The Return of the Genius Ranker of All Times - Chapter 32

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Episode 32

Chapter 32.

“Ah…”

And those eyes quickly lost their light.

“Golden my ass…”

Gold?

As if telling him not to even dream of it, it didn’t even show a remotely similar color.

6 brown cards, 4 silver cards.

In other words, 6 common grade and 4 rare grade cards.

‘Wait, it’s supposed to be random. How does this make sense?’

It was truly absurd.

It’s not even an intermediate skill draw ticket, so how could only those two grades appear?

If this was a skill, it would be quite the skill.

‘If there are 4 rare cards… probability-wise, it’s not that bad.’

It’s a whopping 40 percent chance to draw a rare grade skill.

Even with Dohyun’s notoriously bad luck, this balance gave him a high enough probability to draw a rare grade.

‘…Or not?’

He’d been screwed over so many times…

Anyway, Dohyun brushed off his hands and sighed.

‘Drawing a hero grade in the first room was really lucky.’

Especially since that hero grade was Backstab, maybe he had used up all his luck then.

Though disappointed, Dohyun quickly pulled himself together.

‘These days happen too.’

His conscience had been exploding lately, but honestly, rare grade wasn’t bad.

No, it was right to consider it good.

‘Whether it’s skills or titles, rare grade has the highest utility.’

In Godose, rare skills are the most accessible yet infinitely versatile.

For example, Assassin Boy’s Stealth or Paralyzing Poison are also rare grade skills, but aren’t they core assassin skills?

While not overpowered individually, they combine well with anything and shine when combined.

That’s what rare grade skills were.

‘I did need at least one rare skill anyway.’

They were also the skills Dohyun used most frequently.

Thinking about it that way, getting a rare now was actually better.

…No, no matter how he thought about it, that wasn’t true, but such rationalization seemed good for his mental health.

Dohyun cleared his thoughts and stroked his chin.

“This is surprisingly troubling.”

If it were just one card, he’d just draw it, but with four silver cards, it was quite a dilemma.

If something awkward to use appeared now, he’d probably feel sick thinking ‘Ah, I should have chosen another one! There were three more!’

‘Since I can see through what’s hidden anyway, couldn’t it just show me what skills they are too? So stingy…’

After briefly having thoughts that went beyond his conscience exploding to being ground up in a shredder, Dohyun reached out.

No matter how much he pondered, it would only waste time.

‘Whatever, I don’t care. Something will come out.’

As he drew the silver card at the far right, a gentle silver light spread out and colored the surroundings.

And seeing the message that appeared, Dohyun’s expression became subtle.

[You have acquired the skill ‘…’.]

“Huh?”

…This isn’t bad?

* * *

In front of a cave deep in the Western Forest.

Unlike when hunting monsters, numerous players were gathered closely together.

“Looking for a mage! Need a fire attribute mage!”

“Ice or lightning attribute mages are fine too! Anyone, just need one mage!”

“Only accepting level 20 and above! Everyone please apply!”

“Buying misc items~ Will pay top price~”

“Anyone need weapon repairs!”

“Selling special soup~ Has health buff effects, make sure to buy some before you go!”

From production classes like merchants, blacksmiths, and cooks to players looking for parties.

The identity of this place that gathered such diverse players was a dungeon.

‘Goblin Chieftain’s Lair.’

As one of the two most representative dungeons in the Western Forest, people were really swarming here like a pack of dogs.

Incomparable to the parties seen in front of the West Gate.

‘It really is a god-tier game.’

To have this scale even in the second city… it meant there were that many newbies flowing in.

If it’s this crowded now, how many people gather for raids?

The scale reminded him of early Demroc days, making Dohyun’s heart race for some reason.

‘Demroc had times like this too…’

Back then everything was new and the streets were lively.

Though it crashed within 8 months and became just a memory now.

Dohyun chuckled at the rare nostalgic memory and looked around.

There were many production classes, but players recruiting for parties were overwhelmingly more numerous.

“Tank and mage ready. Planning to mainly accept healers, two spots left. Will check adventure logs~. Won’t take you if you don’t have Warrior records.”

“Me! I’m a healer! Please take me!”

“I’m a sub-tank but can also do some melee DPS! I’ll work hard, please take me!”

“I’m a rogue but…”

“Where does a rogue think they can join? Have some shame, don’t you know when to butt in and when to butt out!?”

“Sob…”

A scene always visible in front of dungeons.

However, party recruitment here was a bit different from other places.

‘Mages are definitely popular here.’

Usually healers are considered top priority and treated like nobility, but here mages were king.

They were always a popular class, but not to this extent…

This was all due to the Goblin Chief’s special trait.

‘Once that trait activates, you can’t clear it without a mage.’

This was the interesting aspect of this game.

Depending on what boss traits were, nobility and commoners changed in real-time, so there were no eternal nobles or eternal commoners.

Jobs that were looked down upon could also be treated as VIPs somewhere else.

Unfortunately, this didn’t apply to Dohyun’s current situation.

The class receiving the worst treatment here was melee DPS.

‘Among them, rogues, assassins, and swordsmen have the worst reputation.’

Rogues are ambiguous to even call combat classes, and assassins are jobs made for PVP, so it’s natural.

Then why do swordsmen have the worst reputation?

‘Because they have no distinctive characteristics.’

When DPS is needed, stable and powerful ranged DPS.

When tanks are needed, tanks, and when main tanks aren’t enough, sub-tanks.

When buffs or stability are needed, healers.

