Chapter 56
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nTransator: Ekdud
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nChapter 56 – Calamity Fish Hunting (1)
nKuuuuuuuu.
nCamille Rowe mumbled quietly as she looked at something gigantic in the distance.
n‘It’s coming this time too.’
nThe newcomers wouldn’t be able to see yet but her
nCamille, who had been shaking her head, looked at the things she had prepared so far.
n‘Arukal’s Poison and Ketelan’s Sword. Miron Dagger and Waterproof sheet. And…’
nCamille Rowe, who had been looking over the things she had prepared while grinding her teeth, sighed as she looked at the fins that could be seen in the distance.
n‘…Could I really avenge them?’
nShe had been holding onto her life with the sheer determination to kill that thing for over 3 years.
nBut there only one thing she had gained from this.
nEndless fatigue.
n‘It’s tiring.’
nIt was basically larger than a mountain.
nThere was probably no other organism that fit the name of Fish of Calamity better than that.
nShe had went into and returned back alive from within its body over 13 times but this wasn’t because she got used to it.
nIt was because she had gotten blocked at a line which she could not cross.
nIt would be easier to break a rock using an egg.
nIt felt like she was digging a mountain with just a spoon.
nAnd as she continued, the loneliness just amplified.
nSince there wasn’t anyone who wanted to help her in her plan of hunting down the Calamity Fish.
n‘If a really strong guy, or someone who actually wanted to do it together existed…’
nCamille, who had been making a tired expression, shook her head.
n‘No. Nonono.’
nIf it was something that could be caught just like that then she would’ve done so already.
nWhile Camille was shaking her head while clenching down onto her teeth, a voice calling her name could be heard.
n“Camille Rowe. Right?”
n“…!”
nAt those words Camille made a cold expression as she surrounded her body with Reinforcement and activated
nWith this, she could defend her body against existences of the Trunk.
nPeople who purposely searched her out are more dangerous than people whom you meet by chance.
nCamille Rowe, who had held up the short dagger from her waist, held up spear up towards her back where the voice came from but then sighed instead.
n‘It’s a newly-hatched chick.’
nShe felt stupid for getting tense from getting her name called.
nShe couldn’t figure it out from his looks but she still knew from one look.
nNot having any artifacts was secondary, he didn’t have the
nEven if he lost it, if you take into account that the Helper clan always supplied you with it meant that this guy was a Chick that hadn’t even finished the helper’s instructions.
n‘Anyways, how did he figure out my name?’
nBut Camille’s tension exploded again with the following sentence.
n“There’s a few things I need to talk to you about the Calamity Fish. Let’s have a talk.”
nCalamity Fish. And herself.
nThere was only one kind of people who would come find her if you take into accountthese two things.
n“Are you perhaps a Quadratus?”
n‘Damned guys… are they trying to disturb me again?’
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nPeople who worshipped the four dirty beasts that gnawed upon the World Tree along with the Calamity fish.
nOf course they didn’t have a good relationship with her who tried to kill the Calamity Fish.
nHansoo mumbled inwardly at Camille’s words.
n‘I remember… They thought there were only four of these.’
nHe would have thought so as well if he hadn’t heard the stories from the original inhabitants of this place, the Elvenheims.
nHansoo shook his head.
n“I’m here because I have an interest in hunting the Calamity Fish. So I need your help.”
n“…”
nCamille was flustered.
n‘Does that thing really look that easy?’
nThe fact that he knew about the Calamity Fish meant that he had seen it on the way here.
nThere was nothing surprising about it.
nSince it wasn’t hard to see it as long as you don’t get crushed by it.
nActually it was hard to miss something so big.
nBut to think of hunting it down after seeing it.
nCamille started to get slightly pissed.
nShe had tried and tried and only increased her despair.
nBut this newly arrived Chick was talking about the Calamity fish as if it was going to the lake to fish.
nAnd even asking her to help.
nCamille breathed in and out deeply.
n‘Yeah. Why am I trying to argue with a 1st year.’
nGetting angry here was actually laughable.
n“Leave.”
nThe moment Camille spat out a word and turned around, Hansoo opened his mouth.
n“Don’t you have to save your sibling? If you hunt that thing then the chances of your sibling, who might come anytime, surviving increases by a large amount.”
n“….This bastard. Where did you hear about that?”
n“Mmm…”
n‘Did I make a mistake?’
nHansoo scratched the back of head while watching Camille warming up her body.
n‘I failed the Rapport. Kangtae this bastard…’
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n“Wait. Let’s talk about it. Talk.”
n“Shut up!”
nBooooom!
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nBooooom!
nCamille’s short spear sliced their air.
