Level 1 Player

Chapter 10 family

After finishing the title upgrade work that had to be digested in a day in the horn rabbit dungeon, Hyunseong came back to the motel to rest.

-Items registered in the auction house have been sold.

Finally, the skill book was sold.

Hyunseong led his weary body straight to the auction house.

The selling price of the skill craftsman skill book is a whopping 1.7 billion won.

Small skill books, including a solid body, were also sold at a high price of over 20 million won.

The problem was taxes.

Items acquired in the dungeon had different taxation standards for each stage.

Like a solid body, low-cost skillbooks do not pay much tax.

The problem was the skill book, the master of the skill.

The tax rate was 42%.

A huge amount of over 700 million went out in an instant as taxes and brokerage fees.

‘You tear a lot of dirt.’

A curse came out of nowhere.

expected it

But when I suffered directly, my heart ached even more.

After all, purchasing a skillbook with points and turning it into cash was not a business at all.

Rather, it was a huge loss.

‘Let’s stop selling skill books with points.’

The point is Hyunseong’s lifespan.

Selling life to make money was not very efficient.

In this case, we had no choice but to do it because we needed a lot of money, but from now on, this should not happen.

‘You must hunt quickly and diligently.’

When you hunt, Hyunseong becomes stronger.

He can of course enter higher dungeons.

What if I went to a higher level dungeon where high levels hunted rather than a lower level dungeon hunted by lower levels?

The more titles you can get, the more points you accumulate.

Is that all?

You can get higher quality manastones.

The title makes Hyunseong strong.

Points and magic stones make Hyunseong rich.

In particular, the profit from the sale of magic stones was an unimaginable amount even after considering taxes.

Even though he was traveling around the lowest level dungeons, he made more than 10 million won in profit with only magic stones in a short period of less than 10 days.

What if I include the occasional skill book?

It was by no means unreasonable to exceed 100 million in monthly revenue.

He made a huge amount of money just by hunting without turning points into cash.

‘With this trend, you can buy an elixir sooner than expected.’

Cash is points and points are cash.

In both cases, the higher the profit, the better.

Hyunseong rummaged through his luggage bag and put on the cleanest clothes.

To say that it is neat, it is the casual clothes that I wore when I was in college.

Hyunseong hasn’t bought new clothes since his father fell ill.

No, I couldn’t afford to live.

And so was her mother and sister, who are women.

“It ends today, too.”

Hyunseong left the motel and headed for the bus stop.

He was going to visit his mother and sister.

* * *

The goods descended from the conveyor belt at high speed.Park Mi-sook packed the items with quick hand movements and placed them on another conveyor belt.

The same operation was repeated throughout the day.

Standing at work puts a strain on my legs and back.

Fingers and arms also complain of pain from continuous work.

But she couldn’t stop.

“ha!”

She let out a sigh.

It wasn’t just that the job was difficult.

Physical pain is unbearable.

That’s because I’ve been trained that much.

But the psychological pain was unbearable.

life without hope.

At first, it started as a way to earn money for children’s school expenses.

It was difficult, but it was also rewarding.

After Hana’s husband passed away, everything was messed up.

All of her daughter’s salary was used for her husband’s hospital bills.

My son, who was in college, took a leave of absence from school and jumped into the nogada board.

It was okay to mortgage his own life.

But he couldn’t stand the fact that he had even mortgaged the lives of his beloved daughter and his son.

He had thoughts of wanting to die dozens of times a day.

I couldn’t shake the thought that dying with her husband wouldn’t be a burden to the children.

What do you think of your husband lying in the hospital?

A life where you can’t say a word or a gesture.

Is it really meaningful to live a life of living in bed all day long, eating away at the lives of your children?

Maybe your husband feels the same way?

Several times a day, terrible thoughts ran through my head.

Park Mi-sook shook her head.

She then took her own heart.

A man who has dedicated her life to serving her family.

She said that she should save money for the future of her children, and she quit drinking and smoking, which she loved so much, while working as a bachelor.

She could not send her beloved husband into her own hands.

He worked hard to win her heart.

But sooner or later, a horrific reality surfaced again, and negative thoughts began to dominate his mind.

It was over before I could even organize my thoughts.

