Only I Level Up: Ragnarok - Episode 57
Only I Level Up: Ragnarok Episode 57
In Gangnam, there are private spaces that only VIPs can use..
Queen Bee).
This room salon, which means queen bee, was one of them..
But among them all, Queen Bee was a little special..
only hunter.
In other words, it was a unique establishment that only accepted people who had awakened their abilities as customers..
Of course, since the price of alcohol was very expensive, it was mainly used only by upper-middle-level hunters who could make good money..
It was only a few months ago that Vice President Lee Min-seong first discovered Queen Bee..
But when I came to my senses, I realized that I had become a regular here..
‘……Since when did it start?.’
Even in his confusion, Lee Min-seong realized that he was currently trapped in something like golden jelly..
‘Sweet.’
A familiar taste on my tongue.
It was honey.
Lee Min-seong soon realized what this familiar taste was..
‘royal jelly.’
It was the scent of the high-quality liquor he enjoyed drinking at Queen Bee..
A conversation I once had with Madame flashed through my mind..
-Madam, what on earth is this drink? I looked elsewhere, but it wasn't sold anywhere..
-Hehehe. It's a trade secret..
Although I asked several times, Madame always changed the subject with a suspicious smile..
If it had been my usual temperament, I could have pressured him and forced him to find out, but I thought it was cute that he was being sassy even when he was an A-class hunter, so I left him alone with the intention of playing with him..
But now that I think about it, I think I may have been possessed by something from then on..
Lee Min-seong looked helplessly at Madame's appearance beyond the sticky golden vision..
Madame was still smiling at herself..
Anger welled up to the tip of my head at that smile..
But something is strange.
As time passed, his anger was gradually dissipating..
And what comes into that empty space of emotion is…….
‘What is this feeling? What on earth?!’
Lee Min-seong gritted his teeth and tried to reject that feeling..
But Madame was muttering as if she thought even that side of herself was cute..
“There is no use in refusing. You've already eaten too much royal jelly. So stop now…….”
Madame's delicate hands touched the necklace she always wore around her neck..
The green jewel embedded in the necklace shined brightly..
[Be faithful, my worker bee.]
“……!”
Gurgling!
The moment the whisper of Madame, or rather the Queen, hits your mind..
Lee Min-seong opened his eyes and trembled..
And an instinct that I didn't have sprouted in my head..
‘……my queen.’
* * *
Once upon a time there was a monarch.
Quresha, King of Bugs and Lord of Plague.
The dimension where Queresha was located was a world infested with hundreds of millions of poisonous insects..
In that world, Queresha was originally just a bug..
The most fragile and smallest insect than anyone else.
Originally, it was a weak little creature that should have been eaten by a larger natural enemy or rotted away by the venom of a stronger poisonous insect..
But Quresha survived that terrible place..
Instead of just running and hiding, he grew little by little by eating the corpses of bugs that were bigger and stronger than him..
Absorbing the abilities of those insects.
As that terrible poison accumulates in the body,.
Queresha became stronger and stronger..
When the poison accumulated in the body becomes stronger and more severe than any other insect..
Quresha became the king of that world..
and.
Queen bee 'Arsha' was a resident of that world..
‘……I was really embarrassed when the great and strong Quresha died..’
The existence of a monarch in one dimension is important.
The world of bugs, which was a hotbed of strife, existed as a strong colony centered on Queresha..
However, the moment Quresha died, the remaining insects began to show their ambition to take over the empty space..
‘I dare not even know the topic…….’
In that confusion, Arsha realized her destiny..
Queen.
Arsha, who was originally born as a queen bee, thought that she was worthy of being the next monarch..
I had no doubt that if there was anyone who could succeed Queresha, it was only him..
However, the world that had already lost its monarch was torn into pieces and scattered into the gaps of the dimension..
It was quite by chance that Arsha, who had been wandering through the gap in that dimension, was able to arrive on Earth..
‘No, it was fate.’
As soon as Arsha arrived on Earth, she imitated herself as a human..
And he naturally blended into the earth in a more human form than anyone else..
Unlike the demonic beasts from other dimensions who ignorantly tried to take over the Earth using only their power and died, Arsha chose to adapt like an extremely insect..
No, to put it nicely, it was an adaptation, but in reality, it was parasitism..
‘I can't believe I, the queen, ended up like this.…….’
Arsha felt ashamed..
There are no worker bees.
A queen bee without worker bees was as good as a meaningless being..
In the original dimension, Arsha had numerous worker bees. But out of all the bees, he was the only one who escaped from the gap in the dimension..
‘We need to increase the number of worker bees.’
If it were other demonic beasts that died while trying to take over the Earth, they would not have been able to endure this situation and would have moved hastily..
Because they are ignorant.
‘If you simply use your strength alone, you will inevitably die in the end..’
Arsha was able to learn that painful lesson through Quresha's death..
‘Because the strong and great Quresha is also dead..’
The war of monarchs seen from afar was truly a clash of huge and powerful beings..
But Arsha knew her own worth..
‘I, who have not even become a monarch, I who do not even have a worker bee, cannot move hastily..’
This kind of patience was Arsha's true strength..
Arsha persevered and persevered, delving deeply into Korean society..
