chapter 42
42 – Ent Forest (5)
I and Yeonhee moved slowly to the left.
And when we started to move to the well, a guy 1.5 Times bigger than a normal ent took shape on the ground, and the waiting hunters all ran towards him.
– Let’s go!! Today I eat kill!!
– Rune!! All you have to do is rune steel!!
– You just want experience from a moderately long distance. You guys shouldn’t be greedy.
On the other hand, the sight of the hunters running into the giant monster with their own thoughts was spleen.
Booooo!!
When the ent champion saw the hunters rushing at them like a pack of dogs, he sent a signal by striking his body with a stem, and dozens of additional ents began to appear around him.
But we were already going down into a poorly maintained overgrown well, without engaging in battle.
[Adsorption]
(Sunwolah… Is there anything inside here? It’s so dark…)
Yeon-hee, who was sitting on my back, whispered in my ear with a worried voice, but there was nothing particularly worrying about it.
First of all, there wasn’t even a slime at the bottom of the well that was always there in a damp place, and as her strength level increased, it was no longer difficult to carry her up and down.
Tak-
(Wow… Were there people who came down here?)
‘It must have been quite a while. Wherever you go, there are earthly spirits. But I must have gone all the way to the bottom, looked around the walls, and dug a little bit, and came up without finding anything. Actually, there’s a hidden space a little higher up.’
With Yeon-hee in my arms, I pressed down here and there on the wall in the middle of the 20m high well.
‘It was about this height…’
In the early days of Awakening, when I was engrossed in finding artifacts, this was the first time I found two in a dungeon, so I still remember vividly.
Of course, there were only a handful of artifacts found in the dungeons where the level went up after that, so there won’t be many cases where you’re looking for something specific like today. So let’s enjoy a day like today.
I can definitely feel there’s room in it, damn it. Has the location changed a bit?’
But it wasn’t long before the stumbling hand went into the mug.
Kyaa-
Suddenly, the wall of the well was big enough to fit a person in, and Yeon-hee was startled and her body shook greatly.
“Huuu…”
Kook-
‘It’s cute.’
I settled into the wall, patted her on the head to stabilize her, and then started to move inside.
I passed through a passage that required me to bow my head to enter, and soon entered a small space the size of a convenience store.
“Wow! It’s so pretty!!”
How many people in the world know that there is a space like this under the rotten Treant Forest? I wandered around once again and indulged in the atmosphere of the study.
As if entering a library used by a renowned scholar for a long time, this place exudes a quiet atmosphere, with numerous books tightly packed in the storage cabinets.
“Ohhh! Ilwol-ah, there are a lot of really classy-looking books here!! Can I take one out?”
‘It would be better not to take it off.’
I nodded, and Yeon-hee immediately took out a golden book and held it up. And the moment Yeon-hee opened the book, it was weathered into dust and scattered in the air.
‘It’s the same thing.’
“Uh… I-I blew one up?! What should I do?”
“Tickktoktaktak!!”
I shrugged my shoulders and signaled that it was okay, then took out the 20cm long dagger hanging on the wall and held it in my hand.
Even though the hand has only bones, the feeling of grip that comes in like a tight grip reminds me of the senses when I was a human in my previous life.
‘This just makes me feel nostalgic.’
I pulled out a dagger from a luxurious scabbard that was densely engraved with geometric patterns. A double-edged dagger with a very simple design that contrasts with the scabbard.
—–
Sage Arhen’s dagger for self-defense
– The dagger that Arhen, the wise man of the ancient Kingdom of Isilia, was attached to
– ATK +24
– Defense +10
—–
‘Hanging a weapon like this for decoration in the study… It’s absurd to look at it again.’
The attack power is only 24, which is not high for an artifact, but the increase in defense power on top of the weapon greatly increases the value of this weapon.
The magical energy that radiated from the hand holding the dagger really showed me that this dagger was also interested in protecting my body.
In addition, there is no limit on durability like an artifact, so there is no need to worry about weapons for the time being.
‘A stone hammer can be used for throwing sometimes…’
Whilik- Whirik-
As I nodded in satisfaction as I skillfully rotated the dagger in my hand, Yeonhee said.
“Wow- The scabbard is so pretty!! This is also an artifact!! How much would it be if I sold this?”
