chapter 109

Virun tried to get up to approach me but it was impossible to do with the legs that stopped healing.

“Feels like it’s over now.”

“With that?”

“Well. We can’t do anything more to him now.”

Virun’s current position was at the edge of the landmass.

Part of his body was submerged in water. It was because of throwing himself into the water after being hit by Han Joon-suk’s Dragon Killer.

No matter how much he swung his spear from there, it would not be able to reach us.

We just had to kill him by carefreely attacking from a distance.

Han Joon-suk set an arrow on his bow.

“With a frame that large, there’s no need to even aim I suppose.”

The cooldown for Dragon’s Breath was over and burned Virun’s body once more.

Virun twisted and turned as he screamed. He succeeded in putting out the fires on his body but his skin had been burned pitch black. It did not even regenerate anymore.

Arrows continuously flew. The dancing sword diligently aimed at Virun’s eyes while I shot the Needle Gun at him.

He didn’t die easily because his large frame. However after 10 minutes of one sided attacks the Dancing Sword stabbed into the guy’s eye.

[Ahhhh!]

This one seems to have worked properly.

[+600]

As expected, the reward points only amounted to 600. However because I did this and that, the total amount of reward points I earned in this dungeon amounted to about 10k points.

To get 10k points after clearing the dungeon once. If it was like this then it was a large amount that was comparable to the Yellow Sea.

Considering the fact that the number of monsters in the Yellow Sea was going to decrease, there was no doubt that hunting in Red Holes would become our main thing.

“Ex, excuse me…….”

A skinny young man with thin hair approached.

He was one of the two survivors among Song Han-sol’s party. Although they didn’t help at all in the battle, in my opinion that was better. They would have just been a bother after all.

“What is it?”

“Are we able to leave alive now?”

The method of clearing the past dungeons was simple. You just had to kill every single monster inside and leave through the entrance.

However, that was not possible here. There were hundreds of monsters, making it impossible to kill them all.

There was also the existence of the Dungeon Boss. Virun himself had said that it was possible to clear the dungeon if he died so I was thinking that there was another method of leaving the dungeon.

“We will have to wait…….”

Before I could finish my words the landmass started shaking. Soon enough at the place where Virun had been as a statue a round altar rose up.

The altar that rose completely had a radius of 3 meters or so.

In the middle of the altar, there was a small insertion that seemed to be the perfect size for the crimson ruby from before.

“It seems we have to insert the jewel in there.”

Han Joon-suk said.

“Let’s wait until that guy’s corpse disappears.”

Virun’s body completely disappeared after about 10 minutes.

An item indeed dropped from him.

They were white running shoes. It was a common thing that could be seen with 3 lines on the side.

“Eh. Aren’t there adi**s shoes?”

“There’s no way.”

I said so as I inspected it with the manual.

Angel Shoes (6) : You can run in the sky.

It was a simple explanation that clearly showed the item’s characteristic at the same time. I put the shoes in the manual for now.

There were people that weren’t in our party here so it was probably better to talk about the detail at a later time.

I took the crimson ruby that dropped with the item and put it into the insertion on the altar.

With a low frequency wave red energy gushed up from the ground. Soon after a circular exit was created. I opened my mouth.

“You can leave through that.”

“Us first?”

“Should we leave first?”

“N, no. We will leave first.”

Afraid that the exit would close if we were to leave first, they hurriedly threw themselves into the exit. As both of them disappeared, Soo-ah opened her mouth.

“What are those adi**s shoes?”

“I’m telling you it’s not adi**s. They’re Angel Shoes. They allow you to fly in the sky.”

“Really?”

Soo-ah’s eyes widened. This was actually something that was good for anybody. However if we considered effectiveness then it would better for someone other than me to use them.

I am able to move in midair with the Dancing Sword after all.

“I, I want to bid for it as well.”

“What bidding. If we sell every single thing like this with money then the calculations will get all messed up. The good items will be distributed within the party while only the useless things will be changed into cash.”

“Then just give it to me please.”

“Are you the only person here? Han Joon-suk is here as well.”

“Joon-suk, do you need this?”

“Well…… I am a ranged attacker. I don’t necessarily need it. It would be better for a person that can fight in close combat.”

“See. Joon-suk also says that I should use it.”

It actually didn’t matter who used it. If a ranged attacker were to wear these, they would be able to attack freely in the safety of the sky while if a melee attacker were to use them they would be able to attack from various angles without minding gravity.

However, since the person herself wanted it so much it didn’t seem like a bad idea to give it to her.

I was the type that forcefully kept the things I wanted to keep after all.

“Here ya go. Keep it.”

“YES!”

I handed the shoes to her. I felt a bit weird looking at her who was excited like a child. It felt like giving a present to my fully grown eldest daughter.

“Oooh.”

She, who had finished changing her shoes, started slowly floating up.

It seemed like she couldn’t move as she wanted at first, but soon enough she got used to walking in the sky and started flying around here and there.

To be exact, it wasn’t ‘flying’ but ‘running’. It was designed to be able to step on the sky it seems.

If it was something like that then it was better for Soo-ah to use it than Han Joon-suk. It was an item that suited her better as she had exemplary physical abilities.

She who had been jumping around in the sky slowly came down while panting.

“Hah hah. This is pretty tiring.”

“Looks like it. Still looks usable though.”

“It’s a bit different from what I thought though. I wanted to fly prettily like a bird.”

“Seriously no matter what you do…….”

I closed my mouth immediately. I almost misspoke.

