Level 1 Player

The dungeons that were in danger of monster wave gradually began to stabilize due to the activities of high-level players deployed in the North Korean region.

On the contrary, dissatisfaction from high-level players rose to the end of their necks.

High-level players belonging to the huge guilds who moved to the North Korean region for business cooperation began to become more and more lazy.

They avoided middle and low-level dungeons, and stumbled in dungeons that fit their level.

Then, he expressed his intention to either sabotage or return to South Korea when the order to enter the low-level dungeon fell.

The government had no choice but to place high-level players belonging to a huge guild in a dungeon suitable for their level to cry and eat mustard.

Even in high-level dungeons, you must continuously hunt monsters so that monster waves do not occur.

If the high-level players belonging to the huge guild went down to South Korea, the government had to borrow even a bracken's hand, which inevitably caused a huge blow.

Due to this situation, the middle and low-level dungeons became the responsibility of the players directly under the association.

If not, the overburdened work has increased.

Naturally, even among the players directly affiliated with the association, voices began to come out.

Even if he was paid twice his emergency standby pay, the loss was too great.

I couldn't level up by accumulating experience, and I couldn't get items and manastones.

There were many inconveniences in daily life.

There was no proper accommodation, so they had to sleep in a tent, and they had to fill their meals with combat food or convenience food.

Not for a day or two, but for several months, when this happened, the players directly under the association also started sabotaging them.

But instead of participating in the sabotage, there were also players who were more excited about hunting.

It was Hyunseong.

In order to prevent the monster wave, you must continuously reduce the number of monsters in the dungeon.

Even if you clean one low-level dungeon, if the number of monsters increases, you have to clean it again.

As high-level players belonging to huge guilds and players directly under the association began to sabotage, the number of dungeons Hyunseong could hunt gradually increased.

For Hyunseong, it was a golden opportunity to easily build achievements.

In the dungeon after completing the achievement work, he practiced to gain experience and proficiency.

He could accumulate points anyway and acquire magic stones and items, so Hyunseong had nothing to lose.

My relationship with Lucia became very close as well.

Except for sleeping time, they always hunted and competed together and were taught.

He also ate rice.

Moreover, it was rare to meet other people, so there was no choice but to have more conversations between the two.

“This world has a surprisingly well-developed civilization.”

That's what Hyunseong said when she told me about her player registration card.

“Even the general public can engage in economic activities only if they have an ID.”

“That’s why Hyunseong didn’t call me outside the dungeon.”

“Lucia is a top-class player. For such a player, he is strictly checking each country.”

If Lucia's existence is revealed, there will be quite a bit of confusion.

I don't know that he is from another dimension, but that's why I'm curious about the identity of Lucia.

“Once the work I am doing is finished, I will find out how Lucia can live in Korea. It’s important to get an ID and register as a player.”

“It’s okay to take it slow. I am very satisfied with my current life. And didn't you say that your ID includes a picture of yourself as it is?"

"Yes."

“I think it would be good to look young if you are going to be issued anyway.”

Lucia still had the look of an old woman.

This is because he purchased a rare-grade long sword with the points he had accumulated.

He was going to buy shields and armor in the future.

Hyunseong advised Lucia how to purchase his equipment after collecting some points and recovering his lifespan.

However, the answer returned was that swords, shields, and armor were more precious than life to the knights.

Since we had to fight right away, it was advantageous to upgrade our equipment rather than to get younger.“It’s good to be issued with a young look.”

Hyunseong nodded in agreement.

If you were issued an ID in the form of an old woman and suddenly became young, you could have a situation where you had to get an ID again.

“But I… … Are you really okay with not getting the points back?”

Lucia asked Hyunseong carefully.

"Fine."

Hyunseong replied with a nonchalant expression.

Hyunseong didn't get the minimum hiring fee she was supposed to get back after she was taught by Lucia.

Lucia deserved the minimum hiring fee.

Even the information and know-how he gave Hyunseong lightly exceeded the value of the minimum employment cost.

In addition, Lucia is the best helper to help Hyunseong clear the dungeon quickly.

They deserved that much points.

Hyunseong doesn't have friendly high-level players.

