The Automatic Rooting Range Is Too Wide - Chapter 18

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Auto Looting Range Too Wide Episode 18

Episode 18: Surely Not (1)

After that, Mincheol finished clearing the 6th Floor.

Of course, after clearing it once, he didn’t forget to challenge it again to update his record.

【Acquiring all ‘Black Gems’ within a 400m radius.】

【You have acquired a Quest item.】

【You have successfully passed ‘6th Floor B Area’!】

【0.01 seconds! This is a world record!】

【You have passed ‘6th Floor B Area’ in an impossible time!】

【The Tower is greatly satisfied with your Achievement!】

【Clear rewards are greatly enhanced!】

【You acquire a special title!】

【You acquire a ‘Hidden Piece’!】

【You acquire a massive amount of experience.】

Lv.13 -> Lv.15

-All stats increase by 2 per level.

【You acquire the clear reward for ‘6th Floor B Area’.】

-All stats increase by 8.

-You acquire an ‘Inventory Expansion Ticket’.

【You acquire the title ‘Tunnel Explorer’.】

-Effect. All stats + 10.

【You acquire the title ‘Veteran Miner’.】

-Effect 1. Strength stat +20.

-Effect 2. Stamina stat +20.

【You acquire a Hidden Piece.】

-You acquire 3 ‘Lucky Coins (Bound)’.

Having gained massive rewards as usual, Mincheol felt satisfied as he returned to his apartment.

Upon returning to his apartment, Mincheol first took a bath.

After washing his sweat-soaked body, he picked up his smartphone while drying his hair with the fan.

This was to learn more details about what kind of item the Memory Stone he had obtained was.

It was an item he had never heard of before, and the description was quite difficult to understand.

Not a skill, but acquiring techniques? An explanation was needed.

It must have been a very famous item, as he could quickly find the video he needed.

【Title: Let’s Learn About Memory Stones.】

【Uploader: Record Enthusiast】

Mincheol clicked on the video. Then, along with a video made with paid sources, a woman’s voice could be heard.

-Hello everyone~. The Tower is life. Life is the Tower. This is Record Enthusiast. Today I want to talk about an item called Memory Stone.

Surprisingly, it was an actual human voice, not AI. The pronunciation was good and easy to listen to.

-Memory Stones are items found with a very rare probability in the Tower. By using this Memory Stone, you can acquire techniques and experience by receiving memories of specific individuals.

Mincheol had a question. Techniques and experience? Not skills?

-Many of you probably have questions here. Techniques and experience? How is that different from skills?

As if anticipating Mincheol’s question, the YouTuber mentioned it.

-To conclude first, they’re completely different. Let me give you an example. If you use ‘Flash Cut’, a famous skill in swordsmanship, you can deliver powerful slashes. So you can easily cut through monsters or steel.

Mincheol focused on the YouTuber’s explanation.

-On the other hand, even if you receive techniques and experience through Memory Stones, you can’t demonstrate such power. Instead, you can learn things like sword forms or precautions when fighting monsters.

-To summarize in one sentence, having a Memory Stone means even beginners can quickly become experts.

Mincheol was impressed.

As he had experienced in the Tower, having skills alone didn’t mean you could defeat all monsters.

How to use skills. How to deal with monster attacks.

In short, the technical and experiential aspects were more important.

-The types of knowledge and techniques you can acquire differ depending on the Memory Stone. Naturally, higher-grade Memory Stones allow you to gain superior techniques and experience.

The YouTuber’s explanation continued in more detail.

-Because it’s such an amazing item, most Memory Stones have a set number of uses. Since they’re destroyed when the count reaches 0, Large Guilds don’t let just anyone use Memory Stones.

There were various reasons why awakeners died in the Tower, but the main one was lack of technique and experience.

Having Memory Stones could perfectly fill that gap, so they had no choice but to save them.

-Among the currently revealed Memory Stones, the highest grade is said to be the Unique grade possessed by Helios, America’s number 1 guild.

-The reason Helios Guild’s Memory Stone is particularly amazing is because you can obtain not only knowledge but also Unique-grade skills.

Skills?

Mincheol took out the Memory Stone from his inventory.

【Cardmos Dunwall Count’s Secret Memory Stone】

-Grade: Legendary

-Description: A Memory Stone containing the memories of Cardmos Dunwall, the Count. You can acquire his knowledge by clearing Quests step by step.

Even America’s number 1 guild was known to have only a Unique-grade Memory Stone.

Meanwhile, the Memory Stone Mincheol obtained was Legendary grade.

“If they got Unique-grade skills from a Unique-grade Memory Stone… would a Legendary-grade Memory Stone give Legendary-grade skills?”

Legendary-grade skills.

Just imagining it made his heart swell with excitement.

Mincheol’s lips curved into a grin.

“But what is the Dunweal Family?”

Suddenly, he became curious about the Memory Stone.

Since it was a Count’s family, it probably wasn’t an ordinary household.

