Desire To Level UP

The hidden cave

After Mr. Jo and the other two hunters came out of the cave from the right side during the period when they were taking out the magic crystal from the magic beasts there and bullying the porter in the cave, the rest of the party that was fighting the magic beasts in front finished and took out all the magic crystals from them and also finished and started approaching towards them. The number of hunters approaching them was four hunters in the front and the one who approached them first was the leader of the raid in this dungeon. His name was Mr. Hyun-woo, a man in his late twenties. The rest of the three members of the hunters were walking behind him. The leader met with Mr. Jo and the other two hunters who came out with him and the porter who came out of the cave a little while later. The leader went to a rocky spot and sat on one of the rocks in it and waved to the porter with his hand in order to get some water.

"Porter, bring us some water."

When Ji-hoon came out and saw the leader and the rest of the party who were fighting in front approaching him, he sighed quietly because Mr. Joo invited him to the cave from the right side. He couldn't watch the hunters fighting in front to the end and felt a little sad about it.

"Porter, bring us some water."

When Ji-hoon heard the leader who was waving his hand to him for water, he answered in a low voice with a little sadness about it.

"Yes, sir."

Then he started to approach them. He put the big bag on the ground again and opened it. He took out a bottle of cold water and gave it to the leader.

The leader took the bottle of water from the young man and started drinking it while thinking about the number of magical beasts and corpses they left behind and then sighed quietly about it. Today was annoying for him because of those many beasts that were attacking from the front in large numbers and from two different directions. In this cave, they were weak but there were so many that even when they saw one of them being killed in front of them, they still continued to come and continued. The rest of the members fought fiercely against them but in the end, they were able to kill them all. Even for a D-rank Hunter and a fighter class like him, this long and boring battle was annoying to him and thinking about all of this while drinking the water, he raised his head and looked at the Hunter who was approaching him. He seemed happy today, unlike him, and asked him.

"Min-woo really told me is this an E-rank dungeon...?"

A D-rank hunter like him approached from afar but he was a tanker unlike him as he laughed and held a shield and a large axe in his hands in the end and answered his friend and squad leader

"Hehehe yes it is, hyung-nim"

After the leader got confirmation from him, he sighed again in annoyance at that fact from him and asked again.

"Why do you look so happy today...?"

"Oh, hyung-nim I'm happy because of the large number of monsters we found"

The tanker smiled and replied to his leader.

"Aren't you tired from killing all those magical monsters...?"

The leader asked his extremely happy friend again today.

"Yes, I am but..."

"As you always say, hyung-nim, the more the number, the better our profit, right...?"

"Yes, you're right, but it's still annoying killing all those weak monsters."

After approaching his friend, he sat next to him on one of the rocks in the cave and started talking about the many magical monsters that faced him.

After Ji-hoon gave the water to the leader, he also approached the party's carrier and gave him a bottle of cold water and the rest of the hunters who approached with him. After finishing distributing the water to all the hunters, Ji-hoon turned around and wanted to go and get away from those hunters.

After the leader drank all the water in the bottle, he called out to the porter who wanted to get away from them.

"Porter, come here for a bit."

When Ji-hoon, who wanted to go and get away, heard that, he sighed sadly from the leader's voice and stopped and turned his head to the leader and answered him in a low voice.

"Yes, sir."

The leader waved at him to get closer to him.

Ji-hoon sighed softly at that and started to move and approach the leader again.

When the porter approached him, the leader said to him.

"Young man, I want you and Mr. Joo to go forward and call Miss Seo-ah and the rest of the hunters over there."

After Ji-hoon listened to the leader's words, he turned around before responding until Mr. Joo turned around and tried to refuse and complain about the leader.

“Why do I have to go there with this porter…”

“If it’s just to invite Miss Seo-ah and the rest of the hunters, then let this porter go there alone.”

After hearing the complaint, the leader, Mr. Jo, sighed in annoyance at the way this man was being explained to him and answered him, feeling tired of being explained to him but even annoyed.

He looked at the man and then spoke.

“Do you want me to send this human alone there? What if a monster finds him and kills him…?”

“Can you take responsibility after that and tell the hunter association about it…?”

