Leveling Up through Eating

Translator: ChubbyCheeks

PR: MattForgenti

Only one person was left after everyone else was forced to log out. It was Hilton, the person who led the people who chased after them. He was still digging around and eating dirt.

“Chomp, chew, gulp!”

He had truly lost control of everything.

‘Waaaaaa. I want to move my body but I can’t control it!’

He was filled with despair as he watched Minhyuk slowly approach him. He was filled with despair as he thought of all the gold and artifacts that would drop from him once he was forced to log out.

‘Please, I wish I hadn’t done this……!’

At that moment…

“I’m hungryyyyyyyyy! Keuheeup! Mi, Minhyuk-nim…… Please tie me up and take me in front of him……!”

Rovan quickly said, barely holding on to his reason. Minhyuk approached him, untied him from the tree before tying him again with the rope. Then he helped him walk in front of Hilton.

Rovan was quite furious with Hilton and the Ares Guild. They tried to PK him and declared war against his guild. For that reason, he wanted to get and save Hilton’s dark history as much as possible. He slowly crawled forward.

“Keeeughk! I’m hu, hungryyyyy……”

Then, he moved near Hilton and whispered in his ear.

“Legend Guild, number one!” 

‘Th, this fXcking bastard!’ 

He knew that Rovan was clearly mocking himself. Just saying that Legend Guild was number one meant that they were above the Ares Guild. Then, he heard Rovan gasp as if he couldn’t contain his hunger anymore.

“Haaaa. Haaa, haaa, haaa…… I’m hungry. I’m going to eat you.”

‘Th, this crazy bastard. Stop blowing in my ears!’

Hilton’s body trembled once he heard Rovan’s next words.

“Your ears look like dumplings.”

Chomp!

“Keuaaaack!”

“Eek! That’s not something you should eat, Rovan-nim!”

“Chew, chew. Dumplings are delicious!”

“Hmm……”

As soon as he confirmed that Rovan had gone crazy with hunger, Minhyuk held his frying pan tightly. Then he slammed it on Hilton’s head.

Clang!

Minhyuk looked around after he rescued the poor(?) Hilton from Rovan’s grasp. The gold and artifacts that dropped from the users that he forced to log out were scattered everywhere.

“I’m hungryyyyy! My dumplingggg!”

Rovan rolled around on the ground as he shouted about his hunger. Minhyuk was left with no choice but to tie him back on a tree before collecting all of the dropped gold and artifacts.

[You have acquired 1.372 million gold.]

[You have acquired Akas’ Gloves.]

[You have acquired 2.131 million gold.]

[You have acquired Ifreet’s Tear Armor.]

[You have acquired 9.451 million gold.]

[……acquired Baromil’s Sword.]

Items obtained from PK were not distributed by the automatic party distribution system. The notifications poured in non-stop. Even though they were still low-leveled users, their items were quite expensive and valuable. All of them were equipped with rare artifacts, sometimes he could even see some unique items among the pile. And they even gave him plenty of gold. Eventually, Minhyuk stood in front of Hilton, who died the last.

[You have acquired 9.261 million gold.]

[You have acquired Oz’s Helmet.]

After he finished collecting all of the dropped gold and items, Minhyuk checked the total amount of gold that he collected. He was able to collect 930 million gold from all of the users that he forced to log out. And once he sold off all of the artifacts he got from here then he would be able to get at least 3 billion gold in total.

‘Wow.  I can probably sell these and be able to buy delicious food and medicine!’

Minhyuk chuckled at the thought of buying delicious food.

Then, he went ahead and checked the artifacts that he thought were useful to him. First, he excluded all of the weapons. None of these weapons were comparable to Ellie’s Sword or his frying pan. As he looked around, the helmet that was dropped by Hilton caught his attention.

