Chapter 759

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Chapter 759: Voyage (6)

Talking beasts.

If they were even cunning or wise, wouldn't they practically not be beasts at all?

Just like how no one dares to call dragons beasts in the universe.

Of course, it seemed the full-time hunter Nema classified even dragons as beasts.

—Anyway, you'd better be careful. There's a reason why the average lifespan of hunters is short.

"Yeah. I'll gratefully accept the advice."

Answering like this, Yeongwoo picked up the disk device with his hand.

Swish.

Then, surprisingly, a separate tooltip appeared.

「Premonition of the Hunt」 - Epic Tool

【Searches for organisms in the vicinity.】

"What, it has a tooltip."

—That's because it's pretty expensive equipment.

"It's not like your family fortune will decline just because I take this, right?"

At that, Nema paused for a moment before answering.

It really was an expensive piece of equipment.

—If I had to buy it again, it would by no means be a small problem, but I won't have to do that for a while.

"Why is that?"

—Because the days of catching beasts so large that I had to use that to find them have all passed. I've gotten quite old now, too.

"I suppose you do get wiser as you age."

Nodding, Yeongwoo sneakily peeked inside the yet-to-be-revealed armory.

"What else is there?"

—There are a few more tools useful for hunting...

Then, he tapped the top of the armory two more times.

Tap-tap.

At that, the iron plates inside the armory sequentially flipped to the side, extending a long display cabinet outward.

Clatter!

"Oh."

Those were the very weapons Yeongwoo had been waiting so eagerly for.

Even 8 of them, to be exact.

Of course, there were many relatively lower-grade weapons of Relic or Epic tiers mixed in, but to Yeongwoo, who utilized Sword Mountain, numbers were important.

"Excellent. Can I take them all?"

—Don't you have the authority to decide anyway?

"Pick just one. A weapon with such good performance that you really wouldn't want it taken away."

At Yeongwoo's words, Nema wore a half-believing, half-doubting expression, yet he pointed a finger at a sword.

Swish.

It was some sword carved from bone.

"This? This is the best weapon here?"

—Its performance is good, but it's also a weapon that's difficult to obtain again. Because it's a weapon made from a dragon's bone.

"What?"

At this, as Yeongwoo quickly grabbed the sword in question, a Legendary tooltip appeared.

「Glory of Gauser」 - Legendary One-handed Sword

【10% additional damage to all targets except the Dragon race.】

【Memory Beneath the Scales】

【Roar of Morine】

【Memory Beneath the Scales】

|Gains a 15% damage reduction rate when fighting the Dragon race.

【Roar of Morine】

|Roars loudly, temporarily paralyzing the hearing of surrounding enemies, and lowering their reaction speed by 20%.

"What is this...?"

Checking the tooltip, Yeongwoo couldn't help but be shocked.

It was because it truly was a weapon good enough for Nema to regret losing it.

"No, but by the way, can you take dragon bones and make weapons?"

—Of course. Since the Dragon race generally possesses tremendous spirit power.

"Where?"

Then, Mushio Tarae answered instead of Nema.

—Blacksmiths that process special materials exist on a galactic group scale. If you wish, you will be able to find them as much as you want.

"Oh, really? I had no idea. The methods to make equipment are truly diverse."

Yeongwoo's gaze once again headed towards the 'Glory of Gauser'.

"But seeing this 'Roar of Morine', it seems like that's the dragon's name. Why is the weapon's name Glory of Gauser?"

To this, Nema spoke with eyes that seemed to reminisce about the past.

—That's... because we subjugated Morine on Planet Gauser.

"What about the other bones? It couldn't be that only a bone of this size was left behind."

As Yeongwoo swung the Glory of Gauser this way and that, Nema pointed his finger at the universe beyond the sky.

—They scattered in all directions.

"......?"

—At the time, dozens of renowned hunters gathered on Gauser. Everyone fought risking their lives, so they took their price for those lives.

"So you didn't catch it alone."

Yeongwoo, who was nodding, soon started to turn his thoughts in another direction.

"Then, if you catch a dragon that huge, it means you can make multiple weapons. Dozens of them, at least."

—It probably wouldn't be dozens at least. When a dragon perishes, it scatters the spirit power that was dwelling inside its body in all directions. That's why not many bones remain that are at a level suitable to be turned into equipment.

"But you said dozens of hunters gathered on Gauser and fought? And you divided the spoils."

—More than half of them died. So practically, there aren't that many weapons that were forged.

"But there must be over ten. That's enough for me."

—You really have a lot of greed.

"So, I'm sorry, but I'll have to take this dragon bone weapon."

—I figured you would.

Nema was not greatly surprised.

No, rather.

Slide.

He even rotated the display board inside the armory to the side to show him something else.

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—If you're really going to challenge a dragon someday, use this the moment it dies.

What Nema took out from inside the armory was a jar made of translucent glass.

"What is this?"

