I Became a 6★ Gacha Character

Chapter 243: Call of the Underworld 3

TL/Editor: Raei

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Enjoying web surfing and watching all sorts of unique streams of Heroes Chronicle... Han Se-ah was also part of that uniqueness.

In short, her stream turned out to be like shooting a vlog of being taken care of (without being sick, perfectly healthy).

Irene sat beside Han Se-ah, who was lying in bed, reading the bible.

Occasionally, Irene would gently stroke her hair and forehead with her divine-powered hands, and the viewers were dying of joy.

-HuhmmamamgHuhmmamamgHuhmmamamgHuhmmamamgHuhmmamamgHuhmmamamgHuhmmamamgHuhmmamamgHuhmmamamgHuhmmamamg

-This is what a saint looks like, lololol

-Se-ah, don't you plan on getting a permanent debuff and being taken care of for life?

-If you become disabled, will she feed you too? Let me know it's kind of urgent

-Lol, I'm going to reroll until a nun heroine comes out

"But, even though I'm not sick... being taken care of like this makes me feel like melting... Is this why men are crazy about women with maternal instincts?"

[91-year-old Kim Chun-bok's Will Reset donated 10,000 won!]

That maternal instinct might be of a different kind, but we'll stop there.

A video with no special content, featuring Han Se-ah lying down and Irene beside her, taking care of and comforting another beauty.

However, due to the appearances of the two featured, the viewers had no complaints even if she just talked away, reading the viewers' chats.

So, while I was web surfing, Han Se-ah received some care and chose the right moment to save and log out.

Naturally, she reconnected the next morning.

Grace and Katie, who had spent the night in a room after being fascinated by arrowheads made of special minerals and flints that supposedly take care of sword blades just by rubbing, woke up in the morning and handed over silver coins to the innkeeper, who appeared to be a stone dwarf, who without hesitation, gobbled them up.

"Hmm, it definitely tastes different. Ah, you can borrow the kitchen and ingredients, but I can't cook for you. I don't know how to cook for squishies."

"It's fine if we can use the kitchen."

Without a mouth, the dwarf examined the silver coin with delicate fingers, then swallowed it with their smooth face.

Like an invisible person biting into an apple, the bitten silver coin was halved, and the remaining half disappeared soon after.

Then, the stone dwarf, who had swallowed the silver coins as payment for lodging and ingredients, unexpectedly provided fresh vegetables.

Perhaps these came from other adventurers.

After lightly eating the sandwich Irene made, a stone dwarf visited our inn.

He said that Old Bobo sent him, toddled off, leading us somewhere, and what appeared was something bright red.

"......?"

"Could it be, is that a Vacuum Stone?"

What used to be a rough stone was nowhere to be seen, replaced by a beautifully carved piece of red crystal, sparkling brightly in an open field.

However, the reason both our party and I were surprised wasn't because of the polished gemstone, but because of the objects around it.

Various machines and metals were scattered around, and what supported the Vacuum Stone crystal was a broad, dish-shaped slab.

...So, it looked like a huge antenna-like machine was preparing to fire a Vacuum Stone beam.

'It feels like we've suddenly jumped from a fantasy genre to sci-fi?'

An enormous antenna that looked like it could start tunneling through the ground at any moment, or perhaps even shoot signals into space, stood before us.

Old Bobo was waiting for us in front of it, waving his hands to greet us.

"I thought it would take longer, but there was some old equipment left from before. Thanks to that, it took less time since we only had to process the Vacuum Stone."

According to him, the huge antenna-shaped equipment that sturdily supported the Vacuum Stone had been used when this city was built.

Anyway, standing in front of the prepared Vacuum Stone, Old Bobo asked us once again.

"With this, we'll create a passage towards the direction of Granny Pipi's city. And due to the noise and vibrations, monsters living underground will probably surge through the passage.

Since the Vacuum Stone only disintegrates rocks and earth... it will be up to you all to block them. Is that possible?"

"Of course, it's possible."

Constructing a passage connecting cities is a large-scale civil engineering project, typically requiring a large mercenary group to protect the area.

However, the only mercenaries in this city now were us five adventurers.