Soo-ah talked to me while looking into my eyes.

“No matter what I do what?”

“You’re not pretty no matter what you do so don’t care about something like that.”

“Urg…… I got excited for nothing.”

“What were you expecting?”

“I thought you would say that I was pretty no matter what I did. The nuance seemed to be like that.”

“It seemed like that to me as well.”

Han Joon-suk this guy.

“Right? Didn’t you change your words in the middle?”

“What do I have to earn from you to flatter you like that.”

“It might be your true feelings, not flattery.”

“To say that you know my true feelings better than I do. Are you using some kind of mind reading?”

I could’ve sworn it was like that though, she muttered while slowly looking around.

The monsters that were waiting around the landmass had disappeared at some point. I was wondering what to do with Song Han-sol’s corpse but I decided to wait for it to disappear. The problem would only become bigger if I we were to carry it out.

We kept his broken items as Kelby’s food and turned on the manual’s disappearance function.

After a while an item dropped. According to Edward, monsters called these ‘Artifacts’. Since they were items dropped from dead people so it didn’t seem wrong to call them so.

What dropped was a small glass bottle the size of an index finger. Inside it was some kind of green fluid.

Defense Up Potion (0) : Makes the skin more durable. Permanently increases defense by 10%.

It wasn’t bad but 10% seemed a bit ambiguous. Even just Soo-ah’s buff had an 50% increase. Of course it was convenient that you didn’t have to wear another item.

Even so, there was no one that wanted to eat something dropped from Song Han-sol as a human being.

“Anyone want to eat this.”

After giving a basic explanation on the Defense Up Potion, Soo-ah raised her hand.

“You have a good stomach huh.”

“It wasn’t the item but the person that was the problem.”

“That’s true. What about you Han Joon-suk?”

“Probably best for the person that needs it to use it.”

“Hm. I feel like we’re giving too much to just her. Once I cash in the items from this time’s battle I will send you some extra.”

I was planning on cutting some from Soo-ah’s part and giving it to him. It would only be an estimation but it was possible since the party was small this time around.

If the party became larger then I would have to write a written distribution method.

Gulp.

Soo-ah who received the potion from me emptied the potion.

“Ahhh. The power is overflowing.”

“Don’t overreact. You think something would change with just a 10% increase.”

“I have to 100% increase buff. Since the defense stat rose I should have become a lot tougher. Try hitting me once.”

This girl seems to be mistaking something.

“It’s probably better not to do so.”

“Hmph. You’re just jealous that I might become stronger than senior brother right?”

“Not at all.”

“That’s why here. Try hitting me lightly. As much as you want.”

She put strength into her abs and stood like that. Since she was wearing some leather armor it did seem like she wouldn’t be hurt that much even if I hit her. Since I wasn’t hitting with a weapon but with my bare hands.

“Well, if that’s your wish.”

I lightly hit her in the stomach.

The color drained Soo-ah’s face. I could tell that she was barely enduring the severe pain.

“H, how?”

“Are you an idiot. If you have a brain think about it.”

“Why? If I have the 100% self buff then shouldn’t something like that not hurt?”

“Your ability is multiplicative you know. If it’s 100% of 10% then how much would it be?”

“Hm…… 1,000%?”

I was sure that there would be a bunch of udon noodles if I were to open up her head.

Beside me, Han Joon-suk was trying his best to keep a straight face. I could still see him leaking a few laughs though.

“Wh, why are you laughing so much? Joon-suk?”

“Ahem. Hm. Let me give an example. Let’s say I have 1 apple. But then suddenly the number of apples is increased by 100%. Then how many apples would there be?”

“2 of course.”

“Then what if 10% of the defense increased by 100%?”

“Isn’t it 1,000%? It’s multiplicative no?”

“You didn’t graduate from high school did you? No, this is elementary school level in the first place.”

“Ah seriously. Are you looking down on me just because I’m from an athlete club. Are you really going to be like that senior brother? Even I was around 20th place in our class you know?”

“How many people were there in a class?”

“That’s not what’s important right now is it now.”

It was definitely just a bit over 20.

“An apple become 2 apples so how does 10% become 1000%?”

“Is, is that how it is?”

“It’s 20%. It’s from the base defense stat so it’s hard to say it’s exactly 20% though.”

When trying to calculate it, it was a bit different. It was ambiguous since it was about defense but it was like this when comparing it to running.

If you gave Soo-ah’s 100% buff to a person who could run 100 meters in 20 seconds then it would become 10 seconds.

But if this person ran faster by 10% then the time would be 18 seconds and if the 100% buff was given then it would become 9 seconds. In other words, it became 120%.

So basically Soo-ah’s defense stat buff was at 120% right now. It was calculated differently since the nature of the buffs were different but…… putting it like this it became more confusing.

I was able to understand why she was so confused to some degree.

“Arg. If you knew that you could have hit lighter.”

“I did hit lightly. I thought it wouldn’t hurt that much since you had leather armor on.”

This was the truth. Arachne Leather Armor was a level 3 and at that level, the person wearing it shouldn’t receive that much damage from a human’s bare hand.

“That’s true. How does a barehanded damage penetrate an item?”

“Maybe that armor has used up it’s life span. Let’s change it quickly.”

“I liked it though.”

Soo-ah looked down at her body. The Arachne Leather Armor that tightly covered the entire body only emphasized her good point as she had a western body style and tight muscles.

“But well, since I’m not going to be in a fashion show or anything.”

She still nodded her head after some time.