Episode 181 Qualifications of a Friend (1)
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The rain that started in the evening became heavier and heavier, and by midnight it had become a downpour.
The TV was on and a heavy rain warning was being broadcast. It seemed that flooding had already occurred in some places.
When heavy rain falls, chaos breaks out, no different in Korea or Japan.
They say it’s really hard to go outside on a rainy day like this.
Drinking coffee while standing on the terrace and looking down at the city was quite charming.
The unique rhythm created by the raindrops is a pleasant noise. It feels like it clears away distracting thoughts.
The interior of the hotel, which overlooks the entire city of Osaka, was so comfortable that I would want to stay here for the rest of my life.
This hotel is only available to Ricou Guild members and associates, and the quality of service was really good.
“First, we increased it by 15 billion won.”
15 billion won. This was the amount of money collected and sold for the items of the Toushi guild member who had lost his life to Kang-hoo.
Since Youngho Ahn personally supervised the entire process, I only had to check my balance without having to worry about complicated things.
185 billion won.
It was money in the bank account.
If you include the scraps, it adds up to about 100 to 200 million won, but that calculation is out of the question.
Plus, now that midnight has passed, the month changes and your Gold Card limit resets.
Last month, I used the gold card given to me by the Spitfire Guild to purchase items from Master K.
I thought this month would be similar to last month. It was because Solar Ki-um and Mad Solar Ki-um had decreased.
Kang-hoo was thinking about other things he could do in the future.
It’s dark age farming. The dungeon is prepared, so you can just go in and do it whenever you want.
The fact that I only attacked five places and stopped was due to physical ups and downs.
In fact, I was bored after seeing only the faces of undead monsters for a whole week.
I intentionally broke the flow because I felt like the combat patterns and repertoire were becoming too simple.
Familiarity, adaptation, and repetition.
It was also the change I hated the most, because it killed creativity and made me feel routine.
“I have to be careful when copying skills, so it’s not easy to make up my mind.”
There was still a chance to copy the skills I had previously acquired.
【Skill copy 1 time】
【You can copy one skill that you have directly verified against a Hunter, regardless of gender, level, or class.】
【There is no penalty for class mismatch during the acquisition process, and efficiency is also 100% inherited.】
It was a skill copy with 100% freedom, with no restrictions or limitations.
The target just needs to be a Hunter. And any skill you’ve seen with your own eyes is sufficient.
If you meet this condition, even if you are a level 1,000 hunter, for example, the skill will be copied.
The first person who came to mind as a copy target was Jang Si-hwan.
However, the attractive skills were not only found in Jang Si-hwan. Furthermore, he was a bit different from Kang-hu.
Since the skill copy opportunity is not easy to pass up, you have to think carefully about it.
On the one hand, because I kept worrying about it like that, I was in a situation where I could save it and then end up wasting it.
“Should I just look for a thousand-year-old tree?”
I completely changed the direction of my thinking.
A thousand-year-old tree.
He is a named assassin in China who just turned 70 this year.
As an assassin like Kang-hoo, there were quite a few skills that could be missed.
However, as his nickname includes the word ‘sal’, he has responded to outsiders with thorough punishment.
So, no hunter tried to approach the space where the thousand-year-old tree was staying.
Because no matter what your purpose was, you will die by his hand without even being able to explain why.
“Even though it is risky, in terms of value, I think a thousand-year-old tree is better. I have to go to China soon.”
After thinking about it this way and that, it seemed like a good idea to copy skills from him, who had the same skills as an assassin.
He has many skills specialized for assassins, including area-of-effect and single-hit skills.
Even if you can successfully copy just one of them, the battle ahead will be considerably easier.
Of course… … . It was unknown whether I could get close enough to examine the skill with my own eyes.
Kang-hoo thought of other things he could definitely do in Japan.
As for copying skills related to the Thousand-Year-Old Tree, there’s no point in thinking about it for a hundred days until you go to China.
“Was it Japan that was corrupted by truth?”
The first thing that came to mind was the set effect related to the dagger that Kang-hoo was wearing, the Corrupted Belief.
【Resolution of Corruption – Displays the locations of 5 items with the set effect ‘Resolution of Corruption’.
This item can only be displayed when it is in a dungeon, and cannot be known when it is owned by a specific person.
The list of 5 items is as follows: Dagger, Breastplate, Necklace, and 2 Rings.】
Among the five types, the dagger is the one that Kang-hoo has.
After checking the locations of the rest, the breastplate was in Germany and the necklace was in South Africa.
One of the two rings was found in China, and the remaining one was found in Japan.
Since it shows your current location like a GPS, it was easy to determine which dungeon you were in.
But the problem is.
“It’s the Fukuoka Liberation Zone.”
The question was, under whose jurisdiction was that dungeon?
In Japan, it was called Fukuoka Kaihoku, which had the same name as the liberated area in Korea.
If we look only at the characteristics of the situation, it was similar to Osan in Korea.
There was a situation where multiple guilds were competing for one open dungeon and the right to mine magic stone.
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There was a guild that almost took over the throne, but it was ruined at the last minute when an anti-force alliance was formed.
This is an area far outside the jurisdiction of the Ricou Guild. We cannot expect any public assistance.
So I called Ahn Young-ho. I wondered if he had any connections in the Fukuoka Liberation Zone.
