You Want to Hunt with Me!? (6)
[...You called me quite early, haven't you?]
Kang MiRae's voice over the phone sounded very surprised. Although unintentional, Yu IlHan, who felt like he was a cheap man, retorted bitterly.
"You saw the TV, right?"
[...Yes, you mean the one about the dungeon that appeared in the middle of the city?]
"That's not a dungeon. It's a monster. And it's a strong monster which has a concealment ability."
[...So it was like that.]
There was no need for an additional explanation for Kang MiRae. Just with that, she had seen through the situation and fell into thought.
He felt like he could hear her thoughts. Yu IlHan waited for her answer while wanting to end the call quickly and go back to his workshop, and he could hear an answer soon.
[I see what happened. It seems very dangerous.]
"I'm planning to kill it. Of course, I don't have any intentions in forcing you to do it."
Although he actually wanted to take her there even if he had to drag her by the arm, there was no way he could force a person to help with killing a monster which was estimated to be in its 3rd class. If she rejected, Yu IlHan was planning to go alone.
However, Kang MiRae unexpectedly replied confidently.
[I don't have any plans on backing out. I also had a fault for not thinking about the fact that monsters would remain at that place. However, I need some preparation. Just in case, I will contact the government and the military.]
"I also have to prepare things, so I will call you again in a while."
[I understand.]
Just how amazing was she that she said she would call the government and the military like asking a next door lady? – Although he wanted to ask that, there was no way he would get an answer. He just felt satisfied that the rope that he got a hold of was stronger than he expected.
After Yu IlHan ended the call, he headed to his workshop. The Eternal Flame was still burning in his fireplace, and the metals including harkanium were also keeping their place. Well, in fact, Yu IlHan didn't even need to worry since the entire workshop was protected by the angels' protection magic.
In fact, the things he were worried about was the byproducts of the Giant Leopard. The bones and leather amounted to ¼ of the entire leopard. As he did the basic processing on them after he came back fron the hunt with the help of Erta, he could go into work straight away.
"Good, shall I start?"
[What are you planning to make? There are not enough to make a defensive equipment, and even if you make a weapon, it will be impossible to surpass your steel spear.]
Although he couldn't use the leather as a whole as there were holes in various places, it didn't hinder at all what Yu IlHan was about to make right now. Whether Erta looked curious or not, he didn't pay any mind and went into work.
First, he selected the thickest of the bones and intentinally shaved it roughly. He also carved out some bits on the surface to make spikes from place to place to look like a spinal bone.
[...I asked you what you were making.]
Erta, who got mad easily as her pride was high, kept speaking on top of Yu IlHan's head. She honestly looked cute so Yu IlHan smiled and replied to her.
"A pillar."
[A pillar?]
As the answer was too unexpected, Erta blinked her eyes. Well, the carved bone did indeed look like a pillar. it easily reached over 2m, and had a thickness comparable to a person's entire body. It was a size that made one estimate just how big of a monster the Giant Leopard was.
However, what was the reason that he had to make a pillar? Her head was full of question marks. This happened several times after she came down for his support.
"I didn't say anything since I already knew you would react in such way. Wait a little more. You will know soon."
If a person made one object, then naturally, it would take less time for that person to make the same object. This was because the person would find the trick and remember the experience after trial and error.
And the master of labor, Yu IlHan, had peak-level techniques to reduce the time taken by half when making another item of the same object.
[This makes no sense.]
"It's just finding the trick to it. The trick."
[You will keep saying that it's the trick, aren't you !?]
"Yes!"
As expected, Yu IlHan held grudges.
[Be honest, you can already use mana, right?]
"Then why would I do such a bothersome work like this? I would have gone to beat that leopard up already."
One pillar, two pillars, four pillars...In a blink of an eye, the number of pillars increased and in the end, 6 huge bones were made into spiked pillars. The characteristic trait was that it had a hole at the head.
[Hmm, I think I kinda get it.]
"Right?"
[You're planning to make a giant-only necklace by connecting them all up, right?]
"Go back to pre-school."
The pillar ended with six. The things that Yu IlHan made next was very obvious in Erta's eyes.
[This is a spear.]
"It's not."
And Yu IlHan denied her as always. He selected and sharpened some bones which were a bit thinner than the pillars but not shorter, and in Erta's eyes, it was definitely a spear.
However, when work progressed, Erta also changed her expression. It was after she saw Yu IlHan make a hook at the end of the blade.
[...So it isn't a spear but an harpoon, isn't it?]
"Yes."
In spearmanship, there was method of using spear called javelin throwing. In the first place, there were cases where javelins were differntiated to spears.
The thing Yu IlHan was making right now, was a harpoon, which was a type of a javelin to throw at the prey, pierce it and drag it. Piercing power was obvious and it was important that it wouldn't be pulled back out once it had pierced something.
Like the pillars, he had made 6 harpoons. Of course, he didn't forget to make a hole at the end of the body.
This took him a mere 30 minutes. It was an impossible working speed, but Erta, who had watched him making Traps of Destruction until now, it wasn't that amazing.
[You're planning to make a rope now, aren't you?]
"Correct."
There was a harpoon and there was a pillar. What was left was just the rope that connects the two! Yu IlHan turned his gazes towards the leather of the Giant Leopard.
It wouldn't do with just an ordinary rope. He had to make a rope that wouldn't snap even with a 3rd class monster at the opponent.
[How cruel of you to kill the offspring with the mother's bones and leather...]
"I can attract aggro, it's all good."
He used the knife to cut the leather equally to make strings, and he twisted a few of them together to make strong ropes.
Although there were a lot of leather, as he was proficient in labor, it was possible for him to make 6 amazingly strong and amazingly long ropes in just 30 minutes. As there were 6 of several tens of meters of ropes, just piling them up would have considerable weight.
"Now."
[There's still something else!?]
At this point, Erta was already shocked at Yu IlHan's ability, but Yu IlHan didn't stop. The magic stone of the Giant Leopard he earned after achieving the MVP in front of everyone! He grabbed it and stood in front of the harpoon.
Erta was dumbfounded. She didn't understand why Yu IlHan put every material he had into making a single weapon.
[Don't you feel wasteful?]
"How could I?"
However, Yu IlHan had a different way of thinking from Erta from the beginning.
"The only thing I value is my life alone."
He immediately went into mana crafting.
The thing he wanted was an enhancement as a whole. Sturdy pillars which won't get pulled out easily, strong ropes that won't snap, sharp harpoon which won't let go of its prey after biting it!
The mana crafting skill, which, thanks to producing Traps of Destruction with the angels, rose exponentially in proficiency and have become level 11, supported him. 6 pillars and 6 harpoons, and the 6 ropes that connected them all emitted light simultaenously.
[Violent Cruel Leopard Hunter's Harpoon was completed.]
[Mana Crafting has become level 12.]
What was more, his mana crafting activation time was even reduced. Not even 20 seconds after he started, the magic stone Yu IlHan held in his hand disappeared and the harpoons, pillars, and the ropes became one set of attack artifact. At that time, Erta grumbled.
[Please bear in mind that mana crafting isn't a skill which always succeeds, okay?]
"Oh, an alpha and beta option again."
[And please remember that options don't always attach!]
Ignoring Erta who was grumbling for some reason, Yu IlHan confirmed the stats of the completed harpoon.
[Violent Cruel Leopard Hunter's Harpoon]
[Rank – Unique]
[Attack Power – 1,050]
[Options – Critical hit rate and damage increases by 20%, binding force increases by 20%]
[Durability – 960/960]
[A hunter's harpoon made from Giant Leopard's bones and leather. Due to an exceptinal maker, it was completed with an absurd strength and performance.]
"Akashic Record, this guy knows some stuff."
[And it's a higher ranking option too...]
Of course, options had ranks as well. Although it was difficult to differentiate just by the name, if one looked at the performance of the completed artifact, then it would be obvious.
Considering hte fact that options usually increased an area by 5% or 10%, 'violent' and 'cruel' were definitely higher ranking options.
"It came out twice as better as I expected. This should be sufficient."
[And the fact that you always underevaluate yourself didn't change, eh.]
"The trick to winning is to plan something that would work in a worst case scenario."
He nonchalantly retorted and skillfully tied the harpoon to his back. Then, he left the work shop and headed to a public phone booth again. It was because it was necessary to set a time to start attacking it with the Empress.
[Are you ready? I'm heading towards the scene slowly at the moment.]
As if she had seen through that the call was from him, the Empress, Kang MiRae, immediately asked that. Yu IlHan rapidly replied.
"Don't enter. It has a concealment ability so you may get ambushed."
Although it should be 2 days ago when it should have been born, judging from the live TV from a few hours ago, it didn't leave that place and was staying there.
And that reason could be known too. It was waiting for them at that scene. To receive the price in blood from the people who killed its mother!
Although it would be the same with anyone who entered its area, Kang MiRae, who killed the Giant Leopard with Yu IlHan had to be especially careful. Especially since she didn't have a physical attack related job.
[We're prepared for that though... Are you planning something else for that?]
"Yes."
He smiled after confirming the object on his back.
His workshop was 20 minutes away from the battle scene, even by normal people's standards. He would probably arrive much earlier than Kang MiRae.
"It won't be able to use its concealment. So wait until then."
[...I will believe and leave it to you.]
Although he didn't understand how she would believe in him even though they had only fought together once or twice, Yu IlHan felt good as he felt that she had acknowledged him. He had no memory of acquainting himself properly with anyone before he was left out from humanity, much less the thousand years of his dropout.
It was truly a good thing to be connected to another person, no matter what the method. Although he was tearfully sad that he had realized that just now, he endured since this wasn't the time to cry.
"Believe as much as you want."
