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Chapter 125: 125

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Right after returning to reality, I immediately opened my status window.

[Baek Jiho (Republic of Korea: Floor 41)]

[2,152,300 Points]

What I saw was an enormous number.

Over 2.15 million.

A shiver ran through me.

“2.15 million...! Did I save over two million citizens of King Korea in a single day?! Incredible...!”

It was an absolutely insane number, far beyond anything I'd expected!

I'd earned around 810,000 Points on the previous floor. Now I'd blasted past one million and reached two million in one go.

My Point income had nearly tripled!

To be fair, it was a haul worthy of that many Points.

I'd ground up a whopping fifteen thousand Ghouls and killed plenty of War Black Mages and High Black Mages.

Most importantly, I'd killed that utter trash, continent-destroying environmental criminal, the Black Mage Sect Leader, Sans!

It would've been stranger if I hadn't received this many Points.

Still, something felt off.

“Why does that Sect Leader bastard give so few Points? No matter how I look at it, he wasn't a 100,000-Point enemy. Shouldn't he have been worth at least a million?”

The hidden boss of the High Floors I'd defeated, the Black Mage Sect Leader, had been one of the tougher monsters I'd fought so far.

He'd tried to drain every last trace of mana from the continent and make himself immortal. He was a continental-scale villain.

Yet he was only worth 100,000 Points, just 3.3 High Black Mages' worth.

Wasn't that way too stingy?

“The Tower is seriously cheap. I killed a hidden boss, and it only gave me 100,000 Points! I didn't even find something insanely awesome like a Unique-grade artifact.”

Wasn't it common sense that killing a hidden boss got you a Unique-grade artifact, some awesome relic, or something?

Then why hadn't I gotten anything?

This place's service was terrible. Ah, that's no way to run a business.

At this rate, they'd lose all their regular customers!

As I grumbled to myself...

“Jiho, did you see it?”

“?”

Hyeji, who had been deep in thought beside me, suddenly spoke.

“See what?”

“The settlement window when we cleared the floor and returned. Didn't it have a message that was different from usual? I think I caught a glimpse of something saying Floor 40 had been liberated...”

I tilted my head.

Had there been a message like that? I didn't think I'd seen it.

Whenever I came out through the Escape Portal, I usually just skimmed through everything while calculating my Points. I always focused on the numbers and skipped the rest.

Adults liked numbers, after all.

There was no way I'd carefully read the other messages.

“I don't think I saw it. Didn't you just misread it, Hyeji?”

“No, I'm sure there was some kind of message saying it had been liberated...”

“Whatever, it's probably nothing. More importantly, Iing Iing! It's time to tally the loot! To the yard!”

-Iing!

Today's Tower climb was over. Now it was time to sort through the loot!

Iing Iing fluttered off to the yard with the Spatial Bags floating behind her. I shouted eagerly.

“It's time to tally the loot from Extreme Lunatic Hell!!!”

-Iing!!!

Rumbleeeee!

Iing Iing opened the Spatial Bags and started dumping loot all over the yard.

Countless items piled across the ground. There was all kinds of stuff.

Potions, catalysts, monster byproducts, experimental equipment, and low-grade artifacts.

And that wasn't all. Gold, silver, jewels, and all kinds of precious metals poured out in huge quantities!

There was enough to form a small hill.

I nodded in satisfaction.

“I knew it. The combination of a hundred-ton Spatial Bag and Iing Iing is unbeatable! I can't believe we brought back this much loot...!”

-Iing!

Thanks to the hundred-ton Spatial Bag I'd gotten on the previous floor, my inventory capacity had expanded dramatically.

One hundred-ton bag, three ten-ton bags, and twelve one-ton bags...

I could now collect a total of 142 tons of loot!

That was why we'd been able to sweep up every valuable item in the Black Mage Tower. The sheer amount of loot we'd collected was overwhelming.

“Just looking at that mountain of loot makes me feel full!”

Most of it was materials for alchemy, experimental equipment, and alchemy and magic books...

But there were tons of highly liquid precious metals as well.

There looked to be around twenty tons of gold and silver alone. How much was gold worth these days?

As I examined the loot...

“Huh? What's that?”

Something at one end of the pile caught my eye. I walked over to inspect it.

“A black jar? Iing Iing, why did you bring this too? Were you planning to use it as a chamber pot?”

-Iing? Iing, iing, iing, iing!!!

“Jiho, Iing Iing says she doesn't need something like a chamber pot and tells you not to say that.”

“Then why did you bring the jar?”

-Iing, iing...?

“She says she didn't bring it.”

“What?”

It was a small jar, about the size of a human head. It was completely black with a strange sheen across its surface, and had a small lid on top.

No matter how I looked at it, it didn't seem particularly valuable.

I tried opening the lid.

“Huh. It won't open.”

The lid wouldn't budge.

I could probably force it open if I put enough strength into it, but it looked like it might break, so I stopped. Do you know how annoying it was to clean up shards from a broken ceramic jar?

