The Automatic Rooting Range Is Too Wide - Chapter 52

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Auto Looting Range Too Wide Episode 52

 

Episode 52: Reflection (1)

 

As soon as he arrived at his apartment, the pain disappeared as if washed away.

 

Just like when climbing the Tower, all his wounds were healed.

 

Though his body had returned to perfect condition, he couldn’t feel happy about it.

 

“The business card… my business card…!”

 

Because his fingers had lost strength, he had missed what might have been a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

 

Mincheol could only swallow tears of blood.

 

“…That’s right. The items!”

 

In the chaos, he hadn’t been able to retrieve his throwing weapons.

 

Mincheol hurriedly opened his inventory.

 

But the inventory was completely empty.

 

“…I was hoping the weapons would be returned when I came back.”

 

It seemed that weapons left far from their owner were simply abandoned.

 

Considering that the twin swords that had fallen nearby came back to the apartment with him.

 

“…So this is why people don’t use throwing weapons.”

 

The hand axes and chakrams could be purchased again.

 

The problem was Sharbahan.

 

How could he obtain a legendary-grade weapon again?

 

“Wow, what should I do? Isn’t there a way to go back?”

 

While Mincheol was stamping his feet in frustration.

 

“Kkwak.”

 

Kkwaekkwi poked Mincheol’s thigh with its beak.

 

Surprisingly, Sharbahan was lying at Kkwaekkwi’s feet.

 

“Kk-Kkwaekkwi! Don’t tell me you brought this back?”

 

“Kkwak!”

 

Kkwaekkwi nodded confidently.

 

“Kkwaekkwi!”

 

Mincheol embraced Kkwaekkwi with both arms. He buried his face in its chest feathers and rubbed vigorously.

 

Then, he caught a faint smell of blood. Mincheol examined Kkwak’s feet.

 

Sharp cuts were carved into its foot pads.

 

“Kkwaekkwi, you…”

 

It seemed its foot pads had been cut from gripping Sharbahan with its feet.

 

Mincheol took out a potion from his inventory and sprinkled it on Kkwaekkwi’s feet.

 

“Kkwaak!”

 

It must have stung a lot as Kkwaekkwi flapped both wings frantically.

 

“…I’m sorry.”

 

“Kkwak?”

 

Kkwaekkwi tilted its head as if asking what he meant.

 

Mincheol filled Kkwaekkwi’s food bowl with intermediate magic stones.

 

For now, this was the best way he could express his gratitude.

 

“Kkwaak!”

 

Kkwaekkwi rejoiced greatly and began swallowing the magic stones.

 

Thump-

 

Mincheol collapsed spread-eagle on his bed and recalled the day’s events.

 

‘I really almost died.’

 

Kang Ung-hyeok’s strength was real.

 

Every time he stomped his feet, the ground cracked, and every time he swung his hands, buildings collapsed.

 

If he had been serious, Mincheol would have lost his life in the blink of an eye.

 

‘Are all upper-floor Awakeners nothing but monsters like that?’

 

Kang Ung-hyeok was like a cliff.

 

So high it seemed to touch the sky, and so steep that one wouldn’t even dare to climb it.

 

‘He was truly terrifying.’

 

He was truly an existence that seemed to embody despair and fear itself.

 

However, what was dominating Mincheol’s heart now wasn’t such negative emotions.

 

‘…How could I have won?’

 

It could be called competitive spirit or fighting spirit.

 

Even though the battle was over, Mincheol’s heart was still beating fiercely.

 

‘I might experience the same thing while climbing the Tower. Maybe I’ll meet enemies even stronger than Kang Ung-hyeok.’

 

When meeting such powerful enemies, he had no intention of giving up and waiting for death.

 

He wanted to survive somehow. He wanted to defeat powerful enemies and seize victory.

 

‘Looking at objective numbers alone, I’m no match. Kang Ung-hyeok has far superior stats and must have learned various skills.’

 

But facing him wasn’t entirely impossible.

 

After all, Mincheol had almost killed Kang Ung-hyeok.

 

‘If Kang Ung-hyeok had noticed Sharbahan just a little later, I could have cut his throat.’

