Adventurers Are Obsessed With My Cooking

Episode 24. Fools full of hope

A pub located in the downtown area of Felon.

In the midst of the 1st and 2nd floors, there was a dark silence sitting at the table where Kim Min-cheol was sitting.

Four days have passed since the party started entering and exiting the dungeon again.

We welcomed a new member each time, and all three of them could not last for a single day and all withdrew.

“What are you doing? Aren’t you all going to drink? I’m drinking alone?”

Go Tae-sik couldn’t stand it, so he gulped down a large wooden cup full of beer.

Bang!

Then he forcefully set the empty glass down on the table.

“Let’s cheer up! You just need to find a better member.”

“Can you please shut up.”

“Why!? Then how long are you going to be drinking like this? If so, what did you come to the bar for? You came here to change your mood! Aren’t you, hyung?”

Kim Min-cheol nodded slowly, saying that he was right.

“Okay. Let’s all drink. And let’s be honest.”

“Honestly? Oppa, we don’t hide much.”

At Cha Soo-yeon’s words, Kim Min-cheol let out a small sigh.

Because she was the one who showed the most dissatisfaction lately.

He couldn’t help but think that he should speak first.

“Three times. The same thing happened three times. When this happens, the problem is not with the newcomers, but with us.”

“Is that the story again?”

“I know, Soo-yeon doesn’t want you to talk about this. But it’s definitely something that needs to be addressed.”

“Then oppa, tell me. What is the biggest problem with our party!”

Kim Min-cheol passed the beer placed in front of him down his throat at once.

He wouldn’t get drunk with just a glass of beer, but he needed an opportunity to get the words out of his mind.

“Ha… I’ll be honest. Our party is a lot weaker than I thought.”

“Are you here now?”

“I think it’s a matter of how to set the standard. In the old game, not the current reality, we took Abyss for granted and even challenged Inferno from time to time. Even now, when it became a reality, of course you knew how to do that. But you guys As you know, this is a matter of life and death. You can’t recklessly rush into it relying on resurrection items or skills like before. Not even a single mistake will be tolerated.”

Park Myung-shik, who is always taciturn, opened his mouth.

“You’ve already experienced it. In the yaksa’s cave.”

Kim Min-cheol raised his right arm to everyone.

“Yes. I almost lost my arm. Thanks to you, I was able to survive.”

“So what do you want to say?”

“It means things have changed. The requirements to survive in the Abyss have increased. And with our current level, we can’t even get close to the Abyss. No matter who comes as the sixth member.”

“But other parties and guilds are going well!”

Kim Min-cheol stared at Cha Soo-yeon and answered.

“That’s not true. It’s a rumor, so it may not be accurate, but only about 30 parties managed to enter. Among them, there was a party that was the world’s top ranker. Even those people said that Inferno had become so difficult that they hadn’t even been close to it. It’s a sound. Now, even if I die, I can’t get seriously hurt.”

Bang!

“It doesn’t matter how many parties we have! Why can’t we just do what everyone else is doing!”

Cha Soo-yeon hit the table hard.

Beer foam shot into the air from the glasses of the others who were still full.

“Soo Yeon-ah…”

“I really… Want to go back. Here I am… How long do I have to stay here!”

Tears welled up in her eyes.

Yoo Hye-soo comforts Cha Soo-yeon’s shoulders.

“I’m sorry oppa. Soo-yeon seems to be under a lot of stress these days.”

“I understand. To be honest, I feel the same way.”

Ko Tae-shik, who had a frown on his face unlike usual, asked Kim Min-cheol.

“So, what do you mean, hyung? Are you saying we should give up because we’re weak and we don’t even have the skills to enter the Abyss?”

“It’s not like that…”

“That’s what you mean now! Even the guild, which was meant to be fun like Angelic Slime, entered there, but we were lacking in something. We also made a name for ourselves…”

“……”

The late Tae-shik, who spat out his thoughts without thinking, stopped speaking belatedly, wondering if his head was spinning.

