Awakened as a Money-Spending Genius Enhancer - Chapter 117

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Episode 117

 

Chapter 117. Puh-buh-buh-buh-buh-bung

 

‘Carnivorous Insect Abyss’.

 

A heaven for wasp-type monsters and hell for Hunters – a dungeon for level 40 and below!

 

At first glance, the expression ‘level n and below’ might sound easy.

 

But in reality, it’s the opposite.

 

It means that level 30s Hunters must desperately body slam their way through on their own, without any help from level 40 or higher Hunters.

 

Because of this.

 

Hunters call this dungeon by another name.

 

‘Level Guillotine’.

 

In other words, ‘Hellgate Gatekeeper’.

 

──Difficulty?

 

Fatal attacks pour down from the starting point, with an enormous death rate.

 

──Average breakthrough time?

 

You must advance to the 99th Floor to perform the clear mission.

 

A horrific period of 20 days based on a 4-person party.

 

──Death probability?

 

What’s the point of saying it – if you let your guard down, carnivorous wasps will sting your neck and tear off your limbs.

 

Just as much.

 

The bright-eyed Hunters who came in hoping to climb above level 40.

 

All of them had their hopes severed and their vision darkened.

 

They usually crawled out as tear-stained wrecks.

 

Kang Hoon also witnessed the true nature of this terrible dungeon.

 

“These wasp bastards are good at strategy!”

 

That’s right.

 

This abyss commanded by the intelligent monster ‘Sting Baron’ was a wasp nation ruled by the giant monarch ‘Giant Sting Queen’!

 

Shaaaaaaa──!

 

With an eerie noise.

 

The swarm of wasps all focused on Kang Hoon and charged.

 

「Focus attack on the human─!!」

 

Kaga. Kagagak, kagagagak──!!

 

A moment of mortal crisis!!

 

“Shopping for clothes was worth it.”

 

Kang Hoon leisurely muttered something that didn’t fit the situation.

 

“Let’s see how this expensive jacket performs.”

 

Kagak…?

 

At that instant.

 

The trait effect of the [Choco Blurb Jacket] that gently wrapped Kang Hoon’s upper body activated!

 

────[Guardian Instinct]!!

 

Whiiiiing!

 

Whiiiiing──!

 

Whiiiiik────!

 

Even before Kang Hoon gave any command, golem robots flew over and surrounded Kang Hoon on all sides – no, five sides.

 

Seo Mi-do didn’t give them any particular names.

 

But Kang Hoon calls them this.

 

“Cute Annihilation Robots.”

 

…he says!

 

Thanks to that.

 

The Sting Barons who chose to crawl up to the 21st Floor to ambush Park Kang-hoon instead of waiting on the 70th Floor.

 

The sight they witnessed was ‘regret’ itself.

 

The five bizarrely-shaped golem robots that had been motionless until now.

 

Uuuuuuuung!!

 

With a loud engine sound, they began shooting bright red lasers, two strands each from their eye sockets!

 

Ka, kagagak…?!!

 

When the laser touched its body, the Sting Baron instinctively flinched.

 

However, the laser caused no damage at all.

 

Kak?

 

Tilt?

 

The moment it tilted its head.

 

The lifespan of ten Sting Barons, nobles of the wasp monster world and symbols of prosperity and longevity.

 

Puhung!

 

Puh-buh-buh-buh-bung!!

 

Began bursting out in an instant!

 

──!!

 

Considering all Sting Troopers and Barons approaching Park Kang-hoon as ‘enemies’.

 

The lasers shooting from the eye sockets of what looked cute and square split into two branches.

 

Pat!

 

Four Sting Barons at once.

 

Pat!

 

Splitting again, eight of them.

 

Pat!

 

Splitting once more, aiming at sixteen.

 

A total of 80 are precisely targeted in an instant!

 

“This is like a honey massacre.”

 

…While Kang Hoon made such a joke.

 

– Annihilate! Annihilate!

