Laborer Mr. Kim Reaps Sweet Rewards with Auto-Hunting - Chapter 23

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A thousand-mile journey begins with a single step.
You can’t just rank up overnight with a snap of your fingers.
Absolutely not possible.
If it were, I’d have maxed out long ago.

“Brick by brick, nice and steady….”

There are no shortcuts.
Complete missions steadily.
Accumulate experience points, raise your rank.
That’s all there is to it.
So then?

“Time to get to work.”

Right now, there’s one goal.

[Fixed Team Summoning]
2. Robin (Superior Grade) : Available in 06 days 7 hours 31 minutes

Yeah, that’s it.
The time remaining until he can be summoned….
How do I get rid of it?
I need to rank up.

[Worker Summoning (Grade – Silver)]
[At your current grade, you can summon all entities classified as Superior Grade and Mid Grade.]

My unique skill is currently Silver grade.
Superior Grade and Mid Grade workers appear.
Will the next grade let me summon Supreme Grade too?

“There it is! Supreme Grade? I got this!”

Okay.
Rank up one level, and I can summon Supreme Grade.
Which means….

“Robin, I’ll be calling you every day after this!”

Bingo.
Then I need to move fast.

[Mission List]
1. Clear Tower of Chaos Floor 20
2. Complete Training at Training Ground 5 times (0/5)

I can do the training runs later anyway.

“Let’s hit the tower first.”
“Got it! Arthur, we’re heading to the tower!”

[Worker Dispatch]
– Tower

Currently on Floor 12.
To reach floor 20, my target, it’d take nine days going one floor a day….
Can’t I go twice a day instead?
Only one entry per day—wish I could do more.
Though honestly, I should be able to clear these next few layers without breaking a sweat….

[Tower of Chaos Floor 12 conquered!]
[Level increased.]
[Clear reward – 130 Lower-grade Magic Stones]

[Clear time – 00:03:11]
[World Record achieved!]
[Bonus reward – Fragment of Chaos Key]

Look at that.
Cleared it in three minutes flat.
The result, naturally, is a world record.

“Having Lani around makes it so easy!”

Ha, now that’s straight-up cheating.
Lani really is a blessing.
Though….
I think I could’ve cleared floor 12 without her too.

“But still! Lani is fast, though.”
“That part’s true.”

A tiger with wings—solid advantage, really.
No doubt about it.
And then when I summon the orcs at this point?

“Screech!”
“They’re charging! Go fast!”

Even getting training in on the side.
This is all part of the daily grind for the mission.
The next day, too.

[Tower of Chaos Floor 13 conquered!]
[World Record achieved!]

And the day after that.

[Tower of Chaos Floor 14 conquered!]
[World Record achieved!]

Day after day, climbing the tower one floor at a time.
Summoning orcs and running them through drills—rinse and repeat.
Five days pass like that, and—

[Mission complete!]
[Training Ground training sessions completed (5/5)]
[Rewards]
– Unique skill experience points: 2
– Temporary Dispatch Range Expansion Ticket
– Daily Worker Summoning Reset Ticket

Oh!
Gained 2 experience points.
This is why I love it.
Multi-day missions usually netted me 2 Experience Points each.
So what’s my remaining Experience Points total?

[(10/15)]

Nice. Almost there.
I’ll look into the reward item—the Temporary Dispatch Range Expansion Ticket—later.
For now, let me check the next mission.

——-
[New Mission]

Acquire 500 Request Points (0/500)
——-

Nice.
Five hundred points…
I can knock that out in no time.
Good.
Almost there.
Robin, just hold on a bit longer.
I’m going up a Rank soon.

* * *

Just wait a little longer!
Even so, it’ll take over a week….
Just getting to the Tower of Chaos’s twentieth floor takes nine days by itself.

[Fixed Team Summoning]
– Arthur (High-grade)
– Robin (Top-grade)
– Lani (High-grade)

A week passed.
My summon cooldown was back.
This time too, I called them all at once.

“Hello there, come on out! Boss, coffee for you.”
“Yay! Then can Lani have candy, please?”
“…Meat.”

Were you all starving?
It’s been a while since you’ve all asked for food the moment you appeared.
Though I suppose that’s fair.

“I’ll give it to you soon. First, we’re taking down the Monthly Boss today, so let’s grab a meal after we’re done with that.”

Today was Monthly Boss Raid day.
The timing was perfect—I opened the Worker Management Office.

