Chapter 70 – Path to Class B Hunter (2)
“A grade B dungeon. The pitch-black cave.”
The place I entered to carry out the third quest was a B-class dungeon named the Jet-Dark Cave.
A black slime that must be dealt with with two means: a physical attack and a magic attack.
A skeleton that cannot be captured neatly without using divine power or light magic.
Like the other quests where something was flawed one by one.
“20 Black Bat Cores”
This last quest also did not disappoint and contained one or more annoying elements.
As you can vaguely guess from the name of the dungeon, the jet-black cave.
Except for the entrance where the warp gate was installed, this cave was a space encroached in darkness.
It was an uncomfortable space in many ways, especially in that vision among the five senses of the body was completely blocked.
In addition, the light and magic used to illuminate the inside of the dungeon also cut off within 10 cm.
It’s practically a place where you have to give up your sight and go into battle.
In a state where you don’t even know what kind of monster is attacking you in the dark, you have to fight with only sound and intuition.
Unpopular dungeons definitely had a reason for being unpopular.
Hunters who dare to venture into such a dungeon to hunt are at most two types.
Hunters who want to train their senses to sense the presence of monsters while their senses are blocked.
Or a hunter who has no choice but to visit to carry out a request.
And I was a body corresponding to both.
Sensing presence and hunting monsters in a situation where vision is blocked.
Because there was no other environment as good as this to find out my limits.
If it becomes possible for me to be included in the A-class party led by Kang Hye-eun after I safely transfer to the company.
Of course, there was no choice but to consider the activities after that.
As far as I remember, Kang Hye-eun started her apprentice hunter life from her first year of high school.
Even if she couldn’t do it alone, the conclusion I could draw was that she had been her hunter life for close to 5 years.
Even Han Min-ah, who has the shortest career, had a long rolling career until she became a hunter for at least two years and became an A-class hunter.
Judging by the fact that Han Min-ah calls her older sister Yuri-na Cha, another member of the party, and Ji-hee Cheon, whom she has never met before.
Perhaps those two people’s careers are by no means short compared to Kang Hye-eun or Han Min-ah.
On the other hand, my hunter experience is only about a month old.
In order to follow the beat of such people, it was necessary to go through more intense practical experience.
The training to block one sense and implement it would be a good enough practice.
Above all, I can make the most of the three skills I have now.
As the level of fire magic rises, reading the flow of magic becomes more sensitive.
I was able to use it to figure out the location of monsters approaching me naturally in the dark.
Relying on hearing, not sight, and the sixth sense, he swung his sword into the air.
‘Suddenly!’
“Kieek!”
As soon as the sound of the bat-type monster collapsing with a painful scream echoed through the cave.
I felt the flow of magical power as if dozens of monsters were moving from side to side at once.
From which direction, which monster will fly first. Although it was a limited environment where they had to rely only on subtle hearing and the flow of magical power.
Even in such an extreme situation, my heart was strangely feeling joy.
‘Suddenly!’
“Kieek!”
“Keeek… !”
I felt two more monsters cutting me with the blade.
Even if you get an unexpected wound, there is a level 3 recovery skill.
It was the last request, and it was not a bad environment for training.
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Swinging the sword in the dark, blinded, relying only on sound and the flow of magic power, about three hours.
“In the middle of the day… !”
‘Suddenly!’
“… Eh.”
Ending with the screams of the dead monsters in the last quick cut.
There was no sign of the monster approaching any further than that.
“… Whoa.”
I let out a sigh of relief at the thought that the battle was finally over.
To be honest, it wasn’t an easy situation for C- and B-rank monsters to attack randomly in the dark.
Even in the movement of those monsters, there were minimum rules.
How many monsters can attack at once, and how the monsters behave when the first attack misses.
Knowing how to deal with monsters attacking from different directions was a knowledge that could not be realized without first-hand experience.
Even though it was only three hours of training, I could feel myself growing as a hunter myself.
Surprisingly, the opponents who had a hard time dealing with were not B-class monsters that flew from the air like black bats or gray bats, but C-class monsters that attacked on the ground.
Guys like cave rats and cave centipedes.
There were several times when I was in danger because of the guys who were aiming for my legs or ankles and attacking me while I was swinging my sword.
In the midst of dealing with bat monsters in the air, my skills were still not enough to grasp even those guys.
Still, since he had a level 3 recovery skill, it was an attack that he could withstand.
After the three-hour hunt, which was like a defense game, was all over.
I picked up the rest of the materials while lighting the distance in front of my nose with flame magic.
The reason why this dungeon is unpopular is that it is inconvenient to retrieve the material.
If there were no other monsters in the way, it would have been enough to slowly sweep the floor and pick up materials.
In real life, things would hardly have happened so easily.
I’m probably the only hunter who has entered this dungeon to use the ignorant hunting method of picking up the remaining material after killing all the monsters that rush into it.
Apart from this method being the most efficient in solo hunting, there were no other options at all.
If the number of monsters caught was counted, it would have broken through three digits.
Unfortunately, the remaining space of the subspace pocket cannot accommodate that many materials.
