Today I contacted Ji-Hae to see if we would do another portal raid. And it looks like Ji-Hae has already rented 1 D-Rank portal and the price seems to be more expensive than usual. It just so happened that this D-Rank portal was in Seoul again and appeared near a school.
Since my current armor is slightly damaged it looks like I'll have to make new armor from the monster corpses later. But I don't know what kind of portal we will enter today.
Then I went to the portal's location and it looked like Ji-Hae was already there. And for some reason he was wearing such excellent equipment today was different from his usual day. Even though he usually uses good equipment but today the equipment he uses looks like an overkill.
"Ji-Hae what's wrong with your gear?" I looked at him with a strange look while pointing at the equipment he was using.
"Th-this is just in case hyungnim, we don't know what will happen inside the portal right? hehe"
"Well you're right, and it looks like you brought a good dagger today"
"Ohh.. this dagger is the newest product from our company so I decided to use it"
"Woah... that looks cool"
Then after checking our equipment for a while, Ji-Hae went to the portal supervisor to let us in. It's the second time we've done a D-Rank portal raid with 2 people and it's really hard to get a pass. I see, this is indeed very dangerous and something like yesterday could also happen at any time but now I'm much stronger than before.
"Hyungnim let's go in now"
Then Ji-Hae and I walked into the portal. We got a pretty normal place, the terrain is swamp but the monsters inside are gorgons and nightbugs.
I've never faced a gorgon before, and neither have nightbugs. Looks like today will be my first experience facing these two monsters.
This place looks a little dirty, after all it's a swamp. And this light fog with the surrounding trees made it hard to see the monsters around us.
"Hyungnim shouldn't be around here we won't find any monsters yet"
"Then where should we go?"
"We're going to a place that looks like a small lake up ahead"
"Ohh that place, looks scary"
Then we walked there, I still haven't brought out my skeleton army. This place isn't as bad as yesterday's portal but I don't like this atmosphere. And the gorgon is shaped like a snake, and its size is also big it would be scary.
After walking for a while I could see the small lake more clearly, and this place was very quiet compared to the previous place.
"Hyungnim the monsters should be around here"
I walked around the lake area, suddenly a gorgon came out of the river and tried to attack me. I used shadow step to dodge. After that I took out my sword and summoned my skeleton army.
"My troops attack that damn monster!" All my skeletons attacked the gorgon, the gorgon tried to fight back using its tail. But Diar hit him hard on the head and managed to kill him.
"It's easier than I thought"
"Of course hyungnim, it's because you've gotten much stronger!"
I saw that the gorgons would look cool, and I wanted to include them in my skeleton army. I also still have 2 empty slots.
After that I approached the corpse of the gorgon and tried to resurrect it.
"Rise from the dead"
The gorgon came out in its skeleton form, and it looked cooler than I expected. Because of its large size I decided to make it my mount.
I climbed on top of my skeleton gorgon's head and it felt amazing.
"Hyungnim can we really ride it?
"Yeah that's right, Ji-Hae you just need to get up here"
After that we continued the hunt using the gorgons as our mounts, this feels great I don't even need to spend my strength to walk.
Then we managed to kill about 5 more gorgons and I had a lot of stat increases.
[Lee Won Myung constitution +3]
[Lee Won Myung dexterity +3]
[Lee Won Myung intelligence +2]
[Skills have been improved]
Looks like I'll be taking a short break to see my stats increase.
"Status Window"
[Hunter Status]
Name : Lee Won Myung
Age : 20
Title : Goblin Slayer, Orc Slayer
Class : Swordman | Necromancer
HP : 1300
MP : 2600
Stats :
Constitution = 61
Strength = 65(+2)
Dexterity = 72(+2)
Intelligence = 67(+1)
Magic = 71(+2)
Endurance = 55
Skills:
Call Upon the Death (Necromancer) MP : 20 Max 29/35
Blank Space (Necromancer) MP : 5
Bone Shaper (Necromancer) MP : 20
Shadow Step (Necromancer) MP : 15
Black Aura (Locked) (Necromancer) MP : 20/second
Slash (Swordman) MP : 10
It's a pretty good upgrade, I only killed regular monsters. I haven't even faced a boss monster yet but I can raise my stats this much. Besides that I can add 6 more skeletons to my army.
