The Player Hides His Past – Chapter 6 – Class Quest (1)

Author: LyraDhani

Arcana’s status system was rather concise.

All initial stats started at 1 point.

One point was given for each level up.

The player could allocate points to the desired stat according to the characteristics of their class.

I looked at the status window.

[Name: Grandfel Claudie Arpheus Romeo]

[Class: Demon hunter]

[Level: 67]

[Stat]

Strength: 21 / Agility: 26 / Mana: 11 / Luck: 1

[Point: 12]

Naturally, demon hunters didn’t have class-specific abilities.

Not only that, even the stat I had to invest in was a mess.

‘It couldn’t be helped.’

There was no specific training method for demon hunters at the time.

Performance aside, the absolute number of players was also small.

As an ambiguous class, I had no choice but to invest all my abilities ambiguously.

‘Well, even now, nothing has changed.’

It wasn’t because I had no idea, it was because I wanted to keep the possibilities open.

Differences of opinion existed, so it would be fine.

I invested a point.

[Stat]

Strength: 23 / Agility: 28 / Mana: 18 / Luck: 1

[Point: 1]

2 points each for strength and agility.

When I invested 7 points in mana, which was relatively low, I had 1 point left.

Originally, I was going to invest the remaining 1 point in mana.

But somehow.

I noticed the stat luck that only had 1 point.

『The only survivor of the family, Grandfel Claudie Arpheus Romeo, hereinafter referred to as Grandfel, walked the path of a demon hunter to take revenge on the demons.』

“…”

Why does that setting suddenly come to mind?

It was just the setting of Grandfel that I had written down arbitrarily, but he really had no luck at all.

It was a life so strange that you wonder if he had suffered such hardships because his luck was only 1 point.

I didn’t feel guilty about it.

Wouldn’t it be weird if I did?

It was me who was in charge of Grandfel’s setting.

So this was more of a pity.

[Point: 0]

For me who would suffer in the future.

Pity for Grandfel’s miserable life.

‘This is a pretty big investment for a pity.’

It was because the handling of luck stats in Arcana wasn’t very good.

Luck was a stat that didn’t have an intuitive sense like other stats such as strength.

It would be correct to say that its cost-effectiveness was low.

A non-combat class, and an extremely limited one at that, cared about luck.

I remembered that it wasn’t even a key stat.

Luck: 2

It was only one point.

Isn’t that depend on how you think?

Let’s just say that my luck has doubled.

Of course, I didn’t know if that unfathomable luck actually doubled.

However, the effect of doubling the luck was immediately apparent.

In a very obvious way, at that.

The next morning.

“…?”

A system message appeared when I opened my eyes.

[You’ve met the conditions]

[The quest will begin.]

…Quest?

When Arcana was a game.

Quest was a common thing.

“Ah, it’s a job quest again.”

“Just say no. Isn’t this reward too much?”

“The intimacy is low. How did you increase intimacy?”

“Even if you go all the way to the quest chain, they’ll just give you a few bottles of potion. If I were you, I would do more hunting at that time. You’ll earn more than the value of the potions for just one item.”

To the extent that you could select and carry it out while considering rewards and difficulty.

But now that Arcana had become a reality.

Quests had become a privilege for high-level players.

The reason was simple.

It was because there were not many NPCs in reality that gave quests.

As soon as the Mage Tower appeared.

The NPC mages residing in it also appeared in reality.

Like that, in reality, the NPCs of Arcana existed.

“What the hell is going on…”

“I never thought I would go through something like this in my life.”

“This is the world of adventurers. It’s beautiful when it sparkles in the dark.”

Like us, the NPCs had adapted to the cataclysm.

“I can’t just sit around and watch.”

“The ruptures! No matter how you see it, they’re the cause of problems!”

“I can’t cause trouble to the world of adventurers anymore.”

It was said that they gave players new quests that suited the environment.

However, only high-level players were able to carry out the new quests.

“Hmm, no matter how you look at it, you don’t seem to have enough training?”

“I think it would be impossible for Adventurer-nim.”

“That request has already been granted by another adventurer…”

The quests in reality had made the gap between the top and bottom players more solid.

Therefore, it was natural for players to become sensitive to quests.

– Hey, I heard there was a sudden quest in the rupture?!

– ㄹㅇ? Where are you? I’ll go right away, too

– Seriously, it’s sad that now we’re running to sudden questsㅠㅠ

– If I knew this would happen, I would have quit the company and only played Arcana. High-level players broke the quest chains and rankers started touching the main quests. Just what are we?

…Yes, that’s the new common sense.

I checked the quest window again.

[Class quest: Prelude to counterattack]

“…A class quest.”

what is this?

Class quest.

I had no information about this.

Just looking at it, it seemed to be a quest related to classes and demon hunters…

Exorcism, training, meditation, etc.

Suddenly, I remembered the quests I had carried out in Akshan.

‘No, those were ordinary quests.’

In other words, it had no grandiose modifier class attached.

Of course, I didn’t worry.

