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Chapter 80: 080

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Flaaash!

The bright glow faded.

I slowly looked around.

It was the dead of night.

A village was burning.

A quiet medieval fantasy village had become a sea of fire. Raging flames devoured the plaster-and-timber buildings.

I murmured.

“Floor 31 is the Burning Village Floor.”

As the name suggested, it was a floor where a rural village burned in the middle of the night.

All we had to do was escape the village and take the Escape Portal outside it.

Just as I was looking around.

“Jiho! Jiho!”

Hyeji cried out in alarm.

“Fire! Fire! Hurry up!”

Just as she said, flames filled every direction.

The entire little village was engulfed in an inferno, and the fire was quickly spreading toward our starting point.

I shook my head.

“Hyeji. I’ll show you an amazing magic trick.”

“What is it this time?”

“A trick that puts out fire without water!”

What was fire?

Fire was the release of heat and light during combustion.

And combustion was a type of oxidation reaction.

Since oxygen was necessary for oxidation to occur, cutting off the air would put out the fire!

And the magic wielded by this Extreme Lunatic Hell Wizard included air manipulation magic.

Putting out a fire this large would be easy.

“Yap.”

I moved the Blue Motes inside my body and immediately controlled the surrounding air.

I pushed the air out of the village, creating a weak vacuum zone.

Then.

-Fsssh...

The fires went out in an instant.

The massive flames that had consumed the entire village lost their light and heat, then faded away. Only thick, acrid smoke rose high into the sky.

The massive fire had been extinguished in an instant.

I muttered.

“When I quit being a Hunter, maybe I should get a job at a fire station.”

“Wow. You put out the entire village’s fire in an instant? That’s amazing!”

“That’s me.”

Normally, Floor 31 was a floor you had to clear while weaving through advancing flames.

But I had completely extinguished the fire itself.

Only acrid smoke remained, while the village retained its original shape.

Now, I just had to kill every enemy and head for the Escape Portal.

Just as I was looking around.

-Grrrk... Grk...

-Kraaaaah!

-Graaaaaaah!!!

Monstrous cries began ringing out from every direction.

Then I saw them.

-Stagger. Stagger.

Gray figures emerged one by one through the acrid smoke and between the half-burned buildings.

I knew what they were.

“Ghouls.”

They were Ghouls.

The lowest-ranked enemies that became tiresome to see in the High Floors.

Hundreds, no, thousands of Ghouls were appearing everywhere.

Hyeji tightly furrowed her brow.

“Ugh... They’re disgustingly creepy.”

Just as she said, the Ghouls were grotesque and revolting.

Melted flesh.

Broken, rotten limbs dangling loosely.

Eyeballs hanging out of their sockets...

They were a complete set of disgust-inducing nightmare fuel.

It was only natural for an ordinary person like Na Hyeji to be so horrified.

I clicked my tongue.

“Hyeji, why are you so squeamish? I’ve been training you to handle gross things by making liquid monsters since the Lower Floors.”

“Is that something to be proud of?!”

“Anyway, Ghouls...”

They were basically fantasy zombies.

Unlike the usual zombies we knew, they were stronger and faster.

They looked like messy corpses, but each supposedly had combat ability comparable to an Orc Warrior.

Still, it felt strange.

“When Hell is full, the dead will walk the earth...!”

“What are you talking about out of nowhere?”

“It’s a famous zombie movie line. Hyeji, haven’t you seen zombie movies? You know, movies like Curse of the Morning or 28 Minutes Later.”

“Why would I watch disgusting movies like that?”

There had been a time when I was obsessed with zombie movies.

Watching people tear through swarming zombies with guns and melee weapons had seemed incredibly thrilling.

Now I could do it too.

I raised my staff.

“When the tunnel ends, we’re going in.”

“A tunnel? Is there a tunnel nearby?”

Hyeji hadn’t seen Train to Butsan.

Anyway.

-Fububububububub!

I fired Air Bullets in every direction.

Thud! Crack! Splatter!

Countless compressed-air bullets poured forth, piercing the foreheads of the charging Ghouls.

Blood splashed everywhere.

Limbs were severed.