Above all, there was a possibility that another group of monsters would reappear after a long time here.
Among the materials that fell on the floor, I secured only the monster’s core as quickly as possible and put it in the subspace pocket.
After a few minutes of relying on that dim light to collect cores regardless of class B or C.
“20 Black Bat Cores”
As soon as I completed the criteria for completing the quest, which was my initial goal, I left the rest of the materials in moderation and moved to the warp gate leading out of the dungeon.
The remaining items are a little wasteful, but let’s not have regrets.
After I leave the company anyway, that amount of damage will be more than enough to make up for.
Entrusting my consciousness to the pure white light that surrounds my body.
As soon as the conditions for completing the last quest were met, he returned to the guild.
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When I returned to the guild from the last dungeon, the short hand of the clock was already passing the number 6.
If it was 6 o’clock in the morning, it could have been interpreted as a long hunt, but it was 6 o’clock in the evening when I came out.
If you think back to the first dungeon, the tar pit, last night.
It was the equivalent of spending almost a full day in three dungeons.
It’s definitely in the dungeon, so the concept of time is a little loose.
In addition, the remaining capacity of the subspace pocket, which had 200 slots, reached a single digit.
Excluding the amount that was used as a personal space, it was like collecting hundreds of dozens of materials from three dungeons.
It would have more than doubled if we included the material left behind in the dungeon, so the actual achievements would have been more than that.
Of course, what’s more important than that is the completion of this quest, which will also give you an opportunity to raise your Hunter rank.
After exiting the dungeon entrance window and moving directly to the request window.
Without delay, he handed the information staff a hunter’s license with magic stamps.
As it is the time to complete the B-class quest, while wearing a mask so as not to be seen as a male hunter.
“I want to complete quest #63230.”
“Number 63230… ?”
“Yes, number 63230.”
The receptionist’s eyes widened whenheheard the request number from the previous number.
I just spit out the answer that I did my job.
“Now, wait a minute.”
The receptionist, slightly embarrassed, hurriedly looked for request number 63230 on his computer.
“Ah yes! The conditions for completing the quest are to submit 10 black slime cores and 10 bottles of black slime.”
As soon as the guide finished talking, I took out ten cores and ten vials from my subspace pocket and put them in.
If it was originally, it would look like it was pulling things out of the air, so of course I couldn’t use it as it was.
A suitably empty leather pouch was disguised as if it were holding a monster material pouch.
I didn’t have to show the inside of my pocket anyway, so I didn’t have to worry about being found out.
“Ten black slime cores, ten bottles of slime….”
After receiving the goods from me, the receptionist checks each one to see if the material is authentic.
“Yes, I have confirmed that all 20 materials are free!”
With a bright smile, he announced that the request had been completed.
“Thank you for completing the deadline, which was only six hours away! The person who submitted this request is also lucky!”
“Is that so.”
“Please take good care of the remaining two quests!”
Saying that, she sat at her reception desk and seemed to be saying goodbye to me.
Of course, I wasn’t doing my job here.
“I want to complete quest #96586 as well.”
“Yes?”
The receptionist asked in a stupid voice, as if my next words were unexpected.
I calmly took out the skeleton’s femur bone from the subspace pouch.
“Now, wait a minute. You said it was commission 96586, right?”
“Yes, it is.”
“Number 96586… Ah, I found it. Apparently, it says to collect 30 femur bones of skeletons….”
I pushed the material to complete the next request in front of the muttering staff while checking the request.
The employee, who was dumbfounded for a while, immediately started appraisal work to complete the next request.
After she checked all 30 materials over 5 minutes.
In a cautious voice, she told me that she had completed the second quest.
“The 30 femur bones of the skeleton were confirmed to be all intact.”
“I will also complete quest number 119950.”
“… Yes?”
It was annoying to wait for each one to be surprised.
Immediately, he took out the black bat core from his subspace pocket and held it in front of the employee.
The panicked employee also started to move her hand first as work was pushed in front of her eyes.
“Request number 119950…. Collect Black Bat Cores….”
“…….”
“Okay, I’ll handle it as the request is complete….”
With this, I completed all three quests I received before entering the dungeon yesterday.
“I-you accepted these requests last night, right?”
“Yes. Is there any problem?”
“Oh no! Of course, the sooner the better. Thank you for your hard work in completing the three B-class quests.”
“Oh, and can you buy the rest of the materials?”
“… W, are there more here?”
“These are additional by-products obtained in the process of carrying out the quest.”
Finally, I took out the rest of the ingredients from the subspace pocket and pushed them in.
This time, her expression changed to blatant bewilderment.
“This, so many…. This. This is a skeleton core…. This is a cave centipede core, this is a skeleton’s humerus and this is a cave rat….”
“Are there any items you don’t buy?”
“Oh, no. All of them are subject to purchase.”
“Then please buy them all. All payments will be made in cash.”
“Lord, my lord! I don’t have enough cash at the counter, so please open the safe!”
From the completion of the request to the settlement of the rest of the materials, it took almost an hour to finish it.
That day, the balance in my bank account was thick for the first time in a long time.