Volume 15, Chapter 4: "Demonstration of Ability"
Short Summary[]
Weeds gets the message that the 2x bonus lasts for another 6 days and 11 hrs. He thinks how Cyanide probably suffered a lot to find this dungeon since he had to decipher the book. Weed thinks about thoroughly reading the book.
He then uses moonlight sculpting blade to hunt. He considers how normal people would use his Wings of Light here, where as Weed knows better. A second is all that is needed to end up dead, and using the Wings in his dwarf state is like being a drunk dwarf and the direction changing would also be dangerous.
Weed whispers Reumi on their status. She says they’re at 55% and will probably die in about 30 minutes. Weed turns his back on the entrance to the 2nd floor and says “then we have a free moment” before using his Wings to gather the japtem during high speed flight.
He stabs a monster a fatal blow for an additional 382% damage due to the speed bonus. He says he was lacking as a sculptor, and that he should have made the Wings earlier to make dungeon hunting faster.
Its said that it would be more situational, since flying in wide areas opens him up to arrow attacks and other disadvantages. Nevertheless, he still beats himself up for it. By flying in the air, Weed gets to avoid traps and eventually finds the rock trap Hegel and the others activated.
He notices the rock between him and the others is 10 meters thick. He thinks no choice because they would die if he went around. He then pulls out a sculpture of a girl laughing with adventurers and relentlessly twists it neck.
He activates destruction sculpture losing 5 art and 100 fame and puts the bonus stats into strength. As a muscular dwarf his figured surpassed barbarians with the exception of height.
Weed then rams his body and sword into the rock and his health decreases to 2/3rds. As a man, he resolves to do it again, this time without hesitation or he will be the one to suffer. He then accelerates to 30% maximum with the wings and uses moonlight sculpting blade this time to smash through.
Reumi is at 350 health and the group laments over their deaths when they hear the earth shake. They ask Reumi if she told Weed to come here, while wondering how a sculptor reached this area. Reumi whispers Weed again but gets no answer.
With the 2nd shock, Weed bursts through the rock and shows up flying in the air. He then cuts them out of the spider web. They are dumbstruck at the muscular dwarf with a long sword. They get ready to escape, but the passageway Weed just broke through gets blocked again by rolling boulders.
They ask him about the rocks and he says they’re probably because he activated a trap. They shout are you kidding me and ask why Weed even bothered coming. Weed ignores them and proceeds to collect the spider webs for silk.
When he’s about to put them into his backpack, spiders surrounds him so he murders them with his sword dance. He tells them to get out the way because he can’t afford to waste time. He avoided destroying the webs for silk and charges at the spider queen with its lvl ranging in the late 380s and 12 big legs.
Having used destruction sculpture, he spends his time in a hunting frenzy. The spider queens and her minions start fleeing but Weed chases the queen and spams kaiser sword at her underbelly using his single point attack arts. With kaiser sword, destruction sculpture and sword grind, he exhibited the full offensive power of sculpting.
Hegel and the others can only stare dumbfounded at his damage. As the spider queen dies, Weed loots his trophies as Hegel stutters. “He, he said sculptor.” Hegel sort of believes he’s a sculptor because he’s collecting sewing materials, but is still in disbelief since that active movement was real swordsmanship, not a skill that most users can use.
The narration talks about how experience shows and masters of fighting in reality are bound to show differences in hunting. Weed then bandages himself of with his mastered cold bandage skill and closes his eyes to meditate at 8% health.
The party is saying that he took way too much damage from the spider queen and without a priest to heal him, there is no way they can continue. Once Weed finishes his healing he starts heading for the shrine with the rest in tow.
Choe Jihun and Lee Hayan are on a date, approaching him to fix things. They weren’t a couple but were still in a pretty intimate relationship. While drinking strawberry milk, Hayan does impersonations. Lihun thinks how its the first time hes in love and asks what Hayan looks for in a man.
She responds 187 cm, 78 kg, nice ankles, slim yet muscular, hobbies include cooking and cleaning, 200 million salary and 28 yrs old. Jihun goes quiet and shes says its a joke, she just wants someone who can give her love.
Jihun gets tongue tied and thinks of his own attractiveness and skill with women and how the conditions didn’t apply to hayan. He had all those since birth but compared to Hayan was a pretty insignificant person.
Jeong Ilhun then shows up behind Hayan while looking for a present for Cha Eunhui. Hayan asks what’s wrong since his face darkens. He says nothing so Hayan tells him she’s going to leave since the lighting will be gone soon. He offers her a ride since he needs to escape from this place.
She says its only 5 bus stops and she won’t have to transfer. Jihun says by taxi then. She tells him save his money or is he even going to use a taxi to get home too. He can’t say anything since he was usually escorted in limos and what not since he was a kid.
They say their goodbyes and then Ilhun says in a loud voice run away or die. Ilhun drags Jihun to a park. Ilhun asks if he really likes Hayan which he says yes since he can’t deny his heart. Ilhun wants to see if he’s really serious, considering his past dating relationships.
Jihun says he loves her and for 10 mins explains that he thinks about her all the time and hears her voice in his sleep. Jihun then realizes how she’s different from those other women, about how not being able to see loved one hurts.
Ilhun puts his hand on his shoulder and says he accepts his resolve and tells him to start coming to the dojo every day. The practitioners put him through hell training and are both angry and jealous.
They asks if his love for Hayan is fake to which he says its real. They tell him its ok to run away. He just won’t leave the dojo then. They say they will catch him if he does.