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The Jeongin Guild, which succeeded in catching the boss monster for the first time, continued to win and win by attacking the boss monster step by step.
Of course, the skill seats I got along the way also came into my hands one by one.
I laid out the 10 skill stones that the Jeongin Guild had been collecting on the table and said with a happy expression.
“Just looking at it makes me full.”
Of the 10 skill stones collected, except for 2 active skills, the remaining 8 were passive.
However, out of these 8 passives, only 4 skill stones could be given to the Jeongin Guild.
Among the passive skills, the best is a skill that gives purely positive effects without any cost, like the skill stone absorbed by Jae-Jin Lee.
However, these skill stones boast a great price regardless of their grade and were very difficult to obtain.
Finding such a skill stone on the first hunt would be close to beginner’s luck.
Anyway, all passive skills obtained after that had positive and negative effects.
I said while raising a skill stone with 5 letters on it.
“Strength, Strength, Smell, Weakness, Eternity.”
Runes, like Chinese characters, are ideograms in which each letter has a meaning.
Therefore, it was not difficult to interpret the meaning if only the letters were known.
This skill stone was a very good passive skill that weakens the sense of smell instead of strengthening it.
It’s because the power is strengthened in exchange for a little loss of the sense of smell, which is not very helpful in battle.
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Moreover, as it is the lowest level skill stone, the effect is not to the extent that it is dynamic, so it is worth giving up a little sense of smell.
of course···.
I said with a smile.
“The opposite also exists.”
Conversely, there are skills that have a negative effect on battle, such as skills that strengthen the sense of smell and weaken the power.
So interpretation is important.
Anyway, instead of receiving debuffs from various senses or various parts of the body in this way, if you focus on increasing your strength, you will become a truly powerful hunter.
This is how to train elite hunters.
After receiving a level of debuff that does not evenly affect the whole, specializing in one thing, nurturing hunters suitable for each position, and forming a team unit, the synergy is enormous.
Of course, this is only possible for prospects who are intensively raised in large guilds.
In the first place, the skill stone itself is an expensive and precious item that only comes from a C-grade dungeon boss or higher.
Ordinary hunters could not even dream of it.
Therefore, the passive skill stone was the exclusive property of large guilds with financial power and power.
At least the active skill is worth a shot even for regular hunters, but the probability of getting a good skill through the low probability is lower, as if there were only two active skills out of the 10 that I collected, it’s difficult every single thing.
But I am completely different from them.
“Until the runes are deciphered, we must read them all.”
You might think that recognizing a letter or two would not be that difficult, but just like Jae-Jin Lee did not feel any change even after acquiring the skill, in order to decipher the runes, you must find and verify the effectiveness yourself.
Even so, the process is inevitably slower as it is a rare and rare skill stone.
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Moreover, it is also a problem that hunters and merchants are all competing.
Let’s say that a certain guild experienced it firsthand and knew the meaning of a few letters.
Do you really want to share it with someone or do you want to keep it as a secret and take advantage of it?
The latter is, of course, overwhelmingly the latter.
In fact, deciphering the runes was also a top secret of each guild and company.
Of course, as time passed, information gradually became available and eventually became a public good that ordinary people like me could read, but it took a tremendous amount of time to get there.
I will probably go through a similar process in this lifetime.
In the midst of checking each other like that, I get all the benefits I can get between them.
“Anyway, let’s keep collecting. Because the skill stone has a lot to do with it.”
Bad skills are good.
It’s okay if you pack it well and sell it.
“By the way, what will the other guilds do?”
Jeongin Guild catches the boss monster and hits it forward, but there was no way the other guilds could stand still.
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Guilds that have been requesting boss monster capture information under the same conditions as providing general monster information.
To be honest, there’s nothing I can’t do.
Jungin Guild’s Snowball?
Anyway, as long as there is a condition that I buy all by-products, the gap narrowed by sharing strategy information is enough to solve the gap with the skill stone monopoly.
The more skill stones you gather, the stronger the power of the Jeongin Guild will be.
Anyway, since the number of bosses that the Jungin Guild alone can catch is limited, this is the best if possible.
The question is, will those guilds be willing to sell skill stones to me?
It might be because you don’t know what it is for the first few times, but if time passes and you find out about the existence of the skill stone, won’t they learn it as soon as they find it?
“Hmm.”
Of course, you can learn bad skills after that.
But I wouldn’t give up the skill stone itself just because of that few times.
I’d rather find a clumsy newcomer, have him learn a skill stone, and then turn to experimenting.
Like many guilds in their previous lives.
I thought for a while and said.
“On hold for now.”
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Guilds will have to think about it a little more after earning time with the excuse that their strategy is not yet perfect.