 

The honey massacre craftsmen… no, the Annihilation Robots chant the only ‘command’ input in their data!

 

Before the Sting Barons who belatedly grasped the situation could escape.

 

Pachiiiiing──!!

 

Magic Beam Cannons shooting out simultaneously, riding dozens of lasers!

 

Puhung!

 

Pung!

 

Puhuuuung!!

 

Puh-buh-buh-buh-buh-bung!!!

 

…Thus, an unprecedented massacre unfolded on the 21st Floor of the abyss.

 

“Annihilateeeeeee!!”

 

…Due to a crazy Hunter shouting incomprehensible commands with all his might!

 

* * *

 

“Ah! I can see why everyone says this dungeon sucks.”

 

A guillotine and hellgate where you’re lucky just to survive.

 

Carnivorous Insect Abyss, basement 98th Floor.

 

While leisurely walking around the ‘Dark Pheromone Hall’.

 

Kang Hoon muttered like this.

 

“There aren’t even any byproducts worth using as materials.”

 

…he said.

 

At his fingertips, the mantis arm of the once-brave Sting Baron dangles limply.

 

‘….’

 

…Is it just his imagination that the claws of the slaughtered monster look somehow wronged?

 

“Ah, I get it.”

 

In the midst of this, Kang Hoon realized.

 

“This is similar to that ant dungeon I went to with a party before. Are all bug creatures like this? Quantity tactics, but no money.”

 

Come to think of it, that place ‘Great Ant March’ was also famous as an unpopular dungeon.

 

“Since there are no items at all, it’s the worst in popularity.”

 

…When you’re busy just trying to survive, if you can’t even make money, no one would want to go.

 

Coming here alone means he’s a crazy bastard.

 

Kang Hoon understood the rumors about this dungeon in his own way and nodded his head.

 

“Well, it’s fine. I didn’t come in to make money anyway.”

 

Honestly, no matter how amazing an item he might mine at this level.

 

Kang Hoon’s Enhancement Skill would make much more money.

 

Kang Hoon’s value had already risen to the point where low-level items couldn’t do anything about it.

 

“First, I’ll quickly catch up to the level of other Rankers!”

 

While saying that, he throws away the front leg of the Sting Baron that had torn the throats of dozens and hundreds of Hunters.

 

“Even if there are no items, there are disgustingly many monsters, and each one is strong too.”

 

Others would say ‘how the hell is that an advantage’ and call him crazy.

 

But Kang Hoon’s brain understands it the opposite way.

 

For him, whose top priority is fast leveling up, this is truly the best dungeon!

 

“This is why I made all the preparations and came to play solo.”

 

That was exactly the reason why he, being safety-oriented, came to find this dungeon that was 8 levels higher.

 

“Good, good. I just need to clear the 99th Floor and it’s over, right?!”

 

At the sound Kang Hoon let out to pump himself up.

【 Dungeon Clear Mission: Defeat the Giant Sting Queen. (0/1) 】

The Status Window responds!

 

“Okay! Let’s go, 99th Floor!”

 

And so, at the end of the last spiral stairs he went down with great ambition─

 

“…It looks terrifyingly disgusting at first glance!”

 

A door made of some beast’s hide that he doesn’t even want to identify comes into view.

 

Unfortunately, because the effect of ‘Perception (Passive)’ is so good.

 

“Ugh, this… some parts look like humans?”

 

Kang Hoon shook his head back and forth.

 

The gateway to the Boss Monster, already boasting a horrific visual.

 

‘Sting Queen’s Spawning Chamber’.

 

Kang Hoon gave up on touching the disgusting door handle and instead kicked it hard with his foot!

 

Thud!

 

“Come here!!”

 

At the same time as that shout.

 

Shaaaaa….

 

A chilling silence and cold energy, whoosh!

 

Just as it seemed to hit his face, the hair on the back of his neck stood up.

 

“…!!”

