Somewhere else in front of the gate of the level 5 dungeon.
"Milord, wouldn't it be too much if you came in?" a woman's stern voice sounded like she was speaking to a higher being.
"Hey Areum! Didn't you see the announcement from the hunter association, that to enter a dungeon from level 3 and above you need at least 1 high rank hunter?" A man in her twenties joined in.
"You're right, but aren't the three of us among the high rankers?"
"You're stupid, aren't you, Areum?! This is a level 5 dungeon that in it might become stronger due to someone's actions like in a fake dungeon" a boy who was eating candy also scolded her.
"Shut up! I'm not talking to you guys! I spoke to milord!"
The person called the milord looked fed up with the three of them who were always fighting, "enough!"
"Jeong Areum is right! Even though the three of you are high rankers, I still can't let anything unwanted happen to you."
"Yes milord!"
"Okay."
"Yokayy"
"Then milord, why is this woman also coming?" Jeong Areum pointed to the red-haired woman who had been listening earlier.
"Yoyoyo Areum! Don't be too stiff with your master's wife."
"Wife? I have never heard of you being married. Isn't this a moth that always sticks to milord?!" exclaimed Areum.
"Heee... Then can the mouth be schooled? It feels like talking to a person who lives in the forest," the woman teased Areum.
"My mouth is just in elementary school so, sorry if I still like honesty"
The two seem to still want to argue.
"Enough of you two! Areum, don't serve her. And you're Seo Yeon..." Oliver sighed, "....whatever"
"Well milord"
"Okay Oliveer"
Jeong Areum, Jin Woo and Ji Hu are the 3 members of Oliver's guilld. Each of Oliver's guild members' strengths could be counted... unique?
Jeong Areum, the member with the highest level (200) and also Oliver's right-hand. By making someone she claims to be her master, she becomes a knight who can summon creatures that she and her master defeated. The stronger her master is and the more loyal Areum is to him, her strength will continue to increase significantly. Areum can also give large-scale buffs to her party.
Jin Woo, the second member with a level (185), is also Oliver's favorite freak. Its strength is music. In addition to the strange person, the clothes were also stranger. With his white hair and casual clothes, he also wears headphones and black fighter jet pilot glasses. With his power, he can imagine where he is in the music. Just like when he feels sad, he will play music on his headphones and imagine a sword in his hand, Jin Woo will attack the enemy according to the tone he hears. This makes its movements difficult to predict.
Ji Hu, the youngest member with a level (180), is a genius and is the second brain after Oliver in the guild. His interest in super computers made him able to see the world as a programming language. Ji Hu could even see the movements of each creature and predict it a few steps ahead. By seeing everything as data, Ji Hu could even erase it or make it more powerful. However it requires immense mana and cannot be used against bosses or monsters that are stronger than it.
"Alright you three, do as Ji Hu instructs and level up as fast and high as possible! I'll just monitor with Seo Yeon"
Areum was a little annoyed to see Seo Yeon who was clinging directly to her master. "Okayy"
Then the four began to enter.
The dungeon they entered was currently a swamp-type dungeon with a lizardman and a group of snakes inhabiting it. There are 2 bosses that inhabit this dungeon and you can say that this is a rare dungeon.
As soon as they entered the dungeon, Oliver gave them a shield.
"How about Ji Hu? How many do you see?" Areum asked.
"Hee it seems like when we entered the dungeon, they had kissed us. In front there are about 50 lizardmen who are hiding and ready to make an ambush."
"Areum, take out the hobgoblin and some archer goblins! Then Jin Woo, play a passionate music and beat them up while I distract their movements!"
Areum starts summoning hobgoblins and some archer goblins and giving a buff to Ji Hu and Jin Woo. Jin Woo starts tuning to a music and starts imagining where he is so excited with an arrow in his hand.
On the other hand, Ji Hu was preparing to predict and prepare a small data to distract the lizardman's movements when ambushing the hobgoblin.
"Everyone... Start!"
As soon as Ji Hu began his signal, Areum immediately ordered her hobgoblins to move forward, becoming bait from the lizardman's ambush. Jin Woo with his arrows, imagining himself playing archery as a pro, prepared to wait for his target.
