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Translator : Ekdud
TL Check : KobatoChanDaiSuki
Chapter 9: Gangnam Station (5)
Hansoo who had entered the the third floor nodded at the light in the distance.
In the space there darkness was best suited for, a stationary train made hissing sounds as it shone its lights in the distance.
There was a snake that shined silver in front of the train sleeping in a curled up position.
‘Barb snake’
The Juterium metal that is digested within its stomach gets fused with the special liquid released inside its body and gets excreted between the scales.
‘This guy is pretty fast.’
The slippery and hard scales combined with its speed makes it hard to catch.
Hansoo looked at his Podao that had its edge almost dulled out.
‘It might be a little hard with this.’
The weight and hardness are important but first you need a sharp edge.
Taesoon, who had a kitchen knife on his waist, backed off after seeing Hansoo’s look along with Sangjin who also had them.
‘These guys need to go through some more socialization process.’
One isn’t enough.
They will likely break during the fight.
At Hansoo’s words Sanjin looked at him with a slightly dissatisfied expression.
At those words Hansoo looked at Sangjin with an amused look.
Hansoo looked at Sangjin and Taesoon and spoke:
“Are you guys trying to fight that?”
If they were to fight he had no intention of asking them for their knives.
But unexpectedly they wanted to fight even though he thought that they would say they wouldn’t want to.
‘Are they looking down on that thing?’
The Barb Snake was not really a large snake.
The length was long but its body was smaller than the Land Mermaid.
From a point of view they don’t really look formidable.
This guy was more dangerous than all of the Land Mermaids above combined.
Hard scales and fast speed. Along with the strong muscles that can crush the Land Mermaid as well as sharp fangs and grip strength that do not fit snakes.
The barb snake was a predator that chewed upon Land Mermaids.
If these guys were to attack then they would get murdered.
‘How do I handle these guys. There should be a different situation where you should have greed for runes.’
Something that always happened during group hunts.
They will forcibly join the hunt and try to receive some of the distributed goods.
‘Eres was really good at persuading’
It was annoying too.
And if that failed to clean things up he went out.
Fun was fun and work was work.
“I will give you options. First, I will get out and you fight them yourselves. Second, you guys get out and watch me fight alone.”
“How do you want to do it?”
Taesoon got angry at the suddenly different attitude from Hansoo.
What his psychic powers were couldn’t be grasped by him but his reaction told him that what the snakes dropped was rather good.
If they fought together and shared the drops it would be good but why did he need to get greedy to the point of excluding them.
When Taesoon was about to say something somebody quickly made their decision and spoke.
“What?”
Taesoon, who had been looking at Sangjin with a flustered expression, scowled as he spoke.
‘Friend. It’s a good word.’
“I told you to follow me. I never said I was going to take you.”
At those words Taesoon looked at Hansoo with a dissatisfied expression.
“Let’s stop. If Hansoo is talking like that then it means it’s really dangerous.”
If he wanted to take everything then he would’ve beaten them down then taken all the runes.
From the way Hansoo was acting right now meant that those scrubby looking snakes were actually very dangerous.
They had forgotten that for a moment due to greed.
Taesoon, who had started to come to his senses, calmed down then started to take out the knives by in waist while clenching his teeth.
Hansoo started to apply the poison from the Land Mermaid on the edge of the kitchen knives from Taesoon and Sangjin.
Though that thing ate Land Mermaids it was only because it was all digested within its stomach that could even digest Juterium. The land mermaid’s poison, which was almost like a neurotoxin, had to get into its muscles to work.
Hansoo, who had numerous knives dangling from his waist, spoke as he looked at the three.
Taesoon looked at that Hansoo and answered expressionlessly.
Taesoon grinded his teeth because he felt like they were used.
Hansoo smirked at those words.
He remembered clearly that they followed him in here but it had changed to him bringing them here.
Hansoo thought of Keldian who was probably wandering around the purple region and laughed.
And because of that he was pushed out of returning here.
‘He’s always progressing forward but the results aren’t the best.’
Hansoo looked at Taesoon and spoke as he thought of Keldian.
And then Hansoo charged at the Barb snake.
And then a frightening scream was heard and the three who had been going back up realized at once why Hansoo told them to stay out.
Kyaaaak!
And the air that was expanded and compressed exploded out of the Barb snake’s mouth with an incredible speed.
An attack that had slight amounts of Magic.
“Uuuk…”
But Hansoo already expected that attack after seeing its stomach and neck area.
The impact came through the hands that had been covering the ears.
Hansoo, who had succeeded in not losing his balance, quickly moved his hands from his ears and quickly attacked its momentarily defenseless body.
The knife with paralysis poison applied to it went in between the scales.
‘Good. Three have been inserted.’
There were 5 major spinal nerves throughout its body that controlled its body.
Kyaak…
‘As expected, poison is the best in the beginning.’
The beasts and clans in the later stages had incredible amounts of resistance and regeneration so most poisons basically had no effect on them.
But poison was one of the extremely effective methods against the monsters in the beginning whose body were smaller and had less resistance.
‘Well. It’s easy now.’
He was bitten on his arm when he first inserted the knife but due to him raising his vitality the wound would heal.
Hansoo charged again to insert two more knives into its body then finished it off by stabbing deeply within the roof of its mouth with the last remaining knife.
Hansoo made a weird sound as he looked at the skill rune dropped by it.
[Barb snake’s shockwave] To use this thing he needed mana so he couldn’t use it yet.
Well the visualization of it coming out of the body was not great but as long as it was effective.
‘As I expected. Due to it being a rather strong mob the rewards are…’
“…Are you going to use this Hansoo?”
Because the already strong guy would get a skill rune so now he would start flying around.
‘Damnit’
At those words Hansoo shook his head
He could only use seven so why would he use something like that.
Sangjin stood up and shouted:
If he wasn’t going to sell it didn’t it mean he would give it to them?
“What would you do with it. It’d be better if I…”
“What are you guys talking about. I’m going to sell it”
“I’m selling it. To the person who brings the most runes.”
“If you buy it now I will give a discount. 5%”
“…Can’t we do an installment plan?”
“…”
The three made an expression as if they had chewed on crap.
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