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“Huh, yes. We’re starting over.”
Hwang Jae-ho, who showed decent growth in the Hunter Academy.
Even though my overall physical ability has dropped to less than half right now, won’t it be restored someday if I improve my skills further?
This was the only hope Hwang Jae-ho had now.
“For now, let’s collect money step by step while catching even the weakest monsters and equip the equipment.”
At that time, Jae-ho Hwang frowned as he remembered what In-soo Jeong had held a press conference not long ago.
“Jung In-soo… .”
Jung In-soo released a video of Jae-ho Hwang’s experiment through a press conference, and the impact was enormous.
Because it was the first case that proved that an awakened hunter could fall.
The hunters who saw the press conference were terrified.
I thought I might lose everything I am enjoying right now.
Naturally, their attention was focused on Hwang Jae-ho, who received the experiment, but fortunately, his name and face were not revealed as to whether he kept his promise.
“b*tch.”
Even now, just thinking about it makes me angry.
Of course, it happened because I couldn’t read the characters on the skill stone, and since I was the first subject of the test, if I thought about it calmly, it could have happened.
However, the problem is that the subject is himself, and the experimental process somehow felt artificial.
At first, the main power was lost, but when Hwang Jae-ho protested, it was strange no matter how much you thought about it.
Again, because of protests, there is no excuse to say that he experimented mainly with skill stones containing other specific characters, but Hwang Jae-ho had nothing to do with this, but all of this was terrible.
But that doesn’t mean breaking a billion-dollar secret contract, and revenge is a long way off.
If you add up the bodyguards, academy instructors, dungeon drivers, etc., the number of hunters Jung In-soo directly manages is close to hundreds.
In the end, there was nothing that Hwang Jae-ho could do.
“ha. Let’s just think about surviving.”
Just as I was about to pack up my weapon and leave the house.
thump thump.
“Mr. Hwang Jae-ho. Are you inside?”
A man’s voice calling out his name exactly.
Hwang Jae-ho said with a puzzled expression.
“Yes. I am Jaeho Hwang.”
“Can you open the door for a moment? It is said to be the famous flag of the former Lyle Guild’s assistant guild.”
“Ryle Guild!?”
Lyle Guild is one of the top guilds that are in the process of attacking the Busan dungeon together with the Jeongin Guild.
The deputy guild chief of such a guild came to visit him.
Are you a scout?
If it’s true, it’s a chance.
If we grow with the power of the Lyle Guild on our backs, wouldn’t we be able to get out of this terrible situation someday?
Hwang Jae-ho opened the door with a look of anticipation.
“Mr. Jaeho Hwang?”
“Yes! I am Jaeho Hwang.”
“Ah, you have come to the right place. It’s no different, but I came here for an important purpose… .”
“Please speak.”
“A skill stone.”
At those words, Jaeho Hwang stood still and stiffened.
“what… still?”
“We accidentally got the information that Jae-ho Hwang had done the skill stone test.”
Jung In-soo said that he would not disclose personal information?
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Maybe you deceived me!?
“Ugh.”
“Mr. Jaeho Hwang?”
Hwang Jae-ho said, shaking his body.
“I, not me.”
“okay? weird. Obviously, at the meeting, I said Mr. Hwang Jae-ho.”
“meeting? What meeting are you talking about?”
“Ah, there is such a thing. It’s a little bit open to the public… .”
Then the elevator door opened and other people appeared.
“uh? A famous deputy guild leader?”
And when he saw those people, the expression of the vice guild chief famously hardened.
“Firebird Guild… .”
“Did Lyle also visit Hwang Jae-ho?”
A situation where the top guilds came to visit them after hearing information from somewhere.
Hwang Jae-ho hurriedly closed the door and shouted.
“Not me! I’m not real!!”
Thump thump!
“Mr. Jaeho Hwang! Please calm down for a moment and open the door. If you give me information on which skill stone you acquired during that test, you will get quite a few examples… .”
“Wait, wait! If you give information to our Firebird Guild, we will greatly appreciate it! Are the test results real?”
“Why is this like this? We came first!!”
The two top guilds started fighting to meet them.
