The SSS-Class Hunter’s Garden Log - Chapter 46
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Chapter 46
“Mm!”
Despite its appearance, the taste was actually decent.
The bitterness of the contaminated lettuce and the subtle umami of the oyster mushrooms paired surprisingly well together.
As Hana slowly chewed the wrap and his jaw movements gradually quickened, the system window appeared again.
Hana, who had been staring at the system window so intently he seemed about to be sucked into the blue screen, covered his mouth.
“It, it worked!”
Jackpot!
【SYSTEM】
【Successfully mixed ‘Let’s Jump Over Our Limits, Mushroom Lettuce Wrap🥬(A-grade)’.】
【Reward: 3,500pt experience points distributed】
【Current experience: 7,500/7,500pt】
【Preparing to distribute special mission completion reward…】
When combined with the indirect experience points gained through Kwon and Haechan’s labor, it came to exactly 7,500pt.
“Yes!”
Hana clenched his fist in joy. Then his eyes widened.
“A-grade?”
This was the first time an item grade had come out this high.
In his surprise, Hana swallowed the wrap without fully chewing it.
“Cough, cough—!”
Hana pounded his chest and barely managed to swallow the wrap stuck in his throat, then opened his eyes wide and reread the system window carefully.
【’Let’s Jump Over Our Limits, Mushroom Lettuce Wrap🥬(A-grade)’】
【Lettuce mixed with golem essence that abnormally jumped grades due to a ‘modified’ runaway item.】
【The effects of both items are combined.】
【Effect: Drawing out hidden potential through improved self-esteem. Very small chance of greatly improving the consumer’s grade.】
“Grade improvement?”
Hana hurriedly checked his stat window.
Wondering if he had escaped his F-grade status.
But the F-grade next to the name ‘Yun Hana’ remained unchanged.
【SYSTEM】
【Oh right! The mushroom lettuce wrap’s effects don’t apply to the item’s creator! ꒰】•̀꒱>
“What, that’s discrimination!”
Hana’s lips jutted out in a pout.
This couldn’t be right.
I made it but I can’t see the effects? Then how am I supposed to verify the effects?
“Should I try feeding it to Yun Taegyeom?”
Hmm.
After brief consideration, Hana decided to go look for Taegyeom, who still hadn’t returned.
It had been quite a while since he left and he still hadn’t come back, so Hana was starting to worry anyway.
“Why isn’t he coming back? Did he run into a golem or something?”
Though if it was something Hana could handle, dealing with golems would be a piece of cake for Taegyeom—
“But you never know what might happen, right?”
Muttering this, Hana wrapped a newly made mushroom lettuce wrap in plastic wrap just in case.
* * *
At that moment, as Hana set out to find Taegyeom with his newly obtained item in hand.
The eyes of Choi Kwon and Haechan, sitting on the sofa, rolled busily.
Their gazes went back and forth between Kang Hyeon and the Jeokwol Guild Master sitting across from them.
Overwhelmed by the presence of the two high-ranking Hunters, Haechan and Kwon shrank deeper into their chair backs.
Then, Kang Hyeon, who had his long legs crossed at an angle, pointed at Haechan and Choi Kwon.
“So.”
His cool ash-gray irises turned toward the Jeokwol Guild Master.
“You’re saying to return these two people.”
The corner of the Jeokwol Guild Master’s mouth curved up.
“You understand quickly.”
He leaned back in his chair and continued slowly.
“There’s something called business ethics in this field too. It would be troublesome if you just took away two high-grade Hunters like this.”
Kang Hyeon snorted.
“You should speak properly. I didn’t take them away—they walked in on their own. Maybe you should have done better.”
“What?”
“How bad must the guild have been for them to run away?”
There was a crack as the chair armrest broke under the Jeokwol Guild Master’s hand.
“Does Jeokwol have so little to do that you’re wasting my time with such pointless matters?”
“So will you return them or not? Just say that.”
“I’m the type who doesn’t let go of what’s in my hands. I can’t return them.”
Just then.
Haechan’s watch buzzed with a whirring sound.
Haechan, who had been checking his watch while gauging both guild masters’ reactions, suddenly shot up.
Crash!
As his chair fell backward with a loud noise, Choi Kwon also stood up.
“What, what’s wrong?”
“Ga, Gate…! The Gate grade has ch, changed!”
【The grade of ‘Contaminated Rock-type Gate, Rock Tomb (D-grade)’ is being changed to S-grade.】
At Haechan’s urgent cry, Kang Hyeon immediately checked his watch.
His ash-gray eyes slowly darkened.
