I Became a Father - Chapter 5

Translator : Ayana
Editor : Effefille

The Mirage was a strange tower that cannot be identified by the public, but it was a different case to a hunter.

“Today I must pass through the 40th floor.”

“Wow! I envy you. I’m only over the 30th floor.”

It’s not just a different level, but it has a different meaning.

The Mirage is a training ground for hunters. An environment similar to The Initial Dungeon is provided, and monsters come out. As you climb the floor, more harsh environments and more powerful monsters appear.

In the higher levels, the lowest D-Rank in The Initial Dungeon cannot enter unless the individual reaches the 10th floor. The system doesn’t really mind it, but the administration doesn’t allow it. In the early days of the cataclysm upheaval, there were many people blindly attempting the challenges of The Initial Dungeon.

Because of this, there are so many people who went in and died.

Practice in Mirage.

Challenge the higher floors.

Get results.

Enter The Initial Dungeon.

Hunt.

And come back to the Mirage and practice.

The life of a hunter generally rolls like a wheel. The hunter’s ability is determined by how many floors he can rise up to. Recently, the number of floors that have been conquered is sometimes expressed as a level.

If you go up to the 10th floor, you are a level-10 hunter.

If you go up to the 30th floor, you are a level-30 hunter.

“How much talent…?”

Like the two of them carefully talking to each other now. Since one person was talking about the 40th floor and the other about the 30th floor, they are aiming for the 40th and 30th levels, respectively. If their talent rank was high, their level would rise quickly.

“C-Rank.”

“You are the same as me.”

Like the two friends above, they will fight at level 40 or lower.

After confirming that they are the same C-Rank, the two friends smile subtly as if they understand each other and even shake hands.

Both of them are C-Rank, so let’s call them CC from now on.

“I want to quickly clear the 50th floor and get some attention from the viewers.”

“Because you want patronage! Right?”

It’s exactly as CC said. Only after arriving on the 51st floor, will the viewers be able to directly show their interest and the hunter will receive patronage. Usually, B-Rank talent can clear the 50th floor within a month, but C-Rank is impossible even if they try all year round.

So then, can the C-Rank hunter expose himself to a lifetime watcher? Eiy~ No way.

If so, the Mirage would not have been called a training center, and the CCs would not have dreamed in vain? Training in Mirage provides an opportunity for the hunter to overcome the limits of their talent. Because of this, the whole area was crowded with hunters trying to enter the Mirage.

“Hunters who will enter the Mirage, please prepare your license in advance.”

An administration organization managed the Mirage. It is a space where the power of the nation cannot fully touch it. Therefore, the entrance and exit were more strictly checked. Of course, there are exceptions.

“Commissioner, we are here.”

“You’re from the guild training group that booked at 10 am. Come in.”

The hunters belonging to the guild with a large scale did not need to be checked one by one. So the dozens of people belonging to the group went into it.

[<Daughter who loves her dad❤> is bored.]

Unlike the tutorial, there is no childcare service offered in the Mirage. Nor does the Hunter Administration run a daycare center. Even if they do, I can’t leave Sehwa to them. Anyway, a man who wants to enter the Mirage with a baby will earn unnecessary attention.

[You express your sincere regret to your daughter.]

I quickly penetrated the system and conveyed my mind. The hunter’s inventory varies depending on individual abilities, but it usually holds dozens of kilograms of stuff. But life creatures cannot enter. However something’s wrong with me because I can do it.

[<Daughter who loves her dad❤> wants to come out of inventory.]

……Anyway, so I put my daughter in the inventory.

Sehwa, I’m sorry. Just hang in there a little longer.

Maybe it’s just that I feel bad for my daughter….

If I had the power to deal with the barriers like in the old days, I would be able to hold the barriers only to Sehwa. T_T.

[<Daughter who loves her dad❤> is bored.]

It’s not just thoughts, it’s system messages to appease Sehwa.

I downloaded some of the videos that Sehwa was particularly fond of, to my smartphone and put them in my inventory.

[<Daughter who loves her dad❤> likes the video on the smartphone.]

[You warn your daughter not to watch too much.]

[<Daughter who loves her dad❤> did not listen to your warning]

Did my daughter not hear it or did not want to hear it?

“I will check your license.”

“Yes, go ahead.”

It’s my turn in line.

“Hunter Hyun Minjun. According to the administration’s guideline, we recommend that you go up to the 8th floor for the first month after awakening.”

In The Mirage, the hunter can go up to the next floor by catching the boss monster and obtaining a token. There are no monsters on every 10th floor, and there is a floor where you can relax, but the boss monsters on every 9th floor are unusually strong. It’s a very reasonable guide to telling new hunters not to linger on the 9th floor.

“Mr. Commissioner, isn’t it that you can go up just because you want to go up?”

It made sense for the guy behind me to sneak away first. Oh, of course.

Just because it makes sense, doesn’t make me feel better.

“Hunter Kim Joohan, Level 48, confirmed. Come in.”

I heard his name. I clearly remembered that name.

Kim Sapal.

[You entered the Mirage.]

[Location: Seoul, Korea]

As soon as I step into The Mirage, a strong pressure passes through my whole body. At the same time, the world changes. Then the world expands.

The theme of the 1st to 10th floors is a forest. Large and small trees are densely packed, and birds chirping can be heard. Not far away, I can hear the sound of a rippling stream.

I’m reminded of the homes of my dear old friends, Goblin.

[Hunter License]

-Name : Hyun Minjun

-Mirage: 1st floor

-Class  : Wizard

-Awakening Date: February 3, 2020

The talent rank that was floating proudly disappeared, and the information of the Mirage took place. After checking the changes, I turned the crystal screen around.

