HFS 14

14

Worried, Cheong-hyeon looked at Seo Hee-won, hoping he would say something. Seeing him so quietly focused on hunting, Cheong-hyeon cleared his mind and concentrated solely on killing mobs. If there weren’t enough mobs, Seo Hee-won would have given different orders by now. The remaining dungeon time steadily decreased to under 10 seconds, and they killed the last mob.

[Well, well, there was a greedy one after all.]

[Enraged Grack is being summoned.]

“Huh? It looks different!”

Woah! It’s so ugly.

I didn’t expect this…

With a different message than before, a red Grack wielding a long iron mace crashed down from the ceiling with a thud. The shock wave pushed the characters backward, and as the sandstorm that blocked their vision gradually cleared, cracks in the floor were revealed.

With a feeling that this should definitely be avoided, Cheong-hyeon quickly jumped to the uncracked ground near Grack. Just as Seo Hee-won used teleport to enter the safe zone, the cracked floor began to collapse. Capybara and Jimni, who couldn’t escape in time, fell with the debris into a bottomless pit, disappearing from view.

–Argh! I’m dead…

–Huh? Me too. Wait…the map can break like this?

The only space left to stand on was the circular area around Grack. With the massive Grack in the center, the space wasn’t generous—he could reach the edge in just a few steps. Having survived this unfamiliar pattern was meaningless as they were all kicked out of the dungeon due to time expiration.

I thought we just had to kill a slightly more pig-like Grack the same way as before…

Cheong-hyeon’s heart began to race at this unexpected situation. Seeing such a deliberately designed appearance and pattern, he had a feeling that the reward for defeating the third Grack would be substantial.

–How mean of you two to escape by yourselves…

–Couldn’t you tell it was an instant death pattern? You should have dodged on your own.

“It’s just the survival instinct that tanks don’t have…”

–Come on…don’t you two seem oddly similar?

“What? That’s a bit hurtful…”

–Sorry…even I thought that was too harsh after saying it.

–What are you talking about…anyway, let’s go again right away.

After several more practice runs, they consistently succeeded in summoning Grack. However, even with the fastest summon, less than 10 seconds remained—far too little time to defeat him.

–We need to summon earlier…we need at least 30 seconds left to have a chance at this.

–How can we summon faster?

“Increasing DPS won’t help. Even now, with special skills, we kill mobs faster than they respawn.”

–I can’t bring them any faster unless I get teleport.

Increasing DPS to kill mobs faster was meaningless since the number of mobs a knight could bring over 10 minutes remained the same. Jimni was already using the most optimized route after numerous experiments—there was no faster path. Just when they felt like they had hit a wall for the first time, Seo Hee-won, who had been thinking quietly, spoke up.

–Have the knight equip a speed set.

“Ah…the Windy set?”

The Forest Fairy Windy set consisted of a hat, top, bottom, shoes, earrings, and necklace that increased movement speed when equipped. While the movement speed bonus of each individual piece wasn’t significant, wearing the complete set provided a substantial movement speed effect. However, it had almost no defense, so it wasn’t commonly worn.

–I am an amazing tank, you know? I can’t herd mobs wearing that. Even knights feel pain when they get beaten up.”

–Start with the shoes that give the most speed, then add pieces one by one if needed.

–Just changing the shoes is doable. Are there any on the market?

Jimni immediately entered the auction house after finishing her sentence. Windy was a boss from a low-level dungeon with mediocre rewards, so there probably wouldn’t be many pieces listed…Just as Cheong-hyeon was worrying about this, Jimni let out a scream.

–Ahhh! They must be crazy. It’s insanely expensive!

“How much?”

–There’s only one legendary item and it’s 8 billion! Have they no conscience? Selling this thing for 8 billion?

With the gold exchange rate at about 50,000 won per 1 billion gold, 8 billion gold was approximately 400,000 won in real money. It was an excessively high price compared to its performance, as if someone was deliberately trying to scam a sucker, knowing there were no other listings available.

“What about a heroic grade?”

–Uh, I don’t know…I already bought the legendary grade.

Jimni reappeared at the dungeon entrance after disappearing into the auction house. Despite complaining as if she wouldn’t buy it, she had quickly made the purchase. Cheong-hyeon inwardly applauded her determination to defeat Grack.