Although he is acquainted with Shin Yoon-ah, he has known each other through public relations.

Lucia was the only player who could honestly tell Hyunseong about her know-how, information about monsters, and detailed experiences.

Lucia was like Hyunseong's teacher.

“I think you’d better get it back now.”

Lucia was worried that Hyunseong didn't collect points.

Later, he seemed to think that Hyunseong might choke himself.

He must have felt bad, but Hyunseong fully understood Lucia's heart.

Lucia's life she's been living so far has been miserable.

How could such a Lucia trust Hyunseong, who had only met her for about a month, deep in her heart?

He thought that building trust could be done slowly.

“Think of it as tuition. You teach me a lot.”

At Hyunseong's words, Lucia nodded her head as if she couldn't help it.

“Then I will teach you more strictly.”

“Anyway.”

A small smile formed on the lips of the two of them.

* * *

A man in his mid-40s watched the target entering the dungeon with sharp eyes.

‘Now I have a chance.’

The man looked around the dungeon entrance.

The military transport helicopter pilots who moved the target to the front of the dungeon were chatting.

They were just ordinary people.

The man's body was stained with darkness.

And it disappeared as if being sucked into a dungeon where the security system had not yet been completed.

* * *

After entering the dungeon, Hyunseong opened the status window to hire her Lucia.

'uh?'

Then the hairs all over his body stood up.

His heart started beating fast, and his muscles tightened.

Passive skill Feral instinct was activated.

'Who is it?'

Someone other than yourself has entered the dungeon.

It was blurry, but it felt magical.

‘The enemy.’

The person who hid his identity was not friendly to him.The Feral Instinct skill sensed a threat.

Hyunseong acted casually.

bum bum.

Hyunseong entered the dungeon.

How far would he have moved?

I felt the magic of the monsters.

The dungeon Hyunseong entered was inhabited by Wear Lion, a level 120 monster.

Among the half-human and half-beasts, it is one of the most powerful species, and because of its herd life, it was a monster that was generally avoided by players.

Normally, she would have summoned Lucia to gather the monsters and then wiped them clean.

But today was different.

Hyunseong slowly approached the pack of Wear Lions and then used Black Lightning Dragon's Breath.

Fragile!

big ooh!

The Wear Lions, who were directly hit by the Black Lightning Dragon's breath, roared and rushed in.

If the Black Lightning Dragon's breath had been used with all its power, the Wear Lions would have turned into a handful of ashes.

But I didn't do it on purpose.

Hyunseong pulled out his sword and started a hand-to-hand battle with the Wear Lions.

The result was Hyunseong's victory.

Lightly wiped out the Wear Lions.

Hyunseong collected the items and magic stones by hand and put them in the bag.

Hyunseong repeated the same behavior and hunted the wear lions.

He kept his strength and speed under considerable control while hunting.

He took breaks in between, and gasped for breath as if quite exhausted.

However, his stamina and magical powers were always in the best condition.

Thanks to Lucia's class, Hyunseong's skill proficiency was greatly improved.

So he was able to play like this.

He was able to fine-tune the power of his skills, and his physical control rose to the point where he could perform like this.

By the time Hyunseong almost cleared the dungeon.

The unidentified enemy, who was constantly paying attention, gradually narrowed the distance with Hyunseong.

Big oops!

A group of Wear Lions rushed towards Hyunseong.

Hyunseong defeated the Wear Lions one by one.

He deliberately turned his back to an unidentified enemy.

With him, he gathered his magical powers to the fullest.

'come.'

An unidentified enemy was approaching quickly.

The magic that had been faintly felt gradually became clearer.

The warning sent by the Feral Instinct skill also grew stronger.

Gripping Geek!

The breath of the Black Lightning Dragon, which was blown with all its might, was shot towards the unknown enemy.

“Aaaaaah!”

A horrific scream erupted.

The enemy in Hyunseong's eyes was a man in his mid-40s armed with black leather armor and a dagger.

‘Assassin family.’

Hyunseong's sword was dyed with magical power and engulfed in jet-black lightning.

Whik!

The sword swung with all his might flew towards the man.

Break!