—It's a spirit power collector. You can't catch all the spirit power that gets radiated, but it's possible to contain at least a portion of it.

"You probably can't make equipment with that spirit power... what's the reason for collecting it?"

—High-density spirit power is mainly used to make elixirs or rapid recovery devices. So it's traded at quite a high price.

"Ah."

At these words, Yeongwoo took out the rapid recovery device he had obtained from the Salzeo supply box from his arms.

"They said this was so expensive, there was a reason for it."

—Of course, if you have a massive amount of spirit power, you can strengthen or forge equipment with just that. But it's impossible for a mere hunter to possess a collector of that caliber.

"Anyway, you're saying this is the best on an individual level, right? Then this is enough. And what else?"

—There are a few more types of bombs. But you swinging a sword would be far more threatening.

"Then I'll just take this collector, the organism tracker, and up to seven weapons."

—Seven weapons...? Then you're giving me one?

"Yeah. I saw an Epic axe earlier, I'll leave that for you. I just prefer swords a bit more."

Then, as if he had forgotten, Yeongwoo pointed his hand at the armory again.

"Ah, and that stench bomb, too."

—Why this?

"I just want it. I like the word stench."

—.......

Like this, a total of three hunter's tools and seven weapons, including the Glory of Gauser, fell into Yeongwoo's hands.

And as a result of this, when Yeongwoo's Weapon Catalog collection level broke past 400, the Catalog system popped up a new notification.

Flash!

[Weapon Catalog]

〔406〕

「94 collections are required to unlock the next collection tier.」

'So it opens at 500 after all. Still, the next collection tier does exist.'

He had expected it to some extent, but it still left a bitter taste in his mouth.

It was because 94 weapons wasn't a quantity that could be acquired so easily.

"Is the airship all that's left now?"

When Yeongwoo's gaze touched the airship, the final spoil of war, Nema opened his mouth with a troubled face.

—If I give that to you, what will I ride back to my hometown?

"Right. Since our destination is already set right now, I can't take you home immediately. Even without that, I already have someone scheduled for checkout, so I'm busy too."

—Scheduled for checkout?

Nema tilted his head, but Yeongwoo omitted a detailed explanation.

Because there would be no end to it if he had to tell the story tangled with Neheren Salzeo from the beginning.

"Anyway, our navigators were clicking their tongues in amazement. Barging into a relay tunnel is a difficult task in itself, but the airship that pulled it off is no ordinary thing either, they said."

—It's only natural. That airship wasn't originally mine, but something I received as a reward for saving a planet.

"Ah, I guess you caught a huge beast there too."

—It was a very remote planet, a place where hunters rarely visited. To the residents, I was a savior.

"So you can even get a planetary-level reward for catching a beast for them. The hunter life, it's a bit to my liking."

Yeongwoo stroked his chin before making a decision.

"Good, then you're also kidnapped for a while."

—...What?

"You've already been inside the relay tunnel for quite a while anyway. Haven't you already come too far to return home?"

—Th-that's why even now...

"It's my first time hunting, so stay here for a while and give me some advice. Then, before long, I will personally take you home."

A homecoming riding on nothing less than a planetary ship.

Of course, Nema didn't seem to want that.

—I have to go back and work. If I rest for even a single year...

"What do you mean a year, it'll only take a few days. Of course, to you, it'll feel like you've lived for hundreds of millions of years."

With these words, Yeongwoo gave Earth an instruction.

'Call the frogs from Australia and tell them to take that airship. If there's anywhere that needs fixing, fix it, and tell them to report as soon as they finish investigating its specifications.'

Since Nema wasn't the original owner, he judged that the frog mechanics would be able to give a much more proper explanation.

At this, Earth asked in a questioning tone.

○ Right. The airship can be handled like that, but are you really going to keep that hunter? Send one out, and another one comes in.

'This time we're sending two out and taking one in, so the number of passengers has technically decreased.'

While Yeongwoo and Earth were conversing through consciousness, Mushio, who was checking the mechanical device on his forearm, reported to Yeongwoo.

—We have almost arrived.

"Ah, is it already time?"

As Yeongwoo received the report and looked toward the bridge, Nema made an utterly anxious expression.

—Where did we arrive...?

Come to think of it, he didn't know the destination of this planetary ship, did he.

What they had received through the Great Path was only the real-time coordinates of their challenge target.

And there was absolutely no plan to go together to the planetary ship's destination, whether they won or lost the confrontation.

"Ah, we are heading to a black hole right now."

—A black hole?

"Yeah. We're going to pass through it and jump across a three-year distance."

As Yeongwoo said this and headed to the bridge, Nema followed behind him as if possessed and spoke.

—Are you seriously saying you'll pass through a black hole? How? A black hole isn't something you can pass through.

At this, Yeongwoo glanced back and spoke in a low voice.

"Then you will soon find out why a planetary ship is called a marvel of the universe."

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