The Return of the Legendary All-Master - Chapter 25
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Chapter 25
Whoosh-
The capsule opened and Jung Hoon stepped out.
“Phew, that’s done. This concludes everything in Primordial Village.”
He had obtained everything he had planned for in Primordial Village.
So before departing for the next village, he needed some time to rest.
‘Playing games all day has made my body stiff.’
Until New World became reality, Jung Hoon’s body was no different from an ordinary person’s.
It was natural for his body to ache after playing games for so long.
Buzz-
His smartphone vibrated.
It was Ha Jin.
He had sent another whisper before logging out, and it seemed Ha Jin had come outside accordingly.
[Hey! You’re home right now, right? I’m coming over. Just wait!]
He must have been quite urgent, as the doorbell rang in less than thirty minutes.
Jung Hoon sipped his coffee and opened the door.
“Come a bit slower next time.”
Standing at the door was Ha Jin, looking extremely excited.
“Hey, you drop a bombshell and tell me to come slowly?”
“A bombshell?”
“You said you got a Hidden Class!”
“Oh, yeah.”
“What’s the grade?! What grade is it?”
Faced with the barrage of questions, Jung Hoon went to the refrigerator and took out a canned coffee.
“Legendary.”
“…What?”
“I said Legendary.”
“Crazy… You’re lying, right?”
Not only Hidden but Legendary too?
It was hard to believe.
And for good reason, since there had never been a record of Legendary appearing in the 1st phase until now.
“Well, even though the grade is Legendary, the performance is about Epic level.”
“Epic?”
Ha Jin’s expression became complicated.
The grade is Legendary but the performance is Epic?
Actually, even Epic alone is incredibly overpowered…
“Yeah. But since you came all this way, eat something before you go.”
Jung Hoon chuckled and opened an app to order stir-fried pork for two.
“No… Hey, this isn’t the time for that!”
“What do you mean?”
“With your level, major corporations will line up for you! Making 100 million won a month would be nothing!”
A Hidden Class in the 1st phase. And Legendary grade at that.
Something like Martial Artist wouldn’t be a problem.
With that alone, he could choose any guild he wanted to join and receive astronomical treatment.
However, Jung Hoon shook his head.
“I’m not joining.”
“Huh…? Why?!”
“I have a lot to do.”
He had already been betrayed by his comrades once before.
Was that why? Even just imagining belonging somewhere made him feel sick.
“This is really crazy…”
Ha Jin, who didn’t know about that, couldn’t understand, but seeing Jung Hoon’s expression, he kept his mouth shut.
* * *
‘Hm? Why are there so many users in the field?’
In the field, countless users were pulling weeds.
Where they had pulled them, weeds grew back in less than a second, returning to their original state.
It had to be that way.
Those weeds were used for village quests.
Whenever users received quests, weeds would grow abundantly where they had been pulled.
“I need to pull weeds, so move aside.”
“What are you saying? Can’t you see I was here pulling them first?”
Jung Hoon had already pulled them once while doing village quests.
The problem was why so many users were pulling weeds like crazy.
Good grief.
There’s even a waiting line behind them.
Among them were users who had completed the 2nd-3rd phases and were approaching level 150.
“Since Min Jin Ho did it, the reward must be big, right?”
“Hey, otherwise why would we come all the way here to do village quests?”
“Ugh, but what if they really only give us a title? I’ve been doing this damn hard work for two weeks now.”
“Min Jin Ho did it. You think Min Jin Ho would have moved just for a title?”
“Maybe when you get the title, a hidden quest opens up?”
“Oh, that could be it.”
Ah, now I understood why they were rushing to do village quests like that.
‘Min Jin Ho, that bastard.’
It seems he took action as soon as the Venomous Krasha was discovered.
Then he must be finishing up the village quest soon and heading to the alchemist.
“Kuk…”
I barely held back the laughter that was about to burst out.
Since I had already obtained Poison Attack and solved the baldness-related problem, the alchemist Bleo wouldn’t give him a hidden quest.
