Chapter 57

Sigh
Ming Hu opened his eyes. He saw an unfamiliar ceiling.
“Ha.”
Ming Hu let out a short sigh. Then he turned his head and looked to the side. He saw a woman sleeping soundly with her arm slashed.
She was indeed beautiful: deep, clear eyes, a prominent nose, and lips like a peanut. Ming Hu couldn’t believe that he had spent the night with such a woman.
‘Honestly, it’s unbelievable.
How did it happen? Ming Hu thought back to yesterday. It had happened, but he couldn’t believe it when he thought about it.
“That’s fine.
Sigh
Ming Hu patted the woman’s head.
“Woof…”
The woman reacted slightly to Ming Hu’s touch. Ming Hu smiled at the woman’s cute reaction.
“Hmm?
As Ming Hu watched her, he noticed that her face was getting redder and redder. If she was sleeping, her face would not be flushed. Ming Hu realized that the woman was awake.
“You’re awake?”
“….Yes.”
The woman opened her eyes slightly, then closed them again. Ming Hu felt his alter ego surge with embarrassment at the woman’s expression.
Sigh
Ming Hu’s hand began to slowly descend through the woman’s hair, and when it reached her waist, she flinched slightly. Ming Hu paused for a moment at the woman’s flinch, and then, with her eyes still closed, she opened her mouth to speak.
“It’s. Okay.”
At the woman’s words, Ming Hu’s hands, which had fallen to her waist, began to play spontaneously.
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[You have taken the Elixir of Strength, permanently increasing your Strength by 10].
“I’m finally done.”
Ming Hu smiled. He had finally consumed all 500 of Titto’s power elixirs. Ming Hu opened his character window.
Name: Ming Hu
Nationality : Helioca [Empire]
Age: 22 Occupation: Berserker/Strong Smith
Fame: 50000
Level: 220
Life: 1302450
Mana: 6420
Strength : 65030 [6503(+40)] Dexterity : 165 Constitution : 37 Strength : 10 Wisdom : 311
Dexterity: 7
Bonus Stets: 510
“…”
Looking at the character window, Ming Hu was speechless. The Power Elixir gave him 5,000 Strength, and the skill ‘Source of Strength’ increased it tenfold to 50,000.
“I have a million health.”
The visible result was a significant increase in health. Of course, that’s not a lot of health considering that boss monsters usually only have a few tens of millions, but Ming Hu was a user, not a monster.
“Now…”
Ming Hu closed the Character window. He opened the Quest window.
<Gadagu's Experimental Material E
Dr. Kadugu, the chief of Himise and a doctor, is conducting various experiments. He needs many ingredients for his experiments, but it takes too much time for him to get them. Take his place and get him the ingredients he needs!
[The Great Fox's Inner Circle: 0/20]
[Red Blood of the Giant Wolf: 117/30]
Difficulty Level: D
Quest Reward: 3 Elixirs of Health
"Let's go."
Ming Hu traveled to Gumiho's Forest to retrieve the Great Fox's inner circle, but that wasn't the only reason. Once outside of town, Ming Hu pulled the Mark of Arang from his inventory.

It is associated with Miho, the mark of Arang, the owner of Kumihō’s forest.
A mark obtained by killing the werewolf Arang, an item that is unique for some reason but is associated with Kumihō, the master of Kumihō’s forest. Ming Hu planned to show it to Kumihō.
-Crunch!
When Ming Hu finally arrived at the Great Fox’s cave, he greeted the Great Fox with a smile as he ran to greet him.
Puck!
-k..lung
With the Great Fox defeated and the items collected, Ming Hu entered the cave, and when he reached the end of the cave, he used the Claw Key to open a portal to the Gumiho Forest.
“First. Let’s start with the Great Fox’s inner circle.”
Ming Hu began searching for the Great Fox, and since he had traveled so much, he quickly found a clearing. It wasn’t long before Ming Hu was able to collect all 20 of the inner hems needed for the quest.
“Let’s collect some more while we’re at it.”
Ming Hu pondered for a moment, then resumed his search for the great fox. When he had hunted the great fox around the clearing and collected sixty inner daggers, he stopped hunting and began to walk into the forest. This was to find Gumiho.
-Chew!
-Chew!
While searching for Gumi Lake, Ming Hu hunted monster foxes. Unlike the giant wolves, which roamed in groups of dozens, hunting monster foxes, which were only five or six in number, made him feel empty.
-You have mastered the steel claws of the monstrous fox.
-You have acquired the hide of a monstrous fox.
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-You have mastered the Steel Tail of the Monstrous Fox.
“Where is it…. Ha.”
After collecting the items and looking around the clearing, Ming Hu sighed. I need to meet Gumiho, but she’s nowhere in sight. That was it.
