Translator: WH

[T/N: Some minor changes were made from this chapter henceforth. The Skill will be changed to . Next, ‘final site’ will be changed to ‘historic site’, which will be explained in the next chapter. Thank you and enjoy!]

Jung Da-woon, who was blocked by the rocky mountain, was in agony.

“oh, come on. I can’t clump it no matter what I do.”

Even if his Earth Lump was at Master Level, the limit of his skills was clear.

It was possible to bind the soil as hard as stone, but on the contrary, it was impossible to clump the stones together.

“If a rock is crushed, it becomes dirt, doesn’t it? Do you have to act so mean in a place like this?”

Jung Da-woon grumbled sullenly.

But what could he do. The use of the skill was impossible unless the stones were finely grinded to a size that would clump together.

In the end, he had one option left.

“Let’s go up.”

“Pokyuuuu?”

When he moved above ground while holding Pokyuu who was tilting its head in his arms, the dreary wind greeted him.

“It’s a little chilly. Is it because there are no trees?”

He touched the entrance to rocky mountains.

From now on, on this land of uneven rocks, he had to climb the mountain fighting against the monster rats.

“Hmm. The way back to the valley is surrounded by the terrain. I can just move along the path that has no rats.”

He couldn’t dig a tunnel, but he could still build the observatory.

If he continued to expand the mini-map and moved carefully, wouldn’t he be able to avoid being surrounded by too many rats?

“I’m gonna have to make more soil golem. With the reset, the final boss is back, right?”

He decided to increase his firepower for his future journey.

Jung Da-woon immediately climbed on top of the elephant golem’s head.

“Gorilla golem. You follow along too.”

“Goo-oh?”

“Boo-oh-oh-oh-oh!”

Thump, thump, thump, thump, thump!

The golems, carrying Jung Da-woon, ran through the tunnel with a terrifying momentum.

* * *

Upon arriving at the Stage-1 historic site, he hunted the final boss with the gorilla golem.

“Hold on tight!”

“Goo-oh-oh!”

The battle was one-sided.

Jung Da-woon pulled out the core of the final boss while the two golems were fighting hard.

Kabaaaam!

The final boss, who was guarding the historic site, collapsed in just a few minutes.

“Hmmm, if I make another gorilla golem, I won’t have to fight in person in the future.”

In fact, the power of the gorilla golem and the final boss was almost the same.

Although there were some differences in size and shape, the power of the engine is basically the same.

In this case, the side with the larger number would win without doubt.He was already looking forward to a month later.

Jung Da-woon immediately returned to the Death Mountains and worked hard on shaping the soil to create another gorilla golem.

“Rise up! Gorilla No.2!”

“Goo-oh-oh!”

Now he had three Earth Golems in his arsenal!

To be exact, there were one elephant golem and two gorilla golems.

Once again, he could see the changes that occurred as the “Earth Lump” skill rose to the Master Level when building Gorilla No.2.

Now he could make the mud brick up to one meter wide, one meter long and one meter high.

He tried to check how heavy it was, but he couldn’t move it even with 3.2 times his strength that came from activating the Vigor of the One-Horned Boar.

“Wow, it really didn’t budge.”

In fact, the weight of the soil was heavier than he could ever imagine.

If monsters were properly pinned under this weight, perhaps it would crush the bones of their bodies to death.

But monsters were still monsters.

If the monsters had bones or muscles as strong and thick as iron, then it would be a different story..

“In any case, let’s steadily increase the number of golems while moving.”

Though he was anxious, he felt reassured to see his golem standing with such formidable force.

* * *

The temperature dropped sharply at night.

“Kyuuuuu.”

“Are you cold?”

Pokyuu suddenly dug into his arms.

He grinned and hugged it.

Seeing such a small life crawling to look for a warm place, he realized that it too was a living being, albeit small, and he thought it was cute, although it was trivial.

When he took out a boar fur out and wrapped it around his body, Pokyuu, who was wriggling in his arms quickly settled in.