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nSomething which Camille had attained two months ago at the Base Root.
nThe hardness and sharpness had saved Camille from dangerous situations multiple times now.
nCamille’s short spear, which was filled up with
nShe didn’t really have thoughts of reinforcing the edge either.
nSince she just wanted to beat him down despite being quite infuriated.
nBut her thoughts were completely different now.
nKududududuk.
n‘…This bastard. He’s a beginner?’
nThe flying spear met with his fist and got deflected to the side.
nCamille looked at that scene with disbelief.
n‘With a guy who doesn’t have anything on i just… dammit. This is really embarrassing.’
nA guy who didn’t have anything on his body.
nThere was no beggar like this.
nBut she could guess to as why he didn’t have any artifacts left.
n‘…I can’t even imagine what you need to go through in order to gain something like that.’
nThis guy was not a normal guy if you just take into account of the fact that he had attained that dark golden reinforcement without anything else.
nYou couldn’t gain anything for free in the tutorial stage which meant that in order to attain something like that, he had gone into an equally tricky place.
nAll the artifacts that he had previously would’ve all been smashed apart.
nKugugugung.
n‘Dammit. He blocked it again.’
nCamille grinded her teeth as she looked at her short spear which was just about to lose it’s edge.
nThat Reinforcement’s defense was so high to the point that he was blocking her spear’s attacks with his bare skin and even dulling the edges of it.
n‘Dammit… the density of the Magic Force’
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nOne of the three factors that determined the value of the Reinforcement.
nIt amplified the durability of the weapon or armor that was covered with the reinforcement and as well as the destructive power.
nFor it to have such an amplification even when it was over bare skin.
nShe wouldn’t really say anything if it was just that.
n‘How high is the amplification of the runes.’ (*PR Note: How much stats are improved by the reinforcement)
nThe second factor in determining the quality of the Reinforcement.
nWith just these two she could tell the quality of the Reinforcement this guy has is high beyond reason.
nSince she had never even seen something like before.
nCamille, who had been fiercely fighting with him, bit her lips.
nShe felt like dying from embarrassment due to the fact that she was fighting on par with a 1st year who didn’t even have any artifacts but she had to acknowledge what she had to.
nShe could not win at this rate.
nBut she had a hidden card which could turn the situation.
n‘With this much… if I use the special skill of my
nCamille thought up to this point and then pulled back her body instantly.
n‘Hmm.’
nHansoo spoke to Camille who had made distance from him and was glaring at him.
n“Are you done? You aren’t gonna keep going? Don’t you have more things to show me?”
nCamille clenched her teeth as she spoke.
n“You think I’m stupid? You didn’t even use the special skill.”
nThree factors that determined the quality of the Reinforcement.
nFirst. Amplification of Runes.
nSecond. Magic Force’s efficiency and power.
nAnd third.
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nSomething which every Reinforcement had.
nIf you say that the true worth of a Reinforcement was determined by the third factor, the Special Skill, that you probably wouldn’t be wrong.
nThe Blood Jade Reinforcement had the ability to use blood to create a very hard Magic Force and Beast Reinforcement could change parts of the user’s body into that of a beast.
nWith such a Reinforcement, she didn’t know what the special skill was but it was sure to be incredible, and he had yet to take it out.
n‘I feel like I’ll die of embarrassment. Damn it.’
nShe acknowledged the fact that her battle strength was a bit weaker than the other 3rd years.
nSince she focused on hunting the Calamity Fish while others were getting stronger.
nBut for her to lose to somebody who came from the tutorial area.
n‘Okay. I accept the fact that you have a good hand.’
nActually her mind was more at ease after accepting it.
nSince she just needed to think while ignoring the fact that he was a 1st year.
nBut that was that and this was this.
nCamille, who had calmed down, looked at Hansoo as she spoke.
n“You aren’t thinking of beating down the Calamity Fish with just that right?”
n‘With just that trifling ability?’
nShe had thought that he didn’t really have anything but nothing changed even after she found out that he had something.
nNo, this was actually more infuriating.
nSince the fact that he had come here to hunt the Calamity fish with just that battle power alone was quite absurd.
nIf you could beat that down with battle power then everyone would’ve charged at it and beaten it down already.
nThe amount of people who had been eaten by the Calamity fish over the past 20 years had reached tens of thousands.
nBut nobody had the thoughts of getting revenge against the Calamity Fish.
nSince they saw what happened to those who challenged the Calamity Fish.
nAnd those who had experienced it were just unlucky.
n“If it was easy then why would I have come to you. I came because it’s hard. Help me. I have a plan anyways.”
nHe wouldn’t have come to Camille if that was something he could beat down with strength.
n“…”
nCamille’s expression turned colder and colder.
n“You really talk with ease. If you came to me thinking that I’ll be of help to you then you have a huge misconception. You think I have something great?”
nIt seems like he had heard something about her and come to find her but that was a huge misconception.
nA person who tried hard to hunt the Calamity Fish.
nThose were nice words.
nBut reality was that she was just a retard.
nBut Hansoo just shook his head.
n“You have gone in and come out from the Calamity fish before. I just need that experience and the preparations you have made.”
