17.
Past life.
Seven S+ rank hunters formed a team called the Seven Heroes.
Accordingly, S-class hunters from all over the world united under the banner of the Seven Heroes.
It’s a suicide squad.
The executives of the suicide squad were very close to S+ rank.
‘Joseph.’
Jose, who was a member of the suicide squad, was now laughing heartily, sweating profusely in the glacier zone with one mind.
“But Jun, it’s really nice to meet you. Honestly, I didn’t know I’d meet a friend my age at the promotion match.”
“It’s the same.”
Seo Yi-jun had the illusion that he had just been called something strange, but he agreed with what he said afterwards.
It wasn’t a matter of adjusting it appropriately.
I really didn’t know.
‘That’s strange. Joseu should have been in the next promotion match.’
According to Seo Yi-jun’s memory, Joseu achieved C-class Hunter in six months after competing in the promotion match two months later.
‘But why are you here now?’
I haven’t heard any news about Jose being eliminated in the promotion match.
If something like that had happened, it wouldn’t have been something that could have been hidden even if Beast Moon had tried to hide it.
“When I saw that, I couldn’t stand it!”
Joseu banged his fists together with a loud bang.
“Something like that?”
“Black Gate!”
Joseu grinned, baring his fangs.
“I don’t know what it is, but isn’t this proof that the times are about to change once again? I was thinking of training at Class D for half a year to save face with my brothers and sisters, but it turns out that’s no longer possible!”
Boom, another fist bump.
‘I guess getting promoted after 6 months in my previous life was a consideration for the Beast Gate Guild members.’
Thanks to this, my minor curiosity was resolved.
“You too, right?”
“Let’s say it’s similar.”
“Kyaha! Why are you so embarrassed!”
Jose Woo approached Seo Yi-jun without hesitation and patted his back, smiling.
My spine is aching.
“Huh? Jun, why is your body so flabby?”
Jose tilted his head.
Is this really the case of someone born with a silver spoon in their mouth from one of Korea’s top three guilds?
He has some really bad speaking habits, starting with calling people by strange names.
“But your posture is really good because your bones are straight!”
But judging from his outstanding aesthetic sense, he must have grown up seeing a lot of good things, as befitting someone born with a silver spoon in his mouth.
“You have good bones too.”
“Well, I have these muscles!”
Jose puffed out his chest and arms.
A shell made of protein is probably good.
Seo Yi-jun just looked at Jose Woo’s skeleton.
‘It’s not perfect.’
Unless you receive a skill like [Balanced Skeleton], it’s natural for some of a person’s bones to become misaligned.
‘Because you have to have arms and legs that you use most.’
But Jose has the bones of his limbs naturally positioned without any unnecessary distortion.
It was a framework that could not be built through mediocre training.
‘Excellent.’
So this was also the aesthetics of bones.
“Jun, you know, I’m the type that saves the most delicious food and eats it later.”
Jose Woo suddenly revealed his taste.
“I’m pretty good, but today I’ll play to your rhythm.”
Seo Yi-jun replied as he checked the message in one corner of his field of vision.
While Seo Yi-jun was talking to Joseu, the C-class promotion match was in progress.
[Current status of Korean C-class promotion matches]
[Participants: 87/93]
C-class promotion matches are held on a country-by-country basis.
However, countries with large populations are divided into several zones.
It was called a server.
D-class hunters cannot enter gates created outside of their affiliated server.
Only when you reach C rank can you gain access to the adjacent server gate.
In the case of Japan, it is divided into East Japan servers and West Japan servers, and in China, the number of servers exceeds 20.
Korea was a single server.
That is, all 93 participants were Korean hunters, and 6 of them had already been eliminated.
The sounds of fighting could be heard frequently from not far away.
That is, the conversation between two people.
“See you later.”
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“okay.”
It meant that for now, they would both step back and then come together at the end.
Just as Seo Yi-jun was able to gauge Jose Woo’s skills based on the momentum he had accumulated, even if it wasn’t necessarily a memory from his previous life.
‘It was a good thing I begged my father to let me come home two months early. Jun-i, it seems like it’ll be worth it!’
This is because Jose Woo also realized that Seo Yi-jun was extraordinary. * * *
The top three guilds in Korea.
