The Automatic Rooting Range Is Too Wide - Chapter 37
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Auto Looting Range Too Wide Episode 37
Episode 37: Special Reward (3)
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Mincheol, who had returned to Earth, immediately threw himself onto his bed.
“Ugh, I really thought I was going to die.”
He felt like he’d been saying similar things often lately, but this time it was real.
He never expected the Successful Golem to have a second phase.
Auto looting didn’t work, and mineral swords were flying from all directions.
He almost died right there.
-Kkwaaak.
While Mincheol lay on his bed, Kkwaekkwi waddled around the room.
With so many fascinating objects around, it didn’t rest for a moment.
“Hey hey, you can’t chew on that.”
When Kkwaekkwi tried to chew on his smartphone charger, Mincheol jumped up in alarm.
When Mincheol snatched the charger away, Kkwaekkwi flapped its wings with a displeased expression.
“Kkwaaak!”
“Dude, do you know how dangerous what you just did was?”
While Mincheol was gently stroking Kkwaekkwi’s beak.
Grumble.
His stomach made a sound. Hunger washed over him.
“I’m hungry.”
Having gone through such a tough battle, he wanted to eat something expensive for once.
Mincheol recalled the sushi restaurant he’d eaten at before.
That sushi restaurant that cost 30,000 won per meal.
He’d really suffered this time, so it seemed okay to treat himself to sushi.
No, he had to. Mincheol was fully qualified for such a reward.
“But what should Kkwaekkwi eat?”
Humans and animals had different body structures, so eating the same food could be dangerous.
Even chocolate was just a snack for humans, but it was like poison for dogs.
“It looks like a parrot, so maybe I should give it bird seed?”
Mincheol searched for parrot food on his smartphone.
Parrot feed mixed with various grains appeared right at the top of the main results.
“Hey hey, do you want to eat this?”
Mincheol held out his smartphone screen to Kkwaekkwi.
After looking at the screen, Kkwaekkwi vigorously shook its head left and right.
“Kkwaaak! Kkwaaaak!”
Anyone could see it meant no.
“No? Then what am I supposed to feed you?”
Mincheol searched for information about pets on his smartphone.
True to the information age, he was able to quickly find a useful video.
【We Interviewed Haruka Miyuki’s Pet?】
Haruka Miyuki was an awakened one known to be on the same level as Malcolm Bernard and Michael Alzen.
Haruka Miyuki was especially famous because of the pet she owned.
She was the only person in the world to possess a Unique-grade pet.
“This should be trustworthy enough.”
Mincheol clicked on the video.
A woman with long straight hair that reached down to her ankles appeared.
It was Haruka Miyuki.
She was a beautiful woman who could have been a model or actress, but what caught the eye in the video wasn’t her.
His gaze was drawn to the white tiger lying beside her, leisurely yawning.
“Wow, that’s really cool.”
The world’s first Unique-grade pet.
It was also the highest-grade pet currently in existence.
Until Kkwaekkwi appeared, that is.
“If a Unique-grade looks this cool, I thought a Legendary-grade would be even cooler.”
Mincheol looked back at Kkwaekkwi.
Kkwaekkwi was tilting its head to the side, then couldn’t support its weight and toppled over with a thud.
“I’ll let it slide because what you do is cute.”
Mincheol helped Kkwaekkwi back up, then focused on the video again.
-Today we’re going to learn about pets together with Haruka Miyuki!
A man who appeared to be the host spoke in a clear voice.
It was in Japanese, but he could understand thanks to YouTube’s translation feature.
-What we’re most curious about is what kind of food pets eat. Do they eat meat like real tigers?
Haruka Miyuki swept her hair behind her ear.
Mincheol was momentarily captivated by her elegant gesture.
-Of course not. Pets eat mana and grow. So you have to give them items containing mana as food.
“Oh ho, so they eat mana?”
-The easiest food to obtain would be mana stones. Mana stones are crystallized mana, after all.
Mincheol happened to have mana stones he’d received from Kim Cheol-su and his aunt.
Mincheol took out the mana stones and laid them out on the floor.
“How about it? Does this whet your appetite?”
Kkwaekkwi waddled around among the mana stones.
Then it picked up the largest mana stone with its beak and gulped it down.
“Oh, it’s eating.”
Mincheol watched the scene with a fascinated expression.
But Kkwaekkwi didn’t eat any more mana stones.
Instead, it kicked the mana stones away with its feet as if uninterested.