He retorted lightly and ended the call. His footsteps coming out of the phone booth had became a level lighter. The already fast running speed had become even faster. The armor worn on his body, and even the heavy pillars and harpoons that he had on his back weren't able to slow down his steps.
Now was the time to hunt for real.
Author's notes
End of book one. Next chapter, Yu IlHan's remarkable activities will start.
Translator's notes
This author splits his books every 25 chapters. (prologue was chapter 0)
Starting next book is paid chapters, yay!
Call me Ishmael (1)
Yu IlHan stopped his steps while he was running.
Although the sky was still blue as ever when he looked up, the unsafe aura mixed in the air was stimulating Yu IlHan. The killing intent, which was released indiscriminately without a target, told Yu IlHan that this place was not peaceful.
Although he was definitely in the middle of Seoul, his eyesight spotted almost nothing. This was because all the things in the surroundings had collapsed as if there had been a war. While thinking that everyone had rampaged, whether it was the humans or the monsters, Yu IlHan scanned the surroundings as if it didn't have anything to do with him.
[...There it is.]
Lucky. The black leopard was nearby. Although it was impossible to confirm its size as it kept moving, as the monster was moving leisurely as if it asuumed that its concealment was umatched under the heavens, it was easy to find its location, much less its movement path.
It wasn't aware of Yu IlHan's position yet.
"Then."
While watching it, Yu IlHan pulled down one of the pillars from his back extremly naturally.
"Hup!"
Then he struck in on the ground. The pillar, which had become an artifact, softly pierced deep into the ground at once like a candle to a cake.
"First, the other side.
It should have noticed Yu IlHan by now, with this. He ran fast while preparing for its attack, and nailed pillar(b) in a place 100m away from pillar(a). It was a much faster speed compared to when he nailed pillar(a)
As he didn't confirm its exact size, he put the rest of the pillars and the harpoons on the ground first. Although he didn't want to believe that it was bigger than its mother, carelessness would cause death. He decided to move while considering every possibility.
"But."
Yu IlHan tilted his head after finishing it.
"In my calculation, it should have attacked at least once while I was nailing pillar(b) into the ground, but why is it still moving around this place?"
[Is it looking for an opening to attack?]
"An opening, eh."
Yu IlHan exposed that opening right now on purpose. His first objective was to attack and fix in place, the leopard which would assault him, as it would be confident in its concealment ability.
However, it didn't attack him. Even though there was no opening greater than this. Did it lack in hunting ability as a compensation for its concealment? But even so, it's a 3rd class monster, should it be fine for it to be so lacking?
[Isn't it that.]
At that moment, Erta spoke carefully.
[It can't find you?]
"..."
Yu IlHan was speechless. He thought 'no way'.
No matter how he had a passive concealment ability, he had walked around while nailing two huge and thick pillars into the ground. The fact that his enemy couldn't notice him even despite that was too strange.
[However, it's not like you directly attacked the black leopard, right?]
"Yes."
[Because of that, isn't it that your concealment didn't wear off?]
"But what about these pillars and the harpoons? And what about the installed ones right there?"
[It should be under concealment along with you, right?]
"..."
Although Yu IlHan tried to retort to Erta's sophistry, no words came out of his mouth. It was because he also thought it was like that even when he thought about it. Otherwise, this situation was inexplicable.
"To think that it couldn't notice even though I was setting traps right in front of its eyes…..!"
[You're a superstar born for assassination. Why don't you earn an assassin as your subclass on your next advancement?]
"Kuuuk...!"
How could it be so insulting, even though it was supposed to be a good thing!? He couldn't even accept Erta's praise.
Anyway, it was definite that this situation was extremly in his favor. Yu IlHan swallowed his rage and returned to pillar(a) slowly, and picked up the harpoon(a) connected to it, which was connected to the pillar with a leather rope.
His body remembered the length of the rope. It would sufficiently hold out this distance!
The black leopard also seemed to have felt something as it didn't leave this place. Well, it would fail as a monster if it couldn't even feel anything strange even after the ground was cracked and two huge bone pillars were pierced into the ground.
Yu IlHan calmly picked up harpoon(a) and aimed at it. At that moment, he felt strength filling his body. Not only the 10% additional damage due to concealment, the 10% additional damage from spearmanship was also added. He inwardly exclaimed delightfully that harpoons were under spears.
"...Fuu."
After taking a small, deep breath, he accurately aimed at its leg while putting strength into his hands. With an accuracy that will be able to destroy that part! The leopard still hadn't noticed Yu IlHan, and at one moment.
"Hup!"
With a strange shout, Yu IlHan threw the harpoon. Was the mana crafting that was done prior to the weapon's completion effective? Like a bullet leaving the barrel, the harpoon, which pierced through the air rapidly, pierced the left thigh of the leopard, when it was about to pass the collapsed building!
"[KuuuuAAAaaaa!]"
"Wow."
A scream that felt like the world was collapsing. Yu IlHan softly exclaimed and jumped backwards. It was because its concealment had worn off as it was bound to the pillar because it allowed an attack to hit, and its whole body had appeared.
Erta, who confirmed its size properly, softly muttered while clicking her tongue.
[It's about half the size of its mother... However, it's definitely a 3rd class monster.]
"I know when I look at that."
Yu IlHan confirmed the half nailed harpoon and like her, he said while clicking his tongue.
Fortunately, the harpoon had held out and didn't get pulled out even despite its rampage, but it was not a small shock that the harpoon he had thrown with all his strength in addition to the effects of concealment and spearmanship, had only pierced by half.
[If it was a proper 3rd class monster, even that wouldn't have happened. You should think it's fortunate that it specialized in concealment.]
"I know. I know already."
[KiiiiIIiii...!]
it's enraged growl shook Yu IlHan's eardrums. Its eyes looking at Yu IlHan was abnormally red. This was dangerous – the moment he thought that, it assaulted towards Yu IlHan like a released arrow.
[KiiAaaooOOOoooo!]
However, during its powerful leap, the leather rope connected to the harpoon became taut and made it smash the ground. The rope was awesome as expected of a master's handicraft!
Yu IlHan, who had already expected this situation picked up harpoon(b) connected to pillar(b) and ran in. Then, he pierced the harpoon on its right shoulder with all his strength!
[Critical Hit!]
[KuAAAaaaaaa!]
Thanks to the unexpected critical hit, harpoon(b) pierced deeper into its body than harpoon(a). While piercing deep to the point that it was almost buried, it had scattered blood on Yu IlHan's face.
[KrrrRaaaAAAa!]
The black leopard, which was done in twice by the same tactic, became enraged and swung its front paw. It was the first strong and quick strike that he experienced with a monster as the opponent.
As it was a 3rd class monster, there was too much of a difference in basic stats and mana usability, no matter what. Yu IlHan had also expected that pulling out safely after striking from a close distance was impossible.
However, it was very possible to defend after predicting its actions.
"Kuk!"
It struck its front paw head on into Yu IlHan's arms, which he had crossed in front of him just before he was struck.
An enormous pressure descended upon him. It was a strong strike to the point that he lost his breath.
[KyyaaaAoOOoo!]
"Huuuuap!"
However, he didn't break any bones. It was because the bone blades which popped out the moment he was struck reduced the damage as first defence, and the leather armor which had all of his leather processing techniques applied to it, had reduced it again.
Although the bone blades on both of his arms became broken, when he thought that he had exchanged his arms for it, it was acceptable. Blades could be stored up later!
[It's so frustrating that it actually helps...!]
"Fuu, fuu."
Although Erta was speaking considerably leisurely as if he had already grapsed victory, Yu IlHan, who was doing the actual fighting, wasn't that leisurely. It was because he still couldn't escape its area of influence.
[KyuGAaooooOO!]
While suppresing the pain he felt from his two arms, immediately after he pulled out backwards, it made blade-like winds while violently slashing apart the air with its front paw.
Yu IlHan, who thought that it had simply cut apart the air, had to become pale and duck the next moment.
Since the wind had become a blade and was flying at him!
"What is that!?"
[It's a skill, what else could it be!?]
While dodging by stepping backwards hurriedly, Yu Ilhan picked up pillar(c) which he had left on the ground
During that, the black leopard fell down due to the rope which bound him before it could charge at Yu IlHan, then it tried to pull the harpoon out which bound him by rampaging but only bled. Then, in the end, after confirming that there was a leather rope connected to the harpoon, it raised its claws.
[Throw the harpoon before it tears off the rope!]
"I know!"
Yu IlHan inwardly felt that he was in a mess even while percing pillar(c) into the ground hurriedly. He had never imagined that it had a long-ranged slashing skill!
Honestly, he had thought that the monsters he had fough until now were just ordinary animals, just enhanced hugely, so he had only thought that it would work if he had a strong harpoon.
However, reality was different. And it will become more different in the future.
'So I have to fight with even stronger things than that in the future.'
First, he had to start by throwing away his common knowledge. Going further, it was important to prepare various strategies and weapons to fight against any monsters! This was the moment Yu IlHan had a realization bigger than anything.
"Hup!"
However, whether he earned a realization or not, it was important to kill the being in front of him right now. Yu IlHan, who dodged the second set of wind blades that came at him by rollin on the ground, stood up after picking up harpoon(c). Then, he shot it before it could attack again!
[KyaaaAAAaaaa!]
The harpoon pierced deep into its left paw. Even if it manges to cut the rope apart, unless it could pull out the harpoon completely, it wouldn't be able to use wind blade with that foot again! Erta spoke out in surprise.
[So you have talent in throwing spears as well, don't you?]
"Call me Ishmael."
Yu IlHan still hadn't given up on the Moby Dick joke. However, going by how Yu IlHan became more positive the worse the situation became, the situation was not that easy to solve.
