Chapter 233 – The Black Mud Swamp (1)

「Class A Dungeon, Black Mud Swamp」

Monday, which was supposed to meet with Doshi-hee and maid Eun-byeol, came back quite quickly.

Inside the dungeon, the girls and I, who met at the rendezvous point, formed a party and battled against the A-class monsters, the wind gnats.

After a few rounds of full-blown group hunting, we each took our own positions and established an organized party system.

“Shihee, on the right!”

“I checked!”

Doshi-hee, who heard me, nodded her head with the words that she understood.

Right after that, the arcane arrow shot by the blonde girl shot straight up into the sky.

It wasn’t long before the arrow flew from her hand, and a single arcane arrow plunged right into the wind gnat’s body.

-Paud deude deuk!!

Is it because of the pain from the arrows stuck in her body, or because her body parts were damaged due to injuries?

The wind gnat, which had been pierced through the exoskeleton in her chest, began to slowly fall to the ground with a loud flapping of its wings.

“Eunbyeol, finish!”

“All right!”

The wind stumbled and fell. Around the time the distance between the gnats approached a certain distance, a sharp iron rod protruded from under Eunbyeol’s wrist.

The second attack, which was slightly more precise, pierced the monster’s head accurately.

-Pazuz…

Wind gnats fall powerlessly to the ground due to the second attack following the arcane arrow.

It was such a great collaboration that you could tell that it was a link between two people who had been working together for a long time.

… Yeah, this is a party hunt.

“Kim Seongcheol! It’s behind!”

“Has confirmed!”

As I was watching the two of them breathing, I heard Eunbyul’s voice calling me from behind.

A group of wind gnat larvae rushing at me from behind, as if rolling their heavy bodies, immediately caught my eye.

While they are still B-class monsters in their larval state, the danger is the same as that of A-class monsters when they come in such large numbers at once.

After sharpening as much strength as I could use on my greatsword, I swung it horizontally toward the crowd of monsters running this way.

– Chow! Chew!

With a loud sound, the black air cut the gnat larva’s body in half, and the body fluids and contents spurted out.

… It wasn’t a very nice sight.

Although it is a relatively benign monster like a slug, the sight of the contents spilling out from being ripped open by the blade of a greatsword cannot be said to be such a good sight even with empty words.

Besides, even though it was cut with a sword, due to inertia, the monster’s corpse fragments were still flying towards us.

If you don’t want to be overtaken by a filthy monster’s corpse, you need to ensure post-processing.

In order to block the corpse of the wind gnat larvae, he held the ‘spear’ he took out of his subspace pouch in his right hand.

Right before throwing it with the ‘Javelin’, 2 circles of cold magic were applied to the spear in the hand.

The most basic principle of cold magic is the drop in temperature.

The simplest logic that causes a drop in temperature is the vaporization reaction of matter, and of course, cold magic is also based on that principle.

Mana dissipation, vaporization, condensation, condensation, vaporization.

My spear, enchanted with 2 circles of 5 stages of cold magic, and the javelin ability, crashed into the center of a mass of monster corpses.

At the same time, my ice spear, which began to react, solidified the surroundings into a single block of ice from that moment on.

Originally, it was a difficult skill to use because it was difficult to match the timing of magic and javelin, but it was not that difficult for me to use the two myself.

Thanks to the skill that went well without failure, there was no need to overwhelm the corpse of a monster while hunting.

After finishing the third hunt already like that.

As the temporary party leader, I was looking at Si-hee and Eun-byeol’s condition, and the blond lady suddenly responded with a shock.

“… No matter how many times you look at it, it’s a technique that doesn’t make sense, that’s it.”

“Yes?”

“The one that I use with a javelin and attribute magic on it by myself, calmly. If you think about it since your pre-hunter days, it’s already been more than 5 years since you’ve been a hunter, but I’ve never seen anyone use such a skill alone.”

When I asked what he was talking about, he seemed to be spitting out his impressions of the ice spear I had just used.

“Well, I guess. Spear magic and cold magic must be awakening abilities that operate with completely different types of history. In the first place, there will be no hunters who use both awakening abilities at the same time.”