* * *

After ending a day of grinding in the field until sunset, a new day began of rotting away in Shingang until sunset. At least in consideration of the minor, Capybara, they ended the party before midnight, so they weren’t pushing themselves as much as before. The high school student himself seemed to want to continue playing, but he had no other choice but to back down in the face of the three adults’ firm stance.

Even with more time than before, BioGod was a game with too many tasks. Completing daily missions, participating in events, running dungeons, and rebuilding gold reserves that had been depleted recently all required diligent gameplay. However…Cheong-hyeon, who had finished all these tasks at dawn, only logged back into the game in the late afternoon.

[Guild] [Ittorang has logged in]

[Guild] Tiramisush: Hi~

[Guild] Seohee1: hey

[Guild] Capybara: Hello!!

[Guild] Lucky: Hello 🙂

[Guild] Ittohrang: Hello~

[Party] Jimni: Hi Ittorang!

[Party] Jimni: We successfully recruited a sub-tank!

Cheong-hyeon moved to the small meadow that had become like their hideout. With nothing else to do, everyone who had agreed to move guilds together, including the newcomer Hyutzzi, was already gathered and hanging out.

[General] Ittohrang: Hello Hyutzzi haha

[General] Hyutzzi: Hello.

[General] Hyutzzi: I’m a 20-year-old male.

[General] Hyutzzi: Live in Suwon, university student, computer science major, only child…

[General] Hyutzzi: Anything else you want to know?

[General] Ittorang: Wow.

[General] Tiramisush: hahahahahahahahaha

[General] Tiramisush: He’s introduced himself five times today already.

Hyutzzi was originally a curse attribute summoner and tank user who regularly participated in Lucky’s boss party. He had no connection with Seo Hee-won or Jimni and wasn’t particularly friendly toward others, so Jimni had spent quite some time figuring out how to persuade him.

A few days ago, Seo Hee-won had suggested that with people like him, they should skip the pleasantries and go straight to the point, persuading him with benefits, and was about to step in when Jimni stopped him…Seeing him here now, it seemed like Jimni had somehow succeeded.

[General] Jimni: Made a Discord guild channel~Since there are lots of people, let’s talk there!!

While they were greeting Hyutzzi, a new Discord server called “Normal People Guild” was created with 8 invited members. Now that they had gathered all the party members for boss raids, it seemed like the time had come to move guilds.

“Are we moving guilds now?”

–Yes. There’s no need to stay here any longer. Let’s go today.

Though it felt sudden to Cheong-hyeon, who hadn’t expected Hyutzzi to join today, he agreed with Seo Hee-won. There was no reason to stay in this guild anymore, and he was tired of seeing Lucky, who had been increasingly sarcastic lately. After the email incident, Lucky seemed quite bitter and often picked fights with Cheong-hyeon, usually like this:

[Guild] Godongchan: What’s the gold rate these days?

[Guild] Lucky: Ittorang would know best 🙂

[Guild] Lucky: Oh, aren’t you farming and selling all your gold? ;~;

[Guild] Lucky: What do you spend all your gold on?

[Guild] Lucky: With that money, you could buy legendary equipment 🙁

[Guild] Lucky: Wouldn’t it be better to work a part-time job in real life?

[Guild] Lucky: I was just giving advice, sorry if it upset you ;~;

Not wanting to see anymore of this, Cheong-hyeon was completely in favor of moving guilds today.

–I’d like to bring a few more people even if we move a bit later…

–I like having more people too!

The unexpected obstacle came from Jimni and Tiramisush, who wanted more guild members. For some reason, the two loudmouths agreed and banded together. While Cheong-hyeon was wondering what to do, Seo Hee-won came up with an absurd solution disguised as a plan.

–Then I’ll advertise in the guild chat now as we leave. If anyone wants to follow, we’ll take them.

Cheong-hyeon’s head spun at this unimaginable approach. He was furious at his calm voice, as if he didn’t even recognize that this would cause problems.

“You want to advertise? Now? When we should be leaving quietly?”

–It’s going to get noisy anyway when we all leave at once. Everyone get ready to leave the guild immediately.

Having said that, Seo Hee-won, without a moment’s hesitation, dropped a bombshell in the guild chat.

[Guild] Seohee1: Okay

[Guild] Seohee1: Everyone, listen up!

[Guild] StrongestSpirit: What?

[Guild] bowwow: What’s going on?

Ugh! This crazy person!

“No, wait a minute.”

[Guild] Seohee1: We’re moving to a new guild now

[Guild] Seohee1: If anyone wants to join us, contact Jimni^^