The Return of the Genius Ranker’s Myth Warehouse - Chapter 420

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Chapter 420
Chapter 420
The Golden Altar.
The most efficient hunting ground that existed in First.
No other hunting ground or Dungeon in First provided experience points higher than the Golden Altar.
And after conducting a thorough search on my part.
[ Golden Altar ]
I confirmed that a Golden Altar also existed in Second.
However, even if the Golden Altar was the most efficient hunting ground, if my memory served me correctly, it wouldn’t be a particularly popular one.
And sure enough.
[ Is this really the Golden Altar? ]
I came here because the internet said it was the place with the highest experience gain in Second, but it’s completely useless.
– Looks like you only read the first part lol
– You should’ve read the rest too
When I searched for information about the Golden Altar, negative posts flooded in.
And for good reason.
[ Is the Golden Altar a hunting ground exclusively for the rich? ]
Money just flows out endlessly
– Even most wealthy people avoid the Golden Altar lol
– It’s just insane
– Unless you’re the Royal Guild Master, don’t even bother lol
[ Golden Altar Efficiency ]
Second’s legendary efficient hunting ground… wait, can you even call this efficient?
The experience itself is just high, but the efficiency is garbage.
If you don’t want to go broke and get kicked out within an hour, the answer is to stay away
– For real lol
– Run away!
– I went to check it out recently and there was nobody there lol
– Well, if there were people, that’d be even weirder
– You can’t hunt there unless you’re the youngest son of a major corporation lol
– Even if you’re the youngest son of a major corporation, if you hunt here, you’ll get beaten by the chairman for every gold you spent and cry
The Golden Altar was no ordinary hunting ground.
A hunting ground where you had to pay gold to hunt monsters.
That was precisely what the Golden Altar was.
‘True to its name, the Golden Altar is a place that drains gold like crazy.’
The amount of gold you had to pay increased according to your character’s level.
Gold was consumed every time you summoned a monster.
Because the gold consumption was beyond imagination, even those who knew of this place’s existence couldn’t bring themselves to visit it.
However.
‘The experience gain is genuinely real.’
The experience points granted by monsters in this place are simply overwhelming.
Several times more than what you’d encounter at other hunting grounds.
Their combat power isn’t particularly high either.
So with enough Gold, this is a place where you can level up at an incredible pace.
‘During First, it wasn’t much of a concern.’
First had almost no users.
No matter how much Gold you earned, the structure made real-money transactions impossible.
So my Gold just accumulated over time, and I have memories of occasionally hunting at the Golden Altar to burn through it.
In fact, the reason I was able to reach level 1,000 so quickly during First was precisely thanks to the Golden Altar.
And now I had arrived at that Golden Altar.
“The location is the same. Or perhaps it’s gotten a bit deeper.”
I had arrived.
A space far wider than I expected.
Located in the center of it was, naturally, the Golden Altar.
A sculpture of an unknown demon made entirely of gold.
Beneath it stretched a vast golden plate.
Since the Golden Altar was a hunting ground that consumed Gold so excessively that even those called wealthy would find it burdensome, I naturally expected it to be empty.
“But there is someone?”
Unexpectedly, there were people here.
Two of them.
To be precise, one user watching from behind and another user fighting on the golden plate.
“Young master, hang in there!”
“I told you not to call me young master!”
“I-I’m sorry! Kant, hang in there!”
“I don’t need encouragement, just cast the buffs properly! I can’t cut through in one strike!”
“Yes, sir!”
There was clearly a hierarchical relationship between them.
Young master, no less.
This wasn’t the Joseon era—I wondered who this person was to be called that.
In any case, the user being called that was.
Scrape!
Fighting a monster on the golden plate.
There was only one type of monster that could be summoned by pouring Gold into the Golden Altar.
“Kee-ek!”
“Kek kek kek.”
“How dare you laugh at me, you wretches?”
The Golden Goblin.
Literally a goblin made of gold.
While the Golden Goblin wasn’t overwhelmingly powerful, it was an incredibly troublesome monster to face in practice.
And for good reason—the Golden Goblin possessed remarkable intelligence.
If the enemy was strong, they would flee; if they had numerical advantage, they would launch coordinated attacks; if cornered, they would ambush from hiding. Such tactics.
For creatures with such low combat power, they were remarkably troublesome opponents.
In that sense, the user currently facing the Golden Goblins on the golden platform was.
“Keke keke!”
“Ugh! Hey, Kim Seok-ho! Cast your buffs properly!”
“This is the best I can manage….”
“Do something! Don’t you see these bastards mocking me?”
“Y-yes, sir!”
Even being generous, their skill didn’t appear impressive.
Every time they swung their sword, the Golden Goblins dodged effortlessly and mocked the user.
They weren’t even properly engaging.
The atmosphere was one of the Golden Goblins toying with the user.
Was the user’s equipment perhaps inadequate?
No, that wasn’t it.
It was actually the opposite.
The weapon they wielded was quite excellent for their skill level, and the user below was even casting buffs on them, wasn’t he?
Thanks to that, they were managing to defeat at least some Golden Goblins.
Without it, they wouldn’t have defeated even a single one.
‘At this rate, they won’t be able to defeat all of them.’
The Golden Altar had a time limit.
If all monsters weren’t defeated within that time, regardless of how much Gold was spent or how many monsters remained, all monsters would vanish.
Naturally, experience points wouldn’t be earned from monsters that weren’t defeated.
Moreover, the Golden Goblins seemed aware of this as well, and instead of engaging the user, they were increasing the distance and fleeing.
