The Return of the Genius Ranker’s Myth Warehouse - Chapter 27

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Chapter 27
Chapter 27
I had received a total of five commissions.
The commission details included approximate locations of the targets, and the one closest to the entrance was, as expected.
[ Twin Vampire Bat Hunt ]
Vampire bats.
Even though they were classified as top-tier commissions, these vampire bats were the weakest among my targets.
However, there was one problem in locating these vampire bats.
[ Twin Vampire Bat Hunt ]
Difficulty: Top-tier
Content: Hunt the two vampire bats causing numerous casualties in Sterling Mine.
The two vampire bats move as a pair, continuously roaming the middle depths of the mine.
“I’ve reached the middle depths, at least.”
The mine was divided into three sections: upper, middle, and lower depths.
The upper depths were where level 30s monsters roamed, including Kobold miners, the middle depths had level 40s monsters, and the lower depths contained level 50s monsters.
Among my commission targets, only one existed in the middle depths—the vampire bats.
But.
Their location wasn’t precisely specified.
All I knew was that they continuously wandered through the middle depths.
Given the mine’s enormous size, I risked wasting all my time searching for the vampire bats if I wasn’t careful.
Therefore.
– I activate the Tracking skill.
I used one of the skills I’d learned before entering the mine.
Tracking.
A skill that literally pursues users or monsters.
Of course, since it was a basic skill, using it wouldn’t immediately reveal the vampire bats’ location.
“Found them.”
After activating Tracking and wandering through the middle depths, I managed to discover traces of the vampire bats.
From here on, it would be quick.
I only needed to follow the blood of their prey that the vampire bats left behind using the Tracking skill.
Though the vampire bats moved at considerable speed, I accelerated using my Sprint skill to move faster.
Flap, flap—.
“Found them.”
I located my targets faster than expected.
Twin vampire bats.
Two crimson bats of considerable size—easily exceeding human height when their wings spread wide—flew side by side.
Since they hadn’t detected me yet, I accelerated further and charged forward to launch a surprise attack before they could react.
Even though they were the weakest among my targets, they were overwhelmingly powerful compared to my level.
They would make the Kobold miners look pathetic by comparison.
Given that, I resolved to give my absolute best from the start.
“Luke, Caladbolg!”
– Yes, Master.
Crackle—.
Beneath the roaring black flames, electricity rippled as a pair of golden greatswords materialized.
Their true identity was none other than.
[ Solid Lightning, Caladbolg ]
( Non-Tradeable )
Type : Sword
Grade : Epic
Requirement : Level 600+, Sword Mastery Lv 65+
Description : A greatsword wielded by Fergus mac Róich, general of the enemy nation Connacht and rival to Ulster’s hero Cú Chulainn, said to have cleaved the summit of a mountain in two.
Caladbolg.
True to its epithet of Solid Lightning, it was a greatsword capable of lightning-attribute attacks.
Gripping Caladbolg firmly, I positioned myself directly behind the blood bat.
– Activating skill ‘Leap’.
One of the basic skills I’d recently learned.
Using Leap, I bounded high into the air.
“Kiiiiiii—?”
Until now, the moments had been so brief that I’d approached undetected, but now I was pushing off the ground while wielding a heavy greatsword and executing a leap simultaneously.
As a result, the blood bat sensed my presence and turned its head.
The instant it confirmed my existence, it attempted to launch an attack, but.
The speed at which Caladbolg swung from my hands was far faster.
– Activating skill ‘Power Strike’.
Crack!
I’d anticipated the moment the blood bat would notice me and turn its head—my strike landed with devastating precision as a critical hit.
In that very instant, true to Caladbolg’s epithet of Solid Lightning, golden electricity erupted.
Crackle-crack!
The blood bat convulsed from the electrical shock.
Most airborne monsters like this are inherently weak to lightning attributes.
Even if electrocuted, they cannot dissipate the electrical current through the ground.
Though the level gap was substantial enough that I couldn’t fell it in a single blow, the blood bat, struck by both a critical hit and electrocution, lost consciousness.
In that moment.
“Kiiiiiii—!”
As befitting twin blood bats, the one beside it lunged toward me.
