The Owner of the Healing Therapy Shop Is Ranked 0th in the World - Chapter 60

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The Owner of the Healing Therapy Shop is World Rank 0

Chapter 60

“That thing left a mark on you.”

Mimi’s voice was cold as a sharpened blade, completely devoid of her usual languidness.

I looked at Mimi with trembling eyes, doubting my ears.

“That thing? A mark? What are you talking about?”

With an ominous feeling in my heart, I stared intently at my palm.

‘A mark?’

A sigh escaped my lips involuntarily as I looked down at my reddened palm.

I remembered when my palm first started hurting.

When I encountered that ‘existence’ in Senior’s dream, I felt heat in my palm.

Not the heat from burns or friction, but literally a ‘strange heat sensation’.

“Don’t tell me that was…”

“Yebichnna, the more you use your magic power, the more accurately that thing can pinpoint your location even outside the Gate. It’s a brand planted so it can track you. If your existence becomes completely exposed, that thing will obviously try to eliminate you by any means necessary. The power you possess is the most threatening poison to them.”

As Mimi’s explanation continued, my mouth went dry.

It wasn’t simply that my body was exhausted from overusing skills.

The fact that that overwhelming and grotesque existence had carved a signpost of death into my palm struck me with tremendous fear.

I wrapped my tingling palm with my other trembling hand.

“But don’t be too frightened. As long as I’m by your side, it won’t easily touch you.”

Mimi swished her tail as if trying to reassure me.

“Instead, you need to refrain from using magic power excessively for a while. Especially entering Gates is absolutely forbidden until your class level becomes sufficiently high.”

I nodded with difficulty, engraving Mimi’s stern warning in my mind.

Then suddenly, one worry crossed my mind.

“Then Mimi, if my location gets exposed every time I use magic power… does that mean I can’t make items anymore?”

The fact that I couldn’t help Hunters right away and had to let the only ability that could conquer Gates rot away was unbearable.

But Mimi shook her head.

“Making items little by little is fine. As long as you don’t pour out explosive amounts like when you awakened Seondonguk, I can sufficiently interfere with that thing’s perception with my power.”

Only then did I let out a sigh of relief.

Mimi looked at me as if I were absurd and clicked her tongue.

“The Gate is targeting your life, but you’re more worried about not being able to make items? What a peculiar human.”

“It’s an existence I’ll have to fight against in the future. And I have you with me too!”

When I answered with a bright smile, Mimi seemed pleased and swished her tail again.

“That’s a relief. I was just wondering where to use the remaining stat points anyway.”

I stood up energetically as if I had never been trembling in fear. It felt like the pain in my palm had suddenly disappeared.

“Since you said I can use it little by little, and Seondonguk oppa’s condition has improved, I should try what I’ve been wanting to do!”

I need to work hard making items and studying while the Gate is quiet like now. Who knows when another strange Quest might appear.

I brought up my status window in the air.

^[Available Stat Points: 3]^

^[Available Coins: 1100 coins]^

“Where should I invest these stats and coins…”

I felt like there was no progress with just the oils and fragrances I always used.

I became greedy to try implementing the various item forms that appeared in the skill tree.

Until now, I was busy with Gate conquests so I only made familiar forms.

“Mimi, can I make items with materials that came from inside Gates?”

“Why ask something so obvious. Magic power dwells in all things in this world.”

“Then do they get different effects?”

“It depends on the completion level, but generally they follow the characteristics of the Gate where the materials were harvested.”

Hearing Mimi’s words, something suddenly came to mind.

I remembered when I suffered from nervous hypersensitivity before, I survived using oil made from a flower called ‘Heragen’ harvested from a forest terrain Gate.

“I’ll need materials from various Gates.”

But I didn’t want to enter Gates directly myself.

Then what caught my eye was the 1100 coins.

A way to obtain materials without entering Gates suddenly occurred to me.

“Hunter Market!”

But I immediately hit a snag.

The Hunter Market required a Hunter ID for entry, but my fake ID ‘Yebichnna’ had now become Sohee’s official identity.

It meant I was like a ghost Hunter now, making entry impossible.

“Ah… the market won’t work either.”

Just as I was dropping my shoulders in disappointment, my phone vibrated.

I thought it might be Senior, but when I checked, it was an unexpected person.

[What are you doing, noona?]

It was the first contact from Ohyeongtaek. While I was wondering whether to reply, consecutive messages came.

