Chapter 79 - Chocolate Mine

Chapter 79: Chocolate Mine

Translator: ChubbyCheeks

PR: MattForgenti

Brony, who has now logged back in to Athenae, still has not calmed his wildly beating heart. After all, what he had heard was something extremely astonishing.

‘Hyaa...... I didn’t even know. My god. Kang Minhyuk. That unlucky bastard’s father is Chairman Kang Minhoo.’

Then he thought of something...

‘I provoked his child, now?’

Then his father added some food for thought.

‘You both are alumnus of the same school so you might not know if you’ll ever meet each other, but if it happens, try to avoid creating friction. Although, it is widely believed that the Ilhwa Group is a company that does not use their prestige and power to step down on others. At least, try to avoid any and all sorts of friction, just to be safe.’

Just like what his father said, there weren’t really any bad rumors or gossip going around about Ilhwa Group. That was one of the reasons why they have gained the trust of the masses.

‘When I clashed with Minhyuk and my friends, he did try to solve his problems on his own and he never used the power of their company. I have to keep this in mind. This tiger cub has also grown up. This tiger is old enough now.’

He nodded his head in thought and was finally able to arrive in front of the inn where they agreed to meet with Card. Brony did not bring along any of his guild members to this meeting.

He opened the door to Room 201, the room that they decided earlier to meet with. Card was the one who arranged the meeting place. Right inside that room, he could really see Card. The Card that he could only see on TV.

“Hello. I’m Horden Guild’s Brony.”

“I’m Card.”

His answer was cool.

This is the 2nd in the blacksmith’s rankings! The person who created an epic artifact!

He even heard that the epic artifact sold for 400 million won on the auction site. In addition, he was also one of the executives of Ares Guild.

“Can I hear about your request right now?”

“Yes.”

Then, Card started to explain his request calmly.

“As you know, this request also needs the secrecy and cooperation of the guild members of your Horden Guild. I think it’s better that they move without knowing who their client is.”

“Ah, yes.”

Brony has already asked the guild members to keep mum about this through Ilen.

“You need to move quietly. All you have to do is take over a mine called Brethni.”

“You mean, the whole mine?”

“Yes. You know about the Brethni Mines, right?”

“Yes, it was also known as the chocolate mine.”

Card shook his head.

“In 3 days time. You have to take over the Brethni Mines in that amount of time.”

“So we only need to take over......”

Card nodded his head at him.

The mines have miners but there were also administrators and troops from the kingdom who managed the mines. Fortunately, Brethni Mines was a mine for novice blacksmiths and miners so the troop’s level was not that high.

Taking over a field, a dungeon or an area would work like this...

“So you want me to kill off all of the soldiers of the kingdom’s troops and monopolize the place. And in that time that we’re fighting, you will go into the mine and find the item that you need?”

“That’s right.”

“May I ask what you’re looking for?”

“No.”

“......”

Card was quite stubborn about hiding most of the details of the request. But he soon opened his mouth.

“There are two things that your Horden Guild can do. First, is to take over the mines and cut off all of the connections and communications with the kingdom. And the next one is getting rid of the sudden influx of stronger monsters that will come out from the Brethni Mines.”

“Stronger monsters?”

Brethni Mines originally have monsters that could come out from the mines. Most people knew that the monsters were only at around LV70~100. The usual setting was for the kingdom’s troops to take care of the monsters while the miners would go forward and mine for the ores and minerals.

“Yes, then I’ll start out at that point. I will hide as much as I can and the Horden Guild will take out the monsters that will come out before I go inside.”

“And in the process......”

Brony had a hunch...

“All the miners inside will die.”

***

Brony left Card alone in the inn after their conversation.

Once he confirmed that he was well and truly alone, he took out a black key from his bosom. He received this key unexpectedly.

‘The chocolate mines. A rare artifact material exists inside those mines.’

This was the key that would lead to the secret place inside the chocolate mines! In that secret place, he would be able to find a material that was a step higher than the material used for the Dragon Sword. The material was placed inside a cave in the mines.

However, there was only one simple reason why Card would need to use the hands of the Horden Guild.

‘If that damn bastard who’s in the Kingdom of Barras knew of its existence then he will definitely not let me have it!’

He believed that the bastard would definitely guard and control the mines once he knew of this fact. Then, once he controlled the mines he would definitely have no room to enter and explore it.