I watched as it flew at me, its long, razor-sharp claws extending from its wings, aiming for my throat.
Thud!
I kicked off the stunned bat’s back and launched myself skyward.
Did it not expect that I, wingless as I am, could move once more through the air?
When the startled blood bat looked up.
[ Vampire Slayer ]
My newly drawn weapon was already descending toward the creature’s brow.
Crack!
Another critical strike.
The Vampire Slayer, which dealt additional damage against bat and vampire-type monsters, compensated for the insufficient damage from the level gap.
Continuing to swing my weapon above the blood bat as it fell in shock.
Just before the blood bat plummeted, I leaped upward once more using my leap skill.
“Screeeee—”
Crack!
I drove the Vampire Slayer into the chest of the first blood bat, which had just regained consciousness after being electrocuted and falling.
An instant kill.
The final blow included the use of a power strike skill, so there was no way it could survive.
Even with a level difference exceeding double, consecutive critical hits from a weapon with a weakness attribute were inevitable.
[ Twin Blood Bat Hunt – Complete ]
A message appeared confirming the completion of the request, as if proving the death of both bats.
[ Level increased. ]
[ Level increased. ]
….
My level rose significantly.
Moreover.
[ Achievement Unlocked: Giant Hunter ]
Condition: Successfully hunt powerful monsters with a level difference of two times or more
Reward: Attack power increases when attacking enemies with higher levels than yourself
“Oh, a difficult Achievement to obtain. I got it easier than expected.”
I’d even obtained an Achievement.
Giant Hunter.
It was a quest requiring a level difference of two times, but it was an Achievement impossible to obtain in the City of Beginnings.
In other words, it was an Achievement obtainable only from the moment of advancing from the City of Beginnings—either by hunting monsters of level 20 or higher at level 10, or.
Otherwise, by discovering and defeating special hidden monsters with absurdly high levels relative to their difficulty.
Yet I’d obtained such an Achievement far too easily.
Finally.
– I shall partake gratefully, Master.
Whoosh!
[ Luke has consumed the ‘Giant Blood Bat’. ]
[ Luke’s stats have increased by 10. ]
Even Luke’s consumption was perfect.
Everything was flawless.
Afterward, I left behind the scraps, or rather the items dropped by the blood bats after Luke finished eating.
They weren’t items I particularly needed or could use.
I entrusted them to Luke, thinking I’d sell them all at once when I returned to Labelt.
“Let’s see, next is… the Kobold Pikeman Squad Extermination?”
The Cobalt Medium Infantry Unit was positioned at the edge of the lower depths.
Considering I had to complete all five commissions within twenty-four hours and return to the Hunter Guild.
“Let’s go.”
I needed to move quickly.
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The lower depths of Sterling Mine.
The deepest layer of the mine where the most powerful monsters gathered.
It was typically recommended for hunting from level fifty onwards, but in reality, it wasn’t a particularly popular hunting ground.
The experience gained wasn’t particularly high compared to the strengthened monsters and increased difficulty of hunting here.
However, that didn’t mean no players challenged the lower depths.
“Ugh, seriously! Why is it so tough!”
“Aren’t you ready with magic yet? You can’t take it down with physical attacks! You have to kill it with magic!”
“Do you think casting spells is the same as swinging a weapon? I’m already doing my best, so focus and block properly!”
“I really don’t like your tone. You have the lowest level and you’re acting like being a Sage is something special…”
“What did you say? I heard everything!”
“If you heard me, then cast your magic properly!”
One of them was this group.
A four-person party centered around Strongest Warrior Love, a level fifty-five warrior.
The monster they were facing was.
“Kehehehe, pathetic creatures. Become our slaves!”
A Cobalt Medium Infantry Unit.
Cobalts equipped with heavy armor made from ore mined by Cobalt miners.
They were notorious enemies that moved systematically in unit formations and were difficult to deal with because of their sturdy heavy armor.
Yet the reason Strongest Warrior Love was hunting them was.
“Everyone focus! There’s no monster with better farming profits than these guys!”
The heavy armor—an item obtainable from defeating Cobalt Medium Infantry.
The selling price of that item was quite substantial.
