The Return of the Genius Ranker of All Times - Chapter 95

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Episode 95

Chapter 95.

Entrance of the Great Mountain Range.

Graaaah-!

A giant with a massive eye embedded in its forehead, a Cyclops.

The towering giant reaching 20 meters was looking down at the ground through the clouds.

Standing before such a monster was a single human.

Whoosh- Whoom-.

The human holding a massive two-handed sword in one hand was lightly swinging the blade larger than his own body as if dusting it off.

After swinging it about five times like that.

Crack-.

The space he had swung through cracked with a ringing sound like breaking glass.

Then the Cyclops let out a roar.

Graaaah! Grah!

It wasn’t a threat or warning.

It was simply the fear of prey standing before a predator.

The Cyclops, covered in blood all over its body, was desperately trying to move its immobile body to step backward.

At that moment.

“Hup!”

The man’s sword was drawn after taking a single breath.

Slash-!

Then the entire space between the Cyclops and the man was split diagonally in half, and the Cyclops’s head was severed.

Thud.

That was the end.

For the final moments of a Cyclops that carried even a faint bloodline of the great giant race, it was an utterly pathetic death.

Anyone witnessing this would have been shocked, but the face of the woman watching from a distance remained calm.

With her hair tied in a ponytail, wearing glasses and a full business suit, she approached as indifferently as her characteristic expression and gave her report.

“Master, a video has been uploaded.”

“A video?”

“Kaiser’s.”

The man who had killed the Cyclops and was indifferently wiping the blood from his sword, Demroc, stopped abruptly.

His eyes sharpened as he turned around.

But that was only momentary.

Soon his eyes regained their previous indifference as they turned toward his secretary. His voice was even more dry than that.

“Didn’t we already watch his videos?”

“It’s a new video. He took down an Orc Warrior of Death solo.”

“…That thing?”

Interest sparked in Demroc’s face.

The Orc Warrior of Death was a field boss in Brion.

As a field boss with an Elite grade, it boasted considerable difficulty in that area. Even he had struggled with solo attempts.

“The video.”

“Yes.”

Understanding the brief command, his secretary played the screen connected to YouTube.

After watching the video for several minutes.

Demroc, whose expression had gradually become more serious, spoke quietly when the video ended.

“He takes it down easily. Very easily at that.”

“…I believe you’re also capable of that, Master.”

“Yes, it’s possible.”

He chuckled and spoke bluntly.

“If you give me at least twice as much time as that.”

“…Should we recruit him?”

“No.”

To his female secretary’s increasingly serious question, he shook his head.

“He’s not a man who would belong anywhere.”

“…”

“He hasn’t rusted at all.”

Demroc’s face remained indifferent as he muttered quietly, but his female secretary who had assisted him for a long time could see it.

That her master was genuinely impressed.

‘This is the first time I’ve seen him like this…’

The female secretary swallowed at the unfamiliar sight.

This was a master who showed no particular reaction even when facing the masters of other Top 10 Guilds.

A man who was always ahead of others.

A man who never showed tension even while taking on the greatest risks.

Accomplishing that as naturally as breathing was the master of the Execution Guild, Demroc.

Such a master was showing admiration over a mere Brion video?

‘Is he that formidable…’

He would surely become a great threat later.

Especially since the target was ‘Kaiser’, which was even more troubling.

With their past connection, they would inevitably become entangled.

In that case…

‘…It might be better to destroy him.’

It was when the female secretary’s eyes grew cold.

“He was first place in Raven this time, wasn’t he?”

“…Yes.”

“And he met the Caretaker.”

“That’s correct.”

At Demroc’s question, she composed her expression as if nothing had happened and bowed her head.

Then Demroc pondered for a moment before muttering quietly.

“He must be working on that…”

“Pardon?”

“No, just talking to myself.”

He shook his head and looked up at the sky.

It was a gloomy sky where you couldn’t see an inch ahead, obscured by densely packed clouds.

‘Kaiser.’

When he heard that he had entered Brion, he was curious.

If it was the Kaiser he knew, he would surely show something.

That was still the case now.