Although it was good to bind it using harpoons, he had no methods of damaging it, when it was rampaging so much.
At that moment, the person who could solve this situation had arrived. Yu IlHan noticed that thanks to the noisy engine sounds... engine?
"So you really did seal its concealment!"
The empress who had arrived on an armored vehicle that looked very sturdy even at a glance.
"Twin Lightning!"
[KuGYYyaaaaAAAACCkkka!]
With an absurd level of lightning magic, which was capable of stunning a 3rd class monster!
Author's notes
N/A
Translator's notes
Paid chapters starting this chapter.
Editor's notes
Sorry about the delay and uneditied chapters guys >.< I got food poisoning and was out of action for a day
Call me Ishmael (2)
The black leopard which got hit by a strong bolt of lightning collapsed on the ground with a boom. As the three ropes that bound him became taut, it damaged the body even further.
Immediately after that, the armored vehicle Kang MiRae was driving arrived near Yu IlHan and stopped. Kang MiRae, who peeked out her body a little through the window had a small bottle in her mouth, and inside, something luminescent could be seen. Now that he thought about it, she was also wearing a metal mask which covered her nose to her forehead and not the H*lk mask.
"Just how did you bind such a monster?"
"That's what I want to say."
To say the magic just now from Kang MiRae was 1st class magic, it was too strong. Of course, as they weren't in a situation for him to ask that, Yu IlHan retorted and just kicked off the ground. In his hands was pilllar(d).
"Here!"
Bang! Yu IlHan ended up becoming proficient in nailing pillars into the ground as only one chop down with the pillar, pillar(d) had dug deep into the ground.
After fixing it firmly with a punch, he aimed harpoon(d) which was connected to it towards the black leopard which was just lifting its body up.
[KuYuuuu! KuFuAAAaaaa!]
The leopard didn't seem to have gotten rid of the electric shock despite lifting its body. It had lost its mother before it was even born, and even more, it was bound by its own mother's bones and leather. This was a pitiful scene.
And so, Yu IlHan decided to finish it off quickly.
"Hup!"
[KuooWaaaAAAaaaa!]
Harpoon(d) unerroringly pierced its right paw. At the instantaneous throw and hit, Kang MiRae even panicked for a moment as she couldn't understand the situation.
"Whenever you think you can put a hit in, attack. That guy's so strong so we don't know when the pillars will be pulled out."
"It doesn't seem like it will be pulled out at all, though."
Ignroing Kang MiRae's words, Yu IlHan moved his body again. Although 4 harpoons had pierced its body from 4 directions, it was insufficient to bind it fully.
Most importantly, its mana hadn't depleted yet! As though it had decided to escape the binding's first, it grit its teeth while shooting blade winds onto the leather rope continuously.
[KuAOoooOOOOoooo!]
Yu IlHan checked its state while driving pillar(e) into the ground. If it could use its power through its gaze(E/N: if looks could kill basically), it would have killed Yu IlHan already. A truly overwhelming hostility and muderous intent was endlessly pouring towards him. Even though it had received a considerable hit from Kang MiRae's lightning just now, it didn't seem to mind her at all.
[Ku...KuoOOoooo...!]
"So you want us to die together."
It was a gaze he met a few times while hunting a few animals in order to master dismantling.
Although all existences put life as its foremost priority and do anything and everything in order to protect it, there was a time where its desire for survival would be surpassed by another desire.
Ironically, an existence would shine the most brightly at that moment. It was like a flame that burned even more intensely as it knew the emptiness that comes after it becomes extinguished.
Yu IlHan threw harpoon(e). Striking its left eye, blood gushed out like a fountain.
"It will attack. When can you counterattack?"
Without even checking the results, Yu IlHan asked while escaping that place. Kang MiRae also replied while turning on the armored vehicle's engine.
"If you want pocket change lightning then I can do it now, and I can use a really strong one in 2 minutes!"
"Okay. Please tell me before you use your ultimate attack."
Immediately after he spoke, blade winds flew towards him. He had pierced both of its paws to seal its blade winds, but it didn't seem to mind as it kept swinging its front paw.
Naturally, the paws couldn't endure the shock as blood erupted from them like waterfalls, but the truly formidable thing was that even that blood was mixed into the blades as it shined even more frighteninglly.
[It's also called Blood Buff, but...Simply speaking, it's berserk! It will be stronger so be careful!]
"I knew that was it!"
Immediately after Yu IlHan rolled on the ground, the concrete floor was soundlessly dug deep. It was a place where Yu IlHan was at just now. As if panicking at that scene, the armored vehicle Kang MiRae rode also became louder.
"I don't think I can approach it...!"
While rolling on the ground with pillar(f) in his embrace, Yu IlHan clicked his tongue. The blood blades became more serious and flew all over the place as time went. The leather ropes binding it gradually reached its limits and it was stretching with a worrying sound.
It didn't mind even though the harpoons pierced into its body was ripping its muscles and bones while shaking all over the place, and was going to free itself. It was a movement to take its enemy's life while being sure of its own death!
Kang MiRae, who was in the armored vehicle, kept shooting lightning but it couldn't stun him like it did last time. He had to hold out for 2 minutes!
"Fuu."
Yes. He never thought it would be so easy in the first place. Wasn't it a 3rd calss? How could it be called 3rd class when it became bound due to an preemptive strike and be riddled with holes just like that and even get hit by lightning and die? That was called a punching bag.
"Can't you use some stronger skills to stop it!?"
"How about this!?"
A short reply came. Along with that, a machine gun popped out of the armored vehicle's window and it started shooting towards the black leopard madly. Yu IlHan shouted one syllable while looking at that.
"Ah!"
[You're worried that its hide will be damaged, right?]
"You, from when did you know me so well...?"
If there was one amazing thing, it was the fact that machine gun bullets didn't help at all to the point that it would make Indians shocked. (T/N: I don't know why Indians came out here… maybe from a movie, maybe it's from Moby Dick…?E/N: the author is one strange guy)
There was no need to talk about whether it had a large calibre or whether it was made from special materials. In the first place, due to its violent movements, more than half had missed, and even when they hit, it couldn't even make a mark on its hide. It was overwhelmingly lacking in power and technique.
However, if it was Yu IlHan, it might have been different.'
"Lend me that machine gun!"
"You can even use guns!?"
Kang MiRae voiced out in surprise, which was rare for her. Obviously, the person who mastered all personal weapons over hundreds of years was Yu IlHan. He had the confidence to shoot guns better than anyone than any other humans on Earth that went to a business trip to another world!
Moreover, thanks to the monster running all around the place, he couldn't use his spearmanship or close combat without taking a big risk. It seems that the moment he pierces harpoon(f) into its body will be the moment all the rest of the harpoons will be pulled out harmonically so that was meaningless, if there was any possibility...!
"Just give it to me!"
"Fred, give it to him!"
Although he guessed from the fact that the leopard was still getting hit by lightning despite the machine gun spitting sparks everywhere, it seemed the one shooting the machine gun was not her as expected.
After another wave of its blood blades flew at him, when Yu IlHan nimbly approached the armored vehicle, a heavy belt of bullets came down first. While receiving that, he rolled once more to wrap the belt around his body, then he caught the machine gun which was thrown outside the open door.
"But the machine gun doesn't have much effect..."
Although the brown haired foreigner, Fred, spoke with confusion even while passing the machine gun to Yu IlHan, Yu IlHan ignored him and ran to another side. Blood blades flew and it sliced off the armored vehicle's door.
"Dodge!"
At the same time as Kang MiRae's warning came, the black leopard finally pulled out two of the pillars. This meant that it had exerted enough strength to pull out the pillars even though the leather rope hadn't snapped yet.
"Even so, I really made that harpoon and rope well. It even endured such an enormous strength, right?"
[This is not the time to be positive!]
As the balance which bound him crumbled, the other pillars also became worrying at once. There wasn't much time before it regained freedom!
Even while he was joking with his mouth, Yu IlHan's two hands moved busily to check the state of the gun, connect the bullet belt and load before rolling once again on the ground.
Now, the leopard was only few meters away from him. The rope pulling it from the other side also looked dangerous, and the piillar was already being pulled out little by little. There was no monster like this.
However, Yu IlHan was also locking onto it without being late. Yes. With the machine gun.
"Eat bullets, you alien monsters!"
[This monster's from Earth, though?]
As the machine gun spat fire, one line popped up on Yu IlHan's retina.
[You have awakened Shooting Lv Max.]
Immediately after that, bullets started hitting its left eye, where harpoon(e) had pierced and pulled out from.
[KihyAAAaaaacccccc!]
"Huuuuuup!"
Whether Erta thought that shout was strange or not, Yu IlHan endlessly shot bullets. Even though a human body was supporting the machine gun, he didn't shake at all.
Just how hard was it to shoot bullets into the exact place one wants while ignoring the rebound occuring from shooting the bullets?
However, such a difficult thing was possible for Yu IlHan.
The macine gun bullets, which shot into its eyes continuously called forth a miraculous difference as if it made one wonder it was still the same machine gun that Fred used.
[Kuaaauuuccc, KKKSUXNCCUCCjc!]
A blood waterfall flowed. The black leopard rolled around the ground while screaming sounds that didn't seem like it was from the human realm. Even so, Yu IlHan didn't stop. He nimbly rolled onthe ground to follow it and pulled the trigger after aiming its left eye again!
The machine gun bullets slowly, very slowly broke its bones as they hit in the same spot again and again. To the point that it made one wonder if it was possible to break its brain like this, if it wasn't a 3rd class!
"...Is there some buff on the gun that I don't know about?"