However, the hunting difficulty wasn’t easy.
Because of the thick heavy armor, physical attacks didn’t land properly, and the Sage they’d barely managed to recruit wasn’t very skilled either.
At this rate, they’d end up spending more on potions than earning from heavy armor farming.
“Tch! Why aren’t you using magic!”
“Ah! The cast failed! Just be quiet!”
“Wait, don’t you see the tank is being pushed back? Ah, forget it! Leader, this isn’t working! Let’s pull back!”
“Sigh… I’ll retreat for now. Let’s regroup and try again.”
“Regroup? With that Sage, it’s impossible!”
“You’re the one who made the cast fail!”
With the situation like this, Strongest Warrior Love had no choice but to withdraw the party.
I’d thought this combination would be sufficient.
I never expected they’d be this incompatible.
While minimizing damage by holding my ground against the Cobalt Medium Infantry and stepping backward one pace at a time.
A voice reached Strongest Warrior Love’s ears.
“You’ve given up on the hunt, haven’t you?”
“What?”
“If you’ve given up, I’ll take it down.”
Where was that voice coming from?
In my moment of confusion.
“Party leader!”
A party member’s voice called out.
I turned my head to find the Kobold Heavy Soldier’s iron mace already bearing down on me.
While my attention was diverted, the Kobold Heavy Soldier had launched its attack.
My health was already critically depleted, and taking a direct hit from that mace could spell instant defeat.
I tried to activate a defensive skill in desperation, but my mana reserves were completely exhausted.
There was no way to block this.
The moment Strongest Warrior Love accepted death.
Thwip-thwip-thwip!
“Keh-heh-ack! Ah, it hurts!”
Flaming arrows embedded themselves consecutively in the eyes of the Kobold Heavy Soldier wielding the mace.
Even though the Kobold’s heavy armor was crude, the eye holes in its helmet could barely fit a few fingers.
Yet arrows were being driven through those narrow gaps.
Who could this possibly be?
Had a high-level Archer come to support us?
As I turned my head to thank the Archer, what I saw was.
Whoosh!
Not an Archer holding a bow, but the rapidly receding silhouette of someone rushing past.
The man who had swept past my side.
Squelch!
“Keh-hek—.”
Drove a sharp dagger into the gaps between the Kobold Heavy Soldier’s armor plates.
The Kobold Heavy Soldier possessed formidable defense, but the interior of its armor was woefully inadequate.
The dagger found its vital point, and the Kobold Heavy Soldier fell.
Yet the man’s exploits did not end there.
Thwip-thwip-thwip!
“Keh-heh-ack!”
The daggers the man threw embedded themselves with chilling precision into the eye holes of the helmet.
The man rushed toward the panicked Kobold, driving his weapons into the gaps of the heavy armor with spine-tingling accuracy.
Embedding weapons in such gaps had the drawback that if the Kobold moved even slightly, the weapon would catch and become difficult to extract.
“W-weapons?”
The man abandoned his weapons without hesitation and drew another.
How many weapons did he have?
Counting the bow he’d used first, the daggers he’d thrown, and the weapons embedded in the Kobold—easily over ten.
At a glance, these were clearly high-grade weapons.
Yet he wielded them as though they were consumables.
Who in the world was this man to fight in such a manner?
Strongest Warrior Love and the rest of the party stood transfixed, watching his combat unfold.
“Kgh….”
The last Kobold Heavy Soldier’s breath ceased.
I regretted missing out on the heavy armor loot, but since I’d received his aid, I approached to offer my thanks.
Whoosh!
Black flames erupted from beneath the man.
“Whoa!”
Strongest Warrior Love instinctively retreated, evading the black flames.
But the black flames didn’t consume Strongest Warrior Love—they engulfed the fallen Kobold Heavy Soldiers instead.
Crunch, crackle!
Snap!
Grrrrind—.
Followed by grotesque, bone-chilling sounds.
The nauseating noise of bones grinding, shattering, and splintering made my body recoil instinctively.
When the sounds ceased and the flames and Kobold Heavy Soldiers vanished from sight—
“What just happened…?”
The man.
Mir had already disappeared.

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