After all, for the time being, no other guild other than the Jeongin Guild will dare to attack the boss, so there is plenty of time.
“Let’s see… these are the freshmen this quarter, aren’t they?”
I checked the list of new Hunter Academy freshmen and their physical test results.
“Everyone is arrogant. uh? Isn’t this hunter at the freshman level?”
I checked the hunter in other materials I already had, wondering if it was a talent, and I immediately smiled and said:
“what. You’re a hunter who’s been awake for over a year, right?”
It’s been a year, but at this level, you don’t have any talent.
However, it is a positive sign that a hunter who has long been awakened is coming in as an incoming student.
That’s why there are attractive points that existing hunters can be tempted by, and the credibility of the diploma is increasingly being eaten by hunters.
“Isn’t there again…”
After checking the list for such a long time, I had no choice but to harden when I saw one name.
“… Hwang Jae-ho?”
It’s a very familiar name.
on the bad side too.
The truth is among the truth of all kinds of abuse, drinking and doing bad things.
It was the name of one of the number one public servants who made me hate Hunters.
“It makes me feel bad just looking at it.”
About 14 to 15 years from now, I was working as a waiter at a pub that served Hunter at the time, and Jae-ho Hwang was a regular at that pub, and he was quite a human being who used to be violent even against women, drunk with alcohol and drugs.
Naturally, women refused to enter Hwang Jae-ho’s room, and I had to be the subject of Hwang Jae-ho’s wrath from time to time.
And every day until I quit the store.
Thanks to that, I also broke my arm, and then he took a bunch of money out of my wallet and scattered it in the air asking me to pay for my treatment.
Even thinking about it now, the memory of him grabbing his broken arm and collecting money after leaving the room is humiliating and angry.
“Was he a little over 40 at the time?”
I checked the age of freshman Jaeho Hwang.
“…27 years old. No matter how you look at it, it seems right.”
I stood up from my seat with a cold expression on my face.
“I’ll have to check it out. If it’s the real Hwang Jae-ho…”
I will pay for all the insults in my previous life.
Hwang Jae-ho, who entered the Hunter Academy, was very satisfied.
Combat training and weapon aptitude tests that you receive for the first time in your life, as well as a system that tests and quantifies your physical abilities.
All the facilities and training courses necessary for a novice hunter were complete.
Besides, what could be more perfect than this because you can safely earn money by entering the dungeon with the Hunter Instructor?
“Hung Heung Heung.”
In particular, today is the day of a special lecture by the guild member of the Jeongin Guild.
“I have to work hard today.”
The Jeongin Guild is the world’s first guild that succeeded in attacking boss monsters.
Like such a guild, the guild members of the Jeongin Guild were all monster-like talents.
Hwang Jae-ho said with a look of anticipation.
“Do you know? I will scout after paying attention to my skills in the Jeongin Guild.”
As he approached the classroom where the special lecture was held, someone appeared in his eyes.
“uh?”
That person was Jung In-soo, the founder of the Hunter Academy and the representative of Jeong-in Development.
Jeong In-soo approaches with dozens of bodyguards with a majestic appearance.
Hwang Jae-ho, seeing Jung In-soo like that, muttered as he leaned to the side to open the way for them.
“Wow, it’s Jeong In-soo.”
A living myth in the dungeon industry.
He was only one year older than himself, and he was a leader in the dungeon industry and leading the trend.
Not to mention the wealth he owns, he is the one who created the guild that he admires the most.
So, while waiting for them to pass by, Jeong In-soo doesn’t just pass by, but stops right in front of Hwang Jae-ho.
“···uh?”
Jeong In-soo looked at Hwang Jae-ho and said.
“Maybe your name?”
Hwang Jae-ho said with a slightly excited expression.
“Oh, yes! I am Jaeho Hwang, a first-class course student!”
‘You f*cking bastard…’
right.
That Hwang Jae-ho.
That bastard, Jaeho Hwang.
Even though I haven’t seen you in a long time, memories of the past come to mind and my fists tremble.
“It is an honor to meet you!”
Hwang Jae-ho said with an excited expression.
“CEO Jeong In-soo. I’ve always wanted to see you!”
Happy Hwang Jae-ho.
Seeing Jae-ho Hwang like that makes me tremble even more.
Should it be said that it looks like a typical small person who is weak to the strong and strong to the weak?
Of course, the present Hwang Jae-ho may still have a pure heart, unlike Hwang Jae-ho in his previous life.
But what does that matter?
That doesn’t mean that the things this guy did to me don’t go away.
‘how will we do it.’
torture to death?
At the same time, he has collected enough red mushroom spore powder for torture, which makes him fall into an evil fantasy.
You take this guy and make him repeat the most painful moment of his life over and over again.
Like this bastard tormented me every day.
‘No, that’s not enough.’
