Hoarding in Hell Novel

Chapter 7 first night in hell (6)

One side of the barricade on the window fell off. Did the mosquitoes come in and out and get loose? If it’s a hell mosquito, that’s good enough.

But in an instant, Hyunmoo’s whole body began to sound warnings. Hyunmoo’s rigid body reflexively rolled his body to escape under the desk.

Then a small, slender green finger crawled through the barricade.

Kwajik, Dduk, Dduk.

The barricade, which had been firmly put in with Hyunmoo’s production skill, was smashed and fell off at once with that slender finger. He didn’t seem to care about the poisonous blood that had been applied to the barricades.

Hyunmoo decided that instead of hiding like this, he should run away immediately. The shelter Hyunmoo painstakingly crafted was not a barrier in the least from this strange intruder.

But before Hyunmoo could move, the owner of the green finger appeared through the window. A green-skinned existence with a red hat and a small, skinny body like a child. Yellow eyes flashed and scanned the inside of the shelter.

‘Goblin?’

Hyunmoo was bewildered at the first real monster he had ever seen. Until now, he had only dealt with oversized and ferocious bugs and small beasts, and had never seen a proper monster like a goblin.

All he knew about goblins was how to deal with them.

‘Throw what you have to get attention and then run away, was it?’

It was not much different from the rules for dealing with wild beasts. The monster with such low intelligence was the goblin. But he looked different. The goblin met the frozen Hyunmoo’s eyes. He looked at Hyunmoo and tilted his head as if he didn’t understand.

[The effect of the title ‘Hell’s Strongest’ will increase the stat compared to the level.]

Hyunmoo snapped his body out of the desk. When this message appeared, it meant that the other party clearly had hostility towards him.

This is because the title was activated when Hyunmoo was hostile, or vice versa.

The goblin looked small and weak. The thin limbs didn’t seem very strong either. However, from experience so far, Hyunmoo could see that he was strong enough to be incomparable to himself.

Just by looking at the barricade torn off, there must have been enough power to rip Hyunmoo’s neck out in those slender arms.

[Red Cap Goblin (LV 20)]

“……”

The level difference was more than just a big one, it was overwhelming.

“Damn it!”

Hyunmoo started running right away. The goblin looked at it as if it was fun, and then started chasing it leisurely. They could hunt right away, but they seemed to be enjoying themselves as if they were playing.

Hyunmoo immediately ran up the stairs to the second floor. At the end of the stairs, he set up a trap just in case.

Hyunmoo jumped over the trap, but he didn’t wait for the goblin. He didn’t even expect the trap he would grab the goblin’s ankle.

However, the appearance the goblin showed was beyond imagination. The gnome ran up the wall with ease, sprinted from the ceiling and ran into the second floor.

Hyunmoo was fed up with the appearance of even performing a stunt. However, the goblin did not stop there and leaped once more.

The goblin immediately blocked Hyunmoo’s front. The man with a smile on his face swung his dagger round and round, scanning Hyunmoo up and down. He looked like he was thinking about how to cook.

Now that I look closely, it’s different from the vagrant goblin I’ve seen in the documentary. He was wearing leather clothes and shoes with gongs, and in his black left hand was a large dagger that looked unfamiliar at first glance. Hyunmoo suddenly noticed the purple text engraved on the goblin’s black left hand.

‘… … Where do you think I saw it?’But I couldn’t afford to think about it all. Because right now, my life is at stake.

‘There is nowhere to escape.’

The goblin bounced off its feet and disappeared in an instant.

“ね!”

Hyunmoo managed to twist his back and dodge his dagger. His dagger narrowly brushed past his throat. I could feel the blood oozing out. The goblin looked surprised. But Hyunmoo knew. He was only able to avoid it thanks to the amplification of his stats due to the title effect.

“─.”

Then the goblin spoke something incomprehensible to her.

goblin talking

Goblins were known to have no language system other than yelling and screaming. However, the goblin in front of him was trying to have a ‘conversation’ with a systematic and clear pronunciation.

When Kang Hyunmoo couldn’t answer, the goblin made a mocking expression. Seeing that expression, Hyunmoo secretly pulled a hell dart out of his inventory.

‘The only chance he has is when he is careless.’

I don’t know if she’ll work against goblins, but she’s better than dead doing nothing. Hyunmoo quickly threw three hell darts. For a moment, the goblin’s eyes widened.

Why dear! Hell darts flew away with a roar that deafened her ears. Everything happened so quickly that Hyunmoo couldn’t even notice. Bang, quack, quajik! After three roars, Hyunmoo could only see what was happening.

The two hell darts were cut straight and fell to the floor.

The goblin’s skill at slicing the flying hell dart was amazing, but because of the other, the skill was completely erased from Hyunmoo’s mind. The last one was nailed to the wrist of a goblin lying on the floor.

The goblin was growling and glaring at Hyunmoo, clutching his severed right wrist.

Hyunmoo couldn’t understand. Did he cut off his wrist because he had a hell dart in his hand? It was then that Hyunmoo realized that the hell dart stuck in the goblin’s severed wrist had his own blood on it.

The very poison blood that was leaking out from a slight cut on his neck.

From the severed goblin’s wrist, strange blisters swelled up, then burst, and a foul-smelling black pus flowed out.

‘Something like that was running through my body?’

Not even an alien.

