Awakened as a Money-Spending Genius Enhancer - Chapter 115
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Episode 115
Chapter 115. Hornets Go, Boom Boom!
Northern Gyeonggi, Goman-dong.
Seo Mi-do’s Research Laboratory.
Through the bulletproof window enchanted with external vision blocking magic, a beautiful Stone Golem stands leisurely in the distance.
Having completely eliminated all approaching northern monsters.
There are few moments in a day when it needs to move from its position.
Seo Mi-do is similarly stationary.
“Hwaaa!”
Stretch.
Being shorter than others, her stretches are also somewhat short.
“Alba, wait just a moment. In 10 minutes, the compositional analysis of the rock that makes you will be complete. Then I’ll understand even the microscopic crystal grains! Repair preparations complete~!”
The special golem that has been listening to her monologues for days.
Alba also understood the experiment’s contents.
– Then, you’ll be able to develop materials identical to my rock composition and produce replacement parts.
“That’s right! Smart Alba~! Hwaang~! I’m so, so reluctant to send you back!”
Despite Seo Mi-do’s clinging, Alba puffed out his chest and said this.
– This Alba exists only for Master! I must quickly return to Master and fight for Master.
“What fighting~!”
Pfft.
Chuckling softly, Seo Mi-do said.
“Your Master probably won’t be going anywhere for a while~? Just the experiment with me alone is an incredible achievement!”
One trillion.
Not only did he receive massive government funding as if it were natural without any conflict.
Land Purification!
He even learned that he could wield the power of ‘Terraforming’.
“He’s not someone starving for anything, so where would he go?”
Hunters are ‘performance-based animals’.
Once they achieve their individual standard of ‘performance’, they’re likely to collapse from exhaustion.
It would be fortunate if they didn’t fall into burnout and hole up somewhere drinking.
‘Of course, the Genius Enhancer seemed to have much stronger mental fortitude than that.’
“Anyway! He should rest peacefully for at least two or three weeks~?”
Just as Seo Mi-do finished saying that,
Bzzing, bzzing.
A phone call comes in.
“?”
The caller ID displayed on the mobile phone screen was─
[Genius Enhancer]
“…No way, surely not.”
Seo Mi-do was dismayed, but.
– Master! Deployment preparations! Complete!
Alba stomped his heavy feet with excitement, going thump thump!
Because he knew.
That his commander, Park Kang-hoon, was ‘exactly that kind of starving person’!
* * *
Alba was right.
Park Kang-hoon was sitting upright with bright, clear eyes from early morning─
“Let’s see.”
【 Enhancement Specialist Who Enhances Well 】
Looking into his Status Window.
“I feel refreshed somehow? Is it because I enhanced even the land! It feels like I’ve returned from secluded training.”
While doing so, Kang Hoon quickly scanned through his stats.
“Thanks to that experiment at Imjin River, it feels like my eyes have been opened to something?”
Once again, he recalled the goal he had set previously.
──”I want to become stronger quickly.”
It was somewhat different from the vague enthusiasm of ‘let’s level up for now’ back then.
Now, he had become curious about the limits of his abilities.
“Well, it was already absurd enough that I could travel to and from dungeons with the [Homing Instinct] placed on this house….”
Where would the end of this growth be?
“I really need to find out how far I can go, what I can enhance?”
If there were no limits, Kang Hoon could potentially change the entire world.
Theoretically speaking.
The problem was.
“…To do that, I’d need to be able to cast ‘Enhancement’ an enormous number of times.”
His current number of Enhancement castings was.
【 Today’s Enhancement Skill casting count has been exhausted. ( 115 / 115 ) 】
115 times per day.
This was also an incredibly high number that would astound anyone who saw it.
But there was something that subtly bothered Kang Hoon.
“…What’s my current level?”
【 LV. 31 Enhancer 】
“Uuuuum. As I thought… the number of Enhancement castings hasn’t increased compared to when I was level 22!”
