Awakened as a Money-Spending Genius Enhancer - Chapter 92
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Episode 92
Chapter 92. Well, This Much is Nothing
Forgetting his grumbling from just seconds ago.
Kang Hoon reached out with a joyful heart.
A lovely, delicate, sparkling beautiful box!
Its ‘Information Value’!
[Diamond Grade Box] : The highest grade box among Gate Dungeon clear reward boxes. Contains a specific item due to defeating a hidden boss, and can only be opened by the person who received the reward. * [■■ ■■■ ■■■ ■ ti, ■■ %]
“…I still can’t read the options.”
But the content had changed a bit.
“Originally it seemed to say ‘contains random items’, but this time it’s a specific item?”
Then there was no reason to hesitate opening it.
A precious Diamond Box that he didn’t know when he’d encounter again.
No need to stomp his feet asking ‘when will enhancement be possible’.
“Since it’s a specific item anyway.”
With a light heart.
Click!
Kang Hoon immediately opened the box.
And.
“!”
He fell backward the moment he opened it.
“Ugh, uaaaah!”
What suddenly shot up from inside the box.
Was none other than a heart.
A heart dripping with bright red blood and beating vigorously!
“This isn’t even a jack-in-the-box, what kind of nonsense is this?”
Because of that, Kang Hoon nearly had a heart attack!
Just as he was calming his startled heart.
“…Wait.”
Opening his eyes drowsily, Kang Hoon looked at the heart again.
“This isn’t actually a real heart, is it?”
Looking closely, what was dripping down wasn’t liquid blood but ‘energy’.
Red sand-like ‘energy’ was rotating in all directions.
Circling around the heart as if human blood was circulating.
Moreover.
“Wow…”
The heart was also an ‘item’ made of precise and beautiful parts.
“An artificial heart?”
He remembered watching a documentary about watches once.
The conditions for expensive watches were somewhat unexpected.
Using expensive gems and sturdy special materials was important, but.
What was truly important was the craftsman’s workmanship.
How incredibly tiny parts fit inside a small watch.
The admiration he felt watching that documentary watch.
“Woooow…!”
Burst out ten times stronger.
“It’s truly beautiful.”
The harmony created by minute parts and gears meshing perfectly.
Thump, thump, thump.
The way it beat in rhythm like a real heart.
The brilliant magic stone embedded in the center.
Not only did it look incredibly expensive and precious at first glance.
“The feeling… is incredibly good.”
The Enhancement Specialist’s ‘intuition’ activated.
He felt positive life energy and powerful energy together.
Getting up from his spot, Kang Hoon carefully extended both hands.
Then, as if welcoming Kang Hoon’s hands.
Swirling, swirling.
The red energy rotated between his fingers.
And, as if asking him to read it.
The ‘Information Value’ opened gently.
[Graviton’s Heart] : An artificial heart created by ancient ■ian ■■ ■. A hidden item given to the pioneer who first defeated the hidden boss Graviton. Consumed upon use.
Just as he was admiring its contents.
“Huh? Wait. What’s with these squares?”
Kang Hoon’s eyebrows furrowed.
“…Items with square censoring can’t be enhanced, right?”
That wasn’t all.
“It doesn’t even tell me how to use it.”
Had he received an item he couldn’t enhance or use right away?
“Hmmmm.”
He didn’t know, but for now he carefully held it and examined it.
Meanwhile.
【 Experience settlement. Level up! 】
The status window began its final settlement on its own.
Whether a long XP bar appeared before his eyes or not.
Whether blue liquid filled the sections as it rose or not.
“Hmmmmmm.”
Kang Hoon was completely absorbed in the [Graviton’s Heart].
【 LV. 23 Enhancement Specialist 】
Well, this much is nothing.
Since he had swept away all monsters in the dungeon during the flattening(?) process.
It was a natural result.
【 LV. 24 Enhancement Specialist 】
Besides, the end was quickly in sight.
As soon as he finished leveling up two stages, the XP liquid began to slow down.
Splash, splash…
Wasn’t it flowing weakly and filling drop by drop?
But then it fails to break through the wall of 25, coming to a disappointing stop.
“As expected, it seems tough from this stage onward. Only 2 level ups…”
There’s still a long way to go.
Kang Hoon steels his resolve once more.
In front of him, another new status window appeared.
Ding!
【 Starting experience point calculation for defeating Hidden Boss: Graviton! 】
“…?”
And then.
The XP liquid that had stopped right in front of the level 25 wall.
Began to sprint.
Ding!
【 LV. 25 Enhancement Specialist 】
Splash!
Swoooooooosh──!!
This wasn’t just sprinting.
Ding!
【 LV. 26 Enhancement Specialist 】
Like an F1 racing car.
Swoooooooosh───!!
Speed invisible to the eye!
Ding!
【 LV. 27 Enhancement Specialist 】
“What, what is this?!”
The XP liquid charging forward as if its brakes had broken.
Could it be that the status window had finally bugged out?
It was enough to make him suspicious!
Swoooooooosh────!
Ding!
【 LV. 28 Enhancement Specialist 】
There are several criteria for kill experience points.
First, solo kills give more experience than kills shared among multiple Hunters.
Kills achieved by Kang Hoon’s creations and summons count as Kang Hoon’s ‘kills’.
In other words.
─It’s processed as having defeated Graviton alone.
Ding!
