by Elan Wang
“Wait a second.”
“What?…Why…”
“I still have something I need to use it for.”
I looked back at the helmet guy. The ork he had been fighting against was also collapsed on the ground with wounds all over. A level 3 weapon is a level 3 for good reason, it seems.
The rubicon sword. Compared to other swords, it had a relatively narrow and long blade. Just a glance at the item made you feel like it would be easy to break in half, but of course this was not true. It had a special option of increasing the wielder’s reflex by 50%. All you had to do was use the sword.
“Mr. Jong Sawon. Can you please let me borrow the sword for a quick moment?”
“You mean right now?”
“Yes.”
Helmet guy nodded his head and handed over his weapon.
The ork began to squirm violently on the ground as it gurgled out. It knew what was coming. The weird sounds coming from its mouth are said to be the ork’s language. But no one ever really took the time to study it, so there wasn’t anyone who could understand it.
I grabbed the hilt of the rubicon sword and walked slowly to the ork.
As soon as I swung, the monster’s body cut cleanly in half. The long blade made it easy to cut all the way through.
After cutting through the remaining 2 sleeping orks as well, I returned the sword. As we waited for the monsters to evaporate, I pulled out my Item Fusion book.
Would I be right?
Flip.
“It’s really there, huh?”
Jung Sooah had snuck up behind me at some point and asked. Just as she pointed out, there was now a small drawing of the rubicon sword in the book.
It required a level 2 sword and a level 1 agility sword.
When I calculated the cost of the materials required, it came out to about 400,000 dollars. I could come up with that kind of money if I just created a bloodysword and sold it two times.
I just needed to gather the required ores now.
From the 5 orks we had killed, 3 ores dropped to the ground. Two of them were monazites and one was a bastnazite.
“Boo.”
“There’s still a bunch of monsters left.”
“Party head.”
Han Joonseok said as he walked up to me. He was someone that I now knew not to say any unnecessary words. If he said something, that meant it would be pretty important.
“What is it?”
“Is there really a need for us to waste time like this…waiting for the monsters to evaporate? If we don’t need to rest, wouldn’t it make sense for us to kill the monsters and keep going?”
“That…is true.”
I nodded my head.
The most time consuming thing in a raid was waiting for the monsters to evaporate. If there were 7 rooms in all, 70 minutes would have been spent just waiting for the items to drop. What if we just kept going and collected the drops as we came back out? Why didn’t I think of this?
If we didn’t wait for the monsters to evaporate after every kill and just went on to the next room, we would definitely save a lot of time. Items and ores wouldn’t disappear unless the dungeon reset itself so there was no danger of losing anything either.
The more I thought about it, the more I liked the idea.
“Ok then. From now on, unless there is anyone with injuries, we’ll be going straight from one room to the next. Manager Kim. Please keep track of your spell reset time. We want to make sure that no matter how fast we move, we slow down enough for your spell to work each time.
“Don’t worry. The sleep spell works again after 5 minutes so there shouldn’t be any real issues.”
“That’s good.”
Jung Sooah started to grab the ores to put into her backpack.
The next room had 20 goblins.