[Episode 05] Expansion of Power (4)
“Gasp! Gasp! Gasp!”
Baek Seung-min was running like crazy through the underground parking lot.
“Keeeek!”
“Kyaaaaak!”
“Kkikkik!”
Behind him, a horde of goblins numbering over a dozen were chasing him.
‘shit!’
The sight of a goblin holding a kitchen knife or scissors, which he had picked up somewhere, was terrifying in itself.
Because it seemed dangerous to even touch the blade, which was covered in blood and dust.
‘Just a little more, just a little more!’
The notice is not far away.
“Kikiik!”
I could feel the goblins following me right behind.
Baek Seung-min, who instinctively sensed danger, jumped with all his might.
Taat-!
Basement level entrance to the apartment.
Just after he threw himself through there.
“Hey! Stab me!”
“Ugh!”
“Wow, you brought a lot.”
Three men crouching against one wall appeared at the same time.
They were all holding weapons that looked like spears.
A crude spear made by attaching a cleaver to a long stick.
But that alone wasn’t enough to hunt the goblins.
Phew!
“Pretty much!”
“Oh my!”
The goblins rushed towards the humans right before their eyes, even as their own kind were dying right next to them.
Because that was their way.
When one dies, another one rushes at the enemy, scratching and biting.
The goblins were the ones who could push through with numbers and prey on enemies much stronger than themselves.
but.
Thud! Kagak!
“Huh?”
“Keeeek?!”
The goblins’ charge was thwarted by a transparent wall.
The attack, which was carried out at the cost of the lives of their own people, was completely blocked by an unknown wall.
Phew! Pok! Pok!
Meanwhile, the three men inside the transparent wall were diligently stabbing the goblins.
The goblins who had rushed in all at once were stuck between the transparent wall and their own kind who were pushing forward indiscriminately, unable to escape, and the men picked out the goblins and killed them as if they were playing a claw machine.
Pok! Pok! Pok!
“Kueeeeek!”
“Kkieek!”
They mechanically cut off the goblins’ airway as if they were already used to this kind of thing.
When about half of the goblins had died in vain, the goblins who had figured out the situation began to back away.
“Hey hey! Over there! Over there! That guy is running away!”
“These kids are starting to get crazy!”
“Just stab me anywhere!”
As the goblins began to flee, the men boldly stepped out of the transparent wall.
The goblins, who had already lost their fighting spirit, were busy running away regardless, and were stabbed to death by crude spears without even being able to fight back properly.
“Hey! I’ll show you something fun.”
While clearing out the fleeing goblins, one of the men spoke.
“Ugh!”
He threw the crude spear with all his might.
The spear flew several meters and hit a goblin in the back.
“Pretty cute!”
“Nice! Did you see it? Did you see it?”
“Nice shot, boss~.”
No fear of goblins was found among the men.
Rather, it even seemed overly relaxed.
That was to be expected, as this type of hunting had been repeated several times already.
It’s been five days since the goblin quest appeared, and the four people here, including Baek Seung-min, have already cleared the quest to catch 10 goblins this way.
The man who had thrown the spear and hit the goblin asked the others.
“Hey, how many did you all catch?”
“Wait a minute. Um. I’m twenty-two.”
“I won. I’m twenty-four.”
What they were talking about was the number of goblins hunted written in the quest window.
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Once you clear the first 10-horse hunting quest, you will immediately be given a similar quest.
It was a quest to catch 100 goblins, but the second quest was not burdensome because there was no penalty.
It was simply used to count how many had been hunted.
The man with the window muttered to himself, did some math, and then said:
“So now the three of us have caught over a hundred?”
“Really? Already?”
“Wow. At first, I wondered when I would catch a hundred of them.”
At that moment, Baek Seung-min, who was catching his breath in the back, protested.
“Haa, damn Seungyeop hyung! I’m sure there were only about fifteen of them at most!”
When Baek Seung-min fired back, Baek Seung-yeop responded in a nervous tone.
“What else are you complaining about? Huh?”
“fu*k, hyung, do those look like fifteen to you?”
“It seems similar.”
“Sigh···. fu*k.”
Then, Baek Seung-yeop smiled kindly and patted his younger brother on the back.
The intensity was by no means light.