Kang MiRae quietly muttered in shock while looking at that scene. The figure of one little human blocking a huge leopard with a single machine gun seemed grand as if modern civilization was struggling with its last strength in front of the change in environment.
"Magic!"
Yu IlHan shouted.
"Can you do it now!?"
"7 more seconds!"
"Okay! Attack whenever possible!"
"Yes!"
Fortunately, he had enough bullets. Yu IlHan shot bullets into its eyes while calmly moving around to dodge its wildly shot blood blades, and when he thought that about 5 seconds had passed, he threw the machine gun and the bullet belt and jumped.
It was to where pillar(f) and harpoon(f) was.
[KKKyyyYYYYAAAAAAKDSKDKC!]
With a good timing, it pulled out all the pillars from the ground. With five pillars dangling and dragging on the ground, it jumped to the air!
And at that moment.
"Triple Lightning!"
The moment Kang MiRae shortly shouted, Yu IlHan's vision colored in gold. The absurdly strong streak of lightning streaked through the air and hit the black leopard!
Yu IlHan saw that it had lost all its strength and dropping down. However, Kang MiRae voiced out!
"Concealment!"
3rd class monsters were amazing. Even though it was beaten up and burt, to think it still had the mental strength to plan the fight.
Moreover, concealment? It seemed Yu IlHan's guess was wrong. It was trying to leave this place through whatever means possible. After realizing that it wasn't a match for them, it was trying to escape and look for a next chance!
Of course, whether it did or not, Yu IlHan didn't care.
[KaHHHAACCCKKK!]
The shortest, but the most fatal scream resounded out. It was a scream that burst out from Yu IlHan nailing pillar(f) without hesitation into its bloody left eye as it was falling down while activating concealment!
Yu IlHan muttered while clicking his tongue.
"I said it wouldn't work from the beginning."
Bang! The black leopard and Yu IlHan fell onto the ground simultaenousy. Yu IlHan agilely stuck onto its head to lessen the shock, but the black leopard received a double hit without any of that so it was in a near-groggy state.
However, Yu IlHan didn't even rest and moved. He started to tie it up with the rope tying piillar(f) and harpoon(f).
"He… saw through the concealment..."
Just how much surprise does he have to give her in one fight before being satisfied? While Kang MiRae, who leaned powerlessly onto the seat after shooting out lightning, muttered in shock, Yu IlHan tied the leopard's entire body with the rope and as a finisher, he pushed harpoon(f) into its butt, hard.
[You have learned Binding Skill.]
[You can just kill it without tying it up, though...?]
Erta asked in confusion, but Yu IlHan shook his head and distanced himself from the black leopard which couldn't move at all. Then, he slowly approached Kang MiRae who was dumbfoundedly looking at him.
"Wh, what is it?"
Kang MiRae, who felt a type of madness from his movements, asked in a slightly scared tone. If someone who knew the Empress, heard this, then that person would be shocked. In fact, Fred, who was next to him, was also very shocked.
However, Yu IlHan, who didn't know of the Empress' reputation, nor was he interested, declared firmly to her, who was about to run away.
"Aren't we gonna party? Should I eat the experience alone this time too?"
Yu IlHan was a kind adult who does not make the same mistake twice.
Author's notes
N/A
Translator's notes
Tired… Cya
Editor's notes
Enjoy~
Call Me Ishmael (3)
Partying was truly simple. It was done with Kang MiRae grabbing the offered hand.
[A party has been made.]
[Party members : 2]
At that moment, truly wondrously, he felt that Kang MiRae was much closer to him than before. It wasn't just a psychological element. It felt as if his five senses had extended and embraced Kang MiRae inside it. Yes, if two existences were put inside one community, this kind of thing was possible.
"What? You're like a person who's partying for the first time..."
"I twitched only because it had been a while."
Yu IlHan, who calmly replied to Kang MiRae's a little too accurate question, thought that he should be more careful in the future and brought out his steel spear and held it. Now that he thought about it, this was the first time he picked up the spear since the battle began.
"Fuu..."
Yu IlHan's gaze on the black leopard which was pouring blood from all over its body, was very cold.
Just how much did he suffer while fighting against that even though he had prepared meticulously!? He didn't have any thoughts in keeping it alive even if it begged on its knees.
Although it would meet death in a few minutes even without him doing anything, he didn't know what it would do in those few minutes. He first took a short, deep breath, then threw the spear with all his remaining strength.
[You have earend 2.938,097 experience.]
[You have become level 36. Strength, Agility, Health, Magic increases by 10.]
[You have earned the record of Lv102 Shadow Leopard.]
After a few lines appeared on his retina, a deep shock assaulted him. The pressure from the change in his physical body by levelling up by 8 levels from level 28 to 36, was very big.
Yu IlHan clenched his teeth while enduring the pain from the squirming of his muscles and bones from the self-evolution. Kang MiRae also seemed to undergo the same thing as she wordlessly shivered inside the car.
"And here, I thought I monopolized it too this time, phew."
Yu IlHan thought that something had gone wrong as he had received an overwhelming experience compared to the Giant Leopard, but it seemed Kang MiRae had received the experience normally. Erta noticed his question and nonchalantly replied.
[There's a huge difference between 3rd class and 2nd class. Of course, 1st class and 2nd class are the same.]
"'That so."
The pain disappeared suddenly like it came. Yu IlHan lightly stretched his body on the spot to adapt to his new physical body, then looked at the black leopard which was slumped down on the ground without life.
More specifically, he looked at its hide.
"That's no good either."
[I wondered why you didn't say that earlier.]
It was a 3rd class monster. No matter how it specialized in concealment and had less durability than other 3rd class monster's hides, it was still leather from a 3rd class monster! If he could make an armor from that, it would surpass the leather armor he was wearing now by a large margin.
Of course, as it was a 3rd class monster, he had to use all means possible in order to kill it. The result was that tattered hide right there.
"Sorry I wasn't strong enough…..!"
[Don't apologize to the leather.]
Yu IlHan cried tears of pity as he dismantled it. Although he couldn't make an armor, there was lots of other things he could do with the leather.
Now that it came to this, he had no choice but to make partial armors. The moment he stuck the knife inside its head while resolving to make the best partial armor on Earth –
"...Huh?"
Yu IlHan voiced out his surprise.
"There's a magic stone?"
[The mother and the child both had magic stones? Such a good luck.]
A magic stone was the remains of the monster's strength. If the mana which should leak out at the moment of the monster's death coagulates, then that would be called a magic stone, and so, it was pure luck whether one would acquire a magic stone or not by killing monsters.
The statistics that humans in other worlds had produced was 17%. The probability decreases as the their class becomes lower, and as their class becomes higher, the probability of a magic stone being generated becomes higher by a little bit.
Anyway, Yu IlHan could be cconsidered as having awesome luck.
"Wait, then this."
Yu IlHan couldn't not think of the evolution conditions of his resting skill. Now that he had earned the 3rd class monster's magic core which was considered the hardest, couldn't he now just fulfill the other conditions!?
However, he put away his thoughts after remembering that this was the product of party playing. It wouldn't be too late to think about how to use this magic stone after fairly distributing the spoils of battle.
He was picky about his principles in such strange parts.
"I earned a little less than 1.5 million. How about you?"
At that moment, Kang MiRae got off the car and talked to him. Yu IlHan honestly replied.
"I earned a little less than 3 million."
"3 million..."
She smiled bitterly and repeated that number in her mind. Yu IlHan also noticed that the corner of her mouth had curved up.
"But the difference is less than I thought. I thought that my contribution was way too little."
"If it wasn't for you, miss Kang MiRae, I wouldn't even be able to kill it. I thought you were a critical help though..."
He had no thoughts of flattering her so his words were honest. However, Kang MiRae's voice was still low.
"Do you think so? In the case of a party, the absolute judgement criteria of contribution is the distribution of experience, so your words are probably correct... wait, can you tell me your name since I don't want to keep calling you 'you'? Or should I call you Sungdaein Bolt?"
"It's Yu IlHan."
The answer came at light speed. He didn't like his nickname that much. Kang MiRae burst out laughing with a 'pfft' after looking at his response. He thought that it was fortunate that her mood had become better.
"That magic stone is yours, Mr. Yu IlHan. I told you last time, right? Magic stones have the value worth 60% of the total. The contribution is about 2:1, so assuming that you will do the dismantling for me, then I think it will be alright to split the body in half, are you alright with that?"
"Is it alright to give you so little?"
"I think you don't know but the most important thing on Earth right now is not warriors, nor magicians, but a master dismantler. I don't think there's anyone who dismantles better than you, Mr. Yu IlHan, on Earth right now. So, it's natural to receive that much compensation."
Yu IlHan, who became ticklish(E/N: that fuzzy feeling you get) at her praise, silently put away the magic stone and started dismantling. The black leopard he thought to be smaller than its tmother, didn't shrink after even after it died, so the quantity of the leather and bones he got from dismantling was way larger than what he got from its mother.
While realizing that monsters puffed up their bodies the more they were weak, Yu IlHan wielded the knife busily.
While he was doing that, Kang MiRae ordered Fred to recover the machine gun and the bullet belt and called somewhere with her phone. As Yu IlHan had thought so in the past, it seemed definite that she had a connection to somewhere whether it was the government or the military.
[I think it's good to have a good relation with her. Amongst humans, she's a rare one to have pride, ability, honesty and background.]
"Getting into a relation with another human is hard in itself, Erta..."
At the advice Erta gave him purely because she thought about Yu IlHan, he retorted with a dark voice.
Even while she couldn't reply back to him in astonishment, the dismantling process was going well. After peeling all of its hide, in the process of removing useless bits of flesh, he suddenly thought that he might be able to use its tendons and muscles so he also cut them out.