However, his plan right now was truly too sloppy. He wanted to immediately capture and kill off the Kingdom of Barras’ troops and take over the mine for himself. But if he did that then he would be chased off by the Kingdom of Barras so he asked for the help of the Horden Guild. After all, that was what their guild was best at.

To do the dirty work for others and get chased for it!

‘There are only three people who can make an artifact out of the material inside that mines.’

“So when did you learn your blacksmithing skills?”

This was the most important question. He asked this to determine his talent and capabilities.

“Yesterday!”

‘I’m just glad that his spirit is blazing, I finally found my replacement.’

He grinned at him.

Then, he led him to where the miners were located. Once they arrived in front of the miners, the user Minhyuk suddenly bowed towards them.

“Hello. I’m Minhyuk. Please take care of me!”

“Oho. Such a nice friend. I see.”

Leton smiled widely at him as Ruan tilted his head in confusion.

“Huh? Leton-nim. Why are your cover-alls torn? Are your knees bleeding?”

“Ah, this? I just fell down when I was dragging the cart over.”

“No, you’re the captain so why are you pulling the cart? My heart hurts for you!”

Of course, it was just a pretentious remark on his part.

Just then, the user Minhyuk suddenly stepped forward.

“Will you let me see the wound?”

“Huh?”

“Huh?”

Leton and Ruan looked at him with confusion plastered on their faces.

***

When he heard that he was Leton, Minhyuk sensed that he was the person related to the ‘chocolate tree’ so he stepped forward to look at him.

There’s blood flowing from his knees! It’s a chance for me to increase my Bandaging skills and at the same time treat people with injuries!

Leton looked at him with doubts on his face.

“B, boy. Are you a healer? No. Why would a healer come here?”

“Ah. I learned the bandaging skill.”

“Bandaging skill?”

“Yes.”

Minhyuk talked to him as he wiped his bleeding knees with some tissue while bringing out some bandages.

Ruan, on the other hand, pondered deeply as he watched him working.

‘How much recovery would a Lv90 user with a bandaging skill even have? Tch!’

He was well aware of how much recovery a bandaging skill had. It was like wearing bandages in real life!

Minhyuk, then, started wrapping the bandage on the wound.

“Bandaging skill!”

His hands moved gently and smoothly, it was as if he had wrapped hundreds and thousands of bandages already. Ruan’s eyes widened in disbelief when he saw him working on Leton’s wound.

‘Eok? Why can he wrap it so well?’

[You have achieved the best bandage wrap.]

[The bleeding will immediately stop.]

[The wound recovery has an additional 2% increase.]

[The recovery time has increased and became faster.]

“Bl, the bleeding...... it stopped right away......!”

Different to when he was practicing his bandaging skill on the mannequin, Minhyuk knew that it was essential that he stopped the bleeding when he was bandaging an injured person. If his bandage was wrapped well then he would be able to mostly stop the bleeding wound. And once the bleeding has stopped, then the injured would feel a lot better. In addition, since he wrapped the bandage well then he would be able to get the additional wound recovery and increase in recovery time.

The bandaging skill was not a skill for immediate recovery, it was a skill that would promote recovery on a step-by-step basis.

Right now, Leton could see that the bleeding on his knees had stopped and the numbing pain was reduced after he was bandaged. He could also feel that his knees could move a lot better now that he was treated so he tried to move his legs around to check his knees.

“Kghk! Thank you! I was worried that it would be a hassle for my work today.”

[Leton’s favorability has increased.]

“Hehe. It was nothing much.”

And it didn’t even end there...

Minhyuk’s eyes scanned him like a hawk and zeroed in on Leton’s mining equipment.

“No! Why are you mining with something like this? It looks like it’s about to break!”

“Sigh...... What can I do if those damn bastards from the Kingdom of Barras don't support me?”

The tools and equipment for every class was extremely important but he was telling him that they were mining with pickaxes like that?! It would already be a relief if that did not break on them while they were working.

“Please give it to me. I’ll fix it for you.”

“Oho, is that so? When did you learn the art of blacksmithing, boy?”

“Yesterday!”

“.......”

Leton now had the expression similar to what Ruan had when he first heard him say that.

***

TL’s corner!!!

Ayyy. Just hand it over. He would def fix it. Kek.

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