[Episode 01] The Absolute in the Corner of the House (4)
The moment my eyes met his, I felt my whole body freeze.
Fear gripped my whole body and my feet became stiff.
The huge size and murderous eyes of the creature I encountered up close were those of a typical predator.
Gulp
The sound of swallowing saliva was loud.
The next moment, Kellykan suddenly thrust his mouth toward me.
Kwajik!
[Unauthorized person attempts to enter.]
It was only after an invisible wall blocked its teeth that I realized it was trying to pounce on me.
“Huh!”
The one blocked from entering by the transparent wall slid down, but soon flapped its wings and came back up.
And then he just sat there glued to the wall and thrust his teeth at me.
Crap!
[Unauthorized person attempts to enter.]
[Unauthorized person attempts to enter.]
[Unauthorized person attempts to enter.]
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As I was watching the guy’s teeth and the inside of his mouth live right in front of me, I suddenly felt uneasy.
‘Surely they won’t break through and come in?’
The anxiety that his fierce teeth might penetrate the invisible wall and reach my neck.
When I imagined it that far, my mind suddenly opened.
‘We have to do something!’
Something had to be done before the worst happened.
I ran straight to the kitchen and stood in front of Kellykan with a kitchen knife in my hand.
The bastard didn’t even pay attention to whether I moved or not, and was focused on chewing on the invisible wall.
After measuring the length of the sword and the distance between me and the guy, I came to a conclusion.
‘The sword is too short.’
The blade of an ordinary kitchen knife was only about 20 centimeters long.
When I think of my body being blocked by a transparent wall, the sword can only extend about an inch.
Of course, in order to hit the thing, you had to attack the place right next to the transparent wall, but the only place like that was the thing’s mouth that was gnawing at the transparent wall.
A strong-looking beak with teeth growing inside it.
I didn’t think sticking a kitchen knife in there would have much of an effect.
‘If you want to stick it in the neck, you have to make it like a spear.’
As it turned out, all the right ingredients were available.
I attached a kitchen knife to the end of a rolling pin I bought at Daiso and wrapped it roughly with tape.
Then a plausible weapon was completed.
I smiled with satisfaction after checking that the knife was properly secured.
‘This is enough.’
Crap!
[Unauthorized person attempts to enter.]
The guy was still focused on the transparent wall, oblivious to anything.
‘now!’
Phew!
The spear, thrust with all his might, dug halfway into the bastard’s neck.
-Keeeeeek!!
The creature jerked back in shock, the spear flying out in the recoil, widening the wound even further.
Phew!
The blood that gushed out from the guy’s body flowed down against the transparent wall, and the amount was quite large.
‘it’s okay!’
however.
-Keeeeeek-!!
The bastard was moving around fine, even though blood was gushing from his neck.
Boom! Boom!
[Unauthorized person attempts to enter.]
The sight of him venting his anger by banging his head against a transparent wall was like that of a wounded beast.
The sight of him fiercely attacking me seemed to show his firm will to kill me even if it meant dying himself.
“Ha, one more time!”
I pulled myself together and opened the window again.
however.
WHEEK!
“Huh!”
This time the bastard was watching my movements, and the moment I stabbed him with the spear, he grabbed the spear shaft with his beak and pulled it back.
Snap!
The plastic spear I bought at Daiso got smashed to pieces in Kellykan’s beak, and as a result, I lost the cleaver attached to the front.
“If you do this, I’ll go out···.”
-Keeeeeeeeee!
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There was another small fruit knife, but it wasn’t as sharp as a kitchen knife.
It probably won’t cause much damage.
‘Besides, since he’s watching me, I don’t think my attacks will work.’
The only hopeful thing was that even as he was raging, blood was spurting out of his neck.
It would take time, but I felt like I would die from excessive bleeding if I left it alone.
[Unauthorized person attempts to enter.]
The transparent wall completely blocked the guy’s intrusion, so it wasn’t that scary anymore.
All you have to do is wait calmly.
As time passed and the transparent wall became covered in his blood, the bastard was clearly growing more and more exhausted.
Soon, the thing stopped moving completely and no longer attacked the transparent wall, but just quietly glared at me.
He seemed to be thinking about something.
As I stared into the bastard’s eyes, an unpleasant hypothesis occurred to me.
‘wait for a sec.’
The guy also seemed to realize that it was impossible to penetrate the transparent wall.
So what if the guy just gives up like this?
What happens if you fly away into the sky before you die from excessive bleeding?
‘Loot settlement only triggers when a corpse is nearby.’
The reason I came up with this hypothesis was simple.
Hunting goblins during this time was not always successful.
Some of them were hit in the body or other parts by the dumbbells, and some of them were clearly on the verge of death.
‘But the group he was with took him away, and he was not included in the loot settlement.’
He must have died for sure.
There’s no way that guy who got hit in the chest with a dumbbell instead of the head would still be alive.
‘Then, this means that if you move away from it by a certain distance, you won’t be able to settle the loot.’
That couldn’t be possible.
How much money is this and you’re just letting it go like this?
That too, all the prey that has been caught.
‘Is there no way to finish it?’
I looked around the house anxiously.
And then, cooking oil caught my eye.
‘okay!’
Wouldn’t that be enough to finish him off?
“Store opening! Buy 10 sets of canola oil!”
[Do you really want to buy it?]
[Yes / No]
“yes!”
Jiiing―
In an instant, twenty cooking oil cans containing 900 ml of canola oil appeared in a row on the living room floor.
“Warehouse open! Just put in cooking oil and no plastic containers!”
