The Return of the Genius Ranker of All Times - Chapter 30

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Episode 30

Chapter 30.

Thud-.

Screech! Screech!

Its identity was a giant centipede.

The giant centipede that had been waiting for an opportunity behind the rocks was trying to stab its venomous fangs into Dohyun’s neck.

Dohyun, who had grabbed the creature’s head, frowned.

“Anyway, these insect bastards are cowardly wherever you go.”

What these things do never changes, whether in Demroc or Godseeker.

Even in Demroc, there wasn’t a single insect-type monster that didn’t use cowardly and dirty combat methods.

They look disgusting and there’s nothing likeable about what they do either.

And since this place was a hunting ground full of such insect bastards, Dohyun had been expecting the insects’ ambush patterns from the beginning.

They target users when they let their guard down.

Crack-.

Even after crushing its head with force, the creature still writhed and tried to escape.

True to insect type, its vitality was tenacious too.

Stab, stab-.

After stabbing it a couple times with his greatsword, a cheerful notification sound finally appeared.

[You have defeated the Giant Centipede of the Forest.]

[Swordsmanship proficiency has increased to LV10.]

[Level up.]

Only now was the battle over.

Dohyun, who had gathered up the miscellaneous items dropped while hunting, finally checked his status.

‘I didn’t expect proficiency to increase too.’

Earlier his axe proficiency had also increased, and Weapon Master was definitely good. Proficiency increased at an amazing speed.

With this, sword-related damage had already increased by 10%.

If things continued like this, he’d be nothing short of an overpowered character, but unfortunately Godseeker wasn’t such an easy game.

‘From level 10, damage doesn’t increase well.’

Weapon proficiency only increases damage by 1% each level up to level 10.

From level 10, it increases by 1% every 2 levels, and the proficiency required to level up also increases dramatically.

It even grows ridiculously large with each level increase.

Most people aim to reach proficiency level 20s at least, which shows just how brutal the difficulty was.

‘It’s a long road ahead.’

The experience needed for proficiency levels would also get higher and higher, so it was a mountain of work ahead.

Anyway, this was something to think about later…

Dohyun shook off his sword and opened his status window.

[Player: Kaiser]

[Level: 19]

[HP: 2,110 / 2,450]

[MP: 320 / 600]

[Stamina: 170 / 350]

[Class: Last Adventurer 【Disciple of Kashiyar】]

[Titles (3)]

-Max Favorability from the Start?

-First Slayer

-King of Time Attack

[Stats]

【Strength: 35(+38)】 【Agility: 35(+37)】

【Stamina: 5(+37)】 【Sense: 22(+36)】

【Magic Power: 5(+34)】

Remaining Points: 49

“I’ve already gained 2 levels.”

I heard that leveling up becomes difficult from the Western Forest, but I gained 2 levels in less than an hour.

It was a speed other players wouldn’t believe if they heard about it.

From level 17, the experience pool gets bigger, and since party play is standard at the West Gate, gaining even 1 level per hour was considered good.

And that was the standard for skilled parties.

If party coordination wasn’t good, leveling up could take 2 hours.

Dohyun had gained 2 levels in just 1 hour, which was truly insane growth speed.

“It’s a bit annoying, but it really is a honey hunting ground. They attack well even while being affected by intimidation.”

Whether they trusted the terrain or not, they came to attack on their own without having to seek them out, so how sweet was that.

It was a thought only possible for Dohyun, who could kill one creature with one hit.

Regular players would have developed neurosis from their ambushes.

Their escape attempts?

That wasn’t much of a problem for Dohyun either, who had both Backstep and Charge Slash. As long as they were in his sight, he could catch them anytime.

‘Backstep really is an overpowered skill.’

A combo-type instant skill that can deal damage, serve as a movement skill, and has high utility is Hero-grade?

And the cooldown is only 50 seconds?

Later, with some skill acceleration items, it would go down to 40 seconds, and then there really would be no escaping.

It was balanced when assassins had it, but looking at just the skill, there was no more overpowered skill than this.

‘What if I get the mage’s ‘that thing’ or the swordsman’s ‘that thing’ here?’

And every class has one skill like this.

Skills that would be overpowered if other classes had them.

Whether they’re as overpowered as Backstep is debatable, but depending on perspective, they could be even better skills.

Just mixing a few skills that come to mind with Backstep already paints a picture.

‘Yes, it paints a picture. A picture of completely broken balance.’

Well, this was only possible if you could actually draw those skills, but for Dohyun with the Eye of Truth, it was just a matter of time.

And that second opportunity was right around the corner.

‘Just one more level and it’s drawing time.’

Only 1 level remained until level 20, which gives the second random skill draw ticket.

In the past, while waiting for this moment, he didn’t have much expectation. What was the point of expecting when you’d just get a dud anyway.

He was more obsessed with guaranteed grade draw tickets instead.

That was why Dohyun had no Legendary skills.

‘Legendary skills only come from random draw tickets.’

In other words, Dohyun had used countless random draws – ten total draws up to level 100, plus random draws from Quest and hidden piece rewards – and still never obtained a Legendary skill.

Truly phenomenal luck!

It was drawing luck worthy of Dohyun, who was called to have luck abandoned by the gods.

‘I’m insanely excited.’

But this time is different!

This Godseeker life’s Dohyun has the Eye of Truth, the strongest unique trait!

He was excited to the point of anticipation about what grade he would draw.

