chapter 7
7 – Meet the Regressor.
“Thanks to you, I also accomplished one of the [Goblin Slayer] Achievement conditions!”
With her eyes still wet, she spread her arms wide and said in a raised voice.
‘What were the Goblin Slayer Achievement Conditions?’
In the first place, since I was a non-combatant, it was a condition that was difficult to achieve, so I just passed it over, so I can’t remember exactly.
When I tilted my head, she smiled broadly and sat me down on the floor to continue her story.
“The conditions are simple! How many goblins you defeat alone, the total number of kills, and collect all the runes that goblins drop. These three things.”
The rune that goblins drop is one type of vitality rune, but there are two grades: normal runes and low-level runes.
Lesser runes naturally have a higher stamina increase than normal runes.
“I just achieved the 1st condition by winning against the 5 of them hehehe.”
‘Get 5 kills by yourself and get a normal rune when you get a total of 100 kills. This is the first condition.’
When Yeon-hee told me, a memory came to my mind. Having fulfilled condition 1, she should have slightly increased her attack and defense against goblins.
‘It’s going to go up faster than in the past.’
Before I died, her face was seriously injured during the dungeon exploration, so she couldn’t enter the dungeon for a while. She played that future, so at least a few weeks counted.
‘The final condition is the same way.’
Kill 10 goblins at once, total of 1,000 goblins. Finally, if you get a lesser rune, you will get a higher number of rewards for completing the achievement.
“At this point, I’m going to aim for an achievement by completing the 2 conditions. Originally, I was going to warm up with you twice before going to the next dungeon.”
Her confidence was reflected in her flushed face as she sat in front of me.
‘Huh… But it seems like nothing happened after I left.’
Her skin as immaculate as white jade and not a single tickle seemed to melt away her anxious mind. Cute child blowing on her cheeks and clasping her hands.
‘Let’s go step by step. At least I won’t be swayed by that bastard…’
When I think of the guy who killed me, my fever goes all the way to the bones of his head, but it’s not easy to defeat him.
No… It’s almost impossible.
The most realistic goal would be to grow to the point where you will be perceived as a tired opponent if you touch it.
Because the ‘Early Man’ that killed me is a monster who has gone through six regressions and is living his last, seventh life….
When that bastard played with me and killed me, I talked a lot about this and that.
‘I need to increase my strength while remaining as inconspicuous as possible.’
If you stand out too much, you might be killed because you will have big doubts about the gap with the previous round.
The moment I was immersed in such thoughts.
– Ding-dong!
“Hit Geuk! Who, who is it?”
Startled as if she had heard her doorbell for the first time in her life, she looked anxiously toward her door and panicked.
‘Two people… Are strong. One in particular is beyond measure.’
She quickly retrieved the wavelength of her senses and held Yeon-hee’s hand tightly.
“Huh?··· Ji, should I dodge now?”
‘Ah… That’s right. That’s how I signed it.’
I shook my head slightly and punched him in the chest with my fist.
‘Just trust me if someone like me will help. You are not alone.’
“Tick-tak-tak-!”
“… Eh!”
I don’t know what she knows and answers, but she moves toward her door with a much better expression than before. And when she opened the door, she was greeted by a man and a woman and asked if she could enter her room for a moment.
‘This voice… Can’t it be?’
No matter how long she was confined in a dark space, could she ever forget even for a moment?
‘Early!! Why are these bastards here?’
What kind of twist of fate is it that you meet as soon as you promise to avoid it as much as possible until you grow up?
However, the heat that suddenly boiled over quickly subsided due to the effect of the attribute [Calm down], And he began to grasp the situation.
Judging from Lee Yeon-hee’s stable tone and the tone of a woman who speaks to Yeon-hee as politely as possible.
Have you already received a guild offer? I remember the contract was around spring…’
“Excuse me…”
In the end, Jo Ki-man and a strange woman entered.
Jogi-man, a villain with evil eyes like a poisonous snake, and a tall woman with small eyes who look over 170 cm tall.
As soon as they entered the room and saw me, they took out weapons from their inventory as if they had promised.
“Ah-! My, it’s my pet!”
“Eh? That’s a summoned beast? That’s a monster…”
“·······.”
The woman had a shocked expression as if she didn’t know that a summoned person really meant a monster, and Jo Ki-man was calmer than her, but she was surprised in a different way.
