Awakened as a Money-Spending Genius Enhancer - Chapter 45

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Episode 45

Chapter 45. [Wooden Palisade of the Defense Dungeon]

The sacred Spirit Dog’s valiant and unmatched performance!

As if gaining courage from it.

The nearby Hunters also gripped their weapons tighter and shouted.

“L-let’s fight too!”

“Don’t let the wooden palisade collapse!”

Like subordinates following a powerful vanguard.

The Hunters entered combat, each using their skills.

Hordes of zombies climbed over the wooden palisade.

And were repeatedly defeated countless times.

“Ugh, just how many are there?!”

“So this is why Defense Dungeons are called experience heaven!”

“Grr! That experience is only ours if we win!”

Many Hunters screaming while swinging bows, magic staffs, and swords.

Watching them and providing live commentary for just a moment.

Harullara gradually became anxious.

“Brothers! Th-the zombies are climbing up more and more.”

Using dead zombies as stepping stones.

The zombie hordes were gradually climbing over the wooden palisade!

Among them, a zombie with red eyes and swift movements, as if running backwards up a slide.

─In an instant, reached its hand over the wooden palisade!

Keeeeek!

“U-uaaah!”

The moment he made eye contact with the rotting, decaying zombie.

Harullara had no choice but to draw his equipment, his sword.

And quickly slashed the zombie’s arm with his blade, then kicked its head with his foot, dropping it outside the wooden palisade.

“I need to fight now too! At this rate, the wooden palisade will collapse!”

His careless attitude about it being an Under Level 10 Dungeon had completely disappeared.

As soon as the event started, the vicinity became a chaos zone.

It was no different from a battlefield.

Screams erupting from all directions.

The terror brought by overwhelming numbers.

Even the movements of mindless zombies charging recklessly using corpses as stairs!

“Ugh! Get away, uaaah!”

Hunters with little experience seemed to have already suffered mental breakdown.

They lost their minds and wildly swung their weapons.

Even Harullara, soaked in fear, frantically swung his sword together with them.

However, no matter how many they killed, zombies kept pouring in endlessly.

“W-we’re doomed…”

The mage standing next to Harullara whispered in despair.

Following his gaze.

Harullara also looked toward the distant horizon.

The red hole pierced in the sky was the first thing he saw,

and below it, he could see a waterfall of blood pouring down.

When he squinted and focused his gaze to look carefully.

“!”

That wasn’t a ‘waterfall.’

It was a horde of red zombies, so numerous they looked like a waterfall!

“Th-there was a Phase 2?!”

“Red zombies!”

“If you get bitten, you’re treated as dead! Be careful not to get your blood sucked!”

At a time when they hadn’t even finished dealing with the first summoned zombies.

Crack!

With an ominous sound, Harullara swayed greatly.

The mage beside him, who had been spacing out, lost his balance and fell outside the wooden palisade.

“Uaaaah!”

As if they had been waiting.

Guweeeeeek!

The pitch-black zombies devoured the fallen Hunter!

【 19 Hunters have been eliminated! Current count ( 81/100 ) 】

With the appearance of red zombies, casualties began to mount rapidly.

System Messages announcing the eliminated also continued endlessly.

As soon as a new message disappeared.

Another Hunter was grabbed by the ankle by a zombie.

“Kyaaah!”

Kuwooooo!!

Crack! Crack!

And was instantly dragged down into the pile of corpses!

【 20 Hunters have been eliminated! Current count ( 80/100 ) 】 【 21 Hunters have been eliminated! Current count ( 79/100 ) 】 【 22 Hunters have been eliminated! Current count ( 78/100 ) 】

“Ah, ah…! I guess this is as far as I go too, brothers!”

To make it into the final 10 survivors, Harullara’s strength was woefully insufficient.

In the first place, for a Defense Dungeon of this difficulty level.

Clearing the Quest and receiving rewards was itself unreasonable.

Therefore, he could only offer his greetings to the viewers in advance.

[What??? You’re dying already?]

[This is too difficult; the minimum level should be doubled, right?]

And for good reason.

Kyaaaah!

Phase 2.

The newly summoned red zombies were twice as large and strong as the existing zombies!

Legs as long as an eight-foot ghost.

While using tremendous grip strength.

The red zombies didn’t attack the Hunters.

Instead, using the dead zombie hordes as stepping stones, they attacked the wooden palisade!

“Brothers, the zombies are smarter than me…”

Kneeling and falling on the shaking wooden palisade, Harullara laughed helplessly.

“I’ll say goodbye to the broadcast in advance.”

Finally, one red zombie that had climbed over the wooden palisade.

As if something had eaten through it, a gaping eye socket.

As if trying to devour Harullara’s entire head whole.

The gaping mouth was terrifyingly horrific.

“I just hope it doesn’t hurt….”

The moment he left behind such a futile last words.

Crack!!

A strange noise rang out loudly in Harullara’s streaming broadcast.

The sound of a skull splitting in half instantly, face and jaw separating.

However, what fell apart in two pieces.

Wasn’t Harullara!

“Huk…!”

The red zombie’s head that had filled Harullara’s vision split vertically.

Through that gap, the hidden light spread like fragments.

At the same time,

the Savior revealed himself.

“Are you alright?”

A mysterious Spirit Dog with purple eyes, emanating White Aura.

And a Hunter riding on that Spirit Dog’s back, reaching out his hand.

It was Park Kang-hoon.