Moreover, hadn’t the Phantom Knight, presumed to be Cardmos Dunwall himself, referred to himself with the grandiose title of being the pinnacle of the continent?

Mincheol looked up information about the Dunwall Family.

【Tower Enthusiasts Pay Attention! What is the Dunwall Family?】

【Uploader: Record Enthusiast】

There happened to be a video uploaded by the YouTuber he had just watched.

-Hello everyone~. The Tower is life. Life is the Tower. This is Record Enthusiast. Today’s topic is the Dunwall Family.

-If you subscribe to my channel, most of you probably know this. The interior of the Tower is divided into various dimensions.

-Just listing the most famous ones, there’s the ‘Rooftop Continent’, the ‘Martial Arts Realm’, and the ‘Machine Empire’.

-The Dunwall Family is a family from the Rooftop Continent. Oh wait, I should say it was a family. All dimensions existing in the Tower have already been destroyed.

-According to records discovered in the Tower, the Rooftop Continent was a world of knights and mages. The Dunwall Family was an outstanding knight family, even among the best there.

Since it was called a ducal family, he had some expectations, but it was indeed a remarkable family.

-As such, skills and equipment bearing the Dunwall Family name are all famous for being excellent.

-Especially the ‘Dunwall Family Knight Set’ was included in the 1,000 masterpieces designated by the World Awakened Association.

-But the real reason the Dunwall Family is amazing is something else. It’s because of Cardmos Dunwall, who was the family head at the time.

-According to records found in the Tower, Cardmos Dunwall was a knight who reigned as the strongest in the Rooftop Continent. And at an unparalleled level too.

-One interesting point is that most skills bearing the Dunwall Family name are swordsmanship, but Cardmos Dunwall used a spear.

-Cardmos Dunwall used spear techniques based on spear throwing. Looking at the records, he even pierced giant holes through mountain ranges by throwing spears.

Mincheol tilted his head.

The Cardmos Dunwall he fought in the Hidden Stage didn’t use spear throwing or anything like that.

In other words, he was that strong even with his specialty sealed.

“He really was a crazy bastard.”

Thinking about it now, he couldn’t understand how he had won. Maybe he went easy because it was a test.

-Countless awakeners wander the Tower trying to obtain Cardmos Dunwall’s spear techniques, but unfortunately, they haven’t been discovered yet.

-Isn’t it strange? When skills of Dunwall Family soldiers, knights, and even servants have all been found, his own skills haven’t been discovered.

Mincheol turned off the video and looked at the Memory Stone.

【Count Cardmos Dunwall’s Secret Memory Stone】

-Grade: Legendary

-Description: A Memory Stone containing Count Cardmos Dunwall’s memories. You can acquire his knowledge each time you clear quests step by step.

“So such a great person’s skills are contained here?”

The fatigue accumulated from climbing the Tower seemed to fly away.

Strike while the iron is hot, so Mincheol decided to undertake the quest immediately.

【Would you like to perform the first quest of ‘Count Cardmos Dunwall’s Secret Memory Stone’?】

【If you accept, you will enter Cardmos Dunwall’s memories and proceed with the quest.】

※Warning: If you fail the quest, you will die.

But the moment he saw the message that appeared, he couldn’t help but hesitate.

If Cardmos Dunwall himself was that strong, would the quest be easy? There was no way.

“I should challenge it after getting stronger.”

Mincheol obediently put the Memory Stone into his inventory.

“Then what’s left now is…”

Mincheol looked at his inventory. It was full of minerals and golem cores he had mined on the 6th Floor.

“Time to make money!”

Mincheol immediately opened the Auction House and put up the materials.

“Wow! They’re already sold?”

As soon as he put up the materials, notifications came that they were immediately sold.

The items stacked in his inventory disappeared and his balance increased in an instant.

They say there’s no game more fun than making money in this world.

So absorbed in the fun of making money, Mincheol had no idea in his dreams.

That Hunter Communities worldwide were burning up because of him.

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While Mincheol was fighting the Phantom Knight.

Korea’s Hunter Community was in the midst of a heated battle over Mincheol.

-Strawberry Apple: Why is Hae-dal so desperate to badmouth Zero-second Swordsman?

The reason for the fight was precisely because of Mincheol.

More precisely, one user couldn’t stand the trolling that kept mocking and cursing Mincheol and rose up.

-Hae-dal: Got a problem?

-Strawberry Cheese: I’m saying this because I have a problem. You’ve been picking on Zero-second Swordsman whenever you get the chance. Can’t you just praise someone who’s doing well?

Hae-dal: Are you retarded? What does it matter to me if that bastard does well that I should praise him?

Of course, if he was someone who would listen when talked to, he wouldn’t have been trolling in the first place.

-Hae-dal: Why do I curse that bastard? It’s because of bastards like you.

-Hae-dal: Spineless bastards like you rush over to suck up whenever someone gets a bit famous. And then you act all proud as if you did it yourself.

-Hae-dal: Isn’t that fucking ridiculous? Why are you guys proud when some other bastard did well? Do you have no brain? lol

Hae-dal poured out mockery without rest. For every word Strawberry Cheese said, he said five.

