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I convened a meeting of the first guild of the Jeongin Guild and said while playing the video.
“Let’s see.”
While the Jungin Guild attacks the C-class Busan dungeon, a team composed of the top performers periodically beats and falls out of the boss monster, and has roughly measured information about the boss monster and the level of the boss monster.
At first, I was busy running away without even being able to collect proper information due to the overwhelming difference in specifications, but as time passed and the Jung-in guild grew, I began to succeed in collecting more and more meaningful information. It was also the reason.
I am briefing a full-scale attack analysis by blending the collected information, videos, and knowledge from my previous life.
“As you can see, it is safe to say that this monster is compatible with Lightning Stalker. It uses electric abilities and looks similar. Its attack pattern is also by emitting electricity from the horns on its head. But look at this.”
I stopped the video and said while pointing to the horns on the other parts of the boss monster.
“Unlike the Lightning Stalker, which only has horns on its head, this guy has similarly shaped horns all over his body. However, in the video filmed for information gathering, the horn was never used to make an electric attack. So I was worried.”
I said as I walked through the conference room.
“Is that horn a decoration? It can’t be. Evolutionary unnecessary parts are bound to degenerate… Ah. Would it be strange to compare monsters to evolutionary theory? Anyway. Far from degenerating, these horns have maintained a similar size to the horns on the head. That is to say, there is absolutely no need for it. So, for me, who should always be prepared for the worst, I decided that those horns were also used for electric attacks.”
Jeongin guild members nod their heads at my words.
“Then the second. Why are the horns oriented like that? If a strong oriental attack was required, wouldn’t the horns on the head evolve in the direction of getting bigger? Putting it all together, my analysis is as follows.”
If I do this, I’m not sure if it’s getting better, but every time I brief, the excuses become more plausible and the words come out.
“All horns on the body are capable of electric attacks. But I’ve never seen it used until now. If so, wouldn’t those horns be the survival technique of that boss monster or a special move used in an emergency? Also, judging from the fact that there are horns all over the body, there is a high probability that the technique is a concept of an entire attack plane that is directed in all directions, not one direction. This is my judgment.”
Jeongin guild members murmured at my words.
“Is it reasonable?”
“There is nothing wrong with CEO Jung’s analysis.”
At that time, a guild member said with a firm expression.
“But if that analysis is correct, isn’t it dangerous?”
The way to catch the Lightning Stalker now was to use an insulated protective gear to negate the electric attack.
After all, there was only one horn used for attack, so that was nothing to these high-level hunters who could avoid bullets just by looking at the direction of the muzzle.
However, if this analysis is true, it literally means that electricity is emitted in all directions, and it was usually not difficult to avoid it in the narrow cave terrain.
“Should I insulate the whole body?”
“Full-body rubber jerseys?”
As the guild members murmured like that, I said with a smile.
“Of course I have to. But it’s not a perfect solution. The rubber can tear during intense battles, and you have to wear goggles to protect your eyes, which narrows your field of vision and puts you at a disadvantage in battle.”
The guild members, who had been silent for a while, said with their eyes shining.
“When you say it’s not a perfect solution… you mean there are other solutions, right?”
I said with a confident look.
“of course. Without a solution, such a briefing would not be possible. For a long time, mankind has considered lightning as one of the natural disasters. But what about now? Have any of you ever heard of lightning strikes, whether in the news or whatever? you probably don’t Naturally. Humanity completely conquered lightning with one inventor. Woo boss. Come on in.”
At my words, the door to the conference room opened and Woo Jang-seok, president of Seyoon Precision Co., came in with the equipment I ordered.
A device that is several meters in length.
“The invention was the lightning rod. And this is a long spear made by applying the lightning rod principle.”
I took the spear from Jangseok Woo and raised it up and said.
“Ugh. Woo boss. The power is working. This is very heavy.”
“haha. It is only 3 meters long, so how light can it be?”
“Anyway, thank you.”
I looked at the guild members again and said.
“Electricity has the property of chasing sharp metal objects. We use this to absorb the electric attacks of the boss monster.”
A guild member said with a puzzled expression at my words.
“Isn’t it okay to insulate a normal window?”
“haha. If it were a boss monster, the voltage it would emit would be huge, but how many spears can it handle? A common misconception is that the key to the lightning rod is not this sharp blade, but how it handles the electricity it receives.”
taken from noblemt l
Metals can accept electricity, but their capacity is limited.
“Usually, lightning rods connect copper wires to the ground and send electricity to the ground to discharge them, but the Busan dungeon is a cavernous terrain, so you can’t dig the ground… So this is what I prepared for it.”
I said, pointing to the thick copper wire connected to the lightning rod.
