◈ Episode 40. Performance Test (3)

[Name: Grandfell Claudie Arpheus Romeo]

[Class: Demon Hunter]

[Level: 226]

[Stats]

Strength: 33 / Agility: 35 / Magic: 126 / Luck: 3

[Points Reserved: 50]

Increased Strength and Agility as a reward for the Physical Fitness Quest.

Let’s calculate the numbers…….

I’m roughly 10-20 levels ahead of the same level?

‘Such a gap from a recurring quest.’

I realize once again.

Class quests, they’re unbelievable.

Of course, the physical training quests increased my strength and agility.

It won’t have much of an immediate impact on my magical abilities.

But I’ve come to a new realization.

The Demon Hunter, a class that has never excelled at anything before.

The new build is called……!

Actually, it doesn’t even need to be called a recipe.

I was the only Demon Hunter.

I sprawled on the ground and muttered.

“……Lonely.”

Lonely as fuck.

If you think it’s pathetic that I’m lying on the floor in a pool of sweat.

If anyone heard me, they’d think I had a deep story.

Anyway.

Like I said, not having anything special.

In some cases, it can also mean that you have no weaknesses.

Of course, it’s not an easy road.

Limited stat points.

Spreading those points out would definitely be inefficient.

An example is simple.

Let’s say a wizard class has increased strength…….

“You can’t utilize that strength.

Because the mage class didn’t have any skills that were affected by strength.

In that sense, the Demon Hunter was a ridiculous class on second thought.

“They don’t even have a plausible combat skill!

Natural Enmity and Possession.

Class-specific skills that only work on demons.

I can’t think of another class that stays so true to its concept.

As a result, there was no set way to invest stats.

“But it doesn’t matter.”

I might not have skills, but I had magic.

That’s why I’d spent all my points on magic.

Plus, I saw a new possibility.

“……The Knights of Lionheart.

Three knights, to be exact.

Harkon.

Yeshka.

Enoch.

Their swords pulsed with energy.

“Sword energy.

I wasn’t sure of the name yet.

I hadn’t asked them directly.

But the magic that began with the search, the interference, the manifestation.

It didn’t come from asking someone.

It was just this head.

Mr. Grandfell’s brilliant mind.

I realized it as soon as I saw it.

“It’s not the name that matters.

Yes, it is.

The only thing that matters is that I can wield this thing called the sword.

The power of the sword. I’ve seen it firsthand.

“Yeshka, Enoch. The level difference between you and the skeleton was negligible.

Some might call it greed.

But you don’t know what you’re talking about.

I have to fight to keep from sinking.

I’m going to have to fight as hard as I can!

Includes Strength and Dexterity gained from Training Quests.

Rewards from class quests.

I must utilize each and every one of them one hundred percent.

so we can back up our heavy pride.

So the schedule is set for now.

Prove my abilities. (Ongoing)

Convince a majority of the senior wizards. (3/20)

While fulfilling the quest at the Magic Tower.

“We should stop by the Kingdom of Yusra.

Ask Harkon for information about the sword technique.

If I can learn the sword technique, I’ll train on it.

……Damn, I’m tired already.

But hard work pays off.

I checked the quest window once more.

[Class Quest: The Beginning].

The prelude has risen, and the phoenix has bloomed.

The last demon hunter.

Illuminate the world of evil.

─Train your weakened body. (Repeat)

Investigate the great evil of the Yusra Islands. (Success)

Stop the resurgence of the Seven Deadly Sins of Greed. (Success)

……Yes!

I’ll hold out for the class quest rewards.

You never know, there might be a reward waiting for you that’s as big as your stats.

But damn it.

This innocent body and mind.

I have no greed for quest rewards.

“I must build my stamina to hold the sword again.”

All I could see of the quest was a single line.

“─Train your weakened body. (Repeat)

Thud.

I started doing push-ups once again.

Purr.

Looking at my trembling forearms, I thought to myself.

“I can’t even sleep at will, my life.

Poor me.

*My life.

If there’s one profession that’s gotten a lot of media attention lately.

It’s definitely player paparazzi.

Or flapper for short.

“Oh, just me? Who am I?”

Yoo was a pretty good paparazzo.

A single photo of him could fetch millions of won.

A video could go for tens of millions.

