Infinite Competitive Dungeon Society - Chapter 245

Chapter 245

Chapter 245 . What Happened Once Will… (5)

Although we finished forming our teams, completely discerning the number of Event Dungeons and appropriately distributing the teams had only just begun . We couldn’t ignore each country’s Freedom Wing and Guardian either . It would be fine if we squashed their spirit like before, but now, they were willing to cooperate . We couldn’t just force our way in while there was still room for negotiation .

From clearing Event Dungeons, we could obtain rewards, stat points, and skill points . There was a limit to the rewards we could get from Event Dungeons under A+ rank, and there was currently more than enough of such dungeons to go around for the new Revival members .

If possible, no, certainly, Freedom Wing and Guardian had to also take on Event Dungeons . All these things couldn’t be done in a single day, so we had to wait knowing that we were being chased for time .

Of course, we didn’t just play around as we waited for the logistics to be taken care of . We immediately called the seven explorers to Korea, and they arrived extremely quickly . They had heard the message when the Event Dungeons spawned and had been waiting for our call . When all seven explorers arrived, I started explaining the current situation .

“Everyone should know what Event Dungeons are, right?”
“Yes . ”

“In that case, I hope everyone realizes how much danger Earth is in . Of course, just like we did in the past, Revival plans on destroying all Event Dungeons . ”

“I heard we discovered over 800 of them so far . ”

At one of the explorers’ comment, I shook my head .

“Not even close . There’s easily over a thousand of them . The Event Dungeons really outdid themselves this time . The scale is beyond anyone’s imagination . We have to hurry . ”

“We can clear Event Dungeons, right? There wasn’t anything in the contract about them . ”

One of the more sensible female explorer asked . I replied with a grin .

“Of course you can . As long as we can get rid of the Event Dungeons, it doesn’t matter who does it . We had no plans to limit them in the first place . Now, you must be wondering why we called you here if we didn’t plan on restricting you . Well, you should already know the reason . Otherwise, you wouldn’t have come . ”

“… We can receive Revival’s help?”

This time, it was a male explorer with a fairly deep voice . I nodded .

“Everyone will have to clear Event Dungeons based on their difficulties . You’ll be able to receive help from your governments and institutions . But the time it takes for Event Dungeons to transform into Field Dungeons is… two months . How many dungeons do you think you’ll clear if you work diligently?”

“Not more than thirty, I would think . ”

“Fifteen for me… Spain doesn’t have many high rankers . ”

“My country is fully supporting me . I’ll be able to do fifty . ”

“You should know how many dungeons Revival cleared last time, right?”

Everyone became quiet . Good, I didn’t need to convince them anymore . In the first place, the reason I called them was to give them the maximum benefits . Taking care of them this much… Shouldn’t someone give me an award!?

“Sorry, but we formed teams without your consent . Of course, if you dislike it, we can exclude you and let you work freely . But if you want to be with us…”

I paused for a moment, but seeing the seven explorers looking at me with sparkling eyes, I continued with a wry smile .

“We’ll help you maximize the stats you can gain from Event Dungeons . That will help you in your future dungeon clears too . ”

In truth, it won’t just help them, it will help them greatly to the point they can climb to the 50th floor easily . Once we were done, they should be twice as strong as they were now!

As expected, none of them were idiots who would decline such an offer .

Currently, the succubi were busily flapping their bat wings, flying around the whole world to identify the Event Dungeons’ locations, scales, and ranks . At the same time, Hwaya, Sumire, and Sophie who were good at talking to government agencies were busily discussing with each country’s Guardian and Freedom Wing .

Meanwhile, I decided to clean up the region that wouldn’t cause any troubled… South Korea .

“I’ll take this chance and get rid of all the regions occupied by monsters . ”

“Jeolla Province, Oppa?”

