You Want to Hunt With Me!? (4)
[To think a 3rd class monster is about to appear already. Just what has Earth come to already?]
βGo ask God for that.β
At that time Erta, who didnβt say a lot at the scene, started chattering 15 hours after Yu IlHan came back home, had a shower, did maintenance on his equipment, had a sound sleep, and went to work in his workshop.
[No matter how much I think about it by myself, I canβt come up with a conclusion.]
βEven if you ask me, you wonβt come up with a conclusion. I said go ask God for that.β
Yu IlHan, who already made the 5th Trap of Destruction, retorted while checking that the inlaying process was done properly. Of course, they were all products that didnβt have mana crafting done to them.
[How can you be so calm? This is about your world. Do you know how big of a problem it is for a 3rd class monster to appear, when the soldiers on the front line of defense havenβt even gotten their 1st classes yet?]
That was truly a huge problem. Currently humanity was acquiring strength rapidly by doing suitable questβs in the other worlds thanks to Godβs help, but even so, the balance of strength is still tilted towards the monstersβ side.
Just what else could be done for the humans for the balance to be righted? Erta couldnβt make anything out of it.
βItβs not that Iβm calm. Itβs just that even if I get nervous, I canβt do anything. So Iβm just doing what I can while eating popcorn.β
Yu IlHan asked while finishing the check and picking up a new piece of harkanium.
βHow about other countries?β
[According to the reports from other angels, there are none. The monster which showed signs of evolving into 3rd class only appeared in Korea.]
βThen isnβt it due to the Trap of Destruction, as expected?β
At Yu IlHanβs words, Erta became silent. It was because she also was predicting that this happened due to the activated Trap of Destruction in Korea.
The Trap of Destruction directly strengthened the monsters? Of course, such a thing wasnβt possible. However, it could have become the trigger for it.
It wouldnβt have been strange for the Trap of Destruction, which locked up countless monsters in the dungeon, it would have become a serious threat to those which didnβt get locked up, and stimulate the berserking of the monsters.
[In other worlds, monsters were locked up in dungeons before they had the chance to become aware of it. Due to that, in truth, the monstersβ evolution shouldβve happened inside the dungeons.]
βHmm.β
[Inside the dungeons, there maybe cases where a new, dangerous species appearing due to cross breeding, and although small in possibility, there may also be monsters which would earn a mutated record through fighting with other monsters and evolvingβ¦β¦]
βDungeons are fucking pandemoniums!β
Yu IlHan shouted in shock. It was true! Just because you lock them up in dungeons, it doesnβt mean that the monsters are lying down, waiting for the humans to appear!
[However, if you lock them up, they will evolve not by eating humans but other monsters. Just that monsters donβt fight each other unless thereβs a special case, so their growth deteriorates if you lock them up in dungeons.]
βSo dungeons are necessary for humanity in many different waysβ¦β¦β
[If you know, then itβs good. β¦β¦Well, it also means that you, who is making those things, is amazing too.]
βSo, weβve arrived at the conclusion that I need to make the Traps of Destruction faster, eh.β
Erta had praised Yu IlHan, but he retorted blandly and put the harkanium inside the fireplace.
The Eternal Flame, which was now used to processing harkanium, intelligently raised its temperature suitable for processing harkanium while enveloping it, and Yu IlHan, who earned the wanted results in just few seconds, started hammering the harkanium as if he had forgotten all his worries.
Erta sighed while looking at Yu IlHan working when she shook her head when she was about to feel comfortable looking at his work. Yu IlHan working had the charm that would make one watch for one or two days absentmindedly.
[Do you feel well if you just keep making something like youβre doing now?]
βNo, well, it is enjoyable.β
He had found the trick of making the Traps of Destruction after a few times, so counting just the form creation, it took a fifth of the time compared to the first time he made it. Yu IlHan retorted while bringing out the artifactβs form without a single mistake.
βThe reason Iβm making something is to experience new things through that. Whatever it is, if it ends after just making it, then itβs meaningless. Just this Trap of Destruction is like that too, isnβt it?β
[β¦β¦Is that so.]
Erta reminded herself that Yu IlHan was weak to new information and stimulation. It wasnβt that she didnβt understand why, but when she thought about the background behind why his personality changed to be so, she felt pity.
