My Right Hand Is Too Strong - Chapter 8

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My Right Hand Is Too Strong Episode 8

Episode 8. Tower of Recording (2)

My whole body was really smashed up, but it’s funny that only my right hand is fine in the midst of all this.

Whether I like it or not, the ‘Black Dragon’s’ performance seems certain.

The hard scales must have absorbed the impact.

“You’re a Hunter, right?”

“Yes?”

“Awakened ones basically have sturdy bodies due to the mana flowing through them. That’s probably why you were able to walk here in this condition.”

The Healer Hunter put on his glasses that he had taken off and stood up.

“From what I can see, you haven’t been a Hunter for long, but reality isn’t the Tutorial Tower. You don’t revive when you die.”

“Haha…”

“Anyway, I’ll start the treatment. It’ll hurt a little.”

Hissss-

Green light flowing from the Healer Hunter’s hands seeps into my body.

Every time the light seeped in, pain like lightning crackling throughout my body sharply covered my vision.

But.

“…Doesn’t it hurt?”

“It’s bearable?”

It’s better than I thought.

At my reaction, the Healer Hunter seemed flustered and stopped injecting mana.

Only for a moment though.

“Ahem. I’ll do it again.”

The Healer Hunter quickly cleared his throat and began treating my body again.

Like that for 10 minutes.

When the Healer Hunter’s forehead was completely soaked with cold sweat, he removed his hands from my body with a sigh.

“Treatment is finished. Fortunately, there shouldn’t be any aftereffects.”

“Oh.”

My body really did feel lighter.

The tearing pain I felt throughout my body also evaporated in an instant.

Amazing.

So this is what a healing skill is.

As I rolled my shoulders around, I glanced back.

The faint green light remaining in the Healer Hunter’s hands.

Honestly, I’m a bit envious.

It would have been nice if I had a skill like that too.

The exhausted Healer Hunter didn’t notice my gaze and returned to his seat with a sigh, wiping his wet forehead.

He took off his glasses and set them down, then rubbed his face clean with a towel.

Then he put his glasses back on and looked at me with a tired face.

“Most importantly, proper Hunters don’t only use unique skills.”

“You’re talking about common skills, right?”

“Yes. Hunters use common skills appropriately. That’s also why they don’t get hurt.”

Common skills.

Literally skills that, unlike unique skills which may be similar but have different descriptions, all have the same description and skill name.

“To obtain common skills, you have to put in effort. For example, if you want to get the downward slash skill, you have to swing a sword downward a hundred times.”

I quietly nodded.

Common skills, huh.

They were definitely worth considering.

‘I’ve felt it many times, but I’m slow.’

My right hand is strong.

It’s strong, but my body isn’t good enough to use it properly.

My stamina is good, but that and speed are separate domains.

“Doctor. Do you happen to know about common skills that make you faster?”

“No, I’m sorry. I don’t know about that.”

“Ah…”

“The conditions for obtaining common skills are also knowledge and information. Unless it’s something famous like downward slash, the conditions for obtaining common skills are all secretly passed down.”

That’s true.

It’s an era where information is power too.

It would be hard to easily obtain such precious information as ‘skill acquisition conditions’.

The Healer Hunter scratched the back of his head as if genuinely sorry at my reaction.

“So I don’t really know either. Most importantly, I’m a Healer Hunter too.”

“I’m the one who asked something unnecessary.”

So in conclusion, I have no choice but to find out myself?

It seems there really is no easy path.

I clicked my tongue softly and got up from the chair.

“Thank you for your hard work.”

“Yes. Please be careful next time.”

After bowing to the Healer Hunter, I headed to the counter.

And I dropped my wallet.

“The treatment fee is 3 million won.”

“…What?”

“Treatment for Hunters is not covered by insurance.”

Ah.

So this is why Healer Hunter is the number one dream job for students these days instead of doctor.

I swallowed my tears and held out my card.

“Should I make it a lump sum payment?”

“Yes…”

The performance was so certain that it was infuriating.

* * *

With this, I realized for certain.

The act of getting beaten up and running away like in the Tutorial Tower shouldn’t be done.

‘Of course I should run away if it’s dangerous.’

But I shouldn’t use that as a means.

Because it breaks my wallet.

I do have magic stones from killing the Orcs.

I’m keeping them very preciously.

But that can’t become my source of income.

Since they were guys I encountered by chance.

So I’ll leave those as emergency funds and save money.

Thanks to automatic transfers, my bank account has gotten much lighter over the past six months.

“Phew… Then shall I go again.”

Now that my body was fully healed, what I had to do was decided.

Going back to the Tower.

I’m a bit tired, but that was something I could rest after clearing the 2nd floor.

[Tower of Recording]

A floating sensation felt along with bright light.

When I opened my eyes, I was standing in the Verdant Forest.

“I don’t return to the position where I left?”

Certainly when I left the Tower, the surroundings were a mess.

But now my surroundings had returned to normal as if asking when that ever happened.

“Going out and coming back in was something I couldn’t even use from the beginning.”

Tsk.

I thought I might be able to use it as one of my methods, but that’s disappointing.

After stretching long, I loosened up my body lightly and moved to get revenge on the Bloody Mantis.

“Kiiiek….”

More precisely, I tried to move.

If only I hadn’t heard that creature’s sound by my ear.

I immediately held my breath and carefully moved toward the direction where I heard the creature’s sound.

“Kueoeo-.”

“Kiik.”