“Yep . ”

From South Jeolla Province to Imsil County in North Jeolla Province was occupied by monsters, an area covering about three fourths of Jeolla Province . Although Korean ability users had tried twice to reclaim this land, they were forced to quit after incurring many causalities . Currently, there was a fence around the border of the region with over 40% of Korean Guardians being deployed to protect it .

I didn’t really need anyone to help me, but I threw the seven explorers and other Revival members who needed the stat points into my team . The exception being Sophie, who was in the middle of negotiating with Freedom Wing .

There were 48 Event Dungeons in South Korea . There were too many considering its small size, and most of them were near the occupied Jeolla Province .

In the past, we just cleared the Event Dungeons due to lack of time, but this time, I planned on wiping out every single monster in Jeolla Province . Since I was doing this, I decided to go through Jeolla Province properly . Unexpectedly, the entire South Korea buzzed with our guild house being overwhelmed with reporters .

“Mr . Kang Shin, is there a big reason you decided to reclaim Jeolla Province?”

“Many Korean citizens were asking why you left Jeolla Province alone while you cleared the Philippines . Is there a particular reason?”

“Do you have any comments on your talk with the government?”

“Joined efforts of Korea’s Guardian and Freedom Wing only faced difficulties in Jeolla Province . Do you have any strategy in mind to chase the monsters out?”

“There are rumors of you and Amy, a Korean and Japan’s hottest idol, being madly in love with each other . Can you comment on that?”

I looked back at Yua who was standing behind me modestly . Other than the red egg in her arms, she was holding herself in the perfect posture . I asked her a short question .

“Who’s Amy, Yua?”

“Huhu, Oppa doesn’t have to know . It’s nothing important . She’s just some ugly woman . ”

Ren, who was watching us from the side, murmured with a strange expression .

“So this was the reason I knew more about Earth’s idols than Crown Prince… Amy… She’s pretty…”

“Ren-nim, can you repeat that? You were looking at Earth’s idols while you should be taking care of the children?”

“L-Lebuik? Your eyes are scary . Uuk, sorry, I’m sorry! I won’t do it again!”

Seeing what happened between Ren and Lebuik with a simple question, I realized asking more questions would only get more annoying . I chased the reporters away and got on the plane with everyone else . To finish clearing Korea’s dungeons, I needed a plane .

In truth, there wasn’t a particular reason that I left Jeolla Province alone . When we were clearing the second wave of Event Dungeons, we didn’t have time to care about reclaiming lands . Afterwards, there were much more important things to do than reclaiming Jeolla Province . After reclaiming the Philippines, I thought about reclaiming Korea’s lost lands, but too many things had happened one after the other .

Plus, talk with the government? If I said I wanted to clean up Jeolla Province, they should kowtow and thank me . They weren’t in any position to demand anything from me . After all, there was nothing they could do for me .

This was also the first time I heard about this Amy woman . In the first place, I haven’t watched TV in a long time, so I didn’t know the names of any idols . Unlike other girls her age, Yua also didn’t have any interest in idols . Us brother and sister were rather apathetic in this regard . Naturally, I was stunned by this rumor of me going out with an idol . It made me realize how famous I had gotten .

Finally, in regards to the strategy for reclaiming Jeolla Province, I indeed had one .

“Wow, how pretty . I’m surprised she isn’t human . ”

“Only someone of Revival’s master caliber can possess such a beautiful monster . ”

“I wish I had a girlfriend, even if she’s a monster . ”

While some of the explorers were whispering among themselves, Plene hopped out of the plane and stood next to me . She was tightly holding on to a short black rod, which she held up next to her mouth . It was a magical tool devised by me and crafted by the First Dungeon’s famous artifact crafter, Hobgoblin Eladel .

It was a microphone of sort that had the power to amplify the range and effect of magical power in sounds . Although the effect wasn’t amplified by much, the range was more than doubled . The material to craft the microphone came from Beyond . As Beyond didn’t drop crafting materials often, I only had enough to craft this one item, but it was the perfect magical tool for Plene!

