Chapter 170

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Translated by Jinmu

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We finished off the first clear with an S+++ grade.

As expected of Master Sergeant Be.

LSSR magic gun’s ultimate skill, Sub-light Speed Missile.

It was exactly one shot.

With one shot of the Sub-light Speed Missile that didn’t even have a guided function, she accurately hit the giant Colossus Condor and made it explode.

Of course, there were several conditions that made it possible to do so.

A giant body that was no different from a target, slow speed, a bastard that merely used ice falcons for both attack and defense without any proper defensive means.

It was easy to hit.

And if it just hit, it was the end.

In a word, it meant the Sub-light Speed Missile was a skill optimized for the 84th-floor Colossus Condor.

Right now, it’s in a sealed state.

48 hours must pass to see it again.

The price is extremely expensive too.

The price for 1kg of Top-grade Mana Stone is 2.2 billion won.

2.2 billion won flies away in one shot.

Well, whatever?

A decent missile these days usually costs about that much anyway.

Right now, it’s a repeat clear of the same tower NO.1.

[Entering the 84th floor of the Republic of Korea’s Black Tower (NO.1).]

I should give Rajix a chance.

A chance to make up for his failure, that is.

He almost died himself while dashing out after catching a smell, and the Blood Wolf really died, but…….

Even though I revived it again with the Resurrection Rune.

“While we deal with the Colossus Condor, Gobang, Cossack, Bardin, Gepetto, Diamat, the five of you please protect Rajix-ssi and the Blood Wolf.”

The melee SSRs are purely for the Rajix guarding mission.

Because they have nothing to do here.

The combat members are the 4 LSSRs.

Master Sergeant Be, Gwangma, Mackenzie, Gyeon Dal-rae.

“Just buy time until Rajix-ssi works sufficiently.”

We don’t have to kill it.

Since it’s a repeat clear.

“Master Sergeant Veronica Caliber! Commencing lure operation.”

Aerial battleship giant monster Colossus Condor.

And the ice falcons circling around it.

The currently usable bullets are small missiles.

Because of the Sub-light Speed Missile ultimate skill, large missiles that strain the magic gun are also sealed for 48 hours.

Even if it’s only small missiles, the power is not the same as before.

Small missiles with the magic power of High-Grade mana stones applied as is.

‘Haa, the High-Grade mana stones are a waste.’

But what can I do?

I just have to expect Rajix to bring in a harvest greater than this.

Dung-dung, du-du-du-dung!

Chae-chaeng! Chaeng-chae-jae-jaeng!

The sound of drums and gongs echoing on the battlefield.

As Gyeon Dal-rae’s buff was conveyed to the summoned entities.

“Selector lever set to auto! Commencing fire!”

Pa-juk, pa-ju-juk, pa-ju-ju-ju…….

Magic gun small missiles were shot towards the Colossus Condor’s subordinate ice falcons.

Simultaneously.

Seu-ung! Mackenzie’s protective shield protecting Joo-hyuk and Gyeon Dal-rae.

Gwangma’s crescent moon sword-ki formations smashed the falling ice falcons.

Mackenzie’s fire magic also embroidered the sky.

We drew its attention to one side.

This much is enough.

“Ho-e-e-aek!”

Rajix, who climbed onto the Blood Wolf’s back.

As he pointed the golden pickaxe.

Hwi-rit! Ta-da-da-dat!

The Blood Wolf bounded out at a very fast speed.

The bodyguards ran along too.

*

A faint smell of magic power was detected on Rajix’s blunt nose.

Mixed in the raging blizzard.

‘Ho-e.’

Rajix ran following the smell while changing directions several times.

Next to him, the comrades following to protect him.

“Is farmhand Rajix going properly, sir?”

“Hoo-aek!”

“Understood, sir. I will shut up, sir.”

They ran for a long time.

They came quite far.

It wasn’t a comfortable path either.

Feet sinking in puk-puk, a ferocious blizzard.