After her man blocked Hyunseong's sword with a dagger with a jet-black aura, he used that power to widen the distance.

Hyunseong quickly caught up, but… … .

'fast.'

The difference in power felt when the dragon blood sword and the dagger collided, Hyunseong was overwhelmingly strong. But his speed was definitely the edge of his opponent.

“Uh, how did you know?”

The man with half of his facial skin melted applied a potion to the wounded area and asked Hyunseong.

He didn't have to answer.

Hyunseong ran forward.

Fragile!

Black lightning fell like rain from the sky.

If the speed is fast, you can occupy all the places to avoid.

Shoo!

Then the face of the opponent disappeared from his eyes.

Whik!

Hyunseong turned and swung his sword.

percussion!

The man who appeared from behind Hyunseong's back spurted the ground and quickly spread the distance.

‘I even have movement-based skills.’

If it hadn't been for the wild instinct to quickly detect and inform the magic, it would have been an unexpected blow.

Whik!

The man's hand moved like lightning and threw something.

Fragile!

Hyunseong's body was engulfed in black lightning.

Pugh!

The moment something the man flew hit the black lightning, it exploded.

- You are addicted.

-10 seconds of paralysis of bodily functions.

-Passive skill Book of Immortality is activated.

- The addiction has been lifted.

The message quickly came to mind.

Whik!

Something with magical power flew towards Hyunseong.

Break! Break!

Hyunseong swung his sword and memorized it.

‘It’s impossible for me to catch up.’

The man's movement speed was too fast.

He tried to counterattack using the Black Lightning Dragon's breath, but he evaded it like a rat.

'It's very fast.'

Agility stat was quite high.

My stamina and mana began to be depleted quickly.

The Black Lightning Dragon's breath is powerful, but consumes both stamina and mana at the same time.

Usually, he covers the shortcomings with a bloodsword and a bloodsucker.

However, if the opponent cannot be cut, the option of the Dragon Blood Sword will not activate, and if the skill does not hit the opponent, the Vampire Ball will not activate.

Hyunseong used another skill instead of Black Dragon's breath to attack the man.

But he was only wasting his magical power.

Black Lightning Dragon's Breath, a thunderbolt skill, has the fastest time to reach the target after activation among Hyunseong's skills.

There was no way the man could be beaten by a skill that was slower than the Black Lightning Dragon's Breath.

'You only have one chance. Let’s not make a mistake.’

Hyunseong watched the man's movements and looked for an opportunity to attack.

* * *

The man was also watching Hyunseong's every move.

But his purpose was no longer an attack.

‘You have to get out. This mission is already a failure.’

The man was planning an escape.

‘What the hell is that guy? He really just woke up a year ago, isn't he?'

The man couldn't quite understand the fact that he was in such a crisis.

The man is a veteran player with over 15 years of experience and a ranker-level capable person.

The mission the man has been doing so far has been espionage and assassination.

Although he was primarily targeted at the general public, he never failed a mission, even when aimed at players.

I also thought that this mission was only difficult to seize the opportunity.

She was convinced that success would be easy if she took the chance.

She thought the odds of success were higher when the target crossed over to the North Korean territory.

She sneaked into North Korean territory and overtook the target.

When she entered the dungeon and saw that the target was hunting monsters, she was sure of success.

Although she was an excellent first-year player, she was just a kid.

Convinced of her success, she made a surprise attack.

She and she, on the contrary, were herself ambushed.

‘A monster.’

She was completely beaten to the point of being terrified of her own abilities.

It was the target, not herself, that she dug the trap.

But it wasn't because of his own lack of skills.

The evaluation of the target's ability was wrong.

It was a mistake in judgment to have sent himself alone from the upper management.

* * *

Break!

Hyunseong gave and received a few stalled workshops with her man.

Meanwhile, her man's body gradually moved toward the exit.

‘Are you planning to run away?’

If the opponent had lost his will, there was a high probability that this surprise would work.

Whik!

Her men blew the memorization in unison.

Fragile!

Hyunseong defended using the Black Dragon's breath.

At that moment, the man began running with all his might to the exit.

It's hard to keep up with Hyunseong's agility stat.