After he separated the parts he could use from the body of the black leopard – the leather, the bones, the tendons, and the muscles – the dimantling was finally over. When he looked back, as he had expected, the vehicle that moved the Giant Leopard's corpse from last time had arrived.
Kang MiRae's figure, meticulously ordering to move only her portion to the vehicle, looked like she was strict with herself as much as she was strict with others.
"Mr. Yu IlHan."
When she confirmed that she had moved all of her portion to the vehicle, Kang MiRae approached him.
"Thanks to you, we could exterminate the monster before the damage spread. I also sighed in relief now that I can go to sleep in peace."
"Me too, thanks for the help."
"However, please forget our talk form last time."
"Sorry?"
When Yu IlHan tilted his head as if he didn't understand, Kang MiRae spoke while smiling bitterly.
"Didn't I say for us to go in a party last time?"
"Oh."
Why does she want to cancel it so suddenly? Of course, he had no shock or whatever since he wasn't planning to party with her in the first place, but he became slightly unsettled thinking that he might have done something wrong to her.
However, his doubts were cleared quickly. Kang MiRae had explained her reasons."
"Mr. Yu IlHan is too strong. To say it differently, there's too much of a gap between our level of ability. It's not only impossible to to fight efficiently with monsters, at this rate, my pride won't hold out."
He didn't know how to reply when she said her pride wouldn't hold out. To be sad, he didn't sympathize, to be happy, he was sorry for her. So, he just listened quietly when Kang MiRae spoke a line that didn't suit her
"However, in the future, it will be different. You probably know already, but I'm no easy girl. I'll show you that I will catch up quickly. I will ask you to be my partner then, so please don't reject me at that time."
"I will think about it at that time."
Kang MiRae burst out in laughter when she saw that Yu IlHan wasn't likely to put away the AT field even he was about to die. Then, she offered her hand. Just like the time they formed a party.
"Thank you."
The moment Yu IlHan let go of her hand after lightly grabbint it, a line appeared on his retina.
[The party was disbanded.]
With the lightness of gaining freedom and the unknown feeling of loss due to losing a colleague, Yu IlHan licked his lips.
However, it wasn't like he could grab her now. He bid her farewell while looking at Fred starting the vehicle.
"Goodbye."
"Oh, before that."
Kang MiRae, who he thought would leave with the sunset as her background, asked Yu IlHan.
"Can you leave me your contact info for me to contact you ?"
"That's."
"I won't give anyone your name or number, Mr. Yu IlHan. I promise."
Can I trust her? Yu IlHan asked himself.
Astonishingly, as a positive conclusion was reached, he told her his pone number even while hesitating a little bit.
"Thank you. Definitely, we will meet again in the near future."
Kang MiRae, who received Yu IlHan's contact info, clenched her fists lightly. Then, she seemed to declare confidently towards Yu IlHan when she left with her men, influding Fred.
Yu IlHan, who was left at that place alone, suddenly realized one fact.
"Whoa! This is the first time a girl asked for my number!"
[You're too pitiful to be rejoicing over that!]
"I never rejoiced. I just received the rights to stand in front of other people confidently!"
[That's even more sad! Other people aren't even aware of you anyway!]
Yu IlHan felt strange now that he thought that Erta had come to know him too well.
"Are all angels as sharp as you?"
[You're just incredibly simple.]
Yu IlHan frugally took his worth of spoils while listening to Erta's grumbles and he left the scene.
No, actually, he looked around carefully before leaving. Because it would be his mess to clean up if there was a monster egg hidden inside the fucking flesh!
Author's notes
N/A
Translator's notes
Enjoy! And no, the Empress didn't join him! Yay!!!
Editor's notes
Enjoy~ and ye thank fuck
Call me Ishmael (4)
Yu IlHan returned to his workshop. It was after he confirmed that the TV changed the announcement of the dungeon in the middle of the city. As he had expected, the Empress really had some amazing connections.
However, he didn't need to know any of that now. The only important thing was: his skill!
[Sleeping 2nd class monster's hearts 0/500]
[Troll's blood 0/500 litres]
[Good sleep 12/100 hours]
[3rd class monster's magic stone 1/1]
Yu IlHan couldn't hide his smile while looking at the renewed resting skill evolution criteria.
"I knew people who do good things will get good things."
[I don't hate your positive mind that much.]
Was it Yu IlHan's imagination that he heard it as an indirect insult? After he shut Erta up by shaking his head, he looked at the remaning homework.
"So the biggest problem is the trolls. I haven't heard that there have been monsters from other worlds appearing on Earth yet..."
[If it was someone else, then he could have just received a suitable quest in another world to do it with.]
"Hmph, do you think I'm doing this since I don't want to go to another world?"
Erta, who made Yu IlHan mad with a joke, consoled him by calling wind to cool his face.
[The concentration of mana on Earth is getting higher rapidly so you don't need to worry. You will be able to meet trolls much faster than you think.]
"But you know? When you read fantasy novels, aren't troll's blood really popular and such? Aren't they like more expensive than their weight in gold as a representative material in potion making? Isn't the requirement for the resting skill to evolve because troll's blood has a characteristic to heal wounds?"
[Yes, of course.]
Erta replied positively in a delighted voice.
[If you have extreme poison resistance!](E/N: almost spat my tea out)
"Fuck that."
Why does that resistance go up by a level each time! weak poison resistance, poison resistance, extreme poison resistance – he couldn't imagine what resistance will appear next.
[Don't trust fantasy novels so much. Just what kind of insane human would drink monster's blood raw? It isn't that there aren't any potions in another world, but the ingredients to make potions have nothing to do with trolls.]
"Yeah, whatever."
However, that didn't change the fact that troll's blood was needed to evolve the resting skill. A skill that requires a monster's blood that a human cannot drink.
Just where did this skill come from, and where is it going? Yu IlHan fell into half-worry, and half-expectation.
[Sleeping 2nd class monster's hearts are quite difficult too, are you alright with that? You need to kill it in one go and not two or three goes.]
"I think I will be able to manage that if I enhance my weapons somehow..."
When Yu IlHan's gaze turned towards the Harkanium on one corner of the workshop, Erta pulled on his hair.
[I said no.]
"Please gimme a little."
[No.]
Although Yu IlHan got mad again, Erta couldn't take a step back in regards to that.
[The balance will be too tilted. It's a preferential treatment just to let you use the hammer and the anvil. So before the quest ends, just make some good weapons.]
"Tch."
Well, it was indeed thankful that he could make his weapons with the wondrous tools that went beyond this world. As he had already repaired his steel spear, he could really feel that fact.
However, even if he processed steel, it was difficult to make anything better than the steel spear he already had. Now that it came down to this, was he to challenge processing titanium? Yu IlHan shook his head after he thought to that point.
"I should have learnt more deeply about processing bones."
[Even so, considering your talent, metallic equipment will see more light.]
Yu IlHan also knew this well. This was also the reason he was thinking to whisk some harkanium away too.
"Ah, damn it all. Let's just make what I can make now."
[I wondered why you didn't say that.]
The damaged leather which could only be used to make partial armor, and the black leopard's bones which were more sturdy compared to that, and the muscles and the tendons he took just in case – these were all the materials he had.
He first repaired the mostly damaged harpoon set. As the pillars and the harpoons made from the Giant Leopard's bones were mostly intact, he only made the ropes more sturdy and tough by supplementing it with the black leopard's leather.
After organizing the six-in-one set to use it any time, he now turned his gaze to the muscles and the tendons.
"The muscles' elasticity is no joke, this is."
[You're not thinking of something strange again, right?]
Why not? He grinned as if imagining about something and exprimented with the black leopard's muscles.
However, no matter how elastic the muscles were, it was impossible to surpass the propulsion power made by modern gunpowder. As expected, even after becoming a monster, is it impossible to surpass the limits of modern gunpowder! – While Yu IlHan was sighing.
The tendons which had just toughness and no elasticity compared to the muscles were thrown away, ended up falling into the fireplace.
"No! I was planning to grill it and eat it after I learn extreme poison resistance!"
[It will rot before that!]
Anyway, I thought he was making weapons, but he had that kind of goal!? – Erta thought.
However, the tendons which fell into the fireplace showed an abnormal change. Yu IlHan, who noticed it fast, observed it with lights in his eyes.
"Look at this guy...?"
Was it because it had come in contact with the Eternal flame which cannot exist in this world? Or was it because the birth of the black leopard itself is abnormal? Although no one knew the reason, the thing happening now was neither magic nor miracle – it was reality.
As the Eternal Flame burned more and more while emitting light, the tendons were changing little by little while becoming heated red.
"You should have told me if there was such a processing method...!"
With shiny eyes, Yu IlHan fixed his gaze on the fireplace. However, Erta turned her face away with a hmph.
[I don't have any relations with production and creation. There's no way I will be able to know the change in characteristics of a monster's tendons after meeting the Eternal Flame, is there?]
"Grill it a bit harder. I need to see the critical point."
Yu IlHan was already not listening to Erta anymore. The Eternal Flame raised its temperature as if it had understood his words, and the black leopard's tendons heated up even more while enduring the heat which was at a level not seen on Earth.
"Stop."
Yu IlHan saw through the critical point with the instinct he refined for hundreds of years. At the same time he gave a signal, he carefully puled out the tendon with tongs.
After waiting until it completely cooled down, he used all sorts of tools in his workshop to hammer it, pull it apart, smash it down and even checked its heat resitance and cold resistance. After that, he could come to a conclusion.
"I will name this the Giant's Rubber Band."
The black leopard's tendons were orignally tough. It didn't get affected by fire, water or shock that much. However, when it came into contact with the extreme flames of the Eternal Flame, a truly amazing characteristic was added – and it was an elasticity that easily suprassed the black leoapard's muscles.
