The Return of the Legendary All-Master - Chapter 61
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Chapter 61
72 hours that felt like 720 hours had passed.
“Fuck… finally gonna do it.”
Hong Hyeon Woo, who had become completely addicted to New World, found the past time unbearably painful.
Unable to even log into the game during what should have been prime gaming time, his hatred for that Martial Artist bastard grew even stronger.
[Despair-Stained You : Request completed. Currently have him tied up, so you can log in at your leisure.]
Now there was nothing to fear.
He had commissioned a level 201 Saber, and the Saber had completed the request very successfully.
[Hey, let’s go in together. They caught that bastard.]
Kim Bong Gu also hated the Martial Artist just as much.
The total payment of 30 gold, 15 gold each, included restraining that guy.
“Fuck, let’s pay him back for sure.”
Just imagining the Martial Artist’s suffering face already sent thrills throughout his body.
Hong Hyeon Woo hurriedly logged in.
And there in front of him, the Saber was standing and waiting for them.
“You’ve arrived?”
“Yes. But where is the Martial Artist?”
“I’ll tell you that once the other client comes in.”
“Yes.”
A minute later, Kim Bong Gu also logged in.
“Where’s the Martial Artist?”
Kim Bong Gu also looked for the Martial Artist first.
“Ah, about that.”
Despair-Stained You smiled awkwardly and scratched his cheek.
“Ha, what is it now?”
“We’re not in the mood for jokes, you know?”
Irritation crossed Hong Hyeon Woo and Kim Bong Gu’s faces at the sluggish response.
“The client has changed.”
“What?”
“Huh?”
Before Hong Hyeon Woo and Kim Bong Gu could react, Hong Hyeon Woo’s head fell to the ground.
He had been struck by Despair-Stained You’s sword.
Faced with a completely unexpected scene, Kim Bong Gu looked down at Hong Hyeon Woo’s corpse with a dumbfounded expression.
Soon he glared at Despair-Stained You with an utterly furious face.
“What the hell are you doing right now!”
“Sorry about this. You should have been more careful about who you messed with.”
Despair-Stained You didn’t care and cut off Kim Bong Gu’s breath.
The level difference between a 140-level 2nd Job Advancement and a 200-level 3rd Job Advancement was like heaven and earth.
No matter how many of them there were, they couldn’t handle a single Saber.
The Martial Artist behind him was beyond specifications, so he was out of the question.
“Good work.”
Jung Hoon patted his shoulder with a satisfied expression.
With this, those bastards were suspended for 120 hours.
“Yes. Then may I take my leave now?”
“There’s still one more thing left.”
“Yes?”
“We’re going to subjugate the Ogre King from now on, and he commands quite a few subordinates.”
“Ah, yes.”
“Help with the subjugation.”
“…”
The level difference between Jung Hoon and the Saber was barely 97 levels.
Since it didn’t exceed the 100-level limit set by New World, there was no penalty.
He was a very suitable lackey for the Ogre King subjugation.
“What? Don’t want to?”
“No, no…”
“Right. If you pocketed 30 gold, you should at least do that much, right?”
Is that your money?
Despair-Stained You wanted to shout that, but different words came out of his mouth.
“Of course! Please rest in the back! I’ll handle everything!”
* * *
The newly added Ogre King.
Therefore, a field that shouldn’t have existed originally was newly added.
“Is this it? The Ogre King?”
“Yeah. But don’t go there.”
“Why?”
“The experience is really fucking stingy. It gives less than half of what a level 140 monster gives.”
“What… when they made the levels 170~190?”
“That’s what I’m saying. Where is there anyone over level 150 here…”
However, despite being added only a week ago, the Ogre King had become an object of avoidance among Users.
“The Lord came to me complaining, asking me to hunt the Ogre King.”
“You too? Me too.”
Most Users diligently performed Autoban’s village quests.
The reason was the experience points given each time they performed village quests.
The amount of experience was surprisingly decent, so any User who was leveling would perform village quests.
However, they wouldn’t accept the Ogre King subjugation quest that the Lord offered.
