Level Up Monster

Chapter 5

The rain started to fall. At first, the droplets were light and fast, but soon grew and flooded the small stream that flowed down the mountain, as well as quickly filling all the tubs here.

'Looks like it'll last a while. '

Sae-Jin finally sighed after staring at the rain for a long time. He was worried . What could he say to the woman resting behind him? What reason does that sound reasonable enough to prevent him from killing her? For a high-ranking Knight like him aiming to become a person of the Highest Level, it would only take one hit to clear any and all clues about the existence of a single-tier Low-ranked Goblin.

moan* ..." "..* moans * …"

But he could not continue to worry and suffer any longer. Although it had not been an hour since the treatment, Kim Yu-Rin let out a gentle groan as if she was regaining consciousness at any moment now.

The pitiful goblin almost jumped out of his skin due to a sudden moan and hurriedly ran to the woman's side.

"Are you …

A thought that suddenly popped into his head stopped his words from coming out.

'A Goblin is not supposed to speak human language. '

After thinking about it for a while, he knew it couldn't help. Really, "Ordinary goblins" aren't supposed to save humans. Goblins who are usually starving will not be picky when it comes to filling their stomachs.

"…. Hmm …?"

Throwing here and there, against various pains and pains, Kim Yu-Rin finally opened her eyes. He could see the stone ceiling piercing through the heavy and sleepy eyelids. Silently observing the foreign ceiling for a moment, he then suddenly sat down like a bolt of lightning.

"… Oh !!"

Unfortunately for him, his actions caused the body that was still in healing to scream in pain. Her face wrinkled in pain, she caressed her torn stomach more than 30 minutes ago.

But it's kind of weird.

It was true that Sabretooth Tiger's claws gouged out his stomach. The terrible residual pain also feels very real. However, his stomach felt comfortable to the touch as if nothing was wrong.

"How are you feeling?"

Out of nowhere, he heard a man's voice.

Yu-Rin heaves a sigh of relief and turns towards the source of the sound.

At the critical moment, he used an additional teleportation scroll that he had wrapped up just in case, seeing that the others were not working for some reason, but even that ended up sending him to the wrong place, instead, so he thought he was going to die . But luckily, a passerby happened to ….

"Ah, I …."

A Goblin stood there.

Not only that, he spoke in human language. In Korea, no less.

He would wake up and give a token of gratitude to his benefactor, but right now, it felt like his head was flickering into a total void. The goblin in front of him continued to talk about something, but he could not hear it. No, his brain actively denied him.

"…. What ... what the hell?"

Thinking that he must still be suffering from the side effects of the trauma, he closed his eyes and reopened them. But it's the same as before. He rubbed his eyes and looked again.

"Nh …."

No matter what, the situation remains the same.

"What the fuck? Am I going crazy?"

Unable to endure it, he confusedly spat out words.

"No, I'm real."

Sae-Jin is also somewhat frustrated. abilities to string together a decision sentence, unfortunately . That was because Goblins had a very poor ability to string decent sentences, unfortunately. Even the most unwanted, useless nature begins to reflect the real thing, it seems.

"Well, it's really talking. Maybe I'm dead?"

Yu-Rin covers her face with both hands and lies back on the stone bed.

It took quite a long time before he could accept his current situation.

*

Sae-Jin does her best in trying to convince Yu-Rin while facing down her disbelieving gaze. One mistake, and he'll be dead in seconds, that's why.

The story of Sae-Jin is simple yet plausible. The story is that, he is different and smarter than other Goblins since his birth, and after getting disillusioned with the Goblin's devious ways, he runs away, then he meets a Hunter and though imperfect, learns to speak human language and behavior. Of course, the Hunter met its end in an unfortunate incident some time later.

It wasn't the most detailed and impermeable setting or plot, but fortunately, Kim Yu-Rin wasn't too suspicious of his words.

His openness was partly due to whether it was a Goblin or not, he was still his savior, and also because not much was known about how various monsters lived day-to-day. After all, if there was a monster capable of taking the form of a human, then surely, there must be a monster that could speak human language.

