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Hassan’s Business
201 ? Hassan’s Business #4
“Just here.”
“Really, as Mr. Hassan said, there is a big, big hole! A hole this deep!”
Paranoia shivered in a hole so deep that the bottom was unknown.
Swish.
Then he picks up a rock that is lying nearby and tries to roll it inside.
Degururur, thud, thud, tak-, tak-.
Then, a rather round rock began to roll endlessly. It was so deep that I could tell it was a cave just by feeling it.
“Are you saying that the king of the goblins is here?”
“maybe.”
“… How dare you, how dare you-!”
Paranoy, who was shaking like a boiling kettle at my half-hearted answer, let out a loud scream.
“How dare a goblin use the title of king, while pushing aside Hassan! I cannot tolerate this…!! I will go and drag you out immediately…!!”
Paranoy seemed to be extremely angry at the so-called Goblin King.
Such vivid rage.
As expected, Paranoia’s mood swings.
That’s why I’m hesitating whether it was a good idea to call this guy or not.
Today is the day after discovering the rabbit hole.
When I actually tried to go in alone, it was already getting dark.
Also, I thought that if by some chance I couldn’t escape the cave, I might be reported missing, so I thought it would be a good idea to take at least one companion with me.
Because if there’s an emergency, you’ll need at least one person outside to alert people to the danger and ask for help.
So the person he called his colleague was Paranoy.
Paranoy knows that I can use necromancy, so it’s okay to bring me along secretly like this.
Of course, Luna did ask, “Hassan, where are you two going with Paranoy?”
When I vaguely said, “We’re hunting goblins,” surprisingly, no one asked any more questions, perhaps because the other person was a paranoid.
Rather, it was so sad to see him say, “I’m sorry I’m busy. I have to go with you as a regular party member!” It was so sad that it made my nose tingle.
Now that I think about it, it’s been quite some time since I went hunting with Luna and the party. At the time, I thought I was going to die from exhaustion, but now that I think about it, all those hardships are now just memories.
“Hassan, then why don’t you go down first…!!”
As I was lost in my thoughts, Paranoy’s voice woke me up from my thoughts.
“Are you telling me to go down first?”
“Hassan-nim, you are a powerful warrior who can easily subdue even the knights of Jupiter!! However, compared to Hassan-nim, I am just a weak nymph, so even if I go down first, it won’t be of any help…!!”
Usually, he emphasizes himself by saying that he is the best and right arm of the gods, but at times like this, he belittles himself by calling himself a weak nymph.
This kid-.
I noticed that Paranoy was scared of this pitch-black cave. I guess it must be scary.
To be honest, I was a bit hesitant to go down there. It was a cave where you never knew what would pop out.
But somehow, I started to feel annoyed when I thought that Paranoy was trying to use me as a shield.
“Paranoy, my right-hand man, Pararanoy. If you’re my right-hand man, you should be able to take the lead in places like this.”
“That, that… . That’s… .”
“You agreed to receive a 6 percent stake in hell. In order to stand above others, you need to know how to be brave and take the lead in times like this.”
“Is that so…?”
I could see Paranoy’s crimson pupils shaking violently. So Paranoy looked back and forth between my face and the pitch-black entrance of the cave.
“Then, I will accept only five pennies… .”
Then, finally, in a crawling voice, he cuts his share. It seems that he was so scared of going in that way that he gave up the compensation he was going to receive.
But I understood it. Paranoia was originally said to be afraid of narrow, dark places like caves.
It must be because I have flashbacks of my childhood, when I hid in a cave to avoid hunters. Trauma is not something that can be easily overcome.
Because I’m afraid of spiders, and I’m afraid of Elfriede.
We need to stop harassing Paranoia.
I looked around and said as if I had no choice.
“Then shall we send the lads first? Take out some bones from the bag.”
“If that’s the case, then Paranoy, the top believer, has already prepared everything…!!”
