I’m the Only One With Two Towers - Chapter 68

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Only I Have Two Towers Episode 068

Why Is This Here?

“This thing called chicken is wonderful.”

“Didn’t I tell you it would be amazing? Granny.”

“I’ll admit it. For a raccoon with a tiny brain, you have excellent taste.”

“Is that a compliment?”

“It’s a compliment.”

“Then that’s a relief.”

Kancheo nodded his head in agreement.

It’s fortunate he’s such an innocent friend.

“Oh, and about the ingredients for the elixir of immortality. Now that I think about it, there’s one we have.”

“Oh? At the Starry Forge?”

“No.”

Ellia shook her head and pointed at Momo.

Regardless, Momo was busy tearing into a chicken wing.

Momo was picking out only the tender, soft parts to eat.

The competition had increased.

“Chubby cheeks.”

“Hm?”

“Stop tearing at that chicken and open your bag. Let’s see what you got from the floor just now.”

“Okay!”

“Time out!”

Jinhyeok stretched out his hand to stop Momo from rummaging through the bag.

“Let’s do it inside the workshop.”

Momo had completely dismantled the giant Elder Centipede.

Naturally, the bag was full of centipede parts.

If we opened it in the new house, it would be covered in centipede fluids.

Snap.

When Ellia snapped her fingers, a door appeared.

Momo efficiently gathered up the chicken, radish, and cola before going inside.

“Where are you going with my chicken?!”

Kancheo chased after Momo in shock, while Seira sprawled on the sofa, apparently full.

Dark flew to the balcony, saying he wanted to get some night air.

‘You’ll get reported…!’

I hope no one witnessed that.

I opened the door and entered the workshop.

“Not this one. Not this either. This is just flesh.”

Ellia rummaged through the items Momo had unpacked.

After being buried in the pile for a while, Ellia shouted “Found it!” and stood up.

“This should work perfectly as an ingredient for the elixir of immortality.”

“Ugh.”

Jinhyeok and Kancheo stepped back as something was thrust forward.

For some reason, Elder Centipede’s heart was still beating.

Ellia smiled as she caressed the heart.

“I had a feeling it would be there.”

“Is it valuable?”

“Even a thousand-year-old centipede is rare to see, but this is an Elder Centipede? The heart is truly the source of life. It should contain all the vitality that creature possessed. Fresh is best for now.”

Ellia ran off somewhere and brought back a long rectangular box.

When she opened the lid, a grotesque-looking test subject appeared.

While Kancheo and Jinhyeok recoiled in horror, Ellia drew a small transmutation circle.

When she placed it on top, Elder Centipede’s heart disappeared with a whoosh.

Ellia wiped the sweat from her forehead.

“Now I can rest easy. Without blood circulation, the heart would rot.”

“D-did you put it inside that thing?”

“Yes. It looks dead, but this thing is actually alive. I swapped out the hearts.”

Ellia held out the original heart.

Each time she brought something out, Kancheo and Jinhyeok kept moving further away.

“There’s one left! Kancheo, eat it!”

Momo, who had been filming a chicken mukbang without a care, held out a piece of chicken breast.

She was definitely offering the part she didn’t want to eat.

“After seeing two hearts, I can’t eat anymore. Momo, you have it.”

“Master, you eat it!”

“I’m fine too.”

I was full, but seeing the hearts had also killed my appetite.

Momo stared blankly before putting the chicken breast back.

Seeing her put it in a bag, she seemed to be planning to throw it away.

“Ellia.”

“Hm?”

“Were you a villain, Ellia?”

“Why are you asking such a thing?! Absolutely! This granny is a witch! Didn’t you see the test subject earlier?!”

“Smart, aren’t you? I was usually called a witch. Though various modifiers were attached.”

“For example?”

“Mad, insane, dark, evil, cursed, and so on?”

“Wow…”

Ellia looked at Kancheo with a strange smile.

“Sometimes I’d turn weak raccoons into incredibly strong raccoons. Though their limbs would snap off and fall away before long.”

“Eeeek! Boss!!”

Kancheo hid behind Jinhyeok in terror.

Jinhyeok shook his head vigorously.

“You can’t use Kancheo as a test subject.”

“Of course not. I only use bad guys as test subjects.”

“That’s a lie! The weak raccoon must have been a good friend!”

“No, he was bad too. It was so long ago I don’t remember, but he probably was.”

Ellia shrugged and rummaged through the workshop’s ingredient compartments.

“Hmm. I think there was one around here somewhere. Is this it?”

Ellia took out and opened a small box.

Inside was a single piece about the size of a fingernail.

“What’s this?”

“An imugi’s heart. More precisely, it’s been dried and ground into powder. An imugi is a being that lives in hiding for over a thousand years to become a dragon and ascend to heaven. If we had a complete one, it would make an excellent ingredient.”

“How did you get this, Ellia?”

“I happened to get a small amount by chance. I’ve never seen a complete heart. Oh, but I have seen an imugi.”

“What was it like?”

“I think it was about five times bigger than Elder Centipede? I remember it used magic too.”

“Wow. That’s scary.”

“I almost got hit by its tail when I was snooping around carelessly.”

Jinhyeok pondered while looking at the box.

As expected of an elixir of immortality.

Each ingredient was extraordinary.

Even if we were lucky enough to get Elder Centipede’s heart, where would we find an imugi?

‘Should I take a look around?’

I took out the Yodel compass from my inventory.

The compass that had gained an item-finding function through the last enhancement.

