The Automatic Rooting Range Is Too Wide - Chapter 19

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Auto Looting Range Too Wide Episode 19

Episode 19: Surely Not (2)

The material items Mincheol brought from the 6th Floor were two types.

15kg of Black Steel.

5kg of Golem Cores.

Black Steel sold for 1 million won per kg. Golem Cores sold for 2 million won per 500g core.

Both were extremely popular items at the Auction House. Black Steel was used for crafting equipment, and Golem Cores were alchemy materials.

Thanks to this, Mincheol instantly sold all his material items and obtained the huge sum of 35 million won.

Mincheol looked at the amount in his account with joy.

“Is it really okay for making money to be this easy?”

Actually, Mincheol’s thinking contained some misunderstanding.

Most awakeners who entered the 6th Floor B Zone were too busy running away to hunt Golems.

Even if they found Black Steel, they couldn’t mine it properly. They couldn’t swing pickaxes when Golems might pop out at any moment.

On the other hand, Mincheol could mine Black Steel as soon as he saw it thanks to auto looting, and hunt Golems to obtain cores.

“What should I do with this money.”

Mincheol first set aside 1 million won to send to his mother.

He wanted to give her more, but he restrained himself. If he sent too much and she questioned the source of the money, it would be troublesome.

What parent in this world would let their child do dangerous work?

Of course, some might exist, but Mincheol’s mother wasn’t that type of person.

After setting aside his mother’s allowance, the remaining money was 34 million won.

With such a fortune, he could play around for a while without any problems.

In fact, many awakeners would spend long periods enjoying themselves after making one big score. It was to relieve the stress accumulated from climbing the Tower.

But Mincheol had no intention of enjoying entertainment. He planned to invest all this money in becoming stronger.

“It was extremely dangerous this time.”

The Phantom Knight was a formidable enemy that surpassed Mincheol in every aspect. Not only in strength and agility, but even in technique.

If not for the additional function of auto looting, he would have lost his life to the Phantom Knight.

Of course, Mincheol had survived.

He could have been satisfied and moved on. But Mincheol had learned from King Burger before.

Always reflect and improve.

That’s how you survive in dangerous places like the Tower.

“Throwing didn’t work at all.”

Throwing, which had been Mincheol’s main strength, didn’t work on the Phantom Knight at all.

Everything he threw was blocked. Even when he launched his best attack, it was dodged.

This might be the limit of throwing. But Mincheol didn’t want to give up on throwing yet. The compatibility between throwing and auto looting was too good.

“Isn’t there some solution?”

Simply thinking, he could just buy and throw weapons so powerful that enemies couldn’t deflect or block them.

But such a brute force method couldn’t be a fundamental solution. In the Tower, you could encounter enemies stronger than yourself at any time.

What Mincheol needed now was unexpectedness that could overturn situations.

Mincheol began searching the internet again. He knew well that thinking alone wouldn’t provide answers.

Then there was a YouTube video that caught Mincheol’s eye.

【Basics of Ninjutsu! Let’s Learn Shuriken!】

【Uploader: Jil Alzalam】

Looking at the thumbnail, an Egyptian was posing like a ninja with his fingers together.

“Why is an Egyptian imitating a ninja?”

Mincheol felt somewhat absurd as he played the video.

-مرحباً يا جماعة!

It was a completely unfamiliar language. Fortunately, he could roughly understand thanks to YouTube’s auto-translation feature.

-Hello everyone!

-I’m Jil Alzalam, who teaches the essence of ninja. Nin-nin!

-The technique I’ll teach today is shuriken throwing, the basics of ninja!

Despite the strange concept, his skills seemed considerable.

His ability to throw and catch shuriken in the air was extraordinary.

-As you all know, throwing isn’t very useful when fighting monsters.

-Maybe against small monsters like goblins or gnolls, but it doesn’t work well against orcs.

-You might ask, can’t you hit weak spots like eyes or nose? Not only is it hard to hit, but they don’t even care about such minor wounds.

-Some might wonder why learn this then. This is surprisingly useful when fighting people.

Saying that, Jil Alzalam threw shuriken at a rock.

Three shuriken flew through the air.

Thud-

Though called shuriken, the power was considerable enough to make the rock shake greatly upon impact.

-Pretty useful, right? But this isn’t enough when fighting people. Experienced awakeners can easily handle straight attacks.

Even goblins used wind shots. Any decent awakener would be accustomed to ranged attacks.

-So what should we do? The answer is simple. Throw in a way that’s hard to counter.

