When dealing with kobolds, one should be most wary of their sense of smell.
As soon as one's body was smeared with a kobold's blood, it was practically impossible to hide from the rest of the kobolds.
At the same time, the kinship between kobolds was very strong.
When one of their kin is killed, they do not stop attacking until they kill the perpetrator and get their revenge.
Keohung, Keohung!
That was why twenty kobolds were running around the rugged mountains until they were out of breath.
The moment they detected the thick smell of the blood of their people, there was no other choice.
Keung! Keung!
They sniffed and ran towards the smell of the blood, taking the shortest path possible.
Soon, the kobolds were able to reach a spot full of their kin's bodies, which had been squashed.
Keohung, Keohung!
Their sense of smell was paralyzed by the thick scent of blood around them.
Some Kobolds even sank their noses into the ground in order to avoid smelling the odious scent of blood.
Keohung?
At that moment, a kobold found something strange.
There were bones of his kind between the bodies.
Of course it wasn't unusual for there to be bones.
The strange thing was that the color of the bones were pitch black.
Keong, Keong!
The kobold felt uncomfortable upon seeing the abnormality so it sniffed the bone after approaching it.
Seug!
Then, something rose from the pile of dead bodies and instantly sliced the kobold's neck. Siig!
Eerie sounds of edged tools cutting the wind could be heard all around him.
The kobolds were surprised and their hair pointed outwards.
Then skeleton soldiers with black bones rose up from the gaps between the corpses.
Tteolgeuleog! Tteolgeuleog!
The skeleton soldiers immediately spread out and hunted the kobolds.
Siig!
The skeletons soldiers' movements were surprisingly nimble, and the swords they wielded were incredibly sharp.
Seogeog!
Even amongst them, the attacks from skeleton soldiers holding scimitars were cutting the kobolds' bodies like hollow bamboo.
Of course, the kobolds fought back.
Keohung!
Krr!
They swung their weapons, clubs, crude swords, or maces, and some of their attacks hit the body of the skeleton soldiers.
Their power was considerable.
The evidence was that the kobold's sword, which hit the skeleton soldier, gave off a spark and sounded like it was hitting coarse iron.
Wasn't it obvious that their attack would sound like it's striking iron since their strength is so weak?
Keohung?
It was ridiculous from a kobold's perspective.
Puk!
Then there was a noise from behind the kobold.
It was the sound of an arrow coming from a distance.
Keohung?
Surprised, kobold began sniffing with his nose toward the direction of the arrow.
However, it was impossible for the kobold to smell Kim Woo-jin, who was covered in dirt to hide his scent.
Kim Woo-jin, who confirmed this clearly, began to actively fire his arrows.
Puk!
Endless swarms of arrows struck the kobolds' backs.
In fact, that was the end of the hunt.
After less than ten minutes of fighting, there were no kobold left standing on the floor.
Kim Woo-jin did not enter battlefield that ended in a such a way. He looked at it from a long distance in order to avoid being tainted by the scent of blood.
Puk!
He looked at his skeleton soldiers who were confirmed to be shooting the kobolds instead of Kim Woo-jin.
"Black bone skill, it's good as expected."
Black bone.
It was a skill that Kim Woo-jin acquired through the catalogue he received when he hunted the 1,000th orc.
The effect was simple.
[Black Bone]
He sent him the information he needed to do business with, and when he finished speaking, he ended the call.
He acted like a broker, and met Kim Woo-jin's expectations.
But Kim did not smile knowing this.
Oh Se-chan's disposition showed that he wasn't exactly what Kim Woo-jin wanted.
It was no laughing matter.
'I'm glad I stayed at the station.'
Kim Woo-jin went straight to where Oh Se-chan told him to go and immediately opened the locker. There were two envelopes inside the locker.
A paper envelope and a letter envelope.
'A letter?'
Kim Woo-jin opened the envelope that looked like a letter and checked the contents. When he checked over the contents inside the letter, he couldn't help but break into a laughter.
Inside the letter were 4,300 won in cash.
'Is 100 won for the payphone fee?'
The cash included 4,200 won for transportation he mentioned earlier and 100 won for the payphone not too long ao.
'What a funny guy.'
It was a situation where he couldn't help but laugh.
However, Kim Woo-jin's smile disappeared as soon as he checked the information in the other envelope.
'... I'm sure now that the Messiah Guild killed Oh Se-chan."
Oh Se-chan, in his hands were treasures that would make even the Messiah Guild covet them.