Hwang Jae-ho slowly began to step backwards with a pale expression.
“all… I know everything… .”
The fear that the fact that he has become a half-pun hunter may be known to everyone eats away at Hwang Jae-ho.
“Oh, no… No way!!!”
Thus, the name of the first half penny hunter Hwang Jae-ho slowly became known to people.
* * *
At the meeting, Joo Yong-seop of the Cheonmu Guild fully accepted my offer, and in the end, the other guilds had no choice but to accept the offer by crying and eating mustard.
Of course, in the meantime, it turned out that he had contacted Hwang Jae-ho to get information about the skill stone… Well, Jaeho Hwang doesn’t know anything about it.
Perhaps they contacted him to confirm or doubt the test results, but even if the skill stone was tampered with, the test results themselves are real.
Hwang Jae-ho is that living witness.
Besides, it doesn’t matter if you have any doubts.
After all, they have no choice but to hold hands with me for information on boss attacks, and the reason why Hwang Jae-ho was mobilized for the experiment was because they needed a reasonable justification to rob them of the skill stone.
By the time skill stone information comes in from abroad and the guilds secretly collect the skill stones and verify them one by one, the guilds with me and Jeong-in will have to go forward a long time ago.
Anyway, no matter what their plans were, the Jeongin guild was divided into 5 teams and the guilds who accepted the proposal ordered a joint attack on the boss, and as a result, several times as many skill stones were poured out.
“receive.”
Jaejin Lee, who came to the training ground after receiving my call, looked at the skill seat and said.
“It’s a skill stone.”
“uh.”
“Can I absorb this?”
I looked at Lee Jae-jin like that and said.
“Aren’t you worried? You saw the video.”
“I saw it. But the boss is not the one who wants me to absorb dangerous things.”
Beyond simply having high trust in me, Jaejin Lee also knows.
How important you are to me.
That’s why you think I can’t do anything that harms myself.
Isn’t this true trust?
A relationship that helps each other.
I like this kind of relationship more than fancy loyalty or something like that.
“Exactly. It’s almost verified, so absorb it.”
“Yes.”
Jaejin Lee, who gave strength to his hand lightly.
Jaejin Lee said as he watched the shattered skill stone disappear into the air.
“Well… I don’t feel any particular change.”
I said with a smile.
“okay?”
That’s right.
Because it’s an active skill stone.
Unlike the passive, which is activated immediately after absorption, the active skill stone is a skill that is activated according to the will of the caster.
Of course, this too, like the passive, has to pay a certain price when it is activated.
And depending on this price, even if the skill is the same, the value is as different as the sky and the earth.
“Put your hand on the target and stretch it out.”
Jaejin Lee followed my instructions without saying a word and stretched out his hand.
“Now, from now on, I’m going to do what I tell you to do.”
The method of activating an active skill is simple.
Just imagining the skill in your head.
The problem is that there is no way to know what that skill is until you interpret it.
Therefore, the early guilds had no choice but to learn the skills that were supposed to be active and then search for them one by one by associating them with all kinds of things.
In this way, in the early days, there were a lot of hunters who did not know what skill to use even though they had acquired the active skill.
Then, the runes were eventually conquered through research based on the skills they luckily found.
“Have you ever seen a cartoon or a game?”
“When I was little… .”
“Then think of the skills you saw there one by one. As a result of my research, these skills need to be strongly associated to activate? You have to find something, so anything is good, so think of it.”
Then Jaejin Lee said with a puzzled expression.
“Woah, do you want to make an association?”
“yes. Think of anything you can think of, like fireballs, ice shots, etc.”
“Oh, I see.”
Jaejin Lee standing still with her mouth closed and her hands outstretched.
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“that… president.”
“uh?”
“Nothing goes out.”
“What did you imagine?”
“Fire, ice… Other than that… .”
That’s all I said.
Jae-Jin Lee Is your imagination weak?
I said with a smirk.
“Yeah what. It’s my job to do that. Remember when you caught the Lightning Stalker boss? Busan dungeon monsters use superpowers. Just think about it like that.”
“electricity… .”
“Or is there a lot of poison clouds, lights, etc.?”