Jil Alzalam threw shuriken again.

Whoosh-

Surprisingly, this time they curved instead of going straight. One went from bottom to top, another from top to bottom.

The shuriken flying in different directions stuck into the rock.

-Interesting, right? With just slight variations like this, you can toy with most opponents.

-Obviously, this isn’t technique but skill. Even if a major league baseball player came, they couldn’t throw such clear curveballs with shuriken, right?

Mincheol watched the video with admiration.

When fighting the Phantom Knight, having these skills could have greatly reversed the situation.

-One more piece of advice: it’s better not to try this unless you have to.

-Throwing skills are cheap, but that’s only compared to other skills.

-And frankly speaking, shuriken are too weak to seriously wound people.

-Regular people might be different, but all awakeners are tough. At best, you can only create openings.

Unless you were a concept enthusiast like Jil Alzalam, it wasn’t a skill worth learning.

Naturally, this advice didn’t apply to Mincheol.

While Jil Alzalam had to use shuriken due to cost issues, Mincheol could throw much more expensive weapons freely.

“I need to learn more throwing skills.”

Mincheol immediately searched the Auction House. He browsed through ‘Special’ grade skills and purchased ones that looked promising.

【Skill: Power Throw (Special Grade) – 12 million won.】

【Skill: Slider (Special Grade) – 10 million won.】

【Skill: Curve (Special Grade) – 10 million won.】

There were several more skills he wanted to purchase, but he didn’t have enough money.

Still, he wasn’t disappointed. Money could always be earned again.

“Are there any other decent skills?”

It was while Mincheol was browsing through the auction house.

【A message has arrived from ‘Daehun Pharmaceuticals Manager Kim Dong-pal’.】

-Daehun Pharmaceuticals Manager Kim Dong-pal : Hello, Manwolsang!

-Daehun Pharmaceuticals Manager Kim Dong-pal : I’m contacting you because you haven’t sent any herbs since yesterday.

-Daehun Pharmaceuticals Manager Kim Dong-pal : I was worried that you might have gotten seriously injured while climbing!

-Daehun Pharmaceuticals Manager Kim Dong-pal :

After reading the message, Mincheol made a dismayed expression.

He had forgotten to tell Kim Dong-pal. That he would now be entering the 6th Floor and it would be difficult to supply herbs.

“This is a bit awkward.”

Still, Balddeumm couldn’t invest time in gathering herbs. The efficiency was too poor.

-Manwolsang : I’m sorry. I forgot to mention it. I’m currently climbing the upper floors, so it will be difficult to supply herbs.

Mincheol wrote and sent the message.

He hid exactly which floor he was climbing. This was due to King Burger’s advice to keep personal information hidden as much as possible.

-Daehun Pharmaceuticals Manager Kim Dong-pal : Upper floors? Don’t tell me you’ve gone past the 10th floor?

-Manwolsang : No way. I’m still below the 10th floor. However, I’m climbing B Zone. I can’t gather herbs in this situation.

-Daehun Pharmaceuticals Manager Kim Dong-pal : You meant Area A, right?

-Manwolsang : No, B Zone is correct. The place where golems appear.

Suddenly the messages stopped. Mincheol became anxious for no reason.

“Is he so angry that he forgot to send messages?”

He hadn’t promised to supply herbs every day.

But since he hadn’t mentioned it beforehand, the situation wasn’t entirely honorable.

Mincheol waited for the next message with an anxious heart.

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Kim Dong-pal looked at the message with a bewildered expression.

It wasn’t because of the sudden declaration to cut off supply.

“…The novice awakener who was gathering herbs for Balddeumm is climbing B Zone?”

Although he wasn’t an awakener, Kim Dong-pal knew to some extent how the Tower worked.

Even though Manwolsang didn’t mention the exact floor, he must have passed at least the 6th floor. Because the branching paths appeared from the 6th floor.

Novice awakeners usually climbed one floor every 3-4 days. Just because they were lower floors didn’t mean there was no risk of death.

On the other hand, Kim Dong-pal had known Manwolsang for less than a week. But he had already passed the 6th floor?

And even B Zone, which was called the graveyard of novice awakeners?

“Hey, do you think this makes sense?”

“No.”

The subordinate employee answered firmly.

“It’s already hard to believe that he passed the 6th floor, but climbing B Zone makes sense? Even promising members of large guilds can’t climb at this speed.”

The subordinate employee was absolutely right.