Despite being a monster over level 170, the experience was stingy, and even if they risked their lives to hunt the Ogre King, the reward was too meager.
“Autoban Honorary Knight? Come on…”
“What can you do if you have that?”
“I heard you can freely enter and exit the Lord’s Castle and the village.”
“Pfft, are you crazy enough to hunt a level 190 monster just to get that? The cost-benefit doesn’t match.”
That’s right.
The reward, Autoban Honorary Knight.
It was a rather groundbreaking proposal to grant knight qualifications limited to Autoban through the Lord’s discretion, even without undergoing a knight investiture ceremony.
However, it was also a reward that Users had no need for.
Because there were hardly any places they couldn’t access in the first place.
Even if they received it, to hunt a level 190 monster, they’d have to hire a User over level 200 as a mercenary, which would cost too much money.
It meant it was more profitable to spend the time performing quests on leveling and reaching level 150 to move to the next village.
“Well, let’s go in.”
Of course, Jung Hoon knew the true value of this quest better than anyone.
“Are we really going with just the two of us?”
Despair-Stained You was slightly conflicted.
There were a total of 5 newly added fields.
If this was the Ogre King’s territory from here on, it meant there were quite a lot of those monsters.
“So?”
“Wouldn’t it be better to recruit a few more people before going in…?”
“Seeing you talk so much nonsense, you must want to die.”
“No! I’ll go in!”
Despair-Stained You took the lead and entered the portal.
* * *
At the same time.
Hong Hyeon Woo was.
“Aaaaah! Damn it!”
Shedding tears of blood at the fact of a 120-hour suspension.
15 gold.
A whole 15 gold.
In cash terms, that meant 150,000 won.
After commissioning such a large sum, what came back was a stab wound.
“I scraped together all the money I had and didn’t have to hire them, and they betray me?!”
He never even thought they would betray him.
Buzz-
His smartphone vibrated.
Kim Bong Gu had also died at that bastard’s hands and was forcibly logged out.
[Hey… what should we really do?]
Contrary to expectations that he’d be furious, Kim Bong Gu asked in a dejected voice.
“What do you mean.”
[That bastard… is really determined to kill us…]
“Hey… no way?”
[If I die next time, it’s a month… At this rate, I might really get permanently banned…]
Permanent ban.
The worst punishment handed down when penalties accumulate and you’re judged to be worthless.
Once you get permanently banned, no matter how much you beg and plead, they won’t lift it.
Since each person can only create an ID once in their lifetime, getting permanently banned means you can never enter New World again.
When his thoughts reached that point, Hong Hyeon Woo’s face turned pale white.
“S-surely he wouldn’t go that far?”
[He’s the bastard who reverse-hired the guy we hired by paying even more money…]
They had really messed with the wrong person.
“What about hiring someone else?”
[With what money?]
“…”
[Let’s just apologize and say we’re sorry… that we did something we shouldn’t have done and won’t do it again.]
“You bastard, don’t you have any pride?”
[What if I get permanently banned because of that damn pride?]
“…”
[I’m going to apologize. You can keep being stubborn.]
The call ended with those words.
* * *
Slash.
Despair-Stained You’s sword cut through the ogre’s abdomen.
“Kekh!”
A Lv.170 ogre with a massive build collapsed to the ground, spilling its entrails.
This made it the 22nd one.
“Phew.”
Hunting 22 monsters without rest was no easy task.
Unlike the monsters in the field, these ones moved in groups and surrounded Despair-Stained You in a circle.
Thanks to that, hunting 22 of them consumed all his mana.
His health was also running dangerously low.
‘Potions are too precious to waste.’
Potions that restore health and mana.
Potions directly crafted by Alchemists are traded at quite expensive prices.
There are ways to recover health and mana by eating food or resting in villages, but in cases like dungeon or field hunting, you can’t keep going back and forth to villages, so you have no choice but to rely on a Healer’s help or potions.
As a result, those with non-Healer professions bought potions in bulk, and because of this, Alchemists were making a fortune.