In other words, I had intercepted the Poison Attack that he should have obtained before his regression.
‘Jin Ho, no matter how much you struggle, this game will end.’
Because I, and no one else, will make it so.
Jung Hoon, having steeled his resolve, crossed the field and stood before a massive portal.
Since it was a portal connecting village to village, there was a gatekeeper in front of it.
“Stop.”
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[NPC Information]
-Nickname: Iliao
-Level: 100
-Class: Primordial Village Portal Gatekeeper
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The gatekeeper’s level was a whopping 100.
They had set the gatekeeper’s level high so that the portal couldn’t be crossed carelessly.
If you tried to force your way through the portal here, PVP would be forcibly activated and you could face a 24-hour logout penalty.
Of course, this wouldn’t apply to high-level users.
“I want to use the portal.”
“I see. May I check your information for a moment?”
“Yes.”
Iliao checked Jung Hoon’s information, nodded, and stepped aside.
“You’re qualified. You may proceed.”
With his permission, Jung Hoon stood in the center of the portal.
[Would you like to activate the portal?]
[There are currently 122 villages available for travel.]
After completing the first job change, you could access 122 villages.
[If you’ve done your first job change, definitely go to Aihen!]
-Among the 122 villages, it has the easiest difficulty and simple quests, making it easy to level up.
Don’t go to other villages with the mindset that you’re special and end up in trouble.
To take the portal again from that village, you have to cross fields where all the monsters are level 60 or higher.
└This is real – don’t move around thinking you should check out other villages out of curiosity, just quietly go to Aihen.
└If you pick the wrong village once, you’ll need help from high-level users to take the portal again lololol
└At least Aihen has really easy quests and gives good experience points.
As they said, you had to be careful when choosing your first village.
If you entered the wrong one, you might have to level up there to escape.
[Here’s one more tip.]
-Don’t go to Edenhark. When I say don’t go, don’t fucking go.
That place only gives weird-ass quests and leveling is hard too.
└Real talk, the monsters are tricky to catch. I’d rather go to Aihen and hunt orcs.
└Ah… damn, I should have seen this before leaving the village.
└I also picked the village name I liked most and got screwed lol
There were also tips about places not to enter.
However, Jung Hoon chose Edenhark without hesitation.
‘I need to go here to achieve maximum efficiency.’
New World had hidden growth elements in each village.
There were mountains of these elements that hadn’t been discovered yet.
And Edenhark, where you develop from levels 30-70, could be said to be the place with the most hidden things.
A village everyone avoided.
That’s exactly why he had to go to that village.
[Moving to ‘Edenhark’.]
When he selected Edenhark, Jung Hoon’s body was sucked into the portal.
* * *
At that moment.
Primordial Village.
Min Jin Ho finished the village quests with the mailbox as his last task.
With his abilities, performing quests was as easy as lying down and eating rice cake.
“Thank you!”
“Yes.”
Along with experience point rewards that barely registered, he obtained a title.
Next, it was time to head to the alchemist located a bit away from Primordial Village.
Min Jin Ho, who had grasped the geography through NPCs, headed straight to the Alchemist’s House.
“Ah, I no longer need Krasha’s Inner Core.”
“What…?”
When he arrived at the Alchemist’s House, they said the inner core was no longer needed.
It meant someone had already handed over the inner core and completed the quest.
It was shocking news like a bolt from the blue.
“…”
Just who the hell took it?
Min Jin Ho’s fists clenched with force.
* * *
Edenhark.
It was a small medieval European-style city that was slightly more developed than Primordial Village.
The place where Jung Hoon appeared was the plaza of that small city.
Many users and NPCs were walking around in the plaza.
‘There are many users in Edenhark too.’
It was just relatively too few compared to other villages.
Edenhark also had quite a few users residing there.
“Excuse me. Did you perhaps come to the wrong village?”
Some user approached Jung Hoon.
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[Player Information]
-Nickname: Ppripong
-Level: 56
-Class: Lower Warrior (1st)
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He was a level 56 1st class Lower Warrior.
“No. I came to the right place.”
