The Return of the Genius Ranker of All Times - Chapter 168

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Chapter 168

Episode 168.

They say it all depends on one’s mindset.

The effect of that firm determination was tremendous.

[Using Thunder Dragon Descent.]

—-!!

Thunder that seemed to tear the sky apart, and lightning in the form of a dragon striking down with flashing brilliance.

Literally a thunder dragon descended and swept through the entire surrounding area.

Crackle- Sizzle-

The Forest Troll King standing like grilled meat, twitching as it felt the electricity.

And the aftereffects caused electric currents flowing through the surrounding area to continuously deal damage to the Troll King.

[Field Boss ‘Forest Troll King’s life force is below 30%.]

[Field Boss ‘Forest Troll King’ enters the electric field and takes damage.]

But most importantly, the finishing touch was Dohyun.

Crackle-

Hair dyed white like lightning and electricity flowing around his body with sparks flying.

The appearance that stimulated a man’s romance was truly worthy of being called legendary grade.

“Wow…!!”

“So that’s the legendary skill. Amazing.”

Having used Thunder Dragon Descent, he had no intention of dragging out the time.

Dohyun, his body lightened, gritted his teeth and increased his speed, unleashing a barrage of attacks at incomparably faster speeds than before.

Grr, graaah!

Slash, thud thud thud! Crack!

Kicking with his feet, slashing with his sword, then repeatedly stabbing the heart with Heavenly Transformation that had changed into a dagger.

Using Back Attack to go behind and stab vital points, then when the creature turned around, using Lightning Movement to approach the front again and get behind it.

Thud thud thud thud!

And another barrage of attacks pouring down.

“Wow! Look how refreshing that is.”

“Damn… Kaiser live viewing ticket. I was so envious of those Sargis guys, but now I’m not envious anymore!”

“Using even legendary skills, he’s really toying with it. This is the first time a monster looks pitiful.”

Naturally, cheers erupted at that spectacular battle.

“Waaahhh!!!”

“You’re so cool, oppa!”

“Kyaaah!

“Black-haired Kaiser!”

Among them were Hyuna and her friends.

Reactions of complete excitement at the even more dazzling movements.

“Tsk…”

“He’s going to catch it all by himself. Sigh. What are we going to report again.”

“We have to report it anyway, what else can we do. Of all people, it had to be Kaiser… The guild master is going to go crazy.”

The Hero Guild members were watching with displeasure and reporting somewhere, but such things didn’t catch his eye right now.

It was more painful to watch those guys praising Kaiser without knowing he was Dohyun.

Graaah! Grr!

An insurmountable wall no matter how much it struggled.

Perhaps feeling anger at that, Dohyun also nodded as he watched the Troll King crying out desperately in anguish.

‘Are you suffering? I’m suffering too.’

Finally, when the Troll King couldn’t bear it anymore and spun around like a top swinging wildly.

[Perfect parrying success!]

[Completely deflects Rage Spinning Slash.]

[Inflicted status ailment ‘Electrocution’.]

[Field Boss ‘Forest Troll King’ is stunned for 1 second.]

As Dohyun broke the pattern with a parry as if he had been waiting and delivered a counter, a message appeared.

‘This one triggered.’

An extremely low probability usually meant decimal units.

Considering you usually had to hit about 50 times, and if unlucky it wouldn’t activate even after a hundred hits, he was fortunate.

[Reusing Back Attack.]

[Mark disappears.]

[Can deliver a powerful strike proportional to the mark.]

[Enemy is in electrocuted state. Thunder Dragon Descent effect applies additional damage when attacking.]

So Dohyun without hesitation triggered the mark with Back Attack and drove a strike into the heart.

Graaahhhhh!!

A guaranteed critical hit exploded, and the creature screamed as electricity scattered in all directions.

[You have defeated Field Boss ‘Forest Troll King’.]

[Would you like to harvest the Forest Troll King’s Essence Orb?]

[Recorded in Adventure Log.]

[Level increased.]