‘Using Achievement points on potions would be insane.’
In the early days of New World.
Users supplied potions using Achievement points, but as the importance of points became highlighted with each level up, purchasing potions with points drastically decreased.
That’s how the saying ‘If you want to make money, become an Alchemist’ came about.
Of course, it’s not easy for an Alchemist to reach the stage where they can craft potions.
They need to complete at least their 2nd Job Advancement, but due to the nature of Alchemists having almost no combat skills, they have no choice but to receive help from other users in the early stages.
However, once they complete their 2nd job, they can craft potions, so quite a few people switched to Alchemist.
“Keuk!”
An arrow pierced through the ogre’s throat.
As it trembled violently, another arrow flew and lodged into its head.
Despair-Stained You, Lee Si Woo, looked toward the source of the arrows with admiring eyes.
‘How can he shoot so well?’
The one who shot the arrows was none other than Jung Hoon.
From Lee Si Woo’s perspective, Jung Hoon was a Martial Artist who had completed his 2nd job and moved to Autoban.
Such a Martial Artist’s archery skills were extraordinary.
The ogre’s body even stiffened for several seconds after being pierced by the arrow.
That meant he possessed skills related to archery.
‘In theory, Martial Artists can learn skills from various professions through Strong Will. However, the conditions are so extreme that it’s virtually impossible to obtain them. Not a single person has met the conditions until now.’
A Martial Artist strategy guide that was posted on Welcome before.
Since Martial Artists had inferior performance compared to other profession groups, they thought New World just left it as an option, but that Martial Artist was pushing that option to its limits.
‘Does that even make sense?’
In front of Jung Hoon, dozens of corpses formed a mountain.
They were all ogres that had died by Jung Hoon’s hand.
‘…He definitely learned archery through Strong Will. That means there’s a high possibility he made a name for himself with a bow in the real world too.’
One of the activation conditions for Strong Will.
You need to raise your proficiency to a level where the skill responds.
Since there’s no system correction, you have to learn it with your entire body to barely master it.
That’s why Lee Si Woo thought Jung Hoon was a genius who made a name for himself with archery in reality.
It wasn’t just archery.
He was also skilled in fist techniques.
More than just skilled.
Damage that penetrates through Epic-grade defensive equipment…
Anyway, that was a monster wearing the mask of level 104.
“Handle the rest.”
Jung Hoon gestured with his chin toward the approaching ogres.
“Ah, yes…”
Lee Si Woo, who had recovered his health and mana with potions, hurriedly picked up his sword.
Soon, he faced off against the ogres once again.
‘Damn it, why did I accept such a request.’
This was all because of that Auralite and Assassin bastard.
If they hadn’t put in that request, he wouldn’t be suffering like this.
‘Just try logging in. I’ll kill you right away.’
Lee Si Woo planned to vent the anger boiling inside him on those two.
* * *
“Kekh!”
The last ogre remaining in the field collapsed to the ground.
With this, only one dungeon where the Ogre King lurked remained.
‘So we’ve come down right below the Northern Snow Mountain.’
A single portal located next to the dungeon.
Since it’s currently not operational, it appears to be the portal connected near the Lord’s Castle.
“Are you going in right away?”
Lee Si Woo asked cautiously.
Following along this far, he had become completely exhausted.
Even though he was over level 200 and had just completed his 3rd Job Advancement, it was because there were too many ogres.
Warrior professions like Saber have no choice but to consume mana with every attack and defense, and it was natural for health to be depleted due to the continuous close combat.
Although he had somehow endured with potions, entering the dungeon immediately in his current state would be too much.
“Let’s go.”
Jung Hoon said this and cast Healing on Lee Si Woo once.
Then his health and mana were partially recovered.
The light scratches visible on the surface also disappeared completely.
“Huh…?”
Lee Si Woo’s eyes widened at the changes in his body.
“Go in first.”
Jung Hoon pointed toward the dungeon with his chin.
“Ah, understood.”
The Return of the Greatest All Master (Serial)
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