The reason his work was so well-received was simple.

“I’ll get you a picture of humiliation you’ll never see anywhere else.”

Humiliation photos of players captured in the heat of the moment.

No player could escape Yuanjun’s angle.

Even ranked players were no exception.

Dmitry, the 8th ranked player, had nothing to lose.

He, too, had suffered humiliating articles thanks to Yuanjun.

[Exclusive] Dmitri, a beginner in love?

The photo attached to the article was Yuanjun’s work.

A rented hotel lounge.

It showed Dmitri getting down on one knee and proposing to her, only to be rejected.

Dmitri’s expression and the embarrassed reaction of the other person are clearly visible.

-Kitchen, it was a cold one.

-This one is funnier because of the coverage.

-He proposed marriage after only a week of dating.

-He’s a genuine guy, despite his appearance.

Thanks to this, Dmitri was on the run.

I don’t know who it is, but I’ll kill him if I catch him!

Of course, Yuanjun didn’t get caught, so here we are today.

He’s probably lurking in the tower.

Yuan Jun thought about today’s subject.

“I just need to catch it……!”

There is no such thing as a big fish.

Today’s target was none other than Lee Ho-yeol.

Yes, this was a big fish, bigger than Dmitri.

Who is Lee Ho-yeol?

The player with the highest stock price in recent memory!

What’s more, it didn’t make sense.

He began to make his presence felt in the Count Ascura raid.

Not only did he kill two named monsters in the Yusra Isles, but he also killed a level 650 monster.

He even defeated the great evil, the Seven Deadly Sins Greed.

“Technically, it’s the Lionheart Knights’ achievement.

It was Lee Hao-yeol who led the Lion Heart Knights, and more importantly, Lee Hao-yeol had a star quality.

He had a big mouth.

A costume that you couldn’t tell if it was a concept or if he was serious.

And most of all, his unbelievable skill set.

There was a reason for his popularity.

But Yuanjun knew.

“The higher you fly, the harder it hurts when you fall.

Flawless.

That perfect image would boomerang back to him.

No need for a big humiliation photo.

Just a little wobble.

It’ll be enough to put a dent in the image.

“Illusions are meant to be broken slowly.”

In that sense, the pagoda was the perfect place.

Above all, look at that creepy staircase.

They disappeared and reappeared.

Yuanjun shuddered.

“Let’s just get one shot.”

Lee Ho-Yeol.

Rumor has it that he’s been given a quest by the chief mage of the Magic Tower.

I don’t know when it will be, but if I wait, I’ll be able to capture it.

Yuanjun hid his cannon camera and went into hiding.

The players gathered around the portal began to shout.

“…… It’s Lee Ho-yeol!”

“Hey, Yunan, don’t be nervous. Do you have something against me?”

“Be polite, don’t whisper.”

The reactions were understandable.

Most players don’t want to be hated by Lee Ho-yeol, because it won’t do him any good.

Imagine being hated and seeing him in a rift.

“Well, that’s none of my business.

Of course, that’s only true for players who are aiming for rifts and monster hunting.

So Yuan Jun quickly took out his camera and pulled the zoom.

“Let’s take a picture.

Yuanjun’s mouth watered.

But it didn’t take long for his face to settle.

It didn’t take long.

Another angle.

……How could a person do that?

Yuan Jun’s mouth fell open in disbelief.

No matter how hard he pulled the zoom, the picture didn’t budge an inch.

‘This is a photo shoot, not a humiliation!

Regular shots.

Continuous shooting.

It should have taken at least one picture.

What happened?

She was walking up the stairs, dizzy just looking at them.

There was no humiliation or disorientation in his expression and posture.

It was like a swan floating peacefully on a lake.

Doridori─

Yuan Jun shook his head.

“No!

A picture of Lee Ho-yeol?

There are already tons of pictures like this!

I mean, just go to Netube and you’ll find a bunch of videos posted by people who claim to be Lee Ho-yeol fans.

All you need is a moment of humiliation.

‘If you get a little closer…….’

You might be able to get away with it.

Or a picture of a pore.

Yoo’s flapper instincts took over.

He took a few steps forward.

“Hey, stop.”

A lively voice called out.

“You with the camera. Look at me for a second.”

