Being a Hunter Is Too Easy for a Former Necromancer - Chapter 19

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The Reincarnated Necromancer Finds Hunter Life Too Easy — Episode 19
Scrolling through the posts, the current market rate for Strength Increase hovered around 500 million won.
There were posts about Spirit Power Increase too, though it seemed mainly bought by Debuff-class job holders.
Curse users, spirit mages — that sort of thing.
And it cost considerably more than he’d expected.
The rate fluctuated, but averaged around 2 billion won.
An astronomical sum!
Of course, “astronomical” was relative — relative to low-rank Hunters like Park Il-sang.
Apparently, common skills like Strength Increase and Spirit Power Increase were classified as foundational skills.
Any Hunter who earned decent money supposedly bought them as a matter of course.
In that sense, the commission payout for this job came to 2.3 billion won.
After gathering a few more facts, Park Il-sang closed the Hunter Gallery.
Park Il-sang mostly just lurked there anyway; he never posted anything himself.
‘I’ve been checking it on my phone this whole time… should I buy an internet skill or something?’
Money wasn’t an issue — he made a hundred million a day grinding, so picking up an internet skill was hardly out of reach.
And he already had several billion in liquid cash.
He’d just been saving it for items.
‘While I’m at it, maybe I should grab some skills too?’
Come to think of it.
Common skills were worth having.
Some were cheap, others pricey, but the more you bought, the better the return.
‘Let’s see… open up the Hunter Marketplace app…’
The Hunter Marketplace.
A brokerage app where Hunters bought and sold goods.
All sorts of items from all manner of Hunters were traded here.
He tapped the common skills tab and a flood of listings appeared.
“Right. No Walking skill here either.”
The Walking skill he’d suddenly acquired back then, out of nowhere.
It was a passive skill that reduced stamina consumption while walking and increased movement speed, among other benefits — but the marketplace had no listings for it whatsoever.
Park Il-sang recalled never seeing Walking mentioned on the Hunter Gallery either.
Well, information about Reincarnators like himself wasn’t documented there either.
The Hunter Gallery wasn’t some omniscient Akashic Record, after all.
‘Anyway… once I finish this commission, I need to buy some skills.’
Thinking so, Park Il-sang turned off his phone and slipped it into his pocket.
Then he gazed off into the distance.
A large cargo truck stood there, fitted with three track wheels instead of regular tires, each equipped with an endless caterpillar tread.
That must be the vehicle he was supposed to escort this time.
But why the caterpillar treads?
Because the whole of Korea had gone to hell.
Roads connecting cities existed, but monsters roamed everywhere; how could the roads possibly remain intact?
Ordinary rubber tires got punctured constantly out there.
Caterpillar treads maxed out at 50 to 80 kilometers per hour, but without a vehicle like that, there was no way to travel at all.
“Is that you! Park Il-sang, right!”
And then.
Park Il-sang encountered a shocking figure once again.
Kim Dong-su, the Barbarian Warrior!
And he was.
Still half-naked.
The only real differences in his attire from before were a leather belt cinched around his waist and — oddly — tiger-skin shorts he was wearing.
They weren’t form-fitting like spandex, but rather cut in a square-bottomed style.
It was decidedly strange fashion sense.
Add the leather boots he had on.
Apart from the boots, belt, and tiger-skin shorts, he wore nothing else.
Still, it was better than the last time Park Il-sang had seen him.
Back then, Kim Dong-su had the body of a middle-aged man with a beer belly, but now his frame had transformed into a genuinely impressive, muscular build!
Truly the effect of his class!
Hunters underwent gradual physical transformation the moment they acquired a job, shaped according to that job’s nature.
A naturally scrawny person who acquired a Warrior class would become a brawny muscleman overnight, for instance.
As a Barbarian Warrior was still a Warrior variant, Kim Dong-su’s transformation made perfect sense.
‘At least I don’t have to see the beer belly anymore — small mercies.’
Park Il-sang thought this to himself.
“It’s been a while. I hope you’ve been well?”
First, a proper greeting as a functioning member of society.
“Me? I’ve been fine. So Park, I hear you’re hot these days? Man! You’ve got ten summons—looks like the rumors are true!”
Stashing a Corpse Box inside another Corpse Box wouldn’t work.
So Park Il-sang had brought ten Necro Guards instead.
Naturally, each Necro Guard’s back was slung with a Corpse Box.
And Park Il-sang’s own back bore a Corpse Box as well, worn like a backpack.
“Me? I haven’t heard anything about that.”
Hot? Who? Me?
“I heard you clear the Frog Nest three or four times a day. Isn’t that right?”
The Frog Nest sat just beside the Shantytown, a Class 5 residential area of Yeouido.
And so it had become a place where newly minted F-rank Hunters came and went to level up.
The money wasn’t great, but it served the purpose of gaining experience.
Because of this, double-booking happened fairly often.
There was no way word about Park Il-sang—constantly grinding through the place—wouldn’t spread.
Of course, the dungeon had changed recently, and it hadn’t been popular to begin with; now no Hunters but Park Il-sang entered it at all.
No one came except to prepare for the Hunter certification exam.
