I Got a Gallery in the Wild - Chapter 170

Seeing a fish swimming freely through empty space like a Sky Whale left me completely dumbfounded.

The Sky Whale was a mythical entity, so I could brush it off as mystical.

Even if it were flopping and crawling on the ground like a lungfish, I could understand.

Yet a reality defying every expectation unfolded before my eyes.

If this world were a game, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say a bug had occurred.

Ppeogeum! Ppeogeum!

The fish swam smoothly through the air as if it were water.

If it was going to do this, why did it even have gills and fins?

The Sky Whale alone negated the very existence of physics, but this guy took it a step further.

Title) What the hell is this guy?

Wild Grylls

(Video of a fish flying through the air)

By any chance, is there a fish that flies in the sky?

↳ Heavenly Demon) First a gorilla learns martial arts, and now even a fish learns Void Flight.

↳ Wild Grylls) What is Void Flight?

↳ Heavenly Demon) It is the ability to fly through empty space, much like the fish thou art observing. One must reach at least the Transcendent Realm to barely cast it.

↳ Sword Matstar) Why not keep it on display? I’m curious how long it’ll fly around.

↳ Wild Grylls) Don’t I need to eat too?

↳ Passing Dwarf) Hey. Post more videos. I won’t believe it until you post a few more.

↳ Wild Grylls) You don’t believe in the Sky Whale?

↳ Passing Dwarf) That thing at least appeared in myths. I’ve never even heard a fake rumor about something like that lol

↳ Wild Grylls) (Video 1 of flying fish)(Video 2 of flying fish) Happy now?

↳ Passing Dwarf) Oh;; Do you roughly know why it’s doing that? It wouldn’t do that for no reason.

↳ Wild Grylls) It did eat the Sky Whale shit I used as bait. Seems that caused some kind of change.

↳ Allfather) Why not take a bite yourself, Grylls-nim? A pleasant scent wafts gently from it, so the taste might be quite good.

↳ Wild Grylls) Dude;;

↳ If that’s the case, you should eat it, why tell Grylls to do it, lol

↳ Isn’t that practically the same as eating curry-flavored shit?

↳ It really is curry-flavored shit, lol

Though Allfather babbled nonsense for a moment, I grasped the rough cause.

The ambergris used as bait.

That was the only logical suspect.

Unless that was it, there was no way this fish would go crazy and fly through the sky.

And, most importantly—

’Is it safe to eat this?’

The question was whether I could actually eat it.

What if eating it caused stomach trouble, or worse, made me float into the air too?

Still, I couldn’t leave it unattended like this. It could attract the attention of other animals.

If it was inedible, releasing it back into the wild for safety was the right call.

Just as I thought that and reached out to return it to the river—

Chalssak!

"Kkueok?!"

The moment my hand touched it, the fish slapped my cheek with its tail.

The force was so immense that a loud crack sound rang from my neck!

Fortunately, my neck bones weren’t twisted; it was just a sound.

More than that, my slapped cheek stung horribly. How could a tail possess such strength?

’Did its physical strength increase just from eating whale shit?’

Because so many absurd things happened, it felt like a plausible hypothesis.

Then how should I bring this thing down? Deliberating, I pounced on the fish.

No matter how much it ignored gravity, crushing it from above should force it down.

Pududeok! Pudadadak!

"Ueooooh?!"

Or so I thought, but I was dead wrong. Far from going down, the moment I grabbed it, it began swimming vigorously through the air.

Its speed was so fast that the scenery whizzed by in real time.

Realizing I might crash into some bizarre location at this rate, I urgently fought back.

Peo-eok! Peok!

I punched the fish in the head.

Because hitting the head would leave any animal dizzy at the very least.

Haven’t I knocked out fish by striking their heads up until now?

And true to expectation, before long, the fish lost consciousness and went limp.

Naturally, my body also plummeted downward.

Kudangtang! Kudang!

Only after rolling several times and slamming into a tree did I finally come to a stop.

Aches throbbed across my entire body. Grimacing, I dusted off my eyes and opened them.

On the ground, the knocked-out fish was twitching, while at the Shelter entrance, my animal friends were staring at me.

They all wore expressions that said, ’What are you doing?’ Lackey and Speed Sloth aside, seeing even Wonmo look at me like that made me embarrassed.

