Awakened as a Money-Spending Genius Enhancer - Chapter 85
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Episode 85
Chapter 85. Exterminate!
One Enhancement Specialist.
Starting from Kang Hoon’s palm.
A war of golems!
If we were to name this war, it would be called the ‘Mobile War’.
Fully operational VS damaged operational, you could say?
Naturally, Kang Hoon’s army in fully operational condition.
– Exterminate! Exterminate!
The golems shouting the ‘battle cry’ that Kang Hoon taught them were much more powerful!
To be precise, all their stats were exactly 15% higher.
– Exterminate!
– Exterminate!
– Exterminate!
A battle that started with thirty golems.
The number of golems that would remain at the end seemed obvious.
“Wow, they don’t stand a chance?”
…Exactly thirty would remain.
That’s how it seemed.
Thump! Thump! Thump!
The combat power of the [Guardian Golem +1] advancing in formation was tremendous!
Whooom!
Swinging massive spears, they tore apart already broken golems in one strike.
Thwack! Thwack! Craaack!
Crushing the stone heads of staggering golems with brutal stone fists.
Craaaaaash─!!
Even destroying the pillars of the ruins entirely, crushing the charging golems beneath!
– Exterminate! Exterminate!
The [Guardian Golem +1] no longer needed to protect this place, the ‘Twilight Ancient Ruins’.
Naturally, the side that could freely wield the terrain had the advantage.
Against their movements, the half-destroyed golems collapsed helplessly.
“Uh, uhm…”
Watching this was almost pitiful.
“They definitely said Guardian Golems were really strong monsters.”
Letting out a hollow laugh, Kang Hoon watched the ‘Mobile War’.
Maybe it was his imagination, but the [Guardian Golem +1] seemed particularly enthusiastic about demolishing the ruins.
How should I put it. Like escaped prisoners destroying the prison?
“Is it really okay to… clean up the dungeon like this?”
Leveling up wasn’t something you could tell inside a dungeon.
Since it was a system that only settled after clearing─
For now, even Kang Hoon couldn’t tell how much experience had accumulated.
“Right now the golem army has occupied all the dungeon passages and is bulldozing everything that moves… How much experience do you usually get when this happens…?”
Naturally, this wasn’t in the dungeon guide booklet either.
Not in the government lectures for beginner Hunters.
Not even in the national mandatory Hunter education completion course!
“Well, it won’t be… little, right? Probably quite a lot. Yeah.”
Kang Hoon just thought about it casually like that.
Thinking he might level up a bit today.
That was all.
In the dust clouds of the spectacularly collapsing ruins, Kang Hoon waved his hand back and forth.
And he had a hunch.
Even though he might have stayed at the starting point longer than anyone.
His speed in breaking through this dungeon would be faster than anyone else’s.
“Ah, I wonder if this gives a bonus too?”
Originally there were more blocked paths than open ones.
And the boss was strangely easy compared to the dungeon grade, making it a weird dungeon.
Wasn’t this the place everyone ignored as a ‘time-wasting dungeon’?
It would be nice if they gave a record bonus later.
But it didn’t matter if they didn’t.
“The biggest gain is Alpha, no… Alba, you.”
– Monster confirmed 800m ahead. Master, please hold on tight.
Thump. Thump. Thump. Thump!
– Initiating counterattack!
The massive and magnificent armored golem advanced without hesitation, clearing the path.
With its master riding on its shoulder.
* * *
Thanks to the [Guardian Golem +1] unit, Kang Hoon became much more relaxed.
He had plenty of time to thoroughly search every corner of the dungeon for various items.
“Let’s see.”
According to what he confirmed in the guild booklet.
There were treasures in each area guarded by the half-destroyed golems.
But it was nearly impossible for a beginner Hunter to collect all those treasures through solo play alone.
An individual Hunter could handle at most about two ‘Guardian Golems’ at once.
But the number guarding areas with treasures was basically four or five.
So.
Don’t be greedy, just collect experience moderately, then face the strangely easy boss monster─
Just. Kill only that guy and clear, that was the standard strategy.
However.
“Hmm hm hmm hmm~!”
Kang Hoon hummed as he roamed around everywhere.
The battle cry he had shouted jokingly.
‘Exterminate!’
It was thanks to that.
It was one of the famous lines from a drama he used to like, and somehow the result was just like the drama.
Following orders, they had ‘exterminated’ all the golems in the ancient ruins.
Now this entire dungeon was no different from a walking path.
‘Well… You could call it a walking path with rather unique scenery?’
If the Guild Master or other Hunters had heard this,
‘Kang Hoon, are you calling that words right now?’
…They would have had their pupils shaking.
Anyway,
Somehow the situation had turned out this way.
“….”
Anyway,
somehow the situation had turned out this way.
“…What does it matter!”
Occasionally, some clueless guard monsters and undead would burst out with ‘Kraaak!’
– Annihilate them!
But they were crushed by the golem’s stone fists.
Even then, they only charged because they were undead with dead brains and no functioning minds.
If they had been monsters capable of even a little judgment, they would have been busy cowering and hiding in dungeon corners.
Who would dare charge at Kang Hoon?
──A crazy Enhancement Specialist taking a stroll with an escort of 30 massive golems!
