Chapter 183

Episode 183 Jinx (3)

Manticore.

A rank 5 monster with the body of a lion and the face of a human.

The essence of this guy is quite peculiar.

[Manticore]

Distinction +40 Appetite +30 Jump Power +30.

The stats are actually jump power +30.

In a way, it’s at a lower level than a 9th grade monster, but the passive is related to the stats.

(P) Hereditary — Permanently increase your stats when you consume manastones.

[heredity].

A skill that increases stats by eating magic stones.

Looking at the content, it looks like a cheat level skill, but there are critical limitations here.

‘The sum of the absorbable stats was 200 or so.’

The total number of stats that can be obtained through skills

is 200.

Among the 5 ranks, there are many that have a total of over 300.

But, of course, you have to use the basic stats to the level you have to stick to, and get them by using the passive?

Even the active skill wasn’t very good.

I don’t know if you give Manticore’s core ability, ‘random skill rampage’, but it’s a unique ability of the object, so I couldn’t acquire it as an integer.

But…

“Stop moving!”

The moment this essence came out, everyone’s eyes changed.

Yes, you all know the true value of this essence.

“Raven, get out the dice!”

At the same time as I shouted, the dwarf growled. Sёarᴄh the NôvelFire(.)net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.

“I think it’s best to step back first, Barbarian.”

Do you think I’ll just eat it recklessly if I lose the dice? I don’t even want to pray, but there won’t be anything good by creating a dispute right away.

“…Let’s all retreat at the same time.”

“good night.”

“Yes yes! I think that would be good.”

Starting with me, everyone stepped back together.

And the situation was quickly sorted out like roasting beans over lightning.

The average duration of retention is 30 minutes.

So, let’s start with this question that I didn’t ask before.

“Are there any teams that will give up bidding?”

I asked just in case, but both Hans G and the dwarf shook their heads and spit out a single word.

“I will participate. If you remove the mage and the priest, isn’t it an essence that can be used by everyone?”

That’s why it’s player puppies.

The true value of Manticore’s essence lies after erasing it from the temple.

Even if you delete it, 20% of the extra stats remain.

It was like an elixir with a bonus stat of 40.

“I can’t give up this expensive essence.”

“……Expensive essence? Are you thinking of selling it?”

“Because we don’t have integer seats.”

Well, I’d like to think it might be, but…

Suddenly, a possibility comes to mind.

‘Right, these bastards are from the underground city, right?’

Noark’s explorers have a difficult process of erasing the essence from the temple.

Especially if the city is under lockdown.

It would be more reasonable to keep it and secretly sell it later when the blockade is over.

But the biggest question remains.

“…you guys don’t have wizards?”

There are no mages on the dwarf team.

Although the sorcerer, who is incapable of attacking essence, plays a similar role in terms of firepower, it is impossible to replace that utility.

The Dwarf replied as if it was nothing.

“Isn’t it on your side? The price of the test tube is also added to the cost of labor.”

Where are you going to eat it raw?

“What if we both say no?”

The Dwarf laughed at my suggestion not to be greedy.

“Still, the dice will be rolled. And if we win, we’ll watch until the essence disappears.”

Literally translated, it means that if they can’t eat, they will interfere.

Somehow the taste was bitter.

After all, an explorer is an explorer whether underground or above.

In this respect, they are remarkably similar.

‘Can I just ambush and kill them here?’

I suddenly thought of such an extreme method, but I managed to regain my composure.

Raven’s help was great.

“I can’t help Mr. Yandel.”

Yeah, that’s because I haven’t even rolled the dice yet.

[Giant] Isn’t it a core essence like an essence?

Anyway, it should be erased once the supply of level 3 essence is possible.

It’s not that there aren’t better alternatives.

“So how long will you be like that?”

I came to my senses at the Dwarf’s insistence.

“Let’s do it one by one as a representative.”

The leaders of each team gathered in one place.

I briefly explained the rules.

“Throw one person at a time, and the player with the highest score gets the spoils. However, if the same score comes out, only those two people roll again to win.”

“Are you going to use that wizard’s dice?”

“It’s a genuine explorer’s guild dice. It doesn’t matter if I use mine. Of course, I’ll have to check it before that.”

“Yes? Then it doesn’t matter.”

The dwarf nodded coolly, and the preparations were finished with the wizard of Hans G team coming out and examining Raven’s dice.

“Hans, you will subtract 2 from the scale as promised. So if you have something to say, say it now.”

“……Well, we’ll be satisfied with just having the chance.”

“That’s it. Now, who’s going to start?”

Are you a forerunner or a follower?

In fact, everyone gulped their saliva and looked at each other as if there was any meaning here.

Unexpectedly, it was Hans G who came out first.

“I’ll do it first.”

Picking up the dice, Hans G.

Even though he has a handicap of minus 2 on the scale, his teammates cheered him with hopeful eyes.

“Crisen-sama, do your best…!”

“Are you thinking that if you don’t roll Hans properly, you’ll get hit in the butt?”

“Krisen-kun, it’s okay if you lose, so don’t be too pressured.”