"And that woman also asked me to send water to her and the rest of the hunters when I get here..."

"And she might have finished killing the rest of the magical beasts there by now and is waiting for the water there..."

"And you know very well when that young lady gets angry she becomes scary, so stop complaining and go there and come back quickly"

Mr. Jo shook his head after hearing the captain's words and cursed inwardly and said damn you I asked you to do that why on earth did you send me to do that.

After that he sighed angrily from the captain and looked at the porter and said.

"Follow me porter...!"

"Oh yes sir"

Ji-hoon answered Mr. Jo and went and picked up the big bag and ran after Mr. Jo quickly.

Mr. Jo didn’t care if the porter was behind him first. He walked and quickly moved forward. Ji-hoon ran after him from behind. He was carrying the big bag and walking silently behind Mr. Jo. Mr. Jo also didn’t speak to the porter. He walked forward until he reached the end of the corridor. In front of him was a big wall and many dead monster corpses scattered on it. On the right and left sides, there were two dark caves. Mr. Jo didn’t know which one of the two Miss Seo-ah and the rest of the party were in. He didn’t want to go in and look for her in one after the other. So he stopped here in front of the wall and started shouting the miss’s name. “Miss Seo-ah… Miss Seo-ah… Where are you…?” After screaming loudly for a while, a young and beautiful woman with medium-length hair came out from the left side of the cave. It seemed that from her face she was angry. Behind her came out another man and woman. She was with her inside the cave. It was Miss Seo-ah, who came out of the cave. She was a hunter of the (D) rank of the magician class and a manipulator of fire magic. She was also the last member of this raid of the (D) rank. When she came out, she looked angrily at Mr. Joo who was screaming loudly outside the cave and started to mock him.

"You failure, why are you shouting my name?" Mr. Joe turned to the source of the voice that came from his left side and when that woman spoke angrily and started to mock him, he was silent on

that insulting comment from her and did not respond to her. After a while, he answered the matter that the leader asked him to say.

"The leader asks you and the rest of the hunters to return, maybe we will leave the cell."

"Okay...!"

She only responded to him with this simple word and then looked at the rest of the members who were with her and they nodded and then approached the young man in order to

get some cold water for her and the rest of the hunters with him and also in order to try to ease his intense anger because he was very thirsty

and the appearance on his face clearly.

Miss Seo-ah approached the porter asking him for water. The young man put the big bag on the ground and opened it to take out the water. But suddenly, at that moment, from behind the two men, a monster rose from the pile of dead and scattered corpses and quickly jumped out and started attacking Miss Seo-ah in order to kill it. Mr. Joo, Ji-hoon, and the two hunters in the distance were surprised and stunned by the appearance of this monster from the dead corpses. When Mr. Joo saw this monster that jumped out of the corpses, he tried to take out his long sword in order to kill the monster before it attacked Miss Seo-ah, but he was too late. The monster quickly approached Miss Seo-ah and jumped up in order to kill her. When Miss Seo-ah saw this monster that rushed towards him in an attempt to kill her, she raised her hand up and a ball of fire appeared from it and she fired it

at this monster that jumped towards him.

-Clash, explosion!-

-Boom-

The fireball collided with a monster that jumped towards it and quickly sent it flying to the cave wall in front of them and completely destroyed it and continued flying inside.

The amount of destructive power of this fireball was great, because of which the wall in front of them was completely destroyed and the loud explosion sound echoed throughout

the dungeon and the loud explosion sound was heard from the rest of the hunters in the party who quickly got up and rushed forward in order to

find out the reason for that loud explosion.

As for the two people in front of him, this fireball that Miss Seo-ah had launched quickly when they both saw the fireball coming out of her hand, Ji-hoon grabbed the big bag in front of him and jumped towards the opposite direction of that fireball, and as for Mr. Joo, when he saw that ball, he also jumped quickly

and fell on his buttocks in the opposite direction of the fireball when Miss Seo-ah saw this young man and the man jumping quickly from the fireball that

she had launched and fell on their butts hard while they were looking at her with fear, she laughed with a stifled laugh at that scene in front of her.

After the fireball disappeared from in front of him, Mr. Joo got up and looked at Miss Seo-ah and started cursing her.

