I Became a Mythical Hunter After Killing the Golden Goblin - Chapter 59

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Chapter 59. Quest
〚Title: Blessing of Ophiuchus
Grade: Mythic
Rank: C+
Description: The blessing of Ophiuchus, the hidden thirteenth sign of the zodiac. For some reason, its abilities cannot be used properly.
Abilities
-All recovery-type abilities’ efficiency increased by 500%
-All recovery-type abilities’ rank increased by 5 levels
-Unusable
-Unusable
-Unusable〛
“This is insane.”
Is this truly a Mythic-grade title? Unlike the World Destroyer, which is a Legendary-grade title yet equally unusable, this one operates on an entirely different level.
“If things are like this, should I collect recovery-type abilities too?”
I had planned to obtain healer-related abilities through my summons, but with this title, everything changes.
‘Though it does risk becoming too scattered….’
Having many abilities isn’t necessarily good. As The Sun and Chaos demonstrated, different abilities can repel each other, cause cancellation effects that drastically reduce effectiveness, and in the worst cases—though extremely rare—skills can run wild and drive the holder insane.
Trying to do everything alone is greed. Even those gods only wield abilities within their own domains, don’t they?
While it’s not impossible to become completely perfect alone, it’s not possible either. Somewhere in between.
That’s why, after my regression, this was an assumption I excluded from my planning from the start. No matter how blessed by fortune, walking such an unreasonable path was far too dangerous a choice.
That’s why I’m pursuing that one-person-army class instead.
“Tsk, anyway, if I ask the Miracle Guild, they’ll help me out. Let me just focus on obtaining healer abilities.”
The Miracle Guild is the gathering place for healers. Since I’m supposedly an honorary director, I might as well double as a healer too.
With that settled, I neatly concluded my thoughts complicated by the sudden appearance of a divine seat and checked what needed to be verified next.
The first thing to check was naturally using the rune. I opened my inventory, retrieved the rune, and used it immediately.
〚Rune: Crown of the Evolved Sovereign [Ancient-SSS+] has been used.〛
The rune properly took its place in my status window.
Next was the Quest. In truth, it was what I was most curious about. After all, it was a Quest related to a divine seat that had now vanished.
〚Hidden Quest: Seat of Pride – Descendant of Lucifer (1)
Grade: Mythic
Rank: A
Description: In the distant past, Lucifer was the most radiant and magnificent archangel, praised by all. Yet his power, so overwhelming and great, tainted him with pride. Seizing that opportunity, the source of the Seven Sins—Pride itself—approached him and corrupted him. Now vanished, he tore his power to shreds and scattered it across the world. Collect that power and become his true successor.
Objective: Collect Lucifer’s 12 pairs of wings (2/24)
Clear Reward: Authority: Fallen Archangel, Authority: 24 Pairs of Chaos, Authority: Halo of Light and Darkness
Failure Penalty: Wing ownership deleted, Stat: Pride deleted〛
“This is insane.”
The clear difficulty aside, the rewards are insane. It grants three authorities—equal to the number of authorities I currently possess. All from clearing just one Quest.
‘Of course, that “just one” Quest is Mythic grade, rank A.’
I closed the Quest window and set the thought aside. This is a Quest that requires at least years of grinding to clear anyway.
Getting excited about it now would be pointless.
‘If I purchase the last one that appears on Earth and plunder three from the invaders….’
In theory, I could obtain six. But I still need eighteen more, so it feels utterly hopeless.
I wonder if I’ll even find half of them before I die of old age. Not that I’m thinking of giving up, though.
I rose from my seat, watching the streets I was gradually becoming familiar with.
Now it was time to move toward obtaining that hidden Quest in the Primordial City.
The starting Quest for acquiring the mythic-tier job—Emperor of Ten Thousand Spirits.
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Mythic-tier job or not, there was no way a mythic-tier Quest would simply exist at Stage-0. But certainly, in this Primordial City, I could obtain an item as a reward that would grant me access to that mythic-tier job Quest.
It was the monster subjugation Quest in the Underground Aqueduct assigned by the village’s guard captain—Advanced-E+. Essentially, it was the most difficult Quest obtainable in the Primordial City.
Therefore, I had to first complete the work necessary to receive that Quest. Though I call it work, it was simple.
I only needed to raise the reputation of the village people. The process would require countless tedious tasks, but when I thought of the delicious fruit waiting at the end, I couldn’t help but do it.
“Hmm~ Should I head to the Village Central Plaza?”
Quests for players could be confirmed near the massive display board in the village center. Following the main road, the Village Central Plaza filled with players came into view.
Excluding those living in the Abyss, they were all players from South Korea. These were people summoned to this village through portals from all across the nation.
Some had only recently entered this village, others had felt their limits and settled here, and a very small minority might have visited this village for rest from higher stages.
I slowly walked through them and arrived near the display board. Since it was the most densely packed area, I stopped at an appropriate distance, and the Quests I could complete came into view.
〚Quest List
1. Find Nicky’s lost flower hairpin (Normal-F-) (Reward: flower bracelet)
2. Catch the rats that appeared on the roof of Shumia’s house (Normal-F-) (Reward: dinner)
3. Fix the table Derek destroyed while drunk (Normal-F-) (Reward: sweet wine 1 bottle)
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127. Subjugate 3 goblin scouts outside the city (Normal-E+) (Reward: 15 purple coins)
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478. ??? (Opens upon condition met)〛
I sighed as I scanned through all 478 Quests. That 478th Quest—the one that opens upon condition met—was precisely the Quest I needed to obtain.