Paranoy, who had been gloomy until just now, poured out the full bag he was carrying on his back onto the floor as if trying to appeal to the fact that he was a useful person.
The bag that was swollen like a military uniform contained all bones. They were bones that had been secretly stolen from Luna’s material jar.
“How is it? Isn’t the condition really nice and good!? I, the paranoia, have carefully selected only useful bones-!!”
To me it looked like just a pile of bones, nothing special. Paranoy spoke proudly, as if he had done something great.
Since he was acting so smug as if he wanted praise, I decided to just tell him that he did a good job.
“Well done, Paranoy.”
“Hehehe, as Hassan’s right-hand man, this is something I should do, but… could you please raise the stake back to 6p?”
“no.”
Swish.
I gestured lightly towards the bones scattered on the floor. They soon began to fit together and fit together, forming into four or so bone goblins.
“My lord, you are using necromancy without a spell…? And you are using four of these blue-eyed Royal Guards… .”
At that sight, Paranoy was so moved that he trembled and didn’t know what to do.
Now that I think about it, this is the first time I’ve shown this guy the necromancy I’ve been practicing lately.
Even to a former socialite, do I think my skills are pretty impressive?
Well, I think it was said that in this world’s spells and magic, being able to cast spells without any warning was a skill for quite advanced users.
Elfriede is also known as an amazing adventurer because she can use fire magic without a spell.
Thinking about it that way, I felt a sense of pride and elation.
“This is the basics. Then go in first and lay some foundations, you rookies.”
So the small bone goblins were thrown down the narrow hole. After a while, the squeaking sound of them stopped.
『Settle the Minion Battle.』
『Task value + 11』
『Current task value + 321』
I was quite taken aback by the words that appeared before my eyes.
The fact that the task value has risen to 11 means that these goblins have killed something deep underground.
Sval, Paranoia, if I had taken the lead, we would have been attacked as soon as we got down.
“Okay, I’ll go in first, so follow me.”
“Understood! I, I will guard Hassan-nim’s back!”
Swish.
So I squeezed myself into a narrow hole. The hole was just big enough for me, a large adult male, to crawl down while lying face down.
I thought that if I had gained a little more weight or gained some muscle, I might have been stuck and couldn’t move. Fortunately, I don’t have claustrophobia or anything like that.
“Hassan-nim, Hassan-nim-! Th, the cave is getting narrower…!! The cave, the cave is trying to eat me…!! Su, I’m suffocating…!!”
Paranoy literally followed me behind and made all kinds of noise.
It was a size that even I, armed with many weapons, could easily pass through. How could a nymph who was two heads smaller and thinner than me struggle in the cave’s width? To be honest, it made no sense.
“Stop joking and come with me.”
“Ugh, ugh, it’s hard to breathe… .”
“Oh, you piece of shit. Then hold on to my leg.”
“Go, thank you…!”
So I had no choice but to continue crawling through the cave, leading the paranoia that was holding my ankle.
Kwaaaaak.
It was a little uncomfortable because it was hanging so tightly on my calf, but fortunately, it seemed to help Paranoia find some stability.
If Paranoy keeps making noise, I’ll get on edge too.
Swish, swish-.
After crawling like that for a while, I could vaguely realize that the ceiling was getting wider and it was starting to get easier to crawl.
The size that was barely wide enough to pass through by lying flat like a snake is now wide enough to allow you to raise your upper body, and soon enough, you can raise your entire body and walk through it.
I activated the “Shining Hand of Grace” and looked around, and there were dead goblins’ corpses on the ground.
Surrounding it are goblins with blue eyes glowing and growling.
“Okay, Paranoy. Drop some glowstones from here to mark the path. Got it?”
“What I’m best at is marking the way…!! If I do this well, will you give me a prize?”
“Okay, I’ll give it to you, so do it well.”
“Huh, huh, oh my… .”
Paranoy shivered as if he was motivated by the promise of a prize. He finally took out a shining stone from his bag.