… In truth, I was looking to make a magical tool that could amplify the effect of my Evil Eyes, but due to a lack of material and technique, I had to settle with this . I tried not to think about it too much as it hurt me .

In any case, the strategy I had was using Plene’s singing and my Evil Eyes . It was the most effective and destructive combination for instantly cleaning up a wide area .

The explorers, who didn’t know my Evil Eyes’ power, seemed worried when they heard Plene would be attracting monsters with her singing . However, Ilayda, Leon, and Michel who knew about my power looked at Plene and me with excitement .

Plene cleared her throat and gave me a bright smile .

“Ehem, I’ll show you my improved singing skills . Shin will fall in love with it too!”

“Yep, I’m leaving it to you . Thanks as always . ”

“I got complimented! Shin complimented me!”

When Plene jumped happily, Lotte, who was prepared to fly up whenever I gave the signal, flapped her wings in discomfort and scolded her .

[Can you just start singing, stupid?]

“Shin said I wasn’t stupid! The person who calls others stupid is stupid!”

[I’m not human . I’m a wyvern, stupid . ]

“Hic… Uwaaaah!”

“Lotte, don’t make her cry!”

From then, it took 3 minutes for Plene to calm down and start singing .

“Lalala~”

[… Hmph, you’re stupid, but I’ll admit you can sing . ]

“It’ll get busy soon, so let’s listen to her sing for now . ”

Plene’s beautiful ringing voice seemed to dig deep into our hearts as everyone stood enchanted by her singing . At the same time, her voice spread to the entire Imsil County . Plene could already send her singing voice far and wide, but with the magical tool’s amplification, her voice reached even farther .

Through the crumbled buildings, dense trees, and tall mountains and hills, her singing voice left the whole world listening and breathless .

“Lalala~ Lalalala~”

“My god . ”

“Is this a voice a human can have? Ah, she’s a monster . ”

“I think Amy sings better…”

“Shh! Didn’t you hear? The guild master is going out with Amy . Be quiet . ”

“I’m not . I don’t even know her face!”

This damned Amy! If I ever see her, she’s going to get an earful from me! As I growled at the other explorers, we could see the mob of monsters rushing towards us . Seeing the monsters filling up the sky and earth while stampeding through the already crumbled buildings, the explorers who were enjoying Plene’s singing turned pale .

“Isn’t this a bit dangerous!?”

“Just how many are there?”

“I was looking down on Korea’s monsters, but Korea was actually this dangerous… Damn . ”

The explorers made understandable reactions and tensed up . I grinned and slowly flew up on Lotte’s back . I closed my eyes and whispered to Lotte .

“Sorry, Lotte . Things are going to get busy from now . ”

[I already became one with Hero, so Hero doesn’t need to apologize . ]

“… Right, thanks . ”

[I could say the same . ]

After this short conversation, I opened my eyes . The thousands of monsters flying in the sky instantly turned to stone and fell .

“Monsters of earth, take this! Evil Eyes of Petrification, Stone Rain!”

Of course, Stone Rain wasn’t a real skill, but the effect was good enough to be considered a real skill, as giant rocks pummeling down from the sky could deal ample damage to even powerful monsters .

Monsters stampeding towards us were promptly squashed by the raining stones . Those that survived looked up instinctively and were turned into stone by my Evil Eyes . As all monsters within my vision met this same fate, it only took three minutes for the tens of thousands of monsters to turn into stone .

In the past, we would have moved to different locations to sing, but Plene’s current range of singing was nothing like the past . She didn’t need to stop singing and we didn’t need to move elsewhere . We could end everything here!

“Come! Come!”

“The hell is this…”

“I’ve heard the stories, but seeing it in person is…”

“Shin . Maybe he really is a god . 1”

That day, we successfully wiped the sea of monsters in Jeolla Province and cleared all Event Dungeons . The explorers who followed me there came out with dozens of bonus stats and luxurious equipment, and Chaotic Spear finally reached 80% in growth .

The next day, the real Event Dungeon conquest began .