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Eating it recklessly could trigger who knows what.

Conveniently, mealtime had arrived, so I hastily butchered it.

My plan was to extract only the Inner Core and throw everything else away.

However—

’The Inner Core... is golden?’

The Inner Core was bizarre.

Or rather, saying it was extraordinary might be more accurate.

It glowed with a brilliant golden light, as though capturing the very color of the ambergris.

If I ingested this, would I float in the sky too? If so, I’d pass on eating it.

’Should I give it to Bbareumbo?’

Instead, I considered offering it to Bbareumbo.

It was based on the judgment that he could probably control it.

"Wanna eat this?"

"...."

Bbareumbo took the Inner Core without the slightest hesitation.

Then, with his signature sluggish movements, he examined the Inner Core and popped it into his mouth.

Since he was a guy who ate Inner Cores as a staple food whenever Fasting Pills were absent, there shouldn’t be major issues.

Dudungsil—

Or so I thought. Was it difficult even for Bbareumbo to harness the Inner Core’s energy?

As Bbareumbo began floating softly into the air, I urgently pushed down on his shoulders.

However, as if to say he was fine, Bbareumbo waved his arms telling me to remove my hands.

Dungsil— dungsil—

Levitating in the air, Bbareumbo drifted through every corner of the Shelter for a while.

Fortunately, he seemed able to control it. Meanwhile, I finished eating with my animal friends.

Ah. For the record, I gave food to Lackey as well. Bbareumbo had permitted this too.

"Kkyuu! Kkyukkyu!"

Wonmo, who had been preoccupied with eating, bounced up and down looking at Bbareumbo.

It seemed he was asking to let him fly too. Doing that made him look absurdly adorable.

However, if Wonmo climbed onto Bbareumbo’s back, Bbareumbo would collapse immediately.

Even if he was a cub, being an Owlbear meant the fundamental size difference was far too vast.

"Kkiing! Kking!"

"Ke-eng!"

Instead, I placed a baby raccoon just as cute as Wonmo on him.

The moment the baby raccoon got on top of the floating Bbareumbo, it smiled brightly.

Below, the papa raccoon wore an amused expression, while the mama raccoon looked worried.

"Kkyuu! Kkyu!"

On the other hand, sulking over the fact that only he couldn’t ride, Wonmo curled up awkwardly in a corner of the cave.

Seeing a round, fluffy creature stuck in a corner was cute beyond measure.

Approaching Wonmo, who radiated ’I’m pouting’ with his entire body, I spoke to him.

"Wonmo-ya. Cheeer up. Later, if I learn to fly, I’ll give you a ride. Got it?"

"Kkyuu...."

Through persistent persuasion, I barely managed to smooth Wonmo’s mood.

Before long, Bbareumbo landed back on the ground from the sky.

"Can you fly whenever you want?"

"...."

When I asked Bbareumbo, he shook his head side to side.

Evidently, there was a sort of time limit.

If there were no limit, I could have escaped immediately as well.

’For me to eat it too... is a bit much, right?’

I hadn’t even mastered my cold energy yet, so moderation was key.

Moreover, I doubted whether I could absorb it properly.

Speed Sloth possessed instincts superior to mine, so he ate it knowing it wasn’t dangerous.

However, since I couldn’t be sure if it suited my body, I had no choice but to postpone it for the future.

’At any rate, ambergris enables flight... That’s a valid deduction, right?’

What side effects it carried were unknown.

I thought about experimenting on Lackey, but since he couldn’t use mana anyway, wouldn’t it be pretty pointless?

For now, I could only trust the instincts of Bbareumbo, who had gulped it down.

Title) Discovered one effect of ambergris

Wild Grylls

(Video of Speed Sloth floating gently)

(Video of Speed Sloth flying around carrying a baby raccoon on his back)

He ate the Inner Core of a fish that was casting Void Flight, and now he flies around like this.

It seems the ambergris effect is granting flight?

However, permanent flight isn’t possible and there’s a time limit. Still, it’s undeniably good.

↳ Heavenly Demon) Suddenly a peculiar sense of futility washes over this seat. I trained for years just to achieve Void Flight.

↳ Sword Matstar) How many years? Exactly how many years did you train?New chapters come out on NovelPing first.

↳ Heavenly Demon) Since this seat began around age 10, it has been precisely 10 years.