Hyunmoo looked down at his blood-stained palms with a look of disbelief.

‘No, this is not the time.’

Hyunmoo quickly tried to throw the hell dart again. If you hit it like this once, you can kill it if you do it right… … .

“───.”

At that moment, I felt a cool touch on my neck. It was then that Kang Hyunmoo realized that the goblin had disappeared from his sight.

The moment Hyunmoo moved, the goblin was attacking at a speed that exceeded his cognitive abilities. The goblin’s laughter sounded like a sneer from behind.

As he felt his hot bloody jacket wet, his eyes darkened as if the lights went out.

This time, the voice came out clearly.

“Kiruk, are there still humans left? Kik.”

The moment he decided to stop playing was the moment Hyunmoo’s life ended.

It was just luck that Hyunmoo hit him with a hell dart from the start. Now all he could do was endure the ridicule of the goblins while he bled to death.

And the goblin didn’t finish it, only mocking him for dying as Hyunmoo expected.

Everything was as expected.

[Health has dropped below 10%. Playback starts with the ‘Last One’ title privilege.]

Hyunmoo smiled involuntarily for a moment.

According to my experience of seeing that message while dying countless times, the regeneration privilege restores up to 50% of HP once a day. He was able to stand it, even considering the bleeding.

From the beginning, Hyunmoo didn’t think he could win. But he had no intention of giving up. However, considering the pattern of unfamiliar encounters leading to death, he thought that this time would not be much different.

He was used to hundreds of defeats and even dozens of deaths, but now one thing was certain.

He lost to the goblin, but in this hell he finally got his first victory.

Behind the goblin’s back was the dim light outside the window.

[Quest Success!][The quest ‘First Night in Hell’ was successful.][One ‘Silver Box’ is provided as a reward.][The reward is increased by correcting the level of difficulty.][1 ‘Silver Box’ changes to 1 ‘Gold Box’][The Hearthstone will be activated until the next quest.][Time remaining until the next quest 14 days 0 hours 0 minutes 0 seconds.]

Hyunmoo grabbed the hearthstone tightly.

Soon, his eyes began to brighten.

***

👌👌👌👌👌

The sound of pouring rain hitting the water surface was deafening. The night sky was overcast with thick clouds and the rain poured down.

Hyunmoo looked up at the sky with his eyes open. The land of hell that I had just seen and smelled before seemed like a lie.

Hyunmoo took a deep breath of his.

There is no fine dust that makes his throat sting.

He opened his mouth and drank the rainwater.

It is not a poison that squeezes the intestines.

He knelt down on his knees and lifted the water from the floor with his hands.

Although he had foreign objects floating around, he was infinitely pure water compared to the water he had to drink in hell.

He opened his eyes wide and looked around.

The monsters trying to kill him, the weeds harboring all kinds of poisons and traps, and the scar on the neck that had just been cut had disappeared like a lie. The surrounding area was just an ordinary river. The water was flowing violently because of the pouring rain, but Hyunmoo finally felt a strange sensation.

It was a feeling of ‘safe’.

In an instant, Hyunmoo’s legs loosened and he stumbled into his seat.

Hyunmoo looked down at his legs as if it were ridiculous, then burst out laughing. Hyunmoo, who was joking like a child, kicked the running water in the stream and wiped his body.

He was absolutely insane. But Hyunmoo couldn’t believe he could play with the water so loudly.

“Hahaha!”

It was like having a dream.

Hyunmoo ran and splashed water like a madman. When he returned to modern times, there were a lot of foods he wanted to eat, but somehow he couldn’t remember any of them now. Even the pouring rain water was delicious. Even the running water in this stream was sweet.

“Oh yeah!”

Hyunmoo hurriedly pulled something out of his pocket. It was caramel. Now that we’re back to reality, you can buy as much caramel as you want at any supermarket, but Hyunmoo cuts the caramel carefully, as if it were a treasure.

Hyunmoo poured the dark brown cube into his mouth. Hyunmoo trembled at the sweetness that soon spread in his mouth.

“Heh heh heh heh heh…”

Hyunmoo clenched his fists, letting out a victor’s laugh.

he won

Father, I overcame the shit you fed me and survived this again!

Hyunmoo clutched his hearthstone tightly. I had the urge to grab it and throw it away at any moment, but his hand didn’t move.

Hyunmoo opened his inventory to see if he was just dreaming for a moment because he was so crazy. The objects and crystal moss he had brought to survive in hell were all intact.

It was a clear reality.

It was clear that his father had fed him, but it was sweet. If you don’t eat and don’t eat sweet, you can enjoy enough candy.

If you think positively, you’ve given Hyunmoo a chance, but what kind of father in the world drives his child into a farm-friendly hell.

“…but I still have to say thank you, Dad.”

Hyunmoo raised his middle finger to the sky.

“No. Come to think of it, you can’t be there.”

He lowered his fingers to the ground again.

“I hope you can rest there for a long, long time.”

“… Mr. Hyunmoo?”

Then I heard someone’s voice mixed with the sound of rain. The voice was small enough to be covered by the sound of rain, but it was heard strangely and clearly.

Hyunmoo realized that his senses were ridiculously amplified. Hell had sharpened his senses.

“Oh, Yumin.”

It was Yu-Min, a research assistant who helped with the extraction work in the industrial complex drainage canal.