“You, who calmly say that as if it were natural, are really… If I have parties with Seongcheol often, I think my senses will be strange.”

“You’ll see it more often in the future, what?”

I wouldn’t know if it was when I was partying with a stranger who had nothing to do with me, but I had no intention of hiding the level of my awakening ability in front of Do Shi-hee or Eun-byeol, who knew my awakening ability.

It would be difficult to get used to it in the future if I showed a surprised reaction to each of these things.

“And there are probably no single people like me who use it alone, but isn’t the synthesis technology itself a pretty common concept? In fact, both of the techniques I used for synthesis are only C- or B-class skills.”

“Are you saying that you know how difficult it is to synthesize two hunters in sync?”

“Yes?”

“Ice spears that simply apply cold magic to javelins is a technique that has a much higher chance of failure unless it is moderate breathing, right?”

Having said that, Sihee began to preach about the difficulties of synthesis technology as if she were an experienced person.

“If the ice magic is delayed beyond the timing of the javelin, the synthesis itself will not work, and on the contrary, if the cold magic is too fast, it freezes before flying, or even freezes the hand of the hunter using the javelin.”

“Well, it’s a case I hear often.”

“It’s also a skill like Ice Spear, so that’s how it ends. Skills like Flame Spear and Wind Spear lead to much more severe injuries.”

“Sometimes I think that might be the case.”

“Since you use both skills alone, you should be able to adjust the timing yourself, but in reality, two hunters need to work together for at least 2-3 years to use them together.”

After hearing the explanation with the strangely specific figures, my head nodded automatically in line with it.

“The number of hunters who actually use synthesis technology in the field is extremely small, Mr. Kim Seong-cheol. Not only does it take a long time to get the perfect match, but if you make a mistake, you often have to stop the campaign that day and return to receive treatment.”

“Well, even if it’s a melee hunter, it’s going to be hard to fight for a long time if your hands are burned or frozen by magic.”

“Yes. And in the field where you have to focus on the battle, it is much more efficient to fight with your awakening ability than to spend time using synthesis skills.”

It’s powerful once it’s perfected, but it’s hard to handle perfectly, so it’s a skill that I can’t help but use.

In this respect, I was able to realize that my multi-awakening ability was a huge advantage in many ways.

… Come to think of it, it seemed like he gave a detailed explanation as if he had experience using synthetic technology.

I don’t like to put up with questions, so I called them in and asked them additional questions about synthetic technology.

“Si-hee, Eun-byeol.”

“Yes?”

“What is it, Seongcheol Kim?”

“I heard that you two have been working together for quite some time. If so, are there any synthesis techniques that you two can use?”

After hearing my words, Si-hee and Eun-byeol looked at each other, exchanged glances, and nodded their heads almost simultaneously.

“There are some catch techniques that I made during my pre-hunter days.”

“Since becoming a full-time hunter, I have focused on improving my individual capabilities, so what I can show you is not a proper skill.”

“Can you show me one more time? I suddenly wonder what synthesis techniques other hunters are using.”

“… OK then. There are also useful targets over there.”

-Pard de de de de de de deuk!

Doshi-hee, who was pointing at the wind gnats that just came flying in, looked at Eun-byeol and said,

“Say goodbye, should we use skill 3?”

“I understand, master.”

Doshi-hee’s bowstring was pulled and an arcane arrow made of energy was formed, and the wind that was flying in this direction flew towards the gnat in a slightly twisted state.

Soon, along with the sound of strong wind, two thin blades protruding from Eunbyeol’s hand followed closely behind the arrow.

After chasing after the tail of the arcane arrow, the wind blade passed through the arrow vertically in a parabolic arc in the air.

The arcane arrow, which started off with one foot at first, split into four pieces in the air, and all four feet were embedded in the body of the wind gnat, drawing their own trajectories.

-Cuzzuzu…

The wind gnat (what it was) crashed with the sound of powerless flapping of wings.

The two people who showed the linking skill of archery ability and magnetism gave me a look that was not clear.

“About that much. It’s worse than you think, isn’t it?”

“It’s just a shameful catch-up technique to show to Kim Seong-cheol.”

No. Dog shit, this.