nCamille smirked at those words.
n“Ha! I have indeed gone in and come out before. But I have done just that!”
nCamille, who had taken a breather, opened her mouth with a cold expression.
n‘I hope he gets lost after hearing this.’
nIt was tiring to go against him.
nCamille opened her mouth resolutely.
n“Listen well. You bastard. On the first challenge we left behind 27 people inside that thing. Only I came out. The only thing we gained was how the scales felt like.”
nThat thing had gulped down the tree root that her parents were on.
nWhile she was away for just a moment the Root where her parents, whom had come with her and had lost an arm to save her and crossed the tutorial together with her, were had been devoured whole.
nIf Camille herself was a bit unluckier then she would’ve been eaten just like that too.
nOf course Camille was filled up with rage and gathered 27 comrades in similar situations as her and proceeded with her plan.
nThe result was misery in itself.
nBut people in the Red zone weren’t really surprised.
nSince this was the estimated result.
nThey didn’t even laugh at her.
nSince nobody would laugh at a kid who lost after going against an adult.
nSince it was an obvious thing.
n“And then?”
n“On the second attempt, I gathered 118 people who were filled up with greed and then went in. Though we did go in a bit deeper this time. And since two people had survived back it was a huge progress right?”
n“…”
n“From the third attempt nobody helped me so I climbed up and down as I prepared for it and attempted it 10 more times by myself. And I failed them all. What kind of help do you want from somebody like me? The only thing you have seen is the outer part of that thing. You presumptuous bastard? Huh? What do you know!”
nShe started out calmly but by the time she finished she was close to crying.
n13 attempts.
nShe had searched the method to deal with it by researching its weakness and climbing up and down the Red zone endlessly.
nAnd the only thing she had gained from this.
nDefeat and despair.
nAnd the method to run away.
nShe wasn’t attempting for her parent’s sake at this point.
nShe was lying to herself in her head but she already knew.
nThat it was impossible.
nThere was only one reason why she was still trying.
nSince she thought that this was the most significant way to die in this damnable place.
nWouldn’t dying here while avenging be better than getting killed by someone’s blade or getting ripped apart by a beast on the way up.
n‘No. It’s not even that.’
nCamille wasn’t even doing that properly.
nIf she really wanted to die while avenging her parents then she would’ve gone in much deeper and into more dangerous places.
nBut she was just a retard who couldn’t even do that due to fear and was using her brother, who nobody knew of his arrival in this place, as an excuse and stayed alive.
nAnd in result, she was spending her time while stuck in between her ambition to stay alive and her impossible revenge.
n‘Goddamnit.’
nCamille felt into a state of lethargy and lost her rage.
nSince the words she had spat out in order to stimulate that guy had twisted her chest.
nBut Hansoo shrugged his shoulders as he looked at that Camille.
n“You failed that because I wasn’t here. Don’t worry. I need you and I can kill the Calamity Fish if you help me.”
n“…”
nCamille made an expression of disbelief at his attitude of just saying what he wanted to say.
nAt the same time she felt like she was crazy.
nBecause she felt like she wanted to trust this crazy guy once.
nCamille made a complicated expression as she looked at the guy who told her he needed her when everyone was ignoring her for doing such absurd things and was even telling her that he will fulfill her wish.
n‘Dammit… I must’ve been really lonely. To get attracted by such random words.’
nAt this point she was getting quite curious.
nTo see what was his basis for his confidence.
nNo, there was something she was more curious of before that.
n“Let me ask you one thing. Why are you trying to kill that?’
nThe artifact that would come out once you killed that thing.
nOr revenge like herself.
nCamille was curious about that.
nAs to why he wanted to kill the Calamity Fish.
nWhen Camille, who had turned lethargic after pouring out her feelings, asked with a tired expression, Hansoo pondered for a moment and then spoke out.
n“Just… I want try saving about 1 billion people.”
n“What?”
n“No. Is it about 1.5 billion? The chances of your brother surviving will increase by a lot as well. Good right?”
n“…”
n‘This guy isn’t some normal maniac.’
nCamille made an expression of fear.
n“If you agree then let’s start.”
nHansoo smiled.
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n“Huh…”
nThe Helper clansman, who had been making an astonished expression at the fight with Camille Rowe, looked at Yohan and asked.
n“He really came on the same boat as you? He’s really a newcomer?”
n“Yes”
n“Seriously …”
nThe Helper Clansman made a expression of disbelief and then looked at the 150 people as he spoke.
n“Never ever piss somebody off by trying to copy something like that. That’s an outlier.”
n“…He can but we can’t? Though we are 150 people?”
nThe Helper Clansman smirked at Yohan’s words as he spoke.
n“I wouldn’t stop you but I don’t really recommend it.”
n‘Dammit…’
nYohan clenched his teeth at the clansman’s words and then glared at Hansoo with an expression full of annoyance.
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