Awakened as a Money-Spending Genius Enhancer - Chapter 81
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Episode 81
Chapter 81. What Is This?
What could possibly come from enhancing something like Golem Fragments?
──I don’t know.
No one has ever tried it before.
That’s exactly why it was so appealing.
Was there any need to hesitate?
Thanks to reaching level 22, Kang Hoon’s daily enhancement casting count was more than abundant—it was overflowing.
【 ‘Enhancement Specialist Who Enhances Well’ Basic Skill: [Enhancement] – Can enhance any object. – Required Conditions: None – Limit Conditions: 115 enhancements possible per day (0/115) 】
Thanks to jumping up 7 levels at once, it had increased by a whopping 35 times.
As a result, a total of 115 enhancement attempts were possible per day.
Moreover, he hadn’t used even a single one today yet.
“It’s been a while since I’ve done a solo dungeon, so I saved them just in case. This worked out well.”
The broken mask.
No, picking up the Golem’s Face.
“Enhancement.”
He lightly attempted it once.
And.
Clang!
The familiar and light hammering sound could be heard.
Claang!
Kang Hoon now typically finished +3 Enhancement in one go.
The enhancement itself wasn’t surprising or new at all.
However.
──Claaang!
The moment he brought down the third hammer.
If a ‘face’ opened its eyes on his two palms, that would be a different story.
“!?”
He almost dropped the freshly enhanced fragment right then and there.
“Huh? Were its eyes originally open? I’m sure they were closed…”
Rubbing his eyes, Kang Hoon examined the ‘face’ again.
“Did, did I see it wrong?”
However.
Blink, blink.
─It wasn’t a mistake.
“Ugh, uwaah! We made eye contact!!”
On Kang Hoon’s palm, the Golem’s Face had completely recovered its durability through ‘Enhancement’.
The pupil area was moving busily up and down!
“What is this? Don’t tell me it wasn’t completely dead?”
Come to think of it, when ‘defeating’ golems, people don’t usually say they ‘killed’ them.
They say they ‘destroyed’ them.
Because golems are inanimate objects to begin with.
Blink, blink.
The Golem’s Face, now just a shell like a mask, blinked its eyes busily.
Soon. Twitch, twitch.
It moved its mouth area.
“…This isn’t what I had in mind.”
Perhaps because the jaw section had been blown away, or because it had no tongue.
The golem couldn’t ‘speak’.
But as if trying to communicate somehow, it kept moving its eyes and upper lip.
“Hmm.”
He felt somewhat troubled.
It had been an ‘Enhancement’ cast out of curiosity about whether it could be used as material.
It felt like he had woken up a golem that was sleeping peacefully.
And a poor thing with only its face remaining, at that.
“Hmm… What should I do?”
After pondering for a moment and scratching his forehead, Kang Hoon looked around the floor again.
And.
“Ah! Maybe if I restore the rest, I can reattach them?”
He began searching for other fragments.
The starting point where any other Hunter would leave without staying even a minute.
Fragments that had been randomly kicked, stepped on, and dropped by random people’s feet.
Taking his time, Kang Hoon found fragments that would connect to the ‘face’.
“This looks kind of like a neck?”
A cylindrical fragment presumed to be the neck section.
When he tried placing the ‘face’ on top of it, the parts seemed to roughly match.
Though there was no back of the head or jaw.
Blink, blink.
Moving its gray eyes busily while observing him, he held the Golem’s Face with both hands.
Holding it firmly in place so it would attach well.
“Enhancement.”
Second time, casting the skill!
Clang!
Along with the hammering sound, small sparks flew from the neck section that had been loosely placed.
“!”
─Claang!
As if welding.
From the outside to the inside, then from the inside back to the outside.
The holes that had been gaping were naturally filled.
───Claaang!
The ‘face’ that had been hanging loosely was perfectly connected to the neck!
“Ooh! It worked!”
Spontaneous applause!
Clap clap clap!
Delighted by the new discovery, Kang Hoon gently released the Golem’s Face he had been holding.
Sturdy enough that it wouldn’t fall even without being held by hand.
The golem was perfectly solid!
…Though it was only a face and neck.
“Right, enhancement completely restores durability to 100%, doesn’t it?”
In other words, it meant complete repair was possible.
“I never thought of this before.”
Just like how enhancement options are influenced by ‘Superstition’.
It was a hidden function that couldn’t be known just from looking at the tool tip!
It felt like discovering a second secret room.
I feel excited for some reason.
While sweeping the floor again, Kang Hoon found more fragments to attach.
Next to him picking up the abandoned torso with only the ‘core’ from its heart cleanly extracted.
– Huff, huff!
Lucky set down the stick it had brought in its mouth.
What it brought with its large snout was a relatively intact ‘arm’.
“Oh. Thanks.”
He placed the golem’s face, which was rolling its eyes silently, on top of the torso.
Then he attached the arm to the shoulder and cast his skill.
“Enhancement.”
Clang!
Kang Hoon was probably the only person in the world who ‘welded’ chunks of stone.
Claaang─!
He was also the only one who repaired ‘monsters’ that might attack him once restored.
Claaaang─!!
After three strikes of hammering, no. After ‘welding’.
“It looks pretty decent, doesn’t it?”
The golem that had been mere fragments now had a proper appearance.
Though he hadn’t even finished the upper body yet.
It was much better than when only the face remained.
Moreover.
Tap. Tap…
Even the fingers at the end of the connected arm were moving!
“Ooh…”
Though the index finger was broken, leaving only four fingers.
The golem slowly moved its recovered hand, then.
Soon,
Thud!
It toppled over onto the floor, stone torso and all.
“Huh, what?”
While Kang Hoon watched and Lucky raised its rear in a wary stance.
