Episode 13
It was a simple matter to target the defenseless golem’s core.
The baseball bat, swung with both hands, struck the golem squarely in the center of its chest.
However, it only broke the armor covering the core, and was not powerful enough to inflict any significant damage to the core.
The level of the golem that appears as a mid-boss is a whopping 120.
Kang Jin-hyeok’s level was currently only 55.
Even though the stats increased significantly due to the enchantment effect of the baseball bat, it wasn’t enough to make up for the level difference of more than double.
If it had been a normal monster, it would have been somewhat of a challenge, but the opponent was a mid-boss.
It was by no means an opponent to be taken lightly, as its abilities were superior to those of regular monsters.
“shit.”
The golem quickly regained its lost balance and raised its sword.
It was obvious what the sword raised high above his head was aiming for.
Kang Jin-hyeok quickly tried to step back to avoid the sword that was trying to cut him in half.
But before that, Lucia’s scream was heard first.
“Don’t be afraid and swing again!”
“yes?”
It was too much to ask them not to back down when a sword the size of a house was falling on their heads.
Can you really risk your life believing the words of someone you’ve only known for a day?
Kang Jin-hyeok surrendered himself to the gamble.
Of course, I didn’t risk my life recklessly.
I thought that even if I got hit, I would be fatally wounded but not die, since I had the armor I received from the dwarf.
If he was still alive, it would have been okay to treat him with the potion he brought.
“I don’t know!”
Kang Jin-hyeok gritted his teeth and ran forward.
It looked like an act of suicide, as he was getting closer and closer to the descending sword.
If the arrow flying from behind hadn’t struck the golem’s sword, he would have been cut down.
Kang Jin-hyeok calmed his surprised heart and hurriedly swung the baseball bat.
“Get behind!”
Snap!
The moment the bat hit the core, a cool hitting sound was heard.
The golem’s once majestic body also crumbled down, its core shattered into pieces.
Kang Jin-hyeok, who was watching the scene, sat down on the spot and held his breath.
“Whew… … I thought I was going to die.”
Even if you trusted the armor, you wouldn’t be able to charge straight into that large sword unless you had a strong heart.
Perhaps because I was more courageous than usual, my hands started shaking as I relaxed.
Even if I knew Lucia was coming, it wasn’t something I could stop on my own.
“If you were that scared, you could have just taken it out.”
Lucia thought that Kang Jin-hyeok was someone who was used to fighting.
But now that I see him, I realize that it was a mistake.
“It wouldn’t have been a big problem if you had stepped back from there.”
“That’s right… … .”
In retrospect, it was a gamble that didn’t need to be taken.
It might be foolish to risk half your life on something that has little risk if it fails.
Still, there was a reason why Kang Jin-hyeok kept moving forward without stopping.
“Still, I thought that if we trusted and went forward, things would work out better in the future.”
Once you step back, Lucia will adjust her tactics accordingly.
No matter what happened after that, Lucia would act with the knowledge that Kang Jin-hyeok did not trust her and was hiding from her.
Kang Jin-hyeok didn’t want it to turn out like that.
It was not right for trust to break down over a mid-boss, let alone a boss monster.
Lucia noticed Kang Jin-hyeok’s feelings.
“I like you quite a bit.”
Of course, I meant that I liked him as a colleague, not as a person of the opposite sex.
Kang Jin-hyeok wasn’t so stupid as to not be able to distinguish even one thing like that.
“What did you say your name was?”
“This is Kang Jin-hyeok.”
“Don’t use formal language and just talk.”
“yes?”
The story she told to let go was a way of acknowledging Kang Jin-hyeok.
But Kang Jin-hyeok couldn’t accept her proposal hastily.
“That’s a bit… … .”
“Why? Am I a burden?”
“That’s not it. I just think it’s a bit odd to speak informally to someone older than you.”
As he continued speaking, Kang Jin-hyeok felt a cold so strong that his hair stood on end.
I looked up to see what was going on and saw Lucia’s face.
Instead of having an expressionless face, all emotions were contained in the eyes.
The remark, made because she thought that since she was a half-elf, she would naturally live longer than ordinary people, struck a chord with her.
“… … What did you just say?”
The implication of Lucia’s question was that she should think carefully and revise what she had just said.
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Kang Jin-hyeok didn’t want to imagine what would happen if he chose the wrong word here.
The fleeting flashes of happy memories from my childhood may have been a flash of light.
* * *
It’s not that I’m old, but I’m saying that I’m a bit of a misnomer when it comes to my experience hunting monsters.
I was drenched in sweat as I spouted out such absurd arguments.
Kang Jin-hyeok, who was afraid of making another slip of the tongue, rarely opened his mouth while moving on to the next stage.
Lucia also remained silent, as if her anger had not subsided.
It was quite uncomfortable to just walk silently while maintaining a cold atmosphere.
Kang Jin-hyeok took out the items he had stored in his inventory while thinking about how to lighten the mood.
“Would you like some of this?”
As I was about to go out, I took out a chocolate bar and Lucia reacted.
“Would you like to eat?”
But contrary to expectations, what she was more interested in was Kang Jin-hyeok’s words rather than the chocolate bar.
After learning that the reason people use honorifics is because they are older, Lucia’s eyes widen whenever she hears honorifics.
“Hey, do you want to eat?”
“… … .”
Lucia quietly watched Kang Jin-hyeok’s hand and snatched the chocolate bar he was holding.
Then, in one breath, I opened the package and took a bite.