Moreover,
Whether they had awareness that he had repaired them despite lacking consciousness, or if that was just their original structure.
Their master, Kang Hoon, wouldn’t suffer even the slightest injury.
When it came to protection, they were thorough and meticulous without even needing orders.
Especially Alba, who was the overprotective leader among them.
‘Hmm, I’m fine with getting hurt a little, and I’ve had plenty of combat practice. They’re being a bit excessive.’
That was right.
Alba was a golem with consciousness.
Kang Hoon didn’t know what kind of story this guy had.
However, Alba was even more devoted to Kang Hoon, as if compensating for those painful days of being broken and rotting as scrap metal.
Because if Kang Hoon died, he would have no way to leave the dungeon again.
He would be bound to the dungeon again, spending days being reset and reset again!
And the organic matter his master had prepared in the morning.
Especially.
The fried egg with pepper had been incredibly delicious!
“Found it! A treasure chest!”
Thanks to this, Kang Hoon leisurely and thoroughly ransacked the ruins.
“Wow, what a harvest!”
Every time he found and opened a chest, items truly worthy of being called ‘treasure’ popped out.
Dungeon byproducts that were traded at high prices on Corn Market.com!
“So this is the appeal of being a tomb raider(?)”
Gems that dungeon enthusiasts would love were just the basics.
Cha-ring-ring-ring!
Even gold coins engraved with incomprehensible patterns were all stuffed into his pockets.
He even discovered hidden secret spaces here.
A place revealed when Alba threw a powerful punch to catch an undead.
There wasn’t even a proper keyhole or mechanism device.
It was crudely blocked off with a granite wall, making it normally impossible to find.
“Ohhh!”
They said this dungeon’s low ‘progress rate’ was a system error or something!
“There really was an undiscovered space!”
Going inside, there was an obviously suspicious chest.
After carefully checking if it wasn’t a trap.
He had a golem carefully open the chest.
Creak!
Fortunately, there were no devices.
It seemed they never thought this granite wall would be breached, so they had been careless.
That was right.
Who would bring 31 golems to ‘flatten’ a dungeon?
“I thought ‘leveling’ was only done by the military.”
Such jokes came out smoothly.
“Let’s see! There’s something like a crown here?”
The secret space was dark and covered in too much dust to make out clearly.
“Ugh.”
And the ‘information value’ he examined.
[Twilight Pharaoh’s Carved Crown]: A golden crown cherished by the Pharaoh of the ‘Twilight Ancient Ruins.’ Legend says it was worn for secret meetings with lovers. * [User’s presence reduced by 50%] * [When user moves in shadows, movement speed increased by 20%]
It wasn’t an item Kang Hoon needed right away.
It had to be worn on the head for the effect to activate, making it cumbersome, and it was too heavy for now.
But for stealth-focused surprise attack dealers?
They would come running with drool.
“It would sell for a high price at auction, wouldn’t it?”
Next,
An old scabbard caught his eye.
Rummaging through it, what was inside was a worn-out sword with missing teeth.
It looked nothing special on the outside.
Any other Hunter would have thrown it away without much interest based on its appearance.
However.
Kang Hoon’s ‘eye’ could distinguish between objects and items.
“This is a magic item, isn’t it?”
The status window immediately appeared.
[Twilight Fragment Sword]: A sword made from special metal generated in the Twilight Ancient Ruins. The power of corrosion dwells within it, causing even the sword’s appearance to corrode. * [When attacking, enemy’s defense reduced by 30% due to corrosion power] * [When attacking, enemy’s recovery ability for inflicted wounds reduced by 30%]
“Wow, what!”
This was an item he had never seen on Corn Market.com.
“Corrosion power?”
The options were also unheard of.
In other words,
Among the hundreds and thousands of Hunters who had come and gone through this dungeon.
Only Kang Hoon had recognized its true value.
Naturally.
Without Alba’s power, finding this would have been impossible in the first place.
“Alba! You’re really a lucky charm!”
Kang Hoon hugged Alba tightly.
And swung the sword around.
“It’s a one-handed weapon so it’s convenient and light, but it can even reduce defense… Nice, isn’t it?”
These were options any Hunter would covet.
Moreover.
“Wait. I don’t necessarily have to sell this as is, do I?”
The restriction that had been placed on Kang Hoon’s ‘Enhancement’ skill from the beginning.
‘Magic Item Enhancement Impossible’.
However.
In the first Gate he had entered.
In the 「Tutorial Dungeon」?
‘I was able to enhance all kinds of items.’
In other words,
In other words,
If it’s an item that Kang Hoon personally obtained ‘directly’ from the dungeon and belongs to him─
The story changes!
“Then I can enhance all of these fragment crowns and fragment swords!”
Of course, it’s impossible right now.
Because he had repaired not just one or two golems, but thirty of them.
But conversely speaking?
──It’s not like he couldn’t enhance thirty items!
His skill casting count would recover by tomorrow anyway.
“Wow…! If I enhance them myself and then sell them, I can name my price, right?”
Kang Hoon spoke with clear eyes about this bizarre idea.
It was crazy talk, but it was correct.
It meant the Hunters’ wallets would be emptied.
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