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Sangsu, who was the first to arrive at the meeting place, turned his head at the sound of footsteps approaching.
It’s Teresa.
“Are you here?”
Sangsu greeted with a tired voice.
“uh.”
Teresa answers with a similarly tired expression.
Both of them had a good day of rest in reality, but they looked tired.
Because I knew all too well what was coming.
After staring into space in silence for a while, Sangsu asked as if he had lost his mind.
“You’re going to run a lot again, right?”
“… … .”
Teresa didn’t bother to answer.
As if I really had to say that.
No, Teresa didn’t even have the energy to open her mouth.
In the silence that fell, Teresa and Sangsu recalled the day they met Dojin.
The very day I started hunting.
“Huk… Huk… I can’t do this anymore because my stamina is low. Soso hasn’t learned how to recover stamina yet. I think I’ll get exhausted if I keep going like this, so I think I should go to the village and rest.”
It was the appeal of Sangsu, who worked the hardest as a hunter and sub-dealer and got tired the fastest.
But Dojin, as if he had expected it, took something out of his inventory and handed it to Sangsu.
[Stamina Potion]
It was a stamina recovery potion that most people did not carry around because of its expensive price.
Dojin put the same thing in Teresa’s hand, saying that she would use it when she got tired.
Until this point, the two thought Dojin was a really good person.
He is the kind of person who even provides expensive potions without holding back.
But after nine hours, Sangsu and Teresa realized something was wrong.
“I think I really need to rest. It’s not my body, but my mind that’s tired. Judging by my blurry vision, I’ll be a little while… … .”
“Me too. My vitality and stamina are fine, but I sometimes feel dizzy, so I… … .”
Before the two people had even finished speaking.
“Oh, that’s okay. Here, just drink this.”
[speed]
It is also used as a doping drug in the hands of Teresa and Sangsu, and a drug that forcibly awakens the mind is held.
I think they gave drugs to soldiers during World War II.
The reason was to make people forget about fear, drowsiness, fatigue, hunger, etc., and to function as fighting machines regardless of whether they were damaged or not.
Dojin’s eyes, smiling as he told me not to worry since he had brought plenty of potions, seemed to be saying this.
‘You have a ton of work to do. Where are you going? Are you sick? Don’t worry. We’ve got plenty of painkillers. Are you sleepy? Don’t worry about that either. We’ve got coffee and energy drinks. If you can’t stand it, we’ve got plenty of drugs ready. You can just get off work after you’re dead.’
As a result, Teresa and Sangsu were forced to take stimulants and hunt for 62 hours over three days.
I only had 10 hours of rest out of 72 hours.
At the end of the flashback, both people had the same thought.
I want to run away.
Even so, the reason I am waiting for Dojin here is… … .
“The level is rising too quickly… I can’t even run away.”
Teresa finally opened her mouth.
“… That’s the problem. 1.5 upgrades in three days? If we had done it ourselves, it would have taken ten days… no, two weeks. But, aside from that, are you okay, Soso? Why are you so quiet?”
Sangsu asked Soso, who had suddenly appeared, as he turned his head.
“what?”
“No, that guy. I appreciate it, but honestly, it’s tough. You didn’t really like playing this game in the first place.”
I wondered what it meant.
Soso, who only then realized what kind of conversation they were having, answered as if it was nothing.
“I’m okay. Even when a monster runs towards me, he takes care of it all by himself, so later I just sit back and heal him. And honestly, it’s fun. Watching you two roll around.”
“… … .”
“… … .”
The two manual laborers at the party looked at each other with pity and sighed in self-mockery.
“If it’s that hard, then just quit. We’ll have an appointment soon anyway. When he comes, we can just apologize and leave.”
Hoo. The two people let out a deep sigh at the same time.
Among them, Teresa muttered like an old man who had experienced all the hardships of life.
“That’s too much experience for that.”
“It’s the same as Lee Ha-dong… … .”
A constant follower of Teresa’s words.
Soso looked at the two people with pitiful eyes.
“hello.”
At that moment, Dojin appeared with light steps.
It was a calm complexion without any sign of fatigue or exhaustion.
“Let’s go for now.”
Dojin walks ahead as if there is no need for further explanation.
Teresa followed, dragging her hammer.
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As soon as he entered the dungeon, Dojin’s eyes changed as if a switch had been flipped, and he led the party without hesitation this time as well.
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Tight operations that do not allow even the slightest waste.
The two slave dealers, who were in charge of mobbing and dealing with the monsters while panting, were really suffering from hard labor, running around, breaking, destroying, and chopping until they were out of breath.
Teresa and Sangsu were confused as to whether they were hunting in a game or being sold as quarry slaves and doing odd jobs.
It was a situation where they couldn’t even expect to be able to rest.
This was because I had already received today’s ‘medicine’ as if I was receiving rations before starting the hunt.
When Teresa and Sangsu saw the devil’s smile as he gave them medicine and told them to cheer up today, they thought.
‘This kid is now even trying to save on distribution time… …!’
1 hour… 2 hours… 4 hours… and more, more, more.
He drove silently, breaking, destroying, and slicing like a miner on drugs.
Experience points increase. Items appear. A lot of them appear.
But it’s hard. It’s so hard that I feel like I’m going to die.
My mouth smelled like sweat, and my skin, which kept sweating and drying out, felt like a sandy beach.
Still, they kept moving.
Looking at them, Dojin thought.
‘It’s holding up better than I thought.’
Dojin had nothing to do but curse, except when an emergency arose.
Healers can also replenish their health points as they are consumed, and rest for the rest of the time.