Demroc… no, the only drug that Godseeker allowed, which was never permitted to Kaiser in the past!

It was while walking and imagining that moment.

Ding-.

[You have completed exploration of the Western Forest.]

[Go to Linda and tell her about the situation in the Western Forest.]

“Huh?”

At the suddenly appearing notification, he checked the Quest and the conditions were indeed met.

He had already killed twenty giant insects, so now only one Quest remained.

[Lost Pendant]

-Grade: Normal+

-Description: A request from the girl Camilla who had her precious pendant stolen by a cat. Let’s find the pendant that should be outside the West Gate for the girl.

-Lost Pendant (0 / 1)

-Clear Reward: 1 gold, a certain amount of experience, Camilla’s small gift

-Failure Risk: Emily’s favorability may decrease.

-Time Limit: 28 hours

The only Normal+ grade Quest among the West Gate Quests.

That didn’t mean the difficulty was hard though.

Rather, it was the opposite.

‘This one’s location is already well known.’

You just had to go to the location written in the strategy guide and pick up the pendant.

Since you could pick it up anytime anyway, he had just prioritized other Quests.

Step, step.

Dohyun cleared his thoughts and moved according to the strategy guide.

After walking for about 10 minutes, he could see people gathered in the distance.

As he approached closer, he could hear murmuring sounds.

“Come on, everyone line up.”

“We all took time out of our busy schedules to come here, so let’s not cut in line.”

It was a line.

Players were lining up to take the pendant hanging on a tree branch.

It was a phenomenon that occurred because it was a free Quest that was popular, but there was only one item.

‘The pendant respawns 10 seconds after taking it, was it?’

In a way, it was only 10 seconds, but even that wasn’t just “only” anymore when there were many people.

With just ten people in line, it would take 100 seconds.

So if you got caught at a time when there were many people, it was a Quest where you’d just waste precious play time.

It was also the reason why Dohyun didn’t come looking for the pendant right away.

Earlier, the time slots must have overlapped because the line was damn long.

‘This time it’s worth waiting for.’

Fortunately, this line wasn’t that long.

About six people at most.

He only had to wait 1 minute, so he could spare that much time.

As he stood in line absentmindedly, he could hear the people in front talking.

But familiar words came from them.

“Hey, did you hear that those bullies got a death warrant issued against them?”

“Assassin Boy, that bastard? I know, serves him right.”

“It was properly issued at the guild level, so now he can’t even move and is getting beaten up.”

“Tsk, they should have lived more nicely. Seeing what those guys did was really disgusting.”

Assassin Boy. Bullies.

These were all names Dohyun knew.

‘Those PKers? A death warrant was issued against them in the meantime?’

Since Dohyun was the one who had given them a harsh lesson, he couldn’t not know.

But the fact that a death warrant was issued was somewhat unexpected.

‘There’s no way a guild would go through such trouble… did they mess with the wrong people?’

Although Dohyun had only played Demroc, even listening to users who had played other RPGs, it was all similar.

Guilds only issued death warrants when there was benefit for them or for revenge.

Naturally.

A death warrant meant chasing them wherever they were and massacring them infinitely.

How much manpower, resources, and time would go into such a death warrant?

‘That’s all money.’

There was no reason to make such an investment in something trivial.

Unless there was benefit to the guild from the death warrant, or it was retaliation against those who messed with them to avoid being looked down upon.

Sure enough, Dohyun’s thoughts were correct.

“But I don’t like how they’re sucking up to Hero Guild either. Honestly, is this the first or second time those guys did trashy things?”

“True, dungeon control and Quest control… if they don’t like something, they just crush it down, they’re only heroes in name but their actions are no different from villains.”

“I don’t understand why they’re even popular.”

“It’s all because they have a large fanbase. The guild master’s fanbase rivals any celebrity. Two-thirds are female fans, I heard…”

“They can’t even make a peep in front of Execution Guild, tsk. Anyway, when the tiger’s away, the fox becomes king.”

“Shh. Your voice is too loud.”

Seeing the two glancing around, Dohyun pretended not to hear and acted oblivious.

Fortunately, his act worked as the two people’s voices got quieter, though they didn’t stop talking.

‘Hero Guild… there were similar guys in Demroc too.’

Was it Hero Guild?

Those who founded a guild saying they would become heroes who help the weak and don’t bow before the strong were certainly people with conviction at first.

‘Yeah, at first.’

Those heroes changed when they got a taste of money over time.

They fell into trash who pretended to be good in front but did all sorts of dirty things behind the scenes.

They were also the ones who sent all kinds of assassins after Dohyun.

Even though they had never really clashed with each other, Dohyun standing firm and steady must have been bothersome to them.

He had thought he should properly crush them someday, but as it turned out, there was no need.

‘When the game collapsed, they left without looking back.’

Hero Guild and Hero Guild.

Was it just his imagination that those two guilds seemed to overlap?

“Recovering their image by catching PKers like this isn’t the first or second time… tsk. The reality is trash catching trash, but what’s so great about it that people suck up to them…”

“People are just that sick of PK.”

“True, seeing the post that Assassin Girl uploaded, she really is a bastard. They’re the perpetrators but cosplaying as victims, disgusting.”

“Keke, exactly. I heard she was babbling about Kaiser or something in her post?”

Dohyun, who had been listening quietly, unconsciously flinched.

Why was his name coming up here?

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