Park Mi-sook left the factory door.

But she couldn’t rest.

Her work is not over yet.

She had to go to the restaurant and work right away.

The restaurant work was chosen by himself to ease the burden on the children even a little.

But the money she earned was not of much help.

Rather, her debt only increased.

As she recalled the stuffy reality, negative thoughts again dominated her head.

“mom!”

Then I heard a voice from behind that I could never hear here.

‘Is that impossible?’

she turned her head

“son!”

A bright smile spread across Park Mi-sook’s face, which was full of her anguish.

* * *

Hyunseong ran right in and hugged his mother.Occasionally, I could only hear voices on the phone.

I can’t even remember the last time I saw your face properly.

‘Why are you so skinny?’

Her mother’s slender body fell into Hyunseong’s arms.

She lost more weight than she had seen before.

She seemed very tired both physically and mentally.

“What is your son doing here?”

Park Mi-sook asked Hyunseong in a surprised voice.

“I came to see my mother.”

A faint smile formed on Park Mi-sook’s lips at Hyunseong’s words.

“Yeah, it’s good. did you eat?”

I thought about how she got to work and how she got here, but she didn’t dare say it.

You just need to have a healthy body.

Park Mi-sook’s head was filled with only worries that her son, who had suffered for so long, had gone hungry until this late evening.

“I haven’t eaten yet, to eat with my mom.”

“Oh yeah?”

Park Mi-sook’s face darkened at Hyunseong’s words.

Because she had to go to work in a restaurant.

In her heart, she wanted to run home immediately and feed her son, who had suffered so far, with a warm meal she made herself.

But there was no time for that.

She rummaged through her pockets.

It came with a few thousand won bills and a transportation card.

she was all

She wants to buy some delicious rice to eat, but her financial situation is not easy.

Park Mi-sook starved breakfast and had lunch at the factory restaurant.

She had dinner at the restaurant where she was working.

Her salary disappears as her husband’s hospital bills.

A few thousand dollar bills in her pocket were all her wealth.

“Mom can’t go home now. She has to go to a restaurant job. First, she goes home and eats Jajangmyeon. Tomorrow morning, her mother will prepare a delicious meal for her.”

Although she had no money to shop, Park Mi-sook said so and she put all her fortune in her son’s hands.

Seeing such a mother, Hyunseong seemed to be heartbroken.

Every single action of her mother caught my eye.

“My mom didn’t even eat dinner. If we’re going to eat anyway, we’ll eat together.”

“Mom can eat at the restaurant where she works. So go in first.”

“let’s go together. I’ll help her mother.”

“You don’t have to. You must be tired too, so go in and rest first.”

At her mother’s words, Hyunseong smiled vigorously.

“Mom, I actually came down because I have something to tell you.”

At Hyunseong’s words, Park Mi-sook put on a puzzled expression.

She thought that Park Mi-sook and she came down with something that Hyunseong didn’t like.

As if she had been cut off because of a problem at the construction site.

She wouldn’t come down all of a sudden except for that.

Because she had heard from a phone call with Hyunseong before that he was put into a big construction project that ended up being one more year away.

She, however, suddenly came down halfway, so she had no choice but to assume that she must have had a problem.

She said she had something to say with a bright smile rather than a dark face, so she was somewhat embarrassed.

“I woke up.”

At Hyunseong’s words, Park Mi-sook was momentarily stunned.

“What do you mean?”

At Park Mi-sook’s question, Hyunseong took out her player registration card from her arms.

“I became a player.”“… … .”

Park Mi-sook lost her words.

She then looked at the player registration card she held in Hyunseong’s hand with a blank expression on her face.

“So I’m here to tell you to stop working in factories and restaurants.”

After Hyunseong’s words, Park Mi-sook finally came to her senses.

“It’s dangerous.”

The government cares about the safety of players as much as possible.

Hiring a security guard in the dungeon is one of them.

However, it is only in low-level dungeons that security personnel are deployed.

Beyond the low level, players had to take on their own in the event of a crisis.

In fact, it was normal.

The number of players is limited.

The number of high-level players was absurdly insufficient to deploy security guards up to mid-level dungeons.

Because of this situation, there were frequent deaths in middle-level dungeons or high-level dungeons.