Of course, there weren’t no similar cases. The children of famous awakeners showed such performance backed by talent inherited from their parents and extensive support.

In other words, it was impossible without being at that level.

“Ah, maybe he was originally an awakener climbing high floors, but Balddeumm temporarily came down for herbs?”

Considering the value of items from high floors versus low floors, it was nonsensical.

But it made more sense than a novice awakener climbing the 6th floor, specifically B Zone, in less than a week.

-Daehun Pharmaceuticals Manager Kim Dong-pal : Were you perhaps a high-floor awakener who temporarily came down to the lower floors to gather materials?

-Manwolsang : No. I’m climbing from the beginning.

After reading the message, both people made incredulous expressions.

Looking at Balddeumm’s skill in gathering herbs, it didn’t seem like he was lying.

But it was too absurd to believe readily.

“More importantly, manager, what will you do?”

“About what?”

“If he suddenly cuts off supply like this, only we’ll be in trouble.”

At the subordinate employee’s point, Kim Dong-pal shrugged his shoulders.

“Well, what can we do about it? It’s not like we made a daily supply contract.”

The contract Kim Dong-pal made with Manwolsang was only for exclusive supply. They hadn’t set a daily supply amount.

“But you finally got to speak up to the Research Department. If this happens, won’t you be ignored again?”

Kim Dong-pal smacked his lips. Thinking about being ignored by the Research Department again made his stomach burn considerably.

But Kim Dong-pal decided to look further ahead.

“You know what? I don’t think what this person is saying is a lie.”

“What? Then you really think he reached B Zone in that short time?”

Kim Dong-pal nodded his head.

“With this level of talent, he’ll definitely reach higher floors. And this person clearly has extraordinary ability in gathering herbs.”

“Yes, that’s certain.”

“That means if we maintain friendship with this person, we can receive large supplies of rare herbs that only grow on high floors.”

The subordinate employee’s eyes widened. He seemed to finally understand Kim Dong-pal’s meaning.

“The C-grade skill random box that came in recently? Go get it quickly.”

“Yes, yes!”

The subordinate employee rushed outside.

Meanwhile, Kim Dong-pal sent a message to Manwolsang.

-Daehun Pharmaceuticals Manager Kim Dong-pal : If that’s the reason, it can’t be helped!

-Manwolsang : I’m sorry for suddenly cutting off supply.

-Daehun Pharmaceuticals Manager Kim Dong-pal : Sorry? Isn’t it an awakener’s destiny to climb the Tower? You don’t need to worry about it!

-Manwolsang : Thank you for understanding.

While sending messages, the subordinate employee brought the skill random box. Kim Dong-pal immediately sent the box to Manwolsang.

-Manwolsang : What?! Why such a precious thing…?

-Daehun Pharmaceuticals Manager Kim Dong-pal : It’s a gift wishing for Manwolsang’s safe climbing!

-Manwolsang : Still, receiving something so precious…

In fact, this was a considerably painful expense for Kim Dong-pal too.

His head was already starting to ache thinking about what to tell the accounting team.

But Kim Dong-pal was confident. This investment would definitely pay off big later.

-Daehun Pharmaceuticals Manager Kim Dong-pal : Compared to the benefits Manwolsang has brought to our company, it’s trivial!

-Daehun Pharmaceuticals Manager Kim Dong-pal : Instead, if you get rare herbs in the future, I’d be grateful if you think of Daehun Pharmaceuticals first as a trading partner.

-Daehun Pharmaceuticals Manager Kim Dong-pal : (rabbit continuously bowing emoticon).

-Manwolsang : Of course. I’ll contact you first, manager.

Kim Dong-pal clenched his fist tightly.

-Daehun Pharmaceuticals Manager Kim Dong-pal : I will always be cheering you on!

* * *

“Wow, they’re giving me something this precious.”

Mincheol looked at the C-grade skill random box placed on the table and smiled brightly.

A ‘Special’ grade skill came out of the C-grade skill random box.

Special grade skills usually cost over ten million won. Good skills were much more expensive than that.

You couldn’t underestimate Special grade skills. Even the skills Mincheol mainly used now were all Special grade.

“I should open it right away.”

Mincheol opened the skill random box.

A brief moment of sparkle as usual.

And at that moment.

Suddenly the light became much stronger.

【Lucky Coin takes effect.】

【Luck is enhanced thanks to two coins gathering together.】

【The reward from ‘C-grade Skill Random Box’ is changed to ‘Rare’ grade.】

Mincheol’s eyes widened in surprise.

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