The Return of the Legendary All-Master - Chapter 13

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Episode 13

Earth Korea Management Team.

The team leader and employees had gathered together, watching one user’s gameplay over and over again.

Except for basic information, New World itself applied mosaic processing so they couldn’t see in detail, but it was enough to shock them.

“This is impossible…”

The Development Team overseeing New World spared no praise along with their announcement, saying there was an amazing user in Earth Korea.

The Development Team was located at Earth’s headquarters, and the location of that headquarters was unknown.

Security was so thorough that even Earth employees didn’t know, and one thing was certain: there existed a supercomputer called New World that was known to manage all servers worldwide.

It could be called the ultimate work-life balance company with good pay, excellent benefits, and no overtime since the Development Team handled everything related to the game’s internal affairs.

Honestly, when they said they were praising a newbie user, they weren’t that surprised.

They just thought it was someone with talent for gaming, but after examining the user’s footsteps, this couldn’t simply be defined as amazing.

“Could such coincidences happen one after another?”

“That’s what I’m saying.”

Suddenly appearing and choosing Martial Artist, then becoming the first to clear tutorial stage 5.

Then instead of going to the Hall of Combat Arts like everyone else, going to some ownerless dojo to clean and easily beating down a warrior who had completed their first class change.

An old man’s ghost appeared in the dojo and he obtained a Legendary Grade Skill from him.

“Wow… damn, it’s hard to even list them all.”

Anyway, not only did he beat down the instructor at the Hall of Combat Arts, but as if he knew everything, he went to a village no one else headed to, easily obtained Aura Flowers, and even discovered a Hidden Theme inside – a monster-like guy.

“Just who is this user?”

“How would I know if you ask me that.”

Management Team leader Oh Jin Su was equally bewildered.

Coincidence after coincidence was concentrating on one user.

“It’s not someone who’s experienced the game before, right?”

Team member Park Ju Ho asked with a trembling voice.

“New World is a game where you can only create a character once.”

“Right. And even if they created one twice, that doesn’t make sense. They were the first to clear the tutorial, and the first to discover that dojo. Hidden Theme… ha, my mouth hurts.”

“Ah! Then someone must be telling them!”

At the mention of someone telling them, everyone’s heads turned to Park Ju Ho.

“Telling them?”

“Yes! When you go to fortune tellers, spirits read your fortune and stuff. This must be spirits possessing them and telling them everything!”

Park Ju Ho’s eyes lit up as he started rambling.

He was more interested in fortune-telling, palm reading, and tarot than MBTI.

He even took his teammates to get their fortunes read.

“…Enough. Stop talking.”

The teammates who went with him shook their heads.

Was this the first or second time Park Ju Ho spouted strange nonsense?

“Talking nonsense again? Must be nice having easy work.”

Finally Oh Jin Su smacked Park Ju Ho on the head.

Park Ju Ho grabbed his head with a pained expression and quickly added:

“Ow! Wait! But that user isn’t an Earth employee, right? If you join Earth or Genesis, you can’t use capsules at all!”

That was also true.

Even to Oh Jin Su, the user’s gameplay seemed too natural.

They should be surprised when discovering something by chance, but it was as if they knew everything.

‘Is someone really telling them?’

Without that, it was gameplay that couldn’t be understood.

* * *

Ring-

While resting at home, Ha Jin called.

“Yeah, why did you call?”

[Hey! Did you hear that news?! They say a Hidden Theme was discovered in our country!]

“Really? That’s surprising.”

Jung Hoon pretended to be surprised, but his acting was terrible so Ha Jin caught on immediately.

[What’s with that lukewarm reaction?]

“I am surprised though.”

[You’re kidding. A Hidden Theme! You probably don’t know since you haven’t been playing this game long, but if New World makes an official announcement, it’s really huge! They even said New World is giving that user a separate gift!]

“Really?”

This is a bit surprising.

Before his regression, when Jung Hoon first started the game, it was long after Alessandro had discovered the Hidden Theme.

