Novel Will Be Taken Down on 17 May or Earlier Chapter 40 - Performance Test (3)

[Name: Grandfel Claudie Arpheus Romeo]

 

[Class: Demon hunter]

 

[Level: 226]

 

[Stat]

 

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

 

[Point: 50]

 

My strength and agility increased as a reward for physical training quests.

 

Let’s calculate that number…

 

Is it roughly about 10 to 20 levels ahead of the same level?

 

‘With repeated quests, such a gap is created.’

 

I felt it again.

 

Class quest, it was great enough to make a fuss about.

 

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

 

Since I mainly used magic, it wouldn’t have a big impact on me right now.

 

But I had a new realization.

 

Demon hunter, a class that had nothing outstanding in the past.

 

A new raising method for this class…!

 

In fact, there was no need to grandly call it a raising method.

 

Because I was the only demon hunter left.

 

I groaned as I lay on the floor.

 

“…You are lonely.”

 

I don’t want to be alone.

 

I didn’t know if it was pathetic to collapse on the floor bathed in sweat.

 

Anyone who heard it would think there was a deep story behind it.

 

Anyway.

 

As I said, there was nothing outstanding about this class.

 

It could also mean that depending on what I did, it had no weakness.

 

Of course, it wouldn’t be easy.

 

Limited stat points.

 

It was definitely inefficient to distribute those points.

 

For example.

 

Let’s say that mage-type class increased their strength.

 

‘They can’t use that strength.’

 

The mage class didn’t have skills that were affected by strength.

 

In that sense, thinking about it again, the demon hunter was a ridiculous class.

 

‘To think they don’t have decent fighting skill!’

 

Natural Enemy Relationship and Exorcism.

 

Only class-specific skills that only work against demons.

 

There was no other class that was more faithful to their concept.

 

Because of that, there was no fixed method for stat investment.

 

“But it doesn’t matter.”

 

I didn’t have skills, but I had magic.

 

That’s why I’d gone all-in on mana so far.

 

On top of that, I witnessed new possibilities.

 

‘…Knights of Lionheart.’

 

To be more precise, the three knights.

 

Harkon.

 

Yesica.

 

Enoch.

 

The energy that was on their swords.

 

‘Aura.’

 

The name was not yet clear.

 

Because I hadn’t asked them directly.

 

But just like magic that began with exploration, interference, and expression.

 

I didn’t find out by asking someone.

 

This brain.

 

Grandfel’s great talent.

 

I realized it as soon as I saw it.

 

‘The name doesn’t matter.’

 

Yeah, what matters is.

 

Whether I could handle that ‘aura’.

 

It was the power of the sword. I’d witnessed it myself.

 

‘Yesica, Enoch. It was strong enough to overshadow the level gap between those two and the skeleton.’

 

One might see it as greed.

 

But that’s what the word you’d say if you didn’t know the situation here.

 

If I don’t want to sink.

 

I have to struggle as best as I can!

 

Including strength and agility raised by training quests.

 

The rewards earned through the class quest.

 

Only by making use of 100 percent of them.

 

I would be able to support this heavy pride.

 

Therefore, the schedule for the time being was fixed.

 

– Demonstrate your ability. (In progress)

 

• Convince the majority of senior mages. (3/20)

 

While carrying out the quest of the Mage Tower.

 

‘I’ll have to stop by the Yusra Kingdom.’

 

Confirm information regarding the sword aura with Harkon.

 

If I could learn the sword aura, I might be able to train for it.

 

…Shit, I’m already tired.

 

But at the end of hardship, happiness came.

 

I checked the quest window again.

 

[Class quest: Fetal Movement]

 

The curtain rises and a beacon flares up.

 

The last demon hunter.

 

Light up the world covered in evil.

 

– Train your weakened body. (Repeat)

 

– Investigate the great evil of the Yusra Islands. (Successful)

 

– Prevent the resurrection of Greed of the Seven Deadly Sins. (Successful)

 

…Yes!

 

Let’s put up with it for the class quest rewards.

 

Rewards as great as my stats might be waiting for me.

 

But to hell with it.

 

In this clean body and spirit.

 

I didn’t even have greed for quest rewards.

 

“In order to hold the sword again, I have to build up my stamina.”

 

On the quest content, only one line was visible

 

– Train your weakened body. (Repeat)

 

Drip–

 

I started doing push-ups again.

 

Tremble–

 

Looking at my trembling forearms, I thought.

 

‘I can’t even sleep as I want. My life.’

 

I was so pitiful.

 

*

 

If there was a job that had been in the spotlight in the media recently.

 

It was definitely the paparazzi players.

 

Plaparazzi for short.

 

“Ah, just trust me. Who am I?”

 

Yoo Anjoon was a pretty good plaparazzi.

 

Her photos cost millions of won.

 

Her videos could cost up to tens of millions of won.

 

The reason why her videos were well-received was simple.

 

“I’ll get you a humiliating picture that you’ll never see anywhere else.”