Looks like adding 5 skeleton gorgons would be a good thing. Then I resurrected the 5 corpses of the gorgons we killed earlier.
"Your army hyungnim looks like an army now! SO AWESOME!" Ji-Hae looked at my skeleton army with glowing eyes.
"Well... it's a great improvement, now we don't have to be afraid of being caught in a bad situation anymore as long as we are in the D-Rank portal. Besides that I have Luck and Diar the skeleton commander who is strong in strength"
After that we continued hunting for a long time in the area, suddenly we met a nightbug.
"That monster hyungnim that looks like a beetle is a nightbug"
"So that's how it looks, looks disgusting. But we have to kill it!"
Then my army of skeletons equipped with skeleton gorgons beat them in unison. And the nightbug died without being able to put up a fight.
"Hyungnim do you want to resurrect this monster too?"
"I'm not sure if I should add it to my skeleton army?"
I was wondering if I should throw away the other skeletons and include the nightbugs in my squad. But this monster looks normal.
"Ohh I'll make it my new bone armor"
Then I approached the corpse of the nightbug and used the bone shaper to turn it into armor.
"Woah.... this armor looks strong, let's see the stats"
[Necromancer's Bone Armor]
Price : Unknown
Type : Armor
Rank : D
Stats :
Strength +4
Constitution +3
Endurance +3
"That armor hyungnim looks really cool!!!! can you make me one too?"
"Of course, we will look for nightbugs again after that we will make armor for you"
This armor is much stronger than my previous armor, the increase in stats is also no joke. Now I have a stronger defense.
Then we managed to find a few more nightbugs and I killed them all with the help of my skeleton army. This seemed so easy, after that I made some more armor and gave one to Ji-Hae.
I find today's hunting much easier than usual, it feels good. At this rate, I can become strong quickly. And maybe I'll do a C-Rank portal raid soon.
After that we went further into the swamp to look for monsters. Unexpectedly we will meet a gorgon king and there are also about 6 gorgons around him guarding him.
"That hyungnim is a gorgon king what should we do?"
"Of course we will kill them all!"
Then I ordered all my skeleton troops to fight against the other 6 gorgons. Me, Luck, and Diar will face the gorgon king. He's almost as big as Diar but he has fast movement I shouldn't underestimate him.
"Luck you lure him with your attack! and Diar use all your strength to beat him!"
Then Luck ran quickly in front of the gorgon king and distracted him. He struck with his sword multiple times at the gorgon king's body. The gorgon king became angry and he wanted to attack Luck with his tail, but Diar hit the gorgon king's head so he was blown away.
Since he was blown away he wouldn't be able to move for a while. I drew my sword and used my full strength to stab his head.
I managed to stab him in the head, and the gorgon king went berserk and tried to free me from his body. But Diar came and hit him hard. After that, I stabbed his head many times and Luck stabbed him in the eye so he couldn't see.
Not long after the gorgon king died, my skeleton army also managed to kill 6 other gorgons. I didn't think it would end so quickly, it turns out that I've become this strong.
"Hyungnim is amazing! I don't even have to do anything"
Then I tried resurrecting the corpse of the gorgon king and hoped he would become a commander-level skeleton like Luck and Diar.
"Rise from the dead"
A black aura filled his body, but suddenly it just disappeared. Looks like it failed. After that I made another gorgon corpse into a weapon for my skeleton army and resurrected that one gorgon corpse to become part of my skeleton army, and now my skeleton army has reached its maximum limit. This is a large amount of weapons, now that all my skeleton orcs will have weapons.
Today's hunt was easy, and we collected a lot of mana stones. So Ji-Hae and I decided to exit this portal.
"Hyungnim you look cool today, we got a lot of advantages even though we only raided for less than 2 hours"
"I didn't think it would be so easy either haha"
After that Ji-Hae sold all the mana stones and he gave me a huge sum of almost 50 million won. This way my savings should have reached 100 million won, looks like I'll be moving into a luxury apartment with my mother and sister soon.
"Then see you tomorrow hyungnim!"
"Yeah... see you tomorrow"
After that, I walked back home while looking at the prices of good apartments in Seoul. It's quite expensive, but that's okay because it's for my family. I'll try asking Ji-Hae about this later.