Awakened as a Money-Spending Genius Enhancer - Chapter 119
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Episode 119
Chapter 119. Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Your Majesty!!
‘Terror Demon King’.
The wasp monsters, unable to reach Kang Hoon despite their desperate pleas, died one after another without even being able to resist.
After observing their trembling, disgusting legs for a while─
Kang Hoon realized something!
“Oh!”
And he said.
“You know, your claws are quite symmetrical. I can feel an architectural aesthetic from your antennae. Yes. Should I make this the theme of my next drawing broadcast~? The viewers would love it if I drew wasp monsters realistically, right?”
…It was truly a resolution to obsess over wasp antennae.
‘Please just draw something normal like everyone else, like Lucky or furries, please~~~!!’
Even Alba the golem could predict the viewers’ silent outcry─
– ….
The mad art student Kang Hoon arrived at the boss room today as well, his clear eyes sparkling to avoid becoming Hitler.
‘Sting Queen’s Spawning Chamber’.
Bang!!
Kicking the door open with his foot, he shouted for the ninth time!
“Come here!!”
And.
Something strange happened.
Sha, shaaaaak…!!
“?”
Already the ninth time.
The moment she saw Park Kang-hoon’s clear eyes coming to find her tirelessly.
The Giant Sting Queen, as if electrocuted,
~~~~~~!!
Twisted her six legs.
And suddenly began showing abnormal behavior?!
“…Huh?! What’s wrong with her? Why is she acting like that?”
Die and reset, die again and reset.
Die again and wake up to find the ‘Terror Demon King’ coming from the 1st Floor again!!
After repeating that routine 9 times─
Extreme terror overwhelmed the Giant Sting Queen!
Repetitive learning.
And the continuing hell of piercing light!!
No matter how unintelligent a monster might be.
Originally, if you get beaten enough, you learn.
Even if she wanted to resist, there was no answer when the power gap was this transcendentally vast.
Due to the repeatedly learned fear─
The Giant Sting Queen came to abandon her authority as a boss monster, as a queen!
「Surrender! I’ll surrender! Stop killing meeeeee…!」
Shaaa, shasha, shaaaaaa…!
The moment she truly ‘submitted’ before the human named Park Kang-hoon.
The Giant Sting Queen came to tear off her own shining poison stinger attached to her rear!
“…?!”
Not satisfied with becoming just a giant insect that had lost its offensive power.
She grabbed even the crown that sprouted as bone only on the Sting Queen’s head as a symbol of the ‘absolute ruler’.
Crack, crackle.
Curling up her body like a pill bug, she grasped her own skull with her six legs.
「I won’t be queen!! I’m throwing it awayyyy!!」
Shakyaaaak!! Kagagagak!!
‘I’ll tear off this damn crown!’
…She was saying with her whole body.
Was the weight of the throne too heavy?
In extreme terror, struggling to escape from this shackle.
Crack─?!
She came to directly tear off her own crown!
“Gasp. What, what’s this?”
While green blood spurted out like a fountain.
Blood also splattered on the Sting Queen’s crown, making the black bone flash green.
And.
Wriggle, wriggle….
The Giant Sting Queen, no. The giant insect began crawling toward Kang Hoon!
“Uh, huh…?”
Even though she approached quite close, the Annihilation Robots didn’t react.
Seeing that the protective trait of the [Choco Blurb Jacket] wasn’t activated either─
This giant insect was no longer an ‘enemy’!
Rather.
Kuuuung…!
She brought her crown and offered it before Kang Hoon’s feet!
Then.
Thud! Thud! Thud…!
Striking her green head against the floor three times.
「Your Majesty, Your Majesty, Your Majesty…!!」
Kagagak, kagagak, kagagak…!!
She bowed deeply.
“…Why is she really acting like this? Is she sick? Is it a bug?”
At this point, even Kang Hoon had to realize this wasn’t a new attack pattern, but that she truly had no intention to attack.
Alba said.
– It appears to be… a surrendering gesture of abandoning the throne, Master.
“What? Monsters can do that kind of thing? She’s an insect monster that can’t even talk?”
– Sometimes monsters faithful to wild instincts are more honest.
Just as he was nodding at the plausible explanation.
An even more bewildering event occurred.
──Ding!
【 Level 20 ‘Wasp Grand March’ Dungeon Cleared! 】
…Even.
The mission was arbitrarily processed as cleared!
“Huh? I haven’t even defeated the boss monster yet?”
Whooosh───!
While the Exit Gate opened with a brilliant flash of light.
The giant insect prostrated like a child before Kang Hoon’s feet slowly curled up her torso.
Gulp, gulp…
From the hole created by pulling out the ‘Poison Stinger’, it seemed to lay a transparent ‘egg’.
Wriggle, slither, slither…
It crawled inside it!
I’m no longer a queen! I’m going back to before I was born!
‘I just want to go back!!’
…As if making such a resolution!
The Giant Sting Queen had become a single hard cocoon.
That being no longer had any dignity, pride, power, or authority left─
But at least it looked comfortable inside.
“…What in the world is all this?”
Finally.
Here, in this heaven of hornet monsters.
The royal authority of the ‘Carnivorous Insect Abyss’ had been shattered by one man.
【 Hidden Mission! You have achieved ‘Throne Usurpation’! 】 【 Receive the heartfelt surrender of the ‘Giant Sting Queen’! 】
“…Oh, ooh?!”
A new Status Window illuminated Kang Hoon’s face in blue light!
“Look at this! I knew there had to be another strategy!”
…He had also said ‘or maybe not’, but what did that matter!
“You just need to quickly reset and keep repeating the beatdown! Why couldn’t other Hunters figure out something this easy? How strange.”
