Chapter 104
Chapter 21 Grave Robber (4)
It felt like being beaten by a shapeless sound.
What does that mean?
This was not the sound of a dozen or even dozens of monsters.
‘Isn’t this at least a hundred units?’
A monstrous monster is approaching.
Perhaps thanks to his experience, the amazing scene was vividly drawn.
Yang Tae-ho, who was pale and tired of the sudden situation, became busier.
In a fleeting moment, a thousand thoughts tangled up.
Is it right to leave that man here alone like this?
‘No matter how strong the tongue.’
It was impossible to deal with that many monsters alone.
‘Aren’t you supposed to help?’
Of course, Yang Tae-ho had no obligation to help the man.
Didn’t the man also tell you to leave quickly with his own mouth?
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Judging from what I said about hunting, there is a high probability that I was in this situation myself.
So, you just have to think about your safety and leave without feeling guilty.
I’m sure my head thinks so, but why can’t I take my feet off and hesitate?
“Okay.”
Did he even read the hesitation in Yang Tae-ho’s mind?
The man who was watching the direction the ground was shaking turned to Tae-ho.
“why.”
Then, pick, and smile lightly and say.
“You want to help?”
Not only the man’s facial expression, but also his voice, hand gestures, and even his posture were perfectly calm.
It contrasted with the dark shadows that began to appear over his shoulder.
The monsters running towards them ready to devour them at any moment, and the calm man who seems to have gone out for a walk even after leaving them behind.
Have I been infected by that ridiculous gap?
Even though it was obviously an urgent situation, Yang Tae-ho’s heart calmed down.
So I was able to turn my toe and ask.
“Do you need help with your tongue?”
Tae-ho Tae-ho, who had been leaning toward the southeast as if he would leave this place at any moment, was facing the man before he knew it.
As if to say that they are ready to help at any time.
“Not much.”
However, the man shook his head without hesitation at Yang Tae-ho’s question.
After that, he even stood upright against the monsters again.
It felt like I was drawing the line that I really didn’t need the help of others.
I was a little frustrated with him. I wonder if I went out for nothing.
It must be a kind of selfish self-satisfaction to forcefully provide help to those who do not need it.
Yang Tae-ho tried to leave without any further regrets.
“what… … .”
But the words mixed with a strange laugh caught him.
“If you help me, it might end sooner.”
Yang Tae-ho grabbed his shield straight away as if he had waited for those words.
“Whoa.”
It was a very strange thing.
Obviously, there are so many monsters that it is hard to see at a glance behind the man.
Although there was tension, there was no sense of danger.
It felt like I was unfolding a story that I knew the ending to.
At that time, Yang Tae-ho was trying to understand this strange situation.
“First, let’s look at the proper skills.”
The man holding the spear pointed at the monsters and said.
There was no need to ask what he meant.
The man nodded his chin in the direction of the monster, as if asking him to try it if he wanted to.
‘Are you going to judge?’
It was an attitude that was not only arrogant but also arrogant.
Though I felt a bit hurt in my pride to think that a young guy I had never seen before would evaluate me.
For some reason, Yang Tae-ho felt that this was an opportunity without even realizing it.
It might be more accurate to describe it as an intuition rather than a thought.
Well, the reason won’t matter now.
‘It’s too ambiguous to step out anyway.’
Fortunately, thanks to doping with potions in a hurry, the mana to implement defense magic was restored.
Yang Tae-ho clicked his tongue and moved on.
Passing by the man and facing the monsters, he immediately squeezed elemental magic.
“Huh!”
Magic that requires rock-type attribute magic, building a barrier.
Players belonging to Temoria can learn one magic sold in the store for free as a bronze buff.
‘It’s magic that I learned as soon as I acquired the attribute!’
After arranging the mana according to the blueprint injected into his head, rocks began to rise jagged from where Yang Tae-ho was standing.
‘I have to spread it widely so that there are many monsters!’
Even while covering a wide range, it is densely packed so that there are no gaps between rocks.
Hard so that it won’t collapse or be pushed in future collisions.
‘Shouldn’t you be qualified to be called a tanker somewhere if you know how to do all three?’
Yang Tae-ho gritted his teeth and scraped up to the last remaining mana and used it to implement magic.
Rocks several meters in diameter continued to stretch out on either side, just like the wings of a bird.
It looked like a scaled-down giant barrier.
It is a rock of irregular shape and size, but several meters thick.
The monsters running from the front could not penetrate the stone wall and collided intact.
After that, even the gigantic evolutionary species entered the wall built by Yang Tae-ho one after another.
“Ugh… … ?”
At that moment, Yang Tae-ho raised his head with a stupid sound without even realizing it.
Five fireballs the size of a human torso were passing over his head.
Koo Kwang Kwang!
Eventually, with an unreal explosion, huge flames bloomed beyond the wall.
Fascinated by the sight, I stood there blankly, then a man who took a stance behind Yang Tae-ho threw three black daggers that were slung around his back one after another.
Kkuck, Kkack!
There was the sound of something breaking and crushing.
It didn’t end there. This time, instead of a fireball, the man climbed over the barrier made by Yang Tae-ho himself.
And it fell between two evolutionary species that were alive even in the blazing flames.
“I-I… … !”
In a dangerous situation, Yang Tae-ho sighed urgently.
Of course, I was worried for nothing. Because the man avoided the blows of the evolutionary species that followed with a single leap.
It wasn’t just avoiding it.
He squeezed the arm of the Evolutionary Species, stepped on it, and threw out the spear.
It was so fast that it left an afterimage for a moment.
Each time, a blue light flashed, followed by the evolutionary species’ painful screams.