Refers to three guilds that S-class hunters belong to.
The first guild, Beast Gate.
Seorabeol is an elite guild with a small number of members but a high average level.
The largest guild with the largest number of members and the most achievements to match, Haetae.
As the largest guild, Haetae Guild had several branches.
‘Hoseou, Hoseou, be quiet. I’ll tell you clearly who the elite belonging to the number one guild is.’
Kim Woo-hyung, a 19-month-old hunter affiliated with the Haetae Guild Gyeonggi branch, gritted his teeth as he thought about this.
‘The terrain is perfect for me.’
Taaak!
Let’s hit the floor with the cane.
Pasa sasa sak!
The ice blocks around them began to crumble.
Kim Woo-hyung was an ice magician.
“I think I was unlucky.”
This is not what I say to the D-class monsters that were broken with ice.
These were words directed at the D-class hunters who had broken up together.
“There’s nothing I can do.”
A hunter belonging to the 1st place Haitai Guild.
A hunter belonging to a small to medium sized guild.
“Just because the rank is the same doesn’t mean the skill is the same.”
It was natural that there was a gap as wide as heaven and earth.
The ice zone must have been difficult because the opponent was a fire attribute hunter.
“In the end, it was because the guild was incompetent that they couldn’t provide attribute resistance potions.”
Even that was a difference between guilds.
Also, in the end, it was the difference in talent that prevented me from entering a good guild.
If Kim Woo-hyung had fallen into the volcanic zone, he would have first drunk the fire resistance potion provided by the guild.
‘There comes prey again.’
A strange hunter appeared approaching from the opposite side.
I generally have a grasp of the prospects of the three major guilds.
Being unfamiliar means that the young people are also not very good.
‘Huh? Now that I look at it, it looks like you don’t have any weapons?’
A hunter’s equipment consists of weapons, armor, and accessories.
However, it is not easy for a D-class hunter to have a full set.
Even in the case of Woohyung Kim, only the staff is his own, and the robe and pendant are ones the guild lent him during the promotion match.
“This is Woohyung Kim of the Haitai Guild.”
“It’s Seo Yi-jun.”
“Hi.”
“?”
As soon as we exchanged our names, I sighed.
I thought the guild was so poor that they couldn’t even rent equipment.
That wasn’t even it.
You’re an independent hunter.
“Unfortunately, it seems there is no guild to put in front of the name.”
“?”
“There’s no need to be embarrassed.”
“?”
The young man tilted his head, as if Kim Woo-hyung’s consideration did not reach him.
“You too are a hunter who has successfully awakened with the determination to defeat monsters. Don’t lose your confidence.”
“… … Okay. Well. Thanks.”
Only after I explained it in detail did he seem to accept it.
Anyway, the estimate came out.
Even if you are a dullard who can’t find a guild, if you live as a hunter for a long time, you will eventually obtain a ticket for a C-rank promotion match.
‘He looks young for someone who’s been around for a long time. … … Well, he must be young.’
Kim Woo-hyung decided to stop looking at the other person’s face.
That’s because it has no meaning.
There is no other reason. There really is no other reason.
The important thing is that the opponent has not even joined the guild and with that kind of talent, he can’t even dream of being promoted to C-rank.
‘But it would be a shame to just keep the ticket, so I decided to write it down as a souvenir.’
In that respect, this person was quite lucky.
‘Because you met me.’
The promotion match has already started.
If you go see the real exhaust hunter, your tension will go away. * * *
This wasn’t the first time Hunter had stood in Seo Yi-jun’s way after breaking up with Joseu.
‘Why?’
So I started to wonder seriously.
Even if it’s not necessarily Jose Woo, making a full name is similar to the national rule of the Korean C-class promotion match.
I’m just saying that Koreans should at least say hello to each other.
In the past, they used to strictly count the years of awakening to determine seniority, but fortunately, they don’t go that far these days.
But there is something I just don’t understand.
‘Why is it only Haetae Guild that does that?’
It is not against the rules to reveal your affiliation.
Jose never said that he was a Beast Boy, and those he met after that didn’t bother to mention the guild either.
Only the Haetae Guild does that.