Only the direction of that curiosity was different from before.

‘Is he walking that path… He’s chosen a difficult road.’

He didn’t know how he had found ‘that’ without even forming a team, but if he was proceeding with ‘it’, the outcome was predetermined.

‘It was futile. I was sure there was something hidden…’

It was like a candy that was shiny on the outside but hollow inside, yet the difficulty was annoyingly complex.

Anyone could see it was a golden dragon, but there was nothing at the end.

At least that’s how ‘it’ was for Demroc.

That’s why he was even more curious.

‘I’m curious. What kind of result will he show.’

Would he face the same result as himself, nothing particularly different.

Or would he write a new history as he always had.

After thinking for a moment, Demroc soon shook his head.

‘…Even for that man, that would be difficult.’

Looking at how he uses skills from other classes like backstab, it’s hard to guess his exact class, but his base is ultimately Swordsman.

No matter how skilled he is, he’s just a single combat unit in the end.

Given the nature of not being able to work with companions, he was bound to be at a disadvantage.

Unless he happened to be some kind of all-master who could detect, find hidden pieces well, and handle combat all by himself.

‘As if that’s possible.’

Of course, it was an absurd assumption.

Demroc chuckled and sheathed his sword.

He was quite looking forward to seeing what kind of reaction that proud man would show in front of such a futile result.

That was what Demroc was anticipating.

* * *

The next morning.

“Ugh…”

Dohyun woke up stretching as usual and immediately looked for water.

When he wakes up in the morning, his parched and cracked throat desperately craves a cool glass of water. As he moistened his throat, his stiff body screamed in protest.

“Ugh, did I go too hard yesterday?”

Since it had been a few days since he’d exercised, his tension had risen when he finally went, and he’d overdone it with the weights.

Enduring the aching in his back and biceps, he looked around the living room.

“Hmm.”

Seeing food placed on the kitchen table, it seemed Mrs. Chae had already left.

Given how quiet the house was, Hyuna was definitely still sleeping.

‘If I wake her up, she’ll throw another fit, so I should just eat alone.’

There was an unspoken rule that the two of them had to follow.

For Dohyun, it was not to bother her when she was gaming, and for Hyuna, it was not to bother her when she was sleeping.

It was better for one’s well-being not to disturb her, as you’d get all sorts of hysterics along with nonsense about how beauties need their sleep.

Especially now when she was probably suffering from a hangover.

“Let’s see… the comments…”

Entering his room and opening YouTube on his phone, he could quickly access his channel.

The first thing that greeted him was the subscriber count.

[Kaiser TV]

-Subscribers: 1.894 million

“Wow…”

He had now far surpassed 1 million and was approaching 2 million.

At this point, it was fair to say he was gaining 800,000 subscribers with each video upload.

So how many views did he get exactly?

[Foul-Smelling Rock Forest, PK Criminal Cleanup Video]

-Views: 4.79 million

[Orc Warrior of Death Trial]

-Views: 5.90 million

“Huh.”

It was even faster than when he uploaded his first video.

Did it rise faster thanks to his increased subscriber count?

He had only properly started YouTube the day before yesterday, yet the rapid growth made him dizzy – it seemed almost too easy.

‘But the boss trial video is more popular.’

He had secretly thought the PK video would get more views.

Boss trials were already common, but wasn’t this kind of innovative relay battle using the entire field quite rare?

It was a somewhat incomprehensible result, but he soon understood the reason.

-Orc Warrior of Death solo is insane;; So this was possible.

└It’s not really solo though? He was hunting with a Necromancer at first.

└The undead barely did any effective damage, and he was hunting alone from the middle, so it’s practically solo.

-But how did he break through the aura of death? Didn’t it just not work on him at that level?

-Who were the people who soloed the death warrior? There haven’t been any recently, right?

“Oh… so there were hardly any people who soloed it?”

Unlike with Eliza, very few people had attempted solo trials of Brion’s field boss.

Well, the difficulty was much higher than Eliza.

Physical enhancement with Warrior characteristics like a staple dish, debuffs with aura of death…

And just when you think you’ve almost got it, insane reaction speed with combat instincts?