…So said.
An S-rank Enhancement Specialist who had solo cleared the worst dungeon called ‘Hell Gate’ nine times in four days.
* * *
【 Beginning settlement of Level 40 dungeon clear rewards! 】
You’d think he’d be sick of seeing the Status Window for four straight days.
“Somehow reward time always feels good.”
Moreover.
Flash─!
【 Achievement Unlocked! 】
“Oh…! Achievement unlocked?!”
Going in circles nine times was totally worth it!
He had pulled off a new Achievement in this dungeon famous for stingy rewards!
That alone was amazing, and─
──Flash!
【 Usurped the throne of the ‘Giant Sting Queen’! 】 【 Received surrender from a Boss Monster! 】
“Oh, ooh…”
Two different Achievements!
It was both exciting and unexpected.
“Wait. The hornet queen Achievement is exclusive to this dungeon, but the second one seems like a common Achievement?”
‘Common Achievement’.
It meant Achievements given universally when conditions were met, regardless of which dungeon mission.
So Kang Hoon had also received the same Achievements multiple times across different dungeons.
“…Received surrender from a Boss Monster? This is the first time I’ve seen something like this.”
At this point, naturally, he had never seen it even in dungeon guide manuals.
Not just in manuals, but no senior Hunters had ever told Kang Hoon such an Achievement existed.
It wasn’t an Achievement obtainable at Kang Hoon’s current level, and─
Those ‘senior Hunters’ didn’t know about it because they had never earned this Achievement themselves.
It was an Achievement difficult even for S-rank Ranker Hunters to achieve!
“But is this really the right way to earn it?”
Usually it wasn’t.
High-intelligence monsters from upper-tier dungeons, at least Uruk-hai level─
Were the ones with enough situational judgment and intelligence to ‘surrender’.
But Kang Hoon’s method was simply─
Insane repetition.
Through abnormal methods, he had forced an abnormal surrender.
“When the hornets prostrated themselves as soon as they saw me, I was tense thinking it was some new attack pattern…”
Turns out those guys were all completely sincere too.
It was just that Park Kang-hoon’s talent and grinding spirit(?) were excessively beyond normal standards.
And.
Flash─!!
【 Title! 】 【 Cleared ‘Carnivorous Insect Abyss’ with Solo Play. 】 【 Automatically achieved 1st place in monster kills and 1st place in contribution titles! 】
Without time to think, the moment the familiar ‘Title’ finished settling.
Kang Hoon shrugged his shoulders and muttered the repetitive phrase he had heard a total of eight times.
Enough to make his ears callused.
“…We present you with a Gold Box. Well, that’s what it’ll be.”
But then.
Ding─!!
【 We present you with a Platinum Box! 】
“?!”
The highest-grade box that supposedly never appeared in this dungeon.
A Platinum had appeared?
“Ooh! This magnificent size! This luster…! Platinum! Good to see you!!”
This was a dungeon with terrible efficiency where even Ranker ‘Power Man’ received a Gold Box.
However!
Power Man and any other Hunter in the world’s top 10 ranking─
None had managed to torture(?) the Giant Sting Queen in Kang Hoon’s insane manner.
As expected of the one and only ‘Enhancement Specialist’.
Kang Hoon was trudging along a different path from others.
Even so, rather than feeling superior by comparing himself to others─
“As expected. When the strategy changes, the rewards change too!”
He was purely happy that his reasoning had proven correct.
“Status Window, you rascal, I’ve completed my analysis of you~!”
…Indeed, it was a different kind of otaku mindset from others.
And.
“Now, let’s see what comes out?”
Click!
As Kang Hoon placed his hand on it,
the Platinum Grade Box opened wide as if it had been waiting.
A brilliant light, quite different from the Gold Grade Box, burst forth!
At the same time, an ‘item’ popped out.
“This is… a crown?!”
[Sting Queen’s Crown] : You are hereby appointed as the new queen of the hornet kingdom. * [When worn, Sting species monsters pledge loyalty and love to you.] * [When worn, insect-type monster affinity increases by 30%]
“…What is this?”
Daehan Geona, Park Kang-hoon.
He had inadvertently become the new queen of the hornet kingdom.
‘…’
At this point, shouldn’t he ask for the hornets’ opinion too?
“W-wait…, but since it’s Platinum Grade, it must be good, right?”
The basic ‘Information Value’ was somewhat absurd.
However.
The options looked quite useful!
“Oh ho. At least I won’t be attacked by hornet species anymore.”
These ‘Sting species’ have quite a wide distribution across dungeons.
Moreover, their toxicity is powerful, so without deliberate preparation like today, there’s a high chance of being caught off guard by surprise attacks.
In the high-level dungeons he would face in the future, there would be even more complex and diverse monsters.
Just canceling attacks from the entire ‘Sting’ species, one of those races, seemed valuable enough.
Plus, through the second option effect, the affinity of other insect-type monsters also increases by 20%.
It was expected that they would rarely attack Kang Hoon first.
“This is good?”
The more he looked at it, the better the item seemed!
Though the crown design was too petite★cute★luxury for a grown man’s head.
“Anyway? If I just wear it? They’ll be loyal to me? And offer their affection? It seems like an amazing item.”
…Love from hornets. Hmm.
“…”
For now, Kang Hoon decided to view it positively.
If things went well, he might be able to tame Sting species like Taming-type Hunters do.
“Okay! Good. I’ll get the experience points settlement and go in once more later!!”
His heart was pounding at the thought of immediately testing the item’s effects!
That’s when it happened.
Faaash───────!!
【 Experience points settlement. Level up! 】
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