As expected.
“Keke keke keke.”
“Damn it, these bastards!”
“Keheh.”
“Where are you running! Don’t you dare! Argh!”
The user called Kant failed to defeat all the Golden Goblins.
Only two Golden Goblins were defeated.
With five Golden Goblins summoned, they hadn’t even defeated half.
“Damn!”
The user cursed as the Golden Goblins vanished.
The moment that user descended from the golden platform.
Thwack!
“Ugh!”
They viciously kicked the shin of the user who had been casting buffs below.
“You should cast your buffs properly! Because you didn’t do it right, I only caught two!”
“I-I’m sorry. But my buff magic has its limits….”
“So are you saying I’m wrong? Huh?”
“I’m sorry….”
Anyone could see that the user called Kant was the one lacking in skill.
Yet he was taking out his frustration on the wrong person.
Compared to Kant, this person had a much higher level and appeared far more capable.
“And why did you summon so many? Didn’t you put the Gold in wrong from the start? Is this really the right difficulty?! You’re going to pay me back for my Gold!”
“The Gold offered to the Altar is the minimum amount….”
“Tch, you’re talking back now? Do you think I’m easy? Do you?!”
“N-No, sir!”
I couldn’t fathom what kind of relationship they had that allowed this person to endure such treatment without protest.
I wanted to ignore it and move on, but Kant’s hunting didn’t seem to be finished yet.
“Put more Gold in! Do it right this time!”
“Yes, sir!”
As Gold was poured into the Golden Altar, golden goblins appeared once more.
Five of them again.
The user called Kant fought with all his might, determined to defeat all the goblins this time.
“Kekekeke!”
“Damn it, these things! How dare game AI monsters mock a person?!”
It was the same result.
I thought with accumulated experience, he’d be able to defeat at least three.
But again, he only managed two.
Watching this user hunt alongside the Heukryeom Guild members, I found myself frowning at his pathetically poor skill level.
“Do it properly!”
“I’m sorry….”
“Ugh, one more time!”
“Um, Kant.”
“What?”
“We’ve run out of Gold.”
“What? You brought plenty, didn’t you? How much real money did I spend on this?!”
“Well, the equipment purchase costs were higher than expected. And the Gold needed for the Golden Altar is quite substantial….”
“Damn it. Didn’t you say this place has the best experience gain in Second if you have enough Gold? My experience doesn’t seem to be rising much?”
“That’s because you haven’t even defeated half of the golden goblins you summoned….”
“Are you insane? Huh?”
“I’m sorry!”
“If you’re sorry, then go get more Gold right now!”
“Yes, sir!”
I had been waiting for my turn.
Fortunately, it seemed the Gold had run out.
Though he showed no intention of stopping the hunt, instead planning to gather more Gold through real money transactions.
‘With that level of skill, he’d be better off training in the field instead.’
To me, it looked like nothing but a waste of money.
If I can’t even take down half of a Golden Goblin, why am I even hunting here in the first place?
Even if I catch two Golden Goblins, it won’t make a dramatic difference compared to hunting in a regular field.
Well, anyway.
That’s something for that user to figure out on their own.
‘Shall I get started?’
Now it’s my turn.
I ignored the user named Kant and approached the Golden Altar.
And then—
“Wait, who are you?”
The user named Kant called out to me.
I generally speak politely to users, but I had no intention of showing respect to someone who threw casual speech at me so abruptly.
“Wasn’t your hunt finished?”
“Can’t you see I’m still hunting? I said I’d continue as soon as I bring Gold!”
“If you came down from the golden platform, isn’t the hunt over?”
“Ugh, damn. So annoying. Do you even have Gold to hunt down there? Do you know how much Gold is needed there?”
“That’s why I came looking for it, isn’t it?”
“Now that I think about it, why are you speaking casually to me? Huh?”
“Didn’t you start speaking casually first?”
“Tsk, you keep talking back since earlier? Do you know who I am?”
“Do I need to?”
“Ugh, seriously. If we were outside, you wouldn’t even dare look at my pinky toe. Fine. Talking to someone like you is a waste of time. You’ll run out of Gold after one round anyway and come back down.”
How could someone’s tone be so utterly rude?
Well, I couldn’t just kill him carelessly and become a Murderer either.
I ignored him appropriately and climbed up onto the Golden Altar.
‘Let me warm up a bit first.’
I poured Gold onto the Golden Altar.
It was the minimum standard amount, but even that consumed an enormous quantity of Gold.
Well, it didn’t matter.
Gold was something I had in abundance right now.
If I could accelerate my leveling by investing some Gold, it was actually a gain for me.
“Kekekek.”
Golden Goblins appeared instantly.
Five goblins approached me with unpleasant laughter.
“Let’s see how well you fight. If you can take down even one, I’ll give you some praise. Kekeke.”
Then Kant’s voice came from below.
Honestly, it was ridiculous.
One goblin?
Did he really see me as inferior to himself?
As I said, summoning five of them was merely a ‘warm-up’ for me.
Creatures like these were nothing.
– I activate the skill ‘Crimson Field Blood Claw’.
I can bring them all down in a single strike.
Screech!
“What, what is this!”
The sword energy I unleashed severed the necks of five golden goblins in one clean sweep.
The golden goblins’ heads fell, still wearing their despicable grins, oblivious to their own demise.
Watching this, I heard Kant’s voice trembling with shock.
Clang!
I poured more Gold into the Golden Altar and began my earnest hunt.

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