Chapter 299: What’s up with this punk? 2

The team members moved deeper into the tomb .

It wasn’t that dark for them .

Their human power plant Julian was creating thunderbolts to provide light .

Ju-Heon was standing in front of the group . He had a pretty thorough grasp on everything inside as he cleared this tomb in the past .

For example, if there was a trap on the ceiling, he destroyed it before they even got there .

He didn’t even hesitate when facing any forks in the road . But Julian was groaning inside as they walked .

‘I just know it . Seo Ju-Heon… This bastard is planning on taking his own team members’ powers . ’

He was almost sure of it .

Why?

‘This bastard can steal the powers of abilities now . ’

Ju-Heon had leveled up during his fight against Hitler .

Ju-Heon had been using the Crow’s artifact for a while, but it only had an ability to suck in artifacts as if it was a black hole .

That could be considered Level 1 .

But now that Ju-Heon had leveled up fighting against Hitler, he could use Level 2 .

‘Using the abilities of the artifacts he ate . ’

Basically, he can replicate the powers of any artifact he consumed .

That was amazing .

‘Although he does seem to get a stomach ache afterwards . ’

Anyway, there was no way this bastard would not aim for the powers of the strong Heirlooms now that he had such an ability .

Even gobbling up a small portion of the Heirlooms should be at the level of A-Grade or S-Grade artifacts .

And if it is gobbling up only a portion and not the full Heirloom, it shouldn’t harm the original masters .

However…

‘It’s still scary to get eaten, you bastard . ’

They would probably feel the sensation of their artifact being gobbled up .

That was why the whole team was shaking in fear and had done their best to never show their Heirloom’s ability in front of Ju-Heon . The rest of them had shared information with each other .

It was almost to the level of making Ju-Heon an outcast .

But all of their efforts were for naught .

“Oh my, Julian is the challenger for the second trial . ”

“What?!”

Ju-Heon seemed to have made up his mind .

“Just use your Heirloom and blast your way through it . ”

Julian pointed to the text on the wall and shouted .

“Who are you trying to scam?! I don’t know much about Toombglyph but I do know that this is not my name!”

“Tsk, guess you found out . ”

Ju-Heon pouted, thinking that he shouldn’t have taught this bastard how to read Toombglyph .

“Anyway, Jaeha is the real challenger . Hurry up and go . ”

Julian gave him a suspicious gaze .

“……You’re not scamming us because we can’t read Toombglyph, are you?”

“How rude . It’s the truth . ”

It really did have Jaeha’s name this time .

However…

‘Although it looks like that Crow bastard quickly changed the name again . ’

But Ju-Heon, who would not miss that opportunity, smiled brightly .

“Hurry up and go . ”

‘……This punk is telling the truth, right?’

Jaeha gulped and headed toward the altar in the end .

‘Damn it, I hate tombs, I really hate tombs . ’

The test at the second trial was……

[Pick one of the three items . ]

It was a simple item choosing trial .

Items started to appear on the altar one by one .

Booboboboooooooooom!

First were gold bars!

It was actually a magic box that would continue to fill with gold bars .

The second item to come up was an old plate .

The team members were relieved after seeing that .

‘We can tell the right answer even without seeing the last item . ’

This was the Tomb of Avarice . They just had to avoid materialistic things .

It was something that even Jaeha could easily clear .

However……

“What the hell is up with the third thing?!”

The team members gasped after seeing the third ‘item’ that appeared .

[Please be gentle with me . ]

“?!”

A beautiful babe had appeared . She looked like Jaeha’s ideal woman and she was naked! Yoo Jaeha immediately froze .

Any man would have flinched at this sight .

Although his head was clearly telling him that this was not the right answer……

Although that really was the case……

[Master, you can do whatever you want with me . ]

“Really?”

The team members’ eyes opened wide after hearing Jaeha .

“Hey! Snap out of it! You know exactly what to pick!”

“Jaeha! I’ll set you up on a date! That’s just wrooooong! Please!”

Jaeha flinched before scoffing at them .

“Hey, I know . Do you think that I’m an idiot?”

The others felt relieved to hear that .

“Don’t look down on humans! The old plate is obviously the answer!”

Jaeha reached his hand out confidently .

However…

[Got you . You stupid human . ]

“?!”

Yoo Jaeha gasped .

Although he talked about grabbing the plate his hand was grabbing the babe!

Natural instincts truly were scary .

The babe smiled .

[Human, you failed . ]

“?!”

Jaeha, who had grabbed two things at once, fell into the trap .

“Squeeeeeeeeeeeeal!”

“Jaeha!”

Jaeha had turned into a pig . The area started to violently shake as well .

It was trying to push the pig Jaeha into a pen .

“You retard! That’s why you should have picked the old plate!”

Ilya urgently reached for the old plate . But Ju-Heon viciously kicked him .

“Ugh!”

“You’ll turn into a pig no matter what you choose here . ”

Ju-Heon used the Crow’s aura to grab Jaeha before he fell into the pen .

Jaeha started crying in relief .

“Captain-nim, thank you v…”

“Good, looks like we have pork belly for dinner . ”

“#$$&#!”

‘Are you really thinking about eating me?!’

“Captain, what do we do about that?”

A bit later, on the path to the next trial . The team was looking at a huffing Jaeha .

Maybe it was the side effect of turning into a pig, but Jaeha had returned to human form as a fat pig who was over 200kg .

They didn’t care that Jaeha was so fat, it was just that he was quite…slow .

