So Lucien stopped walking and the hunters running behind him almost hit his back.

"Heuk!" The hunters took a few steps back and stared at Lucien’s side profile, a question mark appeared above their eyes.

What now...

Lucien glanced at the hunter and then glanced at the running worms.

The other hunters were confused, but that one smart translator immediately stepped up.

He rubbed his hands and spoke cautiously, acting like a butler.

"Do you want us to....hunt the worms?"

Lucien looked at that one smart guy and nodded, but he raised Mumu and shook the little slime.

?

The other hunters felt like communicating with an alien but the smart guy’s brain was wired differently.

He immediately slapped his palms and shouted,

"Ah, a live monster!"

He must have wanted to gather some more pets!

Lucien looked at the smart guy with a strange gaze.

How did this guy understand every gesture?

Is it mind reading?

Whatever it is— having a translator is awesome!

Lucien pointed at the monster corpse, his eyes full of greed.

At the same time, he spoke to Mumu with telepathy.

[Mumu, make a growling sound.]

[Muu...?]

Mumu didn’t understand, but Mumu slowly made a gurgling noise similar to a growl.

The hunters, who heard the growl noise coming from Lucien’s "belly", almost jumped three feet high.

Ahhh! The monster is hungry!

Everyone huddled together, crying.

Ahhh! Don’t eat them!!

Only the smart guy immediately caught on the signal and nodded like a pecking chicken, his smile servile and obedient.

"Ah! You’re hungry! D-don’t worry, we will get the worm corpses too!"

Lucien finally smiled at the smart hunter, his eyes full of satisfaction.

The smart hunter’s heart swelled and he suddenly felt a strange sense of pride.

The humanoid monster acknowledged him!

He’s the only one!

The smart hunter, feeling that he had to do better to curry favor with the powerful monster, immediately looked at his colleague and barked,

"Hey! Hunt the monsters but don’t kill them!"

"Those without skills— gather the worm corpses!"

The captain and the other hunters couldn’t help but snort.

"Freon! Who are you to order us around??"

Freon, the smart guy, lifted his chin proudly and peeked back at Lucien, who was waiting with his arms crossed.

"T-the humanoid monster— acknowledged me! I-I’m the only one who can understand him!"

The hunter puffed up his chest and smiled proudly.

The other hunters rolled their eyes.

"Are you insane? Why are you getting all proud— "

Lucien, who listened to the hunters’ bickering, finally cleared his throat and clicked his tongue loud.

"Tsk."

The bickering hunters froze, as if someone pressed their pause button.

As Lucien stared at them with unconfused pupils...

The hunters immediately scrambled away like fleeing birds.

"I-i’ll gather the corpses!"

"I-I’ll hunt!"

Just like that, only Freon was left next to Lucien, staring at Lucien with wide, sparkling eyes.

Lucien could even feel the man’s illusionary puppy tail wagging behind him.

’...what a psycho.’ The psycho thought.

Just like that, Lucien waited for an hour until the hunters brought out the living thumpers and diggers they caught.

Lucien walked at the forefront, leaving the worm dungeon without looking back.

Behind him, the thumpers and diggers who smelled Lucien’s scent obediently followed, like little ducks.

But when Lucien was a distance away, they would twist their heads, secretly attacking the hunters.

"Ah!"

"Ouch!"

"Fck! Bastard!!"

Lucien pretended not to notice the commotion behind and quickly reunited with his patrol guards.

Only when the patrol guards swarmed the street did the thumpers and the diggers behaved.

At the very back, some hunters dragged the worms’ corpses out of the dungeon.

Lucien’s gatekeeper spiders helped pull the worm corpses and piled them at the empty field around Lucien’s house.

The live thumpers and diggers filled the entire 300 meters street.

The vast street suddenly became cramped, but the hunters didn’t dare to complain.

Lucien sat back at his terrace sofa and watched the whole ordeal until the sun almost rose.

After several hours of hard work, the expedition team finally emptied the entire dungeon.

As the sun gradually rose on the horizon, the captain and Freon hurriedly approached Lucien at the terrace.

"T-that, we are done with the work. Uh, can we go home now?"

The captain asked Lucien tremblingly and Freon furrowed his eyebrows, muttering with a pout.

"Why do we need to leave quickly...we can explore more..."

Freon peeked at Lucien and his eyes brightened, as if saying:

Look! This big boss is here! Let’s explore the entire death zone!

Lucien twitched his lips and nodded at the captain, ignoring Freon’s words.

"O-okay! Okay! Thank you, we will leave now!"

The captain’s face instantly lit up while Freon’s face darkened.

"Ugh, brat, hurry!" The captain forcibly dragged Freon, who was still looking back every three steps.

Lucien just smiled and waved his hand, his inner soul bowing.

May we never see each other anymore!

As the sun slowly rose from the horizon and the light shone upon the darkness, the system chimed.

[Returning to the Civil City ••• ]

Lucien’s smile fell.

Wait, wait, he still hasn’t stored his trophies!!

Lucien waved his hands and the pile of corpses next to his house disappeared.

A new pile crashed onto the slime dungeon’s hall that had expanded several times.

Thud. Thud. Thud.

As the void around the house started to twist, Lucien looked at the bunch of live thumpers and diggers...

And he snapped his fingers.

Snap!

Several diggers and thumpers disappeared.

The next second— they appeared inside the spider Dungeon’s deep chasm, landing on the cocooned thumpers.

Thump. Thump. Thump.

Lucien tried to fit as many diggers and thumpers as possible, but they were just too big, so he could only leave them at the field next to his house.

Looking at the thumpers and diggers who were already wriggling away, attempting to escape...

Lucien spoke to his ten patrol guards with telepathy.

[Gatekeepers. Seal the field with webs.]

[Slimes. Keep an eye on those worms. Don’t let them escape!]

[If anyone dares to escape— ]

Lucien’s eyes glinted maliciously.

[Kill on the spot!]

"Kiik!"

"Glurggg!"

The ten patrol guards immediately moved in unison, executing Lucien’s order.

At the same time, the void slowly swallowed Lucien’s house.

In Lucien’s blurry vision— a familiar white silhouette appeared.

That figure again.

Lucien tried to look closely but the figure just waved their hand and disappeared to the empty field next door.

Wongggg.

As Lucien’s vision flickered, the house disappeared into the void.

Swish!

The specific spot was empty.

Only the "worm farm" was left behind with the patrol guards.

The hunters, who were watching from afar, couldn’t help but gasp.

"The house...disappeared again, " Freon murmured.

The others also nodded, their hearts complicated.

"What kind of humanoid monster is that..."

And what’s its power?

The hunters couldn’t unravel the mystery so they could only bury their curiosity.

"Okay, everyone, gather!"

The captain shouted and the hunters quickly gathered.

"We have cleaned up this street and the three other streets. There are no other dungeons around so..."

"I think it’s time to let the other hunters enter the Death Zone."

The expedition team members nodded.

"Right, right, let those bastards clean up the rest! We have done enough!"

With the expedition team’s full support, the group returned to the Death Zone’s entrance and came back with big news that would shake the entire continent.

Lucien, the sole human being in the Death Zone—

Would welcome a lot, a lot of new guests.