The Return of the Genius Ranker of All Times - Chapter 14

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Episode 14

Chapter 14.

“Why do you always fight in reckless situations? Are you a fighting cock? Kukkudakkukku is enough for that.”

This was what the purple old man said one day after clearing a dungeon.

You could just give up on the dungeon and leave, so why take on dangerous risks and challenge it?

If you die, you’ll just drop items and lose out, won’t you?

When asked this question, wondering what kind of guts the guy with the worst luck had, Dohyun had answered.

“? Reckless? What is?”

“…? Then when you have low HP and suddenly some raid boss-like thing appears as a mid-boss, rushing at it like that isn’t reckless?”

“Hmm. I caught it though?”

“…That’s true, but it was dangerous.”

At that time, Dohyun couldn’t understand those words.

There’s no need to take on dangerous risks and fight?

Dohyun knew that too.

However…

‘What’s reckless about it?’

The problem was that Dohyun had never fought recklessly.

Unless there was an incredible reward waiting or he discovered a hidden piece.

Since Dohyun had worse luck than anyone, he had absolutely no intention of taking on pointless risks that wouldn’t pay off.

He simply caught it because it seemed catchable.

“Puhup! Right. You catch it because it’s catchable. You’re completely right.”

“…Actually, when Kaiser said to catch something, we always did catch it.”

“And… honestly, I don’t know about other times, but this time Kaiser seems right? Why can’t we catch that thing?”

“I agree.”

Hearing those reactions from Kukkudakkukku and Sword Master, the purple old man would shake his head saying ‘Ugh, this is why talented people…’

Of course, after seeing Dohyun succeed every time after that, the purple old man no longer questioned it.

‘Ugh, fine. If you say you can do it, then you can do it.’ He would grumble but still follow along.

And Dohyun always lived up to that trust.

Thwack!

It was the same now.

“What are you doing right now…!?”

“It’s dangerous! We need to run away quickly!”

As his party members urgently shouted at Dohyun who suddenly charged forward when they were about to flee, Dohyun felt no threat at all.

‘Thirteen goblins. Seven with daggers, four with blunt weapons, two with poison arrows…’

He simply analyzed his opponents coldly and quickly finished his simulation.

After completing his assessment, the first thing Dohyun targeted were the goblins with poison arrows.

‘This is easier.’

When facing multiple enemies, neutralizing ranged attackers was a basic requirement.

If he were alone, he could just make other goblins take the hits instead, but now he had party members so there was no need to create unnecessary variables.

Crack!

After quickly striking down the hand of a goblin about to shoot a poison arrow at his face and breaking its neck, the goblin next to it belatedly rushed over.

When he pushed the neck-broken goblin away, the rushing one tripped and fell.

Slash!

In the meantime, Dohyun cut down the other poison archer who was staring blankly.

[You have used the skill ‘Power Strike’.]

[Critical Hit!]

[You have defeated a Green Goblin.]

[Through merit distribution, ‘Kaiser’ has obtained Green Goblin leather.]

After slashing its throat and stabbing its heart, the creature fell.

And as soon as it fell, Dohyun stabbed the back of the fallen goblin.

Stab! Staaab!

Kieek! Kek!

The goblins that had surrounded him interfered by stabbing with daggers, but Dohyun didn’t stop stabbing.

Getting cut a few times was perfectly bearable.

At that obsessive madness, the poison archer finally let out its death cry.

[Critical Hit!]

[You have defeated a Green Goblin.]

The ranged attackers were wiped out in an instant.

Now there was no one to interfere. From now on, it was a melee.

At the same time, Dohyun’s movements changed.

As if he had never focused on just one enemy, Dohyun moved like a ghost, disrupting their encirclement.

Slash- Stab!

Whoosh- Crack! Thwack!

He dodged attacks from enemies stabbing with daggers in the front with minimal movement and immediately responded with joint locks.

For enemies swinging blunt weapons, he grabbed the joint-broken goblin to take the hit instead or threw it to knock them down, then attacked the nearby ones while they were in chaos.

Whoosh-.

Keeek!

Even when they tried to ambush him, he noticed like a ghost and deflected it.

The goblins screamed at the combat that seemed like he had eyes on his back, but those screams soon turned into death cries.

And during this process, Dohyun discovered something amazing.

[Weapon Master effect removes equipment restrictions.]

[Adventurer effect allows use of dagger’s basic skill ‘Gap Strike’.]

[Weapon Master effect removes equipment restrictions.]

[Adventurer effect allows use of blunt weapon’s basic skill ‘Swing’.]

‘This works too.’

When he picked up the goblins’ weapons using Weapon Master, Adventurer generated the weapons’ basic skills.

He thought ignoring job restrictions to use skills was already amazing… but it was even more amazing than expected.

‘There’s nothing better than this for early game.’

Compared to others who only had one basic skill, this meant he could spam multiple skills as long as he had many weapons.

A cheat ability that could theoretically use 10 skills.

Forget Tyr’s duels and whatnot, at low levels, whoever had more skills was king.

Of course, this was only possible because he had the Weapon Master trait.

‘An unexpected synergy effect.’

Dohyun grinned and moved his hands quickly.

He wanted to test this cheat ability quickly.

Coincidentally, while Dohyun hesitated at this unexpected ability, a goblin was attacking him.