Seu-pa-pa-pat!

Cossack with Shadow Step.

Diamat flying with wings, and Gepetto turning into a bat.

Since giant-ified Gobang’s stride is so large, just walking seong-keum-seong-keum wasn’t a problem at all to keep up.

Though heavy-armored Holy Knight Bardin, who had no particular movement skill, was the problem.

“Come, Bardin!”

“Let there be light!!!”

Doesn’t matter.

Since Gobang can just carry him.

Hwi-rit!

Holy Knight Human Holy Sword Bardin, who leaped pul-jjeok and equipped himself into Gobang’s hand.

Hwi-i-it! Hwi-i-i-i-i-it!

The blizzard getting increasingly fierce.

However, Rajix was in a state of super focus.

Tenacity to definitely pull off a big one no matter what.

And.

“Hoo-e-e.”

At Rajix’s hand gesture, the Blood Wolf stopped running.

A giant ice wall was blocking their front.

“Euing? Isn’t it a dead end, sir?”

“It is a cliff.”

“…Do we perhaps have to climb up?”

An ice barrier of tremendous height.

It stretched out jjuk consecutively, making it unknown where its end was.

Chak!

Rajix coming down from the Blood Wolf’s back.

De-gu-reu-reu.

Rolling close towards the wall.

Keung-keung-keung-keung.

Sniffing the smell once.

De-gu-reu-reu.

Rolling again and sniffing keung-keung.

De-gul-de-gul.

Rolling continually along the ice barrier.

“Ho-e?”

Rajix, who sat down bending one knee, stretched his short arm straight up and shouted.

“Ho-e-aek!!! Here…….”

The summoned entities flocking over u-reu-reu.

“Are you telling us to break this place, sir?”

“Ho-e, yees.”

“It seems there is something behind here.”

“Understood. Will break it quickly.”

Giant-ified Gobang lifted up Human Holy Sword Bardin.

“Let there be light!!!”

Hwi-rit!

Kwa-ak!

“Let there be light!!!”

Kwak! Kwak! Kwa-jik, kwak-kwak! Kwa-ji-jik, kwak-kwak-kwak!

The ice chunks breaking off.

Rajix lifted his pickaxe too.

Kwa-jik! Kwak-kwak-kwak-kwak-kwak!

Ji-ing!

Aura Master Cossack also utilized sword-ki to cut out the ice wall.

Seo-geo-geok, seo-geok! Seo-geo-geok!

The ice chunks that fell off quickly piled up su-buk-ha-ge.

At that moment!

Peok!

A small hole that appeared with a ppong! on the ice wall.

“Heok!”

“Oh!”

“Ah!”

“So it was this.”

Rajix smiling broadly with his mouth open.

The pickaxe swings became increasingly faster.

Finally.

Kwa-jik! Peok!

The cave entrance revealed its appearance.

Simultaneously, the scent of magic power wafting out strongly to the point of making them dizzy.

“It is a cave, sir. Treasures are always hidden in a cave, sir. This is a cliché, sir.”

After widening the entrance a bit more.

Rajix and the party went inside.

Just what could be there?

The question was quickly resolved.

They could tell as soon as they entered.

Normally caves are dark.

Because light doesn’t enter.

However, the ice wall cave on the 84th floor wasn’t like that.

It was very bright.

As if lighting had originally been installed from the start.

The true nature of this lighting?

The enormous amount of mana stones densely embedded in every wall surface.

“…Wamma!”

“My goodness!”

“Oh my?”

“Light is… Heu-eum.”

“Ho-eng!”

“Keong-keong!”

They aren’t just mana stones.

Every single one of them High-Grade.

Of a deep, deep, dense magic power.

It was worthy of dashing out for.

How could he stay still after catching this kind of smell?

“Farmhand Rajix!”

“Ho-eng?”

“Even so, this is too much, sir. If you hit a jackpot on every single floor, what do we eat to live, sir?”