【 LV. 29 Enhancement Specialist 】
Second, bosses give higher kill experience compared to regular monsters, and in the case of hidden bosses, the kill experience is doubled.
Therefore.
Ding!
【 LV. 30 Enhancement Specialist 】
The experience Kang Hoon would gain is also processed as double the usual amount.
Not only that.
Third, when a Hunter defeats a monster 5 or more levels higher than their own level, the kill experience is doubled.
Ding!
【 LV. 31 Enhancement Specialist 】
Fourth, when multiple multiplier conditions are met, each multiplier is applied independently, then all multipliers are multiplied together to calculate the final experience.
As a result.
Kang Hoon’s hands had shattered the experience dam.
A crazy experience waterfall was pouring down.
“…Are you insane?”
Standing in place, Kang Hoon froze.
And he read, read, and read again the level of the XP bar that was almost full, just barely short of the end.
“Level 32 is right in front?”
…Wasn’t I definitely level 22 when I started out?
He had skipped almost ten stages.
“At this rate, I won’t even be able to adapt.”
It hadn’t even been a month since he’d been introducing himself as ‘I’m a level 20 Hunter~’.
“Is this normal?”
Of course it’s abnormal.
Unable to believe it, Kang Hoon called up his status window again.
And he opened his information wide, reading it over and over.
【 LV. 31 Enhancement Specialist 】
“It’s real. I really became a level 31 Hunter.”
In his dazed state, he was pinching his own cheek when.
Thwack!
Lucky’s sturdy front paw pulled Kang Hoon’s hand down.
– Kyawoong~!?
Seeing his master pinching and pulling his own cheek, he seemed to be asking why he was hurting himself.
Thanks to that, Kang Hoon came to his senses too.
“Wahaha…! Lucky! Your dad is level 31 now!”
Making such jokes while vigorously shaking Lucky’s front paw boom boom!! for just a moment.
“Now let’s go home! Let’s go home, wash up, and have a celebratory dinner!”
– Kyawoooong~!!
While doing so, he surveyed the items scattered at his feet.
“Hmm. I should gather everything up at once and use [Homing Instinct]. Let’s start with the heaviest one, Alba.”
With that, Kang Hoon temporarily set down the [Graviton’s Heart] he was holding.
Not on the ground, but on Alba’s separated upper body.
At that moment.
Flash!
[Bio-Energy Detection!]
Alba’s two eyes opened, red lights turning on, followed by.
Paaaaaaaat─────!!
Light burst forth from Alba’s body.
“Huh…?”
Just as he startled, thinking it might be a malfunction, and picked up [Graviton’s Heart] again.
Admiration spread across Kang Hoon’s expression.
“!”
Between Alba and [Graviton’s Heart], brilliantly shining lines.
Something like circuits were connecting in a long stream, weren’t they?
Definitely the same appearance as the circuits he’d seen in the dungeon magic workshop just moments ago.
“Oh! Wait!”
That someone who created Graviton.
He must have made Alba too.
Then?
“They have the same maker.”
– ?
“This heart, it should be an item that fits you too, right?”
Once again, Kang Hoon placed [Graviton’s Heart] on Alba’s chest.
And drew in air with a ‘whoosh’.
“I can’t use this item directly myself, nor can I enhance it, but.”
One hand on the heart.
The other hand placed on Alba’s chest.
“Maybe….”
Trying not to get his hopes up too much, Kang Hoon speculated.
“If I ‘consume’ this while enhancing?”
And carefully, yet clearly, he spoke.
──────”Enhancement.”
The very moment he cast the skill.
【 Conditions Met! 】 【 Would you like to proceed with enhancement of [Alba: Guardian Golem +1]? 】 【 Enhancement will consume [Graviton’s Heart]. 】
“Ohhh!!”
A status window identical to what he’d expected, no, even better than that appeared!
“Now I can enhance Alba!?”
He’d been upset about the ‘restrictions’ placed on Alba anyway.
He couldn’t find a way to repair Alba either, so honestly, he’d felt at a loss.
But now, he could enhance him!
“Then his durability will recover right away!?”
Apparently, ‘enhancement conditions’ meant specific items.
Consuming those items would make enhancement possible!
It’s something he’d been thinking all along, but.
“This is too good…?”
The rewards given by dungeons.
All of them.
…Aren’t they too good?
“It’s really like they were arranged just for me….”
Even so.
What was there to hesitate about?
Kang Hoon’s instincts had already made the decision.
The Enhancement Specialist’s ‘intuition’ had activated the same way.
He was certain.
This was the right path.
Moreover.
He was curious about what would happen after completing this enhancement.
“Do it! Enhancement!!”
And.
Kaaaang!
Brilliant light burst forth from beneath Kang Hoon’s palm.
If anyone had seen it, they would have mistaken it for a dungeon Gate reopening.
“!”
He also felt it.
The powerful life energy surging beneath his hand.
‘This is really artificial energy?’
Following that.
Kaaaang─!
An unrestrained metallic sound struck down.
Alba’s two eyes, mouth, the crack on his cheek, even the severed lower part of his torso.
Light began bursting forth from every ‘interior’!
Circuits spread out in an instant, like blood vessels, like tendons, like muscles.
Or like skin, covering Alba!
‘This is different from before.’
This isn’t just repair.
This is.
──Enhancement!
Kaaaaaaa──ang!!
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