The slime was just wobbling around as Yeon-hee guided it with her hand, and surprisingly, her dilemma was resolved quickly.
The name she thought of for the slime, which she worried might sound silly, was surprisingly straightforward.
“I’ll just call you Lime!”
‘Heh, not a bad choice, huh?’
For some reason, she came up with a simple yet okay name.
“Hey, Lime, can you see my arm? Want to wrap around it a bit?”
After hearing Yeon-hee’s words, the slime briefly jumped around before it slithered up her shoulder and elongated its body to wrap around her arm.
“Il-wol, just give it a light tap with the club here.”
Nod—
I grabbed the club I had summoned and carefully tapped her arm, quickly receiving a bounce back from something elastic that caused the club to spring up.
“Kyaa! It really works! Can you hit it a bit harder?”
I swung down with a bit more force, but the result was the same. It was only after I hit it with my strongest blow that the core of the slime started to wiggle about.
When the core moved, it was a reaction to being in danger or receiving an overwhelming impact.
“Still, it’s impressive that Il-wol can withstand an attack this well. That’s a huge success!”
“Clap, Clap, Clap!!”
In truth, having always watched her fight from a distance in my previous life, it was quite astonishing to see it up close.
After helping her with her defense training for quite a while, night fell, and Yeon-hee went to bed while I continued training as usual.
Boom— Bang—
‘I want to get a shield before the club, but…’
Given that I often had to fight at close range with Stealth, a buckler-type round shield and a short dagger would be more suitable than a long club.
The way to acquire equipment is either to create it from the main parts or byproducts of monsters you’ve defeated or taken, or by stealing their gear. But since useful equipment from monsters was rare, most went into crafting it themselves.
Other people’s equipment can be worn, but it’s usually reduced by 95% in performance, so they’re almost unusable.
I don’t know why such a system exists, but it was a rational structure since a rich person couldn’t just wear good equipment from low levels.
Thus, the blacksmiths and workshops for crafting equipment were always bustling with work, and those born with crafting classes were valued as highly as the rare classes of supporters or healers.
And today, the mid-level summoned creature ‘Ran’ was among those rare supporter types that Yeon-hee liked so much.
Most Awakened Ones struggled to control themselves, so the idea of giving beneficial effects to another being wasn’t as simple as it sounds.
Yet, since ‘Ran’ was a spirit, such magic should come naturally to it; as long as it had enough magic power, it could significantly boost team combat effectiveness.
Anyway, with the dawn, we entered the goblin dungeon again. Upon entry, we encountered eight goblins and swiftly took them down with little trouble.
“Wow! Lime is really great for defense! This means I need to prepare for close combat too!”
During the battle, two goblins targeted Yeon-hee, but ‘Lime’ sprayed acid on one, keeping it at bay while blocking the other’s attack with its slime armor before I easily stabbed it with a dagger.
Then I joined in, and that was the end of it.
‘See? Just having one extra makes a huge difference. Surely, it was a waste to have used the skeleton soldier for enhancement before, huh…’
With a sigh of regret, I collected the loot. Meanwhile, Yeon-hee just spun her arm with the slime wrapped around it, smiling brightly.
For three days, we entered the dungeon with that slime, defeating a whopping 130 goblins and slimes. The slime must have leveled up quite a bit from that, and I also leveled up two more times.
—–
[ Skeleton Soldier Il-wol – Lv.14 ]
Strength: 44(+6) Agility: 42(+3) Health: 42(+3)
Intelligence: 24 Magic Power: 38(+6) Resistance: 1
Sense: 21 Recovery: 5
Traits: Calm, Protection, Thievery, 98 Lives, Adhesion
Skills: Slam, Stealth, Dagger Throw, Acid Spray, Basic Transformation
Equipment: Roughly Chiseled Wooden Club
—–
I focused on balanced distribution for strength, agility, health, and magic. Strength has finally exceeded 40 for the first time!
And my Acid Spray skill leveled up too.
Acid Spray Lv.3
– Sprays a deadly acid forward.