Cossack yelled in a burst of anger and protested to Rajix.

“I, huh? Also deal with the gnats clinging to Player Bong-nim, huh? Eliminating risk factors in advance too, huh? Doing my role as the vanguard of unification as the People’s Armed Forces Minister too, huh? Ma! I’ve done it all, sir.”

“Ho-e?”

“But what is the point of doing that, sir? Getting completely cast aside by one ultra-counter strong punch from our farmhand.”

Compliment mixed with complaints from Cossack.

Gobang and Bardin too.

“Indeed a Universe’s Great Farmhand. The warrior always respects you.”

“Hoo-e-e-e.”

“I am relentlessly envious. Duke Rajix, I am merely in a position of illuminating light like an LED bulb.”

“Ho-et!”

Gepetto and Diamat too.

“I am envious. Senior-nim.”

“Ho-e!”

“Eueung, Great Farmhand-nim, please share just one piece of merit with me too. Let’s live together. I’ll make you have good dreams.”

“Hoo-eng?”

Everyone was envious.

Rajix with a satisfied smile.

Shall I slowly start?

The smell was spouting from deep inside that cave.

It is a cave of quite a large scale.

Even roughly calculating the estimated High-Grade mana stone reserves, it’s at least in the tens of thousands of tons unit.

Is there only tower NO.1?

If tower NO.2 is combined, we can lay off our worries about High-Grade mana stones now.

And.

‘Ho-he-he-he-he-he.’

Something unusual enters his eyes too.

Something really thick, that is.

Kwa-ak!

Rajix’s golden pickaxe struck the cave wall.

Deol-keok, the High-Grade mana stone coming out caught on the end of the pickaxe.

From now on, it is harvesting time.

*

The goal of the 84th-floor repeat clear.

Buying time as much as possible for Rajix’s exploration operation.

It isn’t difficult.

First of all, that damn aerial battleship giant avian bird bastard doesn’t come down to the ground.

We just have to deal with the ice falcons that stick their heads down and bombard.

Well, the number was enormously large, so there was no end no matter how many we killed.

Has it been about 3 hours?

Just where are this many ice falcons coming from?

“Euhyu, I’m dying of exhaustion.”

Of course, there is no work I’m doing.

I just have to sit warmly in Mackenzie’s protective shield, with the heat of the Fire Heater he lit up.

It’s just boring, that’s all.

Rajix, who left to perform his mission after catching the smell, has no set time of return.

Hold on, shall we try killing that thing at this opportunity?

Come to think of it, it’s not like we strictly need Master Sergeant Be’s Sub-light Speed Missile.

“Magician Mackenzie-nim.”

“Please speak. Summoner.”

“Is it perhaps possible to summon a meteor? I want to try it out if it can be dropped.”

“Of course it’s possible.”

Euing?

It’s possible?

Mackenzie replying with a proud smile to Joo-hyuk’s question.

“I will explain it to you first.”

Pa-bat!

An image floating above Mackenzie’s head.

It was the image of space, a galaxy.

“It is not the real space. The space of visualization, a virtual space created within my consciousness.”

Oh-oh-oh!

To think he reproduces space in his visualization.

A 9-circle is definitely a 9-circle.

“Creating a meteor in the space of visualization is phase 1, taking about 1 hour of time. It takes others more than 2 hours, but I am somewhat exceptionally talented so.”

“Aiy, you look like it just from glancing at you. Ha-ha-ha-ha.”

“Ha-ha-ha-ha, anyway phase 1 is the most important. Only when this is done can one move on to phase 2.”

His explanation is so kind too.

“Phase 2 is summoning the meteor from the visualization space into the sky of reality. It requires an enormous amount of magic power.”

“Does it work in the tower sky too?”

“Of course it does. However, I cannot make it appear all at once, and must continuously inject magic power until it forms sufficient substance.”

“How much time?”

“Phase 2 is also about 1 hour.”