“What’s wrong? Are you full?”
“Kkwak.”
Kkwaekkwi turned its head away sharply.
Thanks to that decisive action, Mincheol could read Kkwaekkwi’s thoughts.
“You don’t mean… you won’t eat the others because they don’t taste good, do you?”
“Kkwak!”
Kkwaekkwi shook its head roughly. Mincheol slapped his forehead with his palm.
“Wow, do you know how much those cost?”
Even among mana stones of the same grade, the larger ones were more valuable.
One large mana stone was more expensive than ten small ones.
But what could he do if it didn’t suit its taste?
That’s when it happened.
【Your pet has consumed mana.】
【Growth rate increases by 0.1 percent.】
“Oh?”
Mincheol looked at the message with a fascinated expression.
-Pets increase their growth rate every time they consume mana. When the growth rate reaches 100 percent, they evolve.
Just then, Haruka Miyuki began explaining this part.
-The more pets evolve, the stronger they become. Sometimes they even awaken new abilities.
-The better the mana you feed them, the faster their growth rate increases.
“Is that so?”
Mincheol recalled the ‘Warm Wind Flapping’ that Kkwaekkwi had cast on him.
It was an incredible buff that increased all physical abilities by a whopping 10 percent.
If Kkwaekkwi grew and became stronger, the buff’s effects would increase as well.
“Then I have no choice but to get magic stones for you.”
Mincheol gently scratched Kkwaekkwi’s beak.
It seemed like he had taken in a money-eating hippo.
The fortunate thing was that the more money he invested, the more it would pay off.
“I should go eat too.”
Mincheol prepared to go out and stood in front of the entrance.
Then Kkwaekkwi flew over and perched on his head.
“Hey, no. If other people see you, it might become troublesome.”
“Kkwak.”
He felt wind gathering above his head.
【’Kkwaekkwi’ goes into stealth.】
“You’re quite talented.”
This should be fine.
With that thought, Mincheol opened the front door.
“Should I eat the hundred thousand won set today?”
Mincheol went down the stairs with happy thoughts.
Because of that, he had no idea at all.
That the entire world was currently in an uproar because of him.
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“Malcolm!”
With an urgent shout, the red-haired man pushed open the iron door.
At that moment, a skin-piercing cold burst out.
“Keuugh!”
The red-haired man hastily covered his face with both forearms.
Starting from his forearms, blue frost began clinging to his entire body.
For a moment like that.
Only after the cold subsided did the man lower his arms.
Then the scene inside the room was revealed, with transparent ice piled up in layers.
“Malcolm, I told you to put up a sign when you’re meditating.”
The red-haired man grumbled.
The black man sitting in the center of the room slowly raised his head.
“Sorry. Something suddenly came to mind.”
Top-tier awakened ones usually had their own training methods.
Malcolm Bernard’s training method was meditation. Through meditation, he contemplated his body and refined his skills.
“You do that tedious stuff so well.”
Of course, the red-haired man couldn’t understand Malcolm Bernard’s training method at all.
From his perspective, it was an incredibly boring activity.
“More importantly, what’s the matter? You seemed urgent.”
“You know Zero, right?”
“I know of him.”
Malcolm Bernard spoke in a tone showing little interest.
It wasn’t a deliberately affected tone – Malcolm Bernard really had no interest in Zero.
The first EX-grade clear.
Nine consecutive floors of EX-grade clears.
It was certainly a remarkable achievement, but the floors were still too low.
How many rookie awakened ones had received everyone’s expectations only to sink without a trace?
And how many awakened ones with outstanding talent had gone down the wrong path and caused harm to humanity?
That’s why Malcolm Bernard felt no emotion at Zero’s appearance.
“That guy cleared the 10th Floor Area B with an EX grade!”
But with the following words, Malcolm Bernard had no choice but to change his thinking.
“The 10th Floor Area B…?”
“That’s right! Check it right now!”
Malcolm Bernard opened the ranking window.
Then he could see the EX grade marked in the first line of the 10th Floor Area B.
“…Truly remarkable.”
“Right? Not just anywhere else, but the 10th Floor Area B! He got an EX grade in that crazy place!”
Malcolm Bernard, Michael Alzen, Haruka Miyuki.
And the legends of the 0th generation that existed before them.
Countless geniuses had challenged the 10th Floor Area B but were frustrated.
The Zero-second Challenger had cleared such a place with an EX grade.
