Hoarding in Hell Novel

Chapter 55 Limit Break (2)

be a monster

Hyunmoo was agitated inside. Difficulty: It took me less than a day to think about what makes my work in Hell different from monsters.

However, Yumin was saying that the crystals that determine his grade resembled those of monsters more than humans.

But Yu-min quickly raised his hand and waved it.

“Oh, of course, that doesn’t mean that you’re like a monster. The crystals are similar in shape, and the blood concentration, size, and properties of the crystals are exactly the same as humans. Besides, only the crystals are the most conspicuous observations, but the effect of mana on the human body. It’s incredible. For now, it’s plausible that you have a high rating that has never been observed until now.”

With a look of excitement, Yumin grabbed Hyunmoo’s arm tightly.

“Maybe he’s the first 5-star ability that hasn’t been discovered yet! No, I don’t know because the rumors that he has a 5-star have been secret. He’s even a 6-star! Anyway, that’s awesome!”

“Um, that’s right.”

To be honest, Hyunmoo just had a complicated feeling. However, I had to dance with Yumin as she grabbed his two hands and swayed to and fro.

Hyunmoo burst out laughing at the sight of Yu-min, shaking her body hard and raising her hand to even turn without music.

“Are you feeling okay?”

“Well, I’m pretty sure my rating isn’t 1 star.”

Come to think of it, Hyunmoo only got the message ‘The body has awakened to mana’, but he never knew what the rating was.

In fact, in general, raising a rank through an environment that has forcibly increased mana density will only go up one level.

In addition, to become a capable person without awakening a skill means 1 star.

Hyunmoo didn’t get the poison-blooded skill until he died a few times and survived, so it was only natural for him to make that mistake.

Anyway, it wasn’t a bad thing. Once you reach the limit level, you will be able to level up with confidence.

‘Then why didn’t you level up earlier?’

The answer to the question was easily found by myself. Hyunmoo stopped training the moment he reached level 20, and after that, he focused on item upgrades and skill enhancement rather than hunting.

In fact, thanks to that, I was able to break through the ordeal. Because Yogulem’s ordeal was not something that could be broken with a high level.

‘… … Then I lost my reason and while fighting, I leveled up.’

Except for the last minute, Hyunmoo never had a proper fight. He only made them devour amongst themselves by injecting his cursed blood into his enemies’ bodies.

It was hard to see that he was completely killed by Hyunmoo’s power. Still, it was surprising that the level went up six steps.

“Hmm, that’s why the level went up.”

“Oppa said you were level 20 last time? What is it now?”

“26.”

Yumin’s eyes widened. It was impossible to raise six levels in less than 11 days and an hour.

However, Hyunmoo was already in the process of updating the impossible record day by day.

He went missing and came back as a different person every time he returned, so I thought there would be no more surprises.

“Anyway, I’ll have to look into it in the future. It seems that I’m completely out of the way I can recognize it on my own… Shall we ask for help?”

It was something Hyunmoo was thinking about too. But he shook his head.

“I don’t want to reveal much unless it’s completely mine. Has anyone already told you?”

“No. No. But…”

Yu-min’s expression was not good.

“I got a lot of calls from the Sejong Institute while my brother was gone. I didn’t answer them on purpose, but I think they found out something too. I don’t know the details because it was just a simple blood collection, but it seems to have good equipment and a lot of budget. ”

“Sejong Institute?”“The Department of Ability Management. Commonly called the Sejong Institute. It oversees domestic dungeons, mana, items, abilities, and everything related to it.

“Huh, you’re putting off the full results announcement because of me?”

“There were a lot of recruits and headhunters who were interested in my brother, so I used an ignorant method to block interest.

Hyunmoo opened his phone and looked at the list of formulas. Unfamiliar numbers were stamped countless times.

“I thought it was spam.”

“Can I call you?”

“You should know what you know.”

“That’s right…”

Yumin nodded her head with a sad expression on her face. For some reason, she seemed not to be very interested in the Sejong Institute. Hyunmoo patted Yu-min on the shoulder.

“Well, you can do that later. Please continue to look into it as you are. Is it difficult to find out about this as a lab equipment as an experimental equipment? Should I buy the equipment altogether?”

“Do you think equipment costs a penny or two? Where else are you going to put it?”