Although it was hard to pull due to the amazing hardness, the elasticity produced the moment it was pulled apart and let go, was truly amazing. Yu IlHan didn't call it the Giant's Rubber Band for nothing.
It was no different to an extreme power source which produced more strength than it was applied with.
[It is surely amazing, but what are you planning to make with this?]
"There's only one thing."
That was the pile bunker. Although the basic principle was the same as a gun's, it was a bothersome but a strong weapon for destroying the enemy by nailing the opponent using metal spikes instead of bullets, shooting it using the power of gunpowder at a super close distance.
Yu IlHan was thinking of making a pile bunker using the elasticity of the Giant's Rubber Band instead of gunpowder.
[It's you who's strange to think of something like that!]
"Eternal Flame, you remember that temperature just now? We will process all the tendons here!"
Ideas about the device that he could make using the Giant's Rubber Band burst out inside Yu IlHan's head. He could also calculate how he would process the bones to supplement that.
[I really need to acknowledge your energy.]
In the end, Erta also sighed and decided to watch his work.
The biggest and thickest bone was modifed to be the barrel which included the delicate inner parts, and the Giant's Rubber Band which was enhanced to the extreme due to the Eternal Flame wrapping here and there inside the barrel and being installed – such a process was so natural like flowing water to the point that it made Erta wonder if he was working after having learnt the design by heart.
"It should be good to wrap the handle with the leather, right?"
Yu IlHan created it to fit his use. Although, his standards were monstrous to the point that it could be called a problem.
"If I become stronger, then I can even tamper with the inner parts. I can add more rubber bands to make it stronger."
[The thought that you're doing something absurd doesn't seem to leave my head.]
The pile bunker's bullet was as important as the pile bunker's main body! He made this using the teeth rather than the bones of the black leopard. As its body size was huge, its teeth was also sufficiently long and thick, and as a bonus, it was sharper and harder than the bones.
After making a total of 7 bullets, Yu IlHan fell into worry.
"I need to enhance them with magic stones…"
[It's already sufficiently monstrous!]
"It will be a finisher if I nail the black leopard's magic stone here."
[Do whatever you want if you have the confidence to meet another 3rd class monster before trolls appear.]
Erta's persuasion was strong. In the end, Yu IlHan had to give up on mana crafting. While resolving to enhance it after acquiring a magic stone befitting of this pile bunker…
He made the barrel and the bullet. The only thing left was equipping.
Slotting the bullet inside the barrel was simple. The problem was the process of pulling the loading handle while pulling the bullet inside the barrel and at the same time, slotting the Giant's Rubber Band in the bullet.
Yu IlHan had made the device with a lot of detail, so it had 1st level, 2nd level, and 3rd level loading. However, as he tried, loading to just the first level was amazingly difficult.
"Uguguguguugkkkkkkk... Mommy!"
[Your mother's in another world!](E/N: savage)
Yu IlHan gasped for breath after barely pulling the loading handle to the first level. It was only possible since it was structured for the bullet to be fixed by a safety dvice.
"How many seconds did I take?"
[About 2 seconds.]
"As expected, it will be hard to use it continuously in practice. Fuck, I called mommy in loading the 1st level so if I load it to the 3rd level, I might call all my ancestors."(E/N: some of the funniest lines in all of EER)
It took 10 seconds to load to the second level, and 2 minutes to load to the third. If he loaded it without stopping from the beginning, it would take much more than that.
Anyway, unlike his worries, he could load it before he called his great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother. After loading, as if it had waited, texts started appearing on Yu IlHan's retina.
[Lightspeed Pile Bunker was completed]
[Rank – Unique]
[Attack Power –
1st level : 1,200
2nd level : 1,800
3rd level : 2,900]
[Option – Loading speed decreases and attack speed increases by 20%]
[Durability – 1,240/1,240]
[A weapon made by a peak level master smith using the Shadow Leopard's bones, teeth and tendons. Although it's truly praiseworthy to have implemented such a power without the use of magic or gunpowder, the fact that it's hard to use and is a bother to move it around is clearly a disadvantage.]
On the pile bunker, which had an alpha option even without going through mana crafting, had a miraculous option attached. It was the reduction in time in loading and attacking! Yu IlHan was about to cry tears of emotion from the truly excellent option.
However, Erta, who had excellent ability in finding negative isdes to objeccts, interjected without fail.
[That really is a disadvantage. The length goes over 3m after combining the bullet.]
"Hmph, this is for the large scale monsters."
[Don't tell me you…?]
"I will now go into creating weapons to confront small sized mosnters!"
[Just rest, REST!]
Yu IlHan didn't even get tired and made weapons with the Giant's Rubber band. Continuously until the angels came to make the 3rd Trap of Destruction!
Author's notes
If you try to make the Giant's Rubber Band at a meat restaurant and grill beef tendons without eating it, you will receive a back smash from the owner. This work is fiction and the appearing tendons are processed tendons.
The pile bunker is one of the author's romance. This work is planning for the protagonist to make a vareity of useless-looking weapons! I receive weapon recommendations! (T/N: I will tell the author if you like…)(E/N: oooh really?)
Translator's notes
Pile bunker! Yay!
Editor's notes
Enjoy~, also note, one of the funniest chapters in EER to date
I Also Go to Dungeons
Time flew by quickly.
He wanted to try the pile bunker out quickly, but he still had lots of things to do. Not to mention making Traps of Destruction, there were many other things such as supplementary defensive equipment or supplementary weapons or other things for hunting monsters safely.
In the end, he stayed in his workshop for more than one month. (T/N: It's because he does this that others can catch up.)
[Meticulous Underground Trap of Destruction was completed.]
[Mana crafting has become level 24. You can make better artifacts with less mana.]
An unknown time has passed after he became used to making the Traps of Destruction.
Yu IlHan tilted his head in confusion at the mana crafting process which ended in a blink of an eye compared to when he first did it.
[It, it has both options again.]
[We need to change the trap layout. We might end up with an Overflow.]
Whether the angels panicked or not, Yu IlHan just silently handed the Trap of Destruction over while asking Erta.
"How many is this now?"
[17. The plan is… was to make 11 more, but thanks to your ability, it seems that the number will decrease.]
"Is it because of that Overflow thing that the angels mentioned?"
[You really are quick witted. Yes, that's right. It's becase of Overflow.]
Overflow. Leak due to going beyond capacity.
Dungeons? No, the flow of mana characteristic to the Traps of Destruction.
[The Traps of Destruction that you make are too exceptional. Not only is the scale large, it even increases the effect of the Traps of Destruction already scattered on Earth.]
"Do you mean that too much is as bad as too little?"
[if a single Trap of Destruction calls more monsters from a wider range, then eventually, there will be a remnant Trap of Destruction. Let's say that there is a Trap of Destruction which scatters mana to attract monsters even though there aren't any. What will happen?]
"...Do humans get caught up instead of the monsters or something?"
[Fortunately, no.]
Erta, who rejected Yu IlHan's horrifying imagination, spoke while smiling bitterly.
[Random records of the Akashic Record and the flow of mana in the Traps of Destruction mesh with each other to create new monsters.]
"I said make it easier to understand."
[An awesomely strong boss monster swallows the Trap of Destruction and appears.]
"Good, much more straightforward."
[...I keep having the impression that you're trying to tame me.]
"It's your imagination."
At least, he now knew how horrifying Overflows are.
His honest thoughts wanted to deny confronting 3rd class monsters for a while. He had such a hard time fighting the black leopard which blatantly showed him its weakness due to its speciality being concealment, and if there was one which wasn't like that... just imagining it made him horrified.
[That is why, we will fix the coordinates of the Traps of Destructions to prevent Overflow. After calculating, it seems it will end after just making 8 more.]
[Haa, really. It's a problem since only unpredictable things happen on Earth. Erta, please manage that person well.]
Was it the frequent conflict between colleagues? The moment Yu IlHan thought that, Erta raised one of her hands. In her hands, light gathered to make a sword-like form.
However, her voice which came out after that was sharper and colder than that sword.
[You do your mission, Shiuta. Just your mission.]
[...Okay. I will.]
When that angel stepped back with a stiff face, Yu IlHan also realized that Erta was currently angry. The other angels seemed to have notice that as well as they chimed in in abusing Shiuta and consoling Erta. Those figures were quite funny. Yu IlHan laughed thinking that what angels did were not much different from what humans did.
After the chain of disturbance, the angels left holding the Traps of Destruction. Erta, who looked at that, only erased her sword of light after the angels' presences completely disappeared before shrinking her body.
Then, she spoke to Yu IlHan who was staying still.
[To think that we became like this when we have suppose to overcome our emotions.... You really are amazing, Yu IlHan.]
"Whoa? Why does the sparks spatter to me!?"
[Isn't that obvious. Just now, that angels was jealous of you.]
Hearing her words, he thought that it might be interpreted that way. However, Yu IlHan only made a small smile while picking up the hammer.
"That's an honor. Anyway, I don't plan on getting involved with them if I get my rewards properly."
[We're selecting the rewards at the moment. And amongst them.]
"Amongst them?"
[There are two things that I have to tell you beforehand.]
"What is it? What is it?"
Yu IlHan's two eyes started shining. Erta thought that he looked quite cute, but soon, she shook her head and drove that thought out of her head.
[The first is information.]
The moment he heard that, Yu IlHan's expression started becoming rotten.
"I don't receive anything other than items."
[If you listen, then you will change your mind though?]
Erta's confident words made him even more frustrated. However, her following words really did make him change his mind.
[It's the information on location of the dungeon where you can acquire a metal which newly appeared on Earth.]
"Tell me!"