 

Though he borrowed the power of a legendary-grade weapon, what ultimately allowed him to drive Kang Ung-hyeok to the brink of death was strategy.

 

And what supported that strategy was technique.

 

‘I need technique. Only then can I strike at the enemy’s weak points.’

 

Mincheol thought of Cardmos Dunwall.

 

With just the basic knowledge gained from him, Mincheol had been able to face countless powerful enemies.

 

In other words, Cardmos Dunwall had the answers Mincheol wanted.

 

‘I need the next knowledge.’

 

He had never needed Cardmos Dunwall so desperately before.

 

At that moment, a message appeared.

 

【You have satisfied the conditions.】

 

【The second Quest of ‘Cardmos Dunwall’s Memory Stones’ has been unlocked.】

 

Mincheol bolted upright from his bed in surprise.

 

The second Quest he had so desperately wanted had been unlocked.

 

He wanted to challenge it right away. But Mincheol hesitated.

 

‘Will that guy just leave me alone?’

 

Mincheol recalled Cardmos Dunwall’s final appearance.

 

Hadn’t he been filled with rage and tried to kill Mincheol?

 

Even though systemically he couldn’t harm him, he couldn’t help but hesitate.

 

‘Hmm.’

 

After pondering for a while, Mincheol reached a conclusion.

 

‘I should first clear Nasalga’s Quest to get stronger, then challenge it.’

 

Nasalga’s Quest was equally dangerous.

 

He could face powerful monsters like the Goblin Knight and even the Count.

 

But those two monsters he might or might not encounter.

 

No matter how he thought about it, Cardmos Dunwall, who openly held hostility, seemed more dangerous.

 

‘To be safe, I need to get stronger. But to get stronger, I need to take risks.’

 

It was truly paradoxical.

 

‘Isn’t there some way to get stronger easily?’

 

Mincheol chuckled.

 

Even though he had thought it himself, it was too shameless a thought.

 

Suddenly, he remembered something he had forgotten about.

 

‘Oh, right.’

 

Mincheol opened his inventory. He took out the pill that had been stored in one corner.

 

It was the new product from Goseong Pharmaceutical that Kang Ung-hyeok had coveted so much.

 

【Summoning Pill.】

 

-Grade: Unique.

 

-Description: A secret elixir passed down through the Shaolin Sect, known as the leader of the Martial Arts Realm. Upon consumption, one realizes their own shortcomings.

 

“…Unique grade?”

 

Mincheol couldn’t help but be shocked.

 

It was a world where even special-grade elixirs were traded in utmost secrecy.

 

The value of a unique-grade elixir was immeasurable.

 

“I-I should return it, right?”

 

Since it belonged to Goseong Pharmaceutical, it would be right to give it back.

 

But the method was the problem.

 

Mincheol wanted to hide his identity as much as possible.

 

‘Sending it by delivery is obviously out of the question, should I secretly leave it in front of Goseong Pharmaceutical? But it’ll all be caught on CCTV.’

 

Throw the elixir from a distance? But what if it gets damaged?

 

No matter how much he thought about it, no suitable method came to mind.

 

‘Do I really have to return it?’

 

It was nothing less than a unique-grade elixir. He couldn’t help but have dark thoughts.

 

‘Ah, whatever.’

 

Mincheol decided to eat the pill for now.

 

Of course, since it had been in Kang Ung-hyeok’s mouth, he washed it thoroughly with tap water.

 

Fortunately, the surface was coated with something so it didn’t dissolve.

 

Mincheol put the cleanly wiped Summoning Pill in his mouth.

 

* * *

 

A woman in a suit bent down to examine the ground and said.

 

“The footprints end here.”

 

“Any other traces?”

 

“None. Everything disappeared as if the person had evaporated.”

 

“Tracking?”

 

“It seems impossible.”

 

Go Seon-ho clicked his tongue briefly.

 

To think he would let a dangerous guy like Kang Ung-hyeok slip away right under his nose. It left a bad taste in his mouth.

 

“So he wasn’t just lucky to avoid capture all this time.”

 

He seemed to have quite a good escape skill.