[Wow]

[Whoa]

[Wow]

Not only the real-time Chat Window,

“Wow….”

Even Harullara forgot his duty as a broadcaster and exclaimed in admiration.

“…Th, thank you! I survived thanks to you!”

Harullara came to his senses a beat late.

The viewer count skyrocketing by the second and the Chat Window flow too fast to read.

Thump, thump, thump!

Harullara’s heart beat rapidly.

“You’re my life’s savior! Are, are you a Summoner!? Is this Spirit Dog Unique grade!?”

A chance to interview a rookie Summoner, a cool Hunter!

Feeling the literal ‘jackpot moment’.

Harullara clung to Kang Hoon and poured out questions.

On the other hand.

Kang Hoon’s temperature was strangely calm.

Beyond calm, even cold like an ‘ice’ type Spirit Dog.

“Life’s savior, you say. It’s an Event Dungeon where you don’t even die anyway.”

With that, he jumped down from the Spirit Dog’s back.

The swaying Wooden Palisade that would surely collapse soon.

At his bold action of willingly coming down onto it, Harullara tilted his head.

Instead of people, looking down at the half-crushed Wooden Palisade.

Kang Hoon muttered to himself.

“And I’m not a Summoner either.”

Kang Hoon knelt on one knee and placed his right hand on the Wooden Palisade.

Harullara used ‘First Person View’.

He captured his hand filling the broadcast screen.

“You’re not a Summoner? Then what on earth is your profession….”

Half-listening to Harullara’s question.

Kang Hoon focused on the ‘object’ touching his fingertips.

“Hmm. This seems doable?”

“Huh? What’s doable?”

Even while confused, the Wooden Palisade was being destroyed.

Screams echoing from all directions,

the stench emanating from zombies,

─everything was horrible!

“Ugh, ughhh….”

With the feeling of crawling toward a lifeline.

Harullara crawled toward Kang Hoon.

However, in Harullara’s view, this mysterious master.

The Hunter who commanded a suspiciously majestic Spirit Dog.

Kang Hoon seemed uninterested in ‘people’.

What captured his attention was only.

The tattered Wooden Palisade.

Soon,

‘Huh, what.’

The corners of Kang Hoon’s mouth slowly rose.

‘Smiling?’

When everyone’s about to die, does he find it funny?

The moment such doubt arose.

Kang Hoon opened his mouth.

“Enhancement.”

At the same time,

Harullara witnessed it.

The seemingly ordinary man’s hand, not even holding a weapon.

From beneath that palm with suspiciously many calluses.

Flash!

Light bursting forth!

And.

Strangely, as if a gentle breeze blew only toward Kang Hoon’s face, his hair swayed.

“Wh, whaaaaat!?”

The Wooden Palisade where his knee touched rose upward.

─It was shooting upward!?

For a moment, mistaking it as ‘the Wooden Palisade collapsing’, Harullara squeezed his eyes shut.

However, there were no zombie claws covering him, nor dirty teeth.

When he came to his senses and looked around.

Strangely, everything was higher than before.

“Huh? Huh huh?”

“Wh, what is this?”

The nearby Hunters were also drenched in sweat, their eyes wide as saucers.

“The, the Wooden Palisade got higher!”

“Everything that was destroyed is fixed!?”

Too shocked, Harullara couldn’t even deliver proper commentary.

He could only capture in his eyes Kang Hoon showing a pleasant smile before him.

“It worked, Durability Recovery.”

Looking at Kang Hoon muttering happily.

[Crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!]

The live streaming chat window exploded.

* * *

When Lucky was beating down zombies with his strength.

Kang Hoon was tremendously enjoying himself.

Lucky’s ice attack that was refreshing both figuratively and literally in actual temperature.

Watching the zombies get helplessly torn apart before it.

It felt like his insides were completely cleared out!

“Unique grade is really freaking strong!”

This was all thanks to enhancing Lucky’s summoning tool, the dog whistle!

During the [Dog Whistle +1] days, Lucky was smaller than shoes.

Now that it became [Dog Whistle +5], he had grown strong enough to crush zombie hordes with one paw.

At the growth of the spirit dog he had evolved with his own hands, Kang Hoon was purely delighted!

“Keu! The enhancement was worth it! Lucky, you feel refreshed too, right?”

– Wawoof! Wooof!

“Uhahahaha! Unique Lucky, the best, the best!”

However.

The problem was this dungeon’s ‘failure’ condition.

If the zombies eventually brought down the wooden palisade and attacked the tower, all events would end in defeat.

No matter how strong Lucky was.

Even if Kang Hoon survived thanks to that…

“If the tower collapses, there’s no reward either.”

For that reason, he couldn’t let the wooden palisade fall.

But.

“Aaaaah!”

“Kyaaaah!”

“Kheuk! Agh!”

Only Kang Hoon’s surroundings were peaceful.

Inside the dungeon was already a hell scene like no other.

‘I thought with 99 other hunters besides me, we’d somehow manage to hold out…’

What do you mean 99 people.

Due to the ridiculously large number of zombies, the hunter count was helplessly dwindling.

Moreover,

Crack!

Unable to withstand the weight of the endlessly charging zombies.

Not only did the wooden palisade tilt.

Cracks began to appear on its surface.

“Uh. If it goes like that, we’re screwed?”

An ominous situation.

With that flow, Kang Hoon changed Lucky’s direction.

Not toward the endlessly surging zombie horde.

But toward the wooden palisade whose durability was deteriorating!

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