[I knew you'd say that.]
How much suffering did he make the steel spear go through? He killed 3rd class monsters with an item used in the middle ages of Earth, so there was no need to describe how much suffering it had gone through.
Yes, now it was the time to make it rest!
[The second is a bag.]
While Yu IlHan was excited, Erta took out an item from her magic inverntory. It was a black leather cross bag which wasn't big at all.
"...You want me to carry this around? For fashion?"
[It's an item with spatial expansion magic on it. You can put about 1,000 of those pile bunkers over there.]
The cross bag was a truly small. It didn't feel like a melon would fit in no matter how much he stretched it, so Yu IlHan carefully asked back.
"I think it will rip while putting it in, though....?"
[I will give you a replacement reward if it's ripped so please test.]
He tested.
It got in.
Since he was at it, he also tried putting in the leopard hunter's harpoon set.
It got in.
At this rate, even an Elephant would fit in.
"Ooooooooooooh!"
[You 're like a country bumpkin so stop it.]
"Erta, I love you!"
[I, I don't need such a cheap love!]
Of course, Yu IlHan wasn't listening to Erta's words anymore. Starting off with the Giant's Rubber String, the leather, and the weapons made from the bones, he seemed to put in shovels, pickaxes and all the equipment in the workshop one by one, and in the end, he only became calm before he put the entire workshop inside.
Erta looked at his figure with satisfiaction before she warned him as she thought of something.
[You can take an item inside the bag out with just a thought. However, please be ware in using it. No matter how it has a spatial expansion magic applied on it, there is a limit to its capacity, and there is no weight deduction magic on it.]
Now that he had heard that, he thought that it became heavier than when there was nothing insdie it. However, since his physical body was enhanced transcendentally, it didn't even itch for him to carry something around 1 ton.
The moment he thought that, lightning flashed inside Yu IlHan's head.
"Hey, I think I can use this as a weapon! I can just swing it around after stuffing tens of tons inside it!"
[It's probably only you in the entire world who can think like that.]
Now that he had acquired a bag which he can put his ores inside without worry, there was no need to hesitate. Yu IlHan left the worshop just like that.
Of course he didn't forget to take the Trap of Destruction he had already made. This was to proceed with mana crafting when the angels came to him after recovery even if he wasn't at the workshop.
As the dungeons hadn't completely been activated, the world was still like this. Human history had stopped since the Great Cataclysm.
Even in countries where Dungeons took their place properly, there was still the threat of monsters appearing, so the governments were advising to at least acquire 1st class in other worlds before coming back.
"The streets are surely empty."
[Are you reminded of your dropout days?]
"A little."
Yu IlHan spoke and made a small smile.
"However, it's different now. Since everything is changing right now."
It was different to the time he had to be nervous waiting for the time for humanity to come back. The stopped time was flowing, and people like the Empress who stayed behind on Earth to fight monsters, and the people who earned their strength in other worlds, were all putting in effort. As he knew that, he didn't feel solitary.
The place Erta told him was fortunately in Korea. Although it would normally be alright for it to be in a foreign country, state of emergency was passed down in many countries. He couldn't get on boats nor planes so he might have had to start from building.
[So you mean that you would have built a ship if it was in a foreign country...]
He ignored Erta's words and ran. While running without rest he kept accelerating. While thinking that he would buy a car if the world normalized again.
Although he could find patrolling police officers, soldiers, and a few ordinary ability users, it was quite meaningless as they couldn't notice Yu IlHan. He was sad that he wasn't sad due to becoming used to it.
[It might be a little sudden.]
While Yu IlHan approached the vicinity of a nameless hill, Erta suddenly started speaking.
[Do you know how monsters which weren't on Earth appear?]
"Didn't you say something like they will appear if the concentration of mana reaches a certain point?"
[That's the most basic requirement.]
Erta started off with that and asked Erta.
[What appears on a discarded bag of rice?]
"Rice weevils."
[In a dirty room with bits of chips scattered around without being cleaned?]
"Cockroaches."
[It's like that.]
"I did understand but you do really choose the worst examples."
She probably wanted to say that monsters are generated in an environment most suitable for them to live. Although rice weevils and cockroaches only crawl inside the environments suitable for them, well, the image wasn't that different.
Yu IlHan asked her while ignoring the mountain path and jumping up using rocks and trees.
"But why are you speaking about that so suddenly? There are no new monsters on Earth though."
[No, they did appear.]
"Huh? What did you say?"
[Huh?]
Erta tilted her head and spoke.
[Not only not all mosnters are categorized as 'life form'... For you to acquire a new metal you will need to kill the monsters living inside the dungeon you will be entering and extract their heart.]
"Huh? What did you say?"(T/N: Eh? Nandatte?(Haganai reference))
[You did hear it properly.]
Although he pretended to be deaf, it didn't work on Erta. Fuck, I should have realized when she only spoke he could 'acquire' a new metal without mentioning any mining!
The moment after Yu IlHan exclaimed, he ended up stopping his walking. He had arrived at the middle of the mountain, and had arrived in front of the dungeon that Erta told him.
The dungeon was positioned in the form of a blurry grey vortex in front of a cave, and the moment he found it, the text, [Limited access for under Lv50], appeared.
Of course, Yu IlHan's level was still 36.
"Hey."
[Who do you think is with you?]
"Embarrassing angel."
[I'm a higher existence who makes and manages Traps of Destruction!]
The moment Erta shouted in boasting, which was rare for her, the text saying limited access for under lv50 disappeared from his retina.
[I can take such measures since I know of all your abilities.]
"You are unexpectedly useful...."
[Please remember, I'm quite of use to you!]
Yu IlHan stepped inside the dungeon with the unexpectedly-useful angel Erta.
This was the moment where the dropout met a monster from another world for the first time in his life.
Author's notes
1 month has passed. It's the beginning of a mass level up of the ready warrior, Yu IlHan!
The rewards of the quest are being given one by one. There are still a lot left!
Angel killer Yu IlHan.
Unlike monsters which are born naturally in an invironment with mana, rice weevils lay their eggs in rice, and cockroaches cral inside dirty environments. They don't appear with a *poof!* in an empty space! …Although, in fact, the author thought that it was like that until a while ago...
Huh? What did you say? : A famous hearing-impaired patient. I will skip the details. (T/N: Haganai reference, apparently, Chamber hasn't watched it. Google 'Eh? Nandatte?' for more)
I will emphasize this since it's important. It's not harem! (T/N: I don't believe you, your previous two works were both harem.)(E/N: pls no harem)
Translator's notes
Ignore 6, author retracts it later, saying he won't say anything. Apparently, there is an 'ending' he is planning, but who knows… Also, I only found about the haganai reference through the comments…
Editor's notes
*sobs in a corner* why is it harem T.T
I Also Go to Dungeons (2)
Yu IlHan, who had experience in making Traps of Destruction, but had none in entering dungeons, could not hide his surprise after seeing that the scene in front of him had changed as soon as the tip of his fingers had touched the vortex.
"Just what is the principle?"
[You just made them until now.]
"Don't you know that Daedalus, who created the Crete labyrinth, got trapped inside it?"
[You sure are good with your words.]
Was this space really created from the Trap of Destruction? To think that such a small lump of metal twisted such a large amount of space, separated it and maintained it!
Although he had seen the scene where the Trap of Destruction was being activated, it was a different feeling to see and feel the scenery inside after coming in the dungeon himself. Moreover, even the feeling of the air was different to the outside!
The unknown that he loved the most, the unknown which burned his passion for adventure! He fell into a deeply moved state and looked around him.
While looking around, he found a huge grey colored lump of metal rolling around the corridor. For some reason, the excitement which boiled until now, cooled down instantly.
"Normally, novel MCs will shout 'This is the metal I was looking for!' like a fool and run to it then get messed up, but I already know the fact that it's a monster."
[You sound quite disappointed.]
"Yeah, I feel like when I was spoiled by mom on The Sixth Sense."
His unknown emptiness couldn't be described by anything. He didn't know whether to be angry or be sad!
While grumbling, Yu IlHan took out a weapon from the cross bag. There was a more suitable weapon to confront hard lumps of metal, rather than a spear which used slashing and thrusting as its main attack.
That was a weapon which had a huge axe blade on the head, and a heavy hammer on the other end. An ivory colored weapon made entirely out of the Shadow Leopard's bones, starting from the handle to the axe blade!
[Heavy Battle Crusher]
[Rank – Rare]
[Attack Power –
Hammer : 1,250
Axe : 1,270]
[Option – weight increases by 50% upon hitting]
[Durability – 1,350/1,350]
It was a masterpiece which had an alpha option even without going through mana crafting. The options attahed was a weight increase option which maximized effects in an environment where hammers or axes would be used!
Althoug the rank was rare, in fact, it was rare to go above rare in this world. Yu IlHan's ability, pulling out one rare or above after another was the abnormal one.
"However, I will be able to make better metallic weapons when I clear this dungeon and come out so I will have to throw this away."
Moreover, Yu IlHan had no ability to become friendly with others, so he couldn't 'pass them on' to lower levelled people like in other RPG games. Such a good weapon will be thrown away!
When one felt empty, everything else felt empty. With an empty feeling, Yu IlHan dashed with the axe held high, and shouted while striking down his axe on the lump of metal, feeling empty.
"Go croak!" (T/N: This will become a thing from now.)
[What do you mean, 'feel empty'? It's your full strength!]
The axe with an enormous amount of strength concentrated on it dug into the lump of metal with strong strength with another level stronger due to the 10% increase due to concealment. It recognized Yu IlHan the moment it was attacked, but since it was in the middle of being beaten up, it couldn't resist properly.
And just like that, it split into halves.