“Mom. If everything works out well, then that’s fine. What’s wrong? You’ll have a new house now.”
“I almost lost because of my brother!”
“Ha. Little brother.”
Baek Seung-yeop said with a frown.
“Who came up with this hunting method?”
“······.”
“it’s me.”
Baek Seung-yeop continued speaking as if he had not even expected an answer in the first place.
“I planned the operation, my twin made the spear… So you’re the one who’s going to be the bait? You’re confident because you’re good at running?”
“that···.”
“In the end, no one got hurt and it ended well. But what are you so dissatisfied with? If you’re dissatisfied, why don’t you kick me out of the team? Excluding you, there are over 100 of us right now.”
“······.”
As the atmosphere became tense, the twin brothers Moon Ji-hoon and Moon Sang-hoon stepped in to stop Baek Seung-yeop.
“Seungyeop hyung. Please be patient. Seungmin did well too.”
“Yeah. Seungmin was really good at being bait. He was really fast.”
“I admit it. I thought it was Usain Bolt~.”
Baek Seung-yeop said, his expression softening at the playful tone of Moon Ji-hoon and Moon Sang-hoon.
“Whew. That kid is really annoying. Where did he get the swear words from?”
As soon as the mood started to lighten, Moon Ji-hoon immediately tapped Baek Seung-min and urged him on.
“Seungmin, hey. Okay. Swearing at hyung is a bit too much. Apologize quickly.”
Baek Seung-min apologized with his head bowed.
“······sorry.”
Baek Seung-yeop took the spear without even looking at his younger brother.
“Okay. Let’s go to the 21st floor quickly. We need to get a new house.”
“I’ll give you the old house~ Give me the new house~.”
They boarded the elevator, confident that they would be the first team to kill 100 goblins.
But the reality was a little different from their expectations.
“I’m sorry, but there is a team that has already received compensation.”
“···There’s a team that caught 100 before us?”
“yes.”
Baek Seung-yeop said with a hollow laugh.
“Hey, Dabin. Are you trying to tease us? It’s not funny. Stop joking and give me the house right now.”
“I’m not joking.”
Kim Da-bin continued speaking with a bright smile.
“They’re just coming. The team that killed 100 goblins before you.”
Baek Seung-yeop and his group turned their heads and looked at the team that Kim Da-bin had mentioned.
There was a muscular man, an old man with a serious air, and a middle-aged woman who looked like she liked to gossip approaching.
Baek Seung-yeop was overwhelmed by the force they were giving off and unconsciously took a step back.
Kim Da-bin spoke to the muscular man, Kim Min-ho.
“What happened?”
“I saw Shobu. I gave up on the new house and instead provided electricity, food, and other things to my house and Uncle Jiho’s house, and Uncle Jiho’s daughters were exempted from quests.”
“Huh? Aren’t Mr. Jiho’s daughters minors? If they’re minors, aren’t they exempt from quests?”
The answer to that came from Nam Ji-ho.
“They are both adults.”
“aha.”
Moon Hae-ri, Nam Ji-ho’s wife, who was standing next to him, smiled happily and said.
“Haha. Our kids are a bit young. They take after their mother.”
“Right? Haha.”
“He takes after me and is good at archery, but he must be worried about the kids.”
To be honest, I thought she resembled Nam Ji-ho more than Moon Hae-ri, but I didn’t say it out loud.
At that moment, Kim Min-ho spoke as if he had just remembered something.
“Oh, that’s right. And I also got a promise to supply Mr. Jiho’s bow and arrows.”
The compound bows that Nam Ji-ho and Moon Hae-ri had were only borrowed temporarily until the goblin hunt was over.
When Kim Da-bin heard that he had actually received the money, she tilted her head and asked.
“Why the bow and arrows? Should I just keep hunting goblins?”
“Yeah. Jaehyun personally asked me to clear out some of the goblins nearby. Those little goblin cubs. There are so many of them that it’s impossible to catch them all.”
Baek Seung-yeop, who had been quietly eavesdropping on the siblings’ conversation from the side, intervened.
“Wait a minute. Isn’t this special treatment? You guys are related. You even get a separate firearm and bow! Isn’t this unfair?”
Kim Min-ho, who saw Baek Seung-yeop’s passionate protest, clapped his hands and opened his mouth to address his older sister.