[Worker Dispatch]
– Tower
– Dungeon
– Monthly Boss

There it is! The Monthly Boss.
Lani had mentioned it a while back.

“Turtle shells are amazing! Way better than the spiky stuff and slime materials we used to gather—if we collect more, Lani can make something beautiful!”

If that’s the material I used for crafting with Slick…
The Fang of Venomous Basilisk from the fifty-seventh floor of the Tower of Chaos.
Better than that, you’re saying?
As expected of the Monthly Boss Raid.
Right.
Baek Hwa-rang said before that if he ever got his hands on these materials, he’d pay an astronomical sum for them.
Though nowadays they’re just toys for Lani.
If I gather enough, I can craft something even better.
Then I can’t hold back.

[Worker Dispatch]
– Monthly Boss

“Robin, go on.”

The boss just came out—it’s still warm.
Let’s aim for first place in contribution rate again and gather plenty of materials.

“…Okay.”

[The Worker enters the Monthly Boss Raid.]
[Auto Hunt begins.]

Right, that’s right.
I saw an interview with Baek Hwa-rang yesterday.
What was it he said?
That he’d gotten a new weapon and grown stronger.
That this Monthly Boss Raid belongs to Hwarang.

“Hmm…”

Well, well.
Fair enough.
But our Robin’s got Slick.
I can’t hand over first place in contribution rate.
Sorry.

* * *

The Monthly Boss Raid happens once a month.
A different boss appears each time.
Last month it was a giant armored tortoise.
This time?

“ROOOAAARRR—!”

A giant gorilla, massive as the armored tortoise.
Its defining trait: thick-skinned and loaded with health.

“There’s the roar! Everyone fall back!”
“Out of range! Fear effect incoming!”
“Next, the jump pattern’s coming up—brace yourselves!”

The giant gorilla is a boss that appears fairly often.
High HP, and each attack hits hard—
But fortunately, its patterns are simple.
Dodge on time, and it’s just an oversized punching bag.

“Once you dodge the attack, go on the offensive!”
“Stop holding back and just pour everything you’ve got into it!”

Under normal circumstances, he would’ve taken his time.
Dodging patterns slowly, dealing damage methodically.
But now….

“If we’re not careful, they’ll steal it again!”

That hunter—still no idea who they were.
No guarantee they wouldn’t show up, so how could he afford to be leisurely?

“Come on, everyone, don’t hold back on damage. As I explained at the start, once the Five Great Guilds finish gathering materials, it’s over, and we’ll distribute rewards according to your Contribution Rate.”

The Five Great Guilds had changed their approach too.
Sharing a little of everything instead of monopolizing.
The real strategy was to kill the beast as fast as possible….

“Portal confirmed at the rear!”
“Damn it! They’re here again!”
“Suppression team! Move to the portal location!”

They’d arrived after all.
That insane damage dealer who’d swept up last month’s raid rewards.

Screee—!

“Crazy—they’re shooting arrows!”

Was the order to kill them?
This time, absolutely not.
If that was the Worker Management Office director, the losses would be catastrophic.
The Five Great Guilds had made an agreement.
If they showed up again, suppress them first.
They could identify them afterward—there was no rush.

“Grab them!”
“Block them however you can—obscure their vision, bind them, whatever it takes!”

But this person….
How are they firing arrows that fast?
They loosed one the instant they emerged from the portal.

Thwip!

“Huh?”

What’s this.
Why’s it so quiet?
Last time there was a massive BOOM—!
Did they miss?
But the doubt didn’t last.

“What the—the damage output!”

The damage output?
What about the damage output?

——-
Monthly Boss Raid

1. Individual 37.77%

2. Hwarang 7.13%
3. San-gun 3.20%
4. Baekho Party 2.11%
5. Cheorhyul Sect 2.08%
……
…
——-

No.
This doesn’t make any sense….
Hwarang has Baek Hwa-rang with a new weapon, and they’re only at 7% now?

“One shot is 37%? No, 38, 39…. What? Why does it keep going up?”
“Looks like poison damage?”
“Hey, another arrow! Block it, you stupid bastards!”
“We’ve got him!”

This time they’d closed in.
Four or five of them had a tight grip now.
Now, if they just threw it down….
If they just threw it….

“What? Why isn’t it budging?”
“Like it’s stone or something….”

In the meantime, the archer nocked again.
One shot.
And another.

Whistle!
The arrows flew silently and struck the gorilla in rapid succession.
A message appeared for everyone.