“He must have defeated the Masterpiece Golem, right?”
“That’s hard to be certain about. Perhaps the condition for receiving an EX grade might be something different.”
There were various ways to increase the clear grade.
Besides reducing clear time, finding hidden conditions also raised the grade.
Especially since the 10th Floor Area B had a structure where you could clear it just by enduring, not by defeating the boss monster.
“But to receive an EX grade… I can’t think of anything other than defeating the boss monster.”
Malcolm Bernard recalled when he fought the Masterpiece Golem.
He barely dodged the mineral swords flying from all directions and approached the main body, but couldn’t inflict proper damage.
At the moment he prepared for death, time ran out and he barely managed to survive.
Against such a powerful boss monster, he went beyond enduring to actually defeating it?
“He’s a promising fellow.”
At this moment, Zero’s name was engraved in Malcolm Bernard’s mind.
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“Ha! Look at this crazy bastard!”
In a desert filled with gray sand.
There, a red-haired man began laughing loudly.
Gold teeth flashed between his open lips. Surprisingly, both his upper and lower teeth were all gold.
“Michael, why are you suddenly acting like that?”
A nearby team member asked Michael Alzen.
Michael Alzen laughed heartily and said to his team member.
“Zero cleared the 10th Floor Area B with an EX grade! This crazy bastard finally did it!”
The team member’s mouth fell wide open. The team member hastily opened the ranking window to check.
“…It’s real?”
“Do you think I’d lie about something like this? Anyway, he’s really amazing. An amazing bastard has appeared.”
Michael Alzen looked at the ranking window with a big grin.
The team member asked in a rather serious tone.
“But boss, there’s no guarantee that Zero did it, right? Names don’t show up on the ranking board. China is focusing their resources on unsolved challenges. It could be them…”
“Garick, don’t talk like an idiot. If not Zero, who else could pull off something like this? We’re talking about EX-grade here!”
Michael Alzen dismissed his team member’s concerns in one go.
“I knew some decent juniors would eventually come up, but I didn’t expect to get hit by a truck instead of just ‘decent.'”
Michael Alzen stared at the ranking board with an extremely excited expression.
“Come on, hurry up and climb to where I am. Then I’ll smash you to pieces with my own hands!”
That’s when it happened.
In the distance, team members shouted with urgent faces.
“Boss! It appeared! That bastard appeared!”
Michael Alzen immediately kicked off the ground and leaped up.
There stood a knight emanating a sinister aura.
Death Knight.
A recently discovered hidden boss from the upper floors.
Michael Alzen’s goal today was to defeat this creature.
“Quite a worthy opponent to fight.”
Michael Alzen licked his lips as he brought both arms behind his back.
Twin swords curved like tiger claws revealed themselves.
“You’re dying by my hand today.”
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-Anonymous : Wow, he really succeeded. Zero-second Challenger really cleared 10th Floor Area B with EX-grade!
-Zero Calorie : There wasn’t anyone who didn’t believe in Zero-second Challenger, right?
The darkened CEO’s office.
Lee Ji-hun stared at the monitor while tearing at his hair.
-Anonymous : The Successful Golem is a boss that no one has been able to defeat until now, right?
-Viewership : Even the legendary Lee Dong-hwi couldn’t do it, but he really pulled it off.
-Anonymous : At this point, shouldn’t we call him the second Lee Dong-hwi instead of the second Malcolm Bernard?
-Strawberry Cheese : The second Lee Dong-hwi? At this point, we should call him the first Zero-second Challenger!
-Anonymous : That’s actually true lol.
Lee Ji-hun’s expression became even more distorted.
-Strawberry Cheese : Come to think of it, wasn’t there someone who kept slandering Zero-second Challenger until the end?
-Strawberry Cheese : They were going around confidently saying he would fail.
-Strawberry Cheese : They seem to be someone with rather low intelligence.
The moment he saw the following post, Lee Ji-hun ended up slamming the keyboard with his fist.
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That day, a lengthy post was uploaded to the Hunter Community.
-Hae-dal : You idiots. What’s so amazing about this? The pioneers failed because they didn’t receive any knowledge or support! This bastard definitely got all kinds of help! What’s so amazing about that…
└Anonymous : This bastard is going crazy again.
└Strawberry Cheese : The low-intelligence person has arrived.
└King Burger : Stop it. You’re being very pathetic.
Of course, he was thoroughly ridiculed.
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