The condition was achieving a certain level of favorability with more than half the village residents. Naturally, it wasn’t easy.
To achieve it, I had to complete Quests given by the village residents, but since such Quest rewards were typically worthless, almost all players ignored them.
It was even more so because some eccentric players who attempted such Quests ended up gaining nothing and gave up.
After all, who would spend time on Quests that only rewarded you with a flower-made bracelet, dinner, or alcohol?
In that time, you might as well kill one more goblin.
Therefore, the most popular Quest among the Primordial City Quests was typically the 127th—killing three goblin scouts and bringing back their corpses.
Since it wasn’t the Tutorial, the rewards that were once just a single purple coin or magic stone had increased significantly, and with Quest rewards on top of that. If not for the limit of twice per day, everyone would have been milking that Quest.
But I had to raise their favorability by doing such Quests without rewards—mere chores. Moreover, since favorability wasn’t something visible, it was hard to be satisfied.
If I wasn’t careful, I might have to complete nearly all five hundred Quests.
I first accepted a total of ten Quests, from number 1 to 10. As Quests 1-10 disappeared from the Quest board, murmurs began spreading among the players.
“Pfft! Some idiot just accepted Quests 1-10.”
“Is he crazy? Or does he have too much time? No wait, maybe he’s just a rich bastard.”
“Or maybe they accepted because some streamer or content creator wanted to film it.”
“Either way, it won’t work out. There’s nothing to gain from all that suffering. Tsk, tsk.”
“They look like a total newbie anyway. Just leave them be. Like always, they’ll exhaust themselves and drop out. It’s got nothing to do with us anyway.”
“That’s true. Poor bastard. Work your ass off. We’ll be making money while you’re at it.”
If anything, you lot are the ones who deserve pity—weaker than me, broke, yet still talking behind my back.
My wealth is infinite, infinite! Just the coins in my inventory alone are worth a fortune!
‘Come to think of it, there’s one more thing I need to check.’
I opened my inventory list and examined one particular item. It was a ticket—a Grade 0 Merchant Summoning Voucher, obtained as compensation for destroying the world.
Along with 10,005 black and white coins. A Grade 0 merchant wouldn’t even consider purple coins as currency, so only the rarest black and white coins held any real value.
‘Even the ancient texts mentioned that Grade 0 merchants have been spotted so rarely you could count the instances on one hand.’
Yet I could summon such a merchant. Let me complete the accepted Quest first, then I’ll call them during my break. There’s no point hoarding black and white coins I can’t use right now anyway.
Following the path the system indicated, I arrived at a small house.
Knock, knock.
As I knocked on the door, a small figure came rushing out and cracked it open just enough to peek her head through.
“Who… who are you?”
It was a tiny girl who could barely speak properly. Looking at her, I was reminded of my younger sister from long ago. I knelt down to meet her eyes.
“Hello, Nicky. Are your parents home? Are you alone?”
“They went to work. But… who are you really?”
“You asked someone to find your hairpin, remember? Your big brother came to help you find it.”
At my words, Nicky’s face lit up and she nodded eagerly. Her adorable expression made me smile involuntarily, and I asked again.
“Do you remember where you lost it?”
“Um… a little back mountain. I was playing there.”
I turned to look at the small Back Mountain in the distance. That shouldn’t take long to search. I nodded and stood up.
“Your big brother will find it quickly. Here, eat this while you wait.”
I pulled out one of the candies Seo Ye-rin had given me from my inventory and placed it in Nicky’s hand, then set off.
The Back Mountain was small. The grass wasn’t particularly tall, and finding a single hairpin was easy. For a Hunter like me, it was even easier.
“The Sun’s Eye.”
The Sun’s eyes burned crimson. As The Sun stat was absorbed into the Pride stat, the color of my eyes shifted to a brighter shade of red.
Beyond that, the effect improved only marginally—a trivial change.
But finding a lost hairpin was child’s play. Before I’d even circled the Back Mountain halfway, I spotted the hairpin hidden in the grass.
After brushing away the dirt and dust, I returned and handed it to Nicky.
“Yay~!! Thank you!”
Along with the System Message confirming the Quest was cleared, Nicky rushed inside and returned with a few flowers, clumsily tying them around my arm.
“Thank you so much.”
“You’re welcome. Don’t cry while you wait for your parents to come home, okay?”
“Um… big brother, what are you doing now?”
“Me? I need to help other people too. Why? Are you bored? Want to come with me?”
At my suggestion, Nicky’s eyes widened and she nodded enthusiastically. I couldn’t help but smile bitterly at the sight.
It reminded me of my past, when I had to look after my younger sister in place of our busy parents. Before we were sent to the Orphanage, there were caretakers and housekeepers, but my little sister would still cling to me and whine for me to play with her.
It was the same at the Orphanage. She was afraid to mix with the other children and would follow me around everywhere.
‘How bothersome that was back then.’
Looking back, it was nothing but endearing.
And Nicky, who had to spend her days alone in this small, modest home, seemed to feel the same way. She craved attention and yearned for stability.
I simply could not bring myself to ignore that child.
I smiled and scooped Nicky into my arms, fastening a hairpin into her hair before moving forward.
The next request was rat extermination.

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