“Oh, that’s right, Sister. He said something similar. He said it might seem unfair… So he said he would give the second and third place teams similar benefits, and asked us to send them to the 30th floor.”
“okay?”
Kim Da-bin put on a businesslike smile and spoke to Baek Seung-yeop.
“Did you hear that? That’s great. Go up to the 30th floor with your party members. He will be waiting for you.”
“···Yes, that’s right.”
Baek Seung-yeop was full of complaints, but he didn’t express them.
In any case, he was satisfied as long as he had a house with electricity, water, and gas.
“let’s go.”
♩♬―
[It’s the 21st floor.]
[The door opens.]
As soon as he got on the elevator, Baek Seung-yeop started complaining to his colleagues.
“Ha! Rumor has it that he’s younger than us, but isn’t it hilarious how he uses honorifics when he’s talking to him?”
“That’s right. Phew. What do you mean, are you Jesus or something?”
“Jesus, what? He must be a cult leader.”
“That’s right! That’s exactly it!”
While the twins were enthusiastically cheering on Baek Seung-yeop, Baek Seung-min suddenly said something.
“I don’t know if you have the right to say something like that when you are protected within that person’s capabilities right now.”
“······.”
“Besides, aren’t you on your way to look good in front of that person right now?”
In an instant, the atmosphere inside the elevator froze.
“Hey, you···.”
The moment Baek Seung-yeop was about to open his mouth to say something.
♩♬―
[It’s the 30th floor.]
[The door opens.]
Arrived at the 30th floor.
“···See you later.”
The moment Baek Seung-yeop got off the elevator and was about to press the doorbell.
Crunch.
The front door opened.
And standing in front of the front door was a man with an unapproachable aura.
A presence that instantly takes your breath away.
“Nice to meet you.”
Gulp
When I actually met him face to face, the sight of Baek Seung-yeop swearing in the elevator had disappeared without a trace.
Standing in front of him, I naturally lowered my posture and took on a polite attitude.
“Hi, my name is Baek Seung-yeop.”
He said with a grin.
“I saw the performance of Mr. Baek Seung-yeop and his group well. I was very impressed by the way they continued to hunt stably using the transparent barrier.”
Baek Seung-yeop was secretly surprised.
‘How about that?’
The hunting method he had discovered was gradually spreading among the citizens.
However, it was still a hunting method known only to those in the know.
I never thought that he, who was living in luxury on the 30th floor, would know.
At that moment, the man continued speaking while I was confused.
“We will immediately supply electricity, water, and gas to rooms 1301 and 1502.”
Each was the home of the Baek Seung-yeop brothers and the twins.
It wasn’t like we were getting a new home, but that was okay.
In fact, what they wanted was a house with electricity, water and gas, not a new house.
Rather, it would be a great result for them if they were supplied to the house they originally lived in.
“Is that possible?”
“Of course.”
“It’s only possible if we find other survivors and bring them to live together…”
“You guys hunted 100 goblins for me instead. That’s enough.”
Baek Seung-yeop, who had been smiling with genuine joy, suddenly hardened his expression.
Because I noticed one strange fact.
‘How do you know exactly where our house is?’
At that time, Kim Jae-hyun said with a playful smile.
“Oh, by the way. I am not a cult leader. I am definitely not Buddha or Jesus.”
“yes?”
At that moment, Baek Seung-yeop got goosebumps.
Because he remembered the conversation he and his twins had in the elevator going up here.
‘Sir, no way.’
He continued speaking to Baek Seung-yeop, whose expression had turned pale.
“I have a favor to ask.”
“Oh, of course. Just leave it to me!”
Baek Seung-yeop seemed ready to grant any request.
“It’s nothing special. I hope you continue to hunt goblins like you are doing now. Although it may be small, I hope you consider this as my sincerity.”
With those words, objects began to appear out of thin air.
Starting with rice, ramen, onions, carrots, eggs, milk, and other groceries, a set of bows and arrows, and three spears appeared.
It was a common spear, not one of those crude spears with a cleaver fixed to a stick like they made.
Baek Seung-yeop, who witnessed the strange phenomenon of objects appearing out of thin air, immediately bent down and shouted loudly.
“Go, thank you! I will work hard!”
He looked like a private who had just been assigned to a platoon.
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