– Spray amount +2
– Spray range +2
As the spray range widened, I could now hit two targets simultaneously with the acid.
“Ah…”
The biggest gain was indeed Yeon-hee’s achievement. She would now receive significant attack bonuses against goblins and wouldn’t get hurt as easily.
On our way back after achieving that, when I tested it, Yeon-hee’s arrow lodged squarely between a goblin’s eyes, causing its head to explode.
“Whaaa…”
‘Just how much extra attack power does she have that it explodes like a watermelon?’
I could tell her lower body was slightly trembling, feeling the sheer power firsthand in a shiver of excitement.
But today was the last day for the goblin dungeon. Of course, even if we went into the big boar dungeon, goblins would still be plentiful, but since I’d mainly hunt big boars, we probably wouldn’t encounter them as often.
We returned home with a curious sense of anticipation and excitement about finally entering a new dungeon and continued our training in our tiny one-room apartment.
Then the next day, we finally entered the big boar dungeon.
* * *
Tap—
“I’ll leave the report on your desk, sir.”
In the highest office space of the Cheong-a Building, which housed the White Knight Guild, a man with narrowed eyes leisurely sipped his tea.
His most loyal subordinate, an A-rank hunter named Jung Joo-in, placed what looked like a hefty stack of reports on Jo Gi-man’s desk and clasped his hands behind his back.
“Yes, you may leave.”
“Yes, then…”
The man with the slicked-back hair quickly bowed to Jo Gi-man and disappeared from the room in an instant, while Jo Gi-man stood for a while by the window, overlooking the cityscape as he savored his tea.
He had the stack of papers that was originally on the desk in his hands and calmly began to scan through each page.
“Hmm… As expected, since she hasn’t been hospitalized, her initial growth is rapid. Still, it’s probably just leveling up into the late 10s after five months…”
The documents contained all information related to Lee Yeon-hee. But aside from achieving the 100-person combat achievement and occasionally using acid-based items, there wasn’t much that differed from before.
“At this level, it falls within the expected range. In fact, considering there was a period where she would grow rampantly in the dungeon after getting injured in her previous life, she might underperform.”
Moreover, she wasn’t even able to perfectly control that unusually large skeleton soldier. Was there a singularity occurring in her talent as a summoner? If so, it would make sense that she used a one-time item with acid that she never utilized during her life.
“When there’s gain, there’s a loss. I’m somewhat bothered that she’s not showing a dark side like before…”
After all, she would enter his range of influence in a few months. Until then, he felt he could afford not to care too much.
“She’s merely a disposable item that has to last until the Orc Legion Commander makes his first attack.”
He forced himself to erase her existence from his mind, but his hand found itself flipping through the file containing a small picture of Lee Yeon-hee.
* * *
Kuuuuuuuu!!!
“Uwaaaaaang—!! What the heck is that!!”
Twenty minutes after bravely entering the big boar dungeon, the first big boar we encountered was truly massive. Its body suggested a huge wild boar, with a horn the size of a forearm sticking out from its forehead.
As usual, I intended to strike first, but…
Vroom!!
‘It’s sensitive to vibrations, so sneaking up won’t be easy.’
Instead, it discovered us first and charged at us. Yeon-hee quickly aimed and shot an arrow at its head, but the shallow hit only seemed to provoke the boar further.
Yeon-hee, having dodged the big boar’s strike, shouted loudly.
“Lime!!”
At her cry, the slime wrapped around my bones, and as the big boar turned back to charge, it sprayed acid on its face and clashed directly with it.
Splat~
Kuuuuuuu?!
I collided with it head-on, but since I had the slime on my shoulder, I only lost 5 health, while the big boar’s eyes widened in shock as Yeon-hee’s arrow embedded itself perfectly.
Pfuuhhk—!!
Kuuuuuuuuu—
As it thrashed in pain, I mounted it, alternating between using acid and slams, wobbling around on its back while using [Adhesion], gripping on tight.
Bam! Bam!
And Yeon-hee’s arrows continued to land on the supple parts of its side, and eventually, its resistance weakened, leading it to collapse sideways into the ground.
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