So he didn’t know about New World making official announcements and giving additional gifts.

‘What kind of gift would they give?’

Since the Hidden Theme itself was like a fateful encounter, he didn’t think they’d give anything grand as a congratulatory gift.

As Jung Hoon pondered, Ha Jin’s laughter came through the phone.

[What’s this. Are you envious hearing about it?]

“You’re talking like you’re the one getting it?”

[Seeing you envious makes me feel good like I’m getting it myself.]

“Weird guy.”

Sorry, but I took that hidden theme.

Of course, he couldn’t tell Ha Jin that.

[Anyway, you’re resting at home today, right?]

“Yeah. I’ll rest just until today and start running again from tomorrow dawn.”

[Dawn… You’re really amazing. Anyway, got it.]

“Good work.”

[Good work~]

Jung Hoon entered the New World homepage.

There was a message saying they would give a gift, but there was no separate contact.

Since New World never directly communicated with users anyway, he passed on it.

The reward would probably be given when he logged into the game.

* * *

After resting for a total of two days, Jung Hoon entered the capsule again.

“But do you really not regret it?”

Ha Jin, sitting in the capsule next to him, asked.

“I told you I don’t. The love call came to me, so why are you the one with regrets?”

“Well, it’s Hoyeong after all.”

The guild Ha Jin joined was among the lower tier of mid-level guilds.

He also wanted to join a big guild like Hoyeong, but it was nearly impossible to enter without exceptional abilities.

“Anyway, I’m going in first.”

Whoosh-

The capsule door closed as Jung Hoon entered and logged in.

The place he appeared was an inn a little away from Marketplace Village.

In New World, when you log in, you appear at the last point where you logged out.

[You have unconfirmed messages!]

A huge message appeared as soon as he logged in.

Jung Hoon touched that message.

[A gift is given to the user who first discovered the hidden theme.]

[The gift is adjusted according to the current user’s level.]

‘Oh no.’

Jung Hoon smiled bitterly.

If they gave it according to his current level, he would definitely receive a low-level gift.

[Please check your gift.]

-Bonus Stats +10

-20% HP/MP Recovery Potion +20

-Status Ailment Recovery Potion +20

How could it not miss his expectations.

Well. Where else could he get something for free.

Jung Hoon additionally exchanged all the Achievement points he had collected so far for experience.

To purchase necessary items from the Achievement shop, he needed to be at least level 6.

Until then, he needed to focus on rapid growth.

[Level up!]

[All stats increased by +1.]

[Bonus Stats +1 awarded.]

With this, he reached level 21.

Level 21 without hardly hunting any monsters.

If Ha Jin heard this, he would have fainted from shock.

Knock. Knock.

“Guest, you need to come out now.”

11 AM in New World time.

It was time to vacate the inn.

The inn Jung Hoon rented was for 2 days, and he would need to pay extra to stay another day.

“Yes. I’m coming out.”

Jung Hoon, who had no luggage to begin with, left the inn without carrying anything.

[You rested at the inn for two days.]

[‘Minor Recovery’ buff (3 hours) has been granted.]

The reason he paid money to visit the inn was to receive this buff.

[Minor Recovery]

-Type: Buff

-Grade: Normal

-HP recovers by 0.1% every second.

-MP recovers by 0.1% every second.

A buff that recovers 0.1% of HP and MP every second when consumed.

It would play an important role in conquering the next dungeon.

Instead of heading north immediately, Jung Hoon stopped by a nearby weapon shop.

“Welcome!”

As befitting a weapon shop in the Beginner Zone, the grades of the weapons weren’t very high.

“Please give me the items written here.”

“Huh? …This many?”

The weapon shop merchant tilted his head in confusion.

And for good reason—Jung Hoon was looking for 5 different types of weapons.

Sword, dagger, bow, staff, knuckles.

“Yes. Please give me the lowest grade ones. Give me plenty of arrows too. And 20 repair kits as well.”

Repair kits are items that restore a weapon’s durability when it drops.