“Huh? It looks like you just completed your 1st class change, but you came to Edenhark?”
“Yes.”
“Whoa… this won’t work out? Originally, level 30s aren’t supposed to come here.”
He began giving all sorts of advice, saying Edenhark wasn’t great and Aihen was better.
The scene of a slightly higher-level user giving advice to a low-level user wasn’t common, but it was a sight you could encounter in any game.
In New World, it was a bit more common.
The reason for this was because of quests.
‘It’s because of the event quest to help struggling newbie users.’
It was a quest that could only be received from level 55 to just before 60, automatically completing when you helped a user level 35 or below.
The quest reward was actually a level up.
The higher the level, the extremely difficult it becomes to level up.
In such a situation, simply helping one user would raise your level, so it could be seen as an event surprise quest with no reason not to perform.
[Would you like to receive help from user ‘Ppripong’?]
Then, a message came in.
The moment he accepted this, he could receive help from him.
“Is that so? Then could you help me for a moment?”
Jung Hoon readily agreed to help the user.
At those words, Ppripong brightened up.
“Great! Then let’s go straight to the portal!”
Just roughly go to the portal and help him get to Aihen, and it would be a level up.
Hehe, such a simple quest.
[If you catch newbie users who accidentally came to the wrong village, the quest is super easy lol]
-I raised 2 levels that way.
└For real, it’s mutual benefit.
└When those newbies move to Aihen, they should bow to us lol
└I agree with that part. Raising even one level is hell, but 2 levels go up at once lolol
Ppripong thought he had caught a proper sucker.
That was until Jung Hoon received a quest from some old man NPC asking for help.
“You’ll help me?!”
“Yes.”
[General Quest: Old Man in Need of Help]
-Restriction: All users level 30 or above who completed 1st class change
-Reward: Old Worn Map
-Description: A pendant that my deceased wife cherished was stolen by a monster. Please retrieve that pendant.
The old man grasped Jung Hoon’s hands with desperate eyes.
“If you retrieve the pendant, I’ll give you this map as a token of gratitude.”
The reward was neither experience nor skills, but an ordinary map.
It was even so worn that it couldn’t be read.
[I completed the quest and got the map, but what is this used for?]
-It’s all blurred so you can’t make out anything anyway? Is this really a reward?
└Don’t do that lol it’s a totally rotten quest.
└I worked my ass off digging and brought him the buried stuff, and he just gave me one measly map lol
└He doesn’t even know how to use the map himself lololol
└I thought it might be an important map but damn, there was nothing there.
└He won’t even take the Restoration Potion lol says it’s too old to be useful.
One of the quests that users who had already passed through Edenhark had completed.
It certainly could be seen as a completely useless map, but if you properly solve it, the story changes.
“Yes. I’ll look for it.”
“Thank you! I suspect… those Blanc bastards took it, but I’m not certain.”
A quest with no detailed information and terrible rewards.
So there probably wasn’t a single user who would help this old man.
“Yes. I’ll find it as quickly as possible.”
“Thank you. Thank you so much…”
Though he was a stranger, this was the first person to approach him so kindly.
The old man’s eyes reddened as he repeatedly expressed his gratitude.
“Um… User?”
Just as he was about to depart after receiving the quest, Ppripong blocked his path.
“Hm? What’s wrong?”
“Haha… You need to go to the portal, so why did you accept that quest?”
Ppripong’s voice was dripping with irritation.
Jung Hoon tilted his head.
“Why would I go to the portal?”
“What? No… I told you earlier. Instead of staying here in Edenhark, going to Aihen would be much faster for growth. I leveled up in Aihen too.”
“Yes. I already heard that story.”
“Then why did you accept the quest?”
“There seems to be some misunderstanding, but I accepted it because you offered to help. For reference, I never said a single word about going to Aihen.”
“What?”
“Hurry up and follow me.”
If Jung Hoon gave up on receiving his help, the quest would disappear.
The one who was led by the nose wasn’t Jung Hoon, but Ppripong.
Return of the Greatest All-Master (Ongoing)
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