Hobgoblins themselves have a high resistance to physical attacks and magic. Plus some buffs that Areum provides.The Hobgoblin continued to advance with the great sword in his hand, preparing to withstand the ambush. As the hobgoblin was within range of the ambush, several lizardmen from the back of the hideout, showered the hobgoblin with dozens of poisonous arrows. Meanwhile, from the front, the attack was carried out from above, front and side.
The Hobgoblin with his great sword, made a wide slash in the air, repelling several arrows and lizardman attacks. Although there was an arrow that escaped and hit it, thanks to its resistance, it fell and left no marks. As the lizardman was startled and relaxed his defenses, Ji Hu with his supercomputer vision, made the fifty lizardmen unable to move due to the tree roots wrapped around their legs. "Areum! Jin Woo! Now!"
Jin Woo, who had been preparing to aim earlier, fired several arrows at once. Even those who were still hiding behind the trees, couldn't avoid Jin Woo's attack. One... two... Three shots were released by Jin Woo and instantly 40 of them fell.
The remaining 9 were overthrown by arrows from the goblins belonging to Areum.
"Ah! The tactic of letting one escape to their hiding place" Seo Yeon nodded understandingly looking at those who left one behind.
"Damn! If only my vision was infinite in distance, we wouldn't have to bother using this tactic!" Little Ji Hu frowned as he unwrapped the candy.
"Hey Ji Hu, isn't the air here so disgusting? You can eat candy instead" Jin Woo was confused to see Ji Hu who instead ate candy.
"My brain isn't the same as yours! Already, I've put a tracker on his body, we'd better catch up with him immediately before it goes undetected"
The five of them walked following the tracker that Ji Hu planted.
Once it got near the lizardman territory, "wait!" Ji Hu raised one hand, telling everyone to stop.
"What's wrong Ji Hu? Is there a mutation from the boss?" asked Oliver.
"No, but something more strange"
Everyone was waiting for Ji Hu's sentence.
"The escaped lizardman should have told his flock beforehand and strangely, I didn't see any of them preparing to face the opponent."
"Then what about the boss?" asked Areum confirmingly.
"Wait..."
As soon as Ji Hu saw the boss, he was instantly very surprised.
"No way! How can a level 5 dungeon boss that should be level around 150 to 200, that boss now has a level 250 equivalent to a UR hunter?!"
Everyone seemed surprised to hear Ji Hu's words.
"What about his condition, does he seem to act unnaturally?' Oliver seemed to be worried about what the boss was like in the fake dungeon.
"No, there's nothing strange about the boss's behavior. Everything is normal except for the level and stats."
"250 hm... I guess we can still defeat him, with the new summoned creature Areum from the dungeon that the previous boss entered" Jin Woo gave his opinion.
With one of his skills, Areum can summon creatures that were previously defeated by Oliver and herself. However, Areum was only able to summon one creature at the level of UR. Aside from the large mana usage, the stats of his summoned creatures will be reduced by 50%.
"That's right. If Areum summons the dragon, we have a win close to 90%. But..."
"We also have to find out why the boss level is not notable"
Ji Hu nodded at Seo Yeon's words.
"How do we know the cause of the abnormality?" Areum was a little confused.
Ji Hu didn't know.
"Then what do you think Oliver?" asked Seo Yeon.
Oliver thought for a moment. "There's nothing we can do but beat him"
"Is it possible if we dissect it and take the blood or other parts outside to be examined?" Jin Woo said originally.
Hearing it from Jin Woo's mouth, Ji Hu and the others stared in disbelief.
"Hey! I also have a brain of times!"
"Yes you do have a brain but I didn't expect it to still work"
Jin Woo threw a punch at Ji Hu which he dodged easily.
"What about the plan, Ji Hu?"
"The plan is quite simple. Areum took out the dragon, remembering in his half-human form. Just focus on the boss. And Jin Woo, it's time for you to shine in taking care of that mobs. Give way to the Areum's dragon and don't let the others get close to their bosses. You know what kind of music isn't for this situation?"
"Of course!"
Ji Hu nodded.
"And I'll give you instructions as well as some help from here"