[Swordsmanship proficiency increased.]

[Swordsmanship proficiency reached Lv18.]

It was the death cry.

The battle between two men who had suffered among the audience like zoo monkeys had finally come to an end.

‘Huh? Owner, aren’t you checking what you harvested?’

‘I’ll check later, let’s get out of here quickly.’

Jihad was puzzled when Dohyun, who would normally make a big fuss checking rewards, immediately tried to leave, but it couldn’t be helped.

He only wanted to escape this place right away.

But unfortunately, that wasn’t possible.

“Kaiser sir!”

“Could I please ask for just one handshake? It’s my lifelong wish!”

“The battle was amazing to watch. Please, just one autograph… No, could you please take just one photo with me.”

“Hey hey, aren’t you going to get cut down doing that? I heard if you rudely rush at him, you get folded in half…”

“After seeing that battle, how could I as a Kashin Church member not ask for an autograph! I’d be happy to die by Kaiser sir’s hand! That would also be an honor!”

Because countless crowds were surrounding Dohyun.

The bigger problem was that among those countless cheering crowds were Duhyung and Jaeyeol.

Dohyun, who couldn’t bear to face those guys, was thinking about whether he should use Back Attack to escape when.

Tap tap tap.

A quite familiar silhouette approached through the crowd.

The characteristic pointed hat of a mage, gorgeous robes, cute shoulder-length hair.

A woman with rabbit-like appearance hiding a devilish inner nature.

“Um… Kaiser sir.”

It was Kang Hyuna.

Hyuna approached and carefully held out something with a shy face Dohyun had never seen before.

“Please… give me an autograph.”

At that, one word bypassed his brain and burst out of his mouth.

“This fucking shit…”

“…Excuse me?”

The sibling DNA was too strong to endure his shy little sister’s autograph request.

* * *

In front of countless people.

A disaster occurred where he cursed at a woman asking for an autograph, but fortunately it could be handled well.

“…What? I didn’t hear you.”

“…It’s nothing. I’m sorry, but my logout time is approaching, so I must go.”

He had cursed under his breath in such a noisy situation that Hyuna couldn’t hear him properly.

There was no way other players could have heard it either. Thanks to that, he was able to somehow escape by making excuses about connection time.

‘I never thought Jonghyun and Duhyung would be so persistent…’

The problem was his friends.

The other guys gave up quickly, but those two were particularly persistent, clinging to him and pleading.

In the end, he had to scribble a rough signature for one of them before getting out.

-Wow!! Thank you so much. I’ll treasure it as a family heirloom!

-Wow, I’m so jealous…

Thinking about the guy who was happy to receive the signature and those who were envious made him chuckle.

‘They’d flip out if they knew it was me who did it.’

What kind of reaction would they have?

They’d probably try to fold him in half, wouldn’t they?

Dohyun nodded his head after thinking for a moment.

‘Hmm.’

Ignorance is bliss, as they say.

Since things had come to this, it seemed he needed to keep it even more thoroughly secret.

Anyway, let’s move on from this pathetic happening.

[Forest Troll King’s Claws x2]

[Forest Troll King’s Concentrated Blood x1]

[Forest Troll King’s Hide x1]

‘As expected, just junk items.’

Dohyun clicked his tongue as he checked the rewards he had harvested earlier.

Without the first-clear bonus, it was absolutely terrible.

Come to think of it, he didn’t think he’d ever gotten proper equipment when there was no first-clear bonus guarantee.

Thinking about it made him feel unpleasant, but it didn’t matter.

[Forest Troll King’s Fang x1]

This wasn’t the first or second time this had happened, and he had gotten what he wanted.

‘My level went up too.’

His level, which he hadn’t expected to rise, had already reached 59.

Now the only remaining materials were 3 Heartwood Root Leaves and 5 Blue Leaves.

[Remaining Play Time: 01:05:17]

The remaining time was 1 hour and 5 minutes.

There was barely an hour left.

He needed to hurry and collect the materials. It was somewhat tight timing to search the entire field alone.