[Critical Hit!]
[You have earned 137,928 experience.]
[You have earned the record of Lv 51 Metal Heart.]
[Critical Hit has become Lv 4.]
[You have awakened Blunt Weapon mastery Lv Max. You can evolve this skill if you have the skill evolution materials.]
Yu IlHan stopped for a moment. He had never thought that it would end in one hit. Since it ended so easily, he thought that it may be an enemy which revived until it became powder, but it wasn't that. That was just the end.
However, the next moment, he pretend that he was expecting it to end with a single strike.
"The title is really 'One hit for you, one hit for me'!"
[I think it would be an instakill even without a critical but, yes, you did well.]
After checking that there were no enemies around, Yu Ilhan lightly recovered the axe and looked at its body. At first, he thought that a huge pumpkin was rolling around, but it was made from countless lumps of metal gathered together.
Amongst those countless metallic lumps, there was a lump which emitted a blackish light so that made him assume that it was the heart.
"You did say to pull out he heart... But its body also seems to be quite hard, though?"
[The body is just a bit stronger than steel, but the Metal Heart's heart is a metal that's in a different dimension. Not only it is the hardest part, it is also the nucleus which contains all its mana. Although, that is also the reason why Metal Hearts don't have any magic stones.]
"This is…..?"
Yu IlHan struck its body again and made the heart appear. Surely, that thing emitting a wondrous black light looked like it was something good.
To Yu IlHan, who looked at it after pulling it out, Erta explained.
[Metal Hearts, when they notice the enemies, they send their unique mana from their metallic hearts into the part they want tostrengthen. Originally, it's a monster even people with 2nd jobs have a hard time to hunt. Normally, one would distract its attention from the front, and another one would ambush it from behind.]
"Thank you, Ertawagon."(E/N: ertawagon?)
He did think that he had hunted a 2nd class monster, which was above lv 50, too easily, but there was a reason. Metal Hearts were weak to ambush.
Well, although everything was weak to ambushes, Metal Hearts were especially so. They can only use their strength after noticing their enemies – how weak was that!?
However, life was something where you could be backstabbed at all times. Being arrogant after killing just one just might send him to hell. Even in novels, side characters were cleared up like that.
He had to run away without hesitation if about ten appeared at once, so he proceeded inside the dungeon while not loosening his tension.
And one day passed.
[You have become level 38. 2 Strength, 1 Agillity, 1 Health, 1 Magic increases.]
There was no twist nor counterattack. Metal Hearts were beings which had less population in the first place. He was so bored in adventuring the dungeon, to the extent that he would call out 'jackpot' when he found a Metal Heart after walking for 10 minutes.
As soon as he found them, Yu IlHan struck them down with his axe, and the Metal Heart which could not notice Yu IlHan in his concealment, always allowed him to succeed in his ambush and they got split into halves.
As Erta said, the Metal Hearts were disposed of in not two hits, nor three hits, but in one hit. When the fight ended like that, he would just senselessly break its body, take its heart out and put it inside his cross bag. And it was an infinite cycle of that.
Yu IlHan muttered in a tired voice.
"Were dungeons such an unemotional place?"
[You're just abnormal. Just how did you master blunt weapon mastery to the max as well?]
"You know that ten thousand different weapons all end up to be the same, once they're trained to the extreme, right?"
[Yeah, how about I hit you about ten thousand times?]
No matter how he thought about it, there was quite a distant to the dungeon adventuring that Yu IlHan had dreamd about. This was just labor.
Moreover, as the period he stayed in the dungeon got longer than he thought, he now had to take care of his meals with the jerkies he had brought.
So, the menu for his meal had turned into a choice between cheese jerky or beef-rip flavored jerky.
If he knew such things would happen, he would have brought BBQ flavered ones too!
"I want to see Rita."
[Why so sudden….. If you really want to meet Rita that badly, then don't you just have to become a higher existence quickly? Nobody interferes love between higher existences.]
Erta threw a slightly suspicious line, but the hungry Yu IlHan didn't look into it.(E/N: IlHan is frustrated ???? )
"Rita always cooked me rice." (Author's note #4)
[You want to see her with a reason like that!?]
"Ah, the jerky is delicous."
[In the end, aren't you eating the jerky deliciously!?]
The time Yu IlHan sensed the change while exploring the dungeon with the nitpicky Erta, was two days after that. It was a change incomparable to the mana crafting process with the angels who came to find him mid way.
"Erta, isn't that guy a bit bigger?"
[It is. Monsters also have their individuality like humans so it is obvious that they look different.]
"But even so, isn't it a little too bit for that?"
This was the conversation they had after encoutering an enormous cave in the dungeon.
Until now, Metal Hearts were exercise ball-sized, had become massive beanbag-sized!
[Even so, it's the same Metal Hea...No.]
Erta, who was nonchalantly replying, momentarily closed her lips and looked at the large sized Metal Heart in the middle of the cave. Yu IlHan waited for awhile before she flabbergastedly shouted.
[That's a Big Metal Heart!]
"Drag that bastard who named them with such little enthusiasm in front of me, right now."
[It's not the time to joke around. Although it's only a word difference, Big Metal Hearts are 20 levels above Metal Hearts. Just how did something so strong appear already?]
"That just makes it 71 though?"
Yu IlHan's level judgement senses had been paralyzed after he defeated the Giant Leopard and the Shadow Leopard. Although, with his ability, it was very reasonable that he was numbed.
Erta also nodded his head with a 'huh?' after thinking for a while.
[That's true. isn't it?]
"It will be fine if I just run if I think I can't handle it."
Although he spoke like that, Yu IlHan had no thoughts in running away. Although it was with help, he had finished off the Giant Leopard when he was level 24. His current level was 38, so just from his pure level of ability, it didn't lose out to the time he was buffed by the Empress.
Moreover, at that time, he had just one steel spear, but currently, he had an amazingly strong weapon!
"With a single strike from this, that will also just!"
The thing he took out from the cross bag was the pile bunker which had an imposing manner. The idiotic-level-sized weapon boasted of an imposing manner that no one else on Earth other than Yu IlHan would be able to use it.
Moreover, it was already loaded to the 3rd level. When Yu IlHan placed it on his shoulders, Erta sighed as though she gave up.
[How is it that the time that the things this human makes become useful always arrives at some point? So frustrating.]
"Fuu, Let's go!"
The pile bunker was a weapon which only focused on attack power and threw away all the other necessary requirements for a weapon. Portability, secretiveness, agility, anyway, the user of the weapon had to make up for the rest.
And so, this was the most suitable weapon for Yu IlHan.
Yu IlHan kicked off. The Big Metal Heart was enjoying its freedom whether Yu IlHan was jumping or dancing, rolling around within the cave.
While looking at it, he took 3 big steps and jumped into the air on his 4th step. The figure of him proceeding forward in the air while moving his feet looked like Michael Jordan's airwalk.
[You need to prepare in case it doesn't die in a single strike!]
"I know."
After retorting roughly to the point that it made her wonder if he really knew it or not, Yu IlHan picked up the pile bunker. He jumped so high that its enormous body was under his feet!
"Here I go."
Immediately after Yu IlHan whispered, the pile bunker's bone ammo cameint ocontact with its body.
The moment the sharpened bone dug through its metallic body and got buried inside it, the pile bunker, which was provoked, released the 3rd stage, 2nd stage, and the 1st stage lock at once and transferred the enormous strength that the Giant's Rubber Band had on to the bullet. As a result, with a sound like an exploding grenade, the pile bunker spat out the bullet.
Immediately after that, a bone bullet which was longer than 2m pierced through from its head to its roots!
Author's notes
The main character of The Sixth Sense, Bruce Willis, was in fact ...!@##@$&*(!
Ertawagon : A parody of Speedwagon, which appears in Jojo's bizzare adventues, and likes to give out explanations.(E/N:jojojojojojojojo)
ten thousand different weapons all end up to be the same, once they're trained to the extreme(萬流歸宗): It appears a lot in Wuxias. Everything is the same when approaching the limit, so if one becomes proficient in one weapon, he can use other weapons proficiently as well. Of course, Yu IlHan isn't like that, but he just got proficient in everything!
Always cooked me rice : A famous(T/N: Only in Korea) line throughout the pokemon series. (T/N: It's become a thing in Korea that Ash only views Brock as a cook… and not a friend…)
Translator's notes
No! The author's planned ending is NOT a harem… Just that I don't believe it since his previous two was both harem (One with 7 girls and one with 2)
When I said that he retracts those lines, I mean that he just says that he won't say anything about this being harem or not. NOT that it IS a harem.
Btw, his previous two works are called [Infinite Competitive Dungeon Society] and [Devil King], both of which aren't being translated yet.
THERE WILL BE SLIGHT SPOILERS IN THE NEXT LINES SO YOU'RE READING AT YOUR OWN RISK.
Oh yeah, now that Rita appeared again, I remember. Rita is actually suppose to be Lita.
To spoil a bit, see that all the angels end with a 'ta'? Rita, Erta, Fashta, etc…
That's for 5th class angels. When Rita/Lita becomes 6th class, she becomes Liera. 6th class angels end in 'era'. The only other 6th class angel appearing in the story so far, was 'Spiera'.
Also, somebody mentioned Nephilim in the comments in the previous chapter… NO! THERE IS NO CROSSBREED BETWEEN HUMANS AND ANGELS… well, the angels aren't actually that different. Rita was once human, as Erta once also was… becoming 'angels' just means that they had become a higher existence. 'angels' are just a group amongst those higher existecnes, so they aren't 'real' angels in a sense.
Editors notes
so you might get some wacky as names
poor Ilhan, sorry to ruin your ships guys, unless of course Ilhan becomes an angel too