Jaejin Lee closes his mouth to my words and continues to imagine something.
“Think about your game skills. Transparency, fly. Anything you can imagine.”
“Uh… .”
Would this be enough?
“Then how about this? Shooting exploding spheres.”
“All right. Suck!”
And that moment.
A white sphere was created from Jaejin Lee’s fingertips, and it flew towards the target and exploded with a roar.
bang!!!
“uh!?”
Jaejin Lee finally succeeded in activating the skill.
I said with a smile.
“Successful.”
This was the skill I gave to Jaejin Lee today.
A skill that shoots exploding spheres.
It was so powerful that the training ground floor was dug.
Then Jaejin Lee looked down at his hand and said.
“But this… After firing, my body loses some strength.”
“okay?”
Of course I knew.
Just as positive and negative effects coexist except for some good skills in passive, active also requires a specific price to be activated.
And depending on what the price is, even a skill with the same performance has a difference in value between the sky and the earth.
The skill Jae-Jin Lee has learned now consumes human energy instead of activating it.
It’s a slightly different concept from stamina, but according to the hunter who used the skill, it felt like a temporary loss of strength in the body?
Then, over time, it recovers.
“It’s like that. The Lightning Stalker attacked all with electricity and was exhausted. Like that, did the condition follow when it was activated?”
Lee Jae-jin nodded his head and said as he took off the shichimi and said.
“It seems so.”
The reason I gave this skill stone to Jae-Jin Lee is because it belongs to a fairly good axis under these conditions.
Of course, there are better conditions than this.
Skills with the word time written on them.
These have only a cooldown condition to activate.
A skill that can be activated at any time as time goes by.
Hunters can acquire skills indefinitely, so if you absorb a lot of these skills, you can theoretically even fire infinitely.
Of course, the probability that it will come out under the best conditions is so slim that it is only a theory to the last.
Anyway, even if it wasn’t such a cool-time skill, the skill that Jae-Jin Lee learned was a good enough skill.
There is also the advantage of being able to shoot continuously if you have a car.
I pretended to write the results in my notebook.
“When you activate a skill… loses strength How about now?”
“Well… It feels like something is missing and then slowly recovers.”
“okay? Then it wouldn’t be a permanent loss of stamina.”
In addition to this, there are many trigger conditions.
There is a fixed number of times, and after a certain number of times, the skill itself disappears, to a certain time rigidity, and so on.
Of course, the value of these skills goes down infinitely.
Of course I know the runes so I can figure out all of this, but others don’t.
The saying that a skill with the very worst activation condition can be packaged as if it were a top-notch skill.
“Anyway, it’s fine. I think this is a good skill.”
“Is that so?”
“uh. When I tested it, I found that he had all kinds of special skills.”
I folded the notebook and looked at Jaejin Lee and said.
“Don’t use skills for a while. Because other guilds may object.”
“All right.”
“Then shall we move on to the next business?”
“next… Anything to see?”
I took out a large number of skill stones from the bag I brought and held it to Jaejin Lee.
“Absorb it all.”
Jaejin Lee said with a bewildered expression.
“Hey, are you talking about all of this?”
“These are things I have verified. Take it all with confidence. did i promise? I’m going to make it a point.”
These skill stones are all skills related to combat ability.
Of course, there are some side effects such as bad skin or various side effects, but all of them are well adjusted to a level that can be tolerated.
After learning all of this, Jaejin Lee’s combat ability will increase by more than 20%, even if it is not.
You might think that 20% is small, but just as fighters are divided by a few kilograms in weight, this 20% difference will make Jaejin Lee an overwhelming talent among similar top-ranked hunters.
In my opinion, I would like to provide skill stones to other guild members, but I warn them that it is dangerous at best, and our guild picks only the good ones and absorbs them?
Isn’t that strange for anyone to see?
So first of all, Jaejin Lee is the most important.
Skill Stones don’t disappear anywhere anyway, so I’ll have to save them up and distribute them later depending on the situation.
I said urging Jae-Jin Lee.
“hurry. my arm will fall Absorb it quickly.”
* * *
The bosses were attacked by 6 guilds, and the Busan dungeon was opened to general hunters in earnest.