 

The ‘Giant Sting Queen’ of the 40th level dungeon was on a different dimension from the regular Boss Monsters he had seen so far.

 

Not only was the scale of the Boss Room vastly enormous.

 

What unfolded as soon as he opened the door was a cliff.

 

The only place for Kang Hoon to stand was on top of jagged protruding rock fragments.

 

Even that was barely about 1 meter wide.

 

“Huk.”

 

Just one misstep and he would fall and become food for the Giant Sting Queen.

 

On the pitch-black floor he glimpsed below, skulls were rolling around and the stench of rotting corpses was vibrating!

 

“Ugh, the smell! I saw it in books, but it’s terrible.”

 

Also.

 

Shaaaaaaaa….

 

The huge dome-shaped deep space was entirely covered with pure white mucus and unhatched eggs!

 

The predator that rules over all of it, the Giant Sting Queen!

 

Shaaaaaa… aah, aah…!

 

As it crawled around, blowing wind into the skulls.

 

Bizarre noises like human screams echoed!

 

…Shaaaaaa!

 

Without showing itself, it was only a brief psychological battle.

 

“…! It’s the ceiling!!”

 

The Sting Queen began moving from high up there, crawling along the wall from the ceiling!

 

“What, what’s so huge?!”

 

Truly giant!

 

The charging speed and momentum are indeed on a different dimension!

 

“Good, let’s fight seriously!!”

 

The very moment Kang Hoon shouted that.

 

– Kyaooooooo!!

 

“?”

 

Lucky, who had been yielding opportunities to shine to Alba and the Annihilation Robots until now.

 

Raised all the white fur on his body like spikes,

 

───Roar!

 

With more fierce spirit than ever, he spewed out sharp icicles.

 

Pababababababak─!!

 

He nailed all six legs of the Sting Queen to the wall just as they were attached.

 

Sha, shaaa…?

 

Following that.

 

【Auto Hunting, bang bang~!】

 

…Alba also immediately cast the Magic Beam Cannon.

 

– Master, please watch! Boss, destroy!!

 

– Annihilate! Annihilate!

 

Even the Annihilation Robots shouting as if cheering him on.

 

Just like a little Alba!

 

The golem’s two eyes were bright red not with instinct for battle, but with anticipation of ‘wanting to be praised’.

 

And.

 

Pubububububububung!

 

Pubububububububububububung!

 

Pubububububububububububububububungpubububububung!

 

…A whopping 600 Magic Beam Cannons simultaneously struck the Giant Sting Queen.

 

This isn’t combat, it’s not hunting, it’s cleaning.

 

“….”

 

The perilous 99th Floor was cleaned up in an instant.

 

Not even a shell remained where the Sting Queen had been.

 

Even the disgusting eggs in the vicinity had all burned away.

 

“Um, you know. Guys….”

 

This is, somehow….

 

“…I seem more like a Boss Monster?”

 

Kang Hoon’s dejected whisper.

 

 

Echoed and reverberated throughout the Boss Room that had lost its boss.

 

Ding~!

【 Level 40 ‘Carnivorous Insect Abyss’ Dungeon Clear! Clear Mission Complete: Defeat the Giant Sting Queen. (1/1) 】

Only the Status Window was cheerful.

 

* * *

 

Common sense in the Hunter world flows somewhat differently from general society.

 

For instance.

 

The saying ‘as long as the process is good, a bad result is fine’?

 

In the Hunter world, it’s the opposite!

 

A bad result means immediate death.

 

Above all, human life is most precious in the Hunter’s world.

 

That’s why this saying exists.

 

‘Even if the process is bad, as long as the result is good, you’ve hit the jackpot!’

 

Kang Hoon also came to agree with those words today.

【 Beginning Level 40 Dungeon Clear reward calculation! 】

As soon as he emerged from the Gate emitting bright light.

 

The sweet Status Window message that flashed before his eyes.

 

Because it’s exciting ‘calculation’ time!

 

───Ding!!

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