Chapter 44 – A-Class Mold Eradicator

If only she could have used at least the weapons in Kang Jin-hyun’s inventory!

‘My inventory is completely empty!’

Except for the A-class mold eradication liquid, Hee-na’s inventory window was completely empty!

…At that moment, a brilliant idea flashed in Hee-na’s mind.

‘Mold eradication liquid!’

That was it. Hee-na had the mold eradication liquid. Hee-na recalled some knowledge she had overheard somewhere.

‘They said mushrooms are also a type of mold.’

If so, the mold eradication liquid might work on that swarm of mushroom spores as well.

Besides, this was a B-class dungeon. Since the mold eradication liquid was A-class, a higher rank, she could only hope it would have some effect either way.

“I don’t know anymore! It’s do or die!”

Hee-na retrieved the A-class mold eradication liquid from her inventory window.

At the same time, a dark shadow fell over her head. It was a massive palm made of clustered spores.

“Please, Luck stat, work hard!”

Hee-na sprayed the mold eradication liquid into the air, hoping her Luck stat, which had now risen to 65, would be effective.

Chiiiiiik!

Along with a pungent odor, the mold eradication liquid spread between the densely packed spores.

And then, an amazing thing happened.

“It worked! It worked!”

Hee-na let out a cheer of joy.

The parts touched by the spray melted away like snow and vanished.

Chik, chiik! Chiiiiiik!

Gaining courage and confidence, Hee-na began to spray the mold eradication liquid in all directions. The smell was a bit pungent, but it was fine since at least she would not die.

“I’m saved, I’m saved!”

The black swarm of spores had almost completely melted away before she knew it. Although the mushrooms kept emitting spores, their human-wave tactics stood no chance against the tremendous efficacy of the A-class mold eradication liquid.

Spraying the nozzle with a *chik-chik*, Hee-na stumbled toward the giant king mushroom. She did not forget to drag Kang Jin-hyun along to take care of him.

For the record, the sleeping bag wrapping him was perfectly intact without a single tear despite being dragged here and there. It was indeed worthy of an A-class sleeping bag.

‘They said that if you defeat the boss monster, the gate will open…’

Hee-na mercilessly began to spray the mold eradication liquid on the giant mushroom, which was as thick as a massive tree.

Since the mushroom was so huge, it felt like throwing eggs at a rock, but Hee-na wanted to thoroughly kill and eliminate this thing.

“Die, you bastard!”

How long had she been spraying?

Finally, the king mushroom began to crumble.

Pshshshshsh…

Emitting the sound of a deflating balloon, the king mushroom melted down from its base.

At that, the small mushrooms around it also collapsed and began to wither. This was because the mushrooms’ roots were connected, making them no different from a single body.

It was then that a system notification popped up.

‘This piece of junk is triple-S rank?’

Hee-na let out a hollow laugh, dumbfounded.

No matter how ignorant Hee-na was of the Awakened world, she at least knew some common knowledge.

There were only five SSS-class items in the entire world. At least, that was what was officially known.

And now, the sixth SSS-class item had revealed itself before Hee-na.

In the very shape of a newspaper!

“There is nothing good about it except its grade!”

Hee-na bent down and picked up the bundle of newspaper. At that, the system popped up a congratulatory notification window.

She could not tell if it was congratulating her or teasing her. She thought this every time, but the system notification window was strangely obnoxious.

“What on earth am I supposed to use this for?”

Unable to contain her rage, Hee-na grabbed the bundle of newspaper and shook it vigorously.

‘This luck of mine! Is it good or bad?’

Thinking of it as grabbing the system by the collar, strength welled up in her naturally.

“Anyway, since it’s SSS-class…”

Although it was an embarrassing item to talk about to anyone, it was still SSS-class. Furthermore, thinking that she could at least sell it as scrap paper when she ran out of money in the future calmed her heart down just a tiny bit.

As she trudged back toward Kang Jin-hyun after picking up the magic stone and the Epic Reward, her foot caught on something hard.

“My goodness!”

Because her legs were weak from the chase with the mushroom spores, Hee-na tripped and fell right on the spot. Her palms were scraped and her knees hurt.

Because she had consumed a lot of energy facing the monster, her stomach growled with hunger thanks to the activation of the ‘Strength from Food’ skill. For some reason, Hee-na felt a bit sorrowful about her current state.

“Geez. Am I cursed today or something?”

Hee-na intentionally grumbled in a loud voice and dusted off her hands.

Glancing at the spot where she had fallen, something was half-buried there. Judging by the color and shape, it did not seem to be a stone.

She got an unusual feeling. Her Luck stat of 65 whispered in her ear to check it out.

“What is this again?”

As she narrowed her eyes and groped it with her fingers, surprisingly, a status window popped up. It was an item.

“A seed?”

Digging it out of the ground with her hands, a dark brown seed in the shape of a convex tetrahedron came out. In fact, it was a bit too large to be called a seed. It was about the size of a ripe tangerine.

‘What should I do? It says unidentified, so should I throw it away?’

Hee-na hesitated for a moment as she was about to throw away what was in her hand. Her older brother came to mind.

‘Couldn’t Oppa sprout this? He has the Farmer class.’

Hee-won had been feeling proud lately while tending to a small vegetable garden. He would probably find it quite interesting to sprout and grow this seed.

Besides, rather than letting him suddenly regain his senses and wander outside to make money again, it was much better to get him interested in growing an unidentified seed.

“At worst, what could come out other than inedible grass?”

Hee-na put the seed into her inventory.

It would not be bad to have something to brag to her brother about, saying, ‘I picked this up from a dungeon.’

‘Come to think of it, has the seed that appeared after using the Piece of Space last time still not sprouted?’

The Homemaker of the Dungeon