chapter 5
5 – Unchangeable future
The owner of the rune, who arrived at the bag by car, looked around hurriedly. As he kept his sights on him and ran another 30m, his stealth slowly began to unravel.
(Let’s go, Sun Moon!)
Following Yeon-hee, who hurriedly beckoned, I leaned as much as I could and ran again to get out of their sight. Even after we reached a safe distance, we stopped after a long distance.
“Ha ha…”
“Poo-sup! What is this, really funny hahahahaha-“
She gasped, covering her mouth as if she couldn’t hold back her bursting laughter even as she caught her wild breath.
Vitality Rune (Normal)
– Stamina +4
‘I don’t think it’s really a gangrun…’
It’s a very meager number, but this is somewhere.
Her sword I took a fresh look at her red rune and held it out to her.
“Puheup… Keup… Huh? Ah Rune!”
She turned the rune around for a while as if wondering, then held it out to me again.
“You’d better hold this for a while.”
Nod-
She tried to agree that even if she said she wore it, but she thankfully handed over the ownership to me. As soon as she recalled the rune storage in her inventory, the rune in her hand faded and disappeared.
HP: 7 (+4)
Stamina more than doubled at once.
‘At least it’s a little better.’
“In case you don’t know, let’s go in the opposite direction from where they were earlier.”
Nod-
After another 20 minutes or so, we arrived at the place where the puppies were huddled together.
“So cute…”
Puppy-shaped monsters gathering together and munching and eating grass.
This cute monster, which looks very similar to the offspring of a rural mix dog and is the size of a medium-sized dog, is the only omnivore among the monsters in the dungeon.
Even when approached, it doesn’t run away, sticking out its tongue and running away, but it’s hard to kill.
There’s no need to say more, since the question of whether or not you can kill a pup is on the hunter practical test. However, the claws on its forepaws are very long and curved like a spatula, so when attacked, it hides like a mole in the ground, so you have to kill it in one blow so you don’t waste time.
“Leave the ground puppy alone.”
‘As expected… It doesn’t kill. It’s been like this since I was little.’
As I stared at her, she spoke again.
“It’s just… It’s kind of sudden to attack you while you’re eating…”
‘Don’t make excuses to your summoned beast.’
The Puppy lives in every dungeon, but I don’t remember seeing her kill that cute creature in her previous life.
However, he was the only one with affection, and he was merciless towards the rest of the monsters. I liked her look so much that she stood still, not moving.
“Let’s take a break. Now sit here.”
He sits on a rock that is concave and suitable for use as a chair and taps the side.
‘You treat me like a baby.’
But before I knew it, I found myself sitting in the seat next to her.
Zigsi-
I can feel her looking up at me curiously. If it had been before I died, I would have been restless if a beauty like this pushed my face up to my nose, but I was a skeleton that couldn’t express any bodily reaction.
‘It’s convenient at times like this.’
And for today, I decided to pay more attention to her surroundings rather than reacting to her, so I guess I should be faithful to her mission.
“It’s really amazing. No matter how I think about it, you…”
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“It’s like a human… It’s too much to be a monster…”
‘Hmm, this isn’t good…’
I came up to my nose and examined it here and there, but I wondered if he didn’t have any objection to the skull.
Poop-
“Puha- what am I talking about?”
She couldn’t help but giggle as she put her hand over her mouth. But seeing her like that, my heart wasn’t very pleasant.
‘Hmm… I’ll have to adjust this well.’
As far as I know, she fell into a terrible distrust of human beings from her childhood because of her poor family background.
Dad, stepdad, uncle, brother.
Assault, alcohol, gambling, fraud.
The pitiful behavior of the family that makes your mouth dirty even if you have to talk about it. Still, it is fortunate that her mother had a good nature and influenced her a lot.
But after her mother died, life in the guild she entered wouldn’t be very happy.
One side of her face was distorted, and there were many people standing close behind her who said that it was unlucky because she ministered to monsters, and she must have known about that.
Even so, the one who stopped the dungeon break by throwing her life.
It must have been the result of trying to carry out what his mother said often, thinking it was her will.
Anyway, if she finds out that I’m human, she might not want to summon me again.
‘It’s difficult, that’s worse than death.’
I thought that someday we would be able to communicate by writing, but I threw the delusion far away.
For the time being, let’s pretend to only obey orders as much as possible.
“Actually, that’s why I like it better. I don’t have any friends, but it’s like having a friend. A friend who always looks out for me! Isn’t it so cool?”
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‘Certainly I can only look at you. Rather…’
There is one guy that caught my senses from a while ago. The tree branch above where we are sitting is quite thick.
I thought I was going to watch her move so slowly, but now she’s wriggling as if she’s definitely set Yeonhee as her target.
Slime.
A translucent atypical monster.
He can somehow elongate his body and move around even on thin tree branches. After about 30 seconds, it will reach Yeonhee’s head. I’ve always wondered why he got hurt in such a crappy dungeon.
‘Surely… In broad daylight like this, you might not have thought it would attack from the top of a tree branch.’
The message to be careful of the slime hanging from the ceiling in the cave appears in the Hunter Theory Test, but you’ve never heard of a situation like this.
A slime that climbs trees? In the first place, it was unexpected that a guy who likes dark and damp places would come out in broad daylight like this.
