134 – Wriggling Wooden Box
At the site, there was a confrontation between three teams, centered on a mysterious wooden box in the middle of the vacant lot.
Flinch, flinch-
Animated wooden box… Or is there something else inside the box?
‘Hey… What is this…’
[Stealth]
I went straight into stealth, gave a signal to Yeon-hee, and turned wide to the right to get around them.
‘I guess I’m lucky… Now that I know what a box is, let’s find out what those humans are thinking.’
There were three groups of four people at the place I approached.
It was a party mainly composed of middle-aged people with a fairly old age, a party composed only of wizards, and the last one was a party of Ilseom Guild members who bullied Baek Ah-rin.
On the way to them, there were two giant trees that are hard to see in this dungeon. One was cut down as if it had been cut with a ruler and fell, and the other was shattered and burned.
‘It looks like each party used one of their main skills… Didn’t anyone get hurt?’
A fallen giant tree, a wooden box the size of a refrigerator placed in the center, and three opposing parties. Combining these three things made the cause of the roar we heard clear.
‘It was a competition over that box. It’s a much more interesting situation than expected?’
In addition to the party in confrontation, there were about 50 other hunters around the outskirts, but they were more like onlookers who came to watch the fire in the burning house.
But they are hyenas disguised as onlookers who can strike back at any time.
Our party members also moved cautiously and could be seen from a distance as they permeated the herd of hyenas.
As Yeon-hee and the summoned beasts approached, I could see the hunters, who had been observing with their arms crossed, backed away little by little. It seems that he felt a sense of intimidation when he came with his summons.
As our party joined the procession of spectators, the Ilseom guild members glanced around to check, revealing unbearable displeasure.
– Let’s finish it quickly, damn it… It’s embarrassing.
– Who hesitated? Do you collect what you went out because there were people watching? Sick real.
– Then kill? If it leaks out even a little bit, return to ‘Hyeonsan’ and excommunicate the instructor! You’re a broken-headed bastard
– Hey~ Seniors… Isn’t it bad to see Baek Ah-rin watching that b*tch?… Can’t we just go?
– What are you going to do? It’s over when you replay it all.
The short-haired woman who had been holding Arin made a small fuss and tried to hold the arms of the two men, but the two men were already firmly seated in the box.
The people in the confrontation over the box complained that they were getting anxious.
“Damn it, they’re flocking like dogs, right?”
“You said let’s decide right away!!”
“The decision is ours, where to spoon?”
“It’s just because we’re going to have a clean one-on-one.”
“f*ck the f*ck. Sibeol. We were the first to find it. Don’t f*ck with it!”
“I don’t know, just play a round. f*ck.”
“The Ilseom Guild were totally bullsh*t, right?”
“No, ladies and gentlemen. Do you have any proof that you guys saw it first? If so, did we see it first? I can see up to 500m. Shall we try it?”
“Patience.”
Perhaps it was because they had already run into each other once, and basically harsh words came out. Of course, as a spectator, I wished for a tougher fight. Watching a fight is fun even if you die.
Sug-
I turned my head to the wooden box they wanted so much. Inside the box, I felt a strange sensation arousing me.
‘I guess it was because of that… I had a strange feeling from the beginning… It’s definitely the first time I’ve seen it in person in my whole life.’
I could touch it without people noticing, but I didn’t feel impatient because I had heard the story.
It wasn’t important to touch it first anyway.
So, these people in the confrontation were wasting their mental energy for nothing.
After roughly assessing the situation, I moved back to our party. I didn’t get much information, but it was because I felt very uncomfortable that one of the wizards kept glancing at me.
“······ Is that something?”
“Yeah. Maybe? Or there’s no reason to be so crowded.”
“It’s amazing…”
“Wow…”
Coming to the seat next to Yeon-hee, she realized the existence of her box and was trying to take a closer look by lifting her tiptoe.
Mimic
There is a monster called
. Monster…? Let’s be a monster.
As always, the monster appeared in the world without departing too far from the concept we had imagined.
