34 – The main character’s eating alone is originally a national rule.
[Congratulations! You have cleared the 1st Main Quest Hidden Quest ‘Secret of the Fog’ for the first time in the region!]
[With amazing insight and a cool mind, you are excellent at solving mysteries!]
[I acquired the skill ‘Eye of Truth’ as a reward!]
Even as I looked at the message that popped up in front of my eyes, I was a bit dumbfounded.
I only dug in out of curiosity.
Could it be that it was a hidden quest?
‘It’s not even another reward, it gives you a skill? Aren’t you sick?’
Speaking of the importance of skills, it hurts my mouth.
With one good skill, life could come and go without it.
Not to mention, if it’s a hidden quest reward, it won’t be an ordinary skill.
I hurriedly opened the skill information.
＜Skill Information＞
▶Skill Name: Eyes of Truth
▶Grade: A
▶Level: Max
▶Power Consumption: 10
▶Skill effect
: You can check the opponent’s job and characteristics. If the opponent’s level is too high, the skill may be nullified.
‘It’s a skill worthy of a real web novel.’
A skill that checks the opponent’s abilities.
In a sense, it is a skill like national rules for the main character of a web novel.
Of course, the possibilities are endless.
Being able to know the characteristics and skills of an enemy or an ally is a great advantage.
‘Let’s try it out once.’
Fortunately, it consumes little mana, and it is not a skill with side effects.
I used the skill on Hyena.
[Used the skill ‘Eye of Truth’!]
＜Player Information＞
Name: Hyena Yoo
Occupation: Best Driver
Trait: Inferiority
‘Well? complex?’
Although I already knew the job of being the best driver.
I didn’t know that such a feature existed.
The most curious thing is that the opponent is none other than Hyena.
‘Why does a girl like Hyena have these characteristics?’
The captain of the cycling club who has a pretty face and is good at studying.
If I add a bit of exaggeration, I was the idol of the school.
I never thought I would feel an inferiority complex to the point where I developed a characteristic.
‘I wonder if it’s like that compared to us. Are you useless?’
In terms of combat power, Yuri and I are overwhelming.
Hyena’s ‘Best Driver’ is a fraudulent job.
There was no reason to feel inferior.
Of course, I don’t know how Hyena will feel about that.
Maybe he thinks he’s only going to be picked up.
‘Sometimes there are characters who turn black in web novels.’
Personally, I like the development.
It’s fun as a reader.
I think I would hate it if I was the one with a kitchen knife stabbed in my back.
“It’s Hyena.”
“yes?”
“I need you.”
“Uh, huh?”
Hyena widens her eyes as if embarrassed.
But I didn’t care and said it in a serious voice.
“Since you are a woman of ability, I want you to stay with me.”
“Uh, uh, uh huh?”
Was it too unexpected and a sudden compliment?
Hyena’s face, which had lost her language, turned red.
“Oh, my dear! What is it all of a sudden?”
Still, seeing him fanning his cheeks hard, he didn’t seem to hate it.
Sometimes I have to compliment you like this.
‘I should avoid the route of blackening the heroine, cancer.’
Yuri, who was watching the scene from the side, muttered as if it were absurd.
“……Sick.”
“Ah, of course Yuri needs you too.”
“I don’t need compliments that seem like bonuses.”
Come to think of it, what is Yuri’s job and characteristics?
Since he’s the original protagonist, he must have something great.
[Used the skill ‘Eye of Truth’!]
[The skill has failed because the opponent’s level is too high.]
‘It doesn’t work for Yuri.’
I thought I was pretty strong too.
I never thought that the skill wouldn’t work because of the difference in rank.
I think the glass is great.
‘wait. Could it be that this skill was originally meant to be possessed by Yuri?’
It’s nothing else, it’s a hidden quest reward skill.
As I said before, isn’t it national rule that the main character takes it?
I felt it since the last district boss.
I was stealing Yuri’s opportunity to grow little by little.
Of course, I have no intention of stopping my growth.
Because I also have to survive in a world that is perishing.
But apart from that, it’s embarrassing.
‘In case you don’t know, let’s check what the original was like… … .’
Fortunately, I have the skills to confirm that.
I opened ‘Explore Comments’.
[Use the skill, ‘Explore Comments’!]
[100 coins are consumed as a consumption cost.]
[The keyword is ‘Eyes of Truth’.]
[Currently, there are 3 comments available.]
1. The most recommended comment in episode 34
2. The most objectionable comments in episode 35
3. The comment with the most comments in episode 35
I was subconsciously trying to select ‘comments with a lot of likes’ and stopped.
It’s because number 3 was especially nerve-wracking.
‘There are a lot of great comments?’
Usually, it is one of the two things that get a lot of comments on web novels.
It’s an incredibly sticky drip, so ‘ㅋㅋㅋㅋ’ is attached in a row.
Or the readers had a kibae with each other.
Considering that the keyword this time is ‘Eyes of Truth’… … .
‘This is 100% malicious comments!’
As a long-time web novel reader, Jjambab tells us.
I clicked 3 comments with confidence.
