Seoul Station’s Necromancer Chapter 10:
Chapter 10 – To the Dungeon
Woojin grinned as he looked at his phone .
“This is great . ”
He purposefully gave him a fake phone number…
Since he already knew where he lived, Woojin wasn’t worried about meeting him again . He had been wondering how to ask Jaemin if he could stay over for a couple days . However, it seemed like he could be a little shameless now .
He had earned a great excuse .
Woojin walked lightly towards Jaemin’s rented room .
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“Whew . ”
Do-jaemin let out a sigh as he saw the kids slowly look away from his gaze . It was great that the bullies didn’t bother him anymore, but now his other normal classmates avoided him, except one person .
He was eating lunch by himself on a 6-man table when someone put a tray in front of him .
“Hey, I heard your big brother beat up all the bullies . Is it true?”
Jaemin sighed when Lee-soolgi asked her question . He admitted Soolgi was pretty even to him . However, he had to focus on studying . If he started dating someone, then it would be a betrayal towards his hard-working sister .
“Let’s just eat . ”
“Hehe . Is it true he is your older cousin?”
He guessed weird rumors were going around . Before Jaemin could explain the situation, Soolgi laughed lightly .
“Heh heh . I thought you were just handsome, but you also have some backing . Lee-soohyuk won’t bother us again . ”
His guilt toward his sister wasn’t the only reason why he tried to distance himself from Soolgi . Everyone in the school knew Lee-soohyuk, the bully, had a crush on Soolgi .
However, Soolgi didn’t even look at Soohyuk . She only hung around the handsome Jaemin, so of course, Soohyuk wouldn’t look kindly at Jaemin .
Jaemin had put up a steel wall towards Soolgi, so he could act tactful in front of Soohyuk .
‘I don’t need to act tactful any more . ’
Woojin wasn’t really his older cousin, but even if that rumor spread, it wasn’t a bad thing . The bullies won’t be able to do anything to him .
Jaemin decided to look at the positives . He didn’t have to walk on eggshells any more .
“Do you like me?”
Jaemin looked at her with a dumbfounded expression when she asked her straight-forward question . Why was this girl so aggressive?
Soolgi’s smooth brows furrowed, then she pouted .
“What? Am I not pretty?”
Of course, you are pretty . However, he couldn’t boldly say it with his mouth .
“Eh-he . Let’s just eat . ”
Study over dating . It wasn’t too late for him to date after he got a job . After the lunch period ended, Soolgi bothered him for a long time . Jaemin broke free from her, then he headed toward his tutoring school .
Rrring .
“Uh, big sister . ”
His sister, Do-jiwon, always called him around the time he headed toward his tutoring school .
[Is everything ok?]
“Nothing much . Oh yeah . I met a strange big brother yesterday . He said he was 5 years my senior, and he was an alumni of my school . Do you know him? He said his name was Kang-woojin . ”
His sister was also an alumni of Mido High school . Now that he thought about it, his sister was 5 years his senior, so she should have been in the same grade as Woojin .
[Huh? Woojin? He was a kid who suddenly went missing before the Dungeon Shock… . . ]
Jiwon remembered Woojin . However, she knew of his existence only because the entire school had known he had gone missing . During her school days, it wasn’t as if she was close to him .
“Uh, you know about him, big sister . I’ll give you a more through explanation when you come home this weekend . That big brother helped me out a little bit . . ”
[Ok, Jaemin . Sister’s break time is over . Study hard . ]
During her 3rd year in high school, his big sister was already busy working at the factory .
His big sister was the reason why he could go to school without worrying about his living expenses . Jaemin was also able attend a tutoring school . His sister, who was 5 years older, was both his mother and father .
She was the driving force fueling him to study hard .
“Oh yeah . He said he would give me my money back, but he just went away . . ”
Jaemin grinned before he knew it when he thought about Woojin .
He seemed to be crazy person, but he also didn’t seem like a bad person . He was really scary when he was beating up the bullies, but he had been nice to Jaemin .
Woojin’s beating of the bullies was well worth the 7300 won . From the beginning, he didn’t plan on taking back the money . However, Woojin had promised numerous times that he would repay him yet he had left without doing so . This thought made him laugh .
Ddi-dik, Ddi-rori .
After the tutoring school had ended, Jaemin dragged his tired body home when his eyes became round .
“Uh?”
He saw shoes he had never seen before . Moreover, that person was lying on his bed eating a tangerine .
“You are back, Jaemin?”
“B . . big brother . How did you know my secret pass-code?”
“I saw it last time when you pressed it . ”
“This…this is trespassing . ”
“Ah, I tried to call you, but someone else answered the phone . ”
“That…that is . ”
As if he felt guilty, Jaemin stuttered when he spoke .
He really thought he would be extorted and put in a bad situation, so he had given him a fake number… .
“Bitch . Do you think I’ll hit you? Just come over here . I have something I have to ask you . ”
Jaemin was nervous, so he sat rigidly . It was a strange scene where it looked like the ownership of the house had been switched . Woojin popped a peeled tangerine in his mouth as he asked a question .
