Translator: WH

Jung Da-woon went in without hesitation with Pokyuu at the forefront.

As soon as his hand reached out, the hard ground dug deep and the soil came out clinging to it like magic.

Pokyuu stared at the scene with envious eyes.

Perhaps its friend was not a human, but a giant ground squirrel that looked like a human.

– Ring!

[Skill has advanced to Level 8.]

“Oh! Level up!”

His skill levels have also steadily risen.

As a result of the level up, the speed of digging had increased.

Now, the size of the mud brick that Jung Da-woon can hold together at its maximum is about two spans in width, length, and height, respectively.

It was really a great improvement, considering that it was only the size of a fist when he first had it.

“If I keep levelling up like this, who knows maybe I’d be able to dug the ground while I ran?’

Even though he suddenly started to have these expectations, but to do so, he had to continue to wander underground and use his skills.

‘Whew, I definitely can’t do that.’

He shook his head quickly because he imagined these negative thoughts.

Rattle.

“Huh?”

After digging for a long time, Jung Da-woon finally found something.

“Here it is!”

A huge tree root appeared in front of him!

“Good job, Pokyuu! Thank you! If it’s from here, I think I can get out!”

“Pokyuuu, pokyuuuu!”

Jung Da-woon excitedly cheered ‘Hurray’ and praised Pokyuu.

Trees being present here meant that the ground above was not a layer of stone but a layer of soil.

Now he could just follow these roots up! He could finally get aboveground!

“Pokyuu, pokyuuuu!”

“Hmmm? Ah, you want a bone? Yeah, course I’ll give it to you! If you’ve done something good, of course there’s a reward!”

Jung Da-woon jumped at his feet and threw a small piece of bone to Pokyuu, who was panting for something.

“There you go! Eat all you want!”

“Pokyuuuu!”

Pokyuu snatched it from the air and tried to take a big bite, but stopped.

Then suddenly, it threw the bone on the floor.

“Pokyuuuu!”

Pokyuu hits his tail on the floor with an anguished look trying to imply about what he was dissatisfied with.

Oh, come to think of it, that wasn’t the purified bone.

“What a mean little guy.”

Jung Da-woon grumbled and purified the bones and handed them back.

Only then did the little ground squirrel take it and start crunching it with excitement.

“Pokyuu! Pokyuuuu, kyaaa kyaaa!”

Da-woon burst out laughing because it looked like it was addicted to some kind of drug.

“Alright. Eat all you want, eat.”

Who would know that this junkie would be such a treasure?

Leaving the little guy alone, Jung Da-woon began to dig up the ground along the tree root on a slanted slope.

With his one gesture, the ground changed like stairs at once, and it was due to his unusual skill.

“As expected, the layers are not made of stone at this side!”

As he went up, the soil started to soften, and its colours started to change.

It was a good sign.

And after a while, his efforts came to fruition.

…….Thud.

“Ohhh?”

A square hole opened up and a blinding light burst out from beyond that.

Argh!

“……!”

Jung Da-woon couldn’t open his eyes properly for a while.

It’s because his eyes have been used to dark underground life for too long.

After a while, when his eyes got a little adjusted, he carefully peered out his head to the ground above.

And he was speechless at the beautiful sight before his eyes.

“Wow…….”

Jung Da-woon’s heart was filled warmly with the beautiful natural colours that he had not seen in such a long time.

Finally! He was finally out from the tunnel.

The ground above was a meadow surrounded by forests.

The high blue sky and white clouds, and the grass beneath it!

And the flock of white sheep grazing leisurely on top of it!

And……

The monster wolves who chased after the sheep and bit them ferociously?

‘……What? Wolf?’

“Krrrrrrrrrrrr! Awooooo!”

“Baaaaaaah!”

“Awooooooo!”

“Huh?”

Looking back, it wasn’t leisure at all!

It was a pandemonium!

‘Ackkkk!’

Jung Da-woon, who looked as if he had sticked his face out in the middle of the monsters, hurriedly hid himself in a tunnel.

