Cheon Gu-nam’s intuition was telling him so.
I really wanted to know Seo Kang-rim’s secret, but that damn bandage was the problem.
Cheon Gu-nam’s eyes, glaring at Seo Kang-rim, shone sinisterly.
‘Should I just kill him halfway and check?’
At that moment, Seo Kang-rim quickly turned around.
When their eyes met, Cheon Gu-nam smiled awkwardly.
“Do you have anything to say?”
“Uh, that’s… …. Why is Seo Kang-rim trying to go alone?”
As I was trying to muddle through, a question I had always had popped out without me knowing.
Seo Kang-rim looked at Cheon Gu-nam quietly and spoke as if spitting out words.
“I’ve been getting hit in the head a lot.”
“What’s the command?”
“Yes. Some guy accidentally found out my secret and spread it around, which caused me a lot of trouble.”
That story somehow pricked Cheon Gu-nam’s conscience.
It was a strange feeling.
Clearly, Seo Kang-rim was talking about someone else, but strangely, he felt guilty.
Cheon Gu-nam smiled brightly to hide his expression.
“I see. But shouldn’t you forget and forgive? If you continue to be alone, you’ll only be at a loss.”
“If you forget, you’ll just fall victim to the same method again.”
Seo Kang-rim threw the corpse of a fire frog lying nearby into the stew.
The frog’s body sank with a gurgle.
Seo Kang-rim spoke to Cheon Gu-nam.
“Shouldn’t you repay what you’ve been through?”
Cheon Gu-nam froze slightly at those words.
It was because he felt like his true intentions had been revealed, as if he had been half-dead and wanted to check the fortune telling.
‘Are you threatening me now?’
However, upon hearing the threatening words, Cheon Gu-nam became angry.
It seems stronger than me, but it doesn’t seem that strong.
If that was the case, then why did you bring me here in the first place?
I ended up putting myself in a party because I didn’t think I could clear this room alone.
‘There will be times when he gets tired and lets his guard down. I’ll wait for that moment… … .’
Even if I couldn’t check the palm, I wanted to show an example at least once.
Seo Kang-rim said, wiping the sweat running down his cheek with the back of his hand.
“It seems like it would be difficult to see everything here in one sitting today. Let’s just check out the hill over there and then go back.”
When Seo Kang-rim pointed to a hill a little distance away, Cheon Gu-nam nodded silently.
I wanted to go back right away, but I felt like I would lose if I groaned.
As we approached the hill, the heat became even more intense.
There was a boiling pot of water the size of a small lake.
“Isn’t there something over there?”
Cheon Gu-nam said, pointing to the center of the hot pot.
In the center of the hot spring there was a small rock-like thing, and something was sparkling and shining.
“… … Is that crystal ice?”
Cheon Gu-nam smiled without realizing it.
Seo Kang-rim found what he had been unable to find no matter how many times he came here.
The problem is how to get to the center.
“Let’s go there first.”
“What are you going to do there? How are you going to get over there?”
Instead of answering, Seo Kang-rim walked forward.
Cheon Gu-nam looked at Seo Kang-rim with pity.
‘Are you just going to foolishly cross it?’
As we approached the giant fire pit, demons immediately began to approach us.
There were no fire frogs to be seen, but there were fossil ears.
Seo Kang-rim stabbed the fossil ear that was attacking Balchi with his sword.
‘Huh? Why are you catching fossil ears?’
Until just a moment ago, Seo Kang-rim was running away from the fossil ghost.
He also fought against the fossil demon, but his attacks did not work properly against the fossil demon.
While Cheon Gu-nam was just watching with no intention of fighting, Seo Kang-rim twisted the sword he had stuck in the floor and raised it upward.
Then, like a lever, the sword flipped over the fossil ear.
-Greuk geuk… … !
As the fossil ear was struggling, Seo Kang-rim stabbed his sword into its center.
All of a sudden, the fossil ear’s struggling stopped.
Seo Kang-rim took care of the surrounding fossils one by one.
As the number of demons around him decreased, Cheon Gu-nam finally approached Seo Kang-rim.
“This fossil ear… … . Wasn’t it impossible to catch it?”
“You can catch it. It’s just a little bit of a hassle.”
When I turned the fossil ear over, it looked like a crab or a turtle.
Unlike the hard outer skin, the flesh inside looked soft.
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‘How did you notice that?’
Cheon Gu-nam was amazed by Seo Kang-rim’s insight, but he didn’t say anything out loud.
Meanwhile, Seo Kang-rim approached the fire pit and stuck his sword into it.
“Mr. Seo Kang-rim, what are you doing now?”
“We are checking the water depth.”
When I pulled out the sword, moisture soaked up to half of the blade.
Seo Kang-rim dragged the corpse of the fossil ghost and threw it towards the fire pit.
The fossil ear sank into the fire with a heavy sound, but did not completely subside.
“The water in the hot spring is shallower than I thought. Mr. Cheon Gu-nam, please help me out.”
Only after hearing those words did Cheon Gu-nam start to grab the fossil ear in a hurry.
After a long period of work, a stepping stone was being made out of corpses.
Seo Kang-rim sat down on a nearby rock to rest with a tired face.
‘It looks like you were pretty badly injured fighting alone earlier.’
The more tired Seo Kang-rim became, the better it was for Cheon Gu-nam.
Meanwhile, the suspension bridge was halfway completed.