Even without saying anything, you can’t recognize it because the seal of the Haetae Guild is engraved on the equipment as big as a door.
In the first place, I don’t know why the seal is so big.
‘… … Well, the Haetae Guild has always been like that.’
It was like that in the past, and it will be like that in the future.
He had such pride in his guild that it could be described as being excessive.
“Okay, I’ll give you the lead.”
I want to hear you talking about giving up the first attack without even knowing your opponent’s strength.
‘Come to think of it… … This is a good thing.’
One thing came to mind.
Seo Yi-jun’s goal in this promotion match is to take first place.
However, there is no way to know the ranking while the promotion match is in progress.
Once there is only one person left, the promotion match ends and the overall rankings are revealed.
The last person standing has a high chance of taking first place.
‘That wasn’t necessarily the case.’
There are also cases where a hunter who was eliminated earlier takes first place.
It was also common for the person who dropped out first to be promoted, and the person who lasted the longest to be held back.
The reason is simple.
Because hunters aren’t the ones who endure.
‘A hunter is someone who hunts.’
To climb the ranks, you had to hunt more monsters than your competitors.
So that’s why Seo Yi-jun walked alone.
‘The troops who have finished cleaning the surrounding area should return to the pitch black.’
That was because I had the skeleton troop hunt the surrounding monsters.
“Come out.”
Likewise, the reason we can’t just let our competitors go is because of rankings.
Eliminating competitors is seen as an attempt to secure more prey and thus affects rankings.
-Dalgrak!
As soon as the monarch’s order was given, skeleton soldiers appeared.
“Thank you for giving in.”
“Huh? A skeleton?”
Kim Woo-hyung laughed in vain.
I finally gave in and now they’re [Summoning Skeleton Soldiers]?
But something was strange.
“huh?”
If it’s a skeleton, as soon as it’s summoned, its joints will be covered in ice and it will freeze before it can even take 10 steps.
“huh?”
But it looks okay.
Not only is it a problem to not freeze, but walking itself is also a problem.
Normally, you would be struggling to keep your balance on a slippery ice rink, like you were doing slapstick.
“huh?”
But it doesn’t fall down.
The skeleton soldiers were walking slowly but steadily.
It looked like a hunter of the warrior class.
‘… … Huh! You must have used all your assets to gain attribute resistance. I was mistaken because you walk so awkwardly!’
Kim Woo-hyung quickly shook his head.
“Just a skeleton soldier!”
He fired arrows created with [cold magic] at the skeleton soldiers.
The arrow reached the ground, its coldness added to the glacier.
Chomp chomp!
The skeleton soldier froze in an instant without even being able to put up a proper resistance.
‘See? It’s nothing special, after all.’
Kim Woo-hyung looked at Seo Yi-jun with a satisfied smile.
“Was it too much to use D-class cold magic with the help of the environment?”
Seo Yi-jun muttered calmly without even raising an eyebrow.
“……what?”
The tone of voice was that it would have been okay if it weren’t for the ice cover.
“This kid!”
That tone was enough to make Kim Woo-hyung ache inside.
Seo Yi-jun thought to himself.
‘He’s a simpleton.’
I did say this with some intention, but I didn’t know it would be accepted this well.
“ha!”
Kim Woo-hyung unleashed the magic of cold air.
“Watch carefully, this is the true application of a hunter’s power!”
It wasn’t an arrow of cold.
After raising the cold air itself, he scattered it around with his magical power.
Jeok-.
That was enough to freeze the skeleton soldiers.
however.
“huh?”
Something still felt strange.
The number I froze with the arrow earlier is 4, and the number I just froze by spraying cold air is 7.
The 11th generation was frozen.
A D-class necromancer can have up to 15 skeleton soldiers, so there should be 4 left.
Subtraction that even elementary school students can easily do.
If there’s a more moving skeleton, it has to be a magic bottle or a beast bottle.
Why is that?
-Dalgrak!
Kim Woo-hyung’s surroundings were filled with skeleton soldiers moving normally.
Damn!
Damn!
Damn!
“Why?”
Even if you freeze and freeze and freeze again.
-Dalgrak!
-Dalgrak!
-Dalgrak!
The number of skeleton soldiers closing in on the encirclement did not decrease at all.