Wriggle, wriggle.
Moving its single arm, the golem began crawling along the floor.
And it wasn’t moving in the opposite direction with its back to Kang Hoon.
It seemed like it had deliberately toppled its torso over.
“Is it running away?”
Tilting his head, Kang Hoon followed the golem.
And.
─Thuud.
The golem that had been moving for a while stopped and stretched its heavy arm straight up.
Where its fingertips pointed was a stone pillar.
Below it was the golem’s lower body, collapsed in a sitting position.
As if it had taken a very strong attack, its waist was cleanly severed.
“Huh? Could it be.”
Blink, blink.
The golem’s eyelids moved busily.
Kang Hoon approached in front of it.
“This is your body? You want me to attach it?”
Swish, swish.
With its face half-buried in the dirt floor, the golem moved its head.
His contemplation wasn’t long.
Though he might be attacked after fixing it completely.
A golem requesting ‘repair’!
Wasn’t this the most interesting and fun thing(?) he’d touched recently!
“Alright!”
He placed the heavy upper body on top of the lower body.
“Nnnngh.”
Then he gathered other fragments scattered around.
He also placed the round piece of the back of head.
He positioned the fallen opposite arm against the pillar to align it.
He also roughly fitted and attached the broken index finger that Lucky had brought.
Finally, he found the shattered jaw and held it in place with both hands.
“Phew!”
After combining all the heavy fragments together.
“Enhancement!”
Kang Hoon shouted.
And.
Clang!
Durability recovery began.
Claaang─!
But something was strange.
Unlike before, it was glowing.
Red light leaked through the cracks in the broken areas!
“Huh?”
Not only from the eye sockets that had been blinking without eyeballs until now.
But also from the crack between the crushed upper lip and jaw,
Saaaaa─!
A mysterious red light, life force, the golem’s ‘core’ made his eyes sting!
“!”
And.
─Claaaaaaang!
After perfect recovery.
Crumble crumble crumble crumble.
Pouring sand-like small stone dust from its entire body, the golem began to move.
Crumble crumble crumble.
The moment it raised its sitting body.
Stone dust flew in all directions, making it impossible to see ahead.
The areas that expelled the dust were perfectly healed.
No more broken cracks or internal ‘core’ were visible.
“Uh, uhh…”
Kang Hoon’s head, which had been lowered to look down at the fallen golem.
“…This thing is pretty big, isn’t it?”
Rose up following the face of the creature that had stood tall.
A massive size that seemed to be about 2 meters and 50 centimeters.
Just as Kang Hoon’s neck began to ache.
The golem opened its tightly closed mouth wide.
Crumble crumble crumble crumble.
It seemed to pour out all the stone dust from its mouth.
Grr grr grr… Grooooo.
It made a strange sound that was neither speech nor groaning.
Geu-geuk, geuk. Geu-geuk!
Moving the most parched, stone-carved lips in the world.
“Hmm. I don’t understand what you’re saying.”
Making incomprehensible signal-like sounds of ‘geu-geuk’, ‘geu-geuk’.
Kuuung!
The golem dropped to its solid knees.
And bowed its head deeply in reverence.
To its creator, its great and absolute father.
Toward Park Kang-hoon.
“…What is this?”
* * *
After calming his flustered heart.
He calmly examined the golem from all angles.
Thanks to the Enhancement he had generously poured into it, its appearance was perfectly intact, of course.
Other internal information could be read through Information Value.
When Kang Hoon placed his hand on the palm the golem respectfully offered.
A status window flashed before his eyes.
Displaying content he had never seen before.
[Modified Guardian Golem +1]: Originally a destroyed golem, but recreated as Park Kang-hoon’s creation. Through repair, its memory device and voice circuits have been restored. It performs assistance/recording/security duties for its command authority, Park Kang-hoon.
Having repaired its entire body, creating it anew.
The golem itself was treated as having been enhanced to +1.
The most important and fascinating part was that its command authority was ‘Park Kang-hoon’.
“If the golem’s ‘command authority’… that means owner, right?”
In other words.
This golem belonged to Park Kang-hoon himself.
It would perform assistance/recording/security duties for him.
It was content he couldn’t help but desire.
However.
“Grrrrrng.”
The better it was, the more thirsty Kang Hoon became.
“What good does it do if it’s great!”
There was a problem.
A very fundamental problem.
The golem was a dungeon ‘Monster’.
Even if it called him master and served him with obedience──.
“I can’t take it outside the dungeon!”
Unless a Gate collapse occurred.
Monsters could never leave the area where they were created, outside the dungeon.
He couldn’t cause a Gate collapse just to take one golem out.
──Besides, to prevent such incidents, this dungeon had already been cleared and had no possibility of collapse.
“Haaaaah…”
In the end, the answer was predetermined.
“Once I leave, that’s just the end of it.”
While pondering various thoughts and looking at the Information Value.
A word caught Kang Hoon’s eye.
「 Creation 」
“Ah!”
Smack!
Slapping his knee, Kang Hoon brought up the status window he had forgotten about.
“That thing! That thing! The secretary office or bathroom thing!!”
‘The secretary office or bathroom thing’.
That was the reward from the previous dungeon.
A magic item obtained from a Platinum Grade Box.
It meant [Creator’s Secretary Office (Lease)].
Even after Kang Hoon used it himself after much deliberation, only a ‘category’ had been created.
At the time, it was just a hollow item that left only an empty shell.
“Whether my guess is correct… I’m not certain.”
Whoo.
After taking a deep breath.
“Open it, ‘Creator’s Secretary Office’!”
The moment Kang Hoon gave the precise command.
Flash!
As if it had been waiting, the status window lit up brightly.
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