The S-Classes That I Raised

t was reasonable, more than the building’s or land’s average sale price was offered.
Of course, it wasn’t that there weren’t any tear-inducing situations where the land was extremely pricey and an F-Rank dungeon, which was rock bottom in terms of profit, interfered with the building’s redevelopment[7].

‘I feel like I’ve come back to work after a long vacation,’

Looking at the bluish gate that was stabilized because attacks were done regularly, I mumbled.
No, it wasn’t that long.
And I was busy because of other things.
I couldn’t rest much.

I needed more vacation.
No, I wanted to throw down a letter of resignation.
I had to go around doing dungeon attacks again after even regressing?

Why would I repeat something agonizing that I had done to the point of being sick of it, when even nice things were enough after once or twice? It wasn’t like I was a high-ranking Hunter heaped with money and honors, and like dungeons would burst open one by one just because I alone was left out.

I definitely should relax around.
My dream since I was young was to be a rich bum.

“The dungeon gate will be maintained for one hour after activation.”

Yoohyun placed himself in front of the fledglings[8] and explained like an experienced Hunter.

“Once one hour has passed, either we finish the attack, or an inactive state persists as long as the Hunters inside haven’t annihilated everything.
It means that we will stop being able to go in and out.
Of course, it doesn’t mean that there isn’t a method for an emergency escape, but items for escape are very rare.”

Then he pulled out and showed a gate stone.
It was rare even 5 years later, and right now, it was something hard to even glimpse, but he had one.

“Currently, there are only twenty two in the country, and they are single-use.
So, you must never challenge a dungeon that is over your ability.
Even if you discover a dungeon reaching a saturated state, please do not think of saving time with your life if possible.”

Yoohyun said, looking straight at me.
What, punk.
I didn’t have any intention of doing something crazy like that.

If you rushed into a saturated dungeon, you could postpone a break until the Hunter who entered, died.
But I was an F-Rank so maybe I would hold out for about one minute.
It wouldn’t make a difference whether I ran in or not, so I would just notify the Association and run away; would I be crazy and go in?

After going on about various precautions outside, Yoohyun went inside the gate first.
You couldn’t know the situation inside the gate from outside, so usually the strongest or the person with the highest defense ability entered at the lead.

Of course, entering individually was absolutely forbidden, and it was standard to form a group and consecutively go in, but right now it was a practice.
The novices could wait for the the training instructor to secure safety and then follow in.

“Let’s start to go in now.”

Since about 5 minutes had passed, it had probably been arranged enough.

At my words, Yerim fearlessly stepped into the gate quickly.
Then, I pushed in the hesitating Myeongwoo and went inside.

As soon as I went through the gate, the very first thing I felt was an acrid smell piercing my nose.

Then I saw a wide-open sky and a rock cliff, and the wreckage of the burnt remains of monsters.

I thought it would be loathesome place, but my heart was beating fast.

It was a different world that you could reach even with just one step forward.
Unfamiliar air, unfamiliar scenery, that sense of alienation from nobody being able to come in once the door shuts.

It could be an escape, or it could be a liberation.

Whichever it was, to me, who was being pressed in by all sorts of things, that moment through the door was a sweet instant.

‘Of course, after that it was all bloody.’

The sentimentality was just to here.

Now, I didn’t have debt, and wasn’t called trash, and my relationship with my dongsaeng was good.
Hooray regression.
The person who made the system that passed down the wish stone, thank you.
Who cared if you made some typos.
But, please be more detailed about the skill explanations.
Please.

“The surroundings nearby are safe.”

Han Yoohyun, who wasn’t even holding a weapon, said.
Then again, it was a low-grade D-Rank dungeon, so even if he briefly used just his skills, everything would be wiped out.
But it wasn’t so for me and Yoo Myeongwoo.

“Let’s get up to, not a lot, but just level 10.”[9]

Let’s try riding the S-Rank bus.
When I pulled out a spear from my inventory, Myeongwoo, who was looking around, lifted his weapon too.
Both of us chose lances.
With the equipment options prioritized for defence and strength, the intention was completely for profiting off things thrown our way.

“Me too, I can help too!”

Yerim said, swinging around a rapier.
No, you should raise your level.

“What helping.
Even if you hunted backbreakingly[10], you can’t get 10 levels.
You heard already that following stat rank, the difference in experience amount for levels is a lot.”

“Was that so?”

“You really did doze off during the class, huh.”

