114. A + X = New World

I informed the commander and Ho Jin the information that I obtained from the goblin Karin.

It was because the commander had requested me to share information with him before.

That was one of the reasons why I visited.

The other reason was that I needed help from them.

It was possible to do it alone, but it would take a long time if I did so.

I asked the two that were sitting in front of me.

"This was what I wanted to let you two know of first. I wasn"t able to obtain information about the monsters or their weaknesses, but it"s still better than nothing."

"Hm…. Thank you. It"s something at least. So they"re extremely strong."

"Yes. It seems it won"t be an easy fight."

"We"ll have to be fully prepared….."

"Thank you, Mr. Min-Cheol. But what about that favor you wanted to ask of us? What would that be?"

"Ah. I wanted to learn about the location of a hidden portal."

"The location of a portal?"

"Yes. The level 34 portal dungeon in Paju that you informed me of isn"t useful anymore."

"Ahem! Ahem ahem!"

At my words, Ho Jin looked at the commander.

The portals were spread throughout the entire nation.

Out of those, not many were higher than level 30.

The locations of those portals seemed to be treated as cla.s.sified information in the a.s.sociation.

It appeared as though that he didn"t report to the commander about informing me such locations yet.

However, the commander smiled as if he had expected this ahead of time.

"Do you now understand now why my mood lightened when our lad Min-Cheol entered, HoJin?"

"Hohoho. My apologies. I forgot to let you know…."

"Ah….. Seems I spoke out of turn."

"Hoho. You probably knew it already, right commander?"

"I had my suspicions with the master ID disappearing from time to time. It"s not an issue. You made the right decision."

"That"s right, hoho. Then…."

"My lad Min-Cheol. Tell me. What is the portal level that you wish to know the location of?"

"Hm…. 40? Since the year has pa.s.sed, isn"t there a level 41 portal now?"

"Since it hasn"t been the date of the first portal"s appearance, the portal ring wouldn"t have increased by one yet. Almost as if there needs to be a birthday or something, the portal level won"t rise until exactly 365 days have pa.s.sed. You"ll need the location of a level 40 portal then."

"Yes. I"ll be counting on you for the locations of portals in the range of level 38 to 40 please."

"But Mr. Min-Cheol. As you told me before, I thought you don"t gain much from leveling? It would be better for you to obtain skills instead….."

"Hm…. He probably wants to obtain artifacts."

"Yes, that"s right. I"m asking in order to obtain artifacts from hidden bosses of the dungeons."

"Oho…. If that"s the case, there isn"t much time to spare."

"Yes. Since I have no idea which of the dungeons a hidden boss would appear in, I"ll have to invest a ton of time in order to find out."

"All right."

The commander immediately picked up the phone on the table. It seemed as if he wouldn"t even sleep in order to give every bit of his time to support me.

"Yes, commander."

"Thank you for your hard work. I appreciate you working still even in these late hours, secretary Kim. Could you have department head of strategy An report in here?"

"Understood, commander. Is there anything else you need?"

"Please request permission to open x cla.s.sified files from him. We need to do so here, right now."

"Yes, I shall call him to let him know."

"I thought you knew about all the locations of the dungeons?"

"Hohoho. I just know the general gist of them. There"s someone else that takes care of that."

"Aha….."

"Did you inform our lad here without asking permission from the department head of strategy?"

"Hoho. There was no point of having more people guilty of something that I came up with, commander."

"Ho! Ho! Ho! That makes sense. Is Jeong-yeon doing well?"