Still, since it was just one tunnel away through the Great Wall beside the Shantytown, plenty of people saw him coming and going.
“That may be, but I’d hesitate to call it ‘hot’ just for clearing the Frog Nest a few times…”
Hot, just for tearing through a frog dungeon?
A tone heavy with skepticism.
Yet Kim Dong-su only snorted and grew more animated at those words.
“Of course you’re hot! Every day you go solo—how much money are you making? And you’re not running out of Mana? How do you keep clearing dungeons like that?”
Did he have superior Mana recovery compared to others?
If so, he deserved to be called a rookie sensation.
Did his Mana pool dwarf that of other Hunters?
If so, he was certainly one to watch.
“I have my methods, I suppose. And you look like you’ve trimmed down, Dong-su. You seem to have grown stronger.”
“Heh. You notice these things? I’ve reached E-rank.”
“Oh.”
That was genuinely surprising.
Park Il-sang had climbed to E-rank quickly by repeatedly clearing the Frog Nest, but how had Kim Dong-su managed it?
Was the Savage Warrior class really that good a Job?
Just as Kim Dong-su had said—
how had he solved the Mana problem?
Did he, too, have a method like Park Il-sang’s to manage it?
This was worth asking about.
“It seems you must have found a way to recover Mana as well.”
“No, I didn’t.”
“Pardon?”
What do you mean? Then how did you reach E-rank?
“Savage Warriors don’t use Mana in the first place. We use Blood Power instead.”
Park Il-sang thought that was similar to Necromancy.
“Blood Power recharges when you drink fresh monster blood. You can hunt indefinitely this way.”
Kim Dong-su flashed a grin as he said it.
Ah. Savage Warriors really did live up to their name.
Fresh, warm blood straight from the kill—just drink it down and you were good, was it?
Park Il-sang was impressed. That explained the rapid growth.
“That’s impressive.”
So he’d kept clearing dungeons while drinking monster blood—that made sense. But Kim Dong-su couldn’t have soloed like Park Il-sang did, so he probably had party members.
“Ha. If you want to make money, you can’t be picky about anything.”
True. The very image of a father of this era!
That was when it happened.
“You are Park Il-sang, correct? I’ll need to verify that.”
“Ah, my apologies. We took the Hunter certification exam together.”
Damn.
He’d lost focus and spent the whole time talking with Kim Dong-su. Only now did he notice everyone was staring at them.
The man who’d spoken looked like a typical Hunter.
He wore what was called a Tech Suit, and three drones circled above his head. Half his face was cybernetic.
He’s modified his body to some degree… which apparently means he’s equipped with a system to control that drone.
“Yes. Here is my Recognition Chip.”
Park Il-sang held out the back of his hand.
Light flared from his eyes, and a beep sounded.
The Recognition Chip embedded in Park Il-sang’s hand had been scanned.
“Identity confirmed. Let me introduce myself first. I’m Kim Sang-in, a Hunter in the Supporter position, and I’m leading this escort team today. It’s a pleasure to meet you.”
“The pleasure is mine. I’m Park Il-sang, a Hunter in both the Tanker and Dealer positions.”
What position would a Necromancer fill?
The answer was exactly as stated—both Tanker and Dealer.
The undead would block the monsters’ attacks, and the undead would attack the monsters, so it was a natural fit.
In truth, he could also handle the Supporter position.
Necromancy’s debuff abilities were formidable enough for that.
“This way, please. I’ll introduce you to the rest of the team.”
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“I’m Kim Ye-rin. As you can see, I’m a Dealer.”
The short-haired woman holding a firearm nodded slightly.
Firearms couldn’t be used inside dungeons, but outside them, they were fair game. Whether a Hunter’s abilities applied to firearms was a separate matter, though.
She was likely an Archer-class job. That way, she’d benefit from ranged damage increases, accuracy boosts, and similar skill effects.
Such passive bonuses were known to apply even when the wielded weapon was a gun rather than a bow.
“I’m Han Shin-u, the Supporter. More precisely, I’m a Scout.”
A man whose entire face had been replaced with a metallic robot visage introduced himself.
A Scout’s role was to scan or detect broad areas, whether in dungeons or fields, to map out terrain and locate enemies.
It fell under the Supporter category.
And it was essential for certain types of dungeons.
‘So we have two Tankers and Dealers—me and Kim Dong-su. The team leader is a Supporter. Kim Ye-rin is a Dealer. And Han Shin-u is a Scout. It’s a basic composition, but… is this enough for field work? Most of the lethal monsters in the South of Han River region have been exterminated, but still….’
That was true.
Outside the protected cities surrounded by the Great Wall, monsters bred naturally and reproduced, making it dangerous, but not every monster out there was powerful enough to threaten the city itself.
Those kinds had been hunted down and eliminated long ago.
It had to be that way for safety’s sake.
If a few ultra-powerful monsters suddenly charged at the city like madmen and broke through the Great Wall, it would be catastrophic.
But here, the standard for a monster that could “threaten the city” was extremely high. Anything below that still bred naturally out there.
In other words, with a party this size, you could drive off in a truck and still die.
If swarms of monsters attacked from all sides, five Hunters couldn’t win.

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