"Damn you, Miss Seo-ah, do you want to kill me or what...?"

Miss Seo-ah looked at him and cursed him back with mockery.

"Stop cursing people you loser, if I wanted to kill you with that ball you would be dead by now"

Then he turned and looked at the other person who was looking at him with some fear as she asked him.

"Are you okay, porter...?"

When Miss Seo-ah looked at him, looking a little worried about her, Ji-hoon's face turned red before he replied in a low voice.

"Ah, yes I'm fine."

Miss Seo-ah sighed after hearing that. She didn't want to become the man or this human young man by mistake, but he didn't have time to warn them

to get away before the fireball shot at this monster who jumped on him from the pile of dead bodies in order to kill her.

As they were talking to each other, the leader and the rest of the party who were in the back approached after hearing the loud explosion.

"What happened...?"

"What caused that loud explosion...?"

The leader asked the fishermen in front of him after he approached them and the rest of the party members came and the whole party gathered in one place. There were eleven people, ten fishermen and one porter. Mr. Jo, who was angry with Miss Seo-ah because of that surprise earlier, replied and said to the leader, “I am upset with her.”

"It was because of Miss Seo-ah that he unleashed a huge fireball that almost killed us."

After hearing such disturbing and dangerous words from Mr. Jo, the leader approached Miss Seo-ah and seemed angry with him and asked.

"Seo-ah, what does this mean... Why did you unleash such a powerful attack towards some party members?"

After looking at him with that angry look, Miss Seo-ah felt angry and unfair towards the leader and sighed then calmly replied.

"There was a monster that rose from the corpses behind them and was still shy and turned around my killer..."

"So I just tried to protect myself, I didn't mean to attack them."

After hearing his logical answer, the leader's anger subsided from her and turned and looked at the members and asked if anyone was injured from that powerful attack. Fortunately, no one was injured from that powerful attack. After that, the leader turned his head to prepare to leave this

cell, but before he could move away, someone shouted at him.

"Commander, wait a moment and look at this...?"

"What is it now...?"

When the commander turned his head to look at the person who shouted at him and that person pointed to the wall in front of him after the smoke and dust disappeared from it.

A large hole appeared on it due to that explosion caused by Miss Seo-ah earlier.

The commander was surprised by the story of this large hole on the wall for a moment and then asked?

"What is happening here...?"

"What is this thing...?"

"Could it be..."

The look of Mr. Min-woo who was near the commander and who was examining this hole that appeared more while thinking about something after that thought for a moment

He opened his mouth and then replied a mysterious sentence slowly.

"Hidden cave"

"Hidden cave...What is this...?"

Mr. Min-woo is the person who is most aware of the news of the high-ranking hunters and the rumors about them and dreams that one day one of them will hurt him when

He said that mysterious sentence and his friend asked about it, he started to explain it to him.

“Hyung-nim I only heard rumors about it from the news of the high-ranked hunters. I never thought it was true.”

The rumors say that in some high-ranked dungeons there is a hidden cave that is hidden by its surroundings and is difficult to find.

But if she is lucky enough to stumble upon one, she might find a lot of treasures and rare artifacts inside.

After hearing his words, Mr. Joo turned to him and inquired more about those rumors.

“Wait a minute, Mr. Min-woo, you are saying that the hidden cave is in a high-ranked dungeon…”

“So what is one doing in a lower-ranked (E) dungeon?”

Mr. Min-woo replied without squinting at Mr. Joo’s suspicions about the rumors he heard.

“No, it doesn’t have to be a high-rank or low-rank dungeon…”

“It’s just that it’s hard for low-rank Hunters like us to notice the camouflage in the dungeon…”

“Also, I’ve heard rumors that even the Vice President of the Horizon Guild…”

“They found one in a low-rank (C) dungeon, from which he obtained extremely powerful artifacts…”

“Because of it, he made himself the strongest Hunter in the guild in the middle of the night and day.”

When Mr. Gu heard that, he looked at Mr. Min-woo suspiciously and asked.

“Where did you hear such rumors…?”

Mr. Min-woo smiled and laughed at Mr. Gu’s question after which he answered.