Scrape-

The creature was pressing down on something with its massive front leg, lightly swinging its foreleg.

Hidden behind a rock, I checked what the creature had cut and my eyes widened.

‘That’s an Earth Bear.’

That creature I encountered on the 1st floor.

The one that didn’t explode even after taking a punch from the Black Dragon, only getting dented.

That same creature was now being sliced up lightly like cutting tofu by the Bloody Mantis.

‘I knew it was strong, but this is beyond imagination.’

Seeing that made me realize clearly.

There’s no chance of winning against the Bloody Mantis in a frontal fight.

However.

‘It’s not as bad as the Guardian of the Tutorial Tower.’

Back then, my chances were absolutely zero.

Now they’re just approaching zero, but they do exist.

‘Two hits. Two hits will do it.’

If I can land just two hits, that creature will die.

That means I need to get close enough to land two hits.

‘Going now seems like it would work?’

Right now that creature is completely absorbed in chewing, tearing, tasting, and enjoying the Earth Bear.

Seeing it chew up that tough creature, its teeth must be quite sturdy.

I held my breath as much as possible and stepped out from behind the rock.

Step by step, step by step.

I moved forward carefully, and the creature was still focused on eating the Earth Bear.

Perfect.

I raised the corners of my mouth and quietly clenched my fist.

And then.

“…How long have you known?”

I was caught immediately.

As soon as I got close to the creature’s range, its head turned toward me.

It seems I was the one who got lured, not the creature.

The creature raised its front leg as it turned its head.

The sharp front leg that had easily sliced through even the Earth Bear came striking down toward me.

However.

[Smoke Mist – Martial Shadow ]

The Black Dragon’s iron fist hit the creature first.

“Kieeeeeek!”

The creature staggered backward with a pained groan.

The front leg that was striking down also stopped in the close position.

Confirming that cracks appeared in the creature’s exoskeleton, I immediately pulled my arm back again.

Just as I was about to throw my punch.

“Kiiiik!”

The creature once again released mana in all directions.

Mana began flowing out with the creature at the center.

As if I’d fall for the same trick twice.

Having anticipated this situation, I immediately withdrew the arm I had pulled back and extended my right arm forward, strongly willing it.

I commanded the black mist wrapped around my right hand to spread wide.

Whoosh!

The black mist immediately spread wide according to my command.

The moment the black mist spread enough to block in front of me, the mana wave swept over me as if it had been waiting.

“Kugh….”

The mana wave completely swept through my body.

The surrounding dirt was instantly mixed up, and thin trees couldn’t withstand it and shattered.

The surroundings became a mess as if hit by bombardment.

In the middle of it all, surrounded by mist, I raised the corners of my mouth.

“I blocked it.”

When I got the X-ray, at least my right arm was fine.

That means, no matter how powerful that creature is, it doesn’t surpass the ‘Black Dragon’s’ ability.

So I thought to try blocking its attack with the smoke mist.

And the ‘Black Dragon’ responded exactly to that faith.

Damn, I believed in you.

As expected of the ‘Black Dragon’.

Having blocked the mana wave, I immediately clenched the hand I had extended.

The Bloody Mantis also didn’t stay still and struck down its front leg toward me.

The hard fist clashed with the sharp front leg.

A fight without an inch of retreat.

The winner of that fight was.

“Kieek!?”

Naturally, the Black Dragon.

How dare a mere insect try to beat a reptile.

The creature’s front leg, which had easily sliced through even the Earth Bear, couldn’t withstand the Black Dragon’s hardness and shattered into pieces.

Fragments of the front leg flew rapidly and embedded into rocks.

The creature staggered backward as if flustered.

Thanks to that, the creature’s abdomen, which had cracks in its exoskeleton, was clearly exposed.

I aimed for that opening and stepped forward.

“Hup!”

Toward the creature’s cracked abdomen.

I drove my fist in with all my strength.

“Kieeeeeek-!”

The creature writhed with a pained scream.

Green blood spurted out through the cracks in the exoskeleton.

Its name is Bloody Mantis, but its blood is actually green.

The creature threw its head back and began twitching while scattering green blood.

Soon after, the red exoskeleton covering the creature’s entire body began crumbling.

[Synchronization Rate 1.3%]

And so the creature scattered, becoming complete powder.

Phew.

I caught my breath and touched the fragments of the creature’s scattered exoskeleton with my left hand, then turned my gaze to the side.

“1.3%.”

How stingy.

I worked so hard and it only gave me 0.2% more.

Since it’s come to this, there’s no choice.

I have no choice but to quickly move to the next floor and fill the remaining synchronization rate to 1.5%.

[Eliminate the Bloody Mantis]

[1/1]

[Success]

[Moving to the next floor]

Whoooosh-

Light begins flowing out from beneath my feet.

When the light disappeared and I opened my eyes.

“Wow. It’s really another forest.”

I was standing in a forest again.

How does this never deviate from expectations?

“So, what kind of creature do I have to catch on the 3rd floor?”

I hope it’s something stronger than the Bloody Mantis.

After all, I’m stuck with my life mortgaged to that battle maniac called the Black Dragon.

[3rd Floor]

[Eliminate the slime]

[0/1]

Huh?

What did it say?

I rubbed my eyes and looked at the system again.

So that means…

“A slime? Really?”

That creature I encountered back on Earth?

My jaw dropped.

“Who the hell made this tower?”

The balance is completely screwed, seriously.

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