“You said the Roused make a lot of money?”
“Th…that’s true . ”
“I read there were guilds, associations and a lot of things like affiliations . I’ve also read some Dungeons were disclosed to the public, and it was monopolized . Explain it to me . ”
It was such an out-of-the-blue question that Jaemin tilted his head in confusion .
“Why are you asking about that all of a sudden?”
“I want to attack the dungeon . ”
“Big brother is one of the Roused?”
Jaemin asked in surprised, then he kicked himself . Woojin had defeated over twenty bullies in a flash . If he wasn’t a Roused, his god-like movement couldn’t be explained .
He believed him like an idiot . He thought he had learned martial arts on the Jiri Mountain .
“I just need some money . Tell me what you know . ”
“If you want to enter a private dungeon, you have to register yourself with the Association as a Roused . ”
Originally, Jaemin already had a lot of interest in the Roused and the Guilds . No, it could be said every male around his age was interested in this topic .
Woojin quietly heard his zealous explanation, while he peeled another tangerine .
“So I just have to register myself as a Roused, then I can make the most money by attacking the Dungeon by myself?”
At Woojin’s words, Jaemin hit his chest as if he was frustrated . Did he even listen to his explanation?
“That is how the rate is calculated . However, it is too dangerous, so it would be best if one joins a Guild . If not, you could get a job at the Association or government bureau . ”
“I hear you have to take an entrance exam for a Guild? I don’t have time to wait for the result . Doesn’t the Associations, and government bureaus all work on monthly salaries? I can’t wait for a month . ”
Jaemin shook his head .
“Then, at the very least, you have to form a party . Dungeons are a really dangerous place . Oh yeah . You said you bought a cell phone? Be sure to download this app . ”
“App?”
Woojin wasn’t familiar with smart phones, so Jaemin downloaded the app in his stead .
“I’ll do it for you . Uh? This is Gallery1 . Wow, people still use this . Did one of your family member use this?”
“Is . . isn’t that the newest model?”
“What? Maybe if it was 4 years ago . Did you perhaps buy it as a new item?”
At Jaemin’s reaction, Woojin knew he had been duped .
‘That mother **** phone salesman . ’
He conned the ultimate necromancer . If this was Planet Alphen, such an event was unthinkable .
“Ah, this is so slow . Anyways, this is the Dungeon Forum . Originally, this was the subway info app . However, the Roused Association purchased it, and they remade it . Now it is a comprehensive portal app that deals with everything related to the Dungeons . ”
Jaemin prattled on as he dumped out all the info he had . As he had said, the Dungeon Forum was a comprehensive app .
It had a section for hiring members to attack Dungeons . It also had a function where one could search for Dungeon in its attack time period . It also warned people of a dangerous Dungeon where a Dungeon Break will occur soon .
“Once you register as a Roused with the Association, you will log in with your Roused ID . It’ll even give you a record on who failed during mid-dungeon attack . ”
“Hmm . ”
Woojin fiddled with the app to learn how to use it .
“Anyways, I just need to search for a Dungeon in mid-attack, then I can challenge it?”
“I heard it is safe to go to a captured Mine . ”
It displayed information about the captured Dungeon Mines . It gave the location of the most important item, the Return Stone . It also listed which monster appeared and it was much easier to form a party . It was considered to be comparatively safe .
The problem was he had to give a fixed amount of loot he found in the dungeon to the Guild or Roused, who first successfully captured the Dungeon . He also had to give a fixed service charge to the Association, and another commission to the first person who captured the Dungeon .
Since Woojin hadn’t recovered his previous power, he thought it was a good choice to enter a captured Dungeon with an exploration term . The problem was coming up with the entrance fee he had to pay when he entered the Mine for the first time . It was a burdensome sum for the current Woojin .
Since one had had to risk one’s life during a Dungeon Attack, everything was free . The Mine was a gold mine where one could get items, monster’s corpses and blood stones . Therefore, it required an incredible amount of commissions, and entrance fees .
“So a dungeon where I could make a fair amount of money has an entrance fees that is over 100,000 won?”
“T…that’s correct . ”
There were numerous Dungeons with higher fees, but there were no Dungeons below it . The free Dungeons were abandoned Mines like the Gwachun Station’s 1st exit, where one couldn’t make any money .
Woojin thought about it . He could challenge a Dungeon in mid-capture to get a sizable windfall, or he could aim for a safe captured Mine with less profit .
He agonized over the decision, but his answer was decided . The thought of his family prevented him from doing a reckless challenge . He wasn’t some apostle of justice . He had no reason to put his life on the line to clear a Dungeon in mid-capture .
Moreover, he couldn’t return to his mother to ask for the entrance fee… . .
“Let me borrow some money . ”
“…… . ”
At the bold Woojin’s words, Jaemin felt like he had fallen into a trap he couldn’t escape from .