 

Capturing humiliating photos of players.

 

No player could avoid Yoo Anjoon’s angle.

 

The rankers were no exception,

 

Without beating around the bushes, no. 8 in the player rankings, Dmitry.

 

He also suffered from humiliating articles thanks to Yoo Anjoon.

 

[Exclusive] Dmitry, a beginner in romance?

 

The photo attached to the article was Yoo Anjun’s work.

 

A fully-rented hotel lounge.

 

It was a picture of Dmitry getting rejected after proposing on his knees.

 

Not only Dmitri’s expression, it also clearly captured the embarrassed reaction of the other party.

 

– AhㅋㅋㅋㅋHe got dumpedㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ

 

– This is funnier than the coverageㅋㅋㅋㅋ

 

– He proposed to get married after a week of datingㅋㅋㅋㅋ

 

– Unlike how he looks, he’s a pure guyㄹㅇㅋㅋ

 

Thanks to this, Dmitry was on a rampage.

 

He didn’t know who it was, but if they got caught, he’d kill them!

 

Of course, Yoo Anjoon didn’t get caught. So today, like this.

 

She was able to lurk in the Mage Tower.

 

Yoo Anjoon recalled today’s subject.

 

“If I just fish him out…!”

 

There was no fish as big as this.

 

The person Yoo Anjoon aiming for today was none other than Lee Hoyeol.

 

Yeah, he was a bigger fish than Dmitry.

 

Lee Hoyeol, who is he?

 

The player with the highest stock price recently!

 

Above all, his moves didn’t make sense.

 

Starting with revealing his presence in the raid of Count Ascura.

 

In the Yusra Islands, not only he killed two named monsters, one of them was a monster of level 650.

 

He even knocked down Greed of the Seven Deadly Sins.

 

‘To be exact, it is the work of the Knights of Lionheart.’

 

Lee Hoyeol was the one who led the Knights of Lionheart. Besides, on top of it all, Lee Hoyeol had star quality.

 

An outspoken talker.

 

She didn’t know if it was a concept or if it was genuine.

 

Above all, he even used incredible skills.

 

Lee Hoyeol’s popularity didn’t come for no reason.

 

But Yoo Anjoon knew.

 

‘The higher you fly, the more it hurts when you fall.’

 

Completely flawless.

 

That near-perfect image would return as a boomerang.

 

She didn’t even need a big humiliation picture.

 

Just taking a picture of a light wobble.

 

It would be enough to scratch that lofty image.

 

“Illusion is supposed to break slowly.”

 

In that sense, Mage Tower was the best place.

 

Above all, look at those stairwells.

 

It disappeared and appeared.

 

Yoo Anjoon shuddered.

 

“Just one cut.”

 

Lee Hoyeol.

 

There were rumors that he was given a quest by the chief mage of the Mage Tower.

 

She didn’t know when the time would come, but if she waited, she would be able to capture it.

 

The moment Yoo Anjoon hid her canon camera and hid.

 

Players gathered around the portal began to make a fuss.

 

“…It’s Lee Hoyeol!”

 

“Hey, don’t be nervous. Did you do anything to get hated for?”

 

“Be formal. Don’t even whisper.”

 

It was an understandable response.

 

Most players hated Lee Hoyeol, because they didn’t gain anything good from him.

 

You could just imagine encountering Lee Hoyeol in the rupture in that state of dislike.

 

‘Well, It’s none of my business.’

 

Of course, that only applied to players who were aiming for ruptures and monster hunting.

 

So Yoo Anjoon sneaked out the camera and zoomed in.

 

‘Let’s take a picture.’

 

Yoo Anjoon smacked her lips.

 

However.

 

It didn’t take long for her face to harden.

 

Tap tap–

 

…How can a person like that exist?

 

Yoo Anjoon was so dumbfounded that her jaw dropped.

 

No matter how much she zoomed in, there was not an inch of his body that trembled.

 

‘Rather than a humiliating picture, isn’t this a pictorial?’

 

Normal shooting.

 

Back-to-back shooting.

 

She captured each of them.

 

What happened?

 

Even as he walked down the dizzying stairs.

 

In that expression and posture, let alone humiliation, there was not a single hint of sloppiness.

 

He looked like a swan floating peacefully on a lake.

 

Shake–

 

Yoo Anjoon shook her head.

 

‘No!’

 

Lee Hoyeol’s pictorial?

 

There were already a lot of pictures like this!

 

To put it bluntly, if you entered Nettube, there were a lot of videos posted by people who claimed to be Lee Hoyeol’s fans.

 

All she needed was a moment of humiliation.

 

‘If I take a closer look…’

 

She might be able to get it.

 

At least a photo of his skin pores.

 

Yoo Anjoon was driven by her plaparazzi instinct.

 

The moment she took a few steps forward.

 

“Hey, stop there for a second.”

 

She heard a spirited voice.

 

“The one with the camera over there. Let me look at you for a moment.”

 

When she turned her head, there was a huge mass of muscle.