And he fell asleep just like that.

“But is it because it’s a mountain, it’s really cold.”

It wasn’t even winter, but the temperature certainly grew chilly at night.

It was even colder because he was at the rocky mountain.

To avoid the wind, Jung Da-woon moved from the elephant golem’s head into the storage compartment.

It felt like he was riding at the back of a truck.

Since he could use the minimap to survey the surrounding, it didn’t matter even if he was inside.

“Will it get warmer if I block the ceiling?”

Jung Da-woon immediately stopped the elephant golem on its feet.

The gorilla golems were placed on perimeter alert, and he came out and made a plate of mud wide and thin enough to cover the back of the elephant golem.

“Earth Lump!”

These were skills that he was used to now.

The clump of soil spread flat in an instant at his single gesture.“Wow, isn’t this almost pottery?”

Jung Da-woon was amazed by the smooth clay plate.

The pressure of clumping the soil had risen to the highest grade this time as his skill was now at Master Level.

It had become possible to make clay plates almost as thin as pottery.

As the solidity had risen, it was now possible to shape it in a much more delicate and detailed shape than before.

However, it broke easily even with the smallest force because he made the thickness too thin.

“Hmm. The wider the board, the thicker it has to be for it to be stronger. I’m getting the hang of it.”

He tested it out and found the right thickness after breaking a few clay plates.

But then, there was a sudden feeling of anxiousness.

It would be painful if this big thing suddenly collapsed from the ceiling.

“Oh, right! Will it hold its weight better if I make it slightly arched?”

Safety was always the best.

He felt a little relieved when he used his skill to bend it slightly.

“While I’m at it, let’s also make some supporting frames down there.”

Safety first, safety first.

A grid frame formed under the roof, like a window frame.

Somehow it was getting more grandiose, but the structure was as solid as ever.

He order the gorilla golems to place the finished roof on the back of the elephant golem.

“Carefully, on top of it. Gently.”

“Goo-oh-oh.”

Chuck.

Installation of the elephant lid was done!

“Good. Roof complete!”

The door was missing, so he drilled a square hole in the side.

Then he hid the soil he just dug in his inventory so it wouldn’t regenerate.

“Boo-oh-oh?”

The elephant golem kept looking around to see if his side was empty, but he ignored it and installed a door.

He took out the straight branches that were kept in his inventory, cut them to the right size, and weaved them tightly with some tough bark.

And when he made an axis on one side and inserted it into the door hole, a pretty good hinged door was completed.

Creak, creak.

“It’s a little creaky though.”

Every time he opened the door, there was a sound, so he oiled the shaft slightly, and it opened much smoother.

“Boo-oh-oh?”

The elephant golem kept looking to the side whenever the door was opened.

As expected, it could feel that its side was empty.

“It looks like a camping car when I look at it like this.”

Jung Da-woon looked at the elephant golem with satisfaction.

It was just one lid, but the atmosphere changed drastically.

Come to think of it, as he couldn’t hide underground any more, he had to continue riding the elephant golem as a means of transport whether he liked it or not.

If that’s the case anyway, he thought it would be better in the long run to make it as comfortable as possible.

“It’ll be colder in the morning. Should we have a fireplace?”

Even though the roof had been built, the room was still chilly.

So he decided to make a fireplace this time.

Inside the elephant golem’s back was a space of about 10 pyeong.

If he lit a fire in this narrow place, it would soon run out of oxygen and smoke would fill up inside.

”Let’s drill some vents.”

But there was already a suitable vent.

And that was the elephant golem’s trunk!

Of course it wasn’t a real trunk, so the inside was clogged with dirt.

But if he dug it up like a pipe, it would become a perfect vent in itself, or a chimney!

Of course, doing such a thing was a bit cumbersome and troublesome for Jung Da-woon to do.

But there happened to be a right person for the job.

“Hey Pokyuu, its finally time to work your worth.”

“Kyuuuiitt!”

Thuck thuck thuck thuck!