Then what about swordsmen?

‘Hmm.’

No advantages immediately come to mind.

But if you ask what disadvantages they have, there aren’t any particular disadvantages either.

They’re decent in all aspects and close to all-rounders, shining more in late game as a late-blooming class, but in other words, they have mediocre performance in early game.

Moreover, there were few classes that were as heavily influenced by the pilot’s skill as the swordsman.

So there were bound to be many low-level swordsmen with poor physical skills, which gave the class a somewhat bad reputation.

It wasn’t necessarily something to avoid, but the problem was that this place was Raven.

‘Even I can see that swordsmen are useless here.’

DPS?

It was several times better to just handle it with ranged attacks, and a single mage could solve everything anyway.

It would be more helpful to safely add another sub-tank alongside the main tank for secure DPS.

Then what about the Ant Nest?

‘It’s made up of only tanks and ranged fighters.’

It was worse than the Goblin Chieftain’s Lair, if anything, not better.

That place really had nothing for melee DPS to do except tank damage. And if you’re going to tank damage, why would you use a swordsman holding a thin sword?

Swordsmen in this level range had ambiguous roles both as DPS and as sub-tanks.

That’s why Dohyun chose this place.

‘Hah.’

At least swordsmen had a better reputation here than at the Ant Nest, and with the Warrior set, it was worth trying to appeal somehow.

The skill he obtained this time too…

He’d have to introduce himself as either a swordsman or assassin, but if he held daggers, the Warrior set would disappear too, so he might end up spending all his time just looking for a party – that’s why he made this choice.

‘It would have been perfect if an unidentified dungeon or something had just popped up.’

Godseeker’s dungeons weren’t dungeons from the beginning.

Of course, each city had one or two places that were officially designated as dungeons from the start, but most dungeons were discovered by players.

Most of those dungeons were worse than the official ones, but surprisingly, some of them turned out to be jackpots.

‘The Ant Nest was one of those.’

Who knows? There might still be such jackpot dungeons hidden somewhere.

So before coming here, Dohyun had thoroughly searched through the forest.

It was because of his expectation that the Eye of Truth might activate and help him find an unidentified dungeon.

There might be a dungeon among them that could be soloed.

‘It seems like it could have that ability, right?’

Sees through what is hidden.

When he saw that description, the first thing that came to mind was the explorer’s search skill.

A skill for finding unidentified dungeons that haven’t been discovered yet or hidden artifacts.

That was also about discovering hidden things, and judging by the description alone, the Eye of Truth seemed perfect for it.

But there were no unidentified dungeons – not even a rat’s tail was visible.

‘Either it doesn’t have that ability, or there are no unidentified dungeons…’

Since a year and six months had passed, all of Raven’s dungeons had probably already been discovered.

Maybe there really were no more hidden dungeons left.

He’d look into this more later…

Swish.

Dohyun’s gaze turned toward his inventory as he slightly turned his head.

There was one shabby-looking junk item there.

[Shabby Miscellaneous Item]

[Grade: Common]

[Description: Seems like it would be good for children to play with. Might be usable as machine parts?]

‘…’

Even the system acknowledged it looked shabby, and it was junk among junk that even merchants would refuse to buy!

Surprisingly, this item came from Camilla’s small gift.

He had hoped the Eye of Truth might activate, but since it was structured to randomly pop out one item upon opening, that didn’t happen.

Still, quite a few people got useful items from here…

‘Well, I wasn’t expecting much anyway.’

Dohyun had been through too much hardship to get discouraged by something like this.

He’d even had enhancement fail ten times in a row before, so this was nothing.

“Party with tank and mage ready looking for members! We’ll take any two people!”

“Me! Me!”

Just then, a deep male voice caught Dohyun’s attention.

A man holding a heavy shield.

And next to him stood a rather slender-looking man who was obviously showing off that he was a mage with his robe and staff.

True to being a party with tank and mage ready, people instantly flocked toward them.

“Excuse me, could I also join the party…”

“Ah, sorry. We’re already full.”

“…I understand.”

Dohyun hurried over too, but in that brief moment, they had already found their members.

After that, he tried applying to several more parties, but was rejected for the same reasons.

“Swordsman? Swordsmen are a bit…”

“Ah, Warrior set? Hmm… That does change things… but we still haven’t found a mage, so sorry.”

“You know how it is, swordsmen here are a bit… Wow, but that’s really unfortunate. If a mage had the Warrior set instead of a swordsman…”

“Warrior set… is that right? It’s so colorful it looks like it was painted with crayons. Was it always this weird?”

The Warrior set’s weapons weren’t limited to just greatswords.

There were various types from greatswords to daggers, bows, and even staffs.

That was why the Warrior set was called the Arde graduation gear for all classes.

Dohyun had thought it was actually good that he happened to get a greatsword, but…

‘And now this happens.’

This was all because Godseeker, unlike Demroc, had particularly many forced party requirements.

Well, he couldn’t really blame only them since Dohyun was also only applying to veteran parties.

It wasn’t intentional.

He just tried approaching places that had a decent position setup, and those places just happened to all be veteran parties.

Since they were veteran parties, it was natural for them to be reluctant about swordsmen.

He thought they might accept him since he had the Warrior set, but it was harder to find a spot than expected.

It seemed he needed to lower his standards a bit.

‘Right, getting in is what’s important first.’

Whether the positions were a mess or they were newbies, getting in first was what mattered, wasn’t it?

Or it might be better to create a party first.

He was thinking about this when it happened.

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