A Monster Hunter Born of Capitalism

“This is a real city... ”

Yooseong, who had infiltrated the ice city that appeared beyond the snow, had to be frightened to see the view unfolded before his eyes. The ice city that looked beyond the snow was not only a city, but also a real city with a market as well as a residential facility where monsters lived.

“They're not any kind of heretics.... ”

The Dungeon Orc Grock, a communicative monster, wasn't this far. We stopped in a small community called the Smart Ground Tribe, which was a fully functional city.

“You can't be the boss of some monster, can you? ”

If you build a city like this, you won't be a boss monster with dizzy intelligence.

He must be the boss with the most high-end intelligence.

“Eve, can't the language of monsters be interpreted by magic? ”

[It can't be done by standard interpreter magic, but it can be done by advanced interpreter magic. Cast to user?]

“Yes, cast it. If we can understand what these guys are saying, it might help a little. ”

Eve cast a magic interpreter on him, and he was able to understand what the monsters were saying.

“Did you hear that? I heard there was an avalanche on Mount Tebran and the Sultan Garrison was destroyed. ”

“I heard he couldn't even use the Ice Heart Forge in Sultan Mountain. ”

“Ew. I wonder what's going on in my country. Apparently, the king is preparing for war right now, but it's good that the king protects us from our enemies. And all of a sudden war? This is absurd. What difference does it make to us to die? ”

This conversation is getting a little intense. ’

I thought it would be a conversation of low-intelligence monsters like Natural, but the depth of the conversation was more than I could have imagined. The stories about drinking and listening to each other in the packaged wagon came from the mouth of the ice trolls.

“You said you were fighting the humans. ”

“So why are you suddenly fighting humans? Did you kidnap them? I don't get it. ”

“How do we know what humans think if we don't even know what our wives and children think? That's just the way it is. ”

Monsters in this dungeon have never invaded the city and have never abducted people, but they have killed the first and second investigators dispatched. A monster killed a man. The only reason was the garage overflow.

‘A king over that...... He must be smart. ’

According to the Ice Trolls, their leader, the Ice King, was definitely me.

The Ice King was the builder of this great ice kingdom and a powerful monarch who had surrendered himself to the many monsters in the dungeon.

One day, the Ice King called himself the King and successively succumbed to monsters scattered throughout the dungeons such as the Ice Trolls and Ice Golems, starting with the Barbarian hordes on the border. The Ice King, who brought monsters from the dungeon together with his powerful power, built this huge city of ice by chopping up mountains and carving up ice.

The Ice King, who founded the Ice City of Utgart, expanded the city through various policies. The orders of the Ice King were to build a huge ice barrier and train and arm armies to stop the unknown monsters in the dungeons.

It was quite an achievement to say that one monster had accomplished it. It was like seeing the myths of the kings' country in the old stories.

"What kind of monster is that Ice King?" ’

When Yooseong first entered this dungeon, he thought that the Albino Hop Goblin he had met before was the boss monster. But now I've changed my mind.

‘No matter how powerful an Albino Hop Goblin is, one Goblin cannot accomplish what this Ice Lord has done. The Ice King isn't a Goblin, but a much stronger one. ’

It was never possible to catch the Ice King alone. The size of the city was the size of the big city in Seoul. It took me hours to infiltrate the city. No matter how hard you try, it will be difficult to capture the city and capture the king.

‘A wide plains might have been a bit of a possibility, but not in a city like this, unless it was a bombing. ’

Until Lee Hyun and the punitive force arrived, there seemed to be no other way to spy on the city than by taking care of yourself.

‘Let's do some more research. ’

Yooseong got up from his seat. Once the punitive force arrives, there's no more reconnaissance, so we need to get as much information as we can right now. Yooseong has moved towards the center of the city.

* * *

The more you get into the city center, the more security you get. An armed group patrols the city at the heart of the city with an ice palace. And the troops guarding the ice palace were all made up of elite monsters. Hundreds of elite monsters who can stand alone against a dozen common monsters are guarding the ice palace.

Seeing the escort troops escorting the ice palace, his curiosity only increased. I wonder how much stronger the Ice King would be if their escort was made up of all the Elite monsters. It was a kind of curiosity, to be honest.

Although it was Yooseong's nature to avoid annoying collisions, he also had some curiosity.

That's why I was worried.

We can either finish scouting safely from here and wait for the punitive force to arrive or we can infiltrate the ice palace.

[Goddess of Practice: A stealth stand sharp.]

