“Frost Zone!”
Geuru pointed firmly at the Seoreung Dungeon.
“This way?”
Nod, nod.
“It’s kind of far.”
Gidan turned on the navigation with a troubled look. Without the guild’s help, public transportation was essential for two minors traveling alone.
“If only I had a movement skill…….”
The lack of a movement skill was a flaw that Gidan was always less than pleased about.
Seeing this, Geuru twisted up one lip.
—Heh, heh, heh. Were you worrying about something so trivial?
With a hop, Geuru climbed down from his knee.
—Gidan, allow Geuru to show you an incredible skill.
“……?”
Geuru stood in front of the door and activated the skill.
[Activating the skill ‘The Dungeon is an Open Door.’]
When he turned the knob and opened the door, inside lay the snowfield of a B-rank dungeon.
Surprised, Gidan stepped forward, and the cold of the snowfield flooded into the lounge.
He stuck his hand through the door and pulled it back, his mouth gaping open.
“Isn’t this insane……?”
It was a skill perfectly optimized for minors without a driver’s license! His eyes sparkled with uncontainable admiration.
—With this skill, you can go to any dungeon inside Seoul.
While Geuru swaggered with his nose in the air, Gidan grabbed a baseball bat from the table and rested it on his shoulder.
—Are you taking that with you?
When Geuru asked curiously, Gidan flashed a brave grin.
“This is plenty. Shall we go?”
Geuru raised a tightly clenched fist high.
—Yeah!
“Let’s go!”
*
Thwack!
A snow duck flew through the air and shattered against the Yeti (giant snowman monster).
[Target’s defense decreases by 50%.]
Then the baseball bat cheerfully smashed the Yeti’s head, and the monster immediately collapsed.
‘A B-rank monster in one hit!’
Woah! Geuru clapped, and the doll hands struck each other with a sound like dust being beaten from a blanket.
Wham, wham, wham!
While checking the Yeti’s corpse, Gidan looked at the flapping teddy bear and smiled with his eyes curving prettily.
‘Ah, so sparkly…….’
Geuru’s eyes opened hazily.
Gidan was sparklingly beautiful, more so than most celebrities. If only he wouldn’t smile so full of mischief like that, he would have sparkled even more but…….
“Geuru, your butt is getting soaked.”
Gidan said.
‘Mmm?’
Geuru, who had been sitting curled up in a tight ball on the snowfield, opened his mouth wide.
“If you go home like that, it’ll look like you had an accident in your pants. Ah, how embarrassing.”
Only then did the image of his soaked pants come to mind, and a huge bell rang in Geuru’s head.
Ding!
‘Wet butt = bed wetter!’
Like a puppy chasing its tail, Geuru spun round and round, patting his butt frantically, and Gidan burst out laughing with a snort.
It was at that moment.
Swoosh—
Suddenly, a shadow loomed behind him. A giant Yeti’s hand shot down as if to flatten Gidan.
Just as Geuru was about to scream in shock.
Gidan had already leaped up to the Yeti’s shoulder and spun his body half a rotation.
Thwack!
‘Woah……!’
Wham, wham, wham!
Geuru clapped again, making blanket-beating sounds.
Truly an S-rank combat class!
Keen senses, quick judgment, and movements without an ounce of waste.
Even to a child’s eyes, he felt on a completely different level from any other hunter.
‘Amazing…….’
Geuru’s eyes shone.
‘Like level 999!’
Surprised and excited, his heart went thump, thump, thump.
This must be why everyone longs for S-rank. Because they were so strong and cool you couldn’t tear your eyes away.
‘Geuru wants to grow more too!’
Running quickly over to Gidan, he gently dusted off the snow sticking here and there.
‘Ah!’
Geuru’s teddy bear ears drooped dejectedly.
—Gidan, does Geuru currently look like a bed wetter?
“It’s fine. I dusted it all off for you, didn’t I? Aren’t you cold?”
Nod, nod.
—This is the upgraded Warm Suit ver. 2! The warmth has doubled!