But it was fine, because a good method had come to mind.

“Jihad. Try summoning the undead.”

-Yeah. For hunting?

“No, I want to use them for something else.”

-Something else?

Dohyun explained to Jihad, who leaned in curiously.

When the explanation ended, Jihad’s eyes sparkled.

-Oh, that’s good! Come to think of it, I think I used them that way before too.

-That’s a good idea, my lord. Your insight never fails to amaze me.

-Risa risa! Risa!

-Right, Eliza. You found it that way too.

-Risa!

When Charlie and Eliza also actively agreed, Jihad didn’t hesitate any longer and drew up his mana.

Twelve undead were summoned this way.

Clack clack… clack…

Among them, Suffering, who stood at the front, greeted him after a long time.

But as soon as he appeared, things became noisy.

-Hey, man. I’m your lord, aren’t I? Why do you keep greeting the owner?

Clack… clack clack…

-What? You’re ignoring me? Owner, can I educate this guy now?

Clack clack.

-Kyaaak!

Suffering and Jihad were bickering as usual.

Eventually, Jihad exploded and jumped around pleading, but Suffering just snorted as if it was ridiculous.

As if our lord would accept such a request.

That kind of nuance was clearly visible in his expression.

It was momentarily amazing how a skeleton could make expressions, but setting that aside.

‘There is a need for some education.’

Honestly, it wasn’t really Dohyun’s concern, but the master-servant relationship was important.

He could laugh it off at times like this, but in combat situations, a subordinate with poor discipline was more fatal than anything else.

If they didn’t follow the commander’s orders, they were no longer subordinates.

There was a reason Dohyun had beaten Jihad to death when he first accepted him as a divine beast.

‘The probability is low as long as I’m here… But since Jihad is the direct superior, it would be better to eliminate the possibility itself.’

Having made his decision, Dohyun spoke bluntly.

“…Do as you please.”

-Huh? Really?

…Clack clack?

It must have been quite unexpected.

Jihad, who had made the request, asked if it was really okay. When Dohyun readily nodded, Jihad visibly brightened.

And Suffering, who seemed shocked, froze like a broken robot.

-You’re dead now. I’ll show you what education means.

Clack… clack clack…

Watching the two whose fortunes had instantly reversed, Dohyun chuckled and said.

“Then let’s begin.”

-Roger!

At Jihad’s gesture, the undead scattered in all directions.

It was the moment when the full-scale search began.

* * *

The method Dohyun had thought of was simple.

It was to use Jihad’s undead for search operations.

After all, there’s no task where manpower is more important than searching, right?

Naturally, this wasn’t a method available to all necromancers.

If this worked, necromancers who could both fight and search would be the wannabe profession of explorers.

But what about Jihad’s undead?

[You have obtained Heartwood Root Leaf.]

[You have obtained Blue Leaf.]

‘I had a hunch because their AI is particularly high, and it really works.’

He had inferred this from their past behavior of using strange combat methods and doing well on their own.

As expected, they performed the search excellently.

[Eye of Truth activates.]

To make matters even better, when the Eye of Truth was added to this, truly insane search power was born.

When he told them the location, the undead would bring it back immediately.

Thanks to this, he was able to finish the work in just 30 minutes.

Meanwhile, beside Dohyun…

Clack! Clack! Clack clack! Clack!

-Hey! The sound is too quiet! Louder!

Thwack! Thwack thwack!!

-Your posture is sloppy! Do it properly!?

The resounding voices of Suffering doing duck walks while receiving training, and instructor Jihad who had become stricter than anyone else in the world, echoed throughout.

A cheerful notification popped up as if representing Jihad’s mood.

[Guardian ‘Jihad Black’ is in an extremely good mood from smoothly enjoying actions befitting a Guardian’s nature.]

[Loyalty increases significantly.]

[Loyalty: 75 / 100]

‘Wow…’

Dohyun, who couldn’t think of anything to say, just decided to admire the scene.

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