The red mushroom spore powder shows an atrocious illusion, but in the end it is an illusion.
Saying it’s over when it’s over.
‘I have to make myself live a life like hell, as if the disgrace of that time became a trauma for my whole life.’
A person who despises ordinary people and regards them as parasites that parasitize their money.
This guy’s sense of superiority stems from the fact that he is an awakened hunter in the end.
Then an idea popped into my head.
‘Skill Stone.’
Of the 8 passive skills that have been collected now, 4 of them increase the useless ability and decrease the ability required for hunting.
In other words, it is a skill that should never be acquired.
What if I drive all of this to this bastard?
It is to be applied completely opposite to the elite prospect course of the giant guild.
In exchange for nurturing useless abilities, it reduces essential stats.
keep it going too.
To the point where this guy can’t fulfill his role as a hunter.
‘···Well? for a moment. Hopefully, I will be able to use this as well.’
The reason I am reluctant to disclose boss attack information is simple.
It’s obvious that the guilds will do their own skill stone.
But that doesn’t mean you can’t control the information forever.
If so, I’ll go ahead and reveal it myself.
And at the same time as the disclosure, the risk of skills is inflated several times or tens of times compared to the original, raising awareness and preventing the guilds from acquiring skills.
Hwang Jae-ho, who was made a truly useless hunter who learned all kinds of negative skills because of me, is the best test subject to give them awareness.
Hwang Jae-ho is a person who climbed up to a D-class hunter in his previous life.
But it’s still F-level.
If you bring this guy down to a level where it’s embarrassing to even call him a hunter, so he can’t hunt himself, his growth ends here.
It will destroy the hunter’s life itself and at the same time warn the guilds.
See it.
If you learn skills carelessly, you’re in trouble.
After that, they say that they need skill stones for research, and they buy them in such a way that they will let you know when the interpretation is successful.
In addition, if you disclose the skill stone information to the public in this way and imprint that skill stones are dangerous in the minds of hunters, it will not be easy to find hunters to be used for skill experiments.
Of course, as time goes by, the guilds will all notice, but if I say I was unlucky because I didn’t know, that’s enough, and by that time, the Jungin Guild has already risen to the overwhelming first place.
Having made that decision, I said with a smile.
“Mr. Jaeho Hwang.”
“Yes, CEO Jung.”
“Did you want to meet me?”
“of course! CEO Jung’s position in the dungeon industry is absolutely unquestionable.”
“haha. Not to that extent. Anyway, it’s nice to see you.”
Really good.
Because I can see the ruin of this bastard directly from the side.
“Actually, I came here today to meet Mr. Hwang Jae-ho.”
Then Hwang Jae-ho said with a earnest face.
“Me, me?”
“Yes.”
“Uh, what made me…”
I said in a quiet voice.
“Hwang Jae-ho, don’t you want to be strong?”
Then Hwang Jae-ho said with an excited expression.
“Isn’t that natural for a Hunter!”
“Actually, the Jungin Guild attacked the boss mobs and many new items came out. But there are some very interesting things about them. Hopefully… something that can grow a Hunter at a tremendous rate in a short period of time.”
Hwang Jae-ho’s eyes shine brightly.
“Hey, is there such a thing? After all, the more you know about the dungeon, the more mysterious it is.”
“That’s it. Anyway, I got this stuff… but there’s a problem with it.”
I said rubbing my index and thumb.
“There is a very small chance that there will be side effects. Of course, it’s not dangerous enough to lose your life.”
“A side-effect.”
“So we need someone to test this stuff out. It’s not something you can do for a penny or two, and it’s really hard to hold onto anyone and test it. So, if possible, I want to give our academy students a chance.”
I said with a smile.
“Have you any thoughts? If the test succeeds, Jae-ho Hwang will have tremendous power in his hands.”
Hwang Jae-ho swallowed dry saliva and said.
“But didn’t you say there are side effects?”
“Instead, if you succeed, you might become a top-level hunter at once.”
Hwang Jae-ho’s pupils shake.
“There is only one condition. If you take the test and grow into a top-notch hunter, you have to sign a long-term contract with the Jungin Guild. It’s a test that you give up on a lot of money, but you can’t just let the hunter you’ve grown to the fullest, right?”
Success is expressed circumstantly as if it had already been won.
“If you refuse, this opportunity will be given to someone else . . .”
“I’ll do it!!!”
Hwang Jae-ho finally answered my bait.
I said as I grabbed Jaeho Hwang’s hand.
“You thought well. Jaeho Hwang has a really big opportunity.”
okay.
What if I didn’t know how to read runes and couldn’t remember my previous life.
“I’ll do my best!”
I nodded and said.
“Yes. Let’s try hard.”
for your destruction.