Previously, every time he leveled up, his ‘daily casting count’ would increase by exactly 5, but at some point it got stuck.
It wasn’t even a clean ‘100 times’ but awkwardly stopped at ‘115 times’, which bothered him even more.
“Ugh! Status Window, you! Can’t you make it fall neatly!?”
It felt like someone was deliberately scratching at Kang Hoon’s aesthetic sensibilities!
‘Can you endure this? Will you stop here? At such an awkward number?’
…It seemed to say.
As an art student, Kang Hoon absolutely couldn’t tolerate that.
“Kugh! Do I need some other stroke of luck from here on?”
Regarding that, the Status Window remained silent.
Even more so.
“Hmm! Level 31.”
The level itself wasn’t very satisfying either.
It was just recently that he achieved this level in the dungeon where he obtained Alba, the ‘Twilight Ancient Ruins’.
Back then, he was overjoyed and actually jumped around holding Lucky’s front paws in celebration.
“But looking at it now, it seems I’m still far from enough.”
Kang Hoon casually uttered such crazy words.
Level 31, which would take others at least 2 years to achieve.
After just a few months of awakening, and accomplishing the remarkable feat of leveling up 9 stages in a single dungeon.
“It’s low.”
Kang Hoon evaluated himself so harshly.
Kang Hoon was no longer looking at those below him.
‘….’
What he was looking at were the legendary-class Rankers who stood above him.
By their standards, Kang Hoon’s level was indeed on the low side.
“The highest level is probably the close-combat Dealer Ranker ‘Power Man’. I heard his level is estimated to be close to 100.”
The world was in an uproar when he achieved level 99.
But for some reason, even after 2 years had passed since then.
There was no news of him raising that remaining ‘1’ level.
‘Does reaching level 100 create some secret that can’t be revealed to the world?’
There were many such suspicions.
But the accepted theory was this.
‘Even the great Power Man hasn’t achieved level 100 yet.’
That’s how much more massive the experience points needed become as levels increase.
The level of experience points that level 32 Kang Hoon and level 99 Power Man require is fundamentally different.
Perhaps even if all the experience points Kang Hoon has received so far were combined, that ‘1’ level up might be impossible.
No, it would most likely be the case.
In other words.
“I’m still a low level.”
Kang Hoon evaluated himself that way.
Even so.
“There’s still a long way to go!”
Instead of sitting down in place, he jumped up.
“As expected! I need to raise my level more!!”
Until just a few weeks ago, he went to dungeons simply to increase his daily Enhancement limit.
Now the purpose of leveling up had changed somewhat.
In doing so, his daily casting count would eventually increase too.
But this was now his secondary goal.
His primary goal was.
“I need to build more strength and conduct more experiments!”
──Park Kang-hoon. Experimenting with his own limits!
“For that…, right. I should get the best items I can afford with the money I have now.”
With that, Kang Hoon picked up his mobile phone.
And called the special shop(?) that was open only to him(?).
– Yes, this is Seo Mi-do!
The world’s greatest Magical Engineer and Big Tech CEO, the youngest professor at a prestigious university.
To the amazing Seo Mi-do, Kang Hoon said this.
“Don’t you have any good items?”
Since Seo Mi-do was so amazing, he expected she might have the finest items or subordinates that would be worth Kang Hoon purchasing.
If there was anything worth buying, he was prepared to purchase whatever it was.
He would take it and go to a dungeon!
* * *
‘Carnivorous Insect Abyss’.
A heaven for wasp-type monsters.
Living there─
I am, I am, a worker wasp. Sting Trooper A.
An eternal slave monster that gets produced by the thousands in the other world called dungeons, gets killed, and repeats the reset cycle… but still~!
I am, I am, a worker wasp. Sting Trooper A!
I don’t know about the affairs of the outside world, I just serve my queen wasp, the great ‘Giant Sting Queen’!
The wasp goes buzz buzz~, today too buzz buzz~, working hard, buzz buzz~!