‘Blink.’

wickedness!

Hyunseong's body disappeared from the air.

And his man appeared on the path he was running.

Whoops!

The man who was running with all his energy became a figure that rushed to himself with the dragon blood sword that Hyunseong used.

“Gagging!”

Dark red blood gushed out of the man's mouth.

Hyunseong pulled out the dragon blood sword stuck in the man's abdomen.

Then he swung his dragon blood sword and swung it towards the man's leg.

After removing the mobility, I wanted to find out who was behind it.

Shoo!

At that moment, the figure of the man disappeared.

His body rotated according to the flow of magic sensed by his Feral Instinct skill.

The place where the man appeared was behind Hyunseong's back.

The dagger in her man's hand flew towards Hyunseong's heart.

The attack speed was too fast.

It was impossible to block it with a sword or a shield.

Hyunseong did all he could to activate the Black Dragon's Breath.

Fragile!

Black lightning covered Hyunseong and the man's body.

“Aaaaaah!”

With a desperate scream, the man's body turned into black charcoal in an instant.

"ha! ha!"

Hyunseong let out a rough breath.

I was vigilant that I got the win, and I almost got into trouble.

Aaaaah!

Residual magical energy began to emanate from the man's body that had turned into a lump of charcoal.

The remaining magical powers that were united into one were transformed into a single skill book.

Hyunseong grabbed the skillbook.

Shroud of Darkness - Heroic Rank

-Active skill

-Hides the caster and the shape of the target designated by the caster, the sound they make, and the magical energy that comes out.

‘Good.’

The general level stealth skill that I used to love at first was rarely used now.

After that, I did not purchase additional stealth skills.

Because I didn't really feel the need.

But if it was something I learned for free, I was willing to use it.

‘This guy also carried a lot of items.’

Hyunseong picked up the dagger and necklace tanned by the black dragon's breath.

Other items could not withstand the breath of the Black Lightning Dragon and lost their functions.

Dark Elf King's Dagger - Heroic Rank

-5% chance to poison the wounded target.

-5% chance to cause the wounded target to bleed.

-5% chance to inflict a Corruption Curse on the wounded target.

It was an assassin's weapon.

Next it was the turn of the necklace.

Guardian's Grace - Heroic Rank

- Significantly increases the wearer's skill resistance.

-Passive Skill: Shield of Protection can be used.

Guardian's Shield - Heroic Rank

-Passive skill

- Reduces damage by 50% when receiving an attack that exceeds the wearer's skill resistance.

-Cooldown 120 minutes

‘It was because of this skill.’When the breath of the Black Lightning Dragon, which was accidentally blown for the first time, was hit, it seemed that it was an item shot.

‘Why the hell did you target me?’

Hyunseong has never experienced anything that could cause trouble since the downfall of Jeong Seong-woo, who was the sub-guild master of the Seo-woo Guild.

He is not sure of his nationality, but the man spoke Korean.

‘You have to find out why.’

Hyunseong activated the Psychometry skill.

It was to read the memories left in the item.

However… … .

-Active skill Psychometry failed to activate.

-Past information of magical objects cannot be viewed.

‘It’s also a failure.’

I tried it just in case, but I couldn't overcome the shortcomings of the psychometry skill.

‘Psychometry.’

Psychometry skill was activated again.

The target this time was inside the dungeon where the battle was fought.

But still couldn't get anything out.

In the hologram embodied by the psychometry skill, the assassin appeared only after the battle had begun.

In the previous hologram, only Hyunseong's appearance was realized.

The psychometry skill did not embody the image of the assassin who used the Curtain of Darkness skill.

‘I can’t help it.’

Hyunseong gave up looking for any more information about the assassin.

‘Let’s discuss it with Lucia first.’

Hyunseong hired Lucia.

Wrath!

With a bright halo, Lucia appeared.

“You called a little later than usual.”

“I have something to do.”

Hyunseong talked about the surprise.

"i See. But is it rare in this world to be attacked by other players?”

“It’s kind of like that. There are no instances of players collide with each other in public without knowing it behind the scenes. Attacking other players, especially inside dungeons, is considered a felony.”