‘I thought the future was wrong while I was with you… But what will happen?’
After thinking about the meaning of the things I do for a while, I felt my head get cold.
‘Hey! You’re laughing.’
It is my job to make sure that what should happen does not happen. Let’s start with what needs to be done right now.
Currently, the only things I can move without a command are shrugging my shoulders, nodding my head, and raising my arms.
There was a feeling that the radius of action slightly increased as the level went up, but it was a meaningless change at the moment. I desperately pointed her upward at her and made her noise.
“Crackle! Crackle!”
“Huh? What’s up there?”
‘That’s right! Check it out soon How simple is that?’
But she took a moment to look upstairs and shrugged her shoulders.
“Nothing?”
‘What?! No way?’
She creaked her head again and looked up at her, this cunning slime guy stretching her torso and hiding herself over a branch of her tree. It is clear to my senses, but invisible to human eyes.
‘I thought it was nonsense that slime’s intelligence is at the level of a 5-year-old child.’
Perhaps he hid himself when I made a noise and pointed with my hand.
‘Damn it, I have to move quickly.’
Contrary to my nervousness, even when I press her arm tightly and wave her arm vigorously in front of her face. It didn’t look like it would move right away as it was just hesitating while looking at the puppies.
‘I can’t even dream because my strength is low. For now, find a way to stop it…’
I can’t stop all of that guy’s acid with this bony arm, so the only thing I can do is…
That time when I was organizing my thoughts.
‘It’s starting.’
The slime twists its body once and spits out acidic liquid. He’ll soon be spraying filthy acid on Yeon-hee’s face.
Puppy pew!
Steel-! Chii Iik!
“Kyaaak! What, what!!”
I stretched her right arm over her head, summoned three clunky wooden sticks from the inventory at the same time, and wrapped her left arm over her head.
I actually tried to push her head off, but the poor strength was the best I could get her head bowed forward.
Fortunately for her, all of her acid sizzled on my arms and club, so I pointed her upwards at her.
“Crack!”
“Huh? S, slime?!”
She hurriedly pulled herself back and began carrying arrows.
The slime missed her chance and she was quickly moving toward the tree.
Tung-
Crisp-!
An arrow burst half a tree branch and the slime stuck in her body. However, slime is a monster that takes little damage from physical attacks unless its core is removed.
‘Let’s get it off the tree first. Are you going to do this?’
I grabbed a wooden stick that was sizzling with acid.
Dagger Throw Lv.1
– When throwing daggers, attack power +5%, accuracy +20%
– Accuracy +15% when throwing any object
‘Not bad.’
I wondered why the goblins didn’t use it when the skill composition was so good. She threw the stick she held in her left hand at the tree branch.
Break-!
‘One more time.’
Willilic-
Bagak-!
The club brushed against it, and the tree branch broke just at the edge, causing the slime to fall along with it.
Cheolppuduck-
HP: 5/7 (-2)
‘She’s got 2 drops of acid on her arm? Really bad body Is it more because it was hit by the bone?’
It’s like being hit with a bone, which is commonly said, depends on my passive.
“Good job January! You finish it! Just hit the black ball moving around inside you!”
Nod-
She puts her arrow once more at the slime that has fallen to the ground. Then she hurriedly moves the core to the other side of the slime.
I am very aware of the location of the attack by the one without eyes.
And since the nucleus that moved away from the arrow hovered in the same place for a while, I [Hit] The nucleus with a bat held high in the sky.
mana: 0/6(-1)
All of the mana was exhausted, but the effect was clear.
The liquid that made up the body of the slime that had been hit by the core stretched out on the ground, and a message popped up without fail.
– Killed Slime (Normal).
– Acquired a small amount of experience.
– Obtained the lowest grade magic stone. Manastones are moved to the summoner’s inventory.
– Attribute [Kleptomaniac] Is activated.
– Randomly steals the skill of Slime (Normal).
– Acquired the skill [Acid Spray]!
– Your level has risen. Choose three stats to boost.
‘It’s done!!’
I unknowingly clenched my fists and cheered inwardly.
I can’t be careless until I get out of the dungeon, but at least looking at the current situation, it must have changed her future.
‘Okay, let’s invest in stats later.’
A small magic stone rose from the slime’s corpse and flew to Yeon-hee, and I picked up the core of the slime that had been split in two.
‘I’ll give you 1,000 won for this too.’
I handed the slime core to Yeonhee. She put the core in her leather pouch and suddenly hugged me.
‘…?’
“Heeing… Thank you, Sunwol! If it wasn’t for you, I might have been seriously injured! You even informed me in advance, but I…”
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‘Wait, aren’t you hugging me too hard?’
Just in case, I looked at the status window again.
HP: 6/7 (-1)
‘Did you really lose 1 HP?! That, stop.’
Even though her stamina is filled up as her level rises, what she is missing is the damage caused by being hugged by her without a doubt.
“Tick-!”
“Huh? Alas! Sorry! I almost got in trouble! Are you okay?”
I didn’t bother to react, I just stayed still.
‘I’ll have to adjust the timing and act like a monster. I am a monster I am a monster.’
I chanted the spell myself and watched her reaction.
But she didn’t seem to care much about my reaction, and was looking at my right arm, which had been hit with acid.