“Hahaha, from the news of course, so I’m telling you to follow the news of high-rank Hunters.”

After hearing Mr. Min-woo’s answer, Mr. Gu shook his head and looked away, not responding to Mr. Min-woo’s comment.

"Many treasures you say, Min-woo."

"Yes, hyung-nim, that's what the rumors said."

"Wait a minute, and rare artifacts too."

Powerful magical tools, or as hunters call them, rare artifacts, are of two main types.

The first type is artifacts: These are extremely powerful tools and weapons found inside the dungeon and have many different properties and abilities.

The second type is semi-artifacts: These are all the tools and weapons that humans have made with materials extracted from powerful magical beasts.

There are many differences between the two types of rare artifacts, the most common among hunters is as follows.

The first type is artifacts: These types are famous for their extremely high destructive power, which some hunters say that if you have artifacts with average power, it will always be much stronger than if you have semi-excellent artifacts, even if they are of the same type or higher in rank, the artifacts will be much stronger and better than them.

It also has an additional advantage, which is that artifacts do not need magical energy in order to activate them, and even ordinary humans can use them.

However, with a fatal weakness, which is that if a human tries to use it in attack or defense, he can only use 50% of its power because it needs to be enhanced with magical energy in order to increase its offensive or defensive power, which ordinary humans do not have any of in their bodies.

But it also has some drawbacks, including: When artifacts are destroyed in combat, they cannot be repaired by ordinary humans or hunters.

So far.

The second type, the semi-artifacts: Only hunters can use it because they need magic power in order to activate them and cause any offensive or defensive damage.

2- It has slightly different and negative features than the other. One of the features is that semi-artifacts can be repaired if they are destroyed or even increase their destructive power by destroying them and remaking them by combining good materials and elements for that, unlike artifacts that cannot be repaired if they are destroyed.

But the biggest difference between the two types is the large amount of money that a hunter must spend or earn if he wants to buy one of them or sell it in the market.

When the hunters heard Mr. Min-Woo's words, they were very happy with the news.

Mr. Min-Woo added to the previous one, his eyes sparkling with joy.

“I heard that a normal D-rank artifact is worth 160 million won...”

“A similar D-rank artifact is worth 70 million won.”

The party was surprised after hearing Mr. Min-woo’s words about such a large sum of money that could be found in the income if they found the artifacts.

Artifacts are rare there, even if this is an E-rank dungeon, if they find just one artifact, it should be worth around 40 million won at least.

The party swallowed their saliva and smiled excitedly and their eyes flashed and looked at the raid leader to know his decision.

When the raid leader looked at the eyes of the party members who were excited like him, he smiled too. Then he approached the big hole that appeared in front of him.

He stopped after that and looked inside the long hole that was lit by small stones on the wall and the long corridor inside.

He then turned his head to the party members behind him and asked them.

"So guys, what do you think? Should we go inside or go back...?"

The party members looked at each other after hearing the leader and began to think a little about their decision.

The first one to decide and answer the leader was Mr. Min-woo, his friend and the person who knew the most about those rumors and who had always only heard about them.

But now he saw someone in front of him. He was happy about that and answered the leader with a happy and joyful laugh.

"Hehe... Hyung-nim thinks we should go..."

Ali added his words again after smiling even more and his eyes started to sparkle with greed and extreme joy.

"It's an opportunity, Hyung-nim. It can't happen just once. We should take advantage of it."

When Mr. Joo heard Mr. Woo's opinion, he thought a little to himself. He was sad today because he found a little magic crystal in the cave.

He needed a lot of money. After hearing that there was an opportunity to make such a profit by going inside this hidden cave, he answered the leader.

"I think we should go too...!"

After hearing the two hunters who were with Mr. Joo wanting to go inside, they looked at each other and nodded and answered the leader.

"Commander, we also think we should go...!"

After hearing the opinion of the hunters, the leader nodded his head and then looked at Miss Seo-ah who was thinking a lot about the matter. She had a younger brother from her

Waiting for her at home now, so she didn't want to go to any risk that would be more for her, but if she could find a lot of profit in it, how much

Mr. Min-woo said, she wouldn't refuse to go and i