I Will Save the World and Retire Chapter 310

Hunting (3)

One when you catch a wizard.

One when you break the dungeon core.

I confidently said that I would finish the strategy soon and came back, but I wonder how many times I used this item that I had been carrying around for years, feeling like it had never existed before.

Hong Seok-young groaned at the back of his neck as he thought about the dog tag with two additional strokes.

Since it is a problem directly related to actual injury, I have no intention of sparing it… .

“Ugh… .”

It was a shame to think that I had used two strokes on this guy.

I could have written it better!

When I return to Korea, I will check with Woo Hee-jae about how he added the strokes of his dog tag to his future self. I didn’t ask because I thought he would use it anyway when the time came, but now I see that it was all just pride. No matter how strong a person is, he will eventually die.

Even though Hong Seok-young was still alive twenty years later, who knows if it will be the same this time? At least Hong Seok-young was sure that in the time period that Woo Hee-jae experienced, Hong Seok-young would not have been attacked by a magician like this.

‘Didn’t I say that I didn’t clear this dungeon in the first place?’

Hong Seok-young scratched his head.

Thanks to the incredible performance of the item that absorbs the wearer’s damage, he says that not a single hair was damaged, but there is nothing that can be done about his physical strength. Feeling weak, he grabbed the wizard again and sat down on the seat. The unconscious wizard showed no sign of waking up.

Hong Seok-young tilted his head back as if he had been in a welcome. The fake sky inside the dungeon was collapsing.

No matter what, Hong Seok-young likes this quiet scenery. It’s because he has nowhere to go to talk about it. When the snowball breaks, if it’s a toy inside, this is what it feels like.

When I was in such a quiet dungeon, I would often think back to the first time I was isolated in a dungeon. When was it? Back when the toll fee wasn’t well known, back when porters still went into dungeons together.

All the raiders were dead. Young Hong Seok-young, who had been carrying a lot of potions on his back, barely survived thanks to them. Since he was going to die anyway if he sat here, he thought he should make a last-ditch effort and grabbed the dead man’s weapon and rushed at him without thinking.

That day, Hong Seok-young destroyed the dungeon core and sat still, watching the pieces of the world crumble. If the dungeon collapsed like this, he would die too. Since there was no one waiting for him anyway, he had nothing to be sorry about…

“…you never know what will happen in a person’s life.”

Hong Seok-young laughed heartily.

As the magic of the wizard that was causing chaos in the dungeon subsided, you began to sense presences all over the dungeon. These are the hunters who entered the dungeon together.

Just because you’re breathing doesn’t mean you’re okay, but that’s a secondary issue.

It was also a problem that could be solved as long as he was alive. Hong Seok-young waited for the dungeon to fall to pieces.

Soon, as the dungeon completely collapsed, the gritty smell of sand greeted Hong Seok-young.

“Hong Hunter!!”

“Gate destruction confirmed! Dungeon raid complete!”

“Check for the injured!”

They heard a loud voice welcoming them. They were wearing military uniforms. Hong Seok-young smiled as he saw dead faces rushing in from the welcoming crowd.

“How many people died?”

“Hey. Take this guy away.”

“Huh? Who is this guy? He’s not one of our people… What is it? Where did he come from?”

“He was waiting to attack inside the dungeon. If it weren’t for this kid, I wouldn’t have gotten out.”

Hong Seok-young staggered up. His eyelids felt heavy. It had been a long time since he felt this tired.

“Why, there was that guy back in the old days who killed his teacher and ran away. Herve Schneider.”

The one who was receiving the magic from Hong Seok-young frowned. The other hunters who heard the name around them also turned their heads.

“Disciple of the Archmage Deneuve.”

* * *

“Let’s talk about work.”

“I heard that Mr. Woo says really strange things.”

“yes?”

“What are we doing now?”

Kim Chae-min pointed to the documents on the conference room table.

I couldn’t understand why Kim Chae-min asked that question. But since she asked me, I answered her.

“It’s work.”

“… But let’s talk about work?”

“This is school work.”

I put down the document I was looking at. I wasn’t expecting anything great from twenty years ago, but this kind of analog… . Well, originally, government offices and schools were all done in an old-fashioned way. No, but the academy was actually well-decorated in a modern way… .

No. Don’t be greedy. Just change them one by one, one by one.

“School work isn’t work?!”

Kim Chae-min also followed me and put down the documents. It was Park Seo-hyun’s test paper. It was the results of a test she had taken to prepare for the upcoming dungeon raid.

Originally, I was planning to put all the kids in the Pixie Dungeon together. However, Kim Chae-min suggested that instead of doing that from the beginning, we should lower the dungeon level. Instead of a raid group, let’s create a small party and let them get used to the dungeon first.

Kim Chae-min’s suggestion sounded familiar to me. There was a similar activity at the Academy. However, instead of going into the dungeon directly, they used a simulation.

There is no simulator at this point, so if you want to utilize the actual dungeon, you have to lower the dungeon level as much as possible… .

I saw the gamble.

“… What is it? What are you looking at!”

Gamble reacted aggressively to my gaze. That’s why people need to sleep.

