NOVEL NEXT Chapter 43
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– 1 Wolf King’s Pelt
– 1 Wolf King’s Fang
– 1 Wolf King’s Gauntlets
– 1 Karu’s Necklace
“Nice!”
Fortunately, the Wolf King had dropped Karu’s Necklace . Soo Hyuk collected the drops and opened his quest tab .
When he scrolled down to the Karu’s Heirloom quest, he could see the ‘Complete’ button .
“I wish the other inheritance quests were this easy . ”
Soo Hyuk currently had many other specials quests in his quest tab, but they were too difficult for him to complete at this point in time . While wishing that they were easier, Soo Hyuk completed the quest .
[You have completed the Special Quest – Karu’s Heirloom]
[Rewards Received . ]
Soo Hyuk opened his inventory after he checked the message window . He wanted to know what the rewards were .
“……”
Soo Hyuk made a puzzled expression when he opened his inventory .
“What? A map?”
The reason for his puzzlement was because the reward was a map . Soo Hyuk checked the map description .
[<Heroic>Karu’s Treasure Map]
Soo Hyuk was filled with anxiety when he checked the description . It was too vague .
‘Heroic?’
Moreover, the rarity of the map was heroic . Not normal or rare, it was heroic . It was the next best rarity after God and Legend!
‘No, a map is still a map . ’
Soo Hyuk pulled the map out, while trying to suppress his nervousness .
“……?”
When he opened the map, again his nervous expression was completely replaced with puzzlement .
‘Matab Library?’
The reason Soo Hyuk was puzzled, was because the words ‘Matab Library’ were written on the top of the map . Karu’s Treasure Map showed the interior of the Matab Library .
‘Huh, is there a treasure hidden in the library?’
A library? It was too unexpected, even for Soo Hyuk . He then spotted a red dot which marked the location of the treasure .
‘This is a bookshelf……’
The red dot was indicating a specific bookshelf . Why was it pointing at a bookshelf, which had nothing but books?
‘……No . ’
Soo Hyuk tilted his head as he thought,
‘It probably won’t be another quest . ’
It wouldn’t be another quest . There might be something hidden within .
‘What should I do?’
Soo Hyuk thought as he put away the map .
‘Should I go to the library now? Or should I keep hunting?’
According to his schedule, it was still time to hunt .
‘Well, I’ll go there anyway . Let’s keep hunting for now . ’
Soo Hyuk decided . He was planning to go to the library after hunting anyway, but he met his next problem after deciding to keep hunting .
‘What should I hunt next?’
His problem was that he couldn’t decide what to hunt next . He had no reason to hunt wolves anymore, as he had already completed the quest related to them .
‘Let’s skip the bears . ’
Normally, players at Soo Hyuk’s level would hunt bears, but from looking at the number of players crowding the entrance, he could already tell that it would be a waste of time .
‘Goblins? Treants?’
He had two options . The Goblin Fields in the Northern Hunting Grounds, or the Bloodless Forest west of the wolf territory . The Goblin Fields had monsters around level 20~40 and the Bloodless Forest had monsters around level 30~50 .
‘Let’s just go to the Bloodless Forest, since it’s closer and the trees are weak to fire . ’
After making up his mind, Soo Hyuk made his way out of the wolf forest . His destination was the home of the Treants, the ‘Bloodless Forest’ .
Treant Habitat, The Bloodless Forest .
Monsters around level 30~50 inhabited the Bloodless Forest . They were…
– Graaahhh…… . Raauuuggghhhh~
The Screaming Ironbarks, a zombie tree with screaming leaves and…
Clang! Clang!
The Bloodless Treants . Using their numerous whiplike branches and enormous mouths with deadly precision, they bullied players into submission . . Those were the two species of monster in the Bloodless Forest .
“Flame Dance . ”
Soo Hyuk cast Flame Dance at the steadily advancing trees and a small ball of fire flew towards a Screaming Ironwood .
The Ironwood was instantly reduced to ashes and disappeared . The little fireball then reappeared and shot towards the Bloodless Treant . Like the Screaming Ironwood, the Bloodless Treant was incinerated in less than 3 seconds .
[Level Up!]
After the Bloodless Treant was killed a message window appeared . It was a level up notice . Soo Hyuk collected the drop items and opened his status window .
Occupation: Archmage’s Descendant
Level: 31 Experience: 1%
Health : 8600 Mana: 36780
Satiation: 51%
Strength: 20 Agility: 25(+6)
Stamina: 164 Wisdom: 1840
Bonus Stat Points: 5
When Soo Hyuk had just completed ‘Karu’s Heirloom’ and first entered the Bloodless Forest, he had only reached level 18 .