Luminescent stone.
It is a stone that glows when exposed to light, and is quite expensive, costing 5 coppers each.
A glowing stone? It has many uses in this world without electricity. Adventurers, like me, often use it to mark paths in dark dungeons.
“Don’t lose it, and make sure to retrieve it on your way back.”
“You don’t have to worry about that…!! Then let’s move forward, Hassan!”
“okay.”
Swish, swish.
Before that, I didn’t forget to raise all eleven goblin corpses as dead. This brought the total number of resurrected goblins to fifteen.
It was my first time commanding so many goblins at once.
It’s nice that I can live my life without worrying about what other people think.
While I’m at it, let’s test how many goblins I can control at the same time. If they’re goblins, they’ll probably overflow from inside here.
While I was lost in such thoughts, Paranoy shouted loudly and exaggeratedly, “I have killed more than ten dead people without any spells or tools!”
As I watched Paranoy’s voice echo through the cave, the hairs on the back of my neck tightened.
“Hey, be careful, you never know what might happen. It would be best not to make too much noise if possible.”
“Wow, you are indeed wise…! But still, with so many dead people, it’s as if there is no separate march of death…”
It’s the march of death.
It was acceptable to half-listen to what Paranoy was saying, but there seemed to be no better expression to describe the sight of him commanding these ten or more dead men.
It feels very secure, with goblins guarding us from all sides.
“Well then, let’s go.”
So, with the blue eyes and I, we went deeper and deeper into the cave. The cave was longer than I thought and had many rooms, as if I had to say something.
“Wow, it’s so complicated! It’s like an anthill in the yard…!!”
Indeed, it felt like I had invaded a giant anthill, just as Paranoy had said. Of course, what was lurking inside were not ants, but ugly green monsters.
Keruugh!!
Kissit, kissit! Kissit!
Occasionally, groups of three or five goblins would appear, but they would soon be grabbed by the blue-eyed undead that would rush in at the same time as my gesture and torn to pieces.
『Settling the battle of the minions-.』
『Settling the battle of the minions-.』
be easy.
Easy?
Subal, is dungeon clearing really this easy?
Geeeeeeeeeeeee-!!!
As soon as the enemies appear, the goblins start roaring and rushing at me without me having to step forward.
They have no fear or dread, they just tear apart those they judge to be their enemies.
As my loyal henchmen take the lives of their victims, they become part of my death squad.
“Get up, you little brats-.”
Ugh, ugh-.
It is impossible to refuse conscription.
This is absolutely fucking absurd.
“This, this is how you insult life… . The ruthlessness of even turning freshly killed corpses into the helpless dead! This is truly the very essence of evil that is unparalleled under the heavens!”
In the darkness, Paranoy’s crimson eyes gleamed strangely.
Paranoy, whose face flushed with a strange joy, even stuck out his red tongue and licked his drying lips.
There was something eerie about its appearance, almost reminiscent of the time when I first met it at the Stomps’ logging camp and was terrified at the sight of it.
Now that I think about it, this guy was quite a scary socialite when I first met him.
“Hassan, you are truly a god-like majesty…!! By now, even the mere goblins will feel deep in their bones how foolish it is to oppose the Archduke of Hell…!!”
It was my subordinates who were fighting, but I couldn’t understand why Paranoy was getting more excited, but perhaps it was because of the magic of this dark and gloomy cave, but I didn’t mind hearing his compliments.
Whizz-.
In my eyes, I saw a green monster kneeling before my feet, trembling. Judging from the goblins of different sizes, I wondered if it was still a young one.
Cass. Cassette… Keuheu… .
The guy knelt down at my feet and held out something like a shard of glowing glass to me. At that very moment, Paranoy let out a growl.
“Hey, this kid just insulted Hassan by calling him a fool with dark hair like a stray dog!!”
For a moment I thought I had misheard, so I couldn’t help but ask again.
“No, what did you say?”
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