Chapter 91

* * * * *
After meeting at the general store in front of the imperial palace, Myung-hoo and Min-hyung went straight to the lush greenery inhabited by the Red Kobolds.
“Going to hunt a level 105 Priest!”
“I need someone to pay a level 78 thief!”
Arriving at the entrance to the lush greenery not long after passing through the gates, Myung-hoo and Min-hyung push past the milling crowd of players and head straight inside.
Sigh
Minhyung turned his head to look at the party and the users rescuing party members at the entrance to the greenery, then turned back to Ming Hu and spoke.
“Dude, this looks like a really hard place, can you really do this on your own?”
Minghu smirked at Minhyung’s question. This was a place where you could hunt even if you were only level 100. Of course, at level 100, you’d have to go with a party, but by level 130, you could hunt alone without any problems.
“My level is 230.”
After answering the question by saying his level, he stopped walking.
“…Why, is there a mob out there?”
When Myung-hoo suddenly stopped walking, Min-hyung cocked his head and asked, “Why? Myung-hoo nodded in response to Min-hyung’s question.
“There are three of them over there.”
A short distance away, three red kobolds were wandering around.
“Two axes, one club, let’s go.”
After checking the weapon the Red Kobold was carrying, Ming Hu began to walk quickly toward the group of kobolds again.
-Crack?
Did he hear footsteps? Or was it because it was in range? One of the kobolds that had been wandering around turned its head toward Ming Hu.
-Crunch!
After staring at Ming Hu for a moment, the kobold roared and began to run toward him, as did the other two kobolds.
-Crunch!
-Crack!
Ming Hu muttered to himself as he watched the kobolds rush toward him.
“Flip the ground.”
Siaak
A white glow surrounded the OPG. Ming Hu smiled at the approaching kobolds and struck the ground.
Oooooh!
The ground rumbled loudly, sending the charging kobolds into the air. Ming Hu began to walk toward the spot where the kobolds would fall.
puck puck puck
Soon, the kobolds dropped. Ming Hu quickly collected the dropped items and looked at Minhyung.
“…”
Minhyung stared blankly at Minghu. Ming Hu saw Min Hyung staring at him and smiled.
“How many ups did you do?”
“…Six up. Awesome.”
Sobered by Myung Hu’s words, Min Hyung approached Myung Hu and said, “You’re right. Soon, Minhyung arrived, and Ming Hu started moving again in search of the kobolds.
Jab!
Soon afterward, Ming Hu spotted a group of kobolds and stopped walking, and began checking the weapons they were carrying.
“Two axes, one club, two crossbows…”
The total number of kobolds Ming Hu found was five, two of them carrying axes, one carrying a club, and two carrying crossbows.
“Hmmm.”
After checking the weapons, Ming Hu looks a little puzzled. A kobold with a club or an axe is no problem, but a kobold with a crossbow is a bit of a problem.
A kobold with a crossbow might target a minion instead of you. Low-level miniatures were more likely to be killed by one or two kobold shots.
“Minhyung, follow me in at a little distance. If a kobold with a crossbow takes aim at you, get out of the way.”
After much deliberation, Ming Hu looked at Min Hyung and said. That was the moment.
Boom!
-Krug.
-Crunch!
The explosion was followed by the roar of a kobold.
“I think I lost that one.”
At Minhyung’s words, Ming Hu turned his attention back to the group of kobolds he’d been targeting, where a net of players had appeared and were hunting them down.
“Huh, it’s gone. Let’s go.”
Ming Hu turned around and started to walk away, but a sound made him stop in his tracks.
-How dare you!
The sound was clearly not coming from the user, but Red Kobold doesn’t speak the language.
“Hey, that’s the boss, right?”
At Minhyung’s next words, Ming Hu turned back to look at the battlefield, where a single kobold, the size of four kobolds combined, had appeared.
“Cablanca!
It was clear that this was Boss Cablanca. Ming Hu turned to look at the players who were hunting kobolds. The players’ expressions were not very happy at the sudden appearance of Cablanca.
