I Became a Mythical Hunter After Killing the Golden Goblin - Chapter 49

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Chapter 49. Dungeon Runaway (3)
The buff potion, the stats amplified by the Wings of Arrogance, and the Limitless stats elevated by my remaining points—all of it was more than enough to let me escape from the goblins.
If I simply dragged out time and let the remaining hours slip away like this, I could create a new battleground, but I had other plans to attempt first.
I retrieved the item I’d discovered earlier from my pocket and examined it once more.
〚Item: The Self-Proclaimed Most Beautiful Goblin’s Potent Pheromone
Grade: Advanced
Rank: SS
Description: The most beautiful woman in the vast goblin kingdom possessed, from birth, an enchanting beauty and fragrance that captivated both male and female forms alike. Any goblin who caught her scent once lost all reason and rushed toward her. Those who caught it twice descended into madness and frenzy. Those who caught it thrice had their very sense of self completely shattered by her allure. Using this power, she ascended to the throne as Queen, ruling the goblins as a tyrant until her final breath. Within this vessel lies a fragment of the power she possessed.
Ability
-Grant up to 3 designated targets the Beautiful Woman’s Enchanting Pheromone for 1 hour (If the target is of goblin species, they are guaranteed to receive the status ailment: Enchanted)〛
For such a lengthy description, the item was remarkably ambiguous. It wasn’t as though I could use the goblins to kill my enemies, nor was it anything more than making them infatuated and charmed.
Of course, the level of enchantment couldn’t exactly be called moderate.
One word inscribed on this item was enough to make my eyes gleam with possibility.
【Guaranteed】. The presence of this word meant that even those consumed by madness would fall under the enchantment, didn’t it?
If so, there was only one thing to test here.
Would enchantment receive a higher judgment? Or would the simple command granted by the horn flute receive a higher judgment?
Would a goblin consumed by madness truly choose lust over a mere human’s command?
I didn’t know the answer. I hoped it would be the former, but if it didn’t work, there was no real loss.
‘I’ll just run around until the remaining time expires, then kill them one by one once the command ends.’
Just as the duration of the Wings of Arrogance was nearly exhausted, human voices finally began reaching my ears.
“Damn it! I can hear goblin cries nearby?”
“Are there still some left? We killed seven of them, and there are still more?”
“If we don’t kill them all at once, they ignore the command and attack us—I nearly died! This time, let’s kill them all at once, please! I’m terrified!”
“Be quiet. Let’s observe the situation first, and if we keep hearing them, we’ll move.”
Found them. These cockroach-like bastards.
After transforming Man-byeon with a concealment item, I activated concealment directly. Even if they were goblins with elevated grade and rank, it would be impossible for these weaklings to see through Advanced-rank A concealment.
‘I can only grant the pheromone to three people.’
Therefore, one of them had to die. I moved quickly, and the sight of four people gathered and resting came into view.
‘I’ll kill Seok Woon first—he’s the most irritating.’
I drew a spear from my inventory.
〚Item: Giant Ant’s Jaw Spear [Unique-S]〛
The final reward from clearing the dungeon, received after my remaining points and skills. The most powerful weapon I currently possessed!
At the moment when my concealment had only moments left. I kicked off the ground and thrust the spear with all my might.
Shluck!
Seok Woon, lost in thought, didn’t even manage a scream before his chest was pierced clean through, and he fell dead.
Everyone froze, staring at the incomprehensible scene. A spear had suddenly materialized from thin air and skewered Seok Woon’s chest.
Hot, metallic blood sprayed and splattered across their faces, but in their panic, they could do nothing—all their focus was devoted to understanding and accepting what had just happened.
And that gap was the perfect opening I desired. As my concealment broke, I pulled out the pheromone from my pocket and sprayed it on three of them.
Only after catching the scent of the pheromone liquid did they realize what had occurred, but by then it was far too late.
I immediately withdrew the spear that had pierced his chest and placed the horn flute he’d been holding directly into my inventory, then fled, evading both them and the goblins.
“Damn it! Seongwun!”
“Curse it all! How? He had a concealment skill?”
“Kyaaaaaaah!!”
They were making such a commotion, yet they had no time for composure.
I hadn’t moved far. I simply watched the chaos unfold from a nearby tree, sipping a potion.
The moment the Wings of Arrogance vanished, the goblins revealed themselves. Twelve goblins emerging from the undergrowth. The instant I saw their faces and expressions, I couldn’t help but smile.
“Bingo.”
They were no longer mindless monsters driven by madness.
Their eyes still lacked focus, their faces flushed with excitement, but unlike before, what had been bestowed upon them wasn’t madness—it was enchantment.
The enchantment of a goblin woman who once ruled an entire goblin kingdom.
“Insane. If she were human…”
Wouldn’t she rival the legendary beauties of history, those called “the beauty that topples nations” and “peerless maiden”?
The goblins, utterly entranced, began advancing toward the three humans like puppets on strings.
Their mouths hung agape, drool dripping down their chins, their swollen lower bodies left completely exposed without shame.