What is even more surprising is that each time the man swung and threw his spear, the body of the evolutionary species was torn or shredded.
He was trampling on the evolutionary species that the 5-person party was barely able to catch by taking away his stamina and increasing his injuries with a critical hit.
“Wow… … .”
If you want to stand on the ground, jump up into the sky and point your spear at the evolutionary species.
If you thought you were standing on top of the evolutionary species, before you knew it, you pierced the evolutionary species’ head and leaped toward the next one.
I could tell that he was watching the man’s movements, which he couldn’t even follow with his eyes.
That was not a move that a player of the same rank could show.
‘Silver.’
As soon as Yang Tae-ho realized that fact, the man who was dealing with the evolutionary species lightly came down to the ground.
All that was left where he stood was the scorched earth, the crackling embers of the fire, and a pile of corpses spitting acrid smoke.
Among them, the huge corpse of Yang Tae-ho with a dagger stuck in his head caught my eye.
In addition to the two evolutionary species that the man personally hunted, there were as many as three dead evolutionary species with black spears inserted between the eyes or between the eyebrows.
It wasn’t a coincidence or luck. That player could kill the evolutionary species in one hit.
‘Those guys have very hard bones… … .’
The level of knowing how to do aggregation is only at the level of being able to cut bones.
However, that man pierced the skin and bones with a single javelin, annihilating the evolutionary species.
It was a sight to understand the confidence of the man who said he didn’t need help.
It was when I was looking at it in my mind, wondering how this could be possible.
The man who landed on the ground looked around and murmured.
“Anyway, the little puppies are annoying.”
He held out his hand as if showing off, and immediately after that, dust rose, and the ground rose up jagged.
At that time, the agony of the monsters pierced by the pile of wood was heard.
Perhaps there was a monster that wasn’t dead.
“What, what… … .”
Yang Tae-ho, who witnessed the whole scene, muttered involuntarily.
I was just surprised. In the battle just now, the man used as many as three elements.
I thought I was using wind-type magic, but suddenly I used fire-type magic, and in addition to that, I also dealt with the earth element.
‘Are you overlapping? 3 stacks too?’
Around the time Yang Tae-ho, seeing the triple-layer element for the first time, swallowed his saliva, the man who had finished hunting looked back at him.
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‘I was thinking of just sending it if the liver is small.’
Even when I saw the monsters I hadn’t seen, I went out to help instead of running away.
Seeing him stay and try to help me, it seemed like he was of a different race than those who jumped out first.
‘Maybe it’s not a vessel to be stabbed in the back.’
I looked back at the tanker with a blank expression and said.
“What should I call you?”
When I directly asked him to make a full statement, the man came to his senses in amazement.
Then he opened his mouth in haste.
“Hey, Yang Tae-ho… … Huh!”
Didn’t you mean to mention your real name?
Tae-ho hurriedly covered his mouth with both hands.
It was to the point of feeling sorry for him as he rolled his eyes as if he was anxious.
It may be a mistake on the other side, but it wasn’t bad for me.
Knowing the real name also meant being able to investigate behind the scenes.
‘I don’t intend to go that far right now.’
The reason I saved Yang Tae-ho a moment ago is because he has rock-type magic.
In a situation where he had to enter the underground, he was the holder of the earth and rock-type magical powers.
It was a condition that would not hurt to take it to prepare for an unexpected burial situation.
It was just there. I had no intention of getting involved with Yang Tae-ho beyond that.
‘But just in case.’
I decided to remember the real name.
Thanks to the dialect, I also got the information that I am from Honam, so I can refer to it if I do a background investigation.
Even as I carved Yang Tae-ho’s information into my head, I didn’t think it was a big deal.
“What’s your code name?”
Eventually, Yang Tae-ho, who calmed down his embarrassment, opened his status window.
The code name that appeared there was Pudding.
It was a code name with an unexpected charm that made you see Yang Tae-ho’s appearance.
‘A body like a judo or wrestler, codenamed Pudding…’ … .’
It seems that he really likes sweets, so he decided to ignore it.
I had no intention of calling him by his code name anyway.
‘Pudin-sama and Pudding-san, they’re all weird.’
As a result, I decided to omit Tae-ho’s title, so I asked.
“Are you running as a mercenary?”
It’s not solo play, nor is it a specific party.
Instead, they called mercenaries those who filled a specific position in various parties and received distribution of loot.
It was a term already settled in the community.
“That, Graze.”
When asked to confirm, as expected, Yang Tae-ho nodded obediently.
It was something I had already guessed, so there was nothing new about it.
Because the party he was with abandoned him too easily.
‘If we have a sense of solidarity, we can’t stand out together like that.’
Some of the members must have hesitated.
But none of the four who ran away looked back.
So, I was sure that Yang Tae-ho was a mercenary.
“The original party seems to have been broken… … .”
Thanks to that, I had no hesitation in making the offer.
“It’s a one or two day trip. Would you like to accompany me?”
Yang Tae-ho opened his eyes wide as if he hadn’t expected it at all.
Perhaps he was speechless in surprise, even meaninglessly opening his mouth.
Instead of waiting for him to gather his mind, I decided to hasten the answer.
“I’ll give you 30 percent of the loot.”
On average, players who play as mercenaries receive 10-15% of the loot earned in the battle.
So I asked for a bigger amount so that I wouldn’t have the thought of refusing it at all.
“This can be counted as an advance payment.”
And he threw a gold coin from the old kingdom of Kairot that he had picked up on the way.
Yang Tae-ho, who hastily snatched it up, glanced over my shoulder to confirm.
His silence didn’t last long.
“… … call.”
That’s how I got an unexpected companion.