There was a time when this party made a name for itself.

However, it was Jeon Tae-min, who had already left, rather than anyone else here, who took the majority of the stake.

No, it was almost all thanks to him.

Counter Monk World’s strongest.

There are two tank classes in Emperor of Dungeon.

One is a common shield knight.

The other one is the so-called Keumgang Monk who rides the Geumgang Bulgogi skill tree.

However, Jeon Tae-min had a monk specializing in attacks called Counter Monk, and showed a miracle of perfectly tanking all the bosses of the Abyss as well as the boss of the first gate of the Inferno Dungeon.

The video was released and the game community went crazy for a while.

It wasn’t just tanking.

Befitting an attack-specialized class, she tanked while accumulating more damage than anyone else in the party.

Even with just one hit, I avoided all the boss’s attacks with the body of water going to the goal, spilled it, or hit it back.

It was truly amazing.

Of course, the problem of balance destruction or something happened, and it was buried in memories due to the development team’s submarine patch.

At that time, it is clear that Jeon Tae-min was one of the most famous people in the game.

Thanks to that, this party became famous as well.

It was one of the two most difficult classes, Counter Monk.

Other players couldn’t even copy it.

However, in the end, he said that Counter Monk was nerfed because of Jeon Tae-min, and he was criticized all over the world and the case was settled.

The party members who recalled the memories of that time with Go Tae-shik’s remarks did not say anything for a while.

Opening his eyes that had been quietly closed, leader Kim Min-chul slowly opened his mouth.

“Let’s be honest. The reason we made a name for ourselves was because of him. Not only that, but Taemin researched and taught us things like skill trees and item combinations. If he came here as his main character, , I would never have walked out of a party.”

Cha Soo-yeon, who had been sobbing, stopped crying and opened her mouth again, perhaps feeling guilty over Kim Min-cheol’s overly candid remarks.

“Why are you talking about someone who has already left…”

“He didn’t go out on his own. We did.”

“Then what should we have done! We all agreed!”

At her overreaction, Kim Min-chul recalled the past.

It was Cha Soo-yeon who always started talking behind Jeon Tae-min.

People complained that she was useless at a party, how long she had to endure it, and even criticized her appearance.

Of course, no one criticized her.

Because everyone agreed.

Because everyone agreed.

‘Well, it’s true that he was useless.’

In the beginning, it was really like that.

Taemin’s secondary character, who was just a resurrection shuttle.

Equipment was the worst out of the six, and the amount of useful cash items and gold was the least.

Of course, he had barely invested in his attributes, and his level was much lower than ours.

That’s why he worked hard.

On our day off, when we were drinking and partying, he went to the adventurer’s guild and didn’t come back until late at night.

“Where did you go?”

“Oh, I was doing some quests for a while. Did you have fun?”

“Well, in moderation. You should rest in moderation too.”

“How do you do that? You’re causing a nuisance to the party. I should be of some help.”

Perhaps it was his pride.

The guy who once led the party, the guy who was the Monk’s strongest player, became useless to the party in an instant.

We naturally thought of him like that.

If I hadn’t shown any effort, I might have kicked him out of the party in a month instead of six months, maybe even in the first few days.

‘In the end, the result was the same…’

“Why are you talking about him? The reason we’re weak… No, that’s why we’re weak.”

“What do you mean? Taemin’s brother…”

“I know. There’s no one here who doesn’t know that Resurrection is useless. But what about buffs? One reason we’ve become weak is that we ate all the cash dishes we had, so all stat buffs disappeared. The buff effect is gone.”

Yoo Hye-soo, who was listening, trembled.

Because she felt as if she was to blame.

In fact, Kim Min-chul’s remarks are a story that everyone knew.

Haven’t you already felt it through your body the past few days?

The party now is definitely weaker than when Jeon Tae-min was there.