* * *

[The Monthly Boss Raid has ended.]
[Auto Hunt has been terminated.]

“…I’m here.”

The second raid was over.

Ding!
[Monthly Boss Raid Success!]
[Contribution Rank]
1. Individual 84.32%
2. Hwarang 7.13%
3. San-gun 3.20%
4. Baekho Party 2.11%
5. Cheorhyul Sect 2.08%
……
…

[1st Place Monthly Boss Contribution]
[Individual reward is being issued.]

First place in contribution, naturally.
Now for the rewards.
The Magic Stones went straight into my inventory.
Did materials drop too…?

[Hide of Giant Gorilla]

Perfect, there it is.
Too bad there’s no core though.

“Lani, over here. Got that hide for you.”
“Kyaa! Lani, this is wonderful too! Thank you so much!”

Once I handed it to Lani,
she bowed gratefully and immediately started playing with it.
But where did Robin go?

“What is it, the veranda again?”
……

Yeah.
Window-gazing is non-negotiable.
We’ve done our work for the day, so let’s just relax and watch for a while.

* * *

“Failed again. Am I really a monster or something?”

Baek Hwa-rang, Guild Master of the Hwarang.
Currently second in Korea for Tower progression.
He’d hit a wall again today—he could feel it.

“Still, we dominated in direct competition with the other guilds….”
“What good is beating them when we’re only 7 percent behind?”
“Well, that’s….”
“I thought we’d at least narrowed the gap a little.”

He had Lani, and he’d climbed the Tower quite a bit, but….
Why hadn’t it changed?

“How is he still out of reach?”
“We have enough weapons. What if we reinforced our equipment instead?”
“If only such equipment existed. You know how rare it is to find gear that can take someone at my level any higher.”
“There was that group request that came in from China….”

A group request?

“Oh, that’s… the one asking if we could send Hunters?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Are they insane? An S-rank Dungeon break, they said? I’m not throwing our people at that to get them slaughtered. Just decline.”

Who would take that job anyway?
Only a madman.

* * *

The situation in China was dire.

“We’ve been pushed back to within twenty kilometers of the capital, according to the latest report.”
“What about Hunters from other countries?”
“Forgive us. We’re still waiting….”
“So even that much money isn’t enough to bring them in….”

Monsters that now ranged out to 20 kilometers.
If they couldn’t be contained, they’d push straight through to Beijing.
China’s own Hunters weren’t enough.
Even the great powers had refused to send aid.
Only one option remained.
A Request broadcast to every Hunter across the globe.

“Hunters aren’t exactly short on money, I suppose….”
“That’s why we threw in equipment as well.”
“But even that….”

They’d offered substantial rewards.
Hundreds of billions in currency.
The treatment of a national hero.
Top-tier equipment of the winner’s choosing.
So what was the response?

— Who the hell would be crazy enough to take that?
— Even if money blinds you, this is a bit much….
— That’s just a suicide mission

Hundreds of billions in currency.
A substantial sum, certainly.
But would Hunters stake their lives on it?
No.
These were people who burned through hundreds of millions without breaking a sweat….
National hero status? Hardly appealing.
Equipment? Same story.
Tempting enough….
But more precious than one’s own life?

— Wei Jin is dead, they’re saying
— The guy who was clearing Floor 62 is dead—how are we supposed to beat it?
— Plus you have to punch through the monster field too, they said
— It’s already over 20 kilometers now
— China’s finished

The world had turned its back.
China’s situation grew darker by the hour.

* * *

Yoon Ha-jun, age twenty-three.
Diligent young man.
He’d been grinding through Missions relentlessly these past few days.
His current Experience Points status:

[(14/15)]

Only 1 Experience Point left until the next Rank.
And now?

[Mission Complete!]
[Dungeon Conquest Request Completed 5 times (5/5)]
[Rewards]
– Unique Skill Experience Points 1
– 2x Request Point Scroll

He’d cleared his final Mission at Silver Rank.
1 It’s full now—Experience Points are maxed.

[(15/15)]

But the Grade didn’t increase?
Why won’t it rank up?

“What’s going on?”
“Director, why?”

Arthur and Lani both tilted their heads, lost.
Fortunately, a message appeared in that moment.

[Your unique skill’s Experience Points have reached their limit.]
[To advance to the next Grade, you must overcome a Trial.]

A Trial?
What is that?
I scrolled down with a puzzled look, and there it was.

[Gold Promotion Trial: Clear an S-rank Dungeon]

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