Then the hunters rushed in, but it wasn’t the Busan dungeon where even 6 guilds had a hard time at first.
Naturally, ordinary hunters were often pushed even by ordinary monsters.
Of course, among them, they were not included in the six guilds due to the intermittent difference, but guilds with sufficient skills actively attacked the Busan dungeon, but such guilds were only a few.
All of them are general hunters, but if you look at all of the hunters who were active in the D-class Yongin dungeon, they are among the top performers, but only for the Busan dungeon, they were novices.
So, I immediately opened an academy level 4 course targeting Busan dungeons.
After all, the Jungin Guild has already surpassed the level of normal monsters, so this is a Level 4 course opened to attract hunters of ambiguous level.
And the hunters, who had no other alternative, flocked to the news cheering for the news, and the academy began to gradually establish itself as a required course for general hunters.
Then I got some news.
“It’s finally open.”
Finally, a government-led educational institution, which was often talked about and ridiculed, was opened.
The National Hunter Education Institution business plan that bribed the Hunter Agency officials and pushed them to establish their identity as a national training institution, and ultimately went as I thought.
The name was Korea Hunter Training School.
Although it was named a school, it was actually an educational institution that mimics the curriculum of my Hunter Academy.
I said with a smile.
“The result is obvious.”
In a situation where the Hunter Academy has already been firmly established, a national hunter-specialized educational institution?
In terms of professionalism, as well as the quality and scale of education, Hunter Academy is unmatched.
Of course, the government is not an idiot, so the salary level was calculated as 70% of the amount that ordinary hunters earn through hunting, but there is no way that hunters would be interested in that much.
Perhaps the Korean hunter training school will eventually disappear after sacrificing blood taxes.
“Then why are you following me? Just pick up some congo and eat it.”
That’s when I tried to erase the Korean Hunter Training School from my mind.
“Well? for a moment.”
Although the government’s authority and power are weakened by the emergence of giant guilds and the rise of hunters’ skills, this does not mean that the government loses its power completely.
Anyway, I tried my best to keep the balance of power, and at least I managed to keep the giant guilds in check.
That’s why I’m pouring money into bribing high-ranking officials.
But what if I fill in the national hunters with my own people?
“Ohh?”
It’s just right, isn’t it?
By putting my people in the Hunter Training School, I naturally make them state hunter civil servants, and then make them use that power for me under the protection of the state power.
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Moreover, as it is obvious that I will be turned away from people’s attention, the proportion of the hunters I put in will increase significantly, so it is not impossible to take full control of the government’s hunter team.
“If you keep bringing in Hunters and make them into my own power… .”
In the battle between me and the government and the giant guilds, the hunter team, which the government believes only in, is effectively a member of my organization.
I said with my eyes shining.
“Hey. This is fine.”
I commit crimes such as producing snow white fruit in the dungeon, and I assign the national hunter team to catch those crimes as my own.
It’s absolutely perfect isn’t it?
Of course, it is simple to put people in without this educational institution.
Because the government was always thirsty for hunters.
If a Hunter applied for a national position, he would accept it.
However, it is not clear which of these hunters or the hunters selected through educational institutions will be more trusted by the government.
Perhaps, if hunters from educational institutions supported their skills, it was clear that they would play an important role in the national job.
I grabbed my cell phone and called someone.
– Yes, Chairman.
It was Jang Ki-hwan of the Beksul Fruit Organization.
In the case of the Snow Beksol Fruit organization, the title of president is now completely settled.
It was awkward at first, so I stopped it, but now that I keep listening to it, I’m used to it.
Anyway.
“Were you outside?”
-Yes. I was out for a while because I had business to do.
“How is work? Aren’t you short of labor?”
-Once the mass production system is in place, there are still workers left.
I said with a smile.
“Good for you. I was just in need of someone somewhere else. Let’s try to select people who are neat and look good on the outside.”
– How many people will you collect?
“At least ten people. The more, the more the better. Don’t worry, we will recruit additional staff soon. ah! And since it’s a long business trip, please tell me to keep it tidy.”
-A long business trip?
“Yes.”
I said raising the corners of my lips.
“I think you have to work for the country.”