From new guides to human warriors and middle-aged wizards. Facing each of them, Hans G met eyes with the fairy archer.

Then, the fairy archer nodded silently.

Anyone can see that the relationship between the two is very special.

‘It’s not some kind of boy’s cartoon.’

Unbeknownst to me, I laughed out loud.

The new girl who came in as a guide was biting her lips in resentment when she saw it.

“Then… I’ll do it!”

Hans G rolled the dice vigorously.

Degururr.

A dice that rolls on dry soil and reveals a large and small number on each side in turn.

Took.

The dice stopped in the silence.

[10]

The number written on the scale is 10.

The largest number that can come out of the dice.

“Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah

“Crazy! Crazy!!”

“Standard cigar! What is the standard cigar written in Parteian’s guild?”

Cheers broke out on the part of my colleagues, and on the contrary, we became dumb who ate honey.

A dwarf who seemed to disapprove of that appearance.

“You talk as if it’s already yours. You haven’t forgotten to subtract 2 from the scale, have you?”

“Ah yes… I know.”

The hot atmosphere had subsided, but the Hans G team was still feeling festive.

Well, 8 is a high enough number.

“I’ll do it next.”

The dwarf who approached Hans G and snatched the dice with a swish. He hesitated for a moment, then frowned and threw the dice roughly on the floor.

Degururr.

The dice stopped moving before long without even rolling several times.

[9]

……Is this a true story?

“Aaaaaaaaagh!”

“Sir baaaal!!”

“I believed you! You son of a bitch!!”

A beastly shout erupted from the Dwarf team.

On the other hand, the Hans G team has all hardened expressions and is not being managed at all.

“Kick.”

Soon after, the dwarf came out and looked at Hans G with a fishy smile. And I even spoke the number one line that I would have spit the least in my entire life.

“You’re lucky.”

What the hell has become of this bastard?

An overwhelming sense of despair covers me.

But it can’t collapse like this.

Because there are too many things that support me for that.

“Yandel! What are you doing with something like this? It’s not like you.”

“I believe! Bjorn!! You can do it!!”

“Yeah Bjorn! You’re not the kind of person who can do anything!”

“I won’t talk about probability. That doesn’t mean anything to Mr. Yandel anyway, right?”

There are colleagues who still believe in me.

And there is me who has not given up.

That’s why…….

Kwak.

Grab the dice.

food.

Seeing me like that, the dwarf laughed arrogantly.

It’s a pretty familiar situation.

Hans’ number is 8.

Dwarf’s number is 9.

I just need to draw 10 here.

Probability is just probability, meaningless.

Isn’t it a dramatic development that comes out on a fictional day in movies and cartoons?

Yes, in terms of development, this works…!

It is a structure that has no choice but to be.

“……Bjorn’s eyes changed.”

Such a strange certainty was in my hand.

It felt like something invisible was hugging me warmly.

I threw the dice before the feeling left.

“Go! Great warrioraaaaa!!!”

The dice rolling in Einar’s cry.

Surprisingly, looking at this, my mind was calmer than ever.

pounding.

heart beating low.

The air surrounding my skin is moderately cool, and as if time flows slowly, the scenes of each second are clearly engraved in my mind.

And took in such a pleasant sensation

.

The dice stopped.

The air changed instantly.

“…….”

The cold silence sat down.

I saw people instead of dice.

“Crazy…….”

The Dwarf who laughed arrogantly.

Colleagues who believed in me and watched over me.

Even Hans G, whose defeat was already confirmed, could not hide his astonishment and opened his mouth.

‘Did it really happen…?’

I checked the dice.

[1]

……Look at Misha and tell him to throw it.

***

Losers have no say.

Because everything is just an excuse.

I just have to be patient and endure it.

Just like I do right now.

“Puhahahahaha! 1 with that expression! Did you see it? Did you see it? Did you say I was really scared? It was so confident in my eyes.”

Sharp mockery erupts from the Dwarf team.

A feeling of contempt covering me from head to toe.

“It makes me want to ask. How on earth can you look at me like that! Hahahaha!”

“Don’t make fun of Bjorn!!”

“Garaaaaaaa! Great warrioraaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

“……kill!!!”

I grabbed Ainar who was about to jump out immediately.

“stop.”

“but! If I do

n’t burst the head……!!” Yes, I can’t make that snout close.

I know that feeling better than anyone else.

But it’s not the time yet.

You know that too well.

“You guys, stop it too. ”

As I stared at it, the Dwarf also stopped his teammates and stopped laughing.

The winner was decided anyway.

I gave up my lingering feelings and went to the main topic.

“How much are you going to pay?”

“15 million stones for the examiner.

” “I’ll give you 5 million stones.”

” I’ll give

you 5,000,000 stones.”

If you spend 5,000,000 to cast a spell once, that’s the business itself.

But…

“7,000,000.”

“You’re greedy. ”

The dwarf leaked the wizard of Hans G’s team.

Since there are two wizards, it means you can ask for

a favor. “We don’t have an examiner.”

What ?

”

I’ll give you

7 million,”

said Hans G, and the Dwarf accepted my offer without hesitation.