“This world is so mysterious.”

In the world where Lucia lived, it is said that battles between her players were frequent. It was common sense for players to be mobilized in wars between kingdoms or wars between territories.

“Why did you target me?”

“ It may be that a grudge relationship was formed without Hyunseong knowing. Or it could be that Hyunseong was questioning how quickly he was getting stronger and was trying to figure out his know-how.”

“Will this ever happen again?”

“ If the person who targeted Hyunseong belongs to a certain organization, I think there is a high probability of that. But if you can't attack Hyunseong in public according to the rules of this world, you only need to pay attention inside the dungeon. If you think you're an enemy you can't handle alone, call me. If you have enough points, you can hire other mercenaries.”

"all right."

I was relieved to hear Lucia's words.

That was correct.

When an enemy that is difficult to handle on your own appears, you can spend points to summon reinforcements.

In fact, this time too, if the enemy was stronger than expected, I was going to call Lucia.

It was only because there was no crisis to such an extent that the survival instinct skill did not even activate, so Lucia was not called.

Hyunseong decided to keep this matter a secret for now.

And after canceling Lucia's employment, he left the dungeon as if nothing had happened.

* * *

'what?'

Kaneko, who was waiting outside, looked at the target that had escaped from the dungeon with a puzzled expression.The target left the scene by helicopter as if nothing had happened.

‘Did you not carry out the operation?’

Kaneko waited for his colleague Takahashi to come out after a while.

But no matter how long he waited, his colleague did not show up.

Eventually, Kaneko, tired of waiting, entered the dungeon.

'The Hunter's Eye.'

After using the tracking skill, traces of movement of the target left on the floor of the dungeon caught my eye.

He continued to follow the trail.

Halfway through, traces of the battle appeared in Kaneko's eyes.

But it wasn't a player-to-player battle.

It was a battle trace between a player and a monster.

As Kaneko continued to follow the trail, the traces of the player and the player's battle finally appeared in Kaneko's eyes.

At the scene of the incident, the reverberation of the magical powers used by the players was deeply ingrained.

'This could be enough. The memory of the earth.’

Kaneko used her skill to restore the battlefield.

Two black seals started fighting.

The person who attacked was Takahashi, and the person who received the surprise was the target.

A fierce battle ensued.

It was not possible to confirm which skill was used, but the appearance of the two shadows continuously dividing the studio was clearly visible.

The result was shocking.

‘Takahashi lost.’

During the battle, Takahashi first rolled his tail and chose to escape.

However, he was pursued by his target and eventually killed.

A cold sweat ran down his back.

Kaneko's fighting power does not even reach Takahashi's toes.

The reason Kaneko became a partner with Takahashi was because of her tracking skills, not her fighting power.

‘If I had moved too soon, I would have died too.’

Kaneko carefully exited the dungeon.

And he quickly informed the superiors about this.

* * *

After the Assassin's Assault, Hyunseong further spurred her training.

This is because he felt his own shortcomings more acutely through practical experience.

Obviously, monsters and players are different.

He'll be honest, if he hadn't been trained by Lucia, it would have been difficult for him to deceive the assassin with his acting.

In the battle that followed, the training she received from Lucia was a great help.

He wouldn't have been defeated if he used a skill with many variables, such as the Book of Immortality or Survival Instinct, but he might have missed the assassin fleeing.

Crucially, Hyunseong was too used to hunting monsters weaker than himself.

One of the problems he had to fix was the method of fighting that relied on the breath of the Black Lightning Dragon.

Black Lightning Dragon's Breath is a skill that has many weaknesses as it is powerful.

In this battle, his shortcomings were clearly revealed.

It was also necessary to harmonize the Black Lightning Dragon's breath with other skills.

Black Lightning Dragon's Breath enhances other skills.

But it consumes a lot of stamina and magical power.

Also, there were a lot of cases where the appearance was too protruding.

Lucia advised to learn how to hide the Black Lightning Dragon's Breath skill in another skill.

Hyunseong took Lucia's advice and did her best to raise her skill proficiency.

The monsters in the dungeon became Hyunseong's best practice textbook.

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