Tendons stood out clearly on the back of his hand gripping the watch.
“…Damn.”
With a low curse, Kang Hyeon stood up.
He clearly looked like he was about to head to the Gate.
The Jeokwol Guild Master blocked Kang Hyeon’s path.
“Where are you going? We haven’t finished our conversation yet.”
His tone was strangely relaxed.
As if he had known this would happen.
“I thought something was strange. Jeokwol, who’s been busy following the Vice-Chairman around, suddenly coming to see me.”
Kang Hyeon rubbed his brow.
“But now, of all times. When something goes wrong with the Gate my guild member entered.”
“People might misunderstand if they heard that. That I interfered with the Gate Yun Taegyeom entered.”
“I never mentioned who entered the Gate.”
The Jeokwol Guild Master realized his mistake.
Intoxicated by how smoothly things were going, he had misspoken.
“Jeokwol Guild Master Han Tae-ho.”
Han Tae-ho’s shoulders flinched at his name being called suddenly.
“Move.”
Kang Hyeon, who had spoken with deadly menace, slowly clenched and unclenched his hand.
Red energy rippled from his fingertips, and soon a longsword was summoned into his grip.
The rippling red energy flowed along the blade, heating the indoor air.
Han Tae-ho also gritted his teeth and immediately summoned a massive hammer.
“What, are you going to attack me? Are you going to make Jeokwol your enemy?”
“There’s nothing I can’t do.”
At that moment, Han Tae-ho, who had been glancing at Kang Hyeon’s sword, suddenly reached toward Choi Kwon.
Since there was no way he could beat Seo Ganghyeon in a direct confrontation, he seemed to be trying to take a hostage.
Swoosh—.
But Kang Hyeon’s sword was faster.
As the elegant blade cut through the air, a red line tore through space.
Swooosh.
And Kang Hyeon pushed Haechan and Choi Kwon through the split gap without a moment’s hesitation.
“G-Guild Leader!”
Having sent the two to the safety of Haechi Guild in an instant, Kang Hyeon smoothly readjusted his grip on his sword.
Han Tae-ho’s face became noticeably anxious as he could no longer take hostages.
“W-wait. There seems to be some misunderstanding here. Let’s talk—”
But Han Tae-ho couldn’t even finish his sentence.
Losing his balance from Kang Hyeon’s sword hilt pushing against his shoulder, he suddenly felt his large body being strangely pulled backward.
When the startled Han Tae-ho turned around, another spatial rift cut by Kang Hyeon’s skill was already sucking him in.
What could be seen beyond this newly opened gap was a Gate filled with rocks.
Han Tae-ho’s eyes widened as he realized it was the Gate where he had planted the runaway item.
“Ah, aaaahhh!”
* * *
Meanwhile, Tae-gyeom, who had been looking for a good stone slab to grill meat on, also received a Gate grade readjustment notification on his watch.
Surprised, Tae-gyeom stopped selecting stones and shot up.
“What’s this all of a sudden, a grade readjustment? That’s right, Hana…!”
Tae-gyeom immediately turned around. He thought of Hana, whom he had left alone.
Realizing he had come much farther than expected, Tae-gyeom gritted his teeth and started running.
But.
“Why is there a Golem—”
Before long, Tae-gyeom encountered a corrupted Golem.
Tae-gyeom’s face turned pale as he saw a Golem dozens of times larger than the Dwarf Golem they had defeated earlier.
Facing an S-rank monster alone, instinctive fear washed over him.
Could he, an A-rank, defeat that thing by himself?
Doubt came first, but there was no time to think long.
Tae-gyeom immediately cast his skill.
“If I run away like this, Hana will be in danger. Let me at least try fighting it.”
Rocks floating in the air gathered in a circle around Tae-gyeom.
And simultaneously shot out, striking the giant Golem hard.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
However, even the continuous strikes only managed to leave small scratches on the Golem.
Rather, since the launched rocks stuck directly to the Golem’s body, the more he used his skills, the more he contributed to increasing the Golem’s size.
“Damn it!”
On top of that, the surrounding terrain was moving as if it were part of the Golem’s body.
The ground beneath Tae-gyeom’s feet cracked, and a Rock Column shot up from that spot.
Thud.
Unable to dodge in time, Tae-gyeom was sent flying and crashed into a rock.
His breath was knocked out of him.
Still, Tae-gyeom struggled to get back up.
‘No. I have to protect Yun Hana.’
But as soon as he got up, the Golem’s arm came flying and struck his leg.
Losing his balance, Tae-gyeom collapsed to the ground.
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