As Geuru proudly boasted about the upgraded suit’s features, Gidan, holding back a laugh, gently pinched his cheek and let go.
“Silly Geuru.”
Gidan’s attack! But the teddy bear suit blocked it all!
‘It doesn’t hurt at all, wheehee!’
Having giggled at Gidan’s foolishness, Geuru rummaged through his bag.
Soon, what the child pulled out was a magnifying glass with round lenses and two upturned whiskers attached underneath.
[Detective Magnifying Glass©]
Monster information can be checked with this magnifying glass. It only activates when the whiskers are positioned exactly below the nose.
*Durability: Permanent
*This item is bound to the creator.
It was an item made by extracting dungeon compendium information into a children’s detective magnifying glass toy, created by staying up until 10:30 every night for a week in preparation for this day. He had to avoid the guild master, who would hurry him to bed at 9 PM, and carry out the grueling work under the covers, but—
‘A whopping C-rank!’
This was quite a satisfying fruit of his labors.
Because compared to other hunters, Geuru lacked knowledge and experience, so an item to compensate for that was absolutely necessary.
Geuru lifted the magnifying glass solemnly with stubby teddy bear hands.
—Now I shall test this ultimate item.
Tottering over to the fallen Yeti, he put the magnifying glass to his eyes. The children’s magnifying glass fit his small face perfectly, and the whiskers attached right below the teddy bear’s nose.
[‘Detective Magnifying Glass©’ activates.]
[Scanning target…….]
[White Eyebrow Yeti (B)]
Wrapped in lush fur, it boasts high defense. Its eyesight is low, but its senses are keen.
It can detect enemies and allies using the long eyebrows attached between its eyes.
Collectible items: Eyebrows, Magic Stone
Skill: Flatten-Pow!
So that terrifying hand from earlier was ‘Flatten-Pow!’ Imagining himself flattened like a sheet of paper, Geuru shuddered.
But still, eyebrows capable of detection made his mouth water.
[Activating skill ‘Pluck Pluck.’]
[Skill ‘Pluck Pluck’ has failed.]
[Activating skill ‘Pluck Pluck.’]
[Acquired ‘Yeti’s Super-Sensory Eyebrows (A)’.]
‘A-rank!’
It was an unexpected rank. An A-rank dungeon byproduct extracted personally! His blood heated up instantly.
Clutching the star candy tightly in one hand, Geuru stared hard at the Detective Magnifying Glass in his other hand.
He would synthesize this to create the ultimate supreme detective magnifying glass!
But containing two or more properties at once was no easy task. Especially the higher the rank, the more synthesis tended to end in failure.
Geuru took out a duck clip.
[[Warm Duck Clip Inhabited by Mephisto (Defective)]]
Even though skill accuracy had increased by 100% due to the beginner dungeon buff, it had still come out Defective, so the Detective Magnifying Glass might break. Considering it had taken almost a week just to extract the thick dungeon compendium, it would be a waste to break it like this.
Then there was only one way.
‘If I level up the skill, I might be able to succeed…….’
To do that, he had to collect Filial Piety Points. Because skill levels could be raised with Filial Piety Points!
‘I can’t lose it until then.’
Geuru opened the zipper on his belly and stashed the extracted star candy deep inside his belly pocket.
Patting his belly satisfyingly, Geuru turned his gaze toward Gidan.
Gidan was dusting off his baseball bat while looking toward the city center.
The higher the dungeon rank, the more the interior took the form of an artificial city; although this place was in ruins, modern-style buildings about three stories high could be seen scattered here and there.
Originally, Yetis should have been roaming everywhere, but all that was visible were a few hunters gathered in groups.
“Hmm.”
Gidan rested the baseball bat on his shoulder and tilted his head.
Something was definitely unusual.
When a Red Gate occurred, monsters entered a sort of enraged state. Rage made monsters more ferocious and hostile…….
‘But they’re all hiding instead of coming out.’
Right now, the Yetis were hiding behind buildings rather than charging. As if afraid of something.