She was surprised at that fact, since she realized that just now, that she, a higher existence, had sympathized with Yu IlHan.
However, Erta, who didnβt really hate that feeling, spoke to him purely intending to make him feel better.
[Become stronger, Yu IlHan. If you become stronger, then you will be able to see and experience new things. Endlessly.]
βYeah. Iβm also thinking of doing that.β
Yu IlHan absentmindedly replied while continuing his work. Erta was dissatisfied with his absentminded reply, but she wouldβve been shocked if she knew just how firm of a will was dwelling in his words.
When he made about 8 of those traps, the angels, who recovered all their mana, returned. When he mana crafted with the help of those angels, now, a βvastβ βheavenlyβ Trap of Destruction was completed. Yu IlHanβs mana crafting levelling up to level 11 was a bonus.
[Options were attached without fail. Just what level is his blacksmithing at?]
[Perhaps due to seeing how the Trap of Destruction was activated, his ability became better.]
[We will install this by ourselves. I will request you with the rest too.]
Thanks to getting used to mana crafting, completing the Trap of Destruction had also ended in an instant like frying beans with lightning.(E/N: this is my new favorite saying)
When the angels, who came like the wind, left like the wind with the Trap of Desturction, Yu IlHan, who watched their backs quietly muttered.
βI donβt know which country it will be, but I hope a dangerous monter doesnβt appear there.β
Unlike when making the Trap of Desturction, there was no need for all the angels to go for installing them. Yu IlHan didnβt go so Erta was also still on top of his head.
And she felt uncomfortable after she heard that.
[Just because a 3rd class monster appears due to the stimulation from the Trap of Desturction doesnβt mean that itβs your fault. Currently, youβre doing an important and great task of stabilizing the current Earth. Soβ¦β¦]
βI know. Thanks for minding about me.β
[β¦β¦]
Erta lost her words, and Yu IlHan stretched his body after putting down his hammer.
βIβm tired. Iβll sleep for a bit.β
[I need to stay with you anyway. For the activation of mana.]
βYeah, whatever.β
Yu IlHan had another shower after he came back home. However, he washed his hair and when he was about to wash his body with soap, he realized.
ββ¦β¦I feel like my body has become bigger?β
[You didnβt realize that until just now?]
At Ertaβs words, he hurriedly looked at the mirror. When he became conscious of it, he could see it properly.
He had grown overall. He became taller, his shoulders became wider, and his arms and legs had grown longer by a tiny bit.
[You will grow more if you level up more and keep advancing classes so it will be bad if you get surprised now.]
βDonβt you think my face became a little more handsome too?β
[Well, shouldnβt it have changed using human standards?]
To a higher existence such as Erta, Yu IlHanβs face wasnβt a characteristic trait. The trait which moved her was not outside but inside.
Of course, she didnβt intend to say that out loud, so she ignored Yu IlHanβs nude fashion show. Even while thinking that he was over exaggerating things.
Yu IlHan had a nice sleep throughout the night.
The reason why he could keep his vitality is of course, something to do with finding something to do endlessly, but it also had to do with him being able to enjoy sleep.
His sleeping time, which wasnβt too long, nor too short, gave him the strength to live a new day. Although, there were times where this βnew dayβ had become two or three days due to being immersed in training or work.
So, Yu IlHan was more proficient in sleeping than his spearmanship or his metalwork. If one had to pick the one who could sleep the most completely and efficiently, he might take 1st place in the universe. (T/N: may be multiverse)
And perhaps due to that, on Yu IlHanβs retina, after he woke up in the morning after a good sleep, a line came up quietly.
[You have awakened Resting Lv Max. Efficiency of all acts of rest increases dramatically. If you have the skill evolution materials, you may evolve the skill to the next stage.]
βWow, what an alarm!β
Yu IlHan shouted while kicking the blanket. He didnβt know that such a skill existed!
When Erta, who was sleeping on top of his head, woke up and saw the situation, opened her mouth wide, dumbfounded.
[Resting skill? Just when did you learn a skill with a difficulty of acquiring rank of SSS!?]
βSSS rank? This thing is harder to learn than R*s*ng*n!?β(E/N: this author is crack up)
[Just how did you learn it? Even I didnβt learn it yet! Moreover, I heard that levelling it up was more difficult than acquring itβ¦β¦]
Yu IlHan replied honestly.
