Awakened as a Money-Spending Genius Enhancer - Chapter 88
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Episode 88
Chapter 88. Nice to Meet You, Mister!!!!!
Today, my world collapsed….
If Alba had a diary, that would have been the first sentence he wrote.
Just that much, unbelievably from the golem’s perspective.
His master.
───Kang Hoon had ‘wasted a precious skill’!
– Ma, ster. Why…?
Within the inputted information, golems only move according to common sense.
Such ‘deviation’ from the command authority was behavior they absolutely couldn’t understand.
– Why are you doing this?
In crude terms, it was a ‘mental breakdown’.
Though I don’t know if golems made of stone have something called a ‘mentality’.
They were all on the verge of complete malfunction.
“Hehehe.”
In front of such golems, Kang Hoon laughed.
And he told them.
“I wasn’t trying to open this door.”
– ?
“I was checking the Information Value.”
That was the reason Kang Hoon had knocked.
He had simply made contact with the door to check its ‘Information Value’.
As a result, the Information Value for [Unopenable Door] appeared.
“I don’t care about content saying it won’t open.”
What was important to Kang Hoon was the very fact that an ‘Information Value’ existed.
“It’s not simply treated as a ‘wall’ and left at that, but is clearly an individual structure called a ‘door’, right?”
– …Master. So that means?
“It means I can enhance the ‘door’ independently!”
Grin.
Delighted by his overflowing curiosity, Kang Hoon smiled.
The Status Window never lies, right?
Yes.
But an Enhancer has no choice but to know that there are also things it ‘doesn’t say’.
All items have options applied according to the common sense that people think.
─── ‘Superstition’
All items have their full durability restored the moment they are enhanced.
───’Repair’
Then there’s one more.
All items, yes….
“If they can be enhanced, they can also be destroyed!”
A characteristic of Enhancement Specialists that the Status Window doesn’t tell you about.
Namely.
───────’Destruction’!
The ‘Information Value’ of the door Kang Hoon now had his hand on,
Enhancement to +3 grade completed in an instant.
However, from the fourth attempt onward, the success rate is 50%.
Upon failure, it gets destroyed mercilessly.
Even if it’s a dungeon structure made for ‘gimmicks’!
Therefore.
He shouted without hesitation!
“Enhancement!”
Clang!
Clang─
Claaaaaang!!
Then the ‘Information Value’ at his fingertips changed again.
[ Unopenable Door +4 ]
Even the fourth enhancement succeeded.
From the fifth enhancement onward, the success rate is 25%.
‘When success was the goal, I only thought it was too low.’
A 75% chance of failure and destruction?
It only succeeds at times like this. Really, how absurd.
“Enhancement!!”
And then.
【 Oh my~!! 】
A welcome voice that he’d been listening to began ringing in his ears!
“I never thought I’d be waiting for this mister’s voice!”
Crack crack crack!
Starting from Kang Hoon’s palm, small cracks appeared in the door.
【 My wrist slipped~! There was one mistake~! 】
“Woooooah! Welcome! Nice to meet you, mister!!!!!”
The perfect failure notification sound!
At the same time.
Crack crack crack crack crack─!
The door that no Hunter could ever open by any means, the ‘Unopenable Door’.
As if tearing that door apart, cracks began spreading in all directions!
────Rumble rumble rumble-!!
The door shook along with the wall, cracking beautifully with creaking sounds!
“Ooh!”
Finally, the entire door was covered with spider web-like cracks.
Like drought-stricken earth, the door became unsightly in an instant.
After lightly placing his fist on it.
“Anyone there~?”
Knock knock knock!
Kang Hoon knocked once more.
At that moment.
Something completely different from before happened.
True to being an ‘Unopenable Door’, the door remained stopped in place.
Whoooosh!
It crumbled into powder and scattered away.
– This kind of thing, even I, am seeing for the first time…
The moment when thousand-year-old ‘common sense’ collapsed.
The golem felt dizzy for the first time in its life.
And it thought.
‘…What kind of master have I come to serve?’
─And so.
Amidst the murmuring of the shocked golems, acrid dust clouds rose up.
“Cough, cough!”
Kang Hoon waved his hand at the dust blocking his vision for just a moment.
– Hyauuuuung!
Lucky blew a strong gust of wind from its mouth.
The cold wind that suddenly rushed in swept away all the dust and disappeared ‘beyond there’!
“!!”
The place where the door had disappeared.
Beyond there, a passage revealed itself!
“Ooooooh!? What is this!?”
A path that no one had ever seen despite hundreds and thousands of Hunters having passed through.
– In the place we were guarding, there was, such a location…?
A place that even the golems who had guarded the ruins for over a thousand years didn’t know about!
【 Discovery! Hidden Place! 】
The only entity that continued the guidance as if nothing happened was the Status Window!
Rather, it seemed like it had been waiting.
─Just for Kang Hoon to discover this place!
【 Starting Hidden Quest! 】 【 Enter the ‘Magic Ruins Workshop’ and defeat the true boss! 】
“True boss?!”
Then there’s a fake boss too?
Oh! That seems to be the case?!