“Buy a house too, well. You can leave the officetel now.”

It was a plan I had in mind for a long time. In particular, it became clear from what happened after returning from Hell today.

It was less crowded and needed a larger space.

In reality, Yu-min’s house was too dangerous and narrow to experiment with items or skills obtained from hell.

‘Besides, I can’t keep living on top of it.’

It was too old a problem to put off because it was annoying. Then Hyunmoo saw Yu-min staring at him. She felt a slight uneasiness in her eyes.

“You’re taking me too, right?”

“What? What do you mean by taking them? I’m taking them along. Should I start a new salary negotiation?”

At Hyunmoo’s words, Yumin smiled.

“I’m putting it off until the end of the year. I’m at a disadvantage because I don’t think my worth has been proven enough to negotiate my salary now.”

“Do you know how to negotiate?”

“You should do this when it’s advantageous.”

Saying that, Yu-min began to take off Hyunmoo’s shirt. Hyunmoo, who had not felt the warmth of a person in the past few days, was also willing to slowly embrace himself.

Seeing the scars carved on Hyunmoo’s body as she took off her top, Yu-min looked surprised for a moment.

Hyunmoo missed it.

The wounds were healed with the potion, but this time the scar remained intact because he died and did not resurrect.

“Doesn’t this hurt?”

Yu-Min said she didn’t ask how she got hurt. Because Hyunmoo said he would tell me someday.

“It will be gone soon.”

Well, there’s no way you’ll never die next time. Yumin patted her bumpy wound around her with her fingers and then bit her shoulder.

Her small tooth marks were engraved with a smirk compared to the fearsome scars.

“…what are you doing?”

“Somehow it smells delicious.”

Hyunmoo was terrified for a moment, but Yumin smiled.

“I also want to leave a mark on my brother.”

And the two left a lot of tooth marks on each other that day.

***

In the middle of the dark gym ring, Hyunmoo waited quietly.

In his mind, he was looking back at the scenes of the fierce battle at the end of Yogulem’s ordeal.

Ironically, Hyunmoo was able to survive the fight because of the ‘tasty’ curse he received.

He was able to confuse monsters with low intelligence by sprinkling the blood everywhere.

‘If it weren’t for the curse, he’d just be dead.’

But that grueling melee was a fatal and valuable experience.

It was a pity that he had very little memory because he had lost his mind with the blood of the hungry.

Hyunmoo was contemplating how to fight while recalling even fragmentary information. Every time he thought of a scene, his muscles trembled.

The Battle Helper’s passive ‘record’ function was helping to keep Hyunmoo’s experience alive. The Battle Helper carved into his muscles the movements and instincts that ran wild like a beast.

In the dark, Hyunmoo’s body didn’t move at all, but heat rose and sweat was pouring down his cheeks.

Suddenly, Hyunmoo’s clothes were drenched with sweat. And the pieces of information scattered piece by piece were revealing the overall outline as if they were put together as a puzzle.

The taste of blood and the texture of chewing raw flesh.

“Oops…!”

Hyunmoo jumped up and vomited out of the ring. I thought it might have happened implicitly, but as soon as it returned to a concrete memory, an unbearable nausea came up.

Hyunmoo sighed and stole the corner of his mouth. He felt refreshed when he had nothing more to vomit.

But he still felt strange. The point at which Hyunmoo felt nauseated was not the remorse, but the disgusting taste.

He had no guilt or skepticism about chewing on the raw flesh of a monster or living human.

‘No, wait.’

Hyunmoo recalled a scene at the end of his memory. It was the moment he bit the battalion commander.

[A fragment has been acquired.]

It happened while I was unconscious, so I couldn’t remember. Hyunmoo hurriedly looked at his hand.

The tattoo pattern on his hand had become a little more complicated.

He had so many wounds that he did not realize. Hyunmoo put on Ren’s one-piece glasses and looked at the tattoo.

Hyunmoo had the first information he had ever seen.

[Star Fragment (LV 2)][Power: Family (Absorb)][Note: ██████ started ████ to find ██████ of ██████, among them ██████. He pushed the situation of ■ to the extreme, leaving only one ■■. This extreme situation created a good environment for ████ to be born, and created ██████’s allies and enemies at the same time.]