[I’m about to go to Hunter Market, want to come look around together?]

I was tempted. If I accompanied him, an S-rank Hunter, not only could I enter without identity verification, but purchasing would be easy too.

Just as I was about to reply, he drove the point home.

[I’m S-rank so I can go to the top floor too. Still hesitating?]

“Top floor?”

I heard the top floor of Hunter Market was only open to S-rank and a very few A-rank Hunters, where unimaginably rare materials were traded.

Unable to contain my curiosity, I quickly sent a reply.

[Good! I’ll get ready.]

The reply came back at the speed of light.

[Actually, I’m in front of your store right now.]

“What?!”

Surprised, I looked out the window to see Ohyeongtaek waving his phone and hand vigorously next to a flashy sports car.

He opened the store door with a jingling sound and entered.

“I came to pick you up!”

I couldn’t help but burst into hollow laughter at his cheeky grinning appearance.

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The Hunter Market we arrived at was truly another world.

Inside the massive dome-shaped building, countless Hunters and merchants mingled together, overflowing with vitality.

Going with Ohyeongtaek, the guards at the entrance didn’t even check IDs but bowed 90 degrees and cleared the way.

I looked around here and there with sparkling eyes like a child.

From horns of unknown monsters to minerals emitting strange light.

But there was a problem.

‘I can’t tell if this is really good stuff or if the merchants are inflating prices.’

It would be nice to have an appraisal skill.

Perhaps reading my dejected expression, Ohyeongtaek smoothly pulled something from his pocket and handed it to me.

“A gift.”

What he handed me was a magnifying glass with cute pink rabbit ears attached.

Anyone could see it was Sohee’s taste.

“Sohee is giving this as a gift. She apparently stayed up all night making it for you or something.”

“What is this?”

The moment I received the magnifying glass, a blue notification window appeared in my vision.

^[Sohee’s Rabbit Magnifying Glass (Grade: A)

Effect: Visualizes the magical information and grade of objects. (Grants Appraisal skill)]^

“My goodness… an appraisal item!”

I heard that items containing appraisal skills are extremely difficult to craft, so even large guilds only have a few.

When I gaped in surprise, Ohyeongtaek shrugged his shoulders.

“He said it’s a bribe to ask you to take him as a disciple? He’s busy going to press conferences right now so he can’t come, so he asked me to deliver it instead.”

A disciple – my heart felt heavy, but I desperately needed this tool right now.

I asked him to definitely convey my thanks, then picked up the magnifying glass and began earnestly searching through the market.

When I held up the magnifying glass, real treasures began to appear among the trash-like miscellaneous items.

What I finally chose in the end was an ordinary-looking tree branch and flower sold at a corner store.

^[Moonlight-Gathered Milky Way Willow (Grade: B+)

Effect: Excellent for purifying mental contamination and resolving sleep disorders]^

^[Item: Abyss Bellflower (Grade: B)

Effect: Ultra-low temperature properties that calm overheating of magical circuits]^

“Store Owner, I’ll take these two.”

Ohyeongtaek asked with a puzzled look.

“You’re only buying that much? After coming all the way to the top floor.”

“From what I can see, these are what I need most right now. But… they’re more expensive than I thought, so I can’t choose many.”

When trying to pick items with good effects, I could only buy two things with 11 million won.

11 million won is big money in reality, but it was frustrating that it was no different from pocket change in the Hunter Market.

“Give them here.”

But then Ohyeongtaek took those items and asked the merchant to put them under his name.

“Huh? No, those are my materials, I should buy them!”

“Too late, isn’t it?”

Mr. Ohyeongtaek smiled mischievously and pointed to the bundles of boxes piled up in a distant corner.

Clerks were busily moving the boxes.

“…What are all those?”

“The things you were looking at intently while holding up the magnifying glass earlier. I bought them all.”

“What?! How much did all that cost!”

Judging by the number of boxes, it was obviously an unimaginable amount.

When I was shocked and couldn’t close my mouth, Ohyeongtaek cleared his throat and puffed out his chest.

“Noona, I’m S-rank. This much doesn’t even register in my bank account. How about it? Pretty cool, right?”

“Still…”

“If I’m that cool, make me an item. An item exclusive to Ohyeongtaek.”

I was dumbfounded by his shameless request for a gift, but at the same time, I couldn’t help but let out a small laugh, grateful for his heart in showing such consideration for me.

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