“Can’t we just leave that behind?”

“No, he’s my emergency food supply . ”

“Captain-nim, your predation ability might be able to remove just the fat . ”

They were telling him to just eat Jaeha’s fat .

Jaeha pleaded to Ju-Heon as well .

“I’ll work all night if you want me to! Please get rid of the fat!”

Ju-Heon instantly rejected him .

“No thanks . I’ll get fat if I eat your fat . ”

“?!”

Well, that was true too .

“Captain-nim, you’re so handsome, being this fat is fine!”

A shocked Seol-A desperately grabbed Ju-Heon .

“W, who said that is okay?!”

‘Well, I do want to see a chubby Captain-nim at least once, but still……!’

As Seol-A was having trouble deciding what she wanted…

“Won’t you return to your normal self if you use the Phoenix artifact?”

“E, excuse me?”

Ju-Heon smiled mischievously and looked at Jaeha .

“What’s wrong? Doesn’t the Phoenix artifact do that too?”

“……E, excuse me?”

Yoo Jaeha was now sweating bullets .

Ju-Heon’s smile seemed dangerous and abnormal .

“I always found it so interesting that a couch potato like you was skinny . ”

“…… . ”

Jaeha slowly looked away .

It was because he understood what Ju-Heon was planning .

“The phoenix uses the energy stored in your fat as a medium for its fire, right?”

‘Did this guy make me turn into a pig to confirm that?!’

“Hurry up and return to normal . ”

“Damn it!”

Yoo Jaeha cried as he activated the Phoenix artifact . An intense heat surrounded him .

A vicious fire shot out of his body and something amazing happened .

“My goodness!”

Jaeha’s appearance had changed in an instant .

Ju-Heon’s eyes sparked with greed .

Ju-Heon had been having trouble digesting and worried a lot about the artifact calories(?) he was taking in ever since he got the predation ability .

But that was for later, as they started walking again .

Once they got close to the central region of the tomb…

[It is recommended that you do not go any farther . ]

[You should not go in . ]

The ground split open once he saw the message .

“Watch out!”

They all became anxious at the sudden earthquake .

Ju-Heon frowned .

He sensed a familiar aura .

He could feel the aura of his partner artifact that he had used so much in his previous life .

And as he had expected…

[Oh, so you are Seo Ju-Heon . ]

The tomb’s owner appeared as if it was concerned about how Ju-Heon was plowing his way through the trials .

“!”

Ju-Heon scrunched his eyes after hearing that voice . He had definitely heard this voice before .

‘Now I’m certain . It is that bastard . ’

It was his partner artifact .

Of course, he had not heard the voice so clearly back then . It was more of a mumbling and a whisper so that it was hard to understand .

He didn’t know whether it was male or female because of that .

But it was different this time .

And the reason Ju-Heon was shocked was not because of its voice . The others were shocked for the same reason .

[I wanted to see you at least once because you are so famous . Seo Ju-Heon . ]

A little girl had appeared .

She had white skin and light white hair with hints of purple . She had a pretty nose and cute lips .

The girl was smiling .

She looked so pretty and lovely that it was enough to capture everyone’s attention . This reaction from Jaeha was probably to be expected .

“If it’s this type of artifact, my Affinity should be enough…”

Jaeha tried to approach it as if he hit the jackpot .

However…

“Eek!”

A vicious aura brushed past right in front of him . It was so violent and chaotic that it would be able to cut off his flesh .

Julian shouted at that moment .

“It looks like that but it is still a dangerous artifact! Don’t get close to it!”

Jaeha, who almost had his nose sliced off, started crying .

The artifact in front of them truly was dangerous . Although she looked cute and had a lovely smile on her face, she was giving off an extremely chaotic aura .

Quite the dangerous murderous intent could be felt from her eyes . They had their Heirlooms but they still had to be wary of her .

‘But for the boss to suddenly appear like this…’

Julian scoffed .

‘Our captain is quite popular . ’

The reason the boss suddenly appeared was obvious .

They weren’t even at the boss room yet . But for the boss to show herself before they got there……

‘It doesn’t even like us going around the tomb and wants to kill us all . ’

Ju-Heon was quite infamous in the artifact world . It would not be weird for it to want to kill him .

The artifact did not hide its murderous intent as it approached Ju-Heon .

Julian became anxious and shouted .

“Why are you just standing there?! Hurry up and use your artifact! It’s aiming for you!”

Jaeha got ready to attack and clicked his tongue .

“My goodness, this guy’s bad habit is coming out again . Even if you are an artifactphile, that’s not allow……ugh!”

Ju-Heon kicked Jaeha away .

“It’s not like that . This bastard is the Archaeologist’s artifact I used in the past . ”

The entire team was shocked .

‘What? That’s it? That’s the thing that turned the Captain-nim into the greatest excavator?’

The ones to get the most angry were Jaeha and Ilya .

“Wow, I’m really angry at this point . Having a harem of human women wasn’t enough that he even has a harem of artifacts? Such a pretty little girl was the Captain-nim’s artifact?”

“Fuck, why are the artifacts discriminating so much?! I just have shitty devils by my side!”

“Everything I have is male! Damn it, why only the Captain-nim……!”

“Yes, this is very weird . ”

Jaeha smiled after seeing even Julian joining in .

“Good . Kongming, you’ve finally shown your true self . You never acted that way but I guess you are a man as well . ”

“That’s not what I’m talking about!”

Julian shouted to defend himself .