“Wait wait, could it be… the previously known boss was actually fake!?”
It was a reasonable speculation.
After all, wasn’t this ‘a dungeon with a strangely weak boss’?
“Right. And the progress rate was low too.”
There were more than one or two strange points.
And those strange points were all resolved at once!
“There was a separate true Boss Room!”
And the hidden path leading there.
That passage was now.
Spread out before Kang Hoon’s eyes!
At the same time.
【 ‘Twilight Ancient Ruins’ Current Progress: 74% 】
The progress rate that was 71% increased by 3%.
“This is the right path.”
This made it certain.
Gulp!
Half expectation, half tension, he swallowed his dry saliva.
Kang Hoon carefully pushed his upper body into the dark passage.
“It’s too dark.”
He suddenly remembered the terrifying dungeon he saw in the guide catalog.
A place where monsters that moved through shadows appeared, making light skills or items essential.
The problem was that even then, the Hunter’s own shadow couldn’t be helped.
It was a place that was not only terrifyingly difficult but also scary.
“‘Cursed Shrine’ or something like that. Hah. If it’s going to be this pitch black and scary, what’s the difference from that?”
In front of Kang Hoon whose mouth was going dry.
– Master.
Alba stepped forward.
– It’s a fact humans don’t know, but moving the ruins isn’t free.
“Really? How does it move?”
– Golem energy. It moves using our bio-energy as fuel.
“!”
Though it was a fact no scholars had known until now.
Alba casually informed him and proceeded into the dark passage.
Then.
Pop!
…Pop!
…Pop!
All the way to the far end of the long, pitch-black passage, lights began to turn on!
“Wow, it rivals solar energy.”
The passage was incredibly long, longer than expected.
The height of the ceiling was also incomparably higher than before.
“…What on earth is at the end?”
With Alba leading the way, Kang Hoon also stepped forward one step at a time.
Dozens of golems naturally followed behind.
Each time, the lighting became brighter.
‘Now that I have Alba, I won’t need to worry no matter what ruins I go to.’
‘Light’.
It was every Hunter’s concern.
Basically, dungeons are dark.
Unless it’s a special type of open dungeon.
Most are in a state of darkness, and the majority are related to ancient ruins.
Kang Hoon had come to be able to solve this in a bizarre way, far too easily.
Thud. Thud. Thud!
The destination they reached like that!
Shiiine─!
The moment bright pale purple lights turned on simultaneously with the energy of numerous golems.
The scenery spread before his eyes made Kang Hoon genuinely admire it.
“Ooh!”
【 You have entered the ‘Magic Ruins Workshop’. 】
The Status Window announced it as such.
But Kang Hoon’s impression was a bit different.
“It looks like Frankenstein’s laboratory?!”
The overall atmosphere of the huge workshop was exactly like that!
A laboratory for dissecting, assembling, and studying corpses.
Beakers filled with unidentifiable liquids were lined up everywhere.
Electrical wires hanging down from the ceiling dangled like tangled blood vessels.
Especially in the center of the map, there was even a massive, cold operating table!
If there was something peculiar.
“Rather than humans, should I call this a golem Frankenstein laboratory?”
Starting with the heads hanging on the walls.
Giant hands and feet, arms, legs. Even down to the skeletal frames.
─They were all golem fragments.
And they were incredibly massive, fragments of a size he’d never seen before!
Since a hand-shaped fragment happened to be lying there, Kang Hoon placed his palm against it.
It seemed about five times larger than his own, allowing him to compare the size.
But what was more important was the ‘Information Value’.
[Graviton Fragment]: A fragment of the right hand of the special golem ‘Graviton’. Boasts high durability and cannot be destroyed unless all durability is exhausted. Characterized by being made gigantic for the purpose of destroying buildings.
“…It was made for ‘destruction’ rather than ‘protection’?”
The [Guardian Golem] was created to protect the ruins when encountering intruders.
In contrast, this golem called ‘Graviton’ seemed to have the goal of destroying both the intruders and the ruins together.
“It’s this big because it needs to destroy buildings.”
There were enough such fragments stored here to spare.
“It’s vast…”
The workshop of the magic ruins.
Its interior was incredibly expansive.
The moment he took in the mysterious space at a glance.
Kang Hoon’s impression was simple.
“This workshop is freaking awesome.”
– …’Freaking awesome’?
Alba, unable to understand the slang, froze with an ‘error’ displayed in his head.
But Kang Hoon began running around the freaking awesome(?) workshop to his heart’s content!
He looked around to his fill.
“Whoa! A secret base workshop that nobody knows about! This is freaking amazing! I’m so jealous!!”
Such Park Kang-hoon was, after all.
“Saving on electricity bills with golem energy! Even getting free assistance! Awesome!”
…Park Kang-hoon, a freelance illustrator who had tightened his belt and worked his whole life.
Kang Hoon’s essence was that of an art student.
Naturally and precisely, his eyes were drawn to.
The most important and beautiful device in this workshop.
A mysteriously placed diamond-shaped ‘torso’.
“Wait. This is…?”
And he realized.
“…No way!”
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