-Oh la la la la!
Thump!
Just then, Cablanca stamped the floor with her staff and shouted, and six magic circles appeared around her, and from the circles emerged six elite Red Kobolds, twice as strong as normal Red Kobolds.
-Crunch!
-Crunch!
The elite Red Kobolds immediately charged at the players, and after a moment’s pause to consider what to do, the players quickly began to run backwards as the three unorganized regular Kobolds and six elite Kobolds charged at them.
“Minhyung, wait a minute and come running if you think I ate aggro.”
With that, Ming Hu said, and began to run toward Cablanca. The distance wasn’t very far, and Ming Hu was soon in Cablanca’s perception range.
-Heh! How dare you, human! Come on!
Thump!
Recognizing his fate, Cablanca bottomed out again. Then a magic circle formed and six elite Red Kobolds appeared.
-Crunch!
-Crack!
However, Ming Hu ignored the elite and common kobolds rushing toward him and continued toward Cablanca.
-shield
Cablanca stamped his staff on the ground once more as Ming Hu reached his location, and a half-flame shield appeared.
Sigh
Myung-hoo stopped walking when he saw the shield, and turned back to see how far Min-hyung had gotten.
-Crack!
-Crunch!
“Isn’t this enough to eat the scenery?”
As soon as I turned around, I saw Minhyung’s figure and heard his shout. Minhyung’s words were true, the distance was enough to earn experience points.
“Life Explosion!”
[Gain 20% increased damage for 20 seconds].
[Gain 20% attack speed for 20 seconds].
Oooooh!
A ripple spread out from Ming Hu’s body, passing by the kobolds who were attacking furiously.
whisk whisk whisk whisk
As the kobolds fell, Ming Hu turned around and looked at Cablanca.
-Yikes, how dare the human!
Cablanca, who you thought was dead, is not dead, but glaring at you.
“Is it the shield?
But he couldn’t see the crimson shield that protected her. Ming Hu shouted as he saw Cablanca about to swing her staff at him.
“Bloody explosion.”
-Crack.
About to swing his staff, Cablanca stopped dead in his tracks, blood spewing from the corner of his mouth.
-To humans…
And just like that, he began to slowly collapse.
[You have defeated Cablanca, King of the Lush Greenery].
[Prestige 1000].
Ming Hu smiled at the message and motioned for Min Hyung to come over, then began picking up the dropped items.
[You have mastered the Staff of Cablanca].
[You have mastered the inner circle of Cablanca].
[You have acquired the blood of Cablanca].
“Anything else…”
He searched further, but there were none. Ming Hu gritted his teeth and began searching the corpses of the kobolds around him.
* * * * *
“I think you can stop hunting now. You’ve reached your target level. Thanks for being awesome.”
Myung-hoo smirked at Min-hyung’s comment.
“Buy me a meal if you’re grateful.”
“Of course! I’ll call you! I’m going first!”
Minhyung said, and used the traveling scroll he was holding. Light emanated from the scroll and began to envelop Minhyung.
Siaak
Minhyung disappeared in a flash of light, and Myung-hoo opened the quest window to check the quest.
<The Emperor's First Command
The lush greenery near the East Gate of the Nexus is infested with Red Kobolds, and its proximity to the capital has taken its toll on many. The Empire sent the Knights of the Blade to destroy the Red Kobolds, but none of them returned. Travel to the Lush Greenery to defeat the Red Kobolds and find clues to the Knights who never returned!
[Cablanca: 1 / 1].
[Red Kobold: 41 of 50].
Difficulty Level: B
Quest Reward: Helioca Merit 350,000
Ming Hu looked at the quest and thought.
'It would be great if we could share…'
Unfortunately, the Emperor's quests were not shareable. Ming Hu sighed and closed the quest window. Then he turned back to his search for the Red Kobolds.
Some time after that, Minghu disappeared.
Siaak
A wizard in black robes appeared in Ming Hu's place, muttering quietly to himself as he looked in the direction Ming Hu had disappeared.
"Blacksmith…cough cough"