-Kraaaaah!

-Uoooooh!

-Kyaaaak!

The charging Ghouls collapsed in heaps.

Behind the fallen bodies, thousands more Ghouls kept rushing toward us.

At this rate, there would be no end to them.

“Grenade out!”

I used Fireball as well.

Whoooosh!

A Fireball tore through the air and struck right in the middle of the Ghouls.

-Kaboooom!

Then came the explosion.

Dozens of Ghouls were caught in the blast and blown apart.

A bloody mist burst forth.

Chunks of Ghoul flesh scattered through the air.

I quickly dealt with the Ghouls.

-Fububububububub!

-Kaboom! Kaboom!

-Clatter-clatter!

I threw Fireballs at the Ghouls gathered in the distance.

I made ventilation holes in the foreheads of the ones scattered here and there with Air Bullets.

I ground up the ones rushing at me with Protective Aura.

And I gifted Wind Cutter to the ones running straight through narrow alleys.

After fighting for around ten minutes, I killed the last Ghoul.

-Grrk...!

-Splat!

When I looked around, countless Ghoul corpses and fragments filled every direction.

The Ghouls had been thoroughly wiped out!

I murmured.

“Even thousands of Ghouls can’t touch a single hair on this Extreme Lunatic Hell Wizard’s head. All they have is numbers! I seriously don’t understand why other Hunters run away like their pants are on fire instead of killing these things.”

“It’s just that you’re absurdly strong, Jiho... If thousands of Ghouls rush at you, running away is normal.”

“That’s me.”

Normally, the proper way to clear Floor 31 was to run away like your pants were on fire.

You avoided the blazing flames and hordes of attacking Ghouls in the Burning Village, then took the Escape Portal outside the village.

But I had brutishly killed everything.

As long as I had the supernatural power of magic, I just had to put out the flames and beat every Ghoul to death.

Wizards really were the best.

Then Hyeji, who had been watching, asked from beside me.

“Jiho, why didn’t you fly into the sky and use Super Fireball like usual? Wouldn’t that have been easier?”

“I had the chance to become the main character in a zombie movie. It wouldn’t be fun if I just used one-click Tactical Fireball.”

“...”

Come on, how could I resist thoroughly wiping out zombies?

Besides, I had already used one-click Super Fireballs enough to get sick of them in the Golem Floors.

I deserved to have some fun too!

Anyway, the battle was over.

“Hyeji. Gather the loot.”

“Okay. Iing Iing, let’s go to the center of the village. I heard there’s an altar and Magic Stones there.”

-Iing!

Hyeji and Iing Iing began gathering loot.

Whoosh.

They flew toward the center of the village with telekinetic flight.

I smacked my lips.

“There probably won’t be much loot today.”

Floor 31, the Burning Village Floor.

According to HunterNet’s research, this floor did not have much loot.

Ghouls were monsters that did not normally drop anything.

And there did not seem to be anything worth taking from the village either.

The loot from this floor was supposedly limited to a few Magic Stones.

A few Medium Magic Stones at the altar in the center of the village were all there was to collect.

I would probably have to reach the middle of the High Floors, to City Floors or University Floors, to get decent loot.

Still, a university...

“I’m looking forward to meeting a Black Mage.”

Enemies called Black Mages appeared from the middle of the High Floors onward.

Black Mages!

The bastards who had destroyed the magical civilization that served as the High Floors’ backdrop!

A sinister, evil bunch!

Beings naturally opposed to this body, a proper wizard!

My heart raced at the thought of meeting them.

“I’ve finally come to the High Floors to fight the Demonic Cult... You evil Demonic Cult bastards! This body, a member of the orthodox faction, will stand against your schemes and protect the martial world!”

I was a rising star of the righteous Goblin Sect.

I would protect the martial world from the clutches of the evil Demonic Cult!

No, come to think of it.

Since those Black Mage bastards controlled Ghouls, or jiangshi, weren’t they closer to the Blood Cult than the Demonic Cult?

“Masters in the heavens, watch over me! I, Baek Jiho, successor of the Goblin Sect, shall punish those evil Blood Cult bastards and preserve order in the martial world!”