(Oz’s Helmet)

Class: Unique

Restrictions: 240 STR, 120 AGI

Durability: 4,000 / 4,000

Defensive Power: 311

Special Abilities:

━ STR +3, AGI +5

━  Magical Defense +50

Description: This was the helmet worn by Oz, a warrior who guarded a king’s tomb in the past.

It was a pretty good looking helmet but Hilton was not wearing the helmet! Maybe it was because he failed to meet the ‘restrictions’ set by the helmet.

The helmet had an additional magical defense. In addition, it also  has a high defensive power. Its defensive power was comparable to Sylph’s Leather Armor that he was wearing right now. Normally, armors would have the highest defensive capabilities and things like helmet, boots and gloves could only exhibit about half of the defensive capabilities of an armor. However, this Oz’s Helmet had an extremely high defensive power.

Minhyuk quickly wore it.

Oz’s helmet covered most of his face excluding his eyes, nose and mouth. It also had two horns on it. He thought that it would feel uncomfortable once he wore it but he had good visibility and he had no trouble breathing or eating anything.

After he finished acquiring the items, Minhyuk once again untied Rovan from the tree and only tied his hands and upper body.

“Keung, keung, keung, keung. I saw you hide all of the food from here earlier!”

Rovan approached Minhyuk and sniffed him all over. Minhyuk quickly slapped the back of his head as a sort of reproach.

Slap!

“No. Why are you burying your nose under someone’s armpits and smelling them?!”

“Keoheok! Something smells delicious……”

“My armpits?”

Minhyuk looked at Rovan strangely. He was wondering if he liked dishes that were cooked with vinegar.

***

Minhyuk pulled Rovan, who was screaming about his hunger, as they continued to move forward.

After walking for quite some time…

[You have overcome one of the trials of the Seven Deadly Sins.]

[You have gained 30 reputation points.]

[You have gained 500 million EXP.]

[You have entered the Hidden Field.]

[You have leveled up.]

[You have leveled up.]

[You have leveled up.]

[You have leveled up.]

[……leveled up.] 

Minhyuk heard a string of notifications. His level increased by 13.

‘Ellie’s Knife will probably be unsealed now, right?’

He needed to level up twice before he could unseal the Secondary Level that was sealed in Ellie’s Kitchen Knife.

It seemed like Rovan also gained some reputation points and leveled up a lot but most importantly he had finally regained his senses.

“My nose is filled with the scent of vinegar…”

“……”

Minhyuk was left speechless as he untied Rovan.

The now freed Rovan looked around curiously.

“Why didn’t I get the notification about the x2 drop rate and EXP acquisition rate when we entered the Hidden Field?”

“Ah. You’re right.”

After overcoming the Trial of Sin, they immediately entered the Hidden Field but there were no notifications about the x2 special privilege.

“What are the conditions for clearing the Hidden Quest?”

“Overcoming the curse and hunting all of the monsters in the field.”

Minhyuk shook his head.

This meant that the monsters they would encounter soon would be stronger and better than the monsters from earlier. Rovan and Minhyuk held their breaths before walking further in the hidden field.

Tap!

Thud!

Both of them could hear the sound of something walking heavily.

“It’s a toad!”

Rovan looked closely at the monster that jumped high in the sky. The leaping monster was a giant toad. Before it fell to the ground, it spewed a bluish-green liquid out of its mouth.

“Puhaaaaa!”

Minhyuk and Rovan instinctively dodged away. The liquid directly splashed on the ground and the stone where the both of them were just standing at.

The stone is melting!

The two of them looked at each other and quickly rushed to launch an attack at the giant poisonous toad.

[Step.]

[Quickly move to a distance of 1m.]

The toad landed on the ground. Before it could even open its mouth again and spew out poison, Minhyuk narrowed the distance between them and stabbed it with his sword.

[Sword of Fury.]

[There will be an additional 50% for strong lunges and stabs, if a vital strike is successful then the additional attack power will be 80%.]

Stab!

Baaaaang!