A super unique monster that is randomly encountered in the dungeon with an extremely low probability.
And now, everyone in this place broke through that low probability and met a unique monster.
I’ve never heard of so many people discovering a mimic at the same time. Should I say it’s bad?
In a wide open space where only rotten trees showed that this place was a forest, the treasure chest itself had the magic to excite the hunters.
Rumble- Rumble-!
The wooden box was a bit wobbly at first, but now it was openly beckoning itself to open it quickly.
At first glance, it looked like a large safe, but safes aren’t made of wood these days. It’s hard to seduce modern people. Is it a concept error?
“It’s a mimic… It’s crazy. Some people say that they can’t see that once in their life. What should I really do with that?”
“Yeah? Well, I don’t know either… When I was training, I heard that if you touch me, it’ll be a big deal…”
“There’s a story like that. Mimics have their own level of difficulty.”
As is known, Mimic reacts in two ways when you try to open the box.
The moment the box is touched, all the people within a certain range are swallowed into a subspace, or only one person within the range is dragged under a condition.
In any case, a person who is dragged into a subspace has to fight other monsters imitated by mimics in that space, but that monster’s grade is arbitrary.
There is even a story that doesn’t give you a good reward for defeating that monster.
It is said that there were cases where even after winning through hardship, they were cursed and died, but this was not a confirmed story.
‘It’s honestly hard to believe rumors about being cursed. Even if there is a corpse of a cursed person, that makes sense…’
However, there is one ability that must be given as a reward for killing, and that is the storage function that automatically puts loot in the inventory.
For example, when we killed the lizard champion in the lizard marsh last time, we searched the champion’s body for the rune that belonged to us and took it out.
This was because the runes reacted only when they approached a certain distance, and those who received the ability after defeating the mimic were automatically stored in the inventory without having to rummage through the filthy corpse.
Silver obtained from killing humanoid monsters is automatically accumulated in the inventory without having to search for it.
In a word, it is the ability to improve the quality of life as a hunter. And I saw someone with that ability once and I remember being very envious.
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‘Come to think of it, what did he receive after defeating the Mimic?’
Seeing as I don’t remember anything about him other than his short stature and chubby figure, it seems he didn’t show it to me. Is not it? I think I saw it… Only this part was hazy in my memory.
As she was tracing her faint memories, Ham Eun-young muttered with her eyes full of fear.
“They might call out Necrosqual…”
“……That’s a bit scary, isn’t it?”
It was 10 years ago.
A dungeon break broke in a dungeon in China.
In that dungeon, only one monster appeared.
After gates were connected all over the world and the first wave was blocked by the early Awakeners, the colossus ‘Necrosquall’ suffered the worst casualties as a single country.
There is a theory that the monster’s appearance in the world was also a disaster caused by a mimic.
The mad monster who destroyed a Chinese castle is fortunately in a deep sleep now, but no one knows when he will wake up.
Including those nasty rumors, it was believed as an official rule until just a few years ago that mimics were basically a disaster that should not be touched, and that not only the person who touched the mimic would become unhappy, but that it could make everyone unhappy.
Even though people who met mimics and gained storage abilities were often exposed to the media.
However, when an article in a leading daily newspaper broke out that there were at least hundreds of people worldwide with storage capacity, the theory that had been believed until then lost much of its trust.
It was only natural that there were as many Mimic Killers as there were Storage Powers.
It was even revealed that most of the people with storage abilities were top-tier hunters, and there was no choice but to be more tempted to grab the Mimic.
Reversal of life.
At some point, Mimic became such an existence.
Of course, it might have been possible to kill the Mimic because the order was changed and it was the top hunter. When faced with a situation like this, accidents tend to turn according to one’s liking.
Hyenas around us.
No one is speaking out right now, but the desire must be seething. It must look like a lottery ticket that has been rolled over without winning that mysterious wooden box for several years.
In the seemingly endless standoff, a man who had been watching them courageously stepped forward.
The Great Monster, ‘Necrosquall’