I made that vow while looking up at the night sky.

Above the sky full of countless stars, I could see my Senior Uncles, my masters, and the Orc Shaman smiling kindly.

But why was the Orc Shaman up there?

While I was killing time like that.

“Jiho!”

Whoosh.

Hyeji and Iing Iing flew toward me from the distance with telekinetic flight.

I nodded.

“Are you done gathering the loot? I guess it was quick because this floor doesn’t have much. Shall we head to the Escape Portal now?”

“No, that’s not it. Iing Iing found some other loot.”

“Iing Iing did?”

I glanced over at Iing Iing.

Iing Iing floated beside Na Hyeji, her chin raised proudly.

She raised her fist.

-Iing! Iing!

Whoosh.

Something flew toward me through Iing Iing’s telekinesis.

I caught it and examined it.

It was something I had never expected.

“Potions?”

What Iing Iing had sent me were potions.

Glass bottles as large as my fist, each filled with liquid in a different color.

I didn’t know the exact types, but they were definitely valuable items.

Every potion found in the High Floors had amazing effects.

Healing Potions, Reverse-Aging Potions, Complete Recovery Potions, panaceas, and more.

They were all incredibly valuable.

I was confused.

“How did you find potions? I heard potions don’t appear on Floor 31.”

Floor 31, the burning rural village floor.

Potions were not normally found here.

They occasionally appeared as loot only in the middle and latter parts of the High Floors, in places like universities, research institutes, and imperial palaces.

But they found these on Floor 31?

How?

Hyeji answered.

“There were a few inside the buildings.”

“Inside the buildings?”

“You put out all the fires in the village, Jiho. Isn’t that why we found them? Normally, they would’ve all burned up and disappeared, but your magic made the fires in the buildings vanish in an instant. So the items stayed intact.”

“Oh.”

I had found potion loot because I put out the fire.

Then I thought.

‘If I keep putting out all the fires I see in the High Floors, can I get lots of extra loot?’

The High Floors had many burning buildings.

Burning villages, burning cities, burning factories, burning research institutes, burning universities, burning imperial palaces...

Those insane arsonist Black Mage bastards had burned everything down!

And Hunters often farmed a small number of artifacts from buildings that had not burned down yet.

Even High Floors Hunters got hurt badly if they touched fire.

They barely managed to get loot from a few buildings that had not caught fire.

But I could suppress fires by cutting off oxygen with one click of air manipulation magic.

That meant I could get more loot than other Hunters!

I thought I had decided on my High Floors concept.

“Hyeji. From now on, call me the Extreme Lunatic Hell Firefighting Helicopter.”

“Haah. Here you go again.”

“Longbow Apache’s service has ended...! Now I am a firefighting helicopter. A firefighting helicopter that flies through the sky and puts out fires! I’m no longer a helicopter that kills people, but one that saves them!”

-Iing Iing!

“Don’t copy the crazy person, Iing Iing.”

When I clenched my fist, Iing Iing clenched hers too.

She really was my pilot!

The pilot of the Extreme Lunatic Hell Firefighting Helicopter had to be this motivated!

“It’s time for the Extreme Lunatic Hell Firefighting Helicopter!”

And with that, the clearing of Floor 31 ended.

[Baek Jiho (Republic of Korea: Floor 31)]

[You have completed Tower Floor 31.]

[You have defeated 3,621 Ghouls (100).]

[Points are being calculated.]

[Tower Floor 32 has been unlocked.]

[Returning.]

I slaughtered Ghouls.

I obtained valuable potion loot too.

It had been a satisfying climb in many ways.

* * *

As soon as I returned to reality, I immediately opened my status window.

[Baek Jiho (Republic of Korea: Floor 32)]

[362,100 Points]

The number 362,100 appeared before me.

I murmured.

“Even though they were only worth 100 Points each, so many of them showed up that I earned a lot of Points. 362,100 Points...”

Thoroughly wiping things out really was right.

I got 362,100 Points from killing thousands of Ghouls.

On top of that, I had expensive potion loot.

“But what types are these potions?”

I glanced at the potions in my hands.