I turned my head and there it was, a huge mass of muscle.

It was Dmitri.

He grinned.

“We’ve met, haven’t we, in the hotel lobby?”

For a moment, a word flashed through my mind.

Whoever this guy is, if he catches me, I’ll die.

Thud!

As Dmitri unclenched his fist, Yuanjun realized.

“How can you catch a swan with a fishing rod……!

I was such an ignorant bastard.

Pfft!

*!

Self─

News on the parchment.

-The magic tool, [Sage’s Boredom], has been retrieved.

Bellier Yusia, the senior mage of the Healing School, snorted.

The senior mages had finally gotten their hands on the tool.

“Are they not afraid of headwinds?

Several senior mages asked.

[Sage’s Boredom].

It was a series of puzzle pieces.

A moment of magic.

A puzzle that becomes a challenge.

The magic of the senior mages.

It would be a challenge that could not be compared to the locks of the Crystal Hall.

‘I’m sure Marcelo will have no objection, of course, knowing his character, but you’re being a bit pushy.

From a senior wizard.

‘I could work all day to solve the Sage’s Boredom.

It would take at least a dozen days.

I can see what those fools are thinking.

Lee Ho-yeol, while the adventurer worked on the puzzle.

He was thinking of all sorts of things.

“It’s so obvious.

If he can’t solve it, he’ll go crazy.

When he does, he says it took him longer than he thought.

He’ll use any excuse he can get.

Of course, it didn’t matter to Bellier.

“I don’t know, maybe we should just keep a low profile.”

Bellier.

She had no desire to prove her worth as an adventurer.

The reason was simple.

Klee, an adept mage of the Healing School.

It was because she had confirmed the truth with the child.

-……Yes, that’s right, it was him!

Lee Ho-yeol’s expression changed.

Klee looked pleased.

-I see, you’re the adventurer that Chief Wizard Marcelo recommended as a collaborator! Thank goodness……! I thought I had made a terrible mistake……!

Good girl, Klee.

She was obviously troubled in her own way.

But did she know?

“That’s one thing, but seeing through the illusionary magic of the tower state is a different story.”

Of course.

The illusionary magic that Topjoo manifested had been seen by Belie, even by himself.

No, not even the great Marcelo would be able to see through it.

“That’s why I don’t believe it yet.

So the adventurer, Lee Ho-yeol.

The desire to stay with him and watch him grows.

It’s a mage’s instinct.

‘It’s pure exploration of the unknown.

A partridge’s exploration must be intense.

Bellier picked up a richly feathered pen.

He scribbled calmly on the parchment.

It was an acceptance of Marcelo’s decision.

He would accept Lee Ho-Yeol as a collaborator.

‘…… Too late.

He wrote back.

It was a little later.

Was something going on?

Bellier wondered for a moment.

Himself-

Words began to form on the parchment.

The words were not the least bit unexpected by Bellier.

-Two votes left to reach the halfway mark.

……Wait a minute.

Two votes left?

Puzzled, Bellier ran a hand through his tousled green hair.

He folded his white fingers.

“Three until yesterday. And me…….”

None of the other senior wizards would have voted in favor.

There was no reason for that, was there?

Belie, even she hadn’t been so quick to vote in favor without Klee’s story.

So that’s four votes.

So where did the other four votes come from?

Belie muttered to herself.

“Maybe…….”

Suddenly, a thought occurred to him.

The parchment that ‘several’ senior wizards had taken out.

Velier checked the parchment for the names of those few.

“……Curtain, Dorothy, Maia, Becks!”

There were four of them, to be exact.

What the sound meant was simple.

Bellier spoke, his voice trembling.

“In this short time, I have sensed the wise man’s boredom……!!”

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[The Wise Man’s Boredom] strewn across the desk.

There was nothing difficult about it.

Just what you see.

All I had to do was explore the magic and reverse it.

─Prove your abilities. (in progress)

Convince a majority of the senior wizards. (8/20)

Yeah, at this level, I should be able to finish this quickly.

I’d rather get things done quickly.

I’d rather have a lighter grip on the sword.

I scribbled my thoughts on the parchment.

‘Tired, perhaps. I’ve been grumpy.

Why, with a little apology for yesterday.

-I would welcome it, if it were a process of proof and not a childish prank.

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