-Anonymous: Hae-dal’s words are a bit harsh.

-King Burger: Isn’t it natural to feel good seeing someone successful?

-Steel Overlord: Everyone,,, you’re all,,, too on edge,,, how about calming down haha,,,

└Hae-dal: Fuck you.

Other users also cursed at Hae-dal for his crude criticism.

The problem was that at some point, users supporting Hae-dal began to increase.

-Anonymous: I didn’t like all this worship calling him Zero-second Swordsman from the beginning.

-Gyeok-buk-i: These bastards have some pride. Adding ‘swordsman’ to just anyone and going crazy.

-Anonymous: Honestly, Hae-dal didn’t say anything wrong. What does it matter to me if some other bastard does well?

-Tteujuseyo: Those who deify someone like that are the scariest.

Originally, when someone gets ahead of others, people who envy them are bound to appear.

There were many people who didn’t look favorably upon Mincheol’s activities.

-Hae-dal: Strawberry Cheese you fucking bastard, I’ve been watching and you’re always the first to bring his records whenever that bastard’s records come up?

-Hae-dal : Is that bastard someone you know? If that’s the case, suck up to him less obviously.

-Strawberry Cheese : It’s not like that! It’s just a coincidence!

-Sea otter: What the hell are you talking about~ damn it lol.

Strawberry Cheese resisted desperately, but the atmosphere had already shifted to some degree.

There was no one to stop Hae-dal, who had the power of countless followers behind him.

-Hae-dal : None of that matters anyway. I told you before, didn’t I? That bastard is a fraud.

-Hae-dal : No matter how long you wait, his 6th Floor clear record won’t show up. Even if it does, it’ll be Area A.

-Sea Otter: We’ll see who’s right later, because it’ll be proven that I was right lol.

It was when Hae-dal was excitedly mocking Mincheol.

-Strawberry Cheese : It’s up! It’s up!

Because Strawberry Cheese, who had been fighting with Hae-dal just moments before, announced the news of Mincheol’s 6th Floor clear.

-Hae-dal : Oh, so he managed to clear the 6th Floor without running away?

-Hae-dal : It’s probably Area A anyway. I told you before, didn’t I? This bastard will definitely clear Area A.

But at this moment, no one was responding to Hae-dal’s words.

Everyone had gone to check the 6th Floor records.

How many minutes had passed like that?

-Anonymous : What the fuck?

-King Burger : Someone please tell me I saw wrong.

-Steel Overlord : Huh,,,huhh,,,

The Hunter Community was filled with shocked users.

-Anonymous : Not 6th Floor Area A but B Zone? He cleared this in 0.01 seconds?

-Anonymous : How did he break through that golem hell?

-DTD : At this point, even calling him a monster seems inadequate.

-Steel Lord: An exceptional talent has appeared… I’m very… pleased… hehe

The users all expressed their amazement about Mincheol in unison.

Except for just one person.

-Strawberry Cheese : Where did Hae-dal go? Right now Zero-second Swordsman cleared 6th Floor B.Z.o.n.e.

-Strawberry Cheese : He was talking so confidently, where could he have gone?

Not only Hae-dal who had been stirring up trouble just moments ago, but even his followers had completely disappeared.

Strawberry Cheese was excited and mockingly turned the tables on Hae-dal.

That’s when it happened.

-King Burger : The foreign communities are acting strange right now. You know the Gravestone on the 6th Floor? It’s apparently disappeared.

└Strawberry Cheese : Huh? Why did it disappear?

└King Burger : There’s only one case when a hidden piece disappears. Someone already cleared it.

The hidden piece on the 6th Floor was famous enough that no awakener was unaware of it.

Hidden pieces that remained uncleared despite being so openly revealed were rare.

-Anonymous : Did the Chinese guys clear it by any chance? They go crazy for hidden pieces.

-DTD : It might be Helios. Articles about them forming a specialized team came out 2 years ago already.

-King Burger : I vote for the Crusaders. Their potential is no joke.

-Steel Lord: I wonder if they came from the Snow Cherry guild… they have so many talented people… haha

The topic instantly shifted to the 6th Floor’s hidden piece. It was that interesting a subject.

-Anonymous : What did they get as a reward? That’s what I’m most curious about.

-Anonymous : Since the 6th Floor was a stage related to the Loopran Continent, it’s probably something from there?

-DTD : At the very least, they’d give a legendary-grade skill, right? The harder the hidden piece, the bigger the reward.

-Steel Lord: I cautiously think it might be… Memory Stone… haha.

It was when users were putting forth various speculations.

-King Burger : Wait, when Zero-second Swordsman cleared 6th Floor B Zone, that’s when the hidden piece disappeared, right?

-Anonymous : Huh?

-DTD : Huh?

It was too coincidental to dismiss as mere chance.

The users had no choice but to come up with one terrifying inference.

-King Burger : Don’t tell me Zero-second Swordsman solved the 6th Floor’s hidden piece too?

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