‘Is this your first time experiencing this situation? Even assuming that he didn’t approach Yeon-hee until the 6th round, that reaction is…’
The movement he had reacted to when he saw me earlier was so unexpected that I thought deeply about it.
“Uh… I… Well, I’ll put this child away for a while.”
‘What? I can’t go in now!’
Yeon-hee struggled for a long time to summon me, but of course it failed because I refused.
“It’s okay. There’s no need to overdo it.”
“I’m sorry.”
“Hoho, it sounds really good. It can be like that right after the 2nd awakening. I did too, but what?”
A suspicious-looking light brown haired woman with small squint eyes stretching sideways comforted Yeon-hee.
‘Was there such a woman in the guild? There are only a handful of female hunters in the guild who have had a second awakening-‘
Then a woman suddenly came to mind and covered her eyes with the bones of her fingers and looked at her lower body.
‘Aren’t you a lecturer? I really ripped it apart and fixed it.’
Since I joined the guild 1 year and 3 months from now, it seems that I have completely changed my face during that time.
‘I thought it was just a pair of hands…’
Anyway, with that crazy dog lecture, I was at least relieved. It’s because she knows that she is a hunter who lives with her sense of justice in her heart, unlike Jo Ki-man, even though she has a fiery temper.
“That’s big.”
At that time, Jo Ki-man suddenly opened his mouth.
“Yes?”
“The Skeleton Soldier is very big. I’ve never seen a Skeleton Soldier that big…”
‘Damn it… It’s twisted from the start, was that why you were surprised at first?’
It seems to be very different from the skeleton soldiers we saw in the last episode.
If you go to dungeons with a level of ‘D’ or higher, there will be guys much taller than me now, but from Jo Ki-man’s point of view, you can think that this is something that can’t happen at this point. It’s a big deal, but this.’
“What are you talking about? Even if you go to Nargul’s dungeon, there are many large skeletons.”
“That’s true… From the outside, it looks a bit different. Don’t worry, Ms. Yeonhee.”
‘A madman is talking like Miss Yeonhee.’
It was a disgusting tone that I couldn’t bear to hear, knowing the true nature of that child. You don’t know how lucky I am to be a skeleton now. If it was a human, it would probably turn red as if it were about to explode.
“Yes…”
Yeonhee had been looking at the ground with her hands tightly together like a criminal from earlier.
“Rather than that, I’m talking about today’s interview, Ms. Yeonhee.”
“Oh yes.”
“You don’t have to try to answer too much. Actually, as the first class summoner, I’m thinking of going with a mysterious image. I think Yeon-hee’s personality is a little bit like that. How do you like it?”
“Well, I don’t care about anything… I just want you to leave out as much as possible, like interviews…”
While listening to the conversation between Kang Yeon-soo and Lee Yeon-hee, my gaze stayed on Jo Ki-man. Jo Ki-man was staring at Lee Yeon-hee, but those eyes had a will to find something that had changed.
‘If you have a lot of doubts about it… I think it’s just a singularity that comes from regressing. That’s what you always say as a habit.’
I had been recognized for my ability as a guide during my lifetime and spent quite a bit of time with Cho Ki-man in the same guild, but Jo Ki-man had a habit of suddenly muttering to himself.
Among them, I often heard the word singularity.
If you think about it now, it must mean that he often went through incomprehensible situations while regressing, so if you don’t find anything different about Yeon-hee, you can easily overlook it.
‘Please… Just go.’
“Rather than that, didn’t anything special happen in the dungeon yesterday, Miss Yeonhee?”
‘Yesterday? So, he summoned me after a day.’
There may be a cooldown time for summoning a summoned beast that has been broken. Rather, why is that snake-like bastard interested in Yeon-hee’s dungeon exploration?
“Yes? Yes, nothing much happened…”
“It doesn’t matter if it’s a trivial thing. Just… I’m just trying to make sure that Miss Yeonhee didn’t feel uncomfortable. Like being attacked by a monster unexpectedly…”
‘Ah, it must have been because of Yeon-hee’s face… Originally, the person who should be in the hospital at this time is fine.’
Seeing that bastard quietly floating, there was another thing I remembered about Jogiman. He is usually very forgetful and has a lot of holes, but he shows a similar tendency to be obsessed only with Yeon-hee and checks meticulously.
“Oh come to think of it…?”
“Yes, please.”