If he were me, he would find a way to help as much as possible.
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Maybe it was because I drank a lot of coffee all evening, but I couldn’t fall asleep when dawn came.
So, thanks to Fumiya’s consideration, I headed to the underground training grounds that I had borrowed.
Since I couldn’t sleep anyway, I thought I’d just relax my body a little.
It’s not that I wasn’t tired, but I didn’t want to just lie there in a daze and not be able to sleep.
There were various weapons inside. It felt like it had everything except what wasn’t there.
Of course, it wasn’t an expensive weapon because it was for practice and training, but it was more than enough for individual practice.
Kang-hoo fiddled with the dagger for a moment, then pushed it away.
Having lived with a dagger in my hand all week, I wanted to avoid any contact with it now.
“Let me give it a try.”
The weapon chosen by Kang-hoo was the magic bullet gun.
Thanks to the passive skill Extra Sense – Weapon, there was no need to separately learn the basic controls.
Since there are no gunner-related skills, skills that utilize magic bullets more effectively cannot be used.
However, it was possible to fire the basic magic bullet by condensing mana.
Because you just need to gather mana into one point.
Then, the gun’s own focusing device gathers the mana in one place and begins compressing it to its maximum.
Beep. Beep beep. Beep.
Kang-hoo pressed several buttons on the training device located inside the training grounds.
A device that creates a virtual target can be used to implement the desired level in front.
It is a type of mass of mana implemented using magic stones. It can be seen as a defensive wall concept resembling the human body.
The target was a level 200 hunter. A virtual target with that level of durability and stamina was implemented.
and.
Woof. Woof. Woof!
Kang-hoo started to pour mana into the magic bullet gun with all his might.
All existing mana was absorbed and disappeared as soon as it started, and mana hypersensitivity was immediately activated.
Then, as if looking at a vacuum cleaner, the surrounding mana was explosively sucked into Kang-hoo.
The mana completely seeped into the gun, and the magic bullet vibrated every time.
As time passed, it began to turn red and show signs of overheating.
As my body began to feel burdened by excessive mana recovery, I began to groan with a headache.
“Phew.”
Kang-hoo took a deep breath and aimed at the virtual target.
It was a trigger pulled with only mana in it. No skills were used.
Right then.
Spearung… … !
The virtual target exploded.
At the same time, the message ‘Instant Death’ appeared on the scoreboard on the right.
What I mean is.
The magic bullet that Kang-hoo just fired was powerful enough to instantly kill a level 200 hunter!
‘Is this how mana hypersensitivity is utilized? If so, then surprisingly, the magic bullet gun would be a good match for me.’
Kang-hoo’s eyebrows rose.
Of course, you won’t be able to use the same attack over and over again.
Because it takes time to gather that much magic power, it is not a card that can be used immediately in an emergency.
But using the magic bullet as a secondary or auxiliary concept seemed pretty good.
Or, it might be possible to steal enemy guns and use them for improvised purposes on the battlefield.
Suddenly, I remembered what Ban Se-young had said before.
A genius assassin who does everything by himself.
I laughed at the absurd thought that if I could handle other weapons, then I could be called a genius ‘hunter’ who could do everything on my own.
“I really have no sense of humor or sense for this kind of thing.”
Kang-hoo was the one who judged himself very well and more coolly than anyone else.
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While Kang-hoo takes a break, he tries to find a way to get to the Fukuoka Liberation Zone through Ahn Young-ho.
Takashi was looking at the DM window of the Huntergram security account, which had not responded even after a week.
“Are you upset because I pointed that out? I don’t think you’re that narrow-minded.”
After sending the first message on the day we met to confirm the address, I haven’t heard from Kang-hoo since.
Although I didn’t really want to meet him, he was a guy I wanted to see more of his skills.
But when I didn’t hear from him for a while, I started to think that maybe he didn’t like me for some reason.
Actually… …I was bored.
There hasn’t been much interaction with Justice’s colleagues lately.
The only time we met briefly in Seoul before was to see Vincent and Elizabeth.
In reality, when everyone was gathered together, no one paid much attention to him.
Of course, I didn’t expect that to happen.
I just wish we could have a casual conversation about each other under the name of ‘colleague’ or ‘friend’.
They didn’t even talk to each other properly, either because they were busy with their own work or because they didn’t seem interested in each other at all.
Emilia and Yu Cheong-hwa, who were usually kind to him, were also preoccupied with Elizabeth, who had newly joined the group.
Even after that, there was no contact between the two of them, as they both went to the dungeon.
Although a member of Justice, he feels alienated to the point of loneliness.
Takashi was not showing any sign of it, but he was feeling the cold and chilly emotions all over his body.
“There’s definitely no assassin worth using. I don’t remember seeing a decent one, even a codling one, recently, but that guy… … .”
Kang-hoo was definitely different.
So I kept thinking about it.
It seemed like he had never shown everything in front of him, and it seemed like it would be more interesting to look into it if he poked at it.
But, to seek out Kang-hoo first without a plausible excuse is somehow both humiliating and disappointing.
I decided to throw out some bait.
however.
“No, why doesn’t a guy who wants to be my friend contact me like this? Are you a friend who only calls me when you need something?”
While sending the message, Takashi was making a loud noise.
He’s an annoying guy, but I still want to see him! Kang-hoo is exactly that kind of guy.