But those two were continuously exposed to combat without any rest time.
In such a situation, the fact that such a long-term forced march could be sustained was proof of the considerable willpower of the player who endured it.
‘I tried to adjust it to fit when he gave up and said he couldn’t stand it anymore… I didn’t know he would grit his teeth and follow me like this.’
Honestly, it exceeded my expectations.
Dojin
Level: 43
Class: Book of Truth
Strength: 22
Agility: 24
Stamina: 102
Intelligence: 237
Skill: ( 1 ) [Open]
Characteristics: ( 2 ) [Open]
While the two slaves were busy hitting the cursed golem, Dojin leisurely checked the status window.
I’ve leveled up two levels in the past four days, and I’ve gained about a quarter of my experience from hunting today.
Considering that I used one day as a break, it’s actually a really fast pace considering that I achieved growth in just three days.
We’re slowly entering a period where the required experience points are increasing rapidly, but it’s still encouraging growth.
This growth rate was certainly due in part to the contributions of two determined dealers.
Hunting, which is originally a very tedious task, requires perseverance and grit rather than skill, and these two had that.
After casting a curse once, you can gain experience points automatically even if you just yawn for a while.
In the meantime, check out the status window and try interpreting the magic of Truth.
Dojin felt a languid and boring joy from the leisurely hunting.
Then, Dojin took a moment to look around to see how much the two had become accustomed to this place.
It seems that the inspectors have reached a point where they are looking for efficient routes to run as little as possible and hunt mobs.
Was it Terrasa? The warrior side seemed to have mastered a very efficient hammering technique.
What should I say… It’s like the body is twisting itself to be able to attack with minimal movement.
Rather than growing as a warrior, I feel like I’d rather roll around on a construction site and get sick, so I feel like a day laborer who learned the ropes on his own… … In any case, I can see that he’s grown.
‘At that level, I think I can roll it from the inside.’
They say that people learn quickly when they are treated harshly.
Thinking about it, Dojin spoke to the two dealers who were panting as if their hearts were going to burst after dealing with the monsters that had just arrived.
“I think it’s time to move now.”
Teresa, who was leaning on the hammer, reacted to those words.
“Where? Is there a need to move?”
I feel like I’m going to die, so please just sit here and rest for a bit. If I want to move, I have to walk!
She said that with her expression, but Dojin didn’t even look at her.
I was just saying what I had to say.
“I’m going to try going inside the dungeon. There are more monsters and more experience points as you go inside the dungeon than at the entrance.”
If you’re lucky, you may see elite monsters or even boss monsters.
Of course, it would be too greedy to see and catch a boss monster in an open dungeon like this… … .
While Dojin was thinking like this, Teresa tilted her head and said.
“Uh… If we go inside here, there’s nothing special, right? Right, Sangsu?”
When Teresa called him, Sangsu, who had been sitting there, waved his hand as if he had no energy to speak.
As if telling them to do as they please.
Teresa shot him a look and continued.
“The room you come out of as soon as you enter the mine shaft from the entrance is the largest hunting ground. That’s why it’s called the big room. If you go down the shaft over there, there’s a smaller open space, and that’s called the small room. They say that since the room size and the number of mobs are not as big as this one, people don’t go there unless the big room is saturated.”
Didn’t you know that this is something that always comes up in tips and information related to scrap iron? Dojin’s expression became serious when he asked.
‘There are only two rooms?’
How could that be?
‘There are dozens of tunnels that are open… Ah.’
Why is it that there are now only two empty spaces, when there used to be many more, woven like a spider’s web along dozens of tunnels?
There is nothing to ask, nothing to think about, nothing to worry about.
‘It was originally blocked.’
Ososo and the others followed me with goosebumps at the new realization.
“Where is the small room?”
“Hey, over there and over there.”
Teresa responds intimidated by Dojin’s changed gaze.
“Why are you suddenly like that?”
Dojin’s expression became lively enough for Soso, who had been sitting there all day without saying a word, to react.
“I’ll have to check it out, but there’s something that’s bothering me. Just a moment.”
“Huh? I said over there and over there? All the other tunnels are blocked. And no monsters are coming out… …!”
Teresa, bewildered by Do-jin’s path towards a completely random, dead-end tunnel, follows him, slung her hammer over her shoulder and running.
As Teresa moved, Soso naturally got up and followed her. She grabbed Sangsu’s hair as he tried to rest.
“Wait, wait! I told you there’s really nothing there if you go there?”
Dojin said to Teresa, who was feeling frustrated.
“I have something to check.”
“What?”
“I’ll tell you when I’m sure.”
When they reached the point where the tunnel was blocked, Soso said abruptly.
“He’s right. It’s completely blocked. It’s not like it collapsed or anything, it’s just a wall that hasn’t been dug up yet.”
As Soso said, the wall was a completely blocked rock layer that looked like it had never been dug out.
But Dojin’s eyes saw that it wasn’t like that.
‘I blocked it with magic.’
The patterns of the surrounding rocks are slightly tilted toward the front wall, as if they were being drawn in.
It means a wall made with a type of magic that transforms the terrain.
I couldn’t tell for sure, but it was clear that it was a wall created by a high-ranking wizard.
As such, the rock layers that make up the wall are very thick and long.
It was a wall that could never be broken through with Dojin’s current magic.
‘You need at least a 5 star wizard to melt it.’
Then is it impossible? How could that be possible?
Every old person has his own method.
Dojin knocked on the wall, then turned around and said.
“I’m sorry, but I think you’ll have to hunt alone. I think I need to rest a little more.”
I have some things to prepare.
