The Automatic Rooting Range Is Too Wide - Chapter 15

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Auto Looting Range Too Wide Episode 15

Episode 15: Looks Like It’s Going to Happen (1)

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While Mincheol was conquering the 6th Floor, the Hunter Community was burning with activity as usual.

-Strawberry Cheese : Did the person presumed to be Zero-second Swordsman not appear today either?

This was because no sightings of Zero-second Swordsman, who they thought would be seen on the 5th Floor, had emerged from anywhere in the world.

-King Burger : Other foreign sites are talking about the same thing. They’re asking why Zero-second Swordsman isn’t showing up.

-Gosugebyeolkkya : Maybe he hasn’t challenged it yet?

└Anonymous : So much time has passed since he conquered the 4th Floor. That can’t be it.

└Anonymous : Considering Zero-second Swordsman’s Tower climbing speed so far, it does seem like this time is taking unusually long.

People writhed in disappointment.

This was because they had hoped that even if they couldn’t figure out Zero-second Swordsman’s identity, they could at least learn his nationality.

-Strawberry Cheese : If this continues, there’s only one conclusion.

└Anonymous : What? What conclusion?

└Strawberry Cheese : Zero-second Swordsman doesn’t want to reveal his identity. That’s why he hasn’t appeared even though global guilds are sending love calls.

└Anonymous : Why wouldn’t he reveal his identity?

└Gosugebyeolkkya : Maybe he’s afraid of being targeted?

└Anonymous : Targeted?

└Gosugebyeolkkya : If someone is as amazing as Zero-second Swordsman, other countries wouldn’t leave him alone even if just his nationality was revealed.

It wasn’t entirely unreasonable.

In modern society, the value of the Tower was immeasurably great.

Friction between nations often occurred due to the materials that could be obtained from the Tower.

-Strawberry Cheese : My thoughts are a bit different. Probably revealing his identity would put his life in danger.

└Anonymous : Put him in danger?

└Strawberry Cheese : Maybe he was some terrifying human weapon raised by a secret organization or assassination group? So if he becomes too famous, the organization that raised him might come looking for him, which is why he’s hiding.

└Anonymous : You’re really writing a novel. A novel.

└Anonymous : But doesn’t it sound plausible? I think it makes sense.

The speculation about Mincheol gradually gained substance and developed in strange directions.

-Strawberry Cheese : I’m telling you, he’s an assassin who was harshly trained from childhood.

-Gosugebyeolkkya : There’s also a theory that he’s a human weapon created by China using tens of thousands of people as sacrifices.

-Steel Overlord : Maybe he’s a North Korean secret agent~^^.

Community users began to spread their wings of imagination.

These were theories that would have made Mincheol grab his belly and laugh if he had heard them.

-Hae-dal : Are you all little kids? Are your brains underdeveloped?

However, not everyone enjoyed this speculation.

-Hae-dal : Assassin? Secret agent? It’s so stupid I can’t listen to it.

└Steel Overlord : Young friend, your language is too harsh. The mouth is an exit that brings misfortune. ^^

└Hae-dal : F*ck you.

└Gosugebyeolkkya : Then what do you think Zero-second Swordsman’s identity is, Hae-dal?

└Hae-dal : Obviously he’s a fraud. The whole world has fallen for that bastard’s scheme.

At someone’s question, Hae-dal immediately revealed his opinion.

-Hae-dal : I’ve been suspicious from the beginning. If he really had an amazing unique skill, there’s no way he’d be hiding his identity until now.

└Hae-dal : The unique skill he has is probably specialized in finding Quest items. That’s how he was able to shorten the records.

└Anonymous : What do you mean by that?

└Hae-dal : Search for Serge Bell among French Awakeners. He was damn famous in the early days.

└Hae-dal : He was an Awakener who broke records on the lower floors before Malcolm Bernard. Everyone cheered thinking an incredible Awakener had appeared. Crusade, Europe’s number one guild, even offered him a contract worth hundreds of billions.

└Hae-dal : But actually, that guy hadn’t awakened a combat-type unique skill like people expected. He had just awakened a somewhat useful detection-type unique skill.

└Hae-dal : Thanks to that, he could reign like an emperor on the lower floors where you just had to find Quest items to finish.

└Hae-dal : But as you all know, Quest conditions change when you go to higher floors, right? You have to kill monsters, or defeat bosses.

└Hae-dal : Could a detection ability user complete such Quests? That’s when his lies were exposed.

At Hae-dal’s words, everyone searched for Serge Bell. Old articles came up in a row.

-DTD : What, he’s right? This kind of incident happened?

-Gosugebyeolkkya : He ended up getting expelled from the guild.

-Steel Overlord : Oh my! Having excessive greed beyond his means! Very disappointing~!!

The community’s atmosphere began to change. Hae-dal seemed quite satisfied with this fact and excitedly posted messages.

-Hae-dal : That Zero-second Swordsman bastard was definitely planning to raise his value as much as possible like Serge Bell, then make a big score and run, right?

-Hae-dal : Zero-second Swordsman? It’s just a second Serge Bell appearing.

-Hae-dal : Ah, a zero-second clear will appear this time too. In Area A.

-Hae-dal : Would someone specialized in finding items challenge B Zone? The golems that appear there are so damn annoying.

Hae-dal posted mocking messages without rest.

-Hae-dal : Just wait and see. As I said, an Area A new record will appear soon.

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A spear made of earth aimed at Mincheol’s face.