Anyway.

I couldn't sense any Blue Motes inside it, and it didn't look special...

Was it just some useless junk?

“Tch. Looks like some worthless trash happened to roll in. I'll throw it out later.”

I set the jar down in one corner of the yard.

I'd ask Noona to throw it out later.

Then, at that moment...

-Iing! Iing! Iing! Iing! Iing!

Kick! Kick! Kick! Kick! Kick!

Iing Iing started violently kicking the jar.

What was wrong with her all of a sudden?

“Iing Iing, why are you kicking that jar?”

-Iing!!!

“She says she somehow dislikes that jar. Did she get upset because you called it a chamber pot?”

-Iing, iing!!!

“You're saying that's not it? Then why are you kicking the jar...”

Oh no.

Maybe my chamber pot joke had hurt Iing Iing's feelings. Kids her age, around one month old, were especially sensitive.

Sorry, Iing Iing. I'll be more careful from now on.

Anyway!

We'd safely completed the raid and checked the loot too...

“Jiho, you're going on Hunter Gallery, right?”

“Of course!”

It was time to show off my achievements on Hunter Gallery!

-Click!

I took pictures of the loot in the yard, then quickly wrote a post.

[Post Title: Hunter Who Isn't a Newbie... Reached Floor 40 Today...]

[Author: Blue Dot]

(A photo of gold and silver bars piled in the yard, with various other loot visible behind them.)

Hunter who isn't a newbie... reached Floor 40 today.

I went there, and just like I'd heard, it was crawling with Ghouls and Black Mages in a completely ruined environment...

Except it wasn't.

Because you commoners can only walk the Alpha and Beta Worldlines where the world is utterly doomed.

But this body, Hououin Blue Dot...

Is an Extreme Lunatic Hell Prophet Hunter walking the Steined Gate Worldline, with a Worldline divergence rate of 1.048596%!

Anyway, the moment I started, a fantasy army was fighting a huge group of ten thousand Ghouls.

There were so many Ghouls. They were packed together like they covered the whole horizon...

Wasn't it disgusting?

So I just killed them all T_T

I fired magic artillery, 「Final Spark」, and wiped them all out!

The horde of Ghouls covering the horizon vanished in an instant...

Kya!!!

It felt like a weight had been lifted off my chest!

Bullet hell is power!!!

After cleaning up the Ghouls, I headed north.

The environment was polluted. Turns out some guy called the Black Mage Sect Leader had set up a continent-scale magic circle and drained the entire continent dry.

He was trying to become an immortal.

In other words, Sans!

So I just killed him T_T

He was a pretty tough commoner after draining all the mana from the continent, but I stole his mana, then blasted him once with magic artillery, 「Final Spark」, and he died.

Environmental destruction is unforgivable!

Keep our continent green!

So I ended up saving the continent.

I saved King Korea, the continent, and even our country's economy, industry, and health. Good job, me!

Oh, right. I've got to rescue Hunter Kim Taeseok soon too.

I wonder how that old man is doing.

Sir, just hold out for one more day.

I'll save you tomorrow!

Anyway, today's income!

15,473 Ghouls, 83 War Black Mages, 3 High Black Mages, and one Sans.

Total... 2,152,300 Points!!!

21.523 billion won!

There was too much other loot to even measure!

Elon Mengsk, just you wait!

Number one on the world's rich list, here I come!!!

Since I got to see Sans today...

I'll eat pork bone hangover soup and sleep.

For dessert, I'll have bananas and Dr. Pepper.

└Wow! Sans! You know OverTail! It's. Really. Freaking. Hard.

└What the hell is Sans?

└└Do you wanna have a bad time?

└Didn't this guy always call himself a “newbie Hunter”? Why's he a Hunter who isn't a newbie today? Did you change your concept?

└└Blue Dot: I reached the Highest Floors, so isn't it about time I took off the newbie label...

└└Ah. But if you've only been a Hunter for a month and a half, aren't you still a newbie? Don't you need to suffer a little longer before taking off that label? Genuinely asking.

└└Blue Dot: What did you say? This bastard...!

└If he's earning two million a day, hasn't our country basically escaped the Point depletion crisis? Our monthly Point deficit is fourteen million, so he can make it up in two weeks.

└It jumped so suddenly that I can't really process it...

└Lmao, it looks like a lie no matter how you look at it, but the government says Blue Dot's posts are real. This cognitive dissonance is hitting hard...

└Scary story about Blue Dot) At two million a day, that means sixty million Points a month. Blue Dot alone can support our country... Our country's monthly Point income is thirty-seven million, which comes to 1.23 million a day. Blue Dot is basically earning more than all the Hunters in our country combined...

└└For real;;

└└Big Dot, what even are you?

└└Wah, King Blue Dot, please save our country already.

└└Blue Dot: Consider it saved ^^

└└Thank you!!!

└└The fact is, he really did save us... I seriously can't believe it, but it's true...

