Chapter 27: Second iTube Video (1)

The subsequent raid progressed considerably slower.

Of course, the slowness was in comparison to before, and in fact, this was the normal speed.

Since we don’t know when and where monsters will pop out, we advance at a slow speed while being wary of our surroundings.

Naturally, the raid speed can only slow down.

Three hours after the piggyback incident.

We faced the Dire Wolf packs four more times. And took two breaks.

And we arrived here.

“We’ve finally arrived.”

A huge door at the very end of the gate’s interior.

“Is this… the boss room…?”

Commonly called the boss room.

Unlike the existing gates where monsters appeared in sequence of wave 1, wave 2, the boss room has a powerful monster (BOSS) that is stronger than the existing individuals.

If you enter the boss room and defeat the boss, the gate starts to become unstable.

And the moment you reopen the boss room door, which closed automatically while you were fighting the boss, the gate starts to close gradually and disappears after 2 hours.

“In the Goblin Gate last time, a Goblin Mage appeared. What will appear this time?”
“Since it’s an E-rank Dire Wolf Gate, wouldn’t a Dire Wolf Rider appear?”

A Dire Wolf Rider was a mounted archer who commanded Dire Wolves.

‘Mounted archers are annoying to deal with.’

Not only combat power, but also mobility that dominates the battlefield.

An annoying opponent with both of the most important things in battle.

In the old days, I could just move faster than the cavalry, but now that my power is sealed, the story is different.

Moreover, the weapon I’m holding now is not my main weapon, the greatsword, but a rapier.

I asked Park Hyena, who held a shield and a longsword, while formulating a strategy to deal with the mounted archer in my head.

“Hyena-ssi. You can still use the taunt skill, right?”
“Yes. I can still use it twice.”
“Once is enough. As soon as you open the boss room door and enter, please use taunt.”
“… Huh? Ah. Are you thinking of using the method you used to kill the Goblin Mage then?”
“Yes.”

It’s not a common method, but if it succeeds, this method worked quite well.

“No, in the first place, ordinary hunters don’t even think of such a reckless action?”
“It’s okay. It’ll work if it succeeds.”
“No… Okay. Well… It worked last time.”

Park Hyena seemed to be momentarily opposed, perhaps remembering ‘that strategy’ she used in the Goblin Gate, but since there was already a successful case, it was difficult to say anything.

“Are Ayeon-ssi and Hyeonchan-ssi ready too?”
“Yes, yesss…!”
“Camera settings are done.”

Yu Ayeon, who activated her skill, and Jo Hyeonchan, who finished setting up the camera, nodded.

“Well then, shall we go in? Hyena-ssi.”
“Yesss.”

Park Hyena pushed the heavy door of the boss room.

Whoosh!

As everyone entered the boss room, countless candles attached to the wall along the geometric patterns were automatically lit, illuminating the inside of the boss room.

“Grrrrrr…”

A suppressed beast’s cry and the sound of small footsteps echoed.

As the guy hidden in the shadows moved his feet, the faint light revealed the guy’s appearance.

A guy riding on top of a Dire Wolf and aiming an arrow at us.

It was a Dire Wolf Rider.

Just before the guy who emerged from the darkness released the bowstring, Park Hyena held up her shield and shouted.

“Your target is me!!”

A faint light came from the shield, and the surrounding mana was automatically sucked into the shield, implementing the taunt skill.

It was Park Hyena using the skill embedded in the D-rank shield-type artifact.

The Dire Wolf Rider suddenly turned its gaze to Park Hyena, and the tip of the arrow was aimed at Park Hyena.

‘The more I see it, the stranger it is.’

The abilities that the hunters of this world handle, skills, were like magic used in Grandia.

To be precise, it felt like a kind of macro that helps to use magic, not magic.

No need to create a core or circle, no understanding of attributes, no implementation of the mind, no knowledge of how to handle mana.

Just by awakening what is called a ‘skill’, you could use miracles like magic as you please.

It could only be thought of as an overly convenient power.

“Suhyeon-ssi!”

Ah, I was in battle.

I came to my senses at Park Hyena’s voice.

I cut off my idle thoughts, rolled my core, extracted mana to strengthen my body, and drew out sword ki.

And I threw the rapier at the mounted archer’s head.

The rapier, thrown with all my strength with my strengthened body, was shot very quickly.

So fast that the rider couldn’t even react.

The rider, with a large hole in his face, fell off the Dire Wolf without strength.

That strategy I also used when I caught the Goblin Mage.

If I were to name it, it would be the Throw-Rapier-Really-Hard Strategy.

“Keheng, keng…!”

The Dire Wolf, whose master died in an instant, trembled at this situation that was beyond its comprehension.

“That crazy skill, no matter how many times I see it, I can’t get used to it…”
“It’s okay.”
“What’s okay? Are you just saying anything now?”
“Uhah. You caught me.”

I looked at the Dire Wolf pathetically left behind, while making small talk with Park Hyena, who was pulling out the rider’s arrow stuck in her shield.

“Shall we tear off some dog meat?”