It was easy for Dohyun with his ‘Hero’ trait, overpowered specs, and inhuman control, but normally it would be quite troublesome.

Was that why?

-Kaiser-nim ㅠㅠㅠ take me

-Waaah, I have 2 things to fan over!! Yes, this is what fangirling should be like…

-I’m so excited for the next video. How is everything you upload legendary?

“Hmm. It seems like I have more fans.”

Even at a glance, he could see more fans than before.

It was easier to recognize them because their speech patterns were all similarly like idol fans.

Dohyun scratched his head at the strange feeling.

It felt oddly embarrassing.

Still, it wasn’t a bad feeling, so Dohyun smiled and opened the auction house.

[Sold Items – 5]

[Items Being Auctioned – 6]

[Current Amount: 8,546,540 won]

‘5 items for 8.5 million won… If everything sells, I’ll make more than before?’

Perhaps because they were skilled enough to target him.

The equipment quality wasn’t bad, so it was selling for higher prices than expected.

At this rate, he’d roughly earn over 20 million won. Just imagining it made Dohyun’s lips twitch with a smile.

‘Ah, couldn’t they just keep coming at me like this?’

Somehow, robbing PK criminals seemed to be the most profitable.

He was gaining fame too, and it would be great if they kept coming like this, but unfortunately, that probably wouldn’t happen anymore.

‘After causing such a ruckus, it would be foolish to keep coming.’

Probably around the next city, some hyenas might gather again?

Well, it was actually better this way.

With an important Quest ahead, having annoying people disappear for a while was a positive thing.

[You have logged into the game.]

[Welcome to Adventure’s Paradise.]

Having finished checking, he lightly dove into the capsule, and Jihad and Eliza popped out as if they had been waiting.

-Owner, are you a human clock? How do you come in so regularly?

-Risa risa!

“This is my job, so I have to be diligent.”

Patting the clinging Eliza, he exchanged brief greetings and immediately started walking.

-Aren’t you hunting more today, Owner?

“Nah. We finished everything yesterday.”

-Then what are you planning to do now?

At Jihad’s question as he followed behind, Dohyun grinned.

In front of him, two lines of messages were sparkling in yellow light.

[Go to ‘Gamillion Adran’ and complete the class Quest.]

[Go to Caretaker ‘Gildeti’ and complete the Quest.]

“I need to clear the Quests.”

The time to finally clear the Quests had come.

Since it was a moment he had long awaited, he quickly entered the city, and saw the city’s scenery had changed dramatically from yesterday.

“It’s Kaiser.”

“Shh, don’t make eye contact.”

“Why all of a sudden…?”

“Didn’t you see the video? You get screwed if you mess with him.”

The players who had been glaring with hostile eyes were now desperately avoiding eye contact, afraid their gazes might meet,

“Wow… it’s Kaiser.”

“He logs in from the morning.”

“Do you think he’d give me an autograph if I asked?”

The admiring gazes had increased even more.

Besides that, it seemed like there were noticeably more NPCs that looked like hunters or guards today. Still, the fantastical scenery lifted his spirits.

-Kyreuk kyreuk.

-Risa!

The two creatures made pleased sounds at all the attention they were getting.

It was around the time he passed the central fountain while receiving these changed looks.

‘Hmm. Who should I visit first?’

Going straight would lead to Laire Grand Temple, and turning right would lead to the ‘Nameless Shrine.’

An old, decrepit temple that no one bothered to visit since the NPCs neither welcomed visitors nor gave quests.

That ‘Nameless Shrine’ was exactly where Gamillion resided.

His deliberation was brief.

‘The main quest takes priority.’

Even if it was a special quest related to the Abyss, it couldn’t compare to the value of a main quest, could it?

Moreover, since it was connected to Dohyun’s class, it should rightfully be his top priority.

But that seemed to be only Dohyun’s thinking.

Ding-.

After walking for about 10 minutes and reaching the Nameless Shrine, the moment he knocked on the door, a message appeared.

[The priest is away on urgent business.]

[Please visit again in 1 hour.]

[00 : 59 : 58]

“…?”

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