Players are one of the risky jobs that insurance companies refuse to join.

“No need to worry. I always put safety first.”

At Hyunseong’s words, Park Mi-sook shook her head and bowed her head.

It was definitely a good thing.

It’s because a little hope has been created in a home where there was no hope.

But she couldn’t say that Park Mi-sook congratulated her son.

“Then stop working now.”

“I can’t.”

She said Park Mi-sook firmly.

She doesn’t know much about the player.

But there have been rumors.

“Players don’t always make money, don’t they? Rather, she was told that he had to spend a lot of money in the first place.”

weapons and armor.

skill book.

Dungeon entrance fee.

All cost a lot of money.

So, he was a player who didn’t make any money until he got a certain position, and he forgot about it.

“By the way, I hit the jackpot.”

Hyunseong held out a bankbook with those words.

“look.”

Bewildered, Mi-sook Park opened her account at Hyunseong’s words.

Park Mi-sook, who was counting the number of her circle, opened her mouth.

“11 billion?”

“She got a rare skill book while hunting and sold it at auction. With this money, you don’t have to worry about your father’s hospital bills for a while. Debts can be paid off immediately. So, from now on, buy a little more comfortably.”

Thick tears flowed from Park Mi-sook’s eyes upon hearing Hyunseong’s words.

In fact, she had a hard time paying for the drug and hospital bills she had to pay every month.

Her wealth that she had accumulated in the past melted away like snow, and she became in debt.

It was difficult for her to endure financial hardship and mental suffering.

But she finally had hope.

That’s a very dangerous hope.

“I’m sorry, Mom, I’m so sorry.”

The words “I’m sorry” constantly flowed out of her mouth.

Her son, who was a college student, went to work on his own to pay for her father’s treatment.

her chest swelled.

She felt guilty and proud of her son, who had plunged himself into a difficult and dangerous task.

But now I am trying to jump into something more difficult and risky.

For myself and my husband.

Parents want to give anything to their children.

However, she and her husband did not give, but rather received from their children.

Parents who become burdens rather than help to their children.

It felt like my heart was breaking.

“You don’t have to say that. what are you sorry This is natural. If not for Mom and Dad, how would I have been born and how would I have grown up as healthy as I am now?”

At Hyunseong’s words, Park Mi-sook’s eyes reddened again.

“So, take a break now. Dad takes care of him himself.”

“Thank you, son.”

Hyunseong couldn’t break his mother’s stubbornness in the end.

He did it all of a sudden because he couldn’t quit his job.

Hyunseong went directly to the restaurant and helped his mother with her work.

What her mother used to do in her restaurant was wash the dishes.

It was her mother’s job to clean the greasy grill.

Hyunseong wiped out the fire in an instant.

He had previously worked part-time at a restaurant to clean fireboards.

In addition, with the power of the stats that were raised thanks to the Elixir, he handled the burnt plates with a lot of grease at superhuman speed.

Other aunts praised Hyunseong so that saliva dried up in her mouth, saying she was a filial son.

A small smile formed on her mother’s lips as she heard the story.

late night.

After the restaurant work was all done, Hyunseong went home with his mother.

* * *

Hyunseong’s house was a small studio.

He originally lived in a small apartment of 24 acres, but sold it after his father collapsed.

After that, it was this small studio that took a seat.

Click!

“You have come.”

When I opened the door with my mother and entered the studio, I heard the voice of a young woman exhausted from her fatigue.

It was the voice of Hyunseong’s older sister, Choi Hyun-ji.

Hyunseong’s heart was touched by her older sister’s voice, which she heard directly after a long absence.

“Sister, I’m here.”

“uh?”

Hearing Hyunseong’s voice, Choi Hyun-ji’s eyes widened.

“What are you doing all of a sudden?”

Choi Hyun-ji’s expression was not good.

Like her mother, she was worried that something bad had happened.

When she was young, she was busy fighting with each other.

Even after they became adults, they burned each other.

She was just an ordinary sibling who only talked on the phone once in a while when something happened.

But that changed after her father passed away.

Although we did not talk separately, each of them did their best for their families in their respective positions.

Also, whenever it was difficult, we supported each other and supported each other.

“It’s a good thing, so relax your face, sister.”

