{Kim Dokja POV}
[Yes but…where are you going to use these miscellaneous items?]
“You don’t need to know.”
[…I don’t want to be nosy but why don’t you buy something else? For example, this Woryeong Sword Technique. It is originally 8,000 coins but I will now sell it for 4,000 coins. Wouldn’t buying this be more helpful to clear the scenario?]
“Thank you but I will just buy this.”
Bihyung wasn’t satisfied but received the payment.
[800 coins have been consumed.]
In the darkness, a sparkling powder gathered and four elongated thorns and four pockets of black mucus appeared.
[I can’t give a refund if you regret it now. Do you understand?]
“I know.”
I briefly nodded and started working. I took off my top, tied it around my waist and stuck the thorns in the gap, while the pockets were hung from my waist.
The stone hog’s thorn was stumpy but became sharp at the end. It was approximately one metre in length. It was a reasonable size to pierce something.
[Hrmm…then I’ll be going. I can’t stay with you. There is something fun going on in another place.]
“Do it.”
[Huhu, then hang in there. I hope the story will bless you.]
Bihyung disappeared in a flash of light and the surroundings became dark again. I could use the light on my smartphone but I wanted to save the battery as much as possible.
In the darkness, the stone hog thorn was emitting a bluish light. It was a feeble light but for the moment, it would be sufficient.
I pulled out a thorn and swung it. Maybe it was because I didn’t have a skill such as Weapons Training or Incarnation of All Soldiers. I couldn’t get used to holding the thorn.
[A few constellations are bored.]
The impatient constellations left the channel. I couldn’t see it but Bihyung was probably fretting right now.
I didn’t like it but I no longer had a problem handling the thorn. The surface finish was rough and didn’t seem like it would slip easily from the hand.
It was time to begin. I used the proper force and stabbed at the ichthyosaur wall above me.
It was like poking a rubber elastic wall as the thorn bounced off. My current strength wasn’t high enough to tear at the stomach of the ichthyosaur. It would probably be the same if I used a skill.
At that moment, the small holes at the top of the stomach wall opened simultaneously. Then an absolutely disgusting liquid poured out.
One of the demonic people floating on something in the stomach started shrieking.
The skin of the demonic person started burning. The digestion of the ichthyosaur had begun. The ichthyosaur’s digestive juices quickly mixed in the river water and started to melt away at the concrete and other floating products.
There was no time. It was going as planned.
I jumped from the floating object and gripped a bump on the wall of the stomach. Then I started climbing up the wall like I was rock climbing.
The outlet of the digestive juices was right above. I put the thorn in my mouth and grabbed a pocket of mucus.
The mucus of the hammer sea horse. I poured the mysterious dark blue liquid onto my hand and applied the mucus carefully from the tip to the end of the thorn.
It was with precision and care, as if applying shaving cream to an area to be shaved. If the shaving cream protected the skin from the razor, the mucus protected the thorn from the digestive juices.
I swung the thorn towards where the digestive juices were coming from. The angle was correct and I used my maximum strength.
The digestive juices flowed down the thorn and dissolved the skin on my forearm. I experienced a terrible pain but didn’t stop. If I made a mistake here then everything was over.
[The exclusive skill ‘Fourth Wall’ has relieved some of the pain.]
Before long, the thorn jammed up the emission point.
“Just one.”
After a deep sigh, I pulled out another thorn from my waist. I applied the mucus of the hammer sea horse, found another opening and blocked it.
[A few constellations admire your calmness.]
[The constellations have sponsored you 200 coins.]
I used this method to block three opening points. There were some left, but the small openings didn’t release large amounts of digestive fluids.
There was one thorn left in the top tightly tied around me. All that was left was one thorn and two pockets of mucus.
I used the remaining mucus on my skin and clothes, then poured what was remaining down my throat.
The fishy taste on my tongue was sickening but it was better than dying. The bitterness was nothing compared to the disaster that would occur from now on.
It was around five minutes afterwards that the entire stomach started trembling.
…It had started.
The ichthyosaur let out a painful scream. The blood vessels on the wall of the stomach were squirming. The thorns were visibly expanding into the blood vessels.
The thorns in the openings had started their aggressive growth activity. The stone hog’s thorn grew in response to the body fluids of seawater species.
The thorn that became immune to the digestive juices due to the applied mucus absorbed the surrounding fluids and started to take root in the body of the ichthyosaur.
The stone hog’s thorns wouldn’t stop expanding until the ichthyosaur was completely dead.
As I watched the liquid swirling under my feet, I grabbed the thorn tightly. I did everything I could. From now on, it was a mental fight.
...Maybe that munchkin killed the ichthyosaurs. It was an unbelieveable thing to do. I need to find out who's that and try to persuade that incarnation to help me.
Dongho Bridge was over there.
I used a piece of the ichthyosaur corpse as a floatation device and made my way towards dry land.
My skin was cold from the cold water but I couldn’t worry about it. After 30 minutes of swimming, my hand reached land.
[A few constellations are nervous looking at you.]
Normally, danger would immediately come after this message popped up.
[The constellation ‘Abyssal Black Flame Dragon’ is making an insidious smile.]
It was a pity for the constellations but something bad wouldn’t happen to me. It was because I already knew the dangers.
[You have entered the region of the second main scenario.]
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