We might have freed ourselves from the harpy attacks called flappers and obtained the Vacuum Stone, but with only five of us, we felt a bit uneasy.

Still, with Han Se-ah's unwavering nod, Old Bobo activated the Vacuum Stone.

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Raei Translations

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The Vacuum Stone fired a beam.

Not a joke or a sarcastic remark, but a real beam of blazing mana started to cleanly slice through one of the underground city's walls.

Like pushing a red-hot iron rod into ice, the wall of rock began to hollow out and disappear.

As we momentarily stared, dazed by the strange spectacle, the laser slowly diminished after a certain period and suddenly turned off.

"To minimize the burden on the Vacuum Stone, we'll fire it periodically like this. Or, if annoying bugs emerge, we'll turn it off for a bit for combat, so please take care of that. The creatures also live off the rock, so they become aggressive when they sense the mana from the Vacuum Stone."

The red laser beam that began to gnaw away at the city's outer wall and the randomly appearing underground bugs became a defense game to protect the city and the Vacuum Stone from creatures called ground insects.

After a period of calm, as if they had no intention of attacking from the start, the first monster finally appeared following several breaks.

The light suddenly went out before time was up, followed by Old Bobo's loud shout from behind.

As if it had always been this way, the outer wall of the city turned into a smooth, hollowed-out passage, and ash-colored bugs burst in.

The monsters looked like rats or bean beetles that had been enlarged hundreds of times.

It was immediately clear why they were called "carapace bugs."

"Hmm, their shells look quite tough?"

"Maybe shooting them with some kind of dissolving liquid would work."

Despite their simple appearance resembling bean beetles, these creatures were about the size of a small car.

About eight of them wriggled towards us, threateningly clicking their large jaws located on their faces.

Bugs the size of small cars, with shells as hard as rock and mouthparts resembling those of a powerful carnivorous insect, but that was hardly enough to scare us.

Honestly, by appearance alone, the worms on the 30th floor were much scarier.

Perhaps because it's a defense-type quest, they moved at a much slower pace than the rampaging worms.

The carapace bugs approached sluggishly, and Grace shot arrows at them.

"Indeed, regular arrowheads don't even scratch them."

The arrow, slicing through the air with a menacing force, clinked ineffectually, falling to the ground.

The result, barely chipping off some rock fragments, was disappointingly minimal.

Grace, muttering under her breath, didn't hesitate to load and fire the second and third arrows.

The arrows flew swiftly, as if they couldn't possibly miss the slow-moving targets, which were approaching at the speed of a tractor at best.

This time, launching alchemical arrowheads, the swift arrows struck the monsters' foreheads and exploded with a bang!

"Wow, so they're incredibly tough in exchange for being slow?"

"But loading them with plenty of mana does the trick. It should be fine as long as they don't come in groups of dozens."

The bug, which looked like an insect and therefore had a weak head, slumped down as its head was blown off by Grace's arrow, which bypassed its defense and resistance.

Old Bobo ran towards us in surprise as the large corpse transformed into a fist-sized mana stone.

"What is that, that thing?"

"Oh, that's called a mana stone"

As a stone dwarf who lives off rocks and metals, he was shocked to see the monster's body suddenly turn into a beautiful stone.

Han Se-ah, realizing something belatedly, began to explain to Old Bobo about the monsters of the tower.

"Ah, I should've just brought a mana stone to show him. It's been so long since I've seen one because of the harpies that I forgot."

-Now that you mention it lol

-So, a craftsman who's lived his life touching stones will understand through the mana stone?

-After all that effort to persuade, they didn't bring any evidence, lol

-Why not just bring Manaashi over to show him?

Although he was wanted to rush towards the mana stone, there were still a few monsters left.

Old Bobo, unable to stay still like a puppy told to wait in front of a snack, presented a particularly striking image.

It turned out the race was quite serious about stones, as a few stone dwarves watching the battle were making a fuss just like Old Bobo.

"Do we have enough arrows?"

"As long as hundreds don't show up, we should be good, Roland."

Knowing that a well-aimed shot could result in a one-shot-one-kill, it looked like Grace would be quite busy for a while.

Even if the arrows were expensive, facing monsters that yield mana stones should prevent any loss.

Thus, the battle against boredom began.