I immediately searched the class quest in the search bar.

– Ranked no. 1 in the paladin class, ‘Gyver’.

Starting a class quest…

Will a paladin class be able to enter the top 10 player rankings for the first time?…

The voice of anticipation grows…

Information about him was easy to find.

Class quest.

Among many players in the same class.

It was a quest given to only one person.

The contents of each quest were different, so it was unknown.

I could understand.

How that grand quest came to me.

“I must be the only one left.”

[Class quest: Prelude to counterattack]

The last demon hunter.

Let the demons know that the time for a counterattack has come.

– Kill a demon. (Successful)

Yeah, I was the only demon hunter.

I recalled that great class quest.

It seemed that the quest started because I defeated the demon imp, as shown in the quest window.

…Watching this made me desire it.

I just read the article roughly.

The reward of the class quest seemed great even at first glance.

Just because someone started a class quest, articles appeared, and people made a fuss about him entering the top 10 rankings.

However, that desire was never expressed.

Isn’t that obvious?

For Grandfel, all of this was natural.

The one who defeated the demon.

Became the main character of the class quest.

Even the rewards he would receive once he completed the class quest.

Grandfel…

No, I was taking it all for granted.

Rather than beating with excitement.

The heartbeat that beat as usual was proof of that.

I shook my head slightly.

‘My values, which were extremely ordinary, are changing.’

As if I had become the heir to a really great family.

But I had no choice but to accept it.

To live as a player and, moreover, as a demon hunter, Grandfel’s setting was essential to me.

But let’s keep this one thing in mind.

“…I am too young to dwell on the past.”

The fact that Grandfel was just my dark history.

Yes, dark history existed to be overcome, not being immersed in.

After I made that resolution, the quest window in my field of vision flickered.

“!”

A new quest goal appeared.

– Train your weakened body.

I was suddenly reminded of the memories from the Akshan Base.

‘…Wait, no way, is it that quest?’

Isn’t this the vicious and painful quest that made countless demon hunter players delete their accounts?!

I sighed.

It seemed my luck had run out.

But that emotion was also not expressed on the surface.

“…I should have invested one more point.”

I feel sorry for you, Lee Hoyeol.

As expected, I was the only one suffering from the damn setting.

The Akhshan base.

The camp of demon hunters.

When you say it like that, it would look very cool to a stranger.

Even I, who was crazy about style, was tricked by it and chose the class called demon hunter.

However, when I experienced it in person, the reality was very shocking.

Poor facilities!

A job transfer quest that was no different from manual labor!

Even the NPCs just yelled at you instead of boosting your motivation!

Of course, there was a reason attached for that.

“The demons hunt after human greed. Therefore, a demon hunter always has to be upright.”

“A strong body has a strong spirit. You want to be a demon hunter? In that case, building a strong body is your top priority!”

“It is common to lose your life unexpectedly when you live as a demon hunter. Demons also aim for the loss of those left behind, so excessive bonds with demon hunters are poisonous. Don’t try to be friendly with me.”

…When I thought about it after growing up, it was an absurd setting.

Isn’t that why it wasn’t popular?

However, in the past, when I heard the setting, I was even more fascinated by the demon hunter class.

In other words, I had endured all kinds of irrationalities and eventually won the class of devil hunter.

‘…It was a really serious middle school second-year syndrome.’

Because I was suffering, I had all kinds of thoughts.

“Huff…”

I continued to do push-ups.

I felt like my forearm was paralyzed.

[Class quest: Prelude to counterattack]

The last demon hunter.

Let the demons know that the time for a counterattack has come.

– Kill a demon. (Successful)

– Train your weakened body. (In progress) ▼

‘Shouldn’t something change?!’

It was a class quest.

It was a quest that only one person could do.

But from the beginning, how could it be no different from the quest at Akshan base?!

Besides, it wasn’t virtual reality, it was real reality.

In other words, it was up to me to deal with the aftereffects of the training.

– Train your weakened body. (In progress) ▲

20KM run (Successful)

1,000 push-ups (In progress)

500 pull-ups (Successful)

300 burpee tests (Successful)

It had been a week as of today.

That quest goal was updated every day.

I had been doing that training without skipping a day for a week.

No wonder the muscle pain won’t go away!

But my whining only stayed in my head and disappeared.

Like someone who had been waiting for this quest.

I achieved my goal sincerely.

『Grandfel’s lofty pride doesn’t come from his family background. It’s his nature. A heaven-sent nature that doesn’t change in the face of any ordeal.』

So I had no choice but to do it earnestly.

I didn’t remember attaching a setting of sincerity or diligence to Grandfel.

Wouldn’t it be strange if a middle school second-year syndrome patient was sincere and diligent?

It was all just to protect that great pride.

Quiver–

Clear weather with no wind.

Even at the sight of my arms shaking with pain.

“It’s very windy today.”

I could say this so brazenly.

But what’s certain was that if it weren’t for this pride.

‘…I would never have done it, right?’

I couldn’t have lasted even just a day.