Pokyuu dug into the elephant’s long, narrow trunk, made a very good vent and returned in high spirits.

Its reward was a set of purified bones!

“Pokyuuuu, kyaaaa!”

Munch, munch munch!

In any case, now that there was a chimney, it was time to build a fireplace inside.

“How should I make it so that it would be a feat well-made?”

Jung Da-woon was full of motivation.

He wanted to make a proper fireplace that even Santa Claus would come in.

Chuck chuck chuck chuck!

Just like he remembered from what he saw in the picture book when he was young, he made small and cute bricks and began to stack them.

He distinguished the firewood space and the furnace of the fireplace.

And when he saw the smoke coming from the firewood flowing out from the elephant golem’s trunk chimney…….

“Wow, that’s awesome. Isn’t this just perfect? What would I have done if it wasn’t for the elephant golem, really now.”

After making it like this, he was lost in admiration.

It was a truly exquisite structure!

The elephant golem’s trunk could move freely.

That means he could arbitrarily adjust the direction of the chimney!

Usually, smoke would carry its trunk to the sky, but in combat, it could turn off the fire in the furnace and attack the monsters with its trunk.

“Fantastic. Shall we light it up now?”

No, wait a minute?

As he tried to light the firewood, a great idea struck his mind.

“Wouldn’t it be better if the flooring was warm rather than just warming up the air?”

Even if there was a ventilation shaft, it was so frustrating to see only hot air in a tight space.

Wasn’t it quite stuffy just yesterday.

What was needed here was the wisdom of our ancestors.

It’s Ondol![T/N: Ondol is a Korean floor heating system.]

“As expected, for Koreans, it has to be Ondol!”

Let’s make an Ondol!

To be honest, he didn’t know the details of the structure of an Ondol.

But he knew the basic principles.

Heat the stones with the heat of the furnace!

Based on this one thing, he carefully designed the structure of the Ondol.

“Hmm. I think I’ve seen it a few times on the language section of Suneung……. Well, I’ll be able do it somehow!”[T/N: Suneung is the College Scholastic Ability Test, a very difficult and arduous exam that Korean High School students have to go through to determine which University they can go to.]

He had never made an Ondol before, but it didn’t feel too difficult.

It was something made with soil and stone anyway.

It was nothing difficult for him, who could freely fiddle with the shape of soil.

“Earth Lump! Earth Lump!”

There was a few trials and errors and he ended up breaking the whole floor,

In the end, he was able to find the wisdom of the ancestors on his own.

1) Flatten the floor inside the elephant golem.

2) Dig furrows at appropriate intervals on the floor. (It’s the fire path. The furnace was gently sloped so that heat could flow evenly.)

3) Place a wide stone in a crack in the furrow. (Acts as a flat stone for the heating system.)

4) On top of it, lay a wide, hard clay plate that will serve as a floor.

5) Close the gap carefully to prevent smoke from leaking out, and drill another small hole in the opposite side of the furnace. (This was pierced on the butt side of the elephant.)

6) That’s it! All one has to do now was set fire to the furnace!

Eventually, Jung Da-woon succeeded in lying on the hot and warm floor.

“Keuuuuu! It’s so good to have my back like this!”

“Kyuuuuuu!”

Jung Da-woon lay on the floor and stretched widely.

Like melted injeolmi, Pokyuu spread its belly flat on the floor.

Smoke from the furnace flowed through the furrows to heat up the stones.

The stone will then retain the hot heat for a long time, keeping the floor warm for a long time even after the fire goes out.

Not only that. He laid a sheet of fur on the floor instead of a blanket, and it maximized the thermal effect!

“Uhooooo! My back is melting! This is really the best!”

An emotional wave climbed through his spine.

It was a perfect Ondol!

But it was then.

Golden rays suddenly burst from the floor.

Shiingggg!

“You have constructed an Ondol!”

The Dungeon is deeply moved by your wise wisdom.

– Reward: Skill ‘Ondol’ has been registered as a linked reward to the ‘Builder’ achievement.

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