Episode 85
When we got a little farther away from the village, the Yetis appeared as if they had been waiting.
Since he hadn’t even climbed the mountain yet, there was no need to worry about an avalanche. Kang Jin-hyeok swung his baseball bat with ease.
“Kyaaaaak!”
The Yetis that had charged forward screaming fell down with their skulls broken, without exception.
After cutting off the airways of all six Yetis, Kang Jin-hyeok stored their corpses in the inventory he had emptied in advance.
Then Lucia covered her nose and frowned.
“You’re taking care of that stinking corpse?”
“If you process it well, it might be useful.”
I even prepared an empty inventory separately to prevent the smell from permeating other items.
It was a shame to throw away the monster’s corpse, which was worth every penny.
“I don’t know how you’re going to process it. That smell will never go away.”
“Then we can make something that uses that smell.”
If you somehow roll the ball and find a use for it, something will come out.
There was no harm done since I could at least get the magic stone if necessary.
“Whoever buys that is clearly out of their mind.”
Lucia could not understand what use these bodies, which stank worse than rotting fish, could possibly be made of.
There is no reason to stop it, so I just leave it alone.
No matter how much Lucia thought about it, it didn’t seem like the monster’s corpses would sell for a fair price.
“You never know. If you season it well and eat it, it could be a good ingredient.”
“I’d rather starve to death than eat yeti meat.”
Lucia’s words were sincere.
It would be better for my mental health to starve than to eat meat that stinks like that.
Even if a ghost that died from eating is pretty, there is a limit to it.
“If you’ve packed everything, let’s hurry and go. I can’t stand the smell.”
“It’s a smell I’ll be smelling for a long time, so why don’t I just get used to it?”
“I’m really getting used to it.”
Lucia has lived as an adventurer for many years and has encountered all sorts of strange creatures.
Yeti is the worst of the worst.
The appearance wasn’t that gross, but the smell was something I couldn’t get used to even after several years.
As they set off again and encountered another pack of Yetis, Lucia’s face became as wrinkled as a crumpled newspaper.
“There are twenty of them coming this time.”
Kang Jin-hyeok’s eyes lit up at the thought of making money.
Lucia frowned even more as she noticed those capitalist eyes.
If I just watched them take care of all those Yetis one by one, I felt like I would suffocate from the stench first.
Lucia chose an arrow that focused her aura as a solution.
Before Kang Jin-hyeok could even step forward, Lucia fired an arrow with more mana than was sufficient for the Yetis.
The arrow flew powerfully, tearing through the wall of sound, and tore its body into pieces the moment it made contact with the Yeti.
Because the Yetis were coming in a group without warning, Lucia was able to blow away three or four of them at once with just one arrow.
Kang Jin-hyeok sighed at the sight of that miserable sight.
“What are you doing! You have to leave the body behind!”
“Sorry. My hands were frozen from the cold, so I couldn’t control my strength very well.”
“Don’t joke around! Anyone can tell that it was intentional!”
Lucia shrugged her shoulders calmly and dismissed the question.
In a situation where there was only circumstantial evidence and physical evidence, Kang Jin-hyeok could not pursue the issue further.
The best he could do was to get out before the arrows could tear the Yetis apart.
Lucia quickly cast the next arrow as Kang Jin-hyeok ran forward.
‘That won’t do!’
Lucia’s opinion that ‘a stinking monster is useless’ and Kang Jin-hyeok’s assertion that there must be a use for it somehow.
The Yetis, caught up in two conflicting opinions, split apart at a terrifying speed.
Lucia fired arrows sparingly to blow away the Yetis without a trace, while Kang Jin-hyeok moved his feet diligently to catch the Yetis before that.
As they climbed the snow-covered mountain, the number of Yetis increased, but it was impossible to keep Kang Jin-hyeok and Lucia tied down for long.
Even with a massive attack by thirty men, it took less than five minutes for them to be completely wiped out.
“Damn… …! I met over 200 of them, but I only caught 50.”
“Oh, you shouldn’t have been so lazy.”
“It’s all your fault!”
“Why me? I already gave you the useful magic stones.”
Lucia threw the leather pouch she had kept on her waist to Kang Jin-hyeok.
At some point, he had gathered the magic stones, but his pocket was full of the magic stones of the Yetis that Kang Jin-hyeok had not been able to collect.
“Throw away that smelly corpse and take your magic stone.”
In some ways, Lucia’s words may be right.
Even Kang Jin-hyeok thought that the Yeti’s stench was not something that could be tolerated with just a little bit of stomach odor.
But when Lucia came out like that, I started to feel useless.
Kang Jin-hyeok vowed to himself that he would come up with an ingenious way to utilize the Yeti’s corpse, no matter what.
Of course, making that pledge didn’t change the current situation.
Kang Jin-hyeok couldn’t come up with an idea until he almost reached the dragon’s nest.
Because I was lost in my thoughts, I ended up hunting Yetis slower than before.
Fortunately, they had climbed quite a bit up the mountain and Lucia was starting to worry about avalanches.
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Since we couldn’t just shoot arrows recklessly, it was difficult to turn the Yetis’ corpses into dust.
Lucia had no choice but to watch as Kang Jinhyuk piled the Yeti corpses into his inventory one by one.
“Hahaha! This is the room leader’s fraud map!”
Kang Jin-hyeok felt a sense of relief at the sight of Lucia shivering while enduring the stench.