"… So that's what happened …. Anyway, thank you for saving me."

With a more relaxed attitude, Yu-Rin gently rubs her head while smiling weakly.

Although it was a gentle gesture, Sae-Jin's body became stiff. Finding this funny, Yu-Rin laughs lightly.

"Haha ... You're a freak .. Euk."

The condition of his body still did not allow him to laugh casually, and he had to grab his stomach while his face was tangled due to the piercing pain. Sae-Jin quickly gives her one more pre-made potion that suppresses pain and heals wounds.

"Should I drink this?"

Seeing Sae-Jin nod her head, Yu-Rin smiles and gulps down the potion.

"… Who?"

Yu-Rin immediately gasps with a pleasant surprise. Like a miracle, all the pain just disappeared as if it was all just a lie.

"You have sick skills, don't you?"

He smiled brightly and continued rubbing the Goblin's head in front of him. It seemed like the little guy was enjoying his movements, he thought.

"thank you. Really, really, thank you. I succeeded because of you."

But now, for Kim Yu-Rin, the fact that a living being known as a Goblin was standing in front of him did not matter in the slightest. The goblin who possessed this intelligence was unexpectedly good and he also found it funny.

"…Well?"

As he dazedly rubbed the Goblin's head, the bracelet that wrapped around his hand tightly suddenly started to tremble.

It seems the Order called out to him, at a glance. It was likely that they tried to contact him after he failed to return far past the end of his duties.

"That's right, my duty …"

His job ... unfortunately, a failure. Moreover, he could suffer an indescribable fate of death as well.

But thanks to his heaven-defying luck, he meets this Goblin and is able to overcome his fate. And now, this meeting had instead given him a chance.

nd team are invited here . 'The investigation will find the evidence left behind by those who were angry with the teleportation scroll, and the two Knights who pushed me into a definite situation of death before fleeing themselves, he said, Yu Jong-Yun and Kim Sa-Rang .. No, it's safe to assume the whole second team is involved here. '

In just 2 years, Kim Yu-Rin's father, Kim Hyun-Suk had to resign from the position of Master of the Knight Order, after his term ended.

And the favorite to fill that position is not the current Deputy Master of the Order, Oh Jong-Hyuk, but, in fact, Kim Yu-Rin. The current situation was at the point where two opposing parties, one supporting Yu-Rin and the other a disgruntled Vice-Guru, were engaged in a power struggle, he said, and what happened to him today can be described as the result that arises from the word struggle.

they felt like the time was running out, with her rank advancement ceremony being next month, she angry mused . Whether it was necessary to bow so low like beasts just because they felt that time was running out, with his promotion ceremony performed next month, he pondered furiously. Yu-Rin finally gritted her teeth.

The six who left him right in front of the 40-year-old Sabret Tiger cave, a creature so formidable that a high-ranked Knight would find it hard to fight him alone; and the mysterious identities of the people responsible for making 7 teleportation scrolls, Mana raising armor, and even the damage of his weapon at a critical moment.

"thank you. Because of you, it looks like now I can pull out all the weeds at once." (Lit. He said, hit it all in one go.)

He had no choice but to cool his boiling anger for one day in the future.

Kim Yu-Rin gently smiled and continued rubbing the Goblin's head, before slowly speaking towards the bracelet.

"Upper-Level Night, Kim Yu-Rin, will return …."

Yu-Rin then stops and glances at the Goblin quickly, before smiling gently and changing the contents of her message.

"No, I'll be back in about 3 hours. It rained too hard. And because of the heavy rain, the landslide blocked the exit of the cave I entered."

*

Sae-Jin and Yu-Rin talk a lot during those 3 hours.

However, instead of conversation, it is clear which role belongs to whom.

As it is difficult to form a proper sentence as a Goblin, Sae-Jin naturally ends up in the role of a listener and Yu-Rin as a speaker.

"Haaaah, how could I never enjoy a romantic relationship once in 27 years of my life …. Ah, but that's not a unique problem for me, no."

