Solo Resurrection - Chapter 118
Chapter 118
An Unlucky Day (2)
Eventually, the dungeon was sold for 4.5 billion won.
It was almost three times more expensive than a typical B-grade dungeon.
Kang Hyeon vowed revenge while shedding tears of blood.
And Han Jae-moon, who was taken to the emergency room at 4 billion, fainted again upon hearing that they spent an additional 500 million.
“Han Jae-moon is really something. I told him I’d take care of it.”
“It’s understandable that he was shocked. Even if we poured all of the guild’s reserve funds, 4.5 billion wouldn’t be enough.”
“I created this guild with my own money in the first place! Huh? It’s a guild built with my blood and sweat, can’t I do as I please?!”
“Brother. I didn’t say anything. Why are you getting so worked up by yourself?”
“Ahem…”
Kang Hyeon cleared his throat unnecessarily.
“I’m telling you, I’ll earn a lot and make our guild members live luxuriously.”
“Okay, I get it, so let’s just go quickly.”
Yoon Na-rae frowned and hurried her steps.
“Cheeky brats… I’m still the guild leader though…”
Kang Hyeon grumbled as he walked forward.
“By the way, Mr. Kang Hyeon. The atmosphere is gloomy, befitting the name ‘tomb’.“
At Shin Seong-a’s words, Kang Hyeon looked around and felt a new sense of gloom.
Heavy dark clouds.
Tombs were scattered everywhere.
According to the preliminary survey team, it was a field-type dungeon with undead monsters.
“Well, we could have figured this out as soon as we entered the dungeon even without the preliminary survey, right?”
Kang Hyeon rubbed his arms, slightly chilled by the eerie atmosphere.
“It’s not like we haven’t been crushing skeleton bones before. Let’s go.”
Just as Kang Hyeon was about to take a step, pretending to be calm,
A pale white hand broke through the ground with a ‘whoosh’ sound and grabbed Kang Hyeon’s ankle.
“Aaargh! Damn it!”
And then the undead appeared.
Unlike the name “Tomb of the Cyclops,” all sorts of undead emerged from the ground.
“You scared me, you bastard!”
As soon as the skull broke through the soil, Kang Hyeon kicked it with all his might.
-Crack!
The pale white skull shattered into hundreds of pieces and scattered in the air with that kick.
“I should file a complaint about this. If they’re going to give information, they should have given it in detail. What if I had collapsed from a heart attack?”
“Ah, yes…”
“Delete that surprised look from the video.”
Kang Hyeon told Yoon Na-rae, who was filming for YouTube.
“Okay.”
“I said delete it.”
“I said okay!”
Yoon Na-rae vowed to reveal that unsightly scene to the world, no matter what.
“Brother, if you’re done playing around, can you help us out?”
An Yu-seong, who was smashing undead with Shin Seong-a, shouted.
“What’s with you? You usually tell me not to touch your work.”
“These guys are less satisfying to hit. They lack personality too.”
“Ah, I see…”
Kang Hyeon nodded with a sour face and swung his fist.
With a loud bang, the head of an unusually large undead orc flew off.
“Isn’t this dungeon surprisingly rich?”
He said as he picked up the glaive the orc was holding.
“Tell the cleanup team to be careful not to miss even small equipment.”
“Understood.”
The cleanup team always follows the dungeon conquest team.
It was an era where the value of byproducts from dungeons, such as magic stones and items, was increasing day by day.
However, undead monsters don’t fetch a high price for their corpses.
So Kang Hyeon didn’t expect much profit, but he was excited to see so many monsters suddenly appear holding expensive weapons.
“It feels like when relatives secretly give you pocket money during holidays without your parents knowing.”
As in any household, if the parents found out, that would be the end of it.
“Is it all cleared up?”
“Yes.”
By now, the surrounding ground had turned white with shattered bones.
‘It’s as if it snowed…’
Kang Hyeon smirked and nodded.
“Let’s go.”
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Ippotranslation
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“What time is it now?”
“It’s 9:13 PM.”
Shin Seong-a looked at her watch and answered Kang Hyeon’s question.
