Return To Level Up

Chapter 7

“Honestly, I didn’t want to show this because it was of poorer quality, but when I asked to show it, I showed it.”

Seeing him flirting with words he didn’t even need to say, he thought he was far from becoming a merchant.

Ha-jin Kang glanced at Ji-hye Kim’s face and knew why she said such a thing.

It’s because I’m shy and shy. In a word, it means shame. She confirmed once again that she wasn’t used to things like this.

Jihye Kim poured her tiny gemstones on her table. Because the gemstones were not round like marbles, she never fell down the table.

“A total of 64.”

At Kim Ji-hye’s words, Kang Ha-jin nodded her head and sorted her magic stones one by one.

“Are you going to sell this for 1 million won each?”

In response to Ha-jin Kang’s question, Ji-hye Kim hurriedly slapped her hand.

“Is it possible? Just give me 3 million won.”

Ha-jin Kang pulled out three bundles of 1 million won from his arms and laid them down on the table.

She then swept her manastone into her pocket.

Seeing this, Jihye Kim’s eyes grew as bright as a fire. She really didn’t know she was going to buy them all.

As she was at a high level, she knew a lot about dungeons and the Awakened.

Those little magic stones were of no use to anyone.

Most of the small manastones are used for research, but the manastones sold now were too small to be used for research.

In a word, it was just a stone with the name of a magic stone.

No matter how large the number, even if it was only 3 million won, I did not know that I would buy them all.

So I was prepared to pay a little more, but I felt a bit sorry for selling it like this.

Kang Ha-jin looked at Kim Ji-hye like that.

‘Why is such a person not well known? Oh, is the skill the problem?’

It doesn’t end with just having a higher level. In fact, skill was much more important than level.

Looking at her high magical power and mental strength, she must have learned a lot of magic-related skills.

The ability distribution is done automatically according to the skill.

‘And the fact that these small magic stones are being sold here may mean that you can only get these things.’

Ha-jin Kang looked at Ji-hye Kim with her new eyes. Once again, the proficiency of the peeping skill was disappointing.

‘Well, there’s still plenty of time.’

She shouldn’t be in a hurry. Because Hajin Kang’s enemies are big and powerful.

“Do you often go looking for magic stones like this?”

At Ha-jin Kang’s question, Ji-hye Kim smiled awkwardly.

“Well… it’s kind of like that. There are some younger brothers who are good at these things.”

“Then I’ll ask you some more.”

Kim Ji-hye opened her eyes wide and she looked at Kang Ha-jin. She never expected that she would receive such an offer.

“Uh… I’ll do that. I had it because I couldn’t throw it away anyway… No, it’s not like that. Anyway, I’ll do that! And next time, there may be someone other than me. They take turns taking turns.”

Hajin Kang smiled brightly and nodded his head.

“Remember. Then see you next time.”

After leaving those words, Ha-jin Kang turned around without any regrets.

Kim Ji-hye stared blankly at Ha-jin Kang until she couldn’t see her back.

* * *

Ha-jin Kang, who came out of the black market, returned home.

He did much better than he thought. He secured a lot of Dino’s muscle, and he also got a lot of Manastone shards.

Moreover, there were quite a few manastones in the space among the manastone debris.

Again, there is a high possibility that the power of space is contained in the crumbs.

Crumb Manastones didn’t come from monsters, so it wasn’t easy to get them.

Of course, that’s the future. Right now, there are probably quite a few mine-type dungeons in which crumbs and manastones appear.

‘Shall we secure some gemstone mines?’

If you think about it, the things you can do are limitless. Hajin Kang spread Dino’s muscles on the floor of the room.

And he prepared the argon gas he had bought in advance.

Dino was a monster in the form of a dinosaur. Hunting wasn’t difficult. Because the weakness was so obvious.

If you aim for an area where there is no muscle, you can grab it quickly. Instead, the side covered with strong muscles boasts great defense.

Naturally, he thought that there was something secret about his muscles, and he continued his research.

But all failed. No matter how hard I tried, the dead Dino’s muscles were inferior to scaffolding.

The secret to making Dino’s muscles like steel was in argon gas. More precisely, it was argon dyed with magical power.

The environment of the dungeon where the Dinos live was rich in argon dyed with magical power.

It was mixed with blood through Dino’s breathing, making his muscles hard.

Ha-jin Kang purchased argon gas and then steadily poured magic power on it. You cannot make argon dyed with magic by simply exposing it to magic, and you have to use a special method.

Fortunately, Ha-jin Kang had enough knowledge in that area to make him look like an expert.

As a buffer and healer, I had to study and research a lot about magic in order to develop further.

Only dealers and tanks could become stronger through training alone. Considerable study and research was essential for Buffer or Healer.

I was watching it now that the virtue returned.

The reason why Dino’s muscle is an excellent material is that it is so easy and convenient to process with just argon dyed with magical power.

Hajin Kang started making various equipment, including armor, using the muscles of the Dino.

Preparations for his first dungeon raid piled up one after another.