“I’m sorry. I, the leader, should have noticed sooner. When I was first brought here, perhaps because of his shabby appearance, I think even I had that perception. Even the day his arm was cut off, Taemin was blamed for nothing. .”

“Brother…”

The party members look at the leader with bitter expressions.

However, Mincheol Kim laughed.

“Why do all of you look like that?”

“Huh?”

“Yes?”

“Who said they gave up?”

“But they say we’re weak…”

Admit it.

Once upon a time, he was the backbone of the party.

And unbeknownst to us, even with a trash class, he was playing a part in the party.

But not anymore.

That guy has already left, and it is none other than me, Kim Min-cheol, who is leading this party.

“Do you guys remember 6 months ago?”

“I remember. How can I forget?”

“This hyung is saying obvious things again.”

“No, other than that, do you remember Jeon Tae-min from 6 months ago!”

Everyone looks at him with their eyes wide open.

“The brash, unlucky bastard in that game crawling in front of us.”

“Go, why is that all of a sudden…”

Everyone was puzzled.

The person who talked about letting Jeon Tae-min go as if it was a big mistake, changed all of a sudden.

“To be honest, I was thrilled. I didn’t like how he led me as a tanker from long ago. But I was honestly thrilled to see him become useless.”

“……”

“But while we didn’t know, even that garbage Resurrection Priest was quite usable right now. The void felt so great.”

“What the hell are you talking about?”

“Listen. How could that trash class suddenly become useful overnight?”

“Characteristics.”

“Then what about us?”

“Yes?”

“I wondered what would happen if people like us, who can’t be left out of a party, got their attributes over 90 and up to 100.”

“Ah!”

“That’s true too.”

“Come to think of it, the people who entered the Abyss. Didn’t everyone take their characteristics close to the limit?”

“Maybe…”

“We’re going to try it from now on. As the level of the attribute is relatively low, it means that we still have a lot of room to grow.”

“Ooh!”

The expressions of the party members gradually brightened.

The gloomy atmosphere filled with dark clouds instantly turned into an atmosphere mixed with hope.

Kim Min-cheol thought that only he could do such a thing.

This is what a true leader is.

It’s not Jeon Tae-min, who’s good alone.

“Then what about Taemin oppa? Bringing him back is better than saving someone else…”

“Okay. Do you want to do that?”

“No.”

Cha Soo-yeon answered the question immediately, and the rest were also shaking their heads.

Yoo Hye-soo, who asked the question, looked at it quietly.

“Hye-soo.”

“Yes?”

“You said you only had 50 blessed attributes.”

“Sorry…”

“No, I’m not trying to criticize you. I’m just saying don’t worry because you’ll grow steadily from now on. It’s a pity that there is no speed increase, but there won’t be a big difference between you and him in terms of basic stats. As long as you take the characteristics.”

“Ah…”

“You can save party members slowly. Since we’re stronger than we are now, it might be beneficial if we get stronger people.”

Everyone nods.

“If that doesn’t work, it’s okay to find another Resurrection Priest. Other parties won’t accept it anyway.”

“That’s also true. It’s kind of like accepting the person you sent out. Besides, it’s ugly.”

“Aah. This guy is starting again. Taemin will cry when he hears it, Suyeon-ah. Keuk keuk.”

“Yes. And you can call him whenever you feel like he can’t be saved. He must be doing a cheap quest somewhere, but if we call him again, he’ll come running excitedly.”

“hahahaha.”

“That’s right. We don’t have to duck down.”

“Okay, I think I’m feeling a little better now. Let’s do it. Let’s do it.”

It was then.

“That’s right. It’s a dish with a buff. Would you like to buy it?”

“I’ll have to take a look at it. Do you have feelings?”

“Of course. This dish is not easy to find. It’s because it has a tooth attached to it.”

At a nearby table, there was talk of buff cooking.

Kim Min-cheol All eyes at the party turned to the place where the voice came from.