[You have used the skill ‘Gap Strike’.]

[You struck the opponent’s gap. Critical Hit is applied.]

[You have used the skill ‘Swing’.]

[You knock back the opponent.]

The one stabbing with a dagger got the same dagger skill treatment.

The one swinging a blunt weapon had that weapon stolen and got sent flying backward, then had his head smashed.

In close combat where bodies were almost touching, he stabbed vital points like the neck, heart, and eyes with daggers, slashed with swords when distance opened up, and used Swing to forcibly secure position when surrounded.

Truly combat utilizing all weapons as if they were his own.

[Blunt weapon proficiency increases.]

[Blunt weapon skill proficiency becomes LV2.]

[Dagger proficiency increases.]

[Dagger skill proficiency becomes LV2.]

[Sword proficiency increases.]

[Sword skill proficiency becomes LV3.]

As a result, he was able to raise the proficiency of both weapons, not just the sword.

Thanks to this, his accuracy became more precise and his power increased significantly.

Even using the same swing would knock enemies back further, and using a strong attack could take them down more easily.

‘This is actually fun?’

Since he was getting results with every move, he was getting into it.

When Dohyun got excited and started rampaging more wildly, the goblins actually looked pitiful.

“Wow…”

“…What am I even looking at right now?”

“Crazy…”

The party members couldn’t close their mouths at that incredible sight.

No, what kind of situation was this?

When he suddenly jumped in, they thought for a moment he had gone crazy, but he immediately snapped the Poison Archer’s neck and was going on a rampage by himself.

He had only taken down four so far, but somehow they didn’t think that man would lose.

If left alone like this, wouldn’t it be those goblins who would eventually fall?

When that thought occurred to him, Shield Master shouted.

“…We can’t just stand here watching. Let’s hurry and help him!”

“Ah, ah. Um… Right.”

“Yeah! I was about to do that!”

Shield Master raised his shield again, and the two people who had been trying to flee started providing support fire.

The battle that had seemed hopeless became possible.

Swoosh! Thunk!

Whack!

Keeek! Kek!

No, it actually became advantageous.

The goblins who were already frantic dealing with Dohyun alone couldn’t keep their wits when Shield Master joined in, and Miganddeok and Yubinkkung dealt free damage like beating up sandbags.

This was the change brought about by just one person.

‘…Does this even make sense?’

Shield Master couldn’t understand this situation.

What level 1 could rampage against thirteen goblins like this?

This was impossible even for veteran rankers.

Normally, a level 1 four-person party would hunt a group of five goblins.

A skilled party could take more than that, and a master party would have to push themselves to take ten.

‘But he’s facing thirteen by himself?’

Of course, the number that man had actually killed was only five… but somehow he felt that if left alone, he would have eventually taken them all down.

That made sense since it had all happened so quickly.

At that moment, that man’s nickname caught his eye.

‘Kaiser.’

At first he had casually thought he was just a fan…

Was it just his imagination that he was starting to think it might not necessarily be the case?

If it was that Kaiser who was said to have ranked higher than even Demroc during the Demroc era, then even this ridiculous situation would make sense.

Those god-like combat movements too…

‘No way.’

But Shield Master soon shook his head.

Kaiser, who hadn’t made a single peep even when receiving public attention, suddenly started playing after a year and six months?

And he happened to start today and was in his party?

‘That’s too unrealistic.’

People have a tendency to perceive unbearable truths as delusions when faced with them.

His case was the same right now.

Rather than believing he had beaten such impossible odds to witness Kaiser’s first start, it felt more natural to think he was just overthinking things.

Frankly speaking, he hadn’t actually killed all thirteen. He had just looked impressive enough to seem like he could.

‘I heard that Kaiser’s hardcore fans are often skilled players… Maybe he’s a fan with that kind of connection.’

So Shield Master let out an admiring sigh and focused on hunting, thinking his party luck was really good from the very start.

Never dreaming that it really was that Kaiser.

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[You have defeated a Green Goblin.]

[As a merit reward, ‘Kaiser’ has obtained Green Goblin hide.]

[Your level has increased.]

When he defeated the last goblin, Dohyun lowered his sword at the message that appeared.

As soon as he lowered his sword, exclamations burst out.

“Holy shit… We actually killed them all.”

“This is my first time experiencing something like this.”

“This is crazy, really. It was so fun.”

“Honestly, I was a bit worried because the combat felt too realistic, but it was so fun. I’m really excited to see what the boss will be like.”

The party members’ voices were full of trembling, as if the excitement from battle hadn’t faded yet.

Like people excitedly discussing a movie after watching a masterpiece, they were talking about the battle they had just fought.

And naturally, that attention turned to Dohyun.

“Really… Wow, Kaiser sir, that was amazing. No, how can a person move like that?”

“You’re not a veteran player, are you? I’ve never seen anything like that before. Do you practice martial arts or something?”

“What martial art is like that? Are you maybe ex-special forces or something? Really, even as a guy, I almost fell for you, hyung-nim.”

Seeing Miganddeok and Yubinkkung’s exaggerated praise, was it his imagination that Charlie came to mind?

Especially in Miganddeok’s case, his form of address had changed to hyung-nim.

He had been half-listening and letting it go in one ear and out the other, but the words that followed made him flinch.

“You really live up to your nickname. At this level, aren’t you really Kaiser?”

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