Jiiing―
So, I kept storing all the cooking oil in the warehouse and continued to move diligently.
He wrapped a kitchen towel around the end of the spear he had broken and taped it in place.
Then I ran into the kitchen and turned on the gas stove.
“Summon Cooking Oil!”
Then he put a large pot on top and poured all the cooking oil into it.
Tadadak- hurruk!
My heart was burning as the cooking oil heated up sufficiently.
Card crack! Card crack!
‘Is this enough?’
The waiting time was extremely long.
“custody!”
I stored the cooking oil that had been burning as much as it could in the warehouse, soaked a kitchen towel in cooking oil, and set it on fire.
Hurrruk!
The gas flame moved straight to the end of the window sill, and I ran with it to the living room window.
The bastard was still watching me closely.
He seemed particularly wary of the burning windows.
I said, glaring at the guy’s head.
“Summon Cooking Oil!”
Immediately after that.
Jiiing―
The 18 liters of boiling cooking oil summoned from above Kellykan’s head soaked his body.
-Keeeek?!
The moment the guy’s gaze turned to the sky, startled by the sudden cooking oil attack.
“Get behind!”
He stabbed the blazing end of the broken spear into the bastard’s body.
-Keeeeeek!
Surprised by the surprise attack, the creature flapped its wings and fell from the apartment wall.
Even though the bastard was walking away, I could still smile.
‘Okay.’
Cooking oil has a high flash point, so it doesn’t catch fire easily.
However, it only has a high flash point, and because it is oil, once it catches fire, it burns very well.
That’s why I sometimes cause kitchen fires.
A burning spear was stuck into Kellykan’s torso.
The small flames slowly but surely began to spread to the cooking oil that had soaked the creature’s body.
Hwaruk-
The flames, which had spread slowly at first, soon engulfed Kellykan entirely.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
As the flames grew stronger, Kellykan was seen floundering in confusion.
He flapped his wings frantically, perhaps to put out the fire, but that action only made the fire bigger.
-Keeeeeek!
With a single scream, the bastard crashed down onto the apartment walkway.
Kwak! Kwooong!
The heavy body crashed down, completely destroying a tree on the trail.
Perhaps because the tree acted as a cushion, the creature was still alive and moving.
-Pretty much!
He rolled around desperately trying to put out the fire that had caught on his body, but the fire did not go out and only spread the fire to his surroundings.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
The guy’s struggle didn’t last very long.
[You have hunted Kellykan (Lv. 27).]
[Gain a large amount of experience points.]
[Skill level has increased.]
[Skill level has increased.]
[You have acquired a new skill.]
A system notification window notified Kellykan that his breathing had stopped.
[There is loot nearby that meets the conditions.]
[Starting to settle the loot.]
As the settlement began, the burning corpse of Kellykan below began to disappear.
Unlike the last time, where some remained, this time the notification only appeared after everything was definitely gone.
[Loot settlement has been completed.]
[9,347,487 won was deposited into the wallet of the absolute owner of the house.]
When I saw that amount, I couldn’t help but be shocked.
“Nine, nine, nine million won?!”
Since my level was high and I hunted this time entirely on my own, I expected the settlement amount to be high.
But I didn’t think there would be this many.
‘It’s almost ten million won?’
In fact, if you include the money that was left over, he had over ten million won.
I felt a great sense of satisfaction because I had earned my own money.
“haha.”
But that wasn’t the end of Kellykan’s gifts.
[The expansion of the corner area of the house begins.]
“hmm?”
Woohoo
I felt something was changing with the message I was seeing for the first time.
‘What’s going on?’
The whole house felt like it was shaking slightly.
The moment it reached its climax.
“!!!”
Suddenly my field of vision expanded.
Woof!
At first, I saw myself sitting in the living room.
‘This is… me?’
After that, the field of vision began to expand rapidly. I could see the entire living room, the kitchen, and even the rooms and bathrooms inside.
No, I felt it rather than saw it.
The overall shape of the house and the electricity flowing in real time. The arrangement of the furniture and even the smallest specks of dust on the floor.
I was feeling it all.
I feel like I have become the home itself.
Woohoo!
‘Ugh!’
At that moment, I felt a sharp pain all over my body.
My whole body was swollen and felt like it would burst at any moment.
and.
‘This, this is!’
The body was actually expanding.
No, to be exact, it wasn’t my body that was expanding, but the area where I felt was expanding.
Beyond the front door, into the hallway, beyond the hallway, surrounding the elevator, and even to the next door neighbor.
Soon, the situation next door began to become clear.
‘person?’
There were people next door.
A young couple with two children who appear to be in their late 30s.
‘These people?’
Even if no one else knew it, my husband knew the face.
Because he was someone I would occasionally run into when going to the convenience store or taking out the trash.
‘The people next door?’
Their conversation sounded so vivid it felt like they were right next to me.
“Honey, what should I do? I smell something burning. Is something wrong?”
“It’s okay. This is the 30th floor. Most monsters can’t come up here.”
“You heard a thumping sound earlier. Are you sure it’s okay?”
“Dad, I’m scared.”
“Seoyeon, shhh!”
“Ugh.”
I could guess why they were trembling with fear.
It must be because of the noise Kellykan made.
That was when.
“Huh!”
The moment I felt the area of the corner of my house expand to the entire 30th floor, I was able to regain control of my body.
‘That was just now···.’
As I was trying to organize my thoughts, a new notification window appeared before my eyes.
[An entity that satisfies the conditions for acceptance as a citizen has been discovered.]
[Would you like to grant citizenship?]
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