But then.

“Pokyuuu!?”

“Shhh! Shhh!”

Flailing!

Pokyuu tried to climb up without even realizing the hell that was unfolding above, so Da-woon grabbed it and shut its mouth.

But unfortunately, a monster wolf nearby noticed Jung Da-woon’s presence.

“Krrrrrrrrrrrung? Grrrr!”

He was caught by the wolf!

“!”

“Ackkkkk!?”

As the wolf growled violently, Jung Da-woon fled under the tunnel with fright.

But it wasn’t as if there was a door blocking the tunnel’s entrance, so the wolf followed him in.

“Grrrrr!”

“Ackk!”

It was impossible to avoid the attack of a fierce beast in a narrow tunnel.

Saw-winged teeth spread like crocodiles to bite his arm.

At this rate, his whole arm was about to be torn off!

Judging that he was not able to avoid it, Jung Da-woon thrust his hand into the wolf’s mouth in that moment.

And, kwaak!

“Kreeeu!?”

“Ackkk!?”

And he himself was surprised.

“Kwakkk! Kyaaakkk!”

The flustered wolf struggled violently.

It suddenly couldn’t shut his mouth!

And somehow his mouth was full of sticky mud!

Jung Da-woon summoned the mud brick inside the wolf’s mouth!

The wolf suddenly began to vomit as it was unable to shut or open its mouth because of the dirt that was pushed into its throat.

“It’s, it’s now or never!”

“Vigor of the One-Horned Boar!”

Shiiiiing!

The moment he shouted his skill, his whole body was filled with power.

“Yaaahhhhh!”

Jung Da-woon’s shoved his fist and hit the wolf’s side like the wind.

Thud!

“Kuuueekkk!”

The wolf’s waist was folded into a Giyeok (ㄱ) shape.

The great blow took the wolf by surprised, and also surprised Jung Da-woon himself.

“Holy shit! 2x my physical stats is just too awesome!”

Da-woon didn’t know because he didn’t need to use such strength when he was belowground, but he felt thrilled when he properly felt the effects of the “Vigor of the One-horned Boar” skill used in battle.

Doubling his physical stats meant that his physical strength, agility, and stamina were all also doubled.

This would mean that if originally, a sack of rice could be lifted, now two sacks of rice could be lifted.

And if you swing your fists with that force, this is what happens.

Thud, thump, thud, thump!

“Keuurrrkkk! Keuiii! Kraaakk!”

Once deprived of its spirit, the wolf lost its senses by his merciless punching.

However, Jung Da-woon was in a kill or be killed situation.

It was clear that if he relaxed even for a moment, he’d be ripped off by those ferocious teeth.

And 10 seconds was too short to subdue the wolf with bare fists.

Five, four, three…….’

Jung Da-woon’s eyes, which were calmly counting the duration of the skill, glistened fiercely at the moment.

He had to make a fatal blow before the effect of the skill was over.

“Inventory!”

A long iron spike came out of his hand.

And then! He stabbed!

Sshhluck!

“Kyaaakk!”

The wolf’s body trembled and its eyes flared up at the shock that penetrated its body.

‘It’s working! Just like this, one more time!’

A second iron spike came out from the air.

Sshhluck! Stab stab stab stab

“Kyaakkkk!”

The wolf vomited blood along with the mud that was shoved into its mouth.

‘More! More more more!’

In that meantime, the skill effect was over, but the iron spikes kept popping out.

Sshhluck! Stab stab stab stab!

“Kyaakkkk!”

And then……

The body of the wolf, which had become almost like a hedgehog due to the iron spikes, dropped down on the floor.

It’s dead.

“Huff huff.”

Jung Da-woon stepped back, breathing heavily.

Then a pleasant message popped up.

[ Skill has advanced to level 2.]

“Oh, level up? As expected, levelling up becomes faster if you hunt for monsters.”’

Jung Da-woon was greatly pleased.

The only way to raise a skill level was to use the skill frequently.

The harder and the more he used his skills, the more experience he could get.