The wasp goes buzz buzz~, always buzz buzz~, working hard, buzz buzz~!
To human ears.
Kagagagak, kakak! Kakakkyakyakyak!!!!
…While singing work songs(?) in terrible screeching sounds worse than scraping a chalkboard with a fork.
Sting Trooper A was simply happy.
As a low-ranking worker wasp, it roamed throughout the hive dungeon collecting pieces of animal carcasses.
After bringing them as food to offer to the Queen, it filled its own belly with the remaining scraps.
Mmm~ delicious~!
Kagagak! Kakak!
I am, I am, Sting Trooper A.
It’s been quite a while since I was born, but it’s nice because it’s peaceful! Buzz buzz!
If only one stupid human would come in, I could feast on them~! Isn’t there one anywhere~?! Buzz buzz!
It was while humming and taking an evening stroll around the area.
Pshung!
A strange sound came from its friend Sting Trooper B, who was searching for human flesh together with Sting Trooper A.
「What’s wrong, my friend?」
Kagaga, gagakgak?
The moment it turned its head, Sting Trooper B was nowhere to be found.
In the spot where it had been, only green blood was splattered as if a paint bomb had exploded.
「…Huh?」
…Kagak?
An attack so fast that it couldn’t even comprehend what had happened.
Sting Troopers C, D, E came running toward Sting Trooper A!
「Danger! Run away quickly! An unknown intruder has invaded!」
With that meaning.
Kyakakakaaaaaaagagagagak!!
Just briefly causing the terrible noise of scraping a frying pan bottom with a metal spatula.
Pshung.
Thud!
Sting Trooper A’s body also exploded in an instant.
──────!!!!!
….
Covered in that creature’s lukewarm green blood, the Sting Troopers C, D, and E who had been standing still.
They too,
“Kyaaaah, it’s scary!!!”
Kakakakakakakakak!!!
…began screaming and scattering in all directions!
What kind of disaster is this?!
This is the first terror the worker wasp has ever experienced in its wasp life!
The occasional foolish human intruders who came in smelled delicious and savory.
But now.
The being that explodes Sting Troopers from far away has no scent.
It gives off no smell at all.
No scent of flesh, no scent of blood, not even the scent of hormones!
I’ve never heard of such an ‘existence’!
Another shot.
Pshung.
Thud!
Again, another shot.
Pshung.
Thud!
Every time the sound rang out, Sting Troopers exploded without a trace.
Truly cosmic horror.
It could only be the outbreak of a great catastrophe!
Even in the midst of this, there was a high-ranking monster receiving reports from the staggering, fleeing Sting Troopers!
Sting Prime, Sting Knight, and even Sting Vanguard!
“What are you talking about?! There is no existence that our strength cannot overcome!”
Kaakakakakakakak!!
…Encouraging their allies with an even more terrible sound, they boldly charged out of the Honey Swamp!
“Charge! Whatever that monster is, we shall overcome it with all our strength!!”
Kagagagaga! Kaaaak!
“Uoooooh!!”
Kakkakkak!!!
At the high-ranking Sting Prime’s cry, the Sting Troopers who had scattered in fear also regained their momentum!
“Let’s protect Our Land! Let’s protect the Queen!”
Just as they regained their courage and charged forward with all their might!
Pyuuuuuuuu─
Unlike before, something heavy and slow came flying.
Booooooooong───!!
…Hundreds of Sting Troopers along with Sting Prime, Sting Knight, and Sting Vanguard exploded in one shot.
‘…’
In the place where the world’s shortest war had ended.
Cosmic horror, object of terror, outbreak of catastrophe.
…Alba spoke.
– Terminating Auto Hunt Mode, Master.
“…What the hell did the Research Laboratory attach to you?”
“A Classified Weapon, named ‘Auto Hunt Bang Bang’.”
“…”
Truly insane power…
And.
‘They name such an incredible weapon like that?’
…It was an insane name.
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