βI researched how to sleep more comfortably at nights in those several centuries.β
[There was a reason I couldnβt acquire itβ¦β¦]
βBeds are science!β (T/N: a popular advert in Korea. βBeds arenβt furniture. Beds are scienceβ, refer to βI make them β 3β chapter)
[Shut up!]
This was the moment Yu IlHan counterattacked for the inventory magic!
βBut what do you use this skill for?β
[For sleeping and resting well, of course.]
βIf itβs just that, thereβs no way you should be so shocked.β
Erta obediently spilled the beans when she heard what Yu IlHan pointed out sharply. Yu IlHan was well-versed in this, perhaps due to reading so many books and now had the ability to read the meaning behind actions. and in the first place, she also didnβt have any intention on hiding it.
[Well, it did become the time for me to explain to you about skill evolution.]
βOh, as expected.β
Awakening, in other words, it was just that the Akashic Records havenβt realized, but the Resting Skill was already on Yu IlHan from the beginning. and a max level one at that.
However, Yu IlHan had no memory of getting any effects from this skill. Moreover, he had only awakened it now even though he had slept everyday. In other words, it means that the usability of this Resting skill is very small.
Also, if the abilityβs effects ended with just that, there was no way Erta would have become so fussed about it when she always talks about being a higher existence.
[Skill evolutions are an extension of skill acquiring, and itβs a type of achievement, and it has a similar definition to advancing classes.]
The answer lay in the βskill evolutionβ that appeared when the said skill is trained to the limits.
[It could be said to be a guidance from the Akashic Records to offer a new path of a higher order with the special records that the existence has piled up until now.]
βIβm alright so say it easily as you always did.β
[The skill becomes so OP that it makes a plastic surgery ad of βBefore & Afterβ laughable.]
βGood, much better.β
The skills that had the conditions fulfilled for evolution that Yu IlHan had were Close Combat, Spearmanship, Concealment, and lastly, Resting.
Dismantling and Blacksmithing were both Max as well, but these two didnβt have a next stage. In other words, it meant that Yu IlHanβs techniques had already reached the peak.
[Letβs forget concealment since you canβt even use it as an active skill, and letβs exclude close combat and spearmanship as well since the requirements for evolving them are too difficult for your current level. This is also the reason I didnβt mention anything about skill evolution until now.]
βSo Restingβs a bit different, eh?β
Yu IlHanβs point was correct. The skill evolution materials for Resting skill that Erta knew was different to the evolution materials of other skills.
[Why donβt you check? You already know how to use status windows, right? Itβs sufficient for you to think up that you want to know the materials for skill evolution for the Resting skill.]
When he obediently did as Erta said. All the requirements for evolving the Resting skill had appeared in front of his eyes.
[The hearts of monsters of sleeping 2nd class monsters 0/500]
[Trollβs blood 0/500 litres]
[Good sleep 0/100 hours]
[3rd class monsterβs magic stone 0/1]
There was a quest that didnβt seem possible even if all the 7.4 billion people of Earth were mobilized.
Authorβs notes
The arc hasnβt ended yet! This arc is slightly long ^^
Yu IlHan has the niche for rhyming. (T/N: Lost in translation, in fact I couldnβt find them in the raws, blame my eyes)
Whatβs the main meal for those monsters if they donβt eat other monsters? It will be mentioned in the future, but the answer is mana!
Rasenganβs acquiring difficulty is A rank.(E/N: pretty keen on seeing that acutally)
Ertaβs role is to help Yu IlHan awaken and use mana. But this isnβt something he can learn just because heβs taught! Just by Erta, a higher existence, being next to him, his mana is stimulated and activated so that the βspeed of adapting to manaβ which originally should have taken him several years, is speeding up rapidly. Erta sticking to him is just because of that on the surface! I tried to explain using the chapters but it seemed like my explanations were lacking T^T.
The motif for the resting skill was taken from the trolls from mabinogi. It was the first time I saw a monster plopping down on the ground to rest in a game. (T/N: I donβt play mabinogi)
Translatorβs notes
You know, for the skill evolution, I remember being so shocked when I first read it, but now that I read it, it doesnβt seem difficult. As in the latest chapter MC @#$%^&*&^%$#@#$%^%$#
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