Chapter 382: Eighty-Seventh Floor, Mystical Beast Treatment (2)
[Heal the mystical beast under the alchemist’s protection. Time remaining: 119 hours 53 minutes.]
“Is that really a problem?” Cho-Yeon shrugged in response to my baffled words, leaving me more taken aback than anything else.
Of course, it is a problem. How can it not be?
I stopped myself from blurting the thought out and tried to rephrase it more tactfully.
Before I could speak, however, Cho-Yeon continued, “You’re not just some ordinary guy, right? I mean, Su-Hyeok, the tower sent you to help, so you’ve got to be pretty capable.”
Her comment came out of seemingly nowhere. The question felt oddly timed, but she was clearly building toward something.
I nodded slowly. “Well, I suppose so.”
Though luck and a fair amount of help had played a role, I had taken down a fifth-class god. The statement wasn’t inaccurate.
No, on second thought, calling myself “pretty capable” would be too modest. Even looking at things objectively, I had surpassed that level.
I didn’t ask how skilled Cho-Yeon was at alchemy, nor did I probe into what exactly her definition of “pretty capable” meant.
There was no need to.
Not done yet, she confidently boasted, “So am I.”