“If you’re buying this much, you’ll need quite a bit of money…”

The merchant said this while glancing at Jung Hoon’s pocket.

The price for the lowest grade weapons was 10 silver each.

Sword, dagger, bow, staff, and knuckles at 10 silver each totaled 50 silver, which was 2 gold and 10 silver.

Repair kits were 2 silver each for 20 pieces, so 2 gold.

Adding 400 arrows crafted from refined mana for another 10 silver brought the total to 5 gold.

In all his time running the weapon shop, he had rarely seen users carrying more than 1 gold.

Even those who had money were exceptions since they carried much more expensive and better weapons than what was displayed in his shop.

“Here you go.”

But Jung Hoon casually placed 5 gold on the counter.

The merchant’s eyes curved like crescents upon seeing the 5 gold coins.

“Thank you for your business!”

Look at that attitude change?

Like a true merchant, his ability to read situations was exceptional.

Jung Hoon chuckled and put the weapons and repair kits into his inventory.

“Take care.”

This left him with 4 gold, 18 silver, and 6 pennies.

This should be enough preparation.

To reach the dungeon located to the north, he needed to use the portal beyond the two northern fields.

[Portal]

The portal was massive.

It was wide enough for 10 people to enter with room to spare, and many users were coming and going through it.

“You need to line up here.”

Nearly 50 users were lined up waiting in front of the portal.

“Yes.”

Jung Hoon went to the back and got in line.

* * *

A handsome man in his mid-twenties reading New World announcements flew into a rage.

Blonde hair with a Western, three-dimensional face.

An Archmage who had currently broken through level 500 to reach level 502.

It was Alessandro Braiden.

“Why? This can’t be coming out now…”

Hidden Theme.

One of the hidden opportunities that New World had concealed.

And this Hidden Theme should have been his opportunity.

A secret quest given to him as the first mage to break through level 500.

The content of that secret quest was clues about the Hidden Theme.

The clues were so cryptic that he hadn’t made much progress yet, but he thought it would eventually fall into his hands given time.

But someone had completely snatched away that Hidden Theme.

“Damn it!”

What was the point of doing the secret quest if this happened!

Alessandro made a gesture of pulling at his hair.

“Not yet… The Hidden Theme isn’t over with just that.”

According to the clues, several more Hidden Themes existed.

He didn’t know where it was discovered, but it must have been obtained by chance.

He just needed to get the remaining Hidden Themes.

Alessandro hurriedly entered his capsule and began studying the given clues.

* * *

The portal had 13 destinations.

Since there were a total of 13 dungeons to the north, there were 13 portals accordingly.

Most moved through the portals in groups of 2-3, and Jung Hoon was the only one traveling alone.

[You have arrived at the entrance to the ‘Lv.25 Orc Warrior Forest’ dungeon.]

Jung Hoon’s destination was the Lv.25 Orc Warrior Forest.

It was a dungeon with considerably high difficulty even for Primordial Village, usually requiring 4 people grouped together to clear.

And before long, this portal’s dungeons would become two.

Because he would make it so.

[Undiscovered dungeon found in Primordial Village!]

-Of course, I didn’t discover it myself, my acquaintance did.

You see the forest next to the dungeon portal? There’s a cave next to it, and that cave is the entrance to a new dungeon.

By the way, Lv.38 Venomous Krasha lives there, so it was a dungeon that shouldn’t have appeared in Primordial Village in the first place lololol

Jung Hoon entered the forest, not the dungeon portal.

At the end of the forest, there really was a cave. As if proving that human feet had never touched this place, the surroundings were too clean.

In the first place, users who visit here gather for dungeon raids, not with the purpose of wandering around the forest.

‘So it’s inside here?’

While caves are usually dark, the surroundings were strangely bright.

Jung Hoon moved his steps and entered deep into the cave.

And he was able to discover a portal rippling in front of him.

That was the dungeon he needed to enter this time.

‘The level is appropriately high, and it’s the perfect opponent for learning skills.’

The Return of the Greatest All Master of All Time (Serial)

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