“…I didn’t sleep but just thought about other things a little bit.”

Well, she was at the age when not wanting to study was at its peak.
Of course, no one wanted to study even after hitting thirty.

“The difference between the amount of experience needed for each level for a stat rank F and for S, is about five times.
In return, the amount of stat growth for each level is much higher for S-Ranks.
Judging by efficiency, F-Ranks are pitiful to the point of tears.”

So, Yerim needed to do well here to go up about 5 levels.
There was a little bit of a difference between dungeons, but if it was a low-grade D-Rank, you had to monopolize it to get about 7 levels.

As you went up in level, the requirement for amount of experience also increased, so she probably had to clear two more D-Ranks to get 10 levels.

“Let’s move out.”

Yoohyun said, walking along the road between cliffs.
Wait, weren’t those things between the piled up ashes, magic stones?

“You’re not packing up the magic stones?”

“Ah… I’ve never picked them up myself so I forgot.”

Yes, it would be like that.
To that amazing dongsaeng of mine, D-Rank magic stones would be about the cost of chewing gum, but it wasn’t for me.
At any rate, I was wondering how I would find ten thousand knives, but I should pick those up and sell them to buy some.

“Yerim, can you adjust Sigh’s chilliness to a minimum, air volume to a maximum, and blow away just those piled up ashes?”

“I’ll try.”

Soon, an extremely cold wind blew.
Like its name, it was in the form of a fog spreading from a sigh, so it wasn’t a strong wind, but since it was focused on air volume, it was enough to blow away the ashes.
Three D-Rank magic stones.
I will use them well.

“I can take these, right?”

“Of course.”

I love you, dongsaeng-nim.

“So I can use Sigh like this too.”

“It probably wouldn’t be very useful, though? Still, it would be good to raise practical ability.
You’re going to keep going into dungeons, so try using your skills in the most diverse, uncommon ways possible.
There are a lot of cases when helpful uses were discovered while messing around.”

“Yes!”

Speaking of, was that guy Yoohyun using all his skills well? When I used Seed-Leaf before we went into the dungeon, I saw that he had gotten all of his optimized skills so there wasn’t anything I needed to do.

Since he had 3 years of work experience, I thought it would be so, but I was little regretful.
Once the cool down time was over, should I look around at the random skills? It just might happen that a great one would pop up.

[1] again, it means more like ‘person in charge’ but I thought ‘instructor’ fit better in eng

[2] 빠지다: I’m not sure what this word means in this context.
when I read the paragraph to my dad, he said it’s probably ‘inattentive’ from ‘바람이 빠지다’ though I couldn’t find that kind of def in the krn dict (which has phrase def.s), but anyways I think it can also mean that they’re skipping the class.
However, he does use it as an adj later down the ch which indicates it’s likely to be ‘inattentive’

[3] he was probably going to say sth like ‘let’s at least see their face’ but since the verb is last in krn, it was left out, so that’s why the sentence looks a little awk in eng

[4] this sentence has the word (잘알) I was confused about in ch.
26 footnote [6].
I found a couple more examples, and I think it’s slang used both as a noun and a verb, but most likely used as a noun (+ ‘to be’, which was why I had thought it was verb) in both instances in this novel.
It’s probably 잘 (well, good) + 알다 (to know), used to mean an expert/sb who knows sth well, as much as I can infer.

[5] lit.
‘were in a condition of being borrowed barley sacks’, where, for ‘borrowed barley sacks’, the krn-eng dict gave a weird tl for, but the krn dict told me are ppl who sit quietly to the side while other people around them are talking and laughing

[6] hoobae is the opp.
of sunbae, so sth like ‘underclassman’ or sb from work/the same field who is less experienced

[7] the ‘interfered… redevelopment’ part is from the lit.
‘do 알박기’, where the krn dict tells me 알박기 means ‘an action where you buy a little of an important part of an area scheduled for redevelopment and outrageously inflate the price to interfere with the development and extort a lot of money from the developer’.
Idk anything about real estate so idk if there’s a term for that in eng

[8] lit.
‘newly hatched chick’ but it’s used metaphorically like ‘newbie’/’rookie’/’novice’, the way ‘fledgling’ is in eng & they’re both bird metaphors

[9] lit.
‘I’ll request up to…’ kind of like that standard ‘take care of me’ phrase but in this case it’s more like ‘I’ll ask you to help me get up to…’ or ‘I’ll ask you to get up to…’

[10] lit.
‘so that [your] bones fall out’