 

It was Dmitry.

 

He smiled brightly.

 

“Haven’t we met before? I saw you in our hotel lobby”

 

In an instant, she recalled what he had said.

 

That he’d kill whoever it was once he caught them.

 

Thud–

 

Seeing Dmitry loosen his fist, Yoo Anjoon realized.

 

‘How can I catch a swan with a fishing rod…!’

 

She was a fool who didn’t know her subject.

 

Whack–!

 

*

 

Ssh–

 

Reading the report on the parchment.

 

– Magic tool, [Sage’s Recreation] has been brought out.

 

Belliere Yushia, a senior mage of the healing school, snorted.

 

It seemed that the senior mages fiddled with magic tools in the end.

 

‘I guess you’re not afraid of the backlash?’

 

A magic tool requested by some senior mages.

 

[Sage’s Recreation].

 

It was kind of a puzzle.

 

When it was combined with magic.

 

The puzzle became a challenge.

 

The moment a senior mage’s magic took hold of it.

 

It would be a challenge on a level that was incomparable to the lock on the Crystal Hall.

 

‘Wouldn’t they have nothing to say if Marcelo objects? Of course, knowing Marcelo’s personality. I guess they will force him like this.’

 

By senior mage’s standard.

 

Even if he hung around all day, in order to solve [Sage’s Recreation].

 

It would take at least ten days.

 

What those idiots thinking were clearly visible.

 

While Adventurer Lee Hoyeol was stuck on the puzzle.

 

They intend to catch all his mistakes.

 

‘It’s obvious.’

 

He would be unable to solve it and become a mess.

 

When she solved it, it took her longer than expected.

 

They would use every mistake they could find.

 

Of course, it didn’t matter to Belliere.

 

“Well. Wouldn’t it be better to just quietly wait and see?”

 

Belliere.

 

She had no desire to prove Adventurer Lee Hoyeol’s qualifications.

 

The reason was simple.

 

A skilled mage of healing school, Klee.

 

She had confirmed the truth with that child again.

 

– …Yes, that’s right. It was him!

 

After hearing Lee Hoyeol’s description.

 

Klee looked pleased.

 

– I see. He’s the adventurer that Chief Mage Marcelo recommended as a collaborator! That’s a relief…! I thought I’d made a huge mistake…!

 

Good kid Klee.

 

She seemed to have her fair share of troubles.

 

But did she know?

 

“That and seeing through the Tower Lord’s illusion magic are two different stories.”

 

Of course.

 

The illusion magic manifested by the Tower Lord.

 

Belliere, no, not even Marcelo could see through it.

 

‘So I don’t believe it yet.’

 

Therefore, Adventurer Lee Hoyeol.

 

The desire to keep him by her side grew stronger.

 

It was an instinct as a mage of the tower.

 

‘It’s a pure desire to explore the unknown.’

 

She had to put her heart and soul into researching this.

 

Belliere picked up a lavish feather pen.

 

Then she wrote calmly on the parchment.

 

About her conviction of Marcelo’s decision.

 

About her acknowledgment of Lee Hoyeol’s qualifications for joint research.

 

‘…It’s late.’

 

She didn’t get a reply.

 

After a while.

 

What’s going on?

 

Belliere was momentarily doubtful.

 

Ssh–

 

Words began to appear on the parchment.

 

The content was unexpected to Belliere.

 

– There are 2 votes left until a majority is achieved.

 

…Wait a minute.

 

2 votes left?

 

Alarmed, Belliere brushed up her loose green hair.

 

She folded her white-skinned fingers.

 

“It was three until yesterday. And me….”

 

No other senior mages would have voted for it.

 

They had no good reason to.

 

Even Belliere wouldn’t have voted in favor if weren’t for Klee’s story.

 

That was four votes in total.

 

So where did the other four votes come from?

 

Belliere murmured, “No way.”

 

“Don’t tell me…”

 

Suddenly, [Sage’s Recreation] crossed her mind.

 

The magic tool that ‘some’ senior mages had taken out.

 

Belliere identified some of the names on the parchment.

 

“…Cutain, Dorothy, Maia, Bex!”

 

It was exactly four of them.

 

The meaning of that was simple.

 

Belliere continued in a trembling voice.

 

“He saw through the Sage’s Recreation within such a short time…!!”

 

.

 

.

 

.

 

[Sage’s Recreation] was spread on the desk.

 

It was nothing difficult.

 

As you can see.

 

I just had to explore the magic and solve it with reversal magic.

 

– Demonstrate your ability. (In progress)

 

• Convince the majority of senior mages. (8/20)

 

Yeah, at this rate, I could finish everything quickly.

 

Let’s finish everything quickly.

 

It would be better to hold the sword with a lighter heart.

 

I scribbled my opinion on the parchment paper.

 

“Is it because I’m tired? I feel haggard,’

 

Well, with a little apology for what happened yesterday.

 

– If it was the demonstration process rather than a childish prank, I would gladly welcome it.