“The electricity collected by the lightning rod rides on this copper wire and discharges it into the air through an emitter connected to the excitation end. Of course, we’ll put the emitter away from the battlefield. This will completely block the boss monster’s electric attacks. And the boss monster with blocked abilities…”
I said raising the corners of my lips.
“It’s not our guild’s opponent.”
At my words, the guild members of the Jeongin Guild shouted with confidence.
“Absolutely!”
“You just scoop it all up and put it in your mouth, but if you can’t eat this, you’re an idiot!”
I said with a smile.
“good. The briefing ends here! let’s go! To catch the boss!”
Jeongin guild member who entered the dungeon started assembling the lightning rods that were disassembled and brought in.
The Jeongin Guild was so prepared.
Jaejin Lee said in a low voice.
“let’s go.”
“Yes.”
The Jungin Guild moves slowly while catching monsters like that.
At first, they were normal monsters, but they were no longer the opponents of the Jungin Guild.
The Jungin Guild moved to a deeper place while clearing out the monsters in an instant.
The guild member who was in the lead raised his hand and said.
“I found it!”
The boss monster that had confirmed the location a while ago was still roaming the area.
“Get ready.”
The guild members brought the emitter to a corner a little far from the battle area.
“it’s over.”
At the words of the guild member, Jaejin Lee raised his sword and looked at the guild members and said.
“It’s the first boss you catch, but you don’t have to be afraid. We have always won and this time too. let’s go!”
The Jeongin Guild rushed to the monster after Lee Jae-jin’s words.
The boss monster who found such a guild roared.
“Kyaa!!!”
Thus, the first boss attack of the Busan dungeon began.
When the horns on his head emitted light, the Jeongin Guild put the lightning rods forward and retreated for a while.
After a while, powerful electricity erupted from the horns of the boss monster.
However.
“Oh oh!”
Electricity from the boss monster’s horn is sucked into the tip of the lightning rod.
To be precise, it looks like the lightning rod and the boss monster’s horns are electrically connected.
The boss monster panicked and continued to emit electricity, but there was no damage.
“Is this great?”
Lightning stalker’s electric attack, a normal monster, was enough with an insulating shield.
However, the boss monster’s electric attack is on a different level.
When the humidity is high or a very strong voltage is applied, the insulation of the air is broken and electricity flows through the air, which is called insulation breakdown.
The Lightning Stalker’s electric attack was all it took to block it, but the boss monster’s electric attack was so strong that some electricity was transmitted through the air.
Of course, because of the Hunter’s strong body and the limitation of electric transmission through the air, it does not cause much damage, but because of this, this boss monster who suffered all the hardships during each test is perfectly blocked by using the lightning rod.
no.
To be more precise, should it be expressed as sending an electric attack to another place through the lightning rod?
The way to do the least damage is to let it flow.
From that point of view, there was no more perfect defense against this boss monster than this lightning rod.
The hunter holding the lightning rod said in an excited voice.
“Can’t we just go with this and poke it?”
Then the manager shouted.
“no! Didn’t you hear that Mr. Wu said it wasn’t for attack?”
The Jeongin Guild that shed all the attacks like that.
After a while, when the electric attack stopped, he started a full attack on the boss monster again.
Electricity is the main attack method, but the boss monster started to be pushed helplessly as it got blocked.
Out of anger, he attempted an electric attack again, but again sent out all electric attacks through the lightning rod.
And as this situation was repeated, the boss monster became more and more exhausted and at the same time the damage was accumulated one by one.
“great! Let’s just go like this!”
All the guild members who were passionate about the smooth hunting continued to push the boss monsters with excited expressions.
and how long has it been
The movement of the noticeably weakened boss monster suddenly stopped.
“stop! Just step back!”
The Jeongin Guild, who has dealt with boss monsters countless times, knows it well.
The change in the behavior of boss monsters is where novelty risks.
And after a while.
“Kyaah!!!”
When the boss monster screams, isn’t all the horns on the boss monster’s body emitting white light?
“As expected, CEO Jung’s analysis was correct!!!”
“Everyone step back behind the lightning rod!!”
The Jeongin Guild with such a defensive posture.
And after a while.
“Kyah!!”
From the horns on the whole body of the boss monster, an incomparable amount of electricity went out in all directions.
Electricity continues between the pyramids, and electricity spreads seamlessly in all directions.
It was exactly what Jung In-soo said, which he expected to be an all-attack aircraft.
Also, the electricity is sucked into the lightning rod and completely drained.
Hue is the goat
Goosebumps about such an accurate analysis.
“Wow. The real me is me.”
“So that’s it.”
and how long has it been
The attack of the boss monster, which was emitting electricity like crazy, stopped.