Even the two female goblins were no different.
Their gazes were sticky and covetous, desperate. And the objects of their lust were none other than the three humans.
“Damn.”
The moment Kim Woo-rim grasped what was unfolding, he couldn’t help but curse.
“Damn bastard. Does this even make sense?”
He regretted his past self for accepting this request. Blinded by the rare-grade skill book, he’d dared to touch something he should never have touched.
“Ugh… disgusting!”
Lee Ji-ah, being female, found those gazes far more repulsive than the other two men did. But cursing and screaming wouldn’t change anything.
Only two choices remained: stay and fight them, or endure without looking back until this cursed thing disappeared.
Watching it all unfold, I couldn’t help but applaud.
‘If it were merely a moderate level of enchantment, I could have them entranced and issuing commands.’
This had already transcended enchantment. Inhale once and lose reason, twice and go mad, thrice and the self collapses—or so they say.
Of course, that pheromone couldn’t actually achieve such effects. But the goblins’ eyes had already rolled back beyond madness itself.
Wasn’t this an absolute calamity exclusive to goblins?
I was even more surprised that such an item existed, and that it was merely high-grade rank.
“It must be because it’s only a fragment of the true power.”
If it were genuine, these goblins would have already gone mad and had their selves collapse.
The three assassins made their choice: to flee, to escape this cursed goblin hell of lust as quickly as possible.
They immediately turned and scattered in all directions. It wasn’t some noble, self-sacrificing thought to save even one person by staying together—far from it.
They simply had no mind to look after a fellow assassin they’d only just met today. All they wanted was to escape this filthy place as fast as they could, even for a single moment.
“Perfect.”
And that was exactly the picture I’d been hoping for. In the end, my goal was to kill all of them, then slaughter the goblins and clear the dungeon.
The most troublesome schemer, Seok Woon, was already dead, and if they scattered like this, I could pick them off one by one.
After all, for the next hour, they would be the absolute targets of these lustful goblins.
I rise from my spot. I exchange Man-byeon for boots.
〚Man-byeon has projected the item: Boots of Wind-Treading [High-Grade S+]!〛
The speed buff potion’s effect still lingered. Though the Wings of Arrogance that had elevated all my stats by 10 had vanished, the item’s effect continued to enhance my agility, pushing my speed to even greater heights.
I drew a spear from my inventory and immediately headed in the direction Kim Woo-rim had fled.
The distance closed in an instant. The moment I spotted him fleeing precariously with five goblins on his heels like a tail, I began eliminating the goblins pursuing him from behind.
Killing goblins entranced and oblivious to their own demise was effortless.
The moment I fatally struck them all in quick succession, a level-up message appeared, and only then did Kim Woo-rim collapse to the ground as if he’d finally survived, gasping for breath.
“What are you doing?”
“Gasp…gasp…gasp…damn it…!”
Those were his last words. The massive, powerful spear pierced straight through Kim Woo-rim’s abdomen, and as he coughed up blood, his breathing finally ceased.
“Next is Lee Ji-ah.”
I crossed the forest without hesitation. How far had I traveled?
A scream echoed from the distance. Lee Ji-ah came into view, on the verge of being caught by the goblins.
I considered letting her fall to them, but watching her struggle felt like a waste of time, so I cleanly eliminated all the goblins before approaching.
“Farewell. In your next life, don’t become an assassin.”
“Y-you insane bastard! If you kill me, the Seongwun Guild won’t just sit idle! You…if you kill me…!”
That was enough. Where did she get the audacity to threaten me?
Once a runaway dungeon satisfied its clear conditions, it would expel the surviving Hunters and immediately vanish in an explosion.
The research on how it consumed all available power wasn’t for nothing.
No one would ever know whether these people died to the goblins or to me.
Knowing this, they must have prepared for such a scenario themselves. Though they ended up experiencing it from the opposite end.
Now only Ma Dong-won remained—the massive tank who had been subdued by me in a single strike.
I crossed the forest with relative ease, and the moment I found Ma Dong-won, I covered my eyes and pierced through his body along with the female goblin mounted on top of him.
I hastily erased the gruesome image from my mind, retrieved the spear, shook the blood from it, and stored it in my inventory.
Now, it was over.
After exchanging Man-byeon from my shoe for a sword, I deliberately inflicted small wounds across my body.
As if to demonstrate how fierce the dungeon had been. How dangerous it was—enough to kill four people.
Once that was complete, I drew upon The Sun’s power and slaughtered all the goblins still rubbing their bodies against the corpses, unable to break free from their enchantment.
Another level-up message appeared, along with a dungeon clear notification.
〚Dungeon (Runaway) Quest – Forest Where Fallen God’s Madness Descended cleared!〛
〚You rank 1st in contribution!〛
〚You obtain as reward – Item: Orb of Fallen Madness [Advanced-SSS]!〛
〚You obtain as reward – Unique Ability: Incantation of Reinforcement [Unique-C]!〛
〚You are forcibly ejected from the dungeon!〛

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