'… Why is he so alive? He sounded very cold and unapproachable in a TV interview. '

Sae-Jin discovers it's amazing how relaxed and talkative Yu-Rin is, which is completely beyond her expectations. When he saw her on TV, he looked more calculating and cold than someone who was easy to talk to.

Knight side of me and end up giving me only the useless presents like knives and swords and magic armaments, so how can I go out on a date with knuckleheads like them?! And also, when I kick them to the curve because of their mistakes, they spread around rumors of me having high standards and try to make me look weird.." "Honestly, honestly, I really admire gifts like plain and cute dolls, you know? But the boys only looked at the Knight's side and ended up just giving me useless gifts like knives and swords and magic weaponry, so how can I go out on a date with fools like them ?! And also, when I kicked them into the curve for their mistake, they spread rumors that I had high standards and tried to make me look weird … "

But Sae-Jin is satisfied now. Who could listen to the personal grunts flowing from the most famous Korean female Knight like this?

He listened to his complaints for the next 3 hours while responding appropriately at the right time and pretending to be clueless when difficult words came.

Actually, he was busy observing his face. Even after spending 3 hours staring at her, she simply could not get enough of her beauty that easily surpassed every compliment given to her.

Finally, like an omen, the rain stopped falling and the sunlight illuminated the sky just as the promised 3 hours came.

"When I have time, I will come and visit again. It may be a bit late .. but I promise to repay you properly then."

In the face of the end of their imminent meeting, Yu-Rin hesitates a bit, turning to look at it a few times.

It seemed like he was unhappy with the level of gratitude shown to his rescuers and felt regret about it.

But Sae-Jin doesn't feel that way. Instead, he was so grateful, he might even go crazy from excitement.

Yu-Rin gives him the fangs of the Sabretooth Tiger as compensation. As per a Knight of his caliber, he not only lost one way to the Monster but also managed to break one of his fangs.

If not for the newly acquired knowledge of Goblins, he would have treated these fangs as nothing more than expensive japtem, but now, it was a different story altogether. The fangs themselves were Mana Stones and at the same time, ingredients in concocting medicine. If he carefully added other ingredients into it, then he could make 10 bottles of potions worth or more with various effects and properties.

A hasty fleeting memory of the potential use revealed that he could concoct potions to drastically improve the constitution and thus demonstrate exceptional prowess during hunting, or concocting something like the one he made with Kim Yu-Rin drinking now and selling it to the public – the possibilities are truly limitless.

As an added bonus, he wasn't too worried about garnering attention if he started making and selling potions. Usually, it is possible to sell, having been declared free to have side effects and approved for consumption, the herb is brewed privately even while maintaining relative anonymity.

'In other words, I can profit at least $ 440rb. '

As long as there is a healing effect, even a low emergency medicine that is not treated as a proper herb is worth $ 175 per bottle. He also recalled seeing in a news segment that, in a test conducted on drugs made by humans, dark Elves and Goblins used the same ingredients, the researchers said, the items made by Goblins turned out to be the best of all.

"And I happen to be a Goblin. Great goblins, nothing less. '

With this, he could earn enough money to buy equipment and also buy himself a nice house in Gangwon Province.

"Thank you !! Take care of yourself !!"

Sae-Jin says goodbye to Kim Yu-Rin with a pair of very happy eyes. Right at that moment, clear sunlight descended between them. Especially good weather to say goodbye.

"… Ri, right !! Take good care of yourself !! Do not go to dangerous areas !!"

Yu-Rin's voice trembled slightly, wet with heavy emotions. She felt rather sad to see the bright expression of Goblin – after all, she had opened her heart to it for the past 3 hours and in the process she was getting closer to this creature.

But he could not delay the matter anymore.

Yu-Rin hardens her face and turns around, ordering her heavy legs to move.

"Yes !! You too !!"

Hearing that somewhat ordinary voice, he was quite certain the short time he shared with the intelligent and kind-hearted creature would remain etched in his memories for the rest of his life.