“Hmm, we entered the dungeon right after breakfast, right?”
“Yes.”
“Then we should take a break soon.”
Coincidentally, the sun was setting in the dungeon as well.
“I thought it had been night for a while because it’s been gloomy all day.”
The actual night in the dungeon was much darker.
The surroundings rapidly darkened and the temperature dropped.
“Mr. Kang Hyeon. What should we do about the core?”
“What else? We have to break it.”
The group arrived at the dungeon’s normal core and cleared the surroundings before breaking the core.
“It’s a shame there’s no reward for conquering it.”
Until recently, breaking a B-grade dungeon core would yield hundreds of millions of won, but not anymore.
Nevertheless, as this was now a dungeon owned by the Badass Guild, they had to break the core for management purposes.
Breaking the main core would make the dungeon disappear, but breaking normal cores resets the dungeon’s open time.
Whether to keep this dungeon running would have to be seen, but for now, it was right to break normal cores whenever they were found.
“Brother, what’s for dinner tonight?”
An Yu-seong approached after breaking the core and clearing the surroundings.
“Beef brisket doenjang jjigae (soybean paste stew).”
“Ugh, beef again.”
“It’s soybean paste stew because that’s mentioned last. And what’s wrong with beef?!”
Dungeon preservation food.
It started with tasteless hamburgers, but now it had developed to allow various meals from Korean to Western cuisine.
The murderous price was still a problem, but Kang Hyeon didn’t care as he could bring them in almost at cost.
“This is delicious.”
“Yes, it seems edible.”
The most important aspect, taste, had also improved so it was no longer something to frown upon like before.
“If you’re done eating, let’s sleep now.”
The meal ended quickly.
Kang Hyeon laid out his sleeping bag and sprawled out.
The leftover trash was thrown to one side, as it would disappear anyway once the dungeon was cleared.
These days, many places were using dungeons to dispose of various pollutants like radioactive materials and household waste.
“Set an alarm. Let’s sleep for just five hours and then move.”
“Understood.”
At Kang Hyeon’s words, everyone closed their eyes.
10 PM.
It was a bit early to sleep, but no one complained.
It didn’t matter if they didn’t actually fall asleep.
Those who had already surpassed the limits of ordinary people only needed a brief rest.
“An Yu-seong. If anything happens, make sure to wake me up.”
“I’m going to sleep too.”
“You always wake up first when something happens anyway.”
An Yu-seong could sense danger in any situation through his intuition.
“Tch.”
The group fell asleep without even setting up a night watch, which was considered essential for dungeon raids.
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Ippotranslation
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A cycle of rest and battle.
The group repeated only these two activities for a while as they moved.
Though they should have been tired from the endless battles, no one showed any signs of fatigue.
“Hyaaah!”
Kang Hyeon, wielding Bilgein’s Long sword, concentrated all his nerves to deflect the enemies’ attacks.
“I could crush these guys with one punch, why do I have to go through this hell!?”
-Foolish one. It’s because you approach battles with that attitude that your skills don’t improve. If you want to swing your sword even once when you meet a true strong opponent in the future, stop complaining and do as I say…
“I get it! I get it! Your nagging is worse than my mom’s.”
The reason Kang Hyeon could be this relaxed was that the dungeon was easier than expected.
Even among B-rank dungeons, the difficulty levels vary greatly.
On top of that, the compatibility of the monsters that appear, the environment inside the dungeon, and various other factors inevitably change the difficulty that an individual perceives.
“Bro, isn’t this dungeon too boring?”
“So what?”
“Let’s just quickly defeat the boss and get out of here.”
Even considering all those factors, this dungeon was too easy.
“Stop whining. I’ve been looking, but I can’t sense any magical energy.”
Of course, this leisure is something only Kang Hyeon and his group could afford.
In Korea, only two guilds, Badass and Dangun, had cleared a B-rank dungeon with just four members.
It was still common sense that unless you were a top-tier guild, you wouldn’t even think about attempting a B-rank dungeon.
“This is strange. I feel like we’re getting closer to the main core, but why can’t I sense the boss? Could it be a dungeon without a boss?”