Kang Jin-hyeok opened his eyes wide and didn’t miss her surprised reaction.
“What is this made of?”
“I don’t know the details, but it’s probably cocoa powder and almonds.”
“I’ve never heard of these names. I guess they’re foods that are only available where you live.”
Lucia seemed to like the chocolate bar and reached out to Kang Jin-hyeok as soon as she finished eating it.
“You want more?”
“Yeah. Quickly.”
Since Lucia’s hometown didn’t have many sweet foods like this, tasting chocolate for the first time was a refreshing shock.
But even taking that into account, it was unreasonable to eat three boxes of chocolate bars by myself before reaching the boss.
I wonder if he eats that much on a regular basis.
So, I wondered where all those calories went.
Judging from the thin arms and legs, there is only one possible direction.
“Ahem!”
Kang Jin-hyeok cleared his mind of his worries by coughing alone before any unpleasant thoughts came to mind.
In front of the room where the boss was, Lucia looked at Kang Jin-hyeok strangely.
“What are you doing? Are you nervous?”
“Oh, it’s nothing.”
Kang Jin-hyeok tried to explain, but Lucia’s gaze was still focused on him.
Kang Jin-hyeok, who was panicking as if he had been caught, soon discovered the hand she was extending.
“why?”
“Why, why? Are you asking for more?”
“You mean the chocolate bar? The one you just gave me was the last one.”
“what?!”
Kang Jin-hyeok was startled when he heard Lucia’s scream.
I never expected her to react so violently.
“Stop joking and give it to me.”
“I told you there really aren’t any? Everything I brought fell through.”
“Then go back and get it!”
Lucia’s appearance was like that of a soldier who had not eaten anything sweet for months.
An obsession that would change one religion for one Choco Pie.
He was showing even more extreme words and actions.
Lucia realized her actions too late and let out an ‘Ah’.
“Uh, sorry. I guess that’s what happened to me.”
My judgment became clouded because of the sweet food I tasted for the first time.
Lucia herself didn’t understand why she was reacting this way.
I managed to appease him with superhuman patience, but his body still craved sweet food.
Lucia was unaware of it, but the phenomenon was due to the elven blood flowing through her body.
The reason why elves living in the forest could survive on only fruit and water without proper food.
The elf’s ability to obtain sufficient energy from even small amounts of sugar was causing a strange reaction when combined with human blood.
It was none other than ‘appetite’.
‘This is driving me crazy, seriously.’
Lucia’s first experience with consuming large amounts of sugar caused her to suddenly burst out with the appetite she had been suppressing.
Enduring that was a level of pain similar to the withdrawal symptoms experienced by drug addicts.
“Hey, that won’t do. Bring it back as soon as this is over. In return, I’ll teach you something good.”
“Is it good?”
“Do you know what ‘Ora’ means?”
“Come?”
“If you don’t know, just watch. I’ll show you what it is like.”
Before Kang Jin-hyeok could say anything, Lucia opened the huge door and walked into the room.
As Kang Jin-hyeok hurriedly followed behind, the dark room became bright as if someone had turned on a light.
In the spacious and secluded room, like an open playground, there was only one stone statue positioned in the center.
The stone statue, sensing Kang Jin-hyeok and Lucia’s presence, began to move while making a sound similar to crying.
“Goooooo.”
Clad in armor and armed with a sword and shield, the statue was more elaborate than any golem I had ever seen.
It was like looking at an ancient statue, more for decoration than for fighting purposes.
Lucia pulled the bowstring before the statue could rush towards them.
“I’ll only show you this once, so watch carefully.”
Kang Jin-hyeok witnessed the tip of Lucia’s arrow glowing blue.
The light from the arrow grew stronger as if gathering strength, and the moment Lucia let go of the bow, a loud noise was heard.
pop!
The arrow, fired with a sound like a bomb exploding, hit the statue’s shield.
And he blew off the statue’s left arm along with the shield.
The stone statue stared blankly at its broken body, as if it couldn’t believe its own situation.
“Ugh.”
Kang Jin-hyeok also couldn’t believe what he had just seen.
Kang Jin-hyeok couldn’t help but be shocked at the sight of the stone statue breaking as easily as a clay doll.
It was only then that Kang Jin-hyeok realized that Lucia had been saving her strength all this time.
Since Kang Jin-hyeok would have no chance to gain experience if he killed all the monsters in one shot, he tried to match that level as much as possible.
“What are you doing?”
Lucia smiled as she pointed to the dying statue.
Maybe it was because I saw her true abilities right before my eyes.
When Kang Jin-hyeok saw that smile, goosebumps ran down his spine.
“I have to go and finish it.”
As Lucia said, if you kill the dying stone statues, you can gain a lot of experience points.
But before Kang Jin-hyeok could gain experience by defeating boss monsters, there was something he wanted to ask her.
“What did you just do?”
“How did you do that? You put an aura into the arrow and shot it.”
“Come… …? Can it be used for other things besides arrows?”
“Of course it can be done.”
Kang Jin-hyeok’s eyes sparkled when he heard Lucia’s answer.
The power to destroy a huge stone statue with a single blow using a small arrow.
If you can load it on a baseball bat, you’ll never be short on power like you were as a mid-boss.
Lucia noticed that Kang Jinhyuk was interested in Aura and asked him.
“What do you think? Do you want to learn?”
Kang Jin-hyeok nodded his head up and down without even thinking about it.
It was a skill that gave missile-level firepower to ordinary arrows, so there was no way I could refuse to learn it.