Since the fossil ear was quite heavy, it seemed like it would be difficult to make a stepping stone any higher than that.
“Mr. Cheon Gu-nam.”
At that moment, Seo Kang-rim noticed something and jumped up from his seat and said.
“It looks like the frogs are coming.”
He said, looking out over the hills.
As Seo Kang-rim said, the fire frogs were flocking.
Cheon Gu-nam glanced at the stepping stones behind him as he held his sword.
-Keguruk!
As the frogs began to rush in, Seo Kang-rim charged forward.
And Cheon Gu-nam started running in the opposite direction.
Seo Kang-rim tried to say something, but he was soon surrounded by frogs and had no time to speak.
‘You stupid kid.’
Cheon Gu-nam was running towards the center of the fire pit, leaving Seo Kang-rim behind as bait.
I stepped on the fossilized corpse and quickly approached the center.
‘I have to go out and get the crystal ice first!’
After Seo Kang-rim first attacked Dosan’s room.
People were looking at Seo Kang-rim with a look of pretended respect.
As a man of high school, I found that gaze very attractive.
What if you were to conquer Hwatang’s room first?
‘If only I could take this first… …!’
The tightrope walk had already ended, but I couldn’t hesitate any longer.
It wasn’t that far to the city center.
Cheon Gu-nam stepped into the hot spring.
“… … !”
In an instant, it felt like my legs were on fire.
But it wasn’t to the point where I couldn’t stand it at all.
Cheon Gu-nam gritted his teeth and crossed the fire pit and climbed up to the rock in the center.
“Ugh, ugh… … .”
Most of my pants were melted off, and my skin was burning, but it didn’t matter.
He picked up the shining thing lying in the center of the rock with a pained smile.
I felt a squishy sensation.
“……what?”
For ice, it felt a bit strange.
When I looked closely, it looked like a bead that sparkled with a splendid light, but it felt squishy to the touch.
No matter how I looked at it, it wasn’t ice or crystal.
It was a frog’s egg.
-Kiururuk!
When Cheon Gu-nam disturbed the nest of fireflies, the fireflies that were attacking Seo Gang-rim all stopped.
Then everyone turned their bodies toward the center of the fire pit.
When his own eggs were in danger, his attack order changed to Cheon Gu-nam.
As the frogs began to swarm, Cheon Gu-nam shouted in panic.
“Seo, Seo Kang-rim! Please help me!”
Now was not the time to consider pride or anything else.
However, Seo Kang-rim ignored Cheon Gu-nam’s words and started walking in the opposite direction.
“Mr. Seo Kang-rim! Mr. Seo Kang-rim! Hey you little punk!”
No matter how much Cheon Gu-nam called, Seo Kang-rim did not stop walking as if he could not hear him.
In an instant, frogs swarmed around Cheon Gu-nam.
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It seemed as if Cheon Gu-nam’s screams could be heard from far away.
‘The first step was successful.’
Seo Kang-rim shook off the mud on his body and walked to a nearby safe area.
‘I was thinking of letting Cheon Gu-nam roll around a bit, but he ended up crawling into the fire pit on his own.’
He placed the firefly’s corpse on a rock, recalling the sight of the squirrel running wild.
‘Now we must move on to the second step.’
Seo Kang-rim cut off the fire frog’s head and began to peel off its skin.
There were several ways to conquer this Hwatang room.
The crystal ice is so cold that frogs love to chase after it.
Before reaching the entrance, the ice melts or is stolen by frogs who grab your ankles.
That doesn’t mean there are no strategies.
For those with high agility, you can find the crystal ice and then attack by passing through the safe zone.
If you are confident in your attack power, you can also catch all the fire frogs and then take the crystal ice.
‘And there are other ways too.’
When the firefly’s stomach was cut open, a disgusting smell came out along with the heat.
Seo Kang-rim frowned and took out his intestines.
Inside I found a bag of oil.
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[Item] Combined Oil
[Grade] Insect Third Grade
[Description] Oil obtained from fireflies. It is a multi-purpose remedy. It can also be used like regular oil.
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Seo Kang-rim squeezed out some of the oil and applied it to the burn marks all over his body.
It stung a little, but soon the red scar began to subside little by little.
‘It smells a bit, but it’s effective for burns.’
After applying the oil all over his body, he dismembered the remaining fire frogs to obtain the necessary amount of oil.
The remaining body was skinned and stored separately.
This was because the skin of a firefly had excellent heat dissipation properties, so if you put ice inside the skin, it would hardly melt.
Seo Kang-rim put the oil and frog skin in his bag and went outside.
‘Now we just need to get to where the crystal ice is.’
However, it is difficult to get there while defeating countless demons.
That’s why Seo Kang-rim planned to avoid the fire frogs.
[The ability ‘Flame Flame’ is activated!]
In an instant, a small fireball was created in my hand.
In this magical realm, the flame-type supernatural ability is not of much help in attacking, but there are ways to use it other than attacking.
-Whoooosh!
As Seo Kang-rim set fire to his own body, small flames spread throughout his body along with the Hapmayu.
‘Gwangyeomiljang’ only provided Seo Kang-rim with the appropriate amount of warmth and did not cause any damage.
After turning his entire body into a ball of fire and approaching the fire pit, fire frogs appeared.
-A burrow?
Normally, the frogs would rush in like a rush, but now there was no response.
As if Seo Kang-rim wasn’t visible.