I brought the heart powder to it.

“Huh?”

Why was this happening?

The compass began spinning at a terrifying speed as if it had found something.

The numbers indicating distance were also rapidly increasing.

Ellia and Kancheo gathered around Jinhyeok.

“Oh? What an interesting tool.”

“Don’t drool on it! Granny! It’s a Yodel treasure!”

While the two bickered for a moment.

The Yodel compass gradually found stability.

The compass pointed in one specific direction.

The number displayed was roughly 3 million.

“Why is the number so big?”

“Still much cheaper than house prices!”

Momo chimed in from somewhere nearby.

Jinhyeok rubbed his chin.

3,000 kilometers.

It was quite a distance, but that was a secondary issue.

‘Why is it reacting?’

This was powder made from grinding an Imugi’s heart.

The heart of a being that couldn’t exist in modern times.

Naturally, it shouldn’t react at all, yet it was measuring not only direction but distance too.

This meant the Imugi or its heart actually existed.

“Ellia. This isn’t ground centipede legs, right?”

“Hey! At 3,271 years old in elf years, I’m still in my prime! My memory isn’t that bad.”

The possibility of the Yodel compass malfunctioning was also slim.

After the enhancement, Jinhyeok had tested it multiple times with items that only existed in the Tower and objects that only existed here.

There had never been a single case where the compass pointed to something incorrectly.

‘3,000 kilometers in this direction.’

I drew a line on the map app.

Roughly the mountain range near Lijiang City in China.

Then one mountain’s name caught my eye.

# The mountain where dragons descended, Jade Dragon Snow Mountain.

What I was looking for wasn’t a dragon but an Imugi, but it was still the most relevant name.

“Boss. Are we going here?”

Ellia, Momo, and Kancheo looked up at Jinhyeok.

When I first saw the map, I thought this was too far and wouldn’t work.

But thinking about it carefully, question marks appeared.

What was stopping us from going?

While not abundant, I had enough money to buy plane tickets.

I had friends to climb the snowy mountain with.

I hadn’t committed any crime that would restrict my departure, nor did I have to report to work somewhere tomorrow.

There was absolutely no reason we couldn’t go.

“Kancheo, Momo. Pack your bags.”

Jinhyeok smiled.

“We’re going on a trip!”

22-year-old Yoo Jin-hyeok.

His first overseas trip in life, confirmed.

“Yes. Your application is complete. It takes about a month for passport issuance.”

Jinhyeok’s eyes shook greatly.

“A month?”

“Yes. Usually it takes 2 weeks, but these days there are so many people applying for passports. Everyone’s traveling overseas, you know.”

“I see… Thank you.”

After giving a weak greeting, he turned around.

His heart had been pounding with excitement about leaving for China immediately, but a month?

The prospect of waiting that long made everything seem dark.

‘So passports don’t come out right away.’

South Korea, which boasts faster administrative processing than any other country in the world.

Being a nation of “hurry hurry,” I thought passports would come out the same day like opening a bank account.

‘I would have known if I’d traveled overseas before.’

The first and last time I’d been on a plane was the Jeju Island school trip in my sophomore year of high school.

Even then, I was stuck in some training facility and couldn’t see anything properly, so it was hardly worthy of being called a trip.

“Boss. Should I steal a passport?”

“You can’t steal one. It needs to be registered in various systems.”

“So we can’t go on the overseas trip?”

Kancheo was already wearing a backpack properly.

He seemed ready to depart immediately but disappointed that we couldn’t go.

“Can’t help it.”

I sat on the sofa and turned on my phone.

Tomorrow morning’s flight to China that I’d excitedly booked today.

Regrettably, I’d have to change it to next month.

While ambitiously changing the dates for the duty-free items I’d ordered one by one.

Screeeeech!!

The harsh sound of brakes could be heard.

Wondering if there had been an accident, I turned my head toward the entrance.

“Huh?”

What came through the opening door was a very familiar face.

Player Hunter Bureau Team Leader Jin Yun-ho.

His face was bright red and he came in panting, apparently here to catch someone.

Then our eyes met.

“!!!”

Jin Yun-ho rushed over with tremendous momentum.

‘Was it me?’

While I was thinking about what I might have done wrong.

Jin Yun-ho, who had approached right in front of me, grasped Jinhyeok’s hands.

“Mr. Yoo Jin-hyeok, I’m sorry! I apologize on behalf of the Player Hunter Bureau!”

“What? Suddenly?”

“I think you must have many grievances. The place we took you to borrow equipment was just a D-grade warehouse. On top of that, the house we got you was only 40 pyeong. There wasn’t much else we could call support. I regret showing off about giving you one Plix bag. So please reconsider naturalization.”

“Naturalization?”

Jinhyeok made a dumbfounded expression.

He couldn’t collect his thoughts from the flood of words pouring out.

“Didn’t you book a flight ticket to China for tomorrow with Korean Air, and apply for a passport today?”

Now I remembered.

When I received Plix’s bag, I had agreed to this disclosure of departure-related information.

Jin Yun-ho had an expression on the verge of tears.

So what if he’d gotten a signature saying he wouldn’t naturalize?

Jinhyeok hadn’t received much from the Hunter Bureau to begin with.

He could just give it all back and leave.

And of all places, the destination was China.

It was the country that had poached the most Players from South Korea with their massive capital.

“You’re mistaken. I’m not going to naturalize.”

“Huh? Then why do you need a passport…?”

Jinhyeok smiled innocently.

“I’m going on an overseas trip.”

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