At Hyunseong’s words, Choi Hyun-ji tilted her head with a puzzled expression.

She knew she too.

She said that nothing good could happen to her family.

“I have awakened.”

“what!”

Hyunseong’s words surprised Choi Hyun-ji.

“And it hit the jackpot.”Hyunseong handed out the bankbook that Hyunseong had shown his mother to his older sister, Hyeon-ji Choi.

“A million, ten million, billion, one billion?”

Choi Hyun-ji’s eyes widened.

Hyunseong told Choi Hyunseong that she was surprised that she got a rare rated skillbook with luck.

“Is that really true?”

“Huh. So don’t worry too much now, don’t suffer. I will take care of everything.”

Hearing Hyunseong’s words, big tears fell from Choi Hyun-ji’s eyes.

The relief that the pain in the past is over.

sorry for her brother.

All emotions flowed with tears.

“Now, leave the part-time job. Whatever you do, you destroy the company.”

At Hyunseong’s words, Choi Hyun-ji was fed up and burst into laughter.

In fact, she was almost at her limit.

She even thought about dying.

She even thought about selling her body.

For her, Hyunseong’s words were salvation itself.

Hyunseong talked a lot with his family that night.

We cried and laughed at each other and shared our difficult times.

10 billion.

That money won’t solve all your problems right away.

In a way, it was not strange even if the immediate dissatisfaction was turned off.

Many problems remain.

However, the money has provided peace of mind to Hyunseong’s family, who have been running without a break until now.

We talked until late at night, and we all fell asleep in a cramped studio room together.

My body was uncomfortable, but my mind was at ease.

It was a day filled with hope and hope in a family that was filled with only despair and frustration.

* * *

the next morning.

Hyunseong handed over a bankbook containing 1 billion won to his mother.

And headed to the horn rabbit dungeon near the house.

Dungeons are scattered all over the country.

He didn’t need to be obsessed with the dungeon he was originally hunting for.

In the future, he will live with his family.

The mother did not immediately quit her job.

When she quits, she said, even if she quits, she should work until someone finds a job for her.

Fortunately, I was able to find someone to work for the restaurant right away, so I didn’t have to go out.

My sister said she would continue to work for the company.

Even if he grumbled with his words, he didn’t seem to have any intention of destroying the company.

But Alba quit right away.

‘I should be back by the time her mother gets home from work.’

She was planning to go see her father together.

There was no problem in grasping the time even when entering the dungeon because it was made of a monster carcass and purchased a watch powered by mana stones.

When I lived alone, it didn’t matter if I didn’t have the concept of time or date.

But since I lived with my family, it had to be different.

Hyunseong entered the dungeon after preparing kimbap and water as usual.

She planned to go hunting until evening when her mother would go home from work.

* * *

That evening, Hyunseong took his mother to the hospital.

His father looked the same as before.

A lean body with only bones left.Relying on Ringer and a ventilator to barely sustain life.

Hyunseong took his father’s hand.

His hands were not warm.

It was as cold as a stone.

‘I’ll make sure you get better.’

I wanted to restore him to a healthy state before he became ill as soon as possible.

* * *

– Incredible achievements – Legendary rank

– You have hunted 10,000 high-level monster horn rabbits alone.

-Achievement Reward: Title [Horned Rabbit Slayer – Legendary Rank]

‘It’s finally over.’

The hard work that lasted more than ten days was over.

Hyunseong checked the time.

‘I can still hunt for six more hours.’

Hyunseong immediately exited the horn rabbit dungeon and took a taxi to the nearby vampire bat dungeon.

The vampire bat dungeon was quiet.

Like other dungeons, no one was looking for party members.

‘It will be easier since there is no competitor.’

Vampire Bat dungeons are not popular.

No, it was an almost abandoned hunting ground beyond the unpopular level.

The vampire bat was small enough to look like a normal bat rather than a monster.

They lived a herd life there.

That was the problem.

It was too small and very mobile, so it was difficult to hit it with a sword or spear without having enough skills.

Living in a herd, if one attacked one, dozens or hundreds of them rushed at once.

From the player’s point of view, it was more convenient to deal with large monsters.

‘It is a place where hunting is impossible without the help of a guild or a higher level player.’

