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Chapter 30 - The Djinn and Gari Mountain (3)

Ginseng served many purposes.

Consuming it would increase one's stats, and grinding it down and using it as a medicinal ingredient would produce about ten high rank potions. One could even use it for a process called enchantment. In this process, the magic power contained within the ginseng was added to an item, giving it a special effect.

But I didn't have the necessary equipment to make potions nor a connection with a magician to help with enchantment. As such, I could only eat it or sell it.

"Eating it is a bit..."

This ginseng should go for 700 million won. Since I could use Violet Banquet to sell it, I didn't have to worry about being scammed even if I had to pay more in fees. If I sold it now, I could invest the money in stocks and easily get a return of 4~5 billion won. That was enough to buy 7 of the same ginseng.

"...Argh, this is hard."

The unexpected fortune only increased my worry.

For now, I put the ginseng away in my bag.

I could think about this first-world problem after I found the Gari Mountain Dungeon.

**

Standing in front of a cave, I dusted my hands. Dirt rained down on the ground.

"So this is why it hasn't been discovered until now."

Huu. After taking a deep breath, I glanced behind me. An inch away from my feet was a razor-sharp cliff.

The Gari Mountain Dungeon was located in the middle of a cliff, buried in moss and vines.

I could feel my heart thumping. Even with Parkour, the journey had been too difficult. Without Stigma's magic power as insurance, I would have been too scared of falling to try.

"Hmm."

I looked into the dark cave without going in. My Thousand-Mile Eyes repelled the darkness and widened my vision. Not long afterward, I discovered the switch monster. It was a ghost.

Just like in the original story, the Gari Mountain Dungeon was an undead dungeon.

Monsters in this dungeon included dullahans, banshees, and other undead monsters which ranged from grade 9 to grade 3 of low-intermediate rank. The boss should be a death knight, so it was impossible for my current self to clear the Dungeon.

In the first place, not even Tomer had fully cleared this Dungeon. A death knight was a high-intermediate rank grade 1 monster. Defeating it was impossible without a high-rank Hero.

It seemed I would have to be content with just knowing where the Dungeon was. With my current strength, just beating the 'hidden stage' would be impossi...

"No."

I looked into my bag. The ginseng I just picked up was strutting its glorious and tantalizing appearance.

"..."

A hidden stage was a completely isolated space from the standard Dungeon, making it significantly easier to clear. In addition, this hidden stage's reward was better the quicker one took it. Above all, I didn't want to constantly worry about Tomer coming here quicker than in the original story.

Like I said before, the hidden stage's reward was a formless weapon called Aether. Because of its lack of a clear form, it was easy to misunderstand it as a lump of magic power, but the reason Aether was called a weapon was because of this property. Because it had no form, it could change its form to whatever its user wanted. Furthermore, Aether was an evolving weapon.