↳ Sword Matstar) I’m saying this as a Sword Master, but if you don’t want to get beaten up by others, you’d better not say things like that.

↳ Heavenly Demon) Why so? It was a whole 10 years.

↳ Sword Matstar) Other people dedicate their entire lives—not just ten years—and barely make it to Sword Master, if at all lololol

↳ Seriously makes me wanna beat her up lololol

↳ Heavenly Demon this bastard is teabagging, right? Isn’t she?

↳ Grand Master in 10 years? Stop fucking around, seriously lol

↳ Heavenly Demon) Hm. Strange. Why can’t they do something so simple?

↳ Allfather) Then Heavenly Demon-nim, let me ask one question. Have you seen the end?

↳ Heavenly Demon) No. The closer I drew, the further away it drifted.

↳ Allfather) It is the same for me. Magic has no end no matter how deep one digs. Ohoho.

↳ Heavenly Demon) Indeed, having an end would be far more tedious.

↳ Wild Grylls) If you say my escape has no end, I’m gonna pout.

↳ Heavenly Demon) Everything is best when it has an end.

↳ Look at Heavenly Demon changing her stance instantly lol

↳ She really walks on eggshells around Grylls, huh? Lol

↳ Every time I see this, Heavenly Demon seems weak against Grylls.

↳ Praise the Sun) Hey Grylls. Check out the post I made. This is seriously insane lol

As the Gallery’s reactions grew heated, Praise the Sun’s comment caught my eye.

For Praise the Sun to write a post himself meant something quite entertaining must have happened.

Wondering what it was, I immediately searched for the post.

Having just been posted, it had hardly any upvotes yet.

Title) Sky Whale Ambergris Usage Review

Praise the Sun

(1st-person POV video of flying through the air)

(Video of a dark elf servant flailing hysterically in mid-air)

(Video of Praise the Sun laughing boisterously while saying something in Setan language)

They said ambergris was incense, so I burned it. Smell aside, gravity vanished in the space itself lol

Strictly speaking, it feels like an ocean where only air resistance exists? Feeling this made it fucking sick as hell lol

A post was uploaded stating that simply burning the incense caused gravity to disappear across the entire room.

Seeing this, I realized that just burning it as incense produced the effect.

Even so, it was still useless to me right now.

I planned to ingest it directly rather than burn it—when the time was right.

↳ Wild Grylls) Just watching it looks fun. Did you really just burn the incense?

↳ Praise the Sun) Yup. I was thinking of just going to sleep, but then my body floated up gently and freaked me out lol

↳ Why is that servant so panicked lololol

↳ But to be fair, I’d be freaked out too lololol

↳ Is it okay to post this video? If that servant uses the Gallery, your identity will be blown.

↳ Praise the Sun) Ah. Right. I forgot while playing around. BRB, modifying it.

↳ Too late, bro. I saved the video lol

↳ Praise the Sun) Sigh. Do whatever. Doesn’t matter whether it’s real life or the Gallery. As long as I enjoy it lol

↳ That really does look fun though.

I felt like this was the first time seeing Praise the Sun post so many comments.

He was that excited. I felt strangely proud.

↳ Praise the Sun) I should call my wives soon and play together.

↳ What are you gonna do after calling your wives?

↳ Praise the Sun) What else? A raunchy, wild...

Mhm. Let’s move on.

Shouldn’t one respect personal tastes?

Though rather than personal taste, it was a retarded act... honestly, I kind of understood.

Doing that while floating in mid-air? That’s achieving an achievement (?) nobody else ever accomplished.

Even Earth had to wait until building space stations to pull that off, so imagine how rare it is here.

’Wait a minute. Just burning the incense lets you fly?’

The moment that thought struck me, I looked around.

Excluding the fireplace and the entrance, there were almost no exit holes.

If I blocked all these and lit an censer, wouldn’t I be able to enjoy the same effect as Praise the Sun?

’...Gotta do it right now.’

As expected, I couldn’t resist doing retarded shit.

Afterward, I received the incense usage guide and related items from Praise the Sun.

"How is it? Wonmo-ya! Nice, right?"

"Kkyuuuuu! Kkyuu!"

Thanks to that, I got to experience an exciting zero-gravity session.

"WOOOOOH! WOOOOOH!"

Though Lackey didn’t seem to enjoy it very much.