* * *

Hajin Kang’s dungeon attack was a little creaky from the start.

He went looking for the dungeons he was aiming for one by one, but most of them were not yet open.

It happened a long time ago, so I can’t remember clearly.

Still, I remembered a lot about which dungeons were important, which had not been discovered for a long time, and which dungeons pose a danger later.

Ha-jin Kang took notes whenever he remembered such information in case he would forget it more.

He sometimes recalled surprising details.

And today’s dungeon was one of those detailed memories.

This dungeon was a dungeon that later developed into a big problem.

It was left unattended for a long time because it was in a place that is so hard to find, and it eventually exploded.

The difficulty of the dungeon was not high. However, like when monsters are trapped in a dungeon, when the dungeon explodes and the monsters come out, the situation becomes very serious.

The dungeon was inhabited by giant mosquito monsters, which filled the dungeon and then flew away.

Hundreds of thousands of mosquito monsters devastated the surroundings, and the number of dead reached hundreds of thousands.

Fortunately, the mosquito monster that came out of the dungeon had lost its ability to reproduce.

This is because the environment in the dungeon was a very important factor for their breeding.

Ha-jin Kang took the bus and went to Chungcheong-do.

Even after arriving in Chungcheong Province, he went deep into the mountains. Hajin Kang’s goal was a small river between the mountains.

It had a certain depth, and there was no one around and no one was visiting, but the dungeon was surprisingly at the bottom of the river.

So the dungeon was not discovered for a long time.

The reason Kang Ha-jin took the first goal with this dungeon was because he decided that it was a dungeon that he could easily level up, although he also had to prevent an accident that would happen later.

Of course, the exact information was not known because it was an exploded dungeon, but it was a dungeon that was analyzed in various ways later.

Hajin Kang arrived at a river that was about 5 meters wide. It was a place with mountains all around and there was no riverside to properly set foot on.

I know there is a dungeon around here, but I don’t know exactly where it is, so I have to look for it now.

“It’s been neglected for so long.”

In fact, it was not very common for dungeons to form on the riverbed. In that way, there should be countless dungeons in the sea, but none of them actually appeared in the sea.

Hajin Kang put on his gear and entered the river.

He was going to enter the dungeon as soon as he found it, so he only wore armor.

As soon as he entered, he was attacked by a monster mosquito, so as not to panic.

Weapons to deal with the monster mosquito were stored in the subspace.

I used the magic stones from the space I bought at the black market last time to attach subspaces all over my body.

The mana stones were not large, so the space was small, but it was enough to put one or two pieces of equipment in it.

Ha-jin Kang, who arrived at the riverbed, slowly looked around him and moved his steps.

Breathing was solved using his magical powers. It created a passage for air with magical power and directly connected it to the respiratory system.

It was a technique that current Awokens would not even dare to dream of.

There was no restriction on breathing, so the search was quick. Hajin Kang found a gray portal attached to the riverbed as if lying down.

The color also looks like this, making it even more difficult to find.(Read more @ wuxiax.com)

Kang Ha-jin stepped into it without hesitation. Then he entered the dungeon.

* * *

The atmosphere of the dungeon was dark and gloomy. But not in a cave or in a building. It was an open dungeon.

A wet swamp stretched out. And in the distance I saw giant mosquitoes buzzing and flying.

Hajin Kang first understood the size of the dungeon.

The swamp area was very vast, but the real scale was very different from what it looked like.

The dungeon had clearly defined boundaries, and it was impossible to get out of it.

‘Looking at the location of the mosquitoes, that’s the end.’

Not being able to cross the border was like an Awakened or a monster. The monster mosquitoes could not cross the border and hovered around or bounced off.

“It’s a lot of jingling.”

Monster mosquitoes were flying everywhere in swarms. Still, it was much less than when the dungeon exploded before the return.

At that time, this dungeon was probably full of monster mosquitoes without a chance to even walk.

That way, hundreds of thousands of monster mosquitoes could have appeared.

It wasn’t that many now, but it seemed to be about ten thousand.

Still, if you can eat 10,000 mosquitoes by yourself, you will be able to raise your level tremendously.

Kang Ha-jin first checked the information about the monster mosquito.

[Giant Mosquito][Life: 1750, Magic: 32]

This was the only information I could check for now. Perhaps later, you will be able to recognize more detailed stats and skills.

or weakness.

Hajin Kang decided to start hunting slowly. He pulled out several chunks the size of a fist from the subspace attached to his forearm.

It was a lump made from lumps of mud, and it was red in color.

Ha-jin Kang, holding it in his hand, grinned at the warmth that was subtly transmitted through his palm.

This was the core weapon that Ha-jin Kang prepared to attack this dungeon today.

Ha-jin Kang put a lot of this in the space attached to his body and brought it with him.

The material used to make this was the crumb manastone.

I was able to make one of these from the smallest, and depending on the size, it was possible to make three or more of some.

“Now, shall we begin in earnest?”

Ha-jin Kang threw up a lump in his hand and smiled meaningfully as he received it.