There were four of them, red, blue, green, and transparent.

The red one was probably a Healing Potion...

But I didn’t know what the other three were.

Of course, there was a simple way to find out.

“Help me, Hunter Gallery-mon!”

If I wrote a post on Hunter Gallery, someone would tell me.

-Click!

I took a picture, then quickly wrote a post.

[Post Title: Newbie Hunter... Climbed Floor 31 Today...]

[Author: Blue Dot]

(A picture of four potions in various colors)

Newbie Hunter... went to Floor 31 today.

Just like I heard, the village was burning.

And there were seriously a lot of Ghouls...

So I just killed them all T_T

They looked disgustingly creepy.

I couldn’t stand leaving them alive for another second.

I used various martial arts techniques to kill every Ghoul.

I also put out the fires across the entire village and fulfilled my duty as a firefighting helicopter.

Be careful of fire, awake or asleep!

Anyway, today’s earnings!

362,100 Points from killing 3,621 Ghouls!

Eleven Medium Magic Stones from the altar in the center of the village!

Total... 3.951 billion won!

I knew Floor 31 had little loot.

But if I killed thousands of Ghouls and only got eleven Medium Magic Stones, that seems like way too little loot...

Please patch the High Floors loot balance.

My Spatial Bag is empty, and it feels too lonely.

Oh, right.

I somehow got four potions too.

What types are these?

I know the red one is a potion, but I don’t know what the green, blue, and transparent ones are.

If anyone knows, tell me.

I should eat while watching zombie movies today.

I’ll ask my sister to make popcorn.

└What’s a firefighting helicopter now?

└You killed thousands of Ghouls? Isn’t that a floor where you have to run away as soon as you start?

└It’s King Awesome Dot. King Awesome Dot can totally kill thousands of Ghouls.

└He earned hundreds of thousands of Points again today. As expected of the Great Blue Dot!!! Please save the Republic of Korea!

└I’m new here, is this person the Blue Dot who was on the news? Korea’s sixth Hard-rank Hunter? Fuck, I think our country is doomed. This person is mentally nuts.

└I still can’t believe this Blue Dot bastard came from Hard difficulty... I thought he was just a psycho obsessed with his concept.

└└Psycho O, concept addict O. But one who came from Hard difficulty.

└└Blue Dot X, Crazy Dot O.

└└Crazy Dot lmao. He does seem kind of insane.

└Did Blue Dot’s gender finally change? As a fellow offensive tank-romantic aerosexual heli-gender, I’m a little disappointed...

└└Blue Dot: What a psycho;;

...

Comments streamed in.

I furrowed my brow.

“No, you bastards. Why isn’t even one of you telling me about the potions?”

Maybe the Hunter Gallery users didn’t know what the potions were either.

They were all just saying whatever they wanted.

I was an idiot for expecting anything from ordinary Hunter Gallery people!

It seemed I would have to ask on the Raid Team board, where slightly better ordinary people gathered.

Then, right at that moment.

└I think that green potion is a Reverse-Aging Potion? I saw one on the internet before.

I saw a comment.

The green potion was a Reverse-Aging Potion?

When I searched online for Reverse-Aging Potions, it really did look exactly like this.

I had picked up a Reverse-Aging Potion on Floor 31!

I jumped to my feet.

“Sis!!! Let’s get younger!!!”

The age of Eternal Young Twenty had finally arrived!

Sis, don’t get old!

Stay healthy for a long, long time!

“I'm so jealous of Jiye. A Reverse-Aging Potion...”

At my shout, Hyeji muttered that from beside me.

As another twenty-nine-year-old, she seemed jealous that my sister would get to drink a Reverse-Aging Potion.

“I’ll get one for you later, Hyeji. First, I need to make my sister young again.”

“Stop saying young again, young again. You’re making me sound really old.”

“Isn’t twenty-nine already old? I honestly don’t know.”

“What did you say?!”

I lightly needled Hyeji as she grumbled beside me.

Still, I didn’t understand it.

Twenty-nine and thirty were both still young.

Why did they care so much about their age?

What was so important about that first digit?

Anyway.

My sister’s rejuvenation had begun.

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