“Use your brain a bit. We came here to take the hammer from the boss, remember? Did you forget already?”
“Ah, right.”
Kang Hyeon scratched his head at Yoon Na-rae’s scolding.
“And for a B-rank dungeon to be this easy, the boss must be that much stronger. Isn’t that common sense? What does the guild leader actually know? Always swinging that hammer mindlessly. If we look closely, you really don’t know anything…”
Kang Hyeon’s expression gradually became grim.
Yoon Na-rae, who had been chattering excitedly, glanced at Kang Hyeon’s face and changed her words.
“Someone as clueless as me should just bang my head and die. Eek! Haha.”
Yoon Na-rae swung the staff she was holding at her own head.
“That was close to being dangerous.”
“Guild leader is the best!”
By this time, Yoon Na-rae had become quite adept at social interactions.
“Hey, I think the main core is just over that hill we see there.”
“It’s certainly strange that there’s no boss when we’re this close to the main core. Protecting the main core should be like an instinct for the boss.”
“Well, we’ll find out when we get there.”
Shin Seong-a’s words were logical.
However, they couldn’t just stand still because something felt off.
Having no better options, Kang Hyeon and his group simply walked on.
Just as they reached the top of the hill, An Yu-seong spoke up.
“Bro.”
“What?”
“Doesn’t this hill seem strange?”
Kang Hyeon looked at An Yu-seong at his sudden words.
“What do you mean?”
“It feels like it’s shaking a bit.”
A smile spread across An Yu-seong’s face.
“You bastard… Don’t tell me…”
At that moment, the others also noticed something was off.
“Kang Hyeon! The ground is moving!”
“Huh? What’s going on!?”
The hill was starting to rise.
At the same time, the group’s view began to rapidly elevate.
“You crazy fool! You should have said something earlier!”
“It’s fun, isn’t it? Hahaha!”
Yoon Na-rae flew through the air, while Shin Seong-a and An Yu-seong landed lightly on the ground like cats.
“Oh, shit!”
Only Kang Hyeon slipped in the mud during his landing and fell on his backside.
“It seems the soil inside the dungeon had properties that blocked magical energy.”
“I guess so. By the way, is this a cyclops?”
“Such a huge one will be fun to fight. There’ll be plenty of places to hit.”
The fully risen cyclops appeared to be over 15 meters tall.
The group had hunted cyclopes quite a few times before, but the one in front of them, despite being only bones, dwarfed all the specimens they had hunted so far in size.
-Thud, thud, rustling
The soil clinging to its bones fell off, scattering in all directions.
“How are we going to take down something this big?”
Recently, large monsters had been mere punching bags with many target areas for Kang Hyeon.
But this one was different.
With nothing but bones all over its body, there were no visible weak points, and even those bones looked extremely solid.
“Let’s think while we fight.”
Just as Kang Hyeon had made up his mind and pulled out Ogre’s giant hammer,
-Splat
A huge lump of mud fell on top of Kang Hyeon’s head.
“Pfft, bwahaha! Bro, I heard you were going bald, but did you get a new wig?”
An Yu-seong pointed and cackled.
The shape looked exactly like ‘that thing’ in the toilet, which made An Yu-seong laugh even harder.
“Sigh, today’s really not my day…”
Kang Hyeon frowned deeply as he cleared away the mud.
“Just you wait!”
Kang Hyeon activated all his buffs and swung his hammer with full force, filled with magical energy.
-Boom!
A thunderous sound as if a dynamite had exploded.
The tremendous impact raised a cloud of magical energy and dust.
“Don’t blame me.”
He thought this would at least crack the bones, equivalent to an 8-week injury.
He was certain of it.
Until the dust settled.
“What? Why is it so hard?”
As the dust cleared, the monster’s bones were perfectly clean.
Not a single scratch in sight.
As Kang Hyeon was taken aback by this unexpected scene,
“Kang Hyeon! Watch out!”
Shin Seong-a’s shout was heard.
“Ah, today really isn’t my day…”
At the same time, he saw a giant hammer.
-Whack!
The truck-sized hammer struck Kang Hyeon directly.