【Using Quickturn!】

Mincheol immediately used his skill and moved his head’s position. The earth spear barely grazed his cheek as it passed by.

【Acquiring objects within cubic range!】

Mincheol immediately activated his additional function. A cube-shaped hole was drilled in the golem’s torso.

Mincheol thrust his sword tip toward the hole. The core was pierced and the golem died.

-Graaahhh!

But there wasn’t just one golem that Mincheol had to deal with.

Countless spears extended from the ceiling. Mincheol lifted one foot.

【Activating Strong Strike!】

He stepped on the ground and retreated greatly backward. The spears created by the golems struck the ground.

【Acquiring objects within cubic range!】

Holes were drilled consecutively through the bodies of the golems clinging to the ceiling.

Two cores were visible between the five holes. There wasn’t just one golem attached to the ceiling.

Mincheol gripped hand axes in both hands and threw them. The golem’s cores were smashed consecutively.

-Graaah!

The golem died with a thick scream. Dirt and ores fell rustling from the ceiling.

“Whew, that was startling.”

Having dealt with all the golems, Mincheol calmed his surprised heart.

Detection torches weren’t invincible. They only worked when the torch could reach them.

They didn’t work on golems hiding outside his field of vision or in corners.

That’s why Mincheol had allowed the ambush. Fortunately, he succeeded in dealing with them without getting hurt.

“It would be much more convenient if I could bring the cores directly with the additional function.”

The additional function could only extract bodies. It couldn’t bring cores.

“I don’t know what the reason is. It doesn’t seem to be because of item grade.”

The ‘Broken Core of Failed Golem’ was a rare-grade item. The elixir he had stolen from the 5th Floor before was also rare-grade. So item grade didn’t seem to be the problem.

Still, not being able to extract cores wasn’t entirely a bad thing.

Thanks to that, he became more accustomed to using the additional function as battles continued.

The activation speed and accuracy had increased greatly compared to the beginning.

“Let’s see.”

Mincheol picked up the golem’s core and minerals mixed in the dirt and put them in his inventory.

His inventory was packed full of cores and minerals obtained from hunting golems.

Mincheol looked at his inventory and smiled contentedly.

“How much is all this worth.”

Not to mention the golem cores, he could get quite decent profits from the black pyrite too.

Black pyrite was the most commonly used metal in the Tower, trading at 1 million won per kilogram.

Since Stepping Stone Herb sold for 600,000 won per kilogram, this sold for much more.

Moreover, the acquisition speed was much faster than Stepping Stone Herb.

When you killed golems, three or four would pour out, plus you could mine them directly.

“Ah, found it.”

He saw a particularly reddish spot on the cave wall. Mincheol used the additional function to cut out the wall surface in a cubic shape.

Originally, you needed a pickaxe to mine black pyrite ore from caves.

But thanks to the additional function, there was no need to use a pickaxe. Both in speed and convenience, the additional function was far superior to pickaxes.

“It would be nice if I could automatically mine ores too.”

Unfortunately, the auto looting function didn’t activate on ores.

He didn’t know the exact reason, but it seemed to be because they were buried in stone or dirt.

So to obtain ores, he needed to extract them one by one with the additional function.

“I hope I can get an auto mining function if I get enhancement tickets later.”

Gathering and mining were the Tower’s representative grinding work.

The higher you climbed, the more expensive ores appeared.

Getting an auto mining function would be no different from sitting on a pile of money.

“Shall I start moving again.”

Mincheol began exploring the cave again.

Defeating golems and mining ores embedded in walls.

After walking for some time, the cave scenery changed a bit.

An open area appeared with walls and ceiling made of bricks.

“Oh? This is the place mentioned in the information post.”

Although B Zone was more difficult than Area A, it wasn’t without climbers.

Most of the world-famous Hunters had challenged B Zone and successfully climbed it.

Thanks to that, information about B Zone wasn’t lacking. This open area was also known to the public thanks to previous awakened ones.

“This was said to be the first trace of civilization discovered in the Tower, right?”

The Tower’s floors were diverse.

Sometimes endless forests stretched out, sometimes it proceeded in the deep sea.

And traces of civilization were discovered as much as natural environments.

“Wow, this is really amazing.”

Mincheol looked around the open area with a face full of curiosity. Then his steps stopped at the center of the open area.

In the center of the open area stood a square monument.

The surface of the monument was densely carved with unidentifiable characters.

“This is the 6th Floor’s mystery.”

A monument sitting alone on the 6th Floor.

It was a very suspicious combination. So many people tried to solve the monument’s secret.

But no one could solve the monument’s secret. It was impossible even to interpret the characters.

“If I touch this… I should be able to see something amazing.”

Mincheol touched the surface of the monument. Then a holographic image appeared above the monument.

A strangely shaped key was slowly rotating in the air, tilted at 45 degrees.

“No one has found this, right?”

Awakened ones from around the world tried to find the key but all failed. No matter how much they searched the 6th Floor, it couldn’t be found.

“Hmm, hmm.”

Mincheol stared quietly at the key. The image quality was so good he could see it in detail as if it were really right in front of him.

“At this level… I think I can designate it as a target.”

Originally, Mincheol had designated Stepping Stone Herb as an auto looting target just by looking at a photo.

Mincheol used auto looting with half doubt and half belief.

“Key.”

【Acquiring all ‘keys’ within a 500m radius.】

【1 ‘Magitech Key’ has been stored in inventory.】

Mincheol’s eyes widened.

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