[666: Gazá!]

[Atheist: Moving with anything other than sitting still is more helpful to your point.]

[Black Star: This is gonna be fun. Let's go.]

The gods also encouraged him.

Yooseong, who was thinking about it for a while, finally decided.

“Eve, prepare the invisibility spell. ”

To infiltrate the ice palace.

Tsuzus!

As Eve casts the Transparency Magic, his body becomes more and more transparent. He saw that his whole body was completely transparent and jumped over the wall and into the ice palace.

"Let's not get greedy. We just need to figure out the internal structure and get out. ’

I didn't mean to be greedy. I could have run around feverish and greedy, and something could have happened that couldn't be undone. Yooseong was going to walk around the inside of the palace and only get a rough idea of the structure of the palace.

You can see Yooseong sneaking inside the ice palace talking to two monsters guarding the palace. Yooseong listened to the conversation of monsters.

“If the Ice Heart Forge is in the snow, what are we going to do with our equipment? ”

“The king is sending craftsmen to the forges inside the city to replace them, so the equipment we need will be fine." The problem is there's not enough armor for the conscripts. ”

“Why did the avalanche happen? There's never been an avalanche in the snow mountains. Sulfuric acid was always stable. ”

“I heard from Razul that there was a big explosion at the forge. ”

“Rajul? Is that the guy who works at the Sultan Garrison? I heard that all the Seoulite Garrisons were wiped out by the snow, but Razul survived. ”

“He said he was going down the mountain on patrol, so he lived close by. ”

“You said there was an explosion at the forge, right? Why was there an explosion? ”

“They're investigating now. ”

“Did the dimensional enemies do this? No, I'm preparing for a war with the humans. Maybe they did it. ”

An ice orc began to suspect rationally.

That was correct.

Everything that caused the avalanche by the bomb in the forge was done by Yooseong.

[Winter solstice: monster's sharp reasoning.]

[Goddess of Practice: The King's Goddess.]

[666: Honestly, Orcs are simple enough to fit right in.]

[Great Angel: The monsters in this dungeon are, on average, highly intelligent. I'm surprised that the Ice Orcs used to be so simple as primitive doctors.]

The gods were also quite interested in the conversation of the monsters.

“Oh, I heard the troops guarding the treasure vault are gone now, too? ”

“They're elite soldiers. There's a war coming. Elite Soldiers can't just sit around guarding a treasure vault, can they? They're all in the army, except one or two. ”

“Phew. Stopping the dimensional enemies sucked. Are they human now? Military life sucks. ”

“Of course. Let's go on patrol. Everything these days is for nothing if you get caught going back to the FM. ”

Monsters chattering started patrolling again.

“There's only two guards guarding the treasure vault now. Perfect timing for a thief. ”

There were only two guards guarding the treasure vault. The thieving instincts of the former slaver's warehouse and Yooseong who had cleaned out his house began to wriggle again.

‘It is a change in the first rank. ’

I need to change my priorities for a moment.

The monsters on patrol need to raise the treasure vault to the highest priority.

As long as the modifier "treasure" is attached, the contents of it will not be rubbish. Expensive luxuries and rare armor worthy of the name Treasure.

And stealing all of them would be a big help. I didn't know if it would help the Punitive Force, but I was sure it would help him with Yooseong's wallet situation.

Yooseong began to wander around the interior of the palace in search of the treasure vault the patrols spoke of. As he wandered around the palace for a long time, he could find a large ornate door and two ice orcs guarding it.

"A splendid door and two elite monsters guarding it. I'm sure. This is the treasure vault. ’

Although it's a little awkward that the door to the Treasure Depot should be well disguised to hide the existence of the treasure, this is probably the right place to store the treasure, considering there are only two monsters guarding the door.

At first, I thought this might be the room where the Ice King lives, but it wasn't just the two guards guarding the king's room. Yooseong reasonably suspected this place was a treasure vault.

‘I'm sorry, but you must die. ’

Heave-ho!

Ice Orcs guarding the door were ice Orcs as good as the Orc Grand Warrior. However, I couldn't stop Yooseong just by the skill of the Great Warrior.

And two ice Orcs, the guards guarding the entrance to the treasure vault, died from a sudden blizzard in their heads because it was a surprise attack under the spell of invisibility.

‘Huhu...... What treasure is in there? ’

Yooseong opened the door of the warehouse, holding the beating heart.

And I was astonished again by the sights that unfolded before my eyes.

An unimaginable sight opened in front of his eyes.