The boss battle ended anticlimactically.

“There was no artifact.”
“Artifacts don’t come out easily. How precious is that.”

Unlike normal monsters that die leaving only corpses and mana cores, boss monsters drop artifacts with a low probability.

Artifacts were tools with special powers, skills, unlike ordinary tools.

Artifacts were mysterious tools that helped even ordinary people who hadn’t awakened skills to use skills, so they were traded at very expensive prices.

I looked at the artifact with the D-rank taunt skill that Park Hyena was holding.

“… Hyena-ssi. How much did you say that shield was?”
“Ah, this? This is about… 80 million, I think? It’s the most expensive thing I have.”

80 million, of course it’s not 8,000 won. So 80 million won…

… Shall I steal it?

I can steal it in an instant with the inventory.

As I stared at the shield, Park Hyena moved hesitantly and hid the shield behind her.

“Ah, no.”
“What is it.”
“Anyway, no. Your gaze just now was a bit… off.”

Tsk. I hate guys with quick wits.

After defeating the boss, we finished preparing to escape the gate inside the boss room and came out.

And we ran desperately and escaped from the gate.

The association staff looked at us, who came out with only our bodies, with a puzzled expression, but it seemed that they passed it off as not being able to retrieve the monster corpses because there was not enough escape time.

“Suhyeon-ssi? Are the monsters stored in the inventory okay?”
“Yes. There are no holes, so don’t worry too much. Shall we go to the monster processing plant now?”
“Hmm. No. It’s okay if they’re fine. You must be tired from clearing the gate, so let’s call it a day here and meet again in a few days and go.”
“That’s a good idea. Then see you next time.”
“Yes. Go in! Ayeon-ssi, go in carefully too!”
“Yes, yes…!”

I made an appointment with Park Hyena and Jo Hyeonchan to go to the monster processing plant in a few days and parted ways.

“Shall we go in now too?”
“Ah… Suhyeon-ssi. We, um… the video…”
“Ah. We didn’t check the video. Hmm… There are a lot of people, so it’s a bit much to do it here. Shall we go to a nearby PC room?”
“Ah, yes…! Okay…”

I headed to a nearby PC room with Yu Ayeon.

PC rooms in this world were quite small in scale.

This is because games, which were the biggest reason to go to PC rooms, have moved to virtual reality and have almost gone out of business.

When I opened the door to the PC room, there was a male part-timer wearing pants that showed off his bulge.

“Let’s go somewhere else.”
“Huh? Yes…”

I felt nauseous because I saw something too disgusting.

This was the problem with the gender-reversed world, even if everything else was good.

If you go out to a slightly busy street, there are tons of crazy guys wearing pants that show off their bulges.

Live normally. Please.

If I suddenly become a male feminist one day, it’s all because of the guys in the reversed world.

To cleanse my defiled eyes, I stared at Yu Ayeon’s chest.

Hmm. Hmm. This is it. This is it.

“… Wh-Why are you doing that…?”
“It’s nothing. Let’s quickly find another place.”

We searched for three PC rooms like that and found a suitable place.

When we went inside, a female part-timer looked at us.

To be precise, at me.

Her gaze, which stopped for a moment when she saw my face, soon came down stickily and scanned down to my lower body.

Not only this female part-timer, but also most women have been giving me this kind of gaze every time I walk the streets since I came to the reversed world.

At first, I thought they were wary, but after realizing that it was a gaze of admiration and surprise, I didn’t pay much attention.

But.

“…”

Yu Ayeon came forward as if to hide me and blocked the part-timer’s gaze.

“… Two people, please…”
“… Would you like to be guided to a couple seat?”
“Uh, uh…”

Yu Ayeon stammered and glanced at me.

I smiled at such a Yu Ayeon.

“Let’s go to the couple seat.”

We sat side by side in the couple seat and checked the video filmed inside the gate.

Yu Ayeon’s video was perfect.

Even the original, without any special editing, continued naturally as if watching a movie.

The appearance of clearing the gate, filmed from multiple viewpoints and angles with brilliant techniques, was close to art.

However.

“Isn’t the video too focused on me?”
“… I couldn’t… take my eyes off…”

Everything in the video moved around me.

Viewpoint, angle. Highlights.

Well, it’s going to be uploaded on my channel, so it’s not a problem, rather, it’s a good thing.

“Haueuu……”

It was hard to miss the opportunity to tease Yu Ayeon, who was embarrassed and didn’t know what to do.

“Huhuh. Why am I shown in such detail?”
“Th-That’s…”
“Not Hyena-ssi, not Hyeonchan-ssi. Even the part where I greet at the beginning here, only I appear.”
“B-Because it’s a video that needs to focus on Suhyeon-ssi…”
“Hmm… Then was it necessary to film this part like this?”
“…”

I moved the mouse and played that part of the problem.

The part where I was piggybacking Yu Ayeon.

Front, back, sides, above, below.

Video taken from numerous angles in one scene.

I smiled faintly as I caught the opportunity and whispered in her ear.

“Ayeon-ssi… Were you really a pervert?”