And tried to understand human society..
‘It's nothing special.’
In the end, Arsha realized that human society was not much different from that of bugs than she thought..
‘This is also a world where the more toxic person wins in the end..’
However, that power was expressed as ‘money’ rather than ‘poison’..
That's why Arsha didn't immediately make Lee Min-seong a worker bee..
In order to turn an A-level hunter into a worker bee, he had to constantly poison himself with royal jelly..
‘Because it is not too late to use it for other purposes first and then turn it into a worker bee..’
If it had been any other guy, he would have been punished immediately, but Arsha's patience made this choice possible..
In fact, thanks to that choice, Lee Min-seong attracted more hunters to Room Salon Queen Bee ‘as a human’..
His social position and fame had many uses..
‘I was especially surprised when he brought stardust with him..’
The moment Arsha saw the stardust, she realized.
The fact that demons made this.
And its uses.
‘Demons have also hid in this world like me..’
But it seemed like the demons had adapted to this place in a different way than themselves..
As the queen bee, she goes into hiding to increase the number of worker bees..
Demons use humans as stardust to amplify their power..
‘……this might be useful.’
If you strengthen humans with stardust and then turn them into worker bees,?
Stronger soldiers will be born.
However, the amplification effect of existing stardust was too weak..
So I persevered again.
I hope the demons improve the performance of stardust through more experiments..
And the person who distributed the most stardust was Lee Min-seong..
An unlucky chaebol whose inferiority complex exploded when his driver woke up to S-class status..
Arsha clicked her tongue as she looked at Lee Min-seong, who was trapped in her royal jelly and mutated into a worker bee..
“……It was such a waste. I was looking forward to you becoming S-rank someday..”
If that were the case, Lee Min-seong would have become even more of a celebrity dominating the Korean hunter world..
Then, his position of controlling Lee Min-seong behind the scenes would also rise..
more hunters.
more power.
more power.
And in the end…….
“It would have been possible to have a worker bee with the power of an S-class hunter..”
But, well, these results weren't bad either..
In fact, it was the first time that I was able to harvest an A-class worker bee..
If an A-level hunter suddenly disappears, Lee Min-seong has not been made into a worker bee because it would attract public attention..
“Ugh…….”
Inside the golden royal jelly, Lee Min-seong gritted his teeth with a painful expression..
His eyes were shining golden.
“Yeah……!”
“Umm?”
what?
A puzzled expression appeared on Arsha's face..
A completely different reaction from the worker bees I have made so far..
Is it because it's A grade??
Lee Min-seong was forcing his body to move in royal jelly..
“I refuse to change?”
“Ugh! Wow!”
Lee Min-seong was already out of his mind..
However, even in that situation, Lee Min-seong’s body moved instinctively..
‘Me, I… … I am…….’
I clenched my teeth and the blood in my neck almost stood out..
“……It's immigration!”
Phuwak!
In the end, Lee Min-seong gathered his courage and ran out of Royal Jelly..
The body was already in the process of being transformed into a bug, but it did not listen to Queen Arsha's orders and went berserk..
“Wow!”
In his head, he constantly heard orders to obey the queen, but Lee Min-seong refused those orders even as he rolled around on the floor in pain..
‘Go, who dares me……!’
Are you giving orders?!
Eventually, Lee Min-seong stood up and two pairs of wings spread out from his back..
Kwaang-!
“for a moment! Where are you going?!”
Arsha looked at Lee Min-seong's back in astonishment as he flew through the wall..
* * *
ring!
[‘You have completed ‘Daily Quest: Strong Body Skill Training’.]
100 push-ups: completed (100/100)
100 sit-ups: completed (100/100)
100 squats: complete (100/100)
Running 10km: Done (10/10)
※However, you must carry Ammut on your back..
[Completion reward has arrived.]
[Would you like to check your reward?] (Y/N)
“Haaa… … It was painful today too.”
[Hehehe! Little Lord, you have worked so hard! But I became stronger as I worked hard, so today is a rewarding day…….]
“shut up.”
Today again, Suho, who went to Ammut for the daily quest, fell down on the bed..
Although I recovered momentarily as a reward for completing the training, the mental aftereffects of completing the high-intensity exercise that broke my bones and tore my muscles did not easily go away..
whining!
However, Suho's cell phone continued to vibrate next to his bed..
“……Why is it so loud??”
Suho frowned and picked up his cell phone..
An emergency disaster text message was coming to my cell phone..
emergency disaster text
[[Hunter Association] A-class villain Lee Min-seong appears in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul. Evacuate and beware of future attacks.
“what?”
Suho opened his eyes wide and stood up..
[trot! A-level villain Lee Min-seong attacks other hunters!]
[The emergence of an A-class villain who hunts down hunters.!]
“The situation where a wanted A-level villain gives up on escaping and attacks other hunters is unprecedented in Korea. ” -Expert A
The internet was on fire due to the sudden incident..
Suho was surprised and was checking the articles when he suddenly got a phone call..
-Hello, this is Baekho Guild. Are you Hunter Seong Su-ho? I was worried because you didn't answer the phone..
“yes?”
-Deputy Guild Leader Baek Mi-ho is looking for you..
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