Hmm.

Phase 1 also 1 hour, phase 2 also 1 hour.

Just the two phases sum up to 2 hours.

“Tsk, it takes longer than I thought. With a nuclear bomb, you just install it and press a button, and it’s over.”

At Joo-hyuk’s tone with slightly dropped tension, Mackenzie was flustered.

“Eoeum, th, still, it’s an eco-friendly meteor without radiation so.”

“Nuclear bombs have also exploded inside the tower. That is also eco-friendly when you get right down to it.”

“…However, a meteor can be summoned ceaselessly as long as there is magic power.”

“Producing nuclear bombs also has no limits, and just the ones currently on Earth is massive.”

“…….”

Mackenzie, who became awkward.

“Anyway, what’s after that?”

“Phase 3 is specifying the coordinates and striking it down. Although this is fast… the problem is safety.”

Safety.

That’s right.

A meteor falls, so do only monsters die?

Everyone fucking dies.

“A protective shield is nowhere near enough. Unless we dig a bomb shelter into the ground and enter it. Even then, it would be dangerous.”

Hmm.

A meteor summon magic that’s unreasonable to use.

It takes a lot of time, and there’s the safety issue too.

Joo-hyuk with a slightly disappointed expression.

‘Ey, meteor summon isn’t a big deal either.’

Rather a nuclear bomb would be better.

Although I can’t use them because restrictions got put on it.

Meanwhile, Mackenzie’s mouth went completely dry.

Meteor summon failed to appeal.

Seems it didn’t give much of an impression to the Summoner.

Can tell immediately just looking at his disappointed expression right now.

‘What do I do? It is a big problem if it is like this.’

Random summon slowly approaching.

The summoned entities will increase by one more too.

Then the current state is precarious.

Especially since Master Sergeant Be broke through to the LSSR grade, the reason to bother bringing and using him has disappeared.

Honestly, he was surprised to the point of passing out.

A Sub-light Speed Missile.

‘No, making a 84th-floor giant monster explode in one shot?’

An instant death skill of one-hit sure kill.

He himself couldn’t even imitate it.

Wasn’t I called for the repeat clear?

He just needs to buy time.

There is no need for a magician.

Old man Gwangma and the fairy, those two are enough.

What about bracelet enchanting?

Isn’t there a disciple.

He’s improved a lot lately, so the defect rate is almost zero.

‘I might lose my position.’

Took in a disciple for nothing.

Taught him for convenience, but it’s like shooting himself in the foot.

Actually, the enchant business has a problem too.

The gaze with which the Summoner looks at him lately hasn’t been very good.

The Escape Obesity Bracelet enchant business started ambitiously.

He thought he would be happy, but it was just like that at first; now it was the opposite.

The Summoner’s complaint.

The reason being that he only works and has no time to play because of this.

‘Might I get expelled like before again?’

Of course, he can just wait on the 17th floor of the White Tower.

Because he won’t be returning to the world of souls.

However, this is a matter of pride.

Failing to get a job, degenerating into a jobless old man in a back room, he might be forgotten from the Summoner’s memory.

I must find a method.

I must firmly make the Summoner recognize my necessity.

‘Damn it! Is there no other business that will please the Summoner?’

Pushed back by Master Sergeant Be in the ranged class, crushed by Rajix in making money, and the enchant business is on the verge of degenerating into a nuisance.

At that moment!

Peong-peong-peong-peong!

Signal flares bursting in that distant sky.

Meaning the operation has wrapped up.

Let’s go home now.

Starting from the summoned entities who are far away first.

Rajix, Blood Wolf, Gobang, Cossack, Bardin, Gepetto, Diamat, bulk unsummon.

After doing that.

“Let’s go too.”

“Master Sergeant Veronica Caliber, preparation to retreat complete!”

“I shall comply.”

“Heo-heo-heo, this being work too, I am tired. Let us go out and have a drink.”