The stabbed toad rolled backwards. Without missing a beat, Rovan approached quickly and hacked at it with his sword.

Slash!

A notification popped out in front of Minhyuk.

[You have leveled up.]

“……?!”

Minhyuk had a strange look on his face when he saw the notification. Rovan turned his head at him when he saw Minhyuk stopped moving.

“What’s wrong?”

“I just leveled up.”

“Oh. Again? Was your EXP about to level up?”

“No. I had about 78% in my EXP bar before I leveled up……”

“……?”

Rovan turned to look at his EXP with an expression of disbelief. A moment ago, his EXP was at 66% at Lv125 but right now his EXP is at 95%.

“W, what the hell……!”

We hunted one but my EXP rose to 95% in an instant?

He went ahead and picked up the items that the poisonous toad had dropped.

[Party: Rovan-nim has acquired 123,000 gold.]

For gold drops, it would be automatically divided between Rovan and Minhyuk. In other words, one poisonous toad dropped 246,000 gold. They estimated that the poisonous toad was around Lv120. Generally, monsters at this level would only drop 2,000 gold or so. But the drop right now was almost ten times that of the normal drop. This meant that the EXP and drop rate were extremely enormous!

“……Do you think we can bomb our way and level up like crazy?”

Rovan trembled in excitement.

They might not know about the exact increase in their EXP and drop rate but what they were sure of was that it was a much enormous reward compared to the regular hidden dungeons.

“Ah. Come to think of it, I think we’re the first ones to have ever overcome the Trial of Sins. There’s no information available about it at all.”

Minhyuk nodded his head in agreement.

“Ah. Earlier, you said that you were going to fight against those bastards…”

Rovan’s forehead creased in worry as he looked at his greatsword. The durability of his sword was almost gone. If the durability of his sword fell below 20% then the attack power and special abilities of his greatsword would be reduced as well.

“I’ll fix it for you.”

“……D, don’t tell me that you also learned blacksmithing?”

“Yep.”

“When did you learn it?”

“Less than a week ago.”

Rovan shook his head at him when he heard his words.

“It’s fine. My greatsword is an epic artifact. I can’t leave it to a beginner blacksmith.” 

“I’m an intermediate blacksmith.” 

Rovan looked straight at Minhyuk. He was not surprised anymore.

He wordlessly handed his greatsword, Valo’s Bloodstained Greatsword.

Minhyuk took out the anvil that he bought from Ron before he left the smithy. He invested the five skill points that he got from the Legendary Chocolate Paradise to his bandaging and blacksmithing skills. He allocated three on his bandaging skill and the remaining two to his blacksmithing skill. Currently, his bandaging skill was at intermediate Lv6 while his blacksmithing skill passed the threshold and became intermediate Lv2.

“Repair!” 

And just like what Minhyuk expected, he saw the places where he needed to hammer on. Minhyuk began to tap on the sword with his hammer.

Clang, clang!

‘He said that he had learned it less than a week ago but his posture looks so good?’

There were plenty of intermediate level blacksmiths. In fact, blacksmith was the most famous job class among all of the non-combat job classes. Just for that reason, he thought that he could use Minhyuk’s help as an intermediate level blacksmith to raise the durability of his sword for a bit. He thought that it was enough for him to be able to endure through this and get out of here safely before finding a better blacksmith to repair his greatsword.

Not long after, Minhyuk finished repairing his greatsword.

[You have achieved the best repair for Valo’s Bloodstained Greatsword.]

[The durability has sharply increased.]

[It won’t rust easily.]

[The attack power has increased.]

[You have gained 1 DEX.]

***

TL’s corner!!!

Well. He adjusted well! HAHAHA. He didn’t even get surprised when he learned that Minhyuk was also a blacksmith. Kek.

PR’s corner!

I don’t know whether to feel happy or sympathetic for Rovan losing his sense of normalcy around Minhyuk. 

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