Even though he also suffered from the smell, Kang Jin-hyeok was intoxicated with the feeling of being a useless winner.
“Just pack moderately and move around. You’ll be arriving at your destination soon.”
“I know.”
We had to reach the place that was assumed to be the dragon’s nest before the sun set.
Kang Jin-hyeok hurriedly finished cleaning up and followed Lucia, who was leading the way, towards the roughly cut cliff.
As I lightly jumped over a not-so-high cliff, the scenery beyond came into view.
“Is this… a lake?”
What Kang Jin-hyeok saw was a frozen lake of enormous size.
The surrounding mountains covered in pure white snow, surrounding it like a folding screen, looked like a painting.
“It’s no wonder I hear rumors that dragons live here.”
“You can’t know for sure unless you try it yourself.”
Lucia took hold of the bow that had been hanging on her back, keeping the avalanche in mind.
“What are you going to do?”
“Well, I guess I’ll have to summon the dragon.”
White dragons spend more than half of their day sleeping, so they don’t move their bodies for any reason.
If you want to meet before the sun sets, the best way is to wake her up in one breath with a strong stimulus.
“Let me see that handsome face.”
Lucia let go of the string she had been pulling with all her might, with a playful smile on her face.
The heavy steel arrows made by the dwarves flew through the wind with the power of the aura added to them.
The arrow flew for what seemed like several kilometers and landed in the middle of an ice lake.
The arrow that collided with the ice suddenly vomited out the aura it was holding.
Boom!
The ice lake shook violently with an unbelievable roar that could only be attributed to a single arrow.
The solidly frozen surface of the lake was completely shattered, and a huge column of water rose from the center of the lake.
What emerged from the water spray was a dragon with pure white scales.
However, it was somewhat different from the dragon that Kang Jin-hyeok had seen in games and novels.
The wings of the dragon that emerged from the lake had scales that grew long like feathers, like the wings of a bird.
It was a fresh shock to Kang Jin-hyeok, who had expected it to look like a bat’s wings covered with a membrane.
“What kind of guy is he?”
The dragon’s voice was coming directly to my head, not my ears.
It was a remarkably calm voice considering he had been ambushed while he was sleeping.
“I succeeded in one go!”
I never thought the day would come when I would see a dragon with my own two eyes.
When he witnessed the magnificent sight with his own eyes, Kang Jin-hyeok’s heart began to pound with excitement.
“What are we going to do now? Is it over if we shoot another arrow?”
Kang Jin-hyeok, who wanted to fight directly, showed strong determination and turned his head towards Lucia.
“Hey, why are you looking like that?”
Kang Jin-hyeok felt puzzled when he saw Lucia’s expression turn as white as a blank sheet of paper.
Lucia’s appearance was that of someone shocked by an unbelievable sight.
He shot an arrow himself with the intention of summoning a dragon, and then he made that kind of expression. From Kang Jin-hyeok’s perspective, it was just strange.
“What’s wrong?”
“Yeah. There’s something very wrong.”
The moment he heard Lucia’s words, Kang Jin-hyeok remembered the anxiety he had felt before coming here.
Yeah, things in this world can’t go that smoothly.
Kang Jin-hyeok let out a deep sigh, as if he had expected this development to occur.
“Isn’t that just a white dragon?”
“… … .”
Even though Lucia didn’t answer, Kang Jin-hyeok realized that his question was correct.
“I’m asking just in case, is that the guy you mentioned as the Agent Dragon?”
“Huh huhu… … You’re quick-witted.”
Lucia laughed like a crazy person, then suddenly came to her senses.
Lucia quickly lowered her waist before the dragon could turn its head in her direction.
“What are you doing! You get down too!”
Seeing Kang Jin-hyeok standing upright, Lucia grabbed his body with her hand and pulled him towards her.
“I haven’t discovered this side yet, so I guess I can just jump in.”
“really?”
“……no.”
Lucia thought about it calmly and shook her head, denying what she had said.
Considering the abilities of the Agent Dragon, there was no way Kang Jin-hyeok and Lucia could not be found.
As expected, when the two people held their breath and did not reveal themselves, the dragon immediately began to search the surroundings.
Rather than looking around with its own body, the dragon scanned the area around its nest with the power of mana.
“Did you think you could hide?”
The dragon ignored all signs of Yetis around it and searched for the source of such atrocities.
Soon, the dragon noticed the presence of Kang Jin-hyeok and Lucia and quickly closed the distance with a light movement of its wings.
“You were here.”
The dragon’s face suddenly appeared in front of Kang Jin-hyeok and Lucia, who were bending down.
The dragon noticed the bow in Lucia’s hand and was convinced that she was the culprit.
“What were you thinking when you woke up this body?”
There was no sign of anger on the dragon’s face.
Rather than getting angry, he seemed to be thinking about how to deal with the cheeky kid’s prank.
“If you give me a convincing answer, I will kill you right here and now without any pain.”
The glimmer of hope that Kang Jin-hyeok and Lucia had was shattered in an instant.
The dragon was not only angry, but also had no intention of showing mercy to those who had awakened him.
‘If this continues, it’s going to be a mess.’
We are going to die anyway. So let’s at least rebel with all our might and then die.
Kang Jin-hyeok thought so and grabbed a baseball bat.
“I came here to have a go, Emma!”
The dragon burst into loud laughter when he heard Kang Jin-hyeok’s words.