Yeon-hee, who was very excited about seeing a weapon-type artifact for the first time, fell into ecstasy as she turned the sheath around.
The value of this dagger, which I found out through the white knight guild in my lifetime, is a little over 10 billion. Among the artifacts, it is a performance that is slightly above the intermediate level, but it is still worth the money.
‘I wish I could have just sold it and lived comfortably…’
The saying that there is no answer if you get an adventurous disease was what I said about myself during my lifetime. Even if I sold only the artifacts I discovered, I would have lived happily with an asset value of tens of billions of dollars.
I shook my head and focused on my senses to check if there was anything else in this space.
However, there were only books that exploded when touched, and the only way out was the same entrance we had entered.
‘He was quite a secretive guy. To the extent of making his own secret study in a well like this.’
I handed her entire sword to Yeon-hee so that she could watch her, then I put her back on my back and climbed up her well using her [Her Adsorption].
“Really pretty…”
Since he was a man called a sage, he must have entrusted the making of the dagger to a skilled artisan.
So it was understandable that Yeon-hee was uncharacteristically possessed by things.
Thanks to the dagger, the defense has now risen to 22, so in a dungeon of this level, you won’t get a single scratch from an attack.
I came up to the well, feeling a bit more confident than when I went down, and smiled at the situation outside.
‘It’s still in full swing. I thought I could conquer it quickly, but why did it take so long?’
It was a bit questionable, but it was time to move. As soon as we climbed up, we quickly merged into the battlefield. Yeon-hee threw a dagger at me as I ran away, and started to cast a spell.
The stage of contemplating whether or not to fight in this situation has passed.
Perhaps because Yeon-hee lost her concentration a bit while running, she summoned the summoned beasts one by one, and the hunters who saw me and the two lizardmen running towards them hurriedly beckoned with delight.
And it wasn’t until we arrived at the battlefield that we knew why the hunt was delayed. It seemed that the number of normal Ents around the Ent Champion was much higher than the average.
It usually takes less than 20 minutes for a champion to come out and kill it, but it was like that when I saw that there were still 10 Ents left after about 15 minutes.
“Hey!! Just keep the little ones in check!! Almost all champions are captured!!”
Yeonhee nodded her head without answering, and the hunters who saw him raised their hands to express their gratitude. At times like this, when a greedy person joins, there are many cases where they eat only champions and fall out, but she didn’t show any signs of that, so she was just thankful.
“Take care of them one by one!! They’re very weak, so that’ll be enough!!”
The 5 Lizardmen summoned by Yeon-hee’s instructions were all attached to the Ents at once, and I had already knocked down one of them using [Reckless Charge].
Seureung-
I took out the dagger I just obtained and lowered it into the body of the fallen Ent.
Kwajijikㅡ!!
Booooo!!
On rare occasions, the Ent twisted his body in great pain, and I stabbed him to the inside, striking the same part with his dagger a few more times. Soon after, the movement of the Ent stopped, and it rapidly dried up and began to twist.
– Defeat Ents······
‘Kuh… After all, hunting is a tempal.’
With more confidence, I tried to charge again to the Ent, who was attracted by the sturgeon, knocking it over, and repeating the same process with the dagger.
There was no particular need to use flame bullets, so the mana consumption was extremely low, and in less than 3 minutes, all the normal Ents could be eliminated.
And the ent champion started to crumble by the time we finished the normal ent, and it only helped in the line of cutting out the stems that sometimes flew by.
Yeonhee also shot arrows, but that was enough to keep her movements in check.
Booooo
Kuuung ㅡ!!
In the end, the huge tree fell and announced the end of the raid, and we also received a small amount of experience reward.
– Helped defeat the Ent Champion!
– Acquired a small amount of experience.
‘Well, I’m satisfied with just a few hand swings.’
We retrieved the thorns attached to the stems of the Ents we killed ourselves, and left immediately without saying goodbye to the other Hunters.
Hunters who are diligently collecting loot will wonder why we came late long after we leave, but they will soon lose interest in it.
And if there were people who watched us carefully during the battle, they would have noticed that my attacks worked particularly well against the Ents, but people are less interested in other people than I thought. Especially if it’s a skeleton soldier.
As we set out on the road again, it felt like everything we had to do today was over, so we walked straight toward the exit without overdoing it.