A Root-Level Monster's Dentist

In an instant, the countless tentacles watching from outside the mouth surged toward Lynn, ready to attack him.

But they soon stopped.

Lynn grabbed the severed tentacle and pressed it into the wooden basin. With a serious expression, he poured bottle after bottle of potion into the basin, then took out a syringe and injected potion into the tentacle with a series of creaks.

The tentacles froze in place, holding up the eyeball to watch curiously.

A few minutes later.

"Light!" Lynn shouted, snatching up the potion-filled tentacle.

Lynn was fully in the zone now!

The tentacle holding the eyeball visibly shuddered, then hurriedly shone the eyeball's beam onto the rear molar spurting blood.

Lynn jumped up with a (`皿´) expression and aimed the potion-filled tentacle at the hole.

His expression was serious.

Then he thrust it in hard.

"Yaaah-"

The monstrous infant cried out in pain.

It went right in!

But clearly.

The tentacle in his hand was a little too thick, and the hole was so narrow that driving it all the way in would require the help of some powerful tools.

He would just have to force it in!

The next moment.

Lynn swiftly jumped down and sprinted back to his little shop.

A few minutes later, Lynn quickly climbed back into its mouth, carrying a large load of tools.

"What-are you-doing?"

The eyeball visibly trembled.

Expressionless, Lynn held a hammer in one hand and an iron rod in the other. Wearing a mask, he adjusted his monocle with the back of his hand.

The next moment.

With a squelch, Lynn plunged the iron rod into the tentacle pressed against the hole.

The monstrous infant's head: "(ΩДΩ)!!"

Soon.

A tremendous metallic clang rang out.

With a (艹皿艹) expression, Lynn swung the huge hammer against the iron rod again and again, pounding the tentacle into the cavity bit by bit.

Bang!

"Yaaah-"

Bang!

"Aaah-"

Sparks flew amid flashes of lightning and crashes of thunder.

Lynn kept mustering all his strength, swinging the huge hammer to force it into the deepest part of the hole.

The watching tentacles and eyeball inside the mouth all huddled in a corner in terror, watching Lynn swing the hammer with all his might.

"Hurts-hurts-hurts-"

The monstrous infant's head began thrashing wildly.

Clearly, the repeated, violent impacts were causing it considerable, tearing pain.

"This is normal! Just bear with it. Once it reaches the very bottom, it'll stop hurting right away! Trust my professional expertise!"

He swung more than a hundred times without stopping.

At last, Lynn smashed the potion-filled tentacle to a pulp and hammered it into the cavity.

"Doesn't-hurt-anymore-"

The eyeball looked dazed.

Wiping away his sweat, Lynn rested the iron rod on his shoulder and smiled faintly. "Of course. The potion has started working. But this is only the beginning. If you want healthy teeth, there's still more work to do."

[???'s trust in you +20]

The eyeball bobbed vigorously up and down, expressing its trust with a (✪ω✪) look.

"Mm-mm-"

Clearly, after Lynn's outstanding efforts just now, the monster had begun to trust him.

Lynn kept track of the time.

About five minutes passed.

"All right! Time to get to work!"

Lynn raised his head with a serious expression, picked up his master's power drill from beside him, and gave it a hard pull.

Bzzzt-

Sparks flew.

"Safety goggles!"

The surrounding tentacles swiftly handed Lynn a pair of safety goggles.

"Light!"

The tentacles immediately held up the eyeball and aimed it at Lynn's work area.

Lynn spat into his palms, jabbed forward hard, and began a nerve-racking operation on the rear molar with the power drill.

"The inside of this tooth has been eroded by holy power. That's the main cause of your toothache. Unless we remove all the holy material inside, the pain will become unbearable again once the potion wears off."

"So I need to give your tooth an initial cleaning, then fill it with something nice and solid!"

"So-that's-it-"

[???'s trust in you +20]

The eyeball shone its light for Lynn, watching with a dazed curiosity.

Bzzz, bzzz, bzzz-

Holding the power drill, Lynn ground away all the glowing material inside the tooth, little by little.

"Get a bucket!" Lynn shouted.

A tentacle swiftly shot into the shop, coiled around a wooden bucket, and handed it over.

With a serious expression, Lynn quickly collected all the tooth dust he had ground off into the bucket.

"Get water!" Lynn shouted.

The tentacle rushed back in, this time wrapped around a large water vat.

Lynn scrubbed away all the powder around the tooth.

Then his expression turned serious.

"What-else-do you need?"

As though it had noticed Lynn's uncertainty, that delicate yet horrifying voice spoke.

Lynn said gravely, "Material for the filling. I don't have enough here, or I could give you a gleaming steel tooth!"

"Steel?"

Lynn considered it. "That's right. But I'd have to wait until tomorrow at the earliest to get supplies. At this hour, it's really..."

"I-have steel-"

Lynn froze.

Before he could figure out what it meant, he felt the ground beneath his feet tremble, then saw the buildings outside rapidly receding.

Clearly, the enormous head was moving fast.

The next moment, they stopped outside the entrance to a huge sheet-metal building.

Before Lynn could react.

The tongue inside its mouth shot out like a blade.

Squelch-

The entire building was instantly cleaved in two.

[Steel Puppet]

[Level: ???]

[Race]: Puppet

[Alignment]: Chaotic evil

[Combat ability]: Extremely powerful!

[Description]: Steel puppets that roam the Dark World. Ever since they developed wills of their own under the influence of dark power, these powerful creatures, impervious to blades and spears, have become a nightmare for the inhabitants of the Dark World.

Lynn: "!!!"

He had seen this kind of monster once before. A similar puppet had charged into their little shop and wreaked havoc. His teacher had fought it with a chainsaw for more than ten hours before finally driving it off.

Why had it brought him here...

Bang-

A deafening crash rang out.

Before one of the puppets inside the sheet-metal building could react, the infant head's tongue slapped it flat into a steel pancake.

Lynn was dumbfounded.

This was ridiculous!

Their levels were both ???, so how could the gap be this huge?!

"Is-one-enough?"

The infant-like voice spoke.

"Uh..."

Bang-

Another Steel Puppet was slapped flat.

"How about-two?"

"Well..."

Bang, bang, bang, bang-

"Enough! Enough! One was already enough, actually!"

"..."

Smelting, forging, casting.

With the giant infant head's tough tongue hammering away, it took Lynn only a few hours to forge a steel tooth matching the shape of the gap in the molar.

Then, using a powerful adhesive, he precisely bonded the steel tooth to the rear molar.

After another series of grinding and polishing steps.

Under Lynn's ministrations, the tooth finally looked brand-new.

"Perfect!"

Lynn wiped the sweat from his forehead and smiled in satisfaction, feeling he had grown as a person.

[Ding! You have completed the quest. You have received 1,000 Skeleton Coins. ???'s affection for you +50. You have received a special reward: Critical Strike Potion Formula x1]

[Ding! You have earned the unique achievement "A Root-Level Monster's Dentist"]

[A Root-Level Monster's Dentist]: You are the first human brave enough to treat a Root-Level Monster's teeth and succeed. You have gained permanent traits: Root-Level Monster affinity +1, all attributes +10