But not for Hyunseong.

Rather, from Hyunseong’s point of view, this unpopular dungeon was more comfortable than other dungeons.

Because they were able to monopolize monsters without competitors.

Hyunseong entered the dungeon.

He used the skill at the same time.

‘Stealth.’

Hyunseong’s body, passing through the dimensional gate, seeped into the darkness.

The players on the lifeguard duty didn’t even notice Hyunseong had come in.

Hyunseong’s stats far surpassed those of safety personnel.

The stealth skill was also sufficient to deceive the security personnel who completed the first job change.

Hyunseong moved towards the center of the dungeon, out of sight of the security guards.

‘It’s creepy.’

Vampire bats with blood-red eyes hung upside down from the ceiling.

If you hadn’t used the stealth skill, vampire bats would have attacked Hyunseong from all sides.

‘Then, shall we start sheep hunting?’

Hyunseong used the shield skill.

And he continued to supply magical power to raise the defense of the shield skill.

After that, he unlocked the stealth skill and stabbed his finger with the needle he had prepared beforehand.

Drops of blood flowed from the tip of the finger along with a stinging pain.

Kyaaaaaah!

At the same time, vampire bats began to flock from all directions.

‘It looks like a red wave is coming.’

Red-eyed vampire bats poured out from all directions.A scene only seen in movies featuring vampires unfolded live in front of Hyunseong.

Vampire bats, excited by the smell of blood, thrust their sharp teeth.

Kwajik! Kwajik!

However, Hyunseong could not break through the previously activated shield skill.

‘Fireball.’

Hyunseong activated his fireball skill and again supplied his magical power to increase his attack power.

It was quite difficult to invest magic in two skills at the same time.

Both the magic stat and the mental stat had to reach a certain level to be able to even try.

However, it was an impossible spell for players hunting in low-level dungeons such as the Vampire Bat dungeon.

‘After all, the Internet is the best.’

Hyunseong smiled contentedly as she looked at the vampire bats charred around the shield.

The hunting method Hyunseong uses now is a kind of trick used by low-level players who have a lot of money or are supported by a huge guild to level up.

Hunting by attacking monsters unilaterally within a safe shield created by a higher-level player.

Of course, if you get help from a higher-level player in this way, there is a significant penalty in terms of experience or manastone supply.

However, even considering such a penalty, it was possible to hunt at an incredibly fast speed.

‘Especially in a dungeon full of small monsters like this.’

In other dungeons where most of the large monsters are used, it is difficult to see a big effect.

However, it was the best hunting method against a vampire bat the size of a palm.

Whoops!

The fireball that rose from Hyunseong’s hand was so large that it was believed that it was a rare-grade skill, not a regular-grade skill.

‘It’s impossible any more.’

His magical power and mental power were slowly running towards the limit.

‘go.’

Hyunseong threw a fireball out of the shield.

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

With a loud explosion, the vampire bats that had clinged to the shield around the shield turned into black ashes and fell down.

‘ね!’

Hyunseong clenched his teeth.

This is because the impact of the explosion also damaged the shield.

Fortunately, the shield survived.

At the same time… … .

– Incredible achievements – Rare rank

– You have hunted 1,000 high-level monster vampire bats alone.

-Achievement Reward: Title [Vampire Bat Predator – Rare Grade]

I was able to get rare grade achievements from the beginning, going beyond the normal grade achievements.

‘Hopefully, I will be able to reach legend rank within the remaining time.’

It was the result of hunting by hunting one dungeon alone.

Around Hyunseong, the corpses of vampire bats that had turned into ashes were piled up in a pile.

Aaaaah!

The remaining magical energy that was emitted from the corpses of the vampire bats began to fluctuate.

A happy smile formed on Hyunseong’s lips.

‘How many items and magic stones are you going to get?’

Hyunseong didn’t get any help from the top players.

He could, of course, harvest the loot without any penalty.

Hyunseong unlocks the shield to acquire the loot that will spawn in the future.

At that moment, a strange thing happened.

The remaining magical energy emitted from the vampire bat’s corpse began to coalesce.

Whoa!

With him, a bright light came out, and a sword with a red blade appeared.

‘What happened?’

This was the first case.