And a boss monster that kneels and gasps for breath as if it had been discharged.
“Did CEO Jung say it was a survival or a deadly move?”
“under. Stop wondering now. I guess I just have to live with it.”
The guild members approached the boss monster and said.
“ruler. Let’s finish it.”
The Jeongin Guild succeeded in catching the C-class dungeon boss for the first time in the world.
“Five!! Look at that!”
The body of the new boss monster has arrived on Earth through the dungeon.
Since they had already promised that they would catch the boss, the crowd of reporters started taking pictures of the Jung-in guild all surviving and returning home.
I approached Jaejin Lee, who was walking in the front, and said,
“Good work.”
“no. Thanks to the boss, I was able to catch it easily. If it wasn’t for that lightning rod…Honestly, we probably wouldn’t have been able to catch it with our current skills alone. It must have taken a lot of damage.”
“What did I do? I just did an analysis. Anyway, everyone did a good job.”
At my words, the guild members of the Jeongin Guild smiled and said.
“CEO Jung did a great job too!”
“ha ha ha.”
I approached Jaejin Lee and said quietly.
“Anyway, is there anything new?”
did you come out
Then Jaejin Lee put his hand in his arms and said.
“There was. At first, I thought it was a crystal stone, but when I looked closely, something unfamiliar to me was written…”
I hurriedly put my index finger to my mouth and said.
“Shh. We need to know that first.”
you’re out
“Let’s go to the office first. I need to check what it is.”
“Yes.”
“under···”
I lifted the stone and said with a gleam in my eyes.
“Good.”
The true nature of the stone was the skill stone.
If the hunter destroys this stone, the hunter will learn the skill that resides in the skill stone.
And the content of the characters written on the stone was the content of the skill in the skill stone.
These characters were named runes after a fantasy novel.
And I.
“Doesn’t something look good just by looking at it?”
I could read this text.
How many hunters went through ups and downs before this rune was interpreted.
This skill wasn’t just a good skill.
In exchange for raising a specific ability, not only skills with corresponding side effects, but also skills with only side effects.
Naturally, the hunters had no choice but to interpret these runes while learning the skills themselves, and in the meantime, there were many hunters who learned the wrong skills and regretted their entire lives.
Of course, this was the case in the beginning, and after the runes were completely interpreted later, even the frontline merchants memorized these runes as basic knowledge.
That’s right, you need to know what your skills are so you don’t get scammed and trade.
“Let’s see···”
The skill stones are graded by color, and since this is white, it was the lowest level skill.
The runes written on it are all three letters, meaning reinforcement, skin, and eternity.
In other words, this was the lowest level passive skill that permanently strengthens the skin.
At first glance, it may seem like a no-brainer, but the fact that it had no side effects alone made this skill stone highly valuable.
A skill that is beneficial to acquire unconditionally.
“Jaejin.”
“Yes?”
“Listen to this.”
Jae-Jin Lee, who meekly accepted the skill stone.
“Try it once.”
“Yes?”
“Every test starts with destruction.”
Then Jaejin Lee hesitated for a moment and said.
“…it could explode or electricity could come out. Is it from a boss monster that emits electricity?”
“why. Are you worried?”
“I am confident that I can survive somehow, but I said this because the boss might be in danger.”
Ohh.
You are faithful.
I said with a satisfied smile.
“Don’t worry, just do it. I like how I feel.”
Then Jaejin Lee looked at the stone and said.
“All right.”
Jae-Jin Lee gives me strength.
Then, the skill stone crumbled in an instant and disappeared into the air, emitting a white light.
“…?”
I said to Jaejin Lee, who was standing there with a blank expression.
“What do you think?”
“Yes?”
“Has nothing changed?”
Jaejin Lee looked around his body and said.
“…I don’t feel any particular change.”
It’s a passive skill and I don’t even know about skin strengthening.
That’s why it took quite a bit of time to interpret the runes.
I have to figure out what the effect is.
“okay? It seems to be disappearing, so I think this is the right way to use it… but I’ll have to research it a bit more. I’ll take care of the rest, so you’ll be tired, but go back and rest.”
“···I understand for now.”
Jaejin Lee left the office without knowing English.
I looked at the door that Jaejin Lee had left and said.
“If you drive good skill stones to the guild, and sell bad skill stones as if they were good…”
He earns money and inflicts damage to rival hunters and guilds with bad skills.
It is perfect.
Until the rune interpretation is completed, this skill stone field is truly my own stage for me.
Using this, the Jeongin Guild becomes the strongest guild in the Republic of Korea in name and reality.
I said raising the corners of my lips.
“ruler. It is the beginning of a true Great Hunter era.”
And I stand at the peak of that Hunter era.
As an ordinary person, not a hunter.