‘It’s really fast . ’
A day hadn’t even passed since then and Soo Hyuk was already level 31 . Besides, wasn’t his job the Archmage’s Descendant, which required five times more experience to level up? This speed couldn’t be compared to his leveling speed while he was hunting wolves .
‘Isn’t it obvious though?’
The difference between treants and the wolves was like heaven and earth . This included their levels and the amount of experience they gave . Soo Hyuk assigned all his stat points into stamina and closed his status window .
‘If only I knew that it was this easy earlier……’
Players didn’t usually hunt wolves because they were difficult to hunt, but also because their drops were bad . This meant that there was no competition .
Was it because they were weak to fire? Hunting Ironwoods and Bloodless Treants was similar to hunting wolves . Rather, it was easier since treants didn’t usually team up like wolves did . If he had known this earlier, he would’ve entirely skipped wolves .
‘Yeah, my wisdom was high enough anyway . ’
Soo Hyuk’s wisdom didn’t belong to someone at level 31 . To get to Soo Hyu’s level of wisdom, one had to invest all their bonus stat points on wisdom, until level 360 .
‘I also have lots of health . ’
Since he didn’t need to invest any stat points into wisdom, he had assigned all of them into stamina . As a result, he had way more health than other Magicians .
‘I need to have more confidence . ’
(TL: This warped perception…)
He needed to have more confidence in himself .
‘If my progress slows down, let’s immediately go to a higher-level area . ’
His progress would slow sooner than later . He was going to head straight for higher-level areas when it did .
Of course, he would carefully choose what area he would go to . After all, he had to be able to hunt the monsters there .
His attack power was high enough, but the monsters’ attack power would rise as well . No matter how high his health was, it was still to the standard of a level 30 . He could die from one mistake .
– Raaauuurrrghhh
A Screaming Ironbark appeared next to him and opened its mouth to swallow him .
“Fireball . ”
Soo Hyuk continued hunting .
‘2 hours left . How many levels can I gain?’
He thought while burning down more treants .
* * *
Yang Joo Hyuk and Jang Yool conversed while staring at a monitor .
“The Archmage’s Descendant deserves to be a top tier job . It needs five times more experience and yet……”
“Yeah……”
The subject of the conversation was Soo Hyuk .
“Why did he suddenly start hunting?”
Jang Yool couldn’t understand . Why did Soo Hyuk suddenly start hunting?
“He was cooped up in the library until now . ”
Soo Hyuk hadn’t bothered to learn any of his new skills previously .
“He was reading like his life depended on it . ”
For months he only read books . What had suddenly driven him to start hunting?
“He didn’t finish all the books either . ”
They could understand if he left after finishing all the books in the Matab Library, but there were still a lot of books he hadn’t read yet .
“Although we don’t know the exact reason . ”
Yang Joo Hyuk started . The reason Soo Hyuk, who looked like he started Pangea to read books, started hunting .
“It probably has something to do with Pavian . ”
They didn’t know the exact reason why Soo Hyuk suddenly started hunting, but Jang Yoo Hyuk was sure that it had something to do with Pavian .
“Since he’s started hunting after he met him . ”
Soo Hyuk had started hunting after he first met Pavian .
“Pavian didn’t give him a hunting quest though . ”
Pavian had given Soo Hyuk a quest, but it was completely unrelated to hunting . All it required was for him to visit the Tower of Poison everyday for 30 days .
“It should have something to do with Pavian . ”
Jang Yool nodded at Yang Joo Hyuk’s assumption .
“Ah!”
Jang Yool suddenly exclaimed in surprise when he looked at the monitor again .
“He leveled up again……”
The reason for his surprise was because Soo Hyuk had leveled up again .
“Level 40 already……”
Yang Joo Hyuk mumbled .
“Even the Hunting King isn’t this fast……”
The Hunting King . A tester who used his prior in game experience to dominate other players .
Of course, he wasn’t Rank 1 . But if he had registered for the rankings when the game was first released, he would’ve got Rank 1 without exception . But even the Hunting King didn’t level as fast as Soo Hyuk .
ραΠdαsΝοvel.cοm “At this rate, he’ll reach level 100 soon . ”
Jang Yool asked Yang Joo Hyuk .
“He probably would . ”
“Then he would unlock the second door, right?”
Jang Yool continued asking, after Yang Joo Hyuk nodded .
“Well……”
Yang Joo Hyuk tilted his head, unlike his last reaction .
“Unlocking doors becomes more difficult after the first one . Even if he’s the Archmage’s Descendant, he shouldn’t be able to unlock it straight away . ”
The first door had no requirements, but from the second door onwards, there were special quest which had to be completed to unlock more doors . They were also immensely difficult, even for the Archmage’s Descendant .
* * *
Soo Hyuk silently looked down at the map once more . In front of him was the bookshelf marked on the map .
“Hah……’
He sighed deeply .