└└Why is this real?

└But why does Blue Dot like Steined Gate so much? He's been going on about it since Floor 38.

└└He said he changed the Worldline. I think it means Blue Dot entered some special branch where the floor environment changed.

└└? Is that even possible? Isn't the Tower's environment the same for everyone? It can't be different depending on the person.

└└Blue Dot: Fu ha ha ha! I am the mad mage of insanity, Hououin Blue Dot!!!

└└Insanity (true)

└└Have you all gone mad?

└Blue Dot seems kind of insane, but seeing him shitpost on Hunter Gallery and hang out with everyone feels weirdly friendly... Is that just me? If you look closely, he's boasting like a total lunatic, but somehow he isn't annoying...

└└You've fallen under that crazy bastard Blue Dot's spell.

└└Because of that lunatic Blue Dot, the Hunter Gallery guys are getting mentally contaminated one by one. Everyone, get out while you still can.

└└You like Blue Dot too, deep down. Lmao, I checked your past posts and you wrote one praising him.

└└You fucking bastard, shut up. It's embarrassing.

└└Tsundere gay...

└Sir, China reportedly sealed off the Shandong Province coast. What's going on? Was that your doing? The satellite photos show some kind of dark zone with a radius of several kilometers.

└Whoa, if he cleared Floor 40, can he really rescue Hunter Kim Taeseok? Is Taeseok-hyung coming back alive soon?

└Taeseok-hyung...!

└Guys, there's some weird news on foreign Hunter communities. What's going on?

└Why do you make those Marisa jokes all the time? Anyone would think you're actually a wizard.

└└If you watch the Beijing videos, you can understand the Final Spark jokes. He fired some massive destructive beam and went “destroy the barrier, destroy the Earth” T_T

└Hello, Blue Dot. This is FFF Daily. We would like to request an interview.

└Blue Dot-hyung, I run a pork bone hangover soup restaurant. Please visit sometime. I'll serve you with the utmost care.

...

The comments kept rolling in.

As I spent time replying to each one and interacting with everyone, I muttered quietly.

“I've finally taken off the newbie label...!”

I'd lived as a newbie for a long time.

It had been a long, miserable era of humiliation and oppression. I was sick of it.

But now I was a Floor 41 Hunter.

In other words, a Hunter of the Highest Floors.

It was about time I took off the newbie label!

As I tapped at my smartphone, I muttered.

“I should update my floor on HunterNet too.”

Because the floor I'd reached changed every day, I hadn't bothered updating it on HunterNet.

But now that I was a respectable Highest Floors Hunter...

It should be fine to update it, right?

So I began the process.

Updating it was simple.

First, I opened HunterNet.

-Click!

[Baek Jiho (Republic of Korea: Floor 41)]

[Republic of Korea Hunter Registration Card]

[Baek Jiho][High Floors (31-40)]

All I had to do was take pictures of my status window and Hunter Registration Card and send them to the HunterNet administrators for verification.

A moment later...

[Climbing information has been updated.]

[Baek Jiho (41)]

A notification arrived saying my recorded floor had been updated.

As expected of Koreans and their famous hurry, hurry culture.

It had been processed in under a minute.

I was satisfied.

“Now nobody will look down on me as a newbie ever again!!!”

“Um... Jiho? Nobody looks down on you for being a newbie. You were just getting worked up by yourself because you thought it hurt your image...”

Leaving Hyeji muttering beside me, I entered the Raid Team board.

There were all kinds of posts.

[Waaah... Hunter loser wants a girlfriend...]

[Curry-flavored shit vs. shit-flavored curry]

[I was raiding Floor 32 and suddenly got kicked out. What happened? Does the Tower have bugs too?]

[I'm jealous of how many Hunter Gallery comments Lord Blue Dot gets...]

[Why are Europeans moving around so busily these days?]

...

The usual dizzying posts caught my eye.

I clicked my tongue.

“Commoners who haven't even reached the Highest Floors...!”

They had no dignity, filling the board with shitposts like this.

If they wanted to shitpost, they should at least reach the Highest Floors first!

Like me!!!

Anyway.

I casually wrote a post.

[Post Title: Commoner Choi Yejin, Come Out.]

[Author: Baek Jiho (41)]

I cleared Floor 40 and reached Floor 41.

It's about time we go rescue Taeseok-hyung.

Are you ready, “Choi”?

...

A comment immediately appeared.

└Choi Yejin (41): Ah... Of course, “Baek.” I've been waiting, damn it...!

It was none other than Choi Yejin's comment.

Yejin seemed incredibly excited at the thought of going to rescue Hunter Kim Taeseok tomorrow.

I smirked.

“Just wait a little longer, Mr. Kim Taeseok. I'm coming to rescue you.”

Floor 41.

The first floor of the Highest Floors' Large Monster Zone.

The floor where the “hero,” Hunter Kim Taeseok, was stranded.

Tomorrow.

I would rescue Hunter Kim Taeseok.

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