 

At minimum rare grade, maybe even unique grade.

 

“If Master had chased after him right away, we could have caught him.”

 

Another subordinate grumbled.

 

With his youthful appearance and small stature, he looked exactly like a boy.

 

“…”

 

Since he had nothing to say, Go Seon-ho kept his mouth tightly shut.

 

No matter how good Kang Ung-hyeok was at escaping, if he had gone after him, he could have caught him.

 

“That guy was the Butcher, right? He wore a strange mask and used throwing weapons.”

 

“Probably right.”

 

“Did you want the Butcher that badly?”

 

“Yes.”

 

Go Seon-ho nodded without hesitation.

 

In terms of combat power alone, Kang Ung-hyeok was an awakener who ranked at the top among Class 2 criminals.

 

No matter how much he had held back, he wasn’t an opponent that a low-tier awakener like the Butcher could survive against.

 

But the Butcher not only survived but even cut off his arm.

 

Of course, if it hadn’t been a legendary-grade weapon, he wouldn’t have been able to cut off the arm.

 

But even legendary grade wasn’t omnipotent. If you couldn’t use it properly, it was useless.

 

Just because you put a knife in an elementary school student’s hand, could they stab someone who trained professionally?

 

Their arms would be short and they wouldn’t be agile either, right?

 

The Butcher overcame such handicaps and dealt a fatal blow to Kang Ung-hyeok.

 

This was the first time he had encountered such a desirable awakener.

 

“So how do you feel? The great Go Seon-ho got rejected for a scouting offer. This is your first time experiencing this, isn’t it? Your insides must be boiling with anger, right?”

 

Go Seon-ho finally couldn’t hold back and struck his subordinate’s head with his fist.

 

The subordinate grabbed his crown and groaned for a while.

 

“I have no intention of holding onto someone who has already moved on.”

 

“Ah, that’s a lie. Just looking at your eyes, regret is dripping out… Ack!”

 

Go Seon-ho struck his subordinate’s head once more.

 

“More than that, it’s painful that we couldn’t recover the elixir. The chairman will be furious.”

 

“Is that elixir really that amazing?”

 

“It’s amazing. It’s an elixir from the Martial Arts Realm, no less.”

 

The interior of the Tower was divided into various dimensions.

 

Each dimension had different characteristics and developed technologies.

 

And the Martial Arts Realm was a dimension with expertise in elixir manufacturing.

 

Particularly, the elixirs from the Martial Arts Realm showed excellent efficacy in developing awakeners.

 

“Moreover, the elixir we successfully restored this time is from none other than the Shaolin Sect.”

 

The Shaolin Sect was a massive force representing the Martial Arts Realm.

 

There was even an assessment that the Martial Arts Realm existed on the foundation of the Shaolin Sect.

 

“Not only did restoration cost enormous amounts, but I heard the material costs consumed to create the finished product were tremendous too.”

 

The Summoning Pill was a unique-grade elixir.

 

To manufacture such an elixir, expensive materials were needed.

 

Having such a painstakingly created elixir stolen was an unbearable loss for Goseong Group.

 

“What kind of effects does it have?”

 

The subordinate who had been hit on the head asked Go Seon-ho.

 

“They say it improves the user’s constitution.”

 

“Improvement? Not enhancement?”

 

The subordinate asked with a puzzled expression.

 

“Originally, the human body is not suited for using mana.”

 

“Is that so?”

 

“They say the output is low compared to the mana consumed.”

 

This wasn’t a story that applied only to Earth’s humans.

 

Humans from other dimensions existing in the Tower were the same.

 

Though they hadn’t investigated them separately, similar content could be found in materials obtainable from the Tower.

 

“Consuming the Summoning Pill greatly improves this constitutional aspect.”

 

“Ah, so mana consumption decreases while skill power increases?”

 

Go Seon-ho nodded. The subordinate also nodded.

 

Soon the subordinate shouted in amazement.

 

“Wait, that’s really cheating!”

 

“That’s why I’m worried. Such an item went to Kang Ung-hyeok.”

 

Go Seon-ho clicked his tongue briefly.

 

“Perhaps a new Class 1 criminal might be born.”

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