“…what is this?”

It’s not a skill, it’s not a title, it’s not an item. The first tab called Power seems to be a skill, but the comments are messed up.

Hyunmoo said he must have misunderstood, but took his one-piece glasses and put them back in, but it was the same.

‘Well, the comments are not important.’

Hyunmoo felt awkward, but skipped it and moved on to another part. As you can see, the more the Star Fragments were completed, the stronger the benefits seemed to be.

Among them, Hyunmoo paid attention to the new ‘absorption’ attached to the star fragment.

[Family (Legend)][Talent: Absorb][Special Ability: Only the opponent you have killed can become a member of the family. Family members can be summoned and reverse summoned beyond space in any situation and anywhere. If the target is at a higher level than the caster, domination may not work.The caster can absorb some of the target’s nutrients, abilities, stamina, mana, and skills in a short time by absorbing them. Time is proportional to the number of calories the subject has.]

“…what is this pervert-like trait?”

It was a skill like the Consum of a certain classic game. If there was such a thing, it would have been quite comfortable when passing the ordeal of Yogulem.

‘No, I don’t know if that’s why I gave it to you.’

It is the power obtained by defeating the family of Yogulem, so it may be that he has acquired characteristics suitable for it. Hyunmoo felt like he had received an unexpected gift box.

He suddenly lit up the gym.

“What are you doing? Turn off all the lights.”

It was Park Hwi-so who entered. As always, he was dressed in a neat suit and with a cane.

Hyunmoo took out Admiral Ren’s one-piece glasses and observed him.

[Park Hwi-so (LV 40)][Skill: Double Cleave, Stealth (apnea)]

It was a simple skill without any difficulty. But Park Hwi-so is basically a good fighter.

Considering that he did not use any skills and defeated Hyunmoo with only martial arts and physical strength, he could not judge his fighting ability based on the number of skills alone.

“What did you call me? Since it’s a gym, let’s meet again?”

“This is a brief status report, sir. I have some corrections to make about my rating.”

Hyunmoo tried to forget what happened in Hell and briefly explained to Hwiso Park about his grade.

There was also a picture that Yumin took. Seeing the shape of the crystal, Hwi-so Park had a surprised expression as if it was an area he already knew.

In addition, when Hyunmoo talked about his level up, Park Hwi-so put on an expression of disbelief.

Up to this point, Hyunmoo had also expected the reaction. It’s not that the grade has gone up, and it’s impossible to specify, but it’s strange to believe right away.

However, Hwi-so Park, who had been silent for a long time, opened his mouth instead of showing a negative reaction.

“Honestly, it’s hard to believe…but I have to believe. It’s strange to lie now, and I’m embarrassed to say the same thing every time.”

“Is that so too?”

“After hearing that, I think you can understand why the Sejong Institute is silent. Except when the initial server crashed, there was no delay in the announcement of the rating results. Because there were a lot of protests from clan and recruit groups.”

“Yoo-min also said that, but are the protests that serious?”

“Because the level of talented people is reflected in the salary in real time. In recruits and headhunters, it means that the factory cannot run because there are no resources. I think everyone will contact you.”

Park Hwi-so nodded his head and looked at Hyunmoo.

“I know now that you’re hiding your skills, but you’re not a small vessel anyway.”

“Are you willing to change the line?”

Park Hwi-so smiled lowly. It wasn’t a laugh, it was a laugh that seemed like fun.

“Thank you for being so greedy for such an old man. I like you. But it’s a different matter for me to follow you. I also have to consider my allies. ”

Then, Hwi-so Park narrowly opened her eyes.

“I don’t know if… if there is any plausible evidence that I can convince the alliance.”

Rather than being really suspicious, Hwi-so Park seemed to expect the same shock as the legendary weapon he had brought before.

In fact, the existence of Kang Hyunmoo was a refreshing shock to Park Hwi-so, a veteran who had already experienced almost everything.

With his arrogant yet confident charm, Hwiso Park seemed to push himself one step at a time.

“Evidence… but it’s subtle to say the least.”

At the same time, Hyunmoo had something to surprise Hwiso Park. He pulled out Admiral Ren’s one-piece glasses he had in his pocket.

“I think you should look at this and judge it.”