“I already have a lot of work to do! Why did you call me when it’s school work? You’re not trying to make me do more work, are you?!”

“… … .”

Well, you won’t die just because you don’t get enough sleep. Gamble is an Awakened being, after all. He has a strong body.

“Excuse me! Answer me!”

“Well… If it’s school work, I think just me and Mr. Kim would have been enough.”

“Hey!!”

“No, why are people so angry? If you have any complaints, tell the guild master.”

“I’m talking to the Guild Master’s representative!”

“The agent has no authority whatsoever.”

“I know full well that the Master has handed over all authority to you!”

“Was it? I don’t know.”

Gamble looked at me with a face that seemed to have a lot to say.

If that’s the case, then I’m not completely speechless. What can our guild not do for Gamble? We buy him all the equipment he needs, let him do all the research he wants to do. We even give him future knowledge, so he can get a little closer to his dream…

Isn’t this a good job? At least I don’t have to rack my brain over how to manage the budget to get a reputation for being good at managing it, I don’t have to stay up all night worrying about the hearing, and I don’t have to nag the strategy team about saving a single potion!

Besides, I wasn’t asked to do anything that wasn’t relevant to my job, like ordering the General Affairs Department to design something.

I just asked if it was possible to further develop the signal that I gave the kids. I just suggested that we make something like a petit magic watch that could communicate with the inside of the dungeon in real time, receive dungeon information, and if possible, even build a database to search it.

I didn’t ask you to do it right away… . I just wanted to hear you say you’d give it a try when I asked if you could do it.

If I had said no, I would have been satisfied, knowing that Sandra Gamble was like that… .

Just kidding.

I don’t think he actually said that. He just asked about his future research plans and asked me to submit the plans later.

“Enough small talk, let’s talk about real work.”

“… Oh, it’s always the same.”

Kim Chae-min straightened her posture while shivering. There is trust between us that I would not bring up this on purpose to play a joke.

… I would like to think that there is.

“So, what is it?”

“If not school work, then what else?”

“Is this something I should know about?”

“You should know now. If you think we’re missing something, let us know.”

Gamble, who had been looking annoyed, changed his attitude and became serious.

“Isn’t Mr. Hong currently clearing a dungeon in America?”

“yes.”

“Well… it’s not uncommon for a person to beg someone from another country to come.”

“Are you bragging?”

“This time there was some kind of deal.”

I held up the report that Hong Seok-young had received just before leaving for the United States. It was the report that the children had been looking at while tending the flower bed with Kim Chae-min.

Gamble’s eyes narrowed as he read the title on the cover.

“Warehouse… What’s in here?”

That’s why people who are quick-witted are good. They don’t have to give long explanations.

But I shook my head.

“You’ll have to go and see for yourself.”

“…Then why.”

“What I’m talking about now is… the source of information that this warehouse here is suspicious.”

“Where is the source?”

Kim Chae-min nodded next to me and said, “Ah.”

As expected, a person with quick wits is good. Kim Chae-min immediately figured out why I was sitting down to gamble and telling this story.

“That’s right. In a way, you could say Sandra is an expert.”

“He’s almost the only expert.”

“Almost? Not the only expert?”

“That would be more accurate.”

The one who gave me information about the warehouse was none other than the monsters inside the dungeon.

It’s a monster that speaks human language.

With no other information to extract from Hope, Sandra Gamble is the only human who knows more about the monsters who are kind to humans than anyone else. Plus, she’s not as stupid as Hope, so she doesn’t get confused about what’s important and what’s not.

This is a pretty difficult talent.

I calmly explained about the fairy in the Jirisan dungeon. I left out how we got to the dungeon, but Gamble seemed to have gotten the gist of it.

That’s why it’s difficult to work with someone who is quick-witted.

“With the help of some kind of informant.”

“Yes. Some kind of.”

“I cannot reveal who it is.”

“yes.”

“Okay, I understand. So?”

And of course, I didn’t mention the person who taught the monster to talk.

There is almost no chance of him being alive. Even if I reveal his identity, it will only cause more confusion. Right now, I am enough as Wooirok’s older brother.

As I continued to speak, Gamble’s expression changed from moment to moment. He would open his eyes wide, then shut his mouth tightly and look serious, then tremble his legs and toss his body around.

“… So now Mr. Kim has spread his magic around. After that, no one has entered the dungeon?”

“Yes. There isn’t.”

“Now that I think about it, I wonder if I brought that teacher along for nothing. He wasn’t really of much use.”

“If you saw that the inside of the dungeon was filled with mud, you could have warned us before we went in….”

“You didn’t come in to save me. Well, if you did, that would have been a problem in its own right.”

“So. You seemed okay when I was there? What is that?”

“It was actually okay.”

“Okay, wait a minute… .”

I tried my best not to interrupt him, but eventually Gamble interrupted, breathing heavily.

“What does that mean?”

“Oh, monsters have names too. Does Hope have a name from her monster days?”

“No, what I just said!”

“yes?”

“What do you mean you saw inside the dungeon!”

Fantasy, contemporary,