For the sake of the promise I made to Sujin. For the sake of raising Sehwa. For the sake of living for myself. The reason I came to the Mirage is complex, not just for the sake of it all. But there’s another reason.

Inside the mirage, mana is densely spread, not like Earth. It’s not very pure, but it’s unacceptable to compare it to a chemical seasoning.

It means that even if I feed Sehwa for three meals a day, it is not bad to give it sometimes something nice as a delicacy. I also enjoy living in this dense mana because I have spent so long years in the Initial Dungeon.

“Nunnunanna~♬”

A humming song comes out.

The monsters on the first floor are relatively easy like Goblin, Slime and Giant Slug.

A goblin who was hiding with its environment, emerged, and found me.

“Kieek!”

“Goble goble!”

Goble Goble is it’s voice. I thought goblins were crying like that before.

“yap.”

Rotating a goblin’s neck by 720 degrees is easier than making a crystal liquid.

-Kkwadeuk!

Have you ever tried to break a chicken neck by holding it up and down and twisting it? Of course I haven’t. I wonder if it would sound similar just then…..

A goblin with a broken neck with a broken sound was picked down.

[You have killed more than 100,000 goblins and annihilated more than 10 goblin tribes.]

[You are the <The Goblin Hunter>.]

[You are < The Goblin Slayer>.]

[You are <The Goblin Natural Enemy>.]

[You are the <The Goblin Disaster>.]

Oh!

I appreciate the achievement of the tutorial from hunter to slayer, from slayer to natural enemy, from natural enemy to disaster, my 〈Title〉 was upgraded. I can’t show off to others because I’m not registered on the crystal screen, but this fight works quite well.

[All your skills increase by 200% when dealing with Goblin.]

There is nothing to worry about for the goblin, but a 200% hitting provides considerable convenience.

<Go away>

It is not a very strong word to spread a word for the entire Goblin on the first floor, but the title made it so.

“Kiek, Kieek.”

“Kieeh.”

The goblins sounds disappeared far away. Now the goblins have went away, so I take out Sehwa…..

[<Daughter who loves her dad ❤> feels full.]

Huh?

I haven’t even brought her out yet. Why is she so full? Even in The Initial Dungeon, not a Mirage, mana absorption would not be possible in the inventory?

As soon as I opened the inventory, I knew why.

—-

Baby Hatchling blinked, floating in the subspace of the inventory.

On one side, she can see the nice guy that baby Hatchling was riding on. She can also see a long stick that she threw in the corner and a few splashing water bottles.

Either way, it was hard to entertain Baby Hatchling.

“Puuuuuu!”

[You tell <Father> that you want to go out.]

The system message popped up when she was so angry. Baby Hatchling doesn’t have any knowledge, but instinctively she knew it had conveyed her message to his father.

“Kaah!”

Look, it worked. A mysterious little box from her father. Inside this, there was also a wonder she had seen in a distant object she saw yesterday. Baby Hatchling looked into the mysterious box for a while. Sometimes she wags her tail, sometimes she flaps her wings, and sometimes she shakes her ass.

“Ppau-!”

“Ppa-!”

“Kaah-!”

And everytime that happens, she didn’t forget to make a scream

“Ha.”

Tired.

Baby Hatchling was tired. When she got tired, she ran out of interest in the little mystery box. Baby Hatchling lay down on the floor. Lying down, flapping her limbs, dragging a blanket of cloth around the space.

-Kong, kong.

She hit her head a little here and there, but it wasn’t enough to soothe her boredom.

Then.

-Posilak.

Sound effects that tickle Baby Hatchling’s hearing.

“Ppa?”

Her gaze goes there. Baby Hatchling sparkled her eyes. That look.

It contained the greatest amount of greed a Baby Hatchling could ever have.

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[Inventory]

-The wand of the first Wizard’s.

-Lower Potion ×4

-Smartphone

-Stroller

-The banana milk

-Baby clothing set

-Soft wet wipes.

[EX Rank Bonus]

-Daughter who loves dad❤

Where is my lunch, puff bread?

Even banana milk items disappear in real time.

“Se, Sehwa?”

“Ppa~ah~?”

When I took out Sehwa, she was holding the banana milk that looked like a jar with cute and lovely hands. Her mouth is covered with puff cream, and the yellow banana milk flows down her cheeks and throat, soaking up her newly bought smile.

“Oh, my princess, what’s wrong with this?”

I took the half-empty banana milk and held Sehwa with my other hand. It’s wet. If the banana milk flowed, it would have to be cool, but it was hot.

“……You had to take a break.”

I see. It’s a crystal liquid. It vaporizes and filters impurities, but it’s in the same way as other living things that she consumes directly. I think she has eaten all the bread, so is she going to poop later…?

For a human baby to eat bread and drink milk must feel like eating a stone, but Sehwa is still Hatchling. Because the digestive system itself is different, the probability of getting sick is low.

Still, there is a chance.

“Baby, if you’re sick at least once, it breaks my heart. Huh?”

As I said, Sehwa is Hatchling.

If she’s sick, I can’t take her to a hospital or a pharmacy. So my dear, don’t do anything too dangerous and don’t get sick. Understand? Full of sincerity, we make eye contact with each other.

I didn’t say a word, but my heart was delivered

“Pu-ha-pu-ha!”

Huh.

I don’t know if she knew her father was worried or not, but she shook her limbs, both wings, and outer tail down quickly with a heavy mana.