[You selected comment number 3.]
[The contents of comment No. 3 are as follows.]
[Content: No, crazy. Why did you give the ‘Eye of Truth’ to the villain? Just give it to the main character and use it. If it continues like this, it will be frustrating and I will have to get off here.]
[Recommendation: 76, Disagreement: 64 (17 major comments)]
‘…… Just looking at it makes me choke.’
There are many works that have less than 10 comments per episode.
There are only 17 big comments.
No reader likes to see bad comments on his favorite work.
A mentally broken writer might end up writing.
But if you look at this comment, there are a lot of recommendations.
Perhaps the writer made a mistake in the development.
‘Rather than that, this skill was originally going to go to the villain?’
Well, although Yuri is a calm and strong protagonist.
I’m not really the type to use my hair well.
This Hidden Quest was the kind that required a bit of deduction.
It wouldn’t be strange if the glass didn’t break.
‘Rather good.’
It’s not Yuri’s skill in the first place, so there’s no need to worry about losing power.
Conversely, the power of the villain was weakened.
‘And if there’s a villain enough to break this hidden quest here, I think Kim Min-soo, who used to rule here, is the only one.’
Anyway, he was the villain.
After all, not holding hands was a good choice.
Yes, a big reward for such a little luck.
This is the taste of reading a web novel.
“What are you talking about so long ago?”
Suddenly, Yuri looked at me and said.
Hyena was also staring at me with her ears still red.
“Nothing. In any case, it is certain that the monsters of human imagination emerge from the fog.”
“Hmm, but that…isn’t that information we don’t need?”
Yuri tilted her head.
Perhaps because of her pretty appearance, she became a picture with just that simple movement.
“In the first place, we are just going to pass through here. It doesn’t really matter what the fog is.”
Yuri’s words were not wrong.
The number of monsters emerging from the fog is smaller than expected.
There is no merit to go hunting.
Even if you catch one mosquito, it gives you about 50 coins.
“It would be if it were only us. But there are plenty of frightened people here to navigate the fog, right? The more you fear them, the stronger monsters will appear.”
Yuri’s eyes narrowed at my words.
She must have noticed what I was suggesting.
“Are you using it as bait?”
I smiled at Yuri’s answer.
****
“I brought it because of Minsu hyung-nim’s recommendation. Originally it wouldn’t. Do you understand?”
“Ah, is that so? Thank you for that.”
After a while.
We were mingling with a group of survivors and exploring the fog.
There are 14 people including us.
There are 6 people from Kim Min-soo’s clique.
Five people were brought in from the survivor group.
“Is it only half?”
“It makes sense that only half of the humans who go out on a quest return alive.”
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Kim Min-soo seemed a little taken aback by our suggestion to join the search.
He readily replied that it was okay.
However, it seems that the person himself is never involved in the search.
Although he says he has other things to do as a manager.
There was no one who didn’t know that he was doing it because his life was precious.
“Really, you should thank my brother. Originally, I was afraid to participate. Everyone went looking for food, so it must have looked good, right?”
Instead, the man who led the group as a representative was a talkative person.
If that’s the only thing, it doesn’t really matter.
It’s a problem because the contents are condescending.
“I don’t know about you guys, but looking at this fog lightly will hurt your nose~”
“Is that so.”
“Ha, really. Originally, I had to get paid and put it in. I know you’ll be lucky. How easy would it be to experience fighting while receiving food?”
Where did you work for a small business?
Each line is a gem.
“Anyway, don’t get in the way, even if it’s bait… … .”
“Kiyaaa!”
It was the moment the man kept talking.
Suddenly, a monster emerged from the fog.
It was the size of a truck and had four legs.
It was a monster that really looked like something out of a monster movie.
[The monster ‘Mad Crecher’ has appeared in the fog!]
“Ugh, aaagh!”
“crazy! You want to fight something like that?”
The group of survivors who followed with frightened faces immediately fell into panic at the appearance of the monster.
I wasn’t surprised because I thought that would be the case in the first place.
People whose bodies and minds are already tattered.
There was no way I could face the monster in that state.
The man representing them shouted at them.
“Shut up, everybody get a weapon! If you block it, we will attack…”
But the man’s words did not follow through.
It was because someone standing next to him suddenly ran out alone.
“Looking at it like this, it looked really ugly.”
[The talent ‘Meta Fiction’ is active.]
[Always stay cool and calm.]
Of course it was me.
I ran out and swung the baseball bat.
– Jjaeong!
[Used skill ‘Soul Strike’!]
[Consumes 50 mana!]
A roar resounding through the fog.
The monster’s body exploded, spraying green liquid.
[You have defeated the monster ‘Mad Crecher’!]
[Acquire 300 Coins!]
‘Also!’
Coins that are incomparable to those when catching zombies or mosquitoes!
Also, the stronger the monster, the more coins it gives.
‘If we’re alone, only annoying mosquitoes will come out. It’s a bonanza here when you’re with other people.’
Me checking coins with such a happy face.
The survivors behind them were watching with blank expressions.
Where the fck is the monster eater skill? author forgot about that skill?