
When Nam Ho-yeol composed himself and took his eyes off Il-wol, Arang, who was in charge of the party, was feeling a strange charm towards Il-wol.
‘A man with a strange smell who quietly concentrates on his work His… He has good skills… And is also secretly considerate. He is also a benefactor who saved our lives.’
Perhaps, when we first met, he was already attracted to the man in full body armor.
She followed Ilwol diligently, thinking that once the dungeon exploration was completed safely, she would at least ask him for her contact information.
*
‘Why does it feel like there are additional heated gazes…’
It may have been trust in me, but it also felt a little burdensome. It was also a difficult dungeon for me, so I felt even more responsible.