In that sense, no other method to level up was as difficult and as fast as hunting monsters.

However, no matter how fast the level ups at the beginning were, the fact that the level was raised after just hunting one monster meant that the wolf was a substantially dangerous monster.

‘Did I really catch such a monster by myself.’

Jung Da-woon felt intensely anxious, albeit a bit late.

But it was too early to be relieved.

“Let’s start by blocking the entrance first.”

The passage had to be blocked before the other wolves could smell the blood of the now dead wolf and notice what had unfolded.

Jung Da-woon clambered up the stairs and covered the entrance of the tunnel with dirt.

Then the darkness sank again into the previously bright tunnel, and the cries of the wolves slowly faded away.

This familiar sense of silence made Jung Da-woon feel relieved, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

He flopped to the ground.

“Ha…… I thought I died for a second there.”

He barely climbed up to the ground above, but of all places he could’ve appeared, it was in the middle of a group of monsters.

Jung Da-woon faced the intense dungeon for the first time in a long time, and it made him come to his senses.

“That’s right, this is why, by no means should I ever go out above.….”

He could do something about it if it was just one or two wolves, but there was about ten wolves or so above.

It was a situation where he had no choice but to sigh.

“But still, I have to try and do whatever I can.”

Whooshh!

When the torch was lit, the wolf’s large corpse was seen in front of him.

Come to think of it, this was Jung Da-woon’s first monumental hunt.

He was overwhelmed with emotions.

It was the first time that he caught a monster by himself without using any trap.

Whether someone was able to hunt a monster alone or not was an important criterion that separated the Fighter class from the Producer class.

“Does that mean I’m a Fighter class too now?”

…… While thinking of that, he was already sharpening his butcher knife on the whetstone.

Since the hunt was over, he had to quickly butcher it.

He was still a Production class to the core.

“Phew, it’s rewarding.”

Jung Da-woon wiped the sweat off his forehead with a satisfied look.

In front of him, the body of the wolf was neatly disassembled into different parts, including leather, bones, and flesh.

Due to the fact that he stabbed the iron spikes recklessly, the leather and meat were all in tatters,

“But the bones are pretty useful, aren’t they?”

All these while, he could only butcher the one-horned boars, so the bones of the slender wolf monster looked new to him.

In particular, even when deprived of all flesh, the wolf’s strong jawbone, which was as terrifying as a crocodile in a swamp, gave out an imposing aura.

He thought the size would fit perfectly on his head.

“Well then. Should I make myself some armor?”

His creativity suddenly sprang up.

Necessity was the mother of invention, and after a life-threatening struggle, he realized the need for equipment.

If you make armor out of the bones of a monster, it will naturally be equal to the teeth of a monster.

Furthermore, the “bone warehouse” at the hideout was full of the bones of the one-horned boars!

Jung Da-woon went towards the hideout without stopping.

“For starters, it would be easier if I had a workstation.”

Jung Da-woon laid some mud bricks in front of the bone warehouse.

Then he put a few strips of flat marble ripped from the trap wall on top of it, and a decent workstation was completed.

Jung Da-woon brought some bones of the one-horned boar and spread them out.

And he was already excited as he put the bones of the wolf which had different sizes and shapes on one side.

He thought he could assemble these around and make something really great.

How would he make armor then? At first glance, it seemed very difficult, but there was nothing he couldn’t make if he wanted to.

Covering the wide area with a broad bone, thin bones were then woven into a string and wrapped around the frame.

Then, he used the tendons of the one-horned boar that he had collected.

“Hmm. I wish I had a drill to drill a hole.”

Come to think of it, the iron spikes he had were perfect for drilling holes.

He also made a stone hammer too.

A wooden handle was added to a stone of the right size and secured firmly with a tendon.

“Now then, shall we give it a try?”

When all the preparations were complete, he grinned happily as he looked at the pile of bones on the workstation.

And two days later.

[What the hell is that?]

The rabbit sighed at the sight of Jung Da-woon.

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