Going to a safe zone.

“Give up mission.”

[You have declared to give up the mission.]

[You have failed the mission.]

[Exiting the Republic of Korea’s Black Tower (NO.1).]

Spot!

*

White Tower 17th floor.

Time for the 84th-floor clear settlement.

Director Jeon Gwang-il and CEO Jeong Dong-hoon happened to be here too.

“Congratulations. Player Bong-nim, I heard the world announcement.”

“Me too. Congratulations.”

“Thank you.”

Jeon Gwang-il asking as if curious.

“By the way, the 84th floor is…….”

“Called the Giant Bird Frozen Colossus Condor, it is an aerial-type giant monster. I’ll take a video and show you later.”

“Heok! F, flier?”

“That’s right, it’s a flying monster. Even just now I thought I would die wrestling with that bastard for 3 hours.”

“Is it th, that hard? If even Player Bong-nim says 3 hours…….”

“Ah! The repeat clear was 3 hours. The first clear took less than 3 minutes.”

“…Yes?”

What does this mean?

3 minutes?

“I had something to look for in the repeat clear so… let’s check it together.”

“Euhm. Yes yes.”

Joo-hyuk smiled a pleased smile at Rajix and asked.

“Rajix-ssi, was there any yield?”

“Ho-ep!”

“Oh! What is it?”

Rajix showing through actions.

Seu-seut, seu-seu-seu-seu-seut, seu-seu-seut.

High-Grade mana stones starting to pile up on the 17th-floor ground.

“Wa-a-a-ah!”

“What is this!”

A vein.

He must definitely have found a vein.

Or else there’s no way he could have mined this much.

‘Might attain 1,000 tons in no time.’

However, Cossack speaking next to him in a tone suggesting it’s ridiculous.

“Player Bong-nim, are you surprised with just this much, sir? Your liver has become very weak, sir. Ehyu, what food is good for the liver?”

What?

There’s more?

Cossack smiled fishily and said.

“Universe’s Great Farmhand.”

“Ho-eng?”

“Please show him, sir. Our Player Bong-nim might drool, so prepare to wipe it for him.”

“Ho-et!”

Gulp.

Swallowing saliva once since he might really drool.

Seu-seut!

Rajix took out an object.

“Uh…….”

This also looked like a mana stone.

The amount wasn’t much.

About the amount that would fit in a plastic mart shopping basket.

But that color?

Could this possibly be.

“Top-grade, sir. It is a natural Top-grade, sir. It is not farmed Top-grade, sir. It is precious, sir.”

Heol!

Oh my god.

So topmost-grades were also discovered in a natural state?

Heu-reu-reup!

Swallowing the drool flowing down, he grabbed one chunk and observed it… it’s definitively topmost-grade.

Although the amount is small, it should easily exceed at least 30kg.

‘I won’t have to worry about replacing Master Sergeant Be’s Sub-light Speed Missiles.’

Permanent occupancy right too.

Our Mari-ssi won’t have to do transmutation work either.

I’m going crazy.

I now know the reason why our universe’s great farmhand dashed out as soon as he caught a smell.

‘The thick smell was the scent of Top-grade, huh.’

How do you endure this?

Wa-rak! Giving him a hug.

“Aiy! Our Universe’s Great Farmhand!”

“Ho-eng-eng.”

Even if I attach 2 badges, no, 3 or more badges, it’s sufficient.

So I was going to take out Platinum Badges from my inventory, but.

‘No.’

If I attach them now, he might go up to the top of the landmark saying he’s going to break through his grade.

Then it takes at least a week or more but.

How can I not see Rajix’s face for a week?

Let’s send him slowly, slowly.

Together doing 84th-floor repeat clears too, clearing the 85th floor too.

Is tower NO.1 the only tower? Have to clear tower NO.2 too.

After doing that, until the random summon a week later.

I’ll have a welcome party for the new summoned entity and send Rajix to his breakthrough.