However, the train had already left.

“It’s too late.”

“……?”

“It just went up to 15 million.”

The cost of labor has practically become the same as the cost of the test tube.

“Don’t force

yourself, Barbarian

.

” Since it is small, it must have been difficult to see the world broadly

. I think this is a reasonable price. Especially since you guys won’t refuse.”

“……10 million stones.”

“There is no bargaining. If you don’t like it, don’t.”

“Think rationally, Barbarian. Are you going to throw this money on the floor?”

“Your choice. Or just throw away the integers. Or give us money and put it in a test tube and sell it.”

I thoroughly pushed through with gut trading.

It was also the reason why monopolies could shake off viciousness in the capitalist market.

Even if you do business this way, you can do business.

“… …Damn it.”

The Dwarf trembled and opened his mouth.

“I’ll give you 15 million stones.”

“Okay, I think—”

“Not you, but over there.”

The Dwarf looked at HansG and said,

“Yes? What do you mean by that…….”

“If you pay the money, I will hand over the ownership of this essence to you.”

On-site sale…….

Yes, it will come out like this.

Emotional giving up rationality I wanted to give up

at the moment, but when I thought about it, there seemed to be no big problem.

“We don’t have that kind of money right now

.

”

Hans G had time to discuss with his teammates.

Seeing his mouth open, it seems that he turned on the team voice magic.

Of course, that time was not long. The

conclusion was also not very different from my expectations.

…..”

With the level of HansG’s team’s equipment, 3 or more people need to get rid of the main equipment to get the money.

But they give the equipment in the rift and get useless essence right away?

It’s ridiculous.

“So… how about paying the money in the city

? ” The

dwarf

, cornered by the single shot, took a deep breath,

then looked at me and said in a very reluctant voice,

“Barbarian, at the price you said—”

“Twenty million stones. It just went up again.”

“Oh my god……”

“Or we can buy essence for 15 million stones, would you do that?” ”

……I’ll pay 20 million stones.”

Dwarf swears, but it didn’t have a big impact on the results. Even if you pay that money and take the essence, it’s a business that ends up remaining. About 11.7 million

stones .

‘

Is this the sweetness of an oligopoly?

The number of dice was the lowest at 1, but we were the ones who got the largest share.

Ironically,

***

After the negotiations were over, the negotiations went smoothly.

First of all, 20 million stones from the Dwarves “I was paid in kind.

That’s because there was no way there was such a thing.

By the way, they tried to give me equipment, but I refused.

As if I had waited, I took out a pile of unused equipment from my backpack.

How much did you plunder?

” Give it as a potion to make it easy to cash in

.” “……I can’t pay that much with a

potion .

”

I don’t know if I’m going to battle with, so I decided to reduce my power as much as possible before that.

It would have been much easier to deal with if I had received the equipment I was wearing in kind

. If you add the rest of the equipment… that’s pretty much it.”

With the help of Raven, who has a general appraiser’s license, the transaction was completed without any dispute, and after that, they set up camp in a suitable place

. A total of three people stood alternately.

The first was Hans G and the dwarf bear.

The next in order was me.

“Yandel, now it

‘s your turn.” Like the two of them having a suspicious conversation.”

“It was like Hans was talking to himself. I thought it would be more comfortable and enjoyable to stand alone.”

“Yes, I had a hard time. Come on, go and rest.”

My night mates were a fairy archer named Mei Lin and a white wolf beast warrior from the Dwarven team…… It

was an uncomfortable time in many ways.

‘I understand why he said he would be comfortable alone.’

A white wolf warrior who is silent, and a fairy

archer who

keeps looking at me with a mean look throughout the night.

“Do you have anything to say?” ” Everyone is sleeping,

so why don’t you be a little quiet?” It

‘s

obvious that there’s a problem with personality.

Except for Erwen

.

I was more wary of these guys’ defection than the monster’s surprise attack. That’s because the probability of them stabbing us in the back is much higher. I don’t know

Hans G, but the dwarf guy must have a knife inside

. That’s probably why.’

Even considering the monopoly, 20 million stones was an amount that was almost unreasonable.

But he paid it coolly.

As if there was a way to get it back.

‘…Is that the same for me?’

I haven’t given up the essence in the test tube yet.

I’m just waiting for that time to come.

“Misha, wake up. It’s shift time.”

After the night shift, which was not enough to say that it was uncomfortable, I went to sleep after

changing shifts with Misha. And the next morning,

the exploration resumed.

I was able to find the two remaining mid-bosses and defeat them.

「Lee Gak-soo has been defeated. EXP +5」

「Culves has been defeated. EXP +5」

Unfortunately, the essence didn’t come out…

“Huh? isn’t that it? That’s what you guys said!”

We succeeded in discovering the third chapter, which was expected to take another day.

“The character has entered the shadow altar.”

As soon as we found the altar,

a black shadow enveloped us. A huge barrier formed around it.

The concept of this chapter is as clear as what I have to do.

「The sealed usurper has nested in the body of one of the expedition members.」

Now , let’s start politics.

Hey, isn’t there something wrong with your head?”

First of all, this bastard.