“Ah!”
A sudden thought struck Ming Hu, and he lifted his head and looked around, his gaze settling on a spot.
“Was there a waterfall over there?”
Mingfu goes to the waterfall where he first met Kumihō. Apparently, Kumiko was taking a shower there. Of course, there was no guarantee that he was still taking a shower, but it was just in case. Ming Hu started walking.
Swaaaaaaaah
After a while, Ming Hu could hear the sound of a waterfall that he had heard before. He had been suspicious, but now he was sure. Ming Hu walked toward the waterfall with light steps.
“…!”
Soon, Ming Hu arrives at the waterfall and stops walking and stares at the bottom of the waterfall, not knowing what to expect.
“Hehe.”
Gumiho is showering without a single silk aura. After removing the Mark of Arang from his inventory, Ming Hu wondered what to do.
“I’m in the shower, I don’t want to leave… I think it’s polite to just wait.”
Ming Hu said so and looked at Gumiho. She had a beautiful body and face as always. Even though he knew it was virtual reality, he couldn’t help but be pleased with his eyes. It was then.
“Hah~ Taking a shower in the game is kind of refreshing!”
“…huh?
For a moment, Ming Hu wondered if he had misheard, and then he realized that he hadn’t; the distance made it more likely that he had misheard.
“But this exhilaration disappears as soon as I log out. Oh.”
“…”
However, Ming Hu was too embarrassed by Kumihō’s next words to say anything.
‘To,…log out?
Clearly, Kumihō is a monster, but he used the word logout. Logout is a word that shouldn’t have come out of Kumihō’s mouth.
“…”
Ming Hu glanced over at Kumihou to see what was going on, but as he looked at Kumihou, he couldn’t think of a reason for the logout. Eventually, Ming Hu looked away and thought.
‘Logout. ê°€ìž¥ì-´ì-´ì-´ì-´ì-´ì-´ì-´ì-¼. User?’
When Ming Hu saw Kumihō write the word logout, he assumed two things. The first was that Gumiho was a user. If Gumiho was a user, then it would make sense that he would use the word logout. However, if Gumiho was a user, then the boss monster would be a user, which is a contradiction.
‘So… Is this an NPC controlled directly by the company?
The second was if Gumiho was an NPC controlled directly by the company. In that case, the current situation would make sense. Furthermore, I don’t have a problem with Gumiho being a boss monster.
“I see.
Myung-Hoo’s thoughts leaned toward Gumiho being an NPC controlled by the company, and he was certain that there was an employee inside Gumiho right now controlling the NPC.
Sigh
After gathering his thoughts, Ming Hu looked at Kumihō, and he could see. Gumiho’s lake-clear eyes, staring back at him.
“…”
“…”
Minghu and Kumihou said nothing.
‘Oh. I thought you were an employee.
I’m torn. I could show the mark of Arang to Kumihō. But it looked like there was a staff member inside.
“Just in case.
Ming Hu approached Gumihō with the Mark of Arang in hand, but Gumihō’s subsequent shout made him stop in his tracks.
“Stay away from me, pervert!”
A red-faced Gumihō shouted as he plunged into the water. Ming Hu couldn’t help but be perplexed as he watched Gumiho stick his face out. It was obvious that the water was clear anyway. He tried to see if Kumihō knew it, but there was no way he could cover up his voluptuousness.
“Turn around!”
Gumiho exclaimed.
Sigh
Ming Hu did as Gumiho said and turned around.
Swoosh, swoosh, swoosh!
As he turned back, Minghu heard Gumiho get out of the water and put on his clothes. When Ming Hu could hear no more, he turned around again.
“…”
Gumihō glared at Ming Hu with a look that could kill. Ming Hu gave him a look that said, “Is it okay for an employee to stare at me like that?” and walked over.
Chuck!
He showed the mark of Arang to Gumihō.
“…?”
But Gumiho didn’t react, only glancing back and forth between Mark and Ming Hu with a questioning look in his eyes. Myung-hoo let out a short sigh, as if he’d seen it coming, and opened his mouth to speak.
“You’re an employee, right? I need to see Kumiko, so I’m wondering if you could log out and call the Kumiko NPC for me?”
“…?”
At Ming Hu’s next words, Gumihō gave him a look that said, “What the hell are you talking about? Ming Hu scratched his head at the look in Kumihō’s eyes, but then he looked at Kumihō’s appearance and couldn’t help but swallow his saliva. He had gotten out of the water and put on his clothes right away, so his clothes were wet and clinging to his body, revealing his naked body.
“…this…this!”
Kumihou felt Ming Hu’s gaze and looked at his clothes, then at his clothes, then at Ming Hu again, as if to kill him.
“Die, you pervert!”
A heart flew toward Ming Hu.